1、大学英语四级（2013 年 12 月考试改革适用）模拟试卷 151（无答案）一、Part I Writing1 For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a short essay based on the picture below. You should start your essay with a brief description of the picture and then express your views on the revised Law of the Aged. You should write at lea
2、st 120 words but no more than 180 words.Section A（A）The woman has looked for Harry Potter in several bookstores.（B） The woman has found Harry Potter in another bookstore.（C） There is no Harry Potter in other bookstores yet.（D）Harry Potter may be found in other bookstores.（A）A waitress.（B） A cashier.
3、（C） A security.（D）A secretary.（A）He wants to pay.（B） He doesnt want to eat out.（C） He wants to eat somewhere else.（D）He doesnt like Japanese food.（A）At a publishing house.（B） At a bookstore.（C） At a supermarket.（D）In Professor Jordans office.（A）Check the timetable.（B） Set off earlier.（C） Get on a la
4、ter flight.（D）Cancel the trip.（A）The smiling faces.（B） The big sunshine.（C） The unhappy residents.（D）The weather.（A）Romantic stories.（B） Books in the library.（C） Love stories.（D）Detective stories.（A）The man didnt want the woman to have her hair cut.（B） The woman followed the mans advice.（C） The woma
5、n is wearing long hair now.（D）The man didnt care if the woman had her hair cut.（A）An apartment in the first floor.（B） The nicest apartment downtown.（C） A three-bedroom apartment.（D）A two-bedroom apartment.（A）He is the manager of the apartment.（B） He is the womans husband.（C） He is the owner of the a
6、partment.（D）He is the womans agent.（A）The water fee is rather high.（B） The electric is free of charge.（C） The stove must be renewed.（D）Gas is included in the rent.（A）She thinks the apartment is too small.（B） It is the first apartment she has seen.（C） She wants her husband to see it too.（D）The rent i
7、s too high for her to afford.（A）He is curious.（B） He is warm-hearted.（C） He is impatient.（D）He is absent-minded.（A）It is the energy needed to boil the water.（B） It is the energy needed to cool down something.（C） It is the energy required to raise the temperature of something.（D）It is the energy cont
8、rolled by the temperature and the weather.（A）Waters specific heat is higher than that of the sand.（B） Waters specific heat is lower than that of the sand.（C） Waters temperature changes faster than the sand.（D）Water absorbs less energy than the sand to get hot.Section B（A）Happy moods.（B） Good memory.
9、（C） Proper reasoning.（D）Some training.（A）To improve old peoples memory and thinking ability.（B） To test how long thinking skill lasts in trained older people.（C） To help old people do daily work.（D）To examine how long a well-trained old people can live.（A）Speed of finishing short training class.（B）
10、Speed of receiving and understanding information.（C） Speed of learning memory and thinking skills.（D）Speed of generating correct reasoning.（A）They disappear after the training.（B） They endure for five years.（C） They last for a full ten years.（D）They remain forever.（A）Its strong currency.（B） Its high
11、 cost of buying a car.（C） Its beautiful environment.（D）Its massive immigrants.（A）Sydney.（B） Paris.（C） Tokyo.（D）New York City.（A）High renting fees.（B） Costly traveling expenses.（C） High costs of groceries.（D）High costs of education.（A）Those who seldom sleep.（B） Those who seldom drink.（C） Those who of
12、ten smoke.（D）Those who often eat junk food.（A）No smoking or drinking guarantees happiness.（B） Kids with happy characters are less inclined to drink.（C） Unhappy kids are more likely to be less healthy.（D）Eating junk food worsens kids health.（A）Eating fruits.（B） Making friends.（C） Drinking alcohol.（D）
13、Doing exercise.Section C26 Teachers and parents normally call attention to the pictures when they read storybooks to preschool children But a study suggests that calling attention to the words and letters on the page may【B1】_ better readers.The two-year study【B2】_children who were read to this way i
14、n class with children who were not. Those whose teachers most often discussed the print showed【B3】_ higher skills in reading, spelling and understanding. These results were found one year and even two years later.The author of the study says most preschool teachers would find this method【B4】_and wou
15、ldneed only a small change in the way they teach. They already read storybooks in class. The only difference would be【B5】_attention to the printed text.If you get children to pay attention to letters and words, it【B6】_that they will do better at word【B7】_ and spelling. But the research suggests that
16、 very few parents and teachers do this in a 【B8】_way.There are different ways that adults can talk to children about print. They can point to a letter and discuss it, and even【B9】_the shape with a finger. They can point out a word: “This is dog.“ They can discuss the meaning of the print or how the
17、words tell the story. And they can talk about the【B10】_of the printfor instance, showing how words are written left to right in English.27 【B1 】28 【B2 】29 【B3 】30 【B4 】31 【B5 】32 【B6 】33 【B7 】34 【B8 】35 【B9 】36 【B10 】Section A36 If you have heart problems, you might want to plug in that iPod or pop
18、in a CD of mellow songs. Hospital patients with coronary heart disease(冠心病) 【C1】_their heart rates, breathing rate and blood pressure just by listening to music, a Temple University review of 23【C2】_studies found.The report, published in the latest issue of The Cochrane Library, found that the sooth
19、ing effects were greatest when these patients chose their own【C3】_. For example, patients pulse rates fell by more beats per minute when they made the selections【C4】_with those who listened to music selected by researchers.“So we do know from experience that if people select music they like, and the
20、 music has sedative【C5 】_such as slow tempo, predictable harmonies and【C6】_of sudden changes, they will be better able to relax to the music,“ said researcher Joke Bradt, assistant director of the Arts and Quality of Life Research Center at Temple University. The review looked at past studies on how
21、 music affected 1,461 patients with coronary heart disease, either during a cardiac procedure or within two days of hospitalization. In all the studies, the music used had slow tempos, but in some cases, a music therapist was【C7】_to help with the song selections.Dr. Robert Bonow, a past president of
22、 the American Heart Association,【C8】_the findings. While【C9】_that alleviating stress is important for heart patients, he said the new review shows “ no conclusive【C10】_that this relaxation therapy actually reduces the stress, let alone reducing the outcome of the stress. “A)absence B)agreeing C)capa
23、bilities D)challengedE)clinical F)compared G)employed H)evidenceI)pace J)previous K)physical L)qualitiesM)reduced N)tunes O)weakened37 【C1 】38 【C2 】39 【C3 】40 【C4 】41 【C5 】42 【C6 】43 【C7 】44 【C8 】45 【C9 】46 【C10 】Section B46 The Telecommunications RevolutionA)A transformation is occurring that shoul
24、d greatly boost living standards in the developing world. Places that until recently were deaf and dumb are rapidly acquiring up-to-date telecommunications that will let them promote both internal and foreign investment. It may take a decade for many countries in Asia, Latin America, and Eastern Eur
25、ope to improve transportation, power supplies, and other utilities. But a single optical fiber with a diameter of less than half a millimeter can carry more information than a large cable made of copper wires. By installing optical fiber, digital switches, and the latest wireless transmission system
26、s, a parade of urban centers and industrial zones from Beijing to Budapest are stepping directly into the Information Age. A spiders web of digital and wireless communication links is already reaching most of Asia and parts of Eastern Europe.B)All these developing regions see advanced communications
27、 as a way to leap over whole stages of economic development. Widespread access to information technologies, for example, promises to condense the time required to change from labor-intensive assembly work to industries that involve engineering, marketing, and design. Modern communications will give
28、countries like China and Vietnam a huge advantage over countries stuck with old technology.C)How fast these nations should push ahead is a matter of debate. Many experts think Vietnam is going too far by requiring that all mobile phones be expensive digital models, when it is desperate for any phone
29、s, period. “These countries lack experience in weighing costs and choosing between technologies,“ says one expert.D)Still, theres little dispute that communications will be a key factor separating the winners from the losers. Consider Russia. Because of its strong educational system in mathematics a
30、nd science, it should thrive in the information age. The problem is its national phone system is a rusting antique that dates from the 1930s. To lick this problem, Russia is starting to install optical fiber and has a strategic plan to pump $40 billion into various communications projects. But its e
31、conomy is stuck in recession and it barely has the money to even scratch the surface of the problem.E)Compare that with the mainland of China. Over the next decade, it plans to pour some $ 100 billion into telecommunications equipment. In a way, Chinas backwardness is an advantage, because the expan
32、sion occurs just as new technologies are becoming cheaper than copper wire systems. By the end of 1995, each of Chinas provincial capitals except for Tibet will have digital switches and high-capacity optical fiber links. This means that major cities are getting the basic infrastructure to become ma
33、jor parts of the information superhighway, allowing people to log on to the most advanced services available.F)Telecommunications is also a key to Shanghais dream of becoming a top financial center. To offer peak performance in providing the electronic data and paperless trading global investors exp
34、ect, Shanghai plans telecommunications networks as powerful as those in Manhattan.G)Meanwhile, Hungary also hopes to jump into the modern world. Currently, 700,000 Hungarians are waiting for phones. To partially overcome the problem of funds and to speed the import of Western technology, Hungary sol
35、d a 30% stake in its national phone company to two Western companies. To further reduce the waiting list for phones, Hungary has leased rights to a Dutch-Scandinavian group of companies to build and operate what it says will be one of the most advanced digital mobile phone systems in the world. In f
36、act, wireless is one of the most popular ways to get a phone system up fast in developing countries. Its cheaper to build radio towers than to string lines across mountain ridges, and businesses eager for reliable service are willing to accept a significantly higher price tag for a wireless callthe
37、fee is typically two to four times as much as for calls made over fixed lines. H)Wireless demand and usage have also exploded across the entire width and breadth of Latin America. For wireless phone service providers, nowhere is business better than in Latin Americahaving an operation there is like
38、having an endless pile of money at your disposal. BellSouth Corporation, with operations in four wireless markets, estimates its annual revenue per average customer at about $2,000 as compared to $ 860 in the United States. Thats partly because Latin American customers talk two to four times as long
39、 on the phone as people in North America. I)Thailand is also turning to wireless, as a way to allow Thais to make better use of all the time they spend stuck in traffic. And it isnt that easy to call or fax from the office: the waiting list for phone lines has from one to two million names on it. So
40、 mobile phones have become the rage among business people, who can remain in contact despite the traffic jams. J)Vietnam is making one of the boldest leaps. Despite a per person income of just $ 220 a year, all of the 300,000 lines Vietnam plans to add annually will be optical fiber with digital swi
41、tching, rather than cheaper systems that send electrons over copper wires. By going for next-generation technology now, Vietnamese telecommunications officials say theyll be able to keep pace with anyone in Asia for decades. K)For countries that have lagged behind for so long, the temptation to move
42、 ahead in one jump is hard to resist. And despite the mistakes theyll make, theyll persistso that one day they can cruise alongside Americans and Western Europeans on the information superhighway.47 Latin America is the best place for wireless phone service providers.48 Russia is starting to set up
43、optical fiber and makes a strategic plan.49 Most of the important cities in China will get the basic infrastructure to become major parts of the information superhighway.50 Vietnam is jumping bravely.51 In Thailand, businessmen would like to use mobile phones to keep contact with others even in traf
44、fic jams.52 Vietnam lacks experience in weighing costs and selecting technologies.53 Most of Asia and parts of Eastern Europe have already gotten a spiders web of digital and wireless communication links.54 One of the important factors to fulfill Shanghais dream of becoming a top financial center is
45、 telecommunications.55 All these developing regions consider advanced communications as a way to jump over whole stages of economic development.56 Hungary also hopes to enter into the modern world.Section C56 Rumors have swirled for years about the mystical phone, which Facebook introduced at its he
46、adquarters today. For the financial sake of Facebook, its imperative that the new phonemanufactured by HTC, carried by AT&T and sporting an Android operating systemsells well. Its the linchpin(关键)in the social-networking companys pursuit of mobile ads. The $ 99 phone goes on sale April 12.The phone/
47、service features Home(facebook. com/home), downloadable software that brings the Face-book experience to several Android devices: HTC One X, HTC One X + , Samsung Galaxy S III and Samsung Galaxy Note II.At first blush, the new phone could find a receptive audience among the under-25 crowd, which is
48、comfortable with having their mobile devices within reach at all times. Facebook chafes at suggestions that teens and twentysomethings are leaving the social network, so a phone immersed in news updates and other Facebook features might go over well.Facebook, the No. 2 mobile-ad publisher in the U.
49、S. behind Google, last year accounted for 9. 5% of the $ 4.1 billion mobile ad market. Its expected to take 13% of the $7.3 billion market this year, estimates researcher eMarketer.A phone could “hard wire“ the Facebook experience on a mobile device, increasing consumers time on the service, analysts say. But the experience has to be more than a branded device, they say. Branded phones from Barclays and Mary Kay did not fare well.“ It cant be just
