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（2006年大学英语四级模拟试题题库，试卷总分：711分，）大学四级-280问答题：&Part Ⅰ Writing
Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write A Send-off Speech. Suppose your English teacher Professor Smith will return to his country after teaching you for one year, please give a speech to semi him off You should write at least 120 words following the outline given below in Chinese:（1）从Professor Smith的授课中所获得的收获
2．表达对其的感激之情
A Send-off Speech 填空题：&Part Ⅱ Reading Comprehension （Skimming and Scanning）
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
N （for NO）
if the statement contradicts the information
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.
America’s Favorite Foods
You may have heard that Americans like hot dogs and hamburgers best of all foods. Well, farmers and owners of public eating places might happily agree. So might the nation’s Meat Institute and the National Hot Dog & Sausage Council. But people whose favorites are pizza and apple pie would give the meat-lovers a spirited argument!
Naming the favorite foods of Americans depends a lot on whom you ask. But one thing is sure. The ancestors of most Americans came from other countries. The United States owes many favorite dishes, or the ideas for these foods, to the rest of the world.
That traditional American favorite, the hot dog, had its modem beginning in Germany. The National Hot Dog and Sausage Council estimates that Americans eat about seven thousand million of these sausages during a summer.
A hot dog is usually made from pork, the meat of a pig. Or it is made from beef, the meat of a cow. Another version is made from turkey. A vegetarian version of a hot dog has no meat at all. It often contains tofu（豆腐）, made from soy plants.
The hot dog is shaped like a tube. Many people say it looks like a kind of dog. It is served between two shaped pieces of bread. Americans often say they especially like hot dogs cooked over a hot fire in the open air. People at sports events buy plenty of hot dogs.
For many people, it is not just the meat that tastes so good. These people enjoy colorful and tasty additions. For example, they include a yellow or yellow-brown thickened liquid called mustard. They may also put red catsup （酱） and pieces of a white or red, strong-smelling vegetable called onion on their hot dogs.
Hot dog eaters often add pickle, a salty green vegetable. Some people place barbecue sauce on top of all this. Or they use a spice called horseradish（山葵）. It gives the hot dog a pleasant bite.
A hot dog is also known as a frankfurter or frank. That is because the city of Frankfurt am Main, Germany is often said to be the birthplace of this sausage. But the National Hot Dog and Sausage Council says there are other ideas about where the hot dog began.
One version of hot dog history says a butcher, or meat cutter, from the German city of Coburg was responsible. It says he invented the hot dog in the late 160Os. Vienna, Austria, also claims that it created the food.
The council says butchers from several countries probably brought common European sausages to America. A street salesman sold hot dogs to people in New York City in the 1860s. And, in 1871, a hot dog stand opened at the Coney Island amusement park in New York City.
Hamburger and Fries
Americans also eat lots of hamburgers. This ground meat comes from beef. It can be cooked in many ways. Like hot dogs, hamburgers are a favorite picnic food.
Many public eating places in the United States say hamburgers are their most popular foods. People often eat them in places that serve quickly prepared, moderately priced food.
Like hot dog experts, hamburger historians disagree about how their subject got started. The Egyptians and Romans apparently ate ancient versions of hamburgers. In more modem days, people in Hamburg, Germany, made something like a hamburger from pork and beef.
The small town of Seymour, Wisconsin, is among several American towns that claim to have created the first modem hamburger in the United States.
In Seymour, a man named Charlie Nagreen tried to sell meatballs at a local fair in 1885. But as people walked around, it was hard for them to handle the round pieces of meat. So Nagreen flattened the ball of meat. Then he placed this meat pie between two pieces of bread.
In 2001, people in Seymour cooked a hamburger that weighed more than 3,000 kilograms. This creation reportedly fed 13,000 people.
Like hot dogs, Americans like their hamburgers with additions. Things like mustard, catsup, horse- radish, mayonnaise（蛋黄酱）, barbecue sauce, tomatoes, lettuce（莴苣） , onion and perhaps a pickle.
A hamburger with cheese melted on it is called a cheeseburger. Cooks make a "Sloppy Joe" by combining hamburger meat with tomato sauce. Many people eat the Sloppy Joe mixture on a bun（甜面包）. Without a bun, they may get more of the loose meat on them than inside them.
For many people, eating both hot dogs and hamburgers does not seem right without potatoes. They eat French fries and potato chips with these meats. French fries are strips, or pieces, of potato cooked in oil. Potato chips are extremely thin, cooled pieces of potato. They usually are also cooked in oil.
Pizza, Spaghetti and Macaroni
Americans also buy or make large amounts of pizzas. A basic pizza contains tomato sauce or cheese, or both, on a bread-like material.
Food writer Linda Stradley tells about the history of pizza on her computer Web site, "What’s Cooking America." Miz Stradley says it could have been the Phoenicians, Greeks or Romans who invented pizza. Or, it could have been anyone who mixed flour with water and cooked it on a hot stone.
Italians probably brought pizza to the United States in the second half of the 19th century. In 1905, Gennaro Lombardi reportedly opened the first pizza store in New York City. In the 1930s, he added tables to his pizza place. Lombardi also began serving spaghetti.
Spaghetti is a traditional Italian favorite that also has become an American favorite. It is made from flour and water and sometimes eggs. This dough is pulled into lengths and boiled.
All kinds of foods can be added to both pizza and spaghetti to add to their taste. For example, people like these foods with different meats on top. Or they like toppings of small fish called anchovies, or vegetables called mushrooms. Some people like all the additions at once.
Another favorite food, macaroni, is similar to spaghetti. Many Americans remember that their mothers made macaroni cooked with cheese on cold winter days. People sometimes call this dish "comfort food," because it makes them feel better.
Like people in many parts of the world, Americans love pie. These sweet dishes have fruit, nuts or some other filling in a crust. Some people say pies are the best comfort food ever. That can be debated.
Pie can be the most inviting food ever. A red strawberry pie or a yellow Key lime（酸橙） pie can defeat the strongest resolution of people trying to lose weight. But apple pie may be a top American favorite. Over time, this dish has come to be strongly linked to the United States.
When someone or something seems especially American, people say it is "as American as apple pie."（1）According to the nation’s Meat Institute and the National Hot Dog & Sausage Council, the America’s most favorite foods are hot dog, hamburger, pizza and apple pie.（2）Americans love the hot dog, and according to the National Hot Dog and Sausage Council, Americans consume about 7,000 million of these sausages per year.（3）People not only like the meat in the hot dog, but enjoy its various tasty additions, such as mustard, onion, and pickle.（4）Hot dogs might originate from one of the following cities, Frankfurt am Main, Coburg or Vienna.（5）People in Hamburg made the first modern hamburger from pork and beef, therefore the food got its name.（6）The largest hamburger in the world weighed more than 3,000 kilograms, which was made in 2001 by the people in Seymour.（7）In America, people usually have some pies and potato chips when they eat hot dogs and hamburgers.（8）In 1905, in New York City, Gennaro Lombardi opened ______.（9）Spaghetti, a traditional Italian favorite food, which became popular in America, is made from flour and water and sometimes ______.（10）Apple pie linked to the United States so strongly that it may be ______.单选集题：&Part Ⅲ Listening Comprehension
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.（1）Questions 11 to 18 are based on the conversation you have just heard.单选集题：&Questions 19 to 22 are based on the conversation you have just heard.（1）单选集题：&Questions 23 to 25 are based on the conversation you have just heard.（1）单选集题：&Section B
Directions: In this section, you will 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 flora the four choices marked A）, B）, C） and D）. Then mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through the centre.（1）Passage One
Questions 26 to 28 are based on the passage you have just heard单选集题：&Passage Two
Questions 29 to 31 are based on the passage you have just heard.（1）单选集题：&Passage Three
Questions 32 to 35 are based on the passage you have just heard.（1）填空集题：&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 numbered from 36 to 43 with the exact words you have just heard. For blanks numbered from 44 to 46 you are required to fill in the missing information. For these blanks, you can either use the exact words you have just heard or write down the main points in your own words. Finally, when the passage is read for the third time, you should check what you have written.（1）Kitchen duties may have traditionally been viewed as women’s work, but not at the White House. Until now: Cristeta Comerford has been named （36） chef.
After an extensive six-month search, first lady Laura Bush （37） Sunday that Comerford was chosen from hundreds of （38） to head the executive kitchen. A naturalized U. S. （39） from the Philippines, she will be the first woman and first minority to hold the post.
The 42-year-old Comerford has been an （40） chef at the White House for 10 years. She worked under former executive chef Walter Scheib III, who （41） in February.
While being executive chef at the White House can bring fame, the job also can be exhausting. Comerford will be in （42） of whipping up everything from state dinners for world leaders to fast-food for the （43） in chief, his family and guests.
As many as 2,000 guests per month are fed at the White House. （44） . when festivities were taboo after the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001.
Mrs. Bush has been trying out finalists for the job, （45）
Comerford has a bachelor’s degree in Food Technology from the University of the Philippines. She has worked at Le Ciel in Vienna, Austria and at restaurants in two Washington hotels.
（46） .The job pays around $ 80,000- $ 100,000 a year.填空题：&Part Ⅳ Reading Comprehension （Reading in Depth）
Directions: 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 the bank is identified by a letter. Please mark the corresponding letter for each item on Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through the centre. You may not use any of the words in the bank more than once.
The food we eat seems to have significant effects on our health. Although science has made （47）
steps in making food more fit to eat, it has, at the same time, made many foods unfit to eat. Some research has shown that perhaps eighty percent of all human illnesses are related to diet and forty percent of cancer is related to the diet as well, （48） cancer of the colon （结肠）. Different cultures are more likely to （49） certain illnesses because of the food that is （50） in these cultures. That food is related to illness is not a new （51） In 1945, government researchers realized that nitrates （硝酸盐） and nitrites （亚硝 ）, commonly used to （52） colors in meats, and other food additives, caused cancer. Yet, these additives （53） in our food, and it becomes more difficult all the time to know which things on the packaging labels of processed food are helpful or （54） . The additives that we eat are not all so direct. Farmers often give penicillin（青霉素）to beef and fowl and because of this, penicillin has been found in the milk of treated cows. Sometimes similar drugs are given to animals not for medical purposes, but for （55） reasons. The farmers are simply trying to fatten the animals in order to obtain a higher price on the market. Although the Food and Drug Administration has tried repeatedly to control these procedures, the practices （56） .
A） contract
I） characteristic
B） preserve
J） remain
C） continue
K） enormous
D） especially
L） specifically
E） social
M） discovery
N） beneficial
G） harmful
O） financial
H） breakthrough（1）（2）（3）（4）（5）（6）（7）（8）（9）（10）单项选择题：&Section B
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 2 with a single line through the centre.
Passage One
Global reserves of fresh water add up to more than 37 million cubic kilometers, enough to fill the Mediterranean 10 times over. More than three-fourths of this water is bound up in glaciers （冰川）and polar ice, however, where it is largely beyond the reach of present technology. Almost all the rest consists of water in underground aquifers （蓄水层） , which are not yet exploited intensively. The main sources of supply -- the waters of lakes and rivers and the water vapor in the atmosphere -- make up less than I percent of the total.
The ultimate source of fresh water is the continuous distillation（蒸镏） of the oceans by solar radiation. The annual evaporation of water （including transpiration by plants） is roughly 500,000 cubic kilometers, of which 430,000 comes from the oceans and the remaining 70,000 from waters on the continents. Because the amount of water vapor in the atmosphere is essentially constant, the same amount of water must fall back to the surface as rain and snow. It is of vital importance to earthly life that a disproportionate share of this precipitation falls on land. Whereas the continents lose 70,000 cubic kilometers of water to evaporation, they receive 110,000 from precipitation, so that the net effect of the water cycle is to transfer some 40,000 cubic kilometers of fresh water each year from the oceans to the continents,
Although the net continental influx （汇集） is 40,000 cubic kilometers per year, not all of it is available for man’s use. Much is lost through floods or is held in the soil or in swamps. The maximum that might reasonably be applied to human purposes is about 14,000 cubic kilometers per year, which is the base flow, or stable runoff excluding flood waters, of all the world’s rivers and streams and of those isolated underground aquifers that discharge directly through evaporation. Of this volume about 5,000 cubic kilometers flow in regions that are uninhabited and are likely to remain so because they are climatically unsuited to human settlement. Hence the effective world water resource, from which all needs will have to be met for some years to come, is about 9,000 cubic kilometers per year.（1）The end of the passage implies that the water finally available for mankind to utilize each year ______.（2）Every year the continents get back ______.（3）Of all the reserves of fresh water in the world, about three-fourths is ______.（4）The word "precipitation" （Line 6, Para. 2） probably means ______.（5）Fresh water, as the passage states, originates from ______.单项选择题：&Passage Two
Lorna Jorgenson Wendt and former husband Gray Wendt were, of course, the couple engaged in the highly public disagreement over dividing their assets after divorcing in 1997. A judge ultimately gave her
$ 20 million, a sum she still views as far below her contribution as a "non-economic partner." Gray, now head of Conseco, the Indiana financial services firm, doesn’t buy that argument.
But the ugly mess could have been avoided. Jorgenson Wendt now wishes she had known about marital and financial planning: the postnup （婚后财产协议）.
The better-known prenup （婚前财产协议） defines, before the marriage, how finances are to be divided if the couple splits.
Postnups, agreements signed during marriage that divide assets if the couple were to divorce, give another option. In some instances couples are using them essentially to update their prenups. Many prenups have sunset clauses: they automatically cease after a predetermined period of time. If it is not updated, a high-net-worth individual could become exposed to a loss in the event of a divorce.
Most commonly, couples with substantial assets or children from previous marriages consider postnups for protection.
Getting a postnup is relatively easy and begins with each spouse hiring a lawyer. Choose a good one. Michael Minton, a Chicago divorce lawyer who says he represented Michael Jordan’s wife in a postnup, says creative attempts to avoid fairness abound. He’s seen unfair and possibly illegal agreements that say if the couple gets divorced because of one spouse is unfaithful, the unfaithful one gets nothing and gives up the right to alimony （生活费）.
Because of the risk of one spouse taking advantages of the other, some state courts examine postnups more carefully than premarriage agreements, says Arlene G. Dubin, a New York City divorce lawyer.
And because marriage contracts are governed by state law, postnups should be revised if you move to another state. Such agreements are signed in fewer than 5% of first marriages and 20% of second marriages, so courts in some states are still figuring out exactly how to deal with them. The Uniform Premarital Agreement Act of 1983, which governs prenups, generally does not apply to postnups.
Most states, however, simply accept the postnup as a private contract between two adults. But for couples thinking at all about a written financial agreement, the more popular prenup is still a better bet. The law is clearer. And there is a deadline.（1）What do prenups and postnups have in common（2）According to the passage, who would be likely to sign a postnup（3）Michael Minton suggests that ______.（4）Which of the following best sums up this passage（5）What can be inferred about Lorna Jorgenson Wendt单项选择题：&Part Ⅴ Cloze
Directions: There are 20 blanks in the following passage. For each blank there are four choices marked A）, B）, C） and D） on the right side of the paper. You should choose the ONE that best fits into the passage. Then mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through the centre.
Most people will probably think that literature is a form of art that can be enjoyed without formal instruction. However, people with （67）
knowledge of literature may miss a lot （68） reading a novel, short story, poem, play, or （69） These readers are comparable to the （70） at a football game who watch the game and （71） it without really understanding the complex movements （72） on the field. Although they may enjoy the （73） , many spectators watch only the ball （74） , missing entirely the contribution of other members （75） the total play as well as the intricacies（错综复杂） occurring within the （76） A person who understands football-- （77） better yet, has played the game -- is more capable （78） judging when a team is playing well or （79） and is also likely to enjoy a "good" game more. The （80） is true of reading literature. Most people have read numerous （81） works, but many do not understand or （82） the author’s skill in communicating. Just like those spectators of the football game, they can hardly enjoy a "good" book. This book （83） intended to help you learn to （84） attention not only on what happens, but on （85） it happens and how the author has （86） it -- to analyze and evaluate literary works so that you can fully experience and appreciate them.（1）（2）（3）（4）（5）（6）（7）（8）（9）（10）填空题：&Part Ⅵ Translation
Directions: Complete the sentences on Answer Sheet 2 by translating into English the Chinese given in brackets.（1）As we know, ______________ （钢虽坚硬） is, it will still bend or break under certain conditions.（2）Her mother ______________ （可能早就死了） if you had not given her timely and careful treatment.（3）Nowadays, the mass media are ______________ （起着越来越重要的作用）in leading fashion and trend.（4）As a CEO, he was always cheerful and ______________ （全身心地投入）his work.（5）______________ （毫无疑问）he will surely have an excellent performance in the universitywide English speech contest.
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