2015 年 6 月英语四级真题及答案第三套
Part I Writing(30 minutes)
Direction.s: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write an essay based on
the picture below.You should start your essay with a brief description of the picture
and then comment on parents' role in their children's growth. You should write at
least 120 words but no more than 180 words.
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Part IIListening Comprehension ( 30 minutes )
SectionA
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 bea 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 AnswerSheet I with a single line through the centre.
1. A. The woman is the manager's secretary.
B. The man found himself in a wrong place.
C. The man is the manager's business associate.
D. The woman was putting up a sign on the wall.
2. A. He needs more time for the report.
B. He needs help to interpret the data.
C. He is sorry not to have helped the woman.
D. He does not have sufficient data to go on.
3. A. A friend from New York.
B. A message from Tony.
C. A postal delivery.
D. A change in the weather.
4. A. She is not available until the end of next week.
B. She is not a reliable source of information.
C. She does not like taking exams.
D. She does not like psychology.
5. A. He will help the woman carry the suitcase.
B. The woman's watch is twenty minutes fast.
C. The woman shouldn't make such a big fuss.
D. There is no need for the woman to be in a hurry.
6. A. Mary is not so easygoing as her.
B. Mary and she have a lot in conmon.
C. She finds it hard to get along with Mary.
D. She does not believe what her neighborssaid.
7. A. At an information service.
B. At a car wash point.
C. At a repair shop.
D. At a dry cleaner's.
8. A. The woman came to the concert at the man's request.
B. The man is already fed up with playing the piano.
C. The piece of music the man played is very popular.
D. The man's unique talents are the envy of many people.
Questions 9 to 12 are based on the conversation you have just heard.
9. A. He has taught Spanish for a couple of years at a local school.
B. He worked at the Brownstone Company for several years.
C. He owned a small retail business in Michigan years ago.
D. He has been working part-time in a school near Detroit.
10. A. He prefers a full-time job with more responsibility.
B. He is eager to find a job with an increased salary.
C. He likes to work in a company close to home.
D. He would rather get a less demanding job.
11. A. Sports.
B. Travel.
C. Foreign languages.
D. Computer games.
12. A. When he is supposed to start work.
B. What responsibilities he would have.
C. When he will be informed about his application.
D. What career opportunities her company can offer.
Questions 13 to 15 are based on the conversation you have just heard.
13. A. She is pregnant.
B. She is over 50.
C. She has just finished her project.
D. She is a good saleswoman.
14. A. He takes good care of Lisa.
B. He is the CEO of a giant company.
C. He is good at business management.
D. He works as a sales manager.
15. A. It is in urgent need of further development.
B. It produces goods popular among local people.
C. It has been losing market share in recent years.
D. It is well positioned to compete with the giants.
Section B
Directions: In this section, you will hoar 3 short passages. At tho end of each
passage, you will hoar some questions. Both the passage and tho questions will be
spoken only once. After youhoar a question, you must choose tho best answer from
the four choices marked A, B,C. and D. Then mark tho corresponding letter on Answer
Sheet I with a single linethrough tho centre.Passage One
Questions 16 to 19 are based on the passage you have just heard.
16. A. It is lined with tall trees.
B. It was widened recently.
C. It has high buildings on both sides.
D. It used to be dirty and disorderly.
17. A. They repaved it with rocks.
B. They built public restrooms on it.
C. They beautified it with plants.
D. They set up cooking facilities near it.
18. A. What makes life enjoyable.
B. How to work with tools.
C. What a community means.
D. How to improve health.
19. A. They were obliged to fulfill the signed contract.
B. They were encouraged by the city officials' praise.
C. They wanted to prove they were as capable as boys.
D. They derived happiness from the constructive work.
Passage Two
Questions 20 to 22 are based on the passage you have just heard.
20. A. The majority of them think it less important than computers:
B. Many of them consider it boring and old-fashioned.
C. The majority of them find it interesting.
D. Few of them read more than ten books a year.
21. A. Novels and stories.
B. Mysteries and detective stories.
C. History and science books.
D. Books on culture and tradition.
22. A. Watching TV.
B. Listening to music.
C. Reading magazines.
D. Playing computer games.
Passage Three
Questions 23 to 25 are based on the passage you have just heard.
23. A. Advice on the purchase of cars.
B. Information about the new green-fuel vehicles.
C. Trends for the development of the motor car.
D. Solutions to global fuel shortage.
24. A. Limited driving range.
B. Huge recharging expenses.
C. The short life of batteries.
D. The unaffordable high price.
25. A. They need to be further improved.
B. They can easily switch to natural gas.
C. They are more cost-effective than vehicles powered by solar energy.
D. They can match conventional motor cars in performance and safety.
Section C
Directions: In this section, you will hoar a passage three times. When tho passage
is read for tho first time, you should listen carefully for its general idea. When
tho passage is read for tho second time, you are required to fill in tho blanks with
tho exact words you have just hoard. Finally, when tho passage is read for tho third
time, you should chock what you have written.
My favorite TV. show? "The Twilight Zone. " I26like the episode called "The
Printer'sDevil. " It's about a newspaper editor who's being27 out of business by
a big newspapersyndicate--you know, a group of papers28by the same people.He's about
to29when he's interrupted by an old man who says his name is Smith. The editor
is not only offered $ 5,000 to pay off his newspaper's30, but this Smith character
also offers hisservices for free. It turns out that the guy operates the printing
machine with amazing speed, and soon he's turning out newspapers with31 The small
paper is successful again. The editor is32athow quickly Smith gets his stories--only
minutes after they happen--but soon he's presented with acontract to sign. Mr. Smith,
it seems, is really the devil! The editor is frightened by this news, but he is more
frightened by the idea of losing his newspaper, so he agrees to sign. But soon Smith
is33the news even before it happens--and it's all terrible--one disaster after
another. Anyway, there is a little more to tell, but I don't want to34the story for
you. I really like these old episodes of "The Twilight Zone" because the stories
are fascinating. They are not realistic. But then again, in a way they are, because
they deal with35Part ill Reading Comprehension(40 minutes}
Section A
Directions: In this sectinm, there is a passage with ten blanks. You are required
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 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. As a
teacher, you could bring the community into your classroom in many ways. The parents
and grandparents of your students are resources and36for their children. They can
be37teachers of their own traditions and histories. Immigrant parents could talk
about their country of38and why they emigrated to the United States. Parents can
be invited to talk about their jobs or a community project. Parents, of course, are
not the only community resources. Employees at local businesses and staff at
community agencies have39information to share in classrooms. Field trips provide
another opportunity to know the community. Many students don't have the opporttmity
to40concerts or visit museums or historical sites except through field trips. A
school district should have41for selecting and conducting field trips. Families must
be made42of field trips and give permission for their children to participate.
Through school projects, students can learn to be43in community projects ranging
from planting trees to cleaning up a park to assisting elderly people.
Students,44older ones, might conduct research on a community need that could lead
to action by a city council or state government. Some schools require students to
provide community service by45in a nursing home, child care center or government
agency. These projects help students understand their responsibility to the larger
community.
A. Assets
I. joining
B. Attend
J. naturally
C. Aware
K. observe
D. especially
L. origin
E. Excellent
M. recruited
F. Expensive
N. up-to-date
G. guidelines
O. volunteering
H. involved
Section B
Directions: In this section, you are going to read a passage with ten statements
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 Sheet 2.
Reaping the Rewards of Risk-Taking
A. Since Steve Jobs resigned as chief executive of Apple, much has been said about
him as a peerless business leader who has created immense wealth for shareholders,
and guided the design of hit products that are transforming entire industries, like
music and mobile communications.
B. All true, but let's think different, to borrow the Apple marketing slogan of years
back. Let's look at Mr. Jobs as a role model.
C. Above all, he is an innovator (创新者). His creative force is seen in products
such as the iPod, iPhone, and iPad, and in new business models for pricing and
distributing music and mobile software online. Studies of innovation come to the
same conclusion: you can't engineer innovation, but you can increase the odds of
it occurring. And Mr. Jobs' career can be viewed as a consistent pursuit of improving
those odds, both for himself and the companies he has led. Mr. Jobs, of course, has
enjoyed singular success. But innovation, broadly defined, is the crucial ingredient
in all economic progress--higher growth for nations, more competitive products for
companies, and more prosperous careem for individuals. And Mr. Jobs, many experts
say, exemplifies what works in the innovation game.
D. "We can look at and learn from Steve Jobs what the essence of American innovation
is," says John Kao, an innovation consultant to corporations and governments. Many
other nations, Mr. John Kao notes, axe now ahead of the United States in producing
what are considered the raw materials of innovation. These include government
financing for scientific research, national policies to support emerging industries,
educational achievement, engineers and scientists graduated, even the speeds of
Internet broadband service.
E. Yet what other nations typically lack, Mr. Kao adds, is a social environment that
encourages diversity, experimentation, risk-taking, and combining skills from many
fields into products that he calls "recombinant mash-ups (打碎重组)," like the
iPhone, which redefined the smartphone category. "The culture of other countries
doesn't support the kind of innovation that Steve Jobs exemplifies, as America does,"
Mr. John Kao says.
F. Workers of every rank are told these days that wide-ranging curiosity and
continuous learning are vital to tturiving in the modern economy. Formal education
matters, career counselors say, but real- life experience is often even more
valuable.
G. An adopted child, growing up in Silicon Valley, Mr. Jobs displayed those traits
early on. He wasfascinated by electronics as a child, building Heathkit
do-it-yourself projects, like radios. Mr. Jobs dropped out of Reed College after
only a semester and traveled around India in search of spiritual enlightenment,
before returning to Silicon Valley to found Apple with his friend, Stephen Wozniak,
an engineering wizard (奇才). Mr. Jobs was forced out of Apple in 1985, went off
and founded two other companies, Next and Pixar, before returning to Apple in 1996