2013年6月大学英语四级考试真题（第2套）含参考答案.doc

2013年6月大学英语四级考试真题（第2套）Part I Writing （30 minutes）Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a short essay. You should start your essay with a brief description of the picture and then express your views on the importance of reading literature. You should write at least 120 words but no more than 180 words. Write your essay on Answer Sheet 1._Part II Listening Comprehension （30 minutes）Section ADirections: In this section, you will hear 8 short conversations and 2 long conversations. At the end of each conversation, one or more questions will be asked about what was said. Both the conversation and the questions will be spoken only once. After each question there will be a pause. During the pause, you must read the four choices marked A）, B）, C） and D）, and decide which is the best answer. Then mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 1 with a single line through the centre.1.A)Children should be taught to be more careful. B)Children shouldn't drink so much orange juice. C)There is no need for the man to make such a fuss. D)Timmy should learn to do things in the right way.2.A)Fitness training. C)Computer programming. B)The new job offer. D)Directorship of the club.3.A)He needs to buy a new sweater. C)The fuel price has skyrocketed. B)He has got to save on fuel bills. D)The heating system doesn't work.4.A)Committing theft. C)Window shopping. B)Taking pictures. D)Posing for the camera.5.A)She is taking some medicine. C)She does not trust the man's advice.B)She has not seen a doctor yet. D)She has almost recovered from the cough.6.A)Pamela's report is not finished as scheduled. B)Pamela has a habit of doing things in a hurry. C)Pamela is not good at writing research papers. D)Pamela's mistakes could have been avoided.7.A)In the left-luggage office. C)In a hotel room. B)At the hotel reception. D)At an airport.8.A)She was an excellent student at college. C)She is fond of telling stories in her speech. B)She works in the entertainment business. D)She is good at conveying her message.Questions 9 to 11 are based on the conversation you have just heard.9.A)Arranging the woman's appointment with Mr. Romero. B)Fixing the time for the designer's latest fashion show. C)Talking about an important gathering on Tuesday. D)Preparing for the filming on Monday morning.10.A)Her travel to Japan. C)The proper hairstyle for her new role. B)The awards ceremony. D)When to start the makeup session.11.A)He is Mr. Romero's agent. C)He is the woman's assistant. B) He is an entertainment journalist. D)He is a famous movie star. Questions 12 to 15 are based on the conversation you have just heard.12.A)Make an appointment for an interview. C)Fill in an application form. B)Send in an application letter. D)Make a brief self-introduction on the phone.13.A)Someone having a college degree in advertising. B)Someone experienced in business management. C)Someone ready to take on more responsibilities. D)Someone willing to work beyond regular hours.14.A)Travel opportunities. C)Prospects for promotion. B)Handsome pay. D)Flexible working hours.15.A)It depends on the working hours. C)It will be set by the Human Resources. B)It is about 500 pounds a week. D)It is to be negotiated.Section BDirections: In this section, you will hear 3 short passages. At the end of each passage, you will hear some questions. Both the passage 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.Passage OneQuestions 16 to 19 are based on the passage you have just heard.16.A)To give customers a wider range of choices. B)To make shoppers see as many items as possible. C)To supply as many varieties of goods as it can. D)To save space for more profitable products.17.A)On the top shelves. C)On easily accessible shelves. B)On the bottom shelves. D)On clearly marked shelves.18.A)Many of them buy things on impulse. C)A majority of them are young couples. B)A few of them are fathers with babies. D)Over 60% of them make shopping lists.19.A)Sales assistants promoting high margin goods.B)Sales assistants following customers around.C)Customers competing for good bargains.D)Customers losing all sense of time.Passage TwoQuestions 20 to 22 are based on the passage you have just heard.20.A)Teaching mathernatics at a school. C)Studying for a college degree.B)Doing research in an institute. D)Working in a hi-tech company.21.A)He studied the designs of various clocks. C)He bought an alarm clock with a pig face.B)He did experiments on different materials. D)He asked different people for their opinions.22.A)Its automatic mechanism. C)Its way of waking people up.B)Its manufacturing process. D)Its funny-looking pig face.Passage ThreeQuestions 23 to 25 are based on the passage you have just heard.23.A)It is often caused by a change of circumstances. B)It actually doesn't require any special treatment. C)It usually appears all of a sudden. D)It generally lasts for several years.24.A)They cannot mix well with others. C)They depend heavily on family members. B)They irrationally annoy their friends. D)They blame others for ignoring their needs.25.A)They lack consistent support from peers. C)They were born psychologically weak. B)They doubt their own popularity. D)They focus too much on themselves.Section CDirections: 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.There was a time when any personal information that was gathered about us was typed on a piece of paper and 26 in a file cabinet. It could remain there for years and, often 27 , never reach the outside world.Things have done a complete about-face since then. 28 the change has been the astonishingly 29 development in recent years of the computer. Today, any data that is 30 about us in one place or anotherand for one reason or anothercan be stored in a computer bank. It can then easily passed to other computer banks. They are owned by individuals and by private businesses and corporations, leading 31 , direct mailing and telemarketing firms, credit bureaus, credit card companies, and 32 at the local, state, and federal level.A growing number of Americans are seeing the accumulation and distribution of computerized data as a frightening 33 of their privacy. Surveys show that the number of worried Americans has been steadily growing over the years as the computer becomes increasingly 34 ,easier to operate, and less costly to purchase and maintain. In 1970,a national survey showed that 37 percent of the people 35 felt their privacy was being invaded. Seven years later, 47 percent expressed the same worry. A recent survey by a credit bureau revealed that the number of alarmed citizens had shot up to 76 percent.Part III Reading Comprehension （40 minutes）Section ADirections: 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 36 to 45 are based on the following passage.Walking, if you do it vigorously enough, is the overall best exercise for regular physical activity. It requires no equipment, everyone knows how to do it and it carries the 36 risk of injury. The human body is designed to walk. You can walk in parks or along a river or in your neighborhood. To get 37 benefit from walking, aim for 45 minutes a day, an average of five days a week.Strength training is another important 38 of physical activity. Its purpose is to build and 39 bone and muscle mass, both of which shrink with age. In general, you will want to do strength training two or three days a week, 40 recovery days between sessions.Finally, flexibility and balance training are 41 important as the body ages. Aches and pains are high on the list of complaints in old age. The result of constant muscle tension and stiffness of joints, many of them are 42 , and simple flexibility training can 43 these by making muscles stronger and keeping joints lubricated (润滑). Some of this you do whenever you stretch. If you watch dogs and cats, you'll get an idea of how natural it is. The general 44 is simple: whenever the body has been in one position for a while, it is good to 45 stretch it in an opposite position.A)allowing I)maintainB)avoidable J)maximumC)briefly K)preventD)component L)principleE)determined M)provoke .F)helping N)seriouslyG)increasingly O)topicH)lowestSection BDirections: 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.Can Digital Textbooks Truly Replace the Print Kind?A)The shortcomings of traditional print edition textbooks are obvious. For starters they're heavy, with the average physics textbook weighing 3.6 pounds. They're also expensive, especially when you factor in the average college student's limited budget, typically costing hundreds of dollars every semester. But the worst part is that print versions of textbooks are constantly undergoing revisions. Many professors require that their students use only the latest versions in the classroom, essentially rendering older texts unusable. For students, it means they're basically stuck with a four pound paperweight that they can't sell back.B)Which is why digital textbooks, if they live up to their promise, could help ease many of these shortcomings. But till now, they've been something like a mirage (幻影) in the distance, more like a hazy (模糊的) dream than an actual reality. Imagine the promise. Carrying all your textbooks in a 1. 3 pound iPad? It sounds almost too good to be true.C)But there are a few pilot schools already making the transition (过渡) over to digital books. Universities like Cornell and Brown have jumped onboard. And one medical program at the University of California, Irvine, gave their entire class iPads with which to download textbooks just last year.D)But not all were eager to jump aboard. "People were tired of using the iPad textbook besides using it for reading, " says Kalpit Shah, who will be going into his second year at Irvine's medical program this fall. "They weren't using it as a source of communication because they couldn't read or write in it. So a third of the people in my program were using the iPad in class to take notes, the other third were using laptops and the last third were using paper and pencil. " The reason it hasn't caught on yet, he tells me, is that the functionality of e-edition textbooks is incredibly limited, and some students just aren't motivated to learn new study behavior.E)But a new application called Inkling might change all that. The company just released an updated version last week, and it'll be utilized in over 50 undergraduate and graduate classrooms this coming school year. "Digital textbooks are not going to catch on," says Inkling CEO Matt MacInnis as he's giving me a demo (演示) over coffee. " What I mean by that is the current perspective of the digital textbook is it's an exact copy of the print book. There's Course Smart, etc. , these guys who take an image of the page and put it on a screen. If that's how we're defining digital textbooks, there's no hope of that becoming a mainstream product. "F)He calls Inkling a platform for publishers to build rich multimedia content from the ground up, with a heavy emphasis on real-world functionality. The traditional textbook merely serves as a skeleton. At first glance Inkling is an impressive experience. After swiping(触击) into the iPad app（应用软件）, which you can get for free here, he opens up a few different types of textbooks. Up first is a chemistry book. The boot time is pretty fast, and he navigates through (浏览) a few chapters before swiping into a fully rendered 3D molecule that can be spun around to view its various building blocks. "Publishers give us all of the source media, artwork, videos," he says. "We help them think through how to actually build something for this platform. " Next he pulls up a music composition textbook, complete with playable demos. It's a learning experience that attacks you from multiple sensory directions. It's clear why this would be something a music major would love.G)But the most exciting part about Inkling, to me, is its notation (批注) system. Here's how it works: When you purchase a used print book, it comes with its previous owner's highlights and notes in the margins. It uses the experience of someone who already went through the class to help improve