课堂常规2015年6月大学英语四级真题(CET4)及答案解析

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Part II Listening Comprehension (30minutes)

Section A

Directions: In this section, you will bear 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 questions 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

center.

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1. A) He is pleased to sit on the committee C) He will tell the woman his

decision later

B) He is willing to offer the woman a hand D) He would like to become a club

member

2. A) Their planned trip to Vancouver is obviously overpriced

B) They should borrow a guide book instead of buying one

C ) The guide books in the library have the latest information

D) The library can help order guide books about Vancouver

3. A) He regrets having taken the history course

B) He finds little interests in history books

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C) He has trouble finishing his reading assignments

D) He has difficulty in writing the weekly book report

4. A) The man had better choose another restaurant

B) The new restaurant is a perfect place for dating

C) The new restaurant caught her fancy immediately

D) The man has good taste in choosing the restaurant

5. A) He has been looking forward to sping C)

He will clean the woman

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s

boots for spring

C) He has been waiting for the winter sale D) He will help the woman put things

away

6. A) At a tailor

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s C) In a cloth store

B) At Bob

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s home D) In a theatre

7. A) His guests favors Tibetan drinks C) Mineral water is good for health

B) His water is quite extraordinary D) Plain water will serve the purpose

8. A) Report the result of a discussion C) Submit an important documentation

B) Raise some environmental issues D) Revise an environmental report

Questions 9 to 12 are based on the conversation you just heard

9. A) They pollute the soil used to cover them

B) They are harmful to nearby neighborhoods

C) The rubbish in them takes long to dissolve

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D) The gas they emit is extremely poisonous

10. A) Growing populations C) Changed eating habits

B) Packaging materials D) Lower production cost

11. A) By saving energy C) By reducing poisonous wastes

B) By using less aluminum D) By making the most of materials

12. A) We are running out of natural resources soon

B) Only combined efforts can make a difference

C) The waste problem will eventually hurt all of us

D) All of us can actually benefit from recycling

Questions 13 to 15 are based on the conversation you have just heard.

13. A) Miami C) Bellingham

B) Vancouver D) Boston

14. A) To get information on one-way tickets to Canada

B) To inquire about the price of

“

Super saver

”

seats

C) To get advice on how to fly as cheaply as possible

D) To inquire about the shortest route to drive home

15. A) Join a tourist group C) Avoid trips in public holidays

B) Choose a major airline D) Book tickets as early as possible

Section B

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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 marketed A), B),C) and D). Then marked the correspond letter on

Answer sheet I with a single line through the centre.

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Passage one

Questions 16 to 18 are based on the passage you have just heard.

16. A) There are mysterious stories behind his works

B) There are many misunderstandings about him

C) His works have no match worldwide

d) His personal history is little known

17. A) He moved to Stratford-on-Avon in his childhood

B) He failed to go beyond grammar school

C) He was a member of the town council

D) He once worked in a well-know acting company

18. A) Writers of his time had no means to protect their works

B) Possible sources of clues about him were lost in a fire

C) His works were adapted beyond recognition

D) People of his time had little interest in him

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Passage Two

Questions 19-21 are based on the passage you have just heard

19. A) It shows you have been ignoring your health

B) It can seriously affect your thinking process

C) It is an early warning of some illness

D) It is a symptom of two much pressure

20. A) Reduce our workload C) Use painkillers for relief

B) Control our temper D) Avoid masking symptom

21. A) Lying down and having some sleep C) Going out for a walk

B) Rubbing and pressing one

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s back D) Listening to light music

Passage Three

Questions 22 to 25 are based on the passage you have just heard.

22. A) Depending heavily on loans C). Spending beyond one

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s means

B) Having no budget plans at all D). Leaving no room for large bills

23. A) Many of them can be cut C) Their payment cannot be delayed

B) All of them have to be covered D) They eat up most of the family income

24. A) Rent a house instead of buying one C) Make a conversation plan

B) Discuss the problem in the family D) Move to a cheaper place

25. A) Financial issues plaguing a family C) Family budget problems and

solutions

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B) Difficulty in making both ends meet D) New ways to boost family income

Section C

Directions: in this section,you will hear a paasage 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 reaf for the

third time, you should check what you have written.

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Perhaps because going to college is so much a part of the American dream,

many people go for no(26)_____reason. Some go because their parents ecpect it,

others because it

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college degree will(27)____ensure a good job and high pay.

Some students (28)____ through for years ,attending classes, or skipping(

逃

课

) them as the case may be, reading only what can

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t be avoided, looking for

less(29)_____courses,and never being touched or changed in any important way.

For a few of these people, college provides no(30)____

，

yet because of parental or

peer pressure, they cannot voluntarily leave. They stop trying in the hope that their

teachers will make the decision for them by(31)____ them.

To put it bluntly(

直截了当地

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unless you

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years count, you might be(32)_____ doing something else. Not everyone should

attend college, nor should everyone who does attend begin right after high school.

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Many college students(33)_____ taking a year or so off. A year out in the world

helps some people to(34)_____their priorities and goals. If you

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re really going to

get something out of going to college, you have to make it mean something, and to

do that you must have some idea why you

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re there, what you hope to get out of it,

and (35)_____even what you hope to become.

Part III Reading Comprehension (40minutes)

Section A

Direction: 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

follwing the passage. Read the passage through carefully before making choices.

Each choie in the bank is identificated by a letter. Please mark the corresponding

letter for each item on Answere Sheet2 with a single line through the centre. You

may not use any of the words in the bank more than once.

Question 36 to 45 are based on the following passage.

It

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s our guilty pleasure: Watching TV is the most common everyday

activity,after work and sleep, in many parts of the world. Americans view five hours

of TV each day, and while we know that spending so much time sitting ___36___

can lead to obesity(

肥胖症

) and other diseases, researchers have now quantified

just how___37___being a couch potato can be.

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In an analysis of data from eight large ___38___published studies, a

Harvard-led group reported in the Journal of the American Medical Association that

for every two hours per day spent channel ___39___,the risk of developing Type 2

diabetes(

糖尿病

)rose 20% over 8.5 years, the risk of heart disease increased 15%

over a ___40___, and the odds of dying permaturely___41___ 13% during a

seven-year follow-up .All of these___42____are linked to a lack of physical exercise.

But compared with other sedentary(

久坐的

)activities, like knitting ,viewing TV may

be especially__43___at promoting unhealthy habits. For one, the sheer number of

hours we pass watching TV dwarfs the time we spend on anything else. And other

studies have found that watching ads for beer and popcorn may make you more

likely to ___44___them.

Even so, the authors admit that they didn

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t compare different sedentary

activities to ___45___whether TV watching was linked to a greater risk of

diabetes,heart disease or clearly death compared with, say, reading.

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A)climbed I)previously

B)conseme J)resume

C)decade K)suffered

D)determine L)suffering

E)effectIve M)term

F)harmful N)terminals

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G)outcomes O)twisting

H)passively

Section B

Directions: In this section,you are going to read a passage with ten statements

attavched 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

question by marking the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 2

Essay -granding Software Officers Professors a Break

[A] Imagine taking a college exam, and instead of handing in a blue book and

getting a grade from a professoer a few weeks later, clicking the

“

send

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button

when you are done and receiving a grade back instantly, your essay scored by a

software program. And then, instead of being done with the exam, imagine that the

system would immediately let you rewrite the test to try to improve your grade.

[B] Edx,the nonprofit enterprise founded by Harvard and the Massachusetts

Institute of Thnology(MIT) to offer courses on the Internet ,has just introduced such

a system and will make its automated(

自动的

)software available free on the Web to

any institutioons that wants to use it. The software uses artificial intelligence to

grade student essays and short written answers, freeing professors for other tasks.

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[C] The new service will bring the educational consortium(

联盟

)into a growing

conflict over the role of the automation education. Altough automated grading

systems for multiple-choice and true- false tests are now widespread, the use of

artificial intelligence technology to grade essay answers has not yet provided

widespread acceptance by educations and has many critics.

[D] Anant Agarwal, an electrical engineer who is president of Edx, predicted

that the instant grading software would be a useful teaching tool,enabling students

to take tests and write essays over and over and improve the quality of their

answers . He said the technology would offer distinct advantages over the traditional

classroom system, where students often wait days or weeks for grades.

“

Thers is a

huge value in learning with instant feedback,

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l said,

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Students are

telling us they learn much better with instant feedback.

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[E] But skeptics(

怀疑者

)say the automated system is no matter for live

teachers. One longtime critic, Les Perelman

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has drawn national attention several

times for putting together nonsense essays that have fooled software grading

programs into giving high marks. He has also been highly critical of studies claiming

that the software compares well to human grades.

[F] He is among a group of educators who last month began circulating a

petition(

呼吁

) opposing automated assessment software. The group, which calls

itself Professionals Against Machine Scoring of Student Essays in High- Stakes

Assessment, has collected nearly 2,000 signatures, including some from famous

people like Noam Chomsky.

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[G]

“

Let

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s face the realities of automatic essay scoring,

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the group

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statement reads in part.

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Computers cannot

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read

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