2013年6月英语四级考试真题以及答案(第二套).doc

2013年6月四级真题(第2套) Part I Writing (30 minutes) Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a short essay. You should 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. 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 of each conversation, one or more questions will be asked about what was said. Both the conversation and the questions will be spoken only once. After each question there will be 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. 注意：此部分试题请在答题卡1上作答。 1. A． Children should be taught to be more careful. B． Children shouldn't drink so much orange juice. C． There is no need for the man to make such a fuss. D． Timmy should learn to do things in the right way. 2.. A． Fitness training. B． The new job offer. C． Computer programming. D． Directorship of the club. 3. A． He needs to buy a new sweater. B． He has got to save on fuel bills. C． The fuel price has skyrocketed. D． The heating system doesn't work.. 4. A． Committing theft. B． Taking pictures. C． Window shopping. D． Posing for the camera. 5. A． She is taking some medicine. B． She has not seen a doctor yet. C． She does not trust the man's advice. D． She has almost recovered from the cough. 6. A． Pamela's report is not finished as scheduled. B． Pamela has a habit of doing things in a hurry. C． Pamela is not good at writing research papers. D． Pamela's mistakes could have been avoided. 7. A． In the left-luggage office. B． At the hotel reception. C． In a hotel room. D． At an airport. 8. A． She was an excellent student at college. B． She works in the entertainment business. C． She is fond of telling stories in her speech. D． She is good at conveying her message. Questions 9 to 11 are based on the conversation you have just heard. 9. A． Arranging the woman's appointment with Mr. Romero. B． Fixing the time for the designer's latest fashion show. C． Talking about an important gathering on Tuesday. D． Preparing for the filming on Monday morning. 10. A． Her travel to Japan. B． The awards ceremony. C． The proper hairstyle for her new role. D． When to start the makeup session. 11. A． He is Mr. Romero's agent. B． He is an entertainment journalist. C． He is the woman's assistant. D． He is a famous movie star. Questions 12 to 15 are based on the conversation you have just heard. 12. A． Make an appointment for an interview. B． Send in an application letter. C． Fill in an application form. D． Make a brief self-introduction on the phone. 13. A． Someone having a college degree in advertising. B． Someone experienced in business management. C． Someone ready to take on more responsibilities. D． Someone willing to work beyond regular hours. 14. A． Travel opportunities. B． Handsome pay. C． Prospects for promotion. D． Flexible working hours. 15. A． It depends on the working hours. B． It is about 500 pounds a week. C． It will be set by the Human Resources. D． It is to be negotiated. 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 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. 注意：此部分试题请在答题卡1上作答。 Passage One Questions 16 to 19 are based on the passage you have just heard. 16. A． To give customers a wider range of choices. B． To make shoppers see as many items as possible. C． To supply as many varieties of goods as it can. D． To save space for more profitable products. 17. A． On the top shelves. B． On the bottom shelves. C． On easily accessible shelves. D． On clearly marked shelves. 18. A． Many of them buy things on impulse. B．A few of them are fathers with babies. C． A majority of them are young couples. D． Over 60% of them make shopping lists. 19. A． Sales assistants promoting high margin goods. B． Sales assistants following customers around. C． Customers competing for good bargains. D． Customers losing all sense of time. Passage Two Questions 20 to 22 are based on the passage you have just heard. 20. A． Teaching mathematics at a school. B． Doing research in an institute. C． Studying for a college degree. D． Working in a hi-tech company. 21. A． He studied the designs of various clocks. B． He did experiments on different materials. C． He bought an alarm clock with a pig face. D． He asked different people for their opinions. 22. A． Its automatic mechanism. B． Its manufacturing process. C． Its way of waking people up. D． Its funny-looking pig face. Passage Three Questions 23 to 25 are based on the passage you have just heard. 23. A． It is often caused by a change of circumstances. B． It actually doesn't require any special treatment. C． It usually appears all of a sudden. D． It generally lasts for several years. 24. A． They cannot mix well with others. B． They irrationally annoy their friends. C． They depend heavily on family members. D． They blame others for ignoring their needs. 25. A． They lack consistent support from peers. B． They doubt their own popularity. C． They were born psychologically weak. D． They focus too much on themselves. Section C Directions: In this section, you will hear a passage three times. When the passage is read for the first time, you should listen carefully for its general idea. When the passage is read for the second time you are required to fill in the blanks with the exact words you have just heard. Finally, when the passage is read for the third time, you should check what you have written. 注意：此部分试题请在答题卡1上作答。 There was a time when any personal information that was gathered about us was typed on a piece of paper and (26) ________ in a file cabinet. It could remain there for years and, often (27) ________ , never reach the outside world. Things have done a complete about-face since then. (28) ________ the change has been the astonishingly swift development in recent years of the computer. Today, any data that is collected about us in one place or another--and for one reason or another--can be stored in a computer bank. It can then be easily passed to other computer banks. They are owned by (29) ________ and by private businesses and corporations, lending institutions, direct mailing and telemarketing firms, credit bureaus, credit card companies, and government agencies at the local, state, and (30) ________ level. A growing number of Americans are seeing the accumulation and (31) ________ of computerized data as a frightening invasion of their privacy. Surveys show that the number of the worrying Americans has been (32) ________ growing over the years as the computer becomes increasingly (33) ________, easier to operate, and less costly to purchase and (34) ________. In 1970, a national survey showed that 37% of the people questioned felt their privacy was being invaded. Seven years later, 47 percent expressed the same worry. A recent survey by a credit bureau reviewed that the number of alarmed citizens had (35) ________ to 76%. 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 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. Walking, if you do it vigorously enough, is the overall best exercise for regular physical activity. It requires no equipment, everyone knows how to do it and it carries the___36_____risk of injury. The human body is designed to wall. You can walk in parks or along a river or in your neighborhood. To get___37_____benefit from walking, aim for 45 minutes a day, an average of five days a week. Strength training is another important___38_____of .physical activity. Its purpose is to build and____39____ bone and muscle mass, both of which shrink with age. In general, you will want to do strength training two or three days a week, ___40_____recovery days between sessions. Finally, flexibility and balance training are___41_____important as the body ages. Aches and pains, are high on the list of complaints in old age. The result of constant muscle tension and stiffness of joints, many of them are___42_____, and simple flexibility training can____43____these by making muscles stronger and keeping joints lubricated (润滑). Some of this you do whenever you stretch. If you watch dogs and cats, you'll get an idea of how natural it is. The general ___44_____is simple: whenever the body has been in one position for a while, it is good to ___45_____stretch it in an opposite position. 注意：此部分试题请在答题卡2上作答。 A． allowing B． avoidable C． briefly D． component E． determined F． helping G． increasingly H． lowest I． maintain J． maximum K． prevent L． principle M． provoke N． seriously O． topic 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. Can Digital Textbooks Truly Replace the Print Kind? A． The shortcomings of traditional print edition textbooks are obvious: For starters they're heavy, with the average physics textbook weighing 3.6 pounds. They're also expensive, especially when you factor in the average college student's limited budget, typically costing hundreds of dollars every semester. But the worst part is that print versions of textbooks are constantly undergoing revisions. Many professors require that their students use only the latest versions in the classroom, essentially rendering older texts unusable. For students, it means they're basically stuck with a four pound paperweight that they Can't sell back. B． Which is why digital textbooks, if they live up to their promise, could help ease many of these shortcomings. But till now, they've been something like a mirage (幻影) in the distance, more like a hazy (模糊的) dream than an actual reality. Imagine the promise: Carrying all your textbooks in a 1.3 pound iPad ? It Sounds almost too good to be true. But there are a few pilot schools already making the transition (过渡) over to digital books. Universities like Cornell. and Brown have jumped onboard. And one medical program at the University of California, Irvine, gave their entire class iPads with which to download textbooks just last year. C． But not all were eager to jump aboard. "People were tired of using the iPad textbook besides using it for reading," says Kalpit Shah, who will be going into his second year at Irvine's medical program this fall. "They weren't using it as a source of communication because they couldn't read or write in it. So a third of the-people in my program were using the iPad in class to take notes, the other third were using laptops and the last third were using paper and pencil." The reason it hasn't caught on yet, he tells me, is that the functionality of e-edition textbooks is incredibly limited, and some students just aren't motivated to learn new study behavior. D． But a new application called Inlding might change all that. The company just released an updated version last week, and it'll be utilized in over 50 undergraduate and graduate classrooms this coming school year. "Digital textbooks are not going to catch on," says Inkling CEO Matt MacInnis as he's giving me a demo (演示) over coffee. "What I mean by that is the current perspective of the digital textbook is it's an exact copy of the print book. There's Course Smart, etc., these guys who take an image of the page and put it on a screen. If that's how we're defining digital textbooks, there's no hope of that becoming a mainstream product." He calls Inkling a platform for publishers to build rich multimedia content from the ground up, with a heavy emphasis on real-world functionality. The traditional textbook merely serves .as a skeleton. E． At first glance Inkling is an impressive experience. After swiping (触击) into the iPad app (应用软件), which you can get for free here, he opens up a few different types of textbooks. Up first is a chemistry book. The boot time is pretty fast, and he navigates through (浏览) a few chapters before swiping into afully rendered 3D molecule that can be spun around to view its various building blocks. "Publishers give us all of the source media, artwork, videos," he says. "We help them think through how to actually build something for this platform." Next he pulls up a music composition textbook, complete with playable demos. It's a learning experience that attacks you from multiple sensory directions. It's clear why this would be something a music major would love. F． But the most exciting part about Inkling, to me, is its notation (批注) system. Here's how it works: When you purchase a used print book, it comes with its previous owner's highlights and notes in the margins. It uses the experience of someone who already went through the class to help improve your reading (how much you trust each notation is obviously up to you). But with Inkling, you can highlight a piece of content and make notes. Here's where things get interesting, though: If a particularly important passage is highlighted by multiple Inkling users, that information is stored on the cloud and is available for anyone reading the same textbook to come across. That means users have access to notes from not only their classmates and Facebook friends, but anyone who purchased the book across the country. The best comments are then Sorted democratically by a voting system, meaning that your social learning experience is shared with the best and brightest thinkers. As a bonus, professors can even chime in (插话) on discussions. They'll be able to answer" the questions of students who are in their class directly via the interactive b6ok. G． Of course, Inkling addresses Several of the other shortcomings