一张英语四级试卷（图）

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内二

好文啊，在高考弄个满分应该也不过分。

我的4级好像考了67分，分数不高，但是也算一次过关[em11]

lion

哈哈，暴强！！！

liverbj

怎么我看不清呢？

雪绒花

Section I Listening Comprehension
  
Directions:
  
This section is designed to test your ability to understand spoken English. You
will hear a selection of recorded materials and you must answer the questions
that accompany them. There are three parts in this section, Part A, Part B, and
Part C.
  
Remember, while you should first put down your answers in your test booklet. At
the end of the listening comprehension section, you will have five minutes to
transfer all your answers from your test booklet to Answer Sheet I.
  
Now look at Part At your test booklet.
  
Part A
  
Directions:
  
For Question 1-5, you will hear a talk about Boston Museum of Fine Art. While
you listen, fill out the table with the information you have heard. Some of the
information has been given to you in the table. Write Only 1 word or number in
each numbered
box. You will hear the recording twice. You now have 25 seconds to read the
table below.(5 points)
  
Boston Museum of Fine Arts
Founded( year ) 1870
Opened to the public( year ) Question 1
  
Moved to the current location ( year ) 1909
The west wing completed( year )   Question 2
Number of departments   9
The most remarkable department Question 3
  
Exhibition Space ( m2 ) Question 4
Approximate number of visitors/year 800,000
Programs provided   classes
lectures
Question 5
films
  
  
Part B
  
Directions
  
For Questions 6-10, you will hear an interview with an expert on marriage
problems.   While you listen, complete the sentences or answer the questions.
USe not more than 3 words for each answer. You will hear the recording twice.
You now have 25
seconds to read the sentences and questions below. ( 5 points )
  
What should be the primary source of help for a troubled couple? __________ .
Question   6
  
Writing down a list of problems in the marriage may help a troubled couple
discuss them_______ . Question 7
  
Who should a couple consider seriously turning to if they can't talk with each
other? _________ . Question 8
  
Priests are usually unsuccessful in counseling troubled couples despite their
_______ . Question 9
  
According to the old notion, what will make hearts grow fonder? _______.
Question 10
  
Part C
  
Directions:
  
You will hear three pieces of recorded material. Before listening to each one,
you will have time to read the questions related to it. While listening, answer
each question by choosing A,B,C or D . After listening, you will have time to
check your
answers you will hear each piece once only. ( 10 points )
  
Questions 11-13 are based on the following talk about napping, you now have 15
seconds to read questions 11-13.
  
11. Children under five have abundant energy partly because they _________ .
  
  
A. Sleep in three distinct parts.
  
B. have many five-minute naps.
  
C. sleep in one long block.
  
D. take one or two naps daily.
  
  
12. According to the speaker, the sleep pattern of a baby is determined
by_______ .
  
A. its genes
  
B. its habit
  
C. its mental state
  
D. its physical condition
  
13. The talk suggests that, if you feel sleepy through the day, you should_____
.
  
A. take some refreshment.
  
B. go to bed early
  
C. have a long rest
  
D. give in to sleep.
  
  
Questions 14-16 are based on the following interview with Sherman Alexie. an
American Indian poet.You now have 15 seconds to read Questions 14-16.
14. Why did Sherman Alexie only take day jobs?
  
  
A. he Could bring unfinished work home.
  
B. He might have time to pursue his interests.
C. He might do some evening teaching.
D. He could invest more emotion in his family.
15.What was his original goal at college?
  
  
A. to teach in high school .
  
B. to write his own books.
  
C. to be a medical doctor.
  
D. to be a mathematician.
  
16. Why did he take the poetry-writing class?
  
A. To follow his father.
B. For an easy grade.
C. To change his specialty.
  
D. For knowledge of poetry.
  
Questions 17-20 are based on the following talk about public speaking. you know
have 20 seconds to read Questions 17-20.
  
17. What is the most important thing   in public speaking ?
  
A. Confidence.
  
B. Preparation.
  
C. Informativeness.
  
D. Organization.
  
18. What does the speaker advise us to do to capture the audience's attention？
  
A. Gather abundant data.
  
B. Organize the idea logically.
  
C. Develop a great opening.
  
D. Select appropriate material.
19. If you don't start working for the presentation until the day before, you
will feel _____ .
  
A. uneasy
  
B. uncertain
  
C. frustrated
  
D. depressed
  
  
20. Who is this speech ,ost probably meant for?
  
A. Those interested in   the power of persuasion.
B. Those trying to improve their public image.
  
C. Those planning to take up some public work.
  
D. Those eager to become effective speakers.
  
You now have 5 minutes to transfer all your answers from your test booklet to
ANSWER SHEET 1.
  
Section II Use of English
  
Directions:
  
Read the following text. Choose the best word(s) for each numbered blank and
mark A,B,C or D on ANSWER SHEET 1. (10 points)
  
Teachers need to be aware of the emotional, intellectual, and physical changes
that young adults experience. And they also need to give serious     21   to ho
they can be best     22   such changes.   Growing bodies need movement and
23   , but
not just in ways that emphasize   competition.     24   they are adjusting to
their new bodies and a whole host of new intellectual and emotional challenges,
teenagers are especially self-concious and need the     25   that comes from
achieving success
and knowing that their accomplishments are     26   by others. However, the
typical teenage lifestyle is already filled with so much competition that it
would be     27   to plan activities in which thereare more winners than losers
28
,publishing newsletters with many student-written book reviews,     29   studen
artwork, and sponsoring book discussion clubs. A variety of small clubs can
provide     30   opportunities for leadership, as well as for practice in
successful     31
dynamics. Making friends is extremely important to teenagers, and many shy
students need the     32   of some kind of organization with a supportive adult
33   visible   in the background.
  
In these activities, it is important to remember that the young teens have
34   attention spans. A variety of activities should be organized     35
participants can remain active as long as they want and then go on to   36
else without feeling
guity and without letting the other participants     37   . this does not mean
that adults must accept   irresponsibity.     38   they can help students
acquire a sense of commitment by     39     for roles that are within their
40   and their
attention spans and by having clearly stated rules.
  
21. A. thought B.idea C. opinion D. advice
  
22. A. strengthen B. accommodate C. stimulate D. enhance
  
23. A. care B. nutrition C. exercise D. leisure
  
24. A. If B. Although C. Whereas D. Because
  
25. A. assistance B. guidance C. confidence D. tolerance
  
26. A. claimed B. admired C. ignored D. surpassed
  
27. A. improper B. risky C. fair D. wise
  
28. A. in effect B. as a result C. for example D. in a sense
  
29. A. displaying B. describing C. creating D. exchanging
  
30. A. durable B. exessive C. surplus D. multiple
  
31. A. group B. individual C. personnel D. corporation
  
32. A. consent B. insurance C. admission D. security
  
33. A. particularly B. barely C. definitely D. rarely
  
34. A. similiar B. long C. different D. short
  
35. A. if only B. now that C. so that D. even if
  
36. A. everything B. anything C. nothing D. something
  
37. A. off B. down C. out D. alone
  
38. A. On the contrary B. On the average C. On the whole D. On the other hand
  
39. A. making B. standing C. planning D. taking
  
40. A. capability B. responsibility C. proficiency D. efficiency
  
21-25 DBCC?C
  
26-30 BDCAD
  
31-35 B?CBCC
  
36-40 DBACA
  
Section III Reading Comprehension
  
Directions: Read the following fore texts. Answer the questions below each text
by choosing A,B,C or D. Mark your answers on ANAWER SHEET 1(40 points)
  
Text 1
  
Wild Bill Donovan would have loved the Internet. The American spymaster who
built the Office of Strategic Services in the World War II and later laid the
roots for the CIA was fascinated with information. Donovan believed in using
whatever tools came
to hand in the "great game " of espionage-----spying as a "profession." These
days the Net, which has already re-made pastimes as buying books and sending
mail, is reshaping Donovan's vocation as well.
  
The last revolution isn't simply a matter of gentlemen reading other gentlemen'
e-mail. That kind of electronic spying has been going on for decades. In the
past three or four years, the world wide web has given birth to a whole industr
of
point-and-click spying. The spooks call it "open source intelligence," and as
the Net grows, it is becoming increasingly influential. in 1995 the CIA held a
contest to see who could compile the most data about Burundi. The winner, by a
large margin,
was a tiny Virginia company called Open-Source Solutions， whose clear advantag
was its mastery of the electronic world.
  
Among the firms making the biggest splash in the new world is Straitford, Inc.,
a private intelligence-analysis firm based in Austin, Texas. Straitford makes
money by selling the results of spying(covering nations from Chile to Russia) t
corporations
like energy-services firm McDermott International. Many of its predictions are
available online at www.straitford.com.
  
Straifford president George Friedman says he sees the online world as a kind of
mutually reinforcing tool for both information collection and distribution, a
spymaster's dream. Last week his firm was busy vacuuming up data bits from the
far corners of
the world and predicting a crisis in Ukraine." As soon as that report runs,
we'll suddenly get 500 new internet sign-ups from Ukraine," says Friedman, a
former political science professor. "And we'll hear back from some of them."
Open-source spying
does have its risks, of course, since it can be difficult to tell good
information from bad. That 's where Straitford earns its keep.
  
Friedman relies on a lean staff in Austin. Several of his staff members have
military-intelligence backgrounds. He sees the firm's outsider status as the ke
to its success. Straitford's briefs don't sound like the usual Washington
back-and forthing,
whereby agencies avoid dramatic declarations on the chance they might be wrong.
Straitford, says Friedman, takes pride in its independent voice.
  
41. The emergence of the Net has
  
A. received support from fans like Donovan.
  
B. remolded the intelligence services.
  
C. restored many common pastimes.
  
D. revived spying as a profession.
  
42.Donovan's story is mentioned in the text to
  
A. introduce the topic of online spying.
  
B. show how he fought for the U.S.
  
C. give an episode of the information war.
  
D. honor his unique services to the CIA.
  
43.The phrase“making the biggest splash”(line 1,paragraph 3)most probably
means
  
A. causing the biggest trouble.
  
B. exerting the greatest effort.
  
C. achieving the greatest success.
  
D. enjoying the widest popularity.
  
44.It can be learned from paragraph 4 that
  
A. Straitford's prediction about Ukraine has proved true.
  
B. Straitford guarantees the truthfulness of its information.
  
C. Straitford's business is characterized by unpredictability.
  
D. Straitford is able to provide fairly reliable information.
  
45.Straitford is most proud of its
  
A. official status.
  
B. nonconformist image.
  
C. efficient staff.
  
D. military background.
  
BACDB
  

雪绒花

Text 2
To   paraphrase 18th-century statesman Edmund Burke,“all that is needed for th
triumph of a misguided cause is that good people do nothing.”One such cause no
seeks to end biomedical research because of the theory that animals have rights
ruling out
their use in research. Scientists need to respond forcefully to animal rights
advocates, whose arguments are confusing the public and thereby threatening
advances in health knowledge and care. Leaders of the animal rights movement
target biomedical
research because it depends on public funding, and few people understand the
process of health care research. Hearing allegations of cruelty to animals in
research settings, many are perplexed that anyone would deliberately harm an
animal.
  
For example, a grandmotherly woman staffing an animal rights booth at a recent
street fair was distributing a brochure that encouraged readers not to use
anything that opposed immunizations, she wanted to know if vaccines come from
animal research.
When assured that they do, she replied,“Then I would have to say yes.”Asked
what will happen when epidemics return, she said,“Don’t worry, scientists wil
find some way of using computers.”Such well-meaning people just don's
understand.
  
Scientists must communicate their message to the public in a compassionate,
understandable way-in human terms, not in the language of molecular biology. We
need to make clear the connection between animal research and a grandmother's
hip replacement, a
father's bypass operation a baby's vaccinations, and even a pet's shots. To
those who are unaware that animal research was needed to produce these
treatments, as well as new treatments and vaccines, animal research seems
wasteful at best and cruel at
worst.
  
Much can be done. Scientists could“adopt”middle school classes and present
their own research. They should be quick to respond to letters to the editor,
lest animal rights misinformation go unchallenged and acquire a deceptive
appearance of truth.
Research institutions could be opened to tours, to show that laboratory animals
receive humane care. Finally, because the ultimate stakeholders are patients,
the health research community should actively recruit to its cause not only
well-known
personalities such as Stephen Cooper, who has made courageous statements about
the value of animal research, but all who receive medical treatment. If good
people do nothing there is a real possibility that an uninformed citizenry will
extinguish the
precious embers of medical progress.
  
46.The author begins his article with Edmund Burke's words to
  
A. call on scientists to take some actions.
  
B. criticize the misguided cause of animal rights.
  
C. warn of the doom of biomedical research.
  
D. show the triumph of the animal rights movement.
  
47.Misled people tend to think that using an animal in research is
  
A. cruel but natural.
  
B. inhuman and unacceptable.
  
C. inevitable but vicious.
  
D. pointless and wasteful.
  
48.The example of the grandmotherly woman is used to show the public's
  
A. discontent with animal research.
  
B. ignorance about medical science.
  
C. indifference to epidemics.
  
D. anxiety about animal rights.
  
49.The author believes that, in face of the challenge from animal rights
advocates, scientists should
  
A. communicate more with the public.
  
B. employ hi-tech means in research.
  
C. feel no shame for their cause.
  
D. strive to develop new cures.
  
50. From the text we learn that Stephen Cooper is
  
A. a well-known humanist.
  
B. a medical practitioner.
  
C. an enthusiast in animal rights.
  
D. a supporter of animal research.
  
ABBAD
  
Text 3
  
In recent years, railroads have been combining with each other, merging into
super systems, causing heightened concerns about monopoly. As recently as
1995,the top four railroads accounted for under 70 percent of the total
ton-miles moved by rails.
Next year, after a series of mergers is completed, just four railroads will
control well over 90 percent of all the freight moved by major rail carriers.
  
Supporters of the new super systems argue that these mergers will allow for
substantial cost reductions and better coordinated service. Any threat of
monopoly, they argue, is removed by fierce competition from trucks. But many
shippers complain that
for heavy bulk commodities traveling long distances, such as coal, chemicals,
and grain, trucking is too costly and the railroads therefore have them by the
throat.
  
The vast consolidation within the rail industry means that most shippers are
served by only one rail company. Railroads typically charge such“captive”
shippers 20 to 30 percent more than they do when another railroad is competing
for the business.
Shippers who feel they are being overcharged have the right to appeal to the
federal government's Surface Transportation Board for rate relief, but the
process is expensive, time consuming, and   will work only in truly extreme
cases.
  
Railroads justify rate discrimination against captive shippers on the grounds
that in the long run it reduces everyone's cost. If railroads charged all
customers the same average rate, they argue, shippers who have the option of
switching to trucks or
other forms of transportation would do so, leaving remaining customers to
shoulder the cost of keeping up the line. It's theory to which many economists
subscribe, but in practice it often leaves railroads in the position of
determining which companies
will flourish and which will fail.“Do we really want railroads to be the
arbiters of who wins and who loses in the marketplace?”asks Martin Bercovici,
Washington lawyer who frequently represents shipper.
  
Many captive shippers also worry they will soon be his with a round of huge rat
increases. The railroad industry as a whole, despite its brightening fortuning
fortunes. still does not earn enough to cover the cost of the capital it must
invest to keep
up with its surging traffic. Yet railroads continue to borrow billions to
acquire one another, with Wall Street cheering them on. Consider the $10.2
billion bid by Norfolk Southern and CSX to acquire Conrail this year. Conrail's
net railway operating
income in 1996 was just $427 million, less than half of the carrying costs of
the transaction. Who's going to pay for the rest of the bill? Many captive
shippers fear that they will, as Norfolk Southern and CSX increase their grip o
the market.
  
51.According to those who support mergers railway monopoly is unlikely because
  
A. cost reduction is based on competition.
  
B. services call for cross-trade coordination.
  
C. outside competitors will continue to exist.
  
D. shippers will have the railway by the throat.
  
52.What is many captive shippers' attitude towards the consolidation in the rai
industry?
  
A. Indifferent.
  
B. Supportive.
  
C. Indignant.
  
D. Apprehensive.
  
53.It can be inferred from paragraph 3 that
  
A. shippers will be charged less without a rival railroad.
  
B. there will soon be only one railroad company nationwide.
  
C. overcharged shippers are unlikely to appeal for rate relief.
  
D. a government board ensures fair play in railway business.
  
54.The word “arbiters”(line 7,paragraph 4)most probably refers to those
  
A. who work as coordinators.
  
B. who function as judges.
  
C. who supervise transactions.
  
D. who determine the price.
  
55.According to the text, the cost increase in the rail industry is mainly
caused by
  
A. the continuing acquisition.
  
B. the growing traffic.
  
C. the cheering Wall Street.
  
D. the shrinking market.
  
CCDBA
  
Text 4
It is said that in England death is pressing, in Canada inevitable and in
California optional Small wonder. Americans' life expectancy has nearly doubled
over the past century. Failing hips can be replaced, clinical depression
controlled, cataracts
removed in a 30-minuts surgical procedure. Such advances offer the aging
population a quality of life that was unimaginable when I entered medicine 50
years ago. But not even a great health-care system can cure death-and our
failure to confront that
reality now threatens this greatness of ours.
  
Death is normal; we are genetically programmed to disintegrate and perish, even
under ideal conditions. We all understand that at some level, yet as medical
consumers we treat death as a problem to be solved. Shielded by third-party
payers from the
cost of our care, we demand everything that can possibly be done for us, even i
it's useless. The most obvious example is late-stage cancer care.
Physicians-frustrated by their inability to cure the disease and fearing loss o
hope in the patient-too
often offer aggressive treatment far beyond what is scientifically justified.
  
In1950, the U.S. spent $12.7 billion on health care. In 2002, the cost will be
$1540 billion. Anyone can see this trend is unsustainable. Yet few seem willing
to try to reverse it. Some scholars conclude that a government with finite
resources should
simply stop paying for medical care that sustains life beyond a certain
age-----say 83 or so. Former Colorado governor Richard Lamm has been quoted as
saying that the old and infirm “have a duty todie and get out of the way” ,so
that younger,
healthier people can realize their potential.
  
I would not go that far. Energetic people now routinely work through their 60s
and beyond, and remain dazzlingly productive. At 78,Viacom chairman Sumner
Redstone jokingly claims to be 53.Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor is
in her 70s,and
former surgeon general C.Everett Koop chairs an Internet start-up in his
80s.These leaders are living proof that prevention works and that we can manage
the health problems that come naturally with age. As a mere 68-year-old,I wish
to age as
productively as they have.
  
Yet there are limits to what a society can spend in this pursuit. Ask a
physician, I know the most costly and dramatic measures may be ineffective and
painful. I also   know that people in Japan and Sweden, countries that spend fa
less on medical
care, have achieved longer, healthier lives than we have. As a nation, we may b
overfunding the quest for unlikely cures while underfunding research on humbler
therapies that could improve people's lives.
  
56.What is implied in the first sentence?
  
A. Americans are better prepared for death than other people.
  
B. Americans enjoy a higher life quality than ever before.
  
C. Americans are over-confident of their medical technology.
  
D. Americans take a vain pride in their long life expectancy.
  
57.The author uses the example of caner patients to show that
  
A. medical resources are often wasted.
  
B. doctors are helpless against fatal diseases.
  
C. some treatments are too aggressive.
  
D. medical costs are becoming unaffordable.
  
58.The author's attitude to ward Richard Lamm's remark is one of
  
A. strong disapproval.
  
B. reserved consent.
  
C. slight contempt.
  
D. enthusiastic support.
  
59.In contras to the U.S. ,Japan and Sweden are funding their medical care
  
A. more flexibly.
  
B. more extravagantly.
  
C .more cautiously.
  
D. more reasonably.
  
60.The text intends to express the idea that
  
A medicine will further prolong people's lives.
  
B. life beyond a certain limit is not worth living.
  
C. death should be accepted as a fact of life.
  
D. excessive demands increase the cost of health care.
  
DABDC
  
Part B
  
Directions:
  
Read the following text carefully and the translate the underlines segments int
Chinese. Your translation should be written clearly on ANSWER SHEET 2.(10
points)
  
Human beings in all times and places think about their world and wonder at thei
place in it. Humans are thoughtful and creative, possessed of insatiable
curiosity.(61)Furthermore, humans have the ability to modify the environment in
which they live,
thus subjecting all other life forms to their own peculiar ideas and fancies.
Therefore, it is important to study humans in all their richness and diversity
in a calm and systematic manner, with the hope that the knowledge resulting fro
such studies
can lead humans to a more harmonious way of living with themselves and with all
other life forms on this planet Earth.
  
“Anthropology”derives from the Greek words “anthropos”:“human”and logos“
the study of.”By its very name, anthropology encompasses the study of all
humankind.
  
Anthropology is one of the social sciences.(62)Social science is that branch of
intellectual enquiry which seeks to study humans and their endeavors in the sam
reasoned, orderly, systematic, and dispassioned(原文如此) manner that natural
scientists
use for the study of natural phenomena.
  
Social science disciplines include geography, economics, political science,
psychology, and sociology. Each of these social sciences has a subfield or
specialization which lies particularly close to anthropology.
  
All the social sciences focus upon the study of humanity. Anthropology is a
field-study oriented discipline which makes extensive use of the comparative
method in analysis.(63)The emphasis on data gathered first-hand, combined with
cross-cultural
perspective brought to the analysis of cultures past and present, makes this
study a unique and distinctly important social science.
  
Anthropological analyses rest heavily upon the concept of culture. Sir Edward
Tylor’s formulation of the concept of culture was one of the great intellectua
achievements of 19th century science.(64)Tylor defined culture as “…that
complex whole
which includes belief, art, morals, law, custom, and any other capabilities and
habits acquired by man as a member of society.”This insight, so profound in it
simplicity, opened up an entirely new way of perceiving and understanding human
life.
Implicit within Tylor’s definition is the concept that culture is learned.
shared, and patterned behavior.
  
(65)Thus, the anthropological concept of “culture,” like the concept of “set
”in mathematics, is an abstract concept which makes possible immense amounts o
concrete research and understanding.
  
Section IV Writing
  

66.Directions:
  
1)       describe the set of drawings, Interpret its meaning, and
  
2)       point out its implications in our life.
  
You should write about 200 words neatly on ANSWER SHEET 2.(20 points)