1、大学英语四级模拟试卷 351及答案与解析 一、 Part I Writing (30 minutes) 1 For this part, you are allowed thirty minutes to write a letter. Suppose you are Li Ming. You are finishing the four-year college life. Write a letter to your most-beloved teacher to express your gratitude. You should write at least 120 words and
2、 you should base your composition on the outline (given in Chinese ) below. 你 (李明 )即将结束四年大学学习生活，写一封感谢信给你最尊敬的老师表达你的感激之情。 二、 Part II Reading Comprehension (Skimming and Scanning) (15 minutes) Directions: In this part, you will have 15 minutes to go over the passage quickly and answer the questions att
3、ached to the passage. For questions 1-7, mark： Y (for YES) if the statement agrees with the information given in the passage; N (for NO) if the statement contradicts the information given in the passage; NG (for NOT GIVEN) if the information is not given in the passage. 1 Love and Money Reshape Fami
4、ly in China Getting married in todays China is far easier than even four years ago: The couple took a number, waited in line, and said “I do“ in just over an hour. The certificate costs about $1.15. Marriage forms no longer ask frightening questions about parents history or Communist Party affiliati
5、ons. Nor must couples seek permission from their “work unit“ boss, a major shift from last year. Marriage and public security bureaus are reportedly no longer connected. Today, urban Chinese are free as never before to pursue what have become the twin engines of family dynamics heres love and money.
6、 In the 200 cities with more than a million people, love and money are dictating historic changes in the traditional family that had already been shrinking due to the one-child policy. Dating and romance are in, living with parents is out, wives and daughters enjoy enhanced roles. A new galaxy of at
7、titudes and values is transforming the basic building block of Chinese society. Love and money Now, for the first time on a wide scale, Chinese may pursue a spouse of their own choosing. Only 2 in 10 young Chinese used to choose their life partner; today, 9 in 10 say they have or will, acc6rding to
8、a China Daily report. Along with this, a discourse of “feeling“ and “emotion“ that used to exist mainly in elite circles is now heard at all levels, from tycoons to taxi drivers. Shops advertise “passion styles“ for cars and kitchens. Romance novels are a rage. In the past, couples often did not dem
9、onstrate affection inside a strict, loyalty-based family hierarchy. It was better not to, as Harvard sociologist Martin Why to points out, since it might suggest a sons loyalty was not entirely clear. Couples always lived with the husbands parents, and in times of argument, sons were expected to sid
10、e with family elders, not wives. Sons were dependent on parents. Divorce was discouraged and nearly non-existent. Marriages were arranged among families or inside “work units“; a main criterion was the communist or “revolutionary“ credentials of the spouses family. But now marriage is based on feeli
11、ng. “I want to fall in love,“ says Ms. Xin, a 19-year-old student at a shopping mall. “I dont want to moan forever about money and jobs. Love is first. Other things are important but not first.“ Yet the dreams of young women like Xin can be tempered by economic realities. Shes part of the first gene
12、ration who must find their own jobs and earn their own wages. This creates some anxiety. Apartments are no longer subsidized; jobs no longer guaranteed. Many parents have no advice for their offspring about a China evolving at a bewildering rate. Wealth, it turns out, has caused many urban Chinese t
13、o think and behave in ways that dont always include families. Boarding schools have tripled in the past decade. Extramarital relations have skyrocketed. As the cost of living increases in urban China, many young women, often from outside the city, are subsidized by men. A new concept: dating China h
14、as 3,000-plus years of feudal order, guaranteed partly by a stable family. That family is now undeniably changing. Consider these structural shifts: Dating is a new concept, maybe four years old. Before, one never talked about a “boyfriend“ or “girlfriend“. A special friend was a “partner,“ and it i
15、mplied an impending marriage. No longer. In the city, females will ask males out. Young Chinese want to get to know one another. The American “eight-minute date“ has just hit Beijing. In Chinas shift to a market economy, one key marriage player has been phased out: the work- unit boss. For 50 years,
16、 the boss was a de facto sergeant inside state-run enterprises. He or she policed behavior among the sexes, assisted with family problems, often helped set up single women approaching the unofficial “spinster“ age of 30, and approved all matches. Now the work-unit boss no longer approves marriages;
17、the position is disappearing along with state-run businesses. Weddings in pre-1980 China were simple, short, and cheap. Today, 70 percent of the weddings done by Purple House, a Beijing agency, are Western-style - vows, white dresses, churches, receptions, says Shi Yu. Mr. Yu is Purple Houses “maste
18、r of ceremonies“, a combination minister-DJ for the ceremony. Weddings used to cost $ 40. Now they easily run $ 4,000 and are a status symbol. Once married, Chinese couples are no longer choosing to live with parents at home, a huge change. Some 60 to 70 percent of couples no longer live with parent
19、s, and in the reporting for this series, virtually no young Chinese said they would live at home if they could afford not to. One counter-trend is to live a “bowl of soup“ distance away - move to within a few blocks. This neatly supplements another new trend: full-time care of children by grandparen
20、ts. The maturing of the one-child policy, combined with the ability of couples to buy their own apartments, is creating its own “empty nest“ condition. This means that older people are starting to experience an often terrible new loneliness. China is still a country with respect for eiders. Yet a pu
21、blic-service ad on Chinese TV shows an elderly lady cooking all day. As she sets the table for dinner, the phone calls come one by one: “I cant make it. Can I come tomorrow?“ The ad ends with a solitary figure sitting at a table of food and the words, “Dont forget your parents“ A sense of accelerati
22、on That acceleration is reflected in the way relationships are being formed and conducted. Cellphones and the Internet provide the kind of intimacy and instant connection never before possible in China. The nation now has 400 million cellphone users, double the number in the late 1990s, according to
23、 13o Landin, a former executive with Ericsson. Even many migrant workers now carry cellphones. In a way not found in the West, young Chinese take their new cellphone liberation and Internet relationships seriously. Text messages allow young men or women, who are often painfully shy, to conduct a rap
24、id-fire dialogue that has its own interpersonal language. High tech has made introductions easy. White collar companies now woo recruits by bragging about their weekly singles mixers. Introduction services have cropped up, advertising that clients will “find that tight spouse“. One service in Beijin
25、g offers four levels of matchmaking possibility, ranging from a $ 25 Web inspection of members to an $ 800 “Gold“ membership featuring a party for you with b6oze, balloons, and an “A“ list of prospective females. Yet our reporting shows that couples rarely find each other at these places. Rather, it
26、 remains friends, alumni, work, and family where marriages develop. China debates “family values“ Most Chinese agree the family is undergoing tremendous change. But views on what that means run the gamut. Some feel society is headed for serious disorder due to a loss of values like sacrifice, family
27、 loyalty, and fidelity. Others see a better China emerging after a period of shakeout, with greater choice and maturity. At one level, the fight is between traditionalists and progressives. Many of the former feel that an avaricious new money culture will corrupt China and send it into uncharted wat
28、ers. They see women becoming sex objects and couples devaluing each other. They see the years from 1950 to 1980 as a stable period of happiness, when moral values were predominant and families found meaning in serving the state. Progressives feel that few Chinese want to lose recent gains like choic
29、e. Both sexes are more liberated, they feel. In the past, marriage was limited by family background. Divorce was not allowed, often not even in abusive, dead-end situations. Many in China do feel problems with the money culture, but dont want a return to state dictates in their private lives. They f
30、eel that an obsession with grades, colleges, and jobs has led parents to ignore a traditional emphasis on good behavior, modesty, and politeness. They are troubled by studies showing rising levels of early teen sex and recent cases of teens involved in homicides. They want a form of new moral educat
31、ion that teaches a humane social contract. 2 Though marrying becomes much easier in China, couples still must seek permission from their “work unit“ boss. （ A） Y （ B） N （ C） NG 3 Young couples like to live separately from their parents but would like to have their parents within distance to take car
32、e of them, especially their child. （ A） Y （ B） N （ C） NG 4 Parents of young couples, with the old concept of family and happiness, want their children to live with them after marriage and they dont complain about the troubles they have to take in living with their married children. （ A） Y （ B） N （ C
33、） NG 5 Young Chinese take their new cell phone liberation and Internet relationships seriously in a way just found in the West. （ A） Y （ B） N （ C） NG 6 Marriage is based on feeling and love is the first thing for a marriage, but in the market economy, money plays a very important role in marriage. （
34、 A） Y （ B） N （ C） NG 7 Western-style weddings - vows, white dresses, churches, receptions become popular with young people in China and weddings easily cost $ 4,000 and are a status symbol. （ A） Y （ B） N （ C） NG 8 Opinions about the changes of family values are varied. Some feel a loss of values lik
35、e sacrifice, family loyalty, and fidelity will bring the society to serious disorder. Others see a better China emerging with greater choice and maturity. （ A） Y （ B） N （ C） NG 9 According to a China Daily report, _ say they have or will choose their life partner. 10 The combination of the maturing
36、of the one-child policy and _ is creating its own “empty nest“ condition in China. 11 Many in China feel that an obsession with grades, colleges, and jobs has led parents to ignore _. Section A Directions: In this section, you will hear 8 short conversations and 2 long conversations. At the end of e
37、ach 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. （ A） Stu
38、dying. （ B） Watching television. （ C） Taking an exam. （ D） Going to movies. （ A） He is afraid to work at night. （ B） He is afraid the work will be really hard. （ C） He doesnt want to work tomorrow night. （ D） He cant find the way out of the student center. （ A） $50. （ B） $100. （ C） $250. （ D） $150.
39、（ A） She likes to get mail. （ B） She is angry for being neglected. （ C） She is their best friend. （ D） She is their employee. （ A） Eating in a cafeteria. （ B） Buying something in a store. （ C） Talking on the telephone. （ D） Getting money at a bank. （ A） He would prefer calling her next week. （ B） He
40、 will let her decide about the next meeting. （ C） He would like to buy some refreshments for the meeting. （ D） He definitely wants to know about the meeting. （ A） She is almost out of T-shirts. （ B） She has too much work to do. （ C） The man is going to do it for her. （ D） She doesnt know how to do.
41、（ A） Read the womans magazine. （ B） Subscribe to the magazine right away. （ C） Buy the first issue of a magazine. （ D） Start a new magazine. （ A） $ 12. （ B） $10.18. （ C） $ 5.94. （ D） $10.81. （ A） A crystal punch bowl. （ B） A crystal glass. （ C） A crystal cup. （ D） A small crystal statue. （ A） About
42、twelve days. （ B） About two weeks. （ C） About two days. （ D） About eight days. （ A） 23C. （ B） 32C. （ C） 132C. （ D） l23C. （ A） The woman. （ B） Another stewardess. （ C） The pilot. （ D） His neighbor. （ A） Follow the instruction he gets from the intercom. （ B） After the plane takes off. （ C） As soon as
43、the light above the seats goes off. （ D） When he gets the instruction from the Stewardess. （ A） The Times. （ B） Newsweek. （ C） Beijing Weekly. （ D） China Daily. 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 p
44、assage 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. （ A） Buying a house needs a lot of money. （ B） Buying a house needs a lot of time and energy. （ C） Buying a house needs a lot of money as well as
45、time and energy. （ D） Buying a house needs a lot of money if you want to save time and energy. （ A） Houses which they could afford. （ B） Houses in quiet and convenient areas. （ C） Houses near a park. （ D） Houses which had all the advantages of A, B and C. （ A） Because the owner refused to move out.
46、（ B） Because the owner wouldnt sell it. （ C） Because the owner were also looking for a house and it took some time, （ D） Because they found a better house. （ A） Exercising is very important for people to have good health. （ B） Cycling can strengthen peoples muscles. （ C） Cycling is one of the best f
47、orms of exercise. （ D） It is desirable for people to cycle at least two or three times a week. （ A） Because it can strengthen their back muscles. （ B） Because they are not carrying their body weight on their feet. （ C） Because it increases your strength more quickly. （ D） Because they could get a li
48、ttle out of breath. （ A） It can make you feel uncomfortable. （ B） It can make you out of breath. （ C） It can cause back pains. （ D） It can damage muscles that arent used to working. （ A） Because she played football better than most boys. （ B） Because she made a lot of mistakes though she did-her bes
49、t. （ C） Because she performed poorly in her studies. （ D） Because she didnt act the way the teachers thought a girl should. （ A） New York （ B） London. （ C） Australia. （ D） India. （ A） May 5,1930. （ B） May 7,1930. （ C） May 11,1930. （ D） May 15,1930. （ A） Sex made no difference in work and study. （ B） A woman could become a pilot if she insists on practicing. （ C） Amys success broke the flight record set by men. （ D） A woman could do as well as men if she really put her mind to. Section C Direction
