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2016年英语专业四级真题及详解

TESTFORENGLISHMAJORS(2016)

-GRADEFOUR-

TIMELIMIT:130MIN

PARTⅠDICTATION[10MIN]

therthepassagewillbereadtoyoufour

thefirstreading,whichwillbedoneatnormalspeed,listenandtryto

condandthirdreadings,thepassagewillbe

readntencebyntence,orphrabyphra,

lastreadingwillbereadatnormalspeedagainandduringthistimeyoushould

lthenbegiven1minutetocheckthroughyourworkonce

more.

PleawritethewholepassageonANSWERSHEETONE.

【答案与解析】

ThinkPositiveandFeelPositive

①Areyouconfidentorincureinadifficultsituation?②Doyoureact

positivelyornegatively?③Theanswermaydependinpartonwhomyou’re

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around.④Astudyfoundthatnegativethinkingcanbecontagiousinsomecas.

⑤Forexample,therearchersstudied103collegeroommates.⑥Theymeasured

eachroommate’stendencytowardsnegativethinking.⑦Itwasfoundthat

thinkingpatternscanbecontagious.⑧Studentswithanegativethinking

roommatebecamemoredepresdthemlves,⑨andstudentswithmorepositive

thinkingroommates⑩weremorelikelytobecomemorepositiveaswell.

【难点点评】

（1）句①中，注意“incure”的拼写，同时注意本句为一个一般疑问句，所以需以问号

结尾。

（2）句②也是一个一般疑问句，以问号结尾，注意“react”一词的听写。

（3）句③中，“inpart”表示“部分地，某种程度地”，注意不要遗漏介词“in”，同时注

意“around”一词的听写，不要误听为“round”。

（4）句④中，注意“contagious”一词的拼写，其意思为“感染性的；会蔓延的”。

（5）从句④到句⑩，都是在介绍一项研究发现，注意，在描述观点时使用的是一般现在时，

而在描述这项研究本身的情况时使用的是一般过去时。听写时尤其需要注意一般过去

时态和一般现在时态的切换。

（6）句⑥中，注意“roommate’s”使用了所有格的形式。“tendency”表示“倾向，趋

势；癖好”。

（7）句⑧中，注意“depresd”一词的拼写。“depresd”在这里表示“沮丧的”。

PARTⅡLISTENINGCOMPREHENSION[20MIN]

SECTIONATALK

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listening,youmaylookatANSWERSHEETONEandwriteNOMORETHANTHREE

retheword(s)youfillinis(are)bothgrammatically

utheblanksheetfornote-taking.

YouhaveTHIRTYcondstopreviewthegap-fillingtask.

isover,youwillbegivenTWOminutesto

completeyourwork.

WhatIsGrit?

【答案与解析】

s

Myquestions

•Whyisn’ydifferencebetweenstudents?

•Whatisthekeyto(1)_____?(1)_____

MyRearch

•investigationofallkindsof(2)_____,including:(2)_____

—WestPointMilitaryAcademy

—(3)_____(3)_____

—privatecompanies

Myfinding:gritaspredictorofsuccess

•Gritis(4)_____forverylong-termgoals.(4)_____

•Gritisworkinghardforyearstomake(5)_____.(5)_____

•Gritislivingyourlifelikea(6)_____.(6)_____

Mysurvey

•highschooljuniorstookgritquestionnaires.

•(7)_____kidsweremorelikelytograduate.(7)_____

Grit-building

•littleisknownabouthowtobuildgritinstudents.

•datashowgritisunrelatedto(8)_____.(8)_____

•growthmindtisthebeliefthattheabilitytolearnis(9)______.(9)_____

•kidswithgritbelievefailureis(10)_____.(10)_____

Conclusion

Weneedtobegrittyaboutgettingourkidsgrittier.

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(录音一开始演讲者就提到，要讨论的主题是“myrearchprojectconcerningthekey

tosuccess”，即讲座围绕“成功的关键”展开，故该空填入success。)

ngingttings

(录音中演讲者介绍到，自己在发现问题后决定研究孩子和成年人在各种具有挑战性的场

景下的表现，因此本题填入challengingttings。)

alSpellingContest

(演讲者介绍了进行调查的三个地方，即“WestPointMilitaryAcademy”“National

SpellingContest”和“privatecompanies”。因此本题答案为NationalSpelling

Contest。)

nandperverance

(演讲者通过调查得出结论，能够预测成功的品质是grit，接着作者开始解释道“gritis

passionandperveranceforverylong-termgoals”因此可知，本题填入passion

andperverance。)

areality

(演讲者提到，毅力就是年复一年“workingreallyhardtomakefutureareality”，也

就是说持之以恒，努力使自己对未来的展望成真。注意不要遗漏不定冠词a。)

on

(录音中明确提到“Gritislivingyourlifelikeit’samarathon,notasprint”，即把生

活当作一场马拉松，而不是短跑，因此填入marathon。)

er

(演讲者在介绍自己几年前开展的关于“毅力”的调查时说道“Itturnedoutthatgrittier

kidsweresignificantlymorelikelytograduate”，由此可知，更有毅力的学生更容易

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毕业，故答案为grittier。)

esoftalent

(关于如何增强毅力，演讲者首先分析了相关数据，并提到“根据数据，毅力与衡量才华

的标准通常无关”，因此填入measuresoftalent。)

ed/changeable

(录音中提到“Growthmindtisthebeliefthattheabilitytolearnisnotfixed,that

itcanchangewithyoureffort”，成长型思维模式认为学习的能力不是固定的，会随着

你的努力改变，因此答案为notfixed或changeable。)

rarycondition

(关于增强毅力，录音最后还提到“Kidswithgritaremuchmorelikelytopervere...

becautheydon’tbelievethatfailureisapermanentcondition.”有毅力的孩子

不会把失败看成是一种长期不变的状态，也就是说他们把失败看成是暂时的，因此本题

填入atemporarycondition。)

【录音原文】

WhatIsGrit?

Goodafternoon,everyone.[1]Today,Iwouldliketotalkaboutmyrearch

liketostartmytopicwithmyown

story.

WhenIwas27yearsold,Ileftforademandingjob—teachingventhgraders

eanyteacher,Imadequizzesand

eworkcameback,Icalculated

grades.

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WhatstruckmewasthatIQwasnottheonlydifferencebetweenmybestand

mystrongestperformersdidnothavesuperIQscores.

Someofmysmartestkidsweren’,Ifeltveryinterestedin

knowingthereasonwhythestudents’mathperformanceisnotthatcloly

relatedtotheirIQscores.[2]Istartedstudyingkidsandadultsinallkindsof

challengingttings,andineverystudymyquestionwas,whoissuccessfulhere

dto

predictwhichstudentswouldstayinmilitarytrainingandwhichwoulddropout.

[3]WewenttotheNationalSpellingContestandtriedtopredictwhichchildren

edwithprivatecompanies,asking

whichofthesalespeopleisgoingtokeeptheirjobs,andwho’sgoingtoearn

tomanyplacesandfinally,onecharacteristicemergedas

asn’’tgood

looks,physicalhealth,anditwasn’rit.

Whatisgrit?Well,[4]gritispassionandperveranceforverylong-termgoals.

[5]Gritisstickingwithyourfuture,dayin,dayout,notjustfortheweek,notjustfor

themonth,butforyears,andworkingreallyhardtomakefutureareality.[6]Gritis

livingyourlifelikeit’samarathon,notasprint.

Afewyearsago,

thousandsofhighschooljuniorstotakegritquestionnaires,andthenwaited

aroundmorethanayeartoewhowouldgraduate.[7]Itturnedoutthatgrittier

kidsweresignificantlymorelikelytograduate,evenwhenImatchedthemonevery