1、国家公共英语（四级）笔试模拟试卷 329及答案与解析 PART A Directions: For Questions 1-5, you will hear a conversation. While you listen, fill out the table with the information you have heard. Some of the information has been given to you in the table. Write only 1 word in each numbered box. You will hear the recording twi
2、ce. You now have 25 seconds to read the table below. 1 PART B Directions: For Questions 6-10, you will hear a passage. Use not more than 3 words for each answer. You will hear the recording twice. You now have 25 seconds to read the sentences and the questions below. 6 PART C Directions: You will he
3、ar three dialogues or monologues. Before listening to each one, you will have 5 seconds to read each of the questions which accompany it. While listening, answer each question by choosing A, B, C or D. After listening, you will have 10 seconds to check your answer to each question. You will hear eac
4、h piece ONLY ONCE. 11 What is the man s chief responsibility in the Green Peace organization? （ A） He s involved in anti-nuclear activity. （ B） He s responsible for conservation and protection of animals. （ C） He s the action organizer and arranges any protests. （ D） He s involved in protection and
5、support of the eco-system. 12 How does Green Peace try to stop people from dumping nuclear waste? （ A） They harass the dumping ship with boats. （ B） They attack the dumping ships. （ C） They talk with them in a mild way. （ D） They stop them in a violent way. 13 What is the woman s attitude towards th
6、e Green Peace campaigns? （ A） Contempt. （ B） Appreciate. （ C） Disapprove. （ D） Suspicious. 14 What crops does the farmer grow? （ A） Cotton every year. （ B） Corn and wheat. （ C） Rice. （ D） Other things. 15 How does the farmer pay his employees? （ A） Hourly. （ B） Weekly. （ C） Monthly. （ D） Yearly. 16
7、What work does the farmer need to do? （ A） Irrigate my fields. （ B） Apply pesticides. （ C） Fix machines. （ D） All the above. 17 Why did Jane want to go back to work? （ A） Because she was bored with her husband. （ B） Because she would like to help with the family s finances. （ C） Because she was offe
8、red a good job. （ D） Because she was bored with her children. 18 How did Jane spend her days before she went back to work? （ A） Watching TV. （ B） Taking good care of her husband. （ C） Doing housework. （ D） Reading newspaper. 19 Between whom did the problem arise when Jane went back to work? （ A） Jan
9、e and the children. （ B） Jane and Bill. （ C） Bill and the children. （ D） Jane and the neighbour. 20 What does the story try to tell us? （ A） Parents should take good care of their children. （ B） Man and wife should share household duties. （ C） Women should never have their own careers. （ D） Women sh
10、ould do all the housework. 一、 Section II Use of English (15 minutes) Directions: Read the following text. Choose the best word for each numbered blank and mark A, B, C or D on ANSWER SHEET 1. 20 Pay and productivity, it is generally assumed, should be related. But the relationship seems to weaken【 C
11、1】 _people get older. Mental ability declines with age. That is the same for the brainy and the dim and not 【 C2】 _for humans: it is measurable even for fruit flies.【 C3】 _minds that keep lively will suffer less than the lazy. In general, the more education you have, the more productive your old【 C4
12、】 _will be. Some【 C5】 _decline faster than others. According to most studies, people s numerical and reasoning abilities are at their best in their 20 s and early 30 s.【 C6】_abilities those that depend on knowledge may improve with age. For most workers, decreased abilities will【 C7】 _to lower produ
13、ctivity; only a minority will find know-how and knowledge outweighs their failing powers. Even those employees who remain highly productive will be likely to shine only in a narrow【 C8】_. Academics notice this. It is less clear that employers do. Studies of supervisors-ratings show no clear correlat
14、ion【 C9】 _age and perceived productivity. When other employees-views are【 C10】 _into account though, the picture changes: these ratings suggest that workers in their 30s are the【 C11】 _productive and hardworking, with scores falling thereafter. That is【 C12】 _up by studies of work samples, which fin
15、d lower productivity among the oldest employees. A study for America s Department of Labor showed job performance peaking at 35, and【 C13】 _declining. It varied by industry: the fall was slower in footwear, but faster in furniture. Intellectual occupations are harder to measure, but the picture is t
16、he same. Academics seem to publish【 C14】 _ as they age. Painters, musicians and writers show the same tendency. Their output peaks in their 30s and 40s. The only【 C15】 _is female writers, who are most productive in their 50 s. 21 【 C1】 22 【 C2】 23 【 C3】 24 【 C4】 25 【 C5】 26 【 C6】 27 【 C7】 28 【 C8】 2
17、9 【 C9】 30 【 C10】 31 【 C11】 32 【 C12】 33 【 C13】 34 【 C14】 35 【 C15】 Part A 35 On the north bank of the Ohio River sits Evansville, Ind. , home of David Williams, 52, and of a riverboat casino (a place where gambling games are played). During several years of gambling in that casino, Williams, a stat
18、e auditor earning $35,000 a year, lost approximately $ 175,000. He had never gambled before the casino sent him a coupon for $ 20 worth of gambling. He visited the casino, lost the $20 and left. On his second visit he lost $800. The casino issued to him, as a good customer, a “Fun Card“, which when
19、used in the casino earns points for meals and drinks, and enables the casino to track the user s gambling activities. For Williams, those activities become what he calls “electronic heroin. “ 【 R1】 _. In 1997 he lost $21,000 to one slot machine in two days. In March 1997 he lost $ 72,186. He sometim
20、es played two slot machines at a time, all night, until the boat docked at 5 a. m. , then went back aboard when the casino opened at 9 a. m. Now he is suing the casino, charging that it should have refused his patronage because it knew he was addicted. It did know he had a problem. In March 1998, a
21、friend of Williams s got him involuntarily confined to a treatment center for addictions, and wrote to inform the casino of Williams s gambling problem. The casino included a photo of Williams among those of banned gamblers, and wrote to him a “cease admissions“ letter. Noting the “medical/psycholog
22、ical“ nature of problem gambling behavior, the letter said that before being readmitted to the casino he would have to present medical/psychological information demonstrating that patronizing the casino would pose no threat to his safety or well-being. 【 R2】 _. The Wall Street Journal reports that t
23、he casino has 24 signs warning: “Enjoy the fun.and always bet with your head, not over it“. Every entrance ticket lists a toll-free number for counseling from the Indiana Department of Mental Health. Nevertheless, Williams s suit charges that the casino, knowing he was “helplessly addicted to gambli
24、ng“, intentionally worked to “lure“ him to “engage in conduct against his will. “ Well. 【 R3】 _. The fourth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders says “ pathological gambling“ involves persistent, recurring and uncontrollable pursuit less of money than of the thrill of
25、 taking risks in quest of a windfall. 【 R4】 _. Pushed by science, or what claims to be science, society is reclassifying what once were considered character flaws or moral failings as personality disorders akin to physical disabilities. 【 R5】 _. Forty-four states have lotteries, 29 have casinos, and
26、 most of these states are to varying degrees dependent on you might say addicted to revenues from wagering. And since the first Internet gambling site was created in 1995, competition for gamblers dollars has become intense. The Oct. 28 issue of Newsweek reported that 2 million gamblers patronize 1,
27、800 virtual casinos every week. With $3. 5 billion being lost on Internet wagers this year, gambling has passed pornography as the Web s most profitable business. A Although no such evidence was presented, the casino s marketing department continued to pepper him with mailings And he entered the cas
28、ino and used his Fun Card without being detected. B It is unclear what luring was required, given his compulsive behavior. And in what sense was his will operative? C By the time he had lost $ 5,000 he said to himself that if he could get back to even, he would quit. One night he won $ 5,500, but he
29、 did not quit. D Gambling has been a common feature of American life forever, but for a long time it was broadly considered a sin, or a social disease. Now it is a social policy: the most important and aggressive promoter of gambling in America is the government. E David Williams s suit should troub
30、le this gambling nation. But dont bet on it. F It is worrisome that society is medicalizing more and more behavioral problems, often defining as addictions what earlier, sterner generations explained as weakness of will. G The anonymous, lonely, undistracted nature of online gambling is especially c
31、onductive to compulsive behavior. But even if the government knew how to move against Internet gambling, what would be its grounds for doing so? 36 【 R1】 37 【 R2】 38 【 R3】 39 【 R4】 40 【 R5】 Part B Directions: Read the following four texts. Answer the questions below each text by choosing A, B, C or
32、D . Mark your answers on ANSWER SHEET 1. 40 Every country with a monetary system of its own has to have some kind of market in which dealers in bills, notes, and other forms of short term credit can buy and sell. The“money market“ is a set of institutions or arrangements for handling what might be c
33、alled wholesale transactions in money and short term credit. The need for such facilities arises in much the same way that a similar need does in connection with the distribution of any of the products of a diversified economy to their final users at the retail level. If the retailer is to provide r
34、easonably adequate service to his customers , he must have active contacts with others who specialize in making or handling bulk quantities of whatever is his stock in trade. The money market is made up of specialized facilities of exactly this kind. It exists for the purpose of improving the abilit
35、y of the retailers of financial services commercial banks, savings institutions, investment houses, lending agencies, and even governments to do their jobs. It has little if any contact with the individuals or firms who maintain accounts with these various retailers or purchase their securities or b
36、orrow from them. The elemental functions of a money market must be performed in any kind of modern economy, even one that is largely planned or socialist, but the arrangements in socialist countries do not ordinarily take the form of a market. Money markets exist in countries that use market process
37、es rather than planned allocations to distribute most of their primary resources among alternative uses. The general distinguishing feature of a money market is that it relies upon open competition among those who are bulk suppliers of funds at any particular time and among those seeking bulk funds,
38、 to work out the best practicable distribution of the existing total volume of such funds. In their market transactions, those with bulk supplies of funds or demands for them, rely on groups of intermediaries who act as brokers or dealers. The characteristics of these middlemen, the services they pe
39、rform, and their relationship to other parts of the financial vary widely from country to country. In many countries there is no single meeting place where the middlemen get together, yet in most countries the contacts among all participants are sufficiently open and free to assure each supplier or
40、user of funds that he will get or pay a price that fairly reflects all of the influences(including his own)that are currently affecting the whole supply and the whole demand. In nearly all cases, moreover, the unifying force of competition is reflected at any given moment in a common price(that is,
41、rate of interest)for similar transactions. Continuous fluctuations in the money market rates of interest result from changes in the pressure of available supplies of funds upon the market and in the pull of current demands upon the market. 41 The first paragraph is mainly about_. （ A） the definition
42、 of money market （ B） the constitution of a money market （ C） the basic functions of a money market （ D） the general feature of a money market 42 According to this passage, a money market_. （ A） provides convenient services to its customers （ B） has close contact with the individuals or firms seekin
43、g funds （ C） maintains accounts with various retailers of financial services （ D） is made up of institutions who specialize in handling wholesale monetary transactions 43 Which of the following statements about a money market is NOT true according to this passage? （ A） Money market does not exist in
44、. planned economies. （ B） Money market has been established in some socialist countries. （ C） Money market encourages open competition among bulk suppliers of funds. （ D） Money market relies upon market processes to distribute funds to final users. 44 The author uses the example of middleman to show
45、_. （ A） market transactions are important in different countries （ B） dealers are needed in doing business （ C） middlemen can play great role in different transactions and different countries （ D） middlemen in different countries have different actions in business 45 According to this passage, _. （
46、A） brokers usually perform the same kinds of services to their customers （ B） brokers have little contact with each other （ C） open competition tends to result in a common price for similar transactions at any given moment （ D） changes in the pressure of available supplies of funds upon market tends
47、 to maintain a common price for similar transactions 45 About 50 years ago the idea of disabled people doing sports was never heard of. But when the annual games for the disabled were started at Stroke Mandeville, England in 1948 by Sir Ludwig Guttmann, the situation began to change. Sir Ludwig Gutt
48、mann, who had been driven to England in 1939 from Nazi Germany, had been asked by the British government to set up an injuries centre at Stroke Mandeville Hospital near London. His ideas about treating injuries included sports for the disabled. In the first games just two teams of injured soldiers t
49、ook part. The next year, 1949, five teams took part. From those beginnings things developed fast. Teams now come from abroad to Stroke Mandeville every year. In 1960 the first Olympics for the Disabled were held in Rome. Now, every four years the Olympic Games for the Disabled are held, if possible, in the same place as the normal Olympic Games, although they are organized separately. In other years Games for the Disabled are st
