大学英语新四级考试冲刺模拟试题

CET 4 —— MODEL TEST TWO

注意事项：

一、 将自己的校名、姓名、学校代号、准考证号写在答题纸和作文纸上。考试结束后，把试题册、答题纸和作文纸放在桌上。教师收卷后才可离开考场。试题册、答题纸和作文纸均不得带走。二、 仔细读懂题目的说明。三、 在120分钟内答完全部试题，不得拖延时间。四、 多项选择题的答案一定要写在答题纸上。作文写在作文纸上。凡是写在试题册上的答案一律作废。五、 多项选择题只能选一个答案，多选作废。选定答案后，用HB浓度以上的铅笔在相应字母的中部划一条横线。正确方法请参照答题卡，使用其他符号答题者不给分。划线要有一定粗度，浓度要盖过红色。六、 如果要改动答案，必须先用橡皮擦净原来选定的答案，然后再按上面的规定重新答题。

试题册

Part I Writing (30 minutes)

注意：此部分试题在答题卡 1上。

Part II Reading Comprehension (Skimming and Scanning) (15 minutes)

Directions: In this part, you will have 15 minutes to go over the passage quickly and answer the questions on Answer Sheet 1.

For questions 1-7, mark

Y(for YES) if the statement agrees with the information given in the passage;

N(for NO) if the statement contradicts the information given in the passage;

NG(for NOT GIVEN) if the information is not given in the passage.

For questions 8-10, complete the sentences with the information given in the passage.

The Trouble With Television

It is difficult to escape the influence of television. If you fit the statistical averages, by the age of 20 you will have been exposed to at least 20,000 hours of television. You can add 10,000 hours for each decade you have lived after the age of 20. The only things Americans do more than watch television are work and sleep.

Calculate for a moment what could be done with even a part of those hours. Five thousand hours, I am told, are what a typical col¬lege undergraduate spends working on a bachelor's degree. In 10,000 hours you could have learned enough to become an astronomer or en¬gineer. You could have learned several languages fluently. If it ap¬pealed to you, you could be reading Homer in the original Greek or Dostoyevsky in Russian. If it didn't, you could have walked around the world and written a book about it.

The trouble with television is that it discourages concentration. Almost anything interesting and rewarding in life requires some constructive, consistently applied effort. The dullest, the least gifted of us can achieve things that seem miraculous to those who never con¬centrate on anything. But Television encourages us to apply no effort. It sells us instant gratification（满意）. It diverts us only to divert, to make the time pass without pain.

Television's variety becomes a narcotic（麻醉的）, nor a stimulus. Its serial, kaleidoscopic （万花筒般的）exposures force us to follow its lead. The viewer is on a perpetual guided tour: 30 minutes at the museum, 30 at the cathedral, 30 for a drink, then back on the bus to the next attraction—except on television., typically, the spans allotted arc on the order of minutes or seconds, and the chosen delights are more of¬ten car crashes and people killing one another. In short, a lot of television usurps（篡夺；侵占） one of the most precious of all human gifts, the ability to focus your attention yourself, rather than just passively surrender it.

Capturing your attention—and holding it—is the prime motive of most television programming and enhances its role as a profitable advertising vehicle. Programmers live in constant fear of losing anyone's attention—anyone's. The surest way to avoid doing so is to keep everything brief, not to strain the attention of anyone but instead to provide constant stimulation through variety, novelty, ac¬tion and movement. Quite simply, television operates on the appeal to the short attention span.

It is simply the easiest way out. But it has come to be regarded as a given, as inherent in the medium itself; as an imperative, as though General Sarnoff, or one of the other august pioneers of video, had bequeathed（遗留；传于） to us tablets of stone commanding that nothing in television shall ever require more than a few moments' Concentration.

In its place that is fine. Who can quarrel with a medium that so brilliantly packages escapist entertainment as a mass-marketing tool? But I see its values now pervading this nation and its life. It has be¬come fashionable to think that, like fast food, fast ideas are the way to get to a fast-moving, impatient public.

In the case of news, this practice, in my view, results in inefficient communication. I question how much of television's nightly news effort is really absorbable and understandable. Much of it is what has been aptly described as "machine-gunning with scraps." I think the technique fights coherence. I think it tends to make things ultimately boring (unless they are accompanied by horrifying pictures) because almost anything is boring if you know almost nothing about it.

I believe that TV's appeal to the short attention span is not only inefficient communication but decivilizing as well. Consider the casual assumptions that television tends to cultivate: that complexity must be avoided, that visual stimulation is a substitute for thought, that verbal precision is an anachronism. It may be old-fashioned, but I was taught that thought is words, arranged in grammatically precise.

There is a crisis of literacy in this country. One study estimates that some 30 million adult Americans are "

Part Ⅲ Listening Comprehension (35 minutes)

Section A

Directions: 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 2 with a single line through the centre.

注意：此部分试题请在答题卡 2上作答。

11. A) Two blocks. B) Five blocks.

C) Three blocks. D) Four blocks.

12. A) He suggests that she buy the sweater in another color.

B) He suggests that she buy a jacket instead of the sweater.

C) He suggests that she buy the sweater at its original price.

D) He suggests that she buy the sweater on Friday.

13. A) It was cleaned.

B) There was a large sale.

C) The employees had to work very late.

D) There was a robbery.

14. A) Be a bad boy. B) Eat too fast.

C) Go to a game. D) Skip his lunch.

15. A) A salesman. B) A telephone repairman.

C) A plumber. D) An electrician.

16. A) She didn’t understand what Eva was saying.

B) Eva should have been more active.

C) Eva didn’t seem to be nervous at all during her presentation.

D) Eva needs training in public speaking lessons.

17. A) Whether to change his job.

B) Asking for a higher salary.

C) Accepting a new secretary.

D) Getting a better position.

18. A) He could help her with the problems.

B) He could go out together with her.

C) She should go out for a while.

D) She should do the problems herself.

Questions 19 to 22 are based on the conversation you have just heard.

19. A) In an apartment complex.

B) In a hotel.

C) At a friend’s house.

D) He just arrived today and does not have a place to sleep yet.

20. A) The size does not matter to him.

B) He needs a place with two bedrooms.

C) He just wants to share a place with other students.

D) He needs a very large apartment.

21. A) Proximity to the university.

B) Benefits that his wife and child would enjoy.

C) Cost.

D) Size.

22. A) Lack of air conditioning.

B) Distance from the university.

C) Cost.

D) Lack of laundry facilities close by.

Questions 23 to 25 are based on the conversation you have just heard.

23. A) It needs cleaning.

B) It needs regular servicing.

C) It needs a new battery.

D) It was ruined by water.

24. A) $3.99. B) $5.50. C) $6.99. D) $9.50.

25. A) The shop guarantees the battery for a year.

B) The man will clean it at no extra.

C) The man can repair watches very quickly.

D) The shop is offering a special discount.