2015年12月英语四级考试模拟试卷（一）_第4页

　　Section C

　　Mark Twain, who wrote the story we're going to read, traveled quite a lot often because circumstamces, usually (36) ________ circumstances, forced him to He was born in Florida, Missouri in 1835 and moved to Hannibal, Missouri with his family when he was about 4 years old. Most people think he was born in Hannibal but that isn't true. After his father died when he was about 12, Twain worked in Hannibal for a while and then left, so he could (37) ________ more money. He worked for a while as a typesetter on (38) ________ newspapers and then got a job as a river (39) ________ on the Mississippi. Twain loved this job and many of his books show it. The river job didn't last, however, because of the (40) ________ of the Civil War. Twain, was in the (41) ________ Army for just 2 weeks and then he and his whole (42) ________ went west to get away from the war and the army. In Nevada and California Twain (43) ________ for silver and gold without much luck, but did succeed as a writer. (44) _________________________________________________________________. (45) ________________________________________________________________________. (46) __________________________________________________________________________.

　　Section A

　　11. D 信息明示题。虽然男士的话较长，但关键点在最后，即he decided to cancel the class...由此可知，男士没上地理课的原因是因为教授取消了课程。而男士前面说的很多同学缺席则是教授取消课程的原因，所以D正确。

　　12. A 信息明示题。解答本题的关键是理解even(偶数)和odd(奇数)，只要明白这两个词的含义，本题就可迎刃而解。女士说电梯只有偶数层停，而第九层是奇数层，所以A正确。

　　13. D 综合推断题。男士问女士雨停了没有，女士回答说她的衣服都湿透了，言外之意是雨下的很大，故选D。

　　14. D 综合推断题。女士说自己把大部分午饭时间花在图书馆，但那里太安静以至于她睡着了，由此可以推断，女士之所以回来迟到了是因为睡过了并没有，所以D正确。

　　15. C 信息明示题。本题的关键是对manage的理解，它在本段对话中相当于have或eat。男士问女士是否再要些土豆，女士回答说自己吃不下了，故选C。

　　16. B 信息明示题。男士说，I said free lunches...由此可知，B正确。解答本题的关键是听清男士说的这句话，以避免three lunches, many lunches的干扰。

　　17. B 信息明示题。男士说自己听说格林先生陷入财政危机，女士赞成了男士的说法，由此可知，格林先生没有足够的资金继续他的项目，所以B正确。

　　18. A 建议题。男士说不知该把房间漆成什么颜色，女士建议漆成白色，说白色和家具的颜色很相配，故选A。

　　Conversation One

　　19. B 综合推断题。女士说This food is terrible. I can't even finish my dinner. 男士说the university could hire a better food service，结合这两句话可以推断，对话发生在食堂，所以B正确。

　　20. C 信息明示题。女士说I'm going over to the student recreation center to play some bridge.接下来男士问 your time on a card game?由此可知，女士计划晚上play bridge(打桥牌)，故选C。

　　21. D 信息明示题。男士说You should be careful not to play so much that you don't get your studying done。所以D正确。

　　22. D 信息明示题。男士说I have a pretty heavy workload this semester. I have to spend my evenings studying。由些可知，男士这学期的学业很重，他晚上也要学习，故选D。

　　Conversation Two

　　23. C 综合推断题。男士在对 了海水来自彗星这一新理论，接下来的对话主要就是围绕该理论展开的，最后还引出了海水来自火山这一传统理论，由此推断，对话主要与地球上水的来源，特别是海水的来源有关，故选C。

　　24. D 信息明示题。男士说海水来源的新理论是基于最近人造卫星所拍摄的照片的，宇宙人造卫星最近探测到，每天有将近四万颗小彗星与地球外层大气相碰撞，故选D。

　　25. D 信息明示题。女士指出，地质学者认为火山气体大多为蒸汽，故选D。

　　Section B

　　Passage One

　　26. A 信息明示题。文章第一段指出，...Australia, where he trained as an electronics engineer。由此可知A正确。

　　27. D 信息明示题。文章第二段指出，...being an amateur radio operator，由此可知D正确。

　　28. C 信息明示题。文章第三段指出，Henry realized that this man was in fact his younger brother, Peter由此可知C正确。

　　Passage Two

　　29. B 信息明示题。文章开头便指出，... college degrees, starting with the associate degree。由此可知B正确。

　　30. A 信息明示题。文章指出，Not all associate degrees are designed for transfer. Some are technical degrees which are called terminal degrees, which mean they do not count toward a bachelor's。由此可知A正确。

　　31. C 信息明示题。文章最后指出，The BA (or BS) is 120 credit hours or 185 quarter hours。由此可知C正确。

　　Passage Three

　　32. A 信息明示题。文章开 热始于1848年，故选A。

　　33. D 信息明示题。文章提到Within a year, 100,000 people...had reached the coast of California，故选D。

　　34. B 综合推断题。文章提到More than half of them had traveled overland across the American continent，由此可 的人来自美国各地，故选B。

　　35. C 信息明示题。文章提到...it was a risky business. Law and order broke down...由此可知，淘金危险是因为它不受法律和秩序的保护，故选C。

　　Section C

　　36. financial 37. earn 38. various 39. pilot

　　40. outbreak 41. Confederate 42. company 43. prospected

　　44. Once that happened Twain traveled around the country giving lectures and earning enough money to go to Europe.

　　45. Twain didn't last 10 years of his life and he didn't publish much either.

　　46. Like many other popular writers Twain derived much of the materials for his writing from the wealth and diversity of his own personal experiences. Part IV Reading Comprehension (Reading in Depth) (25 minutes)