1、大学英语四级模拟试卷 929及答案与解析 一、 Part I Writing (30 minutes) 1 Building the Civilized Campus 1大学校园里仍存在一些不文明现象 (课桌文化、逃课、偷盗自行车等 ) 2分析问题存在的原因 3提出解决建议 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
2、 the questions attached 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 Spiders S
3、piders can be distinguished from other Arachnids because the prosoma (combined head and thorax) is only separated from the opisthosoma (abdomen) by a narrow waist, in other Arachnids the whole body appears to be much more of a single unit. All spiders produce silk, but only some construct webs to ca
4、tch their homes and to protect their eggs. All spiders possess poison glands but very few of them are dangerous to humans, of the 600+ species in Britain only 12 (at least one of these is a recent human assisted colonist) are strong enough to pierce the human skin, and apart from allergies, none are
5、 more dangerous than a common wasp. Most spiders have 8 eyes (though some have 6, 4, 2 or 0), as well as 8 legs. (by the way if you count the claws as separate leg section which you shouldnt really then their legs have 8 parts as well coxa, trochanter, femur, patella, tibia, tarsus, metatarus, claws
6、) There are more than 32000 known species of spider in the world. No human being has ever been officially recorder as having died as the result of a tarantula bite. All spiders are carnivorous and feed only on liquids, i.e. their preys natural juices and the breakdown products of external digestion
7、(meaning they spit, exude or inject digestive juices onto/into their prey and suck up the resulting soup). So why not invite some to your next social do? Whats In a Name The word Arachnida comes from the Greek word Arachne who was the daughter of Idmon of Colophon in Lydia, a dyer by trade. Arachne
8、herself was a weaver, the best in all the known world. However in a foolish moment she challenged Athena, the daughter of Zeus and goddess of, among other things, waving to a weaving competition. Arachne wove so perfect a cloth that she tore it to shreds. Arachne became depressed after this and in t
9、he end she hung herself. Athena stirred to remorse at the knowledge of what her anger had wrought turned the rope Arachne had used to hang herself into a web and Arachne herself into a spider so that the beauty of her spinning should not be lost to the world ever again. The Great Household Spider Sa
10、fari There are just over six hundred different sorts of spider in the British Isles. But of these only a handful are commonly found in houses. At the front of the head are a pair of what appear to be small legs. These are called palps and are used to guide food to the spiders mouth. The front of the
11、 head also has a group of six or eight eyes. On the underside of the body at the rear, are four or six small conical bumps or cylinders. There are the spinnerets from which the spider produces the silk to make its webs. Telling male and female spiders apart is easily done by looking at their palps.
12、Males have swollen ends to their palps which makes them look as if they are wearing boxing gloves, these are often strange shapes if looked at with a hand lens. Females have normal looking palps that are not swollen at the ends. The largest spider is the Goliath spider, the female of which grows to
13、reach a leg span of ten inches, The largest spider in Britain is the Cardinal spider which is a close cousin of Tim Tegenaria. Females can achieve a leg span of four and a half inches. It is known as the Cardinal spider as it was common in Hampton Court when Cardinal Wolsey lived there. The sight of
14、 these long legged spiders wandering around the palace at night used to frighten him. So far 32000 different kinds of spider have been discovered from all over the world. Britain has 630 different kinds of spider of which 250 are tiny Money spiders. The smallest of which has a body less than one mil
15、limeter long. 2 All the silk produced by spiders construct webs to catch their food, （ A） Y （ B） N （ C） NG 3 Not all the poison glands possessed by spiders are dangerous to human beings. （ A） Y （ B） N （ C） NG 4 Spiders often kill humans in Britain when they pierce human skin. （ A） Y （ B） N （ C） NG 5
16、 After seeing her enemy commits suicide, Arachne turned Athena into a spider. （ A） Y （ B） N （ C） NG 6 Tim Tegenaria spiders are closely related to tarantula spiders; both are found in Britain. （ A） Y （ B） N （ C） NG 7 So far 32000 different kinds of spiders have been discovered from all over the worl
17、d. （ A） Y （ B） N （ C） NG 8 Money spiders are the smallest spiders found in the Arachnids family. （ A） Y （ B） N （ C） NG 9 There are more than _ known species of spider in the world. 10 Telling male and female spiders apart is easily done by _. 11 The largest spider is _. Section A Directions: In this
18、 section, you will hear 8 short conversations and 2 long conversations. At the end of each 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 re
19、ad the four choices marked A, B, C and D, and decide which is the best answer. （ A） She prefers to live in a new house. （ B） She has just bought a new house. （ C） She likes to have someone wait for her. （ D） She feels pleasant to have a roommate. （ A） Find a key for the woman. （ B） Ask the woman to
20、come back later. （ C） Take the exam for the woman. （ D） Try to find the womans notebook. （ A） Hire someone to fix the washing machine. （ B） Use the washing machines in the gym. （ C） Notify the maintenance people to fix the machine. （ D） Ask someone in his dormitory to wash his clothes. （ A） It is ve
21、ry boring. （ B） It is very interesting. （ C） It is a waste of time. （ D） It is his responsibility. （ A） They communicate with each other mainly by e-mails. （ B） They communicate with each other by cell phones more. （ C） They didnt have their own cell phones in the past. （ D） They have their own choi
22、ces of ways to communicate with each other. （ A） He is sure to quit his job. （ B） He is a changeable person. （ C） He may not change his job. （ D） He likes telling jokes. （ A） There was no electricity in his area. （ B） The game wasnt shown in his area. （ C） He didnt want to watch the game. （ D） He di
23、dnt have a TV. （ A） On campus. （ B） At a gallery. （ C） In a bookstore. （ D） At a grocery store. （ A） To help international students prepare to enter institutions of higher learning. （ B） To teach students how to use English in their daily lives and at work. （ C） To provide work opportunities for gra
24、duating students in the community. （ D） To offer classes like computer literacy and intercultural communication. （ A） The tuition fee for a full-time student is $ 2070. （ B） With the F-l student visa, one can apply for the 1-20 form in his own country. （ C） One can apply for the English learning pro
25、gram only by mail. （ D） The caller is calling for one of his friends, who wants to go to an American university. （ A） May 29th. （ B） June 29th. （ C） July 29th. （ D） August 29th. （ A） Go to summer school. （ B） Take a vacation. （ C） Stay at home. （ D） Earn some money. （ A） They hired someone to stay i
26、n their home. （ B） They left their pets with neighbors. （ C） They rented their house to a student. （ D） They asked their gardener to watch their home. （ A） Walking the dog. （ B） Cutting the grass. （ C） Watching the children. （ D） Feeding the fish. （ A） They attend a house-sitters party. （ B） They ch
27、eck a house-sitters references. （ C） They interview a house-sitters friends. （ D） They look at a house-sitters transcripts. 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 passage and the questions will be spok
28、en only once. After you hear a question, you must choose the best answer from the four choices marked A, B, C and D. （ A） He might be at risk of losing his job. （ B） He would get useful information. （ C） He would build bonds with others. （ D） He would be offended by others. （ A） We mustnt gossip abo
29、ut the boss. （ B） The principal is narrow-minded. （ C） Gossip may hurt everyone involved. （ D） Gossip tells people how power is used. （ A） It can help people build up confidence. （ B） It can improve mutual understanding. （ C） It can eliminate gambling and drinking. （ D） It can perfect food chains in
30、 organizations. （ A） He sold traffic-counting system to local governments. （ B） He dropped out of his law course at Harvard University. （ C） He founded his own company-Microsoft Software company. （ D） He devised an operating system for IBM. （ A） Windows. （ B） A specialized software. （ C） MS-DOS. （ D
31、） Not mentioned. （ A） At the age of 31. （ B） At the age of 36. （ C） At the age of 20. （ D） In 1986. （ A） He was the first person to appear on television. （ B） It was he who discovered the wonder of television. （ C） He made the very first step towards the invention of television. （ D） He developed th
32、e television and was the first person to demonstrate it. （ A） People could choose to watch what they want. （ B） People could be well informed staying at home. （ C） People could actually see the people and places talked about. （ D） Television news came to people more quickly than radio news. （ A） The
33、y advised people what to see and where to go. （ B） They provided people with a lot of entertainment. （ C） People had chances to see the places where theyd like to go. （ D） People were able to see other parts of the world they would never themselves be able to visit. （ A） They became well-known throu
34、ghout the country. （ B） They had more chances to appear on television. （ C） They were better understood by their people. （ D） They were admired by their people. Section C Directions: In this section, you will hear a passage three times. When the passage is read for the first time, you should listen
35、carefully for its general idea. When the passage is read for the second time, you are required to fill in the blanks numbered from 36 to 43 with the exact words you have just heard. For blanks numbered from 44 to 46 you are required to fill in the missing information. For these blanks, you can eithe
36、r use the exact words you have just heard or write down the 36 There are two factors which determine an individuals intelligence. The first is the【 B1】 _of brain he is born with. Human brains differ【 B2】 _, some being more capable than others. But no matter how good a brain he has to begin with, an【
37、 B3】 _will have a low order of intelligence unless he has【 B4】 _to learn. So the second factor is the sort of environment in which he is【 B5】 _. If an individual is handicapped environmentally, it is likely that his brain will【 B6】 _to develop and he will never attain the level of intelligence of wh
38、ich he is【 B7】 _. The importance of environment in determining an individuals intelligence can be demonstrated by the case history of the【 B8】 _twins, Peter and Mark. Being identical, the twins had identical brains at birth. And their growth processes were the same. When the twins were three months
39、old, their parents died, and they were placed in separate foster homes.【 B9】 _Mark was reared in the home of well-to-do parents who had been to college. He was read to as a child, sent to good schools, and given every opportunity to be stimulated intellectually.【 B10】 _. Marks I. Q was 125, twenty-f
40、ive points higher than the average and fully forty points higher than his identical brother.【 B11】 _. 37 【 B1】 38 【 B2】 39 【 B3】 40 【 B4】 41 【 B5】 42 【 B6】 43 【 B7】 44 【 B8】 45 【 B9】 46 【 B10】 47 【 B11】 Section A Directions: In this section, there is a passage with ten blanks. You are required to se
41、lect one word for each blank from a list of choices given in a word bank following the passage. Read the passage through carefully before making your choices. Each choice in the bank is identified by a letter. Please mark the corresponding letter for each item with a single line through the center.
42、You may not use any of the words in the bank more than once. 47 What is it about Americans and food? We love to eat, but we feel【 S1】_about it afterward. We say we want only the best, but we strangely enjoy junk food. Were【 S2】 _with health and weight loss but face an unprecedented epidemic of obesi
43、ty (肥胖 ). Perhaps the【 S3】 _to this ambivalence (矛盾情结 ) lies in our history. The first Europeans came to this continent searching for new spices but went in vain. The first cash crop (经济作物 ) wasnt eaten but smoked. Then there was Prohibition, intended to prohibit drinking but actually encouraging mo
44、re【 S4】_ways of doing it. The immigrant experience, too, has been one of inharmony. Do as Romans do means eating what “real Americans“ eat, but our nations food has come to be【 S5】 _by imports pizza, say, or hot dogs. And some of the countrys most treasured cooking comes from people who arrived here
45、 in shackles. Perhaps it should come as no surprise then that food has been a medium for the nations defining struggles, whether at the Boston Tea Party or the sit-ins at southern lunch counters. It is integral to our concepts of health and even morality whether one refrains from alcohol for religio
46、us reasons or evades meat for political【 S6】 _. But strong opinions have not brought【 S7】 _. Americans are ambivalent about what they put in their mouths. We have become【 S8】 _of our foods, especially as we learn more about what they contain. The【 S9】 _in food is still prosperous in the American con
47、sciousness. Its no coincidence, then, that the first Thanksgiving holds the American imagination in such bondage (束缚 ). Its what we eat and how we【 S10】 _it with friends, family, and strangers that help define America as a community today. A) answer B) result C) share D) guilty E) constant F) define
48、d G) vanish H) adapted I) creative J) belief K) suspicious L) certainty M) obsessed N) identify O) ideals 48 【 S1】 49 【 S2】 50 【 S3】 51 【 S4】 52 【 S5】 53 【 S6】 54 【 S7】 55 【 S8】 56 【 S9】 57 【 S10】 Section B Directions: There are 2 passages in this section. Each passage is followed by some questions
49、or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. You should decide on the best choice. 57 Sign has become a scientific hot button. Only in the past 20 years have specialists in language study realized that signed languages are unique-a speech of the hand. They offer a new way to probe how the brain generates and understands language, and
