2016年12月四级考试模拟试卷(二)

2016年12月四级考试模拟试题（二） 复旦大学出版社 湖南分社 Part I Writing (30 minutes) Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a short essay on the topic Mobile Phone in the Class. You should start your essay with a brief description of the picture and then explain why this phenomenon appears. You should write at least 120 words but no more than 180 words. Write your essay on Answer Sheet 1.
 注意：此部分试题请在 答题卡1上作答。 Part II Listening Comprehension (25 minutes) Section A Directions:  In this section, you will hear three news reports. At the end of each news report, you will hear two or three questions. Both the news report 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 1 with a single line through the centre. 注意：此部分试题请在答题卡1上作答。 Questions 1 and 2 will be based on the following news item. 1. A) On the first Monday in November. C) On the first Monday in December. B) On the first Tuesday in November. D) On the first Tuesday in December. 2. A) Frans Baleni. B) Ken Cuccinelli. C) Terry McAuliffe. D) Chris Christie. Questions 3 and 4 will be based on the following news item. 3. A) The general US economic activity. C) The lower savings rate in America. B) Consumer spending in US economy. D) The government’s effort on economy. 4. A) The lower savings rate in four years. C) Special payments by the government. B) The spending boost by Americans. D) PNC Financial Services Group’s support. Questions 5 to 7 will be based on the following news item. 5. A) Labor Department officials. B) Civilians. C) Lawmakers. D) The army. 6. A) 0.3%. B) 3%. C) 9.7%. D) 10%. 7. A) Negative. B) Positive. C) Hopeless. D) Enlightening. Section B Directions: In this section, you will hear two long conversations. At the end of each conversation, you will hear four questions. Both the conversation 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 1 with a single line through the centre. 注意：此部分试题请在答题卡1上作答。 Conversation OneQuestions 8 to 11 are based on the conversation you have just heard. 8. A) The number of families is reduced a lot. B) More young people seldom stay at home. C) Relatives seldom live in the same place. D) The family members live in the same place. 9. A) She wishes her parents live with her. B) She wishes her parents live alone. C) She wishes her parents live in a retirement room. D) She wishes her parents live with her siblings. 10. A) He is always in trouble at home. B) He is reluctant to live with his parents. C) He often fights with other persons. D) He doesn’t study hard. 11. A) He likes living alone. B) His house is far from his parents’ house. C) He is busy with his business. D) He always quarrels with his parents. Conversation Two Questions 12 to 15 are based on the conversation you have just heard. 12. A) He is looking for a job. B) He is looking for a house. C) He is looking for a roommate. D) He is looking for an agent. 13. A) A roommate who does not snore. B) A roommate who does not smoke. C) A roommate who is very tidy. D) A roommate who loves studying. 14. A) A flat with two bedrooms. B) An unfurnished apartment. C) A well-decorated apartment. D) A fumished bedroom in a shared flat. 15. A) Help do housework. B) Bargain with the landlord. C) Agree to share with others. D) Sign a contract for two years. Section C Directions: In this section, you will hear three 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 1 with a single line through the centre. 注意：此部分试题请在答题卡1上作答。 Passage OneQuestions 16 to 19 are based on the passage you have just heard. 16. A) Indicate our lifestyles and values. B) Improve our communicative skills. C) Cultivate our values. D) Determine our lifestyles and values. 17. A) They cared little about clothing. B) They had poor taste in clothing. C) They were very conscious of clothing. D) They were proud of women’s clothes. 18. A) They cared more about clothing than white-collar workers. B) They were manipulated by white-collar workers. C) They scoffed white-collar workers for their clothing. D) They conformed to the accepted pattern of clothing. 19. A) Dressing patterns of workers. C) The importance of clothing. B) Man’s attitude towards dress. D) The styles of clothing. Passage Two Questions 19 to 22 are based on the passage you have just heard. 20. A) Many workers feel embarrassed when talking about office gossip. B) More than half of the workers are involved in office gossip. C) The percentage of workers involved in office gossip has increased. D) Workers were reluctant to talk about office gossip before. 21. A) Office gossip nay boost when the coiupany expands. B) Workers dare not to gossip when the company is downsizing. C) Office gossip may relatively drop when the economy turns better. D) In a financial crisis, workers are over pressured to gossip. 22. A) It is beneficial to the workers, productivity. B) It helps to deliver the latest news of the company. C) It is an efficient way to relax peopled mind. D) It is a direct way for the boss to know his workers. Passage Three Questions 23 to 25 are based on the passage you have just heard. 23. A) They put them in a well. C) They put them in an evaporative cooler. B) They put them in the ice. D) They put them into boxes. 24. A) Place it at the top of the cooler. C) Put its ends in the water. B) Place it at the bottom of the cooler. D) Put it outdoors. 25. A) To store them in conditions that are not cold enough. B) To keep them directly into storage containers. C) To put them on the ground after cutting them with knife. D) To prepare them at harvest time when theyYe in the field. Part III Reading Comprehension (40 minutes) 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 blank 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 more than once. Questions 26 to 35 are based on the following passage. What is it about Americans and food? We love to eat, but we feel 26 about it afterward. We say we want only the best, but we strangely enjoy junk food. We’re 27 with health and weight loss but face an unprecedented epidemic of obesity (肥胖). Perhaps the 28 to this ambivalence (矛盾情结) lies in our history. The first Europeans came to this continent searching for new spices but went in vain. The first cash crop (经济作物) wasn’t eaten but smoked. Then there was Prohibition, intended to prohibit drinking but actually encouraging more 29 ways of doing it. 　　The immigrant experience, too, has been one of inharmony. Do as Romans do means eating what “real Americans” eat, but our nation’s food has come to be 30 by imports — pizza, say, or hot dogs. And some of the country’s most treasured cooking comes from people who arrived here in shackles. 　　Perhaps it should come as no surprise then that food has been a medium for the nation’s defining struggles, whether at the Boston Tea Party or the sit-ins at southern lunch counters. It is integral to our concepts of health and even morality whether one refrains from alcohol for religious reasons or evades meat for political 31 . 　　But strong opinions have not brought 32 . Americans are ambivalent about what they put in their mouths. We have become 33 of our foods, especially as we learn more about what they contain. 　　The 34 in food is still prosperous in the American consciousness. It’s no coincidence, then, that the first Thanksgiving holds the American imagination in such bondage(束缚). It’s what we eat — and how we 35 it with friends, family, and strangers — that help define America as a community today. 　　　注意：此部分试题请在答题卡2上作答。A) answer B) result C) share D) guilty E) constant F) defined G) vanish H) adapted I) creative J) belief K) suspicious L) certainty M) obsessed N) identify O) ideals 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. Animals on the Move A) It looked like a scene from “Jaws” but without the dramatic music. A huge shark was slowly swimming through the water, its tail swinging back and forth like the pendulum of a clock. Suddenly sensitive nerve ending in the shark’s skin picked up vibrations of a struggling fish. The shark was immediately transformed into a deadly, efficient machine of death. With muscles taut, the shark knifed through the water at a rapid speed. In a flash the shark caught its victim, a large fish, in its powerful jaws. Then, jerking its head back and forth, the shark tore huge chunks of flesh from its victim and swallowed them. Soon the action was over.Moving to Survive B) In pursuing its prey, the shark demonstrated in a dramatic way the important role of movement, or locomotion, in animals.Like the shark, most animals use movement to find food.They also use locomotion to escape enemies, find a mate, and explore new territories. The methods of locomotion include crawling, hopping, slithering, flying, swimming, or walking.Humans have the added advantage of using their various inventions to move about in just about any kind of environment. Automobiles, rockets, and submarines transport humans from deep oceans to as far away as the moon.However, for other animals movement came about naturally through millions of years of evolution. One of the most successful examples of animal locomotion is that of the shark. Its ability to quickly zero in on its prey has always impressed scientists. But it took a detailed study by Duke University marine biologists S. A. Wainwright, F. Vosburgh, and J. H. Hebrank to find out how the sharks did it. In their study the scientists observed sharks swimming in a tank at Marine land in Saint Augustine, Fla. Movies were taken of the sharks’ movements and analyzed. Studies were also made of shark skin and muscle.Skin Is the Key C) The biologists discovered that the skin of the shark is the key to the animal’s high efficiency in swimming through the water. The skin contains many fibers that crisscross like the inside of a belted radial tire. The fibers are called collagen fibers. These fibers can either store or release large amounts of energy depending on whether the fibers are relaxed or taut. When the fibers are stretched, energy is stored in them the way energy is stored in the string of a bow when pulled tight. When the energy is released, the fibers become relaxed. D) The Duke University biologists have found that the greatest stretching occurs where the shark bends its body while swimming. During the body’s back and forth motion, fibers along the outside part of the bending body stretch greatly. Much potential energy is stored in the fibers. This energy is released when the shark’s body snaps back the other way. As energy is alternately stored and released on both sides of the animal’s body, the tail whips strongly back and forth. This whip-like action propels the animal through the water like a living bullet. Source of Energy E) What causes the fibers to store so much energy? In finding the answer the Duke University scientists learned that the shark’s similarity to a belted radial tire doesn’t stop with the skin. Just as a radial tire is inflated by pressure, so, too, is the area just under the shark’s collagen “radials”. Instead of air pressure, however, the pressure in the shark may be due to the force of the blood pressing on the collagen fibers. F) When the shark swims slowly, the pressure on the fibers is relatively low. The fibers are more relaxed, and the shark is able to bend its body at sharp angles. The animal swims this way when looking around for food or just swimming. However, when the shark detects an important food source, some fantastic involuntary changes take place. The pressure inside the animal may increase by 10 times. This pressure change greatly stretches the fibers, enabling much energy to be stored. This energy is then transferred to the tail, and the shark is off. The rest of the story is predictable.Dolphin Has Speed Record G) Another fast marine animal is the dolphin. This seagoing mammal has been clocked at speeds of 32 kilometers (20 miles) an hour. Biologists studying the dolphin have discovered that, like the shark, the animal’s efficient locomotion can be traced to its skin. A dolphin’s skin is made up in such a way that it offers very little resistance to the water flowing over it. Normally when a fish or other object moves slowly through the water, the water flows smoothly past the body. This smooth flow is known as laminar flow. However, at faster speeds the water becomes more turbulent along the moving fish. This turbulence muses friction and slows the fish down. H) In a dolphin the skin is so flexible that it bends and yields to the waviness of the water. The waves, in effect, become tucked into the skin’s folds. This allows the rest of the water to move smoothly by in a laminar flow. Where other animals would be slowed by turbulent water at rapid speeds, the dolphin can race through the water at record breaking speeds. Other Animals Less Efficient I) Not all animals move as efficiently as sharks and dolphins. Perhaps the greatest loser in locomotion efficiency is the slug. The slug, which looks like a snail without a shell, lays down a slimy trail over which it crawls. It u