1、大学英语四级（ 2013年 12月考试改革适用）模拟试卷 64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 My View on Online Meal Ordering. You should write at least 120 words following the outline given below. Write your essay on Answer Sheet 1. 1目前，网上订餐逐渐成了一种流行的生活方式 2出现这一现
2、象的原因及其影响 3我的观点 My View on Online Meal Ordering Section A （ A） She got a “C“ in maths as well. （ B） She usually practices a lot in maths. （ C） Maths is not as terrible as the man thinks. （ D） Maths is the enemy of all the students. （ A） The man thinks it is better for kids to live in the suburbs. （ B
3、） The mans wife likes the peacefulness in the suburbs. （ C） The woman doesnt like living in the city. （ D） The woman will give birth to a child soon. （ A） The man should book the ticket even earlier. （ B） There would be no problem for the man to get a ticket. （ C） She would not go back home for the
4、Christmas holiday. （ D） She has some extra tickets available for the man. （ A） It is useless to waste their words. （ B） It is clear to see what happened. （ C） He is working on a dead horse. （ D） He is very busy at the moment. （ A） She will not watch the new movie. （ B） She has another plan for the w
5、eekend. （ C） She has already watched the movie. （ D） She is on a tight budget right now. （ A） Henry is a bookworm. （ B） Henry is a good student. （ C） Henrys learning style is improper. （ D） Henrys learning style is just as before. （ A） She is selling mobile phones. （ B） She is selling office equipme
6、nt. （ C） She is purchasing electronic products. （ D） She is employed in an electronics company. （ A） He is a travel agent. （ B） He is a story-writer. （ C） He owns a book store. （ D） He likes traveling around. （ A） She thinks she has done a great job to get the award. （ B） She attributes the award to
7、 the diligent people around. （ C） She thinks the award should go to the real hero. （ D） She accepts the award without hesitation. （ A） The place they lived in was stricken by a storm. （ B） They went out to get more work opportunities. （ C） They went to seek their luck to become heroes. （ D） They wan
8、ted to move to new places. （ A） They have already made great progress. （ B） There is still a lot of work needed to be done. （ C） They have already done enough for their life. （ D） There is only a step away from complete success. （ A） Excited. （ B） Strange. （ C） Indifferent. （ D） Anxious. （ A） The tr
9、ue value of Pablo Picasso. （ B） The rare work discovered by an Indiana museum. （ C） The way to keep a rare work by Pablo Picasso. （ D） The dispute over a rare work by Picasso. （ A） It is very expensive for the museum to maintain. （ B） The work is so valuable that the museum isnt capable of protectin
10、g it. （ C） The museum doesnt know the skill on how to protect it. （ D） The museum is badly in need of money. （ A） They decided to hire more guards to protect it. （ B） They decided to assess the value of the work. （ C） They agreed to keep it as long as possible. （ D） They agreed to sell it at a fair
11、price. Section B （ A） The manner and ability to grasp main idea. （ B） The speed and efficiency of reading. （ C） The type and intentions of reading. （ D） The pace and step of reading. （ A） Read fast. （ B） Proceed more slowly. （ C） Re-read several times. （ D） Take in the whole. （ A） The spelling and m
12、eaning of words. （ B） The general meaning of the text. （ C） The exact shape and order of letters. （ D） The details of the text. （ A） Most people can bear the losing of their wallets but not cell phones. （ B） Most people admit mobile phones are the “remote control“ for life. （ C） Most people must liv
13、e with their mobile phones. （ D） Most people owned more than one mobile phone. （ A） They are afraid of missing their phone. （ B） They fear to miss something. （ C） They feel scared without the phone on. （ D） They feel depressed by missing something. （ A） They have brought in the new way of communicat
14、ion. （ B） They have explored more chances to communicate. （ C） They have strengthened the relationship between people. （ D） They have altered the character of relationships. （ A） Target every possibility. （ B） Focus on a specific aspect of a job. （ C） Keep an eye on some occasions. （ D） Ensure every
15、 efficient way. （ A） It is a precious experience. （ B） It can be the approach to a job. （ C） It can enrich work experiences. （ D） It is the perfect solution. （ A） Call the manager to ask for another interview. （ B） Write a thank-you note for the interview. （ C） Make a clean break to restart. （ D） Fi
16、nd any available interview. （ A） They have professional knowledge to teach you. （ B） They have the same experience to share with you. （ C） They have the power to inspire you up. （ D） They have precious insights and possibility to offer you a chance. Section C 26 Old friends, they finish your sentenc
17、es, they remember the cat that ran away when you were twelve, and they tell you the truth when youve had a bad【 B1】 _. But mostly, they are always there for you whether its in person or via late night phone calls through good times and bad times. But as the years pass, it becomes【 B2】_difficult to s
18、ee each other and to【 B3】 _. Fortunately, my high school girlfriends and I【 B4】 _long ago not to let this happen. A few months ago, we met up for a three-day weekend in the American Southwest. We grew up together in Maine and have said for years that we should have an【 B5】_event, yet its often postp
19、oned or canceled due to schedule【 B6】 _. Not this year. Four of us two from San Francisco, one from Boston, one from Seattle boarded planes【 B7】 _Santa Fe, the capital of the New Mexico, where one of the gang lives an【 B8】 _life and works for an art gallery. Two years ago, she moved there escaped, r
20、ather from the film industry in New York City, where she led a life that felt too fast, too unfulfilling. The artist in her longed for lively【 B9】 _and starry moonlit skies. She wanted to drive a truck on dusty roads, a trusty dog at her side, riding shotgun. She got all that. She is happy. We were
21、no longer girls【 B10】 _adults, no longer post-college grads. Yes, we are different, but we are also the same. The years of our youth say so. 27 【 B1】 28 【 B2】 29 【 B3】 30 【 B4】 31 【 B5】 32 【 B6】 33 【 B7】 34 【 B8】 35 【 B9】 36 【 B10】 Section A 36 If youve lived for long in New York City, chances are y
22、ouve lived in several different places. On the map of where we live now is also where we used to live, just across the park, a few subway stops【 C1】 _north or south. That is one of the characteristics of this city we are【 C2】 _near to our past. Some people move from Ohio to Oregon. We move from 93rd
23、 to 13th, from Alphabet City to Carroll Gardens, all over town. And what【 C3】 _of the old neighborhood? In one【 C4】 _, nothing. You were only a minor molecule in its chemistry. Go back a week after youve【 C5】 _, and the same dogs are pulling their owners to the park, the same people sitting out. Let
24、 enough time pass, and things become a little ghostly. It begins to feel as though the【 C6】 _has forgotten you, instead of the other way around. When you lived there, nothing changed without your noticing it. Now the changes accumulate【 C7】 _, and you begin to realize that a part of you has vanished
25、 into the past. New York is a【 C8】 _and public city. You can walk past the shops and admire the brownstones. You can hear about the diner that used to be on that corner and what happened that one night. Try as you might to be a tourist in someone elses past, you end up seeing only the present. Thats
26、 how the new neighborhood looks at first the one youve just moved to. You【 C9】 _into the present, and it ages around you until one day you【 C10】 _up with a new old neighborhood. A)aspect I)live B)becomes J)moved C)end K)neighborhood D)farther L)physically E)further M)sense F)geographically N)settle
27、G)grand O)unperceived H)left 37 【 C1】 38 【 C2】 39 【 C3】 40 【 C4】 41 【 C5】 42 【 C6】 43 【 C7】 44 【 C8】 45 【 C9】 46 【 C10】 Section B 46 Gas price warning as cold March leads to short supplies A)The cold snap in March could lead to Britains gas supplies running out next month, forcing the nation to pay
28、higher prices for fuel from elsewhere, as the demand increased quickly during the coldest March in 50 years. Forecasts suggest that gas supplies in the UK will be exhausted by 8 April, requiring Britain to turn to imports from Norway and Russia. The warning came on the day Scottish and Southern Ener
29、gy, one of the UKs biggest power suppliers, warned that there could be electricity blackouts in the country within three years. A lack of gas storage facilities, and rapid reduction at the UKs North Sea gas fields, has led to the UK having as little as two days supply of the fuel in reserve. B)Thoug
30、h experts have warned of the problem for years, and the government has championed a “dash for gas“ that would see a massive rise in demand for the fuel, little has been done to increase storage facilities. C)Ian Marchant, chief executive of SSE(Scottish and Southern Energy), said there was a “very r
31、eal risk of the lights going out“ within the next three years. SSE intends shutting down power plants, enough to have supplied 2 million homes lights going out, as the stations are either uneconomic or coming to the end of their lives. Other firms are also planning to take power stations out of serv
32、ice, including the UKs fleet of ageing nuclear reactors, increasing the risk that demand for electricity will exceed the available supply. Marchant said: “It appears the government is significantly underestimating the scale of the capacity crunch(危急情况 )facing the UK in the next three years and there
33、 is a very real risk of the lights going out as a result. “ D)His comments follow warnings by Alistair Buchanan, the departing chief of Ofgem(Office of the Gas and Electricity Markets), that power shortages will be many times more likely in the next five years. Government estimates suggest that ener
34、gy bills could rise by now, it is the only question we really cannot answer well at all. By now, those of us in the AIDS business long term have cared for thousands of patients. No one with that kind of personal experience can doubt for a moment the deadly potential of H. I. V. or the life-saving ca
35、pabilities of the drugs developed against it. But there are also now hundreds of footnotes and exceptions and modifications to those two facts that make the big picture ever murkier(扑朔迷离 ). We have patients scattered at every possible point: men and women who cruise on their medications with no prob
36、lems at all, and those who never become stable on them and die of AIDS; those who refuse them until it is too late, and those who never need them at all; those who leave AIDS far behind only to die from lung cancer or breast cancer or liver failure, and those few who are killed by the medications th
37、emselves. So, when we welcome a new patient into our world, one whose fated place in this world is still unclear, and that patient asks us, as most do, whether this illness is going to kill him or not, it often takes a bit of mental stammering(口吃 )before we hazard an answer. Now, a complete rundown
38、of all the news from the front would take hours. The statistics change almost hourly as new treatments appear. It is all too cold, too mathematical, too scary to dump on the head of a sick, frightened person. So we simplify. “ We have good treatments now,“ we say. “ You should do fine. “ Once, not s
39、o long ago, we were working in another universe. Now we have simply rejoined the carnival(嘉年华 )of modern medicine, noisy and encouraging, confusing and contradictory, fueled by the eternal balancing of benefits and risks. You can win big, and why shouldnt you, with the usual fail-safe combination of
40、 luck and money. You have our very best hopes, so step right up: we sell big miracles but, offer no guarantees. 57 What does the author say about AIDS? （ A） It is definitely deadly twenty-five years ago. （ B） The patients want to know everything about it. （ C） We can answer anything about it with ce
41、rtainty now. （ D） We could not answer questions about it well before. 58 What do we know about the AIDS patients the author has cared for? （ A） All of them need the help of medications. （ B） Some of them die of refusing medications. （ C） All of them die of AIDS eventually. （ D） Some of them are kill
42、ed by the fear of AIDS. 59 By “mental stammering“ , the author means_. （ A） they cannot give an exact answer to AIDS patients （ B） they hesitate to tell the truth to AIDS patients who will die （ C） they need to think about whether patients will die of AIDS （ D） they have to make up excuses to comfor
43、t AIDS patients 60 A complete count of all the statistics about AIDS_. （ A） will promote new treatments to appear （ B） will simplify doctors answers about AIDS （ C） will be too cold and mathematical for doctors （ D） will be influenced by new treatments 61 What can be inferred from the last two parag
44、raphs? （ A） The life of AIDS patients was offered no guarantees not so long ago. （ B） AIDS can be got rid of with the fail-safe combination of luck and money. （ C） Doctors should offer AIDS patients their best hopes to encourage them. （ D） Modern medicine brings about both benefits and risks to AIDS
45、 patients. 61 Most of us would shy away from making purchases in a foreign country if we didnt know the exchange rate. Yet, if privacy is the true currency of the Internet, as many argue, millions of us are doing that very thing every day. Meanwhile, Internet giants amend their privacy policies in w
46、ays that allow them to harvest and sell even more of our personal data. While privacy campaigners protest, users generally vote with their clicks and carry on regardless. So should we conclude the Internet generation is happy to trade its privacy for free or cheaper Web services? Not according to Ni
47、cola Jentzsch of the German Institute of Research in Berlin, and colleagues, who last week published research showing that most people prefer to protect their personal data when given a choice and that a significant proportion are willing to pay extra to do so. The researchers directed 443 students
48、to a website offering tickets for a real movie showing, sold by two different vendors(商贩 ). Although the tickets were subsidized, the volunteers, who were able to purchase one, two, or no tickets, had to pay most of the cost themselves. When both vendors offered tickets at the same price but only on
49、e required customers to enter their cell phone number, the more privacy-friendly vendor got 83% of sales. When participants were offered the same choice, but with an additional charge of 50 euro cents from the privacy-friendly cinema, its market share fell to 31% . “ It turns out that when you are good on privacy you can charge more and make a greater profit,“ says Alessandro Acquisti of the University of Cambridge, one of the authors of
