大学英语四级考试专家预测试卷

Total score: 710

Total time allowed: 130 minutes

Part I Writing (30 minutes)

Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a short essay entitled To Curb Spending? You should write at least 120 words following the outline given below: 1. 现在许多大学生花钱大手大脚;

2. 有人认为社会整体生活水平提高了，大学生花钱多一些无可厚非; 3. 你的看法。

Part II Listening Comprehension (35 minutes) Section A

Directions: 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 about what 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 is the best answer. Then mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 1 with a single line through the centre.

1. A) The author isn’t an expert in economy. B) She has a better theory about the economy. C) She isn’t sure that the author’s idea would work. D) The author spends too much time arguing about details. 2. A) 7:45. 3. A) 5.

4. A) Only the first part of the report is due next Friday. B) The reports should have been completed by today. C) Some students haven’t started their reports yet. D) Some students didn’t finish their reports yet.

5. A) The desk wasn’t so heavy as it looks.

B) 13.

C) 4.

D) 6.

B) 7:15.

C) 7:30.

D) 8:00.

B) She and her roommate moved the desk. C) Her roommates found her another desk. D) They had to get a moving company to help.

6. A) A dentist.

7. A) At a train station. C) In a press office.

8. A) Mike doesn’t need to pay the tuition. B) Mike pays the tuition.

C) His parents think the tuition is too high. D) Mike’s parents pay the tuition.

Questions 9 to 12 are based on the conversation you have just heard. 9. A) Sweet love among the young people. B) Sweet love is good for people’s health. C) Chocolates and red wine as gifts for the lovers. D) How to lead a healthy and happy life.

10. A) To buy kinds of gifts.

B) To be romantic.

D) Keeping healthy.

B) At a ticket office. D) In a book store.

B) A cook.

C) A tailor.

D) A dietician.

C) To express love to each other.

11. A) Smoky and physically active.

B) Physically active and less likely to smoke and optimistic. C) Experiencing physical changes.

D) Their lives need to be balanced between love and work.

12. A) She refused. C) She hesitates.

Questions 13 to 15 are based on the conversation you have just heard. 13. A) “Lose-lose” solutions are useful in keeping a successful marriage. B) To run a “win-win” solution is hard. C) There is no success in marriage.

B) She is willing to. D) She is reluctant.

D) Running a successful marriage involves with many factors.

14. A) They changed their ways of talking. B) They change to another topic.

C) They made their way to choose the wallpaper that is favored by both. D) They just topped quarreling.

15. A) They don’t want to be weak.

B) They want to feel loved and respected.

C) Controlling over another means winning arguments at home. D) They are lack of trust and insecurity. Section B

Directions: 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 One

Questions 16 to 18 are based on the passage you have just heard. 16. A) Greek.

17. A) Olympia.

B) Berlin. D) The stadium.

B) Olympia.

C) Amsterdam.

D) Ancient Greek.

C) The host-city of the games.

18. A) It is so magnificent in the opening and closing ceremonies. B) The pass of Olympic customs from generation to generation. C) It is the pass of the light of spirit. D) It is the pass of knowledge and life. Passage Two

Questions 19 to 21 are based on the passage you have just heard. 19. A) They are not allowed to use mobile phones at school. B) They are not allowed to use mobile phones at all.

C) They are allowed to use mobile phones in class for messages. D) They are not allowed to use mobile phones every day.

20. A) Education to students not to use mobile phones any more. B) Education to students the possible dangers of using mobile phones. C) The random security scanning.

D) To ignore the phones if they don’t ring during the class.

21. A) Both parents and children are against the mobile phone ban.

B) Parents and the department of education agree with the mobile phone ban. C) We do not know now whether mobile phone ban can be worked out. D) We still need another 5 years of mobile phone ban.

Passage Three

Questions 22 to 25 are based on the passage you have just heard. 22. A) 5.

23. A) Inventors.

B) Scientists.

D) Activists, political and business leaders.

B) 3.

C) 8.

D) 6.

C) Health care providers.

24. A) To spread the knowledge on what is AIDS.

B) To bring effective treatments to the world-wide people. C) To deliver the people’s awareness of the danger of AIDS. D) To deliver the main content of the meeting.

25. A) Conference website is more economical than attending the meeting. B) Conference website is convenient than attending the meeting. C) Conference website is easier to be dealt with.

D) Conference website helps the absent-for-meeting people know the information. Section C

Directions: 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.

Friendship with oneself is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with

anyone

else in the world. We often (26) __________on building relationships with others that we forget the essential first step: being friends of ourselves. That is the (27)__________ first step if we are to have good relationships with others. How can we have good (28) ________with others if we don’t even have a good relationship with ourselves? The problem might be (29)__________ than we expect. Maybe we don’t like ourselves without (30) __________it. Here is a simple checklist; is there anything you don’t like about yourself from these lists? Maybe you have made mistakes in the past which make you feel bad. You might be (31) __________with yourself on why you could make such mistakes. Even if that happened in the (32)__________ past, your subconscious mind still has a reason not to like yourself. You might wish that you were born in a different family, or that you have (33) __________. Maybe you could not accept the fact that you are not as lucky as others, who seem to get (34) __________they want effortlessly because of their background. Others might have better achievements than you, and no matter how hard you tried, it might seem impossible for you to match them. You might then think that it’s because you are (35) __________or don’t have enough talents. All these give reasons to you not to like yourself. That in turn makes it difficult for you to be a good friend to yourself.

Part III Reading Comprehension (40 minutes) Section A

Directions: 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. Questions 36 to 45 are based on the following passage.

What (36) __________force drives us into the arms of one person, while pushing us away from another who might appear equally desirable to any unbiased observer?

Of the many factors influencing our idea of the perfect (37) __________, one of the most telling, according to John Money, professor emeritus of medical psychology and pediatrics at Johns Hopkins University, is what he calls our “love map” — a group of messages encoded in our brains that describes our likes and dislikes. It shows our (38) __________in hair and eye color, in voice, smell, body build. It also records the kind of personality that (39) __________to us, whether it’s the warm and friendly type or the strong, silent type.

In short, we fall for and pursue those people who most clearly (40)__________ our love map. And this love map is largely (41) __________in childhood. By age eight, the pattern for our