1、大学英语四级（ 2013年 12月考试改革适用）模拟试卷 202及答案与解析 一、 Part I Writing 1 For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a short essay on the following topic. You should write at least 120 words but no more than 180 words. Companies should encourage old employees(55 years old)to retire, in order to give opport
2、unities to the new generation. To what extent do you agree or disagree? Section A （ A） TSA agents. （ B） FBI agents. （ C） The police. （ D） Passengers. （ A） The terminal was closed temporarily afterwards. （ B） There was a thorough search inside the airport. （ C） Passengers at the airport were safe and
3、 sound. （ D） The security authorities identified the explosives. （ A） Out in the sea （ B） Inside a bath house （ C） On a cliff along the coast （ D） On the coast outside Jerusalem （ A） It was incomplete. （ B） It was recent artwork. （ C） It was fairly tall. （ D） It was in pieces. （ A） Fewer job opportu
4、nities in Mexico. （ B） Strong ties with the U.S. economy. （ C） Decline in tourism. （ D） Decline in tax revenues. （ A） The declining oil production. （ B） The outbreak of the H1N1 flu. （ C） The declining GDP in Mexico. （ D） The economic downturn in the US. （ A） Remittances （ B） Tourism （ C） Oil revenu
5、e （ D） Tax revenue Section B （ A） The quality of goods and services has improved. （ B） Most people are reducing their consumption. （ C） Complaint channels are too limited. （ D） Many people dont bother to complain. （ A） Electrical appliances. （ B） Travel agencies. （ C） Photographic and sound equipmen
6、t. （ D） Clothing. （ A） They account for the largest proportion. （ B） 90 percent of them are reasonable. （ C） Most of them are for delayed air tickets. （ D） Few of them are for poor accommodation. （ A） Two weeks. （ B） Less than two weeks. （ C） Two to three weeks. （ D） More than three weeks. （ A） It i
7、s a house full of cleverly-designed device. （ B） It can help people live a much easier life. （ C） It is the most comfortable house available. （ D） It expresses the newest architectural style. （ A） The door will open with just a touch of the finger. （ B） The refrigerator can figure out how much milk
8、to buy. （ C） The robot can do all the housework very efficiently. （ D） The house Call put out a fire in a very short time. （ A） There will be an alarm. （ B） The house will solve problems directly. （ C） The house will do nothing. （ D） The house will take some measures automatically. （ A） Its too wond
9、erful to be true. （ B） Its too expensive for her. （ C） She considers it nothing fancy. （ D） She is considering buying one. Section C （ A） She does her shopping. （ B） She drinks extra tea. （ C） She eats a lot of things. （ D） She sleeps a great deal. （ A） Problems with the teachers. （ B） Problems with
10、 family members or friends. （ C） Problems with class work. （ D） Problems with a part-time job. （ A） Talking to someone over the phone. （ B） Drinking some diet coke. （ C） Playing a video game. （ D） Drinking extra tea. （ A） The importance of advertisement. （ B） The societys great need of advertisement
11、. （ C） The origin of advertisement. （ D） The prosperity of advertisement. （ A） The local governments. （ B） Their owners families. （ C） Advertisements. （ D） The audience. （ A） Advertising is personal. （ B） Advertisements are convincing. （ C） Advertisements are unreliable. （ D） Advertisements are misl
12、eading. （ A） The writer enjoys sleeping very much. （ B） The writer doesn t like money at all. （ C） Bill Gates does not know how to enjoy himself. （ D） Mental well-being is the most important thing. （ A） Material life. （ B） Sports life. （ C） Spiritual life. （ D） Working life. （ A） It is very commerci
13、al. （ B） It is very noisy. （ C） It is very insecure. （ D） It is very unfriendly. （ A） Importance of A Good Nights Sleep （ B） The Best Things Money Cannot Buy （ C） Taking Good Care of Oneself （ D） How to Enjoy Life Thoroughly Section A 26 Different things usually stand for different feelings. Red, fo
14、r example, is the color of fire, heat, blood and life. People say red is an exciting and active color. They【 C1】_red with a strong feeling like anger. Red is used for signs of【 C2】 _, such as STOP signs and fire engines. Orange is the bright, warm color of【 C3】 _in autumn. People say orange is a【 C4
15、】 _color. They associate orange with happiness. Yellow is the color of【 C5】 _. People say it is a cheerful color. They associate yellow too, with happiness. Green is the cool color of grass in【 C6】 _. People say it is a refreshing color. In general, people talk about two groups of colors: warm color
16、s and cool colors. The warm colors are red, orange and【 C7】 _. Where there are warm color and a lot of light, people usually want to be【 C8】 _. Those who like to be with others like red. The cool colors are black and blue. Where are these colors, people are usually worried. Some scientists say that
17、time seems to go by more slowly in a room with warm colors. They suggest that a warm color is a good way for a living room or a【 C9】 _. People who are having a rest or are eating do not want time to pass quickly.【 C10】 _colors are better for some offices if the people working there want time to pass
18、 quickly. A)cool B)active C)directed D)sunlight E)delightful F)sleepy G)leaves H)hospital I)restaurant J)associate K)hesitate L)spring M)yellow N)danger O)black 27 【 C1】 28 【 C2】 29 【 C3】 30 【 C4】 31 【 C5】 32 【 C6】 33 【 C7】 34 【 C8】 35 【 C9】 36 【 C10】 Section B 36 It Isn t Easy Being Green Green sto
19、ries of hotels A)Over the summer, I stayed at four hotels in the United States. They were all owned by different companies, but they had one thing in common: A little card on the bathroom counter telling me that the establishment was very concerned about the environment, and appealing to me to do my
20、 part to help them save the earth by hanging up my wet towels and using them again the next day. Two of the hotels also placed a card next to the bed informing me that housekeeping would not change the sheets unless I left the card on the pillow. B)It is true that keeping all those towels clean requ
21、ires an enormous amount of electricity and water and soap, and that cutting down on the number of loads of laundry would be more eco-friendly than my insisting on a new towel each day. But am I a heartless cynic for doubting that a collective environmental anxiety has seized the hotel industry? C)He
22、re is an alternative explanation: All that water, soap, and electricity costs a lot of money and eats into the hotels profits. A little card on the counter telling customers that they wont get new towels because the hotel doesnt want to pay for laundry wouldnt go over very well. But by couching it a
23、s a green campaign, the hotels actually get credit for providing less service to their customers, while pocketing the difference. D)Industry groups that advise hotels on becoming more environmentally friendly tend to stress the money theyll save just as much as the benefits to the planet. “Why shoul
24、d hotels be green?“ asks the Green Hotels Associations Web site. “Havent you heard? Being green goes directly to your bottom line.“ The site explains that by getting guests to recycle towels and sheets, hotels can save 5 percent on utility bills. “Some days, housekeeping workers, who usually clean 1
25、5 rooms a day, dont change a single bed,“ said one satisfied hotel owner, who estimates that “70 percent of people staying more than one night participate in the program.“ Another member reports that far fewer guests ask for new towels. E)So lets review: We give up a nice luxury to save the hotel mo
26、ney: the hotel congratulates itself on being green for peer pressuring us into giving up the luxury under the excuse of environmental consciousness: the hotel keeps the money. Nice work. After all, even if profit is the motive, the net result is a reduction in the hotel s “carbon footprint“. But her
27、e s what gets me: the hotels I stayed in this summer didnt seem all that interested in being green when it came to other things. The lobby of the big resort was air conditioned to meet locker temperatures. All day long, that frosty air rushed out the vast double doors, which were left open in the Ju
28、ly heat. The resort also had a fleet of big, gas guzzling(耗油的 )vans idling at the curb to transport guests around the grounds. Green stories of companies F)Hotels are not the only offenders in this kind of green fakery. Some companies have embraced conservation for real. They build headquarters with
29、 solar panels and rainwater collection systems: they think of the environmental impact of every aspect of their businesses and actually change the way they do things to reduce waste. But this is labor intensive, often expensive, and takes commitment. Faced with that, many corporations take a differe
30、nt approach: They dont do much of anything to change the way they do business, but make a big show of their contribution to Mother Earth. G)Its usually easy to spot these companies: They make their customers do the work, and then take the credit. In the name of saving the planet, my cable TV operato
31、r keeps asking for permission to stop sending paper statements in the mail each month. Instead, firms are supposed to check my statement online. The real reason, of course, is that doing so would save them paper, printing and postage. This is a perfectly reasonable reason for them to want me to swit
32、ch. But when they pretend that it s all about the environment, it just makes me hate my cable company even more than I already do. Green stories of ad campaigns H)Sometimes a good ad campaign does a better job of enhancing a companys green reputation than going through the expense and difficulty of
33、adopting actual environmentally sound practices. Billboards in Washington appeal to me to join the cause. “I will unplug stuff more,“ reads one. Another says, “I will at least consider buying a hybrid(合成物 ).“ These ads are the work of Chevron, the giant oil company, whose “Will You Join Us?“ ads try
34、 to convince people that saving the planet is at the top of their fist. You might think that if Chevron was really worried about problems like global warming, they would spend some of those dollars lobbying Congress to adopt stricter gas mileage(英里数 )requirements for automobiles. They do not do this
35、. Instead, firms are apparently supposed to praise them as environmental heroes because they tell me to unplug my toaster and think about getting a Toyota Prius. I)Yet, ad campaigns like these work. Chevron lands at No. 371 out of 500 companies on Newsweek s green ranks. But it claims the No. 62 spo
36、t when it comes to green reputation thanks in part to those pretty, polished ads. Green marketing has also helped Wal-Mart appear kinder and gentler in recent years. To be fair, the retailing giant has done more than redesign its logo. The company, which ranks 59th on Newsweek s list, has embraced a
37、 series of in-house green initiatives and is demanding its suppliers do the same. The result: Wal-Mart scores first place in our reputation survey. J)Given the power of positive marketing, its easy to see why those little towel cards are so popular enough so that there are now a lot of companies tha
38、t market them to hotels, along with all manner of products intended to make customers feel good about themselves while helping the hotels feel good about their bank balances. I suppose it is time that I step up and do my part. On behalf of the planet I will dutifully sleep on day-old sheets. But ple
39、ase, for the love of all that is good and right, keep the towels coming. 37 Some companies actually change the way they do things to reduce waste, while others are just green fakeries. 38 Cutting down the number of loads of laundry can save a large amount of electricity for the hotels. 39 Industry g
40、roups tend to emphasize the money hotels can save along with the benefits to the environment. 40 Some green fakery companies make its customers do the work, and take benefit themselves. 41 Ad campaigns help companies raise their ranks of green reputation. 42 In America, it is common for hotels to ap
41、peal to customers to recycle towels. 43 It is estimated that seventy percent of the hotel guests are willing to participate in the green program and ask for fewer. 44 It does better to set up an ad campaign with eco-friendly slogans to enhance a companys green reputation than do some actual practice
42、s. 45 While name the activities as a green campaign, the hotels save money for providing less service to their customers. 46 All day long, frosty air rushed out the vast double doors of the lobby in the July heat. Section C 46 Bilingual(双语的 )education in schools has long been a political hot potato
43、it was banned in California by a 1998 ballot measure, which the state Senate is now asking voters to repeal. But politics aside, theres an increasing amount of scientific support for the benefits of knowing at least two languages. Now, a new study published by the Annals of Neurology finds that you
44、dont even need to learn that second(or third, or fourth)tongue at a very young age: Picking up a new language even a little later in life can have serious cognitive(认知的 )benefits for the aging brain. Many recent studies have pointed out that bilingualism seems to be good exercise for the brain and l
45、ater in life might even help delay the onset of dementia. But what if it s a self-selecting crowd? What if the people who learned two languages are just smarter to begin with? To help rule that factor out, researchers at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland studied 853 people who first took an in
46、telligence test in 1947 when they were about 11 years old as part of a group called the Lothian Birth Cohort 1936, and retested them again around 2008 to 2010, when they were in their early 70s. A total of 262 of the seventy-year-old reported having learned at least one language other than English e
47、nough to communicate in it. Of those, 195 said they learned it before age 18: 65 said they learned it thereafter. The researchers gave the participants a battery of cognitive tests, including tests of their verbal reasoning, their vocabulary and reading abilities, their verbal fluency and their abil
48、ity to process information quickly. They found that bilingual speakers performed much better than expected from their baseline cognitive ability, particularly in reading and in general intelligence. And those who knew three or more languages performed even better. Learning a language seemed to make
49、as much difference in peoples later-in-life cognitive decline as a gene that s been tied to risk of Alzheimer s disease and smoking habits. These participants mostly learned their second languages after age 11. The results actually make a very compelling point you dont have to be a fluent speaker of a language to get the benefits, and you can start later in life, too. 47 The phrase “hot potato“ in Para. 1 is closest in meaning to_. （ A） a popular topic （ B） a difficult situation （ C） a heate
