[外语类试卷]大学英语四级模拟试卷861及答案与解析.doc

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1、大学英语四级模拟试卷 861及答案与解析 一、 Part I Writing (30 minutes) 1 For this part, you are allowed $0 minutes to write a short essay “Scholarship Budgets“. You should write at least 120 words following the outline given below. 以下表格中列出了某大学生在某学期中获得奖学金 (total： 3000 RMB yuan)的开支预算，请根据表中的信息，就以下几个方面做出简要的说明： 1. 简要描述这位同学

2、奖学金的预算开支情况。 2. 你认为这样开支合理吗 ?请说明理由。 3. 若是你，你应如何分配这笔钱。 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 attached to the passage. For questions 1-7, mark： Y (for YES) if the st

3、atement 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 Learn to love your job Are you familiar with kudzu a prolific vine that wraps itself around oth

4、er vegetation, strangling the life our of it? Does this sound like what your job is doing to you? Rather than helping you to blossom, is your job running you over like a lawnmower? Stop the madness ! You spend too much time at work to be miserable. You can cut through “career kudzu“ by putting the f

5、ollowing advice into action. Be Honest With Your Boss Your boss may be talented and inspirational, but probably not a mindreader. If you are frustrated at work, speak up. Your boss has a right to know if you are feeling undervalued, burned out, or desperately in need of a more flexible schedule. The

6、re are, of course, ways to conduct this talk so that you dont sound whiny or hopelessly confused. You may be more appreciated and have more options than you thought. A good boss can give you strategies to pull your attitude out of a funk. Give it a chance, and be honest with your discussion. Let the

7、 Job Bring Out Your Best If you have a job that matches your skills poorly, youll end up hating it. For example, sales jobs are not for everyone. An introverted, quiet person is likely to feel uncomfortable chasing down some sales quota. Your job should fit like a globe, not force you to be somethin

8、g you are not. Ill-fitting jobs cause stress, according to psychologist Bill Crawford, stress is a signal that something needs to change. “Suffering is when we dont make the change,“ Crawford explains, “Often we dont listen to the signal of stress in our lives until it becomes a severe problem.“ If

9、your job is not fulfilling, get creative. Drastic changes are not always necessary. Arlene S. Hirsch, author of Love Your Work and Success Will Follow, tells the story of a banker with strong financial analysis skills who was experiencing great job dissatisfaction. He recaptured his love for music b

10、y accepting a job as CFO for a symphony orchestra. Smart move! Acknowledge Your Anger If you really hate your job, its likely that you are fired up about something. Pinpointing the source of your anger is a crucial first step. According to Dr. Hendrie Weisinger, there are 5 main anger provoking work

11、 situations: 1. Being left our. Not being accepted by your peers severely limits how effective you can be on the job, and shakes your fundamental need for acceptance. 2. Critical bosses. Nitpicking bosses are infuriating. 3. Not getting promoted. You try your best and its never acknowledged. 4. bein

12、g maligned by co-workers. Being victimized by false rumors is a consistent anger amuser. 5. Incompetent bosses. An incompetent boss can stifle your enthusiasm and torpedo your chances for job satisfaction. Get Rid of Grudges When people work together, hurt feelings, misunderstanding, and cross words

13、 are inevitable. If you are mistreated at work, youll be tempted to get even. Be careful: Making enemies can lead straight to job misery. Even if you have been treated unfairly, you can take the high road. While practicing forgiveness may be the last thing you want to do, it is often the wisest move

14、. Offenders may not deserve your kindness, but you do. By forgiving abusive jerks, you are actually giving yourself a break. Sure, you can quit your job in a huff and seek greener pastures elsewhere. Find a place where people treat you with the love and respect that you deserve. Right? Wrong! Youll

15、find “challenging“ co-workers wherever you go. They just look different and have different names. Youd be better off finding ways to live in peace with people with various value systems. Above all else, try to keep your perspective. We all hate our jobs occasionally? The trick is to keep those times

16、 few and far between. Putting these tips into practice will help you gain greater satisfaction at work. And when you consider that happy employees are more likely to get ahead, isnt that a goal worth smiling about? 2 If you are frustrated at work you should not reveal your emotion to others. （ A） Y

17、（ B） N （ C） NG 3 A good boss can give you strategies to help his employees be brave. （ A） Y （ B） N （ C） NG 4 If you have a job that cannot match your skills, it will help you to develop your courage further. （ A） Y （ B） N （ C） NG 5 Ill-fitting jobs indicate changes should be made. （ A） Y （ B） N （ C）

18、 NG 6 Drastic changes are always necessary when job cannot give you satisfaction. （ A） Y （ B） N （ C） NG 7 If your boss is critical, it will make you infuriate. （ A） Y （ B） N （ C） NG 8 If you are mistreated in the work, youll be temped to revenge. （ A） Y （ B） N （ C） NG 9 While being tolerant may be t

19、he thing you dont want to do, it is often _. 10 Youll find co-workers that difficult to get on well with everywhere, but you had better _. 11 When we hate our jobs, the trick is to _. Section A Directions: In this section, you will hear 8 short conversations and 2 long conversations. At the end of e

20、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） He

21、gambled it away. （ B） He lost his money. （ C） He bad it with him. （ D） He took it out of the bank. （ A） John must have been working hard. （ B） John probably did not work hard. （ C） The woman was surprised to hear the news. （ D） The man and the woman are sorry to hear the news. （ A） She has a few que

22、stions about the mans schedule. （ B） Shell have the test ready in a few days. （ C） She doesnt understand the mans question. （ D） The man is not allowed to take the test early. （ A） Manager and clerk. （ B） College adviser and student. （ C） Boss and secretary. （ D） English department head and typist.

23、（ A） It gives a 30% discount to all customers. （ B） It is run by Mrs. Winters husband. （ C） It hires Mrs. Winter as an adviser. （ D） It encourages husbands to shop on their own. （ A） Hes going to visit a photo studio. （ B） Hes just bad his picture taken. （ C） Hes on the way to the theater. （ D） Hes

24、just back from a job interview. （ A） The customer was very rude but the waitress was not. （ B） The waitress was very rude but the customer was not. （ C） The waitress shouted at the customer. （ D） The customer and the waitress had a quarrel. （ A） He is not supposed to give the information the woman w

25、ants. （ B） He does not know anything about the Councils plans. （ C） The woman bas put him in a very difficult position by asking him that. （ D） The woman bad better ask someone else for the information on that matter. （ A） How to keep fit. （ B） Common diseases caused by vitamins. （ C） Vitamins and o

26、ur health. （ D） Vitamin in different kinds of vegetables. （ A） It is calcium, not vitamin D, which is the direct source of hard bones. （ B） Vitamin C can be found in all kinds of green vegetables. （ C） The outside of rice also contains certain vitamins. （ D） People with enough B vitamin seldom have

27、nerves troubles. （ A） Vitamin C. （ B） Vitamin D. （ C） Vitamin A. （ D） B vitamins （ A） In an office. （ B） At a supermarket. （ C） At home. （ D） At a railway station. （ A） Jeremys unbalanced life. （ B） Jeremys unhappy marriage. （ C） Jeremys psychological problem. （ D） Jeremys pressure from his boss. （

28、A） Because his boss forces him to get a lot of work done. （ B） Because he enjoys working himself. （ C） Because he has to earn an adequate wage. （ D） Because he wants to create a good impression on his boss. （ A） One of them should talk to Jeremy. （ B） Someone should ask Jeremys boss to have a talk w

29、ith Jeremy. （ C） Someone should persuade Jeremy to get time to relax. （ D） Someone should ask Jeremys boss to pay him a higher salary. 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 w

30、ill 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） Thirty. （ B） Forty-eight. （ C） Seven. （ D） Thirteen. （ A） Computers have become part of our daily lives. （ B） Computers have advantages as well as disadvantages. （ C）

31、People have different attitudes to computers. （ D） More and more families will own computers. （ A） Computers can bring financial problems. （ B） Computers can bring unemployment. （ C） Computers can be very useful in families. （ D） Computerized robots can take over some unpleasant jobs. （ A） Computers

32、 may change the life they have been accustomed to. （ B） Spending too much time on computers may spoil peoples relationship. （ C） Buying computers may cost a lot of money. （ D） Computers may take over human beings altogether. （ A） Affectionate. （ B） Disapproving. （ C） Approving. （ D） Neutral. （ A） Be

33、cause women do much work than men. （ B） Because people think women weaker than men. （ C） Because sport is easier for men than for women. （ D） Because in sport the two sexes are always separate. （ A） They want to please women. （ B） They want to tell the truth. （ C） They think women are as good as men

34、. （ D） They think women are as strong as men. （ A） The European women who live until the age of seventy-four. （ B） Some of the teenage girls. （ C） The women swimmers who are given hormone injections. （ D） The woman athlete who swam 400 meters within 4 minutes and 59.1 seconds. （ A） At Olympics, spor

35、t has been ruined. （ B） At Olympics, doctors must be taken in the sports with the athlete. （ C） At Olympics, some athletes are not honest. （ D） At Olympics, female sex is very complicated. Section C Directions: In this section, you will hear a passage three times. When the passage is read for the fi

36、rst time, you should listen 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

37、 these blanks, you can either use the exact words you have just heard or write down the 36 More and more Americans are reading their own credit report. Credit reports are【 B1】 by lenders to decide how frisky it would be to offer a loan or credit to an individual. The report holds information about a

38、 persons【 B2】 loans and credit-card debt. It records late【 B3】 of bills and any unpaid loans. It all adds up to a credit history. These days, though, lenders often welcome people with bad credit histories. They are【 B4】higher interest rates and other loan costs. Some Americans want to read their cre

39、dit report to know if they have been a【 B5】 of identity theft. They can see if any loans or credit cards have been【 B6】 in their name with stolen personal information. Another reason is that credit reports, are not always correct. They might【 B7】 wrong information or old information. Before 1971, Am

40、ericans could not see any of this information. One change in 2001, permits people to see their F1CO score. FICO is short for the Fair Isaac【 B8】 .【 B9】 Fair Isaac says many lenders not just in the United States but around the world use its .technology to create credit scores.【 B10】 As of May, the co

41、mpany says it sold ten million credit scores to individuals.【 B11】 36 【 B1】 37 【 B2】 38 【 B3】 39 【 B4】 40 【 B5】 41 【 B6】 42 【 B7】 43 【 B8】 44 【 B9】 45 【 B10】 46 【 B11】 Section A Directions: In this section, there is a passage with ten blanks. You are required to select one word for each blank from a

42、 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. You may not use any of the words in

43、 the bank more than once. 46 They call them the new bread earners. They are women, and they are set to take over. Women are beginning to rise【 S1】 _to the top in the workplaee all over the developed world. New figures show that in almost a third of American【 S2】_with a working wife, the woman brings

44、 home more money than her husband and that they now occupy half the countrys“ high-paying, executive, administrative and【 S3】 _occupations“, compared with 34 per cent 20 years ago. The trend is【 S4】 _by two main factors, experts say-a【 S5】_acceptance of men as househusbands and mass unemployment of

45、male white-collar workers from the technology, finance and media industries in the last three years. The University of Maryland has【 S6】 _a report that shows women to be the chief earner in 11 per cent of all US marriages. Pushing a buggy(婴儿车 ) on a sunny afternoon in New Yorks Central Park last wee

46、k, Jonathan Blinderman, 33, said, he was【 S7】 _he had been able to see every moment of his daughter Lindsays first six months of life while his wife, sage, was out working. It is a sign of these times of【 S8】 _that when he mentions his status at parties he is either praised as a saint or【 S9】 _as a

47、slave-cum-freeloader(爱占便宜的奴隶 ). For the revolution is nowhere near complete. But Maria Cancian, an economist at the University of Wisconsin, said【 S10】_women were increasingly looking for househusbands. A) caused B) proud C) produced D) mocked E) carelessly F) managerial G) greedy H) precaution I) a

48、rgued J) transition K) ambitious L) tackled M) growing N) steadily O) households 47 【 S1】 48 【 S2】 49 【 S3】 50 【 S4】 51 【 S5】 52 【 S6】 53 【 S7】 54 【 S8】 55 【 S9】 56 【 S10】 Section B Directions: There are 2 passages in this section. Each passage is followed by some questions or unfinished statements.

49、 For each of them there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. You should decide on the best choice. 56 Shopping for clothes is not the same experience for a man as it is for a woman. A man goes shopping because he needs something. His purpose is settled and decided in advance. He knows what he wants, and his objective is to find it and buy it; the price is a secondary consideration. A