1、国家公共英语（四级）笔试模拟试卷 220（无答案）PART ADirections: For Questions 1-5, you will hear a conversation. While you listen, fill out the table with the information you have heard. Some of the information has been given to you in the table. Write only 1 word in each numbered box. You will hear the recording twice.
2、 You now have 25 seconds to read the table below.1 PART BDirections: For Questions 6-10, you will hear a passage. Use not more than 3 words for each answer. You will hear the recording twice. You now have 25 seconds to read the sentences and the questions below.6 PART CDirections: You will hear thre
3、e dialogues or monologues. Before listening to each one, you will have 5 seconds to read each of the questions which accompany it. While listening, answer each question by choosing A, B, C or D. After listening, you will have 10 seconds to check your answer to each question. You will hear each piece
4、 ONLY ONCE.11 According to the woman, how much money should people save for themselves?（A）36 months of monthly salary（B） 13% of salary（C） $10（D）Not mentioned12 Whats the biggest mistake people make?（A）They do not think $ 10 is a large sum of money.（B） They sacrifice movie, beer for bank deposit.（C）
5、They seldom have fixed deposit.（D）They tend to live from paycheck to paycheck.13 What does “Pay yourself first“ refer to?（A）Take more education and make yourself promoted quickly.（B） When you get your paycheck, save some portion of it.（C） Lend money from bank when you want to prepare for the future.
6、（D）Accumulate money by all means.14 How long did Emily Dickinson live in the house where she was born? _（A）Almost all her life.（B） Less than half her life.（C） Until 1830.（D）Before 1872.15 Which of the following is true of Emily Dickinson? _（A）She was not a productive poet.（B） She saw many of her poe
7、ms published.（C） She was not a sociable person.（D）She had contact only with a few poets.16 When was Emily Dickinson widely recognized? _（A）after Henry James referred highly to her.（B） after seven of her poems were punlished.（C） after her poems became known to others.（D）after she was dead for many ye
8、ars.17 Procrastinators have many problems, except that_.（A）they get more cold and flu symptoms（B） they sleep more（C） they smoke and drink more（D）they have more digestive problems18 Which of the following sentences about Timothy A. Pychyl is NOT true?（A）He is one of the Procrastination Research Group
9、.（B） He is a psychologist.（C） He is a teacher in Carleton University in Ottawa.（D）He is the co-author of the study.19 What is the root of the problem?（A）Something has to do with genes.（B） Sleeping far less that they need.（C） Drinking more than they have intended.（D）An inability to regulate behavior
10、and control impulses.20 Here are some favorite excuses for academic tardiness, except_.（A）computer failure（B） leaving a paper at home（C） losing a hand-held organizer（D）the death of a grandmother一、Section II Use of English (15 minutes)Directions: Read the following text. Choose the best word for each
11、 numbered blank and mark A, B, C or D on ANSWER SHEET 1. 20 During the 1980s, unemployment and underemployment in some countries was as high as 90 percent. Some countries did not 21 enough food; basic needs in housing and clothing were not 22 . Many of these countries looked to the industrial proces
12、ses of the developed nations 23 solutions.24 , problems cannot always be solved by copying the industrialized nations. Industry in the developed nations is highly automated and very 25 . It provides fewer jobs than labor-intensive industrial processes, and highly 26 workers are needed to 27 and repa
13、ir the equipment. These workers must be trained, 28 many nations do not have the necessary training institutions. Thus, the 29 of importing industry becomes higher. Students must be sent abroad to 30 vocational and professional training. 31 , just to begin training ,the students must 32 learn Englis
14、h, French, German, or Japanese. The students then spend many years abroad, and 33 do not return home.All nations agree that science and technology 34 be shared. The point is: countries 35 the industrial processes of the developed nations need to look carefully 36 the costs, because many of these cos
15、ts are 37 . Students from these nations should 38 the problems of the industrialized countries closely. 39 care, they will take home not the problems of science and technology, 40 the benefits.（A）generate（B） raise（C） produce（D）manufacture（A）answered（B） met（C） calculated（D）remembered（A）for（B） without
16、（C） as（D）about（A）Moreover（B） Therefore（C） Anyway（D）However（A）expensive（B） mechanical（C） flourishing（D）complicated（A）gifted（B） skilled（C） trained（D）versatile（A）keep（B） maintain（C） retain（D）protect（A）sine（B） so（C） and（D）yet（A）charge（B） price（C） cost（D）value（A）accept（B） gain（C） receive（D）absorb（A）Frequ
17、ently（B） Incidentally（C） Deliberately（D）Eventually（A）soon（B） quickly（C） immediately（D）first（A）some（B） others（C） several（D）few（A）might（B） should（C） would（D）will（A）adopting（B） conducting（C） receiving（D）adjusting（A）to（B） at（C） on（D）about（A）opaque（B） secret（C） sealed（D）hidden（A）tackle（B） learn（C） study（
18、D）manipulate（A）In（B） Through（C） With（D）Under（A）except（B） nor（C） or（D）butPart BDirections: Read the following four texts. Answer the questions below each text by choosing A, B, C or D . Mark your answers on ANSWER SHEET 1. 40 Opinion polls are now beginning to show an unwilling general agreement that
19、, whoever is to blame and whatever happens from now on, high unemployment is probably here to stay. This means we shall have to find ways of sharing the available employment more widely.But we need to go further. We must ask some fundamental questions about the future of work. Should we continue to
20、treat employment as the norm? Should we not create conditions in which many of us can work for ourselves, rather than for an employer? Should we not aim to revive the household and the neighbourhood, as well as the factory and the office, as centres of production and work?The industrial age has been
21、 the only period of human history in which most peoples work has taken the form of jobs. The industrial age may now be coming to an end, and some of the changes in work patterns which it brought about may have to be reversed. This seems a discouraging thought. But, in fact, it could offer the prospe
22、ct of a better future for work. Universal employment, as its history shows, has not meant economic freedom.Employment became widespread when the enclosures of the 17th and 18th centuries made many people dependent on paid work by depriving them of the use of the land, and thus of the means to provid
23、e a living for themselves. Then the factory system destroyed the cottage industries and removed work from peoples homes. Later, as transport improved, first by rail and then by road, people travelled longer distances to their places of employment until, eventually, many peoples work lost all connect
24、ion with their home lives and places in which they lived.Meanwhile, employment put women at a disadvantage. It became customary for the husband to go out paid employment, leaving the unpaid work of the home and family to his wife.All this may now have to change. The time has certainly come to switch
25、 some effort and resources away from the impractical goal of creating jobs for all, to the urgent practical task of helping many people to manage without full-time jobs.41 What idea did the author derive from the recent opinion polls?（A）New jobs must be created in order to rectify high unemployment
26、figures.（B） Available employment should be restricted to a small percentage of the population.（C） The present high unemployment figures are a fact of life.（D）Jobs available must be distributed among more people.42 The passage suggests that we should now re-examine our thinking about work and（A）be pr
27、epared to fill in time by taking up housework（B） set up smaller private enterprises so that we in turn can employ others（C） create more factories in order to increase our productivity（D）be prepared to admit that being employed is not the only kind of work43 The passage tells us that the arrival of t
28、he industrial age meant that_.（A）economic freedom came within everyones reach（B） patterns of work were fundamentally changed（C） to survive, everyone had to find a job（D）universal employment guaranteed prosperity44 As a result of the enclosures of the 17th and 18th centuries,_.（A）people were not adeq
29、uately compensated for the loss of their land（B） people were no longer legally entitled to reclaim land（C） people were badly paid for the work they managed to find（D）people were forced to look elsewhere for means of supporting themselves45 According to the passage, which of the following is true?（A）
30、People should start to support themselves by learning a practical skill.（B） The creation of jobs for all is an impossibility.（C） We should help people to get full-time jobs.（D）We must make every effort to solve the problem of unemployment.45 British cancer researchers have found that childhood leuka
31、emia is caused by an infection and clusters of cases around industrial sites are the result of population mixing that increases exposure. The research published in the British Journal of Cancer backs up a 1988 theory that some as yet unidentified infection caused leukaemianot the environmental facto
32、rs widely blamed for the disease.“Childhood leukaemia appears to be an unusual result of a common infection,“ said Sir Richard Doll, an internationally-known cancer expert who first linked tobacco with lung cancer in 1950. “A virus is the most likely explanation. You would get an increased risk of i
33、t if you suddenly put a lot of people from large towns in a rural area, where you might have people who had not been exposed to the infection. “ Doll was commenting on the new findings by researchers at Newcastle University, which focused on a cluster of leukaemia cases a-round the Sellafield nuclea
34、r reprocessing plant in Cumbria in northern England. Scientists have been trying to establish why there was more leukaemia in children around the Sellafield area, but have failed to establish a link with radiation or pollution. The Newcastle University research by Heather Dickinson and Louise Parker
35、 showed the cluster of cases could have been predicted because of the amount of population mixing going on in the area, as large numbers of construction workers and nuclear staff moved into a rural setting. “Our study shows that population mixing can account for the (Sellafield) leukaemia cluster an
36、d that all children, whether their parents are incomers or locals, are at a higher risk if they are born in an area of high population mixing,“ Dickinson said in a statement issued by the Cancer Research Campaign, which published the British Journal of Cancer.Their paper adds crucial weight to the 1
37、988 theory put forward by Leo Kinlen, a cancer epidemiologist at Oxford University, who said that exposure to a common unidentified infection through population mixing resulted in the disease.46 Who first hinted at the possible cause of childhood leukaemia by infection?（A）Leo Kinlen（B） Richard Doll（
38、C） Louise Parker（D）Heather Dickinson47 Which statement can be supported by Heather Dickinson and Louise Parkers new findings?（A）Radiation has contributed to the disease.（B） Putting a lot of people from rural area in large towns increases the risk of childhood leukaemia.（C） Population mixing is the m
39、ost important reason for leukaemia cluster.（D）Childhood leukaemia is caused by an unusual infection.48 According to the passage， which of the following is true?（A）Most people believe childhood leukaemia is due to environmental factors.（B） Population mixing best explains the cause of childhood leukae
40、mia.（C） Radiation has nothing to do with childhood leukaemia.（D）Children born in a large town are at higher risk of leukaemia.49 Cancer Research Campaign is most possibly a_.（A）medical journal（B） research institute（C） private company（D）governmental agency50 This passage is mainly about_.（A）the clust
41、er of leukaemia cases around the Sellafield nuclear reprocessing part（B） the kind of infection that causes childhood leukaemia（C） the causes of childhood leukaemia（D）a new finding by British scientists50 Why do so many Americans distrust what they read in their newspapers? The American Society of Ne
42、wspaper Editors is trying to answer this painful question. The organization is deep into a long self-analysis known as the journalism credibility project.Sad to say, this project has turned out to be mostly low-level findings about factual errors and spelling and grammar mistakes, combined with lots
43、 of head-scratching puzzlement about what in the world those readers really want.But the sources of distrust go way deeper. Most journalists learn to see the world through a set of standard templates (patterns) into which they plug each days events. In other words, there is a conventional story line
44、 in the newsroom culture that provides a backbone and a ready-made narrative structure for otherwise confusing news.There exists a social and cultural disconnect between journalists and their readers, which helps explain why the “standard templates“ of the newsroom seem alien to many readers. In a r
45、ecent survey, questionnaires were sent to reporters in five middle-size, cities around the country, plus one large metropolitan area. Then residents in these communities were phoned at random and asked the same questions.Replies show that compared with other Americans, journalists are more likely to
46、 live in upscale neighborhoods, have maids, own Mercedeses, and trade stocks, and theyre less likely to go to church to do volunteer work, or put down roots in a community.Reporters tend to be part of a broadly defined social and cultural elite, so their work tends to reflect the conventional values
47、 of this elite. The astonishing distrust of the news media isnt rooted in inaccuracy or poor reportorial skills but in the daily clash of world views between reporters and their readers.This is an explosive situation for any industry, particularly a declining one. Here is a troubled business that ke
48、eps hiring employees whose attitudes vastly annoy the customers. Then it sponsors lots of symposiums and a credibility project dedicated to wondering why customers are annoyed and fleeing in large numbers. But it never seems to get around to noticing the cultural and class biases that so many former
49、 buyers are complaining about. If it did, it would open up its diversity program, now focused narrowly on race and gender, and look for reporters who differ broadly by outlook,values,education,and class.51 What is the passage mainly about?（A）needs of the readers all over the world（B） causes of the public disappointment about newspapers（C） origins of the declining newspaper industry（D）aims of a journalism credibility project52 The results of the journalism credibility project turned out to be_.（A）quite trustworthy（B） somewhat
