2023年英语专业四级模拟试卷.doc

TEST FOR ENGLISH MAJORS
—GRADE FOUR—
MODEL TEST ONE

PART I DICTATION [10 MIN]
Listen to the following passage. Altogether the passage will be read to you four times. During the first reading, which will be done at normal speed, listen and try to understand the meaning. For the second and third readings, the passage will be read sentence by sentence, or phrase by phrase, with intervals of 15 seconds. The last reading will be done at normal speed again and during this time you should check your work. You will then be given 2 minutes to check through your work once more.

Please write the whole passage on ANSWER SHEET ONE.

PART II LISTENING COMPREHENSION [20 MIN]

SECTION A TALK

In this section you will hear a talk. You will hear the talk ONCE ONLY. While listening, you may look at the task on the ANSWER SHEETONE and write NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS for each gap. Make sure what you fill in is both grammatically and semantically acceptable. You may use the blank sheet for note-taking.

You have THIRTY seconds to preview the gap-filling task.

Now, listen to the talk. When it is over, you will be given TWO minutes to check your work.

SECTION B CONVERSATIONS

In this section, you will hear two conversations. At the end of the conversion, five questions will be asked about what was said. Both the conversation and the questions will be spoken ONCE ONLY. After each question there will be a ten-second pause. During the pause, you should read the four choices of A, B, C and D, and mark the best answer to each question on ANSWER SHEET TWO.

You have THIRTY seconds to preview the questions.

Now, listen to the conversations.

Conversation One
Questions 1 to 5 are based on Conversation One.

1. A. A two-storied and four-bedroom house located in a small town.
B. A town house with two floors, two bedrooms, and four bedrooms.
C. A two-bedroom town house with four bathrooms, two floors.
D. A two-storied house located in a street with an area of 1080m2 .

2. A. $ 250,000.
B. $ 260,000.
C. $ 253,000.
D. $ 263,000.

3. A. His credit score is of average level.
B. His credt score is of advanved level.
C. He pays on time occasionally.
D. He keeps records of the credit.

4. A. His gross monthly income is sufficient.
B. His preference of a moderate life of loan.
C. The interest of the 30-year one is beyong his capacity.
D. His unwillingness to pay much money.

5. A. Credit.
B. Life of the loan.
C. Bank policy.
D. Income.

Conversation Two
Questions 6 to 10 are based on Conversation Two.

6. A. When you want to save more money.
B. When you want to get a discount.
C. When the gift is on your shopping list.
D. When the gift is worth the money.

7. A. Limit 1.
B. Limit 3.
C. Limit 5.
D. Limit 6.

8. A. If I buy the goods, I will save more money.
B. If I don’t buy the goods, there will be no such goods.
C. If I buy the goods, I will get a free gift.
D. If I don’t buy the goods, they will raise the price.

9. A. In order to let you conpare prices when buying.
B. In order to let you ignore the high price.
C. In order to let you buy things in advance.
D. In order to let you wait to buy some better things.

10. A. “Stay focused” are the key words when shopping.
B. Kellt Grant tells us to make a shopping list and check it twice when shopping.
C. Kelly Grant recommends the “shop now, save later” shopping way.
D. Coupons are the things that the stores want you to come back again.

PART III LANGUAGE USAGE [10 MIN]

There are twenty sentences in this section. Beneath each sentence there are four words or phrases marked A, B, C and D. Choose one word or phrase that best completes the sentence. Mark your answers on Answer Sheet Two.

11. Among the sentences below, it is sentence_____that denotes “future of present cause”.
A. The hugely successful British boy band will split soon.
B. The hugely successful British boy band may be splitting soon.
C. The hugely successful British boy band is going to split soon.
D. The hugely successful British boy band is splitting soon.

12. The following determiners can be used with uncountable nouns EXCEPT _______.
A. heaps of
B. lots of
C. umpteen
D. quantities of

13. Which of the italicized parts indicates CONTRAST?
A. Mr White is principal of the school, and an expert in translation.
B. He is not man enough, and that’s all.
C. Jack grew wheat on his farm during the day, and he studied astrnomy at night.
D. He didn’t stay up late, and he was tardy for school.

14. There was a storm_______ I had never experienced before.
A. such as
B. as which
C. with which
D. for such

15. This rule_______ to everyone who_______ for the post.
A. will apply… will apply
B. applies… will apply
C. will apply… applies
D. applies…. is applying

16. Who________ in but the President himself!
A. is coming
B. should come
C. came
D. has come

17. Which of the following prepositional phrases can function as an adverbial?
A. I don’t want a book with a torn cover.
B. The grass was wet with rain.
C. It is in bad taste to boost.
D. Between four and six will suit me.

18. Though the young lady was very pretty and gracious, she was none______ happier for her beauty.
A. the
B. much
C. more
D. enough

19. Which of the following best explains the meaning of “Shall my daughter do your shopping for you?”
A. Do you agree to my daughter doing your shopping for you?
B. Are you willing to let my daughter do your shopping for you?
C. Do you want my daughter to do your shopping for you?
D. Am I willing to let my daughter do your shopping for you?

20. There is no reason they should limit how much vitamin you take, ________ they can limit how much water you drink.
A. nor
B. no more than
C. not more than
D. any more than

21. Harry took a ______ of his drink and then put the glass down.
A. taste
B. lick
C. mouth
D. sip

22. As he made no_______ to our quarrel, I assumed he had forgiven me.
A. reference
B. statement
C. comment
D. mention

23. At the casualty department my brother had his injury________.
A. cured
B. healed
C. relieved
D. treated

24. In the________ majority of cases, this is a vital operation.
A. tremendous
B. handsome
C. broad
D. wide

25. ________ caused the accident has not yet been found.
A. What
B. Whatever
C. Whichever
D. Which

26. What happens to her? She’s been behaving very strange______ late.
A. by
B. of
C. for
D. till

27. My young brother has really gotten under my skin. The underlined part means_______.
A. made me angry
B. made me tired
C. made me excited
D. made me annoyed

28. —I’m glad to see you looking so well.
— Yes, I feel as______ as a fiddle.
A. well
B. fit
C. fine
D. fresh

29. The local wine is rather rough, but you’ll soon_______ a taste for it!
A. receive
B. adopt
C. acquire
D. accept

30. The rays of the morning sun begin to shine through_________ windows, casting a glow of gold over the landscape.
A. carved antique wooden
B. antique carved wooden
C. antique wooden carved
D. wooden antique carved

PART IV CLOZE [10 MIN]

Decide which of the words given in the box below would best complete the passage if inserted in the corresponding blank. The words can be used ONCE ONLY. Mark the letter for each word on ANSWER SHEET TWO.
A. emerging B. testify C. sought D. merging E. in general
F. transformed G. pigment H. painstaking I. in total J. close
K. ratify L. ritualistic M. figure N. extant O. shifted

Painting, the execution of forms and shapes on a surface by means of (31) _______, has been continuously practiced by humans for some 20,000 years. Together with other activities that may have been (32) ________ in origin but have come to be designated as artistic such as music or dance, painting was one of the earliest ways in which man (33)______ to express his own personality and his (34)______ understanding of an existence beyond the material world. Unlike music and dance, however, examples of early forms of painting have survived to the present day. The modern eye can derive aesthetic as well as antiquarian satisfaction from the 15,000-year-old-cave murals of Lascaux-- some examples (35)______ to the considerable powers of draftsmanship of these early artists. And painting, unlike other arts, exhibits universal qualities that make it easy for viewers of all nations and civilizations to understand and appreciate.
The major (36)______ examples of early painting anywhere in the world are found in Western Europe and the Soviet Union. But some 5,000 years ago, the areas in which important paintings were executed (37)______ to the eastern Mediterranean Sea and neighboring regions. Therefore, Western shared a European cultural tradition the Middle East and Mediterranean Basin and, later, the countries of the New World.
Western painting is (38)______ distinguished by its concentration on the representation of the human (39)______, whether in the heroic context of antiquity or the religious context of the early Christian and medieval world. The Renaissance extended this tradition through a(n) (40)______ examination of the natural world and an investigation of balance, harmony, and perspectives in the visible world, linking painting to the developing sciences of anatomy and optics.

PART V READING COMPREHENSION [35 MIN]

SECTION A MUTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONS
In this section there are three passages followed by ten multiple choice questions. For each multiple choice question, there are four suggested answers marked A, B, C and D. Choose the one that you think is the best answer. Mark your answers on ANSWER SHEET TWO.

PASSAGE ONE

Given the lack of fit between gifted students and their schools, it is not surprising that such students often have little good to say about their school experience. In one study of 400 adults who had achieved distinction in all areas of life, researchers found that three-fifths of these individuals either did badly in school or were unhappy in school. Few MacArthur Prize fellows, winners of the MacArthur Award for creative accomplishment, had good things to say about their precollegiate schooling if they had not been placed in advanced programs.
Anecdotal reports support this. Pablo Picasso, Charles Darwin, Mark Twain, Oliver Goldsmith, and William Butler Yeats all disliked school. So did Winston Churchill, who almost failed out of Harrow, an elite British school. About Oliver Goldsmith, one of his teachers remarked, "Never was so dull a boy. " Often these children realize that they know more than their teachers, and their teachers often feel that these children are arrogant, inattentive, or unmotivated.
Some of these gifted people may have done poorly in school because their gifts were not scholastic. Maybe we can account for Picasso in this way. But most fared poorly in school not because they lacked ability but because they found school unchallenging and consequently lost interest. Yeats described the lack of fit between his mind and school: "Because I had found it difficult to attend to anything less interesting than my own thoughts, I was difficult to teach."
As noted earlier, gifted children of all kinds tend to be strong-willed nonconformists. Nonconformity and stubbornness (and Yeats's level of arrogance and self-absorption) are likely to lead to Conflicts with teachers.
When highly gifted students in any domain talk about what was important to the development of their abilities, they are far more likely to mention their families than their schools or teachers. A writing prodigy studied by David Feldman and Lynn Goldsmith was taught far more about writing by his journalist father than his English teacher. High-IQ children, in Australia studied by Miraca Gross had much more positive feelings about their families than their schools. About half of the mathematicians studied by Benjamin Bloom had little good to say about school. They all did well in school and took honors classes when available, and some skipped grades.

41. The author quotes the remarks of one of Oliver Goldsmith's teachers______.
A．to provide support for his argument.
B．to illustrate the strong will of some gifted children.
C．to explain how dull students can also be successful.
D．to show how poor Oliver's performance was at school.

42. Pablo Picasso is listed among the many gifted children who______.
A．paid no attention to their teachers in class.
B．contradicted their teachers much too often.
C．could not cope with their studies at school successfully.
D．behaved arrogantly and stubbornly in the presence of their teachers.

43. Many gifted people attributed their success______.
A．mainly to parental help and their education at home.
B．both to school instruction and to their rparents' coaching.
C．more to their parents' encouragement than to school training.
D．less to their systematic education than to their talent.

PASSAGE TWO

A controversy erupted in the scientific community in early 1998 over the use of DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid ) fingerprinting in criminal investigations. DNA fingerprinting was introduced in 1987 as a method to identify individuals based on a pattern seen in their DNA, the molecule of which genes are made. DNA is present in every cell of the body except red blood cells. DNA fingerprinting has been used successfully in various ways, such as to determine paternity where it is not clear who the father of a particular child is. However, it is in the area of criminal investigations that DNA fingerprinting has potentially powerful and controversial uses.
　　DNA fingerprinting and other DNA analysis techniques have revolutionized criminal investigations by giving investigators powerful new tools in the attempt to trove guilt, not just establish innocence. When used in criminal investigations, a DNA fingerprint pattern from a suspect is compared with a DNA fingerprint pattern obtained from such material as hairs or blood found at the scene of a crime. A match between the two DNA samples can be used as evidence to convict a suspect.
　　The controversy in 1998 stemmed form a report published in December 1991 by population geneticists Richard C. Lewontin of Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass., and Daniel L. Hartl called into question the methods to calculate how likely it is that a match between two DNA fingerprints might occur by chance alone. In particular, they argued that the current method cannot properly determine the likelihood that two DNA samples will match because they came from the same individual rather than simply from two different individuals who are members of the same ethnic group. Lewontin and