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大学英语四级考试真题（一）大学英语四级考试真题（一）Part Writing(30 minutes)Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write an advertisement on your campus websiteto sell a bicycle you used at college. Your advertisement may include its brand, features, condition andprice, and your contact information. You should write at least 120 words but no more than 180 words.Part Listening Comprehension(25 minutes)Section ADirections: In this section, you will hear three news reports. At the end of each news report, you willhear two or three questions. Both the news report and the questions will be spoken only once. After youhear a question, you must choose the best answer from the four choices marked A), B), C) and D). Thenmark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 1 with a single line through the centre.Questions 1 and 2 are based on the news report you have just heard.1.A) The self-driving system was faulty.B) The car was moving at a fast speed.C) The man in the car was absent-minded.D) The test driver made a wrong judgment.2.A) They have generally done quite well.B) They have caused several severe crashes.C) They have posed a threat to other drivers.D) They have done better than conventional cars.Questions 3 and 4 are based on the news report you have just heard.3.A) He is a queen bee specialist.B) He works at a national park.C) He removed the bees from the boot.D) He drove the bees away from his car.4.A) They were making a lot of noise.B) They were looking after the queen.C) They were dancing in a unique way.D) They were looking for a new box to live in.Questions 5 to 7 are based on the news report you have just heard.5.A) The latest test on a rare animal species.B) The finding of two new species of frog.C) The second trip to a small remote island.D) The discovery of a new species of snake.6.A) He fell from a tall palm tree by accident.B) A snake crawled onto his head in his sleep.C) He discovered a rare frog on a deserted island.D) A poisonous snake attacked him on his field trip.特别说明：特别说明：试卷内所有二维码请用星火英语 App 扫描。7.A) From its origin.B) From its length.C) From its colour.D) From its genes.Section BDirections: In this section, you will hear two long conversations. At the end of each conversation, youwill hear four questions. Both the conversation and the questions will be spoken only once. After youhear a question, you must choose the best answer from the four choices marked A), B), C) and D). Thenmark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 1 with a single line through the centre.Questions 8 to 11 are based on the conversation you have just heard.8.A) The airport is a long way from the hotel.B) His flight is leaving in less than 2 hours.C) He has to check a lot of luggage.D) The security check takes time.9.A) In cash.B) By credit card.C) With his smart phone.D) With a travelers check.10. A) Look after his luggage.B) Find a porter for him.C) Give him a receipt.D) Confirm his flight.11. A) Posting a comment on the hotels webpage.B) Staying in the same hotel next time he comes.C) Signing up for membership of Sheraton Hotel.D) Loading her luggage onto the airport shuttle.Questions 12 to 15 are based on the conversation you have just heard.12. A) He becomes tearful in wind.B) He is the only boy in his family.C) He is his teachers favorite student.D) He has stopped making terrible faces.13. A) Warn him of danger by making up a story.B) Give him some cherry stones to play with.C) Do something funny to amuse him.D) Tell him to play in her backyard.14. A) They could knock people unconscious.B) They could fly against a strong wind.C) They could sometimes terrify adults.D) They could break peoples legs.15. A) One would have curly hair if they ate too much stale bread.B) One would go to prison if they put a stamp on upside down.C) One would have to shave their head to remove a bat in their hair.D) One would get a spot on their tongue if they told a lie deliberately.Section CDirections: In this section, you will hear three passages. At the end of each passage, you will hear threeor four questions. Both the passage and the questions will be spoken only once. After you hear aquestion, you must choose the best answer from the four choices marked A), B), C) and D). Then markthe 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 traveling overseas.D) Things from the Victorian era came back alive.17. A) Watching TV at homeB) Meeting people.C) Drinking coffee.D) Trying new foods.18. A) He was interested in stylish dresses.B) He was able to make a lot of money.C) He was a young 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 the minimum.B) They consume 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.24. A) By staying in hiding places and eating very little.B) By seeking food and shelter in peoples 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 Reading Comprehension(40 minutes)Section ADirections: In this section, there is a passage with ten blanks. You are required to select one word foreach blank from a list of choices given in a word bank following the passage. Read the passage throughcarefully before making your choices. Each choice in the bank is identified by a letter. Please mark thecorresponding letter for each item on Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through the centre. You may notuse any of the words in the bank more than once.The method for making beer has changed over time. Hops (碑酒花), for example, which give many amodern beer its bitter flavor, are a26recent addition to the beverage. This was first mentionedin reference to brewing in the ninth century. Now, researchers have found a27ingredient inresidue (残留物) from 5000-year-old beer brewing equipment. While digging two pits at a site in thecentral plains of China, scientists discovered fragments from pots and vessels. The different shapes ofthe containers28they were used to brew, filter, and store beer. They may be ancient“beer-making tools， and the earliest29evidence of beer brewing in China, the researchersreported in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. To30that theory, the teamexamined the yellowish, dried31inside the vessels. The majority of the grains, about 80%,were from cereal crops like barley (大麦), and about 10% were bits of roots,32lily, whichwould have made the beer sweeter, the scientists say. Barley was an unexpected find: the crop wasdomesticated in Western Eurasia and didnt become a33food in central China until about 2，000 years ago, according to the researchers. Based on that timing, they indicate barley may have34in the region not as food, but as35material for beer brewing.A) arrivedF) informK) resourcesB) consumingG) rawL) stapleC) directH)reachedM) suggestD) exclusivelyI) relativelyN) surprisingE) includingJ) remainsO) testSection BDirections: In this section, you are going to read a passage with ten statements attached to it. Eachstatement contains information given in one of the paragraphs. Identify the paragraph from which theinformation is derived. You may choose a paragraph more than once. Each paragraph is marked with aletter. Answer the questions by marking the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 2.The Blessing and Curse of the People Who Never ForgetA handful of people can recall almost every day of their lives in enormous detailand after years ofresearch, neuroscientists 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 liketo 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 youthe details of the weather, what he was wearing, or even what side of the train he was sitting on hisjourney to work. My memory is like a library of video tapes, walk- throughs of every day of my life fromwaking to sleeping， he explains.C) Veiseh can even put a date on when those tapes started recording: 15 December 2000, when he methis first girlfriend at his best friends 16th birthday party. He had always had a good memory, but the thrillof young love seems to have shifted a gear in his mind: from now on, he would start recording his wholelife 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 (神经科学专家） hoping tounderstand the way the brain records our lives. A couple of recent papers have finally opened a windowon these peoples extraordinary minds. And such research might even suggest ways for us all to reliveour 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 JimMcGaugh one day, she claimed that she could recall every day of her life since the age of 12. Could hehelp 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 himabout the world events on that day. True to her word, she was correct almost every time.G) It didnt take long for magazines and documentary film-makers to come to understand her “totalrecall”，and thanks to the subsequent media interest, a few dozen other subjects (including Veiseh) havesince come forward and contacted the team at the University of California, Irvine.H) Interestingly, their memories are highly self-centred: although they can remember autobiographicallife events in extraordinary detail, they seem to be no better than average at recalling impersonalinformation, such as random ( 任 意 选 取 的 ）lists of words. Nor are they necessarily better atremembering a round of drinks, say. And although their memories are vast, they are still likely to sufferfrom false memories Clearly, there is no such thing as a perfect memorytheir extraordinary mindsare 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 withHSAM and found that they scored particularly high on two measures: fantasy proneness (倾向） andabsorption. Fantasy proneness could be considered a tendency to imagine and daydream, whereasabsorption is the tendency to allow your mind to become fully absorbed in an activityto pay completeattention to the sensations (感受） and the experiences. Im extremely sensitive to sounds, smells andvisual detail，explains Nicole Donohue, who has taken part in many of these studies. I definitely feelthings more strongly than the average person. J) The absorption helps them to establish strong foundations for recollection, says Patihis, and thefantasy proneness means that they revisit those memories again and again in the coming weeks andmonths. Each time this initial memory trace is replayed，it becomes even stronger. In some ways, youprobably go through that process after a big event like your wedding daybut the difference is thatthanks to their other psychological tendencies, the HSAM subjects are doing it day in, day out, for thewhole of their lives.K) Not everyone with a tendency to fantasise will develop HSAM, though, so Patihis suggests thatsomething must have caused them to think so much about their past. Maybe some experience in theirchildhood meant that they became obsessed (着迷） with calendars and what happened to them，saysPatihis.L) The people with HSAM Ive interviewed would certainly agree that it can be a mixed blessing. On theplus 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 nowlodged deep in his autobiographical memories.M) Imagine being able to remember every painting, on every wall, in every gallery space, betweennearly 40 countries， he says. Thats a big education in art by itself.With this comprehensive knowledgeof the history of art, he has since become a professional painter.N) Donohue, now a history teacher, agrees that it helped during certain parts of her education：I candefinitely remember what I learned on certain days at school. I could imagine what the teacher wassaying or what it looked like in the book. O) Not everyone with HSAM has experienced these benefits, however. Viewing the past in highdefinition can make it very difficult to get over pain and regret. It can be very hard to forget embarrassingmoments， says Donohue. You feel the same emotionsit is just as raw, just as fresh. You cant turnoff that stream of memories, no matter how hard you try. Veiseh agrees：It is like having these openwoundsthey 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 getspainful flashbacks，in which unwanted memories intrude into his consciousness, but overall he haschosen to see it as the best way of avoiding repeating the same mistakes. Some people are absorbedin the past but not open to new memories, but thats not the case for me. I look forward to each day andexperiencing something new. 36. People with HSAM have the same memory as ordinary people when it comes to impersonalinformation.37. Fantasy proneness will not necessarily cause people to develop HSAM.38. Veiseh began to remember the details of his everyday experiences after he met his first young love.39. Many more people with HSAM started to contact researchers due to the mass media.40. People with HSAM often have to make efforts to avoid focusing on the past.41. Most people do not have clear memories of past events.42. HSAM can be both a curse and a blessing.43. A young woma