wuse2018年大学英语四级真题答案与解析

2021年1月19日发(作者：不冻液)
2018
年
6
月大学英语四级真题（第
3
套
)
Part
I
Writing

（
30
minutes
）


Directions:

For
this
part,
you
are
allowed
30minutes
to
write
a
shor
t
essay
on

the
importance
of
speaking
ability
and
how
to
develop
it.

You
should
write
at
least
120
words
but
no
more
than180
words.

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Part
II
Listening
Comprehension
(25

minutes)

说明：由于
2018
年
6
月四级考试全国共考了两套听力
,
本套真
题听力与前两套容相同
,
只是选项顺序不同
,
因此在本套真题中不
再重复出现。

Part
Ⅲ

Reading
Comprehension
(40

minutes)
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.

Neon
(
霓虹
) is to Hong Kong as red phone
booths
are to London and fog is to San
Francisco. When night falls, red and blue and other colors 26 a hazy (
雾
蒙蒙的
)
glow
over
a
city
lit
up
by
tens
of
thousands
of
neon
signs.
But
many
of
them
are going dark, 27 by more practical, but less romantic, LEDs (
发光二极
管
).
Changing
building
codes,
evolving
tastes,
and
the
high
cost
of
maintaining
those
wonderful old signs have businesses embracing LEDs, which are energy
28 ,
but
still
carry
great
cost.

me,
neon
represents
memories
of
the
past,
says
photographer
Sharon
Blance,
whose
series
Hong
Kong
Neon
celebrates
the city's famous signs.
mixed with sadness.
Building a neon sign is an art practiced by 29 trained on the
job
to
mold
glass
tubes
into
30 shapes
and
letters.
They
fill
these
tubes
with gases that glow when 31 . Neon makes orange, while other gases
make yellow or blue. It takes many hours to craft a single sign.
Blance spent a week in Hong Kong and 32 more than 60 signs; 22
of them
appear in
the series that capture the
signs lighting up lonely streets
—
an
33 that
makes
it
easy
to
admire
their
colors
and
craftsmanship.

love
the
beautiful,
handcrafted,
old-fashioned
34 of
neon,
says
Blance.
The
signs
do
nothing
more
than
35 a
restaurant,
theater,
or
other
business,
but do so in the most striking way possible.
A)

alternative B) approach C) cast D) challenging E) decorative
F)

efficient G) electrified H) identify I) photographed J) professionals
K) quality L) replaced M) stimulate N) symbolizes O) volunteers
Section B
Directions:

I
n
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.

New Jersey School District Eases Pressure on Students
—
Baring an Ethnic
Divide
A)
This fall, David Aderhold, the chief of a high-achieving school district near
Princeton,
New
Jersey,
sent
parents
an
alarming
16-page
letter.
The
school
district,
he
said,
was
facing
a
crisis.
Its
students
were
overburdened
and
stressed
out,
having
to cope with too much work and too many demands. In the previous school year, 120
middle
and
high
school
students
were
recommended
for
mental
health
assessments
and
40
were
hospitalized.
And
on
a
survey
administered
by
the
district,
students
wrote
things
like,

hate
going
to
school,
and

out
of
12
years
in
this
district,
I
have
learned
one
thing:
that
a
grade,
a
percentage
or
even
a
point
is
to
be
valued
over anything else.
B)
With his letter, Aderhold inserted West Windsor- Plainsboro Regional School
District
into
a
national
discussion
about
the
intense
focus
on
achievement
at
elite
schools, and whether it has gone too far. At follow-up meetings, he urged parents
to join him in advocating a

alone.
The
alternative,
he
suggested,
was
to
face
the
prospect
of
becoming
another
Palo
Alto,
California,
where
outsize
stress
on
teenage
students
is
believed
to
have
contributed to a number of suicides in the last six years.
C)
But instead of bringing families together, Aderhold's letter revealed a divide
in the district, which has 9,700 students, and one that broke down roughly along
racial
lines.
On
one
side
are
white
parents
like
Catherine
Foley,
a
former
president
of
the
Parent-Teacher-Student
Association
at
her
daughter's
middle
school,
who
has
come
to
see
the
district's
increasingly
pressured
atmosphere
as
opposed
to
learning.

son
was
in
fourth
grade
and
told
me,
'I'm
not
going
to
amount
to
anything
because
I have nothing to put on my resume,'
Mike Jia, one of the thousands of Asian-American professionals who have moved to
the district in the past decade, who said Aderhold's reforms would amount to a

national
anti-intellectual
trend
that
will
not
prepare
our
children
for
the
future,
Jia said.
D)
About 10 minutes from Princeton and an hour and a half from New York City, West
Windsor and Plainsboro have become popular bedroom communities for technology
entrepreneurs,
researchers
and
engineers,
drawn
in
large
part
by
the
public
schools.
From
the
last
three
graduating
classes,
16
seniors
were
admitted
to
MIT.
It
produces
Science Olympiad winners, classically trained musicians and students with perfect
SAT scores.
E)
The
district
has
become
increasingly
popular
with
immigrant
families
from
China,
India
and
Korea.
This
year,
65
percent
of
its
students
are
Asian-American,
compared
with 44 percent in 2007. Many of them are the first in their families born in the
United States. They have had a growing influence on the district. Asian-American
parents
are
enthusiastic
supporters
of
the
competitive
instrumental
music
program.
They
have
been
huge
supporters
of
the
district's
advanced
mathematics
program,
which
once began in the fourth grade but will now start in the sixth. The change to the
program, in which 90 percent of the participating students are Asian-American, is
one of Aderhold's reforms.
F)
Asian- American students have been eager participants in a state program that
permits
them
to
take
summer
classes
off
campus
for
high
school
credit,
allowing
them
to maximize the number of honors and Advanced Placement classes they can take,
another practice that Aderhold is limiting this school year. With many
Asian- American children attending supplementary instructional programs, there is
a
perception
among
some
white
families
that
the
elementary
school
curriculum
is
being
sped up to accommodate them.
G)
Both Asian-American and white families say the tension between the two groups
has
grown
steadily
over
the
past
few
years,
as
the
number
of
Asian
families
has
risen.
But
the
division
has
become
more
obvious
in
recent
months
as
Aderhold
has
made
changes,
including no-homework nights, an end to high school midterms and finals, and an
initiative that made it easier to participate in the music program.
H)
Jennifer Lee, professor of sociology at the University of California, Irvine,
and an author of the Asian American Achievement Paradox, says misunderstanding
between first-generation Asian-American parents and those who have been in this
country
longer
are
common.
What
white
middle-class
parents
do
not
always
understand,
she said, is
how much pressure
recent immigrants feel to boost their children
into
the
middle
class.

don't
have
the
same
chances
to
get
their
children
internships
(
实习职位
) or jobs at law firms,
children must excel and beat their white peers in academic settings so they have
the same chances to excel later.
I)
The issue of the stresses felt by students in elite school districts has gained
attention
in
recent
years
as
schools
in
places
like
Newton,
Massachusetts,
and
Palo
Alto have reported a number of suicides. West Windsor-Plainsboro has not had a
teenage suicide in recent years, but Aderhold, who has worked in the district for
seven
years
and
been
chief
for
the
last
three
years,
said
he
had
seen
troubling
signs.
In
a
recent
art
assignments,
a
middle
school
student
depicted
(
描绘
)
an
overburdened
child who was being scolded for earning an A, rather than an A+ , on a math exam.
In
the
image,
the
mother
scolds
the
student
with
the
words,

on
you!
Further,
he said, the New Jersey Education Department has flagged at least two pieces of
writing
on
state
English
language
assessments
in
which
students
expressed
suicidal
thoughts.
J)

The
survey
commissioned
by
the
district
found
that
68
percent
of
high
school
honor
and Advanced Placement students reported feeling stressed about school
most of the time.
want to wait until it's too late to do something.
K)
Not all public opinion has fallen along racial lines. Karen Sue, the
Chinese-American mother of a fifth-grader and an eighth-grader, believes the
competition
within
the
district
has
gotten
out
of
control.
Sue,
who
was
born
in
the
United States to immigrant parents, wants her peers to dial it back.
an
arms
race,
an
educational
arms
race,
she
said.

all
want
our
kids
to
achieve
and be successful. The question is, at what cost?
36. Aderhold is limiting the extra classes that students are allowed to take off
campus.
37. White and Asian-American parents responded differently to Aderhold's appeal.
38. Suicidal thoughts have appeared in some students' writings.
39.
Aderhold's
reform
of
the
advanced
mathematics
program
will
affect
Asian-American
students most.
40. Aderhold appealed for parents' support in promoting an all-round development
of children, instead of focusing only on their academic performance.
41.
One
Chinese- American
parent
thinks
the
competition
in
the
district
has
gone
too
far.
42. Immigrant parents believe that academic excellence will allow their children
equal chances to succeed in the future.
43. Many businessmen and professionals have moved to West Windsor and Plainsboro
because of the public schools there.
44. A number of students in Aderhold's school district were found to have
stress- induced mental health problems.
45. The tension between Asian-American and white families has increased in recent
years.
Section C