2021年6月大学英语四级第1套真题及答案.pdf
*欧阳光明*创编 2021.03.072016年 6月大学英语四级真题（第 1套）欧阳光明（2021.03.07）Part I Writing(30 minutes)Directions:For this part,you are allowed 30 minutes to write a letter toexpress your thanks to your parents or any family members upon makingmemorable achievement.You should write at least 120 words but nomore than 180 words.Part Listening Comprehension(25 minutes)Section ADirections:Inthis section,you will hear three news reports.At the end of each newsreport,you will hear two or three questions.Both the news report and thequestions will be spoken only once.After you hear a question,you mustchoose 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 linethrough the centre.Questions 1 and 2 are based on the news report you have just heard.1.A)The International Labor Organizations key objective.B)The basic social protection for the most vulnerable.C)Rising unemployment worldwide.D)Global economic recovery.*欧阳光明*创编 2021.03.07*欧阳光明*创编 2021.03.072.A)Many countries have not taken measures to create enough jobs.B)Few countries know how to address the current economic crisis.C)Few countries have realized the seriousness of the current crisis.D)Many countries need support to improve their peoples livelihood.Questions 3 and 4 are based on the news report you have just heard.3.A)Serve standardized food nationwide.B)Put calorie information on the menu.C)Increase protein content in the food.D)Offer convenient food to customers.4.A)They will be fined.B)They will be closed.C)They will get a warning.D)They will lose customers.Questions 5 to 7 are based on the news report you have just heard.5.A)Inability to implement their business plans.B)Inability to keep turning out novel products.C)Lack of a successful business model of their own.D)Failure to integrate innovation into their business.6.A)It is the secret to business success.B)It is the creation of something new.C)It is a magic tool to bring big rewards.*欧阳光明*创编 2021.03.07*欧阳光明*创编 2021.03.07 D)It is an essential part of business culture.7.A)Its hardworking employees.B)Its flexible promotion strategy.C)Its innovation culture.D)Its willingness to make investments.Section BDirections:In this section,you will hear two longconversations.At the end of each conversations you will hear fourquestions.Both the conversations and the question-s will be spoken onlyonce.After you hear a question.You must choose the best answer fromthe four choices marked A),B),C)and D).Then mark thecorresponding letter on Answer Sheet 1 with a single line through thecentre.Questions 8 to 11 are based on the conversation you have just heard.8.A)Hes got addicted to technology.B)He is not very good at socializing.C)He is crazy about text-messaging.D)He does not talk long on the phone.9.A)Talk big.B)Talk at length.C)Gossip a lot.*欧阳光明*创编 2021.03.07*欧阳光明*创编 2021.03.07 D)Forget herself.10.A)He thought it was cool.B)He needed the practice.C)He wanted to stay connected with them.D)He had an urgent message to send.11.A)It poses a challenge to seniors.B)It saves both time and money.C)It is childish and unprofessional.D)It is cool and convenient.Questions 12 to 15 are based on the conversation you have just heard.12.A)He wants to change his job assignment.B)He is unhappy with his department manager.C)He thinks he deserves extra pay for overtime.D)He is often singled out for criticism by his boss.13.A)His workload was much too heavy.B)His immediate boss did not trust him.C)His colleagues often refused to cooperate.D)His salary was too low for his responsibility.14.A)He never knows how to refuse.B)He is always ready to help others.*欧阳光明*创编 2021.03.07*欧阳光明*创编 2021.03.07 C)His boss has a lot of trust in him.D)His boss has no sense of fairness.15.A)Put all his complaints in writing.B)Wait and see what happens next.C)Learn to say no when necessary.D)Talk to his boss in person first.Section CDirections:In this section,you will hear three passages.At theend of each passage,you will hear three or four questions.Both thepassage and the questions will be spoken only once.After you hear aquestion,you must choose the best answer from the four choices markedA),B),C)and D).Then mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet1 with a single line through the centre.Questions 16 to 18 are based on the passage you have just heard.16.A)The importance of sleep to a healthy life.B)Reasons for Americans decline in sleep.C)Some tips to improve the quality of sleep.D)Diseases associated with lack of sleep.17.A)They are more health-conscious.B)They are changing their living habits.C)They get less and less sleep.D)They know the dangers of lack of sleep.*欧阳光明*创编 2021.03.07*欧阳光明*创编 2021.03.0718.A)Their weight will go down.B)Their mind function will deteriorate.C)Their work efficiency will decrease.D)Their blood pressure will rise.Questions 19 to 21 are based on the passage you have just heard.19.A)How much you can afford to pay.B)What course you are going to choose.C)Which university you are going to apply to.D)When you are going to submit your application.20.A)The list of courses studied.B)The full record of scores.C)The references from teachers.D)The personal statement.21.A)Specify what they would like to do after graduation.B)Describe in detail how much they would enjoy studying.C)Indicate they have reflected and thought about the subject.D)Emphasize that they admire the professors in the university.Questions 22 to 25 are based on the passage you have just heard.22.A)It was equipped with rubber tyres.B)It was built in the late 19th century.*欧阳光明*创编 2021.03.07*欧阳光明*创编 2021.03.07 C)It was purchased by the Royal family.D)It was designed by an English engineer.23.A)They consumed lots of petrol.B)They took two passengers only.C)They were difficult to drive.D)They often broke down.24.A)They were produced on the assembly line.B)They were built with less costly materials.C)They were modeled after British cars.D)They were made for ordinary use.25.A)It made news all over the world.B)It was built for the Royal family.C)It marked a new era in motor travel.D)It attracted large numbers of motorists.PartIII Reading ComprehensionSection ADirections:In this section,there is a passage with ten blanks.You arerequired to select one word for each blank from a list of choices given ina word bank following the passage.Read the passage through carefullybefore making your choices.Each choice in the bank is identified by aletter.Please mark the corresponding letter for each item on AnswerSheet 2 with a single line through the centre.You may not use any of thewords in the bank more than once.*欧阳光明*创编 2021.03.07*欧阳光明*创编 2021.03.07Physical activity does the body good,and theres growing evidencethat it helps the brain too.Researchers in the Netherlands report thatchildren who get more exercise,whether at school or on their own,26tohave higher GPAs and better scores on standardized tests.In a 27 of 14studies that looked at physical activity and academic28,investigatorsfound that the more children moved,the better their grades were inschool,29 in the basic subjects of math,English and reading.The data will certainly fuel the ongoing debate over whetherphysical education classes should be cut as schools struggle to 30 onsmaller budgets.The arguments against physical education haveincluded concerns that gym time may be taking away from study time.With standardized test scores in the U.S.31 in recent years,someadministrators believe students need to spend more time in the classroominstead of on the playground.But as these findings show,exercise andacademics may not be 32 exclusive.Physical activity can improve blood33 to the brain,fueling memory,attention and creativity,which are 34 tolearning.And exercise releases hormones that can improve 35 andrelieve stress,which can also help learning.So while it may seem as ifkids are just exercising their bodies when theyre running around,theymay actually be exercising their brains as well.A)attendanceE)droppingI)mood M)reviewB)consequently F)essentialJ)mutuallyN)surviveC)currentG)feasibleK)particularly O)tendD)depressingH)flowL)performanceSection B*欧阳光明*创编 2021.03.07*欧阳光明*创编 2021.03.07Directions:In this section,you are going to read a passage with tenstatements attached to it.Each statement contains information given inone of theparagraphs.Identify the paragraph from which theinformation is derived.You may choose a paragraph more than once.Each paragraph ismarked with a letter.Answer the questions by markingthe corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 2.Finding the Right Homeand Contentment,TooA When your elderly relative needs to enter some sort of long-termcare facilitya moment few parents or children approach without fearwhat you would like is to have everything made clear.B Does assisted living really mark a great improvement over a nursinghome,or has the industry simply hired better interior designers?Arenursing homes as bad as people fear,or is that an out-moded stereotype（固定看法)?Can doing ones homework really steer families to thebest places?It is genuinely hard to know.C I am about to make things more complicated by suggesting that whatkind of facility an older person lives in may matter less than we haveassumed.And that the characteristics adult children look for when theybegin the search are not necessarily the things that make a difference tothe people who are going to move in.I am not talking about the qualityof care,let me hastily add.Nobody flourishes in a gloomy environmentwith irresponsible staff and a poor safety record.But an accumulatingbody of research indicates that some distinctions between one type of*欧阳光明*创编 2021.03.07*欧阳光明*创编 2021.03.07elder care and another have little real bearing on how well residents do.D The most recent of these studies,published in The journal of AppliedGerontology,surveyed 150 Connecticut residents of assisted living,nursing homes and smaller residential care homes（known in somestates as board and care homes or adult care homes).Researchers fromthe University of Connecticut Health Center asked the residents a largenumber of questions about their quality of life,emotional well-being andsocial interaction,as well as about the quality of the facilities.E“We thought we would see differences based on the housing types,”said the lead author of the study,Julie Robison,an associate professor ofmedicine at the university.A reasonable assumptiondont familiesstruggle to avoid nursing homes and suffer real guilt if they cant?F In the initial results,assisted living residents did paint the mostpositive picture.They were less likely to report symptoms of depressionthan those in the other facilities,for instance,and less likely to be boredor lonely.They scored higher on social interaction.G But when the researchers plugged in a number of other variables,such differences disappeared.It is not the housing type,they found,thatcreates differences in residents responses.“It is the characteristics of thespecific environment they are in,combined with their own personalcharacteristicshow healthy they feel they are,their age and maritalstatus,”Dr.Robison explained.Whether residents felt involved in thedecision to move and how long they had lived there also proved*欧阳光明*创编 2021.03.07*欧阳光明*创编 2021.03.07significant.H An elderly person who describes herself as in poor health,therefore,might be no less depressed in assisted living（even if her childrenpreferred it)than in a nursing home.A person who had input into wherehe would move and has had time to adapt to it might do as well in anursing home as in a small residential care home,other factors beingequal.It is an interaction between the person and the place,not the sortof place in itself,that leads to better or worse experiences.“You cantjust say,Lets put this person in a residential care home instead of anursing homeshe will be much better off,”Dr.Robison said.Whatmatters,she added,“is a combination of what people bring in with them,and what they find there.”I Such findings,which run counter to common sense,have surfacedbefore.In a multi-state study of assisted living,for instance,Universityof North Carolina researchers found that a host of variablesthefacilitys type,size or age；whether a chain owned it；how attractivethe neighborhood washad no significant relationship to how theresidents fared in terms of illness,mental decline,hospitalizations ormortality.What mattered most was the residentsphysical health andmental status.What people were like when they came in had greaterconsequence than what happened once they were there.J As I was considering all this,a press release from a respectedresearch firm crossed my desk,announcing that the five-star rating*欧阳光明*创编 2021.03.07*欧阳光明*创编 2021.03.07system that Medicare developed in 2008 to help families comparenursing home quality also has little relationship to how satisfied itsresidents or their family members are.As a matter of fact,consumersexpressed higher satisfaction with the one-star facilities,the lowest rated,than with the five-star ones.（More on this study and the star ratings willappear in a subsequent post.)K Before we collectively tear our hair outhow are we supposed tofind our way in a landscape this confusing?here is a thought from Dr.Philip Sloane,a geriatrician（老年病学专家)at the University of NorthCarolina:“In a way,that could be liberating for families.”L Of course,sons and daughters want to visit the facilities,talk to theadministrators and residents and other families,and do everythingpossible to fulfill their duties.But perhaps they dont have to turnthemselves into private investigators or Congressional subcommittees.“Families can look a bit more for where the residents are going to behappy,”Dr.Sloane said.And involving the future resident in the processcan be very important.M We all have our own ideas about what would bring our parentshappiness.They have their ideas,too.A friend recently took her motherto visit an expensive assisted living/nursing home near my town.I haveseen this placeit is elegant,inside and out.But nobody greeted thedaughter and mother when they arrived,though the visit had beenplanned；nobody introduced them to the other residents.When they had*欧阳光明*创编 2021.03.07*欧阳光明*创编 2021.03.07lunch in the dining room,they sat alone at a table.N The daughter feared her mother would be ignored there,and so shedecided to move her into a more welcoming facility.Based on what isemerging from some of this research,that might have been as rational away as any to reach a decision.36.Many people feel guilty when they cannot find a place other than anursing home for their parents.37.Though it helps for children to investigate care facilities,involvingtheir parents in the decision-making process may prove very important.38.It is really difficult to tell if assisted living is better than a nursinghome.39.How a resident feels depends on an interaction between themselvesand the care facility they live in.40.The author thinks her friend made a rational decision
