2005年6月大学英语四级考试模拟试题(2)

2005年6月大学英语四级考试模拟试题（2）

I. LISTENING COMPREHENSION
1. A) The sun. B) Their
children.
C) Right and wrong. D) The
weather.
2. A) At a lawyer's office. B) At a
library.
C) At a post office. D) At an
airport.
3. A) 45 minutes. B) 50 minutes.
C) 55 minutes. D) 5
minutes.
4. A) The man was caught in the rain last night.
B) The man's shoes were washed away last
night.
C) In spite of the rain, the show went on.
D) The show was prevented from being performed.
5. A) The style changes very often.
B) Women like fashionable clothes.
C) It is silly to follow the woman fashion
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closely.
D) It is foolish to spend too much money on
clothes.
6. A) ?? 12.00. B) ?? 7.50. C) ?? 6.00. D) ??
9.00.
7. A) It's not as good as it was. B) It's
better than it used to be.
C) It's better than people say. D) It's
worse than people say.
8. A) To move out of her way. B) To
show her his hands.
C) To help her carry the case. D) To
come up stairs.
9. A) 2:00 pm. B) 8:00 pm. C) 6:00 pm. D) 4:00
pm.
10. A) It is prettier. B) It is
bigger.
C) It has a prettier color. D) It has
a bigger yard.
Passage 1 Questions 11 to 13 are based on the
passage you have just heard.
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11. A) The development of cement.
B) The uses for cement.
C) Various construction materials.
D) Cement- producing countries.
12. A) An Egyptian. B) An ancient
Roman.
C) An Englishman. D) A
Frenchman.
13. A) In a kitchen. B) In a
stone quarry(2éêˉ3?).
C) In a chemistry laboratory. D) In a
brick mill.
Passage 2Questions 14 to 16 are based on the
passage you have just heard.
14. A) Mr. White's umbrella had been hiden by
someone in the church.
B) Mr. White had lost his umbrella on his
way to the church.
C) Someone had taken Mr. White's umbrella by
mistake.
D) Someone had stolen Mr. White's umbrella.
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15. A) He received several letters.
B) He received several umbrellas.
C) No one returned his umbrella.
D) Someone promised to return his umbrella.
16. A) Because he wanted to get his umbrella back.
B) Because his friend gave him good advice.
C) Because he wanted to frighten the thief.
D) Because the umbrella was given by his
uncle.
Passage 3 Questions 17 to 20 are based on the
passage you have just heard.
17. A) In 1959. B) In 1867. C) In 1896. D)
In 1872.
18. A) A foolish thing. B) Seward's
Folly.
C) Johnson's Folly. D) President's
Foolishness.
19. A) Because it is hard to find natural
resources.
B) Because it is hopeless to find natural
resources.
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C) Because it is poor in natural resources.
D) Because it is rich in natural resources.
20. A) To study its importance in war.
B) To study its volcanoes.
C) To enjoy its freezing weather.
D) To enjoy its beauty of nature.
II. VOCABULARY AND STRUCTURE
21. Someone must have left the tap on, _______ the
water was running over
and flooding the bathroom.
A) therefore B) nevertheless
C) for D) but
22. My aunt lost her car last summer, but it
turned _______ a week later
at a house in the next village.
A) on B) over C) out
D) up
23. Find a seat quickly, _______ there won't be
any left.
A) if not B) otherwise
C) or rather D) or
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24. During the rush hours everyone is doing two
men's work, _______ is
impossible without noise and quarrelling.
A) which B) that C) it D)
for that
25. He has got himself into a dangerous situation
_______ he has no
control.
A) because B) as C) over that D)
over which
26. They made _______ of 1,000 pounds on the sale
of their house.
A) a gain B) a profit C) a benefit
D) an increase
27. _______ the building for stolen goods, the
police found twenty
machine guns.
A) Searching B) Being
searching
C) Searched D) To search
28. The ancient Egyptians believed all illnesses
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were related to
_______ was eaten.
A) which B) it C) what D) that
29. It is one thing to enjoy listening to good
music, but it is quite
_______ to perform skillfully yourself.
A) another B) troublesome
C) a difficult thing D) a hard job
30. Passenger ships and ______ are often equipped
with ship-to-shore
or air-to-land radio telephones.
A) aircrafts B) aircraft
C) the planes D) also the planes
31. How are you _______ your physics experiment?
A) keeping up with B) getting
along with
C) making up for D) holding
on to
32. Not until the year of 1954 _______ made the
capital of this
province.
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A) the city was B) when the
city was
C) was the city D) was when
the city
33. How many times have I told you _______
football on the street?
A) do not play B) not to
have played
C) not to play D) not your
playing
34. She still kept _______ hold of one of
William's hands, and looked up
in his face.
A) stiff B) tight C) rigid
D) close
35. Mr. Brown advised us to withdraw _______.
A) so as not to get involved B) so as
to get not involved
C) as not to get involved D) as to
get not involved
36. He knows little of mathematics, _______ of
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chemistry.
A) as well as B) no less
than
C) and still little D) and
still less
37. Never before that night _______ the extent of
my own power.
A) had I felt B) I had
felt
C) did I feel D) I did
felt
38. When Mary paid the bill, she was given a
_______ for her money.
A) cheque B) ticket C) receipt D) label
39. Having been elected chairman of the student
association, _______.
A) the members applauded him
B) a speech was to be given by him
C) the members congratulated him
D) he gave a short acceptance speech
40. When Joyce was told the whole story, she
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_______ in the film.
A) ceased to be interesting B) ceased
being interested
C) ceased to interest D) ceased
interested
41. _______ you understand the rules, you will have
no further difficulty.
A) While B) Unless C) Whether D) Once
42. We would like to hear some more ideas. _______
this matter?
A) What do you think of B) How do you
think of
C) What is your opinion to D) How is
your idea on
43. Because I don't take any sugar in my tea, I
_______ to forget to
offer it to other people.
A) like B) come C) tend
D) have
44. Mr. Johnson _______ the opportunity to speak to
the president.
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A) realized B) held
C) seized D) discovered
r looks _______ improving at last.
I feel _______ a stroll along the beach.
A) forlike B) as iffor
C) likelike D) asthat
46. She has lost her handbag with _______ of money
in it.
A) a considerable sum B) a
valuable sum
C) an important sum D) an
extraordinary sum
47. The finance minister has not been so _______
since he raised taxes to
such a high level.
A) famous B) favourable C) popular D)
preferable
48. He had deceived a great many people but she
_______ him at once.
A) saw into B) saw
through
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C) looked into D) looked
through
49. Everything about your composition is perfect
______ the poor spelling.
A) except B) except for
C) apart from D) besides
50. He is an outstanding lawyer _______, he
should have a good income.
A) therefore B) because
C) however D) and then
III. CLOZE
Movie makers feared for a while
that they might be put out of busi-
ness by television. Recently, __51__, 51. A)
especially B) further
more and more people have been going C)
however D) moreover
to the movies. This __52__ be partly 52. A)
might B) could
because the economic situation in C) should
D) may
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America has become __53__ . In the 53. A)
better B) worse
movies, you forget your troubles as C) best
D) improved
you get __54__ in the story on the 54. A)
connected B) encouraged
screen. Also, directors have been
involved D) shocked
producing pictures that __55__ 55.
B) small
numbers of people want to see.
D) little
Americans__56__ the millions are
B) in

D) with
returning to a love__57__ with the
event B) occurrence

D) affair
movies. Motion picture __58__ experts
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C)
A) large
C) few
56. A) of
C) for
57. A)
C) accident
58. A)

industry B) deal
C)
manufacture D) contract
see two main __59__ for this: an 59. A)
excuses B) factors
C) reasons
D) proofs
increased need by Americans to __60__ 60. A) hide
B) separate
from economic worries and a large C) break
D) escape
number of new movies with broad au-
dience __61__ . 61. A) appeal
B) interest
Movie makers admit that their C)
consideration D) concern
__62__ popularity is __63__ the 62. A) raising
B) falling
C) rising
D) losing
63. A) by no
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means B) partly
C)
insufficienly D) completely
result of poor __64__ conditions, 64. A)
cultural B) industrial
which traditionally bring an increase
commercial D) economic
in theater __65__.people are
attendance B) buildings

performances D) programmes
fearful__66__ the future, they look
B) about

D) at
for escape,Jack Valenti,
B) comments
president of the Motion Picture
commends D) complains
Association of America.a __68__
shaded B) darkening
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C)
65. A)
C)
66. A) to
C) with
67. A) claims
C)
68. A)

theater, with a 65-foot screen, you C)
colourful D) lighted
lose __69__for two and a half hours 69. A)
reason B) worry
C) taste
D) yourself
People find this __70__ . 70. A)
beneficial B) harmful
C) unhealthy
D) humorous
IV. READING COMPREHENSION
Questions 71 to 75 are based on the following
passage:
In the primary school, a child is in a
comparatively simple setting and most of the time
forms a relationship with one familiar
entering secondary school, a new world opens up and
frequently it is a much more difficult world. The
pupil soon learns to be less free in the way he
speaks to teachers and even to his fellow pupils.
He begins to lose gradually the free and easy ways
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of the primary school, for he senses the need for
a more cautious approach in the secondary school
where there are older pupils. Secondary staff and
pupils suffer from the pressuresof academic work and
seem to have less time to stop and talk. Teachers
withspecialist roles may see hundreds of children in
a week, and a pupil maybe able to form
relationships with very few of the staff. He has
to decidewhich adults are approachable; good schools
will make clear to every youngperson from the first
year what guidance and personal help is available--
but whether the reality of life in the institution
actually encouragesrequests for help is another
matter.
Adults often forget what a confusing picture
school can offer to achild. He sees a great deal
of movement, a great number of people-oftenrather
frightening-looking people-and realizes than an
increasing numberof choices and decisions have to be
made. As he progresses through theschool the
confusion may become less but the choices and
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decisions requiredwill increase. The school will
rightly expect the pupil to take the firststeps to
obtain the help he needs, for this is the pattern
of adult lifefor which he has to be prepared, but
all the time the opportunities for per-sonal and
group advice must be presented in a way which
makes them easy tounderstand and within easy reach
of pupils.
71. According to the passage one of the problems
for pupils entering
secondary schools is that _________ .
A) they are taught by many different teachers
B) they do not attend lessons in every
subject
C) the teachers do not want to be friendly
D) the teachers give most attention to the
more academic pupils
72. In secondary schools, according to the writer,
every pupil having
problems should ________ .
A) know how to ask for help
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B) be freed from the pressure of academic
work
C) be able to discuss his problems in class
D) be able to discuss his problems with any
teacher
73. In this passage, the author is mainly concerned
about ________ .
A) academic standards
B) the role of specialist teachers
C) the training of the individual teachers
D) the personal development of pupils
74. Why do the pupils in the secondary school lose
the free and easy ways
of the primary school?
A) Older pupils are superior to them.
B) They are afraid of being punished by
teachers.
C) They feel that they need to behave more
carefully.
D) They should meet the needs of older pupils.
75. Which of the following is TRUE?
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A) Knowledge learning in the secondary school
is more challenging
than that in the primary school.
B) Teaching in the primary school is more
challenging than that in the
secondary school.
C) Teachers with specialist roles may see few
students in a week.
D) A pupil may form relationships with a lot
of staff.
Questions 76 to 80 are based on the following
passage:
Ours has become a society of employees. A
hundred years or so ago onlyone out of every five
Americans at work was employed, i.e., worked
forsomebody else. Today only one out of five is
not employed but working forhimself. And when fifty
years agoemployedworking as afactory
labourer or as a farmhand, the employee of today
is increasinglya middle- class person with a
substantial formal education, holding aprofessional or
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management job requiring intellectual and technical
, two things have characterized American
society during these lastfifty years: middle-class
employees have been the fastest-growing groupsin our
working population -- growing so fast that the
industrial worker,that oldest child of the Industrial
Revolution, has been losing in numeri-cal importance
despite the expansion of industrial production.
Yet you will find little if anything written
on what it is to be anemployee. You can find a
great deal of very dubious advice on how to geta
job or how to get a promotion. You can also find
a good deal of workin a chosen field, whether it
be the mechanist's trade or book keeping(?á??).
Every one of these trades requires different skills,
sets differentstandards, and requires a different
preparation. Yet they all have em- ployeeship in
common. And increasingly, especially in the large
businessor in the government, employeeship is more
important to success than thespecial professional
knowledge or skill. Certainly more people fail
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becausethey do not know the requirements of being
an employee than because theydo not adequately
possess the skills of their trade; the higher
youclimb the ladder, the more you get into
administrative or executive work,the greater the
emphasis on ability to work within the organization
ratherthan on technical abilities or professional
knowledge.
76. It is implied that fifty years ago _______.
A) eighty per cent of American working people
were employed in factories
B) twenty per cent of American intellectuals
were employees
C) the percentage of intellectuals in the
total work force was almost
the same as that of industrial workers
D) the percentage of intellectuals working as
employees was not so
large as that of industrial workers
77. According to the passage, with the development
of modern industry,
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_______.
A) factory labourers will overtake intellectual
employees in number
B) there are as many middle-class employees as
factory labourers
C) employers have attached great importance to
factory labourers
D) the proportion of factory labourers in the
total employee
population has decreased.
78. The word 'dubious' (Line 2, Para. 2) most
probably means _______.
A) valuable B) useful C) doubtful D)
helpful
79. According to the writer, professional knowledge
or skill is _______.
A) less important than awareness of being a
good employee
B) as important as the ability to deal with
public relations
C) more important than employer-employee
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relations
D) as important as the ability to co-operate
with others
80. From the passage it can be seen that
employeeship helps one _______.
A) to be more successful in his career
B) to be more specialized in his field
C) to gain professional ability
D) to develop his professional skill
Questions 81 to 85 are based on the following
passage:
The United States court system, as part of
the federal system of go-vernment, is characterized
by dual hierarchies: there are both state andfederal
courts. Each state has its own system of courts,
composed of civiland criminal trial courts, sometimes
intermediate courts of appeal, and astate supreme
court. The federal court system consists of a
series oftrial courts (called district courts)
serving relatively small geographicregions (there is
at least one for every state), a tier of circuit
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courtsof appeal that hear appeals from many district
courts in a particular geo-graphic region, and the
Supreme Court of the United States. The two
courtsystems are to some extent overlapping, in that
certain kinds of disputes(such as a claim that a
state law is in violation of the Constitution)
maybe initiated in either system. They are also to
some extent hierarchical,for the federal system
stands above the state system in that
litigants(persons engaged in lawsuits) who lose their
cases in the state supremecourt may appeal their
cases to the Supreme Court of the United States.
Thus, the typical court case begins in a
trial court -- a court ofgeneral jurisdiction -- in
the state or federal system. Most cases go
nofurther than the trial court: for example , the
criminal defendant isconvicted (by a trial or a
guilty plea) and sentenced by the court andthe case
ends; the personal injury suit results in a
judgment by a trialcourt (or an out-of-court
settlement by the parties while the courts suitis
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pending) and the parties leave the court system.
But sometimes the losingparty at the trial court
cares enough about the cause that the matter
doesnot end there. In these cases, thethe
trial court may appealto the next higher court.
81. What does the passage mainly discuss?
A) Civil and criminal trial courts.
B) Trial court cases.
C) The court system in the United States.
D) The appeal court process.
82. According to the passage district courts are
also known as_______.
A) circuit courts B) supreme
courts
C) intermediate courts D) trial
courts
83. In the last sentence of the first paragraph,
the phrasein
could best be replaced by which of the
following?
A) committed to. B) involved
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in.
C) attentive to. D) covered in.
84. The passage indicates that litigants who lose
their cases in the state
trial court may take them to _______.
A) different trial court in the same state
B) court in a different geographic region
C) federal trial court
D) state supreme court
85. It can be inferred from the passage that
typical court cases are _______.
A) always appealed
B) usually resolved in the district courts
C) always overlapping
D) usually settled by the Supreme Court
Questions 86 to 90 are based on the following
passage:
In the late 1960's, many people in North
America turned theirattention to environmental
problems, and new steel-and-glass skys-crapers were
widely criticized. Ecologists pointed out that a
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clusterof tall buildings in a city often overburdens
public transportationand parking lot capacities.
Skyscrapers are also lavish consumers, and
wasters, of electricpower. In one recent year, the
addition of 17 million square feet ofskyscraper
office space in New York City raised the peak
daily demandfor electricity by 120,000 kilowatts --
enough to supply the entirecity of Albany, New York,
for a day.
Glass-walled skyscrapers can be especially
wasteful. The heatloss (or gain) through a wall of
half-inch plate glass is more thanten times that
through a typical masonry wall filled with
insulationboard. To lessen the strain on heating and
air-conditioning equipment,builders of skyscrapers have
begun to use double-glazed panels ofglass, and
reflective glasses coated with silver or gold mirror
filmsthat reduce glare as well as heat gain.
However, mirror-walled skyscra-pers raise the
temperature of the surrounding air and affect
neighboringbuildings.
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Skyscrapers put a severe strain on a city's
sanitation(?àéú) facilities,too. If fully occupied,
the two World Trade Center towers in New York
Citywould alone generate 2.25 million gallons of raw
sewage(????) each year --as much as a city the
size of Stamford, Connecticut, which has a
populationof more than 109,000.
Skyscrapers also interfere with television
reception, block bird flyways,and obstruct air
traffic. In Boston in the late 1960's, some people
evenfeared that shadows from skyscrapers would kill
the grass on Boston Common.
Still, people continue to build skyscrapers for
all the reasons that they have always built them -
- personal ambition, civic pride, and the desire of
owners to have the largest possible amount of
rentable space.
86. The main purpose of the passage is to _______.
A) discuss the advantages and disadvantages of
skyscrapers
B) compare skyscrapers with other modern
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structures
C) describe skyscrapers and their effect on
the environment
D) illustrate various architectural designs of
skyscrapers
87. According to the passage, what is one
disadvantage of skyscrapers that have
mirrored walls?
A) The exterior surrounding air is heated.
B) The building materials are very expensive.
C) Construction time is increased.
D) Extra air-conditioning equipment is needed.
88. According to the passage, which aspect of
skyscrapers were some residents
of Boston concerned with in the late 1960's ?
A) The poor reception of radio and TV signals.
B) The removal of trees and grass from
building sites.
C) The harmful effects on the city's plants.
D) The obstruction of air traffic.
89. Which of the following groups would the
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skyscraper issue most concern?
A) Electricians. B)
Environmentalists.
C) City planners. D) Television
viewers.
90. Which of the following is NOT true according
to the passage?
A) Skyscrapers provide more usable space than
other buildings.
B) The skyscrapers first appeared in the late
1960's.
C) Where there are skyscrapers, television
reception is poor.
D) The two World Trade Center towers are
skyscrapers.
V. WRITING
Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30
minutes to write a compositionon Educational
Enrollment in China of 1978 and 1983, based on the
informationin the chart below. Compair the figures
of 1978 and 1983. Give possible ex-planations. Your
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composition should be in three paragraphs and be no
lessthan 120 words. Remember to write clearly.
You should write this composition on the
Composition Sheet.
1978 (Million) 1983
(Million)
Primary Schools 146.23
Secondary Schools 65.54
Specialized Schools 0.897
Universities and Colleges 0.854

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135.82
43.94
1.37
1.20