大学英语四级166及答案解析.doc

1、大学英语四级 166及答案解析(总分：746.57，做题时间：130 分钟)一、Writing (30 minutes)(总题数：1，分数：30.00)1.For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write an essay entitled Cheating on Campus. You should write at least 120 words following the outline given below in Chinese: 1. 在大学里存在着考试作弊的现象； 2. 你是怎么看待这一现象的； 3. 如何才能制止之种现象。 （

2、分数：30.00）_二、Reading Comprehensio(总题数：1，分数：71.00)How To Get Famous in 30 Seconds Oct. 6, 2001, was the night that would make David Bernal famous, although he didnt know it at the time. He was 21 and a senior at California State University at Long Beach, majoring in art and illustration and doing a li

3、ttle break dancing on the side. On the night in question he had been hired to perform at a Korean-American talent show in Los Angeles. Theres a grainy amateur video of the event in which you can see him mumble his name into the microphone and then do his thing for about 60 sec. The audience goes ins

4、ane. Those watching cant believe whats happening. Bernal, who performs under the name David Elsewhere, describes his dance style as a mixture of “ popping, waving, liquiding, breaking, roboting“. What this means in practice is that, first, his body physically melts into a little puddle and then rebu

5、ilds itself bone by bone; then he becomes a giant robot; then weird energies go surging through his arms and legs; then he makes it look as though something is crawling around under his shirt; then he becomes a springy hopping creature. And then, just like that, its over. Except it wasnt over. Someb

6、ody converted the grainy video from that night into a digital file and posted it on the Web. One by one, then hundreds by hundreds, people started downloading the video, emailing it, linking to it, sharing it, copying it and reuploading it. In other words, the little video went viralit multiplied an

7、d reproduced and spread out of control on the Internet like a virus. And millions of people caught it. Bernal is famous now, in a way, but its a new kind of fame, courtesy of a new medium. Viral videos are only a few minutes or even a few seconds long, and theyre generally amateur in execution and w

8、ildly eclectic in subject matter. Browse one of the websites that hosts them, like YouTube or Google Video, and youll see drunken karaoke, babies being born, plane crashes, burping contests, freakish sports accidents and far, far stranger things. The one thing they have in common is that people cant

9、 stop watching them. The viral video probably began with the infamous Dancing Baby, which surfaced in 1996. A strangely compelling animation of a diapered infant getting its tiny groove on, the Dancing Baby was born as a software demo, but people started sending it to one another as an e-mail attach

10、ment. Until the Baby came along, nobody realized that that kind of spontaneous In box-to-In box sharing, following the and-theyll-tell-two-friends model, could ever add up to much, let alone scale to the level of a mass medium. “ It wasnt as though a marketing firm attempted to create the phenomenon

11、 says Michael Girard, one of the programmers who helped create the Dancing Baby. Soon, other clips followed the same branching path the Baby did: a cheerleader apparently being flipped through a basketball hoop; Paris Hiltons sex tape; Janet Jacksons famous wardrobe malfunction; a 19-year-old New

12、Jersey man (doomed to be forever known as “the Numa Numa guy“ ) overenthusiastically lip synching to a Romanian pop song. Last December, Saturday Night Lives Lazy Sunday video appeared on the Net after airing on the show. The white-boy rap about cupcakes and Narnia immediately went viral, spawning h

13、alf a dozen catchphrases and endowing SNL with an aura of cool it hasnt enjoyed since Waynes World. But most viral videos come from amateurs, brilliant or lucky camcorder auteurs who just put their work on the Net and watch it take off. Traffic to viral-video sites is surging, driven by ubiquitous b

14、roadband Internet access and cheap, easy -to -use digital video cameras. Since last year, visits to Yahoo! s Video section have gone up 148%. Traffic to iFilm. com grew 102%. YouTube, launched in December, is storming the Web. It already had 9 million unique visitors in February, compared with Googl

15、e Videos 6. 2 million and Yahoo! s 3. 8 million. YouTubes traffic grew another 24% just last month, and the site shows more than 40 million videos a day. Visitors to YouTube spend an average of 15 minutes there per sessionthats an eternity in the quick-clicking world of the Web. Seriously. Dont go t

16、o YouTube if you dont have some time to kill, because whatever time you have, YouTube will kill it. Viral videos are powerful, but that power can be a little scary. Once something goes viral, theres no way to get the genie back in the bottle, and some things go viral that shouldnt. One notorious sur

17、veillance video, still at large online, shows a suspect in a San Bernardino County, Calif. , police station shooting himself in the head with a pistol. Another video shows a chubby kid waving a golf-ball retriever like a light saber. The kid, Ghyslain Raza, was 15 at the time. Three of his classmate

18、s found the footage and put it online, and it became an instant Internet classic. Soon strangers started making fun of Raza on the street. The San Francisco Giants put the video on their Jumbotron. Raza, now 18, became known as the Star Wars Kid. He also became depressed and dropped out of school. E

19、ventually he sued (控告) the classmates who had found the video. Two weeks ago, they settled for an undisclosed sum. Corporations are running into similar problems. They want to ride the viral train for the free publicity, but it doesnt always go where they want it to. In March Chevrolet organized an

20、online make-your-own-commercial campaign for its Tahoe SUV. Green-minded humorists hijacked the campaign, creating widely circulated Tahoe ads with slogans like, “Nature? Itll grow back. Drive a car that costs the earth. “ Last year, Lee Ford and Dan Brooks, a London -based creative ad development t

21、eam, came up with an “edgy“ Volkswagen spot for a demo reel; a terrorist tries to detonate a car bomb outside a crowded cafe. But the car, a VW Polo, is too sturdyit contains the blast, killing the terrorist but saving the caf6. Shot on a shoestring budget, the clip is shocking, tasteless, stunningl

22、y effectiveand totally unauthorized. When it leaked onto the Net (it had been hidden on Ford and Brooks website) , they were pretty stunned too. “We went to sleep, and then America got it,“ says Ford, 33. “I woke in the morning and looked at our website. The hit rate was through the roof. “ The duo(

23、成对的人) had to apologize to Volkswagen. Not every video goes viral. The vast majority go nowhereYouTube hosts millions of hours of drunken parties, tearful confessions, smiling babies, sleeping cats and screen grabs from World of Warcraft, all doomed to obscurity. Nike showed a firm grasp of the form

24、with a popular clip, an ad stealthily designed to look like amateur footage, showing soccer deity Ronaldinho putting on a pair of sneakers and then, incredibly, nailing the crossbar with a soccer ball four times in a row. Some of the successes are accidental. For a while, one of the popular movies o

25、n Google Video was a 20-sec. clip of a kid falling off a jungle gym. Others are inexplicable: a 24-year-old Midwesterner known as Nornna has so far posted 755 movie clips to YouTube in which she laconically narrates the details of her daily life. The videos are almost excruciatingly prosaic, but the

26、y have a huge grass-roots following, and they have made her one of the mediums homegrown celebrities. Other viral videos show genuine comic smarts. One night in January a couple of Emerson College students named Jonathan Ade and Patrick DiNicola had a brain wave and stayed up late re-editing footage

27、 from the Back to the Future trilogy to create Brokeback to the Future, the time-traveling love story of young Marty McFly (Michael J. Fox) and mad scientist Dr. Emmett Brown (Christopher Lloyd). Viral gold. “A friend of ours posted it onto YouTube,“ says Ade, 21. “After that point it got away from

28、us. “ Brokeback to the Future has been viewed more than 3 million times on YouTube alone and inspired dozens of knockoffs (including Lazy Brokeback, in which SNLs Andy Samberg and Chris Parnell find each other to be “crazy delicious“ ). “Professionally I think this is going to help me out in the lon

29、g run in terms of my film career,“ says Ade. Thats quite possible. Theres a purity to viral videos that cant be replicated in other media, if you can use purity to refer to a medium that is at least 5% fart jokes. Nothing can force a clip to go viral. It requires an authentic response from a mass au

30、dience, and the mainstream is learning to respect that. Soon after their unsanctioned VW spot hit the Net, viral admen Ford and Brooks were hired for a series of spoof political spots for Britains Channel 4, and theyve gone on to work for McDonalds and the Sci Fi Channel Europe, among others. Says B

31、rooks; “It put us on the map. “ And what about David Bernal, a. k. a. David Elsewhere? Hes living the viral dream. Since that night in 2001, he has danced in commercials for 7-Eleven, Heineken, Pepsi and Apples iPod. He has shown his stuff on Jay Leno, Jimmy Kimmel and Steve Harvey. He did a Volkswa

32、gen ad that consists entirely of his gloriously funky reinterpretation of Gene Kellys classic Singin in the Rain routine. He even did a cameo in You Got Served. “The choreographer had seen the video and wanted me to be in the movie ,“ Bernal says. “Thats usually how it works. I dont have to audition

33、 And even if I do, they just want to see if I can still do what I used to do. “ （分数：71.00）(1).David Bernal was famous since he entered the university.（分数：7.10）A.YB.NC.NG(2).Viral videos usually last for a very short time.（分数：7.10）A.YB.NC.NG(3).You may find a video about a wedding ceremony by browse

34、 Google.（分数：7.10）A.YB.NC.NG(4).The initiation of viral video is the infamous Dancing Baby, which surfaced in 1996.（分数：7.10）A.YB.NC.NG(5).Visits Yahoo! s Video section have increased more than those to iFilm. com.（分数：7.10）A.YB.NC.NG(6).The authors attitude towards the viral videos is approval.（分数：7.1

35、0）A.YB.NC.NG(7).Corporations are not succeeded in riding the train for the free publicity.（分数：7.10）A.YB.NC.NG(8).Ronaldinhos nailing the crossbar with a soccer ball four times in a row is really a 1 thing.（分数：7.10）填空项 1:_(9).Ade thought that the popularity of his works would help him in the long run

36、 in terms of his 1（分数：7.10）填空项 1:_(10).Since that night in 2001, David Bernal has danced in commercials for Pepsi, Apples iPod, 7-Eleven and 1.（分数：7.10）填空项 1:_三、Listening Comprehens(总题数：1，分数：15.00)A.His baby is sick.B.He was next door the whole night.C.He didnt sleep.D.His baby cried all night.A.Jun

37、e 15th.B.June 20th.C.June 5th.D.June 10th.A.Buying books.B.Selling books.C.Reading books.D.Borrowing books.A.Sweater.B.Bored.C.Tired.D.Terrible.A.He didnt go to Chicago.B.He had a good time in Chicago.C.He spent his vacation here.D.He didnt enjoy his trip.A.The news.B.TV programs.C.A piece of advert

38、isement.D.Some cartoons.A.Bill repairs the tire himself.B.Bill paid to have his motorcycle fixed.C.Bill was silly to have wasted his money.D.Bill now works in a garage.A.He spends too much money.B.He bought an expensive watch.C.He really does like television.D.He should watch more television.四、Secti

39、on B(总题数：2，分数：10.00)A.3.B.4.C.5.D.6.A.It should be at 11:00.B.It can be a bit earlier.C.He objects to having one.D.It shouldnt be changed.A.It is unrealistic.B.They should learn from the other companies to introduce it.C.They should investigate it.D.He agrees with the opinion of the Managing Directo

40、r on this.A.They should have a new printer.B.They should have a company party.C.They should reorganize the furniture.D.They should have a non-smoking office.A.Because many people return home to celebrate the festival.B.Because people do not like to spend their New Year in a big city.C.Because Songkr

41、an is a Thai traditional New Year which starts on April 13.D.Because Songkran is a Thai word which means “move“ or “change place“.A.About interesting Thai festivals.B.About favorite Thai sports.C.About delicious Thai foods.D.About some aspects of Thailands social life.A.There are four seasons in a y

42、ear in Thailand.B.Thai food is usually sour and spicy.C.Thai kickboxing is very popular in Thailand.D.Most Thai people keep elephants around the household.A.The north of Thailand.B.The west of Thailand.C.The east of Thailand.D.The south of Thailand.A.It can be cooked in many ways.B.It is delicious b

43、ut inexpensive.C.It gives higher yields than other grain crops.D.It grows easily in various conditions.A.Fried potatoes.B.Tomato juice.C.Sweet corn.D.Chocolate beans.A.They led to the discovery of America.B.They made American native foods popular.C.They brought great wealth to Spain.D.They made nati

44、ve American life styles well known.A.To estimate the extreme weather.B.To develop the satellite technology.C.To improve agricultural output.D.To learn how to change information to maps more efficiently.A.By turning the intensity of sunshine into maps.B.By analyzing the recent weather report.C.By cap

45、turing the microwave radiation from the soil.D.By analyzing information provided by ground observation centers.A.Acquire information from satellites more efficiently.B.To realize full coverage of area the satellite passes over.C.Building more ground observation centers.D.Compare satellites informati

46、on with those from ground.A.Cats are easy to care for.B.Cats are soft and beautiful.C.Cats can catch mice.D.All of the above.A.Going after a mouse.B.Always using voices.C.Purring when they are happy.D.Arching their backs when they are afraid.A.To frighten the enemy.B.To do a kind of routine work.C.T

47、o relax and have a rest.D.To have sharp claws.六、Section C(总题数：1，分数：10.00)Television now plays such an important part in so many peoples lives that it is (36) 1 for us to try to decide whether is a (37) 2 or a curse. Obviously television has both (38) 3 and dis. But do the former (39) 4 the latter? I

48、n the first place, television is not only a convenient source of entertainment, but also a (40) 5 cheap one. They just sit comfortably at home and enjoy (41) 6 series of programmes rather than to go out in search of (42) 7 elsewhere. Some people, however, maintain that this is (43) 8 where the dange

49、r lies. (44) 9. Secondly, television keeps one informed about current events, allows one to follow the latest developments in science and politics. Yet here again there is a danger. The television screen itself has a terrible, almost physical fascination for us. (45) 10. There are many other arguments for and against television. The poor quality o