英语四级模拟题十一
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Part I Writing (30 minutes)
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Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a Composition entitled On Holiday Reform. You should write at least 120 words following the outline given below in Chinese:
2.也有人提出反对意见;
3.我的看法。
On Holiday Reform
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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 on Answer Sheet 1.For questions 1-7, choose the best answer from the four choices marked [ A ], [ B ], [ C ] and [ D ]. For questions 8-10,complete the sentences with the information given in the passage.
Once upon a time, if you hated your job, you either quit or bit your lip. These days, a group of researchers is trumpeting a third option: shape your job so ifs more fruitful than futile.
"We often get trapped into thinking about our job as a list of things to do and a list of responsibilities," says Amy Wrzesniewski, an associate professor at the Yale School of Management. "But what if you set aside that mind-set?" If you could adjust what you do, she says, "who would you start talking to, what other tasks would you take on, and who would you work with?"
To make livelihoods more lively, Wrzesniewski and her colleagues Jane Dutton and Justin Berg have developed a methodology they call job-crafting. They’re working with Fortune 500 companies, smaller firms and business schools to change the way Americans think about work. The idea is to make all jobs--even mundane (平凡的) ones---more meaningful by empowering employees to brainstorm and implement subtle but significant workplace adjustments.
Step 1: Rethink Your Job--Creatively
"The default some people wake up to is dragging themselves to work and facing a list of things they have to do," says Wrzesniewski. So in the job-crafting process, the first step is to think about your job holistically. You first analyze how much
time, energy and attention you devote to your various tasks. Then you reflect on that allocation( 分配). See I0 perfect jobs for the recession--and after.
Take, for example, a maintenance technician at Burt’s Bees, which makes personal-care products. He was interested in process engineering, though that wasn’t part of his job description. To alter the scope of his day-to-day activities, the technician asked a supervisor if he could spend some time studying an idea he had for making the firm’s manufacturing procedures more energy-efficient. His ideas proved helpful, and now process engineering is part of the scope of his work.
Barbara Fredrickson, author of Positivity and a professor of psychology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel
Hill, says it’s crucial for people to pay attention to their workday emotions. "Doing so," she says, "will help you discover which aspects of your work are most life-giving-and most life-draining."
Many of us get stuck in ruts (惯例 ). Berg, a Ph.D. student at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania who helped develop the job-crafting methodology, says we all benefit from periodically rethinking what we do. "Even in the most
constraining jobs, people have a certain amount of wiggle room," he says. "Small changes can have a real impact on life at work."
Step 2: Diagram Your Day
To lay the groundwork for change, job-crafting participants assemble diagrams detailing their workday activities. The first objective is to develop new insights about what you actually do at work. Then you can dream up fresh ways to integrate what the job-crafting exercise calls your "strengths, motives and passions" into your daily routine. You convert task lists into flexible building blocks. The end result is an "after" diagram that can serve as a map for specific changes.
lna Lockau-Vogel, a management consultant who participated in a recent job-crafting workshop, says the exercise helped her adjust her priorities. "Before, 1 would spend so much time reacting to requests and focusing on urgent tasks that I never
had time to address the real important issues." As part of the job-crafting process, she decided on a strategy for delegating and outsourcing (外包) more of her administrative responsibilities.
In contrast to business books that counsel, managers to influence workers through incentives, job-crafting focuses on what employees themselves can do to re-envision and adjust what they do every day. Given that according to the Bureau of Labor
Statistics, it now takes the average job seeker more than six months to find a new position, it’s crucial to make the most of the job you’ve got.
Step 3: Identify Job Loves and Hates
By reorienting (使适应 ) how you think about your job, you free yourself up for new ideas about how to restructure your workday time and energy. Take an IT worker who hates dealing with technologically incompetent callers. He might enjoy
teaching more than customer service. By spending more time instructing colleagues--and treating help-line callers as curious students of tech--the disgruntled IT person can make the most of his 9-to-5 position.
Dutton, a professor at the University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business, says she has seen local auto-industry workers benefit from the job-crafting process. "They come in looking worn down, but after spending two hours on this exercise, they come away thinking about three or four things they can do differently."
"They start to recognize they have more control over their work than they realized," says Dutton, who parmered with Wrzesniewski on the original job-crafting research.
Step 4: Put Your Ideas into Action To conclude the job-crafting process, participants list specific follow-up steps: Many plan a one-0n-one meeting with a supervisor to propose new project ideas. Others connect with colleagues to talk about trading certain tasks. Berg says as long as their goals are met, many managers are happy to let employees adjust how they work.
Job-crafting isn’t about revenue, per se, but juicing up ( 活跃 ) employee engagement may end up beefing up the bottom line. Amid salary, job and benefit cuts, more and more workers are disgruntled. Surveys show that more than 50% aren’t happy
with what they do. Dutton, Berg and Wrzesniewski argue that emphasizing enjoyment can boost efficiency by lowering turnover rates and jacking up productivity. Job-crafting won’t rid you of a lousy boss or a subpar salary, but it does offer some remedies for job dissatisfaction. If you can’t ditch or switch a job, at least make it more likable.
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1. A long time ago when a person hated his/her job, what would he/she do?
B :Argue with the boss
C :Do it well or quit
D :Complain every day
2. What does Amy Wrzesniewski think about job?
B :It could be adjusted
C :It’s a list of responsibilities
D :It’s about talking with others
3. What’s your first thing to do in the job-crafting process?
B :To analyze your energy and attention
C :To analyze how much time you spend
D :To think about what to do
4. The idea of a maintenance technician at Burt’s Bees turned out to be
B :helpful and energy-efficient
C :useless to the supervisor
D :life-draining
5. What’s Berg’s suggestion about work?
B :To pay attention to the emotions
C :To rethink and make small changes
D :To take the most constraining jobs
6. According to Ina Lockau-Vogel, what’s the benefit from job-crafting?
B :It helps her adjust her time to do what she wants
C :It helps her make decisions about company strategy
D :It helps her set priorities properly
7. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, what’s the situation in job market?
B :It’s easy to find a new position
C :Job-crafting helps you find a job
D :Outsourcing jobs are very hot
8. Dutton has seen that local auto-industry workers profit from__________
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9. According to Berg, if the job-crafting process is successful, the supervisors are willing to let employees __________hat to do.
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10. If you can’t quit your job, using job-crafting may at least offer__________ for job dissatisfaction.
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Part III Listening Comprehension{35 minutes)
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 2 with a single line through the centre.
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11.
B :At a grocery
C :At a lawyer’s
D :At a psychiatrist’s
12.
B :Give the man a recipe
C :Write down the directions to the supermarket
D :Check to see if the stew is ready
13.
B :She would like the man to accompany her to the game
C :She doesn’t have a television
D :She’ll sell the man her ticket
14.
B :He hasn’t had time to do the experiment
C :He did only part of the experiment
D :The experiment turned out well
15.
B :The man needs the woman’s help
C :The man didn’t watch TV last night
D :The man often has power failure at home
16.
B :A beautiful park
C :A college campus
D :An architecture exhibition
17.
B :Mike will arrive at 8:30
C :Mike is usually punctual
D :Mike is not very punctual
18.
B :Bus
C :Subway
D :Car
Questions 19 to 22 are based on the conversation you have just heard.
19.
B :Tobacco companies
C :Smoking men
D :Smoking women
20.
B :15,000
C :140,000
D :1,400,000
21.
B :Smoking a light cigarette is different from smoking a regular one
C :Women who smoke light cigarettes want to get higher levels of nicotine
D :Tobacco companies advertise cigarettes as "light" to obscure smoking risks
22.
B :Social and culture events
C :Sports and entertainment
D :Social and political issues
Questions 23 to 25 are based on the conversation you have just heard.
23.
B :By plane and by coach
C :By train and by bus
D :By bus and by plane
24.
B :Glasses
C :Moustache
D :Beard
25.
B :In the Common Room
C :In a room at this end
D :In Room 501
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 2 with a single line through the centre.
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Passage One
Questions 26 to 28 are based on the passage you have just heard.
26.
B :We have to make our eyes, brain and muscles work almost at the same time
C :We have to use mainly the arms and legs to hit
D :We have to use mainly the muscles so that the ball is met and hit back
27.
B :What he learns in books
C :His place in society
D :His lessons in school
28.
B :It is its team work
C :It is the football field
D :It is the climate
Passage Two
Questions 29 to 31 are based on the passage you have just heard.
29.
B :They live in several hundred different varieties of trees
C :They live in a forty-degree band of latitude
D :They live in areas where the rainforest has been cleared
30.
B :One acre per second
C :One hundred acres per minute
D :Two hundred acres per hour
31.
B :Many species of plants and animals that depend on the ra inforest will become extinct
C :The future of the human species may be changed
D :The rainforest will grow, but at a much slower rate
Passage Three
Questions 32 to 35 are based on the passage you have just heard.
32.
B :To offer advice to prospective car buyers
C :To sell new cars
D :To explain how to finance a car
33.
B :In the fall
C :On the first day of the month
D :At the end of the week
34.
B :Not telling the dealer that you have a car to trade in
C :Financing the new car at the dealership
D :Buying a car that is on the dealer’s lot instead of ordering one
35.
B :Car dealers in the United States are not honest
C :New cars are very expensive in the United States
D :Most shoppers have a car to trade in
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 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 either use the exact words you have just heard or write down the main points in your own words. Finally, when the passage is read.for the third time, you should check what you have written.
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Part III Section C
British workers are suffering "email stress" because they are swamped with messages and constantly monitoring their inboxes.
Staffers are left tired, (36) __________ and unproductive as they (37) __________to cope with a constant deluge of emails, researchers from Glasgow and Paisley universities in Scotland have found.
More than a third said they thought they checked their inboxes every 15 minutes and 64 percent said they looked more than once an hour.
When researchers (38 ) __________ monitors to their computers, workers were found to be viewing e-mails up to 40 times an hour.
About 33percent said they felt stressed by the (39) __________ " of e-mails and the need to reply quickly. A further 28 percent said they felt "driven" when they checked messages because of the pressure to (40) __________ Just 38 percent of workers were (41) __________enough to wait a day or longer before replying.
Researchers found that many workers felt "(42) __________ " by e-mails interrupting them as they tried to (43) __________ on their work. (44) __________Karen Renaud, a computer scientist at Glasgow University, and Judith Ramsay, a psychologist at Paisley University, surveyed almost 200 workers.
They concluded, "Email has become an indispensable tool in business. (45) __________and that many computer users experience stress as a result of email-related pressure. "
Renaud said, "(46 ) __________
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Part IV Reading Comprehension (Reading in Depth) (25 minutes)
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 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 47 to 56 are based on the following passage.
It seems you always forget--your reading glasses when you are rushing to work, your coat when you are going to the cleaners, your credit card when you are shopping...
Such absent-mindedness may be 47 to you; now British and German scientists are developing memory glasses that record everything the 48 sees.
The glasses can play back memories later to help the wearer remember things they have forgotten such as where they left their keys. And the glasses also 49 the user to "label" items so that information can be used later on. The wearer could walk
around an office or a factory identifying certain 50 by pointing at them. Objects indicated are then given a 51 label on a screen inside the glasses that the user then fills in.
It could be used in 52 plants by mechanics looking to identify machine parts or by electricians wiring a 53 device.
A spokesman for the project said: "A car mechanic ’for 54 could find at a glanbe where a part on a certain car model is so that it can be identified and repaired. For the motorist the system could 55 accident black spots or dangers on the road."
In other cases the glasses could be worn by people going on a guided tour, 56 points of interest or by people looking at panoramas where all the sites could be identified.
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Section B
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 57 to 61 are based on the following passage.
You’re busy filling out the application form for a position you really need. Let’s assume you once actually completed a couple of years of college work or even that you completed your degree. Isn’t it tempting to lie just a little, to claim on the
form that your diploma represents a Harvard degree? Or that you finished an extra couple of years back at State University?
More and more people are turning to utter deception like this to land their job or to move ahead in their careers, for personnel officers, like most Americans, value degrees from famous schools. A job applicant may have a good education anyway, but he or she assumes that chances of being hired are better with a diploma from a well-known university.
Registrars at most well-known colleges say they deal with deceitful claims like these at the rate of about one per week.
Personnel officers do check up on degrees listed on application forms, then. If it turns out that an applicant is lying, most colleges are reluctant to accuse the applicant directly. One Ivy League school calls them "impostors (骗子 )"; another refers to them as "special cases". One well-known West Coast school, in perhaps the most delicate phrase of all, says that these claims are made by "no such people". To avoid outright( 彻底的 ) lies, some job-seekers claim that they "attended" or "were associated with" a college or university. After carefully checking, a personnel officer may discover that "attending" means being dismissed after one semester. It may be that "being associated with" a college means that the job-seeker visited his younger brother for a football weekend. One school that keeps records of false claims says that the practice dates back at least to the turn of the century--that’s when they began keeping records, anyhow. If you don’t want to lie or even stretch the truth, there are companies that will sell you a phony diploma.
One company, with offices in New York and on the West Coast, will put your name on a diploma from any number of nonexistent colleges. The price begins at around twenty dollars for a diploma from "Smoot State University". The prices increase rapidly for a degree from the "University of Purdue". As there is no Smoot State and the real school in Indiana is properly called Purdue University, the prices seem rather high for one sheet of paper.
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57. The main idea of this passage is that __
B :lying about college degrees has become a widespread problem
C :college degrees can now be purchased easily
D :employers are no longer interested in college degrees
58. According to the passage, "special cases" refers to cases that __
B :students never attended a school they listed on their application
C :students purchase false degrees from commercial firms
D :students attended a famous school
59. We can infer from the passage that __
B :experience is the best teacher
C :past work histories influence personnel officers more than degrees do
D :a degree from a famous school enables an applicant to gain advantage over others in job competition
B :personnel officers only consider applicants from famous schools
C :most people lie on applications because they were dismissed from school
D :society should be greatly responsible for lying on applications
61. The word "phony" (Line 10, Para. 2) means__
B :ultimate
C :false
D :decisive
Passage Two
Questions 62 to 66 are based on the following passage.
Material culture refers to what can be seen, held, felt, used--what a culture produces. Examining a culture’s tools and technology can tell us about the group’s history and way of life. Similarly, research into the material culture of music can help us to understand the music culture. The most vivid body of material culture in it, of course, is musical instruments. We cannot hear for ourselves the actual sound of any musical performance before the 1870s when the phonograph was invented, so we rely on instruments for important information about music cultures in the remote past and their development. Here we have two kinds of evidence: instruments well preserved and instruments pictured in art. Through the study of instruments, as well as paintings, written documents, and so on, we can explore the movement of music from the Near East to China over a thousand years ago, or we can outline the spread of Near Eastern influence to Europe that resulted in the development of most of the instruments in the symphony orchestra.
Sheet music or printed music, too, is material culture. Scholars once defined folk music cultures as those in which people learn and sing music by ear rather than from print, but research shows mutual influence among oral and written sources during
the past few centuries in Europe, Britain, and America. Printed versions limit variety because they tend to standardize any song, yet they stimulate people to create new and different songs. Besides, the ability to read music notation has a far-reaching effect on music and, when it becomes widespread, on the music culture as a whole.
One more important part of music’s material culture should be singled out: the influence of the electronic media-~radio, record player, tape recorder, television, and videocassette, with the future promising talking and singing computers and other
developments. This is all part of the "information revolution", a twentieth-century phenomenon as important as the industrial revolution was in the nineteenth. These electronic media are not just limited to modern nations; they have affected music
cultures all over the globe.
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62. Research into the material culture of a nation is of great importance because
B :it can reflect the development of the nation
C :it helps understand the nation’s past and present
D :it can demonstrate the nation’s civilization
63. It can be learned from this passage that __
B :Near Eastern music had an influence on the development of the instruments in the symphony orchestra
C :the development of the symphony shows the mutual influence of Eastern and Western music
D :the musical instruments in the symphony orchestra were developed on the basis of Near Eastern music
64. According to the author, music notation is important because
B :it tends to standardize folk songs when it is used by folk musicians
C :it is the printed version of standardized folk music
D :it encourages people to popularize printed versions of songs
65. It can be concluded from the passage that the introduction of electronic media into the world of music
B :has speeded up the appearance of a new generation of computers
C :has given rise to new forms of music culture
D :has led to the transformation of traditional musical instruments
66. Which of the following best summarizes the main idea of the passage?
B :Music cannot be passed on to future generations unless it is recorded
C :Folk songs cannot be spread far unless they are printed on music sheets
D :The development of music culture is highly dependent on its material aspect
Part Cloze (15 minutes)
Directions: There are 20 blanks in the following passage. For each blank there are four choices marked [A] [B], [ C ] and [D ] on the right side of the paper. You should choose the ONE that best tits into the passage. Then mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through the centre.
Today, most countries in the world have canals. Many countries have built canals near the coast, and parallel 67 the coast. Even in the twentieth century, goods can be moved more cheaply by boat than by any other _68_ of transport.
These _69 make it possible for boats to travel __7 0_ ports along the coast without being _7_1_ to the dangers of the open. Some canals, such as the Suez and the Panama, save ships weeks of time by making their 72 a thousand miles shorter. Other canals permit boats to reach cities that are not 73 on the coast; still other canals .74._ lands where there is too much water, help to _75 fields where there is not enough water, and 76_. water power for factories and mills. The size of a canal ___7_7_ on the kind of boats going through it. The canal must be wide enough to permit two of the largest boats using it to _7_8 each other easily. It must be deep enough to leave about two feet of water .79__ the keel of the largest boat using the canal. When the planet Mars was first ._80_ through a telescope, people saw that the round disk of the planet was crises-crossed by a 8l of strange blue- green lines. These were called "canals" _82_ they looked the same as canals on earth 83 are viewed from an airplane.
However, scientists are now 84 that the Martian phenomena are really not canals. The photographs ~ 85 from space-ships have helped us to __86~ the truth about the Martian "canals".
67.
B :with
C :to
D :by
68.
B :meansi
C :method
D :approach
69.
B :waterfronts
C :channels
D :paths
70.
B :between
C :in
D :to
71.
B :exposed
C :opened
D :shown
72.
B :journey
C :voyage
D :route
73.
B :stationed
C :set
D :located
74.
B :drain
C :dry
D :leak
75.
B :wet
C :soak
D :irrigate
76.
B :afford
C :offer
D :give
77.
B :bases
C :depends
D :takes
78.
B :pass
C :move
D :advance
B :below
C :beneath
D :off
80.
B :researched
C :surveyed
D :observed
81.
B :number
C :deal
D :supply
82.
B :because
C :so
D :if
83.
B :where
C :when
D :as
84.
B :definite
C :certain
D :decisive
85.
B :taken
C :got
D :developed
86.
B :expose
C :uncover
D :discover
Part VI Translation (5 minutes)
Directions: Complete the sentences on Answer Sheet 2 by translating into English the Chinese given in brackets.
87.It is time the whole society began to take action to __________ (使我们的环境免于毁灭).
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88.If we had set out earlier,__________ (我们就不会在雨中行走).
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89.When this semester is over,__________ (我就能抽空读这部小说了).
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90.__________ (在我设计出这个问题的解决方案后),I’ll submit a report to the committee.
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91 __________ (我已得出结论)that it would be unwise to accept his proposM.
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