新東方網>大學教育>四六級>四六級模擬試題>四級模擬>正文
2012年12月英語四級考前40天模擬試題練習（三）
2012-10-22 16:28
來源：新東方網整理
作者：
2012年12月英語四級考前40天模擬試題練習（三）
Part I Listening Comprehension (20 minutes)
Section A
Directions: In this section, you will hear 10 short conversations. 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 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 the Answer Sheet with a single line through the center.
Example: You will hear.
You will read: A) At the office. B) In the waiting room.
C) At the airport. D) In a restaurant.
From the conversation we know that the two were talking about some work they had to finish in the evening. This conversation is most likely to have taken place at the office. Therefore, A) "At the office" is the best answer. You should choose [A] on the Answer Sheet and mark it with a single line through the center.
Sample Answer [A] [B] [C] [D]
1. A) She has postponed going to the doctor's.
B) She has almost recovered from her cold.
C) She saw the doctor four weeks ago.
D) Her doctor is away right now.
2. A) She is thinking of how to take exercise class.
B) Her new glasses fit better than the old ones.
C) She is unhappy about her exercise class.
D) The exercise class improved her health a lot.
3. A) The man wants to go shopping.
B) The man does not want to go shopping.
C) The man doesn't want to go shopping with the woman.
D) The man wants to travel around the world instead.
4. A) Professor Smith's physics course is not outstanding.
B) Professor Smith's physics course used to be outstanding.
C) Professor Smith will not teach physics course any more.
D) Professor Smith will teach physics course but it will not outstanding.
5. A) in a shop B) in the barber's
C) in the book store D) in the drug store
6. A) The man will never take a train B) The woman will never take a train
C) It is safer to take a train . D) Taking a bus is safer than taking a train .
7. A) draw a picture B) write a letter
C) hold the ladder D) help the woman write a letter
8. A) It is a new one .
B) It gives discount to the new customer.
C) It is an expensive one.
D) It gives discount to the old customer.
9. A) The teacher never met the woman.
B) The woman forgets the teacher.
C) They both forget each other.
D) The teacher forgets the woman.
10. A) to write the book on the newspaper.
B) to advertise free public announcement.
C) to advertise the book on the newspaper.
D) to write newspaper the on the book.
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 from the four choices marked A), B), C) and D). Then mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the center.
Passage One
11. A) Take the place of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund as one of most powerful economic organization in the world
B) have new rules covering trade in services and intellectual property.
C) make complete new rules in every area of international trade.
D) have more members and do much more to settle more problems.
12. A) 165 B) 30 C) 135 D) 105
13. A) WTO-another name for GATT.
B) WTO-an international service organization
C) WTO-one of the world's most powerful economic organization.
D) WTO-the world's most powerful economic organization.
Passage Two
14. A) The police want people to use it to report crimes.
B) They are very handy and useful.
C) They are much cheaper than those many years ago.
D) People in Florida can call others on their car phones.
15. A) Every person in thirty people has one.
B) Exactly 105,000 people have car phones.
C) There is one in every 30 cars in the FLorida States.
D) Every car in the State of Florida has one.
16. A) She drove after him and informed the police on her car telephone.
B) She telephoned to the police on her car phone all the time in her car.
C) She followed the gunman by walking who had shot at another man until he was caught.
D) She told the police about the robbery on her car phone as she had stopped his car.
Passage Three
17. A) Tom Brennan. B) An unknown person.
C) A Philadelphia magazine. D) Deborah Logan.
18. A) It was written in Philadelphia.
B) It tell stories about Philadelphia.
C) People in the city are interested in old things.
D) The British and the Americans once fought in Philadelphia.
19. A) $1,000 B) $2,000
C) $3,000 D) $4,000
20. A) I'm rich. B) I'm famous.
C ) I'm excited. D) I'm lucky.
Part II Reading Comprehension (35 minutes)
Directions: There are 4 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 21 to 25 are based on the following passage.
In the early days of the internet, many people worried that as people in the rich world embraced new computing and communications technologies, people in the poor world would be left stranded on the wrong side of a "digital divide." Yet the debate over the digital divide is founded on a myth-that plugging poor countries into the internet will help them to become rich rapidly.
This is highly unlikely, because the digital divide is not a problem in itself, but a symptom of deeper, more important divides: of income, development and literacy. Fewer people in poor countries than in rich ones own computers and have access to the internet simply because they are too poor, are illiterate, or have other more immediate concerns, such as food, health care and security. So even if it were possible to wave a magic wand and cause a computer to appear in every household on earth, it would not achieve very much: a computer is not useful if you have no food or electricity and cannot read. Yet such wand-waving-through the construction of specific local infrastructure projects such as rural telecenters-is just the sort of thing for which the UN's new fund is intended.
This sort of thing is the wrong way to go about addressing the inequality in access to digital technologies: it is treating the symptoms, rather than the underlying causes. The benefits of building rural computing centers, for example, are unclear. Rather than trying to close the divide for the sake of it, the more sensible goal is to determine how best to use technology to promote bottom-up development. And the answer to that question turns out to be remarkably clear: by promoting the spread not of PCs and the internet, but of mobile phones.
21. What is the main idea of this passage?
A) Plugging poor countries into the internet will help them to become rich rapidly.
B) Poor countries should be given more basic devices other than advanced ones.
C) Rich countries should help poor ones becoming rich.
D) People in poor countries cannot afford devices such as computer.
22. What did the author mean by referring "digital divide." (Line 3, Para. 1)?
A) Digital technology will make the gap between rich world and poor world wider.
B) Digital technology will divide people into rich and poor world.
C) People can be divided digitally.
D) To divide people in digital world is wrong.
23. We can infer from the 2nd paragraph that
A) people in poor countries cannot use computer because of illiteracy.
B) poor people cannot use computers.
C) there would be no magic to cause a computer to appear in every household on earth.
D) people in poor countries need more basic living conditions than computers.
24. Considering the following sentences, which one would the author most agree?
A) Digital technology is useless.
B) Digital divide will help poor countries becoming rich.
C) Poor people need more immediate concerns, such as food, health care and security.
D) Mobile phones should be promoted firstly.
25. The following passage will probably be:
A) How to promote using of mobile phones.
B) How to use technology to promote bottom-up development.
C) The benefits of building rural computing centers.
D) How to meet the need of food, health and security in poor countries.
官方微信：四六級小助手 （微信號：koolearncet）
四六級免費好課、聽說讀寫譯方法、四六級最新資訊、海量過級資料！
掃描左側二維碼，關注免費領取！
名稱名稱
微信掃碼關注"新東方網"服務號
即可立刻獲取！
版權及免責聲明
① 凡本網註明"稿件來源：新東方"的所有文字、圖片和音視頻稿件，版權均屬新東方教育科技集團（含本網和新東方網） 所有，任何媒體、網站或個人未經本網協議授權不得轉載、連結、轉貼或以其他任何方式複製、發表。已經本網協議授權的媒體、網站，在下載使用時必須註明"稿件來源：新東方"，違者本網將依法追究法律責任。
② 本網未註明"稿件來源：新東方"的文/圖等稿件均為轉載稿，本網轉載僅基於傳遞更多信息之目的，並不意味著贊同轉載稿的觀點或證實其內容的真實性。如其他媒體、網站或個人從本網下載使用，必須保留本網註明的"稿件來源"，並自負版權等法律責任。如擅自篡改為"稿件來源：新東方"，本網將依法追究法律責任。
③ 如本網轉載稿涉及版權等問題，請作者見稿後在兩周內速來電與新東方網聯繫，電話：010-60908555。