1、大学英语四级（ 2013年 12月考试改革适用）模拟试卷 34及答案与解析 一、 Part I Writing 1 For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write an essay entitled Is It Necessary to Attend Training Classes. You should start your essay with a brief description of the picture and then express your views. You should write at least 120 wo
2、rds but no more than 180 words according to the outline given below in Chinese. Write your essay on Answer Sheet 1.1以下是某城市各类培训班的数目图，请简要描述图表； 2给出可能的原因； 3你的观点。Section A （ A） The man should shut the window tightly. （ B） The man should put some screws in the wood. （ C） The man should stick to his work.
3、（ D） The man should use a tool to open the window. （ A） The number of rooms in the apartment. （ B） Trouble within the mans family. （ C） The reason why the man has so many clocks. （ D） What the woman should give to her family. （ A） In a railway station. （ B） In a hotel room. （ C） In a restaurant. （ D
4、） At the airport. （ A） The homework was very easy. （ B） The man should go to class. （ C） The man should sit in the back of the classroom. （ D） Shes further behind in her work than the man is. （ A） The weather forecast says it will be fine. （ B） The weather doesnt count in their plan. （ C） They will
5、not do as planned in case of rain. （ D） They will postpone their program if it rains. （ A） She lost her way. （ B） She lost her keys. （ C） She lost her car. （ D） She lost her handbag. （ A） 11:25 （ B） 11:40 （ C） 0.490278 （ D） 0.476389 （ A） He wishes to have more courses like it. （ B） He finds it hard
6、to follow the teacher. （ C） He wishes the teacher would talk more. （ D） He doesnt like the teachers accent. （ A） Stay at home. （ B） Hold parties. （ C） Do part-time jobs. （ D） Travel. （ A） Hired Eric to take care of the pets. （ B） Hired Margaret to look after the house. （ C） Asked Mr. Cohen to take c
7、are of the children. （ D） Hired Eric to water the plants. （ A） By interviewing the applicants. （ B） By examining the application letter. （ C） By taking suggestion from the student employment office. （ D） By listening to their friends recommendation. （ A） His major. （ B） High salary. （ C） His prefere
8、nce. （ D） His tutors advice. （ A） They just keep them in small cages. （ B） They dont feed them with enough food. （ C） They give them too much training. （ D） They dont give them food at regular time. （ A） To obtain a toy. （ B） To decorate their life. （ C） To make money. （ D） To show their wealth. （ A
9、） Tourist and animal feeder. （ B） Consultant and animal expert. （ C） Interviewer and interviewee. （ D） Pet owner and animal doctor. Section B （ A） Because foxes kill farm animals. （ B） Because foxes look just like farm dogs. （ C） Because foxes are very cunning. （ D） Because foxes may harm farmers ch
10、ildren. （ A） Shooting them. （ B） Poisoning them. （ C） Asking the local hunt to hunt for them. （ D） All of the above. （ A） Because they dont think foxes are harmful. （ B） Because they think fox hunting is cruel. （ C） Because they think fox hunting is expensive. （ D） Because they think the number of f
11、oxes has dropped a lot. （ A） Studying yoga. （ B） Adult education. （ C） Playing tennis. （ D） The search for physical fitness. （ A） The job market. （ B） Their former schools. （ C） Good schools. （ D） The local high school or colleges. （ A） Because they want to return to the job market. （ B） Because the
12、y want to learn something new. （ C） Because they want to make up for the education they missed. （ D） Because they want to prove themselves to be useful. （ A） Because London taxi drivers all have gone through a very tough training period to get special taxi driving license. （ B） Because London taxi d
13、rivers all are very familiar with every street of London. （ C） Because all London drivers are living in the corner of the Capital. （ D） Not given. （ A） Two years. （ B） Four years. （ C） Three years. （ D） Two to four years. （ A） To learn most direct route to every single road. （ B） To learn most direc
14、t route to every important building in London. （ C） To learn the most direct route to every single road and to every important building in London. （ D） To go around the city on small motorbikes practicing. （ A） Because learners have to pay for their own expenses on the tests and the medical exam. （
15、B） Because for some learners, the training cost is too expensive. （ C） Because the training time is too long. （ D） Because learners cannot get payment during the training period. Section C 26 A unique laboratory at the University of Chicago is busy only at night. It is a dream laboratory where resea
16、rchers are at work studying dreamers. Their findings have【 B1】_that everyone dreams from three to seven times a night; although【 B2】 _ a person may remember none or only one of his dreams. What people dream usually【 B3】 _their waking life experiences, which are mostly visual in nature. Dream is【 B4】
17、 _to be a passive event, a【 B5】 _ that people experience but do not【 B6】 _control. While the subjects usually students sleep, special machines record their【 B7】 _waves and eye movements as well as the body movements that signal the end of a dream. Surprisingly, all subjects sleep【 B8】 _. Observers r
18、eport that a person usually feels anxious before a dream. Once the dream has started, his body relaxes and his eyes become more active, as if the curtain had gone up on a show. As soon as the machine indicates that the dream is over, the sleeper is weakened by the researcher. He【 B9】 _, records his
19、dream, and goes back to sleep - perhaps to dream some more. Researchers have found that if the dreamer is wakened after his dream【 B10】 _, he can usually recall the entire dream. If he is allowed to sleep even five more minutes, his memory of the dream will have faded. 27 【 B1】 28 【 B2】 29 【 B3】 30
20、【 B4】 31 【 B5】 32 【 B6】 33 【 B7】 34 【 B8】 35 【 B9】 36 【 B10】 Section A 36 The flood of women into the job market boosted economic growth and changed U.S. society in many ways. Many in-home jobs that used to be done【 C1】 _by women ranging from family shopping to preparing meals to doing【 C2】 _work st
21、ill need to be done by someone. Husbands and children now do some of these jobs, a【 C3】 _that has changed the target market for many products. Or a working woman may face a crushing “poverty of time“ and look for help elsewhere, creating opportunities for producers of frozen meals, child care center
22、s, dry cleaners, financial services, and the like. Although there is still a big wage【 C4】 _between men and women, the income working women【 C5】 _gives them new independence and buying power. For example, women now【 C6】 _about half of all cars. Not long ago, many cars dealers【 C7】 _women shoppers by
23、 ignoring them or suggesting that they come back with their husbands. Now car companies have realized that women are【 C8】_customers. Its interesting that some leading Japanese car dealers were the first to【 C9】 _pay attention to women customers. In Japan, fewer women have jobs or buy cars the Japane
24、se society is still very much male-oriented. Perhaps it was the【 C10】 _contrast with Japanese society that prompted American firms to pay more attention to women buyers. A)scale B)retailed C)generate D)extreme E)technically F)affordable G)situation H)really I)potential J)gap K)voluntary L)excessive
25、M)insulted N)purchase O)primarily 37 【 C1】 38 【 C2】 39 【 C3】 40 【 C4】 41 【 C5】 42 【 C6】 43 【 C7】 44 【 C8】 45 【 C9】 46 【 C10】 Section B 46 Endangered Peoples A)Today, it is not distance, but culture that separates the peoples of the world. The central question of our time may be how to deal with cult
26、ural differences. So begins the book, Endangered Peoples, by Art Davidson. It is an attempt to provide understanding of the issues affecting the worlds native peoples. This book tells the stories of 21 tribes, cultures, and cultural areas that are struggling to survive. It tells each story through t
27、he voice of a member of the tribe .Mr. Davidson recorded their words. Art Wolfe and John Isaac took pictures of them. The organization called the Sierra Club published the book. B)The native groups live far apart in North America or South America, Africa or Asia. Yet their situations are similar. Th
28、ey are fighting the march of progress in an effort to keep themselves and their cultures alive. Some of them follow ancient ways most of the time. Some follow modern ways most of the time. They have one foot in ancient world and one foot in modern world. They hope to continue to balance between thes
29、e two worlds. Yet the pressures to forget their traditions and join the modern world may be too great. C)Rigoberta Menchu of Guatemala, the Nobel Peace Prize winner in 1992, offers her thoughts in the beginning of the book Endangered Peoples. She notes that many people claim that native people are l
30、ike stories from the past. They are ruins that have died. She disagrees strongly. She says native communities are not remains of the past. They have a future, and they have much wisdom and richness to offer the rest of the world. D)Art Davidson traveled thousands of miles around the world while work
31、ing on the book. He talked to many people to gather their thoughts and feelings. Mr. Davidson notes that their desires are the same. People want to remain themselves, he says. They want to raise their children the way they were raised. They want their children to speak their mother tongue, their own
32、 language. They want them to have their parents values and customs. Mr. Davidson says the peoples cries are the same: “Does our culture have to die? Do we have to disappear as a people? “ E)Art Davidson lived for more than 25 years among native people in the American state of Alaska. He says his int
33、erest in native peoples began his boyhood when he found an ancient stone arrowhead. The arrowhead was used as a weapon to hunt food. The hunter was an American Indian, long dead. Mr. Davidson realized then that Indians had lived in the state of Colorado, right where he was standing. And it was then,
34、 he says, that he first wondered: “Where are they? Where did they go? “He found answers to his early question. Many of the native peoples had disappeared. They were forced off their lands. Or they were killed in battle. Or they died from diseases brought by new settlers. Other native peoples remaine
35、d, but they had to fight to survive the pressures of the modern world. F)The Gwichin are an example of the survivors. They have lived in what is now Alaska and Canada for 10,000 years. Now about 5,000 Gwichin remain. They are mainly hunters. They hunt the caribou, a large deer with big horns that tr
36、avels across the huge spaces of the far north. For centuries, they have used all parts of the caribou: the meat for food, the skins for clothes, the bones for tools. Hunting caribou is the way of life of the Gwichin. G)One Gwichin told Art Davidson of memories from his childhood. It was a time when
37、the tribe lived quietly in its own corner of the world. He spoke to Mr. Davidson in these words: “Aslong as I can remember, someone would sit by a fire on the hilltop every spring and autumn. His job was to look for caribou. If he saw a caribou, he would wave his arms or he would make hisfire to giv
38、e off more smoke. Then the village would come to life! People ran up to the hilltop. The tribes seemed to be at its best at these gatherings. We were all filled with happiness and sharing!“ H)About ten years ago, the modern world invaded the quiet world of the Gwichin. Oil companies wanted to drill
39、for oil in the Arctic National Wildlife Preserve. This area was the placewhere the caribou gave birth to their young. The Gwichin feared the caribou would disappear. One Gwichin woman describes the situation in these words: “Oil development threatens the caribou. If the caribou are threatened, then
40、the people are threatened. Oil company official and American lawmakers do not seem to understand. They do not come into our homes and share our food. They have never tried to understand the feeling expressed in our songs and our prayers.They have not seen the old people cry. Our elders have seen par
41、ts of our culture destroyed. Theyworry that our people may disappear forever. “ I)A scientist with a British oil company dismisses(驳回 , 打消 )the fears of the Gwichin. He also says they have no choice. They will have to change. The Gwichin, however, are resisting. They took legal action to stop the oi
42、l companies. But they won only a temporary ban on oil development in the Arctic National Wildlife Preserve.Pressures continue on other native people, as Art Davidson describes in his book. Thepressures come from expanding populations, dam projects that flood tribal lands, and political and economic
43、conflicts threaten the culture, lands, and lives of such groups as the Quechua of Peru, the Malagasy of Madagascar and the Ainu of Japan. J)The organization called Cultural Survival has been in existence for 22 years. It tries to protect the rights and cultures of peoples throughout the world. It ha
44、s about 12,000 members. And it receives help from a large number of students who work without pay. Theodore MacDonald is director of the Cultural Survival Research Center. He says the organization has three main jobs. It does research and publishes information. It works with native people directly.
45、And it creates markets for goods produced by native communities. K)Late last year, Cultural Survival published a book called State of the Peoples: a Global Human Rights Report on Societies in Danger. The book contains reports from researchers who work for Cultural Survival, from experts on native pe
46、oples, and from native peoples themselves. The book describes the conditions of different native and minority groups. It includes longer reports about several threatened societies, including the Penan of Malaysia and the Anishinabe of North American. And it provides the names of organizations simila
47、r to Cultural Survival for activists, researchers and the press. L)David Maybury-Lewis started the Cultural Survival organization. Mr. Maybury-Lewis believes powerful groups rob native peoples of their lives, lands, or resources. About 6,000 groups are left in the world. A native group is one that h
48、as its own langue. It hasa long-term link to a homeland. And it has governed itself. Theodore MacDonald says Cultural Survival works to protect the rights of groups, not just individual people. He says the organization would like to develop a system of early warnings when these rights are threatened
49、 .Mr. MacDonald notes that conflicts between different groups within a country have been going on forever and will continue. Such conflicts, he says, cannot be prevented. But they do not have to become violent. What Cultural Survival wants is to help set up methods that lead to peaceful negotiations of traditional differences. These methods, he says, are a lot less costly than war. 47 Rigoberta Menchu, the Nobel Peace Prize winner in 1992, w
