1、大学英语四级（ 2013年 12月考试改革适用）模拟试卷 2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 whether the key to success. You should write at least 120 words but no more th
2、an 180 words. Section A （ A） Romantic stories. （ B） Books in the library. （ C） Love stories. （ D） Detective stories. （ A） The man does not like to go shopping. （ B） The man may not want to go shopping again. （ C） The woman wants to buy something to wear. （ D） The woman tried the clothes but they did
3、nt fit. （ A） The man should first sign a one-year lease. （ B） The man can move in a week later. （ C） The man should paint the whole thing. （ D） The man cannot take the apartment. （ A） The woman has given up learning English. （ B） Neither the man nor the woman is good at spelling. （ C） The woman did
4、well in pronunciation and spelling. （ D） The man also did well in pronunciation and grammar. （ A） In the department store. （ B） In the cleaners. （ C） In a hardware shop. （ D） In a snack bar. （ A） Put a little more pepper in the soup. （ B） Serve the soup as it is said in the recipe. （ C） Taste the so
5、up to see if it needs some more pepper. （ D） Check the recipe to see if they followed it correctly. （ A） Rolling the rocks. （ B） Listening to music. （ C） Talking on the telephone. （ D） Vacuuming the bathroom. （ A） They might pay less tax. （ B） They might pay more tax. （ C） They might have less child
6、ren. （ D） They might pay some amount of tax. （ A） A study that their chemistry professor did. （ B） A class that the woman is taking. （ C） A chemistry assignment. （ D） A job possibility. （ A） She wants to earn extra money. （ B） She wants to get practical experience. （ C） She wants to quit her job in
7、the chemistry lab. （ D） Shes interested in becoming a psychology major. （ A） Help them with their studies. （ B） Employ them as lab assistants. （ C） Teach classes at their high school. （ D） Pay them for participating in the study. （ A） Write their lab reports. （ B） Finish their chemistry experiment.
8、（ C） Find out Professor Smiths schedule. （ D） Interview some high school students. （ A） An annual cycling event. （ B） Major Canadian bicycle races. （ C） The contribution of cycling to health. （ D） How to increase ones speed in a bicycle race. （ A） The length of the course. （ B） The route the cyclist
9、s take. （ C） The number of participants. （ D） The month in which the tour is held. （ A） Have lunch before the tour. （ B） Drink water at the relay stations. （ C） Bring water and lunch with them. （ D） Bring candy and chocolate to improve energy. Section B （ A） Sense of sight. （ B） Sense of hearing. （
10、C） Sense of smell. （ D） Sense of taste. （ A） Six times. （ B） Five times. （ C） Three times. （ D） Two times. （ A） Through a wide variety of high-frequency sounds. （ B） Through a wide variety of low-frequency sounds. （ C） Through their varied swimming gestures. （ D） Through the echolocation. （ A） New Y
11、ork University. （ B） The University of Southern California. （ C） The University of San Francisco State University. （ D） Jones Wales University. （ A） It had the most foreign students. （ B） Its students outnumbered those in other states. （ C） Most of its foreign students were the Japanese. （ D） It off
12、ered more financial aids. （ A） Engineering and industrial design. （ B） Business and management. （ C） Mathematics and computer science. （ D） Medicines and chemistry. （ A） The history of Industrial Revolution. （ B） The history of Middle Ages. （ C） The development of technology. （ D） The development of
13、 advertising. （ A） By door to door advertising. （ B） By using symbols. （ C） By verbal announcements. （ D） By written messages. （ A） The British. （ B） The Americans. （ C） The Romans. （ D） The Russians. （ A） During the Industrial Revolution. （ B） In the Middle Ages. （ C） After the Second World War. （
14、D） After the invention of televisions. Section C 26 For most of us, the purpose of the holidays is to bring peace, love, and goodwill towards all. Yet, for many, the holiday season often means stress,【 B1】 _. pressure, disappointment and loneliness. These feelings, often known as the “holiday blues“
15、, may be even more【 B2】 _this year, due to the emotional disturbance of the past few months,【 B3】 _the unsteady economy. Exports say even the more ritual tasks of shopping, decorating, late-night parties, cooking, planning and family【 B4】 _can be holiday stressors. Most experts say the predominant c
16、ulprits(罪魁祸首 ) 【 B5】 _the depression many experience during the holidays are the very people they love the most their family. “Holiday blues or depression makes sense,“ says John Stutesman, a clinical psychologist at Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago. “In reality,“ he explains, “family gathe
17、rings bring on stress due to feelings of obligation,【 B6】 _and being judged.“ And with family get-togethers becoming less【 B7】 _events over the years, there is now the added pressure of getting just one chance to get it all right. “Families are much more different now. The disappointment and sense o
18、f【 B8】 _that often results from family gatherings, Stutesman adds, is actually a realization that “the fantasy is not met“. “Still, the blues should be addressed, for denial will only compound the stress theyre feeling.“ says Stutesman, “The most【 B9】 _step is for the individual to acknowledge their
19、 feelings and the reason for their withdrawal.“ “If people are feeling a little blue, they should try to do things personally satisfying for them. Maybe this is exercise, cooking, reading a book, or massage.“ says Stutesman. “People should do things that are normally comforting in order to【 B10】 _th
20、e holiday stress,“ Stutesman also advises. 27 【 B1】 28 【 B2】 29 【 B3】 30 【 B4】 31 【 B5】 32 【 B6】 33 【 B7】 34 【 B8】 35 【 B9】 36 【 B10】 Section A 36 It is not unusual today for old people to spoil their grandchildren with toys and sweets and to【 C1】 _to their aggressive demands. It is natural that old
21、 people adore(爱 )their grandchildren, but is not normal that this adoration should go so far as to create little emperors and empresses. Such adoration has a【 C2】 _effect on the childrens personalities and moral standards. A survey of 152 such families found that 88 percent of grandparents admitted
22、that they tended to yield to their grandchildrens every request, especially if the children had resorted to tears. It seems that when children are told off by their parents or teachers, their elder relatives interfere protecting and comforting the children. When the children are【 C3】 _to do some fam
23、ily chore(杂务 ), 59 percent of the old people said they would invariably(总是 )do it for them. Some grandparents would even go to【 C4】 _to sweep floors and wash windows for their grandchildren. It has become usual that when little boys and girls get good【 C5】 _in examinations, their grandparents reward
24、 them. As a result, the children have come to take these favors for granted and have become less【 C6】 _towards others. Parents and teachers have all appealed to old people to be【 C7】 _for the sake of future generations. The problems of these spoiled children can be【 C8】 _. First, parents and grandpa
25、rents should understand that their【 C9】 _is to train the children to become both self-controlled and self-reliant. Second, they should allow the children to be more independent. And third, young parents should【 C10】 _with the old instead of leaving the grandparents entirely responsible to raise the
26、children. A)task I)cooperate B)precisely J)yield C)required K)sensible D)information L)participated E)considerate K)marks F)negative N)beneficial G)quarrel O)school H)solved 37 【 C1】 38 【 C2】 39 【 C3】 40 【 C4】 41 【 C5】 42 【 C6】 43 【 C7】 44 【 C8】 45 【 C9】 46 【 C10】 Section B 46 Reasons to Be Cautious
27、 about Stock A)For the past quarter century, many individual investors followed a fairly simple investment strategy: set aside regular savings to invest, buy a diversified basket of holdings and ride out the occasional pullbacks by staying focused on very long-term returns. That conventional wisdom
28、generally paid off. Now, with the stock market rallying after a crushing 40 percent decline last year, that strategy seems to be making a comeback. But there are very unconventional forces at work today that may derail that method. B)After last years heart-stopping plunge, the stock market has gaine
29、d about 25 percent since it bottomed in November. That stoked confidence among some investors and financial advisers that the worst may be over and investors who bailed out last year should now go bargain hunting. “Stocks are cheap right now. Theres a lot of cash on the sidelines, and earnings are w
30、ashed out,“ said Rob Morgan, a market strategist for Clermont Wealth Strategies. “Weve got ingredients for positive things to happen.“ But there are also signs those traditional market signals may be flashing false positives. Here are some reasons to tread carefully. The coining economic revival C)T
31、he biggest force propping up stocks now is widespread confidence that the government is moving aggressively to revive the battered economy and credit markets. That confidence rests heavily on reports that the incoming Obama administration is readying a massive package of tax cuts and government spen
32、ding to pull the economy out of its decrease. Merrill Lynch economist David Rosenberg has dubbed the markets recent market gain a “shovel-ready rally“ one that assumes the economy will get back on track by the middle of this year. “The market may be focused less on the patient right now and more on
33、the cure,“ he wrote this week. “This, in turn, means that the doctors better come up with something that is going to turn the economy around.“ D)But the positive impact of the stimulus package is far from assured. Since last spring, the government has thrown $165 billion in stimulus and rebate check
34、s at the economy, along with $350 billion to buy up bank assets all on top of a $1 trillion-plus pump priming by the Federal Reserve, which also has pushed short-term interest rates to near zero. So far, the results have been mixed. Consumers used their rebate checks to save or pay down debts, not s
35、pend. Banks have used their newfound billions to bolster battered balance sheets, not lend. With most economists looking for those measures to begin working by the second half of the year, any delay in that recovery could spell big trouble for investors, according to Joe Battipaglia, a market strate
36、gist at Stifel Nicolaus. “Investors can get very impatient read that as they become very nervous when the stimulative activity doesnt take hold, where the Federal Reserve has stayed at zero for a long period of time yet the private sector is still in contraction,“ he said. Fed to the rescue E)As the
37、 market waits for Congress to act on more stimulus, the Fed has been aggressively pumping money into financial markets. Investors have also been conditioned to believe that when the Fed floods the system with money, the market responds. Perhaps the most dramatic demonstration came following the Cras
38、h of 1987. Stocks dropped 508 points, or almost 23 percent, on Oct. 19, 1987. When word spread that the Fed had opened the financial sluice gates, stocks surged the very next day. Since it began pumping money in September, the Fed hasnt loosened up the gears of the economy. Businesses are still cutt
39、ing jobs and consumers are keeping their wallets shut. Despite committing over $1 trillion, through a maze of lending programs unprecedented in the Feds 96-year history, economic data continue to point to a steep decline. “Its impossible given all the government intervention to really figure out wha
40、ts going to happen this year and when bottoms of markets are going to take place,“ said Doug Dachille, CEO of First Principles Capital Management. Buy and hold F)The conventional wisdom of modern investing also holds that investors who hang on during market pullbacks will be rewarded eventually. Bul
41、lish advisers are also quick to point out that the biggest gains often occur early in any rally, and that it can be difficult to see them coming. Until recently, market pullbacks were relatively short-lived, which helped support the “buy and hold“ philosophy adopted by many long-term investors for a
42、 generation. But over the years, that long-range approach has been less reliable. During protracted(拖延的 )periods of economic breakdown, like the 1930s and 1970s, shortlived market rallies were followed by devastating pullbacks leaving buy-and-holders with negligible gains. That kind of market calls
43、for an entirely different set of investing skills, according to Tobias Levkovich, chief U.S. equity strategist at Citigroup. “You can get very significant rallies, but investors who stick with a buy-and-hold strategy are probably not going to be the winners,“ he said. “Its people who can trade more
44、effectively.“ Cracked nest eggs G)The bull market that began in 1982 was fueled in part by a dramatic shift in retirement savings after the creation of individual retirement accounts like company-sponsored 401(k)plans. Most participants who opted to make regular contributions followed the “buy and h
45、old“ strategy, making relatively few changes to their holdings. That steady stream of cash helped the stock market produce one of its strongest 25-year gains in history. More recently, the popularity of 529 college savings plans have created a new pool of savings that flowed into stocks. H)But last
46、years historic stock market pullback the worst annual performance since 1931 may have soured some of those investors to stocks for a long time. Investors who are near retirement age have limited time to bear additional losses. Some 63 percent of Americans 45 and older say theyve stopped putting mone
47、y into a 401(k), IRA or other retirement account up from 20 percent in October, according to a recent survey from AARP. Younger investors who are starting to build retirement accounts may think twice before investing heavily in stocks after seeing the recent losses. I)And as more baby boomers reach
48、retirement age, they will become sellers of stocks. Many of them are saying they already lost a large portion of their retirement savings and will have to work harder to make ends meet with what they have left. “We dont know if we will live long enough to see any recovery,“ wrote one reader from Pe
49、nnsylvania. “I guess the only answer to our dilemma is to die 10 years sooner than we had expected. Or perhaps us old folks can get a job as Wal-Mart greeters.“ 47 Rob Morgan had the proof that the stock market had a bright future. 48 The result of the stimulus package from the government is still unknown. 49 In 1982, investors chose to make regular contributions which result in the stable gains of the stock market. 50 When most ba
