1、大学英语四级（2013 年 12 月考试改革适用）模拟试卷 75（无答案）一、Part I Writing1 For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a short essay. You should start your essay with a brief description of the picture and then express your views on “ Too much care spoils a child“. You should write at least 120 words but no more
2、 than 180 words. Write your essay on Answer Sheet 1.Section A（A）Hold a birthday party.（B） Give her a schoolbag.（C） Buy her something fashionable.（D）Choose a good gift for her.（A）The speakers are looking forward to a cool day.（B） The woman has got a serious illness because of the weather.（C） The man
3、doesnt feel a thing about the weather.（D）The weather is too bad for people to survive.（A）She must be a new student coming from the US.（B） She must have studied in the US for a long time.（C） She should offer her bank account to get a proof or document.（D）She should offer some proof or document to ope
4、n a bank account.（A）She should be more optimistic than she is.（B） She must have already failed the French test.（C） She should have worked harder for her test.（D）She must have done quite well in her test.（A）His lectures are not to all the students taste.（B） His lectures are not the mans cup of tea.（C
5、） He is a native teacher teaching foreign students.（D）He is a foreign teacher planning to return to his own country.（A）He is very excited about the promotion.（B） He feels stressed about the promotion.（C） He is not capable of the new position.（D）He is planning to quit his job.（A）They should do their
6、paper as early as possible.（B） They should wait until the last minute to do their paper.（C） They shouldnt stay up late at night to do their paper.（D）They should do their paper in the same way.（A）He would wait until someone comes to his rescue.（B） He would get someone else to make a living with him.（
7、C） He would do as Robinson Crusoe did.（D）He would make great efforts to help himself out.（A）Whether the large order was from a regular client.（B） Whether they had the goods in stock.（C） Whether the goods could be delivered in time.（D）Whether the customer could get special prices.（A）Its more convenie
8、nt to keep the details for each client.（B） Its good for the environment.（C） Its cleaner and safer than using paper files.（D）Its easy to take on business trip.（A）Finishing writing a sales report for his boss.（B） Dealing with the complaint from a client.（C） Getting ready for the work next morning.（D）C
9、hecking information on computer files.（A）She has to leave for the school soon.（B） She wants to pay for tuition earlier.（C） She feels so stressed and worried about it.（D）She wants to apply for grants and scholarships. （A）Something she is good at.（B） Busy but with high salary.（C） Something related to
10、her hobby.（D）With high salary and without hard work.（A）Make the final decision later.（B） Take the major that she likes best.（C） Take the major that she is best at.（D）Choose more than one major.（A）To take a tour around the world.（B） To see some new sceneries.（C） To learn more new things.（D）To get a g
11、ood job without hard work.Section B（A）They must pay off the tuition for their education.（B） They must have the military training.（C） They must take part in college courses.（D）They must serve on active duty in the Army. （A）The foreign students should have big financial support.（B） The students must b
12、e nominated by their home governments.（C） The students should pay the tuition all by themselves.（D）The students should join the American army.（A）In native government.（B） In West Point academy.（C） In homeland university.（D）At local American Embassy.（A）A hunter.（B） An old woman.（C） A religious worker.
13、（D）A keeper of goats.（A）Gut the tree down for the production.（B） Peel the skin of the coffee cherry.（C） Roast the beans inside the coffee cherry.（D）Dry the coffee cherry out of water.（A）The height of the tree.（B） Geography and climate difference.（C） Ways of harvesting the beans.（D）The temperature of
14、 roasting coffee beans.（A）All sorts of snakes in the world.（B） How the skiers climb a slope on skies.（C） The special movement of the side-winder.（D）The direction that the side-winder follows.（A）Because it has its name as side-winder.（B） Because it lives in the slippery sandy desert.（C） Because its b
15、ody is very smooth.（D）Because it does not adapt to the environment.（A）Straight lines.（B） Curving lines.（C） Paralleled lines.（D）Crossing lines.（A）It can keep the body cooler.（B） It can move more easily.（C） It can avoid the obstacles in moving.（D）It can move much faster.Section C26 Justice is one of t
16、he most popular courses in Harvards history. Nearly one thousand students 【B1】_Harvards historic Sanders Theatre to hear Professor Sandel talk about justice, equality, democracy, and citizenship. Now its your turn to【B2 】_in moral reflection that has captured more than 14,000 students, as Harvard op
17、ens its classroom to the world. This course【B3】_help viewers become more critically minded thinkers about the moral decisions we all face in our everyday lives.Professor Sandel is a【B4】_teacher. He is able, without visible effort, to make a lecture to students seem like an intimate dialogue. Sandel
18、is able to conduct【B5 】 _effective dialogues in those large classes, like a conductor picking out a piano here. He poses moral dilemmas so acute that one could escape the【B6】_only by thinking.In this 12-part series, Sandel challenges us with difficult moral dilemmas and asks our opinion about the ri
19、ght thing to do. He then asks us to examine our answers【B7】_new situation. The result is often surprising, revealing that important moral questions are never black and white.【B8】_these contradictions sharpens our own moral faith and gives us the moral clearness to better understand the opposing view
20、s we confront in a democracy.This course also【B9】_the hot topics of our day same sex marriage, equal right, individualism and Sandel shows us that we can rethink familiar debates with a fresh【B10 】 _. Professor Sandel believes the process of thinking our way through the moral questions of our day ca
21、n help make us better citizens.27 【B1 】28 【B2 】29 【B3 】30 【B4 】31 【B5 】32 【B6 】33 【B7 】34 【B8 】35 【B9 】36 【B10 】Section A36 We all like to feel needed. But new research suggests having a sense of purpose is good for our health, too.In a study of 7, 000 people, those with the strongest sense of direc
22、tion in life were over 70 percent less likely to suffer a stroke.The researchers【C1 】_for other aggravating factors such as blood pressure and alcohol use and believe the【C2】_comes through regulating the immune system.It has long been thought that【C3】_meaningful activity after retirement is importan
23、t for physical and mental healthwhich often declines【C4】_soon after retirement.But, while past research focused on the【C5】_effects of negative psychological traits, such as depression and anxiety, new research is investigating how positive traits, such as【C6】_, protect against illness.In the recent
24、study, men and women aged 50 and over were【C7】_for four to five years and completed psychological tests while researchers recorded strokes.The results show that the higher someones sense of purpose, the lower their risk of a stroke. Those with the greatest sense of purpose were 73 percent less likel
25、y to suffer a stroke compared to those with the lowest.Other research has shown that positive mood can lower levels of the stress hormone Cortisol(荷尔蒙皮质醇), also【C8】_in stroke.“This is significant as we have a(n) 【C9】_population and it helps show what behaviours prevent people from getting ill,“ says
26、 Cary Cooper, professor of health psychology at Lancaster University. “Maybe【C10】_is not good for some. “A)accounted I)implicatedB)ageing J)optimismC)ambition K)outstandingD)damaging L)pursuingE)decreasing M)retirementF)dramatically N)searchedG)effect O)trackedH)gradually37 【C1 】38 【C2 】39 【C3 】40 【
27、C4 】41 【C5 】42 【C6 】43 【C7 】44 【C8 】45 【C9 】46 【C10 】Section B46 The Writers LifeA survey of Britains youth found that many aspire(立志)to become writers. They clearly dont know how hard it is, writes Alix Christie.A)Britains most respected writers have at least one trait in common: all had childhoods
28、 immersed in a passion for reading, enabled by public libraries. At a time when government cuts threaten to close some 450 libraries around the country, the British Library has released “ The Writing Life“ , a new two-CD set of writers discussing their life, their work and their fondness for librari
29、es. In gathering these interviews, the British Library was not aiming for an argument. But as affordable access to literature becomes increasingly unstablein libraries or booksellers large and smallthis collection is a reminder of its importance.B)That isnt to say that the authors here speak with an
30、 agenda. The pleasure of this series is in hearing writers convey their private thoughts on their profession. We learn that Beryl Bainbridge thinks “ theres no such thing as the imagination. “ Ian McEwan “ always felt something of an outsider. “ Hilary Mantel believes that “ In the ideal world, all
31、writers would have a Catholic childhood, or belong to some other religion which does the equivalent for them. “ Howard Jacobson, the most recent Booker prize winner, spent more of his youth collecting books than reading them. Michael Holroyd, a biographer, fears that literature “ has become the youn
32、ger brother of the performing arts. “C)Judging from the terrible online reaction to excerpts(摘要)published in the Guardian, not all readers are ready for a glimpse at the appalling arrogance(自大)and shocking self-doubt that puzzled most writers. But for those who seriously attempt to writefor whom thi
33、s collection is clearly intendedthese voices offer great encouragement.D)“ Such a lot of it is about keeping up your confidence,“ says last years Booker prize winner Mantel, whose own first novel took nearly 20 years to make it into print.E)Stunned by a survey that showed “ writer“ as the number one
34、 career goal of British youthahead of astronaut and footballerSarah Oreilly at the British Library saw the project as a way to put across the real challenges that come with the profession. Chosen from hundreds of hours of picked interviews, the excerpts “ provide a useful suggestion to the idea that
35、 the writing life is a fascinating life,“ she says. Indeed, aspiring writers should anticipate inhabiting a “place of total and complete solitude(独处),“ offers Linda Grant, a novelist included in the collection.F)Yet these CDs are instructive, too, with authors weighing in on developing characters, f
36、inding ideas, researching context and figuring out how it all works together. The factual details of when, where and howpencil, pen or computer? Morning or night? Each day or as the spirit calls? are as varied as the writers. If there is a single bit of common advice, it is to(in the words of Penelo
37、pe Lively): “read, read, read“. About this, everyone agrees. “You learn how to structure a novel from looking at the great novels of the past,“ says Philip Hensher, a novelist. As Peter Porter, a late Australian poet asks, “If literature had no effect on you, why would you write it?“G)“Writers are m
38、ade by reading,“ says Mantel. “By the time I was 18 I had read such a huge number of novels that I think I knew how to write one, because I do think thats how its done. that you learn the different ways as patterns, almost like visual patterns. “H)Nearly all, too, say the chief delight of writing is
39、 the wonderful process of discovery. “You dont have very much choice in the matter,“ says Michael Frayn, a playwright and novelist. “ The thing seems to have some kind of reality in ones head. it seems to be something that one is discovering rather than inventing. “ For U. A. Fanthorpe, a late poet,
40、 “ There is a way in which the poem exists before you write it. “ Adds Dame P. D. James, a famous crime novelist, “I dont think we choose our style. I think that it on the contrary. “I)All would-be writers should listen to this series, as it corrects some common misconceptions. No, the work does not
41、 emerge complete and perfect, like Athena from Zeuss head. Texts are written and rewritten dozens of times. Anne Fine, a childrens writer, says she has filled boxes three-feet high with drafts for any given book. No, the media appearances are not really what writers enjoy. “ The book should do the s
42、peaking and I should stay at home,“ says Holroyd. But, he complains, now “ you have to go out and blow the trumpet and bang the drum in front of your book. I think that because were no longer a literary culture. it isnt the word that speaks; you have to perform the word a bit; you have to demonstrat
43、e it; you have to appear; you have to be the book. “J)This imperative(必要性)of celebrity(名声)is whats most harmful, says Wendy Cope, a poet. “ Im very depressed with this whole thing of young people just wanting to be famous for the sake of being famous. If you want to be a writer, a serious writer, yo
44、ur focus has to be on writing as well as you can and all those other things are occasional. “K)While true, this also shows that many of these writers came of age in a much quieter, gentler time. If Shakespeare were writing now, said Porter, he too would be forced to make the rounds of morning news s
45、hows. Contemporary authors who desire for a quiet life, such as Harper Lee and Anne Tyler, wouldnt stand a chance in todays noise.L)And yet, the writing life continues to capture its victims. The final word on the series goes to Maureen Duffy, a poet and novelist, who in turn quotes a poem by Gerald
46、 Manley Hopkins: “ What I do is me, for that I came. “ One hopes the Library of Congress will be inspired to capture Americas most important writers the same way.47 Most writers agree that it is the process of discovering rather than inventing that makes writing delightful.48 Most famous writers in
47、Britain have great interest in reading books in their childhood.49 Many people do not know that instead of being one-try success, writers texts are often refined many times.50 The attraction of “The Writing Life“ is that it conveys the private thoughts of writers.51 Wendy Cope is disappointed about
48、youngsters desiring to be famous writers for the sake of being famous.52 The collection of “The Writing Life“ is intended for people who attempt to be writers.53 It is believed that it is harder for todays authors to live a quiet life.54 Sarah Oreilly says that the project of “The Writing Life“ make
49、s readers understand challenges a writer may confront.55 Through the series of “The Writing Life“ , the Library of Congress is expected to capture Americas most important writers.56 The shared idea of writers about being a good writer is that you should read as many books as you can.Section C56 The thousands of people forced to abandon their homes in recent weeks to floodwaters are victims not just of nature but of human error a
