大学英语四级模拟考试试卷2.doc

1、大学英语四级模拟考试试卷 2（2009 年 6 月）Part III Listening Comprehension (35 minutes)Section ADirections: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

2、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 2 with a single line through the centre.注意：此部分试题请在答题卡 2 上作答。11.A)Onl

3、y true friendship can last long.B)Letter writing is going out of style.C)She keeps in regular touch with her classmates.D)She has lost contact with most of her old friends.12. A) A painter. C) A porter.B) A mechanic. D) A carpenter.13. A) Look for a place near her office. C) Make inquiries elsewhere

4、.B) Find a new job down the street. D) Rent the $600 apartment.14.A) He prefers to wear jeans with a larger waist.B) He has been extremely busy recently.C) He has gained some weight lately.D) He enjoyed going shopping with Jane yesterday.15.A)The woman possesses a natural for art.B) Women have a bet

5、ter artistic taste than men.C) He isnt good at abstract thinking.D) He doesnt like abstract paintings.16.A) She couldnt have left her notebook in the library.B) she may have put her notebook amid the journals.C) she should have made careful notes while doing reading.D) she shouldnt have read his not

6、es without his knowing it.17. A)she wants to get some sleep C) she has a literature class to attendB) she needs time to write a paper D)she is troubled by her sleep problem18.A)He is confident he will get the job.B)His chance of getting the job is slim.C)It isnt easy to find a qualified sales manage

7、r.D)The interview didnt go as well as he expected.Questions 19 to 21 are based on the conversation you have just heard.19.A)He can manage his time more flexibly.B)He can renew contact with his old friends.C)He can concentrate on his own projects.D)He can learn to do administrative work.20.A)Reading

8、its ads in the newspapers.B)Calling its personnel department.C)Contacting its manager.D)Searching its website.21.A)To cut down its production expenses.B)To solve the problem of staff shortage.C)To improve its administrative efficiency.D)To utilize its retired employees resources.Questions 22 to 25 a

9、re based on the conversation you have just heard.22.A)Buy a tractor.B)Fix a house.C)See a piece of property.D)Sing a business contract.23.A)It is only forty miles form where they live.B)It is a small one with a two-bedroom house.C)It was a large garden with fresh vegetables.D)It has a large garden w

10、ith fresh vegetables.24.A)Growing potatoes will involve less labor.B)Its soil may not be very suitable for corn.C)It may not be big enough for raising corn.D)Raising potatoes will be more profitable.25 A)FinancesB)EquipmentC)LaborD)ProfitsSection BDirections: In this section, you will hear 3 short p

11、assages. 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 2 with a single

12、 line through the centre.Passage One26 A)To introduce the chief of the citys police forceB)To comment on a talk by a distinguished guestC)To address the issue of community securityD)To explain the functions of the city council27 A)He has distinguished himself in city managementB)He is head of the In

13、ternational Police ForceC)He completed his higher education abroadD)He holds a masters degree in criminology28 A)To coordinate work among police departmentsB)To get police officers closer to the local peopleC)To help the residents in times of emergencyD)To enable the police to take prompt action29 A

14、)PopularB)discouragingC)effectiveD)controversialPassage Two30 A)people differ greatly in their ability to communicateB)there are numerous languages in existenceC)Most public languages are inherently vagueD)Big gaps exist between private and public languages31 A)it is a sign of human intelligenceB)in

15、 improves with constant practiceC)it is something we are born withD)it varies from person to person32 A)how private languages are developedB)how different languages are relatedC)how people create their languagesD)how children learn to use languagePassage Three33 A)she was a tailorB)she was an engine

16、erC)she was an educatorD)she was a public speaker34.A)Basing them on science-fiction movies.B) Including interesting examples in themC) Adjusting them to different audiencesD) Focusing on the latest progress in space science35.A) Whether spacemen carry weaponsB) How spacesuits protect spacemenC) How

17、 NASA trains its spacemenD) What spacemen cat and drinkSection CDirections: 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 t

18、he blanks numbered from 36 to 43 with the exact words you have just heard. For blanks numbered from 44 to 46 you are required to fill in the missing information. For these blanks, you can either use the exact words you have just heard or write down the main points in your own words. Finally, when th

19、e passage is read for the third time, you should check what you have written.注意：此部分试题请在答题卡 2 上；请在答题卡 2 上作答。Part IV Reading Comprehension (Reading in Depth) (25 minutes)Section ADirections:In this section, there is a short passage with 5questions or incomplete statements. Read the passage carefully.

20、Then answer the questions or complete the statements in the fewest possible words onAnswer Sheet 2.Questions 47 to 51 are based on the following passage.Undoubtedly the globe is getting hotter and hotter. The unavoidable questions are: How much responsibility shall we take for warming, and are we 47

21、 to stop the destruction by limiting our insatiable 48 for natural fuels? It seems that global warming is too _49_ to be worried about, or too unpredictable. The computer_50_ cannot define what the weather is like next week. In cold winter day it might be considered that a little warming would be a

22、fair thing. And doubtlessly: Alarming about_51_ alteration may sound like an environmentalist frightening strategy, aiming to urge humans to walk and keep the world cleaner.However, based on the scientists, bad news are brought to our living media.From California to the snowy peaks of China, the air

23、 is heating up right now, and the globe is being fast warmed, the _52_ has increased by 1 compared with the past century. In addition, some parts like remote places have been in a much hotter state. The results arent satisfactory, ice being _53_ , rivers running dry, and coasts being _ 54_ , threate

24、ning villages and cottages. The 55 are gradually occurring without any obvious phenomenon. But they shouldnt slip our mind, because they can pose as a great potential threat to the 56 world.A) remoteB) technologyC) composingD) wholeE) voluntaryF) climateG) skill H) desireI) meltingJ) vanishingK) ero

25、dedL) temperatureM) amazementN) changesO) clever注意：此部分试题请在答题卡 2 上作答。Passage OneQuestions 57 to 61 are based on the following passage.It is 4 oclock in the early morning.Everything but the computing room on the campus of the university appears as quiet and misty as the mysterious hell. In the computi

26、ng room, 30 students crumpled with blurred eyes, sit still at their desk, thumping the dirty and worn keys. Staring at the colorful screen, they tap continuously for hours. For the other parts in the world, it might be in the midst of the night, nevertheless here time represents nothing. It is an ut

27、terly enclosed field. These young computer “hackers“ are tracing a sort of stimulus; a drive so exciting and absorbing it downplays nearly anything else in their lives and founds as the focus their being. They are compelled computer programmers. Some of these students have been glued to the console

28、for no less than twenty hours even with no break for meals or rest. Some have been sleeping on sofas and lounge chairs in the computing room, trying to struggle for a few momentsrest but hate to get too far away from their addicted machines. It is no necessary for most of these students to be at the

29、 computing room in the middle of the night. What they are working belong to no assignments. They remain there because they desire to be-they can not resist the attraction of the computers. Furthermore they are in groups instead of alone. There are hackers at computing rooms all over the country. In

30、the unimaginable way, they focus on nothing but computer. They escape from schooling and live beyond friendship; they might have difficulty being employed, choosing to travel from one computing room to another. They may even abandon personal health. “There is one hacker in my memory. We actually had

31、 to lift him away from his chair to feed him and arrange him to rest and sleep. We truly worried about his health,“ says a computing science professor at California University. Professors of computer science are nowadays shedding more light on this hacker phenomenon and are on the watch for latent h

32、ackers and more and more severe computer addictives. They are sober that hackers are not simply resulted from the close relationship with a machine. It is the result of social relationship with the attractive thinking machines, which are becoming nearly universal. 57. We can learn from the passage t

33、hat those at the computing room in the middle of the night are _ . A) students working on a program B) students using computers to amuse themselves C) hard-working computer science majors D) students deeply fascinated by the computer58. Which of the following is NOT true of those young computer “hac

34、kers“?A) Most of them are top students majoring in computer programming. B) For them, computer programming is the sole purpose for their life. C) They can stay with the computer at the centre for nearly two days on end.D) Their “love“ for the computer is so deep that they want to be near their machi

35、nes even when they sleep. 59. It can be reasonably inferred from the passage that _ .A) the“hacker“phenomenon exists only at university computing roomsB) university computing rooms are open to almost everyone C) university computing rooms are expecting outstanding programmers out of the“hackers“ D)

36、the“hacker“phenomenon is partly attributable to the deficiency of the computing rooms 60.The authors attitude towards the “hacker“ phenomenon can be described as_ .A) affirmative B) contemptuous C) anxious D) disgusted 61. Which of the following may be the most appropriate title for the passage? A)

37、The Charm of Computer ScienceB) A New Type of Electronic ToysC) Compulsive Computer ProgrammersD) Computer AddictsPassage TwoQuestions 62 to 66 are based the passage.Very few commenters have a better point of that forbidding exchanging media called E-mail than John Moon, the CEO of E-mail management

38、 company Talk Labs. Moon examines a network that deals with 5.0 million letters everyday. The servers run and fixed by Talk Labs manage mail delivery and routing for many companies, including Security Company of England and Malshef Business. As a matter of fact, all of Talk Labscustomers are madeup

39、of companies whose daily E-mail outflow and inflow have substantially increased with the expansion of the Web. “E-mail usage has significantly risen recently,“ he says. Indeed, Talk Labs estimates that it has risen from 20 a day each employee as lately as three years ago to 30 or 40 at present. The

40、implications for Corporate America are equally huge. As E-mail researcher and consultant Jack Blour believes, companies can be in the expectation of the volume of E-mail rising through their servers to grow 70% to 90% in 2002. And as individual messages soar it is most likely that they contain memor

41、y-companies could finally pay 100% to 150% more simply this year on systems in the store and management of those messages. Thats the reason why tech consultancy Tadigul Group predicts demand for software manageing E-mail, such as Microsoft Outlook and Lotus Notes, to grow from $2.6 billion in sales

42、today to $4.4 billion by 2005. Controlling pure junk will cost too much money. About 20% of the E-mail Talk Labs manages is uninvited, according to Moon-who further states that about 1.25% of all the E-mail his company cancels includes useless files. It is estimated that handling spam（垃圾邮件） costs $8

43、.6 billion throughout the world, according to a 2001 Japanese study. And some companies has been worried that the jam of pornographic spam may urge employees to sue on grounds of disturbance due to brought discomfort.62. The first sentence of this passage “Very few commenters have a better point of

44、that forbidding exchanging media called E-mail than John Moon.“most probably means_ .A) John Moon clearly know the E-mail is wasting resourcesB) no one knows the fact that E-mail is gossip exchanging way but John MoonC) John Moon does not know anything about the E-mailD) the John Moon always concent

45、rated on the ocean of the junk E-mail63. Which of the following is NOT true about Talk Labs? A) It is an E-mail management company.B) All of Talk Labscustomers are corporations.C) John Moon is the chief technology officer of Talk Labs. D) The company puts the great emphasis on dealing with the junk

46、E-mail. 64. The word “that“ in the last sentence of the third paragraph most possibly means_ . A) it is expected that Microsoft Outlook and Lotus Notes grow from $2.6 billion in sales today to $4.4 billion by 2005 B) the junk E-mail has been overloaded in the InternetC) the increase of individual me

47、ssages needs more staff D) the company has paid 100% to 150% for individual message storage65.The following statements about the E-mail have been mentioned EXCEPT_ .A) Moon examines a network that processes 5.0 million letters each day B) according to Jack Blour, companies can expect the volume of E

48、-mail passing through their servers to grow not more than 50% in 2002C) too much money has controlling the junk E-mailD) some employees might take legal action in accordance with annoyance arising from exposure to some unpleasant resources.66. What is the best title for the passage?A) The E-mail Mon

49、ster B) Talk Labs Business IntroductionC) To Avoid E-mail Surge D) E-mail Destroys EverythingPart Cloze (15 minutes)Directions:There are 20 blanks in the following passage. For each blank there are four choices marked A),B),C) and D) on the right side of the paper. You should choose the ONE that best fits into the passage. Then mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through the center.注意：此部分试题请在答题卡 2 上作答。Part Cloze (15 minutes)Directions:There are 20 blanks in th