1、2018 年 6 月大学语四级模拟题 3 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 writing ability and how to develop it. You should write at least 120 words but no more than 180 words. （分数：106.50）_二、Part
2、 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.Annoyed.B.Scared.C.Confused.D.Offended.A.It crawled over the woman“s hands.B.It wound up on the steering wheel.C.It was killed by the police on the spot.D.It was co
3、vered with large scales.Questions 3 and 4 are based on the news report you have just heard. （分数：14.20）A.A study of the fast-food service.B.Fast food customer satisfaction.C.McDonald“s new business strategies.D.Competition in the fast-food industry.A.Customers“ higher demands.B.The inefficiency of em
4、ployees.C.Increased variety of products.D.The rising number of customers.Questions 5 to 7 are based on the news report you have just heard. （分数：21.30）A.International treaties regarding space travel programs.B.Legal issues involved in commercial space exploration.C.S. government“s approval of private
5、 space missions.D.Competition among public and private space companies.A.Deliver scientific equipment to the moon.B.Approve a new mission to travel into outer space.C.Work with federal agencies on space programs.D.Launch a manned spacecraft to Mars.A.It is significant.B.It is promising.C.It is unpre
6、dictable.D.It is unprofitable.四、Section B(总题数：2，分数：56.80)Questions 8 to 11 are based on the conversation you have just heard. （分数：28.40）A.Visiting her family in Thailand.B.Showing friends around Phuket.C.Swimming around a Thai island.D.Lying in the sun on a Thai beach.A.She visited a Thai orphanage.
7、B.She met a Thai girl“s parents.C.She learned some Thai words.D.She sunbathed on a Thai beach.A.His class will start in a minute.B.He has got an incoming phone call.C.Someone is knocking at his door.D.His phone is running out of power.A.He is interested in Thai artworks.B.He is going to open a souve
8、nir shop.C.He collects things from different countries.D.He wants to know more about Thai culture.Questions 12 to 15 are based on the conversation you have just heard. （分数：28.40）A.Buying some fitness equipment for the new gym.B.Opening a gym and becoming personal trainers.C.Signing up for a weight-l
9、oss course.D.Trying out a new gym in town.A.Professional personal training.B.Free exercise for the first week.C.A discount for a half-year membership.D.Additional benefits for young couples.A.The safety of weight-lifting.B.The high membership fee.C.The renewal of his membership.D.The operation of fi
10、tness equipment.A.She wants her invitation renewed.B.She used to do 200 sit-ups every day.C.She knows the basics of weight-lifting.D.She used to be the gym“s personal trainer.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：4
11、2.60）A.They tend to be nervous during interviews.B.They often apply for a number of positions.C.They worry about the results of their applications.D.They search extensively for employers“ information.A.Get better organized.B.Edit their references.C.Find better-paid jobs.D.Analyze the searching proce
12、ss.A.Provide their data in detail.B.Personalize each application.C.Make use of better search engines.D.Apply for more promising positions.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.If kids did not like school, real learning would not tak
13、e place.B.If not forced to go to school, kids would be out in the streets.C.If schools stayed the way they are, parents were sure to protest.D.If teaching failed to improve, kids would stay away from school.A.Allow them to play interesting games in class.B.Try to stir up their interest in lab experi
14、ments.C.Let them stay home and learn from their parents.D.Design activities they now enjoy doing on holidays.A.Allow kids to learn at their own pace.B.Encourage kids to learn from each other.C.Organize kids into various interest groups.D.Take kids out of school to learn at first hand.八、Passage Three
15、(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.It is especially popular in Florida and Alaska.B.It is a major social activity among the young.C.It is seen almost anywhere and on any occasion.D.It is even more expressive than the written word.A.It is loca
16、ted in a big city in Iowa.B.It is really marvelous to look at.C.It offers free dance classes to seniors.D.It offers people a chance to socialize.A.Their state of mind improved.B.They became better dancers.C.They enjoyed better health.D.Their relationship strengthened.A.It is fun.B.It is life.C.It is
17、 exhausting.D.It is rhythmical.九、Part Reading Compr(总题数：0，分数：0.00)十、Section A(总题数：1，分数：35.50)Neon (霓虹) is to Hong Kong as red phone booths are to London and fog is to San Francisco. When night falls, red and blue and other colors 1 a hazy (雾蒙蒙的) glow over a city lit up by tens of thousands of neon s
18、igns. But many of them are going dark, 2 by more practical, but less romantic, LEDs (发光二极管). Changing building codes, evolving tastes, and the high cost of maintaining those wonderful old signs have businesses embracing LEDs, which are energy 3 , but still carry great cost. “To me, neon represents m
19、emories of the past,“ says photographer Sharon Blance, whose series Hong Kong Neon celebrates the city“s famous signs. “Looking at the signs now I get a feeling of amazement, mixed with sadness.“ Building a neon sign is an art practiced by 4 trained on the job to mold glass tubes into 5 shapes and l
20、etters. They fill these tubes with gases that glow when 6 . Neon makes orange, while other gases make yellow or blue. It takes many hours to craft a single sign. Blance spent a week in Hong Kong and 7 more than 60 signs; 22 of them appear in the series that capture the signs lighting up lonely stree
21、tsan 8 that makes it easy to admire their colors and craftsmanship. “I love the beautiful, handcrafted, old-fashioned 9 of neon,“ says Blance. The signs do nothing more than 10 a restaurant, theater, or other business, but do so in the most striking way possible. A. alternative B. approach C. cast D
22、. challenging E. decorative F. efficient G. electrified H. identify I. photographed J. professionals K. quality L. replaced M. stimulate N. symbolizes O. volunteers（分数：35.50）十一、Section B(总题数：1，分数：71.00)New Jersey School District Eases Pressure on Students, Baring an Ethnic DivideA. This fall, David
23、Aderhold, the chief of a high-achieving school district near Princeton, New Jersey, sent parents an alarming 16-page letter. The school district, he said, was facing a crisis. Its students were overburdened and stressed out, having to cope with too much work and too many demands. In the previous sch
24、ool year, 120 middle and high school students were recommended for mental health assessments and 40 were hospitalized. And on a survey administered by the district, students wrote things like, “I hate going to school,“ and “Coming out of 12 years in this district, I have learned one thing: that a gr
25、ade, a percentage or even a point is to be valued over anything else.“ B. With his letter, Aderhold inserted West Windsor-Plainsboro Regional School District into a national discussion about the intense focus on achievement at elite schools, and whether it has gone too far. At follow- up meetings, h
26、e urged parents to join him in advocating a “whole child“ approach to schooling that respects “social-emotional development“ and “deep and meaningful learning“ over academics alone. The alternative, he suggested, was to face the prospect of becoming another Palo Alto, California, where outsize stres
27、s on teenage students is believed to have contributed to a number of suicides in the last six years. C. But instead of bringing families together, Aderhold“s letter revealed a divide in the district, which has 9,700 students, and one that broke down roughly along racial lines. On one side are white
28、parents like Catherine Foley, a former president of the Parent-Teacher-Student Association at her daughter“s middle school, who has come to see the district“s increasingly pressured atmosphere as opposed to learning. “My son was in fourth grade and told me, “I“m not going to amount to anything becau
29、se I have nothing to put on my rsum,“ she said. On the other side are parents like Mike Jia, one of the thousands of Asian-American professionals who have moved to the district in the past decade, who said Aderhold“s reforms would amount to a “dumbing down“ of his children“s education. “What is happ
30、ening here reflects a national anti-intellectual trend that will not prepare our children for the future,“ Jia said. D. About 10 minutes from Princeton and an hour and a half from New York City, West Windsor and Plainsboro have become popular bedroom communities for technology entrepreneurs, researc
31、hers and engineers, drawn in large part by the public schools. From the last three graduating classes, 16 seniors were admitted to MIT. It produces Science Olympiad winners, classically trained musicians and students with perfect SAT scores. E. The district has become increasingly popular with immig
32、rant families from China, India and Korea. This year, 65 percent of its students are Asian-American, compared with 44 percent in 2007. Many of them are the first in their families born in the United States. They have had a growing influence on the district. Asian-American parents are enthusiastic su
33、pporters of the competitive instrumental music program. They have been huge supporters of the district“s advanced mathematics program, which once began in the fourth grade but will now start in the sixth. The change to the program, in which 90 percent of the participating students are Asian- America
34、n, is one of Aderhold“s reforms. F. Asiau-American students have been eager participants in a state program that permits them to take summer classes off campus for high school credit, allowing them to maximize the number of honors and Advanced Placement classes they can take, another practice that A
35、derhold is limiting this school year. With many Asian-American children attending supplementary instructional programs, there is a perception among some white families that the elementary school curriculum is being sped up to accommodate them. G. Both Asian-American and white families say the tensio
36、n between the two groups has grown steadily over the past few years, as the number of Asian families has risen. But the division has become more obvious in recent months as Aderhold has made changes, including no-homework nights, an end to high school midterms and finals, and an initiative that made
37、 it easier to participate in the music program. H. Jennifer Lee, professor of sociology at the University of California, Irvine, and an author of The Asian American Achievement Paradox , says misunderstandings between first-generation Asian-American parents and those who have been in this country lo
38、nger are common. What white middle-class parents do not always understand, she said, is how much pressure recent immigrants feel to boost their children into the middle class. “They don“t have the same chances to get their children internships (实习职位) or jobs at law firms,“ Lee said. “So what they be
39、lieve is that their children must excel and beat their white peers in academic settings so they have the same chances to excel later.“ I. The issue of the stresses felt by students in elite school districts has gained attention in recent years as schools in places like Newton, Massachusetts, and Pal
40、o Alto have reported a number of suicides. West Windsor-Plainsboro has not had a teenage suicide in recent years, but Aderhold, who has worked in the district for seven years and been chief for the last three years, said he had seen troubling signs. In a recent art assignment, a middle school studen
41、t depicted (描绘) an overburdened child who was being scolded for earning an A, rather than an A+, on a math exam. In the image, the mother scolds the student with the words, “Shame on you!“ Further, he said, the New Jersey Education Department has flagged at least two pieces of writing on state Engli
42、sh language assessments in which students expressed suicidal thoughts. J. The survey commissioned by the district found that 68 percent of high school honor and Advanced Placement students reported feeling stressed about school “always or most of the time.“ “We need to bring back some balance,“ Ader
43、hold said. “You don“t want to wait until it“s too late to do something.“ K. Not all public opinion has fallen along racial lines. Karen Sue, the Chinese-American mother of a fifth-grader and an eighth-grader, believes the competition within the district has gotten out of control. Sue, who was born i
44、n the United States to immigrant parents, wants her peers to dial it back. “It“s become an arms race, an educational arms race,“ she said. “We all want our kids to achieve and be successful. The question is, at what cost?“（分数：71.00）(1).Aderhold is limiting the extra classes that students are allowed
45、 to take off campus.（分数：7.10）(2).White and Asian-American parents responded differently to Aderhold“s appeal（分数：7.10）(3).Suicidal thoughts have appeared in some students“ writings.（分数：7.10）(4).Aderhold“s reform of the advanced mathematics program will affect Asian-American students most.（分数：7.10）(5)
46、.Aderhold appealed for parents“ support in promoting an all-round development of children, instead of focusing only on their academic performance.（分数：7.10）(6).One Chinese-American parent thinks the competition in the district has gone too far.（分数：7.10）(7).Immigrant parents believe that academic exce
47、llence will allow their children equal chances to succeed in the future.（分数：7.10）(8).Many businessmen and professionals have moved to West Windsor and Plainsboro because of the public schools there.（分数：7.10）(9).A number of students in Aderhold“s school district were found to have stress-induced ment
48、al health problems.（分数：7.10）(10).The tension between Asian-American and white families has increased in recent years.（分数：7.10）十二、Section C(总题数：0，分数：0.00)十三、Passage One(总题数：1，分数：71.00)Living in an urban area with green spaces has a long-lasting positive impact on people“s mental well-being, a study h
49、as suggested. UK researchers found moving to a green space had a sustained positive effect, unlike pay rises or promotions, which only provided a short-term boost. Co-author Mathew White, from the University of Exeter, UK, explained that the study showed people living in greener urban areas were displaying fewer signs of depression or anxiety. “There could be a number of reasons,“ he said, “for example, people do many things to make themselves happier: they strive for promotion or pay rises, or t
