大学英语四级模拟题(三)知识点汇总

Part I Writing (30 minutes)

Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a composition on the topic

More than a Certificate”. You should write at least 120 words following the outline given below in

Chinese:

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

Directions: In this part, you will have 15 minutes to go over the passage quickly. For questions 1-7,

choose the best answer from the four choices marked A), B), C) and D). For questions 8-10,

complete the sentences with the information given in the passage. Secrets of Self-Made Millionaires

They?re just like you. But with lots of money.

When you think of“millionaire”, what image comes to your mind? For many of us, it?s a flashy

Wall Street banker type who flies a private jet, collects cars and lives the kind of decadent lifestyle

that would make Donald Trump proud.

But many modern millionaires live in middle-class neighborhoods, work full-time and shop in

discount stores like the rest of us. What motivates them isn?t material possessions but the choices

that money can bring. “ Forthe rich, it?s not about getting more stuff. It?s about having the freedom

to make almost any decision you want, ”says T. Harv Eker, author of Secrets of the Millionaire Mind.

Wealth means you can send your child to any school or quit a job you don?t

like.

According to the Spectrem Wealth Study, an annual survey of America?s wealthy, there are more

people living the good life than ever before — the number of millionaires nearly doubled in the last

decade. And the rich are getting richer. To make it onto the Forbes 400 list of the richest

Americans, a mere billionaire no longer makes the cut. This year you needed a net worth of at

least $1.3 billion.

If more people are getting richer than ever, why shouldn?t you be one of them? Here are the secrets

revealed by the people who have at least a million dollars in liquid assets.

1. Set your sights on where you?re going

Twenty years ago, Jeff Harris hardly seemed on the road to wealth. He was a college dropout who

struggled to support his wife, DeAnn, and three kids, working as a grocery store clerk and at a

junkyard where he melted scrap metal alongside convicts ().“ At times we were so broke that

we washed our clothes in the bathtub because we couldn?t afford the Laundromat. ” Now he?s 49-year-old investment advisor and multimillionaire in York, South Carolina.

There was one big reason Jeff pulled ahead of the pack: He always knew he?d be rich. The reality

is that 80 percent of Americans worth at least $5 million grew up in middle-class or lesser

households, just like Jeff.

Wanting to be wealthy is a crucial first step. Eker says, “ The biggest obstacle to wealth is fear.

People are afraid to think big, but if you think small, you?ll only achieve small things. ”

It all started for Jeff when he met a stockbroker at a Christmas party. “ Talking to him, it felt discovering fire, he” says. “ Istarted reading books about investing during my breaks at the

grocery store, and I began putting $25 a month in a mutual fund. ” Next he taught a class at a loca community college on investing. His students became his first clients, which led to his investment

practice.“ There were lots of struggles, Jeff,“”butsayswhat got me through it was believing with

all my heart that I would succeed.”

2. Educate yourself

When Steve Maxwell graduated from college, he had an engineering degree and a high-tech job

— but he couldn?t balance his checkbook. inanceI“tookclassone inf college but dropped it to go

on a ski trip, ” says-yearthe-45old father of three, who lives in Windsor, Colorado.“ I actually had to go to my bank and ask them to teach me how to read my statement ( 结算单 ). ”

One of the biggest obstacles to making money is not understanding it: Thousands of us avoid

investing because we just don?t get it. But to make money, you must be financially literate. “ It bothered me that I didn?t understand this stuff, ” says Steve, “ so I read books and magazines a money management and investing, and I asked every financial whiz (高手 ) I knew to explain

things to me. ”

He and his wife started applying the lessons: They made a point to live below their means. They

never bought on impulse, always negotiated better deals (on their cars, cable bills, furniture) and

stayed in their home long after they could afford a more expensive one. They also put 20

percent of their annual salary into investments.

Within ten years, they were milliona ires, and people were coming to Steve for advice.“ Someone would say, ,I need to refinance my house what should— I do?? A lot of times, I wouldn?t know

the answer, but I?d go find it and learn something in the process,” he says.

In 2003, Steve quit his job to become part owner of a company that holds personal finance

seminars for employees of corporations like Wal-Mart. He also started going to real estate

investment seminars, and it?s paid off: He now owns $30 million worth of investment

properties, including apartment complexes, a shopping mall and a quarry.

“ Iwas an engineer who never thought this life was possible, but all it truly takes is a little

self-education, ” says Steve. “ You can do anything once you understand the basics. ”

3. Passion pays off

In 1995, Jill Blashack Strahan and her husband were barely making ends meet. Like so many of us,

Jill was eager to discover her purpose, so she splurged on a session with a life coach. “her my goal was to make $30,000 a year, she said I was setting the bar too low. I needed to focus

on my passion, not on the paycheck. ”

Jill, who lives with her son in Alexandria, Minnesota, owned a gift basket company and earned

just $15,000 a year. She noticed when she let potential buyers taste the food items, the baskets

sold like crazy. Jill thought, Why not sell the food directly to customers in a fun setting?

With $6,000 in savings, a bank loan and a friend?s investment, Jill started packaging gourmet

foods in a backyard shed and selling them at taste-testing parties. It wasn?t easy. “ Iremember

sitting outside one day, thinking we were three months behind on our house payment, I had two

employees I couldn?t pay, and I ought to get a real job. But then I thought, No, this is your dream.

Recommit and get to wor k. ”

She stuck with it, even after her husband died three years later. “ I live by the law of abundanc meaning that even when there are challenges in life, I look for the win- win, ” she says.

The positive attitude worked: Jill?s backyard company, Tastefully Simple, is now a direct-sales

business, with $120 million in sales last year. And Jill was named one of the top 25 female

business owners in North America by Fast Company magazine.

According to research by Thomas J. Stanley, author of The Millionaire Mind, over 80 percent of

millionaires say they never would have been successful if their vocation wasn?t something

they cared about.

1. How does the passage portray modern millionaires?

A) People who fly private planes. B) People who have the freedom to make any decision.

C) People who do part-time jobs. D) People who lead rotten lives.

2. How much net worth is needed if you want to be one of the richest Americans, according to

the Forbes?

A) $5 million. B) $30 million. C) $120 million. D) $1.3 billion.

3. How old was Jeff Harris when he was so poverty-stricken that he could barely support his family?

A) 45. B) 29. C) 35. D) 49.

4. What should people do to make big money, according to Steve Maxwell?

A) Live below their means. B) Buy on impulse.

C) Read books and magazines about finance. D) Negotiate better deals.

5. Jill Blashack Strahan?s success in business is mostly due to her _________.

A) willingness to think big B) financial literacy

C) positive attitude D) material possessions

6. What made Jill Blashack Strahan one of the top 25 businesswomen in North America?

A) She sold super foods directly to customers. B) She made up an annual income goal.

C) She got a big loan from the bank. D) She got a real job.

7. Which of the following is NOT a way to become a millionaire?

A) Setting big goals. B) Studying by yourself.

C) Being passionate. D) Sharing success stories.

8. According to Eker, the biggest barrier for people to be wealthy is ________.

9. The study done by Thomas J. Stanley shows that more than 80% of millionaires say their success are due to ___________.

10. The author gave us ___________ people?s secrets of becoming a millionaire in the passage. Part III Reading Comprehension (Reading in Depth) (25 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. You may not use any of the words in the bank more than once.

Questions 11 to 20 are based on the following passage.

U.S. fourth- and eighth-graders improved their math scores in a closely watched international test, but continued to lag well behind peers from top-performing Asian countries.

The U.S. and other governments on Tuesday 11 the results of the test, Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study, the world?s largest assessment of international achievement. Some 425,000 students in almost 60 countries took the exam, administered every four years, starting in 1995.

The test results come as businesses have warned that poor performance in math is eroding U.S. 12 , and as lawmakers in Washington prepare for a key battle over education policy.

U.S. Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings and some experts said the 13 suggest a victory for tougher teaching standards, increased rigor in math instruction, and the frequent standardized

testing 14 by President Bush?s No Child Left Behind law. Crit ics of the law found little evidence to support that conclusion.

In math, U.S. fourth-graders ranked No. 11 on the international test, 15 surpassed by eight

countries, led by China, Singapore and Japan, researchers said.

U.S. fourth-graders on average scored 529 in 2007, up from 518 in both 2003 and 1995. The results

are reported on a zero to 1,000-point scale, with 500 16 the international average. Top-performing China scored 607. U.S. eighth-graders ranked No. 9 in math with a score of 508, behind many of the

17 Asian countries atop the fourth-grade chart.

“ Inmath, the U.S. is making 18 progress, ” says Michael O. Martin, one of the directors of the study at Boston College, which 19_ the test. But Mr. Martin said he worried about the huge gap between the U.S. and Asian countries, which aren?t 20 on their laurels.

A) management I) representing

B) truly J) takes

C) steady K) promoted

D) resting L) same

E) released M) administers

F) rapid N) words

G) roughly O) competitiveness

H) results

■Section B

Directions: There are 2 passages in this section. Each passage is followed by some questions or unfinished sentences. For each of them there are four choices marked A), B), C) and D). You

should decide on the best choice.

Passage One

Questions 21 to 25 are based on the following passage.

Hardly a week goes by without some advance in technology that would have seemed incredible 50 years ago. And we can expect the rate of change to accelerate rather than slow down within our lifetime. The developments in technology are bound to have a dramatic effect on the future of work.

By 2010, new technology will have revolutionized communications. People will be transmitting messages down telephone lines that previously would have been sent by post. Not only postmen but also clerks and secretaries will vanish in a paper-free society. All the routine tasks they perform will

be carried on a tiny silicon chip so that they will be as obsolete as the horse and cart after the

invention of the motorcar. One change will make thousands, if not millions, redundant.

Even people in traditional professions, where expert knowledge has been the key, are unlikely to escape the effects of new technology. Instead of going to a solicitor, you might go to a computer

that is programmed with all the most up-to-date legal information. Doctors, too, will find that an electronic competitor will be able to carry out a much quicker and more accurate diagnosis and recommend more efficient courses of treatment. In education, teachers will be largely replaced

by teaching machines far more knowledgeable than any human being. Most learning will take

place in the home via video conferencing. Children will still go to school though, until another

place is created where they can make friends and develop social skills.

What can we do to avoid the threat of unemployment? We shouldn?t hide our heads in the sand. Unions will try to stop change but they will be fighting a losing battle. People should get computer

literate as this just might save them from professional extinction. After all, there will be a few jobs

left in law, education and medicine for those few individuals who are capable of writing and

programming the software of the future. Strangely enough, there will still be jobs like rubbish

collection and cleaning as it is tough to program tasks that are largely unpredictable.

21. According to the author, the rate of change in technology _________.

A) will remain the same B) will slow down C) will speed up D) cannot be predicted

22. The author expects that by 2010 new technology will have revolutionized communications and

_______.

A) bookshops will not exist B) the present postal system will disappear

C) people will no longer write letters D) postmen will have been replaced by the motorcar

23. From the passage, we can infer that ______.

A) professionals won?t be affected by new technology

B) doctors won?t be as efficient as computers

C) computers cannot replace lawyers

D) experts will know less in the future

24. The passage tells us that in the future ______.

C) teachers will be less knowledgeable D) children will learn social skills at

school 25. In the writer?s view, ______.

A) people should be prepared for the future B) there exists no threat of unemployment

C) unions can stop the unfavorable changes D) people had better become cleaners

Passage Two

Questions 26 to 30 are based on the following passage.

When it comes to singling out those who have made a difference in all our lives, you cannot

overlook Henry Ford. A historian a century from now might well conclude that it was Ford who

most influenced all manufacturing, everywhere, even to this day, by introducing a new way to

make cars — one, strange to say, that originated in slaughterhouses.

Back in the early 1900?s, slaughterhouses used what could have been called a

“ disassembly lin Ford reversed this process to see if it would speed up production of a part of an automobile engine

called a magneto ( 磁发电机 ). Rather than have each worker completely assemble a magneto, one

of its elements was placed on a conveyer, and each worker, as it passed, added another

component to it, the same one each time. Professor David Hounshell of the University of Delaware,

an expert on industrial development, tells what happened:

“ Theprevious day, workers carrying out the entire process averaged one assembly every 20

minutes. But on that day, on the line, the assembly team averaged one every 13 minutes and 10

seconds per person. ”

Within a year, the time had been reduced to five minutes. In 1913, Ford went all the way. Hooked

together by ropes, partially assembled vehicles were towed past workers who completed them one

piece at a time. It wasn?t long before Ford was turning o ut several hundred thousand cars a year, a

remarkable achievement then. And so efficient and economical was this new system that he cut

the price of his cars in half, to $260, putting them within reach of all those who, up until that time,

could not afford them. Soon, auto makers all over the world copied him. In fact, he encouraged

them to do so by writing a book about all of his innovations, entitled Today and Tomorrow. The

Age of the Automobile had arrived. Today, aided by robots and other forms of automation,

everything from toasters to perfumes is made on assembly lines.

26. In Paragraph 1, the author gives a historian?s statement about Henry Ford to show _________.

A) Henry Ford is quite popular with historians

B) historians are quite interested in Henry Ford

C) Henry Ford?s influence on history can hardly be ignored

D) manufacturing is among the subjects of historians? study

27. The underlined word“ disassembly” in Paragraph 2 most probably means ______.

A) putting together B) establishing C) manufacturing D) taking apart

28. All of the following statements are true, EXCEPT that ________.

A) the invention of the assembly line has changed our lives

B) Henry Ford influenced virtually all manufacturing

C) Henry Ford?s experiment on the magneto was an immed iate success

D) cars were originally manufactured in slaughterhouses

29. It can be inferred from this passage that _________.

A) more people could afford a car thanks to the assembly line

B) Henry Ford was forced to cut the price of the cars because of market competition

C) Henry Ford cut the production of his cars by 50% to reduce costs

D) Henry Ford was reluctant to share his invention with others

30. This passage mainly tells us ________.

A) the history of car manufacturing

B) the origin and influence of the assembly line on all

manufacturing C) the process of car manufacturing

D) the role of technology in raising production

Part IV 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). You should choose the ONE that best fits into the passage.

It was one of the happiest times of my life. I was 29 and had just received my bachelor?s degree, graduating with 31 despite working two jobs and being a wife and mother. My parents and five-year-

old son were in the 32 when I walked onto the stage at Ashland University to get my

diploma. I was so excited and proud to be starting a 33 career and contributing more to my

family?s well -being.

But when I got home that evening, there was a note from my husband, 34 ,“ I?ve come to get my clothes and won?t be back.” We?d been having trouble, 35 the finality of that note still came as a shock. He had emptied our bank account. We were horribly in debt. I had quit my 36 jobs in

anticipation of interviewing for a teaching position. 37 , I was eight months pregnant.

The reality was so merciless that I was embarrassed, 38 , and angry and felt I 39 . But I had my

son, and I was about to 40 a new life into the world, so 41 my deep sadness, I had to go on. The

next morning, I woke up (literally and figuratively), put my feet on the floor, took a deep breath,

fixed breakfast, and 42 did everything I always did. I used my routine to keep me moving.

And in the seven years 43 , I?ve continued moving forward . I got a job as a kindergarten teacher,

earned a master?s degree in education, and watched my babies grow to 12 and 44 . I certainly

would never have 45 to put them through this, but in retrospect ( 回顾 ), I?m glad it

46 to me when it did. It helped me grow 47 , confident, and strong — things I?m hopefully instilling

now in my children. 48 life throws you a curve ball, hands you a lemon, or knocks you

my latest belief and for a loop. But knowing 49 failure can be the first step to success. This is

strategy on 50 to win in the end.

31. A) joys B) anxieties C) excitements D) honors

32. A) emergence B) absence C) audience D) presence

33. A) gardening B) teaching C) nursing D) repairing

34. A) saying B) meaning C) expressing D) talking

35. A) but B) and C) though D) so

36. A) precautious B) previous C) present D) precious

37. A) Although B) Yet C) Plus D) Even

38. A) exciting B) disturbed C) interested D) scared

39. A) had failed B) failed C) attempted D) had attempted

40. A) take B) bring C) give D) get

41. A) regardless of B) except C) despite D) instead of

42. A) sadly B) terribly C) safely D) basically

43. A) since B) ago C) before D) after

44. A) seven B) eight C) nine D) ten

45. A) preferred B) chosen C) turned D) waited

46. A) have happened B) happens C) happened D) had happened

47. A) indifferent B) careful C) helpful D) independent

48. A) Some time B) Sometimes C) Any time D) Some times

49. A) to approach B) what to defeat C) how to approach D) to defeat

50. A) what B) where C) why D) how

Part V Translation (5 minutes)

Directions: Complete the sentences by translating into English the Chinese given in brackets.

51. More than five million children have gotten health insurance in the last 4 years, and

_________________ ( 超过三百万的家庭已经摆脱贫困 ).

52. The appearance of e-business and the fast-growing Internet economy are ________________ (为中国的进出口贸易提供了新的增长机遇).

53. We have many reasons to believe ______________ ( 一个更加光明美好的未来在等着我们).

54. ___________________________ (除董事长之外的所有董事会成员都投票赞成我的建议) to set up a branch office on the outskirts of town.

55. _______________ ( 孩子们没有去滑雪)， the children went skating last Sunday.