2014 年 6 月英语四级真题及答案第三套
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 would like totake him/her to see and why?
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注意:此部分试题请在答题卡 1 上作答.
Part II
Listening Comprehension
(30 minutes)
Section A
Directions: In this section, you will hear 8 short conversations and 2 long
conversations.At the end ofeach conversation, one or more questions will be asked
about what was said.Both theconversation and the questions will be spoken only
once.After each question there will be apause.During the pause, you must read the
four choices marked A, B, C and D, anddecide which is the best answer.Then mark the
corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 1with a single line through the centre.
注意:此部分试题请在答题卡 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 contest.
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.
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 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 house 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 arrival.
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 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 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.Secretary 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.Nearly 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 B
Directions: In this section, you will hear 3 short passages.At the end of each passage,
you will hearsome questions.Both the passage and the questions will be spoken only
once.After youhear 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 throughthe centre.
注意:此部分试题请在答题卡 1 上作答.
Passage One
Questions 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.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 Two
Questions 19 to 22 are 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 wife.
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 Three
Questions 23 to 25 are based 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 bringing 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 importance of agriculture.
D.They provide a stage for people to give performances.
Section C
Directions: In this section, you will hear a passage three times.When the passage
is read for the firsttime, you should listen carefully for its general idea.When
the passage is read for thesecond time, you are required to fill in the blanks with
the exact words you have justheard.Finally, when the passage is read for the third
time, you should check what youhave written.
注意:此部分试题请在答题卡 1 上作答.
Students' pressure sometimes comes from their parents.Most parents are (26)
__________, butsome
of
them
aren't
very
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'sdifficulties.
For one thing, parents are often not (28) __________the kinds of problems their
children face.They don't realize that the (29) __________is keener, that the
required standards of work are higher, and that their children may not be prepared
for the change.(30) __________to seeing A's andB's on high school report cards, they
may be upset when their children's first semester college gradesare below that
level.At their kindest, they may (31) __________inquire why John or Mary isn't
doing better, whether he or she is tryingas hard as he or she should, and so on.At
their worst, theymay (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 natural 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 personmust develop in his or her
own
way. They forget
that
their
children,
who
are
now
young(35)
__________, must be the ones responsible for what they do and what they are.
Part Ⅲ Reading Comprehension
(40 minutes)
Section A
Directions: In this section, there is a passage with ten blanks.You are required
to select one word foreach blank from a list of choices given in a word bank following
the passage.Read thepassage through carefully before making your choices.Each
choice in the bank is identifiedby a letter.Please mark the corresponding letter
for each item on Answer Sheet 2 with asingle 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.
Global warming is a trend toward warmer conditions around the world.Part of
the warming isnatural; 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-iceperiods, so continued
warming is likely not natural.We are____38____to a predicted worldwide increase
intemperatures____39____between 1℃ and 6℃ over the next 100 years.The warming will
be more____40____insome areas, less in others, and some places may even cool
off.Likewise, the____41____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 (益居的) and____42____for humans than
these areas are now.
The fact remains, however, that it will likely get warmer, on____43____,
everywhere.Scientists are in
general agreement that the warmer conditions we have
been experiencing are at least in part the resultof a human-induced global warming
trend.Some scientists_____44____that the changes we are seeing fallwithin 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____45____but that is becoming an
increasingly rareinterpretation in the face of continued and increasing warm
conditions.
注意:此部分试题请在答题卡 2 上作答.
A.appealing
B.average
C.contributing
D.dramatic
E.frequently
F.impact
G.line
H.maintain
I.melted
J.persist
K.ranging
L.recently
M.resolved
N.sensible
O.shock
Section B
Directions: In this section, you are going to read a passage with ten statements
attached
to
it.Eachstatement
contains
information
given
in
one
of
the
paragraphs.Identify the paragraph fromwhich the information is derived.You may
choose a paragraph more than once.Eachparagraph is marked with a letter.Answer the
questions by marking the correspondingletter 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 morebooks 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 percentof all book sales in this
country and are increasing far faster than overall book sales.E-book salesare up
146 percent over last year, while hardback sales increased 6 percent and
paperbacksdecreased 8 percent.
B.Does 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 orso more profound than any it has seen since
Gutenberg introduced printing from moveable type inthe 1450s.
C.Physical books will surely become much rarer in the marketplace.Mass market
paperbacks, whichhave 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 public, will probably
only be available as e-books within a few years.Hardback andtrade paperbacks for
“serious” nonfiction and fiction will surely last longer.Perhaps it will becomethe
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 arenot 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 whathappened to the old technology.
F.One technology replaces another only because the new technology is better, cheaper,
or both.Thegreater the difference, the sooner and more thoroughly the new technology
replaces the old.Printingwith moveable type on paper dramatically reduced the cost
of producing a book compared with theold-fashioned ones handwritten on vellum, which
comes from sheepskin.A Bible--to be sure, a longbook--required vellum made from 300