2014年6月大学英语四级真题(第2套)及答案
vogue是什么意思PartⅠWriting (30 minutes)
Direction:For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a short essay on the following topic. You should write at least 120 words but no more than 180 words.
Suppo a foreign friend of yours is coming to visit your hometown, what is the most interesting place
you would like to take him/her to e and why?
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Part II Listening Comprehension (35 minutes)
Section A
Directions: In this ction, you will hear 8 short conversations and 2 long conversations. At the end of each conversation, one or more questions will be asked about what was said. Both the conversation an
d the questions will be spoken only once. After each question there will be a pau. During the pau, 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 Answer Sheet 1 with a single line through the centre.
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ofwhich1. A) They were good value for money. B) They were a very good design.
C) They came in five different colors. D) They were sold out very quickly.
2. A) Report her problem to the dorm management.
B) Go and find a quieter place to review her lessons.
C) Ask her roommate to make her phone calls outside.
D) Ask her roommate not to speak loudly on the phone. .-
3. A) He will help Wendy prepare her annual report.
B) The washing machine is totally beyond repair.
C) Wendy should give priority to writing her report.
D) "The washing machine should be checked annually.
4. A) The painting is now being reframed.
B) The woman likes the painting on the wall.
C) The wall will be decorated with a new painting:
D) The man fell down when removing the painting.
5. A) It must be missing. B) The man took it to the market.
C) It was left in the room. D) She placed it on the dressing table.
6. A) Meet Janet. B) Go to a play.
C) Book some tickets. D) Have a get-together.
7. A) Some of the books are damaged. B) Some of the boxes arrived too late.
C) Replacements have to be ordered. D) One box of books is found missing.
8. A) Professor Johnson will talk to each student in her office.
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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) The man will pick up Professor Johnson at her office.
Questions 9 to 11 are bad on the conversation you have just heard.
9. A) To make inquiries about the price of an electric cooker.
B) To buy a prent for his friend who is getting married.
C) To find out the cost for a complete t of cookware.
D) To e what he could ask his friends to buy for him.
10. A) To teach him how to u the kitchenware. B) To tell him how to prepare delicious dishes.
C) To recommend suitable kitchenware to him. D) To discuss cooking experiences with him.
1I．A) A mixer can save so much time in making cakes:
B) There are so many different sorts of knives.
C) Cooking devices are such practical prents.
D) Saucepans and frying pans are a must in the kitchen.
Questions 12 to 15 are bad on the conversation you have just heard.
12. A) Cooperation with an international bank. B) Her chance for promotion in the bank.
C) Her intention to leave her prent job. D) Some new problems in her work.
never sorry13. A) The World Bank. B) A U.S. finance corporation.
C) Bank of Washington. D) An investment bank in New York．
14. A) Taking charge of public relations.
B) Supervising financial transactions.
C) Offering rvice to international companies in the United States.
D) Making loans to private companies in developing countries.
15．A) It is really beyond his expectation:
B) It is a loss for her current company.
C) It is a first major step to realizing the woman's dream.
D) It is an honor for the woman and her prent employer.
Section B
Directions: In this ction, you will hear 3 short passages. 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 choo the best answer from the four choices marked A), B), C) and D). Then m
ark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 1 with a single line through the centre.
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Passage One
Questions 16 to 18 are bad on the conversation you have just heard.
16. A) Try to keep the gas tank full. B) Carry out a thorough checkup.
C) Keep extra gas in rerve. D) Fill up the water tank.
17. A) Opening a window a bit to let in fresh air. B) Attempting to leave your car to ek help.幸运儿英文
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 consumes too much oxygen. D) It caus you to lo body heat.uhm
Passage Two
Questions 19 to 21 are bad on the conversation you have just heard.
19. A) They are very generous in giving gifts.
B) They refu gifts when doing business.
C) They give gifts only on special occasions.
D) They regard gifts as a token of friendship.
20. A) They enjoy giving gifts to other people.
身心灵培训B) They have to follow many specific rules.
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C) They pay attention to the quality of gifts.
D) They spend a lot of time choosing gifts.
21. A) Reading extensively makes one a better gift-giver.
B) We must learn how to give gifts before going abroad.
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C) We must be aware of cultural differences in giving gifts. .
D) Gift-giving plays an important role in human relationships.
Passage Three
Questions 22 to 25 are bad on the conversation you have just heard.
22. A) It is popular among French government officials.
B) It explains American politics to the French public.
C) It is first published in Washington and then in Paris.
D) It reflects American people's view of French politics.
23. A) Go shopping downtown. B) Do houwork at home.
C) Entertain her guests. D) Work on her column.
24. A) To refresh her French. B) To report to her newspaper.strix
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 be assigned to a new post. D) She might clo her Monday column.
Section C
Direction: In the ction, you will hear a passage three times. When the passage is read for the first time, you should listen carefully for its general idea. When the passage is read for the cond time, you are required to
fill in the blanks with the exact words you have just heard. Finally, when the passage is read for the third time, you should check what you have written.
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According to American law, if someone is accud 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 are 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: Otherwi, 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 prents a
ca against the suspect. The attorney may prent (32) ______ as well as witness. 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 i
s (34) ______ to protect the rights of the people. The individual rights are the (35) ______ of the American government.
Part III Reading Comprehension (Skimming and Scanning) (40 minutes)
Section A
Direction: In this ction, there is a passage with ten blanks. You are required to lect one word for each blank from a list of choices given in a word bank following the passage. Read the passage through carefully before making your choices. Each choice in the bank is identified by a letter. Plea mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through the centre. You may not u any of the words in the bank more than once.
Questions 36 to 45 are bad on the following passage.
Many Brazilians cannot read. In 2000, a quarter of tho aged 15 and older were functionally illiterate
( 文盲) Many 36 ______ do not want to. Only one literate adult in three reads books. The 37 ______ Brazilian reads 1.8 non- academic books a year, less than half the figure in Europe and the United St
ates. In a recent survey of reading habits, Brazilians came 27th out of 30 countries. Argentines，their neighbors, 38 ______ 18th.
The government and business are all struggling in different ways to change this. On March 13 the government 39 ______ a National Plan for Books and Reading. This eks to boost reading, by founding libraries and financing publishers among other things.
One discouragement to reading is that books are 40 ______ . Most books have small print-runs, pushing up their price.
But Brazilians' indifference to books has deeper roots. Centuries of slavery meant the country's leaders
long 41 ______ education. Primary schooling became universal only in the 1990s.
All this means Brazil's book market has the biggest growth 42 ______ in the western world.
But reading is a difficult habit to form. Brazilians bought fewer books in 2004, 89 million, including textbooks 43 ______ by the government, than they did in 1991. Last year the director of Brazil's national library 44 ______ . He complained that he had half the librarians he needed and termites (
白蚁) had eaten much of the 45 ______. That ought to be a cau for national shame.
A) average I) normal
B) collection J) particularly
C) distributed K) potential
D) exhibition L) quit
tombstonesE) expensive M) ranked
F) launched N) simply
G) named O) treasured
H) neglected
Section B
Directions: In this ction, you are going to read a passage with ten statements attached to it. Each s
tatement contains information given in one of the paragraphs Identify the paragraph from which the information is derived. You may choo a paragraph more than once. Each paragraph is marked with a letter. Answer the questions by marking the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 2.
A) On a chilly day last spring, a few dozen developers of children's apps (应用程序) for phones and tablets （平板电脑）gathered at an old beach resort in Monterey, California, to show off their games. The gathering was organized by Warren Buckleitner, a longtime reviewer of interactive children's media.
Buckleitner spent the breaks testing whether his own remote-control helicopter could reach the hall's cond story, while various children who had come with their parents looked up in awe (敬畏) and delight. But mostly they looked down, at the iPads and other tablets displayed around the hall like so many open boxes of candy. I walked around and talked with developers, and veral quoted a famous saying of Maria Montessori's, "The hands are the instruments of man's intelligence."
B) What, really, would Maria Montessori have made of this scene? The 30 or so children here were not down at the shore poking ( 刺) their fingers in the sand or running them along stones or picking ashells. Instead they were all inside, alone or in groups of two or three, their faces a few inches from a screen, their hands doing things Montessori surely did not imagine.
C) In 2011, the American Academy of Pediatrics updated its policy on very young children and media. In 1999, the group had discouraged television viewing for children younger than 2, citing rearch on brain development that showed this age group's critical need for "direct interactions with parents and other significant care givers." The updated report began by acknowledging that things had changed significantly since then. In 2006, 90% of parents said that their children younger than 2 consumed some form of electronic media. Nonetheless, the group took largely the same approach it did in 1999, uniformly discouraging passive media u, on any type of screen, for the kids. (For older children, the academy noted, "high-quality programs" could have "educational benefits.") The 2011 report mentioned "smart cell phone" and "new screen" technologies, but did not address interactive apps. Nor did it bring up the possibility that has likely occurred to tho 900fo of American parents that some good might come from tho little swiping (在电子产品上刷) fingers.
D) I had come to the developers' conference partly becau I hoped that this particular t of parents, enthusiastic as they were about interactive media, might help me out of this problem, that they might offer some guiding principle for American parents who are clearly never going to meet the academy's ideals, and at some level do not want to. Perhaps this group would be able to express clearly some benefits of the new technology that the more cautious doctors weren't ready to address.
E) I fell into conversation with a woman who had helped develop Montessori Letter Sounds, an app that teaches preschoolers the Montessori methods of spelling. She was a former Montessori teacher and a mother of four. I mylf have three children who are all fans of the touch screen. What games did her kids like to play, I asked, hoping for suggestions I could take home.
"They don't play all that much."
Really? Why not?
"Becau I don't allow it. We have a rule of no screen time during the week, unless it's clearly educational." No screen time? None at all? That ems at the outer edge of restrictive, even by the standards of over controlling parents.
"On the weekends, they can play. I give them a limit of half an hour and then stop. Enough."
F) Her answer so surprid me that I decided to ask some of the other developers who were also parents what their domestic ground rules for screen time were. One said only on airplanes and long car rides. Another said Wednesdays and weekends, for half an hour. The most permissive said half an hour a day, which was about my rule at home. At one point I sat with one of the biggest developer
s of e-book apps for kids, and his family. The small kid was starting to fuss in her high chair, so the mom stuck an iPad in front of her and played
a short movie so everyone el could enjoy their lunch. When she saw me watching, she gave me the universal
