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(5)大学英语四级考试模拟试题

大学英语四级考试模拟试题

Model Test Five

Part ⅠListening Comprehension Directions: This section is designed to test your ability to understand spoken English. You will hear a selection of recorded materials and you must answer the questions that accompany them. Choose the correct answer---A, B, C or D, and then, mark your answer by writing the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet. Section A

B) It’s not his office hour.

C) He doesn’t have time.

D) He is too tired after class.

(A) 12. A) The woman insists on going out.

B) The woman doesn’t like watching TV.

C) The man promised her a gift on her birthday.

D) The man is too tired to go out.

(B) 13. A) There are too many courses offered to

students.

B) The woman should take fewer courses next term.

C) The man will take four courses next semester.

D) It is wiser to take more than four courses.

(B) 14. A) In an airplane.

B) In a hotel.

C) In a restaurant.

D) In a store.

(D) 15. A) Jane is looking for a summer job.

B) Jane is packing for the summer vacation.

C) Jane is on her way home.

D) Jane is eager to go home for the vacation.

(D) 16. A) It doesn’t work.

B) It only works temporarily.

C) It’s really effective.

D) It has harmful side effects.

(D) 17. A) Went to the station.

B) Saw his brother off.

C) Visited his brother.

D) Stayed at home.

(A) 18. A) She can tell Joan when she sees her at noon.

B) She should tell Joan’s brother about the reception.

C) She must call on Joan after the reception.

D) She may see Joan’s brother at lunch.

(A) 19. A) College teachers.

B) Maintenance workers.

C) Students’ parents.

D) Laboratory supervisors.

(A) 20. A) One hour each day only.

B) Three and a half hours only.

C) As much time as necessary.

D) Enough time to do assignments. (D) 21. A) The machine hasn’t been yet been repaired.

B) The students forget to reserve their terminals.

C) The supervisor won’t observe the regulations.

D) The students stay at the terminal too long.

B) Repair the laboratory in a new way.

C) Prepare a notice to give out in class.

D) Add more terminals to the laboratory.

(A) 23. A) Art. B) French.

C) Chemistry. D) German.

B) Going to concerts quite frequently.

C) Playing traditional jazz and folk music.

D) Going to the theatre now and then.

(A) 25. A) Experience a thorough training.

B) Get off the trainee schedule.

C) Know how to work with people.

D) Know about all aspects of the work. Section B

Passage 1

(D) 26. A) 90. B) 108.

C) 180. D) 668.

(A) 27. A) England’s Footballer of the year.

B) A soccer coach in West Germany.

C) Wild celebrations of goals.

D) A member of the Order of the British Empire.

(D) 28. A) Editing Sunday Sport.

B) Working for Capital Radio.

C) Managing professional soccer teams.

D) Developing a sports marketing company.

Passage 2

B) Because he enjoyed walking along the street.

C) Because he had a good memory.

D) Because he was proud of his own ability.

B) For they are don’t have good

memories.

C) For they haven’t enough time for it.

D) For they are busy with their own language.

(B) 31. A) Mind takes clearer photos of what we see.

B) Mind takes pictures of all five senses.

C) Mind spends less time taking pictures.

D) Mind keeps photos for longer time. (B) 32. A) Picture taking.

B) Memory.

C) Language learning.

D) Poem writing.

Passage 3

B) Forty-five million people.

C) Over three million people.

D) Five million people.

(D) 34. A) People infected with HIV virus should watch TV series like “Detective Vijay”.

B) Governments should play a big role in fighting against AIDS.

C) TV series like “Detective Vijay”can make a lot of money.

D) The media can play an effective role in fighting against AIDS.

(D) 35. A) It is a policeman.

B) It is an educative TV show in Ivory Coast.

C) It is an educative TV show in South Africa.

D) It is an educative TV show in India. Section C

The Library of Congress is America’s national library. It has millions of books and other objects. It has newspapers, (36) _______ publication as well as letters of (37) _______ interest. It also has maps, photographs, art (38) _______, movies, sound recordings and musical (39) _______. All together, it has more than 100 million objects.

The Library of Congress is open to the public Monday through Saturday, except for public holidays. Anyone may go there and read

anything in the collection. But no one is (40) _______ to take books out of the building.

The Library of Congress was (41) _______ in 1800. It started with eleven boxes of books in one room of the Capitol Building. By 1814, the collection had increased to about 3,000 books. They were all (42) _______ that year when the Capitol was burned down during America’s war with Britain.

To help re-build the library, Congress bought the books of President Thomas Jefferson. Mr. Jefferson’s (43) _______ included 7,000 books in seven languages.

(44)

_________________________________________ __. Today, three buildings hold the library’s collection.

(45)

_________________________________________ __. It buys some of its books and gets others as gifts. It also gets materials through its copyright office. (46)

_________________________________________ _. This mean the Library of Congress receives almost everything that is published in the United States.

答案：

36. popular 37. historical 38. prints 39. instruments

40. permitted 41. established 42. destroyed 43. collection

44. In 1897, the library moved into its own building across the street from the Capitol

45. The library provides books and materials to the U.S. Congress and also lends books to other American libraries, government agencies, and foreign libraries

46. Anyone who wants copyright protection for a publication in U.S. must send two copies to the library

Part ⅠWriting (30 minutes)

Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30

minutes to write a composition on the topic The Old and the Young. You should write at least 120 words according to the outline given below in Chinese:

1.老年人与年轻人之间常会发生冲突；

2.谈谈你对这种现象的饿认识及解决的办法。

The Old and the Young

Old people are always saying that young people are not what they were. Every new generation is different from the one that preceded it. Today the difference is very marked indeed.

On the one hand, the young are better educated. They have a lot more money to spend and enjoy more freedom. They grow up more quickly and are not so dependent on their parents. They think more for themselves and do not blindly accept the ideas of their elders. On the other hand, the old always assume that they know more for the simple reason that they have been around a bit longer. They don’t like to feel that their values are being questioned or

threatened. And this is precisely what the young are doing. They are questioning the assumptions of their elders and disturbing their complacency. What they reject more than anything is conformity.

Traditionally, the young turned to their elders for guidance. Today, the situation is reversed to some extent. The old—if they are prepared to admit it—could learn a thing or two from their children. Perhaps a mutually beneficial relationship between the two sides is more acceptable than quarrels and clashes.

Part ⅡReading Comprehension (Skimming and Scanning) (15 minutes)

Hybrid Cars

Hybrid Cars—An Innovation for Today

Have you checked the price of gasoline lately? Have you recently paid more that ＄3.00 per gallon? Is the size of the gas tank in your current car bigger than in the car you were

driving a few years ago? How much does it cost you now to fill up the gas tank of your car? Are you paying more than ＄30, ＄40 or even ＄50 to fill up? Take a look in the future, what will the price per gallon be 2 or 3 years from now? What will it cost then to fill up the gas tank of your vehicle?

There is still a lot of fossil fuel in the world but the fuel that is easy to find and to extract from the ground is disappearing. Those searching for new supplies of fossil fuel must search in places that are more difficult to work (due to the cold, the heat, the depth of the water, or the unfriendly political situation of the country). The cost of the search continues to increase, as does the expense of extracting the fuel. This expense is not only measured in dollars, but also in the damages to the environment.

Now think of what it might cost you 2 or 3 years in the future for a tank of gas if you continue to drive the same types of vehicles. The

automobile industry, in foreign countries and in the United States, has developed the technology to help reduce these energy needs and to decrease pollution. This innovation is called hybrid cars. These cars are available in the US today from 2 or 3 manufacturers and many more are on the way.

What Are Hybrid Cars?

A vehicle is a hybrid if it has more than one source of power. We have hybrid vehicles all around us such as diesel-electric trains, diesel-electric buses, and nuclear-electric submarines. Maybe some of you remember the Mo-Ped, a modified bicycle that used a combination of a gasoline engine and muscle power of its rider. In a similar manner, the gasoline-electric hybrid car is a combination of gasoline-powered car and an electric car.

What Is Reason for Developing Such a Complicated Car?

There are two major reasons: 1) To reduce tailpipe emissions and 2) To increase average gas

mileage. These two goals interact with each other so that the overall performance of the hybrid car enhances both of them, today’s hybrids provide gas efficiency of 40 to 60 miles/gallon. The hybrids have reduced emissions to approximately 10% of the Japanese standards or about equal to the California standards, which are the most restrictive in the US.

How Do Hybrid Car Work?

There are two types of hybrid cars. One is known as the parallel hybrid and the other is known as a series hybrid. Both types use the same components, which are:

●S mall Gasoline Engine

●F uel Tank

●E lectric Motor

●G enerator (used mostly in the series

hybrid)

●B atteries

●T ransmission

●I n the parallel hybrid, the fuel tank

supplies gasoline to engine and batteries supply power to the electrical motor. Both the engine and the electric motor can turn the transmission at the same time, and the transmission turns the wheels. An onboard computer controls the system so that the maximum efficiency is obtained. In a series hybrid, the gasoline engine turns a generator, which either charges the batteries or powers an electric motor that drives the transmission. The gasoline engine never powers the vehicle directly.

How Do These Combinations Meet the Desired Goals?

The key to hybrid car performance is that the gasoline engine can be much smaller than the engine in a conventional high horsepower car. But how can this be when you will be competing on the highway with much more powerful autos on the road?

The answer is that a conventional engine must supply power for all driving conditions.

The engine needs to be powerful enough to accelerate onto a freeway and up hills, but it to use only a small percentage of its power at highway speeds.

In a hybrid, the gasoline engine provides the power at higher highway speeds and the battery-electric motor combination provides the power for city driving and for acceleration needs. With this combination, each power source works at its optimal level.

Some other tricks the hybrid car uses to get more efficiency are as follows:

The system returns energy to the battery when it decelerates. When you push on the brakes, the electric motor acts as a generator and recharges the battery. This energy is lost in a conventional car.

The hybrid can shut off the gasoline motor when it is not needed. This is very important when you are doing stop and go driving in the city and you have to stop a lot (gasoline is not wasted by running the engine at idle while the

car waits at a traffic light.)

Hybrid cars are designed with the latest aerodynamics. This reduces the drag at higher highway speeds.

Hybrid use low-rolling resistant tires. These are stiffer and inflated to a higher pressure and cause about half the drag of conventional tires. The ride is a little rougher but the gas saving can be huge.

Hybrid also use very lightweight materials. This reduces the overall weight of the car and the mileage is increased.

The above designs will provide a very useful and comfortable auto that also gives you a maximum of gas mileage.

Hybrids are somewhat scarce right now (about 3% of the cars sold in the US) but should be plentiful for next year’s models (2005).

The above description of hybrid cars is meant to be only an introduction to this new technology. If you are interested in getting one of these marvelous cars in the future, you should

start your investigation now. Take a test drive in some of the available hybrid cars, you will find some surprises. One is that the cars are extremely quiet, they have additional insulation in order to decrease the need for air conditioning and heating (the purpose is to save energy but the resulting quietness is a very nice benefit). A second is that these cars are very peppy, unlike early automobiles designed for energy conservation. The advantages and disadvantages will vary with each manufacturer, type and model of the hybrid. It will take a lot of time to look at all the various models but it will be well worth it for your future driving pleasure.

(N) There is enough fossil fuel in the world, but it will be difficult to find and to

extract it from the ground.

(Y) In the US today, a lot of manufacturers are trying to produce hybrid cars in

order to reduce these energy needs and

to decrease pollution.

(Y) Mo-Ped is one kind of hybrid vehicle.

(NG) There are other types of hybrid which use different components.

(N) In both types, the gasoline engine can work to drive the transmission.

(NG) The most important advantage of hybrid car is that its gasoline engine

can be much smaller than the engine in

a conventional high horsepower car.

(Y) The gasoline engine and the battery-electric motor in a hybrid

work together to provide the power for

city driving and for acceleration needs.

Hybrid also use light materials to reduce _________ of the car. (the overall weight)

The above designs can make a very useful and comfortable car which can also give you _________. (a maximum of gas mileage)

If you want to get one hybrid car in the future, you should _________. (start your investigation now)

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