2022年大学英语四级考试模考试题.doc

大学英语四级考试预测试题二

Part I Writing （30 minutes）
Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a short essay according to the following instructions. You should write at least 120 words but no more than 180 words.

Dama* square dance culture has generated some controversy recently. On the one hand, Dama square dance reflects social progress and the increasingly colorful life of senior citizens. On the other hand, many citizens who live near the square are disturbed by the noise of Dama square dance. What’s your opinion of Dama square dance? What’s your suggestion toward the problem?
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Part II Listening Comprehension （25 minutes）
Section A
Directions: In this section, you will hear three news reports. At the end of each news report, you will hear two or three questions. Both the news report 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.

Questions 1 and 2 will be based on the following news item.
1. A） Christmas-time attacks made by Somali rebels. C） The killing of more than 70 Ugandans in Kampala.
B） An explosion at a bus station in central Nairobi. D） Blasts set off by a Somali group in Uganda’s capital.
2. A） On Christmas Eve. C） During a security check.
B） Just before midnight. D） In the small hours of the morning.
Questions 3 and 4 will be based on the following news item.
3. A） It is likely to close many of its stores. C） It remains competitive in the recession.
B） It is known for the quality of its goods. D） It will expand its online retail business.
4. A） Expand its business beyond groceries. C） Cut its DVD publishing business.
B） Fire 25,000 of its current employees. D） Sell the business for one pound.
Questions 5 to 7 will be based on the following news item.
5. A） All taxis began to use meters. C） Advertisements were allowed on taxis.
B） All taxis got air conditioning. D） Old taxis were replaced with new cabs.
6. A） A low interest loan scheme. C） Taxi passengers’ complaints.
B） Environmentalists’ protests. D） Permission for car advertising.
7. A） There are no more irregular practices. C） New cabs are all equipped with meters.
B） All new cabs provide air-conditioning. D） New legislation protects consumer rights.

Section B
Directions: In this section, you will hear two long conversations. At the end of each conversation, you will hear four questions. Both the conversation 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.
Conversation One
Questions 8 to 11 are based on the conversation you have just heard.
8. A） She is hard-working. C） She is busy in the morning.
B） She has to catch an early bus. D） She gets up late in the morning.
9. A） It’s better than evening exercise. C） Young people do not need to take exercise.
B） It helps him work more efficiently. D） Morning exercise is generally informative.
10. A） He has to go to parties in the evening. C） The air is not fresh in the evening.
B） He has to prepare dinner for the family. D） He can’t afford the time.
11. A） Go home. C） Go to the bus stop.
B） Go to his office. D） Send his son to school.
Questions 12 to 15 are based on the conversation you have just heard.
12. A） Colorado. C） The Nile River.
B） Arizona. D） The Museum of Natural History.
13. A） Archaeological. C） Meteorological.
B） Biological. D） Sociological.
14. A） In a cave. C） In a tree.
B） In a river. D） In a boat.
15. A） Solve a mystery. C） Find some driftwood.
B） See the canyon. D） Take some photographs.

Section C
Directions: In this section, you will hear three 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） The head of the Alumni Office. C） A professor of business administration.
B） A doctor. D） A student from last year’s program.
17. A） Medical interns. C） Local business executives.
B） Undergraduate students. D） Alumni sponsors.
18. A） They give money to sponsor the program. C） They provide job opportunities.
B） They write letters of recommendation. 　 D） They work for the Alumni Office.
Passage Two
Questions 19 to 22 are based on the passage you have just heard.
19. A） To give background information about Santa Catalina Island.
　　 B） To tell the audience about new books on Santa Catalina.
　　 C） To introduce a training film on baseball.
D） To tell people about the music from the 1930s and 1940s.
20. A） A bandleader. C） An early settler of Santa Catalina.
B） A wealthy businessman. D） A baseball player from Chicago.
21. A） To set up an exclusive resort. C） To establish a summer retreat for musicians.
B） To build a marina. D） To start a training camp for a baseball team.
22. A） Traditional Portuguese music. C） Big-band music.
B） Opera. D） Music composed by Wrigley.
Passage Three
Questions 23 to 25 are based on the passage you have just heard.
23. A） Recalling something from one’s memory. C） Conscience.
B） The preparatory method in exams. D） Man’s mind.
24. A） From the ones they are familiar with to the difficult ones.
B） From the short ones to the long ones.
C） From the complicated ones to the easy ones.
D） From the ones they are confident of to the more difficult ones.
25. A） When you can’t recall something instantly, you should try your best to do it.
B） When you can’t recall something instantly, you’d better have an operation on your mind.
C） The subconscious activities may go to work to dig up a dim memory.
D） Forcing yourself to recall may loosen your memory.

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 26 to 35 are based on the following passage.
Worried about what people are saying about you? Concerns about gossip could influence behavior, including generosity, researchers said.
“As it turns out, the act of gossip can indeed be quite powerful,” said Jared Piazza of Queen’s University in Belfast, Northern Ireland.
Piazza and Jesse M. Beringa studied the 26 of 72 college students who were asked to distribute tokens（代金券） with a monetary value between themselves and someone else.
Half of the group were 27 told their decision would be discussed with a third party.
“Participants who were told that the receiver would be communicating their economic decision with the third party were 28 more generous in their allocations of the tokens than participants who were not 29 to believe that their decisions would be discussed,” Piazza and Beringa said in the study published in the journal Human Behavior.
They added that the most 30 strategy from an economic standpoint would have been for a student to 31 all 10 tokens to him or herself, but the threat of gossip seemed to have 32 their decision.
Although gender did not play a major role in the study, men were slightly more 33 than women.
“Allocations of males were, on average, slightly greater than allocations of females, although there were almost twice as many female participants,” the researchers 34 .
A previous study showed that gossip is more powerful than truth, suggesting people believe what they hear through the grapevine even if they have evidence to the 35 .
A） added I） allocate
B） beneficial J） thought
C） swayed K） contrary
D） fabricated L） also
E） reactions M） generous
F） made N） led
G） still O） economical
H） significantly

Section B
Directions: In this section, you are going to read a passage with ten statements attached to it. Each statement contains information given in one of the paragraphs. Identify the paragraph from which the information is derived. You may choose a paragraph more than once. Each paragraph is marked with a letter. Answer the questions by marking the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 2.
Addicted, Really?
A） Mental-health specialists disagree over whether to classify compulsive online behaviour as addiction—and how to treat it. Craig Smallwood, a disabled American war veteran, spent more than 20,000 hours over five years playing an online role-playing game called “Lineage II”. When NCsoft, the South Korean firm behind the game, accused him of breaking the game’s rules and banned him, he was plunged into depression, severe paranoia（偏执） and hallucinations（幻想）. He spent three weeks in hospital. After that, he sued NCsoft for fraud and negligence（过错）, demanding over $ 9m in damages and claiming that the company acted negligently by failing to warn him of the danger that he would become “addicted” to the game.
B） But does it make sense to talk of addiction to online activity? Mental-health specialists say three online behaviors can become problematic for many people: video games, pornography（色情作品） and messaging via e-mail and social networks. But there is far less agreement about whether any of this should be called “Internet addiction”—or how to treat it.
C） Some mental-health specialists wanted “Internet addiction” to be included in the fifth version of psychiatry’s bible, the “Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders”, known as DSM-V, which is currently being overhauled （全面修订）. The American Medical Association endorsed （赞成） the idea in , only to backtrack（放弃） days later. The American Journal of Psychiatry called Internet addiction a “common disorder” and supported its recognition. Last year the DSM-V drafting group made its decision: Internet addiction would not be included as a “behavioral addiction”—only gambling made the cut—but it said further study was necessary.
D） Skeptics say there is nothing uniquely addictive about the Internet. Back in , Joseph Walther, a communications professor at Michigan State University, co-wrote an article in which he suggested, tongue in cheek, that the criteria used to call someone an Internet addict might also show that most professors were “addicted” to academia （学术活动）. He argued that other factors, such as depression, are the real problem. He stands by that view today. “No scientific evidence has emerged to suggest that Internet use is a cause rather than a consequence of some other sort of issue,” he says. “Focusing on and treating people for Internet addiction, rather than looking for underlying clinical issues, is definitely unwise.”
E） Others disagree. “That would be wrong,” says Kimberly Young a researcher and therapist who has worked on Internet addiction since 1994. She insists that the Internet, with its powerfully immersive environments, creates new problems that people must learn to navigate（应对）. Otherwise, the changing lifestyle will affect the development of the society.
F） No one disputes that online habits can turn toxic. Take South Korea, where widespread broadband means that the average high-school student plays video games for 23 hours each week. In the government estimated that around 210,000 children needed treatment for Internet addiction. In newspapers around the globe carried the story of a South Korean couple who fed their infant daughter so little that she starved to death. Instead of caring for the child, the couple spent most nights at an Internet café, sinking hours into a role-playing game in which they raised, fed and cared for a virtual daughter. And several South Korean men have died from exhaustion after marathon, multi-day gaming sessions.
G） The South Korean government has since asked game developers to adopt a gaming curfew（宵禁） for children, to prevent them playing between midnight and 8 a.m. At the same time, it has also opened more than 100 clinics for Internet addiction and sponsored an “Internet rescue camp” for serious cases.
H） But compulsive behaviour is not limited to gamers. E-mail or web-use behaviours can also show signs of addiction. Getting through a business lunch in which no one pulls out a phone to check their messages now counts as a minor miracle in many quarters. A deluge （泛滥） of self-help books, most recently “Alone Together” by Sherry Turkle, a social scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, offer advice on how to unplug （清除障碍）.
I） Pornography is hardly new, either, but the Internet makes accessing it much easier than ever before. When something can be summoned in an instant via broadband, whether it is a game world, an e-mail inbox or pornographic material, it is harder to resist. New services lead to new complaints. When online auction sites first became popular, talk of “eBay addiction” soon followed. Dr. Young says women complain to her now about addiction to Facebook—or even to “FarmVille”, a game playable only within Facebook.
J） Treatment centres have popped up around the world with the popularity of online games. In Amsterdam’s Smith & Jones facility billed itself as “the first and, currently, the only residential video-game treatment program in the world”. In America the reSTART Internet Addiction Recovery Program claims to treat Internet addiction, gaming addiction, and even “texting addiction”. In China, meanwhile, military-style “boot camps” are the