考试宝典2013年大学英语四级考试模拟训练单项选择题

考试宝典2013年大学英语四级考试模拟训练单项选择 题 快递公司问题件快递公司问题件货款处理关于圆的周长面积重点题型关于解方程组的题及答案关于南海问题 本文介绍考试宝典2013年大学英语四级考试模拟训练单项选择题，由考试宝典提供，如需 更多考试资讯敬请关注考试宝典，考试宝典手机版，让您随时随地学习，轻松过考～ 单选: Passage One With more and more parents working outside the home, students are very aware that it is difficult for school officials to contact their parents, and that even if they do, their parents often refuse to respond. Exacerbating (使恶化) this problem further, the parents may refuse to come to the school when asked if a child has been in trouble repeatedly, because they are tired of dealing with the child's problems. They believe the school is at fault, or they believe there is nothing they can do to control the child. Sometimes parents do not respond because they were unsuccessful in their own school experience; they view school as a hostile environment. Likewise, a parent who does come to the school may support the student's disruptive (扰乱的) or violent behaviour as another form of "bribery" to gain their child's affection, particularly when the relationship between the two is strained. This is most apparent in aggressive parents who have minimal parenting skills. Further, teachers report about students, even very young students, who state that their parents have told them that they do not have to do what the teacher says or that if anyone tries to take something from them, or insults or hits them, they should fight back. Unfortunately, many parents admit that they have so instructed their child and are offended when teachers question such directions. These types of parenting are evident across the socioeconomic spectrum. Parenting that indulges, neglects, abuses or ignores children, and that fails to provide strong, positive guidance, discipline and nurturance, contributes to the spread of violence in schools. Such parenting is seen in families plagued by chronic unemployment and poverty, especially when parents are concentrating more on the economic survival of the family than on the attitudes and behaviour of the children. It is also seen in affluent families that indulge their children' s every material request. Lastly, it is seen in families where parents do not have much time to spend with their children because of job demands. 第1题:The main topic of the passage is ______. A(busy work and poor parenting B(parenting and school education C(poor parenting and where it occurs D(the spread of violence in schools 正确答案:C 第2题:One reason parents refuse to reply to the school about their child's problems is that______. A(they are too busy to handle the problems B(they think the school is responsible for the problems C(they are too tired to handle the problems D(they think the school is hostile to them 正确答案:B Passage Two Shyness is the cause of much unhappiness for a great many people. Shy people are anxious and self conscious, that is, they are excessively concerned with their own appearance and actions. Worrisome thoughts are constantly occurring in their minds: What kind of impression am I making Do they like me Do I sound stupid Am I wearing unattractive clothes It is obvious that such uncomfortable feelings must affect people adversely. A person's self-concept is reflected in the ways he or she behaves, and the way a person behaves affects other people' s reactions. In general, the way people think about themselves has a profound effect on all areas of their lives. Shy people, having low self-esteem, are likely to be passive and easily influenced by others. They need reassurance that they are doing "the right thing". Shy people are very sensitive to criticism; they feel it confirms their inferiority. They also find it difficult to be pleased by compliments because they believe they are unworthy of praise. A shy person may respond to a compliment with a statement like this one: "You' re just saying that to make me feel good. I know it's not true." It is clear that, while self awareness is a healthy quality, overdoing it is harmful. Can shyness be completely eliminated, or at least reduced Fortunately, people can overcome shy ness with determined and patient effort in building self-confidence. Since Shyness goes hand in hand with lack of -esteem, it is important for people to accept their weakness as well self their strengths. For ex ample, most people would like to be "A" students as in every subject. It is not fair for them to label them selves inferior because they have difficulty in some areas. Each one of us is a unique, worthwhile individual. We are interested in our own personal ways. The better we understand ourselves, the easier it becomes to live up to our full potential and the happier life we will live in reality. Let' s not allow shyness to block our chances for a rich and fulfilling life. 第3题:Which of the following statements is True A(shyness helps us to live up to our full potential. B(Shyness enables us to understand ourselves better. C(Shyness blocks our chances for a rich life. D(Shyness has nothing to do with lack of self-esteem. 正确答案:C 答案解析: [分 析] 字节正误判断题。回答本题可运用排除法，A、B和D均与本文论述的 腼腆的特点相反，故只有C为答案。另外，还可根据文章最后一句话:Let’s not allow shyness block out our chances for a rich and fulfilling life(确 定C为答案。 第4题:According to the writer, self-awareness is ______. A(harmful to people B(a weak point of shy people C(the cause of unhappiness D(a good quality 正确答案:D 答案解析: [分 析] 观点判断题。注意本题题干就self-awareness“自我意识”，而不是 就shyness“腼腆”设问，因此根据第三段最后一句:It is clear that，while self-awareness is a healthy quality。overdoing it is harmful(“自我意 识是好的素质，但若过分就会对人有害了”。D项a good quality应为答案。 Passage Three A new generation of storytellers has been born whose deceptions have benefited from a college education. A psychological research has found that while lies typically take place in a fifth of all 10-minute conversations, the number increases to one in three if the participants have been university or college- educated. Education gives some people the vocabulary and confidence to deceive. The lies may not be important-so-called white lies--but they are more sophisticated than you might find elsewhere in society. Other research also implicates the better-educated as more likely to lie. A survey of lies among 500 people showed that more highly trained people could not only make up more lies but also detect them more easily. Scientists are only starting to study how higher education that emphasizes learning and repeating stories, nurtures(培养) an ability to shape experience and memorize it. There is a connection that may have something to do with the education style that people receive, but it's still too early to make a conclusion. Investigation also shows that highly educated government officials who never lied are increasingly rare. The grown-ups who would rather get into difficulties than tell a lie have been replaced by much younger intellectuals who tend to be more ruthless(无情的) and don't care so much about the truth. "I remember some colleagues boasting about how much money they received for getting a gentleman a passport, and that sort of thing. They looked excited and could not stop themselves, even the graceful ladies." said a retired official. While the better-educated may be more frequent liars, psychologists are also finding that women are starting to overtake men. It is traditionally viewed that men lie more than women, such as empty boasts about their jobs while women tend to tell untruths only in order to avoid hurting and to protect family members. This is changing, however. Twenty years ago sociologists at Bath University showed that men would lie up to 10 times as often as women. Five years ago the research result was three times as often. And now the gap has narrowed to a few points: t58% of men and 62% of women said they would lie and cheat in an interview to get a job. Their research suggests that while men still lie as much as they always have done, women are set to outperform them in the next decade. 第5题:"Storytellers" in the first sentence refers to ______. A(novelists B(liars C(speechmakers D(college students 正确答案:B 第6题:Compared with men, women ______. A(didn't tell lies so as to hurt nobody B(will tell lies more often than men in the future C(will tell lies as much as men in the future D(have told lies as much as men 正确答案:B Passage Foure Much research has been done to test a hypothesis (假说) proposed by linguists called the Critical Period Hypothesis. This hypothesis states that if humans do not learn a foreign language before a certain age, perhaps around puberty(青奉春期), then due to changes such as maturation of the brain, it becomes impossible to learn the foreign language like a native speaker. No definite answer to this hypothesis has been found and it is still debated by researchers, but there is some evidence that this hypothesis is true for acquiring native-like pronunciation even though there is less evidence that it is true for acquiring the grammar or the. vocabulary of a foreign language. Even though nobody knows for certain what exactly happens to our brains as we mature,, almost everyone agrees that almost all people who learn a foreign language after puberty will always have an accent. That is, native speakers will be able to identify that the person is not a native speaker of that language. The amount of exposure to English is another factor that determines if the students can acquire native-like English pronunciation. At the present ve enough exposure to time, most Chinese learners of English do not ha English to acquire native-like pronunciation. Due to biological and physiological differences, individual students have different phonetic ability. Some students are more sensitive to and better at imitating sounds than other students. Although a few students can acquire native-like pronunciation, it is unrealistic for the majority of students to do so. However, admitting the difficulty in acquiring native-like pronunciation does not mean that teachers should not encourage students to improve their pronunciation as much as possible. Some students take great pains to be accurate in pronunciation. This is often clone at the expense of consistency. And the speech produced in this way is not only unnatural but also unc6mfortable to hear. When trying to achieve consistency in pronunciation, students do not have to and should not sacrifice intelligibility (理解). Unintelligible speech is useless and may cause unpleasant feelings for both the speaker and the audience. 第7题:Native speakers can identify that a person is not a native speaker by______. A(his maturation of the brain B(his accent C(his vocabulary D(his grammar 正确答案:B 答案解析: 细节题。第二段的后半部分告诉我们:青春期后才开始学习外语的人会有很重的 口音，讲母语的人就可以据此判断这种语言不是他的母语。 第8题:We can infer from the first paragraph that______. A(the hypothesis is true for acquiring the vocabulary B(the hypothesis is true for acquiring the grammar C(researchers hold different views towards the hypothesis D(researchers agree on the hypothesis 正确答案:C 答案解析: 推 断题。第一段有这样一句话:...No definite answer to this hypothesis has been found and it is still debated by researchers(意思为“关于这一假 说还没有明确答案，学者们对其仍有争议”，其他选项根据第一段内容都可以排 除。