大学英语四级模拟试卷111 (题后含答案及解析)
题型有：1. Writing 2. Reading Comprehension (Skimming and Scanning) 3. Listening Comprehension 4. Reading Comprehension (Reading in Depth) 5. Cloze
Part I    Writing  (30 minutes)
1． 1. Many students felt that it was hard to find a satisfactory job, because______.2. To solve this problem, universities have a role to play______.3. If those measures are put to practice, and if there are other effective measures, students will find it more comfortable to confront the challenge of job hunting______.
正确答案：    What Should Universities Do to Prepare Students for Job Hunting?  Many students felt that it was hard to find a satisfactory job, because there are more students graduating from universities each year while the available positions are not increasing commensurately (“ 同样地，随之” ). Some students also felt confused when they are confronted with such a situation. They do not know what they want to do, or they do not have
a clear idea of job responsibilities for different positions, All these questions make the job-hunting experience even harder for them.  To solve this problem, universities have a role to play. First of all, universities can arrange job orientation sessions (“就业指导”) early in college years so that students may have a clear picture of matching their interests with their future plan. The job orientation sessions can be in various forms. For example, university placement office (“就业分配办公室”) can invite alumni from different industries to talk with students. Second, placement office, maintaining regular contacts with employers, should give students information about internship opportunities. Real world experience is a good idea to bring students to reality. Placement office can certainly give students more effective information because it has had years of experience in doing that. In addition, special guidance should be given to students who are not prepared.  If those measures are put to practice, and if there are other effective measures, students will find it more comfortable to confront the challenge of job hunting. Although it is not a solution to all the problems, it helps the students to make the first step: understand oneself and the reality. No doubt, the success of the first step is of great significance in their job hunting. 
Part II    Reading Comprehension (Skimming and Scanning)  (15 minutes)Directions: In this part, you will have 15 minutes to go over the passage quickly and answer the questions attached to the passage. For questions 1-7, mark：Y (for YES)      if the statement agrees with the information given in the passage;N (for NO)        if the statement contradicts the information given in the passage;NG (for NOT GIVEN)if the information is not given in the passage.
          Marriage by the Numbers  When Laurie Aronson was 29, she had little patience for people who inquired why she still wasn’t married. “I’m not one of those unmarried women who sit home Friday night and cry,” she said. As she passed 35, however, and one relationship after another failed to lead to the altar, she began to worry. “Things were kinking pretty depressive,” she says. But then a close friend’s brother a man she’d known for years—divorced. Slowly their friendship blossomed into romance. At 39, Aronson married him, becoming Laurie Aronson Starr and the stepmother to his three kids. Then, after five years of treatment, she became pregnant with a son who’ll be 4 in July. “My parents are thrilled—it’s a relief for everyone,” says Starr, now 49. “I wish I could have foun
d the right person earlier and had more children. But I’m very happy now.”  As happy endings go, hers has a particularly delicious irony. Twenty years ago this week, Aronson was one of more than a dozen single women featured in the cover story of the magazine of Newsweek. In “The Marriage Crunch,” the magazine reported on new research predicting that white, college-educated women who failed to marry in their 20s. According to the research, a woman who remained single at 30 had only a 20 percent chance of ever marrying. By 35, the probability dropped to 5 percent. In the story’s most infamous line, it is reported that a 40-year-old single woman was “more likely to be killed by a terrorist” than to ever marry. That comparison wasn’t in the study, and even in those pre-9/11 days, it struck many people as an offensive analogy (类推). Nonetheless, it quickly became established in pop culture and is still routinely cited in TV shows and news stories.  Across the country, women reacted the research in Newsweek with fury, anxiety—and skepticism. “The popular media have invented a national marital crisis on the basis of a single of doubtful statistical merit,” wrote Susan Faludi, then a 27-year-old reporter at the San Jose Mercury News, who saw the controversy as one example against feminism
(男女平等主义).  Twenty years later, the situation looks far brighter. Those odds-she’ll-marry statistics turned out to be too pessimistic: today it appears that about 90 percent of baby-boomer men and women either have married or will marry, a ratio that’s well in line with historical averages. And these days, about half of all women get married by their 20s, as they did in 1960. At least 14 percent of women born between 1955 and 1964 married after the age of 30. Today the median age for a first marriage—25 for women, 27 for men—is higher than ever before.  Not everyone wants to marry, of course. And we’re long past those Jane Austen days when being “marriage-minded” was primarily a female quality; today many men openly hope for a wife just as much as women long for a husband. The good news is that older singles who desire a spouse appear to face far kinder odds nowadays. When the Census last passed the numbers in 1996, a single woman at 40 had a 40.8 percent chance of eventually marrying. Today those odds are probably even higher—and may be only slightly worse than the probability of correctly choosing “heads” or “tails” in a coin toss.  To mark the anniversary of the cover story, the newspaper of Newsweek located 11 of the 14 single women in the story. Among them, eight are married and three re
main single. Several have children or stepchildren. None divorced. Twenty years ago Andrea Quattrocchi was a career-focused Boston hotel executive and reluctant to settle for a spouse who didn’t share her fondness for sailing and sushi. Six years later she met her husband at a beachfront bars; they married when she was 36. Today she’s a stay-at-home mom with three kids—and yes, the couple regularly enjoys sushi and sailing. “You can have it all today if you wait—that’s what I’d tell my daughter,” she says. “Enjoy your life when you’re single, then find someone in your 30s like Mommy did.”  The research that led to the marriage predictions began at Harvard and Yale in the mid-1980s. Three researchers- Nell Bennett, David Bloom and Patricia Craig—began exploring why so many women weren’t marrying in their 20s, as most Americans traditionally had. Would these women still marry someday, or not at all? To find an answer, they used “life table” techniques, applying data from past age group to predict future behavior—the same method typically used to predict death rates. “It’s the important tool of demography (人口统计学),” says Johns Hopkins sociologist Andrew Cherlin. “They were looking at 40-year-olds and making predictions for 20-year-olds.” The researchers focused on women, not men, lar
gely because government statisticians had collected better age-of-marriage data for females as part of its studies on birth patterns and birthrates.  Despite the flawed statistics, some observers say the story holds up well. “Once you got over the sensational aspects, there was a lot of substance,” says E. Kay Trimberger, a sociologist at Sonoma State University and author of “The New Single Woman.” Among other trends the original story identified were the rise in cohabitation, the emergence of single mothers by choice, the fact that many single women were very happy with their lives, and an increasingly out-of-the-closet gay population as factors affecting marriage rates.  Some demographers immediately doubted the odds. Within months Census researchers did their own study and concluded that a 40-year-old single woman really had a 17 to 23 percent probability of eventually marrying, not 2.6 percent. In retrospect, the demographers faced a huge challenge in getting these predictions right. That’s because marital behavior was undergoing a profound shift. Before 1980, a woman who hadn’t married by 30 probably never would. But times were changing. “Women weren’t remaining unmarried because marriage was less appealing, but because it was becoming more appealing to wait,” says S
teven Martin, a University of Maryland sociologist.  Such unexpected shifts are part of what makes demographic forecasting extremely difficult, not unlike making weather forecasts in the midst of a hurricane. Even though the original forecasts were wrong, today’s researchers remain respectful of Bennett, Bloom and Craig’s work. Their marriage-forecast numbers were only a minor part of their study, and the authors remain proud of their papers’ larger findings on the diverging marriage rates between blacks and whites and the role that education plays in marriage. Today a new generation of sociologists (社会学家) continues to tinker (修补) with the delayed-marriage puzzle.
2． When Laurie Aronson was over 35, she did not feel worried because she was unwilling to get married.
A．Y
B．N
C．NG
正确答案：B
解析：定位到文章首段的第三句As she passed 35，however，and one relationship after another failed to lead to the altar，she began to worry．[精析] 细节辨认题[考频：12]。从该句可知，Laurie Aronson 35岁之后，随着一次次交往总是不能步入婚姻殿堂，这个时候她开始着急了。很显然，她因为自己想结婚却不到心仪的对象而着急，题干说因为不愿意结婚所以她不着急，这与原文相悖。 
3． According to the research in Newsweek, it was predicted that the older an after-her-20s but unmarried woman was, the less possibly she would marry.
A．Y
B．N
C．NG
正确答案：A
解析：定位到第二段中间部分Twenty Newsweek. In “The Marriage Crunch,” failed to marry in their 20s. According to the research, a woman who remained single at 30 had only a 20 was “more likely to be killed by a terrorist” than to ever marry．[精析] 综合理解题[考频：3]。从原文可以知道，根据这个杂志上的研究预测，到30岁仍然独身的女性其结婚的几率为20%，到35岁仍然独身的女性其结婚的几率下降到5%，而到40岁仍然独身的女性其结婚的几率几乎为0(比被杀害的可能性还小)。题干中说一个过了20岁年龄段仍单身的女性，其年龄越大则其结婚的可能性越小，这与原文一致。 
4． Susan Faludi disagreed with the prediction of the research in Newsweek.
A．Y
B．N
C．NG
正确答案：A
解析：定位到第三段第二句“The popular media have invented a national marital crisis on the basis of a single of doubtful statistical merit,” wrote Susan Faludi, ...[精析] 细节推断题[考频：2]。本题考查Susan Faludi对调查预测的态度。从原文可知，Susan Faludi认为这个研究预测是媒体依据一个简单的并且数据可疑的学术研究而人为地制造社会危机，同时她认为这是在反对男女平等。由此可以推知，Susan Faludi对该预测持反对意见，所以答案为Y)。 
5． In 1960, there are more than 50% of all women that would get married before their 20s.
A．Y
B．N
C．NG
正确答案：B
解析：定位到第四段中间部分And these days, about half of all women get married by their
20s, as they did in 1960. At least 14 percent of [精析] 信息明示题[考频：5]。从原文可知，现在大约有50%的女性会在30岁之前结婚，这与1960的情况是一样的。说明1960年大约有50%的女性会在30岁之前结婚，而题干说的是超过50%(more than 50%)，与原文不符。 
6． From the passage, it is known most men in those Jane Austen days were willing to keep single.
A．Y
B．N
C．NG
正确答案：C
解析：定位到第五段第二句And we’re long past those Jane Austen days when being “marriage-minded” was primarily a [精析] 细节辨认题[考频：12]。从原文可
知，Jane Austen时代的女性都是以结婚为生活的中心(marriage-minded)，但没有讲男性对婚姻的态度，所以该题为NG)题。 
7． Among the 14 single women in the cover story of Newsweek, eight of them are married and the rest six still remain single now.
A．Y
B．N
C．NG
正确答案：B
解析：定位到第六段的前两句To mark the anniversary of the cover story，the newspaper of Newsweek located 11 of the 14 single women in the story．Among them，eight are married and three remain single．[精析] 细节辨认题[考频：12]。从原文可知，为了纪念那则有关婚姻的封面故事的发表，Newsweek到了当初故事中的14个单身女性中的11个，其英语基础差如何备考四级
中8个已经结婚，有三个仍然未婚。题干偷换了概念，认为是14个中的8个已婚，剩余的6个保持单身，这与原文不符。 
8． The “life table” techniques can be also adopted to predict death rates.
A．Y
B．N
C．NG
正确答案：A
解析：定位到第七段第四句To find an answer，they used “life table” techniques，applying data from past age group to predict future behavior—the same method typically used to predict death rates．[精析] 同义转述题[考频：22]。原文说，这种运用过去的数据来预测未来的做法在预测死亡率时同样适用。故题干说法与原文相符。