2015年6月四级考试真题(第三套)

2015年6月四级考试真题（第三套）
Part Ⅰ Writing
Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write an essay based on the picture
below. You should start your essay with a brief description of the picture and then comment on
parents' role in their children's growth. You should write at least 120 words but no more than 180
words.

Part Ⅱ Listening Comprehension
说明：2015年6月四级真题全国共考 了两套听力。本套（即第三套）的听力内容与第
二套的完全一样，只是选项的顺序不一样而已，故在本套 中不再重复给出。
Part Ⅲ Reading Comprehension
Section A
Directions: In this section, there is a passage with ten blanks. You are required 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 single line
through the centre. You may not use any of the words in the bank more than once.
Questions 36 to 45 are based on the following passage.
As a teacher, you could bring the community into your classroom in many ways. The parents
and grandparents of your students are resources and 36 for their children. They can be 37
teachers of their own traditions and histories. Immigrant parents could talk about their country of
38 and why they emigrated to the United States. Parents can be invited to talk about their jobs
or a community project. Parents, of course, are not the only community resources. Employees at
local businesses and staff at community agencies have 39 information to share in classrooms.
Field trips provide another opportunity to know the community. Many students don't have the
opportunity to 40 concerts or visit museums or historical sites except through field trips. A
school district should have 41 for selecting and conducting field trips. Families must be made
42 of field trips and give permission for their children to participate.
Through school projects, students can learn to be 43 in community projects ranging
from planting trees to cleaning up a park to assisting elderly people. Students, 44 older ones,
might conduct research on a community need that could lead to action by a city council or state
government. Some schools require students to provide community service by 45 in a nursing
home, child care center or government agency. These projects help students understand their
responsibility to the larger community.
A) assets I) joining

B) attend J) naturally
C) aware K) observe
D) especially L) origin
E) excellent M) recruited
F) expensive N) up-to-date
G) guidelines O) volunteering
H) involved
Section B
Directions: In this section, you are going to read a passage with ten statements 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 paragraph more than once. Each paragraph is
marked with a letter. Answer the questions by marking the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet
2.
Reaping the Rewards of Risk-Taking
A) Since Steve Jobs resigned as chief executive of Apple, much has been said about him as a
peerless business leader who has created immense wealth for shareholders, and guided the design
of hit products that are transforming entire industries, like music and mobile communications.
B) All true, but let's think different, to borrow the Apple marketing slogan of years back. Let's
look at Mr. Jobs as a role model.
C) Above all, he is an innovator (创新者). His creative force is seen in products such as the
iPod, iPhone, and iPad, and in new business models for pricing and distributing music and mobile
software online. Studies of innovation come to the same conclusion: You can't engineer innovation,
but you can increase the odds of it occurring. And Mr. Jobs' career can be viewed as a consistent
pursuit of improving those odds, both for himself and the companies he has led. Mr. Jobs, of
course, has enjoyed singular success.
But innovation, broadly defined, is the crucial ingredient in all economic progress — higher
growth for nations, more competitive products for companies, and more prosperous careers for
individuals. And Mr. Jobs, many experts say, exemplifies what works in the innovation game.
D)
says John Kao, an innovation consultant to corporations and governments. Many other nations, Mr.
John Kao notes, are now ahead of the United States in producing what are considered the raw
materials of innovation. These include government financing for scientific research, national
policies to support emerging industries, educational achievement, engineers and scientists
graduated, even the speeds of Internet broadband service.
E) Yet what other nations typically lack, Mr. Kao adds, is a social environment that
encourages diversity, experimentation, risk-taking, and combining skills from many fields into
products that he calls 打碎重组),
smartphone category.
Steve Jobs exemplifies, as America does,
F) Workers of every rank are told these days that wide-ranging curiosity and continuous
learning are vital to thriving in the modem economy. Formal education matters, career counselors
say, but real-life experience is often even more valuable.
G) An adopted child, growing up in Silicon Valley, Mr. Jobs displayed those traits early on.
He was fascinated by electronics as a child, building Heathkit do-it-yourself projects, like radios.

Mr. Jobs dropped out of Reed College after only a semester and traveled around India in search of
spiritual enlightenment, before returning to Silicon Valley to found Apple with his friend, Stephen
Wozniak, an engineering wizard (奇才). Mr. Jobs was forced out of Apple in 1985, went off and
founded two other companies, NeXT and Pixar, before returning to Apple in 1996 and becoming
chief executive in 1997.
H) His path was unique, but innovation experts say the pattern of exploration is not unusual.

often generate breakthrough ideas and insights,
Institute of Business Administration.
I) Mr. Gregersen is a co-author of a new book, The Innovator's DNA, which is based on an
eight-year study of 5,000 entrepreneurs (创业者) and executives worldwide. His two collaborators
and co-authors are Jeff Dyer, a professor at Brigham Young University, and Clayton Christensen, a
professor at the Harvard Business School, whose 1997 book The Innovator's Dilemma popularized
the concept of 颠覆性的) innovation.
J) The academics identify five traits that are common to the disruptive innovators:
questioning, experimenting, observing, associating and networking. Their bundle of characteristics
echoes the ceaseless curiosity and willingness to take risks noted by other experts. Networking, Mr.
Hal Gregersen explains, is less about career-building relationships than a consistent search for new
ideas. Associating, he adds, is the ability to make idea-producing connections by linking concepts
from different disciplines.
K)
for them.
stock market, which they call an 溢价).
share of a company's value that cannot be accounted for by its current products and cash flow. The
innovation premium tries to quantify (量化) investors' bets that a company will do even better in
the future because of innovation.
L) Apple, by their calculations, had a 37 percent innovation premium during Mr. Jobs' first
term with the company. His years in exile resulted in a 31 percent innovation discount. After his
return, Apple's fortunes improved gradually at first, and improved markedly starting in 2005,
yielding a 52 percent innovation premium since then.
M) There is no conclusive proof, but Mr. Hal Gregersen says it is unlikely that Mr. Jobs could
have reshaped industries beyond computing, as he has done in his second term at Apple, without
the experience outside the company, especially at Pixar — the computer-animation (动画制作)
studio that created a string of critically and commercially successful movies, such as
and
N) Mr. Jobs suggested much the same thing during a commencement address to the
graduating class at Stanford University in 2005.
the best thing that could have ever happened to me,
perseverance (坚持) and will power.

O) Mr. Jobs ended his commencement talk with a call to innovation, both in one's choice of
work and in one's life. Be curious, experiment, take risks, he said to the students. His advice was
emphasized by the words on the back of the final edition of The Whole Earth Catalog, which he
quoted:

And now, as you graduate to begin anew, I wish that for you.
46. Steve Jobs called on Stanford graduates to innovate in his commencement address.
47. Steve Jobs considered himself lucky to have been fired once by Apple.
48. Steve Jobs once used computers to make movies that were commercial hits.
49. Many governments have done more than the US government in providing the raw
materials for innovation.
50. Great innovators are good at connecting concepts from various academic fields.
51. Innovation is vital to driving economic progress.
52. America has a social environment that is particularly favorable to innovation.
53. Innovative ideas often come from diverse experiences.
54. Real-life experience is often more important than formal education for career success.
55. Apple's fortunes suffered from an innovation discount during Jobs' absence.
Section C
说明：2015年6月四级真题全 国共考了两套仔细阅读。本套（即第三套）的仔细阅读
由2013年12月多题多卷真题仔细阅读汇编而 成，丰富试卷结构，供考生练习、参考。
Directions: There are 2 passages in this section. 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 on the best choice and mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 2 with a
single line through the centre.
Passage One
Questions 56 to 60 are based on the following passage.
A recent global survey of 2,000 high-net-worth individuals found about 60% were not
planning on a traditional retirement. Among U.S. participants, 75% expected to continue working
in some capacity even after stepping away from full-time jobs.
wealth by doing something they're passionate (有激情的) about,says Daniel Egan, head of
behavioral finance for Barclays Wealth Americas. the choice, they prefer to continue
working.
Unlike many Americans compelled into early retirement by company restrictions, the average
nevertiree often has no one forcing his hand. If 106-year-old investor Irving Kahn, head of his
own family firm, wants to keep coming to work every day, who's going to stop him?
Seventy-eight-year-old Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg's job security is guaranteed in
the Constitution.
It may seem that these elderly people are trying to cheat death. In fact, they are. And it's
working. Howard Friedman, a professor at UC Riverside, found in his research that those who
work hardest and are successful in their careers often live the longest lives.
being given bad advice to slow down, take it easy, stop worrying, and retire to Florida,
He described one study participant, still working at the age of 100, who was recently disappointed
to see his son retire.
beginning to see a change in how people view retirement,says George Leeson,
co-director of the Institute of Population Ageing at Oxford. Where once retirement was seen as a
brief reward after a long struggle through some miserable job, it is now akin (近似) to being cast
aside. What Leeson terms Warren Buffett effectis becoming more broadly appealing as
individuals come to
about contribution.

Observers are split on whether this is a wholly good thing. On the one hand, companies and
financial firms can benefit from the wisdom of a resilient (坚韧的) chief. On the other, the new
generation can find it more difficult to advance — an argument that typically holds little sway to a
nevertiree.
56. What do we learn about the so-called
A) They are passionate about making a fortune.
C) They love what they do and choose not to retire.
B) They have no choice but to continue working.
D) They will not retire unless they are compelled to.
57. What do Irving Kahn and Ruth Bader Ginsburg have in common?
A) Neither of them is subject to forced retirement.
B) Neither of them desires reward for their work.
C) Both cling to their positions despite opposition.
D) Both are capable of coping with heavy workloads.
58. What is the finding of Howard Friedman's research?
A) The harder you work, the bigger your fortune will be.
B) The earlier you retire, the healthier you will be.
C) Elderly people have to slow down to live longer.
D) Working at an advanced age lengthens people's life.
59. What is the traditional view of retirement according to the passage?
A) It means a burden to the younger generation.
B) It is a symbol of a mature and civilized society.
C) It is a compensation for one's life-long hard work.
D) It helps increase a nation's economic productivity.
60. What do critics say about
A) They are an obstacle to a company's development.
B) They lack the creativity of the younger generation.
C) They cannot work as efficiently as they used to.
D) They prevent young people from getting ahead.
Passage Two
Questions 61 to 65 are based on the following passage.
When we talk about Americans barely into adulthood who are saddled with unbearable levels
of debt, the conversation is almost always about student loan debt. But there's a growing body of
evidence suggesting that today's young adults are also drowning in credit-card debt — and that
many of them will take this debt to their graves.
More than 20% overspent their income by more than $$100 every single month. Since they
haven't built up their credit histories yet, it's a safe bet that these young adults are paying relatively
high interest rates on the resulting credit card debt.
Although many young people blame
aren't knocking back $$20 drinks in trendy (时常的) lounges. They're struggling with much more
daily financial demands.
To a disturbingly large extent, the young and the broke are relying on credit cards to make it
until their next payday. This obviously isn't sustainable in the long run, and it's going to put a huge
drag on their spending power even after they reach their peak earning years, because they'll still be

paying interest on that bottle of orange juice or box of spaghetti (意式面条) they bought a decade
earlier.
A new study out of Ohio State University found that young adults are accumulating credit
card debt at a more rapid rate than other age groups, and that they're slower at paying it off.
what we found continues to hold true, we may have more elderly people with substantial financial
problems in the future,
persist, we may be faced with a financial crisis among elderly people who can't pay off their credit
cards.
Dunn says a lot of these young people are never going to get out from under their credit card
debt.
not sufficient to recover their credit card debt by the end of their life, which could have loss
implications for the credit card issuing banks.
61. What is the main idea of the first paragraph?
A) Many young Americans will never be able to pay off their debts.
B) Credit cards play an increasingly important role in college life.
C) Credit cards are doing more harm than students loans.
D) The American credit card system is under criticism.
62. Why do young people have to pay a higher interest on their credit card debt?
A) They tend to forget about the deadlines. C) They are often unable to pay back in time.
B) They haven't developed a credit history. D) They are inexperienced in managing
money.
63. What is said to be the consequence of young adults relying on credit cards to make ends
meet?
A) It will place an unnecessary burden on society.
B) It will give them no motivation to work hard.
C) It will exert psychological pressure on them.
D) It will affect their future spending power.
64. What will happen to young adults if their credit card debt keeps accumulating according
to Lucia Dunn?
A) They will have to pay an increasingly higher interest rate.
B) They may experience a financial crisis in their old age.
C) Their quality of life will be affected.
D) Their credit cards may be cancelled.
65. What does Lucia Dunn think might be a risk for the credit card issuing banks?
A) They go bankrupt as a result of over- lending.
B) They lose large numbers of their regular clients.
C) Their clients leave their debts unpaid upon death.
D) Their interest rates have to be reduced now and then.
Part Ⅳ Translation
Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to translate a passage from Chinese into
English. You should write your answer on Answer Sheet 2.
在西方人心目中，和中国联系最为密切的基本食物是大米。 长期以来，大米在中国人的
饮食中占据很重要的地位，以至于有谚语说“巧妇难为无米之炊”。中国南方 大多种植水稻，
人们通常以大米为主食；而华北大部分地区因为过于寒冷或过于干燥，无法种植水稻，那 里

的主要作物是小麦。在中国，有些人用面粉做面包，但大多数人用面粉做馒头和面条。