2012级2013-2014秋季学期四级模拟试卷（第四套）Part ⅠWriting (30 minutes)Directions:For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a short essay entitled Nothing Succeeds without a Strong Will by commenting on the humorous saying, "Quitting smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I've done it hundreds of times." You should write at least 120 words but no more than 180 words.Part II Listening Comprehension (30 minutes)Section ADirections: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 aboutwhat 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 the best answer is. Then mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 1 with a single line through the centre.1. A) To a barbershop. C) To a book store.B) To the grocer's. D) To a restaurant.2. A) On Monday. C) On Saturday.B) On Tuesday. D) On Sunday.3. A) On October 2. C) On October 20.B) On October 8. D) On October 21.4. A) She will live a simple life. C) She will quit her job to get married.B) She will fully focus on her job. D) She will stay with someone unmarried.5. A) Driving to work is really a headache.B) The woman will be able to buy an intelligent car,C) Cars that drive themselves may be very expensive.D) He is working with a car producer on intelligent cars.6. A) Sandwich. C) Ice cream.B) Hot dogs. D) Potato chips.7. A) He would tear it down first. C) He would rebuild it by himself.B) He would make some repairs. D) He would scratch the paint off its surface.8. A) The hamburgers were delicious. C) Pigs love hamburgers too.B) Ted ate too many hamburgers. D) Ted looks overweight. Questions 9 to 11 are based on the conversation you have just heard.9. A) Most people's arms are too fat or flabby.B) They are easy and convenient.C) They can keep people physically healthy.D) There are a lot of diseases related to arms.10. A) They don't get rid of flabby arms. C) They aren't acceptable to most people.B) They can damage arm muscles. D) They can raise one's blood pressure.11. A) Wearing arm weights while you are swimming.B) Jogging vigorously in one place for a long time.C) Using bicycles that require you to use both your arms and legs.D) Walking slowly while swinging your arms back and forth.Questions 12 to 15 are based on the conversation you have just heard.12. A) To ask him to explain the steps in a lab experiment.B) To discuss a grade she got on a lab report.C) To ask for advice on her lab experiments.D) To talk about a lab report she is writing.13. A) To explain an ongoing problem in his classes.B) To warn the woman that she will fail the class.C) To emphasize the importance of cooperation.D) To help the woman understand what problem she has.14. A) Drop the chemistry class. C) Team up with a better student.B) Read the handouts he provides. D) Join the chemistry club.15. A) She does not like chemistry. C) She does not agree with the professor.B) She is too busy to study. D) She is careless about lab techniques.Section BDirections: 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.Passage OneQuestions 16 to 18 are based on the passage you have just heard.16. A) To spend his holiday. C) To visit the Andersons.B) To meet his girlfriend. D) To work as an engineer.17. A) He was interviewed by a newspaper.B) He disappeared from the spot quickly.C) He went to the hospital in the ambulance.D) He asked his girlfriend for his dry clothes.18. A) The first day when he was in New York.B) The day when he was leaving for home.C) The same day when he was interviewed.D) A couple of days after the girl was rescued.Passage TwoQuestions 19 to 21 are based on the passage you have just heard.19. A) It fails to consider right-handed people.B) It woks better with men than with women.C) It is different for men's clothing and women's.D) It has been followed by the industry for over 400 years.20. A) They were mostly dressed by servants.B) They drew their swords from the left.C) They tended to wear clothes without buttons.D) They were interested in the historical matters.21. A) Customs are hard to change.B) Modem women dress themselves.C) Manufacturers should follow standards.D) Adopting men's style is improper for women.Passage ThreeQuestions 22 to 25 are based on the passage you have just heard.22. A) Hoatzins in dry and rainy seasons.B) The relatives and enemies of hoatzins.C) Primitive birds and hoatzins of the Amazon.D) The appearance and living habits of hoatzins.23. A) They live on river banks. C) They have claws on the wings.B) They eat a lot like a cow. D) They look like young cuckoos.24. A) They could fly long distances.B) They had four wings like hoatzins.C) They had claws to help them climb.D) They had a head with long feathers on the top.25. A) To find more food. C) To keep themselves warm.B) To produce their young. D) To protect themselves better. Section CDirections: 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.The concept of student exchange between countries is not a new one. It is a common26 in many European countries and the United States of America. In fact, most of the leading universities have made student exchange programs a 27 part of their system. This program 28 the philosophy that a group of students coming from various parts of the world to a certain university for a year or even a few months can bring about a 29 in the university.Tracing its root back to World War II, student exchanges quickly became 30 as they aimed to help increase the participants' understanding and 31 of other cultures, as well as improving their language skills and 32 their social horizons. The trend is also catching up fast in Pakistan and a number of organizations 33 sending the students abroad to various universities. In this regard, I was selected for this program in 2007, according to which I was to study the Spring 2008 semester at the University of Montana. As expected, the experience was amazingly enriching and proved tremendously fruitful.Education in America is a blend of academics and a whole lot of other things.However, it's not all fun and games for exchange students as the courses offered are no piece of cake. But to make things interesting, a 34 choice of majors is offered which makes it a little easier for students since then they tend to opt for subjects that they find easy or 35 .Part III Reading Comprehension (40 minutes)Section BDirections: 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.Blood Donation: a Life-Saving CauseA) China enshrined the practice of voluntary, non-remunerated blood donations intolaw with the promulgation ( 颁布) of the Blood Donation Law on October 1, 1998. According to statistics from the Ministry of Health, the number of non-remunerated blood donors climbed steadily across the country in 2005. Last year, blood donated by non-remunerated donors accounted for 95 percent of the total used for medical purposes, and 84 percent of these donations were purely voluntary. This compares with respective figures of 22 percent and 5 percent in 1998.B) While more and more people are making voluntary blood donations, otherstatistics illustrate the hazards such donors face despite their goodwill. Minister of Health GaoQiang told the media November of 2005 that around 70,000 people in China contracted HIV/AIDS through blood transmission, either as donors or recipients. China has a population of 840,000 living with HIV, the majority of whom were infected through the intravenous (静脉内的) injection of drugs and unprotected sexual intercourse. Safe blood refers to blood that will not jeopardize the health of recipients through the risk of disease. For both donors and recipients, the safety of blood is directly related to their health and life, and it is vital that there are no lapses in the process. Therefore, as more people donate blood, the government is working to ensure that the nation's blood supply is safe, for both donors and recipients.Stringent Testing ProceduresC) Every voluntary blood donor must go through complex testing procedures beforedonating blood, including an ID check and examination of blood pressure and blood composition, including a check for hepatitis. Besides the strict medical indicators, even something as simple as a sneeze in front of the medical staff could also bar a donor as being unsuitable. "It is out of a responsible attitude toward donors, since ailments might cause a negative reaction. Meanwhile, illnesses might harm the quality of the blood," said a worker at the Xidan mobile blood bank. "Donors are perfectly safe while donating blood here because all the equipment used to collect blood, such as needles, will be discarded and replaced with new, sterile material each time a procedure is performed. So there is no riskof infection and no unsafe factor for the donors." The Blood Donation Law clearly stipulates 规定) that seven components, including tests for HIV, hepatitisB ( 乙型肝炎) , hepatitisC (丙型肝炎) and syphilis (梅毒) , blood pressuremust be strictly examined and no error is allowed in the testing. The staff confirmed that each of these factors is double-checked later, and if blood is discovered to contain any abnormality, it is destroyed.D) Stringent tests await blood that is donated. Instead of putting the blood into bloodbanks right away, collectors store it according to strict procedures. Immediately after the donated blood is delivered to the blood center, the blood type will be tested for the seven mandatory ( 命令的) items. To guarantee the accuracy of tests, they are conducted on two samples of a donor's blood at the same time. The environment of the test labs, including the air and floor, is disinfected every day to make sure it is germ flee. After these standard procedures, the accepted blood goes through various processes, such as the separation of blood components. In the final step, the medical staff obtains all the information on every blood donation from a computer scan of the label on each bag, if all results are normal, staff members will affix (贴上) the blood type to the bag. These bags are then stored in a blood bank for use.Health and Safe BloodE) ZouZhengrong, Deputy Director of the Shanghai Blood Center, said, "There is noabsolutely safe blood. One reason is scientific limitations. The disease must register abnormal figures before you can detect it and kill it. Second, the virus must accumulate to a certain amount before it can be discovered." He explained that there is a gap between the time a virus invades a healthy body and when it can be detected. He noted that this "window period", or the time it takes for a person who has been infected with a disease to test positive for antibodies, is 22 days in the case of HIV.F) In order to avoid problems threatening blood safety, such as concealing a diseasehistory or the frequent sale of blood, China stipulates in the Blood Donation Law that the blood for clinical use supplied by all blood centers across the country must come from non-remunerated blood donors. China has two types of "non-remunerated" blood donation. One is voluntary, which means donors do not receive any compensation in the form of nutrition fees or other subsidies from the blood collection agency or the donor's employer. The other is planned blood donation. Companies and government branches organize their employees to donate blood on a regular basis. This group of donors receives various types of material compensation from their employers.G ) A real name system might serve as an effective method to defuse (消除) hiddendangers induced by economic incentives, experts say. Therefore, many cities have invested generously in establishing a system so as to identify blood sellers. Aside from cracking down on the practice of paying people to donate blood, a real name system has other advantages. Zou said, "If every donor registers his or her real name and identity, if a rare blood type is badly needed, hospitals could save lives by tracing the donors by record. This solution is quitefeasible."Government InvestmentH) In the mid-1990s, illegal blood collection generated the spread of HIV/AIDS incertain regions. To address this problem, China has adopted a series of laws and regulations to guarantee blood safety and set severe penalties for organizers of blood trade. Other measures also include cracking down on undocumented blood collectors, intensifying rectification of blood banks, implementing an HIV testing procedure and encouraging non-remunerated blood donation. With such efforts, the government has been committed to the elimination of the illegal blood trade and will punish those involved according to law. Issues concerning blood safety will be seriously dealt with.I ) The government has also stepped up investment in improving facilities in bloodstations. Vice Minister of Health Chen Xiaohong revealed at a national conference in March that in order to guarantee blood safety, governments at all levels invested a total of 2.25 billion Yuan in initiating a blood supply system construction project which includes upgrading equipment for 318 blood stations and 119 blood centers This project has built the first group of blood stations in the western area and greatly boosted conditions and facilities in blood stations.Meanwhile, this campaign closed down many unqualified blood collection agencies. By the end of 2005, a total of 387 grassroots blood stations and blood banks had been closed or merged. Thus, China has formed a blood supply network consisting of blood centers at the provincial level, blood stations at the prefecture level and local blood banks. Meanwhile, blood donation and collection services are more accessible to the public and the level of blood safety has been greatly upgraded.46. As more and more people are making voluntary donations, the government isworking on making sure that both donors and recipients will be prevented from contracting the disease.47. In order to guarantee blood safety, the Blood Donation Law requires that the bloodfor clinical use must come from non-remunerated blood donors.48. In 1998, 5 percent of non-remunerated donations were made by purely voluntarydonors.49. According to ZouZhengrong, there's no absolutely safe blood because of scientificlimitations.50. A real name system can enable the hospitals to trace the blood donors by recordeasily and quickly if a rare blood type is badly needed to save someone.51. To be a qualified blood donor, one must go through ID check, blood pressureexamination and blood composition examination.52. There are two types of "non-remunerated" blood donation in China, that is,voluntary donation and planned blood donation.53. We can learn from the passage that at the Xidan mobile blood bank, donors areperfectly safe when donating blood.54. According to GaoQiang, there are big hazards in the blood transmission.55. Medical staff use computer scanner to get all the information on every blooddonation.Part IVTranslation (30 minutes)Directions:For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to translate a passage from Chineseinto English. You should write your answer on Answer Sheet 2.丝绸之路(the Silk Road)是公元前2世纪开始出现的一条联系中国和欧亚大陆的交通要道，由于这条道路开始时以丝绸贸易为主，所以人们便称它为丝绸之路。
