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2016年专业英语四级考试真题及答案.doc
2016 年专业英语四级考试真题及答案
TIME LIMIT: 130 MIN
PART
I
DICTATION
[10 MIN]
[20 MIN]
the talk
CONVERSATIONS
will be
LISTENING COMPREHENSION
TALK
Listen to the following passage. Altogether the passage will be read to you four
times. During the first reading, which will be done at normal speed, listen and try
to understand the meaning. For the second and third readings, the passage will be
read sentence by sentence, or phrase by phrase, with intervals of 15 seconds. The
last reading will be done at normal speed again and during this time you should check
your work. You will then be given 2 minutes to check through your work once more.
Please write the whole passage on ANSWER SHEET ONE.
PART II
SECTION A
In this section you will hear a talk. You will hear
ONCE ONLY. While
listening, you may look at the task on the ANSWER SHEETONE and write NO MORE THAN
THREE WORDS for each gap. Make sure what you fill in is both grammatically and
semantically acceptable. You may use the blank sheet for note-taking.
You have THIRTY seconds to preview the gap-filling task.
Now, listen to the talk. When it is over, you will be given TWO minutes to check
your work.
SECTION B
In this section, you will hear two conversations. At the end of the conversion, five
questions
asked about what was said. Both the conversation and the
questions will be spoken ONCE ONLY. After each question there will be a ten-second
pause. During the pause, you should read the four choices of A, B, C and D, and mark
the best answer to each question on ANSWER SHEET TWO.
You have THIRTY seconds to preview the questions.
Now, listen to the conversations.
Conversation One
Questions 1 to 5 are based on Conversation One.
1.
B.
C. To tell the man the procedure
D.
2.
B.
C.
D.
3.
B.
C.
D.
Questions from the interviewee.
Presentation from the interviewee.
Requests from the interviewee.
General questions about himself.
Specific questions about his CV.
Questions about his future plan.
To tell the man that he has been shortlisted for interview.
A.
To ask the man a few questions about his interview.
To explain to the man how to make a presentation.
A.
Questions from the interviewers.
of the interview.
A.
Questions related to the job.
A.
11 a.m., next Tuesday.
A.
Student’s family income.
A.
It has increased by 6 to 8%.
A.
Educational and professional background.
A.
How college students pay for their education.
11 a.m., next Thursday.
9 a.m., this Tuesday.
9 a.m., this Thursday.
It has increased by 8 to 10%.
It has decreased by 6 to 8%.
It has decreased by 8 to 10%.
First year salary after graduation.
A fixed amount of 30, 000 dollars.
Payment in the next ten years.
Problems he has faced and solved.
Major successes in his career so far.
Company future and his contribution.
How to handle the problem of college loans.
The disadvantage of college loans.
Government financing in college education.
4.
B.
C.
D.
5.
B.
C.
D.
Conversation Two
Questions 6 to 10 are based on Conversation Two.
6.
B.
C.
D.
7.
B.
C.
D.
8.
B.
C.
D.
9.
B.
C.
D.
10.
B.
C.
D.
PART
USAGE
There are twenty sentences in this section. Beneath each sentence there are four
words or phrases marked A, B, C and D. Choose one word or phrase that best completes
the sentence. Mark your answers
11.
with silly questions?
A. have… interrupted
B.
had… interrupted
are… interrupting
C.
D.
were… interrupting
12.
highest degree of possibility.
A. It may take a long time to find a solution to the problem.
Students pay no tax on savings.
Students pay less tax after graduation.
Students withdraw without paying tax.
Neglecting their study at college.
Giving up further education.
Neglecting high salary in job-seeking.
A.
Giving up charitable or volunteer work.
Among the four sentences below, Sentence
How can I concentrate if you
__________
continually __________
me
A.
Students can borrow money first.
III
LANGUAGE
[10 MIN]
on Answer Sheet Two.
__________
express the
__________.
the friend of you
Nobody heard him sing,
__________?
She is a better speaker than
__________
did they
did he
didn’t they
did one
all the girls
the other boys
other any girl
any boy
I can’t put up with
friend of you
friend of yours
B. It might take a long time to find a solution to the problem.
C. It could take a long time to find a solution to the problem.
D. It should take a long time to find a solution to the problem.
13.
in the class.
A.
B.
C.
D.
14.
A.
B.
C.
D.
15.
A. that
B. that
C.
D. the friend of yours
16.
in past few years.
A.
B.
C.
D.
17.
A.
B.
C. to mention
D.
18.
glide onto the stage.
A.
B.
C.
D.
19.
A.
B.
C.
D.
20.
speaker’s
A.
B.
Hadn’t it been for
Had it not been for
Had it been for
Had not it been for
were… its
were… their
was… their
was… one’s
man teacher
men teacher
man teachers
men teachers
This is one of the issues that deserve
__________.
mentioning
being mentioned
for mention
__________
your advice, I would have made the wrong decision.
The sentence I wish I had been more careful in spending money
express the
__________.
hope
joy
There has been an increasing number of
__________
in primary schools
The audience
__________
excited on
seeing__________
favorite star
The Attorney General ordered a federal autopsy of Brown’s body, seeking
the family and community there would be a thorough investigation
The police department came under strong criticism for both the death of
__________.
The Foreign Secretary tried to
__________
doubts about his handling
__________
regret
relief
dispel
expel
repel
quell
ensure
assure
insure
ascertain
consequence
outcome
result
aftermath
C.
D.
21.
to
into his death.
A.
B.
C.
D.
22.
an unarmed and its handling of the
A.
B.
C.
D.
23.
of the crisis.
A.
B.
C.
D.
24.
time to study stocks in detail or who
portfolio.
A.
B.
C.
D.
25.
quickly struck
A.
B.
C.
D.
26.
group of reporters.
A.
B.
C.
D.
27.
the
A.
B.
into…up
on…into
across…on
against…into
especially
particularly
specially
specifically
deprive
lack
yearn
attain
contemporary
makeshift
Israel
Mutual funds are thus best for investors who don’t want to take the
the resources to build a
__________
Chris ran
__________
John at a sporting-goods trade show and the two
__________
an easy rapport.
“I’m leaving the country soon,” he told a
__________
convened
__________
ceasefire by an extra 24 hours until Tuesday at midnight.
and
Hamas
had
reached
a
deal
on
extending
spontaneous
temporary
Due
Prior
Related
Thanks
If you are an athlete, strong abdominal muscles help you ensure a strong
C.
D.
28.
to unplugging the alarm clock and trusting your ability
to wake on time on your own, you should probably ease yourself into the new
arrangement by keeping a very regular schedule for several weeks.
A.
B.
C.
D.
29.
back and freedom from injury during
A.
B.
C.
D.
30.
off, and the live shark is thrown back to sea.
A.
B.
C.
D.
PART
IV
valiant
variable
vigorous
vigilant
reality
truth
skill
practice
in which the shark’s fins are lopped
__________upper-body movement.
Finning is a cruel
__________
__________
CLOZE
[10 MIN]
Decide which of the words given in the box below would best complete the passage
if inserted in the corresponding blank. The words can be used ONCE ONLY. Mark the
letter for each word on ANSWER SHEET TWO.
__________
such __________
Imagine a world without writing. Obviously there would be no books: no novels, no
encyclopedias, no cookbooks, no textbooks, no telephone books, no scriptures, no
diaries, no travel guides. There would be no ball-points, no typeswriters, no
computers, no Internet, no magazines, no movie credits, no shopping lists, no
newspapers, no tax returns. But
(31) of subjects almost miss the
point. The world we live in has been indelibly marked by the written
word,
(32) by the technology of writing over thousands of years.
Ancient kings proclaimed their authority and
(33) their laws in
writing. Scribes administered great empires by writing, their knowledge of recording
and retrieving information essential to governing complex societies. Religious
(34), and spread to others, in
traditions were passed on through
writing. Scientific and technological progress was achieved and
(35)
through writing. Accounts in trade and commerce could be kept because of writing.
Nearly every step of civilization has been mediated through writing. A world without
writing would bear
(36) resemblance to the one we now live in. Writing
__________
__________
__________
__________
a
__________
__________
[35 MIN]
to
the
societies
__________
(37)
necessity
anthropologists
READING COMPREHENSION
call
is
civilizations. A civilization is distinguished from other societies by the
complexity of its social organization, by its construction of cities and large public
buildings, and by the economic specialization of its members, many of whom are
not
(38) involved in food procurement or production. A civilization,
with its taxation and tribute systems, its trade, and its public works, requires
a
(39) system of record keeping. And so the early civilizations of
Egypt, China, and (probably) India all developed a system of writing. Only the
Peruvian civilization of the Incas and their predecessors did not use writing
(40) invented a system of keeping records on knotted color-coded
but
__________
strings known as
quipu.
PART V
SECTION A MUTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONS
In this section there are three passages followed by ten multiple choice questions.
For each multiple choice question, there are four suggested answers marked
A, B,
C and D. Choose the one that you think is the best answer. Mark your answers on
ANSWER SHEET TWO.
PASSAGE ONE
(1)
When I was twenty-seven years old, I was a mining-broker’s clerk in San
Francisco, and an expert in all the details of stock traffic, I was alone in the
world, and had nothing to depend upon but my wits and a clean reputation; but these
were setting my feet in the road to eventual fortune, and I was content with the
prospect. My time was my own after the afternoon board, Saturdays, and I was
accustomed to putting it in on a little sail-boat on the bay. One day I ventured
too far, and was carried out to sea. Just at
nightfall, when hope was about gone,
I was picked up by a small ship which was bound for London. It was a long and stormy
voyage, and they made me work my passage without pay, as a common sailor. When I
stepped ashore in London my clothes were ragged and shabby, and I had only a dollar
in my pocket. This money fed and sheltered me twenty-four hours. During the next
twenty-four I went without food and shelter.
(2)
About ten o’clock on the following morning, dirty and hungry, I was dragging
myself along Portland Place, when a child that was passing, towed by a nurse-maid,
tossed a big pear——minus one bite——into the gutter. I stopped, of course, and
fastened my desiring eye on that muddy treasure. My mouth watered for it, my stomach
craved it, my whole being begged for it. But every time I made a move to get it some
passing eye detected my purpose, and of course I straightened up then, and looked
indifferent and pretended that I hadn’t been thinking about the pear at all. This
same thing kept happening and happening, and I couldn’t get the pear.
I was just getting desperate enough to brave all the shame, and to seize it,
(3)
when a window behind me was raised, and a gentleman spoke out of it, saying: “ Step
in here, please.”
(4)
I was admitted by a man servant, and shown into a sumptuous room where a couple
of elderly gentlemen were sitting. They sent away the servant, and made me sit down.
They had just finished their breakfast, and the sight of the remains of it almost
overpowered me. I could hardly keep my wits together in the presence of that food,
but as I was not asked to sample it, I had to bear my trouble as best as I could.
(5)
Now, something had been happening there a little before, which I did not know
anything about until a good many days afterwards, but I will tell you about it now.
Those two old brothers had been having a pretty hot argument a couple of days before,
and had ended by agreeing to decide it by a bet, which is the English way of settling
everything.
(6)
You will remember that the Bank of England once issued two notes of a million
pounds each, to be used for a special purpose connected with some public transaction
with a foreign country. For some reason or other only one of these had been used
and canceled; the other still lay in the vaults of the Bank. Well, the brothers,
chatting along, happened to get to wondering what might be the fate of a perfectly
honest and intelligent stranger who should be turned adrift in London without a
friend, and with no money but that million-pound bank-note, and no way to account
for his being in possession of it. Brother A said he would starve to death; Brother
B said he wouldn’t. Brother A said he couldn’t offer it at a bank or anywhere else,
because he would be arrested on the spot. So they went on disputing till Brother
B said he would bet twenty thousand pounds that the man would live thirty days, anyway,
on that million, and keep out of jail, too. Brother A took him up. Brother B went
down to the Bank and bought that note. Then he dictated a letter, which one of his
clerks wrote out in a beautiful round hand, and then the two brothers sat at the
window a whole day watching for the right man to give it to.
(7)
41.
A.
B.
C.
D.
42.
A.
B.
C.
D.
43.
effect of the
one-million-pound bank-note on a total strange.
A.
B.
C.
D.
PASSAGE TWO
(1)
The concept of peace is a very important one in cultures all over the world.
Think about how we greet people. In some language, the phrases for greetings contain
the word for peace. In some cultures we greet people by shaking hands or with another
the man wanted to maintain dignity though starved
the man could not get a proper chance to eat the pear
The man did not really want the pear since it was dirty
it was very difficult for the man to get the pear
put me aside
start my journey
prepare me
let me walk
In Para. 1, the phrase “set my feet” probably means
It can be concluded from Para. 2 that
__________.
Compared with Brother A, Brother B was more
__________
towards the
I finally became the pick of it.
__________.
neutral
negative
reserved
positive
gesture to show that we are not carrying weapons --- that we come in peace. And there
are certain symbols which people in very different cultures recognize as
representing peace. Let’s look at a few of them.
The dove
(2)
The dove has been a symbol of peace and innocence for thousands of years in
many different cultures. In ancient Greek mythology it was a symbol of love and the
renewal of life. In ancient Japan a dove carrying a sword symbolized the end of war.
(3)
There was a tradition in Europe that if dove flew around a house where someone
was dying then their soul would be at peace. And there are legends which say that
devil can turn himself into any bird except for a dove. In Christian art, the dove
was used to symbolized the Holy Ghost and was often painted above Christ’s head.
(4)
But it was Pablo Picasso who made the dove a modern symbol of peace when he
used it on a poster for the World Peace Congress in 1949.
The rainbow
(5)
The rainbow is another ancient and universal symbol, often representing the
connection between human beings and their gods. In Greek mythology it was associated
with Iris, the goddess who brought messages from the gods on Mount Olympus. In
Scandinavian mythology the rainbow was a bridge between the gods and the earth. In
the Bible a rainbow showed Noah that the Biblical flood was finally over, and that
God had forgiven his people. In the Chinese tradition, the rainbow is a common symbol
for marriage because the colours represent the union of yin and yang. Nowadays the
rainbow is used by many popular movements for peace and the environment, representing
the possibility of a better world in the future and promising sunshine after rain.
Mistletoe
(6)
This plant was sacred in many cultures, generally representing peace and love.
Most people know of the tradition of kissing under the mistletoe at Christmas time,
which probably comes from Scandinavian mythology. The goddess Freya’s son was killed
by an arrow made of mistletoe, so, in honour of him, she declared that it would always
be a symbol of peace. It was often hung in doorways as a sign of friendship.
(7)
The ancient Druids believed that hanging mistletoe in your doorway could
protect you from evil spirits. Tribes would stop fighting for a period of time if
they found a tree with mistletoe. But you will never see mistletoe in a Christian
church - it is banned because of its associations with pagan religion and
superstition.
The olive branch
The olive tree has always been a valuable source of food and oil. In Greek
(8)
mythology, the goddess Athena gave the olive tree to the people of Athens, who showed
their gratitude by naming the city after her. But no one knows for sure when or why
it began to symbolize peace. There is probably a connection with ancient Greece.
Wars between states were suspended during the Olympics Games, and the winners were
given crowns of olive branches. The symbolism may come from the fact that the olive
tree takes a long time to produce fruit, so olives could only be cultivated
successfully in long periods of peace. Whatever the history, the olive branch is
a part of many modern flags symbolizing peace and unity. One well-known example is
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