2015年8月英语专业四级改革样卷(新题型)

2015

年专四改革新题型样卷

2015

年

8

月英语专业四级改革新题型（样卷）

PART 1

DICTATION

[10 MIN]

Listen to the following passage. Altogether the passage will be read to you four times. During

the first reading, which will be done at normal speed, listen and try to understand the meaning.

For the second and third readings, the passage will be read sentence by sentence, or phrase by

phrase, with

intervals

of

15

seconds.

The

last

reading will

be

done

at

normal

speed

again

and

during this time you should check your work. You will then be given 1 minute to check through

your work once more.

Please write the whole passage on ANSWER SHEET ONE.

PART II

LISTENING COMPREHENSION

[20 MIN]

SECTION A TALK

In this section you will hear a talk. You will hear the talk ONCE ONLY. While listening, you

may look at ANSWER SHEET ONE and write NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS for each gap.

Make sure the word(s) you fill in is (are) both grammatically and semantically acceptable. You

may use the blank sheet for note-taking.

You have THIRTY seconds to preview the gap-filling task.

Now listen to the talk. When it is over, you will be given TWO minutes to complete your work.

SECTION B

CONVERSATIONS

In

this

section

you

will

hear

two

conversations.

At

the

end

of

each

conversation,

five

questions

will

be

asked

about

what

was

said.

Both

the

conversation

and

the

questions

will

be

spoken ONCE ONLY. After each question there will be a ten-second pause. During the pause, you

should

read

the

four

choices

of

A,

B,

C

and D,

and mark

the

best

answer

to

each

question

on

ANSWER SHEET TWO.

You have thirty seconds to preview the questions.

Now, listen to the conversations.

Conversation One.

1.

A. The return trip is too expensive.

B . There is no technology to get people back.

C. People don

’

t want to return.

D. The return trip is too risky.

2.

A. Intelligence.

B. Health.

C. Skills.

D. Calmness.

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3.

A. The kind of people suitable for the trip.

B. Interests and hobbies of the speakers.

C. Recruitment of people for the trip.

D. Preparation for the trip to Mars.

…

Conversation Two

6.

A. Going to the high street.

C. Buying things like electrical goods.

7.

A. 3%.

C. 42%.

8.

A. They want to know more about pricing.

B. They can return the product later.

C. They want to see the real thing first.

D. They can bargain for a lower shop price.

…

B. Visiting everyday shops.

D. Visiting shops and buying online.

B. 33%.

D. 24%.

PART III

LANGUAGE KNOWLEDGE

There

are

twenty

sentences

in

this

section.

Beneath

each

sentence

there

are

four

words,

phrases

or

statements

marked

A,

B,

C

and

D.

Choose

one

word,

phrase

or

statement

that

best

completes the sentence.

Mark your answers on ANSWER SHEET TWO.

11.

When you have finished with that book, don

’

t forget to put it back on the shelf, ______?

A. don

’

t you

B. do you

C. will you

D. won

’

t you

12.

Which of the following statements is INCORRECT?

A. Only one out of six were present at the meeting.

B. Ten dollars was stolen from the cash register.

C. Either my sister or my brother is coming.

D. Five miles seem like a long walk to me.

13.

It is not so much the language ______ the cultural background that makes the film difficult to

understand.

A. but

B. nor

C. like

D. as

14.

There is no doubt ______ the committee has made the right decision on the housing project.

A. why

B. that

C. whether

D. when

15.

If you explained the situation to your lawyer, he ______ able to advise you much better than I

can.

A. will be

B. was

C. would be

D. were

16.

Which of the following is a stative verb (

静态动词

)?

A. Drink.

B. Close.

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C. Rain.

D. Belong.

17.

Which of the following italicized parts indicates a subject-verb relation?

A. The man has a large family

to support

.

B. She had no wish to quarrel

with her brother

.

C. He was the last guest

to leave

.

D. Mary needs a friend

to talk to

.

18.

Which of the following is INCORRECT?

A. Another two girls.

B. Few words.

C. This work.

D. A bit of flowers.

19.

When one has good health, ______ should feel fortunate.

A. you

B. she

C. he

D. we

20.

There ______ nothing more for discussion, the meeting came to an end half an hour earlier.

A. to be

B. to have been

C. be

D. being

21.

Bottles from this region sell ______ at about $$50 a case.

A. entirely

B. totally

C. wholesale

D. together

22.

The product contains no ______ colours, flavours, or preservatives.

A. fake

B. artificial

C. false

D. wrong

23.

______and business leaders were delighted at the decision to hold the national motor fair in

the city.

A. Civil

B. Civilized

C. Civilian

D. Civic

24.

The

city

council

is

planning

a

huge

road-building

programme

to

ease

congestion.

The

underlined part means

______.

A. calm

B. relieve

C. comfort

D. still

25.

His unfortunate appearance was offset by an attractive personality. The underlines part means

all the following EXCEPT

______.

A. improved

B. made up for

C. balanced

D. compensated for

26.

The

doctor

said

that

the

gash

in

his

cheek

required

ten

stitches.

The

underlined

part

means______.

A.

B.

C.

D.

27.

During the economic crisis, they had to cut back production and ______ workers.

A. lay off

B. lay into

C. lay down

D. lay aside

28.

To

mark

its

one

hundredth

anniversary,

the

university

held

a

series

of

activities

including

conferences, film shows, etc. The underlined part means ______.

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A. signify

B. celebrate

C. symbolize

D. suggest

29.

His fertile mind keeps turning out new ideas. The underlined part means ______.

A. abundant

B. unbelievable

C. productive

D. generative

30.

These issues were discussed at length during the meeting. The underlined part means______.

A. eventually

B. subsequently

C. lastly

D. fully

PART IV

CLOZE

[10 MIN]

Decide which of the words given in the box below would best complete the passage if inserted

in the corresponding blanks. The words can be used ONCE ONLY. Mark the letter for each word

on ANSWER SHEET TWO.

-saving

till

d

Electricity is such a part of our everyday lives and so much taken for granted nowadays that

we

rarely

think

twice

when

we

switch

on

the

light

or

turn

on

the

TV

set.

At

night,

roads

are

brightly lit, enabling people and (31) ______ to move freely. Neon lighting used in advertising has

become part of the character of every

modern city.

In the home, many

(32) ______ devices are

powered

by

electricity.

Even

when

we

turn

off

the

bedside

lamp

and

are

(33)

______

asleep,

electricity is still working for us, driving our refrigerators, heating our water, or keeping our rooms

air- conditioned. Every day, trains and subways take us to and from work. We rarely (34) ______

to consider why or how they run

—

until something goes wrong

．

In the summer of 1959, something

did go wrong with power-plant that provided New York with electricity. For a great many hours,

life came almost to a (35) ______. Trains refused to move and the people in them sat in the dark,

powerless to do anything; lifts stopped working, so that even if you were lucky enough not to be

(36)

______between

two

floors,

you

had

the

unpleasant

taskof

finding

your

way

down(37)

______of stairs

．

Famous streets like Broadway and Fifth Avenue in an instant became as gloomy

and uninviting (38) ______ the most remote back streets. People were afraid to leave their houses,

for

although

the police

had been ordered

to(39) ______

in

case

ofemergency.

they

were

just

as

confused and (40) ______ as anybody else.

PART V

READING COMPREHENSION

[35 MIN]

SECTION A

MULTIPLE-CHOICE QUESTIONS

In this section there are several passages followed by ten multiple-choice questions. For each

question, there are four suggested answers marked A, B, C and D. Choose the one that you think is

the best answer and mark your answers on ANSWER SHEET TWO.

PASSAGE ONE

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Inundated by more information than we can possibly hold in our heads, we’re increasingly

handing off the job of remembering to search engines and smart phones. Google is even reportedly

working

on

eyeglasses

that

could

one

day

recognize

faces

and

supply

details

about

whoever

you’re

looking

at.

But

new

research

shows

that

outsourcing

our

memory

–

and

expecting

that

information will be continually and instantaneously available

–

is changing our

cognitive habits

.

Research

conducted

by

Betsy

Sparrow,

an

assistant

professor

of

psychology

at

Columbia

University, has identified three new realities about how we process information in the Internet age.

First, her experiments showed that when we don’t know the answer

to a question, we now think

about where we can find the nearest Web connection instead of the subject of the question itself. A

second revelation is that when we expect to be able to find information again later on, we don’t

remember

it

as

well

as

when

we

think

it

might

become

unavailable.

And

then

there

is

the

researchers’ final observation: the expectation that we’ll he able to locate information down the

line leads us to form a memory not of the fact itself but of where we’ll be able to find it.

But

this

handoff

comes

with

a

downside.

Skills

like

critical

thinking

and

analysis

must

develop in the context of facts: we need something to think and reason about, after all. And these

facts can’t be Googled as we go; they need to be stored in the original h

ard drive, our long-term

memory. Especially in the case of children, “factual knowledge must precede skill,” says Daniel

Willingham, a professor of psychology, at the University of Virginia

–

meaning that the days of

drilling the multiplication table and m

emorizing the names of the Presidents aren’t over quite yet.

Adults,

too,

need

to

recruit

a

supply

of

stored

knowledge

in

order

to

situate

and

evaluate

new

information they encounter. You can’t Google context.

Last, there’s the possibility, increasingly te

rrifying to contemplate, that our machines will fail

us. As Sparrow puts it, “The experience of losing our Internet connection becomes more and more

like losing a friend.” If you’re going to keep your memory on your smart phone, better make sure

it’s fully

charged.

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1. Google’s eyeglasses are supposed to ____.

A. improve our memory

B. function like memory

C. help us see faces better

D. work like smart phones

42

. Which of the following statements about Sparrow’s research is CORRECT?

A. We remember people and things as much as before.

B. We remember more Internet connections than before.

C. We pay equal attention to location and content of information.

D. We tend to remember location rather than the core of facts.

43. What is the implied message of the author?

A. Web connections aid our memory.

B. People differ in what to remember.

C. People keep memory on smart phones.

D. People need to exercise their memory.

PASSAGE TWO

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