1、大学英语四级（ 2013年 12月考试改革适用）模拟试卷 9及答案与解析 一、 Part I Writing 1 For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write an essay entitled Stop Raising Dangerous Animals as Pets following the outline given below. You should write at least 120 words but no more than 180 words. Write your essay on Answer Sheet 1.
2、1烈性宠物伤人的事故频频被报道 2饲养烈性宠物很危险 3公众直停止饲养烈性宠物 Stop Raising Dangerous Animals as Pets Section A （ A） The exact site of the meeting. （ B） The nearest way to the hall. （ C） The position of the building. （ D） The right way to the back door. （ A） He will quit his job in no time. （ B） He will do a part-time job
3、. （ C） He wont stay with Mr. William. （ D） He hasnt found a new job yet. （ A） A college campus. （ B） A beautiful park. （ C） An art museum. （ D） An old building. （ A） The service is very slow. （ B） Salad isnt offered. （ C） The prices are too high. （ D） The food is poor. （ A） He didnt know what hospit
4、al Tom was in. （ B） He took Tom to the hospital. （ C） He felt sorry that the woman hurt herself. （ D） He forgot to telephone the woman. （ A） She was always in good shape. （ B） She stopped exercising one year ago. （ C） Her exercise has yielded good results. （ D） Her previous debts are all paid off. （
5、 A） She will lend it to the man. （ B） She will repair it herself. （ C） She asks the man to check it. （ D） She intends to sell it to the man. （ A） Confident. （ B） Worried. （ C） Surprised. （ D） Angry. （ A） A baby bear jumped out of a bush. （ B） The team was separated by the bears. （ C） The team annoye
6、d a group of bears. （ D） A bear appeared and began to chase them. （ A） She feared that human beings would hurt her. （ B） She was annoyed by the noises people made. （ C） She wanted to protect her kid from being hurt. （ D） She wanted to find out her lost kid. （ A） Human beings suddenly appear before t
7、hem. （ B） Some unexpected animals step into the bush. （ C） There are loud noises coming from many people. （ D） They are hungry and are looking for food. （ A） By keeping silent. （ B） By speaking loudly. （ C） By walking quickly. （ D） By standing still. （ A） He forgot to read the requirements. （ B） He
8、forgot to copy one document required. （ C） He forgot to carry the document required. （ D） He forgot to bring the copy of a document required. （ A） He has already got the result, （ B） He took it two weeks ago. （ C） The result is still unknown. （ D） The test will be available. （ A） The certificate and
9、 the passport. （ B） The application and the results. （ C） The documents and the application. （ D） The evidence of the financial status. Section B （ A） Writing can bring a writer wealth and fame. （ B） Being a writer is very different from writing. （ C） Persistence is very important in writing. （ D） A
10、nyone who wants to write can be a writer. （ A） He has been a writer for 20 years. （ B） He became famous overnight. （ C） His friends helped him when he didnt make enough to eat. （ D） His living condition was poor when he first became a writer. （ A） He had a positive attitude towards life. （ B） He wan
11、ted to write and thats his dream. （ C） He was sure his dream would come true. （ D） He got many supports from his friends. （ A） From their childhood. （ B） During their employment. （ C） When they get a stable job. （ D） After they graduate from university. （ A） Arranging courses for them. （ B） Offering
12、 them access to the Internet. （ C） Supporting their interest. （ D） Giving them constructive advice. （ A） Check if the program is interesting. （ B） Judge if the program is suitable for them. （ C） Check if they have finished their homework. （ D） Judge if the program helps to cultivate their interest.
13、（ A） She could drive a car though she was over eighty. （ B） She violated the traffic rules but escaped being caught. （ C） She had never made any driving mistakes before. （ D） She was never punished for any traffic violation. （ A） She couldnt tell red from green. （ B） She was too old to see the traff
14、ic light. （ C） She drove too fast to stop the car. （ D） She was ill when she was driving. （ A） By showing her clean driving record. （ B） By threading a needle. （ C） By looking for a great lawyer for herself. （ D） By challenging the judge. （ A） Mrs. Jones was punished. （ B） Mrs. Jones lost her record
15、. （ C） The case was dismissed. （ D） The judge kept his record. Section C 26 We find that bright children are rarely held back by mixed-ability teaching. On the【 B1】 _, both their knowledge and experience are enriched. We feel that there are many disadvantages(缺点 )in streaming pupils. It does not【 B2
16、】 _ the fact that children develop at different rates. It can have a bad effect on both the bright and the not-so-bright child. After all, it can be quite【 B3】 _ to be at the bottom of the top grade! Besides, it is rather unreal to grade people just according to their【 B4】 _ ability. This is only on
17、e aspect of their total personality. We【 B5】 _ develop the abilities of all our pupils to the full, not just their【 B6】 _ ability. We also value personal qualities and social skills, and we find that mixed-ability teaching【 B7】 _ all these aspects of learning. In our classrooms, we work in various w
18、ays. The pupils often work in groups: this gives them the opportunity to learn to【 B8】 _, to share, and to develop leadership skills. They also learn how to cope with personal problems as well as learning how to think, to make【 B9】 _, to analyze and evaluate, and to communicate【 B10】_. The pupils le
19、arn from each other as well as from the teacher. We expect our pupils to do their best, and we give them every encouragement to attain this goal. 27 【 B1】 28 【 B2】 29 【 B3】 30 【 B4】 31 【 B5】 32 【 B6】 33 【 B7】 34 【 B8】 35 【 B9】 36 【 B10】 Section A 36 Barack and Michelle Obama understand the heavy bur
20、den of student loan debt. The Obamas did not pay off their student loans until Obamas best-selling books earned them millions of dollars. With the cost of a college education【 C1】 _, more than 60% of students take out loans to fund their undergraduate education. On average, students who borrow gradu
21、ate with debts of $22,700a【 C2】 _of more than 18% from 2000. But some of those with a newly acquired bachelors degree are restrained with debts of $40,000 or more. You think this economys tough? Try finding a job with the【 C3】 _of repaying tens of thousands of dollars in debt. Now, a new federal pro
22、gramIncome-Based Repaymentis making it【 C4】_to pay back these loans. If a student chooses to repay her or his loan with this plan, payments are then readjustedbased on their income to something they can【 C5】_afford. All debt will be forgiven after 25 years. A graduate who earns less than 150% of the
23、【 C6】 _line wont have to make any payments. This is in addition to the year-old Public Service Loan Forgiveness program for those【 C7】 _in jobs such as law enforcement, public health and social work. Their loans will be forgiven after 10 years. This【 C8】 _isnt perfect; the loans have to be federal l
24、oans, not【 C9】 _. But students with more than one federal student loan can combine them under the program. In some cases, borrowers with large debt and low-to-moderate incomes may benefit at the end of 25 years, with the【 C10】 _of their debt forgiven. Others with higher incomes, though, will pay mor
25、e. A)earning B)state C)rising D)jump E)pressure F)initiative G)poverty I)balance J)raising K)private L)barely M)easier N)working O)reasonably H)public 37 【 C1】 38 【 C2】 39 【 C3】 40 【 C4】 41 【 C5】 42 【 C6】 43 【 C7】 44 【 C8】 45 【 C9】 46 【 C10】 Section B 46 A Brief History of Online Shopping A)When A o
26、pened for business 15 years ago, it was nothing more than a few people packing and shipping boxes of books from a two-car garage in Bellevue, Wash. Jeff Bezos, Amazon founder and CEO, had left New York City for the Pacific Northwest, using some of his time on the road to write the companys business
27、plan. Books were packed on a table made out of an extra door they found lying in the new homea practice the company continues today in spirit by making many of the offices desks out of doors. B)Now, on its 15th anniversary, Amazon can raise a toast to being one of the largest online retailers in the
28、 world, selling everything from trumpets and golf carts to dishwashers and clothes. Despite the economic recession, online retail in the U.S. grew 11% last year, according to a report released this March from Forrester Research. More than 150 million peopleabout two-thirds of all Internet users in t
29、he U.S.bought something online last year. Its a staggering leap for an industry used by 27% of the nations online population a decade ago. C)One of the first known Web purchases took place in 1994. It was an Italian pizza with mushrooms and extra cheese from Pizza Hut, a somewhat appropriate purchas
30、e for the early days of the Internet. When Amazon came on the scene not long after, selling books online was a curious idea. After all, why would people buy a textbook online when they could go to a bookstore? But eventually, a revolutionary change in culture and groupthink took place. Buying things
31、 online was all about price and selection, says Ellen Davis, a vice president with the National Retail Federation. If you lived in a small town with just one bookstore and they didnt stock the novel you wanted, the Internet was a solution. D)The big sellers were “hard goods,“ those things you didnt
32、have to touch, feel or smell in order to buy, such as books, computers and other electronics. Now, nothing is off limits. “As the Internet has evolved, its become a channel where you can buy anything,“ Davis says. “You can buy fragrances(香水 )something you would have normally thought you would need t
33、o go to a store and actually experience before you decided to buy.“ E)Part of the shift has to do with the normalizing of giving out personal information online. All it takes is one click of the purchase button before consumers start to feel more comfortable using their credit-card information onlin
34、e, Davis says. Now some consumers have so much trust that they allow retailers to save their credit-card and shipping information, which has given rise to a painless checkout process. F)And part of it had to do with making the online experience more like an in-store shopping trip. Many sites geared
35、themselves toward consumers who like to try before they buy. While Web shoppers technically have to buy the item first, sites such as Zappos, which specializes in shoes, and Piperlime, which sells clothes and accessories, offer free shipping on returns. If you buy it, try it and dont like it, having
36、 to return the item is less of a concern. Other stores try to make it easier for customers to get the look and feel of a product without actually handling the goods. S and G allow customers to zoom(拉近 )way in on products to examine their material and color up close. Others such as Bed, Bath & Beyond
37、 and B feature product videos that allow shoppers to see, for example, a grill(烤架 )cleaner in action. And then there are sites like O that capitalize on the goods physical stores cant sell. Beyond its discounts, O wins customer loyalty by making online deals with flat-rate shipping of $2.95 on every
38、thing from earrings to refrigerators. G)Even famously resistant designers and luxury retailers are putting goods online. According to Bain & Co.s luxury-goods study last year, while the luxury-goods industry overall lost 8% worldwide last year, luxury sales online grew 20%. This September MarcJ will
39、 have more than just videos of models walking on the runway on his website. Jacobs will join others such as Jimmy Choo, Hugo Boss and Donna Karan, all of whom sell, or will soon start selling, products through their websites. The upside? Consumers will soon be able to buy many high-end goods without
40、 enduring the bad service of a department store salesclerk. H)All of this online shopping has given rise to a new version of one of Americas favorite holidays. Cyber Monday was coined in 2005 to represent the boom in online sales that comes the Monday after Black Fridaythe day after Thanksgiving and
41、 the largest shopping day of the year. Though Cyber Monday has never overshadowed Black Fridays sales, customers are more comfortable doing shopping online than ever. 83% of consumers say they are more confident in making a purchase when they have conducted research online as opposed to speaking to
42、a salesperson in a store. I)While retailers were initially terrified of what bad reviews could do to their bottom line, theyve since witnessed the power of a compliment and embraced the practice. Despite initial fears, says Craig Berman, Amazons vice president of global communications, product revie
43、ws have only served to increase their customer loyalty. “It helped us build customer trust,“ he says. “It put us in a special place with customers in that they could come to the site and get honest and comprehensiveand over time, very substantialfirsthand knowledge from other customers.“ Berman says
44、 the company has some reviewers who take online shopping to heart. “There are some customers who are extraordinarily proud of being one of our top reviewersthey take their job really seriously.“ Some of Amazons customers are greedy readers who consider it their duty to review one or two books every
45、single week. While the company may have come a long way from its roots, the companys original specialty has not been forgotten. 47 In the early time of online shopping, the goods that you didnt have to touch, feel or smell in order to buy sold best. 48 When Amazon first began its business, the idea
46、of selling books online was curious. 49 Having seen the power of compliment, Amazons vice president believed that product reviews help Amazon build customer trust. 50 About two-thirds of American Internet users have shopped online last year. 51 O wins customer loyalty by charging fixed fees for deli
47、very. 52 Many virtual stores use various approaches to make online shopping experience more like an in-store shopping trip. 53 It is Amazons tradition to make offices desks out of doors. 54 Despite its overall downward trend worldwide, the online sales of luxury goods grew twenty percent last year.
48、55 The advantage of online shopping lies in price and selection. 56 Most consumers would rather conduct research online than speak to a salesperson in a store when making a purchase. Section C 56 Earlier this year I met with a group of women in Matela, a small farming village in Tanzania, and we dis
49、cussed something thats been on all of our minds lately: finding a safe place to save money. The women said their babies were getting sick from malaria(疟疾 ), and they could afford the drugs if they saved money over timebut with no access to formal savings accounts, they had a hard time safeguarding cash. So they saved in risky and inefficient ways. They made lo
