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2017
年
6
月大学英 语四级真题及答案
(
一
)
Part I
Writing
(25 minutes)
(
请于正式开考后半小时内完成该部分，之后将进行 听力考试
)
Directions:
For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write an advertisement on your campus website
to sell a computer you used at college.
Your advertisement may include its brand,
specifications/features,
condition and
price, and your contact should write at least 120
words but no more than
180 words.
Part II
Listening Comprehension
(30 minutes)
Section A
Directions:
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 questions will be spoken only
once. After you hear
questions, 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.
注意：此部分试题请在
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上作答。
Questions 1 to 2 are based on the
conversation you have just heard.
1.
A) The man in the car was absent-minded.
B) The test driver made a wrong judgement.
C) The self-driving system was faulty.
D) The car was moving at a fast speed.
2.
A) They have done better than conventional cars.
B) They have caused several severe
crashes.
C) They have posed a threat to
other drivers.
D) They have generally
done quite well.
Questions
3 to 4 are based on the conversation you have just
heard.
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3.
A) He works at a national park.
B) He is a queen been specialist.
C) He removed the beyond from the boot.
D) He drove the bees away from his car.
4.
A) They were looking after the queen
B) They were making a lot of noise
C) They were looking for a new box to live in
D) They were dancing in a unique way
Questions 5 to 7 are based on the
conversation you have just heard.
5.
A) The discovery of a new species of snake
B) The second trip to a small remote island
C) The finding of 2 new species of frog
D) The latest test on rare animal species
6.
A) A poisonous snake attacked him on his field trip
B) He discovered a rare fog on a
deserted
C) A snake crawled onto his
head in his sleep
D) He fell from a
tall palm tree by accident
7.
A) From its genes
B) From its length
C)
From its origin
D) From its colour
Section B
Directions:
In this section, you will hear two long conversations. At the end of each conversation,
you will hear four questions. Both the
conversation and the questions will be spoken only
once. After 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.
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Questions 8 to 11 are based on the
conversation you have just heard.
8.
A) The security check takes time
B) He has to
check a lot of luggage
C) His flight is
leaving in less than 2 hours
D) The
airport is a long way from the hotel
9.
A) In cash
B) By credit
card
C) With a
traveler’s check
D) With his smart phone
10.
A) Give him a receipt
B) Confirm his flight
C) Look after his luggage
D)
Find a porter for him
11 .
A) Signing up for membership of S Hotel
B) Staying in the same hotel next
time he comes
C) Loading her luggage
onto the airport shuttle
D) Posting a
comment on the hotel’s webpage
Questions 12 to 15 are based on the
conversation you have just heard.
12.
A) He is the only boy in his family
B) He becomes tearful in wind
C) He has stopped making terrible faces
D) He is his teacher's favorite student
13.
A) Tell him to play in her backyard
B) Do
something funny to amuse him
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C) Give him
some cherry stones to play with
D) Warn
him of danger by making up a story
14.
A) They could break pp's legs
B) They could sometimes
terrify adults
C) They could fly
against a strong wind
D) They could
knock pp unconscious
15.
A) One would get a spot on their tongues if they told a lie deliberately
B) One would have to shave their head
to remove a bat in their hair
C) One
would go to prison if they put a stamp on upside
down
D) One would have curly hair if
they ate too much stale bread
Section C
Directions:
In this section, you will hear three passages of lectures or talks followed by three or four
questions. The recordings will be
played only once. After 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 16 to 18 are based on the
passage you have just heard.
16.
A) Everything seemed to be changing.
B) People were formal and disciplined.
C) People were excited to go travelling overseas.
D) Things from the Victorian era came back alive.
17.
A) Watching TV at home.
B) Meeting people.
C) Drinking coffee.
D) Trying new foods.
18.
A) He was interested in stylish dresses.
B) He was able to take a lot of money.
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C) He was a student in the 1960s.
D) He was a man full of
imagination.
Questions 19
to 21 are based on the passage you have just
heard.
19.
A) They avoid looking at them.
B) They run away immediately.
C) They show anger on their faces.
D) They make threatening sounds.
20.
A) It turns to its owner for help.
B) It turns away to avoid conflict.
C) It looks away and gets angry, too.
D) It focuses its eyes on their mouths.
21.
A) By observing their facial features carefully.
B) By focusing on a particular body movement.
C) By taking in their facial expressions as a whole.
D) By interpreting different emotions in different ways.
Questions
22 to 25 are based on the passage you have just
heard.
22.
A) They have to look for food and shelter underground.
B) They take little notice of the changes in temperature.
C) They resort to different means to survive the bitter cold.
D) They have difficulty adapting to the changed environment.
23.
A) They have their weight reduced to minimum.
B) They consume the energy stored before the long sleep.
C) They can maintain their heart beat at the normal rate.
D) They can keep their body temperature warm and stable.
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24.
A) By staying in hiding places and eating very little.
B) By seeking food and shelter in people
’
s houses.
C) By growing thicker hair to stay warm.
D) By storing enough food beforehand.
25.
A) To stay safe.
B) To save energy.
C) To
keep company.
D) To protect the young.
Part
Ⅲ
Section A
Reading Comprehension
(40 minutes)
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 26 to 35 are based on the
following passage.
The method for
making beer has changed over time. Hops
(
啤酒花
)
，
for example, which give many
a
modem
beer
its
bitter
flavor,
are
a
(26)_______
recent
addition
to
the
beverage.
This
was
first
mentioned
in
reference
to
brewing
in
the
ninth
century.
Now,
researchers
have
found
a
(27)_______ingredient in residue
(
残留物）
from 5,000-year-old beer brewing equipment. While digging
two
pits at a site in the central plains of China,
scientists discovered fragments from pots and
vessels. The
different shapes of the
containers (28)_______
they were used to brew, filter, and store beer. They may
be ancient “beer
-making
tools,” and the earliest (2
9_______
evidence
of
beer
brewing
in
China,
the
researchers reported in the Proceedings
of the National Academy of Sciences. To
(30)_______
that
theory, the
team examined the yellowish, dried (31)_______
inside the vessels. The majority of the grains,
about
80%,
were
from
cereal
crops
like
barley
(
大
麦
),and
about
10%
were
bits
of
roots,
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(32)_______lily,which would have made
the beer sweeter, the scientists say. Barley was
an unexpected
find:
the
crop
was
domesticated
in
Western
Eurasia
and
didn't
become
a
(33)_______food
in
central
China until about 2,000 years ago,
according to the researchers. Based on that
timing, they indicate barley
may have
(34)_______ in the region not as food, but as
(35)_______material for beer brewing.
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A)
Arrived
B)
B) consuming
C)
C) direct
D)
D)
exclusively
E)
including
I)
relatively
M)
suggest
F)
inform
J) remains
N) surprising
G)
raw
K)resources
O) test
H)
reached
L) staple
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
.
The
Blessing and Curse of the People Who Never Forget
A handful of people can recall almost
every day of their lives in enormous
detail
—
and after years of
research, neuroscientists
(
神经科学专家
) are finally beginning to understand how they do it.
[A] For most
of us, memory is a mess of blurred and faded
pictures of our lives. As much as
we
would like to cling on to our past,
even the saddest moments can be washed away with
time.
[B] Ask Nima Veiseh what he was
doing for any day in the past 15 years, however,
and he will give
you the details of the
weather, what he was wearing, or even what side of
the train he was sitting on his
journey
to work. “My memory is like a library of video
tapes, walk
-throughs of every day of my life from
waking to sleeping,” he
explains
.
[C] Veiseh can even
put a date on when those tapes started recording:
15 December 2000, when he
met his first
girlfriend at his best friend's 16th birthday
party. He had always had a good memory, but the
thrill of young love seems to have
shifted a gear in his mind: from now on, he would
start recording his
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whole life
in detail. “I could tell you everything about
every day after that.”
[D]
Needless to say, people like Veiseh are of great
interest to neuroscientists hoping to understand
the way the brain
records our lives.
A couple of recent
papers have finally
opened a window on these
people’s extraordinary minds. And such
research might
even suggest
ways for us
all to
relive
our past
with greater clarity.
[E
] “Highly superior autobiographical memory”
（
or HSAM for short) first came to light in the early
2000s, with
a
young woman named Jill
Price. Emailing the neuroscientist
and memory
researcher Jim
McGaugh one day, she claimed that
she could recall every day of her life since the
age of 12. Could he
help explain her
experiences?
[F] McGaugh invited her to
his lab, and began to test her: he would give her
a date and ask her to tell
him about
the world events on that day. True to her word,
she was correct almost every time.
[G]
It didn
’t
take long for magazines and documentary film-
makers to come to understand her “total
recall”
，
and thank to the subsequent media interest, a few dozen other subjects (including Veiseh) have
since come forward and contacted the
team at the University of California, Irvine.
[H]
Interestingly,
their
memories
are
highly
self-centred:
although
they
can
remember
“autobiographical” life events in
extraordinary detail, they seem to be no better
than averag
e at recalling
impersonal information, such as random
(
任意选取的）
lists of words. Nor are they necessarily better at
remembering a
round of drinks, say. And although their memories
are vast, they are still likely to suffer
from “false memories”.
Clearly, there i
s no such thing as a “perfect” memory—
their extraordinary minds
are still using the same flawed tools
that the rest of us rely on. The question is, how?
[I]
Lawrence
Patihis
at
the
University
of
Southern
Mississippi
recently
studied
around
20
people
with HSAM and found that
they scored particularly high on two measures:
fantasy
proneness
(
倾向
)and
absorption.
Fantasy
proneness
could
be
considered
a
tendency
to
imagine
and
daydream,
whereas
absorption is the tendency to allow
your mind to become fully absorbed in an activity
to pay complete
attention
to
the
sensations
(
感受
)
and
the
experiences.
“I’m
extremely
sensitive
to
sounds,
smells
and
visual
detail,” explains Nicole Donohue, who has taken
part in many of these studies. “I definitely feel
things more strongl
y than the average person.”
[J] The
absorption helps them to establish strong
foundations for recollection, says Patihis, and
the
fantasy
proneness
means
that
they
revisit
those
memories
again
and
again
in
the
coming
weeks
and
months. Each time this initia
l memory trace is “replayed”, it becomes even stronger. In some ways, you
probably go
through that process after a big event like your
wedding day,but the difference is that thanks
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to their other
psychological tendencies, the HSAM subjects are
doing it day in, day out, for the whole of
their lives.
[K] Not
everyone with a tendency to fantasise will develop
HSAM, though, so Patihis suggests that
something must have caused them to
think so much about their past. “Maybe some
experience in their
childhood
meant
that
they
became
obsessed
(
着迷）
with
calendars
and
what
happened
to
them
,”
says
Patihis.
[L
] The people with HSAM I’ve interviewed would certainly agree that it can be a mixed blessing.
On the plus side, it allows you to
relive the most transformative and enriching
experiences. Veiseh, for
instance,
travelled a lot in his youth. In his spare time,he
visited the local art galleries, and the paintings
are now lodged deep in his
autobiographical memories.
[M
] “Imagine being able to remember every painting, on
every wall, in every gallery space, between
nearly
40
countries
，
”
he
says.
“That’s
a
big
education
in
art
by
itself.”
With
this
comprehensive
knowledge of the
history of art, he has since become a professional
painter.
[N] Donohue, now a history
teacher, a
grees that it helped during certain parts of her education. “I
can
definitely remember what I learned on certain days
at school. I could imagine what the teacher was
saying or what it looked like in the
book.”
[O]
Not
everyone
with
HSAM
has
experienced
these
benefits,
however.
Viewing
the
past
in
high
definition
can
make
it
very
difficult
to
get
over
pain
and
regret.
“It
can
be
very
hard
to
forget
embarrassing moments,” says Donohue.
“You feel the same emotions—
it is just as raw, just as fresh...
You can’t turn
off that stream of memories, no matter how hard
you try.” Veiseh agrees. “It is like having
these open wounds
—they are just a part of you,” he says.
[P]
This means they often have to make a special
effort to lay the past to rest. Bill, for
instance, often
gets
painful “flashbacks”
，
in
which unwanted
memories intrude into his
consciousness,
but
overall he
has chosen to see it as the best way of
avoiding repeating the same mistakes. “Some people
are absorbed
in the past but not open
to new memories, but t
hat’s not the case for me. I look forward to each day and
experiencing something new.”
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with
HSAM
have
the
same
memory
as
ordinary
people
when
it
comes
to
impersonal
information.
y proneness
will not necessarily cause people to develop HSAM.
began to
remember the details
of
his
everyday experiences after he met his
first
young
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love.
more
people with HSAM started to contact researchers
due to the mass media.
with HSAM often
have to make efforts to avoid focusing on the
past.
people do not have clear
memories of past events.
can be both a
curse and a blessing.
43.A young woman
sought explanation from a brain scientist when she
noticed her unusual memory.
people
with HSAM find it very hard to get rid of
unpleasant memories.
45.A recent study
of people with HSAM reveals that they are liable
to fantasy and full absorption in
an
activity.
Section C
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 46 to 50 are based on the
following passage.
The phrase almost
completes itself: midlife crisis. It’s the stage
in the middle of the journey when
people feel youth vanishing, their
prospects narrowing and death approaching.
There’s only one problem with the
cliche
(
套话
).It isn’t true.
“In
fact,
there
is
almost
no
hard
evidence
for
midlife
crisis
other
than
a
few
small
pilot
studies
conducted
decades ago,” Barbara Hagerty writes in her new
boo
k,
Life Reimagined
. The vast bulk of the
research shows that
there may be a pause, or a shifting of gears in
the 40s or 50s, but this shift “can be
exciting, rather than
terrifying”.
Barbara Hagerty
looks at some of the features of people who turn
midlife into a rebirth. They break
routines,
because
“autopilot
is
death”.
They
choose
purpose
over
happiness
一
having
a
clear
sense
of
purpose even reduces the risk of
Alzheimer’s disease. They give priority
to relationships, as careers often
recede(
逐渐淡化
).
Life
Reimagined
paints
a
picture
of
middle
age
that
is
far
from
gloomy.
Midlife
seems
like
the
second big phase of
decision-
making. Your identity has been formed; you’ve built up your resources; and
now you have the chance to take the big
risks precisely because your foundation is already
secure.
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Karl Barth
described midlife precisely this way. At middle
age, he wrote, “the sowing is behind; now
is the time to reap. The run has been
taken; now is the time to leap. Preparation has
been made; now is the
time for the
venture of the work itself.”
The
middle-
aged person, Barth continued, can see death in the distance, but moves with a “measured
haste” to get big new things
done while there is still time.
What Barth wrote decades ago is even
truer today. People are healthy and energetic
longer. We have
presidential
candidates
running
for
their
first
term
in
office
at
age
68,
69
and
74.
A
longer
lifespan
is
changing the narrative structure of
life itself. What could have been considered the
beginning of a descent
is now a
potential turning point
—
the turning point you are most equipped to take full advantage of.
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46.
What does the author think of the phrase “midlife crisis”
？
A) It has led to a lot of debate.
B) It is widely acknowledged.
C) It is no longer fashionable.
D) It misrepresents real life.
does Barbara Hagerty view midlife?
A) It may be the beginning of a crisis.
B) It can be a
new phase of one’s life.
C) It
can be terrifying for the unprepared.
D)It may see old-age diseases
approaching.
is midlife
pictured in the book
Life Reimagined
?
A) It can be quite
rose.
B) It can be burdensome.
C) It undergoes radical transformation.
D) It makes for the best
part of one’s life.
ing to
Karl Barth, midlife is the time_______.
A) to relax
B) to mature
C) to harvest
D) to reflect
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