1、大学英语四级（2013 年 12 月考试改革适用）模拟试卷 253（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 explain how to solve the rubbish problem in cities. You should write at le
2、ast 120 words but no more than 180 words. Section A（A）For 35 years.（B） For 32 years.（C） For 70 years.（D）For 17 years.（A）The King s birthday.（B） The stability of the monarchy.（C） Criticism from both the left and the right.（D）The Kings public defense of his ruling.（A）Running a plastic surgery clinic.（
3、B） Arranging for surgery and safari.（C） Providing consultancy to local people.（D）Organizing trips to UK and American.（A）Local African clients helped keep her business going.（B） Her clients were unable to pay her the money.（C） Her business was affected by the global financial crisis.（D）She still had
4、as many African clients as before.（A）To collect data on sources of pollution.（B） To identify pollution in rivers and lakes.（C） To help control environmental pollution.（D）To help control industrial wastes.（A）Lack of technology.（B） Rapid economic growth.（C） Unknown pollution sources.（D）Shortage of man
5、power.（A）Offices are set up by government departments.（B） A main centre receives reports from provinces.（C） A database is set up for each province.（D）Data will be reviewed and analyzed in mid-2009.Section B（A）Bacon.（B） Mushrooms.（C） Italian sausage.（D）Onions.（A）Pineapple and mushrooms on one half an
6、d green peppers and Italian sausage on the other.（B） Pineapple and green peppers on one half and mushrooms and Italian sausage on the other.（C） Pineapple and mushrooms on one half and red peppers and Italian sausage on the other.（D）Pineapple and red peppers on one half and mushrooms and Italian saus
7、age on the other.（A）The total of his order is $17.90.（B） The phone number is 340-1870.（C） The address is 1340 North 16 East.（D）The customer wants a half-and-half pizza.（A）Three orders of bread sticks for free.（B） A three-dollar deduction on the next pizza you order.（C） A three-dollar coupon for use
8、this time you order a large pizza.（D）A free order of steak.（A）Once a week.（B） Three every month.（C） Five every month.（D）Two every month.（A）Five to fifteen pounds.（B） Three to fifteen pounds.（C） Five pounds.（D）Five to fifty pounds.（A）When there are more than twelve people.（B） When there are five peop
9、le.（C） When there are fifteen people.（D）When there are more than fifteen people.（A）Call the office.（B） Sign the name on the notice board in advance.（C） Pay the money.（D）There is no need to reserve a place.Section C（A）Check-out procedures.（B） Summer vacation registration.（C） Summer manage crew.（D）Fil
10、ling out resident form.（A）On September 1.（B） On June 3.（C） Before the next school tear.（D）After final exam.（A）A problem for registering for class.（B） A 25-dollar fine.（C） Clearing their personal property out of the room.（D）Failure to make repairs. （A）Your eyesight.（B） The mechanical condition of you
11、r car.（C） Your knowledge of highway regulations.（D）Your driving ability.（A）A booklet.（B） A driver s license.（C） An instruction permit.（D）A fine ticket.（A）One who violates the traffic regulation.（B） Drivers-to-be.（C） One who fails in the road test examination.（D）License examiners. （A）In the author s
12、opinion, there are mainly two kinds of holidaymakers.（B） The same aim for any kind of holidaymakers is to be happy and relaxed.（C） Few people enjoy going on two or three holidays a year.（D）For some holidaymakers, going on holiday can improve their world knowledge.（A）To enjoy themselves.（B） To see th
13、e specialties in other places.（C） To have a good sleep.（D）To eat lobsters.（A）Drinking.（B） Sunbathing.（C） Sleeping.（D）Swimming.（A）To get a proper feel of a place.（B） To visit as many countries as possible.（C） To appreciate the local food and wine.（D）To increase their knowledge of other countries.Sect
14、ion A26 It has been said that everyone lives by selling something. In the light of this statement, teachers live by selling【C1】_, philosophers by selling wisdom and priests by selling【C2】_comfort. Though it may be possible to measure the value of【C3】_good in terms of money, it is extremely difficult
15、 to estimate the true value of the services which people perform for us. There are times when we would【C4 】_give everything we possess to save our lives, yet we might grudge paying a surgeon a high fee for offering us precisely this service. The conditions of society are such that【C5 】_have to be pa
16、id for in the same way that goods are paid for at a shop. Everyone has something to sell.Tramps(流浪汉)seem to be the only【C6 】_to this general rule. Beggars almost sell themselves as human being to【C7】_the pity of passers-by. But real tramps are not beggars. They have nothing to sell and require nothi
17、ng from others. In seeking independence, they do not【C8】_their human dignity. A tramp may ask you for money, but he will never ask you to feel sorry for him. We often speak of tramps with【C9 】_and put them in the same class as beggars, but how many of us can honestly say that we have not felt a litt
18、le【C10】_of their simple way of life and their freedom from care?A)arouse B)knowledge C)scored D)sacrificeE)material F)invulnerable G)spiritual H)anxiousI)envious J)willingly K)skills L)associateM)happiness N)exception O)contempt27 【C1 】28 【C2 】29 【C3 】30 【C4 】31 【C5 】32 【C6 】33 【C7 】34 【C8 】35 【C9 】
19、36 【C10 】Section B36 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, anime and gaming arcades(街机游戏), reading has lost its fo
20、othold in the list of hobbies that children tend to cite.B)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(难以克服的)and boring task. If you want to inculcate(反复灌输)the l
21、ove for languages and literary 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 u
22、nderstand the book in a way that allows them to come up with new ways to present to the class, the essence of the book.C)As a teacher while encouraging 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 gro
23、up that your students belong to, 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 comfortab
24、le handling a handy camera, a student 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
25、and for middle school students.D)A book 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(蛋黄酱), red to repr
26、esent tomato and likewise. Obviously, each 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.E)It can start with the name of the book and the authors name on the top slice
27、 of the sandwich. The second ingredient can 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(用订书机订)the
28、 book sandwich together and then, you can create a class bulletin board with all the book report sandwiches on display.F)One of the good techniques 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
29、then pick a few objects at his / her home which 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 o
30、bject, which the student can first ask the audience to guess and then go ahead and explain it. This idea is spin-off on the normal show and allows for an interactive book report session.G)This is one of the creative ideas for book reports in which as the teacher, you will have to divide your class i
31、nto groups and give them one book each. The 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 proces
32、s of the author. The student playing the role of the author can then interrupt the play at important parts and talk about the reasons for these twists in the play and how he / she came up with these plot lines.H)As a young adult, your students fascination may go beyond the immediate concerns of the
33、book. He / she may want to understand the circumstances 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 mink on those lines. Divide the class into pairs and give each pair one book to read. Le
34、t them then do the roles of the author and a journalist. You can have an interview session in front of the class enabling them to analyze the book and get a peek into the author s world.I)In a technology-obsessed world, it maybe a very tiny minority of your class that does not get excited with the p
35、rospect of shooting a film. It is one of 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 oth
36、er prerequisites, like a lighting engineer, 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.J)If you are on the lookout for good individual creative book report ideas, then this one could be for you. Assign every
37、student a book and then ask them to start 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 giv
38、e a surrogate ending to the story.K)These 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 mink on of the box and appreciate them for their efforts. This
39、 will help you have a class that is not only lively and inquisitive by nature but also a class that will cultivate a love for words.37 The creative book report ideas vary according to ages because children in different age groups have different attention spans.38 If teachers ask their students to sh
40、oot a film about a book, they should give them no fewer than two months.39 Adopting the method of knowing your author, teachers can encourage students to think beyond the immediate concerns of the book.40 While working on creative ideas for book reports, students will have to understand the book.41
41、Retelling a story is one of the favorite creative book report ideas among students and it allows for an interactive book report session.42 Teachers can create a class bulletin board to display all the book report sandwiches after their students finish their reports.43 Teachers tend to be more imagin
42、ative and creative as kids.44 Nowadays, most of book children read are those they need to read for school.45 Asking me 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.46 Each students group are given one bo
43、ok individually, read the book, write a play and act it out for the class, which is a good creative book report ideas.Section C46 Bilingual(双语的)education in schools has long been a political hot potatoit was banned in California by a 1998 ballot measure, which the state Senate is now asking voters t
44、o repeal. But politics aside, theres an increasing amount of scientific support for the benefits of knowing at least two languages.Now, a new study published by the Annals of Neurology finds that you dont even need to learn that second(or third, or fourth)tongue at a very young age: Picking up a new
45、 language even a little later in life can have serious cognitive(认知的)benefits for the aging brain.Many recent studies have pointed out that bilingualism seems to be good exercise for the brain and later in life might even help delay the onset of dementia. But what if its a self-selecting crowd? What
46、 if the people who learned two languages are just smarter to begin with? To help rule that factor out, researchers at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland studied 853 people who first took an intelligence test in 1947 when they were about 11 years old as part of a group called the Lothian Birth C
47、ohort 1936, and retested them again around 2008 to 2010, when they were in their early 70s.A total of 262 of the seventy-year-old reported having learned at least one language other than English enough to communicate in it. Of those, 195 said they learned it before age 18: 65 said they learned it th
48、ereafter. The researchers gave the participants a battery of cognitive tests, including tests of their verbal reasoning, their vocabulary and reading abilities, their verbal fluency and their ability to process information quickly. They found that bilingual speakers performed much better than expect
49、ed from their baseline cognitive ability, particularly in reading and in general intelligence. And those who knew three or more languages performed even better.Learning a language seemed to make as much difference in people s later-in-life cognitive decline as a gene that s been tied to risk of Alzheimer s disease and smoking habits.These participants mostly learned their second languages after age 11. The results actually make a very compelling pointyou dont have to be a fluent speaker of a language to get the benefi
