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1、大学英语四级考试2024年6月真题(第一套)Part I Writing (30 minutes)Directions: Suppose your university is seeking studentsopinions on whether university libraries should be open to the public.You are now to write an essay to express your view.You will have 30 minutes for the task.You should write at least 120 words b

2、ut no more than 180 words.Part Listening Comprehension (25 minutes)Section ADirections: In this section,you will hear three news reports.At the end ofeach news report,you will hear two or three questions.Both the news report and the questions will bespoken only once.Afier you hear a question,you mus

3、t 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 1 and 2 are based on the news report you have just heard.1.A)Due to a fire alarm in their apartments.B)Because of the smoke and he

4、at damage2.A)Investigating the cause of the incident.B)Helping search for the suspect of the crime.C)Due to the water used to extinguish the flames.D)Becauseof the collapse of the three-story building. C)Rescuing the businessmen trapped in the building.D)Checking town records for the property develo

5、per.Questions 3 and 4 are based on the news report you have just heard.3.A)It plays a less important role in ones health than nutrient intake.B)It impacts peoples health to a lesser degree than sun exposure.C)It is associated with peoples mental health conditionsD)It is linked with older adultssympt

6、oms ofdepression4.A)It was indefiniteC)It was straightforward.B)It was systematic.D)It was insignificant.Questions 5 to 7 are based on the news report you have just heard.5.A)It has helped solve several murder cases.B)It has become a star police dog in Beijing6.A)To speed up investigation into crimi

7、nal cases.B)To test the feasibility of cloning technology.7.A)Cloning is too complicated a processB)The technology is yet to be acceptedC)It has surpassed its mother in performance. D)It has done better than naturally born dogs.C)To cut down training expensesD)To reduce their training time.C)Cloning

8、 is ethically controversial.D)The technology is too expensive.Section BDirections: In this section,you will hear two long conversations.At the end ofeach conversation,you will hearfour questions.Both the conversation and the questions will bespoken only once.After you hear a question,youmust choose

9、the best answer from the four choices marked A),B),C)and D).Then mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet I with a single line through the centre.Questions 8 to 11 are based on the conversation you have just heard.8.A)He read it somewhere online.B)He heard about it from a coworker.9.A)His publi

10、cations.B)His first book.10.A)Collect a lot more data.B)Relax a bit less often.11.A)Find out the shows most interesting episodesB)Watch the series together with the woman.C)He read an article reviewing it.D)He watched a TV series based on it.C)His addressD)His name.C)Clarify many new conceptsD)Read

11、more reference books.C)Get an e-Copy of the book to read.D)Check to see when the show starts.Questions 12 to 15 are based on the conversation you have just heard.12.A)To check the prices of his farm produce.B)To ask the way to the Newcastle City Hall.13.A)Bakers.B)Vendors14.A)The issuing of certific

12、ates to vendors.B)The completion of the baking task.15.A)The closing date of submission.C)To inquire about the vegetarian food festival.D)To seekthe mans help with her work on the farm. C)Vegetarians.D)OrganisersC)The festival they are organising.D)The deadline for application.C)The details of the c

13、eremonyB)The website of his company. D)The organisersaddressSection CDirections: In this section,you will hearthre passages.At the end ofeach passage,you will hear three or four questions.Both the passage and the questions will be spoken only once.Afteryou hear a question,you must choose the bestans

14、wer from the four choices marked A),B),C)and D).Then mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet I with a single line through the centreQuestions 16 to 18 are based on the passage you havejust heard.16.A)Most scenic sites have been closed.B)Access to official campsites is limited17.A)It is strongl

15、y opposed by nearby residentsB)It leads to much waste of public money18.A)Look for open land in ScotlandB)Leave no trace of their campingC)Health experts advise going outdoors.D)People have more time during the summer. C)It has caused environmental concernsD)It has created conflicts among campers.C)

16、Avoid getting close to wilderness.D)Ask for permission from authorities.Questions 19 to 21 are based on the passage you have just heard.19.A)They outcompete mythical creatures. B)They usually mind their own business. C)They truly exist in the Amazonregion D)They resemble alarmingly large snakes 20.A

17、)Scar tissue from dolphinsfighting.B)Skin infection from water pollution.21.A)It has been shrinking at an astonishing pace.C)Unhealed wounds from snake bites.D)Swimming along in seasonal floods.B)It has been placed under international protection.C)It has been appealing to both freshwater and sea dol

18、phinsD)It has been abandoned as a battleground for male dolphins.Questions 22 to 25 are based on the passageyou have just heard.22.A)About 58%of young adults call parental support the new normal.B)Most adult children enjoy increasing sources of financial supportC)A full 70%of the young adults cannot

19、 afford to buy a car by themselves.D)Most early adults cannot sustain their lifestyles without parental support23.A)It renders them dependent.C)It makes them mentally immature.B)It causes them to lose dignity.D)It hinders them from getting ahead.24.A)It challenges ones willpowerC)It calls for due as

20、sistance.B)It results from education.D)It defines adulthood.25.A)Current lifestylesC)College loansB)Poor budgeting.D)Emergency expensesPart 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 fro

21、m 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 an

22、y of the words in the bank more than once.Its well known that physical exercise is beneficial not just to physical health but also to mental health.Yet whereas most countries have 26 evidence-backed guidelines on the type and intensity of exercise 27 for various physical health benefits,such guideli

23、nes do not yet exist for exercise and mood. This is 28 due to a lack of necessary evidence.However,a new systematic review brings us usefully up- to-date on the current findings in this area.Before 29 into some of the key take-aways,an important 30 made in the review is betweenaerobic exercise and a

24、naerobic.The former 31 such things as walking,jogging and cycling and meansexercising in such a way that your body is able to use oxygen to burn fat for energy.In contrast,anaerobic exercisesuch as lifting heavy weightsis of such 32 intensity that your body does not have time to use oxygen to create

25、 energy and so instead it breaksdown glucose(葡萄糖)in your blood or muscles.Beginning first with the influence of exercise intensity on the mood benefits of aerobic exercise,theresearchers,led by John Chan at Shenzhen University,found 33 resultsfrom 19 relevant studies.Some favoured higher intensity,o

26、thers low,while seven studies found that intensity made no 34 _to moodbenefits.In relation to the intensity of anaerobic exercise,however,the results were far clearerthe optimum (最佳选择)for improving mood is 35 intensity,perhaps because low intensity is too dull while high intensity is too unpleasantA

27、)constitutesB)contradictoryC)decisionD)detailedE)differenceF)dippingG)distinctionH)fallingI)involvesJ)moderateK)notifiedL)partlyM)requiredN)traditionallyO)vigorousSection BDirections: In this section,you are going to read a passage with ten statements attached to it.Each statement contains informati

28、on 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 markingthe corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 2.Why DoAmericans Work So Much?A)How will we all kee

29、p busy when we only have to work 15 hours a week?That was the question that worried the British economist John Maynard Keynes when he wrote his short essay“Economic Possibilities for Our Grandchildren”in 1930.Over the next century,he predicted,the economy would become so productive that people would

30、 barely need to work at all.For a while,it looked like Keynes was right.In 1930 the average working week was 47 hours in the United States.But by 1970,the number of hours Americans worked on average had fallen to slightly less than 39.B)But then something changed.Instead of continuing to decline,the

31、 duration of the working week remained stable.It has stayed at just below 40 hours for nearly five decades.So what happened?Why are people working just as much today as in 1970?C)There would be no mystery in this if Keynes had been wrong about the power of technology to increase the economys product

32、ivity,which he thought would lead to a standard of living “between four and eight times as high as it is today.”But Keynes got that right:Technology has made the economy massively more productive. According to Benjamin M.Friedman,an economistat Harvard,the U.S.economy is right ontrack to reach Keyne

33、ss eight-fold(八倍)multiple by2029.That is a century after the last data Keynes wouldhave had access to.D)In a new paper,Friedman tries to figure out why that increased productivity has not translated into increasedleisure time.Perhaps people just never feel materially satisfied,always wanting more mo

34、ney to buy the next new thing.This is a theory that appeals to many economists.“This argument is,at best,far from sufficient,”he writes.If that were the case,why did the duration of the working week decline in the first place?E)Another theory Friedman considers is that,in an era of ever fewer settin

35、gs that provide effectiveopportunities for personal connections and relationships,people may place more value on the socializing that happens at work.There is support for this theory.Many people today consider colleagues as friends.But Friedman argues that the evidence for this theory is far from co

36、nclusive.Many workers report that they would like to spend more time with family,rather than at work.Furthermore,this theory cannot explain the change in trend in the U.S.working week in the 1970s.F)A third possibility proves more convincing for Friedman.That is:American inequality means that the ga

37、ins of increasing productivity are not widely shared by everyone.In other words,most Americans are too poor to work less.Unlike the other two explanations Friedman considers,this one fits chronologically(按年代). Inequality declined in America during the period following World War II,along with the dur

38、ation of the working week.But since the early 1970s it has risen dramatically.G)Keyness prediction of a shorter working week rests on the idea that the standard of living would continue rising for everyone.But Friedman says that this is not what has happened.Although Keyness eight-fold figure holds

39、up for the economy as a whole,it is not at all the case for the median(中位数的)American worker.For them,output by 2029 is likely to be around 3.5 times what it was when Keynes was writing.This is a bit below his four-to eight-fold predicted rangeH)This can be seen in the median workers income over this

40、 time period,complete with a shift in 1973 that fits in precisely with when the working week stopped shrinking.According to Friedman,between 1947 and 1973 the average hourly wage for normal workers (those who were not in management roles)in private industries other than agriculture nearly doubled in

41、 terms of what their money could buy.But by 2013 the average hourly wage for ordinary workers had fallen 5 percent from the 1973 level in terms of actual purchasing power.Thus,though American incomes may have gone up since 1973,the amount that American workers can actually buy with their money has g

42、one down.For most Americans,then,the magic of increasing productivity stopped working around 1973.Thus,they had to keep working just as much in order to maintaintheir standard of livingI)What Keynes predicted was a very optimistic version of what economists call technological unemployment. This is t

43、he idea that less labor will be necessary because machines can do somuch.In Keyness vision,the resulting unemployment would be distributed more or less evenly across society in the form of increased leisure.But Friedman says that,for Americans,reality is much darker.Americans now have a labor market

44、 in which millions of peoplethose with fewer skills and less educationare seeking whatever poorly paid work they can get.This is confirmed by a recent poll that found that,for half of hourly workers,their top concern is not that they work too much but that they work too little.This is most likely no

45、t because they liketheir jobs so much.Rather,we can assume it is because they need the money.J)This explanation leaves an important question.If the very richthe workers who have reaped above-average gains from the increased productivity since Keyness timecan afford to work less,why do they continuet

46、o work so much?(Indeed,research has shown that the highest earners in America tend to work the most.) Friedman believes that for many top earners,work is a labor of love.They are doing work they care about and are interested in,and doing more of it is not necessarily a burden.For them,it may even be a pleasure.Thesetop earners derive meaning from their jobs and work is an important part of how they think of themselves.And,of course,they are compensated for it at a level that makes