1406四级模拟试卷

2014年6月考神团队四级模拟试卷 说明： 1、 请提前打印本试卷，并于6月1日早间9点进入YY8640（逢考必过）频道等待开考； 2、 强烈建议不要提前翻阅试卷，并坚持全程听从监考安排； 3、 参考将在考试结束后五分钟公布下载链接。听力MP3，听力原文，作文范文均属于冲刺抢分班授课内容，不做免费共享，请理解； 4、 考神团队四级冲刺抢分班将于6月2日晚间7点开课。购买链接请关注新浪微博@建昆老师 @曲根老师 @老师王菲 及 @考神团队 的置顶链接； 5、 祝大家考出好的成绩！ Part I                Writing                        (30 minutes) Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write an essay. You should start your essay with a brief description of the picture and then express your views on the protection of the earth’s resources. You should write at least 120 s but no more than 180 words. Write your essay on Answer Sheet 1. Part II Listening Comprehension                       (30 minutes) Section A Directions: In this 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 read the four choices marked A), B), C) and D), and decide which is the best answer. Then mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 1 with a single line through the centre. 1. A) The man suggests the woman buy the sweater in another color. B) The man advises that she buy a jacket immediately. C) The man thinks that she’d better buy the sweater at its original price. D) The man suggests that she should buy the sweater after a while. 2. A) The man didn't understand what Eva was saying. B) Eva should have been more active. C) Eva didn't seem any nervous during her presentation. D) Eva needs training in public speaking lessons. 3. A) It was cleaned. B) There was a large sale. C) The employees had to work very late. D) There was a robbery. 4. A) They forgot all about their departure that morning. B) The woman was late by fifteen minutes. C) They got up late by fifteen minutes. D) The man's watch slowed down. 5. A) He performed better than the secretary. B) He exaggerated his part. C) He was not dramatic enough. D) He played his part quite well 6. A) Only half of the book is useful. B) The book is not worth reading at all. C) Not the entire book requires intensive reading. D) Only a few lines can cover the main idea of each chapter. 7. A) Not all terrorists are armed. B) Using computers or mobile phones aboard may cause problem for the plane. C) He is not likely to take a plane anyway. D) Plane safety is not something that he cares. 8. A) The man is buying too many medicines. B) Prescription from doctors is needed to buy pain-killer. C) The woman is afraid to give the man wrong medicines. D) Pain-killers can only be bought from a doctor. Questions 9 to 11 are based on the conversation you have just heard. 9. A) Asking the way to Hollywood to see a film. B) Using the catalogue to buy some books. C) Searching information to write a course paper. D) Looking for a job in a movie studio. 10. A) It’s too broad to cope with. B) It’s a bit outdated. C) It’s controversial. D) It’s of little practical value. 11. A) At the end of the online catalogue. B) At the Reference Desk. C) In the New York Times. D) In the Reader’s Guide to Periodical Literature. Questions 12 to 15 are based on the conversation you have just heard. 12. A) It can resist earthquakes.    C) It can keep away cold. B) It is easy to move away.    D) It can keep sunshine out. 13. A) Because they are the warmest. B) Because they can withstand hard ware. C) Because they don’t get stuck in the snow. D) Because the temperature is only 14℃ below zero. 14. A) They are thrown away after being used. B) They won’t be built in future. C) They can be used for about 5 years. D) They haven’t been built yet. 15. A) By talking with some professors. B) By surfing on the Internet. C) By looking up some materials about it. D) By attending a presentation. 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 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. 注意：此部分请在答题卡2上作答。 Passage One Questions 16 to 18 are based on the passage you have just heard. 16. A) They read poetry aloud. B) They delivered a speech. C) They took objective tests. D) They discussed questions with experts of certain subjects. 17. A) There are more candidates than before. B) The modern industry is developing slowly. C) The written examinations are much easier than before. D) The written examinations are more objective than the spoken ones. 18. A) The objective test always deals with the personal opinions. B) The objective test is timed exactly by electric clocks. C) The question of the objective test has only one correct answer. D) The objective test resembles a group of workers at an automobile factory. Passage two Questions 19 to 21 are based on the passage you have just heard. 19. A) At Harvard.              C) At the Carlisle Indian School. B) At West Point.            D) At the Olympic Games held in Stockholm. 20. A) They held grand banquets in his honor. B) They welcomed him with parades and celebration. C) They gave him a title and gold medals. D) They made him a professional athlete. 21. A) Because someone found out that Thorpe had been using drugs. B) Because Thorpe had once been an amateur athlete. C) Because Thorpe’s fame began to decline after the Olympic Games. D) Because Thorpe had been a professional athlete at one time. Passage three Questions 22 to 25 are based on the passage you have just heard. 22. A) the English.     B) the Indians.     C) the German.     D) the French. 23. A) Something from the 19th century. B) Races that they often hold. C) A town like something in China. D) A city the same as New York. 24. A) To keep together in a racial group. B) Because they are discriminated against. C) For religious reasons. D) Because they don’t like other people. 25. A) An astronaut walks on the moon. B) The United States helps Germany to be a great country. C) A scientist immigrates to Germany. D) People celebrate the success in space walking. 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 carefully for its general idea. When the passage is read for the second time, you are required to fill in the blanks with the exact words you have just heard. Finally, when the passage is read for the third time, you should check what you have written. 注意：此部分试题请在答题卡1上作答。 Culture is one of the most challenging elements of the international market. This system of learned (26)__________ patterns is constantly shaped by dynamic variables: language, religion, values and attitudes, technology and education, customs , (27)________, and social institutions. To cope with this system, an international manager needs both factual and interpretive knowledge of culture. To some extent, the factual knowledge can be learned, but its (28)__________ comes only through experience. The most (29)____________ problems in dealing with the cultural environment stand from the fact that one cannot learn culture and that one has to live in it. Two schools of thought exist in the business world on how to deal with cultural diversity (30)__________. One is that business is business around the world, following the model of Pepsi and McDonald's. The other school (31) ____________that companies must tailor business approaches to (32) ____________ cultures. Setting up policies and procedures in each country has been (33) ____________ an organ transplant. The critical question (34) _____________ acceptance or rejection. The major challenge to the international manager is to make sure that rejection is not a result of cultural blindness. The internationally successful companies all share an important quality: patience, which is, from Fortune Index, the result of examining the international performance of the companies that earn 20 percent or more of their revenue overseas. They have not (35) _____________ but rather built their operations carefully by following the most basic business principles. These principles are to know your competitors, know your audience, and know your customers. 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. Questions 36 to 45 are based on the following passage. Quite often, educators tell families of children who are learning English as a second language to speak only English, and not their native language, at home. Although these educators may have good  36 ,their advice to families is misguided, and it   37  from misunderstandings about the process of language acquisition. Educators may fear that children hearing two languages will become 38  confused and thus their language development will be  39  ; this concern is not documented in the literature. Children are capable of learning more than one language, whether   40  or sequentially(依次地). In fact, most children outside of the United States are expected to become bilingual or even, in many cases, multilingual. Globally, knowing more than one language is viewed as an 41  and even a necessity in many areas. It is also of concern that the misguided advice that students should speak only English is given primarily to poor families with limited educational opportunities, not to wealthier families who have many educational advantages. Since children from poor families often are   42  as at-risk for academic failure, teachers believe that advising families to speak English only is appropriate. Teachers consider learning two languages to be too  43  for children from poor families, believing that the children are already burdened by their home situations. If families do not know English or have limited English skills themselves, how can they communicate in English? Advising non-English-speaking families to speak only English is   44  to telling them not to communicate with or interact with their children. Moreover, the  45 message is that the family's native language is not important or valued. 注意：此部分试题请在答题卡2上作答。 A) asset         B) delayed       C) deviates         D) equivalent E) identified  F) intentions    G) object　        H) overwhelming                                                                I) permanently　 J) prevalent　      K) simultaneously　 L) derives                                                                                                                  　 M) successively　N) potential      O) visualizing                                                                                                                                              　 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. There’s Gold in Them there Landfills A) In the movie WALL E, humankind has left Earth in a bit of a mess. The planet is choked with garbage and all the people have shipped out, leaving robot WALL E to clean the place up and make it habitable again. Things may not be quite that bad yet, but there's no doubt that we produce a huge amount of waste. Even with increased recycling, landfill sites are filling up by the day and -in the absence of a plucky robot - the waste experts of planet Earth are working on the next best thing: landfill mining. B) The idea is simple. Instead of disappearing under mountains of our own waste, while paying through the nose for diminishing commodities, why not dig up and recycle what we have already thrown away? C) Next week, industry experts will gather in London for the first global landfill mining conference. Bringing together environmental scientists, economists and landfill operators, the one-day meeting promises to show delegates how to turn waste into "garbage gold". D) Landfill mining has been tried before. The first scheme began in 1953 at Hiriya garbage dump outside Tel Aviv, Israel, and aimed to reclaim fine-particle waste rich in minerals to improve soil quality at local fruit farms. The landfill closed in 1998, but the recycling plant that remains on the site still produces soil improver from green waste. Then during the 1960s and 1970s, a handful of sites in the US began separating waste to recycle the steel and to compost food scraps. In the late 1980s, a pilot programme was set up to extract recyclables from a small, community landfill in the town of Edinburg, New York, and burn the solid leavings to generate energy. This pilot proved uneconomical but during the oil price rising of the 1990s interest in the economic value of waste soared. Investors claimed to snap up scrap metal companies, only for the price of commodities to drop through the floor in the mid-1990s. E) Yet now that commodities prices are rising once more, environmental issues are high on everyone's list of priorities and land prices are increasing, every square kilometre is worth too much to use for landfill. Raiding the dump seems like a good idea again. This time the prospects are more promising. Thanks to a decade of innovation by the recycling industry, the technology to process landfill waste is more readily available. F) So what's in a landfill worth recycling? For a start, the average landfill is filled with valuable - and sometimes even precious - metals. Aluminium, from drinks cans, is just one example. According to Patrick Atkins, environmental consultant for private equity fund Pegasus Capital Advisors, and until recently director of energy innovation at US aluminium producer Alcoa, Americans throw away 317 aluminium cans every second of every day. Around half of these, totalling 680,000 tonnes of aluminium each year, dodge the recycling basket and end up in landfill. Given that the cost of aluminium peaked at $2700 per tonne in July this means America is burying up to $1.83 billion worth of metal per year. Atkins estimates that there is now more aluminium in US landfills than can be produced from ores globally in one year. And it's not only aluminium that is hiding down there with the used diapers and grocery bags. One tonne of scrap from discarded PCs contains more gold than can be produced from 16 tonnes of ore, he says. And the world throws away 18 million tonnes of electronic waste each year.