1、大学英语四级（ 2013年 12月考试改革适用）模拟试卷 46及答案与解析 一、 Part I Writing 1 For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a short essay entitled Grammar or Communication following the outline given below. You should write at least 120 words but no more than 180 words. 1英语教学中出现了重交际轻语法的现象 2这一现象发生的原因及其后果 3我的看法 Gram
2、mar or Communication Section A （ A） Children should be taught to be more careful. （ B） Children shouldnt drink so much orange juice. （ C） There is no need for the man to make such a fuss. （ D） Timmy should learn to do things in the right way. （ A） Fitness training. （ B） The new job offer. （ C） Compu
3、ter programming. （ D） Directorship of the club. （ A） He needs to buy a new sweater. （ B） He has got to save on fuel bills. （ C） The fuel price has skyrocketed. （ D） The heating system doesnt work. （ A） Committing theft. （ B） Taking pictures. （ C） Window shopping. （ D） Posing for the camera. （ A） She
4、 is taking some medicine. （ B） She has not seen a doctor yet. （ C） She does not trust the mans advice. （ D） She has almost recovered from the cough. （ A） Pamelas report is not finished as scheduled. （ B） Pamela has a habit of doing things in a hurry. （ C） Pamela is not good at writing research paper
5、s. （ D） Pamelas mistakes could have been avoided. （ A） In the left-luggage office. （ B） At the hotel reception. （ C） In a hotel room. （ D） At an airport. （ A） She was an excellent student at college. （ B） She works in the entertainment business. （ C） She is fond of telling stories in her speech. （ D
6、） She is good at conveying her message. （ A） He has taught Spanish for a couple of years at a local school. （ B） He worked at the Brownstone Company for several years. （ C） He owned a small retail business in Michigan years ago. （ D） He has been working part-time in a school near Detroit. （ A） He pr
7、efers a full-time job with more responsibility. （ B） He is eager to find a job with an increased salary. （ C） He likes to work in a company close to home. （ D） He would rather get a less demanding job. （ A） Sports. （ B） Travel. （ C） Foreign languages. （ D） Computer games. （ A） When he is supposed to
8、 start work. （ B） What responsibilities he would have. （ C） When he will be informed about his application. （ D） What career opportunities her company can offer. （ A） She is pregnant. （ B） She is over 50. （ C） She has just finished her project. （ D） She is a good saleswoman. （ A） He takes good care
9、of Lisa. （ B） He is the CEO of a giant company. （ C） He is good at business management. （ D） He works as a sales manager. （ A） It is in urgent need of further development. （ B） It produces goods popular among local people. （ C） It has been losing market share in recent years. （ D） It is well positio
10、ned to compete with the giants. Section B （ A） Sipping a glass of wine before getting into bed. （ B） Drinking a cup of tea one hour before sleep. （ C） Exercising one or two hours before bedtime. （ D） Taking a hot shower half an hour before bedtime. （ A） Listen to some quiet music. （ B） Get out of be
11、d till being sleepy again. （ C） Try to relax our mind. （ D） Read some interesting articles （ A） Approaches to get a better nights sleep. （ B） The harm of lack of sleep. （ C） Effects of modern technology on sleep. （ D） Benefits of a good sleep. （ A） It is a city suffering from noise. （ B） It is a cit
12、y full of discrimination and injustice. （ C） It is the city where the AIDS crisis started. （ D） It is a city where people dare to fight for justice. （ A） Civil disobedience and militant activities. （ B） History of San Francisco. （ C） AIDS activism in San Francisco. （ D） The blockage on the Golden Ga
13、te Bridge. （ A） It displayed 70 photos. （ B） It is about art rather than history. （ C） It shows the whole process of the movement. （ D） It reveals peoples anger, pain and courage in the fight. （ A） He was asked to attend a group interview. （ B） He was asked to hand over his Facebook login informatio
14、n. （ C） He was asked a number of character questions. （ D） The interviewer searched for his Facebook and Twitter. （ A） He doesnt want to work for a company that seeks its workers privacy. （ B） He doesnt like others to visit his Facebooks personal profiles. （ C） He has another better opportunity. （ D
15、） He holds it is illegal for the company to glance at his Facebook. （ A） Because they believe Facebook could tell a persons capacity. （ B） Because they consider it as an efficient way to test loyalty. （ C） Because they want to learn more about their applicants. （ D） Because they are willing to do so
16、me personal contact with their candidates. （ A） It aroused the curiosity about its legality. （ B） It urged some governments to publish relevant laws. （ C） It made people close their Facebook. （ D） It resulted in lawsuits between companies and workers. Section C 26 Sleep is crucial for good health. I
17、t helps memory and【 B1】 _, keeps you fit, strengthens your immune system, fights inflammation and keeps your heart and blood【 B2】 _in tip-top shape. While youre snoozing, the body repairs damaged【 B3】 _, produces crucial hormones and strengthens memories a process called consolidation, which helps y
18、ou perform a new skill better after sleeping than you would if you spent an【 B4】_amount of time awake. Its a way for the body to【 B5】 _everything that happened over the past waking day and to kind of prepare for the next day. Short sleepers, typically【 B6】 _people who get less than sixhours of sleep
19、 at night, as well as people who dont spend enough time in the deepest stages of sleep, are at higher risk of heart attacks and strokes than those who get at least seven hours. Its not clear why sleep may affect the heart, or if there is some【 B7】 _factor that affects your cardiovascular system and
20、ability to sleep. But one nighttime problem is a known heart【 B8】 _ sleep apnea(睡眠呼吸暂停 ). People who have this problem tend to snore and have upper airway collapse during sleep. This causes them to snort and gasp for breath, without really waking up enough to【 B9】 _it. If youre not feeling rested du
21、ring the day and your bed partner says you snore, you should ask your doctor about sleep apnea. Theres enough evidence out there suggesting that it is bad and people need to【 B10】 _ 27 【 B1】 28 【 B2】 29 【 B3】 30 【 B4】 31 【 B5】 32 【 B6】 33 【 B7】 34 【 B8】 35 【 B9】 36 【 B10】 Section A 36 Is it a bird?
22、Is it a plane? Is it superman? Investors cant seem to figure out whether the recent leaps in stock prices represent a brief increase in a falling market or something more【 C1】 _, even the start of a brand-new bull run. After all, there have been five other countertrend moves since the bear market be
23、gan in October 2007, and they all【 C2】 _ away within a couple of months as the【 C3】 _backdrop continued to deteriorate(恶化 ). Most analysts believe the economic mess has hardly been cleaned up: the American consumer is still deep in【 C4】 _, housing inventories continue to mount across the world and g
24、reen shoots are sprouting(发芽 )only because of massive government spending. Herein lies the key. The trillions of dollars in spending programs can【 C5】_stimulate the economy, at least for a few quarters, reviving growth this year. The broad consensus is that the US-led【 C6】 _economy faces too many st
25、ructural obstacles to enter a meaningful expansion phase, and that likely will be correct, but in the long【 C7】 _ The road map for the United States today is similar to that of Japan in the 1990s, but【 C8】 _to popular perception, that does not mean an unabated(不减弱的 )dip in stocks and the economy. Ja
26、panese stocks participated in some significant rallies during that decade, including three jumps of about 50 percent, all of which【 C9】 _with a temporary economic upturn. These recoveries were【 C10】 _by government spending packages or export-led growth when the global economy was strong. A)coincided
27、 F)indeed K)contrary B)fundamental G)advantage L)never C)term H)triggered M)global D)meaningful I)debt N)emerged E)destroyed J)faded O)apparent 37 【 C1】 38 【 C2】 39 【 C3】 40 【 C4】 41 【 C5】 42 【 C6】 43 【 C7】 44 【 C8】 45 【 C9】 46 【 C10】 Section B 46 Why I Became a Teacher: to Pass on My Love of Litera
28、ture A)Like lots of people, I never thought Id be a teacher when I was at school. To be honest I only did my training because my husband was on a four-year course and I was on a three-year course at Cardiff University so I wanted to do something for one year. I thought doing a teaching qualification
29、 would be interesting and might be quite useful! Im convinced that nothing else I might have done would have given me so much pleasure and satisfaction, or fitted in so well with family life, B)When I retire, in just a few years time, I can look back on a career which made a positive difference to t
30、he lives of thousands of children. Few other career choices can be so rewarding, so if you have a love of your subject and want the opportunity to pass that on then teaching can be a great career. C)Anyone going into teaching now will be used to teaching to formal work schemes and observation. I thi
31、nk it has raised standards in the profession but personally I feel the loss in the classroom. Ive got the confidence of 30 years experience. Ive seen new approaches come and go(and sometimes even identical “new ideas“ come and go more than once). D)For me, its the passion for your subject and intere
32、st in the success of your students that matters more than how all the acronyms(首字母缩略词 )add up. This is what will make you a good teacher. Theres still room for individuals but you have to have the confidence and passion for your subject to make it work. E)The major challenge in teaching is time. The
33、res not enough of it. Its hard if youre working full time to cope with the marking and feel like you have enough time to do your job properly. Ive worked part time ever since I had children. I officially work three days a week but on my two days off I always work, it probably all adds up to what cou
34、nts as a full weeks work in most other jobs but the pay isnt bad so you can work part time and then the job really does fit in with family life. There are shortcuts to save time, and if I had to work full time Id have to use them. But working part time gives me the luxury to be a critical marker. It
35、 can take two hours to mark a 3 000 word A level essay, so if you have 16 pupils thats 32 hours of marking in one week for just one class. F)One of the benefits of being a part-time teacher is that I do have time to mark properly. Sometimes my feedback is almost as long as their essay but I really w
36、ant the kids to do well. One of the best things about teaching is you get to raise childrens aspirations, and to make a difference in their lives. You get visits and emails from your old students to prove it! Its great to make the difference, and, as they say, it does make it all worthwhile. G)The c
37、ore of teaching is the subject and the pupils. We have a lot of NQTs and PGCE students coming to our school and sometimes I must admit to being disappointed when students dont know their subjects that well. I had an NQT who was teaching Animal Farm and asked me “Whats Marxism?“ and shed got a first
38、in her degree so it just goes to show that government initiatives to try and attract those with firsts arent necessarily going work. H)However, lots of people drop out of teaching after a couple of years; it is an exhausting job. So my advice to those just starting out is: I)Dont lose your sense of
39、proportion over things that happen in the classroom or in an observation that doesnt go well. As long as in the bigger picture of things you are connecting with kids and the subject then dont get frustrated. Even after 30 years of teaching everyone has fearful days in teaching when you thinks “Can I
40、 really do this?“ Youve got to keep positive)its only a problem if you get more bad days than good days. J)Make sure teaching doesnt overwhelm you. You have to develop strategies especially if you are teaching a subject which requires a lot of marking. So plan things well. Get your pupils to do peer
41、 marking, which really can work. If you know you just cant handle any more marking in a particular week, get pupils to write a speech and then perform it in the next class. Youve got to think ahead about times of maximum workload and plan accordingly ask your more experienced colleagues for advice.
42、K)Youve got to keep your sense of humour, which is a great way of relieving a situation. I know I became a better teacher when I became a parent. I realised that kids can be so unpleasant sometimes, even your own kids. They dont mean it; theyre just being kids. It doesnt mean they hate you or hate y
43、our lessons. When youre a new teacher coming into teaching, especially if you are young, you think of the students as almost your adversaries(对手 ), and youve got to defeat them. But youve got to be careful what you say. You cant belittle them too much or you can really harm them. L)Love your subject
44、. If you are going to succeed in secondary school teaching you must love your subject. The kids really know if you do or dont. M)You have to know your students are individuals, they learn in different ways. You have to be sensitive to that. N)You cant just teach to a formula. I do worry about the di
45、fference between lip service to what the government say its supposed to be like and what its really like. I do hate the untruthfulness of that and the gulf seems to widen more and more. It feels like what matters most is whats tested. The trouble is nothing that is really worthwhile can be tested. S
46、o the love of learning, connection with literature, having sympathy(同情心 )these are the things that really make a difference to someones life but of course they cant be tested. Young teachers have to be careful not to get lost in formulas and initiatives. A more experienced teacher will have confiden
47、ce to respond to kids and to talk about an issue thats raised in class thats not on the plan. The children will learn so much from that but theres no box to tick. 47 Keeping your sense of humour rather than belittling your students can help relieve a situation. 48 Teachers should not teach to a form
48、ula because what cannot be tested may really matter to a students life. 49 For the author, the main challenge in teaching is that theres not enough time. 50 For teachers faced with a lot of marking, one strategy is to get pupils involved in peer marking. 51 When dealing with things happening in the
49、classroom, teachers are advised to get their priorities right. 52 Working part time enables the author to mark students assignments properly. 53 The author believes she has gained the greatest satisfaction from teaching as a career. 54 Students can tell whether a teacher loves his or her subject or not. 55 The author feels that teaching to formal work schemes and observation can make a loss in the class
