2016年英语专业四级考试参考答案

2016

年英语专业四级考试参考答案

Part I

DICTATION

Think Positive and Feel Positive

Are you confident or insecure in a difficult situation? / Do you react positively

or negatively? / The answer may depend in part on whom you’re around. / A study

found that negative thinking can be contagious in some cases. / For example, the

researchers studied 103 college roommates. / They measured each roommate’s

tendency towards negative thinking. / It was found that thinking patterns can be

contagious. / Students with a negative thinking roommate became more depressed

themselves, / and students with more positive thinking roommates / were more likely

to become more positive as well.

Part II LISTENING COMPREHENSION

SECTION A

TALK

1. success

2. challenging settings

3. National Spelling Contest

4. passion and perseverance

5. future a reality

6. marathon

7. grittier

8. measures of talent

9. not fixed / changeable

10. a temporary condition

SECTION B

CONVERSATIONS

does the woman call the man?

答案：［

D

］

To tell the man the procedure of the interview.

kind of questions can the man ask in the interview?

答案：［

A

］

Questions related to the job.

is the last part of the interview?

答案：［

C

］

Pre sentation from the interviewee.

4. What might be expected from the man’s presentat

ion?

答案：［

D

］

Company future and his contribution.

5. When is the interview scheduled?

答案：［

B

］

11 a.m. next Thursday.

is the interview mainly about?

答案：［

C

］

How to handle the problem of college loans.

does the cost of college education change every year?

答案：［

A

］

It was increased by 6 to 8%.

is used to measure student loan debt as a guideline?

答案：［

B

］

First year salary after graduation.

is the advantage of joining a college savings plan?

答案：［

D

］

Students withdraw without paying tax.

is the possible social cost of a college loan?

答案：［

A

］

Giving up charitable or volunteer work.

Part III LANGUAGE KNOWLEDGE

11. How can I concentrate if you_____ continually_____ me with silly questions?

答案：［

A

］

have...interrupted

12. Among the four sentences below, Sentence _____ expresses the highest degree of

possibility.

答案：［

D

］

It should take a long time to find a solution to the problem.

13. She is a better speaker than _____ in the class.

答案：［

A

］

any boy

14. Nobody heard him sing, _____?

答案：［

D

］

did they

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5. I can’t put up with _____.

答案：［

B

］

that friend of yours

16. There has been an increasing number of _____ in primary schools in the past few

years.

答案：［

D

］

men teachers

17. This is one of the issues that deserve _____ .

答案：［

B

］

mentioning

18. The audience _____ excited on seeing _____ favorite star glide onto the stage.

答案：［

A

］

were...their

19. _____ your advice, I would have made the wrong decision.

答案：［

B

］

Had it not been for

20. The sentence I wish I had been more careful in spending money expresses the

spe

aker’s _____ .

答案：［

C

］

regret

21. The Attorney General ordered a federal autopsy of Brown’s body, seeking to

_____ the family and community there would be a thorough investigation into his

death.

答案：［

C

］

assure

22. The police department came under strong criticism for both the death of an

unarmed man and its handling of the _____.

答案：［

D

］

aftermath

23. The Foreign Secretary tried to _____ doubts about his handling of the crisis.

答案：［

A

］

dispel

24. Mutual funds are thus best for investors who don’t want to take

the time to study

stocks in detail or who _____ the resources to build a portfolio.