1、大学英语四级（2013 年 12 月考试改革适用）模拟试卷 121（无答案）一、Part I Writing1 For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write an essay based on the picture below. You should start your essay with a brief account of Chinese Fever in the World and then explain why so many foreigners are learning Chinese. You should writ
2、e at least 120 words but no more than 180 words. Write your essay on Answer Sheet 1.Section A（A）The man should shut the window tightly.（B） The man should put some screws in the wood.（C） The man should stick to his work.（D）The man should use a tool to open the window.（A）The number of rooms in the apa
3、rtment.（B） Trouble within the mans family.（C） The reason why the man has so many clocks.（D）What the woman should give to her family.（A）In a railway station.（B） In a hotel room.（C） In a restaurant.（D）At the airport.（A）The homework was very easy.（B） The man should go to class.（C） The man should sit in
4、 the back of the classroom.（D）Shes further behind in her work than the man is.（A）The weather forecast says it will be fine.（B） The weather doesnt count in their plan.（C） They will not do as planned in case of rain.（D）They will postpone their program if it rains.（A）She lost her way.（B） She lost her k
5、eys.（C） She lost her car.（D）She lost her handbag.（A）11:25.（B） ll:40.（C） ll:46.（D）11:26.（A）He wishes to have more courses like it.（B） He finds it hard to follow the teacher.（C） He wishes the teacher would talk more.（D）He doesnt like the teachers accent.（A）One of his classes finished early.（B） He want
6、ed to get some studying done.（C） The library had a special display on the Industrial Revolution.（D）His books were ten days overdue.（A）Checked them out.（B） Took notes on them.（C） Returned them to the shelves.（D）Put them in his book bag.（A）They are marked with colored labels.（B） They are specially cod
7、ed.（C） They are checked out.（D）They are inspected by the guard.（A）Because her parents love her very much.（B） Because her parents never force her to do anything she doesnt want to do.（C） Because she is allowed to have her career.（D）Because she has too much freedom.（A）She didnt need her parents money
8、any more.（B） She begins to get on well with her parents.（C） She always stayed with her parents.（D）She rented a government house and lived alone.（A）They allowed him to come to England immediately.（B） They thought he should go abroad as a child.（C） They were reluctant until their son persuaded them.（D
9、）They tried to control his English study.（A）The two speakers are from different countries.（B） The man gets along very well with his parents.（C） British parents never interfere with their children.（D）The man doesnt like his parents at all.Section B（A）Rent a grave.（B） Bum the body.（C） Bury the dead ne
10、ar a church.（D）Buy a piece of land for a grave.（A）To solve the problem of lack of land.（B） To see whether they have decayed.（C） To follow the Greek religious practice.（D）To move them to a multi-storey graveyard.（A）They should be buried lying down.（B） They should be buried standing up.（C） They should
11、 be buried after being washed.（D）They should be buried when partially decayed.（A）Burning dead bodies to ashes.（B） Storing dead bodies in a remote place.（C） Placing dead bodies in a bone room.（D）Digging up dead bodies after three years.（A）They havent devoted as much energy to medicine as to space tra
12、vel.（B） There are too many kinds of cold viruses for them to identify.（C） It is not economical to find a cure for each type of cold.（D）They believe people can recover without treatment.（A）They reveal the seriousness of the problem.（B） They indicate how fast the virus spreads.（C） They tell us what ki
13、nd of medicine to take.（D）They show our body is fighting the virus.（A）It actually does more harm than good.（B） It causes damage to some organs of our body.（C） It works better when combined with other remedies.（D）It helps us to recover much sooner.（A）A drivers license.（B） A passport.（C） An internatio
14、nal credit card.（D）A deposit.（A）Turning right at a red light.（B） Driving in freeways without a local drivers license.（C） Passing a school bus that is letting off children.（D）Driving a car with a baby with you.（A）The size of the country.（B） Large areas of virgin forest.（C） The rich natural resources
15、of the land.（D）Wild animals and plants.Section C26 Crime is increasing worldwide. There is every reason to believe the【B1】_will continue through the next few decades. Crime rates have always been high in multicultural industrialized societies such as the United States, but a new【B2 】_has appeared on
16、 the world【B3】_ rapidly rising crime rates in nations that previously reported few offences.【B4】_such as robbery, rape, murder, and auto theft are clearly rising,【B5】_in eastern European countries such as Hungary and in【B6】_nations such as the United Kingdom. What is driving this crime【B7】_? There a
17、re no simple answers. Still, there are certain conditions【B8】_with rising crime: increasing heterogeneity of population, greater cultural pluralism, higher immigration, democratization of governments, changing national borders, greater【 B9】_growth and the lack of accepted social ideas of right and w
18、rong. These conditions are increasingly observable around the world. For instance, cultures that were previously isolated and homogenous(同种类的), such as Japan, Denmark, and Greece, are now facing the sort of【B10】_that has been common in America for most of its history. Multiculturalism can be a rewar
19、ding, enriching experience, but it can also lead to a clash of values. Heterogeneity in societies will be the rule in the 21st century, and failure to recognize and plan for such diversity can lead to serious crime problems.27 【B1 】28 【B2 】29 【B3 】30 【B4 】31 【B5 】32 【B6 】33 【B7 】34 【B8 】35 【B9 】36 【
20、B10 】Section A36 The typical pre-industrial family not only had a good many children, but numerous other dependents as well grandparents, uncles, aunts and cousins. Such “extended“ families were suited for survival in slow paced【C1】_societies. But such families are hard to【C2】_. They are immobile. I
21、ndustrialism demanded masses of workers ready and able to move off the land in pursuit of jobs, and to move again whenever necessary. Thus the extended family【C3】_shed its excess weight and the so-called “nuclear“ family emerged a stripped-down, portable family unit【C4 】_only of parents and a small
22、set of children.This new style of family, far more【C5】_than the traditional extended family, became the standard model in all the industrial countries. Super-industrialism, however, the next stage of eco-technological development,【C6】_even higher mobility. Thus we may expect many among the people of
23、 the future to carry the streamlining process, a step further by remaining children, cutting the family down to its more【C7 】_components, a man and a woman. Two people, perhaps with matched careers, will prove more efficient at navigating through education and social status, through job changes and
24、geographic relocations, than the ordinarily child-cluttered family. A【C8】_maybe the postponement of children, rather than childlessness. Men and women today are often torn in【C9】_between a commitment to career and a commitment to children. In the future, many【C10】_will side aside this problem by def
25、erring the entire task of raising children until after retirement.A)transplant B)solution C)gradually D)transport E)elementalF)conflict G)continually H)mobile I)couples J)agriculturalK)including L)compromise M)requires N)primary O)consisting37 【C1 】38 【C2 】39 【C3 】40 【C4 】41 【C5 】42 【C6 】43 【C7 】44
26、【C8 】45 【C9 】46 【C10 】Section B46 Who Killed the Sea Lions?A)Sitting in the turbulent(汹涌的)waters below the Bonneville Dam on the Columbia River, east of Portland, Oregon, 15-foot-square floating platforms surrounded by 8-foot-high fencing lay in wait, designed to trap sea lions. Last Saturday night,
27、 as usual, the traps set off by hand were open; fish and game representatives had permission to capture 61 California sea lions and had to wait until one of them was inside the cages. When biologists next checked the traps, around 11:30 Sunday morning, two were closed, six sea lions were dead, and t
28、he authorities had a fantastic detective story on their hands.B)Federal and state officials descended on Bonneville, initially operating under the assumption that someone had shot the marine mammals with a high-powered rifle at close range. But Wednesday the mystery deepened: investigators finally d
29、etermined that the animals were not killed by gunfire. Only one sea lion had small new wounds, which were consistent with bite marks, and the metal fragments found in soft tissue near the neck of two of the other animals could have been from old wounds. Federal officials now say theyre not even sure
30、 there were humans involved in the deaths, or whether the traps might have sprung by accident. What happened at Bonneville last weekend seems less and less clear.C)Fueling the mystery is the hatred toward sea lions that is obvious among salmon(鲑鱼)fishermen in the Pacific Northwest these days. The sa
31、lmon migration decreased drastically this year, causing officials to cut short the fishing season. In that climate, fishermen are none too favorably disposed to the population of California sea lions that regularly pass through the waters downstream of Bonneville Dam in the hope of feasting on a tas
32、ty Chinook. Steps were taken to clear the troublesome sea lions out. After nonfatal measures to ward off the persistent marine mammals proved ineffective, the states of Washington, Oregon and Idaho requested and were granted authority to remove the 61 most troublesome California sea lions-fatally, i
33、f necessary. Though the Humane Society of the United States filed suit challenging the states move, and the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals stayed any action to kill the creatures, the states began to trap some of the sea lions in preparation for a transplant to zoos and marine parks where they would
34、 be offered them a new home. Authorities put the trapping program on hold on Sunday.D)On Tuesday the Humane Society announced that it had reached a compromise with the government: in exchange for dropping its appeal against part of the lawsuit, the feds and states would suspend all trapping until at
35、 least next February.E)Investigators refuse to say anything about how theyre going about solving the puzzle. Army Corps of Engineers spokesman Matt Rabe said his agency had turned over documents and possibly videotapes from security cameras at the scene, but Brian Gorman, spokesman for the National
36、Ocean and Atmospheric Administration, said Friday that no video cameras had been trained on the traps. Bonnevilles “critical features“the spillway(泄洪道), powerhouses and fish laddershadnt been compromised, Rabe said. But the government will be reviewing its security measures in the wake of the incide
37、nt to see if improvements are needed.F)Gorman said NOAA investigators will try to determine how the gates were opened and are now awaiting tissue samples from the dead animals, which will indicate whether they were somehow poisoned though its not at all clear how that could have happened, he said.G)
38、If foul play was involved, the criminals figured out a way to slip past security at a federally controlled dam that has taken extra safety precautions(预防)as a result of 9/11. If they gained access to the traps by land, they would have had to sneak around a gate manned by a guard. If they came by boa
39、t, theyd have had to sail the turbulent waters coming off the dam itself, which would require skilled seamanship. “We have two mysteries,“ Gorman said. “How did the animals die, and how did the gates get closed?“H)Investigators havent ruled out some natural event or accident. One theory is that a dr
40、op in water levels below the dam could have put enough tension on the ropes to get disturbed group of trapped sea lions on one platform would likely have caused those on the other to jump into the water. Its possible that, once trapped, the sea lions could have overheated. But it wasnt a particularl
41、y hot day, Gorman said, and sea lions are known to spend several hours in the hot sun without any problem. “We really havent ruled anything out but space aliens,“ he said.I)What about motive? So far the most intense participants in the debate have been members of the fishing community and animal rig
42、hts activists, said Charles Hudson, a spokesman for the Columbia River Inter-Tribal Fish Commission. “Theres some out-of-the-gate speculation(推测)that it could be from the fishing community, or the animal rights community, doing some sort of back-burn on the issue, blowing it up by sacrificing a few
43、sea lions as a means to an end,“ Hudson said.J)But he quickly added that he is doubtful about such speculation, noting that events have been moving in the fishermens favor lately. “It would be a reach to think a fisherman who understood the issue would do this, knowing it could all be undone with on
44、e stupid move. If it was a fisherman, it was one of the dumber of the fishermen out there,“ Hudson said.K)Earlier this week Humane Society officials carefully considered the possible suspects. Sharon Young, marine issues field director for the group, said, “Theres a fairly narrow universe of people
45、who could be responsible. I think there are a lot of fishermen who are very frustrated that theyre competing with sea lions for fish.“L)Dennis Richey, executive director of Oregon Anglers, a 3, 000-member group that represents fishermen along the coast, pointed out that there are plenty of places to
46、 kill sea lions on the Columbiaplaces that wouldnt require violating federal security for access. “The average Joe out there fishing is annoyed at the sea lions, but they wouldnt go up to the dam and shoot them in the trap,“ Richey said, before the news surfaced that investigators had ruled out guns
47、hots. “I suspect this was done for effect.This was too organized to be some hot-tempered person.“M)Another puzzle: if the animals were already in the process of being trapped and removed, why go to the trouble of killing them? Who would risk a jail sentence of up to a year and a fine of $100,000 to
48、do something that was already in the works? Whatever the answer, the mystery has confused administrators who are trying to figure out the best way to address the broader problems at hand. As Gorman put it Tuesday, “I dont know what were going to do next year. given whats happened in the last few day
49、s.“47 To the salmon fishermen in the Pacific Northwest, sea lions are hateable.48 It hasnt been excluded that the death of the sea lions may possibly result from some natural event.49 Many fishermen feel disappointed at the fact that they are competing with sea lions for fish.50 It was finally determined that the sea lions were not shot by gunfire.51 One may be sentenced to be in jail for one year and fined a big sum of money if he kills
