开合12月英语四级考前40天模拟考题练习(一)

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12月英语四级考前40天模拟考题练习
（一）


2012年12月英语四级考前40天模拟试题练习（一）
Part I Listening Comprehension (20 minutes) Section
A Directions: In this section, you will hear 10
short conversations. At the end of each conversation,
a question will be asked about what was said. Both the
conversation and the question 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 the Answer Sheet with
a single line through the center. Example: You will
hear: You will read: A) At the office. B) In the
waiting room. C) At the airport. D) In a restaurant.
From the conversation we know that the two were talking
about some work they had to finish in the evening. This
conversation is most likely to have taken place at the
office. Therefore, A) “At the office” is the best
answer. You should choose [A] on the Answer Sheet and
mark it with a single line through the center.
Sample Answer [A] [B] [C] [D] 1. A) go to a Chinese
restaurant B) go to a western restaurant C) go to
a pub for a change D) go to a food shop 2. A) She
likes math very much. B) She does not like math at
all. C) She wants to make the math interesting. D)
She likes math and thought it was interesting. 3.
A) He wants to wash the dishes. B) He doesn’t want to
wash the dishes. C) He will help them wash the dishes.
D) He will do anything for the woman. 4. A) She
disagrees with the man. B) She agrees with the man.
C) She thinks it is not the time we should turn our
attention to the danger of drunk driving. D) She
only agrees with the man at one point. 5. A) His
partner B) His teacher C) His sister D) His boss
6. A) At a cigarette store. B) At a bus station. C)
At a gas station. D) At her parents’ 7. A) Fifteen.
B) Twenty-nine. C) Sixteen. D) Sixty. 8. A) Do
her housework. B) Clean the backyard. C) Wash
clothes. D) Enjoy the beautiful day. 9. A) Wife and
husband B) Teacher and student C) Mum and son D)
Neighbors 10. A) The unsmiling faces B) The weather
C) The Londoners D) The color Section B Compound
Dictation 注意：听力理解的B节（Section B）为复合
式听写（Compound Dictation），题目印刷在试卷二上，现
在请取出试卷二。 Part II Reading Comprehension (35
minutes) Directions: There are 4 passages in this
part. 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
the Answer Sheet with a single line through the center.
Passage One Questions 11 to 15 are based on the
following passage. The most fashionable trend in
college sports celebrations today is as innocent as a
letterman’s sweater, as old- fashioned as school pride,
and reserved only for people who can wear the name of
their school across their chest. It can be spotted
after any surprising victory, when the most jubilant
player grabs the front of his jersey with both hands
and displays it to the crowd, framing the college name
as if in an advertisement for the school. Popping
the jersey, as it has become known, is becoming more
and more common. When Donald Brown helped his team win
an unlikely victory, he raised his jersey high enough
to cover his chin. When Niagara won a major tournament
this season, two players popped for the
photograph. ”Our team doesn’t have names on the
back of our jerseys,” Brown said. “So we play for the
name on the front. You have to understand, college
basketball is not like the N.B.A., where a team chooses
you and then you have to play for them. Here, you choose
where you want to go, and you go there for a good
reason.” ”This is one thing I’ve never seen in
the N.B.A., and I don’t think I ever will,” Erroll
Knight said. “It is our way to represent where we’re
from and tell people that we’re proud of it.” Like
most dance steps and slang words, no one really knows
who started the latest thing. One of the first
documented accounts of jersey- popping occurred in
December 2000, when Earl Watson faced the student
section and tugged at the front of his jersey after his
team erased a 19-point deficit against their
opponents. ”Basketball is an urban sport, a
hip-hop sport, and what you’re seeing right now comes
from that,” Knight said. “If a guy is wearing a really
nice shirt on the street and he wants to show it off
to everyone, he’ll do what’s called popping his
collar - he’ll sort of flick his collar to demonstrate
the value it has. What guys are doing now with their
jerseys is the same thing, only they have taken it to
another level.” 11. According to the passage, we
can tell that Erroll Knight is a player for . A)
soccer B) tennis C) basketball D) field hockey 12.
The trend in college sports celebrations today, as told
in the text, is . A) innocent but sophisticated B)
as fashionable as in the old days C) beloved by
everyone D) pure as well as old-fashioned 13. Which
of the following statement is true according to the
author? A) Popping the jersey is not in vogue any
more. B) The victory of Donald Brown’s team is out
of expectation. C) N.B.A and college basketball are
much the same. D) People pop their collars because
they are dirty. 14. The word “pop” (Para 3, L1)in
this passage is closest in meaning to which of the
following word/phrase? A) spank B) flick C) popular
D) show off 15. The reason why college sports
players pop the jerseys is because . A) their
jerseys are exquisitely designed B) it is a rule of
their colleges C) they are very proud of their
sports team D) it is a form of demonstration of the
value being the representative of their schools
Passage Two Questions 16 to 20 are based on the
following passage. In the 16th century, Venetian
and French glassmakers perfected a technique of coating
glass with an alloy of silver to produce an effective
mirror. Mirrors soon proliferated in public spaces and
private homes, and owning a pocket or hand mirror became
a marker of status. The mirror, you might say, was an
early personal technology - ingenious, portable,
effective - and like all such technologies, it changed
its users. By giving us, for the first time, a readily
available image of ourselves that matched what others
saw, it encouraged self-consciousness and
introspection and, as some worried, excesses of vanity.
By the 19th century, it was the machines of the
Industrial Revolution - the power loom, the motor, the
turbine - that prompted concern about the effects of
technology on the person. Karl Marx argued that factory
work alienated the worker from what he was toiling to
produce, transforming him into “a cripple, a
monster.” Men were forced to become more like machines:
efficient, tireless and soulless. Today’s
personal technologies, particularly the cellphone and
the digital video recorder, have not provoked similar
worries. They are marvels of individual choice,
convenience and innovation; they represent the
democratization of the power of the machine. Our
technologies are more intuitive, more facile and more
responsive than ever before. In a rebuke to Marx, we
have not become the alienated slaves of the machine;
we have made the machines more like us and in the process
toppled decades of criticism about the dangerous and
potentially enervating effects of our technologies.
16. The word “coat” (Line 1, Para.1) means . A)
to cover sth. with a layer of sth. B) to combine two
different things C) to make sth. into the shape of
a coat D) to put a coat on sth. 17. Which of the
following statement is true according to the text? A)
Soon after being invented, mirrors became unpopular
among people. B) Mirrors were first invented by
French and Vietnamese. C) Karl Marx criticized that
factory work had turned the workers into thoughtless
monsters. D) The motor is among the machines of
ancient inventions. 18. Why did some people worried
that the mirror might be excesses of vanity? A)
Because pocket and hand mirror became a marker of status.
B) Because mirrors were extremely expensive during that
time. C) Because only wealthy people can afford
buying a mirror. D) Because mirrors were invented
for important figures. 19. The author’s purpose of
writing this article is . A) to give a definition
on modern technology B) to give evidence to the
statement that today’s personal technologies are
marvels of individual choice C) to prove the rebuke
of Karl Marx D) to illustrate how modern
technologies of different times affect people’s life
20. Compared with technologies in the 16th and 19th
century, technologies today are more . A) ingenious
and portable B) marvelous and effective C)
intuitive and unreliable D) facile and responsive
Passage Three Questions 21 to 25 are based on the
following passage. BMW’s efforts to harness the
creativity of its customers began two years ago when
it posted a toolkit on its website. This toolkit let
BMW’s customers develop ideas showing how the firm
could take advantage of advances in telematics and
in-car online services. From the 1,000 customers who
used the toolkit, BMW chose 15 and invited them to meet
its engineers in Munich. Some of their ideas (which
remain under wraps for now) have since reached the
prototype stage, says BMW. “They were so happy to be
invited by us, and that our technical experts were
interested in their ideas,” says Mr Reimann. “They
didn’t want any money.” Westwood Studios, a game
developer now owned by EA, first noticed its customers
innovating its products after the launch of a game,
“Red Alert,” in 1996: gamers were making new content
for existing games and posting it freely on fan websites.
Westwood made a conscious decision to embrace this
phenomenon. Soon it was shipping basic
game-development tools with its games, and by 1999 had
a dedicated department to feed designers and producers
working on new projects with customer innovations of
existing ones. “The fan community has had a tremendous