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2014
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月英语四级考试真题试卷(
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Part
I
Writing
(30
minutes)
Directions:
For this part, you are allowed 30
minutes to write a short essay about
a
classmate of
yours who has
influenced
you most in college. You
should state the
reasons and write at
least
120 words but no more
than 180 words.
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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.
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1. A) She
will go purchase the gift herself.
B)
The gift should not be too expensive.
C) The man is not good at balancing his
budget.
D) They are going to Jane's
house-warming party.
2. A) It takes
patience to go through the statistics.
A) He has prepared the statistics for
the woman.
B) The woman should take a
course in statistics.
C) He is quite
willing to give the woman a hand.
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3. A) The man wants to make some change
in the scripts.
A) The woman does not
take the recording seriously.
B) They
cannot begin their recording right away.
C) Page 55 is missing from the woman's
scripts.
4. A) A significant event in
July.
A) Preparations for a wedding.
B) The date of Carl's wedding.
C) The birthday of Carl's bride.
5. A) The man was in charge of
scheduling meetings.
A) The man was
absent from the weekly meeting.
B) They
woman was annoyed at the man's excuse.
C) The woman forgot to tell the man in
advance.
6. A) The woman is a marvelous
cook.
A) The man cannot wait for his
meal.
B) The woman has just bought an
oven.
C) The man has to leave in half
an hour.
7. A) Whether the man can keep
his job.
A) Where the man got the bad
news.
B) What items sell well in the
store.
C) How she can best help the
man.
8. A) The woman can sign up for a
swimming class.
A) He works in the
physical education department.
B) The
woman has the potential to swim like a fish.
C) He would like to teach the woman how
to swim.
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Questions 9 to 11 are
based on the conversation you have just heard.
9. A) He teaches in a law school.
A) He loves classical music.
D) He is a wonderful lecturer.
C) He is a diplomat.
10. A)
Went to see a play.
B) Watched a soccer
game.
C) Took some photos.
D) Attended a dance.
11. A)
She decided to get married in three years.
B) Her mother objected to Eric's flying
lessons.
C) She insisted that Eric
pursue graduate studies.
D) Her father
said she could marry Eric right away.
Questions 12 to 15 are based on the
conversation you have just heard.
12.
A) Editor. B) Teacher. C) Journalist. D) Typist.
13. A) The beautiful Amazon
rainforests.
B) A new railway under
construction.
C) Big changes in the
Amazon valley.
D) Some newly discovered
scenic spot.
14. A) In news weeklies.
B) In newspapers’ Sunday
editions.
C) In a local
evening paper.
D) In overseas editions
of U.S. magazines.
15. A) To be
employed by a newspaper.
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B) To become
a professional writer.
C) To sell her
articles to news service.
D) To get her
life story published soon.
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.
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Passage One
Questions 16 to 18 are based on the
conversation you have just heard.
16.
A) Nodding one's head.
B) Waving one's
hand.
C) Holding up the forefinger.
D) Turning the right thumb down.
17. A) Looking away from them.
B) Forming a circle with fingers.
C) Bowing one's head to them.
D) Waving or pointing to them.
18. A) Looking one's superior in the
eye.
B) Keeping one's arms folded while
talking.
C) Showing the sole of one's
foot to a guest.
D) Using a lot of
gestures during a conversation.
Passage
Two
Questions 19 to 21 are based on the
passage you have just heard.
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19. A) They had to beg for food after
the harvest.
B) They grew wheat and
corn on a small farm.
C) They shared a
small flat with their relatives.
D) The
children walked to school on dirt roads.
20. A) Tour Ecuador's Andes Mountains.
B) Earn an animal income of $$2,800.
C) Purchase a plot to build a home on.
D) Send their children to school.
21. A) The achievements of the Trickle
Up Program.
B) A new worldwide economic
revolution.
C) Different forms of
assistance to the needy.
D) The life of
poor people in developing countries.
Passage Three
Questions 22
to 25 are based on the passage you have just
heard.
22. A) They are highly sensitive
to cold.
B) They are vitally important
to our life.
C) They are a living part
of our body.
D) They are a chief source
of our pain.
23. A) It has to be
removed in time by a dentist.
B) It is
a rare oral disease among old people.
C) It contains many nerves and blood
vessels.
D) It is a sticky and
colorless film on the teeth.
24. A) It
can change into acids causing damage to their
outer covering.
B) It greatly reduces
their resistance to the attacks of bacteria.
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C) It makes
their nerves and blood vessels more sensitive to
acid food.
D) It combines with food
particles to form a film on their surface.
25. A) Food particles.
B)
Gum disease.
C) Unhealthy living
habits.
D) Chemical erosion.
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 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 cheek what you
have
written.
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Stunt people
(
替身演
员
) are not
movie stars, but they are the hidden heroes of
many movies.
They were around long
before films. Even Shakespeare may have used them
in fight scenes. To be
good, a fight
scene has to look real. Punches must 26 enemies'
jaws. Sword fights must be fought
with
27 swords. Several actors arc usually in a fight
scene. Their moves must be set up so that no
one gets hurt. It is almost like
planning a dance performance.
If a
movie scene is dangerous, stunt people usually 28
the stars. You may thinkyou see Tom Cruise
running along the top of a train. But
it is 29 his stunt double. Stunt people must 30
the stars they
stand in for. Their
height and build should be about the same. But
when close-ups are needed, the
film 31
the star.
Some stunt people 32__ in
certain kinds of scenes. For instance, a stunt
woman named Jan Davis
does all kinds of
jumps. She has leapt from planes and even off the
top of a waterfall. Each jump
required
careful planning and expert 33 .
Yakima
Canutt was a famous cowboy stunt man. Among other
stunts, he could jump from a second
story window onto a horse's back. He
__34__ the famous trick of sliding under a moving
stagecoach. Canutt also 35 a new way to
make a punch look real. He was the only stunt man
ever to
get an Oscar.
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Part III
Reading
Comprehension
(40 minutes)
SectionA
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.
Y
ou may not use any of the
words in the bank more
than
once.
Questions 36 to 45 are
based on the following passage.
As an Alaskan fisherman, Timothy June,
54, used to think that he was safe from industrial
pollutants
(
污
染物
) at his home
in Haines
—
a town with a
population of 2,400 people and 4,000
eagles, with 8 million acres of
protected wild land nearby. But in early 2007,
June agreed to take
part in a 36 of 35
Americans from seven states. It was a
biomonitoring project, in which people's
blood and urine
(
尿
) were tested for __37__
of chemicals
—
in this case,
three potentially
dangerous classes of
compounds found in common household 38__ like face
cream, tin cans, and
shower curtains.
The results
—
39
in November in a report called
—
were rather worrying.
Every one of the participants, 40 from
an Illinois state senator to a Massachusetts
minister, tested
positive for all three
classes of pollutants. And while the
41
presence of these chemicals does not __42__
indicate a health risk, the fact that typical
Americans carry these chemicals at all
43 June and his fellow participants.
Clearly, there are chemicals in our
bodies that don't 44 there. A large, ongoing study
conducted by
the Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention has found 148 chemicals in
Americans of all ages.
And in 2005, the
Environmental Working Group found an 45 of 200
chemicals in the blood of 10
new-borns.
cosponsored
change.
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A) analyses
B) average
C) belong
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