1、大学英语四级（ 2013年 12月考试改革适用）模拟试卷 266及答案与解析 一、 Part I Writing 1 For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write an essay. You should start your essay with a brief description of the picture and then express your views on the importance of finance management. You should write at least 120 words but no
2、more than 180 words. Write your essay on Answer Sheet 1. Section A （ A） To reach an agreement between the two sides. （ B） To invite some celebrity to join the new firm. （ C） To publicize their activities. （ D） To wait for approval by an authority concerned. （ A） It wants to absorb more hot singers.
3、（ B） It will fight against other music companies. （ C） It faces the challenge of the falling music sale. （ D） It can eliminate the problems they faced before. （ A） Thursday. （ B） 45 days ago. （ C） Tuesday. （ D） Wednesday. （ A） An assisted suicide organization. （ B） A travel agency. （ C） A hospital.
4、（ D） A police station. （ A） 1,970. （ B） 1,980. （ C） 4,700. （ D） 2,600. （ A） The spirit of fair play. （ B） Mutual understanding. （ C） Respect to each other. （ D） Refusal to drugs. （ A） Intelligent. （ B） Imagine. （ C） Image. （ D） Impression. Section B （ A） He is late for classes too often. （ B） He has
5、 missed too many classes. （ C） He has failed in the exam again. （ D） He is a trouble-maker at school. （ A） He has a part-time job. （ B） He often oversleeps. （ C） He isnt ready for class. （ D） He is busy preparing exams. （ A） Students are going to take the final exam today. （ B） Its the last day Stev
6、e can drop the class with a full refund （ C） Students have to hand in their reports today. （ D） Its the final day Steve can apply for a loan. （ A） Drop the class. （ B） Make up the missed lessons. （ C） Stop taking part-time job. （ D） Transfer to another school. （ A） The quality of goods and services
7、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 equipment. （ D） Clothing. （ A） They account for the largest proportion. （ B）
8、 90 per cent 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. Section C （ A） The father alone makes the important decision. （ B） The mothe
9、r alone makes the important decision. （ C） Children old enough are allowed to take part. （ D） Children should be seen but cant air their view. （ A） Their parents dont like to live with them. （ B） They need more freedom and space. （ C） They need to become independent. （ D） They have to go to universi
10、ties. （ A） It suits the values of equality. （ B） It can cause serious problems. （ C） It does no good. （ D） It goes too far. （ A） They have not enough money. （ B） They have to leave home. （ C） They feel useless and lonely. （ D） They have no children or relatives. （ A） Breaking big rocks into little o
11、nes （ B） Feeding his family. （ C） Building a cathedral. （ D） Doing construction works. （ A） Having a point. （ B） Having flexibility. （ C） Making sense. （ D） Being interesting. （ A） Most of the people want to do meaningful work. （ B） A majority of workers are doing meaningful work. （ C） Happy workers
12、 can always find a well-paid job. （ D） Meaningful workers are happy and better workers. （ A） One can improve listening by watching movies. （ B） Everybody wants to improve listening nowadays. （ C） There is a good way to memorize vocabularies. （ D） One needs to work hard to improve English. （ A） Watch
13、 the film two more times. （ B） Memorize the scenes and stories. （ C） Listen to the film instead of watching it. （ D） Repeat what the characters say in the film. （ A） Choose ones favorite film. （ B） Memorize all the dialogues. （ C） Go to a movie theater. （ D） Practice with a friend. Section A 26 A pa
14、per, Anatomy(剖析 )of a Large Scale Social Search Engine, laying out a strategy for social search has been getting a good deal of attention in tech circles. It was written by Damon Horowitz and Sepandar Kamvar of Aardvark, one of several companies【 C1】 _on creating social search engines. Social search
15、【 C2】 _to connect people with questions to people who can answer those questions. By contrast, regular Web searches take questions, break them into keywords, and then find Web sites that have the most【 C3】 _to these keywords. The idea has been floating around tech circles for years. Yahoo, among oth
16、ers, has tried to develop social search as a way to【 C4】 _Google. The idea has gained impulse with the increased use of Twitter and Facebook, where people【 C5】 _on their networks for information, blasting questions to their social networks and, getting useful, personalized【 C6】 _. Aardvark and its c
17、ompetitors are trying to create better tools for people with questions to connect to people with answers. Some people think social search has the potential to go beyond Google and【 C7】 _change the way people use the Internet. From a technical standpoint, Aardvarks task is easier than Googles. But th
18、ere are also some【 C8】 _shortcomings to Aardvarks approach. Getting answers through social search requires someone else to do something, so it cannot produce the【 C9】_satisfaction that comes from typing something into a Web search box and watching a page of results appear. For Aardvark to be success
19、ful, it needs to enlist the participation of【 C10】 _answerers. A)working E)fundamentally I)competent M)relation B)researches F)specializing J)significant N)challenge C)aims G)constant K)relevance O)rely D)responses H)primarily L)instant 27 【 C1】 28 【 C2】 29 【 C3】 30 【 C4】 31 【 C5】 32 【 C6】 33 【 C7】
20、34 【 C8】 35 【 C9】 36 【 C10】 Section B 36 Why Minority Students Dont Graduate from College ABarry Mills, the president of Bowdoin College, was justifiably proud of Bowdoins efforts to recruit minority students. Since 2003 the school has boosted the proportion of so-called under-represented minority s
21、tudents(blacks, Latinos(拉丁美洲人 ), and Native Americans, about 30 percent of the U.S population)in entering freshman classes from 8 percent to 13 percent. But Bowdoin has not done quite as well when it comes to actually graduating minorities. While nine out of 10 white students routinely get their dip
22、lomas within six years, only seven out of 10 black students made it to graduation day in several recent classes. BThe United States once had the highest graduation rate of any nation. Now it stands 10th. For the first time in American history, there is the risk that the rising generation will be les
23、s well educated than the previous one. The graduation rate among 25-to 34-year-olds is no better than the rate for the 55-to 64-year-olds who were going to college more than 30 years ago. Studies show that more and more poor and nonwhite students are eager to graduate from college but their graduati
24、on rates fall far short of their dreams. The graduation rates for blacks, Latinos, and Native Americans lag far behind the graduation rates for whites and Asians. As the minority population grows in the United States, low college-graduation rates become a threat to national prosperity. CThe problem
25、is noticeable at public universities. In 2007, the University of Wisconsin-Madison one of the top five or so “public Ivies“ graduated 81 percent of its white students within six years, but only 56 percent of its blacks. At less-selective state schools, the numbers get worse. Community colleges have
26、low graduation rates generally but rock-bottom rates for minorities. A recent review of California community colleges found that while a third of the Asian students picked up their degrees, only 15 percent of African-Americans did so as well. DPrivate colleges and universities generally do better, p
27、artly because they offer smaller classes and more personal attention. But when it comes to a significant graduation gap, Bowdoin has company. Nearby Colby College logged an 18-point difference between white and black graduates in 2007 and 25 points in 2006. “Higher education has been able to get aro
28、und this issue for years, particularly the more selective schools, by saying the responsibility is on the individual student,“ says Pennington of the Gates Foundation. “If they fail, its their fault.“ Some critics blame affirmative action students admitted with lower test scores and grades from shak
29、y high schools often struggle at top schools. But a bigger problem may be that poor high schools often send their students to colleges for which they are “undermatched“: they could get into better, richer schools, but instead go to community colleges and low-rated state schools that lack the resourc
30、es to help them. Some schools out for profit cynically increase tuitions and count on student loans and federal aid to foot the bill knowing full well that the students wont make it. “Colleges know that a lot of kids they take will end up in remedial classes, for which theyll get no college credit a
31、nd then theyll be dismissed,“ says Amy Wilkins of the Education Trust. “The school gets to keep the money, but the kid leaves with loads of debt and no degree and no ability to get a better job. Colleges are not holding up their end.“ EA college education is getting ever more expensive. Since 1982 t
32、uitions have been rising at roughly twice the rate of inflation. University administrators insist that most of those hikes are matched by increased scholarship grants or loans, but the recession has decreased private endowments(捐助 )and cut into state spending on higher education. In 2008 the net cos
33、t of attending a four-year public university equaled 28 percent of median family income, while a four-year private university cost 76 percent of median family income. More and more scholarships are based on scores, not need. Poorer students are not always the best-informed consumers. Often they end
34、up deeply in debt or simply unable to pay after a year or two and must drop out. FThere once was a time when universities took an unreasonable pride in their drop-out rates. Professors would begin the year by saying, “Look to the right and look to the left. One of you is not going to be here by the
35、end of the year.“ But such a Darwinian spirit is beginning to give way as at least a few colleges face up to the graduation gap. At the University of Wisconsin-Madison, the gap has been roughly halved over the last three years. The university has poured resources into peer counseling to help student
36、s from inner-city schools adjust to the faster pace of a university classroom, and also to help minority students overcome the stereotype that they are less qualified. GState and federal governments could sharpen that focus everywhere by broadly publishing minority graduation rates. For years privat
37、e colleges such as Princeton and MIT have had success bringing minorities onto campus in the summer before freshman year to give them a head start on college-level courses. The newer trend is to start recruiting poor and nonwhite students as early as the seventh grade, using new tools like hip-hop c
38、ompetitions to identify kids with sophisticated verbal(语言的 )means. Such programs can be expensive, of course, but cheap compared with the millions already invested in scholarships and grants for kids who have little chance to graduate without special support. HWith effort and money, the graduation g
39、ap can be closed. Washington and Lee is a small, selective school in Virginia. Its student body is less than 5 percent black and less than 2 percent Latino. While the school usually graduated about 90 percent of its whites, the graduation rate of its blacks and Latinos had dipped to 63 percent by 20
40、07. “We went through a dramatic shift,“ says Dawn Watkins, the vice president for student affairs. The school aggressively pushed mentoring(师徒制 )of minorities by other students and “partnering“ with parents at a special pre-enrollment session. The school had its first-ever black homecoming. Last spr
41、ing the school graduated the same proportion of minorities as it did whites. If the United States wants to keep up in the global economic race, it will have to pay systematic attention to graduating minorities, not just enrolling them. 37 The recessions impact on higher education is that universitie
42、s receive fewer contributions from individuals. 38 More attention should be paid to increase the graduation rate of minorities in order to keep up in the global economic race. 39 Before the minorities enter university, some private colleges arrange them to take part in college-level courses. 40 Priv
43、ate colleges and universities have higher graduation rates for minorities partly because they pay more attention to students individual need. 41 Since Americans rank in graduation rate dropped dramatically, the young may be less well educated than their fathers. 42 The “undermatched“ students dont r
44、eceive enough help from colleges or schools. 43 A recent review found that a third of the Asian students managed to graduate from college, while the graduation rate of African-Americans was worse. 44 Barry Mills, the president of Bowdoin College was proud of the Colleges higher enrollment rate of mi
45、nority students. 45 The University of Wisconsin-Madison managed to narrow the graduation gap by organizing programs to help students adapt to the pace of class pattern. 46 Washington and Lee worked together with parents as partners to help minorities at a special pre-enroll-ment session. Section C 4
46、6 Its hot now in Afghanistan, where 35% of the population is under-fed. But soon it will be cold, and many of the countrys roads will become inaccessible because of snow and landslides, making it difficult to get food to market. Knowing these things gets Stacy McCoy out of bed every morning and out
47、into the countryside, visiting Afghani women and farmers to offer new agricultural techniques and hardier seeds. She also works to improve their marketing skills so that they can be exposed to new ways to sell goods in the marketplace. The marketing efforts have helped organize the women and farmers
48、 into teams so that they have more food to offer collectively and can work more closely together to share their knowledge. McCoy is one of many American scientists who have devoted their careers to international development in the name of making the world a better place. “It can be hard living away
49、from family and that is a choice sometimes going into international work, but Im pretty content to stay here and not too anxious about the security situation,“ she says. She relies on her environmental science background to help Afghanis cultivate stronger, more resilient seeds and says her ability to speak French has helped immensely in her work in Africa and the Middle East. She believes her ability to speak a second language was a huge help in getting her first assignment, in French-
