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1、xxxx 年年 6 6 月大学英语四级考试模拟题月大学英语四级考试模拟题xx 年 6 月大学英语四级考试模拟题Directions: There are 4 passages in this part. Eachpassage is followed by some questions or unfinishedstatements. For each of them there are four choices markedA),B),C) and D). You should decide on the best choice andmark thecorresponding letter

2、 on the Answer Sheet with asingle line through the centre.?Questions 21 to 25 are based on the following passage:?American Indians played a central role in the war knownas the American Revolution. To them, however, the disputebetween the colonists and England was peripheral. ForAmerican Indians the

3、conflict was a war for American Indianindependence, and whichever side they chose, they lost it.Mary Brant was a powerful influence among the Iroquois. Shewas a Mohawk, the leader of the society of all Iroquoismatrons, and the widow of Sir William Johnson,Superintendent of Indian Affairs. Her brothe

4、r, Joseph Brant,is the best?known American Indian warrior of the Revolution,yet she may have exerted even more influence in theconfederacy than he did. She used her influence to keep thewestern tribes of Iroquois loyal to the English king,George . When the colonists won the war, she and hertribe had

5、 to abandon their lands and retreat to Canada. Onthe other side, Nancy Ward held positions of authority inthe Cherokee nation. She had fought as a warrior in the waragainst the Creeks and as a reward for her heroism was made“Beloved Woman” of the tribe. This office made her chiefof the womens counci

6、l and a member of the council ofchiefs. She was friendly with the white settlers andsupported the Patriots during the Revolution. Yet theCherokees too lost their land.?21.What is the main point the author makes in thepassage?A.Siding with the English in the Revolution helpedAmerican Indians regain t

7、heir land.?B.At the time of the Revolution the Superintendent ofIndian Affairs had little power.?C.Regardless of whom they supported in the Revolution,American Indians lost their land.?D.The oute of the Revolution was largely determined byAmerican Indianwomen.?22.The word “it” in line 5 refers to .?

8、A.side B.revolution?C.dispute D.independence?23.How did Ward gain her position of authority?A.By bravery in battle.B.By marriage to a chief.?C.By joining the confederacy.D.By being born into a powerful family.?24.To which tribe did Nancy Ward belong?A.Mohawk. B.Iroquois. C.Cherokee. D.Creek.?25.Aord

9、ing to the passage, what did Mary Brant andNancy Ward had in mon?A.Each was called “Beloved Woman” by her tribe.?B.Each influenced her tribes role in the AmericanRevolution.?C.Each lost a brother in the American Revolution.?D.Each went to England after the American Revolution.Questions 26 to 30 are

10、based on the following passage.?Born in 1830 in rural Amherst, Massachusetts, EmilyDickinson spent her entire life in the household of herparents. Between 1858 and 1862, it was later discovered,she wrote like a person possessed, often producing a poem aday. It was also during this period that her li

11、fe wastransformed into the myth of Amherst. Withdrawing more andmore, keeping to her room, sometimes even refusing to seevisitors who called, she began to dress only in whiteahabit that added to her reputation as an eentric.?In their determination to read Dickinsons life interms of a traditional rom

12、antic plot, biographers havemissed the unique pattern of her lifeher struggle tocreate a female life not yet imagined by the culture inwhich she lived. Dickinson was not the innocent, lovelornand emotionally fragile girl sentimentalized by theDickinson myth and popularized by William Luces 1976 play

13、,the Belle of Amherst. Her decision to shut the door onAmherst society in the 1850s transformed her house into akind of magical realm in which she was free to engage herpoetic genius. Her seclusion was not the result of a failedlove affair, but rather a part of a more general pattern ofrenunciation

14、through which she, in her quest forself?sovereignty, carried on an argument with the puritanfathers, attacking with wit and irony their cheerlessCalvinist doctrine, their stern patriarchal God, and theirrigid notions of “true womanhood”.?26.Whats the authors main purpose in the passage?A.To interpre

15、t Emily Dickinsons eentric behavior.?B.To promote the popular myth of Emily Dickinson.?C.To discuss Emily Dickinsons failed love affair.?D.To describe the religious climate in EmilyDickinsons time.?27.Which of the following is not mentioned as beingone of Emily Dickinsons eentricities?A.Refusing to

16、eat. B.Wearing only white.?C.Avoiding visitors. D.Staying in her room.?28.Aording to the passage, biographers of EmilyDickinson have traditionally .?A.criticized most of her poems?B.ignored her innocence and emotional fragility?C.seen her life in romantic terms?D.blaming her parents for restricting

17、her activities?29.The author implies that many people attribute EmilyDickinsons seclusion to .?A.physical illness B.a failed love affair?C.religious fervor D.her dislike of people?30.It can be inferred from the passage that EmilyDickinson lived in a society that was characterized by .?A.strong Purit

18、an beliefs?B.equality of men and women?C.the encouragement of nonconformity?D.the appreciation of poetic creativityQuestions 31 to 35 are based on the following passage.?The railroad industry could not have grown as large asit did without steel. The first rails were made of iron.But iron rails were

19、not strong enough to support heavytrains running at high speeds. Railroad executives wantedto replace them with steel rails because steel was ten orfifteen times stronger and lasted twenty times longer.Before the 1870s, however, steel was too expensive to bewidely used. It was made by a slow and exp

20、ensive process ofheating, stirring and reheating iron ore.?Then the inventor Henry Bessemer discovered thatdirecting a blast of air at melted iron in a furnace wouldburn out the impurities that made the iron brittle. As theair shot through the furnace, the bubbling metal woulderupt in showers of spa

21、rks. When the fire cooled, the metalhad been changed, or converted to steel. The Bessemerconverter made possible the mass production of steel. Nowthree to five tons of iron could be changed into steel in amatter of minutes.Just when the demand for more and more steel developed,prospectors discovered

22、 huge new deposits of iron ore in theMesabi Range, a 120?long region in Minnesota near LakeSuperior. The Mesabi deposits were so near the surface thatthey could be mined with steam shovels.?Barges and steamers carried the iron ore through LakeSuperior to depots on the southern shores of Lake Michiga

23、nand Lake Erie. With dizzying speed Gary, Indiana, andToledo, Youngstown, and Cleveland, Ohio, became majorsteel?manufacturing centers. Pittsburgh was the greateststeel city of all.?Steel was the basic building material of theindustrial age. Production skyrocketed from seventy?seventhousand tons in

24、1870 to over eleven million tons in 1900.31.Aording to the passage, the railroad industrypreferred steel to iron because steel was .?A.cheaper and more plentiful?B.lighter and easier to mold?C.cleaner and easier to mine?D.stronger and more durable?32.Aording to the passage, how did Bessemer methodma

25、ke the mass production of steel possible?A.It directed air at melted iron in a furnace,removing all impurities.?B.It slowly heated iron ore then stirred it and heatedit again.?C.It changed iron ore into iron which was a substitutefor steel.?D.It could quickly find deposits of iron ore under thegroun

26、d.?33.Aording to the passage, where were large depositsof iron uncovered?A.In Pittsburgh. ?B.In the Mesabi Range.?C.Near Lake Michigan.?D.Near Lake Erie.?34.The words “Barges and steamers” could best bereplaced by which of the following?A.Trains.B.Planes.?C.Boats.?D.Trucks.?35.It can be inferred fro

27、m the passage that the massproduction of steel caused .?A.a decline in the railroad industry?B.a revolution in the industrial world?C.an increase in the price of steel?D.a feeling of discontent among steel workersQuestions 36 to 40 are based on the following passage:There were two widely divergent i

28、nfluences on the earlydevelopment of statistical methods. Statistics had a motherwho was dedicated to keeping orderly records ofgovernmental units (state and statistics e from the sameLatin root, status) and a gentlemanly gambling father whorelied on mathematics to increase his skill at playing theo

29、dds in games of chance. The influence of the mother on theoffspring, statistics, is represented by counting,measuring, describing, tabulating, ordering, and the takingof censusesall of which led to modern descriptivestatistics. From the influence of the father came moderninferential statistics, whic

30、h is based squarely on theoriesof probability.?Descripitive statistics involves tabulating, depicting,and describing collections of data. These data may beeither quantitative, such as measures of height,intelligence, or grand levelvariables that arecharacterized by an underlying continuumor the data

31、 mayrepresent qualitative variables, such as sex, college major,or personality type. Large masses of data must generallyundergo a process of summarization or reduction before theyare prehensible. Descriptive statistics is a tool fordescribing or summarizing or reducing to prehensible fromthe propert

32、ies of an otherwise unwieldy mass of data.?Inferential statistics is a formalized body of methodsfor solving another class of problems that present greatdifficulties for the unaided human mind. Thisgeneralclass of problems characteristically involves attempts tomake prediction using a sample of obse

33、rvations. For example,a school superintendent wishesto determine of theproportion of children in a large school system who e toschool without breakfast, have been vainated for flu, orwhatever. Having a little knowledge of statistics, thesuperintendent would know that it is unnecessaryandinefficient

34、to question each child; the proportion for theentire district could be estimated fairly aurately from asample of as few as 100 children. Thus, the purpose ofinferential statistics is to predict or estimatecharacteristics of a population from a knowledge of thecharacteristics of only a sample of the

35、population.?36.With what is the passage mainly concerned?A.The drawbacks of descriptive and inferentialstatistics.?B.Applications of inferential statistics.?C.The development and use of statistics.?D.How to use descriptive statistics.?37.Why does the author mention the “mother” and“father” in the fi

36、rst paragraph?A.To point out that parents can teach their childrenstatistics.?B.To introduce inferential statistics.?C.To explain that there are different kinds ofvariables.?D.To present the background of statistics in ahumorous and understandable way.?38.Which of the following is NOT given as an ex

37、ampleof qualitative variable?A.Gender. B.Height.?C.College major. D.Type of personality.?39.Which of the following statements about descriptivestatistics is best supported by the passage?A.It simplifies unwieldy masses of data.?B.It leads to increased variability.?C.It solves all numerical problems.

38、?D.It changes qualitative variables to quantitativevariables.?40.Aording to the passage which is the purpose ofexamining a sample of a population?A.To pare different groups.?B.To predict characteristics of the entire population.?C.To consider all the quantitative variables.?D.To tabulate collections of data.