大学英语四级187及答案解析.doc

1、大学英语四级 187 及答案解析(总分：746.56，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 thirty minutes to write a composition on the topic: To Compete, or to Cooperate. You should write no more than 120 words according to the outline given below in Chinese: 1. 有人认为大学应提倡同学间竞争； 2

2、 也有人认为学生应在大学里学会合作； 3. 你的看法。 （分数：30.00）_二、Reading Comprehensio(总题数：1，分数：71.00)Bloggers learn price of telling too much Blogs are everywhere increasingly, the place where young people go to bare their souls, to vent, to gossip. And often they do so with fervor and little self-editing, posting their i

3、nnermost thoughts for any number of web surfers to see. There is a freedom in it, as 23-year-old Allison Martin says: “Since the people who read my blog are friends or acquaintances of mine, my philosophy is to be totally honest whether its about how uncomfortable my hat are or my opinions about Fir

4、st Amendment law,“ says Martin, who lives in suburban Chicago and has been blogging for four years. Some are, however, finding that putting ones life online can have a price. A few bloggers, for instance, have been fired for writing about work on personal online journals. And Maya Marcel-Keyes, daug

5、hter of conservative politician Alan Keyes, discovered the trickiness of providing personal details online when her discussions on her blog about being a lesbian became an issue during her fathers recent run for a U.S. Senate seat in Illinois (he made anti-gay statements during the campaign). Expert

6、s say such incidents belong to a growing trend in which frank outpourings online are causing personal and public dramas, often taking on a life they couldnt have if the Web had not come along and turned individuals into publishers. Some also speculate that more scandalous blog entries will have rami

7、fications (支流) down the road. “I would bet that in the 2016 election, somebodys Facebook entry will come back to bite them,“ Steve Jones, head of the communications department at the University of Illinois, says, referring to , a networking site for college students and alumni that is something of a

8、 cross between a yearbook and a blog. More traditional blog sites which allow easy creation of a Web site with text, photos and often music include LiveJournal and MySpace. And they ve gotten more popular in recent years, especially among the younger set Surveys completed in recent months by the Int

9、ernet Team United offers a cluster of towers that lean into each other; the team of Richard Meier, Peter Eisenman, Charles Gwathmey and Steven Holl proposes five high rises, joined by horizontal connectors. All these links were inspired by the need to give multiple exit options. But more critical-an

10、d more likely to become reality than any of these specific towers-is how the various schemes treat the street level and underground. Most, by putting rentable office space up high, were generous with parks and cultural facilities. The teams were told to create sites for a memorial-and several couldn

11、t resist designing one. Libeskind was struck by the “great slurry (泥浆) wails“ 70 feet down that survived the attack, a dike (堤防) against landfill and an engineering miracle of its time-and he leaves them as a memorial, adding a waterfall and a museum. Foster suggests two memorials in the areas of th

12、e Twin Towers foot prints, one for families of victims, the other for the public. （分数：177.50）(1).The term “bungled“ in Line 2 of Paragraph 2 can be best replaced by _.（分数：35.50）A.boastedB.combinedC.sparedD.spoiled(2).Which of the following statements is NOT TRUE according to the passage?（分数：35.50）A.

13、The international competition for new designs won great concerns from designers around the world.B.Altogether seven teams of designers were chosen in the international competition for new designs.C.The public was satisfied with the efforts that LMDC had made in the last summer and gave their plans a

14、 satisfied cheer.D.The schemes brought the first hope that something good for the city could emerge from September 11.(3).The passage is mainly about _.（分数：35.50）A.LMDC s effort to rebuild the World Trade Center siteB.the schemes for rebuilding the World Trade Center siteC.people s hope of having a

15、rebuilt World Trade CenterD.how to rebuild the World Trade Center in New York(4).It can be inferred from the passage that _.（分数：35.50）A.the public actually is not in favor of rebuilding high-rises at the World Trade Center siteB.in the schemes, the designers try to offer more ways of escaping in cas

16、e of an emergencyC.nothing survived the attack to the World Trade Center on September 11D.a seventh firm was chosen in the competition because the public wanted it(5).According to the passage, the most decisive factor in the competition lies in _.（分数：35.50）A.how to treat the street level and undergr

17、oundB.how to design the links between the high-risesC.how to create sites for a memorialD.how to build parks and facilities八、Section B(总题数：1，分数：10.00)Many parents are (47) about the fact that their children play many video and computer games. Perhaps the best way to (48) concerns over the (49) of vi

18、deo games is to emphasize their vast (50) to educate. Even games with no educational (51) require players to learn a great deal. Games are complex, adaptive and force players to make a huge number of decisions. Garners must learn rules through trials and errors, solve problems and puzzles, develop s

19、trategies and get help from other players via the Internet when they get stuck. The problem-solving (52) that underlies most games is like the 90% of an ice berg below the waterline-invisible to nom-gamers. It is the pleasure of this problem solving, not the violence which sometimes (53) it, that ca

20、n make gaming such a (54) experience. Nobody is using certain violent games in schools, of course, but other off-the shelf games such as “Sim City“, which (55) model economies, are used in education. By playing them it is possible to understand how such models work. in “Sim City“, for example, in wh

21、ich the player (56) the role of a city mayor, no amount of spending on health care is ever enough to satisfy patients, and the fastest route to popularity is to cut taxes. WORD BANK A) speech I) concerned B) satisfying J) intentions C) retain K) tensions D) assumes L) address E) potential M) influen

22、ces F) accompanies N) contain G) resumes O) combines H) mechanism （分数：10.00）A.B.C.D.E.F.G.H.I.A.B.C.D.E.F.G.H.I.J.K.L.A.B.C.D.E.F.G.H.I.J.K.L.M.A.B.C.D.E.A.B.C.D.E.F.G.H.I.J.A.B.C.D.E.F.G.H.A.B.C.D.E.F.A.B.C.D.A.B.C.D.E.F.G.H.I.J.K.L.M.N.A.B.C.D.九、Cloze (15 minutes)(总题数：1，分数：71.00)Language is the mo

23、st astonishing behavior in the animal kingdom. It is the species-typical behavior that sets humans completely (67) _ from all other animals. Language is a means of communication, (68) _ it is much more than that. Many animals can (69) _ . The dance of the honeybee communicates the location of flower

24、s (70) _ other members of the hive (蜂群). But human language permits communication about anything, (71) _ things like unicorns (独角兽) that have never existed. The key (72) _ in the fact that the units of meaning, words, can be (73) _ together in different ways, according to (74) _ , to communicate dif

25、ferent meanings. Language is the most important learning we do. Nothing (75) _ humans so much as our ability to communicate abstract thoughts, (76) _ about the universe, the mind, love, dreams or ordering a drink. It is an immensely complex (77) _ that we take for granted. Indeed, we are not aware o

26、f most (78) _ of our speech and understanding. Consider what happens when one person is speaking to (79) _ . The speaker has to translate thoughts into (80) _ language. Brain imaging studies suggest that the time from thoughts to the (81) _ of speech is extremely fast, only 0.04 seconds! The listene

27、r must hear the sounds to (82) _ out what the speaker means. He must use the sounds of speech to (83) _ the words spoken, understand the pattern of (84) _ of the words (sentences), and finally (85) _ the meaning. This takes somewhat longer, a minimum of about 0.5 seconds. But 86 started, it is of co

28、urse a continuous process. （分数：71.00）A.apartB.offC.upD.downA.soB.butC.orD.forA.transferB.transmitC.conveyD.communicateA.toB.fromC.overD.onA.onlyB.almostC.evenD.justA.staysB.situatesC.hidesD.liesA.stuckB.strungC.rungD.consistedA.rulesB.scalesC.lawsD.standardsA.combinesB.containsC.definesD.declaresA.w

29、hatB.whetherC.whileD.ifA.prospectB.progressC.processD.productA.aspectsB.abstractsC.anglesD.assumptionsA.anybodyB.anotherC.otherD.everybodyA.bodyB.gestureC.writtenD.spokenA.growingB.fixingC.beginningD.buildingA.putB.takeC.drawD.figureA.identifyB.locateC.revealD.discoverA.performanceB.organizationC.de

30、signD.layoutA.prescribeB.justifyC.utterD.interpretA.sinceB.afterC.onceD.until十、Translation (5 minu(总题数：5，分数：177.50)3.He rushed into the burning building to rescue children _ (不顾任何危险). （分数：35.50）_4.We are a competitive company looking for creative people willing to work_(尽其所能)（分数：35.50）_5.Dietician w

31、arns that it is bad for the health if children _ (挑食的话) are particular about their food. （分数：35.50）_6.I hope that_(我们能保持联系) after graduation from college（分数：35.50）_7.My knowledge of German is_(相当初级的) .（分数：35.50）_大学英语四级 187 答案解析(总分：746.56，做题时间：130 分钟)一、Writing (30 minutes)(总题数：1，分数：30.00)1.For this p

32、art, you are allowed thirty minutes to write a composition on the topic: To Compete, or to Cooperate. You should write no more than 120 words according to the outline given below in Chinese: 1. 有人认为大学应提倡同学间竞争； 2. 也有人认为学生应在大学里学会合作； 3. 你的看法。 （分数：30.00）_正确答案：( To Compete, or to Cooperate Some universit

33、y students consider competition to be the most important thing while studying. They compete for scholarships and any other opportunities to demonstrate their abilities. They believe that through competition, they can learn better. Other students consider cooperation to be the most important thing fo

34、r a person to do. They focus on team spirit, believing that teamwork not only gives them a chance to demonstrate their abilities, but also teaches them to promote friendship and cooperation whilst working. However, in my opinion, both competition and cooperation are equally important. We should coop

35、erate with others, while on the other hand we should never forget competition. )解析：二、Reading Comprehensio(总题数：1，分数：71.00)Bloggers learn price of telling too much Blogs are everywhere increasingly, the place where young people go to bare their souls, to vent, to gossip. And often they do so with ferv

36、or and little self-editing, posting their innermost thoughts for any number of web surfers to see. There is a freedom in it, as 23-year-old Allison Martin says: “Since the people who read my blog are friends or acquaintances of mine, my philosophy is to be totally honest whether its about how uncomf

37、ortable my hat are or my opinions about First Amendment law,“ says Martin, who lives in suburban Chicago and has been blogging for four years. Some are, however, finding that putting ones life online can have a price. A few bloggers, for instance, have been fired for writing about work on personal o

38、nline journals. And Maya Marcel-Keyes, daughter of conservative politician Alan Keyes, discovered the trickiness of providing personal details online when her discussions on her blog about being a lesbian became an issue during her fathers recent run for a U.S. Senate seat in Illinois (he made anti-

39、gay statements during the campaign). Experts say such incidents belong to a growing trend in which frank outpourings online are causing personal and public dramas, often taking on a life they couldnt have if the Web had not come along and turned individuals into publishers. Some also speculate that

40、more scandalous blog entries will have ramifications (支流) down the road. “I would bet that in the 2016 election, somebodys Facebook entry will come back to bite them,“ Steve Jones, head of the communications department at the University of Illinois, says, referring to , a networking site for college

41、 students and alumni that is something of a cross between a yearbook and a blog. More traditional blog sites which allow easy creation of a Web site with text, photos and often music include LiveJournal and MySpace. And they ve gotten more popular in recent years, especially among the younger set Su

42、rveys completed in recent months by the Internet Team United offers a cluster of towers that lean into each other; the team of Richard Meier, Peter Eisenman, Charles Gwathmey and Steven Holl proposes five high rises, joined by horizontal connectors. All these links were inspired by the need to give

43、multiple exit options. But more critical-and more likely to become reality than any of these specific towers-is how the various schemes treat the street level and underground. Most, by putting rentable office space up high, were generous with parks and cultural facilities. The teams were told to cre

44、ate sites for a memorial-and several couldnt resist designing one. Libeskind was struck by the “great slurry (泥浆) wails“ 70 feet down that survived the attack, a dike (堤防) against landfill and an engineering miracle of its time-and he leaves them as a memorial, adding a waterfall and a museum. Foste

45、r suggests two memorials in the areas of the Twin Towers foot prints, one for families of victims, the other for the public. （分数：177.50）(1).The term “bungled“ in Line 2 of Paragraph 2 can be best replaced by _.（分数：35.50）A.boastedB.combinedC.sparedD.spoiled 解析：语义题。根据下一句 Last summer the public gave it

46、s first set of plans a Bronx cheer 可知公众对其最初计划并不认可，可见 bungled 含有对其工作的否定意义，故本题答案为 D。(2).Which of the following statements is NOT TRUE according to the passage?（分数：35.50）A.The international competition for new designs won great concerns from designers around the world.B.Altogether seven teams of designers were chosen in the international competition for new designs.C.The public was satisfied with the efforts that LMDC had made in the last summer and gave their plans a satisfied cheer. D.The schemes brought the first hope that something good