2023年英语四级模拟题附答案.doc

大学英语四级模拟试卷

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 picture and then express your views on “too much care spoils a child”, You should write at least 120 words but no more than 180 words.

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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 with a single line through the centre.
1. A) It is really nice to change them.
B) They ought to have been changed long ago.
C) They are of wrong colors.
D) They are still quite good.
2. A) Mixed. C) Enthusiastic.
B) Fascinated. D) Disinterested.
3. A) Wait until the weather gets better. C) Walk around the city right now.
B) Go to visit the park tomorrow. D) Enjoy the snow scene in the park.
4. A) He’ll start a new business in properties.
B) He has been left property there.
C) He’s made a fortune from his aunt.
D) His aunt wants his company there.
5. A) They didn’t attend the literature class.
B) They asked Prof. Lane the same question.
C) They knew the assignment of the literature class.
D) They knew the answer to the question.
6. A) He has already decided on his future plan.
B) He would consult the woman if necessary.
C) He doesn’t want to consult the woman at all.
D) He doesn’t have any idea what to do in the future.
7. A) She wants to get enough food for the holiday period.
B) The supermarket is closing down after the New Year’s Day.
C) The man is going to help her with shopping.
D) Tomorrow is the only day she is free before the New Year’s Day.
8. A) The woman is good at English and computing.
B) The woman is not capable of the job advertised.
C) The man is refusing the woman’s application.
D) English and computer skills are essential for the job.
Questions 9 to 12 are based on the conversation you have just heard.
9. A) Do the interior decoration. C) Buy the materials.
B) Make a shopping list. D) Make a design of the decoration.
10. A) Make a schedule for their decoration.
B) Getting everything needed purchased on one trip.
C) Be the weekend fights through purchasing.
D) Go shopping as early as possible.
11. A) Have the interior decoration done by themselves.
B) Go shopping together to make it as expected.
C) Buy building materials at different departments.
D) Make a detailed plan and allocate the shopping list.
12. A) He thinks he is too tired to do it.
B) He does not care about it.
C) He wants to change it.
D) He agrees with it.
Questions 13 to 15 are based on the conversation you have just heard.
13. A) It is very hot outside the room.
B) The air conditioner makes the room hot.
C) He fed the pig just now.
D) He did morning exercise just now.
14. A) It’s cool and wet. C) It’s cool and dry
B) It’s hot and wet. D) It’s hot and dry.
15. A) Do the housework for her.
B) Give a winter coat to her.
C) Get her a cup of hot tea.
D) Get her a glass of iced tea.
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 with a single line through the centre.

Passage One
Questions 16 to 19 are based on the passage you have just heard.
16. A) They gave their children post-game meals.
B) They provide enough nutrition for their children.
C) They usually visit their children after the games.
D) They were interested in the children’s sports activities.
17. A) To provide enough nutrition.
B) To supplement the body.
C) To meet their growing need.
D) To make them grow faster.
18. A) It makes them less active.
B) It makes them less healthy.
C) It makes them fatter and fatter.
D) It makes them lazier than before.
19. A) They should give them enough food.
B) They should give them healthy food.
C) They should advise their children to have healthy meals.
D) They should advise their children to have more meals.

Passage Two
Questions 20 to 22 are based on the passage you have just heard.
20. A) To express their religious belief and activities.
B) To memorize the important people in their life.
C) To describe their daily life vividly.
D) To symbolize objects, concepts and sounds.
21. A) It was complicated because of the pictures magic power.
B) It was a weird language which only a few people understood.
C) It was more relevant to pictures than to Egyptian words.
D) It was used by certain people who understood the magic power.
22. A) The Egyptian alphabet. C) The Roman alphabet.
B) The Greek alphabet. D) The Mediterranean alphabet.

Passage Three
Questions 23 to 25 are based on the passage you have just heard.
23. A) They made tools with special instruments. C) They made tools out of animal skin.
B) They made tools out of wood first. D) They made tools out of stones first.
24. A) Stone chips have been used for thousands of years.
B) Silicon chips have been used for hundred of years.
C) Stone chips have changed people’s life dramatically.
D) Silicon chips have changed people’s life dramatically.
25. A) An introduction to two kinds of tools.
B) The origin of the silicon chips.
C) The way ancient people made tools.
D) The changes brought about by tools.

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 have just heard. Finally, when the passage is read for the third time, you should check what you have written.
Accomplished teachers of world languages are keenly aware that young people learn in various ways. They used their knowledge of children in 26 and providing appropriate instruction to their students. They recognize and make professional accommodations for 27 in students’ age levels, cognitive, physical, and motor development, gender, multiple intelligence, and learning styles. Attitude also 28 in student success. Students with low self-esteem or little confidence about their ability to learn another language might benefit from extra encouragement from the teacher.
Of course, all students can benefit from positive teacher feedback. Teachers might have students 29 so that they can also benefit from the help and positive reinforcement of their peers. Students who are 30 and confident might work well independently, using computer software, Those who teach young children know the importance of working at 31 levels; students might learn to tell time 32 . As mature students, teachers need to provide more abstract and analytical challenges. Teachers should be aware that personalizing the language experience is helpful to students because many students will talk 33 about themselves and their experiences. Teachers recognize that providing learning experiences in the affective field by encourage open-ended personal expression is s valuable way of 34 students’ cognitive ability, cultural understanding, and linguistic 35 . Teachers provide a range of meaningful, interesting, and personally relevant instruction for students at all levels of development for ability.
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 asking your choices. Each choice in the bank is identified by a letter. Please mark the corresponding letter for each item on Answer Sheet 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.
We all like to feel needed. But new research suggests have a sense of purpose is good for our health, too.
In a study of 7,000 people, those with the strongest sense of direction in life were over70 percent less likely to suffer a stroke.
The researcher   36  for other aggravating factors such as blood pressure and alcohol use and believe the   37  comes through regulating the immune system.
It has been long thought that   38  meaningful activity after retirement is important for physical and mental health— which often declines   39  soon after retirement.
While past research focused on the   40  effects of negative psychological traits, such as depression and anxiety, new research is investigating how positive traits, such as   41 , protect against illness.
In the recent study, men and women aged 50 and over were   42  for four to five years and completed psychological tests while researchers recorded strokes.
The results show that the higher someone’s sense of purpose, the lower their risk of a stroke. Those with the greatest sense of purpose were 73% percent less likely to suffer a stroke compared to those with the lowest.
Other research has shown that positive mood can lower levels of the stress hormone cortisol (荷尔蒙皮质醇), also 43  in stroke.
“This is signigicant as we have a (n)   44  population and it helps show what behaviours prevent people from getting ill,” says Cary Cooper, professor of health psychology at Lancaster University. “Maybe   45  is not good for some.”
A) accounted
I) implicated
B) ageing
J) optimism
C) ambition
K) outstanding
D) damaging
L) pursuing
E) decreasing
M) retirement
F) dramatically
N) searched
G) effect
O) tracked
H) gradually

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.
The End of the Book ?
A) The cold snap in March could lead to Britain’s gas supplies running out next month, forcing the nation to pay higher prices for fuel from elsewhere, as the demand increased quickly during the coldest March in 50 years. Forecasts suggest that gas supplies in the UK will be exhausted by 8 April, requiring Britain to turn to imports from Norway and Russia. The warning came on the day Scottish and Southern Energy, one of the UK’s biggest power suppliers, warned there could be electricity blackouts in the country whining three years. A lack of gas storage facilities, and rapid reduction at the UK’s North Sea gas fields, has led to UK having as little as two days’ supply of the fuel in reserve.
B) Though experts have warned of the problem for years, and the government has championed a “dash for gas” that would see a massive rise in demand for the fuel, little has been done to increase storage facilities.
C) Ian Marchant, chief executive of SSE(Scottish and Southern Energy), said there is a “very risk of the lights going out”with the next three years. SSE intends to shutting down power plants, enough to have supplied 2 million homes, as the stations are either unecomonic or coming to the end of their lives. Other firms are also planning to take power stations out of service, including the UK’s fleet of ageing nuclear reactors, increasing the risk that demand for electricity will exceed the available supply. Marchant said: “It appears the government is significantly underestimating the scale of the capacity crunch(危急状况) facing the UK in the next three years and there is a very real risk of the lights going out as a result.”
D) His comments follow warnings by Alistair Buchanan, the departing chief of Ofgem(Office of the Gas and Electricity Markets), that power shortages will be many times more likely in the next five years. Government estimates suggest that energy bill could rise by ￡100 a year this winter. The warnings are a particular blow to George Osbome, the chancellor(大臣)， who has championed a new “dash for gas” in the UK, that would see gas take over as the dominat fuel in the UK’s power generation market. Much of the generating capacity that SSE plans to retire consists of gas-fired power stations, though the recent budget has given tax breaks for shale gas(页岩气) extraction in the UK and indicated what could be the biggest expansion of UK gas-fired power in a generation.
E) SSE said gas-fired power was uneconomic because of the fuel’s high price compared with the coal. The move by SSE highlights the disputes over energy policy and energy generation, following upheavals（激变）in the international markets for fossil fuels. It also bring into question whether targets to cut carbon dioxide can be met.
F) Andrew Pendleton, head of campaigns at Friends of the Earth, said energy firms were trying to hold the government to ransom(赎金) by threatening power cut that would help them extract concessions to get financial benefits. The UK has only six big energy suppliers to households, which campaigners say reduces competition and raises prices.
G) Coal has become much cheaper because of the use of fossil fuel in the US in the past five years, where a massive increase in the supply of cheap gas is attributed to the controversial method of blasting dense rocks apart under high pressure. The coal that would have been burned in the US is now available on international markets at cut-price, and now become “the preferred fuel”, according to SSE.
H) That is the opposite of what the government, and the EU intended by their energy policies in the past decade. Coal was supposed to become more expensive than gas, because of the EU’ emissions trading scheme, which puts a price on carbon emissions. That has not happened, because flaws within the system means the price of carbon is near an all-time low, meaning coal-fired power stations are not penalized for their effect on the climate.
I) Marchant urged the government to bring forward reforms favo