四级新题型预测试卷(第三套)题目-131112

Part I Writing（30 minutes）

Directions: 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 how to keep healthy. You should write at least 120 words but no more than 180 words.

Superman goes to see a doctor

\"less flying...more walking.\"

注意：此部分试题请在答题纸上作答。

Part II Listening Comprehension（30 minutes）

Section A

Directions: In this section, you will hear 8 short conversations and 2 long conversations. At the

end of each conversation, one or more questions will be asked about what was said. Both the conversation and the questions will be spoken only once. After each question there will be a pause. During the pause, you must read the four choices marked A), B), C) and D), and decide which is the best answer. Then mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 1 with a single line through the centre.

1. A) Play the music more quietly. C) Turn the music a little louder. B) Stop talking so much. D) Pay more attention to the music. 2. A) The professor will change his mind. B) The professor may change his mind.

C) It's better not to make the professor angry.

D) The professor wouldn't have changed his mind.

3. A) Her paper is due this Thursday.

B) She won't go on the trip until Friday. C) She has already visited that place before.

D) She can't go on the trip because of academic reasons. 4. A) He is afraid he won't be chosen for the trip. B) The boss has not yet decided where to go. C) Such a trip is necessary for the company.

D) It's not certain whether the trip will take place. 5. A) The woman is being interviewed by a reporter. B) The woman is being given an examination. C) The woman is asking for a promotion. D) The woman is applying a job.

6. A) She is unhappy with the man's promises. B) She believes the man will keep his promise. C) She played tennis with the man yesterday. D) She forgot to play tennis with the man.

7. A) He wants to make an appointment with Mr. Smith. B) He wants to make sure that Mr. Smith will see him C) He wants to change the time of the appointment. D) He wants the woman to meet him at three o'clock. 8. A) The houses for sale are of poor quality.

B) The houses are too expensive for the couple to buy.

C) The housing developers provide free trips for potential buyers. D) The man is unwilling to take a look at the houses for sale.

Questions 9 to 12 are based on the conversation you have just heard. 9. A) The registration for a photography course. B) A photography exhibition.

C) The varieties of photography courses.

D) Some information about four photography courses. 10. A) From 6:30 pm to 9:30 pm on Monday evenings. B) From 2:00 pm to 4:30 pm on Tuesdays.

C) From 6:30 pm to 9:00 pm on Tuesday evenings. D) Any daytime on Wednesdays.

11. A) Introducing Photography. C) Black and White Photography. B) Landscape Photography. D) The Art of Digital Photography. 12. A) It is flexible in timing. C) It lasts 16 hours in all.

B) It can also be attended in evenings. D) It is suitable for intermediate learners.

Questions 13 to 15 are based on the conversation you have just heard. 13. A) To take a part-time job.

B) To learn swimming with some friends. C) To swim in the pool a few times a week. D) To take part in the water polo team.

14. A) They are quite fair. C) They are very low. B) They are very high. D) They will rise.

15. A) To pay for the swimming equipment. C) To pay for the swimming training. B) To pay for the use of the pool. D) To pay for referees.

Section B

Directions: In this section, you will hear 3 short passages. At the end of each passage, you will

hear some questions. Both the passage and the questions will be spoken only once. After you hear a question, you must choose the best answer from the four choices marked A), B), C) and D). Then mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet I with a single line through the centre.

Passage One

Questions 16 to 19 are based on the passage you have just heard. 16. A) Good looks. C) Sweet personality. B) Clever brains. D) Willingness to serve. 17. A) They should be at the age of 18 to 23. B) They should have the bachelor degree.

C) They should speak fluent mother tongue and English. D) They should be single.

18. A) They can prepare and serve meals. C) They have received proper training. B) They know how to take care of children. D) They know the theory of flying. 19. A) The career of an air hostess. B) How to go air-traveling.

C) The knowledge of an aircraft in detail.

D) A newspaper advertisement of Japan Air Lines.

Passage Two

Questions 20 to 22 are based on the passage you have just heard. 20. A) All the buildings in the city look alike. B) There are no signs to direct them. C) No tour guides are available.

D) The university is everywhere in the city.

21. A) They award their own degrees. C) They set their own exams.

B) They select their own students. D) They organize their own laboratory work. 22. A) They were not treated equally until 1881. B) They were not awarded degrees until 1948. C) They have no exams until 1948.

D) Very few of them are engaged in research.

Passage Three

Questions 23 to 25 are based on the passage you have just heard. 23. A) To help older politicians get elected. B) To practice their law knowledge.

C) To prepare for their own future elections.

D) To find a job in the political club.

24. A) Having frequent meetings with their supporters. B) Winning public support by making speeches. C) Balancing government budget. D) Fighting corruption.

25. A) His standpoint in important issues.

B) His effort to get equal rights for women. C) His ability to create job opportunities. D) His performance at work.

Section C

Directions: In this section, you will hear a passage three times. When the passage is read for the

first time, you should listen carefully for its general idea. When the passage is read for the second time, you are required to fill in the blanks with the exact words you have just heard. Finally, when the passage is read for the third time, you should check what you have written.

For most of us, the purpose of the holidays is to bring peace, love, and goodwill towards all. Yet, for many, the holiday season often means stress, 26 , pressure, disappointment and loneliness.

These feelings, often known as the \"holiday blues\ 27 this year, due to the emotional disturbance of the past few months, 28 the unsteady economy.

Exports say even the more ritual tasks of shopping, decorating, late-night parties, cooking, planning and family 29 can be holiday stressors.

Most experts say the predominant culprits (罪魁祸首) 30 the depression many experience during the holidays are the very people they love the most -- their family.

\"Holiday blues or depression makes sense,\" says John Stutesman, a clinical psychologist at Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago. \"In reality,\" he explains, \"family gatherings bring on stress due to feelings of obligation, 31 and being judged.\"

And with family get-togethers becoming less 32 events over the years, there is now the added pressure of getting just one chance to get it all right. \"Families are much more different now. The disappointment and sense of 33 that often results from family gatherings, Stutesman adds, is actually a realization that \"the fantasy is not met\".

\"Still, the blues should be addressed, for denial will only compound the stress they're feeling.\" says Stutesman, \"The most 34 step is for the individual to acknowledge their feelings and the reason for their withdrawal.\"

\"If people are feeling a little blue, they should try to do things personally satisfying for them. Maybe this is exercise, cooking, reading a book, or massage.\" says Stutesman. \"People should do things that are normally comforting in order to 35 the holiday stress,\" Stutesman also advises.

Part III Reading Comprehension

Section A

Directions: In this section, there is a passage with ten blanks. You are required to select one word

for each blank from a list of choices given in a word bank following the passage. Read the passage through carefully before making your choices. Each choice in the bank is identified by a letter. Please mark the corresponding letter for each item on Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through the centre. You may not use any of the words in the bank more than once.

Questions 36 to 45 are based on the following passage.

Normally a student must attend a certain number of courses in order to graduate, and each course which he attends gives him a 36 which he may count towards a degree. In many American universities the total work for a degree consists of thirty-six courses each 37 for one semester. A typical course consists of three classes per week for fifteen weeks. While attending a university a student will 38 attend four or five courses each semester. Normally a student would expect to spend four years attending two semesters each year. It is possible to 39 the period of work for the degree over a long period. It is also possible for a student to move between one university and another during his degree course, though this is not in fact done as a 40 practice.

For every course that he follows a student is given a grade, which is recorded, and the record is 41 for the student to show to prospective employers. All this imposes constant pressure and strain for work, but in spite of this, some students still find time for great activity in student affairs. Elections to positions in student organizations arouse much 42 . The effective work of 43 discipline is usually performed by students who advise the academic authorities. Any student who is thought to have broken the rules, for example, by cheating has to appear before a student court. With the enormous number of students, the operation of the system does 44 a certain amount of activity. A student who has held one of these positions of authority is much respected and it will be 45 to him later in his career.

A) credit I) regular B) probably J) involve C) court K) beneficial D) available L) seriously E) resort M) maintaining F) lasting N) submitting G) enthusiasm O) spread H) faith Section B

Directions: In this section, you are going to read a passage with ten statements attached to it.

Each statement contains information given in one of the paragraphs. Identify 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 Sheet 2.

Wired for Distraction: Kids and Social Media?

A) Most parents who worry about their kids' online activity focus on the people or content their children might encounter: Are they being cyberbullied? Do they have access to age-inappropriate material? Can sexual predators (色狼) reach them? What I worry about, as a

sociobiologist, is not what my kids are doing on the Internet but what all this connectivity is doing to their brains. Scientific evidence increasingly suggests that, amid all the texting, poking and surfing, our children's digital lives are turning them into much different creatures from us -- and not necessarily for the better.

B) For starters, there is the problem of what some researchers refer to as continuous partial attention, a term coined by former Microsoft executive Linda Stone. We know the dangers of texting or talking on the phone while operating a motor vehicle -- but what about when forming a brain? A Kaiser Family Foundation report released last year found that on average, children ages 8 to 18 spend 7 hours and 38 min. a day using entertainment media. And if you count each content stream separately -- a lot of kids, for example, text while watching TV --they are logging almost 11 hours of media usage a day.

C) You (or your children) might think the people who have had the most practice dealing with distractions would be the most adept at multitasking. But a 2009 study found that when extraneous (与正题无关的) information was presented, participants who (on the basis of their answers to a study questionnaire) did a lot of media multitasking performed worse on a test than those who don't do much media multitasking. In the test, a trio of Stanford University researchers showed college students an image of a bunch of rectangles (矩形) in various orientations and asked them to focus on a couple of red ones in particular. Then the students were shown a second, very similar image and asked if the red rectangles had been rotated. The heavy media multitaskers were wrong more often -- because, the study concluded, they are more sensitive to distracting stimuli than light media multitaskers are.

D) We have separate circuits, it turns out, for top-down focus -- i.e., when we set our mind to concentrate on something -- and reactive attention, when our brain reflexively tunes in to novel stimuli. We obviously need both for survival, whether in the wilds of prehistory or while crossing a street today, but our saturated (饱和的) media universe has perhaps privileged the latter form and is wiring our kids' brains differently. \"Each time we get a message or text,\" Anthony Wagner, one of the Stanford study's co-authors, speculates, \"our dopamine (多巴胺) reward circuits probably get activated, since the desire for social connection is so wired into us.\" The result, he suggests, could be a forward-feeding cycle in which we pay more and more attention to environmental stimuli -- Hey, another text! -- at the expense of focus.

E) Constant distraction affects not only how well kids learn but also how their brains absorb the new information. In 2006, UCLA scientists showed that multitaskers and focused learners deploy (调动) different parts of the brain when they learn the same thing. Multitaskers fire up their striatum (终脑的皮层), which encodes the learning more like habit, or what's known as procedural memory. Meanwhile, those who were allowed to focus on the task without distraction relied on the hippocampus （海马体), which is at the heart of the declarative memory circuit that comes into play, say, in math class when you need to apply abstract rules to novel problems. The upshot of the study was that the focusers could apply the new skill more broadly but the multitaskers could not. Multitaskers' reliance on rote habit would be all well and good if we want our offspring to work on assembly lines, but to do the kind of high-level thinking that experts agree will be key to getting well-paying jobs, we'd better exercise our collective hippocampus.

F) Some technology observers, like Danah Boyd, a fellow at Harvard's Berkman Center for Internet and Society, claim that social media are getting a bum rap (不公正的对待) and that

the real problem lies in the hyperprotective way we parent today. \"Over and over, kids tell me that they'd rather get together in person, but then they list off all of the things that make doing so impossible\" -- like their overscheduled after-school lives or parents' fears of kids navigating the streets alone, she says.

G) Stone has observed something similar in technology use among adolescents: \"When they're with friends, they won't answer their cell phone. And if they get an SMS, they will just answer, 'BZ, L8R.' \" Perhaps this is a sign that our kids will be better than we are at learning how to prioritize tasks -- something that will come in handy when they become workers and spouses and parents.

H) But I am still concerned about the effect that 24/7 connectivity has on my kids – and on my 11-year-old son in particular. School-lunchroom behavior -- gossipy whispers, competition for attention, etc. -- now goes on around the clock. There's no downtime, no alone time for him to develop his sense of self.

I) So what's a good dad to do? I've set some rules that are designed to aid his social and cognitive development: no during school, and no electronic devices after 9:30 p.m. The latter prohibition is designed to help him get more sleep, which, according to some studies, is when our brains prune connections among neurons, preserving and speeding up the ones that matter and flushing out the ones that don't. \"Unfortunately, the new modes of communication and hours spent using them are preventing already sleep-deprived teens from getting any, which affects memory consolidation and behavioral regulation,\" says B.J. Casey, director of Cornell's Sackler Institute for Developmental Psychobiology. Even if kids get nine to 10 hours of sleep but sustain multiple interruptions -- from, say, a buzzing iPhone next to the pillow -- they will suffer cognitively and feel tired the next day. Hence my 9:30 rule, which falls into that age-old parenting category: Do as I say, not as I do.

46. According to a 2009 study, people who did a lot of media multitasking made more fault on the test.

47. In order to help his son get more sleep, the author forbids his son to use electronic devices after 9:30 p.m.

48. The saturated media universe may have weakened our top-down focus.

49. 8 to 18 years old children spend about 11 hours using media per day if each content stream is counted separately.

50. According to Stone, adolescents may do better than their parent generation on learning how to prioritize tasks.

51. Focused learners can do high-level thinking and may get well-paying jobs more probably.

52. Multiple interruptions during kids' sleep time may lead to trouble on their cognition and body the next day.

53. What the author worries about is that his kids' online activity may have bad effect on their brains.

54. According to UCLA scientists, the focusers and the multitaskers rely on different parts of their brain in learning.

55. According to Danah Boyd, the hyperprotective way parents behave is the real reason for kids' continuous partial attention.

Section C

Directions: There are 2 passages in this section. Each passage is .followed by some questions or

unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A), B), C) and D). You should decide on the best choice and mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through the centre.

Passage One

Questions 56 to 60 are based on the following passage.

Nearly 5,000 people below the age of 21 die because of excessive alcohol consumption each year. Oddly, this has triggered a new movement to lower the drinking age. In America, young people can vote, drive, marry, divorce, hunt and go to war before alcohol is legally allowed to touch their lips. Many states once set their minimum drinking-age at 18. But in 1984 Ronald Reagan oversaw the passage of the \"21 law\which requires states to set 21 as the minimum drinking-age or risk losing 10% of their highway funds. Now campaigners want to move it back. In the past, states have been too financially timid (胆怯的) to challenge the 21 law. But calls for change are growing louder. Two local judges in South Carolina recently ruled that banning 18- to 20-year-olds from drinking or possessing alcohol is unconstitutional. Public officials, including the former attorney general of South Dakota, have called the 21 law a failure. The about-face of Morris Chafetz, a doctor who served on the commission that recommended increasing the drinking age to 21, has also raised eyebrows. This week he called it the most regrettable decision of his career.

Supporters of existing status, including the organisation Mothers Against Drunk Driving, say that the law has helped avoid thousands of deaths. But doubters point out that other countries, like Canada, have seen similar declines, even though their drinking-age is 18. They also argue that barring young people from drinking does not stop them from consuming alcohol: it just makes them drink more quickly.

John McCardell, former president of Middlebury College in Vermont, is part of the Amethyst Initiative, a group of educators who are pushing for 18-year-olds to be allowed to drink. \"Those who have graduated from high school, have a clean record and completed an alcohol-education programme should qualify for a drinking licence,\" he says, \"in the same way that people who go to driving school receive a licence to operate a vehicle.\"

This is not the first time that Americans have desired a change in alcohol policy during a period of economic distress. Franklin Roosevelt lifted prohibition in 1933 amid the trouble of a depression.

56. According to the passage, why did the U.S. states follow the \"21 law\" in the past? A) Fewer people consumed alcohol before.

B) Citizens believed it helped eliminate drunk driving. C) Its passage was supervised by honorable Reagan. D) They couldn't afford to take the financial risk. 57. We leam from the passage that Morris Chafetz ______. A) made a terrible mistake many years ago B) supports lowering the drinking age now C) insists that the 21 law not be changed D) regrets that few people support the 21 law

58. What happened in Canada where the legal drinking age is set at 18?

A) Fewer people die from drunk driving. B) Many people want it to be increased to 21. C) Drunk driving causes more road deaths. D) Young people learn to drink more quickly.

59. The Amethyst Initiative member John McCardell suggests that _______. A) young people should qualify to drink as long as they reach 18 B) 18-year-olds should learn for a license before they can drink

C) schools should make programmes on drinking compulsory for students D) drinking licences should be issued to stop excessive alcohol consumption

60. It can be inferred from the passage that the change of alcohol policy mainly depends on A) presidential preference C) economic situation

B) political powers D) public opinion

Passage Two

Questions 61 to 65 are based on the following passage.

Men are spending more and more time in the kitchen encouraged by celebrity chefs (名人厨师) like Gordon Ramsay and Jamie Oliver, according to a report from Oxford University.

The effect of the celebrity role models, who have given cookery a more manly image, has combined with a more general drive towards sexual equality, to mean men now spend more than twice the amount of time preparing meals than they did in 1961.

According to research by Prof. Jonatahn Gershuny, who runs the Centre for Time Research at Oxford, men now spend more than half an hour a day cooking, up from just 12 minutes a day in 1961.

Prof. Gershuny said: \"The man in the kitchen is part of a much wider social trend. There has been 40 years of gender equality, but there is another 40 years probably to come.\"

Women, who a generation ago spent a fraction under two hours a day cooking, now spend just one hour and seven minutes -- a dramatic fall, but they still spend far more time at the stove than men. Some critics say men have been inspired to pick up a spatula (锅铲) by the success of Ramsay, Oliver as well as other male celebrity chefs such as Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, Marco Pierre White and Keith Floyd.

The report, commissioned by frozen food company Birds Eye, also makes clear that the family meal is limping (缓慢前进) on in far better health than some have suggested, thanks in part to a resurgence (复兴) in cooking by some consumers. Two-thirds of adults claim that they come together to share at least three times a week, even if it is not necessarily around a kitchen or dining room table.

Anne Murphy, general manager at Birds Eye, said: \"The evening meal is still clearly central to family life and with some saying family time is on the increase and the appearance of a more frugal (节俭的) consumer, we think the return to tradition will continue as a trend.\"

However, Prof. Gershuny pointed out that the family meal was now rarely eaten by all of its members around a table -- with many \"family meals\" in fact taken on the sofa in the sitting room, and shared by completely different members of the family.

\"The family meal has changed very substantially, and few of us eat -- as I did when I was a child -- at least two meals a day together as a family. But it has survived in a different format.\"

61. What is one force behind the trend that men spend more time cooking than before? A) The influence of popular female chefs.

B) The development of sexual equality campaign. C) The improvement of cooks' economic status. D) The change of female's view on cooking.

62. What does the author say about the time men and women spend on cooking?

A) Women spend much less time on cooking now compared with some 25 years ago B) That men spend more time cooking than women has become a social trend. C) There is a sharp decline in the time men spend on cooking compared with 1961. D) It will take 40 years before men spend more time at the stove than women. 63. Another conclusion from the Birds Eye-commissioned report is that _____. A) more and more families enjoy eating out B) families prepare healthier food nowadays

C) the dining room table has become unnecessary D) family members share more meals than suggested

. Anne Murphy suggested the return to tradition can be attributed to ______. A) the decrease of shared meals B) the shrinking of modern kitchens

C) consumers' becoming more economical

D) parents' greater tolerance to children's eating habits

65. How did Prof. Jonatahn Gershuny see the family meal according to the passage? A) It has become a thing of the past.

B) It is beneficial to the stability of the family. C) It is very different from what it used to be.

D) It shouldn't be advocated in modern times.

Part IV Translation

Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to translate a passage from Chinese into

English. You should write your answer on Answer Sheet 2.

文学是中国文化中最有活力、最灿烂辉煌的一部分。在历史发展的长河里，中国古代文学蕴涵(embody)了中华文化的基本精神，体现了中国人的美学(esthetics)追求，承载了中华民族的理想信念，表现出自己独特的个性和风采。从远古(primeval times)神话(mythology)到唐诗宋词、明清小说……各种文学形式，高潮迭起，连绵数千年，涌现出许多古今闻名的文学家(litterateur)和不朽的文学作品.