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1、大学英语四级模拟试题一 资料仅供参考 大学英语四级模拟试题 一 Part Listening Comprehension 20 minutes Section A Directions In this section you will hear 10 short conversations At the end of each conversation a question will be asked about what was said Both the conversation and the question will be spoken only once After each qu
2、estion 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 the Answer Sheet with a single line through the centre Example You will read A At the office B In the waiting room C At the airpor
3、t D In a restaurant From the conversation we know that the two were talking about some work they had to finish in the evening This conversation is most likely to have taken place at the office Therefore A At the office is the best answer You should choose A on the Answer Sheet and mark it with a sin
4、gle line through the centre Sample Answer A B C D 1 A The fourth floor B The fifth floor C The sixth floor D The seventh floor 2 A John bought a cheap computer B John bought Morris a computer C Morris bought a computer from John D Morris bought a new computer 3 A Recognize Jane first B Tell the woma
5、n why C Go on a diet D Feel at ease 4 A The white one B The brick one C The prettier one D The better one 5 A The summer this year is terribly hot B Last summer was even hotter C Hot weather helps lose weight D Light was stronger this morning 6 A No one on the bus was injured B Everyone on the bus w
6、as injured C Only one student on the bus was injured D More than one student on the bus was injured 7 A Drawing some money B Opening a deposit account C Saving much money D Putting money in the bank 8 A They have too little patience B They are not strict with students C They are very hard on student
7、s D They are more hardworking than before 9 A The woman is very worried B The man doesn t like thinking C The man has done something wrong D The woman can do nothing for the man 10 A Because the waist was a bit too tight B Because there wasn t any of her size C Because she didn t look good in the dr
8、ess 资料仅供参考 D Because the style was not what she liked Section B Compound Dictation A supermarket club card is a new way for people to save money on items they buy People used to cut out coupons 赠券 to S1 save money Now they use a card that looks like a S2 credit card when they pay for items Only peop
9、le with cards can get the S3 lower price To get a card people must give out their name address and other S4 personal information Everything club card users buy is S5 stored on a computer in a file with their name on it In the coupon days no one kept S6 track of the things people bought Now computers
10、 allow huge S7 amounts of information to be saved In order to save money with the cards people could lose privacy So far the information or data is private But that could change There are many companies who might be interested in knowing what people buy For instance S8 an insurance company might wan
11、t to know if their clients buy healthy food or if people buy a lot of medicine from the store A California Senator Debra Bowen wants to make sure there are laws to protect data kept on computers She says S9 The laws that govern privacy really haven t caught up with technology Stores that use club ca
12、rds have promised to keep the information private S10 Some people are afraid the stores might change their minds if companies offered enough money Some people say the information is worth as much as treasure Part Reading Comprehension 35 minutes Directions There are 4 passages in this part Each pass
13、age 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 the Answer Sheet with a single line through the centre Passage One Questions 11 to 15 are based on the follo
14、wing passage The predictability of our mortality rates is something that has long puzzled social scientists After all there is no natural reason why 2 500 people should accidentally shoot themselves each year or why 7 000 should drown or 55 000 die in their cars No one establishes a quota for each t
15、ype of death It just happens that they follow a consistent pattern year after year A few years ago a Canadian psychologist named Gerald Wilde became interested in this phenomenon He noticed that mortality rates for violent and accidental deaths throughout the Western world have remained oddly static
16、 throughout the whole of the century despite all the technological advances and increases in safety standards that have happened in that time Wilde developed an intriguing theory called risk homeostasis According to this theory people instinctively live with a certain level of risk When something is made safer 资料仅供参考 people will get around the measure in some way to reassert the original level of danger If for instance they are required to wear seat belts they will feel safer and thus will drive
