2016年6月大學(xué)英語四級真題第二套

1、2016年6月大學(xué)英語四級真題（第2套)該真題及答案摘自于巨微英語四級真題逐句精解，中間省略聽力原文，詳細(xì)資料可以關(guān)注公眾號：巨微英語四六級 或者官網(wǎng)渠道獲得電子版。Part I WritingDirections:For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a letter to express your thanks to one of your school teachers upon entering college.You should write at least 120 words but no more than 180

2、 words. 標(biāo)準(zhǔn)時間25 minutes自測用時 minutesPart Listening Comprehension Section ADirections: In this section, you will hear three news reports. At the end of each news report, you will hear two or three questions. Both the news report and the questions will be spoken only once. After you hear a question, you

3、 must choose the best answer from the four choices marked A), B), C) and D). Then mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 1 with a single line through the centre.Questions 1 and 2 are based on the news report you have just heard.1. A)How college students can improve their sleep habits.B)Why su

4、fficient sleep is important for college students.C)Why college students are more likely to have stress problems.D)How college students can handle their psychological problems.2. A)It is not easy to improve ones sleep habits. B)It is not good for students to play video games. C)Students who are bette

5、r prepared generally get higher scores in examinations. D)Making last-minute preparations for tests may be less effective than sleeping.Questions 3 and 4 are based on the news report you have just heard.3. A)Whether more airports should be built around London.B)Whether adequate investment is being m

6、ade to improve airport facilities.C)Whether the British Airports Authority should sell off some of its assets.D)Whether the Spanish company could offer better service.4. A)Inefficient management. B)Poor ownership structure.C)Lack of innovation and competition.D)Lack of runway and terminal capacity.Q

7、uestions 5 to 7 are based on the news report you have just heard.5. A)Report the nicotine content of their cigarettes.B)Set a limit to the production of their cigarettes.C)Take steps to reduce nicotine in their products.D)Study the effects of nicotine on young smokers.6. A)The biggest increase in ni

8、cotine content tended to be in brands young smokers like.B)Big tobacco companies were frank with their customers about the hazards of smoking.C)Brands which contain higher nicotine content were found to be much more popular.D)Tobacco companies refused to discuss the detailed nicotine content of thei

9、r products.7. A)They promised to reduce the nicotine content in cigarettes.B)They have not fully realized the harmful effect of nicotine.C)They were not prepared to comment on the cigarette study.D)They will pay more attention to the quality of their products.Section BDirections: In this section, yo

10、u will hear two long conversations. At the end of each conversation, you will hear four questions. Both the conversation 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 l

11、etter on Answer Sheet 1 with a single line through the centre.Questions 8 to 11 are based on the conversation you have just heard.8. A)Indonesia. B)Holland.C)Sweden.D)England.9.A)Getting a coach who can offer real help. B)Talking with her boyfriend in Dutch.C)Learning a language where it is not spok

12、en .D)Acquiring the necessary ability to socialize .10. A)Listening language programs on the radio.B)Trying to speak it as much as one can.C)Making friends with native speakers.D)Practicing reading aloud as often as possible.11.A)It creates an environment for socializing.B)It offers various courses

13、with credit points.C)It trains young peoples leadership abilities.D)It provides opportunities for language practice.Questions 12 to 15 are based on the conversation you have just heard.12. A)The impact of engine design on rode safety. B)The role policemen play in traffic safety.C)A sense of freedom

14、driving gives.D)Rules and regulations for driving.13. A)Make cars with automatic control. B)Make cars that have better brakes.C)Make cars that are less powerful.D)Make cars with higher standards.14. A)They tend to drive responsibly. B)They like to go at high speed.C)They keep within speed limits.D)T

15、hey follow traffic rules closely.15.A)It is a bad idea. B)It is not useful.C)It is as effective as speed bumps .D)It should be combined with education.Section CDirections: In this section, you will hear three passages. At the end of each passage, you will hear three or four questions. Both the passa

16、ge 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 1 with a single line through the centre.Questions 16 to 18 are based on the passage you have just

17、 heard.16.A)The card got damaged .B)The card was found invalid.C)The card reader failed to do the scanning. D)The card reader broke down unexpectedly.17. A)By converting the credit card with a layer of plastic.B)By calling the credit card company for confirmation.C)By seeking help from the card read

18、er maker Verifone.D)By typing the credit card number into the cash register.18.A)Affect the sales of high-tech appliances.B)Change the life style of many Americans.C)Give birth to many new technological inventions.D)Produce many low-tech fixes for high-tech failures.Questions 19 to 21 are based on t

19、he passage you have just heard.19. A)They are set by the dean of the graduate school.B)They are determined by the advising board.C)They leave much room for improvement. D)They vary among different departments.20. A)By consulting the examining committee .B)By reading the Bulletin of Information.C)By

20、contacting the departmental office. D)By visiting the universitys website.21. A)They specify the number of credits students must earn.B)They are harder to meet than those for undergraduates.C)They have to be approved by the examining committee. D)They are the same among various divisions of the univ

21、ersity.Questions 22 to 25 are based on the passage you have just heard.22. A)Students majoring in nutrition. B)Students in health classes.C)Ph.D. candidates in dieting.D)Middle and high school teachers.23. A)Its overestimate of the effect of dieting. B)Its mistaken conception of nutrition.C)Its chan

22、ging criteria for beauty.D)Its overemphasis on thinness.24. A)To illustrate her point that beauty is but skin deep.B)To demonstrate the magic effect of dieting on women.C)To explain how computer images can be misleading. D)To prove that technology has impacted our culture.25. A)To persuade girls to

23、stop dieting.B)To promote her own concept of beauty.C)To establish an emotional connection with students. D)To help students rid themselves of bad living habits.標(biāo)準(zhǔn)時間40 minutes自測用時 minutesPart III Reading Comprehension Section ADirections:In this section, there is a passage with ten blanks. You are r

24、equired 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 before 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 s

25、ingle line through the centre. You may not use any of the words in the bank more than once.Contrary to popular belief, older people generally do not want to live with their children. Moreover, most adult children 26 every bit as much care and support to their aging parents as was the case in the “go

26、od old days”, and most older people do not feel 27 .About 80% of people 65years and older have living children, and about 90% of them have 28 contact with their children. About 75% of elderly parents who dont go to nursing homes live within 30 minutes of at least one of their children.However, 29 ha

27、ving contact with children does not guarantee happiness in old age. In fact, some research has found that people who are most involved with their families have the lowest spirits. This research may be 30 , however, as ill health often makes older people more 31 and thereby increases contact with fam

28、ily members. So it is more likely that poor health, not just family involvement, 32 spirits.Increasingly, researchers have begun to look at the quality of relationships, rather than at the frequency of contact, between the elderly and their children. If parents and children share interests and value

29、s and agree on childrearing practices and religious 33 , they are likely to enjoy each others company. Disagreements on such matters can 34 cause problems. If parents are agreed by their daughters divorce, dislike her new husband, and disapprove of how she is raising their grandchildren, 35 are that

30、 they are not going to enjoy her visits.A) abandoned E)commitment I)frequent M)provide B)advanced F)dampens J)fulfillment N)understandablyC)biased G)dependent K)grant O)unrealisticallyD)chances H)distant L)merely Section BDirections: In this section, you are going to read a passage with ten statemen

31、ts 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 the questions by marking the corresponding letter on Answer S

32、heet 2.Could Food Shortages Bring Down Civilization?A For many years I have studied global agricultural, population, environmental and economic trends and their interactions. The combined effects of those trends and the political tensions they generate point to the breakdown of governments and socie

33、ties. Yet I, too, have resisted the idea that food shortages could bring down not only individual governments but also our global civilization.B I can no longer ignore that risk. Our continuing failure to deal with the environmental declines that are undermining the world food economy forces me to c

34、onclude that such a collapse is possible.C As demand for food rises faster than supplies are growing, the resulting food-price inflation puts severe stress on the governments of many countries. Unable to buy grain or grow their own, hungry people take to the streets. Indeed, even before the steep cl

35、imb in grain prices in 2008, the number of failing states was expanding. If the food situation continues to worsen, entire nations will break down at an ever increasing rate. In the 20th century the main threat to international security was superpower conflict; today it is failing states.D States fa

36、il when national governments can no longer provide personal security, food security and basic social services such as education and health care. When governments lose their control on power, law and order begin to disintegrate. After a point, countries can become so dangerous that food relief worker

37、s are no longer safe and their programs are halted. Failing states are of international concern because they are a source of terrorists, drugs, weapons and refugees(難民), threatening political stability everywhere.E The surge in world grain prices in 2007 and 2008and the threat they pose to food secu

38、rityhas a different, more troubling quality than the increases of the past. During the second half of the 20th century, grain prices rose dramatically several times. In 1972, for instance, the Soviets, recognizing their poor harvest early, quietly cornered the world wheat market. As a result, wheat

39、prices elsewhere more than doubled, pulling rice and corn prices up with them. But this and other price shocks were event-drivendrought in the Soviet Union, crop-shrinking heat in the U.S. Corn Belt. And the rises were short-lived: prices typically returned to normal with the next harvest.F In contr

40、ast, the recent surge in world grain prices is trend-driven, making it unlikely to reverse without a reversal in the trends themselves. On the demand side, those trends include the ongoing addition of more than 70 million people a year, a growing number of people wanting to move up the food chain to

41、 consume highly grain-intensive meat products, and the massive diversion(轉(zhuǎn)向) of U.S. grain to the production of bio-fuel.G As incomes rise among low-income consumers, the potential for further grain consumption is huge. But that potential pales beside the never-ending demand for crop-based fuels. A

42、fourth of this years U.S. grain harvest will go to fuel cars.H What about supply? The three environmental trendsthe shortage of fresh water, the loss of topsoil and the rising temperaturesare making it increasingly hard to expand the worlds grain supply fast enough to keep up with demand. Of all tho

43、se trends, however, the spread of water shortages poses the most immediate threat. The biggest challenge here is irrigation, which consumes 70% the worlds fresh water. Millions of irrigation wells in many countries are now pumping water out of underground sources faster than rainfall can refill them

44、. The result is falling water tables(地下水位) in countries with half the worlds people, including the three big grain producersChina, India and the U.S.I As water tables have fallen and irrigation wells have gone dry, Chinas wheat crop, the worlds largest, has declined by 8% since it peaked at 123 mill

45、ion tons in 1997. But water shortages are even more worrying in India. Millions of irrigation wells have significantly lowered water tables in almost every state.J As the worlds food security falls to pieces, individual countries acting in their own self-interest are actually worsening the troubles

46、of many. The trend began in 2007, when leading wheat-exporting countries such as Russia and Argentina limited or banned their exports, in hopes of increasing local food supplies and thereby bringing down domestic food prices. Vietnam banned its exports for several months for the same reason. Such mo

47、ves may eliminate the fears of those living in the exporting countries, but they are creating panic in importing countries that must rely on what is then left for export.K In response to those restrictions, grain-importing countries are trying to nail down long-term trade agreements that would lock

48、up future grain supplies. Food-import anxiety is even leading to new efforts by food-importing countries to buy or lease farmland in other countries. In spite of such temporary measures, soaring food prices and spreading hunger in many other countries are beginning to break down the social order.L S

49、ince the current world food shortage is trend-driven, the environmental trends that cause it must be reversed. We must cut carbon emissions by 80% from their 2006 levels by 2020, stabilize the worlds population at eight billion by 2040, completely remove poverty, and restore forests and soils. There

50、 is nothing new about the four objectives. Indeed, we have made substantial progress in some parts of the world on at least one of thesethe distribution of family-planning services and the associated shift to smaller families.MFor many in the development community, the four objectives were seen as p

51、ositive, promoting development as long as they did not cost too much. Others saw them as politically correct and morally appropriate. Now a third and far more significant motivation presents itself: meeting these goals may be necessary to prevent the collapse of our civilization. Yet the cost we pro

52、ject for saving civilization would amount to less than $200 billion a year, 1/6 of current global military spending. In effect, our plan is the new security budget.36.The more recent steep climb in grain prices partly results from the fact that more and more people want to consume meat products.37.

53、Social order is breaking down in many countries because of food shortages.38. Rather than superpower conflict, countries unable to cope with food shortages now constitute the main threat to world security.39. Some parts of the world have seen successful implementation of family planning.40. The auth

54、or has come to agree that food shortages could ultimately lead to the collapse of world civilization.41. Increasing water shortages prove to be the biggest obstacle to boosting the worlds grain production.42. The cost for saving our civilization would be considerably less than the worlds current mil

55、itary spending.43. To lower domestic food prices, some countries limited or stopped their grain exports.44. Environmental problems must be solved to ease the current global food shortage.45. A quarter of this years American grain harvest will be used to produce bio-fuel for cars.Section CDirections:

56、 There are 2 passages in this section. Each passage is followed by some questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A), B), C) and D). You should decide on the best choice and mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through the centre.Passage OneQuestions 46 to 50 are based on the following passage.Declining mental function is often seen as a problem of old age, but certain aspects of brain function actually begin their decline in