2018年12月大学英语四级模拟题及答案_第3页

　　Part III Reading Comprehension

　　Directions: There are 2 passages in this section. Each passage is followed by some questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. You should decide on the best choice and mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet with a single line through the center.

　　Passage One

　　Part-time jobs are nothing new to us college students. It is common for students to practice their salesmanship when they have free time. However, I was extremely shocked when I learned one of our teachers had also joined in the profit-making business.

　　She is our physical education teacher. The other day she publicly commented on the pimples (丘疹) on a student’s face and then presented the girl with a sample bottle of nameless face cream.

　　According to the teacher, the face cream was produced in France. Each small bottle costs more than 40 yuan. From my viewpoint, it is a complete waste of money to buy such thing. “Why don’t you decline and refuse to buy it?” I suggested to the girl. She signed, “If I do that, I am afraid that my teacher may give me a lower mark in PE.” In other words, as long as she made a good deal with the teacher, an “excellent” on her PE course would follow.

　　I was depressed. The teacher abused her social role. Her priority should be to give us proper education and training. Instead, she is trying to make a profit from us. She is unfit to be a good “engineer in cultivating the spirit of mankind”.

　　47. The idea for students to do part-time jobs is _________.

　　A. unheard B. uncommon C. surprising D. not fresh

　　48. The teacher made a comment on the pimples on a student’s face in order to _________.

　　A. sell something B. show concern for the students

　　C. make her lessons more interesting D. help her students learn something

　　49. The writer believes that the cream _________.

　　A. is worthy buying B. is of high quality

　　C. is useless D. can cure the pimples on the student’s face

　　50. We may infer that _________.

　　A. many students bought the cream B. no students bought the cream

　　C. the writer got some free cream D. the cream was made by the teacher herself

　　51. From the passage we can infer that _________.

　　A. some students have failed their PE exams

　　B. the students don’t like the teacher

　　C. the teacher is welcome by her students

　　D. the teacher has given her students proper education and training

　　Passage Two

　　Shu Pudong has helped at least l, 000 people bitten by snakes. “It was seeing people with snake bites that led me to this career,” he said.

　　In 1963, after his army service, Shu entered a medical school and later became a doctor of Chinese medicine. As part of his studies he had to work in the mountains. There he often heard of people who had their arms or legs cut off after a snake bite in order to save their lives.

　　“I was greatly upset by the story of an old farmer I met. It was a very hot afternoon. The old man was pulling grass in his field when he felt a pain in his left hand. He at once realized that he had been bitten by a poisonous snake. In no time, he wrapped a cloth tightly around his arm to stop the poison spreading to the heart. Rushing home he shouted ‘Bring me the knife’. Minutes later the man lost his arm forever.”

　　“The sad story touched me so much that I decided to devote myself to helping people bitten by snakes,” Shu said.

　　52. The best title for this article is “_________”.

　　A. Astonishing Medicine B. Farmer Loses Arm

　　C. Dangerous Bites D. Snake Doctor

　　53. The farmer lost his arm because _________.

　　A. the cloth was wrapped too tightly B. he cut it off to save his life

　　C. Shu wasn’t there to help him D. he was alone in the field

　　54. Shu decided to devote himself to snake medicine because _________.

　　A. he wanted to save people’s arms and legs

　　B. he had studied it at a medical school

　　C. he had seen snakes biting people

　　D. his army service had finished

　　55. Why did Shu go into the mountains?

　　A. He didn’t want to study snake bites. B. He wanted to help the farmers.

　　C. He was being trained to be a doctor. D. He was expected to serve in the army.

　　56. Which of the following words can take the place of the underlined word “career” in the first paragraph?

　　A. conclusion B. story C. incident D. job

　　Part Ⅳ Cloze (10%)

　　Directions: There are 20 blanks in the following passage. For each blank there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. You should choose the ONE that best fits into the passage. Then mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet with a single line through the center.

　　For many people today, reading is no longer relaxation. To keep up their work they must read letters, reports, trade publications, interoffice communications, not to mention newspapers and magazines: a never-ending flood of words. In __57__a job or advancing in one, the ability to read and comprehend __58__can mean the difference between success and failure. Yet the unfortunate fact is that most of us are__59__readers. Most of us develop poor reading __60__at an early age, and never get over them. The main deficiency__61__in the actual stuff of language itself—words. Taken individually, words have __62__meaning until they are strung together into phrases, sentences and paragraphs. __63__, however, the untrained reader does not read groups of words. He laboriously reads one word at a time, often regressing to __64__words or passages. Regression, the tendency to look back over__65__you have just read, is a common bad habit in reading. Another habit which __66__down the speed of reading is vocalization—sounding each word either orally or mentally as __67__reads.

　　To overcome these bad habits, some reading clinics use a device called an __68__, which moves a bar (or curtain) down the page at a predetermined speed. The bar is set at a slightly faster rate __69__the reader finds comfortable, in order to “stretch” him. The accelerator forces the reader to read fast, __70__word-by-word reading, regression and sub-vocalization, practically impossible. At first __71__is sacrificed for speed. But when you learn to read idea s and concepts, you will not only read faster, __72__your comprehension will improve. Many people have found __73__reading skill drastically improved after some training. __74__Chalice Au, a business manager, for instance, his reading rate was a reasonably good 172 words a minute __75__the training, now it is an excellent 1,378 words a minute. He is delighted that how he can __76__a lot more reading material in a short period of time.

　　57. A. applying B. doing C. offering D. getting

　　58. A. quickly B. easily C. roughly D. decidedly

　　59. A. good B. curious C. poor D. urgent

　　60. A. training B. habits C. situations D. custom

　　61. A. lies B. combines C. touches D. involves

　　62. A. some B. a lot C .little D. dull

　　63. A. Fortunately B. In fact C. Logically D. Unfortunately

　　64. A. reuse B. reread C. rewrite D. recite

　　65. A. what B. which C. that D. if

　　66. A. scales B. cuts C. slows D. measures

　　67. A. some one B. one C. he D. reader

　　68. A. accelerator B. actor C. amplifier D. observer

　　69. A. then B. as C. beyond D. than

　　70. A. enabling B. leading C. making D. indicating

　　71. A. meaning B. comprehension C. gist D. regression

　　72. A. but B. nor C. or D. for

　　73. A. our B. your C. their D. such a

　　74. A. Look at B. Take C. Make D. Consider

　　75. A. for B. in C. after D. before

　　76. A. master B. go over C. present D. get through