10.最新4级预测卷第十套
2016-04-27
大学英语四级考试预测卷（十）
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.
News Item 1
Zogby began his activism in college and was inspired
by American poet and peace activist, Daniel Berrigan.
“I was involved in civil rights and anti war activity in the 60s.When I was in college,
I made my first marches and was involved in organizing my first protests and demonstrations,”
says Zogby.“I knew of my heritage,
my roots and was drawn to that but it did not come to life until the 1967 war
when I realized that my commitment to peace
and my commitment to civil rights should actually apply to the people from the Arab world as well.”
Zogby`s roots are living.His father came to the U.S.illegally in 1922
and became a citizen through a government amnesty program.His mother`s family immigrated in 1898.
She was very involved in the Arab community in Utica, New York, where the family lived.
As his involvement with the ArabAmerican community grew,
Zogby joined or formed a number of advocacy groups:
the Association of Arab American University Graduates,
the Palestinian Human Rights Campaign and the American Arab Anti Discrimination Committee.
1.Which of the following statements is true according to the news?
2.Which of the following groups is not mentioned in the news?
Questions 3 and 4 will be based on the following news item.
News Item 2
War correspondent Anna Badkhen has covered some of the world`s most brutal conflicts,
from Iraq and Afghanistan, to Chechnya and Somalia.However,
her memories are not only of the devastation she witnessed.In a new book,
“Peace Meals”, she shares her memories of the people she met,
and explains how they are able to sit down and enjoy a meal in the midst of conflict.
Wherever Badkhen went, she broke bread with the people she wrote about.Those meals,
she says, helped her open the door into those people`s lives.
“You wake up, you see your family, you spend the day working or trying to survive,”
she says.“And then, at the end of the day, if you`re lucky,
you eat.And that`s where most of the important conversations happen.”
While meals are usually a time for families to reconnect,
she says they become even more significant in a war zone.
3.Which of the following country is not mentioned in the news?
4.Which of the following statements is not true according to the news?
Questions 5 to 7 will be based on the following news item.
News Item 3
Raquel Trejo Rubio has a job few Americans apparently want.
The 28 year old Mexican migrant picks crab meat.
“I came because there is no work or money in Mexico,”
says Trejo.“I have a daughter and I have to support her.”
Trejo is among the 66,000 migrants who enter the United States legally as H2B Guest Workers.
H2B is a visa program that gives workers access to minimum wage, non agricultural jobs that,
would otherwise go unfilled by Americans because the pay is low,
the employment seasonal and the work often back breaking and tedious.
Trejo traveled north by bus to a remote coastal island on Maryland`s eastern shore.
Her employer is G.W.Hall & Son, a major seafood supplier in Maryland.
Trejo works at a long table where the hard shelled crabs,
caught that morning and then steamed,
are piled high and ready for her to pick apart.
5.How many migrant workers enter the United States legally in the H2B program?
6.Which of the following may not be an H2B worker`s job?
7.Which of the following statements is not true?
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.
Now you will haer the two long conversations
Conversation One
W: Please have a seat, Mr. Saunders.
I received your résumé last week and was very impressed.
M: Thank you.
W: We`re a small financial company trading mostly stocks and bonds.
May I ask why you are interested in working for us?
M: Your company has an impressive reputation.
And I`ve always wanted to work for a smaller company.
W: That’s good to hear. Would you mind telling me a little bit about your present job?
M: I’m currently working in a large, international company,
in charge of team of eight brokers. We buy and sell stocks for major clients worldwide.
W: Why do you think you`re the right candidate for this position?
M: As a head broker, I have a lot of experience in the stock market.
I deal with clients on a daily basis and I enjoy working with people.
W: Well, you might just be the person we are looking for.
Do you have any questions?
M: Uh, uh. If I were hired, how many accounts would I be handling?
W: You would be working with two other head brokers.
In other words, you’d be handling about a third of our clients.
M: And who would I report to?
W: Directly to me.
M: I see. What kind of benefits package do you offer?
W: Two weeks of paid vacation in your first year employment.
You’ll also be entitled to medical and dental insurance.
But this is something you should discuss with our personnel department.
Do you have any other questions?
M: No, not at the moment.
W: Well, I’ll have to discuss your application with my colleagues
and we’ll get back to you early next week.
M: Okay, thanks. It’s been nice meeting you.
W: Nice meeting you, too. And thanks for coming in today.
Questions 8 to 11 are based on the conversation you have just heard.
8.What’s the purpose of Mr. Saunders` visit?
9.What is Mr. Saunders current job?
10.What can we conclude from the conversation?
11.Which is not true according to the conversation?
Conversation Two
M: Hey Karen, you’re not really reading it, are you?
W: Pardon?
M: The book, you haven’t turned a page in the last 10 minutes.
W: No, Jim. I suppose I haven’t. I need to get through it,
but I keep drifting away.
M: So, it doesn’t really hold your interest?
W: No, not really. I wouldn’t bother with it to be honest,
but I have to read it for a seminar. I am at the university.
M: It’s a labor of labor then, rather than a labor of love.
W: I should say. I don’t like the author Dickens at all really.
I am starting to like the whole course less and less.
M: It’s not just the book, it’s the course as well?
W: Yeah, in a way, although the course itself really isn’t that bad.
A lot of it is pretty good, in fact.
And the lecturers are fine. It’s me I suppose. You see,
I wanted to do Philosophy rather than English. But my parents took me out of it.
M: So the course is okay, as such.
It’s just that had it been up to you,
you would have chosen a different one.
W: Oh, they had my best interest at heart, of course, my parents.
They always do, don`t they?
They believe my job prospects would have been pretty limited with my degree in philosophy.
Plus, they give me a really generous allowance,
but I`m beginning to feel I am wasting my time and their money.
They would be so disappointed, though if I told them I was quitting.
Questions 12 to 15 are based on the conversation you have just heard.
12.Why can’t Karen concentrate on the book?
13.Why is Karen starting to like the course less and less?
14.Who thinks philosophy graduates have limited job opportunities?
15.What is Karen thinking of doing?
Section C
Directions:
In this section, you will hear three 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
In Greece only rich people will rest in peace forsever when they die.
Most of the population, however, will be undisturbed for only three years.
Then they will be dug up, washed, compressed into a small tin box and placed in a bone room.
If the body has only partially decayed it is reburied in a smaller,
cheaper grave. But not for long,
the body will be dug up again some time later when it has fully decayed.
Buying a piece of land for a grave is the only way to avoid this process.
The cost of a grave is so great that most people choose
to rent a grave for three years. And even after being dug up,
lasting peace is still not guaranteed.
If no one pays for renting space in the bone room,
the skeleton is removed and stored in a building in a poor part of the town.
Lack of space in Athens,
is the main reason why the dead are dug up after three years.
The city is so overcrowded that sometimes dead bodies are
kept in hospitals for over a week until grave space is found.
Athens city council wants to introduce cremation that is,
burning dead bodies as a means of dealing with the problems.
But the Greek Church resists this practice, they believe the only place where people burn,
is hell. So burning dead bodies is against the Greek concept of life after death.
To save space, the church suggested burying bodies standing up rather than lying down.
Some people proposed building multi storey underground graveyards.
Questions 16 to 19 are based on the conversation you have just heard.
16. What must the Greek’s do to keep the dead resting in everlasting peace?
17. Why are the most dead bodies in Athens dug up after only three years?
18. What suggestion does the church give about the burying of dead bodies?
19.What practice does the Greek Church object to?
Passage Two
If you visit a big city anywhere in the world you will probably
find a restaurant which serves the food of your native country.
Most large cities in the United States offer an international sample of foods.
Many people enjoy eating the food of other nations.
This is probably one reason why there are so many
different kinds of restaurants in the United States.
A second reason is that many Americans come from other parts of the world.
They enjoy tasting the foods of their native lands.
In the city of Detroit,
for example, there are many people from Western Europe, Greece,
Latin America and the Far East.
There are many restaurants in Detroit which serve the foods of these areas.
There are many other international restaurants, too.
Americans enjoy the foods in these restaurants as well as
the opportunity to understand the people and their way of life.
One of the most common international restaurants to be found
in the United States is the Italian family restaurant.
The restaurant may be a small business run by a single family.
The mother of the family cooks all the dishes and the father and
children serve the people who come to eat there.
Or it may be a large restaurant owned by several different people
who work together in the business.
Many Italian dishes that Americans enjoy are made with meats, tomatoes, and cheese.
They are very delicious and tasty.
Questions 20 to 22 are based on the conversation you have just heard.
20.Why are there so many international restaurants in the United States?
21.Why do Americans like to go to international restaurants apart from enjoying the food there?
22.How is a typical Italian family restaurant run in the United States?
Passage Three
One winter day in 1891 a class at a training school in Massachusetts,
USA went into the gym for their daily exercises.
Since the football season had ended most of young men thought they were in for a boring time.
But their teacher, James Naysmith had other ideas.
He had been working for a long time on a new game that would have the excitement of American football.
Naysmith showed the men the basket he had hung at each end of the gym
and explained that they were going to use a round European football.
At first, everybody tried to throw the ball into the basket no matter where he was standing.
“Pass, pass!” Naysmith kept shouting;
blowing his whistle to stop the excited players.
Slowly, they began to understand what was wanted of them.
The problem of the new game, which was soon called Basketball，
was getting the ball out of the basket.
They used ordinary food baskets with bottoms and the ball of course, stayed inside.
At first, someone had to climb up every time a basket was scored.
It was several years before someone came up with the idea of removing the bottom
of the basket and letting the ball fall through.
There have been many changes to the rules since then and
basketball has become one of the world’s most popular sports.
Questions 23 to 25 are based on the conversation you have just heard.
23.What did Naysmith do to entertain his students one winter day?
24.According to the speaker, what was the problem with the new game?
25.How was the problem with the new game solved?