2014 年 6 月英语四级真题及答案第一套
Part I Writing (30 minutes)
Directions: Forthispart,youareallowed30minutestowriteanessay.Youshould
start your essay with a brief description of the picture and then
express your views on the importance of learning basic skills. 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 would like to take him/her to see and why?
PartII Listening Comprehension (30 minutes)
Section A
Directions: In this section, you will hear 8 short conversations and 2 long
conversations.Attheendofeachconversation,oneormorequestions
will be asked about what was said. Both the conversation and the
questionswillbespokenonlyonce.Aftereachquestiontherewillbe
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.
1.A) See a doctor about her trained shoulder.
B) Use a ladder to help her reach
the tea.
C). Replace the cupboard with a new one.
D) Place the tea on a lower shelf
next time.
2.A) At Mary Johnson’s.
B)At a painter’s studio.
C)In an exhibition hall.
D)Outside an art gallery.
3.A)The teacher evaluated lacks teaching experience.
B)She does not quite agree with what the man said.
C)The man had better talk with the students himself.
D)New students usually cannot offer a fair evaluation.
4.A)He helped Doris build up the furniture.
B)Doris helped him arrange the
furniture.
C)Doris fixed up some of the bookshelves.
D)He was good at assembling
bookshelves.
5.A)He doesn’t get on with the others.
B)He doesn’t feel at ease in the
firm.
C)He has been taken for fool.
D)He has found a better position.
6.A)They should finish the work as soon as possible.
B)He will continue to work in the garden himself.
C)He is tired of doing gardening on weekends.
D)They can hire a gardener to do the work.
7.A)The man has to get rid of the used furniture.
B)The man’s apartment is ready for rent.
C)The furniture is covered of lot’s of dust.
D)The furniture the man bought is inexpensive.
8.A)The man will give the mechanic a call.
B)The woman is waiting for a call.
C)The woman is doing some repairs.
D)The man knows the mechanic very well.
Questions 9 to 11 are based on the conversation you have just heard.
9.A)She had a job interview to attend.
B)She was busy finishing her project.
C)She had to attend an important meeting.
D)She was in the middle of Writing
an essay.
10.A)Accompany her roommate to the classroom.
B).Hand in her roommate’s application form
C)Submit her roommate’s assignment.
D)Help her roommate with her report.
11.A)Where Dr.Elli’s office is located.
B)When Dr.Ellis leaves his office.
C)Directions to the classroom building.
D)Dr.Ellis’s schedule for the
afternoon.
Questions 12 to 15 are based on the conversation you have just heard.
12.A)He finds it rather stressful.
B)He is thinking of quitting it.
C)He can handle it quite well.
D)He has to work extra hours.
13.A)The 6:00 one.
B)The 6:30 one.
C)The 7:00 one.
D)The 7:30 one.
14.A)It is an awful waste of time.
B)He finds it rather unbearable.
C)The time on the train is enjoyable.
D)It is something difficult to get
used to.
15.A)Reading newspapers.
B)Chatting with friends.
C).Listening to the daily news.
D).Planning the day’s work.
Section B
Directions: In this section, you will hear 3 short passages. At the end of each
passage, you will hear some questions. Both the passage and the
questionswillbespokenonlyonce.Afteryouhearaquestion,youmust
choosethebestanswerfromthefour choicesmarkedA),B),C)andD).
Then mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 1 with a single
line through the centre.
Passage One
Questions 16 to 18 are based on the passage you have just heard.
16.A)Ignore small details while reading.
B)Read at least several chapters at one sitting.
C)Develop a habit of reading critically.
D)Get key information by reading just once or twice.
17.A)Choose one’s own system of marking.
B)Underline the key words and phrases.
C)Make as few marks as possible.
D)Highlight details in a red color.
18.A)By reading the textbooks carefully again.
B)By reviewing only the marked parts.
C)By focusing on the notes in the margins.
D)By comparing notes with their classmates.
Passage Two
Questions 19 to 21 are based on the passage you have just heard.
19.A)The sleep a person needs varies from day to day.
B)The amount of sleep for each person is similar.
C)One can get by with a couple of hours of sleep.
D)Everybody needs some sleep survival.
20.A)It is a made-up story.
B)It is beyond cure.
C)It is rare exception.
D)It is due to an accident.
21.A)His extraordinary physical condition.
B)His mother’s injury just before his birth.
C)The unique surroundings of his living place.
D)The rest he got from sitting in a rocking chair.
Passage Three
Questions 22 to 25 are based on the passage you have just heard.
22.A)She invested in stocks and shares on Wall Street.
B)She learned to write for financial newspapers.
C).She developed a strong interest in finance.
D)She tenderly looked after her sick mother.
23.A)She made a wise investment in real estate.
B)She sold her restaurant with a substantial profit.
C)She got 7.5 million dollars from her ex-husband.
D)She inherited a big investment in real estate.
24.A)She was extremely mean with her money.
B)She was dishonest in business dealings.
C)She frequently ill-treated her employees.
D)She abused animals including her pet dog.
25.A)She made a big fortune from wise investment.
B)She built a hospital with her mother’s money.
C)She made huge donations to charities.
D)She carried on her family’s tradition.
Section C
Directions: Inthissection,youwillhearapassagethreetimes.Whenthepassage
isreadforthefirsttime,youshouldlistencarefullyforitsgeneral
idea. When the passage is read for the second time, you are required
tofillintheblankswiththeexactwordsyouhavejustheard.Finally,
whenthepassageisreadforthethirdtime,youshouldcheckwhatyou
have written.
Among the kinds of social gestures most significant for second –language teachers
in form but different in meaning in the two cultures.
are those which are
For example, a Colombian who wants someone to
him often signals with a hand
movement in which all the fingers of one hand, cupped, point downward as they move
rapidly
.Speakers of English have a similar gesture means goodbye or go away,
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of the Colombian gesture. Again, in Colombia, a speaker of English
quite the
height he must choose between different
would have to know that when he
a human being or an animal. If he keeps
gestures depending on whether he is
the floor, as he would in his own culture when making
the palm of the hand
known the height of a child, for example, he will very likely be greeted by laughter;
in Colombia this gesture is
describe human being he should keep the palm of hand
Substitutions of one gesture for the other often create not only humorous but also
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moments. In both of the examples above, speakers from two different cultures
have the same gesture, physically, but its meaning differs sharply.
for the description of animals. In order to
to the floor.
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Part III Reading Comprehension (40 minutes)
Section A
Directions: Inthissection,thereisapassagewithtenblanks.Youarerequired
toselectonewordforeachblankfromalistofchoicesgiveninaword
bank following the passage. Read the passage through carefully before
makingyourchoices.Eachchoiceinthebankisidentifiedbyaletter.
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.
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Global warming is a trend toward warmer conditions around the world. Part of warming
is natural; we have experienced a 20,000-year-long warming as the last ice age ended
away. However, we have already reached temperatures that are
and the ice
with other minimum-ice periods, so continued warming is likely not
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natural. We are
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some areas, less in others, and some places may even cool off. Likewise, the
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of this warming will be very different depending on where you are—coastal areas
must worry about rising sea levels, while Siberia and northern Canada may become
more habitable (宜居的) and
to a predicted worldwide increase in temperatures
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C over the next 100 years. The warming will be more
for humans than these areas are now.
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The fact remains, however, that it will likely get warmer, on
, everywhere.
Scientists are in general agreement that the warmer conditions we have been
experiencing are at least in part the result of a human-induced global warming trend.
Some scientists
that the changes we are seeing fall within the range of
random(无规律的) variation—some years are cold, others warm, and we have just
had an unremarkable string of warm years
--but that is becoming an
increasingly rare interpretation in the face of continued and increasing warm
conditions.
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A) Appealing
B) Average
C) Contributing
D) Dramatic
E) Frequently
F)impact
G)line
K)ranging
L)recently
H)maintain
M)resolved
I)melted
J)persist
N)sensible
O)shock
Section B
Directions: Inthissection,youaregoingtoreadapassagewithtenstatements
attachedtoit.Eachstatementcontainsinformationgiveninoneofthe
paragraphs. Identify the paragraph from which the information is
derived.Youmaychoosea paragraph morethanonce. Each paragraphis
markedwithaletter.Answerthequestionsbymarkingthecorresponding
letter onAnswer Sheet 2.
The
End
Of
The
Book?
A) Amazon, by far the largest booksellers in the country, reported on May 19 that
is now selling more books in its electronic Kindle format than in the old
paper-and-ink format . That is remarkable, considering that 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) Dose 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 some profound than any it has been since
Gutenberg introduced printing from moveable type in the 1450s.
C) 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, “romance fiction,” etc. Such books,
which only rarely end up in permanent collections, either private or 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, who knows? Children’s books are like dog food in that
the purchasers are not the consumers, so the market ( and the marking ) 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 technology replaces another only because the new technology is better,
chapter, 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 ones 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. Three were perhaps 50,000 books in all of Europe in 1450.
By 1500 there were 10 million.
G) But while printing quickly caused the handwritten book to die out, handwriting
lingered on (继续存在) 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 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) Movies 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 drive
a car and watch television at the same time, rush hour become 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 centuries because of its symbolic power.
Mounted cavalry (骑兵) replaced the chariot (二轮战车) on the battlefield around
1000 BC. But chariots maintained their place in parades and triumphs right up
until the end of Roman Empire 1,500 years later. The sword hasn’t had a military
function for hundred years, but is still 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 (不稳定的) at first. Television
repairman was a common occupation in the 1950s, for instance. And so the old
technology remains as a backup. Steamships captured the North Atlantic
passengers 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 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 percent in every upper- and
middle-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