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1、大学英语四级分类模拟题 486 及答案解析(总分:131.00,做题时间:90 分钟)一、Part Writing(总题数:1,分数:20.00)1.For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a short essay entitled Which Counts More, Knowledge or Experience ? You should write at least 120 words but no more than 180 words following the outline given below. Some pre
2、fer to say that knowledge is power while others argue that experiences outweigh everything. What“s your opinion? (分数:20.00)_二、Part Reading Compr(总题数:0,分数:0.00)四、Passage One(总题数:1,分数:71.00)Tom was a wanderer. When his wife, Elsie, came to visit him at a care unit for patients with dementia, he would
3、give her a perfunctory (敷衍的) kiss, then wander off through the rooms and stare out the window. Elsie tried to walk with him and hold hands, but he would shake her off, leaving her heartsick. A music therapist at the facility, Alicia Clair, was searching for ways to help couples like Elsie and Tom co
4、nnect. Ms. Clair asked Elsie if she“d like to try dancing with Tom, then put on some music from the 1940sFrank Sinatra singing Time After Time . Ms. Clair said, “I knew Tom was a World War vet, and vets did a lot of ballroom dancing.“ As Sinatra began singing, Elsie opened her arms, beckoning. Tom s
5、tared a moment, then walked over and began leading her in the foxtrot (狐步舞). “They danced for thirty minutes!“ Ms. Clair said. When they finished, Elsie broke down and sobbed. “I haven“t been held by my husband in three years,“ she told Ms. Clair. “Thank you for bringing him back.“ Ms. Clair, a prof
6、essor of music therapy at the University of Kansas, tells this story to show how music can reach people with Alzheimer“s disease. Music has the power to bypass the mind and wash through us, triggering strong feelings and cueing the body to synchronize with its rhythm. Researchers and clinicians are
7、finding that when all other means of communication have shut down, people remember and respond to music. Familiar songs can help people with dementia relate to others, move more easily and experience joy. Tom had forgotten his name and couldn“t utter one word, but hearing Sinatra prompted him to dan
8、ce. Music memory is preserved better than verbal memory, according to Ms. Clair, because music, unlike language, is not seated in a specific area of the brain but processed across many parts. “You can“t rub out music unless the brain is completely gone.“(分数:71.00)(1).What does “dementia“ (Line 1, Pa
9、ra. 1) mean?(分数:14.20)A.Alzheimer“s disease.B.Heart disease.C.Dental disease.D.Eye disease.(2).Tom“s story in the passage shows the importance of _.(分数:14.20)A.music to patients with dementiaB.science to human beingC.wife“s love to her husbandD.the brain to one“s health(3).For people with Alzheimer“
10、s disease, _.(分数:14.20)A.all the means of communication have shut downB.they couldn“t respond to anythingC.music can help them to relate to othersD.they can move easily(4).According to Ms. Clair, why does music memory is stored better than verbal memory?(分数:14.20)A.Because music is a kind of languag
11、e stored in the brain.B.Because music is processed in many parts of the brain.C.Because music can not be rid of even if the brain is destroyed.D.Because music is seated in a specific part of the brain.(5).The phrase “rub out“ (Line 2, Para. 6) means _.(分数:14.20)A.removing somethingB.giving up someth
12、ingC.learning somethingD.playing something五、Passage Two(总题数:1,分数:20.00)Languages will continue to diverse. Even if English were to become the universal language, it would still take many different forms. Indeed the same could happen to English as has happened to Chinese: a language of intellectuals
13、which doesn“t vary hugely alongside a large number of variations used by local peoples. We will continue to teach other languages in some form, and not just for reasons of practical use. Learning a language is good for your mental health; it forces you to understand another cultural and intellectual
14、 system. So I hope British education will develop a more rational approach to the foreign languages available to students in line with their political importance. Because so many people believe it“s no longer important to know another language, I fear that time devoted to language teaching in school
15、s may well continue to decline. But you can argue that learning another language well is more exhausting than, say, learning to play chess well-it involves sensitivity to a set of complicated rules, and also to context. Technology will certainly make a difference to the use of foreign languages. Com
16、puters may, for instance, relieve the hard work that a vast translation represents. But no one who has seen a computer translation will think it can substitute for live knowledge of the different languages. A machine will always be behind the times. Still more important is the fact that no computer
17、will ever get at the associations beyond the words associations that may not be expressed but which carry much of the meaning. In languages like Arabic that context is very important. Languages come with heavy cultural baggage tooin French or German ff you miss the cultural references behind a word
18、you“re very likely to be missing the meaning. It will be very hard to teach all that to a computer. All the predictions are that English will be spoken by a declining proportion of the world“s population in the 21st century. I don“t think foreign languages will really become less important, but they
19、 might be perceived to beand that would in the end bea very bad thing.(分数:20.00)(1).Which of the following statements about Chinese is true?(分数:4.00)A.Chinese will soon become the universal language.B.Chinese is a language of intellectuals.C.There are many dialects in Chinese.D.Chinese will be regar
20、ded as important as English.(2).According to the second paragraph, the author may most probably agree that _.(分数:4.00)A.other languages should be taught principally for practical reasonsB.learning a language is to know a country“s cultural and intellectual systemC.British education has a rational ap
21、proach to the teaching of foreign languagesD.learning another language well is too exhausting and complicated(3).The worst disadvantage of computer translation is that _.(分数:4.00)A.the expressions used in it are always behind the timesB.it can only be used in the translation of certain languagesC.it
22、 cannot replace live knowledge of the different languagesD.it can never express the implied meanings beyond word associations(4).By saying “languages come with heavy cultural baggage“, the author means that _.(分数:4.00)A.much unnecessary cultural background blocks the understanding of a languageB.a l
23、anguage usually contains important cultural traditions and customC.it is a burden for a language learner to understand the related cultureD.the understanding of a language is affected by the various contexts it is in(5).The author thinks it would be a bad thing if _.(分数:4.00)A.English is spoken by f
24、ewer people in the 21st centuryB.foreign languages become less important in the 21st centuryC.English is not as important as foreign languages in the 21st centuryD.foreign languages are regarded as less important in the 21st century六、Part Translation(总题数:1,分数:20.00)2.茶文化中国是一个文化 历史悠久的 (time-honored)国
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