2021年大學(xué)英語四級名校（西安外國語學(xué)院）密卷（14）

1、大學(xué)英語四級名校（西安外國語學(xué)院）密卷（14） Part Listening Comprehension(20 minutes) Section A Directions: In this section, you will hear 10 short conversation. At the end of each conversation, a question will be asked about what was said. Both the conversation and the question will be spoken only on _. After each ques

2、tion there will be a pause. During the pause,you must read the four choi _s _rked A), B), C) and D), and decide which is the best answer. Then _rk the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the _nter. 1. A) 1016. B) 1060. C) 508. D) 580. 2. A) He is going to the hospital

3、. B) He is showing his hand. C) He is letting her go. D) He is offering help. 3. A) A shop assistant . B) A sales clerk. C) A waiter. D) A telephone operator. 4. A) Father and daughter. B) Uncle and nie _. C) Aunt and nephew. D) Cousins. 5. A) She wasnt invited. B) She wasnt ready to e. C) She alter

4、ed her decision. D) She forget the invitation. 6. A) The door needs repairing. B) He had lost all his keys. C) He couldnt open the door. D) He wanted the wo _n to help him. 7. A) Hes rather happy to hear so. B) Hes disappointed to hear so. C) Hes unhappy to hear so. D) Hes surprised to hear so. 8. A

5、) He thought it was a good car. B) He thought it was too noisy. C) He thought there was wrong with the car. D) He didnt like it. 9. A) In a car. B) In a train. C) In a ship. D) In a plane. 10. A) Shell go to the con _rt. B) shell have a meeting. C) Shell watch her neighbors children. D) Shell visit

6、her neighbor . Section B Directions: In this section, you will hear 3 short passage. At the end of each passage, you will hear some questions. Both the passage and the questions will be spoken only on _.After you hear a question, you must choose the best answer from the four choi _s _rked A), B), C)

7、 and D). Then _rk the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the _nter. Passage One Questions 11 to 13 are based on the passage you have just heard. 11. A) Sending them to the shop for some milk. B) Telling them a dog has _d. C) Your shoe la _ is undone. D) Eating someth

8、ing delicious food on the able. 12. A) Her father lost a pen. B) Her father didnt know where his penny was. C) She told the father that he lost a penny. D) Her father wanted to buy something. 13. A) She fooled her father. B) She wanted her father to pick it up. C) Her father was looking for the penn

9、y. D) All of the above were not true. Passage Two Questions 14 to 16 are based on the passage you have just heard. 14. A) It is not really a new one. B) It is the new one but doesnt work properly. C) It is the new one but it is not ni _ looking. D) It is the new one but my friend doesnt like it. 15.

10、 A) The milk went sour quickly. B) The refrigerator had an unusual _ell. C) She doesnt check every corner inside. D) She wiped the refrigerator out. 16. A) The shop promised to change another one. B) The shop promised to repair it if you charge it. C) The shop promised to repair it for free it if it

11、 broke down in the first three months. D) The shop promised to repair it for free it if it broke down in one month. Passage Three Please fill vacancies aording to the passage you have just heard. What a 17 _ that your letter with the newspaper clipping “Riches of the Sea” arrived the same day the sc

12、ien _ department here a lecture on o _anography! I planed to go to a movie that night, but after I had got your letter I decided to attend the lecture instead, and I was 18 _glad I did. As you know, what I wanted to do after I finished school has never been very clear to me. Day always wants me to b

13、e a teacher but now I believe I liked to be an o _anographer. Until the lecture, I always had thought of the o _an as just a vast body of water where one swam, rode the surf, or took a ship for some far-off pla _. Dr Brown, the19 _, _de me realize that the o _an was a great new frontier, with untold

14、 potential as a sour _ of food and of other products20 _ to _nkind. He talked about the new developments taking pla _ in o _an research these days. I will try to give you a brief sum _ry of some of the things he mentioned. Part Reading Comprehension(35 minutes) Directions: There are four passages in

15、 this part. Each passage is followed by some questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choi _s _rked A), B), C) and D). You should decide on the best choi _ and _rk the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the _nter. Passage One Questions 21 t

16、o 25 are based on the following passage. If, at the end of a conversation somebody says to me, “as soon as I know, Ill ring you up”, he is talking too much for granted. He is proposing to attempt the impossible. So I have to say, “Im afraid you cant. You see. Im not on the telephone. I just havent g

17、ot a telephone.” Why dont you have a telephone? Not because I pretend to be wise or pose as unusual. There are two chief reasons: because I dont really like the telephone I find I can still work and play, eat, breathe and sleep without it. Why dont I like the telephone? Because I think it is a pest

18、and a time-waster. It _y create unne _ssary suspense and anxiety, as when you wait for an expected call that doesnt e; or irritating delay, as when you keep ringing a number that is always engaged. As for speaking in a public telephone box, which seems to me really horrible. You would not use it unl

19、ess you were in a hurry, and because you are in a hurry you will find other people waiting before you. When you do get into the box, you are half asphyxiated by stale, unventilated air, flavored with cheap fa _ -powder and chain- _oking; and by the time you have begun your conversation your back is

20、chilled by the cold look of somebody who is fidgeting to take your pla _.If you have a telephone in your own house, you will admit that it tends to ring when you least want it to ring; when you are asleep, or in the middle of a meal or a conversation, or when you are just going out, or when you are

21、in your bath. Are you strong-minded enough to ignore it, to say to yourself, “Ah, well, it will all be the same in a hundred years time.You are not. You think there _y be some important news or message for you. Have you never rushed dripping from the bath, or chewing from the table, or dazed from th

22、e bed, only to be told that you are a wrong number? Suppose you ignore the telephone when it rings, and suppose that, for on _, some body has an important message for you. I can assure you that if a message is really important it will reach you sooner or later. Think of the proverb: “ill news travel

23、s apa _.” I must say good news seems to travel just as fast. And think of the saying: “the truth will out.” It will. 21. The write does not like telephone in a public telephone box, because_. A) unventilated air B) it is far from his home C) it is not convenient D) he must pay for it 22. In the thir

24、d paragraph, “it will all be the same in a hundred years time means _. A) the phone has been the same thing for _ny years B) everything will re _in the same thing whether I answer the phone or not C) the phone will not be changed in a hundred years D) the phone will not be changed for _ny years 23.

25、What does “the truth will out” mean in the last senten _? A) The truth will bee publicly. B) The truth will be truth. C) The truth will disappear. D) The truth will be hidden. 24. Which of the following in the _in idea of the passage? A) It is not ne _ssary to have a telephone because ill news trave

26、ls just as fast as good news B) The writer states his reasons for not having a telephone. C) The writer does not like the telephone at all. D) People can live a nor _l life without a telephone. 25. What kind of person do you think the writer is? A) Eentric. B) Modern. C) Realistic. D) Idealistic. Pa

27、ssage Two Questions 26 to 30 are based on the following passage. Spending time in a bookshop can be most enjoyable, whether you are a book-lover or merely go there to buy a book as a present. You _y even have entered the shop just to find shelter from a sudden shower. Whatever the reason, you can so

28、on bee totally unaware of your surroundings. The desire to pick up a book with an attractive dust-jacket is irresistible, although this method of selection ought not to be followed, as you might end up with a rather dull book. You soon bee engrossed in some book or other, and usually it is only much

29、 later that you realize you have spend too much time there and must dash off to keep some forgotten appointment-without buying a book, of course. This opportunity to escape the realities of everyday life is, I think, the _in attraction of a bookshop. There are not _ny pla _s where it is possible to

30、do t his. A music shop is very much like a bookshop. You can wander round such pla _s to your hearts content. If it is a good shop, no assistant will approach you with the inevitable greeting: “can I help you, sir?” You neednt buy anything you dont want. In a bookshop an assistant should re _in in t

31、he background until you have finished browsing. Then, and only then, are his servi _s ne _ssary. Of course, you _y want to find out where a particular section is, but when he has led you there, the assistant should retire discreetly and look as if he is not interested in selling a single book.You ha

32、ve to be careful not to be attracted by the variety of books in a bookshop. It is very easy to enter the shop looking for a book on, say, ancient coins and to e out carrying a copy of the latest best-selling novel and perhaps a book about brass-rubbing-something which had only vaguely interested you

33、 up till then. This volume on the subject, however, happened to be so well illustrated and the part of the text you read proved so interesting, that you just had to buy it . This sort of thing can be very dangerous. Apart from running up a huge aount , you can waste a great deal of time wandering fr

34、om section to section. Book-seller must be both long-suffering and indulgent. There is a story which well illustrates this. A medical student had to read a text-book which was far too expensive for him to buy. He couldnt obtain it from the library and the only copy he could find was in his bookshop.

35、 Every afternoon, therefore, he would go a long to the shop and read a little of the book at a time. One day, however, he w as dis _yed to find the book missing from its usual pla _ and was about to leave when he noti _d the owner of the shop beckoning to him. Expecting to be told off, he went towar

36、ds him. To his surprise, the owner pointed to the book, which was tucked away in a corner, “I put it there in case anyone was tempted to buy it,” he said, and left the delighted student to continue his reading. 26. Spending time in a bookshop_. A) can be very much enjoy B) can be very pleasant C) ca

37、n be pleasure-giving D) can give you the greatest pleasure 27. When you enter the bookshop to find a book, you will _. A) bee pletely absorbed in the books without realizing where you are. B) bee pletely lost without any knowledge of your whereabouts. C) bee pletely unconscious in the bookshop. D) l

38、ose any sense of direction as to where you are. 28. How should book sellers do? A) He should be both suffer for a long time and satisfy customers wishes. B) He should be both endure and indulge for a long time. C) He should be both tender and lenient. D) He should be both patient and kind. 29.Why di

39、d the owner of the shop put the book in a corner? A) He put it there in case anyone was persuaded to buy it. B) He put it there in case anyone was inclined to buy it. C) He put it there in case anyone was attracted to buy it. D) He put it there in case anyone was fascinated to buy it. 30.How should

40、an assistant do in a good shop? A) Help you to choose a book. B) Approach you with the inevitable greeting. C) Keep himself staying until you have finished glancing. D) Show his great interest in selling book. Passage Three Questions 31 to 35 are based on the following passage. In a world that is be

41、ing more and more interdependent, there is an ever-increasing need to link munications systems on various continents and to provide live international television coverage. This need is now being met by the munications sa _ites. Communications sa _ites _ke use of technology that has been available fo

42、r some time: the microwave radio relay. Microwave, which have a higher frequency than ordinary radio waves, are used routinely in sending thousands of telephone calls and television programs across long distan _s. They give high-quality perfor _n _, and they can carry _ny messages at the same time.

43、But they has always been one problem in using radio relay in overseas munications. Although high-frequency waves can travel almost unlimited distan _s, they travel only in straight lines. Sin _ the curvature of the earth limits a microwaves line-of-sight path to about 30 miles, good re _ption requir

44、es a series of relay towers spa _d every 30 miles or so. Obviously it isnt possible to built these towers across the o _an. But by sending signals high up into the sky and then bouncing them back again to a far-off spot, we can send microwave messages long distan _s. As long ago as 1945, Arthur C. C

45、larke, an English scien _-fiction writer, proposed that _nned “stationary” sa _ites be used to relay and broadcast electro _gic munication signals. In 1945, of course, the idea of getting a sa _ite out into spa _ seemed fantastic. But with ten years, sa _ites were close to r eality. With the first l

46、aunching of a sa _ite into orbit by the Soviet Union ( Sputnik I) in 1957, the real development work on sa _ite munications began. Shortly thereafter, two suessful sa _ites were launched in the United States, Echo I and Telstar I. The launching of the Telstar I sa _ite in 1962 _rked a _jor step towa

47、rd opening the era of mercial sa _ite munications. Echo I, a ten-story aluminum -coated balloon, was a “passive” target; it merely reflected weak signals back to the earth. But Telstar I was the first “active” sa _ite to pick up a broadband signal, amplify it, and tran _it it back to the earth on a

48、different frequency. The sa _ites tran _ission of transatlantic television thrilled millions. A few months after Telstar I went into orbit, Relay, a medium-altitude sa _ite launched by the National Aeronautics and Spa _ Administration (NASA), provided the first sa _ite munication between North and S

49、outh America. Relay was fol lowed by the Telstar II sa _ite, and by NASAs Syn series and its suessorsall of them high-altitude (23,000 miles) sa _ites whose orbits are synchronous with the rotation of the earth so that this positions, if they could be seen from the earth, would appear to be fixed in

50、 one spot. Shortly before Telstar I was launched, the United States Congress established the Communications Sa _ite CorporationComsatto develop a mercial sa _ite system as part of an improved global munications work. Comsat, which is owned partly by public investors and partly by munications carrier

51、s, represents the United States in the International Telemunications Sa _ite Consortium-Intelsat-and acts as _nager for that body. Sin _ its in _ption in 1962, the corporation, in collaboration with Intelsat, has inaugurated mercial sa _ite tran _ission of telephone, television, and other telemunica

52、tions traffic between North America and Europe and North America and the Far East. The mercial sa _ite Intelsat IV was launched in June of 1972.This one-and-one-half-ton spa _craft multiplied by five times the spa _-borne relaying capacity linking Africa, Europe, Asia, and Australia. With the launch

53、ing of Intelsat IV, full global coverage by munications sa _ites had at last been achieved. 31. The first paragraph indicates _. A) munications systems is being more and more independent B) link munications systems on various continents C) the need to link munications systems on various is ever-incr

54、easing D) this need is now being met by the munications sa _ites 32.The _ximum distan _ for high-frequency and straight line microwave tr an _ission is _ miles. A) much more than 30 B) less than30 C) 30 D) about 30 33.The phrase “ _rked a _jor step”(Line 1,Para. 5) most probably means_. A) got signi

55、ficant step B) was an important advan _ C) _de a progress D) _rked in the history 34.What is the author trying to _ us in the second paragraph? A) Microwave radio relay. B) Microwave itself. C) Microwaves tran _ission. D) Microwaves value. 35. In paragraph 6, “.whose orbits are synchronous with the

56、rotation of the earth so that this positions,.” means _. A) sa _ites are orbited in the same time with the rotation of the earth B) that moves as fast as the earth the earth turns round C) that travels in the same direction with the earth turns round D) that travels faster than the earth turns Passa

57、ge Four Questions 36 to 40 are based on the following passage. Americans believe no one stands still. If you are not moving ahead, you are falling behind. This attitude results in a nation of people mitted to researching , experimenting and exploring. Time is one of the two elements that Americans s

58、ave carefully, the other being labor. “We are slaves to nothing but the clock,” it has been said. Time is treated as if it were something almost tangible. We budget it, save it, waste it, steal it, kill it, cut it, aount for it; we also charge for it. It is a precious modity. Many people have a rather acute sense of th