大学英语四级模拟试卷7Part Ⅰ Writing1、Directions: For this part, you are allowed30 minutes to write a composition of at least 120 words on Can Money Buy Happiness?Part Ⅱ Listening ComprehensionSection A2、A. Islamist militants are still in control of the town.B. French forces have entered the town.C. Islamist militants are attacking the airport.D. French forces are going to land at the airport.3、A. To control Kidal airport.B. To protect the capital Bamako.C. To protect the town.D. To fight against Islamist militants.4、A. 20%. B. 70%. C. 80%. D. 17%.5、A. Decreasing the stock for food.B. Adjusting the food production scale.C. Cultivating more lands to grow.D. Encouraging speculation in the food market.6、A. Chances of guessing the correct lotto numbers.B. Rossi's dreams about winning the lotto.C. People's madness for lotto games in Italy.D. Foreigners' visit to Italy for the lotto drawings.7、A. A huge amount of money. B. Free flights to Italy. C. A free tour in Europe.D. Tickets for the lotto games.Section B8、A. A physics exam. B. A lecture they plan to attend.C. An assignment.D. Their favorite poets.9、A. Listen to the woman's talk. B. Study for a test.C. Go to class.D. Prepare his presentation.10、A. In the library. B. In the woman's dormitoryC. In an empty classroom.D. In the dining hall.11、A. The space is big enough. B. There are many students there.C. It is much quieter than other places.D. It is more close.12、A. Garbage.B. Plastic meal-boxes.C. Used batteries.D. Disposable wooden chopsticks.13、A. They are describing a new dustbin.B. They are discussing the protection of environment.C. They are collecting used batteries.D. They are looking forward to attending a lecture.14、A. To make full use of the metals left.B. To protect the forest resources from being destroyed.C. To call for stopping using plastic meal-boxes.D. To awaken people to the environmental problems.15、A. She will attend the lecture.B. She will draw up a program.C. She will join the "Green Movement".D. She is not sure what she will do.Section C16、A. Summer vacation.B. The housing office.C. Resident advisers.D. Check-out procedures.17、A. Register for summer school.B. Repair holes in room walls.C. Remove personal property.D. Call the housing office.18、A. Their summer addresses.B. Any damage to their rooms.C. When they plan to leave.D. Questions for the housing office.19、A. The head of the Alumni Office.B. A doctor.C. A professor of business administration.D. A student from last year's program.20、A. Medical interns.B. Undergraduate students.C. Local business executives.D. Alumni sponsors.21、A. They give money to sponsor the program.B. They write letters of recommendation.C. They provide job opportunities.D. They work for the Alumni Office.22、A. Pot using. B. Wet cloth. C. Sand. D. Temperature.23、A. People who eat spoiled food may get sick.B. Farmers have to throw away spoiled products.C. Farmers have to sell the spoiled products quickly at a low price.D. People need money to dispose of the spoiled food.24、A. By electricity.B. Through an evaporation process.C. Through a freezing process.D. With the help of some special bacteria.25、A. He sold his invention to make money.B. He preferred invention to teaching.C. He was honored with an award for his teaching methods.D. He financed 5000 pot-in-pot systems to help people.Part Ⅲ Reading ComprehensionSection ADirections: 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 six. Believe it or not, that's the number of Americans who struggle with hunger. To make tomorrow a little better, Feeding America, the nation's largest 26 hunger-relief organization has chosen September as Hunger Action Month. As part of its 30 Ways in 30 Days program, it's asking 27 across the country to help the more than 200 food banks and 61,000 agencies in its network provide low-income individuals and families with the fuel they needto 28 .It's the kind of work that's done every day at St. Andrew's Episcopal Church in San Antonio. People who 29 at its front door on the first and third Thursdays of each month aren't looking for God—they're there for something to eat, St. Andrew's runs a food pantry (食品堂) that 30 thecity and several of the 31 towns. Janet Drane is its manager.In the wake of the 32 , the number of families in need of food assistance began to grow. It is 33 that 49 million Americans are unsure of where they will find their next meal. What's most surprising is that 36% of them live in 34 where at least one adult is working. "It used to be that one job was all you needed," says St. Andrew's Drane. "The people we see now have three or four part-time jobs and they're still right on the edge 35 ."A. surviveB. surroundingC. servesD. reviewedE. reportedF. recessionG. householdsH. gatherI. formally J. financially K. domestic L. competitionM. communities N. circling O. accumulateSection 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.Want to Learn Quicker? Use Your BodyA. Ever dealt with a problem? Picked up a new skill? Grasped a difficult concept? The language of learning is full of references to parts of the body outside the brain. Researchers discover that learning is easier, quicker and more long-lasting if lessons involve the body as well as the mind—whether it's gesturing with the arms or moving around a room. Can these insights enhance teaching and learning in the future? And should it inform the way technology is employed in the classroom?B. "In the past, people have argued that as we learn we become more able to think abstractly," says Andrew Manches, a psychologist at the University of Edinburgh in the UK. Conventional thinking might suggest that teachers should help children get rid of physical objects and body gestures to prepare them for the adult world. But in truth, the physical world never really leaves our thinking. For example, when we process verbs such as lick, kick and pick, medical scanners show that the parts of our brain that control the muscles in our face, legs and hands, respectively, light up with activity. And even the most abstract of concepts may have grounding in the real world.C. Body and mind—This theory is called embodied cognition(体验认知), and it suggests that what goes on in our minds stems from our actions and interactions with the world around us. It means that encouraging children to think and learn in a purely abstract way might actually make lessons harder for them to understand and remember. Science is beginning to back up the idea that actions really might speak louder than words in the classroom.D. Spencer Kelly, a psychologist at Colgate University in Hamilton, New York, has found that people spend three times as much time gesturing when they think it is particularly important that they get a message across, suggesting that even at the subconscious level, we appreciate the communicative value of our body language. Studies show that young children learn more if their teacher uses gestures when explaining a concept.E. Meanwhile, Susan Wagner Cook, a psychologist at the University of Iowa in Iowa City, has found that children pick up new concepts more effectively if they are taught to mirror and repeat the gestures their teacher uses, and that lessons involving words and gestures live longer in a student's memory than lessons using words alone.F. There's a place for technology—particularly with the rise of gesture-recognition devices like the Nintendo Wii (任天堂游戏机), Microsoft's Kinect add-on (外设设备) for the Xbox and touchscreen tablet PCs. Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, turned two Wii-mote video game controllers into a device that helps children visualize equivalence ratios (等值比)—for instance, understanding how if one plant grows twice as fast as another, the difference between their respective heights will become larger over time. This can be a tricky concept for children to understand. When asked to use their hands to represent the different growth rates, some students will place one hand slightly higher than the other, but then raise both hands at the same speed. The Berkeley team's device gives the children instant feedback, helping them work out when their hand gestures correctly match what would happen as the two plants grow. Afterwards, almost allstudents say that they actually understand why moving their hands at different speeds is the correct response.G. The Kinect sensor, meanwhile, is being used in studies to help children learn to more accurately map numbers onto physical space—a simple skill but one that is fundamental to our understanding of mathematics. Most people know, for instance, to place the number 50 exactly midway along a line marked "0" at one end and "100" at the other. Researchers at Eberhard Karls University in Tuebingen, Germany, found that seven-year-olds can place numbers along such a line more accurately if they physically walk the line on the floor—with their motion captured and analysed by the Kinect sensor-than if they use a mouse to interact with a computer screen representation of the line. Manches has begun exploring whether Kinect offers a way to re-imagine traditional children's blocks(积木). The technology allows children to pick up and manipulate virtual blocks on the screen using the same gestures they would use to play with real blocks—but the virtual blocks can do new things like change colour as they are pulled apart into smaller units, giving children fresh ideas about the way numbers can be broken down.H. In light of all this, it's tempting to conclude that teachers, and their students, should be jumping up and down, or waving their arms about during lessons. Manches, however, advises caution. The trouble is, science has not quite worked out exactly how the relationship between body and mind effects work. "You can't jump into the prediction and intervention stage too early," says Manches.I. This isn't to say there aren't working theories for what's going on, particularly when it comes to understanding why gesturing helps store information more firmly in the mind, says Cook. The lessons we learn at school usually involve declarative memory(陈述性记忆)—these are the facts that we can consciously recall or "declare" at a later date. But some of our memories arenon-declarative—things we can remember without really being able to explain why.J. The classic example is how we never really forget how to ride a bike. Physical movements seem to be particularly suitable fodder(素材) for making non-declarative memories, and so by both speaking and gesturing, we may encourage our brains to make two independent memories of an event, boosting our chances of remembering the event later.K. Even though researchers like Manches and Cook remain reluctant to set out prescriptive guidelines for teachers, their caution is beginning to weaken. "Five years ago I might have said there's potential for real harm in giving teachers instructions from this research," says Cook. Today, she is less worried of the potential to do damage—in part because none of her studies to-date has uncovered any evidence of side effects.36、Based on the theory of embodied cognition, science is starting to pay more attention to the importance of actions in the classroom.37、Researchers find that the involvement of both the mind and the body can make learning easier and quicker.38、The knowledge we get from school often has to do with declarative memories.39、Contrary to conventional thinking, the physical world is closely linked with our thinking.40、Our brain can make two independent memories of an event through language and action.41、Young students can learn more if their teacher uses gestures when explaining a concept.42、Seven-year-olds can put numbers along a certain line more accurately if they actually walk the line.43、Up to now, Cook's studies have not shown any evidence of side effects.44、Manches warns that we should enter prediction and intervention stage when it is the right time.45、A student can remember for a longer time lessons using words and gestures than lessons involving words alone.Section CDirections: 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 OneSalt is a principal wicked substance. Salt, sodium chloride(氯化钠), 40 percent of which is sodium(钠), is an element essential to human body. But sodium also boosts blood pressure. It makes the body retain fluids; greater fluid retention increases total blood volume, and this increase raises blood pressure. Where salt is used freely, a large proportion of the population develops chronic high blood pressure, which is a primary factor in heart disease and stroke. Farmers in northern Japan traditionally preserve their food with salt. They consume as much as six teaspoons a day—and 40 percent of them have high blood pressure. Among the Eskimos of Greenland, however, who consume little salt, high blood pressure is almost unheard of.The body of an adult needs only about 200 milligrams of sodium a day—the amount in 500 milligrams, or 1/10 of teaspoon, of salt. But the average American consumes about 12,000 milligrams, or more than two teaspoons, of salt a day—which supplies 24times as much sodium as necessary; Germans consume an average 5,300 milligrams of salt a day. A sharp reduction is recommended by authorities everywhere—to about 8,000milligrams of salt per day for healthy people. For those who already suffer from high blood pressure, the normally suggested maximum is about 2,000 milligrams per day;more drastic restrictions—to about 200 milligrams—are required in special cases.However, if this recommendation is adopted, food will become almost insufferably bland for most Americans and Europeans. So some physicians prescribe as a replacement seasoning potassium chloride (氯化钾), which tastes salty but contains no sodium. Meanwhile, it should also be taken into account that extremely heavy use of potassium unlikely because of its unpleasant taste in large doses—can cause death. Hence, the substitution of one chloride for the other should be undertaken only on the advice of a doctor.46、Which of the following is the main topic of the passage? ______A. The difference between sodium chloride and potassium chloride.B. The function of slat in daily life.C. A comparative study of slat consumption habits in some countries.D. The relationship between salt consumption and high blood pressure.47、According to the passage, which of the following is NOT true about the function and nature of slat? ______A. It is composed of sodium and chloride.B. It helps the body to keep fluid substance.C. Too much salt consumed can lead to high blood pressure.D. It is the direct cause of heart diseases.48、According to the passage, how much sodium do farmers in northern Japan consume each day? ______A. 8000 milligrams.B. 30000 milligrams.C. 12000 milligrams.D. 5000 milligrams.49、What does the underlined word "bland" in the last paragraph is closest in meaning to which of the following words? ______A. saltyB. tastelessC. deliciousD. dull50、What is the major reason why some doctors give patients potassium chloride? ______A. It is used as medicine.B. It contains no sodium.C. It makes food tasty.D. Human body can easily absorb potassium chloride.Passage TwoWhat are feelings for? Most non-scientists will find it a strange question. Feelings .justify themselves. They need serve no other purpose in order to exist. On the other hand, many evolutionary biologists, in contrast to animal behaviorists, acknowledge some emotions areprimarily for their survival function. For both animals and humans, fear motivates the avoidance of danger, love is necessary to care for young, and anger prepares one to hold ground. But the fact that a behavior functions to serve survival need not mean that; that is why it is done. Other scientists have attributed the same behavior to conditioning, to learned responses. Certain reflexes and fixed action patterns can occur without feelings or conscious thought. A gull chick pecks at a red spot above it. The parent has a red spot on its bill (喙); the chick pecks the parent's bill. The gull parent feeds its chick when pecked on the bill. The baby gets fed. The interaction need have no emotional content.At the same time, there is no reason why such actions cannot have emotional content. In mammals—including humans—that have given birth, milk is often released automatically when a new baby cries. This is not under voluntary control; it is reflex. Yet this does not mean that feeding a new baby is exclusively reflex and expresses no feeling like love. Humans have feelings about their behavior even if it is conditioned or reflexive. Yet since reflexes exist, and conditioned behavior is widespread, measurable, and observable, most scientists try to explain animal behavior using only these concepts. It is simpler.Preferring to explain behavior in ways that fit scientific methods most easily, scientists have refused to consider any causes for animal behavior other than reflexive and conditioned ones. Scientific orthodoxy (_正统观念) holds that what cannot be readily measured or tested cannot exist, or is unworthy of serious attention. But emotional explanations for animal behavior need not be impossibly complex or unstable. They are just more difficult for the scientific method to verify in the usual ways, cleverer and more sophisticated approaches are called for. Most branches of science are more willing to make successive approximations (近似值) to what may prove ultimately unknowable, rather than ignoring it altogether.51、What do many evolutionary biologists believe?A. Some emotions do not exist.B. Emotions are helpful for people's survival.C. Emotions give meaning and depth to life.D. Only humans have emotions.52、What can we learn from the example of a gull chick pecking the parent's bill?A. Behaviors can be learned and have no emotional content.B. It is the innate characteristic for adults to look after the young.C. It takes time for animals to be conditioned.D. Emotions are very important to survival.53、Why does the author think most scientists explain animal behavior in terms of reflexes and conditioning?A. They are the most essential factors for animals to surviveB. They are important for animals to develop learned and emotional behaviorsC. They are convenient for scientists to explain animals' behaviorD. They will lead to a better understanding of animal emotions54、What should scientists do to study animal emotions?A. They should set up improved and refined skillful experiments.B. They should analyze human emotions.C. They should distinguish what is emotional and what is conditioned.D. They should learn from animal behaviorists.55、What is the author's main purpose of writing this passage?A. To make the point that emotions are worth our attention.B. To explain what reflexive behavior is.C. To compare human emotions with animal emotions.D. To discuss the importance of emotions.Part Ⅳ TranslationDirections: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to translate a passage from Chinese into English. You should write your answer on Answer Sheet 2.56、泰山位于山东省西部。
