1、大学英语四级（ 2013年 12月考试改革适用）模拟试卷 24及答案与解析 一、 Part I Writing 1 For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a short essay. You should start your essay with a brief description of the picture and then express your views on examination-oriented education. You should write at least 120 words but no mo
2、re than 180 words. Write your essay on Answer Sheet 1. Section A （ A） It was out of power. （ B） It was cut off by the phone company. （ C） It was connected by the phone company. （ D） It was taken away by the phone company. （ A） Toms personality. （ B） The temperature. （ C） A heated argument. （ D） The
3、style of a hat. （ A） His back hurt during the meeting. （ B） The proposal should be sent back right away. （ C） He needs the womans help in the meeting. （ D） He might not be back in time for the project. （ A） They dont have to go to the concert tonight. （ B） The woman suggests they take the subway to
4、the concert. （ C） A car wont be any faster than the subway. （ D） The mans brother should share the car with them. （ A） Because she couldnt recognize her former classmate. （ B） Because the man didnt understand her. （ C） Because she didnt have enough money for her classmate. （ D） Because she was sad a
5、bout her height. （ A） His learning strategy is problematic. （ B） He is so scared to face the test. （ C） His health condition is terrible. （ D） He didnt pass the physical examination. （ A） At 6:10. （ B） At 6:30. （ C） At 6:40. （ D） At 7:00. （ A） The novel is too long to finish. （ B） The woman doesnt h
6、ave time to read the novel. （ C） The woman needs a better dictionary. （ D） The novel is too hard to understand. （ A） Playing basketball with his friends. （ B） Watching basketball game on TV. （ C） Doing some weightlifting exercise. （ D） Having dinner with his wife. （ A） She is worried about the mans
7、health. （ B） The man never played basketball before. （ C） The man is too old to run up and down the court. （ D） She has no interest in basketball. （ A） The man needs to take in some vitamin supplements. （ B） The man must try to avoid the bad fruits and vegetables. （ C） The man had better consume les
8、s fatty food and more vegetables. （ D） The man should never eat ice cream or pizza again. （ A） She is short of money. （ B） She quitted her job. （ C） She feels lonely. （ D） She has quarreled with her ex-roommate. （ A） The stove has broken down for a while. （ B） There are no appliances in the kitchen.
9、 （ C） There is something wrong with the refrigerator door. （ D） The kitchen door fails to be closed. （ A） The toilet is clogged. （ B） The window needs to be fixed. （ C） The sink leaks. （ D） The shower needs to be replaced. （ A） He will help the woman fix the problems. （ B） He would rent the apartmen
10、t at an extremely low price. （ C） He will recommend the apartment to some other people. （ D） He is unlikely to rent the apartment. Section B （ A） More and more teens smoke cigars. （ B） More teens are trying to quit smoking. （ C） The number of teenage smokers has increased by 11%. （ D） The overall nu
11、mber of teenage smokers has increased to 51%. （ A） It is quite expensive and requires the teens to save their allowance. （ B） It can be purchased one at a time so it can be afforded by the teens. （ C） There are only fruit flavored cigars available at the market. （ D） Most teens buy cigars because of
12、 peer affection. （ A） The flavor makes the cigars more poisonous. （ B） The government hasnt realized the seriousness. （ C） The children are unconscious of its harm to health. （ D） The number of teenage smokers keeps growing. （ A） The cigar association has taken some actions. （ B） Teens have been tau
13、ght cigars are less poisonous than cigarettes. （ C） The attempts to stop teens from smoking cigars are effective. （ D） There is no special restriction on the sales of flavored cigars. （ A） They are afraid of facing the conflicts. （ B） They meet some trouble in work. （ C） They feel hungry when they a
14、re angry. （ D） They dont want to express their anger directly. （ A） It may lead to some health problems. （ B） It is not an effective way to deal with anger. （ C） It may result in some mental problems. （ D） It may make people angrier. （ A） Choose some different foods to eat. （ B） Try to take a more b
15、alanced diet. （ C） Learn some tools and strategies to deal with anger. （ D） Learn to deal with our life with more pleasure. （ A） It is a new kind of cell phone battery. （ B） It is a kind of material which uses body heat to charge a battery. （ C） It is a device that could generate electricity from bo
16、dy movement. （ D） It is a device that collects body static electricity. （ A） It still requires further improvement. （ B） It is a little complex to charge a cell phone with the material. （ C） It can produce the power needed by an iPhone. （ D） It is a little expensive to manufacture this material. （ A
17、） It will be an essential accessory for MF3 player. （ B） It could be used to produce cold-proof cloth. （ C） It could be used in some emergency cases. （ D） It could be used as a lighter or a heater in urgency. Section C 26 Thirty years ago, anyone blaming loneliness for physical illness would have be
18、en laughed at. But as scientists studied different populations, loneliness kept emerging as a risk【 B1】 _In one study, California researchers followed 4 700【 B2】 _of Alameda County for ten years, starting in 1965. At first, the【 B3】 _reported their key sources of companionship and estimated the time
19、 they【 B4】 _each other. During the study, the people who reported the least social【 B5】 _died at nearly three times the rate of those reporting the most. The source of companionship didnt matter, but time spent with others was【 B6】 _Since then, researchers have studied men, women, soldiers and stude
20、nts from countries all over the world. And the same【 B7】 _keeps emerging. Women who say they feel isolated go on to die of cancer at several times the expected rate. College students who report “strained and cold“ relationships with their parents suffer【 B8】 _rates of hypertension(高血压 )and heart dis
21、ease decades later. Heart attack【 B9】 _who happen to live by themselves die at twice the rate of those who live with others. For those of us who are still healthy, the lesson should be obvious. Its clear that reaching out to others can help out bodies thrive. Its equally clear that were growing more
22、 isolated. In 1900, only 5% US households【 B10】 _one person living alone. The proportion reached 13% in 1960, and it stands at 25% today. 27 【 B1】 28 【 B2】 29 【 B3】 30 【 B4】 31 【 B5】 32 【 B6】 33 【 B7】 34 【 B8】 35 【 B9】 36 【 B10】 Section A 36 For years, mental health professionals were trained to see
23、 children as mere products of their environment that were born good until influenced otherwise; where there is constant bad behavior, there must be a bad parent behind it. But while I do not mean to let bad parents off the hook, the fact remains that perfectly decent parents can【 C1】 _toxic(有毒的 )chi
24、ldren. When I say “toxic,“ I dont mean psychopathic(精神变态者 ) those children who【 C2】 _into petty criminals(小混混 ), killers and everything in between. One of my patients told me about his son, now 35, who despite his many【 C3】_was short-tempered and rude to his parentsrefusing to return their phone cal
25、ls and e-mails, even when his mother was【 C4】 _ill. He told me, “We have racked our【 C5】 _trying to figure why our son treats us this way. We dont know what we did to【 C6】 _this.“ Apparently very little, as far as I could tell. We marvel at the spirited child who【 C7】 _the most toxic parents and hom
26、e environment and goes on to a life of success. Yet, not everyone is going to turn out to be【 C8】 _any more than everyone will turn out nice and loving. And that is not necessarily because of【 C9】 _failure or a poor environment. It is because everyday character traits, like all human behavior, have
27、natural and genetic elements that cannot be【 C10】 _entirely by the best environment. A)shaped F)deserve K)parental B)survives G)problems L)gravely C)blossom H)advantages M)nearly D)brilliant I)head N)produce E)intelligent J)brains O)influence 37 【 C1】 38 【 C2】 39 【 C3】 40 【 C4】 41 【 C5】 42 【 C6】 43
28、【 C7】 44 【 C8】 45 【 C9】 46 【 C10】 Section B 46 Can Digital Textbooks Truly Replace the Print Kind? A)The shortcomings of traditional print edition textbooks are obvious: For starters theyre heavy, with the average physics textbook weighing 3. 6 pounds. Theyre also expensive, especially when you fact
29、or in the average college students limited budget, typically costing hundreds of dollars every semester. But the worst part is that print versions of textbooks are constantly undergoing revisions. Many professors require that their students use only the latest versions in the classroom, essentially
30、rendering older texts unusable. For students, it means theyre basically stuck with a four pound paperweight that they cant sell back. B)Which is why digital textbooks, if they live up to their promise, could help ease many of these shortcomings. But till now, theyve been something like a mirage(幻影 )
31、in the distance, more like a hazy(模糊的 )dream than an actual reality. Imagine the promise: Carrying all your textbooks in a 1.3 pound iPad? It sounds almost too good to be true. But there are a few pilot schools already making the transition(过渡 )over to digital books. Universities like Cornell and Br
32、own have jumped onboard. And one medical program at the University of California, Irvine, gave their entire class iPads with which to download textbooks just last year. C)But not all were eager to jump aboard. “People were tired of using the iPad textbook besides using it for reading,“ says Kalpit S
33、hah, who will be going into his second year at Irvines medical program this fall. “They werent using it as a source of communication because they couldnt read or write in it. So a third of the people in my program were using the iPad in class to take notes, the other third were using laptops and the
34、 last third were using paper and pencil.“ The reason it hasnt caught on yet, he tells me, is that the functionality of e-edition textbooks is incredibly limited, and some students just arent motivated to learn new study behavior. D)But a new application called Inkling might change all that. The comp
35、any just released an updated version last week, and itll be utilized in over 50 undergraduate and graduate classrooms this coming school year. “Digital textbooks are not going to catch on,“ says Inkling CEO Matt MacInnis as hes giving me a demo(演示 )over coffee. “What I mean by that is the current pe
36、rspective of the digital textbook is its an exact copy of the print book. Theres Course Smart, etc., these guys who take an image of the page and put it on a screen. If thats how were defining digital textbooks, theres no hope of that becoming a mainstream product. “ E)He calls Inkling a platform fo
37、r publishers to build rich multimedia content from the ground up, with a heavy emphasis on real-world functionality. The traditional textbook merely serves as a skeleton. At first glance Inkling is an impressive experience. After swiping(触击 )into the iPad app(应用软件 ), which you can get for free here,
38、 he opens up a few different types of textbooks. F)Up first is a chemistry book. The boot time is pretty fast, and he navigates through(浏览 )a few chapters before swiping into a fully rendered 3D molecule that can be spun around to view its various building blocks. “Publishers give us all of the sour
39、ce media, artwork, videos,“he says, “We help them think through how to actually build something for this platform.“ Next he pulls up a music composition textbook, complete with playable demos. Its a learning experience that attacks you from multiple sensory directions. Its clear why this would be so
40、mething a music major would love. G)But the most exciting part about Inkling, to me, is its notation(批注 )system. Heres how it works: When you purchase a used print book, it comes with its previous owners highlights and notes in the margins. It uses the experience of someone who already went through
41、the class to help improve your reading(how much you trust each notation is obviously up to you). But with Inkling, you can highlight a piece of content and make notes. Heres where things get interesting, though: If a particularly important passage is highlighted by multiple Inkling users, that infor
42、mation is stored on the cloud and is available for anyone reading the same textbook to come across. That means users have access to notes from not only their classmates and Facebook friends, but anyone who purchased the book across the country. The best comments are then sorted democratically by a v
43、oting system, meaning that your social learning experience is shared with the best and brightest thinkers. As a bonus, professors can even chime in(插话 )on discussions. Theyll be able to answer the questions of students who are in their class directly via the interactive book. H)Of course, Inkling ad
44、dresses several of the other shortcomings in traditional print as well. Textbook versions are constantly updated, motivating publishers by minimizing production costs(the big ones like McGraw-Hill are already onboard). Furthermore, students will be able to purchase sections of the text instead of bu
45、ying the whole thing, with individual chapters costing as little as $ 2.99. I)There are, however, challenges. “It takes efforts to build each book,“ MacInnis tells me. And its clear why. Each interactive textbook is a mediaheavy experience built from the ground up, and you can tell that it takes a r
46、espectable amount of manpower to put together each one. J)For now the app is also iPad-exclusive, and though a few of these educational institutions are giving the hardware away for free, for other students who dont have such a luxury its an added layer of costand an expensive one at that. K)But thi
47、s much is clear: The traditional textbook model is and has been broken for quite some time. Whether digitally interactive ones like Inkling actually take off or not remains to be seen, and we probably wont have a definite answer for the next few years. However, the solution to any problem begins wit
48、h a step in a direction. And at least for now, that hazy mirage in the distance? A little more tangible(可触摸的 ), a little less of a dream. 47 The problem with Course Smarts current digital textbooks is that they are no more than print versions put on a screen. 48 Digital textbooks havent fixed all th
49、e shortcomings of print books. 49 One of the challenges to build an interactive digital textbook from the ground up is that it takes a great deal of manpower to put together each one. 50 Some students still use paper and pencil because they find it troublesome to take notes with an iPad. 51 According to the author, whether digital textbooks will catch on is still unclear. 52 Inklings notation system is very exciting because one
