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1、6月四级试题Part I Listening Comprehension (20 minutes) Directions: In this section, you will hear 10 short conversations. At the end of each conversation, a question will be asked about what was said. Both the conversation and the question will be spoken only once. After each question there will be pause

2、. During the pause, 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 the Answer Sheet with a line through the centre. Example: You will hear: You will read: A) At the office. C) At the airport. B) In the waiting room.

3、 D) In a restaurant. From the conversation we know that the two were talking about some work they had to finish in the evening. This is most likely to have taken place at the office. Therefore, A) At the office is the best answer. You should choose A on the Answer Sheet and mark it with a single lin

4、e through the centre. Sample Answer A B C D 1.A) At a theatreB) At a booking office.C) At a railway station.D) At a restaurant.2.A) The man is inviting the woman to dinner.B) The woman is too busy to join the man for dinner.C) The woman is a friend of the Stevensons.D) The man is going to visit the

5、Stevensons.3.A) The professors presentation was not convincing enough.B) The professors lecture notes were too complicated.C) The professor spoke with a strong accent.D) The professor spoke too fast.4.A) The furnished apartment was inexpensive.B) The apartment was provided with some old furniture.C)

6、 The furniture un the market was on sale every Sunday.D) The furniture he bought was very cheap.5.A) The man is thinking about taking a new job.B) The man likes a job that enables him to travel.C) The man is sure that he will gain more by taking the job.D) The man doesnt want to stay home and take c

7、are of their child.6.A) Take the GRE test again in 8 weeks.B) Call to check his scores.C) Be patient and wait.D) Inquire when the test scores are released.7.A) She read it selectively B). She went over it chapter by chapterC). She read it slowlyD) She finished it at a stretch.8.A) He was kept in hos

8、pital for a long time.B) He was slightly injured in a traffic accident.C) He was seriously wounded in a mine explosion.D) He was fined for speeding.9.A) Wait for a taxi.B) Buy some food.C) Go on a trip.D) Book train tickets.10.A) Its not as hard as expected.B) Its too tough for some students.C) Its

9、much more difficult than people think.D) Its believed to be the hardest optional course.Section BDirections: In this section, 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 questi

10、on, you must choose the best answer from the four choices marked A), B), C) and D). Then mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the center.Passage oneQuestion 11 to 13 are based on the passage you have just heard.11.A) Anxious and worried.B) Proud and excited.C)

11、 Nervous and confused.D) Inspired and confident.12.A) His father scolded him severely.B) His father took back the six dollars.C) His father made him do the cutting again.D) His father cut the leaves himself.13.A) One can benefit a lot from working with his father.B) Manual labourers shouldnt be look

12、ed down upon.C) One should always do his job earnestly.D) Teenagers tend to be careless.Passage TwoQuestions 14 to 16 are based on the passage you have just heard.14.A) He ran a village shop.B) He worked on a farm.C) He worked in an advertising agency.D) He was a gardener.15.A) It was stressful.B) I

13、t was colorful.C) It was peaceful.D) It was boring.16.A) His desire to start his own business.B) The crisis in his family life.C) The decline in his health.D) His dream of living in the countryside.Passage ThreeQuestions 17 to 20 are based on the passage you have just heard.17.A) Because there are n

14、o signs to direct them.B) Because no tour guides are available.C) Because all the buildings in the city look alike.D) Because the university is everywhere in the city.18.A) They set their own exams.B) They select their own students.C) They award their own degrees.D) They organize their own laborator

15、y work.19.A) Most of them have a long history.B) Many of them are specialized libraries.C) They house more books than any other university library.D) They each have a copy of every book published in Britain.20.A) Very few of them are engaged in research.B) They were not awarded degrees until 1948.C)

16、 They have outnumbered male students.D) They were not treated equally until 1881.Part IIReading Comprehension(35 minutes)Direction:There are 4 passages in this part. Each passage is followed by some questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A), B) C) and D).

17、You should decide on the best choice and mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the center.Passage OneQuestions 21 to 25 are based on the following passage:On average, American kids ages 3 to 12 spent 29 hours a week in school, eight hours more than they did in

18、1981. They also did more household work and participated in more of such organized activities as soccer and ballet (芭蕾舞). Involvement in sports, in particular, rose almost 50% from 1981 to 1997: boys now spend an average of four hours a week playing sports; girls log half that time. All in all, howe

19、ver, childrens leisure time dropped from 40% of the day in 1981 to 25%.“Children are affected by the same time crunch (危机) that affects their parents,” says Sandra Hofferth, who headed the recent study of childrens timetable. A chief reason, she says, is that more mothers are working outside the hom

20、e. (Nevertheless, children in both double-income and “male breadwinner” households spent comparable mounts of time interacting with their parents, 19 hours and 22 hours respectively. In contrast, children spent only 9 hours with their single mothers.)All work and no play could make for some very mes

21、sed-up kids. “Play is the most powerful way a child explores the world and learns about himself,” says T. Berry Brazelton, professor at Harvard Medical School. Unstructured play encourages independent thinking and allows the young to negotiate their relationships with their peers, but kids ages 3 to

22、 12 spent only 12 hours a week engaged in it.The children sampled spent a quarter of their rapidly decreasing “free time” watching television. But that, believe it or not, was one of the findings parents might regard as good news. If theyre spending less time in front of the TV set, however, kids ar

23、ent replacing it with reading. Despite efforts to get kids more interested in books, the children spent just over an hour a week reading. Lets face it, whos got the time?21.By mentioning “the same time crunch” (Line 1, Para. 2) Sandra Hofferth means _.A) children have little time to play with their

24、parentsB) children are not taken good care of by their working parentsC) both parents and children suffer from lack of leisure timeD) both parents and children have trouble managing their time22.According to the author, the reason given by Sandra Hofferth for the time crunch is_.A) quite convincingB

25、) partially trueC) totally groundlessD) rather confusing23.According to the author a child develops better if _.A) he has plenty of time reading and studyingB) he is left to play with his peers in his own wayC) he has more time participating in school activitiesD) he is free to interact with his wor

26、king parents24.The author is concerned about the fact that American kids _.A) are engaged in more and more structured activitiesB) are increasingly neglected by their working mothersC) are spending more and more time watching TVD) are involved less and less in household work25.We can infer from the

27、passage that _.A) extracurricular activities promote childrens intelligenceB) most children will turn to reading with TV sets switched offC) efforts to get kids interested in reading have been fruitfulD) most parents believe reading to be beneficial to childrenPassage TwoQuestions 26 to 30 are based

28、 on the following passage:Henry Ford, the famous U.S. inventor and car manufacturer, once said, The business of America is business.” By this he meant that the U.S. way of life is based on the values of the business world.Few would argue with Fords statement. A brief glimpse at a daily newspaper viv

29、idly shows how much people in the United States think about business. For example, nearly every newspaper has a business section, in which the deals and projects, finances and management, stock prices and labor problems of corporations are reported daily. In addition, business news can appear in eve

30、ry other section. Most national news has an important financial aspect to it. Welfare, foreign aid, the federal budget, and the policies of the Federal Reserve Bank are all heavily affected by business. Moreover, business news appears in some of the unlikeliest places. The world of arts and entertai

31、nment is often referred to as “the entertainment industry” or “show business.”The positive side of Henry Fords statement can be seen in the prosperity that business has brought to U.S. life. One of the most important reasons so many people from all over the world come to live in the United States is

32、 the dream of a better job. Jobs are produced in abundance (大量地) because the U.S. economic system is driven by competition. People believe that this system creates more wealth, more jobs, and a materially better way of life.The negative side of Henry Fords statement, however, can be seen when the wo

33、rd business is taken to mean big business. And the term big businessreferring to the biggest companies, is seen in opposition to labor. Throughout U.S. history working people have had to fight hard for higher wages, better working conditions, and the right to form unions. Today, many of the old labo

34、r disputes are over, but there is still some employee anxiety. Downsizingthe laying off of thousands of workers to keep expenses low and profits high - creates feelings of insecurity for many.26.The united States is a typical country _.A) which encourages free trade at homes and abroadB) where peopl

35、es chief concern is how to make moneyC) where all businesses are managed scientificallyD) which normally works according to the federal budget27.The influence of business in the U.S. is evidenced by the fact that _.A) most newspapers are run by big businessesB) even public organizations concentrate

36、on working for profitsC) Americans of all professions know how to do businessD) even arts and entertainment are regarded as business28.According to the passage, immigrants choose to settle in the U.S., dreaming that _.A) they can start profitable businesses thereB) they can be more competitive in bu

37、sinessC) they will make a fortune overnight thereD) they will find better chances of employment29.Henry Fords statements can be taken negatively because _.A) working people are discouraged to fight for their rightsB) there are many industries controlled by a few big capitalistsC) there is a conflict

38、ing relationship between big corporations and laborD) public services are not run by the federal government30.A companys efforts to keep expenses low and profits high may result in _.A) reduction in the number of employeesB) improvement of working conditionsC) fewer disputes between labor and manage

39、mentD) a rise in workers wagesPassage ThreeQuestions 31 to 35 are based on the following passage:Professor Smith recently persuaded 35 people, 23 of them women, to keep a diary of all their absent-minded actions for a fortnight. When he came to analyse their embarrassing lapses (差错) in a scientific

40、report, he was surprised to find that nearly all of them fell into a few groupings. Nor did the lapses appear to be entirely random (随机旳).One of the women, for instance, on leaving her house for work one morning threw her dog her earrings and tried to fix a dog biscuit on her ear. “The explanation f

41、or this is that the brain is like a computer,” explains the professor. “People programme themselves to do certain activities regularly. It was the womans custom every morning to throw her dog two biscuits and then put on her earrings. But somehow the action got reversed in the programme.” About one

42、in twenty of the incidents the volunteers reported were these “programme assembly failures.”Altogether the volunteers logged 433 unintentional actions that they found themselves doing an average of twelve each. There appear to be peak periods in the day when we are at our zaniest (荒唐可笑旳). These are

43、two hours some time between eight a.m. and noon, between four and six p.m. with a smaller peak between eight and ten p.m. “Among men the peak seems to be when a changeover in brain programmes occurs, as for instance between going to and from work.” Women on average reported slightly more lapses 12.5

44、 compared with 10.9 for men probably because they were more reliable reporters.A startling finding of the research is that the absent-minded activity is a hazard of doing things in which we are skilled. Normally, you would expect that skill reduces the number of errors we make. But trying to avoid s

45、illy slips by concentrating more could make things a lot worse even dangerous.31.In his study Professor Smith asked the subjects _.A) to keep track of people who tend to forget thingsB) to report their embarrassing lapses at randomC) to analyse their awkward experiences scientificallyD) to keep a re

46、cord of what they did unintentionally32.Professor Smith discovered that _.A) certain patterns can be identified in the recorded incidentsB) many people were too embarrassed to admit their absent-mindednessC) men tend to be more absent-minded than womenD) absent-mindedness is an excusable human weakn

47、ess33.“Programme assembly failures” (Line 6, Para.2) refers to the phenomenon that people _.A) often fail to programme their routines beforehandB) tend to make mistakes when they are in a hurryC) unconsciously change the sequence of doing thingsD) are likely to mess things up if they are too tired34

48、.We learn from the third paragraph that _.A) absent-mindedness tends to occur during certain hours of the dayB) women are very careful to perform actions during peak periodsC) women experience more peak periods of absent-mindednessD) mens absent-mindedness often results in funny situations35.It can

49、be concluded from the passage that _.A) people should avoid doing important things during peak periods of lapsesB) hazards can be avoided when people do things they are good atC) people should be careful when programming their actionsD) lapses cannot always be attributed to lack of concentrationPass

50、age FourQuestions 36 to 40 are based on the following passage:Its no secret that many children would be healthier and happier with adoptive parents than with the parents that nature dealt them. Thats especially true of children who remain in abusive homes bemuse the law blindly favors biological par

51、ents. Its also true of children who suffer for years in foster homes (收养孩子旳家庭) because of parents who cant or wont care for them but refuse to give up custody (监护) rights.Fourteen-year-old Kimberly Mays fits neither description, but her recent court victory could eventually help children who do. Kim

52、berly has been the object of an angry custody battle between the man who raised her and her biological parents, with whom she has never lived. A Florida judge ruled that the teenager can remain with the only father shes ever known and that her biological parents have “no legal claim” on her.The ruli

53、ng, though it may yet be reversed, sets aside the principle that biology is the primary determinant of parentage. Thats an important development, one thats long overdue.Shortly after birth in December 1978, Kimberly Mays and another infant were mistakenly switched and sent home with the wrong parent

54、s. Kimberlys biological parents, Ernest and Regina Twigg, received a child who died of a heart disease in 1988. Medical tests showed that the child wasnt the Twiggs own daughter, but Kimberly was, thus sparking a custody battle with Robert Mays. In 1989, the two families agreed that Mr. Mays would m

55、aintain custody with the Twiggs getting visiting rights. Those rights were ended when Mr. Mays decided that Kimberly was being harmed.The decision to leave Kimberly with Mr. Mays rendered her suit debated. But the judge made clear that Kimberly did have standing to sue (起诉) on her own behalf. Thus h

56、e made clear that she was more than just property to be handled as adults saw fit.Certainly, the biological link between parent and child is fundamental. But biological parents arent always preferable to adoptive ones, and biological parentage does not convey an absolute ownership that cancels all t

57、he rights of children.36.What was the primary consideration in the Florida judges ruling?A) The biological link.B) The childs benefits.C) The traditional practice.D) The parents feelings.37.We can learn from the Kimberly case that _.A) children are more than just personal possessions of their parent

58、sB) the biological link between parents and child should be emphasizedC) foster homes bring children more pain and suffering than careD) biological parents shouldnt claim custody rights after their child is adopted38.The Twiggs claimed custody rights to Kimberly because _.A) they found her unhappy i

59、n Mr. Mays custodyB) they regarded her as their propertyC) they were her biological parentsD) they felt guilty about their past mistake39.Kimberly had been given to Mr. Mays _.A) by sheer accidentB) out of charityC) at his requestD) for better care40.The authors attitude towards the judges ruling co

60、uld be described as _.A) doubtfulB) criticalC) cautiousD) supportivePart IIIVocabulary and Structure(20 minutes)Directions:There are 3.0. incomplete sentences in this part. For each sentence there are four choices marked A), B), C) and D). Choose the ONE that best completes the sentence. Then mark t

61、he corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the center.41.She _ her trip to New York because she was ill.A) called offB) closed downC) put upD) went off42._ the storm, the ship would have reached its destination on time.A) But forB) In case ofC) In spite ofD) Because of43.

62、We should concentrate on sharply reducing interest rates to pull the economy out of _.A) rejectionB) restrictionC) retreatD) recession44.The _ of finding gold in California attracted a lot of people to settle down there.A) prospectsB) speculationsC) stakesD) provisions45I suffered from mental _ because of stress from my job.A) damageB) releaseC) relief