大学英语四级改革适用（听力）模拟试卷442(题后含答案及解析)题型有：1. Where is the statue located?2. What do we learn about Facebook’s current posting rules?1．A．GermanyB．SwitzerlandC．DenmarkD．Finland正确答案：C 涉及知识点：听力2．A．It allows photos of paintings of ridiculous figures.B．It doesn’t allow photos having no educational purposes.C．It allows photos of paintings of nudity.D．It doesn’t allow photos of no artistic value.正确答案：C 涉及知识点：听力听力原文：In some countries the idea of paternity leave--- when a father takes time off work to stay at home with a new child---has yet to take hold. In Sweden, which has been encouraging fathers to take paternity leave since 1974. In 1974, the country was the first in the world to replace maternity leave with parental leave, giving both partners the chance of time at home with their children.Today, Swedish couples get around 16 months (480 days) paid parental leave when their child is born. For the first 390 days, the parent who is off work gets paid 80% of their salary by the state up to around 111 US dollars a day. Sweden is rated as having one of the world’s narrowest gender gaps according to the World Economic Forum.Question 3 and 4 are based on the news report you have just heard.3. What is the news mainly about?4. Who will look after the new-born baby in Sweden?3．A．Sweden has the least gender discrimination in the world.B．Fathers are encouraged to take parental leave in Sweden.C．Men will get higher salary after the birth of his child.D．It is uncommon to see father taking care of children in Sweden.正确答案：B 涉及知识点：听力4．A．Both father and mother.B．Only mother.C．Only father.D．The Swedish government.正确答案：A 涉及知识点：听力听力原文：Apple stock is back to a place it hasn’t been in a long time: it costs less than $100 a share. So is it a bargain buy or just the beginning of a lower price? Expert opinions are all over the place.Wall street analysts--- the people who get paid to predict where stock prices are headed--- have forecasts for the stock ranging from 65 US dollars to 200 US dollars.The overwhelmingly majority of experts still say Apple is a “strong buy.”The average forecast is for the stock to hit $142 in the coming months, according to data compiled by TipRanks, a site that tracks and ranks analysts on their predictions. Where the stock is going depends on iPhone sales and its ability to innovate more.Apple shares are tanking this week because of a report in Japan’s Nikkei newspaper that Apple plans to reduce output of iPhone 6S and iPhone 6S Plus by 30%. That comes on the heels of an Accenture report warning that demand for smartphones is decreasing. People don’t believe the newer models are all that much better than what they currently have, so they don’t want to pay for an upgrade.Question 5 to 7 are based on the news report you have just heard.5. What change took place in Apple recently?6. What helped bring about the change according to an Accenture report?7. What can we learn about Apple’s smartphones?5．A．Its stock price dropped to less than $100 a share.B．Its stock price was raised to $200 a share.C．Apple would increase its production of smartphones.D．Apple has increased investment on new models.正确答案：A 涉及知识点：听力6．A．The demand for smartphones was decreasing.B．Experts forecasted an increase of sales of iPhones.C．New models were expected to be more welcomed.D．Japan’s market was decreasing.正确答案：A 涉及知识点：听力7．A．The price has dropped by 30%.B．The newer models are much better.C．The output of smartphones will be reduced.D．The newer models will be published in the coming month.正确答案：C 涉及知识点：听力Section B听力原文：W: Please have a seat, Mr. Saunders. I received your resume last week, and was very impressed.M: Thank you!W: We are a small financial company trading mostly stocks and bonds. May I ask why you are interested in working for us?M: Your company has an impressive reputation and I’ve always wanted to work for a smaller company.W: That’s good to hear. Would you mind telling me a little bit about your present job?M: I’m currently working in a large international company in charge of a team of 8 brokers. We buy and sell stocks for major clients worldwide.W: Why do you think you are the right candidate for this position?M: As a head broker, I have a lot of experience in the stock market. I deal with clients on a daily basis, and I enjoy working with people.W: Well, you might just be the person we’ve been looking for. Do you have any questions?M: Uh-hum. If I were hired, how many accounts would I be handling?W: You will be working with two other head brokers. In other words, you will be handling about a third of our clients.M: And who would I report to?W: Directly to me.M: I see. What kind of benefits package do you offer?W: Two weeks of paid vacation in your first year employment. You’ll also be entitled to medical and dental insurance, but this is something you should discuss with our Personnel Department. Do you have any other questions?M: No, not at the moment.W: Well, I’ll have to discuss your application with my colleagues and we’ll get back to you early next week.M: OK, thanks, it’s been nice meeting you!W: Nice meeting you too! And thanks for coming in today.Questions 8 to 11 are based on the conversation you have just heard.8. What’s the purpose of Mr. Saunders’visit?9. What is Mr. Saunders’current job?10. What can we conclude from the conversation?11. what benefits package may the man get in his first year employment?8．A．To make a business report to the woman.B．To be interviewed for a job in the woman’s company.C．To resign from his position in the woman’s company.D．To exchange stock market information with the woman.正确答案：B 涉及知识点：听力9．A．He is head of a small trading company.B．He works in an international insurance company.C．He leads a team of brokers in a big company.D．He is a public relations officer in a small company.正确答案：C 涉及知识点：听力10．A．The woman thinks Mr. Saunders is asking for more than they can offer.B．Mr. Saunders will share one third of the woman’s responsibilities.C．Mr. Saunders believes that he deserves more paid vacations.D．The woman seems to be satisfied with Mr. Saunders’ past experience.正确答案：D 涉及知识点：听力11．A．Two weeks of unpaid vacation plus unemployment insurance.B．Two weeks of paid vacation plus medical and dental insurance.C．Property insurance plus two weeks of paid vacation.D．Two weeks of unpaid vacation plus property insurance.正确答案：B 涉及知识点：听力听力原文：M: Hey, Karen, you are not really reading it, are you?W: Pardon?M: The book！You haven’t turned the page in the last ten minutes.W: No, Jim, I suppose I haven’t. I need to get through it though, but I keep drifting away.M: So it doesn’t really hold your interest?W: No, not really. I wouldn’t bother with it, to be honest, but I have to read it for a seminar. I’m at a university.M: It’s a labor of labor then rather than a labor of love.W: I should say. I don’t like Dickens at all really, the author. Indeed, I am starting to like the whole course less and less.M: It’s not just the book. It’s the course as well?W: Yeah, in a way, although the course itself isn’t really that bad, a lot of it is pretty good, in fact, and the lecturers are fine. It’s me, I suppose. You see, I wanted to do philosophy rather than English, but my parents talked me out of it.M: So the courses are OK as such. It’s just that had it been left to you, you would have chosen a different one.W: Oh, they had my best interests at heart, of course, my parents. They always do, don’t they? They believe that my job prospects would’ve been pretty limited with the degree of philosophy. Plus, they give me a really generous allowance, but I am beginning to feel that I’m wasting my time and their money. They would be so disappointed, though, if I told them I was quitting.Questions 12 to 15 are based on the conversation you have just heard.12. Why can’t Karen concentrate on the book?13. Why is Karen starting to like the course less and less?14. Who thinks Philosophy graduates have limited job opportunities?15. What is Karen thinking of doing?12．A．She’s worried about the seminar.B．The man keeps interrupting her.C．She finds it too hard.D．She lacks interest in it.正确答案：D 涉及知识点：听力13．A．The lecturers are boring.B．The course is poorly designed.C．She prefers Philosophy to English.D．She enjoys literature more.正确答案：C 涉及知识点：听力14．A．Karen’s friend.B．Karen’s parents.C．Karen’s lecturers.D．Karen herself.正确答案：B 涉及知识点：听力15．A．Changing her major.B．Spending less of her parents’ money.C．Getting transferred to the English Department.D．Leaving the university.正确答案：A 涉及知识点：听力Section C听力原文：In Greece, only rich people will rest in peace forever when they die. Most of the population, however, will be undisturbed for only three years. Then they will be dug up, washed, compressed into a small tin box, and placed in a bone room. If the body has only partially decayed, it is reburied in a smaller, cheaper grave, but not for long. The body will be dug up again sometime later when it has fully decayed. Buying a piece of land for a grave is the only way to avoid this process. The cost of the grave is so great that most people choose to rent a grave for three years and even after being dug up, lasting peace is still not guaranteed. If no one pays for renting space in the bone room, the skeleton is removed and stored in a building in a poor part of the town. Lack of space in Athens is the main reason why the dead are dug up after three years. The city is so overcrowded that sometimes dead bodies are kept in hospitals for over a week until a grave is found. Athens’city council wants to introduce cremation, that is, burning dead bodies as a means of dealing with the problem. But the Greek church resists this practice. They believe the only place where people burn is hell, so burning dead bodies is against the Greek concept of life after death. To save space, the church suggested burying the bodies standing up instead of lying down. Some people proposed building multi-storey underground graveyards.Questions 16 to 19 are based on the passage you have just heard.16. What must Greeks do to keep the dead resting in everlasting peace?17. Why are most dead bodies in Athens dug up after three years?18. What suggestions does the church give about the burying of dead bodies?19. What practice does the Greek church object to?16．A．Rent a grave.B．Burn the body.C．Bury the dead near a church.D．Buy a piece of land for a grave.正确答案：D 涉及知识点：听力17．A．To solve the problem of lack of land.B．To see whether they have decayed.C．To follow the Greek religious practice.D．To move them to a multi-storey graveyard.正确答案：A 涉及知识点：听力18．A．They should be buried lying down.B．They should be buried standing up.C．They should be buried after being washed.D．They should be buried when partially decayed.正确答案：B 涉及知识点：听力19．A．Burning dead bodies to ashes.B．Storing dead bodies in a remote place.C．Placing dead bodies in a bone room.D．Digging up dead bodies after three years.正确答案：A 涉及知识点：听力听力原文：If you visit a big city anywhere in the world, you will probably find a restaurant which serves the food of your native country. Most large cities in the United States offer an international sample of foods. Many people enjoy eating the food of other nations. This is probably one reason why there are so many different kinds of restaurants in the United States. A second reason is that many Americans come from other parts of the world. They enjoy tasting the foods of their native lands. In the city of Detroit, for example, there are many people from Western Europe, Greece, Latin America, and the Far East. There are many restaurants in Detroit which serve the foods of these areas. There are many other international restaurants too. Americans enjoy the foods in these restaurants as well as the opportunity to better understand the people and their way of life. One of the most common international restaurants to be found in the United States is the Italian restaurant. The restaurantmay be a small business run by a single family. The mother of the family cooks all of the dishes, and the father and children serve the people who come to eat there. Or it may be a large restaurant owned by several different people who work together in the business. Many Italian dishes that Americans enjoy are made with meats, tomatoes and cheese. They are very delicious and tasty.Questions 20 to 22 are based on the passage you have just heard.20. Why are there so many international restaurants in the United States?21. Why do Americans like to go to international restaurants apart from enjoying the foods there?22. How is the typical Italian family restaurant run in the United States?20．A．Many foreign tourists visit the United States every year.B．Americans enjoy eating out with their friends.C．The United States is a country of immigrants.D．Americans prefer foreign foods to their own food.正确答案：C 涉及知识点：听力21．A．They can make friends with people from other countries.B．They can get to know people of other cultures and their lifestyles.C．They can practice speaking foreign languages there.D．They can meet with businessmen from all over the world.正确答案：B 涉及知识点：听力22．A．The couple cook the dishes and the children help them.B．The husband does the cooking and the wife serves as the waitress.C．The mother does the cooking while the father and children wait on the guests.D．A hired cook prepares the dishes and the family members serve the guests.正确答案：C 涉及知识点：听力听力原文：One winter day in 1891, a class at a training school in Massachusetts, USA, went into the gym for their daily exercises. Since the football season had ended, most of the young men felt they were in for a boring time. But their teacher, James Naismith, had other ideas. He had been working for a long time on the new game that would have the excitement of American football. Naismith showed the men a basket he had hung at each end of the gym, and explained that they were going to use a round European football. At first everybody tried to throw the ball into the basket no matter where he was standing. “Pass! Pass!”Naismith kept shouting, blowing his whistle to stop the excited players. Slowly, they began to understand what was wanted of them. The problem with the new game, which was soon called “basketball”, was getting the ball out of the basket. They used ordinary food baskets with bottoms, andthe ball, of course, stayed inside. At first, someone had to climb up every time a basket was scored. It was several years before someone came up with the idea of removing the bottom of the basket and letting the ball fall through. There have been many changes in the rules since then, and basketball has become one of the world’s most popular sports.Questions 23 to 25 are based on the passage you have just heard.23. What did Naismith do to entertain his students one winter day?24. According to the speaker, what was the problem with the new game?25. How was the problem with the new game solved?23．A．He took them to watch a basketball game.B．He trained them to play European football.C．He let them compete in getting balls out of a basket.D．He taught them to play an exciting new game.正确答案：D 涉及知识点：听力24．A．The players found the basket too high to reach.B．The players had trouble getting the ball out of the basket.C．The players had difficulty understanding the complex rules.D．The players soon found the game boring.正确答案：B 涉及知识点：听力25．A．By removing the bottom of the basket.B．By lowering the position of the basket.C．By simplifying the complex rules.D．By altering the size of the basket.正确答案：A 涉及知识点：听力。
专业英语四级（完形填空）模拟试卷224(题后含答案及解析)题型有： 4. CLOZEPART IV CLOZEDecide which of the words given in the box below would best complete the passage if inserted in the corresponding blanks. The words can be used ONCE ONLY.Noise constitutes a real and present danger to people’s health. Day and night, at home, at work, and at play, noise can produce serious physical and 【C1】_____ stress. No one is 【C2】_____ to this stress. Though we seem to 【C3】_____ to noise by ignoring it, the ear, in 【C4】_____, never closes and the body still responds —sometimes with extreme tension—【C5】_____ a strange sound in the night. The 【C6】_____ we feel when faced with noise is the most common outward disease of the stress 【C7】_____ inside us. The more 【C8】_____ and more serious health hazards 【C9】_____ with the stress caused by noise traditionally have been given much less attentioa 【C10】______, when we are annoyed or made irritable by stress, we should consider these 【C11】_____ fair warning that other things may be happening to us, some of which may be damaging our health. 【C12】_____ all health hazards of noise, hearing 【C13】_____ is most clearly observable and measurable by health professionals. The other hazards are 【C14】_____ to identify. For many of us, there may be a risk that 【C15】_____ to stress of noise increases 【C16】_____ to disease and infection. The more susceptible among us may experience noise as a 【C17】_____ factor in heart problems and other diseases. Noise that causes annoyance and irritability in healthy persons may have more serious consequences for those already ill in mind and body. However, the link between noise and many disabilities or diseases has not yet been 【C18】_____ demonstrated, and we tend to 【C19】_____ annoyance caused by noise as a 【C20】_____ to pay for living in the modern world.1．【C1】A．psychologicalB．psychosocialC．physiologicalD．biological正确答案：A解析：考查句子层面形容词词义辨析。
大学英语四级改革适用（听力）模拟试卷250(题后含答案及解析)题型有：1. Why does the naked eye seldom see the dance of the songbirds?2. What should the researchers do next?1．A．The songbirds have transparent legs.B．The songbirds dance very quickly.C．The songbirds often hide behind the leaves.D．The songbirds never dance in the day time.正确答案：B解析：由新闻首句可知，科学家们发现一种鸣鸟会跳踢踏舞，但是因为动作太快，人们的肉眼往往看不到。
2．A．To study the daily schedule of the songbird.B．To discover the relationship between the courtship and dance.C．To research how the dance was invented.D．To find more songbirds’ dances.正确答案：B解析：新闻中提到，研究人员下一步要做的是搞清楚他们的示爱与这种舞步之间的关系。
听力原文：(3)The World Bank has warned that 100 million more people will be pushed into poverty by 2030 unless action is taken to prevent global warming. It says global warming will ravage crops and fuel the spread of malaria and other diseases. Laura Becca reports from Washington. “The World Bank says that climate change is already having an effect on the poorest people who were struggling to raise crops in extreme weather and low rainfall. They say the world’s poorer receive fewer resources and are woefully unprepared to deal with further climate shocks such as rising seas or severe drought.(4)They’re calling for more to be done to help those in need and they want world leaders to act to reduce carbon emissions. That report had been released just a few weeks before a UN climate summit in Paris.”3. What will make more people become poor by 2030?4. What should world leaders do?3．A．Global warming.B．Nuclear wars.C．Food crisis.D．Economic depression.正确答案：A解析：新闻中提到，世界银行发出警告如果不制止全球变暖现象的话，到2030年全球的贫困人口会再增加一亿。
大学英语四级试卷（满分120分，考试时间90分钟）一、选择题：（本题共20小题，每小题3分，共60分）1.All parts of this sewing machine are______so that it is very simple to get replacements for them.A.mechanizedB.minimizedC.modernizedD.standardized2.All students in this university are requested to_____with the regulations.A.yieldplyC.submitD.consent3.All the parts of this washing machine are_____,so that it is very convenient to replace them.A.normalizedB.modernizedC.mechanizedD.standarlized4.All their_____have been shown up by their own deeds.A.debatesB.decorationsC.deductionsD.deceptions5.Although Asian countries are generally more_____in social customs than Western countries,there have been several notable examples of women leaders in both China and India.A.conservativeB.confidentialprehensiveD.consistent6.He rested his neck on_____right hand and looked me in______face.A.the,theB.his,hisC.the,hisD.his,the7.______a laser to operate,stimulated emission must predominate over absorption throughout the laser medium.A.Ordering toB.For orderingC.In order forD.The order of8.An increase in wages is an incentive_______better work.A.toB.inC.ofD.for9.Wine and song are appropriate________the occasion.A.atB.toC.onD.by10.The death of the President is a loss regretted______all.A.toB.forC.atD.by11.A doctor by training_______he was,he proved himself to be a greaterA.asB.thoughC.sinceD.if12._____the stress of examinations is over,we can all relax.A.WhileB.Even thoughC.ForD.How that13.Our city has recently started a traffic safety______.A.legendB.souvenirC.sacrificeD.campaign14.It is believed that reserves of petrol in Iraq are________to last for fifty years.A.sufficientB.efficientC.persistentD.effective15.Appreciation of a piece of art work______studies of the art,the artists,and the periods they live in.A.consistsposesC.containsD.involves16.We thought there must be something__because we hadn't heard from you for quite a long time.()A.rightB.wrongD.Bad is17.Jenny has learned a great deal of country music since____jin Nashville.()A.arrivesB.arrivingC.arrivedD.had arrived18.She had completed the work all by herself,__surprised all of us.()A.it isB.sheC.thatD.which19.Hurry up,_you will miss the first train.()A.andB.thenC.butD.or that20.The shirt doesn't fit me.it's.small for me.()A.to muchB.much tooC.too many二、翻译（共5小题，每小题3分；共计15分）1、他用所有的积蓄为儿子买了一辆自行车。
