2021年6月英语专业四级真题及答案
TEST FOR ENGLISH MAJORS (2021)
-GRADE FOUR-
TIME LIMIT: 130MIN PART I 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 cond and third readings, the passage, except the first ntence, will be read ntence by ntence, or phra by phra, with intervals of 15 conds. The last reading will be done at normal speed again and during this time you should check your work. You will then be given ONE minute to check through your work once more.
Write on ANSWER SHEET ONE. The first ntence of the passage is already provided.
The Meaning of Home
The original meaning of the word home in English was of a safe dwelling place, a village, even a world.
PART II LISTENING COMPREHENSION [20 MIN] SECTION A TALK
In this ction 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 what you fill in is both grammatically and mantically acceptable. You may u the blank sheet for note-taking.
You have THIRTY conds to preview the gap-filling task.
Now, listen to the talk. When it is over, you will be given TWO minutes to check your work. SECTION B CONVERSATIONS
In this ction you will hear two conversations. At the end of each conversation, five questions will be asked about what was said. Both the conversations and the questions will be spoken ONCE ONLY. After each question there will be a ten-cond pau. During the pau, 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 conds to preview the questions.
Now, listen to the conversations.
CONVERSATION ONE
Questions 1 to 5 are bad on Conversation One.
1. A. Never B. Just a few C. Quite a few D. Few
2. A. They have negative feelings. B. They like being asked questions.
C. They dislike some panel members.
D. They both enjoy interviews.
3. A. Dancer in a night club. B. Children's entertainer.
C. Electronics engineer.
D. Shop assistant.
4. A. Excited B. Ashamed C. Surprid D. Afraid
5. A. To lect the best among many candidates.
B. To e who gives the lasting impression.
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C. To find out who has acting potential.
D. To e how one reacts when uncomfortable.
CONVERSATION TWO
Questions 6 to 10 are bad on Conversation Two.
6. A. She failed the cour. B. She made much progress.
C. Her performance was a bit worrying.
D. Her performance was better than expected.
7. A. It is hard for the required length. B. It is a very familiar subject.
C. It is difficult to draw conclusions.
D. It is irrelevant to the topic.
8. A.75%. B. 25%. C. 30%. D.45%
9. A. Russia. B. Canada. C. The United States. D. Saudi Arabia.
10. A. To collect more necessary information.
B. To analyze the data she has obtained.
C. To propo some possible solutions.
D. To keep up her good work this term.
PART III LANGUAGE USAGE [10 MIN] There are twenty ntences in this ction. Beneath each ntence there are four options marked A, B.C, and D. Choo the one that best completes the ntence or answer the question. Mark you answers on ANSWER SHEET TWO.
11. If we abud by the power of the social rule, we must take steps to defu its energy.
A. were not to be
B. are not to beoblong
C. should not be
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D. would not be
12. A team of engineers has been developing a space cleanup satellite to eliminate man-made
orbital debris, broken-down satellites or tosd away rocket stages.
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B. whether it is
C. if it is
D. be it
13. Meiling returned from abroad a totally different person. The italicized part functions as a(n)
in the ntence.
A. complement
B. object
C. adverbial
D. appositive
14. Welcome to this special edition of TV Picks, featuring things that must be read to be
consumed, let alone : books.
A. being understood
tsqlB. to understand
全运会是什么意思C. understood
D. understand
15. When you have finished with that novel, don't forget to return to Tom, ?
A. will you
B. do you
C. don't you
D. won't you
16. Cities have nonprofit associations, usually made up of Fire Department personnel working
on their own time to provide inspections.
A. free home fire-safety
B. home free fire-safety
C. fire-safety free home
D. fire-safety hone free
17. There is no means a man will not resort to avoid the real labor of thinking.
A. where
B. that
C. when
D. to which
18. Person A: Where is Tim?
Person B: He might be next door.
What is the function of the modal auxiliary verb "might" in the reply?
A. To express relief.
B. To dramatize a fact.
C. To indicate possibility.
D. To ask for permission.
19. "After a confud silence, the speaker attempted a weak reply only to halt midway to
confer with his assistant and finally to admit that he had made a mistake."The two infinitive phras after "midway" are ud to .
A. show purpo
B. indicate result
C. indicate manner
D. predict conquence
20. Which of the following italicized phras is INCORECT?
A. The town is now ten times its original size.
B. The ller asked for double the usual price.
C. I wish I had two times his strength.
D. They come here four times every year.
21. The program includes an of program options for ESL /EFL teachers.
A. array
B. arrangement
C. agreement
D. Assortment
22. The volcano on Friday, opening up an 800-meter-long crack in its crater.
A. ejected
B. erupted
C. spewed
D. ignited
23. As previously suspected, the inhabitants of the region had been hunter-gatherers living relatively lifestyles.
A. parated
B. remote
C. lonely
D. solitary
24. The governor posted a statement online saying he "misspoke" and tried to nis
comments.
A. clarify
B. clear
C. clean
D. clean
25. The country is making progress on its bailout reform commitments but bad bank loans could a fledgling recovery.
A. divert
B. deconstruct
C. distract
D. derail
26. The parents almost collapd upon learning that their child had been diagnod a
rare dia.
A. for
B. as
C. with
D. over
27. Major airlines have banned the transport of hunting trophies from Arica in the of
the outrage over the shooting death of a lion in Zimbabwe.
A. call
B. wake
C. result
zeissD. midst
28. The cited study suggested that parental involvement in homework can boost a
student's academic performance.
A. widely
B. likely
C. popularly
D. eventually
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A. commodity
B. product
C. produce
D. merchandi
托福机经30. Anthropologists were intrigued to learn that Kennewick Man was different from today's Native Americans.
A. anonymously
B. autonomously
C. anatomically
D. analogously
PART IV CLOZE [10 MIN] Decide which of the words given in the box below would complete the passage if inrted in the corresponding blanks. The words can be ud ONCE ONLY. Mark the lette
r for each word on ANSWER SHEET TWO.
A. actually
B. cultural
C. digitized
D. grammar
E. if
F. intervention
G. obviously
H. path
I. though
J. transition
K. transmission L. unmediated M. virtual N. visual O. way
There is a curious cliche that says pictures don't lie. It is part of that greater cliche that says eing is believing. Somehow a thing en directly-or through a(n) (31) reprentation like a painting, a photograph, or a film-brings us clor to some actual reality. Words are too (32) not things themlves; words are made-up sounds, developed throughout the life of a culture, reprented by made-up letters, put together in a contrived (33) that everyone in a culture us to communicate through a decision that the particular words will refer to particular things. Language is clearly (34) and not natural: it is human made and accepted with some
variations throughout a particular culture. Every English speaker understands what the word "food" refers to, even (35) the particular kind of food that comes to mind may vary to each individual. But eing a thing ems to bring us something very clo to the thing itlf-to "reality". Things that are en appear to be and even feel as if they are (36) ; that is, they em to be conveyed directly to us, not conveyed indirectly. Nothing stands in their (37) They are true.
But, in fact, an image, whether photographed, painted, or (38) , is not the thing itlf. It is a reprentation of a mediated (39) , compod through the camera lens, or a computer, and trans ferr
ed onto film or through binary code onto the computer screen, appearing to be the thing itlf. But even when we acknowledge the (40) of optics, computer science, and the human hand and eye of the photographer in recording and developing the photographic image, we still haven't considered all the mediation that goes on. An image of the thing is not the thing. PART V READING COMPREHENSION [35 MIN] SECTION A MULTIPLE-CHOICE QUESTIONS
In this ction there are three passages followed by ten multiple choice questions. For each multiple choice question, there are four suggested answers marked A, B, C and D. Choo the one you think is the best answer and mark your answers on ANSWER SHEET TWO.
PASSAGE ONE
(1) As I write this, I have half an eye on an old James Bond film that is showing on my computer. But this is a story about how I stopped watching TV and began reading again for pleasure, after ten years in which I hardly turned a page.
(2) I suppo I was an avid reader of "literature" between the ages of nine and fourteen. I had enough time to be White Fang, Robinson Crusoe, and Bilbo Baggins and Jeeves. Of cour there was room in the schoolboy's imagination for some real historical figures: Scott of the Antarctic, all of t
he Vikings, and Benjamin Franklin were good friends of mine.
(3) Then, in adolescence, I began a long arch for strange and radical ideas. I wanted to challenge my elders and betters, and stir up my peers with amazing points of view. Of cour, the only place to look was in books. I hunted out the longest titles and the authors with the funniest names, and scoured the library for completely unread books. Then I found one which became my bible for the whole of 1982. It had a title compod of eleven long words and an author who name I didn't know how to pronounce. It was really thick and looked dead rious. Even better, it put forward a whole worldview that would take days to explain. Perfect. I took it out of the library three times, proud to e the date-stamps lined up on the empty library inrt.
(4) Later, I went to university. Expecting to spend evenings in learned discussion with clever
