2016年英语专业四级考试参考答案
Part I DICTATION
Think Positive and Feel Positive
Are you confident or incure in a difficult situation? / Do you react positively or negatively? / The answer may depend in part on whom you’re around. / A study found that negative thinking can be contagious in some cas. / For example, the rearchers studied 103 college roommates. / They measured each roommate’s tendency towards negative thinking. / It was found that thinking patterns can be contagious. / Sturescued
dents with a negative thinking roommate became more depresd themlves, / and students with more positive thinking roommates / were more likely to become more positive as well.
Part II LISTENING COMPREHENSION
SECTION A TALK
1. success
2. challenging ttings
3. National Spelling Contest
4. passion and perverance
5. future a realit感受自然
y
6. marathon
7. grittier
8. measures of talent
9. not fixed / changeable
10. a temporary condition
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ECTION B CONVERSATIONS
does the woman call the man?
答案：［D］ To tell the man the procedure of the interview.
kind of questions can the man ask in the interview?
答案：［A］ Questions related to the job.
is the last part of the interview?
答案：［C］Prentation from the interviewee.
4. What might be expected from the man’s prentation?
答案：［D］Company future and his contribution.
5. When is the interview scheduled?
答案：［B］ next Thursday.
is the interview mainly about?
答案：［C］ How to handle the problem of college loans.
does the cost of college education change every year?
答案：［A］It was incread by 6 to 8%.
is ud to measure student loan debt as a guideline?
答案：［B］First year salary after graduation.
is the advantage of joining a college savings plan?
答案：［D］Students withdraw without paying tax.
is the possible social cost of a college loan?
答案：［A］Giving up charitable or volunteer work.
Part III LANGUAGE KNOWLEDGE
11. How can I concentrate if you_____ conti汤猪
nually_____ me with silly questions?
答案：［A］ 感恩日记
interrupted
12. Among the four ntence新年儿童歌曲
s below, Sentence _____ express the highest degree of possibility.
答案：［D］ It should take a long time to find a solution to the problem.
13. She is a better speaker than _____ in the class.
答案：［A］ any boy
14. Nobody heard him sing, _____?
答案：［D］ did they
15. I can’t put up with _____.
答案：［B］ that friend of 小学手工制作
yours
16. There has been an increasing number of _____ in primary schools in the past few years.
答案：［D］ men teachers
17. This is one of the issues that derve _____ .
答案：［B］ mentioning
18. The audience _____ excited on eing _____ favorite star glide onto the stage.
答案：［A］ heir
19. _____ your advice, I would have m柔道比赛
ade the wrong decision.
答案：［B］ Had it not been for
20. The ntence I wish I had been more careful in spending money express the speaker’s _____ .
答案：［C］ regret
21. The Attorney General ordered a federal autopsy of Brown’s body, eking to _____ the family and community there would be a thorough investigation into his death.
答案：［C］ assure
22. The police department came under strong criticism for both the death of an unarmed man and its handling of the _____.
答案：［D］ aftermath
23. The Foreign Secretary tried to _____ doubts about his handling of the crisis.
答案：［A］ dispel
24. Mutual funds are thus best for investors who don’t want to take the time to study stocks in detail or who _____ the resources to build a portfolio.
答案：［B］ lack
25. Chris ran _____ John at a sporting-goods trade show and the two quickly struck _____ an easy rapport.
答案：［A］ up
26. “I am leaving the country soon,” he told a _____ convened group of reporters.
答案：［C］ specially
27. Israel and Hamas had reached a deal on extending the _____ ceafire by an extra 24 hours unt
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l Tuesday at midnight.
答案：［D］ temporary
28. _____ to unplugging the alarm clock and trusting your ability to wake on time on your own, you should probably ea yourlf into the new arrangement by keeping a very regular schedule for veral weeks.
答案：［B］ Prior
29. If you are an athlete, strong abdominal muscles help you ensure a strong back and freedom from injury during _____ upper-body movement.答案：［D］ vigorous
30. Finning is a cruel _____ in which the shark’s fins are lopped off, and the live shark is thrown back to a.
答案：［C］ practice
Part IV CLOZE
31. ［H］lists
32. ［L］shaped
33. ［I］promulgated
34. ［E］generations
35. ［D］disminated
36. ［K］scant
37. ［O］virtual
38. ［C］directly
39. ［M］sophisticated
40. ［G］instead
Part V READING COMPREHENSION
SECTION A
MULTIPLE-CHOICE QUESTIONS
PASSAGE ONE
41. In Para. 1, the phra “t my feet” probably means _______.
答案：B. prepare me
42. It can be concluded from Para. 2 that _______.
答案：A. the man wanted to maintain dignity though starved
43. Compared with Brother A, Brother B was more_______towards the effect of the one-million-pound bank-note on a total stranger.
答案：D. positive
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TWO
44. Which of the following is the best title for the passage?
答案：B. Popular Peace Symbols.
45. The rainbow reprents the connection between human beings and their gods in all the following countries EXCEPT_______.
答案：D. China
46. In North Europe mistletoe was often hung in doorways to
indicate_______.
答案：A. friendship
