1、大学英语四级（ 2013年 12月考试改革适用）模拟试卷 70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 the importance of safety education. You should write at least 120 words but n
2、o more than 180 words. Section A （ A） He doesnt always listen. （ B） He has an ear infection. （ C） Hes never missed a meeting. （ D） He has to attend another meeting. （ A） A class reunion. （ B） A birthday party. （ C） A retirement party. （ D） A faculty reception. （ A） They still have time to prepare fo
3、r it. （ B） They will be fortunate enough to pass it. （ C） It will be more difficult than they expect. （ D） It will take at least three weeks to finish it. （ A） The crowd who is very noisy. （ B） The room that is too small for the audience. （ C） The show that is very difficult to understand. （ D） The
4、light that is not bright enough. （ A） Join in the acting group to make a few friends. （ B） Sing the song for his friends first. （ C） Pretend that he is performing for his friends. （ D） Sit there to practice the song. （ A） He is waiting to see if Lisa is serious. （ B） He doesnt treat relationship ser
5、iously. （ C） He is in a serious relationship with Lisa. （ D） He used to be serious about relationship. （ A） The necessity of contacting Mr Bush. （ B） Who is going to contact Mr Bush. （ C） The arrangement of the Wednesday meeting. （ D） Where they are going to meet Mr Bush. （ A） She feels sorry for An
6、gelas landlady. （ B） Angela is good at telling stories. （ C） She is sure Angela wont be late again. （ D） She doesnt believe Angelas excuses. （ A） Go to summer school. （ B） Take a vacation. （ C） Stay at home. （ D） Earn some money. （ A） They hired someone to stay in their home. （ B） They left their pe
7、ts with neighbours. （ C） They rented their house to a student. （ D） They asked their gardener to watch their home. （ A） Walking the dog. （ B） Cutting the grass. （ C） Watching the children. （ D） Feeding the fish. （ A） They attend a house-sitters party. （ B） They check a house-sitters references. （ C）
8、 They interview a house-sitters friends. （ D） They look at a house-sitters transcripts. （ A） Writing reports for them. （ B） Teaching them foreign languages. （ C） Helping them deal with daily existence. （ D） Introducing work for them. （ A） They dont have support networks. （ B） They cannot cope with t
9、he difficulties in their lives. （ C） The woman is famous for helping others. （ D） People from their nationality refuse to help them. （ A） They were surprised at the flavours. （ B） They could find food they know and love. （ C） There was at least one Chinese restaurant in every China town. （ D） Americ
10、ans have different foods. Section B （ A） He lost his father when he was young. （ B） He worked hard before he read his fathers letter. （ C） He asked his fathers permission to believe in himself. （ D） He knew what his father wanted to do from the very beginning. （ A） Living alone. （ B） Getting disappo
11、inted. （ C） Letting their parents down. （ D） Asking their parents for letters. （ A） He got no access to success. （ B） He was sure his parents loved him. （ C） He wrote back to his father at 12. （ D） He once asked his father about the letter. （ A） To describe childrens thinking. （ B） To answer some qu
12、estions children have. （ C） To stress the importance of communication. （ D） To advise parents to encourage their children. （ A） A specialist in teenager studies. （ B） A parent with teenage children. （ C） A headmaster of a middle school. （ D） A doctor for mental health problems. （ A） They have come t
13、o hate their children. （ B） They pay no attention to their children. （ C） They are too busy to look after their children. （ D） They feel helpless to deal with their children. （ A） Parents have no choice but to try to accept it. （ B） Parents are at fault for the change in their children. （ C） Parents
14、 should pay more attention to the change. （ D） Parents should work more closely with school teachers. （ A） They cant afford them. （ B） They prefer apartments. （ C） Big houses are usually built in the countryside. （ D） They think small houses are more comfortable to live in. （ A） Many people have qui
15、t their old houses to build new ones. （ B） Many older people sell their houses after their children leave. （ C） Many old houses in the bad part of the town are not inhabited. （ D） Many young people have moved into comfortable apartments. （ A） They have to furnish their own houses. （ B） They have to
16、do their own maintenance. （ C） They will find it difficult to make the rest of the payment. （ D） They will find it difficult to dispose of their old-style furniture. Section C 26 If you are a young college student, most of your concerns about your health and happiness in life are probably 【 B1】 _on
17、the present. Basically, you want to feel good physically, mentally, and emotionally now. You probably dont spend much time 【 B2】 _the distant future, such as whether you will develop heart disease, or cancer, how you will 【 B3】 _yourself in your retirement years, or how long you are going to live. S
18、uch thoughts may have 【 B4】 _your mind once in a while. However, if you are in your thirties, forties, fifties, or older, such health-related thoughts are likely to become 【 B5】 _important to you. Regardless of your age, you can make a number of important changes in your 【 B6】 _lifestyle that will h
19、elp you feel better physically and mentally. Recently researchers have found that, even in late adulthood, exercise, strength training with weights, and better food can help elderly 【 B7】 _significantly improve their health and add happiness to their life. We know much more about 【 B8】 _health today
20、 than our parents and grandparents did in the past, giving us the 【 B9】 _to avoid some of the health problems that have troubled them. And this new knowledge can 【 B10】 _our children to help them become healthier than our generation. 27 【 B1】 28 【 B2】 29 【 B3】 30 【 B4】 31 【 B5】 32 【 B6】 33 【 B7】 34
21、【 B8】 35 【 B9】 36 【 B10】 Section A 36 When you have to meet someone from a different culture, be prepared. If you understand cultural differences, youll be a better communicator even before you open your mouth! In many Western cultures, men stand up before they are【 C1】 _to someone important. Standi
22、ng up shows politeness and【 C2】 _. After that, someone will usually offer to shake hands. But in the East,【 C3】 _introductions often begin and end with bowing rather than shaking hands. Now, lets look at the simple introduction of shaking hands. Americans like a【 C4】_handshake. But the French【 C5】 _
23、a light, short handshake. If you shake a Frenchmans hand the American way, he may think youre uncultured. People in Eastern European countries and some Latino cultures prefer shorter handshakes, too. Hugging after shaking hands is also a common introduction. Dont be scared or【 C6】 _if you meet someo
24、ne in Brazil and he gives you a hug. If you【 C7】 _this gesture, your friendship may not start well! The【 C8】 _customs for eye contact vary between cultures, too. Westerners appreciate regular eye contact during conversations. Refusing to look at a Westerner in the eye may be understood as lack of tr
25、ust, or maybe【 C9】 _. But in some African countries, too much eye contact can offend or sometimes have romantic meanings. Some people in Middle Eastern countries may appear to have their eyes half-closed while talking to you. Although it might seem like theyre tired or bored, such behaviour is norma
26、l and should not be taken【 C10】 _. A)proper I)light B)respect J)impression C)boredom K)introduced D)naturally L)illustrate E)prefer M)offended F)firm N)typical G)misinterpret O)preferable H)personally 37 【 C1】 38 【 C2】 39 【 C3】 40 【 C4】 41 【 C5】 42 【 C6】 43 【 C7】 44 【 C8】 45 【 C9】 46 【 C10】 Section
27、B 46 The Writers Life A survey of Britains youth found that many aspire(渴望 )to become writers. They clearly dont know how hard it is, writes Alix Christie . A)Britains most respected writers have at least one trait in common: all had childhoods steeped in a passion for reading, enabled by public lib
28、raries. At a time when government cuts threaten to close some 450 libraries around the country, the British Library has released “The Writing Life“, a new two-CD set of writers discussing their life, their work and, yes, their fondness for libraries. In gathering these interviews, the British Librar
29、y was not aiming for a defending statement. But as affordable access to literature becomes increasingly precarious(不牢靠的 ) in libraries or booksellers large and small this collection is a reminder of its importance. B)That isnt to say that the authors here speak with an agenda. The pleasure of this s
30、eries is in hearing writers convey their private thoughts on their profession. We learn that Beryl Bainbridge thinks “theres no such thing as the imagination.“ Ian McEwan “always felt something of an out-sider.“ Hilary Mantel believes that “In the ideal world, all writers would have a Catholic child
31、hood, or belong to some other religion which does the equivalent for them.“ Howard Jacobson, the most recent Booker prize winner, spent more of his youth stockpiling books than reading them. Michael Holroyd, a biographer, fears that literature “has become the younger brother of the performing arts.“
32、 C)Judging from the online reaction to excerpts(摘录 )published in the Guardian, not all readers are ready for a glimpse at the appalling hubris(骇人的自大 )and distressing self-doubt that troubled most writers. But for those who seriously attempt to write for whom this collection is explicitly intended th
33、ese voices offer great encouragement. “Such a lot of it is about keeping up your confidence,“ says last years Booker prize winner Mantel, whose own first novel took nearly 20 years to make it into print. D)Stunned by a survey that showed “writer“ as the number one career goal of British youth ahead
34、of astronaut and footballer Sarah OReilly at the British Library saw the project as a way to put across the real challenges that come with the profession. Selected from hundreds of hours of archived interviews, the excerpts “provide a useful corrective to the idea that the writing life is a glamorou
35、s(魅力四射的 )life,“ she says. Indeed, aspiring writers should anticipate inhabiting a “place of total and complete solitude(独处 ),“ offers Linda Grant, a novelist included in the collection. E)Yet these CDs are instructive, too, with authors weighing in on developing characters, finding ideas, researchin
36、g context and figuring out how it all works together. The specific details of when, where and how pencil, pen or computer? Morning or night? Each day or as the spirit calls? are as varied as the writers. If there is a single bit of common advice, it is to(in the words of Penelope Lively): “read, rea
37、d, read“. About this, everyone agrees. “You learn how to structure a novel from looking at the great novels of the past,“ says Philip Hensher, a novelist. As Peter Porter, a late Australian poet asks, “If literature had no effect on you, why would you write it?“ “Writers are made by reading,“ says M
38、antel. “By the time I was 18 I had read such a huge number of novels that I think I knew how to write one, because I do think thats how its done. that you learn the different ways as patterns, almost like visual patterns.“ F)Nearly all, too, say the chief delight of writing is the ineffable(难以用语言表达的
39、 )process of discovery. “You dont have very much choice in the matter,“ says Michael Frayn, a playwright and novelist. “The thing seems to have some kind of reality in ones head. it seems to be something that one is discovering rather than inventing.“ For U. A. Fanthorpe, a late poet, “There is a wa
40、y in which the poem exists before you write it.“ Adds Dame P. D. James, a celebrated crime novelist, “I dont think we choose our genre(风格 ). I think that it a genre chooses us.“ G)All would-be writers should listen to this series, as it corrects some common misconceptions. No, the work does not emer
41、ge complete and perfect, like Athena from Zeuss head. Texts are written and rewritten dozens of times. Anne Fine, a childrens writer, says she has filled boxes three-feet high with drafts for any given book. No, the media appearances are not really what writers enjoy. “The book should do the speakin
42、g and I should stay at home,“ says Holroyd. But, he complains that now “you have to go out and blow the trumpet and bang the drum in front of your book. I think that because were not longer a literary culture. it isnt the word that speaks, you have to perform the word a bit, you have to demonstrate
43、it, you have to appear, you have to be the book.“ H)This imperative(必须完成的事 )of celebrity is whats most damaging, says Wendy Cope, a poet. “Im very depressed with this whole thing of young people just wanting to be famous for the sake of being famous. If you want to be a writer, a serious writer, you
44、r focus has to be on writing as well as you can and all those other things are incidental.“ While true, this also shows that many of these writers came of age in a much quieter, gentler time. If Shakespeare were writing now, said Porter, he too would be forced to make the rounds of morning news show
45、s. Contemporary authors who chose to live a quiet life and avoided other people, such as Harper Lee and Anne Tyler, wouldnt stand a chance in todays din. I)And yet, the writing life continues to capture its victims. The final word on the series goes to Maureen Duffy, a poet and novelist, who in turn
46、 quotes a poem by Gerald Manley Hopkins: “What I do is me, for that I came.“ One hopes the Library of Congress will be inspired to capture Americas most important writers the same way. 47 According to Hilary Mantel, self-confidence is an essential ingredient that an author needs to succeed. 48 It is
47、 difficult for todays famous authors to live a quiet life and avoid other people. 49 Writers all agree that to be a good writer, one should do a lot of reading. 50 Having great interest in reading books in their childhood is a quality that most famous British writers share. 51 The Library of Congres
48、s is expected to capture Americas most important writers through “The Writing Life“. 52 Nearly all writers say the process of discovery is too great to be described in words, which is the chief delight of writing. 53 Sarah OReilly at the British Library thought that “The Writing Life“ let people und
49、erstand the challenges confronting writers. 54 In Wendy Copes view, the focus of a serious writer should be on writing, not on seeking fame. 55 “The Writing Life“ series attract the author because they convey writers private thoughts on writing. 56 Contrary to common misconception, writers works were refined many times before coming into print. Section C 56 America is changing its eating habits. As medic
