2014年6月四级考试真题（第2套）和答案.doc

2014年6月四级考试真题（第2套） Part I Writing (30 minutes) Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write an 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 your hometown,what is the most interesting 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. 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. 1.A) They came in five different colors. B) They were good value for money. C) They were a very good design. D) They were sold out very quickly. 2. A) Ask her roommate not to speak loudly on the phone. B) Ask her roommate to make the phone calls outside. C) Go and find a quieter place to review her lessons. D) Report her problem to the dorm management. 3. A) The washing machine is totally beyond repair. B) He will help Wendy prepare her annual report. C) Wendy should give priority to writing her report. D) The washing machine should be checked annually. 4.A) The man fell down when removing the painting. B) The wall will be decorated with a new painting. C) The woman likes the painting on the wall, D) The painting is now being reframed. 5. A) It must be missing. B) It was left in the room. C) The man took it to the market. D) She placed it on the dressing table. 6. A) Go to a play. B) Meet Janet. C) Book some tickets. D) Have a get-together 7.A) One box of books is found missing. B) Some of the boxes arrived too late. C) Replacements have to be ordered. D) Some of the books are damaged. 8. A) The man will pick up Professor Johnson at her office. B) The man did not expect his paper to be graded so soon. C) Professor Johnson has given the man a very high grade. D) Professor Johnson will talk to each student in her office. Questions 9 to 11 are based on the conversation you have just heard. 9. A) To buy a present for his friend who is getting married. B) To find out the cost for a complete set of cookware. C) To see what he could ask his friends to buy for him. D) To make inquiries about the price of an electric cooker. 10. A) To teach him how to use the kitchenware. B) To discuss cooking experiences with him. C) To tell him how to prepare delicious dishes. D) To recommend suitable kitchenware to him. 11. A) There are so many different sorts of knives. B) Cooking devices are such practical presents. C) A mixer can save so much time in making cakes. D) Saucepans and frying pans are a must in the kitchen. Questions 12 to 15 are based on the conversation you have just heard. 12. A) Some new problems in her work. B) Cooperation with an international bank. C) Her chances for promotion in the bank. D) Her intention to leave her present job. 13.A) The World Bank. B) Bank of Washington. C) A US finance corporation. D) An investment bank in New York. 14. A)Supervising financial transactions. B) Taking charge of public relations. C) Making loans to private companies in developing countries. D) Offering service to international companies in the United States. 15. A) It is a first major step to realizing the woman’s dream. B) It is an honor for the woman and her present employer. C) It is a loss for her current company. D) It is really beyond his expectation. 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. Passage One Questions 16 to 18 are based on the passage you have just heard. 16. A) Carry out a thorough checkup. B) Try to keep the gas tank full. C)Keep extra gas in reserve. D)Fill up the water tank. 17. A) Attempting to leave your car to seek help. B) Opening a window a bit to let in fresh air. C)Running the engine every now and then. D) Keeping the heater on for a long time. 18. A) It exhausts you physically. B) It makes you fall asleep easily. C) It causes you to lose body heat. D) It consumes too much oxygen. Passage Two Questions 19 to 21 are based on the passage you have just heard. 19. A) They are very generous in giving gifts. B) They refuse gifts when doing business. C) They regard gifts as a token of friendship. D) They give gifts only on special occasions. 20. A) They enjoy giving gifts to other people. B) They spend a lot of time choosing gifts C) They have to follow many specific rules. D) They pay attention to the quality of gifts. 21. A) Gift-giving plays an important role in human relationships. B) We must aware of cultural differences in giving gifts. C) We must learn how to give gifts before going abroad. D) Reading extensively makes one a better gift-giver. Passage Three Questions 22 to 25 are based on the passage you have just heard. 22. A) It reflects American people’s view of French politics. B) It is first published in Washington and then in Paris. C) It explains American politics to the French public. D) It is popular among French government officials. 23. A) Work on her column. B) Do housework at home. C) Entertain her guests. D) Go shopping downtown. 24. A) To report to her newspaper. B) To refresh her French.. C) To visit her parents. D) To meet her friends. 25. A) She might be recalled to France. B) She might change her profession. C) She might close her Monday column. D) She might be assigned to a new post. 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. According to American law,if someone is accused of a crime,he is considered 26 until the court proves the person is guilty. To arrest a person,the police have to be reasonably sure that a crime has been 27 . The police must give the suspect the reasons why they are arresting him and tell him his rights under the law. Then the place take the suspect to the police station,where the name of the person and the 28 against him are formally listed. The next step is for the suspect to go before a judge. The judge decides whether the suspect should be kept in jail or 29 . If the suspect has no previous criminal record and the judge feels that he will return to court 30 run away, he can go free. Otherwise,the suspect must put up bail(保释金). At this time, too, the judge will 31 a court lawyer to defend the suspect if he can’t afford one. The suspect returns to court a week or two later. A lawyer form the district attorney’s office presents a case against the suspect. The attorney may present 32 as well as witnesses.The judge then decides whether there is enough reason to 33 . The American justice system is very complex and sometimes operates slowly. However,every step is 34 to protect the rights of the people. There individual rights are the 35 of the American government. 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. Many Brazilians cannot read. In 2000, a quarter of those aged 15 and older were functionally illiterate(文盲). Many 36 do not want to. Only one literate adult in three reads books. The 37 Brazilian reads 1.8 non-academic books a year, less than half the figure in Europe and United States . In a recent survey of reading habits, Brazilian came 27 th out of 30 countries. Argentines, their neighbors, 38 18th. The government and businesses are all struggling in different ways to change this. On March the government 39 a National Plan for Book and Reading. This seeks to boost reading, by founding libraries and financing publishers among other things. One discouragement to reading is that books are 40 .Most books have small print-runs,pushing up their price. But Brazilians’ indifference to books has deeper roots. Centuries of slavery meant the country’s leaders long 41 education.Primary schooling became universal only in the 1990s. All this means Brazil’s book market has the biggest growth 42 in the western world. But reading is a difficult habit to form.Brazilians bought fewer books in 2004,89 million,including textbooks 43 by the government,then they did in 1991. Last year the director of Brazil’s national library 44 .He complained that he had half the librarians he needed and termites(白蚁) had eaten much of the 45 . That ought to be cause for national shame. A) average I) normal B) collection J) particularly C) distributed K) potential D) exhibition L) quit E) expensive M) ranked F) launched N) simply G) named O) treasured H) neglected 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. The Touch-Screen Generation A) On a chilly day last spring, a few dozen developers of children’s apps(应用程序) for phones and tablets (平板电脑) gathered at an old beach resort in Monday, California,to off their games.The gathering was organized by Warren Buckleitner,a longtime reviewer of interactive children’s media.Buckleitner spent the breaks testing whether his own remote-control helicopter could reach the hall’s second story,while various children who had come with their parents looked up in awe(敬畏) and delight. But mostly they looked down,at the iPads and other tablets displayed around the hall like so many open boxes of candy. I walked around and talked with developers,and several quoted a famous saying of Maria Montessori’s, “The hands are the instruments of man’s intelligence.” B) What, really, would Maria Montessori have made of this scene? The 30 or so children here were not down at the shore poking(戳) their fingers in the sand or running them along stones or picking seashells. Instead they were all inside,alone or in groups of two or three, their faces a few inches from a screen, their hands doing things Montessori surely did not imagine. C) In 2011, the American Academy of Pediatrics updated its policy on very young children and media. In 1999, the group had discouraged television viewing for children younger than 2, citing research on brain development that showed this age group’s critical need for “direct interactions with parents and other significant care givers.” The updated report began by acknowledging that things had changed significantly since then. In 2006, 90% of parents said that their children younger than 2 consumed some form of electronic media. Nevertheless, the group took largely the same approach it did in 1999, uniformly discouraging passive media use, on any type of screen, for these kids. (For older children,the academy noted, “high-quality programs” could have “educational benefits.”) The 2011 report mentioned “smart cell phone” and “new screen” technologies, but did not address interactive apps. Nor did it bring up the possibility that has likely occurred to those 90% of American parents that some good might come from those little swiping(在电子产品上刷) fingers. D) I had come to the developers’ conference partly because I hoped that this particular set of parents, as they were about interactive media, might help me out of this problem, that they might offer some guiding principle for American parents who are clearly never going to meet the academy’s ideals, and at some level do not want to. Perhaps this group would be able to express clearly some benefits of the new technology that the more cautious doctors weren’t ready to address. E) I fell into conversation with a woman who had helped develop Montessori Letter Sounds, an app that teaches preschoolers the Montessori methods of spelling. She was a former Montessori teacher and a mother of four. I myself have three children who are all fans of the touch screen. What games did her kids like “They don’t play all that much.” Really? Why not? “Because I don’t allow it. We have a rule of no screen time during the week, unless it’s clearly educational.” No screen time? None at all? That seems at the outer edge of restrictive, even by the standards of overcontrolling parents. On the weekends,they can play. I give them a limit of half an hour and then stop. Enough.” F) Her answer so surprised me that I decided to ask some of the other developers who were also parents what their domestic ground rules for screen time were. One said only on airplanes and long car rides. Another said Wednesdays and weekends, for half an hour. The most permissive said half an hour a day, which was about my rule at home. At one point I sat wit one of the biggest developers of e-book apps for kids, and his family. The small kid was starting to fuss in her high chair, so the mom stuck an iPad in front of her and played a short movie so everyone else could enjoy their lunch. When she saw me watching, she gave me the universal tense look of mothers who feel they are being judged. “At home,” she assured me, “I only let her watch movies in Spanish.” G) By their reactions, these parents made me understand the problem of our age: as technology becomes almost everywhere in our lives, American parents are becoming more, not less, distrustful of what it might be doing to their