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沪江英语编辑整理
2002
年
6
月大学英语四级考试试题
及参考答案
Part I
Listening Comprehension ( 20 minutes )
Section A
Directions: In
this section you will hear 10 short conversations.
At the
end of each
conversation a question will be asked about what
was said.
Both the
conversation and the question 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
the Answer Sheet with a single line
through the centre.
Example:
You will
hear
?
You will
read
?
A
?
At
the office.
B
?
In
the waiting room.
C
?
At the airport.
D
?
In
a restaurant.
From the conversation we
know that the two were talking about some work
they had to finish in the evening. This
is most likely to have taken place
at the office.
Therefore
?
A
?
“
At the
office
”
is the
best answer
. You
should choose
?
A
?
on the Answer Sheet and mark it with a
single line
through the
centre.
Sample Answer
?
[A]
?
?
B
?
?
C
?
?
D
?
1.
A
?
His
father
.
B
?
His
mother
.
C
?
His
brother
.
D
?
His
sister
.
2.
A
?
A
job opportunity.
B
?
A
position as general manager
.
C
?
A big travel agency.
D
?
An
inexperienced salesman.
3.
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?
Having a break.
B
?
Continuing the meeting.
C
?
Moving on to the next item.
D
?
Waiting a little longer
.
4.
A
?
The
weather forecast says it will be fine.
B
?
The
weather doesn't count in their plan.
C
?
They will not do as planned in case of
rain.
D
?
They will postpone their program if it
rains.
5.
A
?
He
wishes to have more courses like it.
B
?
He
finds it hard to follow the teacher
.
C
?
He wishes the teacher would talk more.
D
?
He
doesn't like the teacher's accent.
6.
A
?
Go
on with the game.
B
?
Review his lessons.
C
?
Draw pictures on the
computer
.
D
?
Have a good rest.
7.
A
?
She
does not agree with Jack.
B
?
Jack’s performance is disappointing.
C
?
Most people will find basketball
boring.
D
?
She
shares Jack's opinion.
8.
A
?
The man went to a wrong check-in
counter
.
B
?
The
man has just missed his flight.
C
?
The
plane will leave at 9
?
14.
D
?
The
plane's departure time remains unknown.
9.
A
?
At
a newsstand.
B
?
At
a car dealer's.
C
?
At a publishing house.
D
?
At
a newspaper office.
10.
A
?
He wants to get a new position.
B
?
He
is asking the woman for help.
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?
He
has left the woman a good impression.
D
?
He
enjoys letter writing.
Section B
Directions: In this
section
?
you will
hear 3 short passage. 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
the Answer Sheet with a single line
through the centre.
Passage One
Questions 11 to 13 are based on the
passage you have just heard.
11. A
?
They are interested in other kinds of
reading.
B
?
They are active in voluntary services.
C
?
They tend to be low in education and in
income.
D
?
They live in isolated areas.
12.
A
?
The reasons
why people don't read newspapers are more
complicated
than assumed.
B
?
There are more uneducated people among
the wealthy than originally
expected.
C
?
The
number of newspaper readers is steadily
increasing.
D
?
There are more nonreaders among young
people nowadays.
13. A
?
Lowering the prices of their
newspapers.
B
?
Shortening their news stories.
C
?
Adding variety to their newspaper
content.
D
?
Including more advertisements in their
newspapers.
Passage
Two
Questions 14 to 17 are
based on the passage you have just heard.
14.
A
?
A
basket.
C
?
An egg.
B
?
A
cup.
D
?
An
oven.
15.
A
?
To
let in the sunshine.
B
?
To
serve as its door
.
C
?
To
keep the nest cool.
D
?
For
the bird to lay eggs.
16.
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?
Branches.
B
?
Grasses.
C
?
Mud.
D
?
Straw.
17.
A
?
Some are built underground.
B
?
Some can be eaten.
C
?
Most are sewed with grasses.
D
?
Most are dried by the sun.
Passage Three
Questions 18 to 20 are based on the
passage you have just heard.
18.
A
?
To examine the
chemical elements in the Ice Age.
B
?
To
look into the pattern of solar wind activity.
C
?
To
analyze the composition of different trees.
D
?
To
find out the origin of carbon-14 on Earth.
19.
A
?
The lifecycle
of trees.
B
?
The
number of trees.
C
?
The intensity of solar burning.
D
?
The
quality of air
.
20. A
?
It affects the growth of trees.
B
?
It
has been increasing since the Ice Age.
C
?
It
is determined by the chemicals in the
air
.
D
?
It follows a certain cycle.
Part II Reading Comprehension 35
minutes
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Directions:
There are 4 passages in this part. Each passage is
followed by
some questions or
unfinished statements. For each of them there are
four
choices marked
A
??
B
??
C
?
and
D
?
. You should decide on the
best
choice and
mark the corresponding letter on the
Answer Sheet with a single line
through the centre.
Passage One
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Questions 21 to 25 are based on the
following passage
In the
1960s
?
medical
researchers Thomas Holmes and Richard Rahe
developed a checklist of
stressful events. They appreciated the tricky
point that any major change
can be stressful. Negative events like
“
serious illness of a family
member
”
were high
on the list
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but
so were
some positive life-
changing events
?
like marriage. When you take the
Holmes-Rahe test you must
remember that the score does not reflect how you
deal with
stress
—
it only shows how
much you have to deal with. And we now
know that the way you handle these
events dramatically affects your
chances of staying healthy.
By the early
1970s
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hundreds
of similar studies had followed Holmes and
Rahe. And millions of
Americans who work and live under stress worried
over the reports.
Somehow
?
the
research got boiled down to a memorable
message. Women’s magazines
ran headlines like “Str
ess causes
illness
?”
If
you want to stay physically
and mentally healthy the articles said avoid
stressful events.
But
such simplistic advice is impossible to follow.
Even if stressful
events
are dangerous
?
many
—
like the
death of a loved one
—
are
impossible to
avoid.
Moreover
?
any
warning to avoid all stressful events is a
prescription
(
处方
) for staying away from
opportunities as well as trouble.
Since any change can be
stressful
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a
person who wanted to be completely
free of stress would never
marry
?
have a
child
?
take a new
job or move.
The notion that all stress makes you
sick also ignores a lot of what we
know about people. It assumes we’re all
vulnerable (
脆弱的
)
and passive in
the face of
adversity (
逆境
). But what
about human initiative and
creativity
﹖
Many come through periods of stress
with more physical and
mental vigor than they had before. We
also know that a long time without
change or challenge can lead to
boredom
?
and
physical and mental strain.
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21. The result of Holmes-Rahe's medical
research tells us ____ .
A
?
the
way you handle major events may cause stress
B
?
what should be done to avoid stress
C
?
what kind of event would cause stress
D
?
how
to cope with sudden changes in life
22. The studies on stress
in the early 1970
’
s led to
____ .
A
?
widespread concern over its harmful
effects
B
?
great panic over the mental disorder it
could cause
C
?
an intensive research into stress-
related illnesses
D
?
popular avoidance of stressful jobs
23. The score
of the Holmes-Rahe test shows ____ .
A
?
how
much pressure you are under
B
?
how
positive events can change you life
C
?
how
stressful a major event can be
D
?
how
you can deal with life-changing events
24. Why is “such simplistic
advice
”
Line 1
?
Para.3
?
impossible to
follow
﹖
A
?
No
one can stay on the same job for long
B
?
No
prescription is effective in relieving stress
C
?
People have to get married someday
D
?
You
could be missing opportunities as well
25. According to the
passage people who have experienced ups and downs
may
become ____ .
A
?
nervous when faced with difficulties
B
?
physically and mentally strained
C
?
more capable of coping with adversity
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?
indifferent toward what happens to them
Passage
Two
Questions 26 to 30 are based on the
following passage
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Most episodes of absent-
mindedness
—
forgetting where
you left
something
or wondering why you just entered a
room-are caused by a simple lack of
attention says Schacter.
“
You
’
re supposed to
remember something
?
but you
haven’t
encoded it deeply.”
Encoding Schacter
explains
?
is a
special way of paying attention to an
event that has a major impact on
recalling it later. Failure to encode
properly can create annoying
situations. If you put your mobile phone in a
pocket
?
for example
?
and don't pay attention to what you did
because
you're involved in
a conversation
?
you'll probably forget that the phone
is in the jacket now
hanging in your wardrobe
(
衣柜
).
“
Your memory itself
isn't failing you
?
“
Rather
< br>?
you
didn
’
t give your memory
system the information it
needed.
Lack of interest can also
lead to absent-mindedness.
recite sports statistics from 30 years
ago
?
?
“
may not
remember to drop a letter in the
mailbox.
memories than
men
?
possibly
because they pay more attention to their
environment and memory
relies on just that.
Visual cues can
help prevent absent-mindedness says Schacter.
“But be
sure the
cue is clear and
available
?
to take a medication
(
药物
) with
lunch
?
put the
pill bottle on the kitchen
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table
—don’t leave it in the
medicine chest and write yourself a note that
you keep in a pocket.
Another common episode of absent-
mindedness walking into a room and
wondering why you're there. Most likely
you were thinking about something
else.
?
thing to do is to return to where you
were before entering the
room
?
and
y
ou’ll likely
remember.
26. Why does
the author think that encoding properly is very
important?
A
?
It helps us understand our memory
system better
B
?
It enables us to recall something from
our memory
C
?
It expands our memory capacity
considerably
D
?
It slows down the process of losing our
memory
27. One
possible reason why women have better memories
than men is that
____ .
A
?
they have a wider range of interests
B
?
they are more reliant on the
environment
C
?
they have an unusual power of focusing
their attention
D
?
they are more interested in what's
happening around them
28. A note in the pocket can hardly
serve as a reminder because ____ .
A
?
it
will easily get lost
B
?
it's not clear enough for you to read
C
?
it's out of your sight
D
?
it
might get mixed up with other things
29. What do we learn from
the last paragraph?
A
?
If
we focus our attention on one
thing
?
we might
forget another.
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?
Memory depends to a certain extent on
the environment.
C
?
Repetition helps improve our memory.
D
?
If
we keep forgetting things we'd better return to
where we were.
30. What is the passage mainly about?
A
?
The
process of gradual memory loss.
B
?
The
causes of absent-mindedness.
C
?
The
impact of the environment on memory.
D
?
A
way of encoding and recalling.
Passage Three
Questions 31 to 35 are
based on the following passage
?
It
is hard to track the blue
whale
?
the
ocean’s largest creature, which
has almost been killed off
by commercial whaling and is now listed as an
endangered species.
Attaching radio devices to it is
difficult
?
and
visual
sightings are too
unreliable to give real insight into its behavior.
So biologists were delighted early this
year when with the help of the
Navy they were able to track a
particular blue whale for 43 days
monitoring its sounds. This was
possible because of the Navy's formerly
top-secret system of
underwater listening devices spanning the oceans.
Tracking whales is but one example of
an exciting new world just
opening to civilian scientists after
the cold war as the Navy starts to
share and partly uncover its global
network of underwater listening system
built over the decades to track the
ships of potential enemies.
Earth scientists announced at a news
conference recently that they had
used the system for closely monitoring
a deep-sea volcanic eruption
(
爆发
)
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for the
first time and that they plan similar studies.
Other scientists
have
proposed to use the network for tracking ocean
currents and measuring
changes in ocean and global
temperatures.
The speed of sound in water is
roughly one mile a second-
slower than through land but faster than through
air. What is most
important
?
different layers of ocean water can act
as
channels for
sounds
?
focusing
them in the same way a stethoscope
(
听诊器
)
does when it carries faint noises from
a patient’s chest to a doctor’s
ear. This focusing is the main reason
that even relatively weak sounds in
the ocean
?
especially low-frequency ones, can
often travel thousands of
miles.
31. The passage
is chiefly about ____ .
A
?
an
effort to protect an endangered marine species.
B
?
the
civilian use of a military detection system.
C
?
the
exposure of a U.S. Navy top-secret weapon.
D
?
a
new way to look into the behavior of blue whales.
32. The
underwater listening system was originally
designed ____ .
A
?
to
trace and locate enemy vessels
B
?
to
monitor deep-sea volcanic eruptions
C
?
to
study the movement of ocean currents
D
?
to
replace the global radio communications network
33. The deep-
sea listening system makes use of ____ .
A
?
the
sophisticated technology of focusing sounds under
water
B
?
the capability of sound to travel at
high speed
C
?
the unique property of layers of ocean
water in transmitting sound
D
?
low-frequency sounds travelling across
different layers of water
34. It can be inferred from the passage
that____.
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new
radio devices should be developed for tracking the
endangered blue
whales
B
?
blue whales are no longer endangered
with the use of the new listening
system
C
?
opinions differ as to whether civilian
scientists should be allowed to
use military technology
D
?
military technology has great potential
in civilian use
35. Which of the following is true
about the U.S. Navy underwater
listening
network
﹖
A
?
It is now partly accessible to civilian
scientists.
B
?
It has been replaced by a more advanced
system.
C
?
It became useless to the military after
the cold war.
D
?
It is indispensable in protecting
endangered species.
Passage Four
Questions 36 to 40 are based on the
following passage
?
The
fitness movement that began in the late 1960s and
early 1970s
centered around
aerobic exercise (
有氧操
).
Millions of individuals became
engaged in a variety of aerobic
activities
?
and
literally thousands of
health spas developed around the
country to capitalize (
获利
)
on this
emerging interest
in fitness
?
particularly aerobic dancing for
females. A
number of
fitness spas existed prior to this aerobic fitness
movement
?
even a national chain with spas in most
major cities. However
?
their focus
was
not on aerobics
?
but rather on weight-training programs
designed to
develop
muscular mass
?
strength
?
and endurance in their primarily male
enthusiasts. These fitness
spas did not seem to benefit financially from
the aerobic fitness
movement to better health
?
since medical opinion
suggested that weight-training programs
offered few
?
if
any
?
health
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