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大学英语四级考试模拟试题一
Part I Writing (30 minutes)
Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write an essay on the Chinese pop word “Tang Ping”, The
statement given below is for your reference. You should write at least 120 words but no more than 180 words.
Nowadays, many young people choose an attitude of “Tang Ping” (a new Chinese pop word, meaning adopting a
negative attitude toward a hard task) in the face of a fierce competition.
Part II Listening Comprehension ( 25 minutes )
Section A
Directions: In this section, you will hear three neyvs reports. At the end of each news report, you will hear two or three
questions. Both the news report 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). Then mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 1 with a
single line through the centre.
Questions 1 and 2 are based on the news report you have just heard.
1. A )New measures to curb air pollution. C ) Restrictions on traffic and speed.
B ) New discounts on public transport. D ) Replacing polluting vehicles.
2. A ) They couldn't get government support. C ) They couldn't control the pollution level.
B ) They couldn't last long. D ) They cost too much money.
Questions 3 and 4 are based on the news report you have just heard.
3. A) About 5 million. C ) About 108 million.
B ) About 20 million. D) About 150 million.
4. A ) Latino immigrants. C ) Asian immigrants.
B ) Elder people. D) College graduates.
Questions 5 to 7 are based on the news report you have just heard.
5. A) Online sales days worldwide last year. C ) Major online retailers around the world.
B ) The biggest online shopping event in the world. D ) The most profitable online gift in the world.
6. A) About $ 2 billion. C) Nearly $ 11 billion.
B ) Less than $ 10 billion. D ) More than $ 14 billion.
7. A ) Black Friday. C ) Cyber Monday.
B ) Valentine's Day. D ) Singles Day.
Section B
Directions: In this section, you will hear two long conversations. At the end of each conversation, you will hear four
questions. Both the conversation 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). Then mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 1 with a
single line through the centre.
Questions 8 to 11 are based on the conversation you have just heard.
8. A) Colleagues. C) Neighbors.
B ) Instructor and student. D) Anchor and guest.
1 • 四级模拟试题一-9. A) Baby-sitting the children. C ) Complaining about the difficulty of living.
B ) Documenting the children. D) Teaching teenagers.
10. A) Sensitive groups. C) Rich groups.
B) Disadvantaged groups. D) Complicated groups.
11. A) Kids are facing big issues in life. C) Kids can not earn the living.
B ) Life is moving fast recently. D ) Kids are growing up quickly.
Questions 12 to 15 are based on the conversation you have just heard.
12. A) Employer and employee. C) Classmates.
B ) Professor and student. D) Colleagues.
13. A) She appreciates them. C ) She expects to buy some.
B ) She thinks they are very interesting. D) She finds they are high-priced.
14. A) She was late for the interview. C ) She lost her part-time job in IKEA.
B ) She missed yesterday's class. D) She gave up the chance to work in IKEA.
15. A ) Those who pursue fame and money only.
B ) Those who dream of owning a flash car.
C ) Those who are highly-skilled and focus on high-end markets.
D ) Those who value and abide by the company Js philosophy.
Section C
Directions: In this section, you will hear three passages. At the end of each passage, you will hear three or four questions.
Both the passage 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). Then mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 1 with a single line through
the centre.
Questions 16 to 18 are based on the passage you have just heard.
16. A) The problems of the elderly. C) The classes for retired people.
B) The employment of graduates. D) Education programs for adults.
17. A) Spending more time with their peers. C ) Learning something new.
B ) Making as many friends as possible. D) Killing time.
18. A) The fierce competition in the market. C ) The reform of education system.
B) The big numbers of retired people. D ) The great pressure of work.
Questions 19 to 21 are based on the passage you have just heard.
19. A) Plants and animals. C ) Plants and human beings.
B) Plants and fungi. D) Plants and earth.
20. A) Plants cannot see.
B ) Plants are invisible.
C) Human beings cannot recognize certain species of plants.
D) Plants are damaged rather than protected by human beings.
21. A) Plant more crops in the countryside.
B ) Build more habitat regions for human beings.
C ) Work out more plant protection and regeneration methods.
D) Ensure great advancement in technology and economy.
Questions 22 to 25 are based on the passage you have just heard.
22. A) Unconscious biases. C) Intelligent difference.
B) Mental difference. D) Physical difference.
23. A )26. C) 126.
B)116. D)162.
• 四级模拟试题一- 224. A) Female students like male lecturers better than female ones.
B ) Female students and male students prefer lecturers of their own gender.
C ) Male students think female lecturers are much better than male ones.
D ) Male students see no difference between male lecturers and female ones.
25. A) Legal aspect. C) Education.
B) Economic aspect. D) Social security.
Part III Reading Comprehension (40 minutes )
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
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 on Answer Sheet 2 with a
single line through the centre. You may not use any of the words in the bank more than once.
One in five US workers regularly attends after-work drinks with co-workers, where the most common 26 range
from bad-mouthing ( 说 ....的坏话)another worker to kissing a colleague and drinking too much, according to a study
27 on Tuesday.
Most workers attend so-called happy hours to 28 with colleagues, although 15 percent go to hear the latest office
gossip and 13 percent go because they feel obligated, said the survey conducted for CareerBuilder. com, an online job site.
As to what happens when the after-work drinks flow, 16 percent reported bad-mouthing a colleague, 10 percent shared
a secret about a colleague, 8 percent kissed a colleague and 8 percent said they drank too much and acted 29 . 5 percent
said they had shared a secret about the company, and 4 percent 30 to singing karaoke.
While 21 percent of those who attend say happy hours are good for 31 , 85 percent said attending had not helped
them get 32 to someone higher up or get a better position.
An equal number of men and women said they attend happy hours with co-workers, with younger workers aged 25 to 34
most likely and workers over 55 least 33 to attend.
Overall, 21 percent of workers attend happy hours with co-workers and, of those, 34 a quarter go at least once a
month.
The survey was 35 online by Harris Interactive on behalf of CareerBuilder. com among 6,987 full-time employees.
A)bond I) conducted
B) acknowledged J) idly
C) nearly K) unprofessionally
D) specially L) networking
E) anywhere M) released
F) mishaps N) confessed
G) obligated 0) researched
H) likely
Section B
Directions: In this section, you are going to read a passage with ten statements attached to it. Each statement contains
information given in one of the paragraphs. Identify the paragraph from which the information is derived. You may choose
a paragraph more than once. Each paragraph is marked with a letter. Answer the questions by marking the corresponding
letter on Answer Sheet 2.
3 • 四级模拟试题一-Thanks to Science, You Can Eat an Apple Every Day
A) Walk into a U.S. supermarket on any given day and you're pretty much guaranteed to find apples. In our globalized
economy, we expect nothing less than to be able to consume our favorite fruits and vegetables all year, even when they5re
not in season locally. Placing strawberries from Mexico in your shopping cart in February and stocking up on kiwis (猾
猴密& ) from Chile in July—that's pretty much normal, even expected.
B) But to buy an apple in March? That's a whole different story. We rarely need to go overseas fbr that. Only 5 percent of
the apples consumed in the U.S. are imported, according to the U.S. Apple Association. That means most of our apples
are picked from trees in Washington, New York, or Michigan—three of the country's largest apple-producing states—
and they are picked during fall harvest.
C) Harvest season for apples in the U.S. depends on the variety and the state, falling somewhere between early August and
mid-November. So if it's March, your apple was likely harvested months ago. Yet it still tastes pretty fresh. This wasn't
always the case. "It's something we take for granted now,“ says Chris Watkins, a professor of horticulture ( 园艺)at
Cornell University and the director of Cornell's cooperative extension. During harvest season, Watkins and post-doctoral
students drive a truck to farms all over New York State to collect apples and bring them back to their lab at Cornell.
There they study how the apples react under different storage conditions.
D) According to Watkins, we have a technology called Controlled Atmosphere (CA) storage to thank fbr being able to eat
an apple whenever we please. In CA storage rooms, the temperature, oxygen, carbon dioxide, and humidity levels are
adjusted to form hospitable hibernation environments fbr apples being stored after harvest. The perfect combination of
temperature and gases, which differs for each variety, allows apples to stay fresh for longer after harvest than if they
were simply refrigerated. Commercially refrigerating apples only preserves the fruit fbr a few months before it gets soft
and dehydrated. And just keeping them in your home refrigerator? They* 11 likely only stay fresh fbr a few weeks.
E) The concept of controlled atmosphere storage is not entirely new- modified atmosphere storage fbr food dates back to
the 1800s. But the motivation of research for the facilities that we have today came from Cambridge University in the
1920s. The technique was improved when Robert Smock, a researcher in Cornell University, visited Cambridge in the
late 1930s to observe the groundbreaking CA technology developed there. Smock, who studied post-harvest technologies
fbr apples, pears, plums, and peaches, was trying to figure out how to extend the shelf life of the fruits. Smock brought
what he learned back to New York and adapted CA to work fbr local apple varieties, focusing on how to make apples last
until the spring. In his laboratory half-hidden in a bam near Cornell, Smock experimented by placing apples in sealed
rooms at different temperatures and with various mixtures of oxygen and carbon dioxide to see how the fruit would
respond. As a result of Smock,s work, the first CA rooms in the U.S. were built in New York in the 1950s, and shortly
after, the apple consumption season extended to the springtime nationwide.
F) Controlled atmosphere is so widespread today that Watkins estimates that almost every apple you see in a grocery store
out of season will have been, at some point in its lifetime, subjected to it. "The apple industry as we know it today would
not exist without CA,“ Watkins says.
G) The Crist family farm in the Hudson Valley, New York, is just one example. Jeff Crist is a fourth-generation apple farmer
and storage facility manager at Crist Brothers Orchards. He estimates his family built their first CA storage facility
shortly after Smock made his post-harvest research available fbr commercial use at Cornell, just an hour's drive away. At
the orchard, 400,000 apple trees line different patches of the 550-acre property. The Crists grow apples for large retailers
and grocery stores east of the Mississippi River from Florida to Maine- think Giant and Costco.
H) And their storage facility allows them to get all of these apples to market when there,s demand, not just in the fall.
The Crists, CA storage facility has 30 rooms, each one 40- by 80-feet with 20-foot-high ceilings. The rooms are sealed
with fbam panels and lined with modem sliding doors. Each of the 30 controlled-atmosphere rooms can fit a bunch of
apples——1,400,000 to be exact. The rooms fill up quickly during harvest time when employees bring in loads from the
fields.
I) Then, when the doors slide shut, Crist turns on the CA system right from his iPad. With the touch of his finger, he
activates the coolers, lowers the oxygen in the room to about 1.5 to 2.5 percent (the oxygen around is about 21 percent),
and adjusts the carbon dioxide, essentially putting the apples to sleep. When they,re surrounded by less oxygen and
more carbon than found in air, apples don't have enough energy to complete the ripening processes, says Jim Mattheis,
• 四级模拟试题一- 4a researcher at the USDA's Tree Fruit Research Laboratory located in Wenatchee, Washington. That's because like
humans, apples breathe, taking in oxygen and releasing carbon dioxide.
J) Sleepier apples have slower respiration rates and stay firm, colorful, flavorful and nutritionally dense fbr longer. The trick
is to avoid bringing the oxygen levels too low, otherwise the apples will ferment. But not all apples ripen quite the same
way, so figuring out the right way to do CA is kind of like a puzzle. "Apples are like people- they are not all the same.
One recipe fbr growing doesn't work with all the different varieties, and it's the same in the post-harvest environment,
Mattheis says. Some varieties are notoriously trickier to care for. For example, Honeycrisps are sensitive to low
temperatures so you can't put them in cold environments right after they've been harvested. And Fujis don't always react
well to high carbon dioxide levels, so you have to monitor them closely.
K) With new apple varieties being developed frequently, post-harvest researchers like Watkins and Mattheis are hard at
work. In their labs they test out what type of CA environment works best fbr these newly bred varieties. Then they take
their research to growers like Crist so that when they open their CA rooms as the market demands, their apples are good
looking and tasty.
36. Apples absorb oxygen and send out carbon dioxide, just as people do.
37. According to Watkins, but fbr the CA technology, it would be impossible fbr modem apple industry to come into being.
38. What people expect is exactly the availability of fruits and vegetables throughout the year.
39. Watkins and Mattheis endeavor to experiment on varying CA environment in order to suit specific apple varieties.
40. Thanks to Controlled Atmosphere storage technology, American people can eat apples anytime they like.
41. The apples the Crist family harvest are available fbr sale all the year round thanks to their CA storage facility.
42. Different varieties of apples demand different growing approaches.
43. The U.S. Apple Association reveals that imported apples merely account for five percent of total apple consumption.
44. It is estimated that Jeff Crist's great grandparents adopted Smock's technology by setting up their first CA storage
facility.
45. Robert Smock managed to improve the CA technology after he paid a visit to Cambridge.
Section C
Directions: There are 2 passages in this section. Each passage is followed by some questions or unfinished statements.
For each of them there are four choices marked A), B), C) and D). You should decide on the best choice and mark the
corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through the centre.
Passage One
Questions 46 to 50 are based on the following passage.
When researcher Josh Santarpia stands at the foot of a bed, taking measurements with a device that can detect tiny,
invisible particles of saliva (唾液)that come out of someone's mouth and move through the air, he can tell whether the sick
person is speaking or not just by looking at the read-out on his instrument.
“So clearly, the particles which that person is putting out are being breathed in by someone that is five feet away from
them, at the foot of their bed/5 says Santarpia, who studies biological aerosols (气溶胶)at the University of Nebraska Medical
Center. <4Do they contain virus? I don't know fbr sure.”
He and his colleagues are doing their best to find out. Already, using another device that looks like a fancy dust collector,
they've sucked up air samples from 11 isolation rooms that housed 13 people who tested positive for COVID-19 infection, all
of whom had a variety of mild symptoms.
In those air samples, researchers found the genetic fingerprint of the virus. 4
