大学英语四级模拟训练,有答案

Model Test II

Part I Reading Comprehension

Passage 1

Some people believe that a Robin Hood is at work, others that a wealthy person simply wants to distribute his or her fortune before dying. But the donator who started sending envelopes with cash to deserving causes，accompanied by an article from the local paper, has made a northern German city believe in fairytales (童话）?

The first envelope was sent to a victim support group. It contained €10,000 with a cutting from the Braunschtveiger Zeitung about how the group supported a woman who was robbed of her handbag；similar plain white anonymous (匿名）envelopes, each containing €10,000, then arrived at a kindergarten and a church.

The envelopes keep coming, and so far at least €190,000 has been distributed. Last month, one of them was sent to the newspaper ’s own office. It came after a story it published about Tom, a 14-year-old boy who was severely disabled in a swimming accident. The receptionist at the Braunschweiger Zeitung opened an anonymous white envelope to find 20 n otes of €500 inside , with a copy of the article. The name of the family was underlined.

"I was driving when I heard the news,” Claudia Neumann, the boy s mother, told DerSpiegel magazine. “I had to park on the side of the road；I was speechless.”

The money will be used to make the entrance to their house wheelchair-accessible .and for a course of treatment that their insurance company refused to pay for.

“For someone to act so selflessly, for this to happen in such a society in which everyone thinks of himself, was astonishing," Mrs. Neumann said. Her family wonder whether the donator is a Robin Hood character, taking from banks to give to the needy.

Henning Noske, the editor of the Braunschweiger Zeitung, said：“Maybe it is an old person who is about to die. We just do not know. ” However, he has told his reporters not to look for the city’s hero, for fear that discovery may stop the donations.

1. The Braunschweiger Zeitung is the name of .

A. a church

B. a bank

C. a newspaper

D. a magazine

2. Which of the following is TRUE about the donation to Tom?

A. The donation amounted to €190,000.

B. The donation was sent directly to his house.

C. The money will be used for his education.

D. His mother felt astonished at the donation.

3. It can be inferred from the passage that .

A. the donator is a rich old man

B. the donation will continue to come

C. the donation comes from the newspaper

D. the donator will soon be found out

4. What would be the best title for the passage?

A. Money Is Raised by the Newspaper

B. Newspaper Distributes Money to

C. Unknown Hero Spreads Love in Envelopes

D. Robin Hood Returns to the City

Passage 2

Easter(复活节) is still a great day for worship, randy in baskets and running around the yard finding eggs, but every year it gets quite a bit worse for bunnies. And no, not because the kids like to pull their ears. The culprit is climate change, and some researchers found that rising temperatures arc having harmful effects on at least five species of rabbit in the US.

Take the Lower Keys March rabbit, for instance. An endangered species that lives in the Lower Florida Keys, this species of cottontail is a great swimmer - it lives on the islands! - but it is already severely affected by development and now by rising levels. According to the Center for Biological Diversity, an ocean level rise of only 0. 6 meters will send these guys jumping to higher ground and a 0.9-meter rise would wipe out their habitat (栖息地) completely.

The snowshoe hare, on the other hand, has a color issue. Most of these rabbits change their fur color from white in the wintertime to brown in the summer, each designed to give them better cover from predators(捕食者). As the number of days with snow decreases all across the country, however, more and more bunnies are being left in white fur during brown dirt days of both fall and spring, making them an easier mark for predators. Researchers know that the color change is controlled by the number of hours of sunlight, but whether the rabbit will be able to adapt quick enough to survive is a big question. The National Wildlife Federation has reported that hunters have noticed their numbers are already markedly down.

American pikas or rock rabbits, a relative of rabbits and hares, might be the first of these species to go extinct due to climate change. About 7-8 inches long, pikas live high in the cool, damp mountains west of the Rocky Mountains. As global temperatures rise, they would naturally migrate (迁徙) to higher ground - but they already occupy the mountaintops. They can't go any higher. The National Wildlife Federation reports that they might not be able to stand the new temperatures as their habitat beats up.

The volcano rabbit has the same problem. These rabbits live on the slopes of volcanoes in Mexico, and recent studies have shown that the lower range of their habitat has already shifted upward about 700 meters, but there are not suitable plants for them to move higher, so they are stuck in the middle. Scientists are concerned about their populations.

Native to the US, pygmy rabbits weigh less than 1 pound and live in the American West. They are believed to be the smallest rabbits in the world. Their habitats have been destroyed by development. Several populations, such as the Columbia Basin pygmy, almost went extinct and were saved by zoo breeding programs. Pygmy rabbits also rely on winter cover by digging tunnels through the snow to escape predators, but lesser snowfall is leaving them exposed.

All of this gives new meaning to dressing up in a giant bunny costume this Easter.

5. The writer mentions Easter at the beginning of the passage in order to_______

A. show the importance of Easter Day

B. introduce the issue about bunnies

C. remind people of Easter traditions

D. discuss the relationship between Easter and bunnies

6. The word "culprit" ( Paragraph 1) is closest in meaning to_____

A. criminal

B. judge

C. victim

D. producer

7. According to the passage, some rabbits can now be easily Uncovered by predators because they__.

A. are exposed t o more skillful hunters

B. have moved to habitats with fewer plants

C. haven't adapted themselves to climate change

D. can't change their fur color into white in the fall and the spring

8. The problem faced by volcano rabb i ts and rock rabbits is that_______.

A. both are affected by 1ess snow

B. both are affected by rising sea levels

C neither can find enough food

D. neither can migrate to higher places

9. Which best describes the writer's tone in the passage?

A. Approving.

B. Concerned.

C. Enthusiastic.

D. Doubtful.

Passage 3

A year after graduation, I was offered a position teaching a writing class. Teaching was a profession I had never seriously considered, though several of my stories had been published. I accepted the job without hesitation, as it would allow me to wear a tie and go by the name of Mr. Davis.My father went by the same name, and I liked to imagine people getting the two of us confused. “Wait a minute<” someone might say, “are you talking about Mr. Davis the retired man, or Mr. Davis the respectable scholar?”

The position was offered at the last minute, and I was given two weeks to prepare, a period I spent searching for briefcase (公文包) and standing before my full-length mirror, repeating the words, “Hello, class. I’m Mr. Davis.” Sometimes I would give myself an aggressive voice. Sometimes I would sound experienced. But when the day eventually came, my nerves kicked in and the true Mr. Davis was there. I sounded not like a thoughtful professor, but rather a 12-year-old boy.

I arrived in the classroom with paper cards designed in the shape of maple leaves. I had cut them myself out of orange construction paper. I saw nine students along a long table. I handed out the cards, and the students wrote down their names and fastened them to their breast pockets as I required.

“All right then,” I said. “Okey, here we go.” Then I opened my briefcase and real ized that I had never thought beyond this moment. I had been thinking that the students would be the first to talk, offering their thoughts and opinions on the events of the day. I had imagined that I would sit at the edge of the desk, overlooking a forest s of hands. Every student would yell. “Calm down, you’ll all get your turn. One at a time, one at a time!”

A terrible silence ruled the room, and seeing no other opinions, I inspected the students to pull out their notebooks and write a brief essay related to the theme of deep disappointment.

10. The author took the job to teach writing because ______.

A. he wanted to be expected

B. he had written some storied

C. he wanted to please his father

D. he had dreamed of being a teacher

11. What can we learn about the author from Paragraph 2?

A. He would be aggressive in his first class.

B. He was well-prepared for his first class.

C. He got nervous upon the arrival of his first class.

D. He waited long for the arrival of his first class.

12. Before he started his class, the author asked the students to ______.

A. write down their suggestions on the paper cards

B. cut maple leaves out of the construction paper

C. cut some cards out of the construction paper

D. write down their names on the paper cards

13. What did the students do when the author started his class?

A. They began to talk.

B. They stayed silent.

C. They raised their hands.

D. They shouted to be heard.

14. The author chose the composition topic probably because ______.

A. he got disappointed with his first class

B. he had prepared the topic before class

C. he wanted to calm down the students

D. he thought it was an easy topic

Passage 4

Holidays are really important. Many of us will have childhood memories of summer holidays where we were taken away from home to experience new environments and learn in different ways.

But holidays are expensive and, for those on low wages or living on benefits, they are often unobtainable. Even the cheapest holidays require travel and other additional costs that are difficult for many families to meet.

For working parents, the long summer break can be a very difficult problem for childcare. When an annual leave allowance amounts to only five weeks, there is a need to spread this across the year. Couples can find themselves taking leave in turn in order to care for children who are on holiday. For some, this makes even an affordable family holiday difficult.

The schools that I visit in Nottingham are full of experienced staff committed to giving our children a caring and inspiring learning environment. The number of children receiving free school meals is quite large in Nottingham and many schools have breakfast clubs to make sure that children get a healthy start to the day. Most schools undertake programs of group or individual educational support. Schools also have an important role in safeguarding children、welfare through the ongoing touch and support with their pupils. During the long summer holidays, much of this is missed.

While teachers are holidaying in the UK, many of their pupils spend the whole six weeks on the street where they live. The lack of free school meals for six weeks can result in pressure on a family budget and an inability to afford the inspiring experiences that help children to continue their learning.

In setting out its plans for a five-term year, Nottingham City Council (委员会) is seeking to reduce the summer holiday down to four and a half week s, with a. more balanced five terms of roughly eight weeks, each followed by a two-week break. We believe this will give real "down time" for school staff and pupils alike but will be short enough not to cause a real break in learning.

We acknowledge that this change may be difficult for some school staff, particularly whose own children are educated in other authorities. However, this must be weighed against the benefits for city children for whom we all have the greatest duty of care.

15. The passage is probably written by _____.

A. an experienced teacher

B. a working parent

C. an inspired student

D. a city council member

16. The underlined word "they" in the second paragraph refers to "____"

A. environments

B. holidays

C. wages

D. benefits

17. It is suggested in the passage that the summer break be reduced to _____.

A. 2 weeks

B. 4.5 weeks

C. 5 weeks

D. 6 weeks

18. The plans for a shorter summer holiday will help students _____.

A. obtain the cheapest holidays without additional costs

B. get a chance to spend, six weeks a term with teachers in school

C. benefit more from the caring and inspiring learning environment

D. have more school days to receive free school meals

19. It can be inferred from the passage that ____.

A. working parents can enjoy a five-week break to care for their children

B. the suggested plans for a five-term school year can hardly be carried out

C. the long summer holiday gives teachers and students real " down time"

D. some school staff will say " No" to the plans for a shorter summer holiday

Part II Close

Several years ago, while attending a communication course, I experienced a most unusual process. The instructor asked us to list anything in our past that we felt ___1___ of, regretted or incomplete about and read our lists aloud.

This seemed like a very ___2___ process, but there’s always some ___3___ soul in the crowd who will volunteer. The instructor then ___4___ that we find ways to ___5___ people, or take some action to right any wrong doings. I was seriously wondering how this could ever ___6___ my communication.

Then the man next to me raised his hand and volunteered this story: “Making my ___7___, I remembered an incident from high school. I grew up in a small town. There was a Sheriff none of us kids liked. One night, my two buddies and I decided to play a ___8___ on him.

After drinking a few beers, we climbed the tall water tank in the middle of the town, and wrote on the tank in bright red paint: Sheriff Brown is a s.o.b (畜生). The next day, almost the whole town saw our glorious __9___. Within two hours, Sheriff Brown had us in his office. My friends told the truth but I lied. No one ever found out.”

“Nearly 20 years later, Sheriff Brown’s name ___10___ on my list. I didn’t even know if he was still ___11___. Last weekend, I dialed the information in my hometown and found there was a Roger Brown still listed. I tried his number. After a few calls, I heard, “Hello?”I said, “Sheriff Brown?”paused. “Yes.”“Well, this is Jimmy Calkins.”

“And I want you to know that I did it？”Paused. “I knew it!”he yelled back. We had a good laugh and a ___12___ discussion. His closing words were: “Jimmy, I always felt bad for you ___13___ your buddies got it off their chest, but you were carrying it around all these years. I want to thank you for calling me. For your sake.”

Jimmy inspired me to ___14___ all 101 items on my list within two years, and I always remember what I learned from the course: It’s never too late to ___15___ the past wrongdoings.

1. A. ashamed B. afraid C. sure D. proud

2. A. private B. secret C. interesting D. funny

3. A. foolish B. polite C. simple D. brave

4. A. expected B. suggested C. ordered D. demanded

5. A. connect with B. depend on C. make apologize to D. get along with

6. A. improve B. continue C. realize D. keep

7. A. notes B. list C. plan D. stories

8. A. part B. game C. trick D. record

9. A. view B. sign C. attention D. remark

10. A. appears B. considers C. presents D. remembers

11. A. angry B. happy C. doubtful D. alive

12. A. cold B. plain C. nervous D. lively

13. A. in case B. so long as C. unless D. because

14 A. build up B. make up C. clear up D. give up

15. A. regret B. forgive C. right D. punish

Part III V ocabulary and Structure

1. --- Well, it’s getting late. I must be going. Thank you for inviting me to the evening party of

the Rabbit Year.

---________________.

A. Oh, it’s so late.

B. Thank you for coming.

C. All right.

D. I really had a happy time.

2. In January, 2011, ____ leader of the Chinese Communist Party Hu Jintao was warmly received by Barak Obama, who was elected ____ president of the US two years ago.

A. /; /

B. the; /

C. the; the

D. /; the

3. You’d better not leave the football club. If you do, most probably you will not be ____ back in.

A. turned

B. received

C. admitted

D. abstracted

4. “Ungelivable” is so new an English word coined on the Internet ______ is forbidden to appear in official media or documents at present.

A. that

B. which

C. it

D. as

5. If you haven’t had enough sleep, your actions will give you _____ during the day.

A. away

B. up

C. in

D. off

6. The teacher was absorbed in writing something, only _____ now and then to refer to a book or another.

A. to stop

B. stopped

C. stopping

D. having stopped

7. No doubt she will be late. It’s ______ of her to k eep all the other guests waiting.

A. original

B. logical

C. normal

D. typical

8. My uncle _____ in Taiwan for 20 years. Now he has settled down in mainland.

A. lived

B. had lived

C. has lived

D. was living

9. _______ you work hard, you won’t solve this problem.

A. Even

B. As

C. Unless

D. Since

10. The illness of her son is so ______ that she cannot go to sleep at night.

A. satisfying

B. worrying

C. surprising

D. puzzling

11. Usually an adult man can grow about 1.7 meters tall, _____ a few may grow as short as 1.3 meters.

A. while

B. or

C. for

D. so

12. --- I’ll buy you a ten-speed bicycle as a birthday present.

--- Is that a _________? I wish you would not disappoint me.

A. decision

B. presentation

C. preference

D. promise

13. According to our school regulations, you _____ arrive at school before 7 A.M.

A. may

B. can

C. will

D. should

14. The case is rare ______ a man can be cured of such a terrible disease.

A. when

B. where

C. how

D. that

15. --- Could you be so kind as to pass me the cell phone?

--- ___________.

A. With pleasure

B. A pleasure

C. Yes, please

D. Go ahead.

16. We will give a gift to _____ comes first.

A. who

B. whomever

C. whom

D. whoever

17. ____ what I had previously thought, my new deskmate turned out to be a very interesting guy.

A. Instead of

B. In spite of

C. Contrary to

D. Because of

18. He is considered to be a gifted manager, ____ with a quick mind and good humor.

A. one

B. each

C. that

D. who

19. I don’t think it easy, even if we work hard, _____ the South Korea and the North Korea to sit down to talk at present.

A. persuaded

B. to persuade

C. persuade

D. persuading

20. What a pity. If I had caught that flight, I ____ over the Pacific Ocean now.

A. would fly

B. would have flown

C. would be flying

D. were flying 21．According to a new study by scientists, learning ______ second language can lead to increase in a person's brain power.

A．a; 不填B．the; an C．a; an D．the; 不填22．—Which of the ipads do you like most?

— ______. They are both expensive and of little use.

A．Either B．None C．Neither D．Any

23．As I grew up in a small town at the foot of a mountain, the visit to the village ____ scenes of my childhood.

A．called up B．brought up C．came out D．took out 24．—Beg your pardon, but I didn’t quite catch what you said.

—Oh, I ______ to myself.

A．have talked B．am talking C．had talked D．was talking 25．What do you think of the idea Mr. Smith put forward________ the production cost?

A．to reduce B．reducing C．reduced D．to reducing

参考答案：

Part I

【Some people believe that a Robin Hood is at work。。。

【文章大意】本文主要讲述一个匿名英雄用信封捐钱来默默传递爱心的故事，告诉我们爱心

无处不在，要学会用自己的爱来温暖身边那些需要帮助的人群，那么这个世界将会变成美好的人间。

1. 【答案】C

【试题解析】推理判断题。根据第一段最后一句中的accompanied by an article from the local paper可推知Braunschweiger Zeitung 是一份报纸的名字，另外在第三段第一句话有一个one of them was sent to the n ewspaper’s own office有提示。

2. 【答案】D

【试题解析】细节理解题。根据第四段谈到这位受害男孩母亲听到她的孩子被匿名捐赠的消息后表示的一句话“I was speechless”可知她很震惊，很无语。D项表达正确。

3. B 推理判断题。根据最后一段最后一句话“报纸的编辑告诉记者不要找这个城市的英雄，因为担心发现后他就可能不再进行捐赠的活动”也可推知这个匿名捐赠活动还会继续下去，B项表达正确。

4. 【答案】C

【试题解析】标题推断题。本文主要讲述用信封匿名捐赠的事情在社会引起很大反响，这个捐赠者还会继续把这个善举进行下去，用C项Unknown Hero Spreads love in Envelopes“匿名英雄用信封传递爱”最能概括文章大意。

【难度】一般

【长难句解析】For someone to act so selflessly, for this to happen in such a society in which everyone thinks of himself, was astonishing.

在每个人都想着自己的这样的社会中,还有人表现得那么无私,这是令人震惊的。

which引导的定语从句先行词为a society。

【Easter(复活节) is still a great day for worship。。。

5-9: BACDB

【A year after graduation,。。

【文章大意】本文是记叙文，大意是记述了作者在教学的过程中一次难忘的经历。10．【答案】A

【命题立意】推理判断题。

【解题思路】根据第一自然段中的as it would allow me to wear a tie and go by the name of Mr. Davis.一句可以推断出本题选A。

11．【答案】C

【命题立意】推理判断题。

【解题思路】根据本段中的But when the day eventually came, my nerves kicked in and the true Mr. Davis was there.可知本题选C。

12．【答案】D

【命题立意】细节理解题。

【解题思路】根据第三自然段的首句和最后意思可知作者上课的第一件事是让学生把自己的名字鞋在卡片上。选D。

13．【答案】B

【命题立意】细节理解题，根据最后一自然段的首句可知本题选B。

14．【答案】A

【命题立意】推理判断题。

【解题思路】根据最后一自然段的大意可知作者让学生这样题目的作文的原因是自己的第一节课上很失望，选A。

【Holidays are really important,。。

15-19: DBBCD

Part II

1—15 AADBC ABCBA D DDCC

1. A 。根据下文可知句意为：教员要求我们把我们过去的任何事情(anything)都列成表，这些事情是我们感到羞愧(ashamed)、后悔或未完成的，然后大声读出。若填something只表示一些事情，与句意不符。ashamed 意为“羞愧的”，根据后面列举的几项，不应该是“害怕的(afraid)”的事情。

2. A。private 意为“私人的、保密的、不让人知道的”。上述事情都属于个人隐私，不宜公开。

3. D。brave 意为“勇敢的”，尽管是隐私不宜公开，但在自愿者中也有勇敢的人。

4. B。suggested 意为“建议”，句子谓语用的动词原形，是虚拟语气，可先排除expected；从说话者语气看，不是“命令”，所以可排除ordered和demanded。

5. C。这里教员建议要做以下几件事情：to make apologize to people“向人们道谦”，(to) take some actions right any wrong doings“采取措施纠正错误的所作所为”。

6. A。本来作者是参加一个交际培训班，而现在教员所要学员做的一切似乎与培养交际能力无关，所以作者很纳闷这是否能提高(improve)他的交际能力。

7. B。make a list 意为“列表、造表”。

8. C。play a trick on sb 意为“捉弄某人”。

9. B。sign 意为“记号、标记、符号”，指Jimmy他们写的字。

10. A。appear 意为“出现”，指Sheriff Brown的名字被列在表上。

11. D。alive 意为“活着的”，此时Jimmy还不知道Sheriff Brown是否活着，与后面他们接通电话，证实了Sheriff Brown还活着。所以此处不宜用其他形容词。

12. D。由we had a good laugh 可知Sheriff 和Jimmy 进行的是热烈的(lively)讨论。所以不宜选其他形容词。

13. D。后面的句子说明原因，故选because 引导原因状语从句：因为你的伙伴都把他们做的错事给忘了。下一句表示：而Jimmy却这些年(nearly 20年) 来一直把他所做过的错事记在心头。

14. C。clear up 意为“消除、解除”，此句意为：在两年里Jimmy鼓励了我消除在我的表上的所有101项(做错了事情)。

15. C。right 意为“纠正”，此句意为：纠正过去的不道德行为还为时不晚

Part III

1-5 BBCDA 6-10 CDACB 11-15 ADDBA 16-20 DCABC 21---25 CBADA

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