1、大学英语四级（ 2013年 12月考试改革适用）模拟试卷 270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 the significance of waste sorting. You should write at least 120 words but n
2、o more than 180 words. Write your essay on Answer Sheet 1. Section A （ A） Next year. （ B） Next week. （ C） In June or July. （ D） In March or April. （ A） A conference held between Britain, Israel and Palestine. （ B） Peace talks held between Israel and Palestine. （ C） The international effort to boost
3、economy in Palestine. （ D） The political and economic situation in Palestine. （ A） More than $17 billion. （ B） More than $17 million. （ C） More than $70 billion. （ D） More than $70 million. （ A） He was accused of many charges. （ B） He arrived on South Korea illegally. （ C） He stole money on the airp
4、lane. （ D） He committed crimes in Vietnam. （ A） Studied a lot of international journals. （ B） Estimated food consumption of undergraduate students. （ C） Spent a lot of time eating in front of the television. （ D） Surveyed students viewing, eating and drinking habits. （ A） Watching TV encourages snac
5、king. （ B） Most people had healthy eating habits. （ C） Most people watch TV while eating. （ D） People are distracted while eating. （ A） Pay full attention to the TV shows. （ B） Miss what happening on the screen. （ C） Miss the cues that we are full. （ D） Eat less food than usually. Section B （ A） Rec
6、ycling and its benefits. （ B） The group she belongs to. （ C） Her belief on environmental protection. （ D） The project her group is involved in. （ A） To get funding from the citys recycling center. （ B） To raise peoples awareness of recycling. （ C） To force the government to change its actions on pla
7、nt funding. （ D） To prevent the government from funding the main plant. （ A） The council cares about the issues. （ B） The group has been dealing with the issues. （ C） The group has cut off the main plant. （ D） The woman has been interviewed several times. （ A） Writing an article in the newspapers. （
8、 B） Dumping garbage on the city lawn. （ C） Publishing an editorial to show disapproval. （ D） Organizing several strikes in the streets. （ A） To spend a holiday and see friends. （ B） To attend the Arts Festival. （ C） To visit the exhibition of cellos. （ D） To give private cello lessons. （ A） It was s
9、pecially made for him by his uncle. （ B） He got it from his uncle. （ C） He has been using it since the age of eight. （ D） A cello maker gave it to him as a present. （ A） Half size. （ B） Two-thirds size. （ C） Full size. （ D） Three-fifths size. （ A） He reserves a seat for it. （ B） He leaves it at home
10、. （ C） He ships it by express. （ D） He shares the seat with it. Section C （ A） It Was published in 1608. （ B） It was a list of everyday words. （ C） It included 3,000 important words. （ D） Each word in it was defined by one word. （ A） It was the first dictionary that also included easy words. （ B） It
11、 gave good sentences to show the usage of the words. （ C） It was the first English dictionary. （ D） It contained twenty volumes. （ A） It has a lot of volumes. （ B） It was planned and prepared by scholars. （ C） It gives good meanings to the words. （ D） It traces each words history. （ A） Confident. （
12、B） Energetic. （ C） Discouraged. （ D） Anxious. （ A） This group exercises regularly in gyms. （ B） This group cares about body image. （ C） This group is more self-aware. （ D） This group tends to feel tired more easily. （ A） Hiking is particularly beneficial. （ B） They should set a time limit to their e
13、xercise. （ C） There are other ways to work out. （ D） They had better not do exercises in a gym. （ A） The transactions are under close supervision. （ B） Paperwork has been totally replaced by computers. （ C） The transactions are processed only by computers. （ D） There is no reason for the staff to st
14、eal money. （ A） It is hard to find evidence and witnesses. （ B） They dont use guns. （ C） Such kind of crimes are usually not detected. （ D） It is hard to catch them. （ A） By transferring money among different accounts. （ B） By replacing the missing money through gambling. （ C） By making computer err
15、ors artificially. （ D） By changing the account information. （ A） Laws about computer crimes are imperfect. （ B） There are many potential criminals hiding in the bank. （ C） Computer crimes committed by minor employees exist widely. （ D） Computer crimes committed by real computer experts exist widely.
16、 Section A 26 Barack and Michelle Obama understand the heavy burden of student loan debt. The Obamas did not pay off their student loans until Obamas best-selling books earned them millions of dollars. With the cost of a college education【 C1】 _, more than 60% of students take out loans to fund thei
17、r undergraduate education. On average, students who borrow graduate with debts of $22,700 a【 C2】 _of more than 18% from 2000. But some of those with a newly acquired bachelors degree are restrained with debts of $40,000 or more. You think this economys tough? Try finding a job with the【 C3】 _of repa
18、ying tens of thousands of dollars in debt. Now, a new federal program Income-Based Repayment is making it【 C4】_to pay back these loans. If a student chooses to repay her or his loan with this plan, payments are then readjusted based on their income to something they can【 C5】_afford. All debt will be
19、 forgiven after 25 years. A graduate who earns less than 150% of the【 C6】 _line wont have to make any payments. This is in addition to the year-old Public Service Loan Forgiveness program for those【 C7】 _in jobs such as law enforcement, public health and social work. Their loans will be forgiven aft
20、er 10 years. This【 C8】 _isnt perfect: the loans have to be federal loans, not【 C9】 _. But students with more than one federal student loan can combine them under the program. In some cases, borrowers with large debt and low-to-moderate incomes may benefit at the end of 25 years, with the【 C10】 _of t
21、heir debt forgiven, Others with higher incomes, though, will pay more. A)earning E)pressure I)balance M)easier B)state F)initiative J)raising N)working C)rising G)poverty K)private O)reasonably D)jump H)public L)barely 27 【 C1】 28 【 C2】 29 【 C3】 30 【 C4】 31 【 C5】 32 【 C6】 33 【 C7】 34 【 C8】 35 【 C9】
22、36 【 C10】 Section B 36 To Help the Kids, Parents Go Back to School AFor a few years now, every parent of a newborn baby in the South Florida district has received a congratulations packet while still in the hospital that includes, among other things, a colorful animal picture book(in three languages
23、)and a letter from something called the Parent Academy. “Keep in mind that you are, and will always be, your childs first and most important teacher,“ the letter reads. “Miami-Dade County Public Schools has many resources and opportunities for you to make the most of that awesome responsibility.“ Yo
24、u have to admit, its a pretty genius interpretation of that old advertising saying “Get em while theyre young.“ BWhile the concept of parent academies in which towns or school districts offer what are essentially classes and workshops on parenting skills has been around for more than a decade, sever
25、al larger cities are starting or expanding such programs in an effort to engage parents who are otherwise uninvolved in their childs education. Philadelphia has invested heavily in this years launch of a comprehensive and wide-ranging program for parents. Boston is restoring its Parent University fo
26、llowing an earlier versions shutdown due to budget cuts. And Miamis Parent Academy, now in its fifth year, offers more than 100 workshops that range from Help Your Child Succeed in Math to Teaching Behavior Skills. CParent academies are particularly helpful for urban communities full of mothers and
27、fathers who for various reasons are disengaged from their childrens education. Many are single parents with second jobs that leave little time to help with schoolwork. Some are immigrants who dont understand much English. Some are parents uncomfortable with schoolwork a survey released by Intel foun
28、d that more than 50% of parents would rather talk to their kids about drugs or drunk driving than about math or science. And then theres the general confusion that often comes from dealing with a bureaucracy(官僚作风 )as complicated as the typical American school district. “There are parents who are jus
29、t not as well informed about the way schools work,“ says Karen Mapp, director of the Education Policy and Management Program at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. “The policies, the procedures, what state test scores mean its not that they dont care: they just dont know how.“ DPicture yoursel
30、f in the following supposed situations: youre a parent who never graduated high school: youre a parent whose only interactions with schools have been negative ones: youre a parent who has zero recollection of how to divide fractions: youre a parent who has no clue as to what the important dates are
31、on the college-application calendar. Now picture yourself experiencing all of the supposed situations at once, and then imagine how your child would suffer from your knowledge deficiency. For as much as the current wave of education reformers like to maintain that quality teachers and schools can he
32、lp overcome environmental factors, a childs home life plays an undeniable role in how well they learn, says Mapp. E“Ive been doing research on family engagement for about 16 years now,“ she says. “And theres 40 years of research that indicates a pretty positive relationship between families being en
33、gaged in their childrens education and positive effects on students in terms of their academic achievement. “Mapp is currently helping write a case study on Miamis Parent Academy program, which is one of the nations most successful big-city attempts in this area. Privately funded by local philanthro
34、pists(慈善家 )and businesses, the Parent Academy has seen more than 120,000 people participate in its workshops during the past half-decade. It has taught parents everything from how to reinforce reading lessons at home to how to deal with threat and the dangers of sexing. FThe county has partly adjust
35、ed its approach to serve its large non-English-speaking community. “Many of our newly arrived immigrants dont understand what they can do to support their childs success, and they dont understand the system theres no point in going to the school board when youre concerned about your childs homework,
36、“ says Anne Thompson, director of the Miami-Dade program. Because of language issues, she often sees students having to do their parents jobs in terms of navigating school bureaucracy. GIn Philadelphia, superintendent Arlene Ackerman set up a Parent University this year after expressing concern over
37、 low literacy rates for parents and children, as well as a general lack of parental engagement among low-income families, especially among African-American men. Tasked with cherry-picking the best elements from other programs around the country(and tossing the worst), Karren Dunkley, deputy of the P
38、hiladelphia School Districts Office of Parent, Family and Community Services, and her colleagues realized that they needed to ground the program within the context of adult continuing education. That is, if youre trying to teach adults something, give them the respect of having it resemble a real cl
39、ass, which meets more than once, reinforces lessons and allows parents to form learning-centered relationships with instructors and fellow students just as their kids do. “When we looked around the country, we found one-hit wonders, where parents would come into schools for daylong workshops,“ says
40、Dunkley. “That really didnt produce transformative results, nor did it sustain interest or truly give support to parents.“ HSupported primarily by federal funds, the Philadelphia Parent Academys “curriculum“ runs the scope from a 10-week math-literacy course to a multipart social-etiquette(社交礼仪 )cla
41、ss to a one-day session on attendance and truancy(逃课 )that teaches parents about “compulsory education and attendance law.“ Its all targeted toward families in need: parents of children at low-performing schools and residents of housing projects and emergency shelters. Of course, theres no guarantee
42、 that the people who need these programs the most will actually take advantage of them you cant force parents to care, no matter how many free classes you offer. Still, says Harvards Mapp, you have to make progress where you can. “Family engagement is a shared, mutual partnership between educators a
43、nd parents,“ she says. “Its a two-way conversation between home and school.“ 37 Some students have to navigate school bureaucracy by themselves, because their parents dont know English. 38 Some big cities are launching parent academies programs to engage parents in their childs education. 39 The let
44、ter in the congratulations packet intends to persuade parents to go back to school. 40 Mapp believes that besides teachers and schools, the parents help at home is essential for childrens study. 41 A government official realized that the parent academic program should be on the basis of adult contin
45、uing education. 42 Educators and parents should work in a shared, mutual partnership to help the kids, says a university staff member. 43 The survey by Intel found that more than half of parents were unwilling to deal with schoolwork. 44 Miamis Parent Academy program is considered as a great success
46、. 45 The Philadelphia Parent Academys “curriculum“ is funded primarily by federal funds. 46 A Parent University was set up in Philadelphia partly due to the high illiteracy rates for parents and children. Section C 46 Heres some good news for parents of tweens and teens: You rule. That may be hard t
47、o believe sometimes. And its true kids wont always follow your health and safety rules. But studies show parents who keep setting boundaries make a huge difference. The latest example is a survey on media use by the Kaiser Family Foundation. It found that typical kids aged from 8 to 18 spend an asto
48、nishing 7 hours and 38 minutes a day consuming entertainment media, indulging deeply in TV, computers, games, cellphones, music players and other devices while occasionally glancing at books and other non-electronic media. Many experts, including the pediatrics(小儿科 )academy, consider that much scree
49、n time bad for mental and physical health. But the study also found that kids whose parents set any time or content limits were plugged in for three hours less each day. “Parents can have a big influence,“ says Kaiser researcher Vicky Rideout. “The reality is that teenagers care deeply what their parents think,“ says Kenneth Ginsburg, a specialist of the Childrens Hospital of Philadelphia. “The challenge for parents is to get across rules and bou
