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2014
年
6
月英语四
级考试真题试卷（
2
）
Part I Writing (30 minutes)
Directions:
For
this
part,
you
are
allowed
30
minutes
to
write
a
short
essay
on
the
following
question .You should write at least 120
words but no more than 180 words.
Suppose
a
foreign
friend
of
yours
is
coming
to
visit
your
campus,
what
is
the
most
interesting
place you would like to take him/her to
see and why?
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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
the
end
ofeach
conversation,
one
or
more
questions
will
be
asked
about
what
was
theconversation
and
the
questions
will
be
spoken
only
each
question
there
will
be
the
pause, you must read the four choices marked A, B,
C and D, anddecide which
is
the
best
mark
the
corresponding
letter
on
Answer
Sheet
1with
a
single
line
through the centre.
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1. A) They came in five
different colors.
B) They were good
value for money.
C) They were a very
good design.
D) They were sold out very
quickly.
2. A) Ask her
roommate not to speak loudly on the phone.
B) Ask her roommate to make her phone
calls outside.
C) Go and find a quieter
place to review her lessons.
D) Report
her problem to the dorm management.
3. A) The washing machine is totally
beyond repair.
B) He will help Wendy
prepare her annual report.
C) Wendy
should give priority to writing her report.
D) The washing machine should be
checked annually.
4. A) The
man fell down when removing the painting.
B) The wall will be decorated with a
new painting.
C) The woman likes the
painting on the wall.
D) The painting
is now being reframed.
5.
A) It must be missing.
B) It was left
in the room.
C) The man took it to the
market.
D) She placed it on the
dressing table.
6. A) Go to
a play.
B) Meet Janet.
C)
Book some tickets.
D) Have a get-
together.
7. A) One box of
books is found missing.
B) Some of the
boxes arrived too late.
C) Replacements
have to be ordered.
D) Some of the
books are damaged.
8. A)
The man will pick up Professor Johnson at her
office.
B) The man did not expect his
paper to be graded so soon.
C)
Professor Johnson has given the man a very high
grade.
D) Professor Johnson will talk
to each student in her office.
Questions 9 to 11 are based on the
conversation you have just heard.
9. A) To buy a present for
his friend who is getting married.
B)
To find out the cost, for a complete set of
cookware.
C) To see what he could ask
his friends to buy for him.
D) To make
inquiries about the price of an electric cooker.
10. A) To teach him how to
use the kitchen ware.
B) To discuss
cooking experiences with him.
C) To
tell him how to prepare delicious dishes.
D) To recommend suitable kitchenware to
him.
11. A) There are so
many different sorts of knives.
B)
Cooking devices are such practical presents.
C) A mixer can save so much time in
making cakes.
D) Saucepans and frying
pans are a must in the kitchen.
Questions 12 to 15 are based on the
conversation you have just heard.
12. A) Some new problems in
her work.
B) Cooperation with an
international bank.
C) Her chance for
promotion in the bank.
D) Her intention
to leave her present job.
13. A) The World Bank.
B)
Bank of Washington.
C) A US finance
corporation.
D) An investment bank in
New York.
14. A)
Supervising financial transactions.
B)
Taking charge of public relations.
C)
Making loans to private companies in developing
countries.
D) Offering service to
international companies in the United States.
15. A) It is a first, major
step to realizing the woman's dream.
B)
It is an honor for the woman and her present
employer.
C) It is a loss for her
current company.
D) It is really beyond
his expectation.
Section B
Directions:
In
this
section,
you
will
hear 3
short
the end
of each
passage,
you
will
hearsome the passage and the questions
will be spoken only youhear
a
question, you must choose the best answer from the
four choices marked A, B, Cand
mark
the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 1 with a
single line throughthe centre.
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Passage One
Questions 16 to 18 are based on the
conversation you have just heard.
16. A) Carry out a thorough
checkup.
B) Try to keep the gas tank
full.
C) Keep extra gas in reserve.
D) Fill up the water tank.
17. A) Attempting to leave your car to
seek help.
B) Opening a window a bit to
let in fresh air.
C) Running the engine
every now and then.
D) Keeping the
heater on for a long time.
18. A) It exhausts you physically.
B) It makes you fall asleep easily.
C) It causes you to lose body heat.
D) It consumes too much oxygen.
Passage Two
Questions 19 to 21 are based on the
passage you have just heard.
19. A) They are very generous in giving
gifts.
B) They refuse gifts when doing
business.
C) They regard gifts as a
token of friendship.
D) They give gifts
only on special occasions.
20. A) They enjoy giving gifts to other
people.
B) They spend a lot of time
choosing gifts.
C) They have to follow
many specific rules.
D) They pay
attention to the quality of gifts.
21. A) Gift-giving plays an important
role in human relationships.
B) We must
be aware of cultural differences in giving gifts.
C) We must learn how to give gifts
before going abroad.
D) Reading
extensively makes one a better gift-giver.
Passage Three
Questions 22 to 25 are based on the
passage you have just heard.
22. A) It reflects American people's
view of French politics.
B) It is first
published in Washington and then in Paris.
C) It explains American politics to the
French public.
D) It is popular among
French government officials.
23. A) Work on her column.
B) Do housework at home.
C)
Entertain her guests.
D) Go shopping
downtown.
24. A) To report
to her newspaper.
B) To refresh her
French.
C) To visit her parents.
D) To meet her friends.
25. A) She might be recalled to France.
B) She might change her profession.
C) She might close her Monday column.
D) She might be assigned to a new post.
Section C
Directions: In this section, you will
hear a passage three the passage is read for the
firsttime, you should listen carefully
for its general the passage is read for thesecond
time, you are required to fill in the
blanks with the exact words you have y, when
the passage is read for the third time,
you should check what youhave written.
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According to American law, if someone
is accused of a crime, he is considered __26__
until the
court proves the person is
guilty.
To
arrest
a
person,
the
police
have
to
be
reasonably
sure
that
a
crime
has
been
__27__.
The
police must give the suspect the
reasons why they are arresting him and tell him
his rights under
the law. Then the
police take the suspect to the police station,
where the name of the person and
the
__28__ against him art; formally listed.
The next; step is for the suspect to go
before a judge. The judge decides whether the
suspect
should be kept in jail or
__29__. If the suspect has no previous criminal
record and the judge feels
that he will
return to court __30__ run away, he can go free.
Otherwise, the suspect must put up
bail
(
保释金
). At this time, too,
the judge will __31__ a court lawyer to defend the
suspect if he
can't afford one.
The
suspect
returns
to
court
a
week
or
two
later.
A
lawyer
from
the
district,
attorney's
office
presents a case
against the suspect. The attorney may present
__32__ as well as witnesses. The
judge
then decides whether there is enough reason to
__33__.
The
American
justice
system
is
very
complex
and
sometimes
operates
slowly.
However,
every
step is __34__ to
protect the rights of the people. These individual
rights are the __35__ of the
American
government.
Part
Ⅲ
Reading Comprehension
(40 minutes)
Section A
Directions: In
this section, there is a passage with ten are
required to select one word
foreach
blank from a list of choices given in a word bank
following the thepassage
through
carefully
before
making
your
choice
in
the
bank
is
identifiedby
a
mark
the
corresponding
letter
for
each
item
on
Answer
Sheet
2
with
asingle
line
through the may not
use any ,of the words in the bank more than once.
Questions 36 to 45 are based on the
following passage.
Global
warming is a trend toward warmer conditions around
the world. Part of the warming is
natural; we have experienced a
20,000-year-long warming as the last ice age ended
and the ice
__36__
away.
However,
we
have
already
reached
temperatures
that
are
in
__37__
with
other
minimum-ice periods, so continued
warming is likely not natural. We are __38__ to a
predicted
worldwide
increase
in
temperatures
__39__
between
and
6*C
over
the
next,
100
years.
The
warming will be more __40__ in some
areas, less in others, and some places may even
cool off.
Likewise, the __41__ of this
warming will be very different depending on where
you are-coastal
areas must worry about
rising sea levels, while Siberia and northern
Canada may become more
habitable
(
宜居的
) and __42__ for humans
than these areas are now.
The fact remains, however, that it will
likely get warmer, on __43__ , everywhere.
Scientists are in
general agreement
that the warmer conditions we have been
experiencing are at least in part the
result of a human-induced global
warming trend. Some scientists __44__ that the
changes we are
seeing fall within the
range of random (
无规律的
)
variation-some years are cold, others warm,
and
we
have
just
had
an
unremarkable
string
of warm
years __45__
-but
that
is
becoming
an
increasingly rare interpretation in the
face of continued and increasing warm conditions.
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A)
appealingB) averageC) contributingD) dramatic
E) frequentlyF) impactG) lineH)
maintain
I) meltedJ)
persistK) rangingL) recently
M)
resolvedN) sensibleO) shock
Section B
Directions:
In
this
section,
you
are
going
to
read
a
passage
with
ten
statements
attached
to
atement
contains
information
given
in
one
of
the
fy
the
paragraph
fromwhich
the
information
is
may
choose
a
paragraph
more
than
ragraph
is
marked
with
a
the
questions
by
marking
the
correspondingletter on Answer Sheet 2.
The End of the Book?
A) Amazon, by far the largest
bookseller in the country, reported on May 19 that
it is now selling
more
books
in
its
electronic
Kindle
format
than
in
the
old
paper-and-ink
format.
That
is
remarkable,
considering
that
the
Kindle
has
only
been
around
for
four
years.
E-books
now
account for 14 percent
of all book sales in this country and are
increasing far faster than overall
book
sales.
E-book
sales
are
up
146
percent
over
last
year,
while
hardback
sales
increased
6
percent and paperbacks decreased 8
percent.
B) Does this spell the doom of
the physical book? Certainly not immediately, and
perhaps not at
all.
What
it
does
mean
is
that
the
book
business
will
go
through
a
transformation
in
the
next
decade
or
so
more
profound
than
any
it
has
seen
since
Gutenberg
introduced
printing
from
moveable type in the 1450s.
C) Physical books will surely become
much rarer in the marketplace. Mass market
paperbacks,
which
have
been
declining
for
years
anyway,
will
probably
disappear,
as
will
hardbacks
for
mysteries, thrillers,
collections, either private or public,
will probably only be available as e-books within
a few years.
Hardback and trade
paperbacks for
it will become the mark
of an author to reckon with that he or she is
still published in hard copy.
D) As for
children's books, who knows? Children's books are
like dog food in that the purchasers
are not the consumers, so the market
(and the marketing) is inherently strange.
E) For clues to the book's future,
let's look at some examples of technological
change and see
what happened to the old
technology.
F) One technology replaces
another only because the new technology is better,
cheaper, or both.
The greater the
difference, the sooner and more thoroughly the new
technology replaces the old.
Printing
with
moveable
type
on
paper
dramatically
reduced
the
cost
of
producing
a
book
compared with the old-fashioned ones
handwritten on vellum, which comes from sheepskin.
A
Bible-to
be
sure,
a
long
book-required
vellum
made
from
300
sheepskins
and
countless
man-hours of
labor. Before printing arrived, a Bible cost more
than a middle-class house. There
were
perhaps 50,000 books in all of Europe in 1450. By
1500 there were 10 million.
G) But
while printing quickly caused the handwritten book
to die out, handwriting lingered on
(
继
续存在
) well into
the 16th century. Very special books are still
occasionally produced on vellum,
but
they are one-of-a-kind show pieces.
H)
Sometimes a new technology doesn't drive the old
one out, but only parts of it while forcing
the rest to evolve. The movies were
widely predicted to drive live theater out of the
marketplace,
but they didn't, because
theater turned out to have qualities movies could
not reproduce. Equally,
TV was supposed
to replace movies but, again, did not.
I) Movies did, however, fatally impact
some parts of live theater. And while TV didn't
kill movies,