2023年6月英語(yǔ)四級(jí)真題

1、Part III Listening Comprehension (35 minutes) Section A Directions: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 conversation and the questions will be spoken only once

2、. 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 2 with a single line through the centre. A) Children should be taught to be more careful. B)

3、 Children shouldnt drink so much orange juice. C) There is no need for the man to make such a fuss. D) Timmy should learn to do things in the right way. A) Fitness training. B) The new job offer. C) Computer programming. D) Directorship of the club. 13. A) He needs to buy a new sweater. B) He has go

4、t to save on fuel bills. C) The fuel price has skyrocketed. D) The heating system doesnt work. 14. A) Committing theft. B) Taking pictures. C) Window shopping. D) Posing for the camera. 15. A) She is taking some medicine. B) She has not seen a doctor yet. C) She does not trust the mans advice. D) Sh

5、e has almost recovered from the cough. 16. A) Pamelas report is not finished as scheduled. B) Pamela has a habit of doing things in a hurry. C) Pamela is not good at writing research papers. D) Pamelas mistakes could have been avoided. 17. A) In the left-luggage office. B) At the hotel reception. C)

6、 In a hotel room. D) At an airport. 18. A) She was an excellent student at college. B) She works in the entertainment business. C) She is fond of telling stories in her speech. D) She is good at conveying her message. Questions 19 to 21 are based on the conversation you have just heard. 19. A) Arran

7、ging the womans appointment with Mr. Romero. B) Fixing the time for the designers latest fashion show. C) Talking about an important gathering on Tuesday. D) Preparing for the filming on Monday morning. 20. A) Her travel to Japan. B) The awards ceremony. C) The proper hairstyle for her new role. D)

8、When to start the makeup session. 21. A) He is Mr. Romeros agent. B) He is an entertainment journalist. C) He is the womans assistant. D) He is a famous movie star. Questions 22 to 25 are based on the conversation you have just heard. 22. A) Make an appointment for an interview. B) Send in an applic

9、ation letter. C) Fill in an application form. D) Make a brief self-introduction on the phone. 23. A) Someone having a college degree in advertising. B) Someone experienced in business management. C) Someone ready to take on more responsibilities. D) Someone willing to work beyond regular hours. 24.

10、A) Travel opportunities. B) Handsome pay. C) Prospects for promotion. D) Flexible working hours. 25. A) It depends on the working hours. B) Its about 500 pound a week. C) It will be set by the Human Resources. D) It is to be negotiated. Section B Directions:In this section you will hear 3 short pass

11、ages. At the 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), C) and D). Then mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 2 with a single l

12、ine through the centre.Passage One Questions 26 to 29 are based on the passage you have just heard. 26. A) To give customers a wider range of choices. B) To make shoppers see as many items as possible. C) To supply as many varieties of goods as it can. D) To save space for more profitable products.

13、27. A) On the top shelves. B) On the bottom shelves. C) On easily accessible shelves. D) On clearly marked shelves. 28. A) Many of them buy things on impulse. B) A few of them are fathers with babies. C) A majority of them are young couples. D) Over 60% of them make shopping lists. 29. A) Sales assi

14、stants promoting high margin goods. B) Sales assistants following customers around. C) Customers competing for good bargains. D) Customers losing all sense of time. Passage Two Questions 30 to 32 are based on the passage you have just heard. 30. A) Teaching mathematics at a school. B) Doing research

15、 in an institute. C) Studying for a college degree. D) Working in a high-tech company. 31. A) He studied the designs of various choices. B) He did experiments on different materials. C) He bought an alarm clock with a pig face. D) He asked different people for their opinions. 32. A) Its automatic me

16、chanism. B) Its manufacturing process. C) Its way of waking people up. D) Its funny-looking pig face. Questions 33 to 35 are based on the passage you have just heard. 33. A) Its often caused by a change of circumstances. B) It usually doesnt require any special treatment. C) It usually appears all o

17、f a sudden. D) It generally lasts for several years. 34. A) They cant mix well with others. B) They incidentally annoy their friends. C) They depend severely on family members. D) They blame others for dissatisfying their friends. 35. A) They lack consistent support from peers. B) They doubt their o

18、wn popularity. C) They were born psychologically weak. D) They focus too much attention on themselves. There was a time when any personal information that was gathered about us was typed on a piece of paper and (36) _ away in a file cabinet. It could remain there for years and, often (37) _, never r

19、each the outside world. Things have done a complete about-face since then. (38) _ for the change has been the astonishingly (39) _ development in recent years of the computer. Today, any data that is (40) _ about us in one place or another and for one reason or another can be stored in a computer ba

20、nk. It can then be easily passed to other computer banks. They are owned by (41) _ and by private businesses and corporations, lending (42) _, direct mailing and telemarketing firms, credit bureaus, credit card companies, and government (43) _ at the local, state, and federal level. A growing number

21、 of Americans are seeing the accumulation and distribution of computerized date as a frightening invasion of their privacy. (44) _ _ as the computer becomes increasingly efficient, easier to operate, and less costly to purchase and maintain. In 1970, a national survey showed that (45) _ _. Seven yea

22、rs later, 47 percent expressed the same worry. (46) _ _. Walking, if you do it vigorously enough, is the overall best exercise for regular physical activity. It requires no equipment, everyone knows how to do it and it carries the 47 risk of injury. The human body is designed to walk. You can walk i

23、n parks or along a river or in your neighborhood. To get 48 benefit from walking, aim for 45 minutes a day, an average of five days a week. Strength training is another important 49 of physical activity. Its purpose is to build and 50 bone and muscle mass, both of which shrink with age. In general,

24、you will want to do strength training two or three days a week, 51 recovery days between sessions. Finally, flexibility and balance training are 52 important as the body ages. Aches and pains are high on the list of complaints in old age. The result of constant muscle tension and stiffness of joints

25、, many of them are 53 , and simple flexibility training can 54 these by making muscles stronger and keeping joints lubricated (潤(rùn)滑 ). Some of this you do whenever you stretch. If you watch dogs and cats, youll get an idea of how natural it is. The general 55 is simple: whenever the body has been in o

26、ne position for a while, it is good to 56 stretch it in an opposite position. A) allowing F) helping K) prevent B) avoidable G) increasingly L) principleC) briefly H) lowest M) provokeD) component I) maintain N) seriously E) determined J) maximum O) topicAncient peoples only loosely related to moder

27、n Asians crossed the Arctic land bridge to settle America about 15,000 years ago, according to a study offering new evidence that the Western Hemisphere had a more genetically diverse population at a much earlier time than previously thought. The early immigrants most closely resembled the prehistor

28、ic Jomon people of Japan and their closest modern descendants, the Ainu, from the Japanese island of Hokkaido, the study said. Both the Jomon and Ainu have skull and facial characteristics more genetically similar to those of Europeans than those of mainland Asians. The immigrants settled throughout

29、 the hemisphere, and were in place when a second Migration from mainland Asiacame across the Bering Strait beginning 5,000 years ago and swept southward as far as modern -day Arizona and New Mexico, the study said, The second migration is the genetic origin of todays Eskimos, Aleuts and the Navajo o

30、f the US southwest. The study in todays edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences adds new evidence to help settle one of anthropologys(人類(lèi)學(xué))most controversial debates: Who were the first Americans? And when did they come? “When this has been done before, its been done from one p

31、oint of view, said University of Michigan physical anthropologist C. Loring Brace, who led the team of researchers from the United States, China and Mongolia who wrote the new report. “We try to put together more aspects. For decades, anthropologists held that the Americas were populated by a single

32、 migration from Asia about 11,200 year agothe supposed age of the earliest of the elegantly crafted, grooved arrowheads first found in the 1930s in Clovis, N. M. By the end of the 1990s, however, the weight of evidence had pushed back the date of the first arrivals several thousand years. A site at

33、Cactus Hill, near Richmond, may be 17,000 years old. In Chile, scientists discovering a 12,500-year-old settlement at Monte Verde have found evidence of a human presence that may extend as far as 30,000 years. But as the migration timetable went on, additional questions have arisen. The 1996 discove

34、ry in Kennewick, Washington, of the nearly complete skeleton of a 9,300-year-old man with “apparently Caucasoid features stimulated interest in the possibility of two or more migrationsincluding the possible incoming from Europe. The new study attempted to answer this question by comparing 21 skull

35、and facial characteristics from more than 10,000 ancient and modern populations in the Western Hemisphere and the Old World. The findings provide strong evidence supporting earlier work suggesting that ancient Americans, like Kennewick Man, were descended from the Jomon, who walked from Japan to the

36、 Asian mainland and eventually to the Western Hemisphere on land bridges as the Earth began to warm up about 15,000 years ago at the end of the last Ice Age. Brace described these early immigrants as “hunters and gatherers following herds of mastodon(乳齒象)first into North America, and eventually spre

37、ading throughout the hemisphere. Because the Northin both Siberia and Canadawas still extremely cold, only a limited number of people could make the trek(長(zhǎng)途跋涉) and survive. So immigration slowed, Brace said, for about 10 millennia(一千年). Then, about 5,000 years ago, agriculture developed on mainland

38、Asia, enabling people to grow, store and carry food in more lonely areas. Movement resumed, but the newcomers were genetically Asians“distinct racially from the first wave, Brace added. The second wave spread across what is now Canada and came southward, cohabiting(同居) with the earlier settlers and

39、eventually creating the mixed population found by the Spaniards in the 15th century. While many researchers agree on the likelihood of two migrations, both their timing and origin are matters of dispute. Braces team suggests that both movements occurred after the last Ice Age began to moderate betwe

40、en 14,000 and 15,000 years ago. But University of Pennsylvania molecular anthropologist Theodore Schurr said genetic data in American populations suggest that humans may have been in the Western Hemisphere much earlier 25,000 to 30,000 year ago. This would mean that the first wave came before the “g

41、lacial maximum between 14,000 and 20,000 years ago, when the Ice Age was at its fiercest and “human movement was practically impossible, Schurr said. “Were there people here before the last glacial maximum? he asked. “The suggestion is Yes. The third wave arose in the American continent around the y

42、ear 1000, when a small number of Vikings arrived. Five hundred years later, the great European migration began. In some cases, the co-existence of Europeans and Native Americans was peaceful. In other cases, there were cultural clashes, leading to violence and disease. Many people from Africa, howev

43、er, were bought here against their will to work as forced laborers in the building of a new nation. As early as 1619, slaves from Africa and the Caribbean were brought forcibly to America. Later, 102 English colonists (later referred to as the “Pilgrims) set sail in 1620 on the Mayflower. They lande

44、d in Plymouth, Massachusetts. This is generally considered by many to be the “start of planned European migration! In 1638, just 18 years after the Mayflower, the Swedes began their migration to America. Unlike the Pilgrim Fathers, the Swedes were not religious opponentsthey were an organized group of colonizers sent by the Swedish Government to establish a colony in Delaware. In 1655, the colony was lost to the Dutch. In the mid-1840s, a wave of Swedish migration began with the landing of a group of migrant farmers in New York and continue