一个高尚的人2016年6月大学英语四级真题及答案解析

2016

年

6

月大学英 语四级真题及参考答案

Part

Ⅱ

Listening Comprehension

（听力部分共有两套）

四级第一套

Section A

1. C) Rising unemployment worldwide.

2. A) Many countries have not taken measures to create enough jobs.

3. B) Put calorie information on the menu.

4. A) They will be fined.C) They will get a warning.

5. D) Failure to integrate innovation into their business.

6. B) It is the creation of something new.

7. C) Its innovation culture.

Section B

8. D) He does not talk long on the phone.

9.B) Talk at length.

10. A) He thought it was cool.

11. C) It is childish and unprofessional.

12. B) He is unhappy with his department manager.

13. A) His workload was much too heavy.

14. C) His boss has a lot of trust in him.

15. D) Talk to his boss in person first.

Section C

16. A) The importance of sleep to a healthy life.

17. C) They get less and less sleep.

18. D) Their blood pressure will rise.

19. B) What course you are going to choose.

20. D) The personal statement.

21. C) Indicate they have reflected and thought about the subject.

22. B) It was built in the late 19th century.

23. D) They often broke down.

24. A) They were produced on the assembly line.

25. C) It marked a new era in motor travel.

四级第二套

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Section A

1. C) Why sufficient sleep is important for college students.

2. C) Making last-minute preparations for tests may be less effective than sleeping.

3. B) Whether the British irports Authority should sell off some of its assets.

4. D) Lack of runway and terminal capacity.

5. D) Report the nicotine content of their cigarettes.

6. A) The biggest increase in nicotine content tended to be in brands young smokers like.

7. B) They were not prepared to comment on the cigarette study.

Section B

8. A) Holland.

9. D) Learning a language where it is not spoken.

10. C) Trying to speak it as much as one can.

11. A) It provides opportunities for language practice.

12. B) Rules and regulations for driving.

13.C) Make cars that are less powerful.

14. D) They tend to drive responsibly.

15. C) It is not useful.

Section C

16. D) The card reader failed to do the scanning.

17. B) By covering the credit card with a layer of plastic.

18. A) Produce many low-tech fixes for high-tech failures.

19. A) They vary among different departments.

20.D) By contacting the deparmental office.

21. B) They specify the number of credits students must earn.

22. C) Students in health classes.

23. A) Its overemphasis on thinness.

24. B) To explain how computer images can be misleading.

25. C) To promote her own concept of beauty.

Part

Ⅲ

Reading Comprehension

四级第一套

Section A

26.O) tend

27.M) review

28.L) performance

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29.K) particularly

30.N) survive

31.E) dropping

32.J) mutually

33.H) flow

34.F) essential

35.I) mood

Section B

36.E

）

“

We thought we would see differences based on the housing types,

”

said the lead author

of

the

study,

Julie

Robison,

an

associate

professor

of

medicine

at

the

university.

A

reasonable

assumption

—

don't families struggle to avoid nursing homes and suffer real guilt if they can't?

37.L

）

Of

course,

sons

and

daughters

want

to

visit

the

facilities,

talk

to

the

administrators

and

residents and other families, and do everything possible to fulfill their duties. But perhaps they

don't

have

to

turn

themselves

into

private

investigators

or

Congressional

subcommittees.

“

Families can look a bit more for where the residents are going to be happy,

”

Dr. Sloane said.

And involving the future resident in the process can be very important.

38.B

）

Does

assisted

living

really

mark

a

great

improvement

over

a

nursing

home,

or

has

the

industry simply hired better interior designers? Are nursing homes as bad as people fear, or is

that an out- moded stereotype (

固定看法

)

Can doing one's homework really steer families to

the best places? It is genuinely hard to know.

39.H

）

An

elderly

person

who

describes

herself

as

in

poor

health,

therefore,

might

be

no

less

depressed in assisted living (even if her children preferred it) than in a nursing home. A person

who had input into where he would move and has had time to adapt to it might do as well in a

nursing home as in a small residential care home, other factors being equal. It is an interaction

between the person and the place, not the sort of place in itself, that leads to better or worse

experiences.

“

You can't just say,

‘

Let's put this person in a residential care home instead of a

nursing home

—

she will be much better off,

’”

Dr. Robison said. What matters, she added,

“

is

a combination of what people bring in with them, and what they find there.

”

40.N

）

The daughter feared her mother would be ignored there, and so she decided to move her

into a more welcoming facility. Based on what is emerging from some of this research, that might

have been as rational a way as any to reach a decision.

41.J

）

As

I

was

considering

all this,

a

press

release

from

a

respected research

firm

crossed

my

desk

，

announcing

that

the

five-star

rating

system

that

Medicare

developed

in

2008

to

help

families compare nursing home quality also has little relationship to how satisfied its residents or

their family members are. As a matter of fact, consumers expressed higher satisfaction with the

one-star facilities, the lowest rated, than with the five-star ones.(More on this study and the star

ratings will appear in a subsequent post.)

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42.F

）

In the initial results, assisted living residents did paint the most positive picture. They were

less likely to report symptoms of depression than those in the other facilities, for instance, and

less likely to be bored or lonely. They scored higher on social interaction.

43.C

）

I am about to make things more complicated by suggesting that what kind of facility an

older person lives in may matter less than we have assumed. And that the characteristics adult

children

look

for

when

they

begin

the

search

are

not

necessarily

the

things

that

make

a

difference to the people who are going to move in. I am not talking about the quality of care

，

let

me hastily add. Nobody flourishes in a gloomy environment with irresponsible staff and a poor

safety

record.

But

an

accumulating

body

of

research

indicates

that

some

distinctions

between

one type of elder care and another have little real bearing on how well residents do.

44.I

）

Such findings, which run counter to common sense, have surfaced before. In a multi-state

study of assisted living, for instance, University of North Carolina researchers found that a host of

variables

—

the

facility's

type,

size

or

age;

whether

a

chain

owned

it;

how

attractive

the

neighborhood was

—

had no significant relationship to how the residents fared in terms of illness,

mental

decline,

hospitalizations

or

mortality.

What

mattered

most

was

the

residents'

physical

health and mental status. What people were like when they came in had greater consequence

than what happened once they were there.

45.G

）

But

when

the

researchers

plugged

in

a

number

of

other

variables,

such

differences

disappeared.

It

is

not

the

housing

type,

they

found,

that

creates

differences

in

residents'

responses.

“

It is the characteristics of the specific environment they are in, combined with their

own personal characteristics

—

how healthy they feel they are, their age and marital status,

”

Dr.

Robison explained. Whether residents felt involved in the decision to move and how long they

had lived there also proved significant.

Section C

46. C) It can be avoided if human values are translated into their language.

47.D) They are ill-bred.

48. C) By picking up patterns from massive data on human behavior.

49. B) Stop to seek advice from a human being.

50. A) Determine what is moral and ethical.

51. A) to see whether people's personality affects their life span

52. D) They are more likely to get over hardship.

53. C) Such personality characteristics as self-discipline have no effect on longevity.

54. D) Mothers' negative personality characteristics may affect their children's life span.

55. B) Longevity results from a combination of mental and physical health.

四级第二套

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Section A

26.G) growing

27.A) dependent

28.C) fast

29.F) give

30.H) launch

31.N) successful

32.I) policyl

33.B) designed

34.O) treatments

35.E) gained

Section B

36.D)As we begin to examine our life, Soupios says, we come to Rule No. 2: Worry only about

things that you can control.

“

The individual who promoted this idea was a Stoic philosopher. His

name is Epictetus,

”

he says.

“

And what the Stoics say in general is simply this: There is a larger

plan in life. You are not really going to be able to understand all of the dimensions of this plan.

You are not going to be able to control the dimensions of this plan.

”

37.B)The

wisdom

of

the

ancient

Greek

philosophers

is

timeless,

says

Soupios.

The

philosophy

professor says it is as relevant today as when it was first written many centuries ago.

“

There is

no expiration (

失效

) date on wisdom,

”

he says.

“

There is no shelf life on intelligence. I think

that things have become very gloomy these days, lots of misunderstanding, misleading cues, a lot

of what the ancients would have called sophistry (

诡辩

). The nice thing about ancient philosophy

as offered by the Greeks is that they tended to see life clear and whole, in a way that we tend not

to see life today.

”

38.F)To have a meaningful, happy life we need friends. But according to Aristotle

—

a student of

Plato and teacher of Alexander the Great

—

most relationships don't qualify as true friendships.

“

Just

because

I

have

a

business

relationship

with

an

individual

and

I

can

profit

from

that

relationship, it does not necessarily mean that this person is my friend,

”

Soupios says.

“

Real

friendship is when two individuals share the same soul. It is a beautiful and uncharacteristically

poetic image that Aristotle offers.

”

39.A) Is it possible to enjoy a peaceful life in a world that is increasingly challenged by threats and

uncertainties

from

wars,

terrorism,

economic

crises

and

a

widespread

outbreak

of

infectious

diseases? The answer is yes, according to a new book The 10 Golden Rules: Ancient Wisdom from

the Greek Philosophers on Living a Good Life. The book is co-authored by Long Island University's

philosophy professor Michael Soupios and economics professor Panos Mourdoukoutas.

40.L)

“

This is Aesop, the fabulist (

寓言家

), the man of these charming little tales, often told in

terms of animals and animal relationships,

”

he says.

“

I think what Aesop was suggesting is that

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