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1、 2018 年 6 月大学英语四级真题（第 2 套)Part IWriting（30 minutes）Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30minutes to write a short essay on the importanceof writing ability and how to develop it. You should write at least 120 words but no more than1_80 words._Part IIListening Comprehension(25 minutes)Section

2、ADirections: In this section, you will hear three news reports. At the end of each news report, youwill hear two or three questions. Both the news report and the questions will be spoken onlyonce. After you hear a question, you must choose the best answer from the four choicesmarked A), B), C) and D

3、). Then mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 1 with asingle line through the centre.Questions 1 and 2 are based on the news report you have just heard.1. A) Annoyed.B) Scared.C) Confused.D) Offended.2. A) It crawled over the womans hands.B) It wound up on the steering wheel.C) It was killed

4、 by the police on the spot.D) It was covered with large scales.Questions 3 and 4 are based on the news report you have just heard.3. A) A study of the fast-food service.B) Fast food customer satisfaction.C) McDonalds new business strategies.D) Competition in the fast-food industry.4. A) Customers hi

5、gher demands.B) The inefficiency of employees.C) Increased variety of products.D) The rising number of customers.Questions 5 to 7 are based on the news report you have just heard.5. A) International treaties regarding space travel programs.B) Legal issues involved in commercial space exploration.C)

6、U.S. governments approval of private space missions.D) Competition among public and private space companies.6. A) Deliver scientific equipment to the moon.B) Approve a new mission to travel into outer space.1 C) Work with federal agencies on space programs.D) Launch a manned spacecraft to Mars.7. A)

7、 It is significant.B) It is promising.C) It is unpredictable.D) It is unprofitable.Section BDirections: In this section, you will hear two long conversations. At the end of eachconversation, you will hear four questions. Both the conversation and the questions will bespokenonly once. After you hear

8、a question, you must choose the best answer from the fourchoices marked A), B), C) and D). Then mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 1with a single line through the centre.Questions 8 to 11 are based on the conversation you have just heard.8. A) Visiting her family in Thailand.B) Showing fr

9、iends around Phuket.C) Swimming around a Thai island.D) Lying in the sun on a Thai beach.9. A) She visited a Thai orphanage.B) She met a Thai girls parents.C) She learned some Thai words.D) She sunbathed on a Thai beach.10. A) His class will start in a minute.B) He has got an incoming phone call.C)

10、Someone is knocking at his door.D) His phone is running out of power.11. A) He is interested in Thai artworks.B) He is going to open a souvenir shop.C) He collects things from different countries.D) He wants to know more about Thai culture.Questions 12 to 15 are based on the conversation you have ju

11、st heard.12. A) Buying some fitness equipment for the new gym.B) Opening a gym and becoming personal trainers.C) Signing up for a weight-loss course.D) Trying out a new gym in town.13. A) Professional personal training.B) Free exercise for the first week.C) A discount for a half-year membership.D) A

12、dditional benefits for young couples.14. A) The safety of weight-lifting.B) The high membership fee.C) The renewal of his membership.D) The operation of fitness equipment.15. A) She wants her invitation renewed.B) She used to do 200 sit-ups every day.2 C) She knows the basics of weight-lifting.D) Sh

13、e used to be the gyms personal trainer.Section CDirections: In this section, you will hear three passages. At the end of each passage, you willhear three or four 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

14、 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 16 to 18 are based on the passage you have just heard.6. A) They tend to be nervous during interviews.1B) They often apply for a number of positions.C) They worr

15、y about the results of their applications.D) They search extensively for employers information.17. A) Get better organized.B) Edit their references.C) Find better-paid jobs.D) Analyze the searching process.18. A) Provide their data in detail.B) Personalize each application.C) Make use of better sear

16、ch engines.D) Apply for more promising positions.Questions 19 to 21 are based on the passage you have just heard.19. A) If kids did not like school, real learning would not take place.B) If not forced to go to school, kids would be out in the streets.C) If schools stayed the way they are, parents we

17、re sure to protest.D) If teaching failed to improve, kids would stay away from school.20. A) Allow them to play interesting games in class.B) Try to stir up their interest in lab experiments.C) Let them stay home and learn from their parents.D) Design activities they now enjoy doing on holidays.21.

18、A) Allow kids to learn at their own pace.B) Encourage kids to learn from each other.C) Organize kids into various interest groups.D) Take kids out of school to learn at first hand.Questions 22 to 25 are based on the passage you have just heard.22. A) It is especially popular in Florida and Alaska.B)

19、 It is a major social activity among the young.C) It is seen almost anywhere and on any occasion.D) It is even more expressive than the written word.23. A) It is located in a big city in Iowa.B) It is really marvelous to look at.C) It offers free dance classes to seniors.D) It offers people a chance

20、 to socialize.24. A) Their state of mind improved.B) They became better dancers.3 C) They enjoyed better health.D) Their relationship strengthened.25. A) It is fun.B) It is life.C) It is exhausting.D) It is rhythmical.Part Reading Comprehension(40 minutes)Section ADirections: In this section, there

21、is a passage with10 blanks. You are required to select one wordfor each blank from a list of choices given in a word bank following the passage. Read thepassage through carefully before making your choices. Each choice in the bank is identifiedby a letter. Please mark the corresponding letter for ea

22、ch item on Answer Sheet 2 with asingle line through the centre. You may not use any of the words in the bank more than once.Since the 1940s, southern California has had a reputation for smog. Things are not as bad asthey once were but, according to the American Lung Association, Los Angeles is still

23、 the worstcity in the United States for levels of _26_ . Gazing down on the city from the Getty Center, anart museum in the Santa Monica Mountains, one would find the view of the Pacific Ocean blurredby the haze (霾). Nor is the states bad air _27_ to its south. Fresno, in the central valley, comesto

24、p of the list in America for year-round pollution. Residents hearts and lungs are affected as a_28_ . All of which, combined with Californias reputation as the home of technological_29_ , makes the place ideal for developing and testing systems designed to monitor pollutionin _30_ . And that is just

25、 what Aclima, a new firm in San Francisco, has been doing over thepast few months. It has been trying out monitoring stations that are _31_ to yieldminute-to-minute maps of _32_ air pollution. Such stations will also be able to keep an eye onwhat is happening inside buildings, including offices.To t

26、his end, Aclima has been _33_ with Googles Street View system. Davida Herzl,Aclimas boss, says they have revealed pollution highs on days when San Franciscos transitworkers went on strike and the citys _34_ were forced to use their cars. Conversely, cycle towork days have done their job by _35_ poll

27、ution lows.A) assisted B) collaborating C) consequence D) consumers E) creatingF) detail G)domestic H) frequently I) inhabitants J) innovation K) intendedL) outdoor M) pollutants N) restricted O) sumSection BDirections: In this section, you are going to read a passage with ten statements attached to

28、it. Each statement contains information given in one of the paragraphs. Identify theparagraph from which the information is derived. You may choose a paragraph more thanonce. Each paragraph is marked with a letter. Answer the questions by marking thecorresponding letter on Answer Sheet 2.As Tourists

29、 Crowd Out Locals, Venice Faces Endangered ListA) On a recent fall morning, a large crowd blocked the steps at one of Venices main touristsites, the Rialto Bridge. The Rialto Bridge is one of the four bridges spanning the Grand Canal. Itis the oldest bridge across the canal, and was the dividing lin

30、e between the districts of San Marcoand San Polo. But on this day, there was a twist: it was filled with Venetians, not tourists.4 B) People are cheering and holding their carts in the air, says Giovanni Giorgio, whohelped organize the march with a grass-roots organization called Generazione 90. The

31、 carts herefers to are small shopping cartsthe symbol of a true Venetian. It started as a joke, he sayswith a laugh. The idea was to put blades on the wheels! You know? Like Ben Hur. Precisely likethat, you just go around and run people down.C) Venice is one of the hottest tourist destinations in th

32、e world. But thats a problem. Up to90,000 tourists crowd its streets and canals every dayfar outnumbering the 55,000 permanentresidents. The tourist increase is one key reason the citys population is down from 175,000 in the950s. The outnumbered Venetians have been steadily fleeing. And those who st

33、ick around are1tired of living in a place where they cant even get to the market without swimming through a seaof picture-snapping tourists. Imagine, navigating through 50,000 people while on the way toschool or to work.D) Laura Chigi, a grandmother at the march, says the local and national governme

34、nts havefailed to do anything about the crowds for decades, because theyre only interested in tourismtheprimary industry in Venice, worth more than $3 billion in 2015. Venice is a cash cow, she says,and everyone wants a piece.E) Just beyond St. Marks Square, a cruise ship passes, one of hundreds eve

35、ry year thatappear over their medieval (中世纪的) surroundings. Their massive wake creates waves at thebottom of the sea, weakening the foundations of the centuries-old buildings themselves. Everytime I see a cruise ship, I feel sad, Chigi says. You see the mud it drags; the destruction it leavesin its

36、wake? That hurts the ancient wooden poles holding up the city underwater. One day well seeVenice break down.F) For a time, UNESCO, the cultural wing of the United Nations, seemed to agree. Two yearsago, it put Italy on notice, saying the government was not protecting Venice. UNESCO considersthe enti

37、re city a World Heritage Site, a great honor that means Venice, at the cultural level, belongsto all of the worlds people. In 2014, UNESCO gave Italy two years to manage Venicesflourishing tourism or the city would be placed on another listWorld Heritage In Danger, joiningsuch sites as Aleppo and Pa

38、lmyra, destroyed by the war in Syria.G) Venices deadline passed with barely a murmur (嘟哝) this summer, just as UNESCO wasmeeting in Istanbul. Only one representative, Jad Tabet from Lebanon, tried to raise the issue. Forseveral years, the situation of heritage in Venice has been worsening, and it ha

39、s now reached adramatic situation, Tabet told UNESCO. We have to act quicklythere is not a moment towaste.H) But UNESCO didnt even hold a vote. Its been postponed until 2017, says Anna Somers,the founder and CEO of The Art Newspaper and the former head of Venice in Peril, a groupdevoted to restoring

40、 Venetian art. She says the main reason the U.N. cultural organization didntvote to declare Venice a World Heritage Site In Danger is because UNESCO has become5 intensely politicized. There would have been some back-room negotiations.I) Italy boasts more UNESCO World Heritage Sites than any other co

41、untry in the world,granting it considerable power and influence within the organization. The former head of theUNESCO World Heritage Centre, which oversees heritage sites, is Francesco Bandarin, a Venetianwho now serves as UNESCOs assistant director-general for culture.J) Earlier this year, Italy si

42、gned an accord with UNESCO to establish a task force of policeart detectives and archaeologists (考古学家) to protect cultural heritage from natural disasters andterror groups, such as ISIS. The accord underlined Italys global reputation as a good steward ofart and culture.K) But adding Venice to the UN

43、ESCO endangered listwhich is dominated by sites indeveloping and conflict-ridden countrieswould be an international embarrassment, and couldeven hurt Italys profitable tourism industry. The Italian Culture Ministry says it is unaware of anygovernment efforts to pressure UNESCO. As for the organizati

44、on itself, it declined a request for aninterview.L) The citys current mayor, Luigi Brugnaro, has ridiculed UNESCO and told it to mind itsown business, while continuing to support the cruise ship industry, which employs 5,000 Veniceresidents.M) As for Venetians, theyre beyond frustrated and hoping fo

45、r a solution soon. Its anightmare for me. Some situations are really difficult with tourists around, says Giorgio as henavigates around a swelling crowd at the Rialto Bridge. There are just so many of them. Theynever know where they are going, and do not walk in an orderly manner. Navigating the str

46、eetscan be exhausting.N) Then it hits him: This crowd isnt made up of tourists. Theyre Venetians. Giorgio says hesnever experienced the Rialto Bridge this way in all his 22 years. For once, we are the ones whoare blocking the traffic, he says delightedly. It feels unreal. It feels like were some form ofendangered species. Its just nice. The feeling is just pure. But, he worries, if tourism isntmanaged and his fellow locals continue to move to the mainland, his generation might be the lastwho can call themselves native Venetians.36. The passing cruise ships will undermine the f