1、大学英语四级（ 2013年 12月考试改革适用）模拟试卷 23及答案与解析 一、 Part I Writing 1 For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write an essay commenting on one of the most popular sentences online, “REMEMBER. always act like youre wearing an invisible crown. “ You can cite examples to illustrate your point. You should writ
2、e at least 120 words but no more than 180 words. Write your essay on Answer Sheet 1. Section A （ A） Prof. Bass is much better than Prof. Brown. （ B） It is easy to follow Prof. Bass in his class. （ C） There is no requirement for notes in Mr. Bass class. （ D） There is no use of taking notes in class.
3、（ A） She was at home all along. （ B） She visited a friend. （ C） She was at her parents home. （ D） She was out for a walk. （ A） She lives on her own. （ B） She has no children or grandchildren. （ C） She lives in a nursing home. （ D） Her children visit her every other week. （ A） He will go to the super
4、market with the woman. （ B） He feels uncomfortable with the womans staring. （ C） He will buy some vegetables on his way back. （ D） He wont go to the supermarket. （ A） It is too hard for them to accomplish. （ B） It is pretty easy to finish. （ C） There is still a difficult part left. （ D） It is not so
5、 hard as the man imagined. （ A） The man should practice his pronunciation often. （ B） To get oneself understood is more important than pronunciation. （ C） She has a similar problem as the man. （ D） She couldnt get the mans words clearly. （ A） Find a roommate to share the rent. （ B） Find another apar
6、tment to reduce the rent. （ C） Try to earn more money to afford the rent. （ D） Give up finding an apartment to live in. （ A） John is late for the appointment. （ B） John has another appointment with his roommate. （ C） The man told John to meet them at 6:00. （ D） John will probably meet the speakers.
7、（ A） Attend a business party. （ B） Go travelling to Shanghai. （ C） Go to Shanghai on business. （ D） Leave Shanghai for business. （ A） Because she will have a good time in Shanghai. （ B） Because everything on her trip has been arranged well. （ C） Because her assistant will come along with her. （ D） B
8、ecause she has got an opportunity for promotion. （ A） Attending the negotiation meeting. （ B） Visiting some business partners. （ C） Visiting several tourist spots. （ D） Attending a trade exhibition. （ A） It is short. （ B） It is long. （ C） It is easy. （ D） It is tight. （ A） She agrees with dieting. （
9、 B） She opposes dieting. （ C） She never cares about dieting. （ D） She has been on a diet. （ A） Drinking soda is good for his health. （ B） He should drink much soda every day. （ C） Drinking soda has nothing to do with his weight. （ D） He could drink diet coke instead of soda. （ A） Because she is a le
10、arned person. （ B） Because she is writing a book on dieting. （ C） Because she was ever a fat person. （ D） Because she has ever learned something about dieting. Section B （ A） A great number of workers feel embarrassed when talking about office gossip. （ B） More than half of the workers confess that
11、they are involved in office gossip. （ C） The percentage of workers involved in office gossip has increased. （ D） Four years ago workers were reluctant to talk about office gossip. （ A） Office gossip may boost when the company expands. （ B） Workers dare not to gossip when the company is downsizing. （
12、 C） Office gossip may relatively drop when the economy turns better. （ D） In a financial crisis, workers are over pressured to gossip. （ A） It is beneficial to the workers productivity. （ B） It helps to deliver the latest news of the company. （ C） It is an efficient way to relax peoples mind. （ D） I
13、t is a direct way for the boss to know his workers. （ A） People should take in less fat as they can. （ B） It is the reason for peoples obesity. （ C） It is useless for peoples health. （ D） It adds a burden to peoples heart. （ A） It is indispensible for building cell walls. （ B） It makes peoples body
14、cells flexible. （ C） It makes peoples body cells rigid and stiff. （ D） It helps to deliver nutrients to the cells. （ A） The body cells will die. （ B） Children will stop growing in height. （ C） It will accelerate the process of aging. （ D） The cell walls will be less responsive and flexible. （ A） Cor
15、n, soy and vegetables. . （ B） Pork, chicken and beef. （ C） Mutton, olive and corn. （ D） Fish, nuts and sea vegetables. （ A） Over 80% teens get access to social media sites. （ B） A quarter of the teens have a Twitter account. （ C） Half of the teens have multiple accounts on social media sites. （ D） T
16、he number of teen Twitter users has doubled since 2009. （ A） He cant put his phone aside and listen to the teacher in class. （ B） He talks over the phone more than an hour a day. （ C） He feels uneasy without Internet. （ D） He has no time to talk with his parents. （ A） Teens could take control over t
17、hemselves at the second stage. （ B） There is no serious harm to the teens at the first stage. （ C） Teens couldnt stop playing despite serious consequences in the third stage. （ D） If the teens play Face book more than three hours, they are in the second stage. Section C 26 Great employees are depend
18、able, diligent, great leaders and great followers. they possess【 B1】 _easily-defined but hard to find qualities: They ignore job descriptions. The smaller the company, the more important it is that employees can think on their feet, adapt quickly to shifting priorities, and do whatever it takes,【 B2
19、】 _role or position, to get things done. Theyre odd. The best employees are often a little different: They seem【 B3】_odd, but in a really good way. Unusual personalities shake things up, make work more fun, and【 B4】 _a plain group into a team with flavor. They know when to dial it back. When a major
20、 challenge pops up or a situation gets stressful, the best employees stop expressing their【 B5】 _and fit perfectly into the team. They publicly praise. Remarkable employees recognize the【 B6】 _of others, especially in group settings where their impact is even greater. And they privately complain. We
21、 all want employees to bring issues forward, but some problems are better【 B7】 _in private. Great employees often get more【 B8】_to bring up controversial subjects in a group setting. Remarkable employees come to you before or after a meeting to discuss a【 B9】 _issue, knowing that bringing it up in a
22、 group setting could set off a firestorm. They speak when others wont. Remarkable employees have an inborn feeling for the concerns of those around them, and【 B10】 _to ask questions when others hesitate. 27 【 B1】 28 【 B2】 29 【 B3】 30 【 B4】 31 【 B5】 32 【 B6】 33 【 B7】 34 【 B8】 35 【 B9】 36 【 B10】 Secti
23、on A 36 Thanksgiving is Americas national holiday for giving thanks to God. Thanksgiving Day has a special【 C1】 _for Americans because it is traced back to that group of people who were among the first to come to the New World in search of freedom. In 1620, 102 sea weary(疲倦的 )Pilgrims landed on the
24、peninsula of Cape Cod. Their ship, the Mayflower, had【 C2】 _to go to Virginia, but it made its landfall far to the north. After some weeks of【 C3】 _they decided not to make the trip to Virginia but to remain where they were. But when they stepped ashore in this【 C4】_alien world, they were totally is
25、olated from any outside【 C5】 _and knew no means of livelihood. And the greater trouble is that in the woods live Indians, some of whom were【 C6】 _This added to the hardship of daily life. But the vast【 C7】_of forests gave them a hope. In this way, the nations forefathers not only【 C8】_the first seve
26、re winter, but also saw the first harvest of crops in the next autumn. Their Indian friends were also invited to join their festival. This story is told every year to young children in schools as Thanksgiving Day(the fourth Thursday of November) 【 C9】 _. Today, in US Thanksgiving Day is celebrated b
27、y many Americans whose roots do not stem from Britain. Now it is marked by families gathering together to enjoy a【 C10】_dinner for roast turkey, and to tell the things for which they are thankful. A)approaches F)utterly K)exploring B)hostile G)survived L)structure C)traditional H)assistance M)signif
28、icance D)justified I)intended N)interfered E)stretches J)appropriate O)normally 37 【 C1】 38 【 C2】 39 【 C3】 40 【 C4】 41 【 C5】 42 【 C6】 43 【 C7】 44 【 C8】 45 【 C9】 46 【 C10】 Section B 46 Five myths about Abraham Lincoln A)No American hero, with the possible exception of George Washington, has been more
29、 set with myth than Abraham Lincoln. Lincoln did boast virtues that required few words to glamorize. He rose from obscurity(默默无闻 )through hard work, self-education and honesty. He endured severe criticism to save the Union and end slavery. He died shortly after his greatest triumph at the hands of a
30、n assassin. But tall-tale-tellers have never hesitated to rewrite Lincolns biography. On Presidents Day, its well worth dispelling some repeated misconceptions about the man on the $ 5 bill. 1. Lincoln was a simple country lawyer. B)This durable legend, personified by short-spoken Henry Fonda in Joh
31、n Fords film “Young Mr. Lincoln,“ dies hard. Lincolns law partner William H. Herndon, looking to boost his own reputation, introduced the rumor that Lincoln cared little about his legal practice, did scant research, joked around with juries and judges, and sometimes failed to collect fees. Lincoln h
32、imself may have compromised his legal reputation with his oft-quoted warning “Discourage litigation(诉讼 ).“ C)True, politics became lawyer Lincolns chief ambition. Still, in the 1850s he ably(and profitably)represented the Illinois Central Railroad and the Rock Island Bridge Co. the company that buil
33、t the first railroad bridge over the Mississippi River and earned a solid reputation as one of his home states top appeals lawyers. D)Lincolns legal papers testify to a diverse and profitable practice. Had he not been “aroused,“ as he put it, to speak out in 1854 against the pro-slavery Kansas-Nebra
34、ska Act before seeking a Senate seat, he likely would have remained a full-time lawyer and earned fame and fortune at the bar. 2. Lincoln was gay. E)Gay rights activist Larry Kramer has long speculated that Lincoln was gay, claiming in 1999 that hed discovered Lincolns love letters to onetime roomma
35、te Joshua Speed. The claim is reportedly featured in Kramers forthcoming history of homosexuality, “The American People,“ but historian Gabor Boritt called Kramers assertion “almost certainly. a hoax.“ F)Still, the idea persists. In 2005, “The Intimate World of Abraham Lincoln,“ written by queer the
36、ory professor C. A. Tripp a colleague of sex researcher Alfred Kinsey alleged to prove that Lincoln was an active homosexual who married only to conform to 19th-century convention and continued flirting and sleeping with young men throughout his presidency. Tripp went so far as to suggest that Linco
37、lns sexual indifference is what contributed to his wifes mental illness. G)Is it true? And if it is, does it matter? According to Herndon, Lincoln exhibited a “powerful“ attraction to women and was a regular customer of prostitutes before his marriage at age 33. His first son was born just nine mont
38、hs after his marriage, which suggests enthusiasm if not experience. Then again, proving that a man loves women isnt the same as proving that he doesnt love men. Maybe its best to throw up our hands- and remember that Lincolns sexual orientation is but a small part of his historical legacy. 3. Lincol
39、n was depressed. H)Four generations of biographers attest(证明 )that Lincoln was often depressed, but Washington Colleges Joshua Wolf Shenk made the case in his recent book, “Lincolns Melancholy: How Depression Challenged a President and Fueled his Greatness,“ that the 16th president was clinically de
40、pressed. Lincoln certainly had moments of what he called the “hypo,“ most notably when his first serious crush, Ann Rutledge, died in 1835, and again when he broke up with fiancee Mary Todd on the eve of their wedding in 1841.(They reconciled the next year.) I)Though I co-edited a collection of Linc
41、oln papers with Shenk, we disagree on this point. Genuine depression was untreatable in the 19th century, and its victims often descended into madness or took their own lives. It is impossible to reconcile this debilitating disease with the Lincoln who labored tirelessly and effectively during his d
42、emanding presidency. Clinically depressed people often cant get out of bed, let alone command an army. 4. Lincoln was too compassionate. J)Much has been made by poet and Lincoln biographer Carl Sandburg and other historians over the notion that Lincoln was a serial pardoner. This is untrue-Lincoln n
43、ot only approved the execution of deserters, but 38 alleged Indian raiders were hanged by his order in Mankato, Minn, on Dec. 26, 1862, still the largest mass execution on the US soil. K)Meanwhile, Lincoln conducted the bloodiest war in American history to preserve the Union, authorized the deployme
44、nt of deadly new weaponry such as mines, ironclad warships and niter(硝酸钾 ), and accepted unprecedented casualties for his chosen cause. L)The recent scandal over an altered National Archives pardon a document allegedly changed by historian Thomas P. Lowry in 1998 to make it appear that Lincoln spent
45、 his final hours pardoning a soldier for desertion gives us the opportunity to reconsider the chronic oversimplification of Lincolns soft touch. In light of the Archives melee(混乱 ), historians should re-examine the thousands of pardons Lincoln issued to weigh their authenticity and balance them agai
46、nst the death sentences he did allow. 5. Lincoln was mortally ill. M)No shortage of armchair physicians are ready to diagnose Lincoln 150 years after his death. He had cardiovascular(心血管的 )disease, some say. Or he had the rare genetic disorder Marfans Syndrome. Or he had the fatal cancer MEN2B. Had
47、Lincoln not been assassinated on April 14, 1865. medical historians like John Sotos imply, he would have died soon enough without John Wilkes Booths help. N)If any of these illnesses wracked Lincolns body during his presidency, how do we explain his inexhaustible physical constitution? Or the rarity
48、 of his wartime illnesses, limited to a mild bout of smallpox which killed his valet(贴身男仆 )? How do we explain the ease with which the 56-year-old demonstrated his favorite frontier feat of strength-holding a heavy ax at arms length between his fingers just a few days before his death? O)Like many p
49、residents, Lincoln grew visibly haggard(憔悴的 )during his presidency. He also lost weight. But the physicians who attended him on his deathbed marveled at his muscular arms and chest. A weaker man, they concluded, would have died the minute he was shot. Lincoln fought off death for nine hours hardly within the ability of a man with a pre-existing condition. 47 Lincoln became famous in his home state after he successfully repres
