TEM4模拟试题12[1].doc

TEM-4 Test 12
TIME LIMIT: 140 MIN.
PART I    LISTENING COMPREHENSION [20 MIN.]

In Section A, B and C you will hear everything once only.    Listen carefully and then answer the questions that follow.    Select the correct response for each question.

SECTION A    STATEMENT
In this section you will hear 8 statements.    At    the end of the statement you will be given 10 seconds to answer each of the following 8 questions.    Now listen to the statements.

1. How much money is expected to be raised?
A. '1/4 million
B. '1/2 million
C. '1 million
D. '2 million

2. Which statement about the speaker is true?
A. He likes grapes better than anyone else does.
B. He grows more grapes than anyone else.
C. Grapes are more nutritious than he thought.
D. He thinks very few people like grapes.

3. The speaker seems to feel _____.
A. that it might take some time for him to ride in his new car
B. that he could have his new car come in two days
C. that he couldn't use the new car because the dealer is getting him a license
D. that he couldn't ride in his new car because the dealer is teaching him how to drive it

4. The speaker's opinion is _____.
A. this is a result of what I read
B. you alread6y know what the results will be
C. I'd like to try to make it happen if possible
D. I'm prepared to try no matter what happens

5. The speaker _____.
A. really needs to return that article on photography immediately
B. found the article so good that she copied it
C. wishes she could go back to the library now
D. should have made a copy of the article for reference

6. How long does it take the local train to get to New York?
A. One hour.
B. Two hours.
C. Three hours.
D. Four hours.

7. What did Cindy do?
A. She bought a pair of skates from the shoemaker.
B. She asked the shoemaker to sharpen her skates for her.
C. She wanted her parents to buy a new pair for her.
D. She carefully sharpened her skates herself.

8. What should be kept in mind when one reserves plane tickets?
A. Reservations should be confirmed forty-eight hours before departure.
B. Confirmation of reservations can take forty-eight hours.
C. Cancellations can be made forty-eight hours in advance.
D. Many flights are cancelled forty-eight hours before departure.

SECTION B    CONVERSATION
In this section, you will hear 8 short conversations between two speakers.    At the end of each conversation you will be given 10 seconds to answer each of the following 8 questions.    Now listen to the conversations.

9. Where is the woman?
A. At the department store.
B. At the grocery.
C. In the garden.
D. In the farm.

10. Why does the woman not want to tell Mr. Brown about the parking ticket?
A. He will get very angry.
B. He is looking for a parking space.
C. He has to buy a parking ticket himself.
D. He will discover it himself anyway.

11. What time is it?
A. 7:10
B. 7:00
C. 6:50
D. 7:05

12. What does the woman think is harder?
A. political science.
B. Economics.
C. Getting an A.
D. Political and economics.

13. What does the woman mean?
A. Both bags cost the same per pound.
B. The man shouldn't spend so much money on potatoes.
C. She always buys the same size bag.
D. She doesn't usually eat any potatoes.

14. What is the woman suggesting?
A. Getting a better quality lamp.
B. Fixing the lamp tomorrow.
C. Changing the light bulb.
D. Working with a different lamp.

15. What does Mr. Hester mean?
A. He does have a background in business.
B. He lacks the experience that is called for.
C. He isn't interested in being a student.
D. He doesn't want to do business at all.

16. What does Paul do?
A. He publishes books.
B. He works in industry.
C. He collects automobiles.
D. He is an author.

SECTION C    NEWS BROADCAST
Questions 17 and 18 are based on the following news item.    At the end of the news item you will be given 20 seconds to answer the following questions.    Now listen to the news.

17. Who was the only person having survived the crash?
A. The French judge.
B. The French judge's bodyguard.
C. Rees Jones, Princess Dianna's bodyguard.
D. A French doctor.

18. Rees Jones didn't talk about the crash shortly after the crash because _____.
A. he could only tell the French judge about the crash
B. he was seriously wounded and couldn't remember what had happened at the moment
C. he refused to talk about it
D. his doctors didn't allow him to talk about it then

Question 19 is based on the following news item.    At the end of the news item you will be given 10 seconds to answer the following question.    Now listen to the news.

19. Which statement is false about James McDougall?
A. He is Clinton's former business partner.
B. He died of a heart attack.
C. He died on Sunday.
D. He was conducting an investigation in connection with the White Water Real Estate Venture before he died.

Questions 20 and 21 are based on the following news item.    At the end of the news item you will be given 20 seconds to answer the following questions.    Now listen to the news.

20. What's the minimum figure of the deaths of people in the two bomb explosions?
A. 12
B. 8
C. 16
D. 60

21. How many people have been killed by the sectarian and political violence in Pakistan this year?
A. More than 12.
B. 60.
C. More than 60.
D. About 8.

Questions 22 to 24 are based on the following news item.    At the end of the news item you will be given 30 seconds to answer the following questions.    Now listen to the news.

22. What measures will Indonesia take in order to put out forest fires?
A. Send more fire engines.
B. Create rain.
C. Encourage villagers by offering them more water and equipment.
D. Cut more bushes.

23. How long will the plan of putting out forest fire last?
A. One week.
B. Five days.
C. Ten days.
D. One month.

24. Why was an airport forced to close down?
A. Because the blazes from the fire were too hot.
B. Because the smoke from the fires was too think.
C. Because it was too droughty at the airport.
D. Because it rained heavily there.

Question 25 are based on the following news item.    At the end of the news item you will be given 10 seconds to answer the following question.    Now listen to the news.

25. What is the necessary condition for the waiver?
A. Vietnam has received trade benefits.
B. Vietnam has made progress in allowing immigration to the US.
C. Vietnam must become one of the most-favored nations.
D. The relations between the US and Vietnam must be further improved.

PART II    CLOZE [15 MIN.]
Decide which of the choices given below would correctly complete the passage if inserted in the corresponding blanks.    Select the correct choice for each blank.

Today, the Tower of London is one of the most popular tourist (26)_____ and attracts over three million visitors a year.    It was occasionally used as a Royal Palace for the Kings and Queens of England (27)_____    the time of James I who (28)_____ from 1603 to 1625, but is best known as a prison and execution place.    Within the walls of the Tower, princes have been murdered, traitors (29)_____, spies shot, and Queens of England beheaded.    One of the most famous executions was that of Anne Boleyn in 1526.    She was the second wife of Henry VIII.    He wanted to (30)_____ her because she could not give him a son, so he accused her of adultery.    She was tried and found guilty.    She asked to be beheaded with a sword, (31)_____ the usual axe, which can still be seen in the Tower.
The Tower was also the (32)_____ of one of London's most famous mysteries.    King Edward IV died in 1483.    His elder son, Edward, became king (33)_____ his father's death.    Young Edward lived in the Tower, and the Duke of Gloucester, his protector, persuaded Edward's brother, Richard, to come and live there so that they could play together.    But then the Duke (34)_____ that he was the new king, and he was crowned instead of the twelve-year-old Edward, (35)_____ himself Richard III.
After that, the boys were seen less and less and (36)_____ disappeared.    It is said that they were suffocated in bed by pillows being (37)_____ their mouths.    It is believed that Richard III ordered their deaths, although it has never been (38)_____.    In 1674, workmen at the Tower discovered two skeletons which were taken away and buried in Westminster Abbey in 1678.    The (39)_____ were examined in 1933 and were declared to be those of two children, (40)_____ the age of the Princes.

26. A. seats
B. scenes
C. grounds
D. sights

27. A. until
B. by
C. to
D. at

28. A. reined
B. reigned
C. powered
D. controlled

29. A. ruined
B. destroyed
C. tortured
D. wounded

30. A. get away with
B. get rid of
C. get done with
D. get down on

31. A. apart from
B. besides
C. together
D. rather than

32. A. region
B. scene
C. place
D. area

33. A. on
B. at
C. with
D. by

34. A. revealed
B. announced
C. pronounced
D. advertised

35. A. naming
B. declaring
C. calling
D. giving

36. A. eventually
B. later
C. lastly
D. completely

37. A. forced into
B. squeezed forth
C. pressed over
D. put on

38. A. approved
B. proved
C. reproved
D. disproved

39. A. remains
B. corpses
C. bones
D. bodies

40. A. definitely
B. roughly
C. possibly
D. certainly

PART III    GRAMMAR AND VOCABULARY [15 MIN.]
There are twenty-five sentences in this section.    Beneath each sentence there are four choices marked A, B, C and D.    Choose one word or phrase that correctly completes the sentence.

41. All the television viewers chose her as their _____ actress.
A. favorable
B. favorite
C. favored
D. favoring

42. She pointed out that her wages _____ no relation to the amount of work she did.
A. held
B. yielded
C. offered
D. bore

43. His long beard is a _____ joke among his friends.
A. steady
B. standing
C. settled
D. stable

44. _____ her inexperience her failure to secure the contract was not surprising.
A. In view of
B. By virtue of
C. With regard to
D. In recognition of

45. Mr. White was told again and again to _____ smoking but he just wouldn't listen.
A. cut through
B. cut down
C. cut off
D. cut away

46. If this animal had escaped from its cage it could _____ have killed or hurt several people.
A. equally
B. both
C. well
D. severely

47. The president shook hands with everyone, without _____ of rank.
A. conviction
B. exposition
C. distinction
D. recognition

48. Sometimes they _____ their students' poor comprehension to a lack of intelligence.
A. attribute
B. assign
C. attach
D. associate

49. To _____ greater accuracy, all invoices will be double-checked before leaving the office.
A. assure
B. ensure
C. insure
D. ascertain

50. As a natural body substance, interferon (干扰素) has few side _____.
A. influences
B. effects
C. impacts
D. functions

51. The police _____ together all they had found out about the wanted man.
A. combined
B. mixed
C. pieced
D. joined

52. When Bob came in, Jean _____ her talk with Linda and talked to Bob.
A. broke off
B. cleared away
C. cut across
D. set apart

53. Foreign mutton is _____ to home-grown in flavor.
A. worse
B. indifferent
C. inferior
D. subordinate

54. I _____ work last week, but I changed my mind.
A. were to start
B. was to start
C. was to have started
D. had started

55. The children went there to watch the iron tower _____.
A. to erect
B. be erected
C. erecting
D. being erected

56. After the Arab states won independence, great emphasis was laid on expanding education, with girls as well as boys _____ to go to school.
A. to be encouraged
B. been encouraged
C. being encouraged
D. be encouraged

57. _____ such a good chance, he planned to learn more.
A. To be given
B. Having been given
C. Having given
D. Giving

58. -- Has Mary finished writing his article?
-- No, and it _____ two days ago.
A. should be finished
B. should finish
C. should have finished
D. ought to have been finished

59. I had better _____ the problem.
A. leave them to settle
B. to leave them to settle
C. to leave them settling
D. leave them settling

60. _____ it is necessary to study the proposals for several more months before making a decision is to be debated.
A. Whether
B. If
C. What
D. That

61. _____ is well-known to all, too much stress can cause disease.
A. Which
B. It
C. That
D. As

62. _____ to speak when the audience interrupted him.
A. Hardly had he begun
B. No sooner had he begun
C. Not until he begun
D. Scarcely did he begun

63. As is generally agreed, a family without love is not _____ a family as a body without soul in a man.
A. such
B. as much of
C. so much of
D. much of

64. _____, I couldn't understand what is meant by that.
A. As I try hard
B. Hard as I might try
C. I might try hard
D. I tried hard

65. "What will you be doing tomorrow evening?"    "_____ the students' papers."
A. Correcting
B. Will be correcting
C. To correct
D. Will correct

PART IV    READING COMPREHENSION [30 MIN.]
SECTION A    READING COMPREHENSION [25 MIN.]
In this section there are five passages followed by fifteen questions or unfinished statements, each with four suggested answer marked A, B, C and D.    Choose the one that you think is the correct answer.

TEXT A
People have been painting pictures for at least 30,000 years.    The earliest pictures were painted by people who hunted animals.    They used to paint pictures of the animals they wanted to catch and kill.    Pictures of this kind have been found on the walls of caves in France and Spain.    No one knows why they were painted there.    Perhaps the painters thought that their pictures would help them to catch these animals.    Or perhaps human beings have always wanted to tell stories to pictures.
About 5,000 years ago the Egyptians and other people in the Near East began to use pictures as a kind of writing.    They drew simple pictures or signs to represent things and ideas, and also to represent the sounds of their language.    The signs these people used became a kind of alphabet.
The Egyptians used to record information and to tell stories by putting picture-writing and pictures together.    When an important person died, scenes and stories from his life were painted and carved on the walls of the place where he was buried.    Some of these pictures are like modern comic-strip stories.    It has been said that Egypt is the home of the comic strip.    But, for the Egyptians, pictures still had magic power.    So they did not try to make their way of writing simple.    The ordinary people could not understand it.
By the year 1000 BC, people who lived in the area around the Mediterranea