大学英语四级模拟题十一含答案大学英语四级模拟题十一Part I Writing （15%）Directions: For this part, you are required to write a short essay based on the picture below. You should start your essay with a brief account of the picture below and then elaborate the importance of exercise for human beings. You should write at least 120 words but no more than 180.Part II Listening Comprehension （35%）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 with a single line through the center.1.A) Something went wrong with his bus.B) He took someone to the hospital.C) His car was out of work.D) He bought a new car.2.A) They want to go to downtown.B) He wants to go to the park, but she doesn’t.C) He wants to find out where the park is.D) He doesn’t know where to park the car. 3.A) I can help solve problems.B) It will most likely to be inefficient.C) It is a new weapon.D) It will help detect all kinds of liars.4.A) She thinks it is too difficult.B) She thinks the book is interesting.C) She hasn’t read it.D) She hasn’t decided whether to read it.5.A) Because he has got an appointment.B) Because he doesn’t want to.C) Because he has to work.D) Because he wants to eat in a new restaurant.6.A) Company president. B) Personal secretary.C) Air hostess. D) President of a country.7.A) 15 miles. B) 25 miles.C) 20 miles. D) 40 miles.8.A) Wife-husband. B) Daughter-father.C) Student-teacher. D) Patient-doctor. Conversation OneQuestion 9 to 12 are based on the conversation you have just heard.9.A) Accountant. B) Translator.C) Salesman. D) Human resources manager.10.A) Because the salary is too low.B) Because the company is facing bankrupt.C) Because the man is looking forward to some change in his job.D) Because the company is going to cut the number of the employees.11.A) $1400. B) $1500.C) $1600. D) $1700.12.A) The exact time he can start his new job.B) How many days of paid vacations he can get.C) If the company offers as many extra benefits as other companies do.D) If people hired in the company have chances for advancement. Conversation TwoQuestion 13 to 15 are based on the conversation you have just heard.13.A) 200 and 400 million years ago.B) 300 and 500 million years ago.C) 200 and 500 million years ago.D) 300 and 400 million years ago.14.A) Because they have huge shells.B) Because they lost their shells.C) Because they could live for a very long time.D) Because their shells evolved too.15.A) The squids（鱿鱼）are monsters.B) People are less intelligent than them.C) They can easily get away from human.D) Human could not swim fast enough.Section BDirections: In this section, you’ll hear 3 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 with a single line through the center.Passage OneQuestion 16 to 18 are based on the conversation you have just heard.16.A) Coins. B) Salt.C) Animals. D) Cows.17.A) Romans. B) Americans.C) Indians. D) Chinese.18.A) Today most coins are round.B) Things highly valued by everybody could serve us.C) We know very little about money.D) How coins came into use.Passage TwoQuestion 19 to 21 are based on the conversation you have just heard.19.A) When they don’t have a car.B) When they live in a huge country.C) When they don’t use planes.D) When they have a car.20.A) The United States is huge.B) Public transportation is not so good.C) Americans like to be independent.D) Americans like to move around. 21.A) A new kind of car.B) Public transportation.C) The gas shortage.D) Poor people.Passage ThreeQuestion 22 to 25 are based on the conversation you have just heard.22.A) Work gets a lot easier after the age of 40.B) Most of one’s work is done before the age of 40.C) There isn’t much work to do after the age of 40.D) Work gets more difficult after the age of 40.23.A) Generally speaking, work gets much easier after 40.B) Generally speaking, work gets much harder after 40.C) Age and work has nothing to do with each other.D) The writer doesn’t say.24.A) The ability to work long hours. B) Experience.C) Judgment. D) Profession skills.25.A) Know your strength. B) Keep learning.C) Know who you are. D) Live the right style.Section C:Directions: 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.（答案请写在答题纸上）Three years ago, a study of overfishing led to a sharp debate. It (26) ___________ that the world’s ocean fish could be almost gone by the middle of the century. Now, a new study offers more hope. It shows that the (27) ___________ of fisheries collapse has recently decreased in some areas -- some, but not all.Boris Worm at Dalhousie University in Canada and Ray Hilborn at the University of Washington in Seattle were lead (28) ___________ of the new study.They led a team that studied ten areas. In five of them, the rate at which fish are being (29) ___________ the sea has dropped to a level that should let the populations recover. Three areas still had overfishing, but corrective measures have begun. Yet, in all, almost (30) ___________ of fish populations studied worldwide still need rebuilding. Only two areas did not have an overfishing problem in either the new study or the earlier one. They are New Zealand and the American (31)___________ of Alaska. The findings from two years of (32) ___________ appear in the journal Science.Using nets that let smaller fish (33) ___________ and agreeing not to fish in certain areas can help reduce overfishing. The study showed that these measures helped fish populations grow in Kenya.But one of the authors of the study, Tim McClanahan from the Wildlife Conservation Society, says fisheries in Africa face another threat. Most countries in Africa, he says, are selling fishing rights to industrialized nations which catch large (34) ___________ seafood.The study shows what happened when industrialized nations increased restrictions on fishing in their own waters. Seafood companies moved their boats to (35) ___________countries with fewer restrictions.Part II Reading Comprehension （30%）Section ADirections: 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 bank is identified by a letter. Please write the corresponding letter for each item on the Answer Sheet. You may not use any of the words in the bank more than once.（答案请写在答题纸上）A bookless life is an incomplete life. Books influence the depth and breadth of life. They meet the natural (36) ___________ for freedom, for expression, for creativity and beauty of life. Learners, therefore, must have books, and the right type of book, for the satisfaction of their need. Readers turn (37) ___________ to books because their curiosity concerning all manners of things, their eagerness to share in the experiences of others and their need to (38) ___________ from their own limited environment lead them to find in books food for the mind and the spirit. Through their reading they find a deeper significance to life as books acquaint them with life in the world as it was and it is now. They are presented with a (39) ___________ of human experiences and come to (40) ___________ other ways of thought and living. And while (41) ___________ their own relationships and responses to life, the readers often find that the (42) ___________in their stories are going through similar adjustments, which help to clarify and give significance to their own.Books provide (43) ___________ material for readers’imagination to grow. Imagination is a valuable quality and a motivating power, and stimulates achievement. While enriching their imagination, books (44) ___________ their outlook, develop a fact-finding attitude and train them to use leisure (45) ___________. The social and educational significance of the readers’ books cannot be overestimated in an academic library.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 writing a corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet.（答案请写在答题纸上）Boomerang Children（归巢族）A)Jennifer Bliss was no inexperienced lawyer when she moved back in with her parents. At 39, she had burned through her retirement funds after losing her law-firm job in July . She gave the bank the keys to the home she was unable to sell in Grand Rapids, Mich., and last November, she packed up her two Great Danes and moved about 60 miles, to Lansing, to live with her mother and stepfather. “This has been awful,” says Bliss, who has sent out some 600 resumes nationwide looking for legal work or a managerial position in another field. “I went to law school to have a solid profession so that I wouldn’t wind up in a situation like this.”B)The term boomerang children used to refer to young adults moving back in with their parents, but the recession is forcing people in their 30s and 40s and older--often with a spouse and kids in tow--to stay with the parents until they regain their financial footing. Since the recession began in December , the US has lost 3.6 million jobs. An AARP survey released in May found that more than a third of retirees have had to help a child pay bills in the last year. And the number of multigenerational households has increased from 5 million in to 6.2 million in , according to AARP. Crowded quarters, wounded pride and general anxiety about the global economic crisis do not make the most pleasant living situation. But there are ways to ease the transition.Talk about ExpectationsC)And be sure to discuss one another’s needs up front, says Brian Carpenter, a psychology professor at Washington University in St. Louis, Mo. Failure to do so can lead to a lot of conflicts. That’s what happened when Michael Gallagher, 40, moved in with his mother in Los Angeles in October after he was fired from his A)abundant B) characters C) communicating D) completely E)。