2014年6月大学英语四级考试真题及答案(完整版)(共10页).doc

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1、精选优质文档-倾情为你奉上2014年6月大学英语四级考试真题及答案（完整版）来源：文都教育Part I Writing (30 minutes)Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a short essay on the following topic. You should write at least 120 words but no more than 180 words.Suppose a foreign friend of yours is coming to visit your hometo

2、wn, what is the most interesting place you would like to take him/her to see and why?注意：此部分试题请在答题卡1上作答。 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 questio

3、ns 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 Ans

4、wer Sheet 1 with a single line through the centre.注意：此部分试题请在答题卡1上作答。1. A) See a doctor about her strained shoulder.B) Use a ladder to help her reach the tea.C) Replace the cupboard with a new one.D) Place the tea on a lower shelf next time.2. A) At Mary Johnsons. C) In an exhibition hall. B) At a pa

5、inters studio. D) Outside an art gallery.3. A) The teacher evaluated lacks teaching experience. B) She does not quite agree with what the man said. C) The man had better talk with the students himself. D) New students usually cannot offer a fair evaluation.4. A) He helped Doris build up the furnitur

6、e. B) Doris helped him arrange the furniture.C) Doris fixed up some of the bookshelves.D) He was good at assembling bookshelves.5. A) He doesnt get on with the others. C) He has been taken for a fool. B) He doesnt feel at ease in the firm. D) He has found a better position.6. A) They should finish t

7、he work as soon as possible. B) He will continue to work in the garden himself. C) He is tired of doing gardening on weekends. D) They can hire a gardener to do the work.7. A) The man has to get rid of the used furniture. B) The mans apartment is ready for rent. C) The furniture is covered with lots

8、 of dust. D) The furniture the man bought is inexpensive.8. A) The man will give the mechanic a call. B) The woman is waiting for a call. C) The woman is doing some repairs. D) The man knows the mechanic very well.Questions 9 to 11 are based on the conversation you have just heard.9. A) She had a jo

9、b interview to attend. B) She was busy finishing her project. C) She had to attend an important meeting. D) She was in the middle of writing an essay.10. A) Accompany her roommate to the classroom. B) Hand in her roommates application form. C) Submit her roommates assignment.D) Help her roommate wit

10、h her report.11. A) Where Dr. Elliss office is located.C) Directions to the classroom building. B) When Dr. Ellis leaves his office.D) Dr. Elliss schedule for the afternoon.Questions 12 to 15 are based on the conversation you have just heard.12. A) He finds it rather stressful. C) He can handle it q

11、uite well. B) He is thinking of quitting it.D) He has to work extra hours.13. A) The 6:00 one.C) The 7:00 one. B) The 6:30 one.D) The 7:30 one.14. A) It is an awful waste of time. B) He finds it rather unbearable. C) The time on the train is enjoyable. D) It is something difficult to get used to.15.

12、 A) Reading newspapers.C) Listening to the daily news. B) Chatting with friends.D) Planning the days work.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

13、 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.注意：此部分试题请在答题卡1上作答。Passage One Questions 16 to 18 are based on the conversation you have just heard.16. A) I

14、gnore small details while reading. B) Read at least several chapters at one sitting. C) Develop a habit of reading critically. D) Get key information by reading just once or twice.17. A) Choose ones own system of marking. B) Underline the key words and phrases. C) Make as few marks as possible. D) H

15、ighlight details in a red color.18. A) By reading the textbooks carefully again. B) By reviewing only the marked parts. C) By focusing on the notes in the margins. D) By comparing notes with their classmates.Passage TwoQuestions 19 to 21 are based on the conversation you have just heard.19. A) The s

16、leep a person needs varies from day to day. B) The amount of sleep for each person is similar. C) One can get by with a couple of hours of sleep. D) Everybody needs some sleep for survival.20. A) It is a made-up story.C) It is a rare exception. B) It is beyond cure.D) It is due to an accident.21. A)

17、 His extraordinary physical condition.B) His mothers injury just before his birth.C) The unique surroundings of his living place.D) The rest he got from sitting in a rocking chair.Passage ThreeQuestions 22 to 25 are based on the conversation you have just heard.22. A) She invested in stocks and shar

18、es on Wall Street. B) She learned to write for financial newspapers. C) She developed a strong interest in finance. D) She tenderly looked after her sick mother.23. A) She made a wise investment in real estate. B) She sold the restaurant with a substantial profit. C) She got 1.5 million dollars from

19、 her ex-husband. D) She inherited a big fortune from her father.24. A) She was extremely mean with her money. B) She was dishonest in business dealings.C) She frequently ill-treated her employees. D) She abused animals including her pet dog.25. A) She made a big fortune from wise investment. B) She

20、built a hospital with her mothers money. C) She made huge donations to charities. D) She carried on her familys tradition.Section CDirection: In the 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 p

21、assage 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.注意：此部分试题请在答题卡1上作答。Among the kinds of social gestures most significant for second-language

22、teachers are those which are (26)_ in form but different in meaning in the two cultures. For example, a Colombian who wants someone to (27)_ him often signals with a hand movement in which all the fingers of one hand, cupped, point downward as they move rapidly (28)_. Speakers or English have a simi

23、lar gesture through the hand may not be cupped and the fingers may be held more loosely, but for them the gesture means goodbye or go away, quite the (29)_ of the Colombian gesture. Again, in Colombian, a speaker of English would have to know that when he (30)_ height he most choose between differen

24、t gestures depending on whether he is (31)_ a human being or an animal. If he keeps the palm of the hand (32)_ the floor, as he would in his own culture when making known the height of a child, for example, he will very likely be greeted by laughter, in Colombia this gesture is (33)_ for the descrip

25、tion of animals. In order to describe human beings he should keep the palm of his hand (34)_ to the floor. Substitutions of one gesture for the other often create not only humorous but also (35)_ moment. In both of the examples above, speakers from two different cultures have the same gesture, physi

26、cally, but its meaning differs sharply.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 c

27、arefully before making your choices. Each choice in the bank is identified by a letter. Please mark the corresponding letter 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.Glob

28、al warming is a trend toward warmer conditions around the world. Part of the warming is natural; we have experienced a 20,000 -year -long warming as the last ice age ended and the ice 36 away. However, we have already reached temperatures that are in 37 with other minimum-ice periods, so continued w

29、arming is likely not natural. We are 38 to a predicted worldwide increase in temperatures 39 between 1 and 6 over the next 100 years. The warming will be more 40 in some areas, less in others, and some places may even cool off. Likewise, the 41 of this warming will be very different depending on whe

30、re you arecoastal areas must worry about rising sea levels, while Siberia and northern Canada may become more habitable (宜居的) and 42 for humans than these areas are now. The fact remains, however, that it will likely get warmer, on 43 , everywhere. Scientists are in general agreement that the warmer

31、 conditions we have been experiencing are at least in part the result of a human-induced global warming trend. Some scientists 44 that the changes we are seeing fall within the range of random (无规律的) variationsome years are cold, others warm, and we have just had an unremarkable string of warm years

32、 45 but that is becoming an increasingly rare interpretation in the face of continued and increasing warm conditions. 注意：此部分试题请在答题卡2上作答。A) appealing I) meltedB) averageJ) persistC) contributingK) rangingD) dramaticL) recentlyE) frequentlyM) resolvedF) impactN) sensibleG) line O) shockH) maintainSect

33、ion 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 w

34、ith a letter. Answer the questions by marking the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 2.The End of the Book?A Amazon, by far the largest bookseller in the country, reported on May 19 that it is now selling more books in its electronic Kindle format than in the old paper-and-ink format. That is rema

35、rkable, considering that the Kindle has only been around for four years. E-books now account for 14 percent of all book sales in the country and are increasing far faster than overall book sales. E-book sales are up 146 percent over last year, while hardback sales increased 6 percent and paperbacks

36、decreased 8 percent.B Does this spell the doom of the physical book? Certainly not immediately, and perhaps not at all. What it does mean is that the book business will go through a transformation in the next decade or so more profound than any it has seen since Gutenberg introduced printing from mo

37、veable type in the 1450s.C Physical books will surely become much rarer in the marketplace. Mass market paperbacks, which have been declining for years anyway, will probably disappear, as will hardbacks for mysteries, thrillers, “romance fiction,” etc. Such books, which only rarely end up in permane

38、nt collections, either private or public, will probably only be available as e-books within a few years. Hardback and trade paperbacks for “serious” nonfiction and fiction will surely last longer. Perhaps it will become the mark of an author to reckon with that he or she is still published in hard c

39、opy.D As for childrens books, who knows? Childrens books are like dog food in that the purchasers are not the consumers, so the market (and the marketing) is inherently strange.E For clues to the books future, lets look at some examples of technological change and see what happened to the old techno

40、logy.F One technology replaces another only because the new technology is better, cheaper, or both. The greater the difference, the sooner and more thoroughly the new technology replaces the old. Printing with moveable type on paper dramatically reduced the cost of producing a book compared with the

41、 old-fashioned ones handwritten on vellum, which comes from sheepskin. A Bibleto be sure, a long bookrequired vellum made from 300 sheepskins and countless man-hours of labor. Before printing arrived, a Bible cost more than a middle-class house. There were perhaps 50,000 books in all of Europe in 14

42、50. By 1500 there were 10 million.G But while printing quickly caused the hand written book to die out, handwriting lingered on (继续存在) well into the 16th century. Very special books are still occasionally produced on vellum, but they are one-of-a-kind show pieces.HSometimes a new technology doesnt d

43、rive the old one out, but only parts of it while forcing the rest to evolve. The movies were widely predicted to drive live theater out of the marketplace, but they didnt, because theater turned out to have qualities movies could not reproduce. Equally, TV was supposed to replace movies but, again,

44、did not.I Movies did, however, fatally impact some parts of live theater. And while TV didnt kill movies, it did kill second-rate pictures, shorts, and cartoons.J Nor did TV kill radio. Comedy and drama shows (“Jack Benny,” “Amos and Andy,” “The Shadow”) all migrated to television. But because you c

45、ant drive a car and watch television at the same time, rush hour became radios prime, while music, talk, and news radio greatly enlarged their audiences. Radio is today a very different business than in the late 1940s and a much larger one.K Sometimes old technology lingers for centuries because of

46、its symbolic power. Mounted cavalry (骑兵) replaced the chariot (二轮战车) on the battlefield around 1000 BC. But chariots maintained their place in parades and triumphs right up until the end of the Roman Empire 1,500 years later. The sword hasnt had a military function for a hundred years, but is still part of an officers full-dress uniform, precisely because a sword always symbolized “an officer and a gentleman.”L Sometime