大学英语四级（2013年12月考试改革适用）模拟试卷378
作文
1. For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a short essay entitled Due Attention Should Be Given to Handwriting. You should include in your essay the cause of bad handwriting and solutions to it. You should write at least 120 words but no more than 180 words. Write your essay on Answer Sheet 1.
Students of today are heavily complained by their teach-ers because of their horrible handwriting. The situation is so bad that a significant amount of time is allocated to train students’ handwriting in high-schools.
The main reason for this seemingly absurd phenomenon might be the prevalence of computer. Students may, for in-stance, download study materials from the website instead of writing them down. When they want to communicate with each other, all they need is to hit the keyboard, leaving the laborious writing out of the mind.
To remedy this problem, two approaches should be adopt-ed. First, teachers should ask students to submit their hand-written homework, instead of soft-copy ones. Second, calligraphy contests should be staged as regular extracurricular activities to arouse students’ interests. With these two measures, I am sure students will be able to write readable characters, while enjoying the convenience brought by the computer.
解析：
词汇理解
We all know that emotions originate in the brain. But we usually talk about our emotions coming from our hearts. If someone you know doesn\’t give up【C1】________, you might say, \\
2.【C1】
M
解析：此处需填入副词，修饰give up。下文提到这种人很坚定，由此可知其“不轻易放弃”，easily符合题意。
3.【C2】
C
解析：此处需填入形容词。形容词词库中，用于修饰“研究”的只有ongoing和meaningful，此处并非强调这项研究是不是有意义，且Nurses’Health Study是一个专门研究的名称，侧重指一项研究活动，ongoing表示该研究的状态，放在这里更适合。
4.【C3】
A
解析：此处需填入名词。此处表示患心脏病的几率，空前higher-than-normal提示了risk符合文意，表示有抑郁症基本症状的人患心脏病的风险更高。
5.【C4】
G
解析：此处需填入形容词。此句比较有抑郁症临床表现的妇女与其他妇女患突发性心脏病的几率，空处表示“可能性”，句子包含的be likely to…也是常见的句型，故likely符合文意。
6.【C5】
F
解析：此处需填入名词。既然是实验调查，自然会观察参与者“开始”和后来的健康状况，此处指出参与者的初始健康状况，outset符合。介词at也提示了outset，正确，at the outset，(of sth．)表示“在开始时”，为常用表达。
7.【C6】
I
解析：此处需填入动词，且根据介词like可知动词应为现在分词形式。动词词库中只有causing词形、含义均符合，此处意思是“导致心脏……”。make词形不对，应予以排除。
8.【C7】
L
解析：此处需填入分词，与to…problems一起作后置定语修饰antidepressants。antidepressants是一种药物，应该是“被开”来治疗情绪问题的药方，prescribed符合文意。
9.【C8】
E
解析：此处需填入副词，修饰linked。此处表示心脏病与抗抑郁药的使用的联系程度，副词词库中能修饰linked表程度的副词只有strongly。
10.【C9】
B
解析：此处需填入形容词。前面提到尚未确定抑郁如何损害心脏，由此可知explanation只是“似乎合理的”解释，plausible符合文意。
11.【C10】
K
解析：此处需填入动词。基因或其他生理变化是因，抑郁是果，由此可知contribute一词符合文意。
长篇阅读
What If A College Education Just Isn\’t for Everyone?
[A] Long before the president swore last year that America will \\
12.High college dropout rate indicates that some students are wasting their time and money in college.
E
解析：本题讲到大学的高辍学率，与大学的缺点有关，故考虑将定位缩窄至Falling through the cracks标题下的E、F段。根据dropout rate及wasting…time and money可快速定位至E段第2句，该句所述与本题意思一致。
13.Historically speaking, minority students, being poor and underrepresented, are the least well-served group in college education.
H
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