2014年6月英语四级考试(新题型)模拟试卷(1) Part I Writing.(30 minutes)1、_________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Section ADirections: 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.2、听音频：根据所听到的内容，回2-26题。

A．He made things worse.B．He messed up the deal.C．He wasn't trusted by the woman. D．He had a terrible day.3、A．Keep on trying.B．Remember what he saidC．Cut the cake in half..D．Leave the cake there.4、A．The man doesn't like soup.B．The woman doesn't like fruit.C．The woman wants to have vegetables. D．The man wants to have fruit juice.5、A．It's suitable for the woman's friends.B．It looks like mature.C．It doesn't have the right color.D．It doesn't fit the woman.6、A．Have a meal.B．Have a haircut.C．Go downtown.D．Go to a bar.7、A．Talkative.B．Careless.C．III-spent.D．Fashionable.8、A．They have cloudy weather there. B．They are planning a journey.C．The woman wants to quit her job. D．The man decides to come back to earth.9、A．How to use a computer.B．How to repair a computer. C．How to copy files.D．How to look for the menu.10、听录音，回答以下问题A．There is heavy traffic.B．She cannot find the place. C．The train arrives late.D．She has to wait for the man.11、A．They prevent from traffic jam. B．They improve the service standard. C．They make travel convenient. D．They design terrific schedules. 12、A．Reading a book.B．Listening to music.C．Sleeping for a while.D．Chatting with others.13、听录音，回答以下问题A．Because people can't survive alone. B．Because good friends benefit business. C．Because he has few friends.D．Because he can learn from friends.14、A．Develop new hobbies.B．Play the video games.C．Take part n sports.D．Make friends.15、A．They are helpful in improving the team spirit. B．They are relevant to business management. C．They are helpful in his previous work.D．They are relevant to the job of assistant manager.16、A．An assistant manager.B．A sales manager.C．A college lecturer.D．A football player.17、听录音，回答以下问题A．She wondered why many students didn't finish their work or seek help. B．She wanted to re-experience the college life as a student.C．She was appointed by the university ethics committee.D．She decided to do a project to research how the students are studying.18、A．It is difficult for students to get an average score.B．The students discuss and talk about their lives quite often.C．It is reasonable for students to take many classes in one semester. D．The students don't have enough time to care about their classes.19、A．Material assigned by the teacher for reading. B．Material directly related to discussion in class. C．Material linked to the job-hunting in the future. D．Material attractive to the students indeed.20、A．Her scoring criteriaB．Her reading speed..C．Her teaching style.D．Her personal desire.21、听录音，回答以下问题A．Shade of sunlight.B．Light pollution.C．Loss of sleepD．Business competition.22、A．Remove the fights above the apartment blocks. B．Turn the lights on late at night.C．Replace the lights with energy-saving ones. D．Turn the lights off earlier in the evening.23、A．To draw customers' attention.B．To provide services and products at night. C．To decorate their shops.D．To make the sky brighter.24、听录音，回答以下问题A．Family groups.B．Larger groups.C．Classmates groups.D．Friendship groups.25、A．People with excellent qualities.B．People with desire to be leaders. C．People with special personal ability. D．People with years of experience26、A．They are more concerned with the group goals.B．They pay attention to the overall happiness of group members.C．They may punish group members who keep from achieving the goal.D．They tend to share responsibility with group members.Section ADirections: In this section, there is a passage with ten blanks.27、根据下列材料，请回答27-36题：We all like to feel needed．But new research suggests having a sense of Purpose is good for our health, too,In a study of 7,000 people, those with the strongest sense of direction in life were over 70 percent less likely to suffer a stroke.The researchers 36 for other aggravating factors such as blood pressure and alcohol use and believe the 37 comes through regulating the immune system,it has long been thought that 38 meaningful activity after retirement is important for physical and mental health-which often declines 39 soon after retirement.But while past research focused on the 40 effects of negative psychological traits, such as depression and anxiety, new research is investigating how positive traits, such as 41, protect against illness.In the recent study, men and women aged 50 and over were 42 for four to five years and completed psychological tests while researchers recorded strokes.The results show that the higher someone's sense of purpose, the lower their risk of a stroke．Those with the greatest sense of purpose were 73 percent less likely to Suffer a stroke compared to those with the lowest.Other research has shown that positive mood can lower levels ofthe stress hormone cortisol (荷尔蒙), also 43 in stroke.“This is significant as we have an 44 population and it helps sh ow what behaviours prevent people from getting ill,” says Cary Cooper, professor of health psychology at Lancaster University.“Maybe 45 is not good for some．”A．accountedB．ageingC．ambitionD．damagingE．decreasingF．dramaticallyG．effectH．graduallyI．implicatedJ．optimismK．outstandingL．pursuingM．retirementN．searchedO．tracked请回答（36）题__________.A．accountedB．ageingC．ambitionD．damagingE．decreasingF．dramaticallyG．effectH．graduallyI．implicatedJ．optimismK．outstandingL．pursuingM．retirementN．searchedO．tracked28、请回答（37）题__________.29、请回答（38）题__________.30、请回答（39）题__________.31、请回答（40）题__________.32、请回答（41）题__________.33、请回答（42）题__________.34、请回答（43）题__________.35、请回答（44）题__________.36、请回答（45）题__________.Section BDirections: 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 thecorresponding letter on Answer Sheet 2.37、根据下列材料，请回答37-46题：How Your Language Affects Your Wealth and HealthA．Does the language we speak determine how healthy and rich we will be? New research by Keith Chen of Yale Business School suggests so. The structure of languages affects our judgments and decisions about the future and this might have dramatic long-term consequences.B．There has been a lot of research into how we deal with the future. For example, the famous marshmallow (棉花软糖．studies of Walter Mischel and colleagues showed that being able to resist temptation is predictive of future success. Four-year-old kids were given a marshmallow and were told that if they did not eat that marshmallow and waited for the experimenter to come back, they would get two marshmallows instead of one. Follow-up studies showed that the kids who were able to wait for the bigger future reward became more successful young adults.C．Resisting our impulses for immediate pleasure is often the only way to attain the outcomes that are important to us. We want to keep a slim figure but we ~o want that last slice of pizza. Some people are better at delaying satisfaction than others. Those people have a better chance of accumulating wealth and keeping a healthy life style. They are less likely to be impulse buyers or smokers.D．Chen's recent, findings suggest that an unlikely factor, language, strongly affects our future-oriented behavior. Some languages strongly distinguish the present and the future. Other languages only weakly distinguish the present and the future. Chen's recentresearch suggests that people who speak languages that weakly distinguish the present and the future are better prepared for the future. They accumulate more wealth and they are better able to maintain their health. The way these people conceptualize (概念．the future is similar to the way they conceptualize the present As a result, the future does not feel very distant and it is easier for them to act in accordance with their future interests. E．Different languages have different ways of talking about the future. Some languages, such as English, require their speakers m refer to the future explicitly. Every time English-speaker stalk about the future, they have to use future markers such as "will". In other languages, such as Mandarin (汉语普通话．, future markers are not obligatory. The future is often talked about similar to the way present is talked about and the meaning is understood from the context. Languages such as English constantly remind their speakers that future events are distant. For speakersof languages such as Mandarin, future feels closer. As aconsequent, resisting immediate impulses and investing for the future is easier for Mandarin speakers.F．Chen analyzed individual-level data from 76 developed and developing countries. Tiffs data includes people's economic decisions, such as whether they saved arty money last year, the languages they speak athome, demographics (人口统计特征．, and cultural factors such as "saving is an important cultural value for me". He also analyzed indvidual-level data on people's retirement assets, smoking and exercising habits, and general health in older age. Lastly. he analyzed national-level data that includes national savings rates, country GDP and GDP growth rates, country demographics, and proportions of people speaking different languages.G．People's savings rates are affected by various factors such as their income, education level, age, religious affiliation(隶属关系．their countries' legal systems , and their cultural values. After those factors were accounted for, the effect of language on people's savings rates turned out to be big. Speaking a language that has obligatory future markers, such as English , makes people 30 percent less likely to save money for the future. This effect is as large as the effect of unemployment. Being unemployed decreases the likelihood of saving by about 30 percent as well.H．Similar analyses showed that speaking a language that does not have obligatory future markers, such as Mandarin, makes people accumulate more retirement assets, smoke less, exercise more, and generally be healthier in older age. Countries' national savings rates are also affected by language. Having a larger proportion of people speaking a language that does not have obligatory future marker smakes national savings rates higher.I．This is an unconventional way of explaining people's consumption-saving decisions and health-related behavior. More conventional factors include dispositional ( 意向的．, situational, motivational, and cultural factors. The marshmallow studies focus on dispositional factors-being able to delaysatis faction is an inherent ability. Other researches have looked at situational factors. For example, resear chers have shown that simply rearramging the placement of food and beverages (饮料．in acafeteria can improve sales of healthy items. Other research has focused on motivational factors. People often need to curb their current desire to consume in order to reach their future goal of getting out of debt. Researchers have shown that closing smaller debt accounts first gives asense of accomplishment early on, boosts motivation, and increases the likelihood of completely getting rid of debt. The motivational effect is beneficial even if closing off smaller debt accounts does not make economic sense, for instance when the bigger debt accounts have higher interest rates attached to them. Other research has investigated cultural factors. It has been argued that Americans spend more than they need to because they want to emu/ate (仿效．the lifestyles and spending patterns of people who are much richer than themselves. Chen's findings suggest that maybe we should focus more on how we talk about the future in order to improve our inter termporal ( 跨期的．decision making.J．These results also provide evidence for the language-cognition link, which has stirred some controversy among researchers. Early 20th century thinkers such as Ferdinand de Saussure and Ludwig Wittgenstein were among the first who argued that language can impact the way people think and act. More recently, Steven Pinker argued that we think in a universal grammar and languages do not significantly shape our thinking. The issue is still hotly debated.K．At a more practical level, researchers have been looking for ways to help people act in accordance with their long-term interests. Recent findings suggest that making the future feel closer to the present might improve future-oriented behavior. For instance, researchers recently presented people with renderings of their future selves made using age-progression algorithms (运算法则．that forecast how physical appearances would change over time. One group of participants saw a digital representation of their current selves in a virtual mirror, and the other group saw an age-morphed (演变的．version oftheir future selves. Those participants who saw the age-morphed version of their future selves allocated more money toward a virtual savings account. The intervention brought people's future to the present and as a result they saved more for the future.L．Chen's research shows that language structures our future-related thoughts. Chen's research points at the possibility that the way we talk about the future can shape our mindsets. Language can move the future back and forth in our mental space and this might have dramatic influences on our judgments and decisions.Because Mandarin speakers feel the future is closer, it is easier for them to resist immediate impulses and to invest for the futureA．Does the language we speak determine how healthy and rich we will be? New research by Keith Chen of Yale Business School suggests so. The structure of languages affects our judgments and decisions about the future and this might have dramatic long-term consequences.B．There has been a lot of research into how we deal with the future. For example, the famous marshmallow (棉花软糖．studies of Walter Mischel and colleagues showed that being able to resist temptation is predictive of future success. Four-year-old kids were given a marshmallow and were told that if they did not eat that marshmallow and waited for the experimenter to come back, they would get two marshmallows instead of one. Follow-up studies showed that the kids who were able to wait for the bigger future reward became more successful young adults.C．Resisting our impulses for immediate pleasure is often the only way to attain theoutcomes that are important to us. We want to keep a slim figure but we ~o want that last slice of pizza. Some people are better at delaying satisfaction than others. Those people have a better chance of accumulating wealth and keeping a healthy life style. They are less likely to be impulse buyers or smokers.D．Chen's recent, findings suggest that an unlikely factor, language, strongly affects our future-oriented behavior. Some languages strongly distinguish the present and the future. Other languages only weakly distinguish the present and the future. Chen's recent research suggests that people who speak languages that weakly distinguish the present and the future are better prepared for the future. They accumulate more wealth and they are better able to maintain their health. The way these people conceptualize (概念．the future is similar to the way they conceptualize the present As a result, the future does not feel very distant and it is easier for them to act in accordance with their future interests. E．Different languages have different ways of talking about the future. Some languages, such as English, require their speakers m refer to the future explicitly. Every time English-speaker stalk about the future, they have to use future markers such as "will". In other languages, such as Mandarin (汉语普通话．, future markers are not obligatory. The future is often talked about similar to the way present is talked about and the meaning is understood from the context. Languages such as English constantly remind their speakers that future events are distant. For speakersof languages such as Mandarin, future feels closer. As aconsequent, resisting immediate impulses and investing for the future is easier for Mandarin speakers.F．Chen analyzed individual-level data from 76 developed and developing countries. Tiffsdata includes people's economic decisions, such as whether they saved arty money last year, the languages they speak athome, demographics (人口统计特征．, and cultural factors such as "saving is an important cultural value for me". He also analyzed indvidual-level data on people's retirement assets, smoking and exercising habits, and general health in older age. Lastly. he analyzed national-level data that includes national savings rates, country GDP and GDP growth rates, country demographics, and proportions of people speaking different languages.G．People's savings rates are affected by various factors such as their income, education level, age, religious affiliation(隶属关系．their countries' legal systems , and their cultural values. After those factors were accounted for, the effect of language on people's savings rates turned out to be big. Speaking a language that has obligatory future markers, such as English , makes people 30 percent less likely to save money for the future. This effect is as large as the effect of unemployment. Being unemployed decreases the likelihood of saving by about 30 percent as well.H．Similar analyses showed that speaking a language that does not have obligatory future markers, such as Mandarin, makes people accumulate more retirement assets, smoke less, exercise more, and generally be healthier in older age. Countries' national savings rates are also affected by language. Having a larger proportion of people speaking a language that does not have obligatory future marker smakes national savings rates higher.I．．J．Chen's recent, findings suggest that an unlikely factor, language, strongly affects ourfuture-oriented behavior. Some languages strongly distinguish the present and the future. Other languages only weakly distinguish the present and the future. Chen's recent research suggests that people who speak languages that weakly distinguish the present and the future are better prepared for the future. They accumulate more wealth and they are better able to maintain their health. The way these people conceptualize (概念) the future is similar to the way they conceptualize the present As a result, the future does not feel very distant and it is easier for them to act in accordance with their future interests. K．EL．．38、Cultural factors may explain why Americans spend more than they need to.39、People whose languages distinguish the present and the future weakly form the idea of the future in a similar way as of the present.40、Recent studies indicate that future-oriented behavior might be improved by making the future feel closer to the time being.41、The famous marshmallow studies suggested that the ability to resist temptation may predict people’sfutu re success.42、Speakers of a language whose future markers are obligatory are 30% less likely tosave money for rite future.43、Language's ability to move the future to and fro in our mind might greatly influence our judgments and decisions.44、People who delay satisfaction better are more likely to be wealthy and have a healthy life style.45、Steven Pinker thought we think in a universal grammar and languages do not have an important effecton shaping our thinking.46、Researchers focusing on situational factors show that rearranging the placement of food and drinks in a cafeteria can improve sales of healthy items.Section CDirections: 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.47、听音频，回答下面各题。