2016年6月大学英语四级真题及答案

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1、精选优质文档-倾情为你奉上2016年 6月英语四级考试真题及答案Part I Writing(30 minutes)Directions： For this part， you are allowed 30 minutes to write a letter to express your thanks to one of your friends who helped you most when you were in difficulty。You should write at least 120 words but no more than 180 wordsPart n Listeni

2、ng Comprehension(25 minutes)Section ADirections ： In this section ， you will hear three news reports 。 At the end of each news report ， you will hear two or three questions 。 Both the news report and the questions will be spoken only once。 After you hear a question ， you must choose the best answer

3、from the four choices marked A )， B )， C ) and D )。 Then mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 1 with a single line through the centre 。Questions 1 and 2 are based on the news report you have just heard.1. A ) The International Labor Organization s key ob.jectiveB ) The basic social protecti

4、on for the most vulnerable.C ) Rising unemployment worldwide.D ) Global economic recovery.2. A ) Many countries have not taken measures to create enough jobs.B ) Few countries know how to address the current economic crisis.C ) Few countries have realized the seriousness of the current crisis.D ) Ma

5、ny countries need support to improve their people s li.velihoodQuestions 3 and 4 are based on the news report you have just heard.3. A ) Serve standardized food nationwide.B ) Put calorie information on the menu.C ) Increase protein content in the food.D ) Offer convenient food to customers.4. A ) T

6、hey will be fined.B ) They will be closed.C ) They will get a warning.D ) They will lose customers.Questions 5 to 7 are based on the news report you have just heard.5. A ) Inability to implement their business plans.B ) Inability to keep turning out novel products.C ) Lack of a successful business m

7、odel of their own.D ) Failure to integrate innovation into their business.6. A ) It is the secret to business success.B ) It is the creation of something new.C ) It is a magic tool to bring big rewards.D ) It is an essential part of business culture.7. A ) Its hardworking employees.B ) Its flexible

8、promotion strategy.C ) Its innovation culture.D ) Its willingness to make investments.Section BDirections ： In this section， you will hear two long conversations. At the end of each conversations you will hear four questions. Both the conversations and the question-s will be spoken only once. After

9、you hear a question. You must choose the best answer from the four choices marked A )，B )，C )and D ). Then mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 1 with a single line through the centre.Questions 8 to 11 are based on the conversation you have just heard.8. A ) He s got addicted to technology.

10、B ) He is not very good at socializing.C ) He is crazy about text-messaging.D ) He does not talk long on the phone.9. A ) Talk big.B ) Talk at length.C ) Gossip a lot.D ) Forget herself.10. A ) He thought it was cool.B) He needed the practice.C) He wan ted to stay conn ected with them.D) He had an u

11、rge nt message to send.11. A) It poses a challenge to seniors.B) It saves both time and money.C) It is childish and un professi on al.D) It is cool and convenient.Questions 12 to 15 are based on the conversation you have just heard.12. A) He wants to change his job assignment.B) He is un happy with

12、his departme nt man ager.C ) He thi nks he deserves extra pay for overtime.D) He is often singled out for criticism by his boss.13. A) His workload was much too heavy.B) His immediate boss did not trust him.C ) His colleagues ofte n refused to cooperate.D) His salary was too low for his resp on sibi

13、lity.14. A) He n ever knows how to refuse.B) He is always ready to help others.C ) His boss has a lot of trust in him.D) His boss has no sense of fair ness.15. A) Put all his complaints in writing.B) Wait and see what happe ns n ext.C ) Lear n to say no whe n n ecessary.D) Talk to his boss in person

14、 first.Sectio n CDirections : In this sect ion , you will hear three passages. At the end of each passage, you will hear three or four questi ons. Both the passage and the questi ons will be spoke n only once. After you hear a question , you must choose the best answer from the four choices marked A

15、 ), B) , C ) and D ) .Then mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 1 with a single line through the cen tre.Questi ons 16 to 18 are based on the passage you have just heard.16. A) The importa nee of sleep to a healthy life.B) Reas ons for America ns decli ne in sleepC ) Some tips to improve th

16、e quality of sleep.D) Diseases associated with lack of sleep.17. A) They are more health-c on scious.B) They are cha nging their livi ng habits.C ) They get less and less sleep.D) They know the dan gers of lack of sleep.18. A) Their weight will go dow n.B) Their mi nd fun ctio n will deteriorate.C )

17、 Their work efficie ncy will decrease.D) Their blood pressure will rise.Questi ons 19 to 21 are based on the passage you have just heard.19. A) How much you can afford to pay.B) What course you are going to choose.C ) Which uni versity you are going to apply to.D) When you are going to submit your a

18、pplicati on.20. A) The list of courses studied.B) The full record of scores.C ) The references from teachers.D) The pers onal stateme nt.21. A) Specify what they would like to do after graduati on.B) Describe in detail how much they would enjoy study ing.C ) In dicate they have reflected and thought

19、 about the subject.D) Emphasize that they admire the professors in the uni versity.Questi ons 22 to 25 are based on the passage you have just heard.22. A) It was equipped with rubber tyres.B) It was built in the late 19th century.C) It was purchased by the Royal family.D) It was designed by an Engli

20、sh engineer.23. A) They consumed lots of petrol.B) They took two passengers only.C) They were difficult to drive.D) They often broke down.24. A) They were produced on the assembly line.B) They were built with less costly materials.C ) They were modeled after British cars.D) They were made for ordi n

21、ary use.25. A) It made n ews all over the world.B) It was built for the Royal family.C ) It marked a new era in motor travel.D) It attracted large nu mbers of motorists.Part III Reading Comprehension (40 minutes)Section ADirections： In this sect ion, there is a passage with ten bla nks. You are requ

22、ired to select 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. Please mark the corresponding letter for each item on Answer Sheet 2 with a sing

23、le line through the centre. You may not use any of the words in the bank more than once.Questi ons 26 to 35 are based on the passage you have just heard.Physical activity does the body good and there s growing evidenee that it helps the brain too. Researchersin the Netherlands report that children w

24、ho get more exercise, whether at school or on their own,26 to have higher GPAs and betterscores on standardized tests. In a _27 of 14 studies that looked at physical activity and academic 28, inv estigators found that the more childre n moved,the better their grades were in school,29 in the basic su

25、bjects of math,En glish and readi ng.The data will certai nly fuel the ongoing debate over whether physical educati on classes should be cut as schools struggle to 30 on smaller budgets. The argume nts aga inst physical educati on have in cluded concerns that gym time may be taking away from study t

26、ime. With sta ndardized test scores in the U.S. 31 in rece nt years some admi nistrators believe stude nts n eed to spe nd more time in the classroom in stead of on the playgro und. But as these findings show , exercise and academics may not be 32 exclusive. Physical activity can improve blood33to t

27、he brai n, fueli ng memory, atte nti on and creativity, which are 34 to learning. And exercise releases horm ones that can improve 35 a nd relieve stress which can also help learning. So while it may seem as if kids are just exercising their bodies when they re runnintheyromny actually be exercising

28、their brains as well.注意：此部分试题请在答题卡2上作答.A ) attendance B ) consequently C ) current D ) depressing E ) dropping F) essential G) feasible H) flow I) mood J) mutually K) particularlyL) performanee M) review N) survive O) tendSecti on BDirections： In this sect ion, you are going to read a passage with t

29、en stateme nts attached to it. Each statement contains information given in one of the paragraphs. Identify the paragraph from which the information is derived. You may choose a专心-专注-专业paragraph more than once. Each paragraph is marked with a letter. Answer the questi ons by marking the corresp ondi

30、ng letter on An swer Sheet 2.Finding the Right Home and Contentment , TooA When your elderly relative needs to enter some sort of Iong-term care facility a mome nt few pare nts or childre n approach without fear what you would like is to have everyth ing made clear.B Does assisted living really mark

31、 a great improvement over a nursing home or has the in dustry simply hired better in terior desig nerQ Are nursing homes as badas people fear or is that an out-moded stereotype (固定看法)？ Can doing one s homework really steer families to the best places It is genuin ely hard to know.C I am about to mak

32、e thi ngs more complicated by suggest ing that what kind of facility an older person lives in may matter less than we have assumed. And that the characteristics adult childre n look for whe n they begi n the search are not n ecessarily the things that make a difference to the people who are going to

33、 move in. I am not talk ing about the quality of care, let me hastily add. Nobody flourishes in a gloomy environment with irresponsible staff and a poor safety record. But an accumulating body of research in dicates that some dist in cti ons betwee n one type of elder care and another have little re

34、al bearing on how well residents do.D The most recent of these studies, published in The journal of Applied Gerontology, surveyed 150 Connecticut residents of assisted living nursing homes and smaller reside ntial care home( known in some states as board and care homes or adult care homes) . Researc

35、hersfrom the University of Connecticut Health Center asked the residents a large number of questions about their quality of life emotional well-be ing and social in teracti on, as well as about the quality of the facilities.E “ We thought we would see differe nces based on the hous ing typ”ssaid the

36、lead author of the study, Julie Robis on, an associate professor of medici ne at the uni versity. A reas on able assumption don t families struggle to avoid nursing homes and suffer real guilt if they can ?tF In the initial results, assistedliving residentsdid paint the most positive picture. They w

37、ere less likely to report symptoms of depression than those in the other facilities , for instance, and less likely to be bored or Ionely. They scored higher on social in teracti on.G But when the researchersplugged in a number of other variables, such differences disappeared. It is not the housing

38、type, they found, that creates differences in residents responses “It is the characteristics of the specific en vir onment they are in, comb ined with their own pers onal characteristics how healthy they feel they are , their age and marital status, ” Dr Robison explained. Whether residents felt inv

39、olved in the decision to move and how long they had lived there also proved sig nifica nt.H An elderly person who describes herself as in poor health therefore, might be no less depressed in assisted living (even if her children preferred it) than in a nursing home. A pers on who bad in put into whe

40、re he would move and has had time to adapt to it might do as well in a nursing home as in a small residential care home , other factors being equal. It is an in teract ion betwee n the pers on and the place not the sort of place in itself, that leads to better or worse experiences. “ You can t just

41、say, Let s put this pers on in a reside ntialhame in stead of a nursing homshewill be much better off, ” Dr. Robison said. What matters, she added,“ isacomb in ati on of what people bring in with them, and what they find there”I Such findings, which run coun ter to com mon sense have surfaced before

42、. In a multi-state study of assisted living, for instance, University of North Carolina researchers found that a host of variablethe facility ,s tsp or age whethera chain owned it ； how attractive the neighborhood was had no significant relationship to how the residents fared in terms of illness,men

43、tal decline,hospitalizatio ns or mortality. What mattered most was the reside nts physical health and men tal status. What people were like whe n they came in had greater con seque nee than what happe ned one they were there.J As I was con sideri ng all this, a press release from a respected researc

44、h firmcrossed my desk, announcing that the five-star rati ng system that Medicare developed in 2008 to help families compare nursing home quality also has little relati on ship to how satisfied its reside nts or their family members are. As a matter of fact, consumers expressed higher satisfaction w

45、ith the one-star facilities the lowest rated, tha n with the five-star on es.（More on this study and the star rati ngs willappear in a subseque nt post.K Before we collectively tear our hair out how are we supposed to find our way in a Iandscape this confusing ? here is a thought from Dr. Philip Slo

46、ane , a geriatrician （老年病学专家） at the University of North Carolina : “Ira way, that could be liberating for families. ”L Of course, sons and daughters want to visit the facilities , talk to the adm ini strators and reside nts and other families and do everyth ing possible to fulfill their duties. But

47、 perhaps they don t betvent themselves into private investigators or Congressional subcommittees. “ Familiescan look a bit more for where the reside nts are going to be happy ” DrSloa ne said. And involving the future reside nt in the process can be very importa nt.M We all have our own ideas about

48、what would bring our pare nts happ in ess. They have their ideas, too. A frie nd rece ntly took her mother to visit an expe nsive assisted living/nursing home near my town. I have seen this place it is elegan, in side and out. But n obody greeted the daughter and mother whe n they arrived, though th

49、e visit had bee n pla nn ed; n obody in troduced them to the other reside nts. Whe n they had lunch in the dining room, they sat alone at a table.N The daughter feared her mother would be ignored there and so she decided to move her into a more welcoming facility. Based on what is emerging from some

50、 of this research that might have bee n as rati onal a way as any to reach a decisi on.36. Many people feel guilty whe n they cannot find a place other tha n a nursing home for their pare nts.37. Though it helps for children to investigate care facilities ,involving theirpare nts in the decisi on-ma

51、k ing process may prove very importa nt.38.It is really difficult to tell if assisted living is better than a nursing home.39. How a reside nt feels depe nds on an in teractio n betwee n themselves and the care facility they live in.40. The author thinks her frie nd made a ratio nal decisi on in cho

52、os ing a more hospitable place over an apparently elegant assisted living home.41. The system Medicare developed to rate nursing home quality is of little help to finding a satisfactory place.42. At first the researchersof the most recent study found residents in assisted living facilities gave high

53、er scores on social interaction.43. What kind of care facility old people live in may be less important than we thi nk.44. The findings of the latest research were similar to an earlier multi-state study of assisted livi ng.45. A reside nt s satisfact ion with a careifaCibs much to do with whether t

54、hey had participated in the decisi on to move in and how long they had stayed there.Section CDirections： There are 2 passages in this sect ion. Each passage is followed by some questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A), B) , C) and D) . You should decide o

55、n the best choice and mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through the centre.Passage oneQuestions 46 to 50 are based on the following passage.As Artificial Intelligenee (AI)becomes increasingly sophisticated there aregrow ing concerns that robots could become a threat.

56、 This dan ger can be avoided, according to computer scienee professor Stuart Russell if we figure out how to turn huma n values into a programmable code.Russell argues that as robots take on more complicated tasks it s necessary to tran slate our morals into AI Ian guage.For example, if a robot does

57、 chores around the hous,e you wouldn t want it to put the pet cat in the oven to make dinner for the hungry children. “ You would want that robot preloaded with a good set of values ” said Russe llSome robots are already programmed with basic huma n values. For example mobile robots have bee n progr

58、ammed to keep a comfortable dista nee from huma ns. Obviously there are cultural differe nces, but if you were talki ng to ano ther pers on and they came up close in your personal space you wouldn t think that s the kind of thing a properly brought-up pers on would do.It will be possible to create m

59、ore sophisticated moral machi nes if only we can find a way to set out huma n values as clear rules.Robots could also lear n values from draw ing patter ns from large sets of data on huma n behavior. They are dan gerous only if programmers are careless.The biggest concern with robots going against h

60、uman values is that human beings fail to so sufficient testing and they ve produced a system that will break somekind of taboo (禁忌).One simple check would be to program a robot to check the correct course of action with a huma n whe n prese nted with an unu sual situati on.If the robot is unsure whe

61、ther an animal is suitable for the microwave it has the opport un ity to stop, send out beeps 嘟嘟声),and ask for direct ions from a huma n. If we humans aen t quite sure about a decision we go and ask somebody else.The most difficult step in program ming values will be decidi ng exactly what we believ

62、e in moral, and how to create a set of ethical rules. But if we come up with an an swer,robots could be good for huma nity.46. What does the author say about the threat of robotsA) It may constitute a challenge to computer progranmers.B) It accompa nies all mach inery involving high tech no logy.C)

63、It can be avoided if human values are translated into their Ianguage.D) It has become an in evitable peril as tech no logy gets more sophisticated.47. What would we thi nk of a pers on who inv ades our pers onal space accordi ng to the author?A) They are aggressive.B) They are outgoing.C) They are i

64、gnorant.D) They are ill-bred.48. How do robots lear n huma n valuesA) By interacting with humans in everyday life situations.B) By following the daily routines of civilized human beings.C) By pick ing up patter ns from massive data on huma n behavior.D) By imitating the behavior of property brought-up human beings.49. What will a well-programmed robot do whe n facing an unu sual situatio?A) keep a dista nee from possible dan gers.B) Stop to seek advice from a human being.C) Trigger its built-in alarm system at once.D) Do sufficient testing before taking action.50. What is