1、大学英语四级（2013 年 12 月考试改革适用）模拟试卷 159（无答案）一、Part I Writing1 Write an essay commenting on the remark “The world is not only hungry but also thirsty.“ You can cite examples to illustrate your point and then explain what you can do to economize water resource. You should write at least 120 words but no mor
2、e than 180 words.Section A（A）He has decided to retreat from the talks.（B） He has supported the talks.（C） He has covered doubts about the talks.（D）He has opposed the talks.（A）The spread of nuclear weapons in the Middle East.（B） The position taken by the Security Council.（C） The pollution of nuclear p
3、lants.（D）The tougher position of Iran on the nuclear issue.（A）25.（B） 10.（C） 35.（D）15.（A）Every French voter wanted more Europe with better social protection.（B） Every Dutch voter wanted less Europe which cost them less money.（C） Some would cast their vote in protest against an unpopular government to
4、day.（D）There was also another cast in fear of an uncertain future tomorrow.（A）United States.（B） Iraq.（C） Saudi Arabia.（D）United Arab Emirates.（A）The United Arab Emirates doesnt want to make enemy with America.（B） The United Arab Emirates has its own resources and there are no mines in that waters.（C
5、） The United Arab Emirate is far from Iran.（D）The United Arab Emirate is afraid of Iran.（A）The United States.（B） Iran.（C） The United Arab Emirates.（D）Not mentioned.Section B（A）Hes explaining the language laboratory.（B） He wants to know where the tapes are.（C） Hes showing her a new tape recorder.（D）H
6、es recording her voice on a tape.（A）It needs to have more French lesson tapes.（B） It needs to have its controls repaired.（C） It is different from all the other laboratories.（D）It can be operated rather easily.（A）At ten oclock.（B） Monday through Friday from 4 to 6 a.m.（C） From 4 to 6 p.m. at workday.
7、（D）From 4 to 6 p.m. at weekend.（A）Change her class schedule.（B） Fill out a job application.（C） Organize tapes on the shelves.（D）Work on the French lessons.（A）There arent enough cabinets.（B） There is too much noise.（C） Office supplies are taking up space.（D）Some teaching assistants dont have desks.（A
8、）To get help with the course.（B） To chat with Jack socially.（C） To hand in their assignments.（D）To practice giving interviews.（A）Give Jack a different office.（B） Complain to the department head.（C） Move the supplies to the storage room.（D）Try to get a room to use for meetings.（A）He thinks it is usel
9、ess.（B） He will think about it later.（C） He thinks it might work.（D）He has no idea about it.Section C（A）He obtained his philosophy degree.（B） He sold his own life on the Internet.（C） He became famous for his website.（D）He requested to part with his girlfriend.（A）He intended to do something special.（
10、B） He wanted to ask for donations for charities.（C） He did not know the reason himself.（D）He meant to offer some help to poor people.（A）Driving license.（B） Training course.（C） Cooking skills.（D）Australian passport.（A）Because they had caught serious disease.（B） Because they had been away from home fo
11、r many years.（C） Because it was said they had died.（D）Because they were put into prison.（A）His bitter experience abroad.（B） What he saw in the Asian countries.（C） Made-up stories based on his imagination.（D）The stories about his family.（A）Where the countries are.（B） How to make a travel around the w
12、orld.（C） What he told about is quite true.（D）How to find the black stone for cooking.（A）She was believed to be the last survivor after the big ship sank.（B） She was reported to die at her own home in England on Sunday.（C） She was the youngest passenger on board when the disaster happened.（D）She was
13、taking a journey with her family when the liner hit an iceberg.（A）Her father.（B） Her mother.（C） Her brother.（D）Her sister.（A）Because it would make her feel uncomfortable.（B） Because she was too sick to attend the ceremony.（C） Because she didnt like being treated as a celebrity.（D）Because she had to
14、make some miserable speeches.（A）Valuable prints taken from the ship.（B） A suitcase filled with donated clothes.（C） Her lifesaving sack in the disaster.（D）Apology letters to her from the Fund.Section A26 The flood of women into the job market boosted economic growth and changed U.S. society in many w
15、ays. Many in-home jobs that used to be done【C1】_by women ranging from family shopping to preparing meals to doing【C2】_work still need to be done by someone. Husbands and children now do some of these jobs, a【C3】_that has changed the target market for many products. Or a working woman may face a crus
16、hing “poverty of time“ and look for help elsewhere, creating opportunities for producers of frozen meals, child care centers, dry cleaners, financial services, and the like.Although there is still a big wage【C4】_between men and women, the income working women【C5】_gives them new independence and buyi
17、ng power. For example, women now【C6】_about half of all cars. Not long ago, many cars dealers【C7】_women shoppers by ignoring them or suggesting that they come back with their husbands. Now car companies have realized that women are【 C8】_customers. Its interesting that some leading Japanese car dealer
18、s were the first to【C9】_pay attention to women customers. In Japan, fewer women have jobs or buy carsthe Japanese society is still very much male-oriented. Perhaps it was the【C10】_contrast with Japanese society that prompted American firms to pay more attention to women buyers.A)scale B)retailed C)g
19、enerate D)extreme E)technicallyF)affordable G)situation II)really I)potential J)gapK)voluntary L)excessive M)insulted N)purchase O)primarily27 【C1 】28 【C2 】29 【C3 】30 【C4 】31 【C5 】32 【C6 】33 【C7 】34 【C8 】35 【C9 】36 【C10 】Section B36 In this section, you are going to read a passage with ten statement
20、s attached to it. Each statement contains information given in one of the paragraphs. Indentify the paragraph from which the information is derived. You may choose a paragraph more than once. Each paragraph is marked with a letter. Answer the questions by marking the corresponding letter on Answer S
21、heet 2.Creative Book Report IdeasA)Are you at a loss for creative book report ideas for your students? If yes, then this article will help you make reading and reviewing books more creative for your class. In an age of PSPs, Xbox, an-ime and gaming arcades, reading has lost its foothold in the list
22、of hobbies that children tend to cite. Most of the reading that kids do today, comes in the form of compulsory books that they need to read for school and maybe that is the reason they find reading to be an insurmountable and boring task. If you want to inculcate the love for languages and literary
23、masterpieces in your students and want them to devour books everyone should read, then a good way of going about the same would be to get them to start working on creative book report ideas. While working on creative ideas for book reports, your students will have to understand the book in a way tha
24、t allows them to come up with new ways to present to the class, the essence of the book.B)As a teacher, while egging your students to activate their creative gray cells, you will have to help them out with basic ideas that they can work on. Depending on the age bracket that your students belong to,
25、the creative book report ideas will vary. This is so, not just because of the varying attention spans that children of various age groups possess but also because of the amount of work that kids can put into the report. While a middle school student will be comfortable handling a handy cam, a studen
26、t from elementary school will be more fascinated if he is working with paints and puppets. So do you want to know how to write a book report creatively? In this article, we will list out for you, a couple of good creative book report ideas for elementary students and for middle school students.C)A b
27、ook report sandwich is a good creative idea for book reports. As a teacher you can get drawings of a sandwich on sheets of paper that are of the color of the ingredients of your sandwich, for example, a cream sheet of paper to resemble mayonnaise, red to represent tomato and likewise. Obviously, eac
28、h ingredient should be cut in a way that when assembled together, it looks like a sandwich. Now, give each of your students one of these book sandwiches to create their book report. It can start with the name of the book and the authors name on the top slice of the sandwich. The second ingredient ca
29、n have the summary of the book on it. Each subsequent ingredient can have a description of the main characters, the setting of the book, the plot, and then his or her views about the book. Once they are done with their book reports, they can staple the book sandwich together and then, you can create
30、 a class bulletin board with all the book report sandwiches on display.D)One of the good techniques is to retell a story: it is also one of the favorite creative book report ideas among students. The job that the student will have is to read the book and then pick a few objects at his/her home which
31、 will allow him/her to retell the story in a way that makes it interesting for his/ her audience. Every time he/she picks out an object from the bag to report the book he/she has read, there has to be a valid connection between the book and the object, which the student can first ask the audience to
32、 guess and then go ahead and explain it. This idea is spin-off on the normal show and tells and allows for an interactive book report session.E)This is one of the creative ideas for book reports in which, as the teacher, you will have to divide your class into groups and give them one book each. The
33、 students can then read the book and get together and write a play and act it out for the class. To give a deeper insight into the book, one of the students can play the role of the author and as a group, the students can try and recreate the thought process of the author. The student playing the ro
34、le of the author can then interrupt the play at important junctures and talk about the reasons for these twists in the play and how he/she came up with these plot lines.F)As a young adult, your students fascination may go beyond the immediate concerns of the book. He/she may want to understand the c
35、ircumstances in which the book was written, the times then, the events happening in the world and get the authors perspective about the book. Encourage your students to think on those lines. Divide the class into pairs and give each pair one book to read. Let them then do the roles of the author and
36、 a journalist. You can have an interview session in front of the class, enabling them to dissect the book and get a peek into the authors world.G)In a technology-obsessed world, it may be a very tiny minority of your class that does not get excited with the prospect of shooting a film. It is one of
37、the best creative book report ideas for middle school, and you will need to divide the class into groups and give them at least two months to adapt the book that they have been assigned, into a film. The movie should have a well-adapted screenplay, and all other prerequisites, like a lighting engine
38、er, sound engineer, costume designer, etc. At the end of the given time, the film can be screened in front of the class and then discussed.H)If you are on the lookout for good individual creative book report ideas, then this one could be for you. Assign every student a book and then ask them to star
39、t maintaining a diary, from the authors point of view. Ask them to come up with imaginary incidents from the authors life and use historical events to explain why the author wrote the book in a certain manner. Alternately, you can also ask your students to give a surrogate ending to the story.I)Thes
40、e are just few of the options that you could use to inspire your students to come up with creative book report ideas. As kids we tend to be more imaginative and creative. Encourage your students to think out of the box and appreciate them for their efforts. This will help you have a class that is no
41、t only lively and inquisitive by nature but also a class that will cultivate a love for words.37 Teachers can create a class bulletin board to display all the book report sandwiches after their students finish their reports.38 Adopting the method of knowing your author, teachers can encourage studen
42、ts to think beyond the immediate concerns of the book.39 Asking the students to write from their own point of view is suitable for teachers who are on the lookout for good individual creative book report ideas.40 Retelling a story is one of the favorite creative book report ideas among students and
43、it tells and allows for an interactive book report session.41 Nowadays, most of book children read are those they need to read for school.42 As kids teachers tend to be more imaginative and creative.43 While working on creative ideas for book reports, students will have to understand the book.44 The
44、 creative book report ideas vary according to ages because children in different age groups have different attention span.45 If teachers ask their students to shoot a film about a book, they should give them no fewer than two months.46 That teachers have to divide their class into groups and give th
45、em one book each is a good creative book report ideas.Section C46 Wouldnt it be great if you could just look up at the sky and read the weather forecast right away? Well, you can. The forecast is written in clouds. If you can read that writing, you can tell something about the atmosphere. With some
46、practice, you can become a pretty good weather forecaster. Who knows, you might even do as well as meteorologists.Meteorologists use much more information than just the appearance of the clouds to make their forecast. They collect data from all over the world. Then they put it into powerful, high-sp
47、eed computers. This does give the meteorologists an advantage, because they can track weather patterns as they move from west to east across the country. But you have an advantage, too. You can look at the sky and get your data directly. A meteorologist uses a computer forecast thats several hours o
48、ld to make a local forecast.What are you seeing when you look at a cloud? “A picture of moisture is doing in the atmosphere,“ says meteorologist Peter Leavitt. Theres moisture throughout the atmosphere. Most of the time you dont see it, because its in the form of an invisible gas called water vapor.
49、 Sometimes, the temperature of the air gets cold enough to cause the water vapor to change to liquid water. Its called condensation, and we see it happen all the time(for example, when humid air from the shower hits the cold glasses of a mirror). When enough water vapor condenses, droplets come in the air. These droplets scatter light. A cloud is seen.Watching clouds over a day or two tells you a lot more than a single cloud about the weather to come. Changes in clouds show changes in the atmosphere. You should be
