2024年12月大学英语四级全真模拟试题（7）

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　　2024年12月大学英语四级全真模拟试题（7）

　　Section II Use of English (15 minutes)

　　根据以下资料，回答21-40题：

　　Comparisons were drawn between the development of television in the 20th century and the diffusion of printing in the15th and l6th centuries.Yet much has happened ___21___. As was discussed before.it was not___22___the l9th century that the newspaper became the dominant pre-electronic ___23___，following in me wake of the pamphlet and the book and in the___24___0f the periodical. It was during me same time mat the communications revolution__25__up，beginning with transport，the railways and leading__26__through the telegraph，the telephone，radio and motion pictures__27__the 20th century world of the motor car and the airplane.Not everyone sees that process in __28__.It is important to do so.

　　It is generally recognized，__29__，that the introduction of the computer in the early 20th century，__30__by the invention of the integrated circuit during the l960s，radically changed the process, __31__its impact on the media was not immediately __32__ .As time went by，computers became smaller and more powerful， and they became personal too, as well as __33__，with display becoming sharper and storage__34__ increasing.They were thought of，like people，__35__generations，with the distance between generations much __36__.

　　It was within me computer age that the term information society began to be widely used to describe me__37__within which we now live.The communications revolution has__38__both work and leisure and how we think and feel both about place and time，but there have been__39__views about its economic，political，social and cultural implications.Benefits have been weighed __40__harmful outcomes.And generalizations have proved difficult.

　　21、

　　A.between

　　B.before

　　C.since

　　D.later

　　22、

　　A.after

　　B.by

　　C.during

　　D.until

　　23、

　　A.means

　　B.method

　　C.medium

　　D.measure

　　24、

　　A.process

　　B.company

　　C.light

　　D.form

　　25、

　　A.gathered

　　B.speeded

　　C.worked

　　D.picked

　　26、

　　A.on

　　B.out

　　C.over

　　D.off

　　27、

　　A.of

　　B.for

　　C.beyond

　　D.into

　　28、

　　A.concept

　　B.dimension

　　C.effect

　　D.perspective

　　29、

　　A.indeed

　　B.hence

　　C.however

　　D.therefore

　　30、

　　A.brought

　　B.followed

　　C.stimulated

　　D.characterized

　　31、

　　A.unless

　　B.since

　　C.lest

　　D.although

　　32、

　　A.apparent

　　B.desirable

　　C.negative

　　D.plausible

　　33、

　　A.institutional

　　B.universal

　　C.fundamental

　　D.instrumental

　　34、

　　A.ability

　　B.capability

　　C.capacity

　　D.faculty

　　35、

　　A.by means of

　　B.in terms of

　　C.with regard to

　　D.in line with

　　36、

　　A.deeper

　　B.fewer

　　C.nearer

　　D.smaller

　　37、

　　A.context

　　B.range

　　C.scope

　　D.territory

　　38、

　　A.regarded

　　B.impressed

　　C.influenced

　　D.effected

　　32、 39、

　　A.competitive

　　B.controversial

　　C.distracting

　　D.irrational

　　40、

　　A.above

　　B.upon

　　C.against

　　D.with

　　Section III Reading Comprehension (60 minutes)

　　Part A

　　根据以下资料，回答41-60题：

　　The big identity-theft bust last week was just a taste of what' s to come.Here' s how to protect your good name.

　　HERE's THE SCARY THING about the identity-theft ring that the Feds cracked last week：there was nothing any of its estimated 40，000 victims could have done to prevent it from happening.This was an inside job，according to court documents.A lowly help-desk worker at Teledata Communications，a software firm that helps banks access credit reports online，allegedly stole passwords for those reports and sold them to a group of 20 thieves at$60 a pop.That allowed the gang to cherry-pick consumers with good credit and apply for all kinds of accounts in their names.Cost to the victims：$3 million and rising.

　　Even scarier is that this，the largest identity-theft bust to date，is just a drop in the bit bucket.More than 700，000 Americans have their credit hijacked every year.It's one of crime's biggest growth markets.A name，address and Social Security number--which can often be found on the Web-is all anybody needs to apply for a bogus line of credit.Credit companies make$1.3 trillion annually and lose less than 2%of that revenue to fraud，so there's little financial incentive for them to make the.application process more secure.As it stands now，it's up to you to protect your identity.

　　The good news is that there are plenty of steps you can take.Most credit thieves are opportunists，not well.organized gangs.A lot of them go Dumpster diving for those millions of"pre-approved"credit-card mailings that go out every day.Others steal wallets and return them，taking only a Social Security number.Shredding your junk mail and leaving your Social Security card at home can save a lot of agony later.

　　But the most effective way to keep your identity clean is to check your credit reports once or twice a year.There are three major credit-report outfits：Equifax(at equifax.com)，Trans-Union (www.transunion.com)and Experian(experian.com).All allow you to order reports online，which is a lot better than wading through voice-mail hell on their 800 lines.Of the three，I found Trans-Union's website to be the cheapest and most comprehensive-laying out state-by-state prices，

　　rights and tips for consumers in easy-to-read fashion.

　　If you're lucky enough to live in Colorad0，Georgia，Maryland，Massachusetts，New Jersey or Vermont，you are entitled to one free report a year by law.Otherwise it's going to cost$8 to $14 each time.Avoid services that offer to monitor your reports year-round for about$70;that's $10 more than the going rate among thieves.If you think you're a victim of identity theft.You Can ask for fraud alerts to be put on file at each of the three credit-report companies.You can also download a theft-report form at www.consumer.gov/idtheft，which，along with a local police report，should help when irate creditors come knocking.Just don't expect justice.That audacious help-desk worker was one of the fewer than 2% of identity thieves who are ever caught.

　　41、What is the trend of credit-theft crime?

　　A.Tightly suppressed.

　　B.More frightening.

　　C.Rapidly increasing.

　　D.loosely controlled.

　　42、 The expression "inside job"(Line 3，Paragraph 2)most probably means"--".

　　A.a crime that is committed by a person working for the victim

　　B.a crime that should be punished severely

　　C.a crime that does great harm to the victim

　　D.a crime that poses a great threat to the society

　　43、 The creditors can protect their identity in the following ways except--.

　　A.destroying your junk mail

　　B.leaving your Social Security card at home

　　C.visiting the credit-report website regularly

　　D.0btaining the free report from the government

　　44、 Why is it easy to have credit-theft?

　　A.More people are using credit service.

　　B.The application program is not safe enough.

　　C.Creditors usually disclose their identity.

　　D.Creditors are not careful about their identity.

　　45、 What is the best title of the text?

　　A.The danger of credit-theft

　　B.The loss of the creditors

　　C.How to protect your good name

　　D.Why the creditors lose their identity

　　根据以下资料，回答46-65题：

　　In the l950s，the pioneers of artificial intelligence(AI)predicted that，by the end of this century，computers would be conversing with US at work and robots would be performing our house-work.But as useful as computers are，they're nowhere close to achieving anything remotely resembling these early aspirations for human like behavior.Never mind something as complex as conversation：the most powerful computers struggle to reliably recognize the shape of an object，the most elementary of tasks for a ten-month-old kid.

　　A growing group of AI researchers think they know where the field went wrong.The prob-lem，the scientists say，is that AI has been trying to separate the highest，most abstract levels of thought，like language and mathematics，and to duplicate them with logical，step-by-step pro-grams.A new movement in Al，on the other hand，takes a closer look at the more roundabout way in which naturally came up with intelligence.Many of these researchers study evolution and natural adaptation instead of formal logic and conventional computer programs.Rather than digital computers and transistors.some want to work。with brain cells and proteins.The results of these early ef-forts are as promising as they are peculiar.and the new nature-based AI movement is slowly but surely moving to the forefront of the field.

　　mitating the brain's neural(神经的)network is a huge step in the right direction，says computer scientist and biophysicist Michael Conrad，but it still misses an important aspect。of natural intelligence."People tend to treat the brain as if it were made up of color-coded transistors".he explains,"but it's not simply a clever network of switches.There are lots of important things going on inside the brain cells themselves."Specifically.Conrad believes that many of the brain's capabilities stem from the pattern recognition proficiency of the individual molecules that make up each brain cell.The best way to build and artificially intelligent device，he claims，would be to build it around the same sort of molecular skills.

　　Right now，the option that conventional computers and software are fundamentally incapable of matching the processes that take place in the brain remains controversial.But if it proves true，then the efforts of Conrad and his fellow AI rebels could turn out to be the only game in town.

　　46、The author says that the powerful computers of today__________.

　　A.are capable of reliably recognizing the shape of an object

　　B.are close to exhibiting humanlike behavior

　　C.are not very different in their performance from those of the 50's

　　D.still cannot，communicate with people in a human language

　　47、 The new trend in artificial intelligence research stems from__________.

　　A.the shift of the focus of study on to the recognition of the shapes of objects

　　B.the belief that human intelligence cannot be duplicated with logical，step-by-step pro-grams

　　C.the aspirations of scientists to duplicate the intelligence of a ten-month-old child

　　D.the efforts made by scientists in the study of the similarities between transistors and brain cells

　　48、 Conrad and his group of AI researchers have been making enormous efforts to__________.

　　A.find a roundabout way to design powerful computers

　　B.build a computer using a clever network of switches

　　C.find out how intelligence developed in nature

　　D.separate the highest and most abstract levels of thought

　　49、 What's the author's opinion about the new AI movement?

　　A.It has created a sensation among artificial intelligence researchers，but it will soon die out.

　　B.It's a breakthrough in duplicating human thought processes.

　　C.It's more like a peculiar game rather than a real scientific effort.

　　D.It may prove to be in the right direction though nobody is sure of its future prospects.

　　50、 Which of the following is closest in meaning to the phrase "the only game in town"(Line 3，Para.4)?

　　A.The only approach to building all artificially intelligent computer.

　　B.The only way for them to win a prize in artificial intelligence。research.

　　C.The only area worth studying in computer science.

　　D.The only game they would like to play in town.

　　根据以下资料，回答51-70题：

　　Being a.man has always been dangerous.There are about l05 males born for every 100 fe-males, but this ratio drops to near balance at the age of maturity，and among 70-year-olds there are twice as many women as men. But the great universal of male mortality is being changed.Now，boy babies survive almost as well as girls do.This means that，for the first time，there will be lie excess of boys in those crucial years when they are searching for a mate.More important，another chance for natural selection has been removed.Fifty years ago，the chance of a baby(particularly a boy baby)surviving depended on its weight.A kilogram too light or too heavy meant almost cer-tain death.Today it makes almost no difference.Since much of the variation is due to genes，one more agent of evolution has gone.

　　There is another way to commit evolutionary suicide：stay alive，but have fewer children.Few people are as fertile as in the past.Except in some religious communities，very few women have l5 children.Nowadays the number of births，like the age of death，has become average.Most of us have roughly the same number of offspring.Again，differences between people and the opportunity for natural selection to take advantage of it have diminished.India shows what is hap-penin9.The country offers wealth for a few in the great cities and poverty for the remaining tribal peoples.The grand mediocrity of today--everyone being the same in survival and number of off-spring--means that natural selection has lost 80%of its power in upper--middle--class India compared to the tribes.

　　For us, this means that evolution is over;the biological Utopia has arrived.Strangely，it ha-involved little physical change.No other species fills so many places in nature.But in the pas 100.000 years-even the past l00 years-our lives have been transformed but our bodies have not.

　　We did not evolve，because machines and society did it for us.Darwin had a phrase to describe those ignorant of evolution：they "look at an organic being as a savage looks at a ship，as at some-thing wholly beyond his comprehension".No doubt we will remember a 20th century way of life beyond comprehension for its ugliness.But however amazed our descendants may-be at how far from Utopia we were，they will look just like us.

　　51、What used to be the danger in being a man according to the first paragraph?

　　A.A lack of mates.

　　B.A fierce competition.

　　C.A lower survival rate.

　　D.A defective gene.

　　52、 What does the example of India illustrate?

　　A.j Wealthy people tend to have fewer children than poor people.

　　B.Natural selection hardly works among the rich and the poor.

　　C.The middle class population is 80%smaller than that of the tribes.

　　D.India is one of the countries with a very high birth rate.

　　53、 The author argues that our bodies have stopped evolving because__________.

　　A.life has been improved by technological advance

　　B.the number of female babies has been declining

　　C.our species has reached the highest stage of evolution

　　D.the difference between wealth and poverty is disappearing

　　54、 What does "fertile" in the second paragraph mean?

　　A.Female.

　　B.Able to produce much.

　　C.Religious celebration.

　　D.Quick.

　　55、 Which of the following would be the best title for the passage?

　　A.Sex Ratio Changes in Human Evolution.

　　B.Ways of Continuing Man's Evolution.

　　C.The Evolutionary Future of Nature.

　　D.Human Evolution Going Nowhere.

　　根据以下资料，回答56-75题：

　　With human footprints on the moon，radio telescopes listening for messages from alien creatures(who may or may not exist)，technicians looking for celestial and planetary sources of energy to support our civilization，orbiting telescopes' data hinting at planetary systems around other stars，and political groups trying to figure out how to save humanity from nuclear warfare that would damage life and eliminate on a planet-wide scale，an astronomy book published today enters a world different from the one that greeted books a generation ago.Astronomy has broadened to involve our basic circumstances and our mysterious future in the universe.With eclipses and space missions broadcast live，and with NASA，Europe，and the USSR planning and building permanent space stations，astronomy offers adventure for all people，an outward exploratory thrust that may one day be seen as an alternative to mindless consumerism，ideological bickering，and wars to control dwindling resources on a closed，finite Earth.

　　Today's astronomy students not only seek an up-to-date summary of astronomical facts：they ask，as people have asked for ages，about our basic relations to the rest of the universe.They may study astronomy partly to seek points of contact between science and other human endeavors：philosophy，history，politics，environmental action，even the arts and religion.

　　Science fiction writers and special effect artists on recent films help today's students realize that unseen worlds of space are real places-not abstract concepts, Today's students are citizens of a more real，more vast cosmos than conceptualized by students of a decade ago.

　　In designing this edition，the Wadsworh editors and I have tried to respond to these developments.Rather than jumping at the start into murky waters of cosmology，I have begun with the viewpoint of ancient people on Earth and worked outward across the universe.This method of organization automatically(if loosely)reflects the order of humanity's discoveries about astronomy and provides a unifying theme、of increasing distance and scale.

　　56、This passage is most probably taken from__________.

　　A.an article of popular science

　　B.the introduction of a book of astronomy

　　C.a lecture given by the author to astronomy students

　　D.the preface of a piece of science fiction

　　57、 The author's purpose in presenting the first paragraph is__________.

　　A.to explain the background and new features of today's astronomy

　　B.to discuss in detail the most recent achievements in space research

　　C.to introduce some newly established space stations

　　D.to illustrate that the world today is different in many aspects from that of a generations ago

　　58、 The author thinks that the growing interest in space exploration among people on Earth will probably lead to__________.

　　A.all people having chances of travelling in space

　　B.the realization of permanent settlement on other planets

　　C.more disturbance not only on Earth but also in outer space

　　D.order，harmony and peace on our planet Earth

　　59、 The author believes that today's astronomy students__________.

　　A.are much brighter than students of a generation ago

　　B.no longer care about astronomical facts

　　C.are better-informed about the unseen worlds of space

　　D.may learn more about man and his research in various fields through the study of astronomy

　　60、 In the last paragraph.the underlined expression "these developments" refers to all of the following EXCEPT__________.

　　A.the development of science fiction and special effects of films

　　B.the new concepts about the universe acquired by today's astronomy students

　　C.the world-wide involvement in space exploration

　　D.humanity's new achievements in the field of astronomy

　　Section III Reading Comprehension

　　Part B

　　根据以下资料，回答61-65题：

　　Read the following text carefully and then translate the underlined segments into Chinese. Your translation should be written clearly on ANSWER SHEET 2.

　　That low moaning sound in the background just might be the founding fathers protesting from beyond the grave.They have been doing it ever since the republicans announced a" religious war" in the name of" traditional values".It grew several decibels louder last week when George Bush，at a breakfast of religious leaders，attacked the democrats for failing to mention god in their doctrines and declaimed that a president needs to believe in the almighty.What about the constitutional ban on" religious tests "for public office ?The founding fathers would want to know.61)What about Tom Jefferson's conviction that it is possible for a nonbeliever to be a moral person, "find incitements to virtue in the comfort and pleasantness you feel in its exercise"?Even George Washington must shudder in his sleep to hear the constant emphasis on" judeo-christian values".62)1t was he who wrote, "We have abundant reasons to rejoice that in this land...every person may here worship god according to the dictates of his own heart."

　　George Bush should know better than to encourage the theocratic ambitions of the Christian right.63)He has claimed--to much-ironic scorn--that when he was shot down during World War II and lay floating in the pacific for four hours ,he meditated on"god and faith and the separation of church and state".But there could be no better themes for a patriot to address in his final moments.64) The "wall of separation "the founding fathers built between church and state is one of the best defenses freedom has ever had. Or have we already forgotten why the founding fathers put it up? They had seen enough religious intolerance in the colonies：quaker women were burned at the stake in puritan Massachusetts;Virginians could be jailed for denying the bible's authority. They knew Europe had terribly disfigured itself in a religious War recalled now only by its duration-30 years.65)No wonder John Adams once described the Judeo-Christian tradition as" the most bloody religion that ever existed, "and that the founding fathers took such pains to keep the hand that holds the musket separate from the one that carries the cross.

　　Section IV Writing.(35 minutes)

　　66、Love is always an eternal topic on earth.To some people，if there is no love，one wild live a dull and boring life.While other people believe that love is blind.Love is an sensitive topic on campus.

　　In your essay，give your views on love m college.

　　You should write 160-200 words neatly on ANSWER SHEET 2.

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