77552018年6月英语四级考试真题 ( 第3套)

2021年1月19日发(作者：relax什么意思)
Part. I Writing (30 minutes)

Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a short essay on the importance
of speaking ability and how to develop it. You should write at least 120 words but no more
than 180 words.

Part II. Listening Comprehension (30 minutes)
说明：
由于
2018年
6
月四级考试全国共考了两套听力
,
本套真题听力与前两套内容相同
,
只
是选项顺序不同
,
因此在本套真题中不再重复出现。


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.

Neon (
霓虹
) is to Hong Kong as red phone booths are to London and fog is to San Francisco.
When night falls, red and blue and other colors 26 a hazy (
雾蒙蒙的
) glow over a city lit up
by tens of thousands of neon signs. But many of them are going dark, 27 by more practical,
but less romantic, LEDs (
发光二极管
).
Changing building codes, evolving tastes, and the high cost of maintaining those wonderful
old signs have businesses embracing LEDs, which are energy 28 , but still carry great cost.
me, neon represents memories of the past,
Hong Kong Neon celebrates the city's famous signs.
of amazement, mixed with sadness.
Building a neon sign is an art practiced by 29 trained on the job to mold glass tubes into 30
shapes and letters. They fill these tubes with gases that glow when 31 . Neon makes orange,
while other gases make yellow or blue. It takes many hours to craft a single sign.
Blance spent a week in Hong Kong and 32 more than 60 signs; 22 of them appear in the
series that capture the signs lighting up lonely streets
—
an 33 that makes it easy to admire
their colors and craftsmanship.
says Blance. The signs do nothing more than 35 a restaurant, theater, or other business, but
do so in the most striking way possible.
A) alternative B) approach C) cast D) challenging E) decorative F) efficient G) electrified H)
identify I) photographed J) professionals K) quality L) replaced M) stimulate N) symbolizes O)
volunteers


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.

New Jersey School District Eases Pressure on Students
—
Baring an Ethnic Divide

A) This fall, David Aderhold, the chief of a high-achieving school district near Princeton, New
Jersey, sent parents an alarming 16-page letter. The school district, he said, was facing a crisis.
Its students were overburdened and stressed out, having to cope with too much work and
too many demands. In the previous school year, 120 middle and high school students were
recommended
for
mental
health
assessments
and
40
were
hospitalized.
And
on
a
survey
administered by the district, students wrote things like,
out of 12 years in this district, I have learned one thing: that a grade, a percentage or even a
point is to be valued over anything else.
B) With his letter, Aderhold inserted West Windsor-Plainsboro Regional School District into a
national discussion about the intense focus on achievement at elite schools, and whether it
has gone too far. At follow-up meetings, he urged parents to join him in advocating a
child
meaningful learning
prospect of becoming another Palo Alto, California, where outsize stress on teenage students
is believed to have contributed to a number of suicides in the last six years.
C) But instead of bringing families together, Aderhold's letter revealed a divide in the district,
which has 9,700 students, and one that broke down roughly along racial lines. On one side
are
white
parents
like
Catherine
Foley,
a
former
president
of
the
Parent-Teacher-Student
Association at her daughter's middle school, who has come to see the district's increasingly
pressured atmosphere as opposed to learning.
not going to amount to anything because I have nothing to put on my resume,'
the other side are parents like Mike Jia, one of the thousands of Asian-American professionals
who
have
moved
to
the
district
in
the
past
decade,
who
said
Aderhold's
reforms
would
amount to a
national anti-intellectual trend that will not prepare our children for the future,
D)
About
10
minutes
from
Princeton
and
an
hour
and
a
half
from
New
York
City,
West
Windsor
and
Plainsboro
have
become
popular
bedroom
communities
for
technology
entrepreneurs, researchers and engineers, drawn in large part by the public schools. From the
last three graduating classes, 16 seniors were admitted to MIT. It produces Science Olympiad
winners, classically trained musicians and students with perfect SAT scores.
E) The district has become increasingly popular with immigrant families from China, India and
Korea. This year, 65 percent of its students are Asian-American, compared with 44 percent in
2007. Many of them are the first in their families born in the United States. They have had a
growing influence on the district. Asian- American parents are enthusiastic supporters of the
competitive instrumental music program. They have been huge supporters of the district's
advanced mathematics program, which once began in the fourth grade but will now start in
the sixth. The change to the program, in which 90 percent of the participating students are
Asian-American, is one of Aderhold's reforms.
F) Asian-American students have been eager participants in a state program that permits
them to take summer classes off campus for high school credit, allowing them to maximize
the number of honors and Advanced Placement classes they can take, another practice that
Aderhold
is
limiting
this
school
year.
With
many
Asian- American
children
attending
supplementary instructional programs, there is a perception among some white families that
the elementary school curriculum is being sped up to accommodate them.
G)
Both
Asian- American
and
white
families
say
the
tension
between
the
two
groups
has
grown steadily over the past few years, as the number of Asian families has risen. But the
division
has
become
more
obvious
in
recent
months
as
Aderhold
has
made
changes,
including no-homework nights, an end to high school midterms and finals, and an initiative
that made it easier to participate in the music program.
H) Jennifer Lee, professor of sociology at the University of California, Irvine, and an author of
the Asian American Achievement Paradox, says misunderstanding between first-generation
Asian-American parents and those who have been in this country longer are common. What
white middle-class parents do not always understand, she said, is how much pressure recent
immigrants
feel
to
boost
their
children
into
the
middle
class.

don't
have
the
same
chances to get their children internships (
实习职位
) or jobs at law firms,
they believe is that their children must excel and beat their white peers in academic settings
so they have the same chances to excel later.
I) The issue of the stresses felt by students in elite school districts has gained attention in
recent years as schools in places like Newton, Massachusetts, and Palo Alto have reported a
number of suicides. West Windsor-Plainsboro has not had a teenage suicide in recent years,
but Aderhold, who has worked in the district for seven years and been chief for the last three
years, said he had seen troubling signs. In a recent art assignments, a middle school student
depicted (
描绘
) an overburdened child who was being scolded for earning an A, rather than
an A+ , on a math exam. In the image, the mother scolds the student with the words,
on you!
pieces of writing on state English language assessments in which students expressed suicidal
thoughts.
J) The survey commissioned by the district found that 68 percent of high school honor and
Advanced Placement students reported feeling stressed about school
time.
it's too late to do something.
K) Not all public opinion has fallen along racial lines. Karen Sue, the Chinese-American mother
of a fifth-grader and an eighth-grader, believes the competition within the district has gotten
out of control. Sue, who was born in the United States to immigrant parents, wants her peers
to dial it back.
our kids to achieve and be successful. The question is, at what cost?
36. Aderhold is limiting the extra classes that students are allowed to take off campus.
37. White and Asian-American parents responded differently to Aderhold's appeal.
38. Suicidal thoughts have appeared in some students' writings.
39.
Aderhold's
reform
of
the
advanced
mathematics
program
will
affect
Asian-American
students most.