1、2018 年 6 月大学英语四级模拟题 2 及答案解析(总分：710.00，做题时间：90 分钟)一、Part Writing(总题数：1，分数：106.50)1.Directions : For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a short essay on the importance of reading ability and how to develop it. You should write at least 120 words but no more than 180 words. （分数：106.50）_二、Pa
2、rt Listening Com(总题数：0，分数：0.00)三、Section A(总题数：3，分数：49.70)Questions 1 and 2 are based on the news report you have just heard. （分数：14.20）A.The return of a bottled message to its owner“s daughter.B.A New Hampshire man“s joke with friends on his wife.C.A father“s message for his daughter.D.The history
3、of a century-old motel.A.She wanted to show gratitude for his kindness.B.She wanted to honor her father“s promise.C.She had been asked by her father to do so.D.She was excited to see her father“s handwriting.Questions 3 and 4 are based on the news report you have just heard. （分数：14.20）A.People were
4、concerned about the number of bees.B.Several cases of Zika disease had been identified.C.Two million bees were infected with disease.D.Zika virus had destroyed some bee farms.A.It apologized to its customers.B.It was forced to kill its bees.C.It lost a huge stock of bees.D.It lost 2.5 million dollar
5、s.Questions 5 to 7 are based on the news report you have just heard. （分数：21.30）A.It stayed in the air for about two hours.B.It took off and landed on a football field.C.It proved to be of high commercial value.D.It made a series of sharp turns in the sky.A.Engineering problems.B.The air pollution it
6、 produced.C.Inadequate funding.D.The opposition from the military.A.It uses the latest aviation technology.B.It flies faster than a commercial jet.C.It is a safer means of transportation.D.It is more environmentally friendly.四、Section B(总题数：2，分数：56.80)Questions 8 to 11 are based on the conversation
7、you have just heard. （分数：28.40）A.It seems a depressing topic.B.It sounds quite alarming.C.It has little impact on our daily life.D.It is getting more serious these days.A.The man doesn“t understand Spanish.B.The woman doesn“t really like dancing.C.They don“t want something too noisy.D.They can“t mak
8、e it to the theatre in time.A.It would be more fun without Mr. Whitehead hosting.B.It has too many acts to hold the audience“s attention.C.It is the most amusing show he has ever watched.D.It is a show inappropriate for a night of charity.A.Watch a comedy.B.Go and see the dance.C.Book the tickets on
9、line.D.See a film with the man.Questions 12 to 15 are based on the conversation you have just heard. （分数：28.40）A.Most of her schoolmates are younger than she is.B.She simply has no idea what school to transfer in.C.There are too many activities for her to cope with.D.She worries she won“t fit in as
10、a transfer student.A.Seek advice from senior students.B.Pick up some meaningful hobbies.C.Participate in after-school activities.D.Look into what the school offers.A.Give her help whenever she needs it.B.Accept her as a transfer student.C.Find her accommodation on campus.D.Introduce her to her roomm
11、ates.A.She has interests similar to Mr. Lee“s.B.She has become friends with Catherine.C.She has chosen the major Catherine has.D.She has just transferred to the college.五、Section C(总题数：0，分数：0.00)六、Passage One(总题数：1，分数：42.60)Questions 16 to 18 are based on the passage you have just heard. （分数：42.60）A
12、.To investigate how being overweight impacts on health.B.To find out which physical drive is the most powerful.C.To discover what most mice like to eat.D.To determine what feelings mice have.A.When they are hungry.B.When they are thirsty.C.When they smell food.D.When they want company.A.They search
13、for food in groups.B.They are overweight when food is plenty.C.They prefer to be with other mice.D.They enjoy the company of other animals.七、Passage Two(总题数：1，分数：42.60)Questions 19 to 21 are based on the passage you have just heard. （分数：42.60）A.Its construction started before World War I.B.Its const
14、ruction cost more than $40 billion.C.It is efficiently used for transport.D.It is one of the best in the world.A.To improve transportation in the countryside.B.To move troops quickly from place to place.C.To enable people to travel at a higher speed.D.To speed up the transportation of goods.A.In the
15、 1970s.B.In the 1960s.C.In the 1950s.D.In the 1940s.八、Passage Three(总题数：1，分数：56.80)Questions 22 to 25 are based on the passage you have just heard. （分数：56.80）A.Chatting while driving.B.Messaging while driving.C.Driving under age.D.Speeding on highways.A.A gadget to hold a phone on the steering wheel
16、.B.A gadget to charge the phone in a car.C.A device to control the speed of a vehicle.D.A device to ensure people drive with both hands.A.The car keeps flashing its headlights.B.The car slows down gradually to a halt.C.They are alerted with a light and a sound.D.They get a warning on their smart pho
17、ne.A.Installing a camera.B.Using a connected app.C.Checking their emails.D.Keeping a daily record.九、Part Reading Compr(总题数：0，分数：0.00)十、Section A(总题数：1，分数：35.50)Since the 1940s, southern California has had a reputation for smog. Things are not as bad as they once were but, according to the American L
18、ung Association, Los Angeles is still the worst city in the United States for levels of 1 . Gazing down on the city from the Getty Center, an art museum in the Santa Monica Mountains, one would find the view of the Pacific Ocean blurred by the haze (霾). Nor is the state“s bad air 2 to its south. Fre
19、sno, in the central valley, comes top of the list in America for year-round pollution. Residents“ hearts and lungs are affected as a 3 . All of which, combined with California“s reputation as the home of technological 4 , makes the place ideal for developing and testing systems designed to monitor p
20、ollution in 5 . And that is just what Aclima, a new firm in San Francisco, has been doing over the past few months. It has been trying out monitoring stations that are 6 to yield minute-to-minute maps of 7 air pollution. Such stations will also be able to keep an eye on what is happening inside buil
21、dings, including offices. To this end, Aclima has been 8 with Google“s Street View system. Davida Herzl, Aclima“s boss, says they have revealed pollution highs on days when San Francisco“s transit workers went on strike and the city“s 9 were forced to use their cars. Conversely, “cycle to work“ days
22、 have done their job by 10 pollution lows. A. assisted B. collaborating C. consequence D. consumers E. creating F. detail G. domestic H. frequently I. inhabitants J. innovation K. intended L. outdoor M. pollutants N. restricted O. sum（分数：35.50）十一、Section B(总题数：1，分数：71.00)As Tourists Crowd Out Locals
23、, Venice Faces “Endangered“ ListA. On a recent fall morning, a large crowd blocked the steps at one of Venice“s main tourist sites, the Rialto Bridge. The Rialto Bridge is one of the four bridges spanning the Grand Canal. It is the oldest bridge across the canal, and was the dividing line between th
24、e districts of San Marco and San Polo. But on this day, there was a twist: it was filled with Venetians, not tourists. B. “People are cheering and holding their carts in the air,“ says Giovanni Giorgio, who helped organize the march with a grass-roots organization called Generazione “90. The carts h
25、e refers to are small shopping cartsthe symbol of a true Venetian. “It started as a joke,“ he says with a laugh. “The idea was to put blades on the wheels! You know? Like Ben Hur. Precisely like that, you just go around and run people down.“ C. Venice is one of the hottest tourist destinations in th
26、e world. But that“s a problem. Up to 90,000 tourists crowd its streets and canals every dayfar outnumbering the 55,000 permanent residents. The tourist increase is one key reason the city“s population is down from 175,000 in the 1950s. The outnumbered Venetians have been steadily fleeing. And those
27、who stick around are tired of living in a place where they can“t even get to the market without swimming through a sea of picture-snapping tourists. Imagine, navigating through 50,000 people while on the way to school or to work. D. Laura Chigi, a grandmother at the march, says the local and nationa
28、l governments have failed to do anything about the crowds for decades, because they“re only interested in tourismthe primary industry in Venice, worth more than $3 billion in 2015. “Venice is a cash cow,“ she says, “and everyone wants a piece.“ E. Just beyond St. Mark“s Square, a cruise ship passes,
29、 one of hundreds every year that appear over their medieval (中世纪的) surroundings. Their massive wake creates waves at the bottom of the sea, weakening the foundations of the centuries-old buildings themselves. “Every time I see a cruise ship, I feel sad,“ Chigi says. “You see the mud it drags; the de
30、struction it leaves in its wake? That hurts the ancient wooden poles holding up the city underwater. One day we“ll see Venice break down.“ F. For a time, UNESCO, the cultural wing of the United Nations, seemed to agree. Two years ago, it put Italy on notice, saying the government was not protecting
31、Venice. UNESCO considers the entire city a World Heritage Site, a great honor that means Venice, at the cultural level, belongs to all of the world“s people. In 2014, UNESCO gave Italy two years to manage Venice“s flourishing tourism or the city would be placed on another listWorld Heritage In Dange
32、r, joining such sites as Aleppo and Palmyra, destroyed by the war in Syria. G. Venice“s deadline passed with barely a murmur (嘟哝) this summer, just as UNESCO was meeting in Istanbul. Only one representative, Jad Tabet from Lebanon, tried to raise the issue. “For several years, the situation of herit
33、age in Venice has been worsening, and it has now reached a dramatic situation,“ Tabet told UNESCO. “We have to act quickly, there is not a moment to waste.“ H. But UNESCO didn“t even hold a vote. “It“s been postponed until 2017,“ says Anna Somers, the founder and CEO of The Art Newspaper and the for
34、mer head of Venice in Peril, a group devoted to restoring Venetian art. She says the main reason the U.N. cultural organization didn“t vote to declare Venice a World Heritage Site In Danger is because UNESCO has become “intensely politicized. There would have been some back-room negotiations.“ I. It
35、aly boasts more UNESCO World Heritage Sites than any other country in the world, granting it considerable power and influence within the organization. The former head of the UNESCO World Heritage Centre, which oversees heritage sites, is Francesco Bandarin, a Venetian who now serves as UNESCO“s assi
36、stant director-general for culture. J. Earlier this year, Italy signed an accord with UNESCO to establish a task force of police art detectives and archaeologists (考古学家) to protect cultural heritage from natural disasters and terror groups, such as ISIS. The accord underlined Italy“s global reputati
37、on as a good steward of art and culture. K. But adding Venice to the UNESCO endangered listwhich is dominated by sites in developing and conflict-ridden countrieswould be an international embarrassment, and could even hurt Italy“s profitable tourism industry. The Italian Culture Ministry says it is
38、unaware of any government efforts to pressure UNESCO. As for the organization itself, it declined a request for an interview. L. The city“s current mayor, Luigi Brugnaro, has ridiculed UNESCO and told it to mind its own business, while continuing to support the cruise ship industry, which employs 5,
39、000 Venice residents. M. As for Venetians, they“re beyond frustrated and hoping for a solution soon. “It“s a nightmare for me. Some situations are really difficult with tourists around,“ says Giorgio as he navigates around a swelling crowd at the Rialto Bridge. “There are just so many of them. They
40、never know where they are going, and do not walk in an orderly manner. Navigating the streets can be exhausting.“ N. Then it hits him: This crowd isn“t made up of tourists. They“re Venetians. Giorgio says he“s never experienced the Rialto Bridge this way in all his 22 years. “For once, we are the on
41、es who are blocking the traffic,“ he says delightedly. “It feels unreal. It feels like we“re some form of endangered species. It“s just nice. The feeling is just pure.“ But, he worries, if tourism isn“t managed and his fellow locals continue to move to the mainland, his generation might be the last
42、who can call themselves native Venetians.（分数：71.00）(1).The passing cruise ships will undermine the foundations of the ancient buildings in Venice.（分数：7.10）(2).The Italian government has just reached an agreement with UNESCO to take measures to protect its cultural heritage.（分数：7.10）(3).The heritage
43、situation in Venice has been deteriorating in the past few years.（分数：7.10）(4).The decrease in the number of permanent residents in Venice is mainly due to the increase of tourists.（分数：7.10）(5).If tourism gets out of control, native Venetians may desert the city altogether one day.（分数：7.10）(6).UNESCO
44、 urged the Italian government to undertake its responsibility to protect Venice.（分数：7.10）(7).The participants in the Venetian march used shopping carts to show they were 100% local residents.（分数：7.10）(8).Ignoring UNESCO“s warning, the mayor of Venice maintains his support of the city“s tourism indus
45、try.（分数：7.10）(9).One woman says that for decades the Italian government and local authorities have only focused on the revenues from tourism.（分数：7.10）(10).UNESCO has not yet decided to put Venice on the list of World Heritage Sites In Danger.（分数：7.10）十二、Section C(总题数：0，分数：0.00)十三、Passage One(总题数：1，分
46、数：71.00)Losing your ability to think and remember is pretty scary. We know the risk of dementia (痴呆) increases with age. But if you have memory slips, you probably needn“t worry. There are pretty clear differences between signs of dementia and age-related memory loss. After age 50, it“s quite common
47、 to have trouble remembering the names of people, places and things quickly, says Dr. Kirk Daffner of Brigham and Women“s Hospital in Boston. The brain ages just like the rest of the body. Certain parts shrink, especially areas in the brain that are important to learning, memory and planning. Change
48、s in brain cells can affect communication between different regions of the brain. And blood flow can be reduced as blood vessels narrow. Forgetting the name of an actor in a favorite movie, for example, is nothing to worry about. But if you forget the plot of the movie or don“t remember even seeing
49、it, that“s far more concerning, Daffner says. When you forget entire experiences, he says, that“s “a red flag that something more serious may be involved.“ Forgetting how to operate a familiar object like a microwave oven, or forgetting how to drive to the house of a friend you“ve visited many times before can also be signs of something going wrong. But even then, Daffner says, people shouldn“t panic. There are many things that can cause confusion and memory loss, including health problems like
