2019年6月英语四级考试真题

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Directions: There are 2 passages in this section. Each
passage is followed by some questions orunfinished
statements. For each of them there are four choices marked
A, B, C andD . You should decide on the best choice and mark
the corresponding letter on AnswerSheet 2 with a single
line through the centre.
Passage One
Questions 46 to 50 are based on the following passage.
Educators today are more and more oftenheard to say
that computer literacy is absolutely necessary
forcollegestudents. Many even argue that each incoming
freshman should have permanentaccess to his or her
ownmicrocomputer. What advantages do computers offer
thecollege students?
Any student who has used a word processorwill know one
compelling reason to use a computer: to writepapers.
Although notall students feel comfortable composing on a
word processor, most ,findrevising and editingmuch easier
on it. One can alter, insert, or delete just bypressing a
few keys, thus eliminating the need to rewrite

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rmore, since the revision process is less
burdensome, students are morelikely to revise as often as
isnecessary to end up with the best paperpossible. For
these reasons, many freshman English cottrses require the
useof aword processor.
Computers are also useful in the contextof language
courses, where they are used to drill students in
re programs reinforce ESL(English as a
Second Language .instruction, aswell as instrnction in
French, German, Spanish, and other languages. By
usingthese programs on a regular basis, students can
improvetheir proficiency in alanguage while proceeding at
their own pace.
Science students take advantage ofcomputers in many
ways. Using computer graphic capabilities, forexample,
botanystudents can represent and analyze different plant
growth patterns. Medicalstudents can learn tointerpret
computerized images of internal body s
students can complete complex calculations farmore quickly
than theycould without the use of computer.
Similarly, business and accountingstudents find that
computer spreadsheet programs are all but

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indispensabletomany aspects of their work, while students
pursuing careers in graphic arts,marketing, and public
relations find thatknowledge of computer graphic
isimportant Education majors learn to develop grading
systems usingcomputers,while social science students use
computers for analyzing andgraphically displacing their
research results.
It is no wonder, then, that educatorssupport the
purchase and use of microcomputers by students. A Versatile
tool, the computer can help students that is,
after all, the reason for going to college.
46、The word(Line 1,Paragraph 1) means
_________.
ability to read andwrite
ability to use
ture
knowledge of language
47、The main purpose of thispassage is to _________.
de the educators toincrease computer use in
their own classroom
e advantages anddisadvantages of computer use
among college students

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fy some of the waysthat computers benefit
college students
be how computers canbe used to teach foreign
languages
48、According to the author, aword processor can be used
to_________.
papers
papers
the psychologicalburden of writing papers
e the writing skillsof a student
49、In this passage, thewriter's argument is developed
primarily through the use of_________.
-effect analysis
ison andcontrast
ion
es
50、According to the author,the reason for students to
go to college is _________.
learn something
perfect themselves
improve computerskills
make the best use ofcomputers

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Passage Two
Questions 51 to 55 are based on the following passage.
Language is, and should be, a livingthing, constantly
enriched with new words and forms of expression. Butthere
isa vital distinction between good developments, which add
to the language,enabling us to say things wecould not say
before, and bad developments, whichsubtract from the
language by rendering it less precise. Avivacious,
colorfuluse of words is not to be confused with mere
slovenliness. The kind ofslovenliness in whichsome
professionals deliberately indulge is perhaps akin tothe
cult ( 迷信. of theunfinished work, which haseroded most
of the arts in our time. And the trueanswer to it is the
same that art is enhanced, not hindered, bydiscipline.
Youcannot carve satisfactorily in butter.
The corruption of written English hasbeen accompanied
by an even sharper decline in the standard of spoken English.
We speak very much less well than wascommon among educated
Englishmen a generation or two ago.
The modem theatre has played a baneful (有害的) part
in dimming our appreciation oflanguage. Instead ofthe
immensely articulate dialogue of, for example, Shaw(who

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was also very insistent on good pronunciation.,audiences
are now subjectedto streams of barely literate trivia,
often designed, only too well, toexhibit'laek
ofcommunication', and larded (夹杂. with theobscenities
(下流的话. and grammatical errors of theintellectually
impoverished. Emily Post once advised her readers:
is the best possible place to hear
correctly-enunciated speech.
actress was recently reported to be taking lessons inhow
to speakbadly, so that she should fit in better.
But the BBC is the worst traitor. Aideryears of very
successfully helping to raise the general standard
ofspokenEnglish, it suddenly went into reverse. As the head
of the Pronunciation Unitcoyly (含蓄地. put it,
the1960s the BBC opened thefield to a much wider range of
speakers.
ape-like pop idol is a truly shocking experience of
verbalsqualor. And the prospect seems to be of evenworse
to come. School teachers areactively encouraged to ignore
little Johnny's incoherent grammar,atrociousspelling and
haphazard punctuation, because worrying about such
thingsmight inhibit his creative genius.

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51、The writer relateslinguistic slovenliness to
tendencies in the arts today in that they both_________
onally aim at acertain fluidity
to shunperfection
time to time showregard for the finishing touch
use of economical shortcuts
52、is enhanced, nothindered, by discipline
(Lines 6-7, Paragraph 1 ) means_________
artist's work will befiner if he observes certain
aesthetic standards
unfinished work is boundto be comparatively
inferior
skill of certain artistsconceals their
slovenliness
ic expression isinhibited by too many rules
53、Many modem plays, theauthor finds, frequently
contain speech which _________
incoherent andlinguistically objectionable
far too ungrammatical formost people to follow
ntionally shocks theaudience
to hide the author'sintellectual inadequacies
54、The author says that thestandard of the spoken

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English of BBC _________
the worst among allbroadcasting networks
taken a turn for theworse since the 1960s
raised English-speakingup to a new level
terrible because of a fewpopular disc jockeys
55、Teachers are likely tooverlook the linguistic
lapses in their pupils since_________
find that children nolonger respond to this kind
of discipline nowadays
fear the children maybecome less coherent
importance is nowattached to oral expression
children may bediscouraged from expressing their
ideas