1、大学英语四级（ 2013年 12月考试改革适用）模拟试卷 51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 appearance is important. You should write at least 120 words but no m
2、ore than 180 words. Section A （ A） To the classroom. （ B） To the cinema. （ C） To the testing room. （ D） To the library. （ A） In the post office. （ B） In the womans office. （ C） In the mans office. （ D） In Mr Carsons office. （ A） She is going to Rome. （ B） She has travelled a lot. （ C） She likes coll
3、ecting postcards. （ D） She is going abroad next week. （ A） Twelve cookies were given to them. （ B） The baker was not able to make the cookies. （ C） The cookies taste much better than she had hoped. （ D） They were given more cookies than they expected. （ A） The man doesnt have to take the TOEFL test.
4、 （ B） The man doesnt have to take the English test. （ C） The man has got his admission from the graduate school. （ D） The mans adviser gave him high marks for his TOEFL test. （ A） $8.00. （ B） $4.00. （ C） $6.00. （ D） $10.00. （ A） Stay and finish his questions. （ B） Stay and eat inside. （ C） Go bike r
5、iding. （ D） Go out to eat. （ A） He is unlucky to fall off a ladder. （ B） Things are as bad as he thought. （ C） There is no big deal to break a leg. （ D） His injury is not as serious as he thought. （ A） Two police officers. （ B） Friends. （ C） A police officer and an investigator. （ D） A police office
6、r and a programme hostess. （ A） He is a good supervisor. （ B） He is an experienced police officer. （ C） He doesnt like his present job. （ D） He enjoys doing the patrol work. （ A） Detective work. （ B） Undercover work. （ C） Patrol work. （ D） Supervising investigations. （ A） A police officer is always
7、not very alarm at the beginning. （ B） It is necessary for a police officer to be familiar with his surroundings. （ C） The stress is too large for a policeman at the beginning. （ D） More policemen get injured during a routine stop. （ A） To see his tutor for help. （ B） To help the woman with her repor
8、t. （ C） To find some materials for his essay. （ D） To read books on the effect of smoking by parents on their children. （ A） The computer doesnt work properly. （ B） Peter is writing an essay on environment. （ C） Mary is much better than Peter in using computers. （ D） Peter is taking a computer class
9、 which is helpful. （ A） Stand in the queue. （ B） Wait for a free computer. （ C） Ask his tutor to recommend him some books. （ D） Use the computer to find the needed information. Section B （ A） The two kinds of Directors. （ B） The tasks of the Board of Directors. （ C） How the company is organised. （ D
10、） How to run a company. （ A） The Chairman of the Board. （ B） The Managing Director. （ C） The General Manager. （ D） The Executive Director. （ A） Doctor of Medicine. （ B） Medical Department. （ C） Managing Director. （ D） Manufacturing Department. （ A） He was the judge there. （ B） He wanted some of the
11、fish. （ C） It took place at his hospital. （ D） He wanted to help the patient. （ A） He told the men that both men were completely right. （ B） He told the men that both men were completely wrong. （ C） He told the men that each was partly right and partly wrong. （ D） He told the men that one man was gu
12、iltier than the other. （ A） All the fish should go to the patient. （ B） The fish should go to the owner of the canoe. （ C） The fish should be sold to every one involved. （ D） Everyone involved should get a third of the fish. （ A） They dont want it to die. （ B） They hope it will grow quickly. （ C） Th
13、ey dont want to have it as food. （ D） They want to practise their fishing skills. （ A） Touching its eyes. （ B） Taking the hook off it. （ C） Removing its scales. （ D） Holding it in your hand. （ A） To move it in water till it can swim. （ B） To take the hook out of its stomach. （ C） To keep it in a buc
14、ket for some time. （ D） To let it struggle a little in your hand. （ A） To show how to enjoy fishing. （ B） To encourage people to set fish free. （ C） To persuade people to fish less often. （ D） To give advice on how to release fish. Section C 26 In many countries, such as France, Greece, and Japan, i
15、t is often more【 B1】_for students to pass the college entrance exams than to do the course work when they are【 B2】 _in college, and students who dont have much money are at a【 B3】 _. Students prepare for these tests years in【 B4】 _. Often, students attend a private school at night to get ready for t
16、hem. These private schools are usually【 B5】 _. If their families dont have much money, students cant attend, and they might not pass the entrance exams without this extra preparation. In contrast, students can easily【 B6】 _an American or Canadian college, at least more easily than in other countries
17、. American students take an entrance【 B7】_called the SAT, the Scholastic Aptitude Test. However, colleges do not consider only SAT scores. They also【 B8】 _a students grades and activities throughout high school. A student who【 B9】 _high school will probably get into college. What happens when a stud
18、ent finally enters a college or university? Students in some Asian countries might find their college studies easier than high school work. On the other hand, when American or Canadian students begin college, many of them discover that they need to work very hard and study【 B10】 _for the first time
19、in their lives, especially if they plan to go to graduate school. 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.
20、 It is natural that old 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
21、 grandparents admitted 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 a
22、re【 C3】 _to do some family chores(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, t
23、heir grandparents reward them. As a result, the children have come to take these favours 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】 _. F
24、irst, parents and grandparents 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
25、responsible to raise the children. A)task I)cooperate B)precisely J)yield C)required K)sensible D)information L)participated E)considerate M)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
26、46 Organic Food for Thought A)Feeding 30 million schoolchildren is a difficult task. As a result, many of todays school cafeterias offerings end up as appealing as a tray of lukewarm airplane food. And if theres one point of agreement on the state of school lunches, its that local school districts a
27、nd the federal government are overtasked. The US Department of Agricultures National School Lunch Programme(NSLP)helps feed millions of American schoolchildren. Critics charge that the programme is underfunded and misspends money on meals that are overly processed, too rich in fat and not nutritious
28、. The challenge is how to change this on a national and local level. B)Help has historically trickled in courtesy of local entrepreneurs and nearby natural-food advocates who supplied some schools with organic and farm-fresh foods. Now, a new campaign supported by national corporations hopes to make
29、 more sweeping changes across the country. Whole Foods and a loose coalition of organic-food manufacturers and advocates say that creating a healthier national food policy is the start. C)In August, Whole Foods launched a fundraising campaign to reform the countrys school lunch programmes and has so
30、 far raised more than $440,000 that will support an online effort to help school districts create healthy and affordable meal options. According to the supermarket chains chief operating officer Walter Robb, some of that money will also help raise awareness about the Child Nutrition Act(CAN). CAN de
31、termines school food policy and financial resources as well as funds the NSLP. Advocates for healthier lunches say that the Nutrition Act will be reauthorised by the President and Congress(although it may be delayed several months beyond its September 30 deadline, while debate about health-care legi
32、slation continues). School lunch programmes now get $9.3 billion in federal funding, or about $2.68 for each eligible child. Subtract labour and other administrative costs and some child-nutrition advocates estimate that only $1 goes toward food. Thats not enough, said Robb. “Its a Sisyphean(永远做不完的
33、)situation. Were at a tipping point. We need to raise exposure and do something right now.“ D)For Ann Cooper, the former director of nutrition services for Californias Berkley Unified School District, help from either the public or private sector is much needed. Cooper, a chef and author, created th
34、elunchbox.org, funded by Whole Foods. The sites mission is “to help your community transition step by step to a school programme that will improve the health and well-being of our children.“ It features recipes for schools, information about food safety, and promotes community activism. “I hope were
35、 building a trend,“ Cooper said of her partnership with Whole Foods. “More companies are doing this, maybe its part altruistic(利他的 ), part capitalistic. But if a company can make money feeding kids and make them healthier, thats the bottom line.“ E)Thats what the executives of Revolution Foods, a $1
36、0-million-a-year business based in Oakland, said theyve been doing since introducing organic meals to four Northern California schools in 2006. Three years later, the company supplies 200 school cafeterias and has expanded into Denver and Washington, D.C., and sells some of its products in Whole Foo
37、ds stores. COO and co-founder Kirsten Tobey said that 80 to 85 percent of Revolutions lunches go to low-income students who are receiving reduced rates or free meals. F)Not everyone thinks that the current wave of corporate interest is purely about the children. Marion Nestle, a professor of nutriti
38、on, food studies, and public health at New York University, is skeptical about the Whole Foods initiative, calling it a public-relations ploy. “I think most schools know exactly what to do. They just dont have the money to do it,“ Nestle said. And even Whole Foods customers are skeptical about the p
39、lan. In a comment on the Whole Foods official blog, “The Whole Story“, one commenter wrote: “There is a massive problem with our school meals. I agree. But I doubt Whole Foods is going to make much contribution to this problem with fleecing(诈取 )their customers for website funding.“ G)The premium sup
40、ermarket chain could indeed use some good public relations(PR)these days. Whole Foods took a PR hit on August 11, when CEO John Mackey wrote an opinion piece in The Wall Street Journal opposing the public option in President Barack Obamas health-care plan. The piece caused an uproar among some of th
41、e markets customers who saw Mackeys views as out of step with Whole Foods progressive stance. Some customers threatened to organise a nationwide boycott via Twitter and Facebook, but protests were mostly limited to a handful of store demonstrations. H)Still, almost everyone is in agreement that scho
42、ol lunches need help. The debate is about how best to go about making things better. On one side there is the hyperlocal approach. In July, Kaiser Permanente, an Oakland, Calif-based managed-care organisation, donated $3,000 to help fund a summer lunch programme for 300 students in Rancho Cordova, C
43、alif. Jack Rozance, the physician-in-chief for Kaiser Permanente in Sacramento, was informed by a colleague that while year-round lunches were federally funded, there was no money to pay staff to serve those meals. The Kaiser money made up for the shortfall in an “economically depressed“ community,
44、according to Rozance. And in Michigan, Blue Cross Blue Shield allocated $2,200 to a Grand Rapids charter school for a salad bar, healthy snacks, and an in-class “smart eating programme.“ They also gave $15,000 to a Traverse City, Mich., elementary school that will be preparing “cook from scratch“ me
45、als instead of serving prepared foods. I)Then there are companies like Whole Foods that think a national campaign would do the most to increase federal subsidies, ban trans-fats from school cafeterias, and infuse menus with more locally grown foods. But solutions arent borne out of an either-or ment
46、ality, says NYUs Nestle: “The implementation of change needs to come both on the small scale and at the national policy level.“ “Because of their size and influence, national companies can exert the kind of pressure that could affect federal policy,“ she said. On a local level, small grants could fu
47、nd approaches tailored for individual school districts. “Unfortunately, there are barriers at every level to overcome.“ 47 In Ann Coopers opinion, school lunch programme needs help from the public and private sectors. 48 In the eyes of some consumers of the Whole Foods, John Mackeys opinion ran coun
48、ter to the supermarkets progressive stance. 49 It is the size and influence of the national companies that enable them to affect federal food policy, according to Nestle. 50 The purpose to support an online effort is to help school districts create healthy and affordable meal options to the children
49、. 51 Students from low-income families are the biggest beneficiaries of Revolution Foods. 52 According to Whole Foods and some advocates, the first thing that should be done to reform the countrys school lunch programme is to create a healthier national food policy. 53 According to Marion Nestle, the initial purpose of the Whole Foods efforts to reform the school lunch programme is not to improve students health but to enhance thei
