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安徽科技学院 2012~2013 学年第二学期《大学英语四级》（统招）期终试卷（A 卷） ………………………………装…………订…… …线………………………………… 专业级班姓名学号得分 …………………………………密…………封…………线……………………………… 第 1 页共 7 页题号一二三四五六总分得分 Part I Listening Comprehension (25%) Section A Directions: In this section, you’ll hear five short conversations. After each conversation, a question will be asked about what was said. The conversation and question will be read only once. Listen carefully and choose the best answer to each question. 1. A. The air is not fresh. B. The air is fresh. C. It is hot. D. It is damp. 2. A. She didn't like playing with him at all. B. She was sick so she was not able to play. C. She preferred to play with him the next day. D. She didn't like playing mixed doubles. 3. A. On Thanksgiving Day. B. At Christmas. C. On Father’s Day. D. On New Year's Eve. 4. A. She persuades him not to smoke. B. She asks him to look at the sign. C. She gives him a cigarette. D. She gives him a sign. 5. A. Husband and wife. B. They are dating each other. C. Teacher and student. D. Manager and his secretary. Section B Directions: In this section, you’ll hear a long conversation. The conversation will be read only once. At the end of the conversation, you’ll hear five questions about what was said. Listen carefully and choose the best answer to each question. 6. A. From a friend. B. From her teacher. C. From a student newspaper. D. At an employment office. 7. A. She wants to know more about the work. B. She wants to know where the tapes are. C. She wants to know different kinds of language labs. D. She wants to know how to have her voice recorded. 8. A. It needs to have more French lesson tapes. B. It needs to have its controls repaired. C. It is different from all other labs. D. It can be operated rather easily. 9. A. Ten hours a day. B. Ten hours a week. C. Four hours a day. D. Six hours a week. 10. A. To change her class schedule. B. To fill out a job application. C. To organize tapes on the shelves. D. To work on the French lessons. Section C Directions: In this section, you’ll hear a short passage. The passage will be read only once. At the end of the passage, you’ll hear five questions about what was said. Listen carefully and choose the best answer to each question. 11. A. About 45 million. B. About 50 million. C. About 5.4 million. D. About 4.5 million. 12. A. The actors and actresses are not paid for their performance. B. The actors and actresses only perform in their own communities. C. They exist only in small communities. D. They do not have their own buildings. 13. A. Because they want to make more friends. B. Because they want to perform or to be creative. C. Because they want to get rid of their boring jobs. D. Because they want to get more money for their work. 14. A. To give the audience a chance to enjoy modern art. B. To give performance in schools or churches. C. To provide an opportunity for creative work. D. To provide jobs for poor people. 15. A. To provide an opportunity for participants to learn the art of acting. 得分评卷人

安徽科技学院 2012~2013 学年第二学期《大学英语四级》（统招）期终试卷（A 卷） ………………………………装…………订…… …线………………………………… 专业级班姓名学号得分 …………………………………密…………封…………线……………………………… 第 2 页共 7 页 B. To provide the community people with the opportunity to make friends. C. To provide the community people with the opportunity to watch performances for free. D. To educate and improve the community. Section D Directions: In this section, you’ll hear a passage three times. Listen carefully during the first reading. When the passage is read for the second time, you should fill in the blanks numbered from 16 to 23 with the exact words you have just heard. For blanks numbered from 24 to 25 you are required to write down the main points about what was said. Check your answers when the passage is read for the third time. In a way, all of us are on a spaceship -- the (16) ______ Earth. We move around the sun at 18 miles per second and never stop. On our spaceship, we have 5 (17) ______ people and a limited supply of air, water and land. These (18) ______ have to be used carefully because we can’t buy new air, water or land from anywhere else. Environment on our planet is a closed (19) ______. Nothing new is ever added. Nature recycles its (20) ______. Water, for example, evaporates and rises as visible drops to form (21) ______. The same water returns to the earth as rain or snow. The rain that falls today is actually the same water that fell on the land 70 million years ago. Today, the earth is in trouble. Factories (22) ______ dirty water into our rivers, many fish die and water becomes unhealthy for people to drink. Cars and factories put (23) ______ into the air and cause plants, animals and people to get sick. (24) ___________________________________________ ________________________________. Over the years people have changed environment and we have pollution. To continue to survive, we must learn how to use the earth resources wisely. We have to change our habits and stop dropping such enormous amounts of industrial waste into the water and air. (25)______________________________________________________________________. PartⅡ Reading Comprehension (30 points) (2 points for each) Directions: There are 3 passages in this part. 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 the Answer Sheet with a single line through the center. Passage One Questions 16 to 20 are based on the following passage: No one knows for certain how many illegal immigrants today reside in our country, competing for job, housing, and social services with our legal residents. Even recent laws designed to deal with this problem has not kept certain areas of our nation, notably Texas and other southwestern states, from over burdened by this situation. When the innocent young children of those immigrants flood the schools, they place special economics (as well as educational and psychological) demands upon the local school systems. Are we morally, if not legally, obliged to provide free education to these children? I say no! For three compelling reasons, accepting these children into our public schools is wrong. First, it places an undue economics hardship on the local school districts. What other districts in the affected states would be willing to share the cost in terms of tax dollars? For instance, if the city of Houston, Texas, spent an average $500,000 per year to educate illegal immigrants, would Dallas Oklahoma, Arkansas, and Arizona be required to pay a percentage of bill? How about distant states such as Maine and Alaska, which do not even have an immigrant problem…must they be asked to bear the burden, as well? On the other hand, Texans will argue, quite justifiably, that the problem is one of national, not regional, implications. It is unfair to expect certain states or districts, simply due to geographic location (nearness to borders), to accept all responsibility for the education of these children. Second, permission of such an illegal free education encourages, rather than discourages, illegal immigration. Not only will prospective refugees dreams of relatively high paying jobs and better living standards, but they will expect our society to provide their children with all the benefits of American public-school education. What a temptation to even the most law-abiding residents of an oppressed nation! Finally, the whole situation encourages the belief by the general public that breaking the law is all right as long as the reason is a good moral one. This leads to the dangerous conclusion that “the end justifies the means.” Isn’t this the way Hitler attempted to justify his wickedness? Do we wish to fall into the same trap? 16. The phrase “flood the schools” in the first paragraph means＿＿ A): there is water in every school in Texas 得分评卷人

安徽科技学院 2012~2013 学年第二学期《大学英语四级》（统招）期终试卷（A 卷） ………………………………装…………订…… …线………………………………… 专业级班姓名学号得分 …………………………………密…………封…………线……………………………… 第 3 页共 7 页 B): the schools are struck hard by a flood C): the schools are burdened with economics problems D): children of illegal immigrants come to the schools in great numbers 17. From the passage, we can infer that American public schools are funded by＿＿ A): the president B): wealthy American C): tax payers D): immigrants 18. According to the writer, the cost of the education of illegal immigrants’ children should be paid by＿＿ A): Texas B): Dallas, Oklahoma, Arkansas and Arizona C): Maine and Alaska D): none of the above 19. The passage suggests all the following EXCEPT that ＿＿ A): there will be more illegal immigrants in most of the states in USA B): illegal immigrants get better pay in the USA than in their homeland C): illegal immigrants’ children must be provided with some of the benefits of American public-school education D): Americans are neither legally nor morally obliged to provide free education to illegal immigrants’ children 20. The attitude of the writer towards providing free education to illegal immigrants’ children is ＿＿ A): indifferent B): Negative C): favorable D): sympathetic Passage Two Questions 21 to 25 are based on the following passage: Sign has become a scientific hot button. Only in the past 20 years have specialists in language study realized that signed language are unique—a speech of the land. They offer a new way to probe how the brain generates and understand language, and throw new light on an old scientific controversy: whether language, complete with grammar, is something that we are born with, or whether it is a learned behavior. The current interest in sign language has roots in the pioneering work of one rebel teacher at Gallaudet University in Washington D.C, the world’s only liberal arts university for deaf people. When Bill Stroke went to Gallaudet to teach English, the school enrolled him in a course in signing. But Stroke noticed something odd; among themselves, students signed differently from his classroom teacher. Stroke has been taught a sort of gestural code, each movement of the hands representing a word in English. At the time, American Sign Language (ASL) was thought to be no more than a sort of Pidgin English. But Stroke believed the “hand talk” his students used looked richer. He wondered: Might deaf people actually have a genuine language? And could that language be unlike any other on earth? It was 1995, when even deaf people dismissed their signing as “substandard”. Stroke’s idea was academic heresy. It is 37 years later. Stroke –now devoting his time to writing and editing books and journals an to producing video materials on ASL and the deaf culture—having lunch at a café’ near the Gallaudet campus and explaining how he studied a revolution. For decades educators fought his idea that signed languages are natural language like English, French and Japanese. They assumed language must be based on speech, the modulation of sound. But sign language is based on the moments of hands, the modulation of space. “What I said,” Stroke explains,” is that language is not mouth stuff—it’s brain stuff.” 21. The study of sign language is thought to be＿＿ A): a new way to look at the learning of language B): a challenge to traditional views on the nature of language C): an approach to simplifying the grammatical structure of a language D): an attempt to clarify misunderstanding about the origin of language 22. The present growing interest in sign language was stimulated by＿＿ A): a famous scholar in the study of the human brain B): a leading specialist in the study of liberal arts C): an English teacher in a university for the deaf D): some senior experts in American Sign Language 23. According to Stroke, sign language is＿＿ A): a substandard language B): a genuine language C): an artificial language D): an international language 24. Most educators objected to Stroke’s idea because they thought＿＿ A): sign language was not extensively used even by deaf people B): sign language was not too artificial to be widely accepted C): a language should be easy to use and to understand D): a language could only exist in the form of speech sounds 25. Stroke’s argument is based on his belief that＿＿ A): sign language is as efficient as any other language B): sign language is derived from natural language C): language is a system of meaningful codes D): language is a product of the brain

安徽科技学院 2012~2013 学年第二学期《大学英语四级》（统招）期终试卷（A 卷） ………………………………装…………订…… …线………………………………… 专业级班姓名学号得分 …………………………………密…………封…………线……………………………… 第 4 页共 7 页 Passage Three Questions 26 to 30 are based on the following passage: American today don’t place a very high value on intellect .Our heroes are athletes entertainers, and entrepreneurs, not scholars. Even our schools are where we send our children to get a practical education ---not to pursue knowledge for the sake of knowledge. Symptoms of pervasive anti-intellectualism in our schools aren’t difficult to find. “Schools have always been in a society where practical is more important than intellectual,” says education writer Doses Ravitch. “Schools could be a counterbalance.” Ravitch’s latest book, left back: A century of Failed School Reforms, traces the roots of anti-intellectualism in our schools, concluding they are anything but a counterbalance to the American distaste for intellectual pursuits. But they could and should be. Encouraging kids to reject the life of the mind leaves them d ideas vulnerable to exploitation and control. Without the ability to think critically, to defend their ideas and understand the ideas of others they cannot fully participate in our democracy. Continuing along this path, says writer Earl Shorris, “we will become a second-rate country. We will have a less civil society.” “Intellect is resented as a form of power or privilege,” writes historian and professor Richard Hofstadter in anti-intellectualism in American life, a Pulitzer Prize winning book on the roots of anti-intellectualism in us politics, religion, and education. From the beginning of our history, says Hofstadter, our democratic and populist urges have driven us to reject anything you could learn from a book. Ralph Waldo Emerson and other Transcendentalist philosophers thought schooling and rigorous book learning put unnatural restraints on children:”We are shut up in schools and college recitation rooms for 10 or 15 years and come out at last with a bellyful of words and do not know a thing.” Mark Twain’s Huckleberry Finn exemplified American anti-intellectualism. Its hero avoids being civilized-----going to school and learning to read----so he can preserve his innate goodness. Intellect, according to Hofstadter, is different from native intelligence, a quality we reluctantly admire .Intellect, and adjust, while intellect examines, ponders, wonders, theorizes, criticizes and imagines. School remains a place where intellect is mistrusted. Hofstadter says our country’s educational system is in the grips of people who “joyfully an militantly proclaim their hostility to intellect and their eagerness to identify children who show the least intellectual promise.” 26． What do American parents expect their children to acquire in school? A): the habit of thinking independently. B): profound knowledge of the world C): practical abilities for future career. D): the confidence in intellectual pursuits 27. We can learn from the text that Americans have history of＿＿ A): undervaluing intellect B): favoring intellectualism C): supporting school reform D): suppressing native intelligence 28. The views of Ravish and Emerson on schooling are＿＿ A): identical B): similar C): complementary D): opposite 29. Emerson, according to the text, is probably＿＿ A): a pioneer of education reform B): an opponent of intellectualism C): a scholar in favor of intellect D): an advocate of regular schooling 30. what does the author think of intellect? A): it is second to intelligence B): it evolves from common sense C): it is to be pursued D): it underlies power PartⅢ Cloze （10 points）(0.5 point for each ) Directions: There are 20 blanks in the following passage. For each blank there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. Choose the one answer that best fits into the passage.. Then mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the center. American is the land of the automobile. This country has only 6 31 of the world’s population but 46 percent of the world’s 32 . Right now, there are 97 million privately owned cars 33 75billion gallons of gasoline and traveling an 34 1,000 billions miles a year. The 35 also affirm something we know every time we 36 our gasoline tank. The automobile is a very 37 piece of technology. Of the total petroleum supply in the United States, 30 percent 38 to quench that thirst. Every year for each passage car, about 800 gallons of gasoline are consumed. 得分评卷人

安徽科技学院 2012~2013 学年第二学期《大学英语四级》（统招）期终试卷（A 卷） ………………………………装…………订…… …线………………………………… 专业级班姓名学号得分 …………………………………密…………封…………线……………………………… 第 5 页共 7 页 39 aspects of our commitment to the automobile also 40 mention here. It takes a great deal of energy to manufacture one automobile---about 150million BTU’s of energy. This is 41 1,200 gallons of gasoline, enough to 42 a car for about 16,000 miles. We expend energy 43 shipping cars from factories to showrooms, 44 them for sale and making replacement parts 45 . One out of six jobs in the nation is associated with the automobile 46 . About two gallons of gasoline are consumed in the process of making every ten gallons that are 47 an automobile’s gas tank. Building highways and parking lots has used up much of our 48 . It has been estimated that we have49 over 21,000 square miles of this country’s surface, most of it to 50 the automobile. 31. A) Times B) percentage C) percent D) less 32. A) land B) cars C) natural resources D) territory 33. A) consuming B) supplying C) using D) spending 34. A) valued B) estimated C) assessed D) calculated 35. A) numbers B) quotas C) figures D) amounts 36. A) empty B) refill C) clean D) dump 37. A) advanced B) new C) wasteful D) thirsty 38. A) takes B) goes C) calms D) reaches 39. A) Another B) The other C) Other D) Others 40. A) mean B) bear C) fail D) forget 41. A) equivalent toB) similar to C) almost next to D) contributive to 42. A) travel B) run C) buy D) consume 43. A) in successionB) in the promotionC）in the process of D) in the way of 44. A) displaying B) selling C) installing D) piecing 45. A) for a change B) for repairs C) for storage D) for rainy days 46. A) sells B) repairs C) promotion D) business 47. A) pumped intoB) dumped out C) filtered D) put into 48. A) field B) territory C) land D) ground 49. A) occupied B) paved C) built D) repaired 50. A) shelter B) air C) reduce D) accommodate Part IV Translation（20 points） Section A （10 points） Directions: Translate the English into Chinese There are three kinds of book owners. The first has all the standard sets and best sellers -- unread, untouched. (This deluded individual owns wood-pulp and ink, not books.) The second has a great many books -- a few of them read through, most of them dipped into, but all of them as clean and shiny as the day they were bought. (This person would probably like to make books his own, but is restrained by a false respect for their physical appearance.) The third has a few books or many -- every one of them dog-eared and dilapidated, shaken and loosened by continual use, marked and scribbled in from front to back. (This man owns books.) Section B （10 points）（2 points for each） Directions: Translate the Chinese into English. 51. 在那个国家一般用现金支付，但是支票变得普遍起来，不久会代替现金作为人们结账的一种方式。 52. 总的说，很少有人不抱怨自己的工作的，然而一旦他们没有机会工作了又会不高兴。 53. 我们学校鼓励学生独立思考，不要受老师观点的束缚。 54. 玛丽(Mary)的两难处境是：把真相告诉老板从而失信于她的同事，还是让老板蒙在鼓里从而辜负他的信任。 55. 萧伯纳(Bernard Shaw)在他的一个剧本的前言中提出这样的看法：今天的人们比中世纪时更加迷信。 Part V Writing（15 points） Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a composition on the topic: Attend 得分评卷人得分评卷人得分评卷人

安徽科技学院 2012~2013 学年第二学期《大学英语四级》（统招）期终试卷（A 卷） ………………………………装…………订…… …线………………………………… 专业级班姓名学号得分 …………………………………密…………封…………线……………………………… 第 6 页共 7 页 Classes Regularly. You should write at least 120 words following the outline given below in Chinese: 1. 现在大学生旷课、上课睡觉、玩手机等现象普遍 2. 学生到课率对保证教育质量十分重要 3. 作为一个大学生应该怎样做作文部分写在答题纸上 College English Achievement Test (Band Four 统招) A 卷题型客观题复合式听写英翻汉汉翻英写作总分得分 Part I Listening Comprehension Section D（10 points）（16-23 , 0.5 point for each; 24-25, 3 points for each） 16. ___________________ 17. ___________________ 18. ___________________ 19. ___________________ 20. ___________________ 21. ___________________ 22. ___________________ 23. ___________________ 24.____________________________________________________________________________________________ 25.___________________________________________________________________________________________ Part IV Translation（20 points） Section A （10 points） _________________________________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________________________________________ Section B (10 points）(2 points for each) 51.__________________________________________________________________________________________________ 52. __________________________________________________________________________________________________ 53. __________________________________________________________________________________________________ 54. __________________________________________________________________________________________________ 55. __________________________________________________________________________________________________ Part V Writing（15 points） Attend Classes Regularly _____________________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________________________ 得分评卷人得分评卷人得分评卷人得分评卷人