1、大学英语四级（ 2013年 12月考试改革适用）模拟试卷 92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 Personal Computers in American Households based on the statistics provided in the line chart below. Please give a brief description of the line chart and then describe
2、the changes. You should write at least 120 words but no more than 180 words. Section A （ A） A concert. （ B） An art museum. （ C） A flower shop. （ D） A restaurant. （ A） The man could not wait to see Susan. （ B） Susan is eager to pass the information she knows. （ C） Susan talks to people only on the ph
3、one. （ D） The man always knows the latest news in town. （ A） She didn t go to the party. （ B） She didn t remember seeing the man at the party. （ C） She left the party before the man arrived. （ D） She didn t want to see the man. （ A） They didnt have enough time to get their seats on the plane. （ B） T
4、he pilot had trouble starting the engine. （ C） The engine started as soon as they got on the plane. （ D） They were delayed in the airport. （ A） She is not interested in the article. （ B） She has given the man much trouble. （ C） She would like to have a copy of the article. （ D） She doesnt want to ta
5、ke the trouble to read the article. （ A） He saw the big tower on TV. （ B） He has visited the TV tower twice. （ C） He has visited the TV tower once. （ D） He will visit the TV tower in June. （ A） Her present was a surprise to him. （ B） He had hoped the gift would surprise her. （ C） She wasn t surprise
6、d by the gift after all. （ D） He didn t know about the surprise party either. （ A） Go out with his wife. （ B） Work for extra hours. （ C） Stay at home with his wife. （ D） Go out with his boss. （ A） Giving up smoking. （ B） Birth control of the family. （ C） Plan for seeing a doctor. （ D） Arrangement fo
7、r breaking engagement. （ A） Smoking helps to lessen the pressure. （ B） Smoking helps him fall asleep quickly. （ C） He can get much happiness from smoking. （ D） Smoking brings more chances to make friends. （ A） See a doctor to get some help. （ B） Read books about the harm of smoking. （ C） Improve his
8、 self-controlling abilities. （ D） Receive mental health treatment. （ A） Smoking is the only bad habit the man should change. （ B） She doesnt love the man as deep as before. （ C） She doesn t want to have a baby if the man smokes. （ D） Maybe she will leave the man if he continues to smoke. （ A） At a b
9、ookstore. （ B） At a library. （ C） On the telephone. （ D） At the student center. （ A） Return it as quickly as possible. （ B） Pay a fine because of the delayed return. （ C） Return it within 7 days of the recall notice. （ D） Return it within 7 days before the due date. （ A） Send an email to him. （ B） I
10、mpose an overdue fine on him. （ C） Ask his roommates to give him a message. （ D） Give the notice to his teacher of his department. Section B （ A） They give out faint cries. （ B） They make noises to drive away insects. （ C） They extend their water pipes. （ D） They become elastic like rubber bands. （
11、A） Quiet plants. （ B） Well-watered plants. （ C） Healthy plants. （ D） Thirsty plants. （ A） They could drive the insects away. （ B） They could keep the plants well-watered. （ C） They could make the plants grow faster. （ D） They could build devices to trap insects. （ A） Teachers and peers at school. （
12、B） Adults and friends around them. （ C） Parents and grandparents at home. （ D） Adults and peers who are important to the child. （ A） His physical appearance. （ B） His intelligence in study. （ C） His performance at school. （ D） His perceptions of others attitude toward him. （ A） Families and communit
13、ies. （ B） Ethnic and cultural groups. （ C） Stereotype, prejudice and discrimination. （ D） All of the above. （ A） Teachers there do more work for less pay than public schools. （ B） Students may evaluate their teachers. （ C） Tuition is free. （ D） Schools offer practical training. （ A） No more than 8 m
14、onths. （ B） About 6 to 12 months. （ C） More than one year. （ D） 4 years. （ A） Physics. （ B） Painting and crafts. （ C） Business and technical skills. （ D） Speech. （ A） Teachers come from all over the world. （ B） Getting a good job is the primary aim of education. （ C） New ideas are seldom adopted in
15、teaching. （ D） Theoretical rather than applied knowledge is emphasized. Section C 26 Fathers Day is a celebration honoring fathers and celebrating【 B1】 _, paternal bonds, and the influence of fathers in society. Many countries celebrate it on the third Sunday of June. In the US, Fathers Day was firs
16、t【 B2】 _celebrated in 1910 in Washington State after a woman named Sonora Smart Dodd, one of six children【 B3】 _by her father after the death of her mother, worked to establish an official equivalent to Mothers Day. Before World War II, Presidents Woodrow Wilson and Calvin Coolidge supported the eff
17、ort, but many men scoffed at the idea, thinking it was too【 B4】 _. When World War II began, advisers began to argue that【 B5】_ Fathers Day was a way to honor American【 B6】 _and support the war. By the end of the war, Fathers Day was widely celebrated. It became a【 B7】_holiday in 1972 when President
18、Richard Nixon signed the【 B8】 _. Americans celebrate Fathers Day with greeting cards, gifts and special dinners, often Dads favorite meal cooked at home. A new tie is the classic Fathers Day gift, but most Dads probably would【 B9】 _sporting goods, electronics, tools or lawn equipment for keeping the
19、 yard tidy. Very young children might make a【 B10】 _card or drawing for their fathers, often done as part of a school art project. 27 【 B1】 28 【 B2】 29 【 B3】 30 【 B4】 31 【 B5】 32 【 B6】 33 【 B7】 34 【 B8】 35 【 B9】 36 【 B10】 Section A 36 As food is to the body, so is learning to the mind. Our bodies gr
20、ow and muscles develop with the【 C1】 _of adequate nutritious food. Likewise, we should keep learning day by day to maintain our keen mental power and expand our【 C2】_capacity. Constant learning【 C3】 _us with inexhaustible fuel for driving us to sharpen our power of reasoning, analysis, and judgment.
21、 Learning incessantly is the surest way to keep【 C4】 _with the times in the information age, and an infallible【 C5】 _of success in times of uncertainty. Once learning stops, vegetation sets in. It is a common fallacy to regard school as the only workshop for the【 C6】 _of knowledge. On the contrary,
22、learning should be a never-ending process, from the cradle to the【 C7】 _. With the world ever changing so fast, the cease from learning for just a few days will make a person lag behind. What s worse, the animalistic instinct dormant deep in our subconsciousness will come to life, weakening our will
23、 to【 C8】 _our noble ideal, sapping our determination to sweep away【 C9】 _to our success and strangling our desire for the refinement of our character. Lack of learning will inevitably lead to the stagnation of the mind, or even worse, its fossiliza-tion. Therefore, to stay mentally young, we have to
24、 take learning as a【 C10】 _career. A)grave B)supplies C)pursue D)pace E)acquisition F)difficult G)intake H)warrant I)decoration J)intellectual K)learn L)determination M)mental N)lifelong O)obstacles 37 【 C1】 38 【 C2】 39 【 C3】 40 【 C4】 41 【 C5】 42 【 C6】 43 【 C7】 44 【 C8】 45 【 C9】 46 【 C10】 Section B
25、46 When Mom and Dad Grow Old A)The prospect of talking to increasingly fragile parents about their future can be “one of the most difficult challenges adult children will ever face,“ says Clarissa Green, a Vancouver therapist. “People often tell me they dont want to raise sensitive issues with their
26、 parents about bringing in caregivers or moving,“ she says. “Theyll say, I dont want to see dad cry.“ But Green usually responds, “What s wrong with that?“ Adult children, she says, need to try to join their parents in grieving their decline, acknowledge their living arrangements may no longer work
27、and, if necessary, help them say goodbye to their beloved home. “Its sad. And its supposed to be. Its about death itself.“ B)There are almost four million men and women over age 65 in Canada. Nearly two thirds of them manage to patch together enough support from family, friends, private and governme
28、nt services to live independently until virtually the day they die, according to Statistics Canada. C)Of the Canadian seniors who live to 85 and over, almost one in three end up being moved sometimes kicking to group living for the last years of their lives. Even in the best-case scenarios(可能出现的情况 )
29、, such dislocations can bring sorrow. “Often the family feels guilty, and the senior feels abandoned“ says Charmaine Spencer, a professor in the gerontology department of Simon Fraser University. Harassed with their own careers and children, adult children may push their parents too fast to make a m
30、ajor transition. D)Val MacDonald, executive director of the B.C. Seniors Services Society, cautions adult children against imposing their views on aging parents. “Many baby boomers can be quite patronizing(高人一等的 ),“ she says. Like many who work with seniors, Macdonald suggests adult children devote
31、many conversations over a long period of time to collaborating on their parents future, raising feelings, questions and options gently, but frankly. However, many middle-aged adults, according to the specialists, just muddle(应付 )through with their aging parents. E)When the parents of Nancy Woods of
32、Mulmur Hills, Ont., were in their mid-80s, they made the decision to downsize from their large family home to an apartment in Toronto. As Woods parents, George and Bernice, became frailer(更虚弱的 ), she believed they knew she had their best interests at heart. They agreed to her suggestion to have meal
33、s on Wheels start delivering lunches and dinners. However, years later, after a crisis, Woods discovered her parents had taken to throwing out the prepared meals. Her dad had appreciated them, but Bernice had come to believe they were poisoned. “My father was so loyal,“ says Woods, “he had hid that
34、my mother was overwhelmed by paranoia(偏执狂 ).“ To her horror, Woods discovered her dad and mom were “living on crackers and oatmeal porridge“ and were weakening from the impoverished diet. Her dad was also falling apart with the stress of providing for Bernice a common problem when one spouse tries t
35、o do everything for an ailing partner. “The spouse who s being cared for might be doing well at home,“ says Spencer, “but often the other spouse is burned out and ends up being hospitalized.“ F)Fortunately, outside help is often available to people struggling through the often-distressing process of
36、 helping their parents explore an important shift. Sons and daughters can bring in brochures or books on seniors issues, as well as introduce government health-care workers or staff at various agencies, to help raise issues and open up discussions, says Val Macdonald, whose nonprofit organization re
37、sponds to thousands of calls a year from British Columbians desperate for information about how to weave through the dizzying array of seniors services and housing options. The long list of things to do, says MacDonald, includes assessing their ability to live independently; determining your comfort
38、 level with such things as bathing a parent; discussing with all household members whether it would be healthy for an elderly relative to move in; monitoring whether, out of pure duty, youre overcommitting yourself to providing a level of care that could threaten your own well-being. G)The shock pho
39、ne call that flung Nancy Woods and her parents into action came from her desperate dad. “I got this call from father that he couldnt cope anymore. My mother was setting fires in the apartment,“ she says. “He didnt want to see it for what it was. Up to then hed been in denial.“ Without knowing she wa
40、s following the advice of experts who recommend using outside sources to stimulate frank discussion with parents, Woods grabbed a copy of The 36-Hour Day. a family guide to caring for persons with Alzheimer disease, related dementing illness, and memory loss in later life. She read sections of the b
41、ook to her dad and asked him, “Who does that sound like? “ Her father replied, “It s mother. It s dementia(痴呆 ).“ At that point, Woods said, her dad finally recognized their tragic plight(困境 ). She told her father she would help them move out of their apartment. “He nodded. He didn t yell or roar. H
42、e took it on the chin(忍受痛苦 ).“ H)Woods regrets that she “had not noticed small details signaling mom s dementia.“ But she s satisfied her dad accepted his passage into a group residence, where he and his wife could stay together in a secure unit where staff were trained to deal with patients with de
43、mentia. “From the moment they moved into the Toronto nursing home, their physical health improved. On the other hand, it was the beginning of the end in terms of their mental abilities. Perhaps they couldnt get enough stimulation. Perhaps it was inevitable.“ I)After my father died in 2002, the grim
44、reality of my mothers sharply declining memory set in starkly. With her expanding dementia, mom insisted on staying in her large North Shore house, even though she was confused about how to cook, organize her day or take care of herself. For the next three years we effectively imposed decisions on h
45、er, most of them involving bringing in caregivers, including family members. In 2005 mom finally agreed, although she barely knew what was happening, to move to a nearby nursing home, where, despite great confusion, she is happier. As Spencer says, the sense of dislocation that comes with making an
46、important passage can be “a very hard adjustment for a senior at the best of times. But it s worse if it s not planned out.“ 47 Clarissa Green suggests that adult children should try to share their fragile parents grieving feelings. 48 When Nancy Woods father got to know their tragic situation, he f
47、inally moved out of their apartment. 49 When Nancy Woods parents reached their mid-80s, they moved into an apartment. 50 Despite knowing little about what was happening, his mother lived more happily in a nearby nursing home. 51 Val MacDonald s organization is non-profit and helps adult children cop
48、e with their aging parent issues through phone calls. 52 Under stress from their own careers and children, adult children will always push their parents to group living. 53 Most Canadian seniors older than 65 live independently until they die, Statistics Canada, reported. 54 Val MacDonald hopes baby
49、 boomers not to force their parents to understand their ideas. 55 Since Nancy Woods parents moved into the Toronto nursing home, they became physically healthier, but had new problems with their mental abilities. 56 When her mother set fires in the apartment, Nancy Woods father couldn t handle it. Section C 56 After the violent earthquake that shook Los Angeles in 1994, earthquake scientists had good news to report: The d
