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2016
年英语专四
1. A) They admire the courage of space
explorers.
B) They enjoyed the movie
on space exploration.
C) They were
going to watch a wonderful movie.
D)
They like doing scientific exploration very much.
2. A) At a gift shop.
B) At a graduation ceremony.
C) In the office of a travel agency.
D) In a school library.
3. A) He used to work in the art
gallery.
B) He does not have a good
memory.
C) He declined a job offer
form the art gallery.
D) He is not
interested in any part-time jobs.
4.A) Susan has been invited to give a
lecture tomorrow.
B) He will go to
the birthday party after the lecture.
C) The woman should have informed him earlier.
D) He will be unable to attend the
birthday party.
5.A) Reward those
having made good progress.
B) Set a
deadline for the staff to meet.
C)
Assign more workers to the project.
D) Encourage the staff to work in small groups.
6. A) The way to the
visitor?s parking.
B) The
rate for parking in Lot C.
C) How far
away the parking lot is.
D) Where she
can leave her car.
7. A) He
regrets missing the classes.
B) He
plans to take the fitness classes.
C)
He is looking forward to a better life.
D) He has benefited form exercise.
8.A) How to ? work
efficiency.
B) How to select
secretaries.
C)The responsibilities of
secretaries.
D) The
secretaries in the man?
s company.
Conversation One
Questions 9
to 11 are based on the conversation you have just
heard.
9.A) It is more difficult to
learn than English.
B) It is used by
more people than English.
C) It will
be as commonly used as English.
D) It
will eventually become a world language.
10.A) It has words words
from many languages,
B) Its
popularity with the common people.
C)
The influence of the British Empire.
D) The effect of the Industrial Revolution.
11.A) It includes a lot of
words form other languages.
B) It has
a growing number of newly coined words,
C) It can be easily picked up by
overseas travelers.
D) It is the
largest among all languages in the world.
Conversation 2
Questions 12
to 15 are based on the conversation you have just
heard.
12.A) To return some goods.
B) To apply for a job.
C) To place an order.
D) To make a
complaint.
13. A) He has
become somewhat impatient with the woman.
B) He is not familiar with the
exact details of goods.
C) He has
not worked in the sales department for long.
D) He works on a part-time basis for
the company.
14. A) It is
not his responsibility.
B) It will
be free for large orders.
C) It
costs 15 more for express delivery.
D) It depends on a number of factors.
15.A) Report the information to her
superior.
B) Pay a visit to the
saleswoman in charge.
C) Ring back
when she comes to a decision.
D)
Make inquiries with some other companies.
Section BPassage One
Questions 16 to 18 are based on the
passage you have just heard.
16. A) No
one knows exactly where they were ??
B) No one knows for sure when thy came into being.
C) No one knows for what purpose
they were ?
D) No one knows what
they will ?????
17. A)
Carry ropes across rivers.
B)
Measure the speed of wind.
C) Pass
on secret messages.
D) Give warnings
of danger.
18. A) To protect houses
against lightning.
B) To test the
effects of the lightning rod.
C) To
find out the strength of silk for kites.
D) To prove the lightning is
electricity.
Passage TwoQuestions 19 to
22 are based on the passage you have just heard.
19.A) She enjoys teaching languages.
B) She can speak several languages.
C) She was trained to be an
interpreter.
D) She was born with a
talent for languages.
20.
A) They acquire an immunity to culture shock.
B) They would like to live abroad
permanently.
C) They want to learn
as many foreign languages as possible.
D) They have an intense interest in cross-cultural
interactions.
21.A) She
became an expert in horse racing.
B)
She got a chance to visit several European
countries.
C) She was able to
translate for a German sports judge.
D) She learned to appreciate classical music.
22. A) Taste the beef and
give her comment.
B) Take part in a
cooking competition.
C) Teach
vocabulary for food in ??
D) Give
cooking lessons on ????
Passage
ThreeQuestions 23 to 25 are based on the passage
you have just heard.
23. A) He had only
a third-grade education.
B) He once
threatened to kill his teacher.
C)
He grew up in a poor ???
D) He often
helped his ???
24.A)
Careless.
B) Stupid.
C) Brave.
D) Active.
25.A) Write two book reports a week.
B) Keep a diary.
C)
Help with housework.
D) Watch
education??
Section C
Directions:In this section, you will
hear a passage three times. When the passage is
read for the first time, you should
listen carefully for its general idea. When the
passage is read for the second time,
you are required to fill in the blanks with the
exact words you have just heard.
Finally, when the passage is read for the third
time,
you should check what you have
written.
When you look up at the night
sky, what do you see
?
There
are other bodies out
there
besides the moon and stars. One of the most
of this is a comet. Comets
were formed
around the same the earth was formed. They are
made up of ice and
other frozen liquids
and gasses. these dirty snow balls begin to
orbit the sun just
as the planets do.
As a comet gets closer to the sun, some gasses in
it begin to
unfreeze. They combine with
dust particles from the comet to form a huge
cloud. As
the comet gets even nearer to
the sun and solar wind blows the cloud behind the
comet thus forming its tail. The tail
and generally fuzzy atmosphere around the comet
are that can help this
phenomenon in the night sky. In any given
year
,
about dozen known
comets come close to the sun in their orbits. The
average person
can?t s
ee
them all of course. Usually there is only one or
two a year bright enough to
be seen
with the _________eye. Comet Hale-Bopp
discovered in 1995 was an
unusually
bright comet. Its orbit bought it _________to the
earth within 122 million
miles of it.
But Hale-
Bopp came a long way on its
earthly visit. It won?t be back for
another 4 thousand years or so.
Part Ш
Reading
Comprehension (40 minutes)
Section A
Questions 36 to 45
are based on the following passage.
For
many Americans, 2013 ended with an unusually
bitter cold spell. November and
December 36 early snow and bone-
chilling temperatures in much of the country,
part of a year when, for the first time
in two 37 , record-cold days will likely
turn
out to have outnumbered record-
warm ones. But the U.S. was the exception;
November was the warmest ever 38 ,
and current data indicates that 2013 is likely
to have been the fourth hottest year on
record.
Enjoy the snow now, because
39 are good that 2014 will be even hotter,
perhaps
the hottest year since records
have been kept. That?s because, scientists are
predicting,
2014 will be an EI Niuo
year.
EI niuo, Spanish for “the
child”,
40 when surface ocean
waters in the southern
Pacific become
abnormally warm. So large is the Pacific, covering
30% of the
planet?s surface, that
the
41 energy generated by its
warming is enough to touch
off a series
of weather changes around the world. EI Ninos are
42 with
abnormally dry conditions
in Southeast Asia and Australia. They can lead to
extreme
rain in parts of North and
South America, even as southern Africa 43
dry weather.
Marine life may be
affected too; EI Ninos can 44 the rising of
the cold, nutrient-
rich
(营养丰富
的)
water that supports large fish 45
,and the unusually warm
ocean
temperatures can destroy
coral(
珊瑚
).
Section BThe Perfect Essay
A) Looking back on too many years of
education, I can identify one truly impossible
teacher. She cared about me, and my
intellectual life, even when I
didn?t.
Her
expectations were
high
—
impossibly so. She was
an English teacher. She was also my
mother.
B) When good
students turn in an essay, they dream of their
instructor returning it to
them in
exactly the same condition, save for a single word
added in the margin of the
final
page.“Flawless.” This dream came true for me one
afternoon in the ninth grade.
Of
course, I had heard that genius could show itself
at an early age, so I was only
slightly
taken aback that I had achieved perfection at the
tender age of 14. Obviously,
I did what
and professional writer would do; I hurried off to
spread the good news. I
didn?t get very
far. The first person I told was my
mother.
C) My mother, who is
just shy of five feet tall, is normally incredibly
soft-spoken, but
on the rare occasion
when she got angry, she was terrifying. I am not
sure if she was
more upset by my
hubris
(得意忘形)
or by the fact
that my English teacher had let
my ego
get so out of hand. In and event. My mother and
her red pen showed me how
deeply flawed
a flaw less essay could be. At the time, I am sure
she thought she was
teaching me about
mechanics, transitions
(过渡)
,
structure, style and voice. But
what I
learned, and what stuck with me through my time
teaching writing at Harvard,
was a
deeper lesson about the nature of creative
criticism.
D) First off, it hurts.
Genuine criticism, the type that leaves a lasting
mark on you as a
writer, also leaves an
existential imprint
(印记)
on
you as a person. I have heard
people
say that a writer should never take criticism
personally. I say that we should
never
listen to these people.
E) Criticism,
at its best, is deeply personal, and gets to the
heart of why we write the
way we do.
The intimate nature of genuine criticism implies
something about who is
able to give it,
namely, someone who knows you well enough to show
you how your
mental life is getting in
the way of good writing. Conveniently, they are
also the
people who care enough to see
you through this painful realization. For me it
took the
form of my first, and
I hope only, encounter with writer?s
block—
I was not able to
produce anything for three years.
F) Franz Kafka once said; “Writing is
utter solitude
(独处)
, the
descent into the
cold
abyss
(深渊)
of oneself.” My
mother?s criticism had shown me that Kafka is
right about the cold abyss, and when
you make the
introspective
(内省的)
descent
that writing requires you are not
always pleased by what you find. But, in the years
that followed, her sustained tutoring
suggested that Kafka might be wrong about the
solitude, I was lucky enough to find a
critic and teacher who was willing to make the
journey of writing with me. “It is a
thing of no great difficulty.”according to
Plutarch,
“to raise objections against
another man?s speech. it is a very easy matter,
but to
produce a bet
ter in
its place is a work extremely troublesome.” I am
sure I wrote
essays in the later years
of high school without my mother?s guidance, but I
can?t
recall them. What I remember,
however, is how she took up
the“extremelytroublesome”work of
ongoing criti
cism.
G) There
are two ways to interpret Plutarch when he
suggests that a critic should be
able
to produce“a better in its place.”In a
straightforward sense, he could mean that a
critic must be more talented than the
artist she critiques
(评论)
.My
mother was
well covered on this count.
But perhaps Plutarch is suggesting something
slightly
different, something a bit
closer to Marcus Cicero?s claim that one
should“criticize by
creation, not by
finding fault.”Genuine criticism creates a
precious opening for an
author to
become better on his own
terms
—
a process that is
often extremely painful,
but also
almost always meaningful.
H) My mother
said she would help me with my writing, but first
I had to help myself.
For each
assignment, I was to write the best essay I could.
Real criticism is not meant
to find
obvious mistakes, so if she found
any
—
the type I could have
found on my
own
—I had to
start from scratch. From scratch. Once the essay
was“flawless,” she
would take an
evening to walk me through my errors. That was
when true criticism,
the type that
changed me as a person, began.
I) She
criticized me when I included little-known
references and professional
jargon
(行话)
. She had no
patience for brilliant but irrelevant figures of
speech.“Writers
can?t
bluff
(虚张声势)
their
w
ay through ignorance.” That was news
to me—
I
would need to find
another way to structure my daily existence.
J) She trimmed back my flowery
language, drew lines through my exclamation marks
and argued for the value of restraint
in expression.“John,” she al
most
whispered. I
leaned in to hear her: “I
can?t hear you when you shout at me.” So I stopped
shouting
and bluffing, and slowly my
writing improved.
K) Somewhere along
the way I set aside my hopes of writing that
flawless essay. But
perhaps I missed
somet
hing important in my mother?s
lessons about creativity and
perfection. Perhaps the point of
writhing the flawless essay was not to give up,
but to
never willingly finish. Whitman
repeatedly reworked“song of Myself” between 1855
and 1891. Repeatedly. We do our
absolute best with a piece of writing, and come as
close as we can to the ideal. And, for
the time being, we settle. In critique, however,
we are forced to depart, to give up the
perfection we thought we had achieved for the
chance of being even a little bit
better. This is the lesson I took from my mother:
If
perfection were possible, it would
not be motivating.
46. The author was
advised against the improper use of figures of
speech.
47. The author?s mother taught
him a valuable lesson by pointing out
lots of flaws in
his seemingly perfect
essay.
48. A writer should polish his
writing repeatedly so as to get closer to
perfection.
49. Writers may experience
periods of time in their life when they just can?t
produce
anything.
50. The
author was not much surprised when his school
teacher marked his essay
as“flawless”.
51.
Criticizing someone?s speech is said to be easier
than coming up with a better one.
52. The author looks upon his mother as
his most demanding and caring instructor.
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