2014年6月四級真題（第3套）

1、2014年6月四級真題 (第3套)Part I Writing (30 minutes)Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a short essay on the following question.You should write at least 120 words but no more than 180 words.Suppose a foreign friend of yours is coming to visit China, what is the first place you wo

2、uld like to take him/her to see and why?_注意：此部分試題請在答題卡1上作答.Part H Listening Comprehension (30 minutes)Section ADirections: In this section, you will hear 8 short conversations and 2 long conversations.At the end of each conversation, one or more questions will be asked about what was said.Both the c

3、onversation and the questions will be spoken only once.After each question there will be a pause.During the pause, you must read the four choices marked A, B, C and D, and decide which is the best answer.Then mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 1 with a single line through the centre.注意：此部

4、分試題請在答題卡1上作答.1.A.It was mainly meant for cancer patients. B.It might appeal more to viewers over 40. C.It was frequently interrupted by commercials. D.It could help people of all ages to avoid cancer.2.A.The man admires the woman's talent in writing. B.The woman took a lot of pictures at the con

5、test. C.The woman is a photographer. D.The man is fond of traveling.3.A.The man placed the reading list on a desk. B.The man regrets being absent-minded. C.The woman saved the man some trouble. D.The woman emptied the waste paper basket.4.A.He has left the army recently. B.He quit teaching in June.

6、C.He has taken over his brother's business. D.He opened a restaurant near the school.5.A.She read only part of the book. B.She is interested in reading novels. C.She seldom reads books from cover to cover. D.She was eager to know what the book was about.6.A.She called to say that her husband had

7、 been hospitalized. B.She was absent all week owing to sickness. C.She was seriously injured in a car accident. D.She had to be away from school to attend to her husband.7.A.The man lives two blocks away from the Smiths. B.The woman is not sure if she is on the right street. C.The Smiths' new ho

8、use is not far from their old one. D.The speakers want to rent the Smiths' old house.8.A.The man couldn't find his car in the parking lot. B.The man had a hard time finding a parking space. C.The woman found they had got to the wrong spot. D.The woman was offended by the man's late arriv

9、al.Questions 9 to 12 are based on the conversation you have just heard.9.A.The hotel clerk couldn't find his reservation for that night. B.The hotel clerk tried to take advantage of his inexperience. C.The hotel clerk had put his reservation under another name. D.The hotel clerk insisted that he

10、 didn't make any reservation.10.A.A grand wedding was being held in the hotel. B.It was a busy season for holiday-makers. C.The hotel was undergoing major repairs. D.There was a conference going on in the city.11.A.It was free of charge on weekends. B.It was offered to frequent guests only. C.It

11、 had a 15% discount on weekdays. D.It was 10% cheaper than in other hotels.12.A.Demand compensation from the hotel. B.Find a cheaper room in another hotel. C.Ask for an additional discount D.Complain to the hotel manager.Questions 13 to 15 are based on the conversation you have just heard.13.A.Secre

12、tary of Birmingham Medical School. B.Head of the Overseas Students Office. C.Assistant Director of the Admissions Office. D.An employee in the city council at Birmingham.14.A.A small number are from the Far East. B.A large majority are from Latin America. C.About fifteen percent are from Africa. D.N

13、early fifty percent are foreigners.15.A.She will have more contact with students. B.She will be more involved in policy-making.C.It will be less demanding than her present job.D.It will bring her capability into fuller play.Section BDirections: In this section, you will hear 3 short passages.At the

14、end of each passage, you will hear some questions.Both the passage and the questions will be spoken only once.After you hear a question, you must choose the best answer from the four choices marked A, B, Cand D.Then mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 1 with a single line through the centr

15、e.注意：此部分試題請在答題卡1上作答.Passage OneQuestions 16 to 18 are based on the passage you have just heard.16.A.Her parents immigrated to America. B.Her parents set up an ice-cream store.C.Her parents left Chicago to work on a farm. D.Her parents thrived in the urban environment.17.A.He was born with a limp. B.

16、He taught English in Chicago.C.He worked to become an executive. D.He was crippled in a car accident.18.A.She was fascinated by American culture. B.She was very generous in offering help.C.She was highly devoted to her family. D.She was fond of living an isolated life.Passage TwoQuestions 19 to 22 a

17、re based on the passage you have just heard.19.A.He was seriously injured. B.He was wrongly diagnosed.C.He developed a strange disease. D.He suffered a nervous breakdown.20.A.He raced to the nursing home. B.He was able to talk again.C.He could tell red and blue apart. D.He could not recognize his wi

18、fe.21.A.Two and a half months. B.Twenty-nine days.C.Fourteen hours. D.Several minutes.22.A.They released a video of his progress. B.They avoided appearing on television. C.They welcomed the publicity in the media. D.They declined to give details of his condition.Passage ThreeQuestions 23 to 25 are b

19、ased on the passage you have just heard.23.A.For farmers to exchange their daily necessities. B.For people to share ideas and show farm “products. C.For officials to educate the farming community. D.For farmers to celebrate their harvests.24.A.By offering to do volunteer work at the fair. B.By bring

20、ing an animal rarely seen on nearby farms. C.By bringing a bag of grain in exchange for a ticket. D.By performing a special skill at the entrance.25.A.They help to increase the state governments' revenue. B.They contribute to the modernization of American farms. C.They remind Americans of the im

21、portance of agriculture. D.They provide a stage for people to give performances.Section CDirections: In this section, you will hear a passage three times.When the passage is read for the first time, you should listen carefully for its general idea.When the passage is read for the second time, you ar

22、e required to fill in the blanks with the exact words you have just heard.Finally, when the passage is read for the third time, you should check what you have written.注意：此部分試題請在答題卡1上作答. Students' pressure sometimes comes from their parents.Most parents are (26) _, but some of them aren't ver

23、y helpful with the problems their sons and daughters have in(27) _college, and a few of them seem to go out of their way to add to their children's difficulties. For one thing, parents are often not (28) _the kinds of problems their children face.They don't realize that the (29) _is keener,

24、that the required standards of work are higher, and that their children may not be prepared for the change.(30) _to seeing A's and B's on high school report cards, they may be upset when their children's first semester college grades are below that level.At their kindest, they may (31) _

25、inquire why John or Mary isn'tdoing better, whether he or she is tryingas hard as he or she should, and so on.At their worst, they may (32) _to take their children out of college, or (33)_funds. Sometimes parents regard their children as extensions of themselves and think it only right and natur

26、al that they determine what their children do with their lives. In their involvement and(34)_with their children, they forget that everyone is different and that each person must develop in his or her own way. They forget that their children, who are now young(35) _, must be the ones responsible for

27、 what they do and what they are.Part Reading Comprehension (40 minutes)Section ADirections: In this section, there is a passage with ten blanks.You are required to select one word for each blank from a list of choices given in a word bank following the passage.Read the passage through carefully befo

28、re making your choices.Each choice in the bank is identified by a letter.Please mark the corresponding letter for each item on Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through the centre.You may not use any ,of the words in the bank more than once.Questions 36 to 45 are based on the following passage. Glob

29、al warming is a trend toward warmer conditions around the world.Part of the warming is natural; we have experienced a 20,000-year-long warming as the last ice age ended and the ice_36_away.However, we have already reached temperatures that are in_37_with other minimum-ice periods, so continued warmi

30、ng is likely not natural.We are_38_to a predicted worldwide increase in temperatures_39_between 1 and 6 over the next 100 years.The warming will be more_40_in some areas, less in others, and some places may even cool off.Likewise, the_41_of this warmingwill be very different depending on where you a

31、re-coastal areas must worry about rising sea levels,while Siberia and northern Canada may become more habitable (益居的) and_42_for humans thanthese areas are now. The fact remains, however, that it will likely get warmer, on_43_, everywhere.Scientists are ingeneral agreement that the warmer conditions

32、 we have been experiencing are at least in part the result of a human-induced global warming trend.Some scientists_44_that the changes we are seeing fall within the range of random (無規(guī)律的) variation-some years are cold, others warm, and we have justhad an unremarkable string of warm years_45_but that

33、 is becoming an increasingly rare interpretation in the face of continued and increasing warm conditions.注意：此部分試題請在答題卡2上作答.A.appealing B.average C.contributing D.dramaticE.frequently F.impact G.line H.maintainI.melted J.persist K.ranging L.recentlyM.resolved N.sensible O.shockSection BDirections: In

34、 this section, you are going to read a passage with ten statements attached to it.Each statement contains information given in one of the paragraphs.Identify the paragraph from which the information is derived.You may choose a paragraph more than once.Each paragraph is marked with a letter.Answer th

35、e questions by marking the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 2.The End of the Book?A.Amazon, by far the largest bookseller in the country, reported on May 19 that it is now selling more books in its electronic Kindle format than in the old paper-and-ink format.That is remarkable,considering that

36、the Kindle has only been around for four years.E-books now account for 14 percent of all book sales in this country and are increasing far faster than overall book sales.E-book sales are up 146 percent over last year, while hardback sales increased 6 percent and paperbacks decreased 8 percent.B.Does

37、 this spell the doom of the physical book? Certainly not immediately, and perhaps not at all.What it does mean is that the book business will go through a transformation in the next decade or so more profound than any it has seen since Gutenberg introduced printing from moveable type in the 1450s.C.

38、Physical books will surely become much rarer in the marketplace.Mass market paperbacks, which have been declining for years anyway, will probably disappear, as will hardbacks for mysteries,thrillers, “omance fiction,”etc.Such books, which only rarely end up in permanent collections,either private or

39、 public, will probably only be available as e-books within a few years.Hardback and trade paperbacks for “serious” nonfiction and fiction will surely last longer.Perhaps it will become the mark of an author to reckon with that he or she is Still published in hard copy.D.As for children's books,

40、who knows? Children's_ books are like dog food in that the purchasers are not the consumers, so the market (and the marketing) is inherently strange.E.For clues to the book's future, let's look at some examples of technological change and see what happened to the old technology.F.One tec

41、hnology replaces another only because the new technology is better, cheaper, or both.The greater the difference, the sooner and more thoroughly the new technology replaces the old.Printing with moveable type on paper dramatically reduced the cost of producing a book compared with the old-fashioned o

42、nes handwritten on vellum, which comes from sheepskin.A Bible-to be sure, a long book-required vellum made from 300 sheepskins and countless man-hours of labor.Before printing arrived, a Bible cost more than a middle-class house.There were perhaps 50,000 books in all of Europe in 1450.By 1500 there

43、were 10 million.G.But while printing quickly caused the handwritten book to die out, handwriting lingered on(繼續(xù)存在)well into the 16th century.Very special books are still occasionally produced on vellum, but they are one-of-a-kind show pieces.H.Sometimes a new technology doesn't drive the old one

44、 out, but only parts of it while forcing the rest to evolve.The movies were widely predicted to drive live theater out of the marketplace, but they didn't, because theater turned out to have qualities movies could not reproduce.Equally, TV was supposed to replace movies but, again, did not.I.Mov

45、ies did, however, fatally impact some parts of live theater.And while TV didn't kill movies, it did kill second-rate pictures, shorts, and cartoons.J.Nor did TV kill radio.Comedy and drama shows (“Jack Benny,” “Amos and Andy,” “The Shadow”)all migrated to television.But because you can't dri

46、ve a car and watch television at the same time,rush hour became radio's prime time, while music, talk, and news radio greatly enlarged their audiences.Radio is today a very different business than in the late 1940s and a much larger one.K.Sometimes old technology lingers for centtmes because of

47、its symbolic power.Mounted cavalry (騎兵)replaced the chariot (二輪戰(zhàn)車) on the battlefield around 1000 BC.But chariots maintained their place in parades and triumphs right up until the end of the Roman Empire 1,500 years later.The sword hasn't had a military function for a hundred years, but is still

48、 part of an officer's full-dress uniform, precisely because a sword always symbolized “an officer and a gentleman.”L.Sometimes new technology is a little cranky (不穩(wěn)定的) at first.Television repairman was a common occupation in the 1950s, for instance.And so the old technology remains as a backup.S

49、teamships captured the North Atlantic passenger business from sail in the 1840s because of its much greater speed.But steamships didn't lose their sails until the 1880s, because early marine engines had a nasty habit of breaking down.Until ships became large enough (and engines small enough) to

50、mount two engines side by side, they needed to keep sails.(The high cost of steam and the lesser need for speed kept the majority of the world's ocean freight moving by sail until the early years of the 20th century.)M.Then there is the fireplace.Central heating was present in upper- and middle-

51、class home by the second half of the 19th century.But functioning fireplaces remain to this day a powerful selling point in a house or apartment.I suspect the reason is a deep-rooted love of fire.Fire was one of the earliest major technological advances for humankind, providing heat, protection, and

52、 cooked food (which is much easier to eat and digest).Human control of fire goes back far enough (over a million years) that evolution could have produced a genetic leaning towards fire as a central aspect of human life.N.Books-especially books the average person could afford-haven't been around

53、 long enough to produce evolutionary change in humans.But they have a powerful hold on many people nonetheless,a hold extending far beyond their literary content.At their best, they are works of art and there is a tactile (觸覺的) pleasure in books necessarily lost in e-book versions.The ability to qui

54、ckly thumb through pages is also lost.And a room with books in it induces, at least in some, a feeling not dissimilar to that of a fire in the fireplace on a cold winter's night.O.For these reasons I think physical books will have a longer existence as a commercial product than some currently pr

55、edict.Like swords, books have symbolic power.Like fireplaces, they induce a sense of comfort and warmth.And, perhaps, similar to sails, they make a useful backup for when the lights go out.注意：此部分試題請在答題卡2上作答.46.Authors still published in printed versions will be considered important ones.47.Some peop

56、le are still in favor of printed books because of the sense of touch they can provide.48.The radio business has changed greatly and now attracts more listeners.49.Contrary to many people's prediction of itsdeath, the film industry survived.50.Remarkable changes have taken place in the book business.51.Old technology sometimes continues to exist because of its