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1、 2018 年 6 月大学英语四级真题（第 3 套)Part IWriting（30 minutes）Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30minutes to write a short essay on the importanceof speaking ability and how to develop it. You should write at least 120 words but no more than180 words._Part IIListening Comprehension(25 minutes)说明：由于 20

2、18年 6月四级考试全国共考了两套听力, 本套真题听力与前两套内容相同, 只是选项顺序不同, 因此在本套真题中不再重复出现。Part Reading Comprehension(40 minutes)Section ADirections: In this section, there is a passage with ten blanks. You are required to select one wordfor each blank from a list of choices given in a word bank following the passage. Read the

3、passagethrough 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 throughthe centre. You may not use any of the words in the bank more than once.Neon (霓虹) is to Hong Kong as r

4、ed phone booths are to London and fog is to San Francisco.When night falls, red and blue and other colors 26a hazy (雾蒙蒙的) glow over a city litup by tens of thousands of neon signs. But many of them are going dark, 27by morepractical, but less romantic, LEDs (发光二极管).Changing building codes, evolving

5、tastes, and the high cost of maintaining those wonderfulold signs have businesses embracing LEDs, which are energy 28 , but still carrygreat cost. To me, neon represents memories of the past, says photographer Sharon Blance,whose series Hong Kong Neon celebrates the citys famous signs. Looking at th

6、e signs now I geta feeling of amazement, mixed with sadness.Building a neon sign is an art practiced by 29trained on the job to moldglass tubes into 30shapes and letters. They fill these tubes with gases that glow1 when 31. Neon makes orange, while other gases make yellow or blue. It takesmany hours

7、 to craft a single sign.Blance spent a week in Hong Kong and 32more than 60 signs; 22 of themappear in the series that capture the signs lighting up lonely streetsan 33thatmakes it easy to admire their colors and craftsmanship. I love the beautiful, handcrafted,old-fashioned 34of neon, says Blance.

8、The signs do nothing more than 35a restaurant, theater, or other business, but do so in the most striking way possible.A) alternative B) approach C) cast D) challenging E) decorativeF) efficient G) electrified H) identify I) photographed J) professionalsK) quality L) replaced M) stimulate N) symboli

9、zes O) volunteersSection 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 fromwhich the information is derived. You may choose a paragraph more than once.Each pa

10、ragraph is marked with a letter. Answer the questions by marking the correspondingletter on Answer Sheet 2.New Jersey School District Eases Pressure on StudentsBaring an Ethnic DivideA) This fall, David Aderhold, the chief of a high-achieving school district near Princeton, NewJersey, sent parents a

11、n alarming 16-page letter. The school district, he said, was facing a crisis. Itsstudents were overburdened and stressed out, having to cope with too much work and too manydemands. In the previous school year, 120 middle and high school students were recommended formental health assessments and 40 w

12、ere hospitalized. And on a survey administered by the district,students wrote things like, I hate going to school, and Coming out of 12 years in this district, Ihave learned one thing: that a grade, a percentage or even a point is to be valued over anythingelse.B) With his letter, Aderhold inserted

13、West Windsor-Plainsboro Regional School District into anational discussion about the intense focus on achievement at elite schools, and whether it hasgone too far. At follow-up meetings, he urged parents to join him in advocating a whole childapproach to schooling that respects social-emotional deve

14、lopment and deep and meaningfullearning over academics alone. The alternative, he suggested, was to face the prospect ofbecoming another Palo Alto, California, where outsize stress on teenage students is believed tohave contributed to a number of suicides in the last six years.2 C) But instead of br

15、inging families together, Aderholds letter revealed a divide in the district,which has 9,700 students, and one that broke down roughly along racial lines. On one side arewhite parents like Catherine Foley, a former president of the Parent-Teacher-Student Associationat her daughters middle school, wh

16、o has come to see the districts increasingly pressuredatmosphere as opposed to learning. My son was in fourth grade and told me, Im not going toamount to anything because I have nothing to put on my resume, she said. On the other side areparents like Mike Jia, one of the thousands of Asian-American

17、professionals who have moved tothe district in the past decade, who said Aderholds reforms would amount to a dumbing down ofhis childrens education. What is happening here reflects a national anti-intellectual trend that willnot prepare our children for the future, Jia said.D) About 10 minutes from

18、Princeton and an hour and a half from New York City, West Windsorand Plainsboro have become popular bedroom communities for technology entrepreneurs,researchers and engineers, drawn in large part by the public schools. From the last threegraduating classes, 16 seniors were admitted to MIT. It produc

19、es Science Olympiad winners,classically trained musicians and students with perfect SAT scores.E) The district has become increasingly popular with immigrant families from China, India andKorea. This year, 65 percent of its students are Asian-American, compared with 44 percent in2007. Many of them a

20、re the first in their families born in the United States. They have had agrowing influence on the district. Asian-American parents are enthusiastic supporters of thecompetitive instrumental music program. They have been huge supporters of the districtsadvanced mathematics program, which once began i

21、n the fourth grade but will now start in thesixth. The change to the program, in which 90 percent of the participating students areAsian-American, is one of Aderholds reforms.F) Asian-American students have been eager participants in a state program that permits them totake summer classes off campus

22、 for high school credit, allowing them to maximize the number ofhonors and Advanced Placement classes they can take, another practice that Aderhold is limitingthis school year. With many Asian-American children attending supplementary instructionalprograms, there is a perception among some white fam

23、ilies that the elementary school curriculumis being sped up to accommodate them.G) Both Asian-American and white families say the tension between the two groups has grownsteadily over the past few years, as the number of Asian families has risen. But the division hasbecome more obvious in recent mon

24、ths as Aderhold has made changes, including no-homeworknights, an end to high school midterms and finals, and an initiative that made it easier toparticipate in the music program.3 H) Jennifer Lee, professor of sociology at the University of California, Irvine, and an author of theAsian American Ach

25、ievement Paradox, says misunderstanding between first-generationAsian-American parents and those who have been in this country longer are common. What whitemiddle-class parents do not always understand, she said, is how much pressure recent immigrantsfeel to boost their children into the middle clas

26、s. They dont have the same chances to get theirchildren internships (实习职位) or jobs at law firms, Lee said. So what they believe is that theirchildren must excel and beat their white peers in academic settings so they have the same chancesto excel later. I) The issue of the stresses felt by students

27、in elite school districts has gained attention in recentyears as schools in places like Newton, Massachusetts, and Palo Alto have reported a number ofsuicides. West Windsor-Plainsboro has not had a teenage suicide in recent years, but Aderhold,who has worked in the district for seven years and been

28、chief for the last three years, said he hadseen troubling signs. In a recent art assignments, a middle school student depicted (描绘) anoverburdened child who was being scolded for earning an A, rather than an A+ , on a math exam.In the image, the mother scolds the student with the words, Shame on you

29、! Further, he said, theNew Jersey Education Department has flagged at least two pieces of writing on state Englishlanguage assessments in which students expressed suicidal thoughts.J) The survey commissioned by the district found that 68 percent of high school honor andAdvanced Placement students re

30、ported feeling stressed about school always or most of the time.We need to bring back some balance, Aderhold said. You dont want to wait until its too late todo something. K) Not all public opinion has fallen along racial lines. Karen Sue, the Chinese-American motherof a fifth-grader and an eighth-g

31、rader, believes the competition within the district has gotten out ofcontrol. Sue, who was born in the United States to immigrant parents, wants her peers to dial itback. Its become an arms race, an educational arms race, she said. We all want our kids toachieve and be successful. The question is, a

32、t what cost?33336. Aderhold is limiting the extra classes that students are allowed to take off campus.7. White and Asian-American parents responded differently to Aderholds appeal.8. Suicidal thoughts have appeared in some students writings.9. Aderholds reform of the advanced mathematics program wi

33、ll affect Asian-American studentsmost.40. Aderhold appealed for parents support in promoting an all-round development of children,instead of focusing only on their academic performance.4 441. One Chinese-American parent thinks the competition in the district has gone too far.2. Immigrant parents bel

34、ieve that academic excellence will allow their children equal chances tosucceed in the future.43. Many businessmen and professionals have moved to West Windsor and Plainsboro because ofthe public schools there.44. A number of students in Aderholds school district were found to have stress-induced me

35、ntalhealth problems.45. The tension between Asian-American and white families has increased in recent years.Section CDirections: There are 2 passages in this section. Each passage is followed by some questions orunfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A), B), C) and D).

36、 Youshould decide on the best choice and mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 2 with asingle line through the centre.Passage OneQuestions 46 and 50 are based on the following passage.For thousands of years, people have known that the best way to understand a concept is toexplain it to someo

37、ne else. While we teach, we learn, said Roman philosopher Seneca. Nowscientists are bringing this ancient wisdom up-to-date. Theyre documenting why teaching is sucha fruitful way to learn, and designing innovative ways for young people to engage in instruction.Researchers have found that students wh

38、o sign up to tutor others work harder to understandthe material, recall it more accurately and apply it more effectively. Student teachers score higheron tests than pupils whore learning only for their own sake. But how can children, still learningthemselves, teach others? One answer: They can tutor

39、 younger kids. Some studies have found thatfirst-born children are more intelligent than their later-born siblings (兄弟姐妹). This suggeststheir higher IQs result from the time they spend teaching their siblings. Now educators areexperimenting with ways to apply this model to academic subjects. They en

40、gage collegeundergraduates to teach computer science to high school students, who in turn instruct middleschool students on the topic.But the most cutting-edge tool under development is the teachable agenta computerizedcharacter who learns, tries, makes mistakes and asks questions just like a real-w

41、orld pupil.Computer scientists have created an animated (动画的) figure called Bettys Brain, who has beentaught about environmental science by hundreds of middle school students. Student teachers are5 motivated to help Betty master certain materials. While preparing to teach, they organize theirknowled

42、ge and improve their own understanding. And as they explain the information to it, theyidentify problems in their own thinking.Feedback from the teachable agents further enhances the tutors learning. The agentsquestions compel student tutors to think and explain the materials in different ways, and

43、watchingthe agent solve problems allows them to see their knowledge put into action.Above all, its the emotions one experiences in teaching that facilitate learning. Student tutorsfeel upset when their teachable agents fail, but happy when these virtual pupils succeed as theyderive pride and satisfa

44、ction from someone elses accomplishment.46. What are researchers rediscovering through their studies?A) Senecas thinking is still applicable today.B) Better learners will become better teachers.C) Human intelligence tends to grow with age.D) Philosophical thinking improves instruction.47. What do we

45、 learn about Bettys Brain?A) It is a character in a popular animation.B) It is a teaching tool under development.C) It is a cutting-edge app in digital games.D) It is a tutor for computer science students.48. How does teaching others benefit student tutors?A) It makes them aware of what they are str

46、ong at.B) It motivates them to try novel ways of teaching.C) It helps them learn their academic subjects better.D) It enables them to better understand their teachers.49. What do students do to teach their teachable agents?A) They motivate them to think independently.B) They ask them to design their

47、 own questions.C) They encourage them to give prompt feedback.6 D) They use various ways to explain the materials.0. What is the key factor that eases student tutors learning?5A) Their sense of responsibility.B) Their emotional involvement.C) The learning strategy acquired.D) The teaching experience gained.Passage TwoQuestions 51 to 55 are based on the following passage.A new batch of young womenmembers of th