20139月份四级考试样卷1

20139月份四级考试样卷1
Model Test one
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 chart and then express your views on the college students’
choice of reading materials. You should write at least 120 words but no more than 180 words.
Write your essay on Answer Sheet 1.
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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.
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1. A) The man is supposed to pass the exam. C) The teacher makes the man sad.
B) The man should study hard himself. D) The teacher is responsible
for his failure. 2. A) The woman should learn from those excellent ones.
B) The woman holds an important position in the company.
C) The woman needn?t worry about being dismissed.
D) The woman will be fired if the recession goes on.
3. A) Claim his money back. C) Get his computer repaired in the store. B) Claim Keep his invoice just in case. D) Back up the files.
4. A) Think twice before making decisions
B) Choose the courses with easier exams.
C) Select the courses according to her interest.
D) Consider more about professors than courses.
5. A) The woman will give up her classes.
B) The woman is tired of her parents? arrangement.
C) The woman has to cancel her travel plan.
D) The woman has only one day for travel.
6. A) He has never seen such a wonderful view. C) He has spent years visiting the exposition.
B) He speaks highly of the present exposition. D) He will pay a revisit to the exposition. 7. A) The woman doesn?t advocate shopping online.
B) The man doesn?t believe the ads on the web.
C) The woman shouldn?t always follow fashion.
D) The woman believes all the ads on the web.
8. A) He doesn?t know what the matter is. C) He doesn?t have to repair the central heating.
B) He will send someone there. D) He needn?t send anyone to her apartment.
Questions 9 to 12 are based on the conversation you have just heard.
9. A) Touching the head of a child. C) Receiving a gift with the right hand. B) Eating food with the left hand. D) Using the left hand to shake hands. 10. A) Because people think their own behaviors are proper.
B) Because people treat the same manners differently in different cultures
C) Because people often consider other cultures inferior.
D) Because people don?t think about things in the same way.
11. A) Learn and respect other cultures. C) Bear cultural
differences in mind.
B) Spread our cultures to other countries. D) Consider other
cultures superior. 12. A) There will be no problems in communication.
B) Culture differences will disappear soon.
C) People will learn a foreign culture quickly.
D) People of different cultures don?t vary much
Questions 13 to 15 are based on the conversation you have just heard.
13. A) She likes to go to parties very much. C) She cares too much about cleanness.
B) She?s approachable and sociable. D) She likes drama very much. 14.
A) She behaves as if she were a queen. C) She likes to make a fuss over small things.
B) She often argues about cleaning apartment. D) She likes to make deals when doing work. 15. A) Those who don?t share with others. C) Those who don?t work hard.
B) Those who throw weight around. D) Those who profit at others? expense.
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 1 with a single
line through the centre.
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Passage One
Questions 16 to 19 are based on the passage you have just heard.
16. A) It has grown up to 80 million recently.
B) It is a quarter of the whole population in the world.
C) It accounts for a quarter of the added population in the world.
D) Its living condition is worsening compared with developed countries. 17. A) The global population will reduce by 2050.
B) The birth rates in developing countries will eventually go down.
C) Africa will have the largest population.
D) Government will meet the needs of education.
18. A) The shortage of work-age labor. C) The long-term decline in economy.
B) The lower pension for elderly population. D) The older age for retirement. 19. A) The problems of poorest countries.
B) The population problems in developing countries.
C) Problems caused by low birth rate.
D) Birth rate in different areas and the problems it causes.
Passage Two
Questions 20 to 22 are based on the passage you have just heard.
20. A) How to reduce weight by 9 kilos.
B) How to keep their new weight.
C) How to find a counselor to lose weight.
D) How to visit a weight loss management website.
21. A) Internet didn?t help in controlling weight.
B) Those without any program regained their original weight
C) Those with personal counseling regained the least.
D) Those Internet users got the most weight.
22. A) Internet can help to lose weight for those regular users.
B) More people will like the weight loss management website.
C) Internet is more effective than personal counseling.
D) Web-based weight loss management will be popular.
Passage Three
Questions 23 to 25 are based on the passage you have just heard.
23. A) Good family relations may contribute to good social relations.
B) Friendship is one of the most important social relations.
C) Family relations are connected with our health.
D) Social interaction is related to our health.
24. A) They are likely to change one's thought. C) They may help to kick off bad habits.
B) They can help to deal with pressures. D) They can help us to become a doctor. 25. A) Non-smoking areas should get expanded.
B) Public relations affect personal achievements.
C) Policy-makers should connect relations with health
D) Policies should be changed if they hinder relations.
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 read for the third time, you should check what you have written.
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Less than 60% of students now entering four-year American colleges are likely to graduate. The 26 rate is lower than for almost any other wealthy country, and worst for poor and minority students. A new book about America?s public universities explores the complex causes of the high 27 . The book is called Crossing the Finish Line. President Obama wants the United States to
again have the world?s highest 28 of college graduates by 2020. On Tuesday the president
gave a 29 broadcast speech to students about the importance of staying in school. He spoke on the first day of classes at a high school in Virginia. He talked about personal 30 , and used
himself as an example of someone who 31 difficulties. But he told students that problems in
their own lives should not stop them from learning. But marry conservatives 32 plans for the
speech. Some called it “socialized education” or federal interference in local schools. Others 33
it would be too political, so some schools decided not to show the speech. On Sunday, Education Secretary Arne Duncan said 30% of students do not graduate from high school. According to him, more than a million students every year who entered ninth grade do not complete twelfth grade. The education secretary called the 34 the president?s speech “silly.” It suggested that students
write letters to themselves about what they can do to help the president. But after conservatives objected, the 35 was changed to writing about personal goals.
Part II 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 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.
The Web sitting around sometimes is seemed as the Siren specter that lures us into sitting around like some species of houseplant while our trunk grows abnormally wide. Its 36
enticements keep us from doing what we know we should, like, say, making any movement whatsoever or 37 foods that do not come packaged in Styrofoam(泡沫塑料).
But according to a new research, the Internet can also be something else: a place for helping people keep weight off.
The new study, 38 over a two-and-a-half-year period, found that the more often people logged on to a website, the more likely they were to
39 weight loss. Of course, it wasn?t just
any old website, but one that investigators at the Kaiser Permanente Center for Health Research (KPCHR) had designed 40 to help people keep the pounds off.
What made the website work was its mixture of accountability(责
任)and 41 . Users
asked to log in once a week to 42 their weight and the amount of exercise they?d done. If they
didn't log in regularly, they got a little nudge by e-mail, then a(n) 43 phone call. Once on the
site, users could chat with other 44 of the study in a kind of mini-Facebook setting.
The site was designed to mimic as much as possible what it's like to be in a weight-loss program that offers 45 counseling and group meetings. It wasn't quite as effective as
human-to-human interaction, but it was better than nothing at all.
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A) maintain B) consuming C) attracts
D) automated E) separately F) abundant
G) obligation H) conducted I) sociability
J) enter K) personal L) establish
M) specifically N) warning O) participants
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.
Happiness and Sadness
A) Happiness and sadness are two most basic and familiar feelings
for human beings. Recently, people have achieved further understanding about them.
Happiness
B) University of Illinois, psychologist Ed Diener, who has studied happiness for a quarter century, was in Scotland recently, explaining to members of Parliament and business leaders the value of increasing traditional measures of a country's wealth with a national index of happiness. Such an index would measure policies known to increase
people's sense of well-being, such as democratic freedoms, access to health care and the rule of law.
C) Eric Wilson tried to get with the program. Urged on by friends,
he bought books on how to become happier. He made every effort to smooth out his habitual worried look and wear a sunny smile, since a happy expression can lead to genuinely happy feelings. Wilson, a professor of
English at Wake Forest University, took up jogging, reputed to boost the brain's supply of joyful neuro-chemicals, and began his conversations with "Great!”and "Wonderful!”，the better to
exercise his capacity for enthusiasm.
D) However, some scientists are releasing the most-extensive-ever study comparing moderate and extreme levels of happiness, and finding that being happier is not always better. In surveys of 118519 people from 96 countries, scientists examined how various levels of subjective well-being matched up with income, education, political participation, volunteer activities and close relationships. They also analyzed how different levels of happiness, as reported by college students, correlated with various outcomes. Even allowing for imprecision in people?s
self-reported sense of well-being, the results were unambiguous. The highest levels of happiness go along with the most stable, longest and most contented relationships. That is, even a little discontent with your partner can cause you to look around for someone better, until you are at best a serial monogamist(一夫一妻论者)and at worst never in a loving, stable relationship.
E) Nevertheless, “once a moderate level of h appiness is achieved, further increases can sometimes be harmful to income, career success, education and political participation”，Diener and colleagues write in the journal Perspectives on Psychological Science. On a scale from 1 to 10, where 10s is extremely happy, 8s is more successful
than 9s and 10s, getting more education and earning more That probably reflects the fact that people who are somewhat discontented, but not so depressed as to be paralyzed, are more motivated to improve both their own lot (thus driving themselves to acquire more education and seek
ever-more-challenging jobs) and the lot of their community (causing them to participate more in civic and political life). In contrast, people at the top of the jolliness charts feel no such urge ncy. “If you're
totally satisfied with your life and with how things are going in the world,” says Diener, “you don?t feel very motivated to work for change. Be wary
when people tell you that you should be happier.”
Sadness
F) The drawbacks of constant, extreme happiness should not be surprising, since negative
emotions evolved for a reason. Fear tips us off to the presence of danger, for instance. Sadness, too, seems to be part of our biological inheritance. Wilson argues that only by experiencing sadness can we experience the fullness of the human condition. He also asserts that “the happy man is a
hollow man,” but he is hardly the first scholar to see
melancholia(忧郁症)as inspiration. A
classical Greek text, possibly written by Aristotle, asks, “Why i s
it that all those who have become
outstanding in philosophy or politics or poetry or the arts are clearly melancholic?” Wilson?s
answer is that “the blues can be a catalyst(催化剂)for a special kind of genius, a genius for
exploring dark boundaries betwe en opposites.” The ever-restless,
the chronically discontent, are
dissatisfied with the status quo, be it in art or literature or politics.
G) For all their familiarity, these arguments are nevertheless being crushed by the happiness movement. Last August, the novelist Mary Gordon lamented to The New York Times that “among
writers. . . what is absolutely not allowable is sadness. People
will do anything rather than to acknowledge that they are sad.” And, Jess Decourcy Hinds, an English teacher, recounted how,
after her father died, friends pressed her to distract herself from her profound sadness and sense of loss. “Why don?t people accept that after a parent?s death, there will be years of grief?” she wrote.
“Everyone wants mourners to …snap out of it? because observing another?s distress isn?t easy.”
H) It?s hard to say exactly when ordinary Americans, no less than psychiatrists(精神病学家)，
began insisting that sadness is pathological(病态的). But by the end of the millennium that
attitude was well established. In 1999，Arthur Miller?s Death of a Salesman was revived on
Broadway 50 years after its premiere. A reporter asked two psychiatrists to read the script. Their diagnosis: Willy Loman was suffering from clinical depression, a pathological condition that could and should be treated with drugs. Miller was appalled. “Loman is not a depressive,” he told
The New York Times. “He is weighed down by life. There are social reasons for why he is where he is.” What society once viewed as an appropriate reaction to failed hopes and dashed dreams, it now regards as a psychiatric illness.
I) As NYU?s Wakefield and Allan Horwitz of Rutgers University point out in The Loss of Sadness, this message has its roots in the bible of mental illness, The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. Its definition of a “major depressive episode” is remarkably broad. You must
experience five not-uncommon symptoms, such as insomnia(失眠), difficulty concentrating and
feeling sad or empty, for two weeks; the symptoms must cause
distress or impairment, and they cannot be due to the death of a loved one. Anyone meeting these criteria is supposed to be treated. J) When someone is appropriately sad, friends and colleagues offer support and sympathy. But by labeling appropriat e sadness pathological, “we have attached a stigma to being sad,” says
Wakefield, “with the result that depression tends to elicit
hostility and rejection” with an
undercurrent of “Get over it; take a pill.” The normal range of human emotion is not being
tolerated. “We don't know how drugs react with normal sadness and
its functions, such as
reconstituting your life out of the pain,” says Wakefield. Those psychiatrists also express doubts to
medicalise the sadness.
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46. It is believed that keeping a sunny smile can contribute to a happy mood. 47. The happiest people are more likely to enjoy a stable, long and contented relationship than others.
48. Some people doubt whether normal sadness should be treated with drugs.
49. Compared with extreme happiness, a moderate level may be helpful for one?s income, success
in career and education.
50. In the late 1990s, it was widely believed by ordinary Americans that sadness is an illness. 51.The totally satisfied people are lacking in motivation to change the current situation. 52. The national index of happiness is valuable in measuring a nation's wealth. 53. Some negative emotions such as fear, sadness are reasonable to exist in our life. 54. Many writers are unwilling to admit they are suffering sadness.
55. According to a classic book of mental illness, people suffering depression must experience five common symptoms for two weeks.
Section C
Directions: There are 2 passages in this section. Each passage is followed by some statements. For each of then there are four choices marked A)，B)，C)and D) the best choice and mark the
corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 2 with a centre.
Passage One
Questions 56 to 60 are based on the following passage.
A circle of close friends and strong family ties can increase a person?s health more than
exercise, losing weight or quitting cigarettes and alcohol, psychologists say. Sociable(好交际
的)people seem to reap extra rewards from their relationships by feeling less stressed, taking better care of themselves and having less risky lifestyles than those who are more isolated.
A review of studies into the impact of relationships on health found that people had a 50% better survival rate if they belonged to a wider social group, be it friends, neighbors, relatives or a mix of these. The striking impact of social connections on welfare has led researchers to call on GPs(社区全科医生)and health officials to take loneliness as seriously as other health risks, such as alcoholism(酗酒)and smoking.
“We take relationships for granted as humans,” said Julianne Holt-Lunstad, a psychologist at
Brigham Young University in Utah. “That constant interaction is not only beneficial
psychologically but directly to our physical health.” Holt-Lunstad?s team reviewed 148 studies
that tracked the social interactions and health of 308 849 people over an average of 7.5 years. From these they worked out how death rates varied depending on how sociable a person was. Being lonely and isolated was as bad for a person's health as smoking 15 cigarettes a day or being an alcoholic. It was as harmful as not exercising and twice as bad for the health as being fat. The study is reported in the journal Plos Medicine.
Holt-Lunstad said friends and family can improve health in numerous ways, from help in tough times to finding meaning in life. “When someone is connected to a group and feels
responsibility to other people, that sense of purpose and meaning translates to taking better care of themselves and taking fewer risks.”
Holt-Lunstad said there was no clear figure on how many
relationships are enough to boost a person?s health, but people fared(过活)better when they rarely felt lonely and were close to a group of friends, had good family contact and had someone they could rely on and trust. 注意:此部分试题请在答题卡2上作答。

56. Why do sociable people benefit more from their relationships?
A) They can exercise more by taking care of their friends.
B) They get more health knowledge from their friends.
C) They can be more responsible for themselves and their lifestyles.
D) They enjoy themselves very much with various friends.
57. According to the studies, who had a 50% better survival rate?
A) People who exercised often
B) People who managed to lose weight.
C) People who quitted cigarettes and alcohol.
D) People who belonged to a wider social group.
58. What's the finding of Holt-Lunstad?s team?
A) They found social relationships can benefit health both mentally and physically
B) They found the relationship between death rates and how sociable
a person was.
C) They found one's health can be improved by his relationships with friends and families.
D) They found how many relationships are needed to promote a
person's health. 59. Which of the following is less harmful than being lonely and isolated?
A) Smoking heavily. C) No exercising.
B) Being an alcoholic. D) Being fat.
60. According to Holt-Lunstad, how many friends can help to improve our health?
A) A circle of friends. C) No definite numbers.
B) The more the better. D) More than five.
Passage Two
Questions 61 to 65 are based on the following passage.
Housing officials say that lately they are noticing something different: students seem to lack the will, and skill, to address these ordinary conflicts. “We have students who are mad at each ot her and they text each other in the same room,” says a teacher. “So many of our roommate
conflicts are because kids don't know how to negotiate a problem”
And as any pop psychologist will tell you, bottled emotions lead to silent seething(不满)that
can boil over into frustration and anger. At the University of Florida, emotional outbursts occur about once a week, the university's director of housing and residence education says. “It used to be: `Let's sit down and talk about it,”，he says. “Over the past f ive years, roommate conflicts have
intensified. The students don't have the person-to-person
discussions and they don't know how to handle them” The problem is most dramatic among freshmen; housing professionals say they see improvement as students move toward graduation, but some never seem to catch on, and they worry about how such students will deal with conflicts after college.
Administrators speculate that reliance on cellphones and the
Internet may have made it easier for young people to avoid uncomfortable encounters. Why express anger in person when you can vent in a texts
Facebook creates even more friction as complaints go public. “Things are posted on
someone's wall on Facebook: …Oh, my roommate kept me up all night studying,?”，says Dana Pysz,
an assistant director in the office of residential life at the University of California, Los Angeles. “It?s a different way to express their conflict to each other.” In recent focus groups at North Carolina State University, dorm residents said they would not even confront noisy neighbors on their floor.
Administrators point to parents who have fixed their children?s problems their entire lives.
Now in college, the children lack the skills to attend to even modest conflicts. Some parents continue to intervene on campus.
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61 .What does the word “address” (Line 2，Para. 1) mean?
A) To speak to. C) To mark with a destination.
B) To make a formal speech. D) To deal with. 62. What is the main reason of roommate conflicts?
A) Students are always mad at each other. C) Student are not good at negotiating.
B) Students text each other in the same room. D) Director of housing are responsible for
that.
63. According to the passage, we can conclude that cellphones and
the Internet .
A) make our life more convenient
B) make it easier to have person-to-person communications
C) make it easier to take frustration out
D) enable students to avoid uncomfortable meetings
64. What should parents do according to the passage?
A) They should deal with their children?s problems their whole lives.
B) They should teach their children how to deal with the smallest conflicts.
C) They should intervene their children?s life on campus.
D) They should cultivate the independence of their children 65.
Which of the following is the best title for the passage?
A) Students? Life in College
B) Students? Failure to Communicate
C) Parents? Intervention in Their Children's Life
D) Teachers? Concerns About Students
Part IV Translation (30 minutes) 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.
秧歌舞(Yangko)是中国汉族的一种传统民间舞蹈，通常在北方省份表演。

秧歌
舞者通
常穿上明亮多彩的表演服装(costume)，他们的表演动作有力而迅速。

在农历
春节、元宵节等
节日期间，人们一旦听到锣(gong)鼓声，不管外面天气有多冷，他们都会蜂拥到街上观看秧
歌舞表演。

近年来，中国东北某些城市的老年人自发组织了秧歌队，队员常年通过跳秧歌舞
来保持健康，同时他们也乐在其中。

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