近年英語四級考練題訓(xùn)練及答案第2套（測練習(xí)題）

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1、近3年英語四級專項(xiàng)習(xí)題訓(xùn)練3及答案第二套 Part I Writing(30 minutes) Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write an essay commenting on the saying"Learning is a daily experience and a lifetime mission. " You can cite examples to illustrate the importance of lifelong learning. You should write at lea

2、st 120 words but no more than 180 words. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Part II Listening

3、 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

4、question there will bea 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 I with a single line through the centre. 1. A. The agenda for the board of directors' meeting. B. The det

5、ails of the meeting to be held next week. C. The reason for the man's absence from the meeting. D. The time for the man's visit to the woman's company. 2. A. At a travel agency. B. At a department store. C. In a library. D. In a post office. 3. A. He cannot hear the woman's call. B. He can

6、not get through to New York. C. He cannot recall the phone number. D. He cannot find a public phone nearby. 4. A. Watch a movie with the woman. B. Revise his thesis in the office. C. Do some shopping with Jane. D. Discuss his thesis with Prof. Hudson. 5. A. He just cannot work properly witho

7、ut a watch. B. He has no idea where he can buy a gold watch. C. He still does not know where he left his watch. D. He is not sure what went wrong with his watch. 6. A. He forgot all about what he said. B. He slipped and hurt his head. C. He was sorry for being off sick last week. D. He thoug

8、ht the woman's car had been sold. 7. A. She should try to catch an earlier bus. B. She is absent from his class too often. C. She is always making excuses for being late. D. She should come up with a better excuse. 8. A. He is going to help the woman out. B. He has to move out of the building

9、soon. C. He is on his way to see a real estate agent. D. He will stay with the woman's brother. Questions 9 to 11 are based on the conversation you have just heard. 9. A. From the wanted cohunn. B. From some of her friends. C. From a telephone directory. D. From a television commercial. 10.

10、A. She received full-time education abroad. B. She graduated from an open university. C. She fmished her secondary school. D. She studied in a vocational college. 11. A. She is a shorthand-typist. B. She works as a tour guide. C. She is a policewoman. D. She teaches an evening class. Questi

11、ons 12 to 15 are based on the conversation you have just heard. 12. A. It provides him with career opportunities. B. It helps enlarge his customer network. C. It has been off and on for ten years. D. It was interrupted for four years. 13. A. Individualized service. B. Traditional setting. C.

12、Home-made beer. D. Social games. 14. A. The quality of beer. B. The atmosphere. C. The owner's attitude. D. The right location. 15. A. It is a rather tough job. B. It is a profitable business. C. It helps old people kill time. D. It makes retirees feel useful. Section B Directions: In th

13、is 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 youhear a question, you must choose the best answer from the four choices marked A , B ,C. and D. Then mark the corresponding lette

14、r on Answer Sheet 1 with a single line through the centre. Passage One Questions 16 to 18 are based on the passage you have just heard. 16. A. It is becoming increasingly popular. B. It helps the user to escape reality. C. It gives rise to serious social instability. D. It hurts a person and t

15、hose around them. 17. A. They use drugs just for fun. B. They take drugs to get high. C. They use drugs as medicine. D. They keep drug use a secret. 18. A. It is quite common in entertainment circles. B. It is the cause of various social problems. C. It is hard to get rid of. D. It is fata

16、l to the user. Passage Two Questions 19 to 22 are based on the passage you have just heard. 19. A. Taking up exercises after recovery. B. Producing tasty healthy frozen food. C. Finding new ways to cure heart disease. D. Going on a diet upon leaving the hospital. 20. A. Itwas carefully tested

17、 with consumers. B. It was promoted by health organizations. C. It was disapproved by many diet experts. D. It was highly expected by the general public. 21. A. Competitive price. B. Low expectations. C. Vigorous promotion. D. Unique ingredients. 22. A. It was suggested by the firm's vice-p

18、resident. B. It matches the food's dark green packaging. C. It has a positive implication for consumers. D. It tricks the elders into impulse purchasing. Passage Three Questions 23 to 25 are based on the passage you have just heard. 23. A. It is practiced in most of the states. B. It will be

19、abolished sooner or later. C. It has drawn a lot of criticism from overseas. D. It has to be approved by the Supreme Court. 24. A. Whether the practice should be allowed to continue in future. B. Whether there should be a minimum age limit for execution. C. What type of criminals should receive

20、 it. D. What effect it might have on youngsters. 25. A. The court sentenced him to life in prison for killing two friends. B. The governor changed his death sentence to life in prison. C. He was the first minor to be executed in South Carolina. D. He was sentenced to death for a crime he commit

21、ted as a minor. 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

22、have just heard. Finally, when the passage is read for the third time, you should check what you have written.Some people borrow money and "forget" to pay it back. Large loans are seldom the issue; they are usually treated as business26, with the terms spelled out on paper. But many women suffer27o

23、ver problems like Carol's "My friend Ginny is always28cash," she says. "I hate to recall how often I've ' loaned' her a dollar or two for a drink or a movie. Each loan is so small I'd feel really cheap making a big deal out of it; still, I do29the fact that she never pays me back. "Carol admits to b

24、eing "too30or something" to demand repayment, but she has resolved tostop lending money to Ginny. "The last time she asked for five dollars to pay for her dry cleaning, I just told her I couldn't31it. "Another woman suggests a bolder32. "When somebody refuses to repay a loan, I33byrequesting one mys

25、elf," she says. "'I left home without my wallet,' I'll say. 'Can you lend meenough to cover lunch?' Then, when the money is safely in hand, I am struck by a sudden34Why, this is exactly the amount I loaned you last week ! How35! Now you won't have to repay me'" She says it works like a charm. Par

26、t 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.Eac

27、h choice in the bank isidentified 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. For many Americans,2013 ende

28、d with an unusually bitter cold spell.Late November and December36early snow and bone-chilling temperatures in much of the country, part of a year when, for the first time in two37, record-cold days will likely turn out to have oumumbered record-warm ones. But the U. S. was the exception: November w

29、as the warmest ever38, and current data indicates that 2013 is likely to have been the fourth hottest year on record. Enjoy the snow now, because39are good that 2014 will be even hotter, perhaps the hottest year since records have been kept. That's because, scientists are predicting,2014 will be an

30、El Nifio Year. El Nino, Spanish for "the child",40when surface ocean waters in the southern Pacific become abnormally warm. So large is the Pacific, covering 30% of the planet's surface, that the41energy generated by its warming is enough to touch off a series of weather changes around the world. El

31、 Ninos are42with abnormally dry conditions in Southeast Asia and Australia. They can lead to extreme rain in parts of North and South America, even as southern Africa43dry weather. Marine life may be affected too: E1 Ninos can44the rising of the cold, nutrient-rich ( 營養(yǎng)豐富的） water that supports large

32、 fish45, and the unusually warm ocean temperatures can destroy coral ( 珊瑚). A. Additional I. logically B. Associated J. occurs C. bore K. populations D. Chances L. realize E. Communicated M. reduce F. Decades N. Saw G. experience

33、s O. Specific H. globally Section B Directions: In this section, you are going to read a passage with ten statements attached to it. Eachstatement contains information given in one of the paragraphs. Identify the paragraphfrom which the information is derived. You may choose a p

34、aragraph more than once.Each paragraph is marked with a letter.Answer the questions by marking the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 2. How to Eat Well A. Why do so many Americans eat tons of processed food, the stuff that is correctly called junk (垃圾. and should really carry warning labels? B.

35、 It's not because fresh ingredients are hard to come by. Supermarkets offer more variety than ever, and there are over four times as many farmers' markets in the U. S. as there were 20 years ago. nor is it for lack of available information. There are plenty of recipes (食譜), how-to videos and cooking

36、 classes available to anyone who has a computer, smartphone or television. If anything, the information is overwhelming. C. And yet we aren't cooking. If you eat three meals a day and behave like most Americans, you probably get at least a third of your dally calories (卡路里. outside the home. Nearly

37、 two-thirds of us grab fast food once a week, and we get almost 25% of our dally calories from snacks. So we're eating out or taking in, and we don't sit down－or we do, but we hurry. D. Shouldn't preparing－and consuming－food be a source of comfort, pride, health, weli－being, relaxation, sociability

38、? Something that connects us to other humans? Why would we want to outsource(外包. this basic task, especially when outsourcing it is so harmful? E. When I talk about cooking, I'm not talking about creating elaborate dinner parties or three－day science projects. I'm talking about simple, easy, everyd

39、ay meals. My mission is to encourage green hands and those lacking time or money to feed themselves. That means we need modest, realistic expectations, and we need to teach people to cook food that's good enough to share with family and friends. F. Perhaps a return to real cooking needn't be far of

40、f. A recent Harris poll revealed that 79% of Americans say they enjoy cooking and 30% "love it" ; 14% admit to not enjoying kitchen work and just 7% won't go near the stove at all. But this doesn't necessarily translate to real cooking, and the result of this survey shouldn't surprise anyone: 52% of

41、 those 65 or older cook at home five or more times per week; only a third of young people do. G. Back in the 1950s most of us grew up in households where Morn cooked virtually every night. The intention to put a home-cooked meal on the table was pretty much universal. Most people couldn't afford to

42、 do otherwise. H. Although frozen dinners were invented in the '40s, their popularity didn't boom until televisions became popular a decade or so later. Since then, packaged, pre-prepared meals have been what's for dinner. The microwave and fast-food chains were the biggest catalysts ( 催化劑), but th

43、e big food companies--which want to sell anything except the raw ingredients that go into cooking－made the home cook an endangered species. I. Still, I fmd it strange that only a third of young people report preparing meals at home regularly. Isn't this the same crowd that rails against processed j

44、unk and champions craft cooking? And isn't this the generation who say they're concerned about their health and the well－being of the planet? If these are truly the values of many young people, then their behavior doesn't match their beliefs. J. There have been haft－h(huán)earted but well-publicized effo

45、rts by some food companies to reduce calories in their processed foods, but the Standard American Diet is still the polar opposite of the healthy,mostly plant－based diet that just about every expert says we should be eating. Considering that the government's standards are not nearly ambitious enough

46、, the picture is clear: bynot cooking athome, we're not eating the right things, and the consequences are hard to overstate. K. To help quantify (量化). the costs of a poor diet, I recently tried to estimate this impact in terms of a most famous food, the burger (漢堡包). I concluded that the profit fro

47、m burgers is more than offset (抵消） by the damage they cause in health problems and environmental harm. L. Cooldng real food is the best defense－not to mention that any meal you're likely to eat at home contains about 200 fewer calories than one you would eat in a restaurant. M. To those Americans

48、for whom money is a concern, my advice is simple: Buy what you can afford,and cook it yourself. The common prescription is to primarily shop the grocery store, since that's where fresh produce, meat and seafood, and dairy are. And to save money and still eat well you don't need local, organic ingred

49、ients; all you need is real food. I'm not saying local food isn't better; it is. But there is plenty of decent food in the grocery stores. N. The other sections you should get to know are the frozen foods and the canned goods. Frozen produce is still produce; canned tomatoes are still tomatoes. Jus

50、t make sure you're getting real food without tons of added salt or sugar. Ask yourself, would Grandma consider this food? Does it look like something that might occur in nature? It's pretty much common sense: you want to buy food,not unidentifiable foodlike objects. O. You don't have to hit the gro

51、cery store daily, nor do you need an abundance of skill. Since fewer than haft of Americans say they cook at an intermediate level and only 20% describe their cooldng skills as advanced, the crisis is one of confidence. And the only remedy for that is practice. There's nothing mysterious about cooki

52、ng the evening meal. You just have to do a little thinking ahead and redefine what qualifies as dinner. Like any skill, cooking gets easier as you do it more; every time you cook, you advance your level of skills. Someday you won't even need recipes. My advice is that you not pay attention to the nu

53、mber of steps and ingredients, because they can be deceiving. P. Time, I realize, is the biggest obstacle to cooking for most people. You must adjust your priorities to find time to cook. For instance, you can move a TV to the kitchen and watch your favorite shows while you're standing at the sink

54、. No one is asking you to give up activities you like, but if you're watching food shows on TV, try cooking instead. 46. Cooking benefits people in many ways and enables them to connect with one another. 47. Abundant information about cooking is available either online or on TV. 48. Young people

55、do less cooking at home than the elderly these days. 49. Cooking skills can be improved with practice. 50. In the mid-20th century, most families ate dinner at home instead of eating out. 51. Even those short of time or money should be encouraged to cook for themselves and their family. 52. Eati

56、ng food not cooked by ourselves can cause serious consequences. 53. To eat well and still save money, people should buy fresh food and cook it themselves. 54. We get a fairly large portion of calories from fast food and snacks. 55. The popularity of TV led to the popularity of frozen food. Secti

57、on 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 lin

58、e through the centre. Passage One Questions 56 to 60 are based on the following passage. The wallet is heading for extinction. As a day-to-day essential, it will die off with the generation who read print newspapers. The kind of shopping－where you hand over notes and count out change in return－now

59、 happens only in the most minor of our retail encounters, like buying a bar of chocolate or a pint of milk from a comer shop. At the shops where you spend any real money, that money is increasingly abstracted. And this is more and more true, the higher up the scale you go. At the most cutting-edge r

60、etail stores－Victoria Beckham on Dover Street, for instance－you don't go and stand at any kind of cash register when you decide to pay. The staff are equipped with iPads to take your payment while you relax on a sofa. Which is nothing more or less than excellent service, if you have the money. But

61、across society, the abstraction of the idea of cash makes me uneasy. Maybe I'm just old－fashioned. But earning money isn't quick or easy for most of us. Isn't it a bit weird that spending it should happen in haft a blink (眨眼). of an eye? Doesn't a wallet－that time－h(huán)onoured Friday－night feeling of pl

62、easing, promisingfatness－represent something that matters? But I'll leave the economics to the experts. What bothers me about the death of the wallet is thechange it represents in our physical environment. Everything about the look and feel of a wallet－theway the fastenings and materials wear and t

63、ear and loosen with age, the plastic and paper and gold andsilver, and handwritten phone numbers and printed cinema tickets－is the very opposite of what ourworld is becoming. The opposite of a wallet is a smartphone or an iPad..The rounded edges, coolglass, smooth and unknowable as a pebble (鵝卵石). I

64、nstead of digging through pieces of paper andpeering into corners, we move our fingers left and right. No more counting out coins. Show yourwallet, if you still have one. It may not be here much longer. 56. What is happening to the wallet? A. It is disappearing. B. It is being fattened. C. It i

65、s becoming costly. D. It is changing in style. 57. How are business transactions done in big modern stores? A. Individually. B. Electronically. C. In the abstract. D. Via a cash register. 58. What makes the author feel uncomfortable nowadays? A. Saving money is becoming a thing of the past.

66、 B. The pleasing Friday－night feeling is fading. C. Earning money is getting more difficult. D. Spending money is so fast and easy. 59. Why does the author choose to write about what's happening to the wallet? A. It represents a change in the modern world. B. It has something to do with everybody's life. C. It marks the end of a time－h(huán)onoured tradition. D. It is the concern of contemporary economists. 60. What can we infer from the passage about the author? A. He is resistant to social