[外语类试卷]2014年6月大学英语四级真题试卷（一）及答案与解析.doc

1、2014年 6月大学英语四级真题试卷（一）及答案与解析 一、 Part I Writing 1 For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a short essay on the following question. You should write at least 120 words but no more than 180 words. Suppose a foreign friend of yours is coming to visit your hometown, what is the most interesting

2、 place you would like to take him/her to see and why? Section A （ A） See a doctor about her strained shoulder. （ B） Use a ladder to help her reach the tea. （ C） Replace the cupboard with a new one. （ D） Place the tea on a lower shelf next time. （ A） At Mary Johnsons. （ B） At a painters studio. （ C）

3、In an exhibition hall. （ D） Outside an art gallery. （ A） The teacher evaluated lacks teaching experience. （ B） She does not quite agree with what the man said. （ C） The man had better talk with the students himself. （ D） New students usually cannot offer a fair evaluation. （ A） He helped Doris build

4、 up the furniture. （ B） Doris helped him arrange the furniture. （ C） Doris fixed up some of the bookshelves. （ D） He was good at assembling bookshelves. （ A） He doesnt get on with the others. （ B） He doesnt feel at ease in the firm. （ C） He has been taken for a fool. （ D） He has found a better posit

5、ion. （ A） They should finish the work as soon as possible. （ B） He will continue to work in the garden himself. （ C） He is tired of doing gardening on weekends. （ D） They can hire a gardener to do the work. （ A） The man has to get rid of the used furniture. （ B） The mans apartment is ready for rent.

6、 （ C） The furniture is covered with lots of dust. （ D） The furniture the man bought is inexpensive. （ A） The man will give the mechanic a call. （ B） The woman is waiting for a call. （ C） The woman is doing some repairs. （ D） The man knows the mechanic very well. （ A） She had a job interview to atten

7、d. （ B） She was busy finishing her project. （ C） She had to attend an important meeting. （ D） She was in the middle of writing an essay. （ A） Accompany her roommate to the classroom. （ B） Hand in her roommates application form. （ C） Submit her roommates assignment. （ D） Help her roommate with her re

8、port. （ A） Where Dr. Elliss office is located. （ B） When Dr. Ellis leaves his office. （ C） Directions to the classroom building. （ D） Dr. Elliss schedule for the afternoon. （ A） He finds it rather stressful. （ B） He is thinking of quitting it. （ C） He can handle it quite well. （ D） He has to work ex

9、tra hours. （ A） The 6:00 one. （ B） The 6:30 one. （ C） The 7:00 one. （ D） The 7:30 one. （ A） It is an awful waste of time. （ B） He finds it rather unbearable. （ C） The time on the train is enjoyable. （ D） It is something difficult to get used to. （ A） Reading newspapers. （ B） Chatting with friends. （

10、 C） Listening to the daily news. （ D） Planning the days work. Section B （ A） Ignore small details while reading. （ B） Read at least several chapters at one sitting. （ C） Develop a habit of reading critically. （ D） Get key information by reading just once or twice. （ A） Choose ones own system of mark

11、ing. （ B） Underline the key words and phrases. （ C） Make as few marks as possible. （ D） Highlight details in a red color. （ A） By reading the textbooks carefully again. （ B） By reviewing only the marked parts. （ C） By focusing on the notes in the margins. （ D） By comparing notes with their classmate

12、s. （ A） The sleep a person needs varies from day to day. （ B） The amount of sleep for each person is similar. （ C） One can get by with a couple of hours of sleep. （ D） Everybody needs some sleep for survival. （ A） It is a made-up story. （ B） It is beyond cure. （ C） It is a rare exception. （ D） It is

13、 due to an accident. （ A） His extraordinary physical condition. （ B） His mothers injury just before his birth. （ C） The unique surroundings of his living place. （ D） The rest he got from sitting in a rocking chair. （ A） She invested in stocks and shares on Wall Street. （ B） She learned to write for

14、financial newspapers. （ C） She developed a strong interest in finance. （ D） She tenderly looked after her sick mother. （ A） She made a wise investment in real estate. （ B） She sold her restaurant with a substantial profit. （ C） She got 7. 5 million dollars from her ex-husband. （ D） She inherited a b

15、ig fortune from her father. （ A） She was extremely mean with her money. （ B） She was dishonest in business dealings. （ C） She frequently ill-treated her employees. （ D） She abused animals including her pet dog. （ A） She made a big fortune from wise investment. （ B） She built a hospital with her moth

16、ers money. （ C） She made huge donations to charities. （ D） She carried on her familys tradition. Section C 26 Among the kinds of social gestures most significant for second-language teachers are those which are【 B1】 _in form but different in meaning in the two cultures. For example, a Colombian who

17、wants someone to【 B2】 _him often signals with a hand movement in which all the fingers of one hand, cupped, point downward as they move rapidly【 B3】 _. Speakers of English have a similar gesture though the hand may not be cupped and the fingers may be held more loosely, but for them the gesture mean

18、s goodbye or go away, quite the【 B4】 _of the Colombian gesture. Again, in Colombia, a speaker of English would have to know that when he【 B5】 _height he must choose between different gestures depending on whether he is【 B6】 _a human being or an animal. If he keeps the palm of the hand【 B7】 _the floo

19、r, as he would in his own culture when making known the height of a child, for example, he will very likely be greeted by laughter; in Colombia this gesture is【 B8】 _for the description of animals. In order to describe human beings he should keep the palm of his hand【 B9】 _to the floor. Substitution

20、s of one gesture for the other often create not only humorous but also【 B10】 _moments. In both of the examples above, speakers from two different cultures have the same gesture, physically, but its meaning differs sharply. 27 【 B1】 28 【 B2】 29 【 B3】 30 【 B4】 31 【 B5】 32 【 B6】 33 【 B7】 34 【 B8】 35 【

21、B9】 36 【 B10】 Section A 36 Many Brazilians cannot read. In 2000, a quarter of those aged 15 and older were functionally illiterate(文盲 ). Many【 C1】 _do not want to. Only one literate adult in three reads books. The【 C2】 _Brazilian reads 1. 8 non-academic books a year, less than half the figure in Eur

22、ope and the United States. In a recent survey of reading habits, Brazilians came 27th out of 30 countries. Argentines, their neighbors,【 C3】_18th. The government and businesses are all struggling in different ways to change this. On March 13 the government【 C4】 _a National Plan for Books and Reading

23、. This seeks to boost reading, by founding libraries and financing publishers among other things. One discouragement to reading is that books are【 C5】 _. Most books have small print-runs, pushing up their price. But Brazilians indifference to books has deeper roots. Centuries of slavery meant the co

24、untrys leaders long【 C6】 _education. Primary schooling became universal only in the 1990s. All this means Brazils book market has the biggest growth【 C7】 _in the western world. But reading is a difficult habit to form. Brazilians bought fewer books in 2004, 89 million, including textbooks【 C8】 _by t

25、he government, than they did in 1991. Last year the director of Brazils national library【 C9】 _. He complained that he had half the librarians he needed and termites(白蚁 )had eaten much of the【 C10】_. That ought to be a cause for national shame. A)average I)normal B)collection J)particularly C)distri

26、buted K)potential D)exhibition L)quit E)expensive M)ranked F)launched N)simply G)named O)treasured H)neglected 37 【 C1】 38 【 C2】 39 【 C3】 40 【 C4】 41 【 C5】 42 【 C6】 43 【 C7】 44 【 C8】 45 【 C9】 46 【 C10】 Section B 46 The Touch-Screen Generation A)On a chilly day last spring, a few dozen developers of

27、childrens apps(应用程序 )for phones and tablets(平板电脑 )gathered at an old beach resort in Monterey, California, to show off their games. The gathering was organized by Warren Buckleitner, a longtime reviewer of interactive childrens media. Buckleitner spent the breaks testing whether his own remote-contr

28、ol helicopter could reach the halls second story, while various children who had come with their parents looked up in awe(敬畏 )and delight. But mostly they looked down, at the iPads and other tablets displayed around the hall like so many open boxes of candy. I walked around and talked with developer

29、s, and several quoted a famous saying of Maria Montessoris, “ The hands are the instruments of mans intelligence. “ B)What, really, would Maria Montessori have made of this scene? The 30 or so children here were not down at the shore poking(戳 )their fingers in the sand or running them along stones o

30、r picking seashells. Instead they were all inside, alone or in groups of two or three, their faces a few inches from a screen, their hands doing things Montessori surely did not imagine. C)In 2011, the American Academy of Pediatrics updated its policy on very young children and media. In 1999, the g

31、roup had discouraged television viewing for children younger than 2, citing research on brain development that showed this age groups critical need for “ direct interactions with parents and other significant care givers. “ The updated report began by acknowledging that things had changed significan

32、tly since then. In 2006, 90% of parents said that their children younger than 2 consumed some form of electronic media. Nevertheless, the group took largely the same approach it did in 1999, uniformly discouraging passive media use, on any type of screen, for these kids.(For older children, the acad

33、emy noted, “ high-quality programs“ could have “ educational benefits. “)The 2011 report mentioned “smart cell phone“ and “new screen“ technologies, but did not address interactive apps. Nor did it bring up the possibility that has likely occurred to those 90% of American parents that some good migh

34、t come from those little swiping(在电子产品上刷 )fingers. D)I had come to the developers conference partly because I hoped that this particular set of parents, enthusiastic as they were about interactive media, might help me out of this problem, that they might offer some guiding principle for American par

35、ents who are clearly never going to meet the academys ideals, and at some level do not want to. Perhaps this group would be able to express clearly some benefits of the new technology that the more cautious doctors werent ready to address. E)I fell into conversation with a woman who had helped devel

36、op Montessori Letter Sounds, an app that teaches preschoolers the Montessori methods of spelling. She was a former Montessori teacher and a mother of four. I myself have three children who are all fans of the touch screen. What games did her kids like to play, I asked, hoping for suggestions I could

37、 take home. “They dont play all that much. “ Really? Why not? “Because I dont allow it. We have a rule of no screen time during the week, unless its clearly educational. “ No screen time? None at all? That seems at the outer edge of restrictive, even by the standards of overcontrolling parents. “ On

38、 the weekends, they can play. I give them a limit of half an hour and then stop. Enough. “ F)Her answer so surprised me that I decided to ask some of the other developers who were also parents what their domestic ground rules for screen time were. One said only on airplanes and long car rides. Anoth

39、er said Wednesdays and weekends, for half an hour. The most permissive said half an hour a day, which was about my rule at home. At one point I sat with one of the biggest developers of e-book apps for kids, and his family. The small kid was starting to fuss in her high chair, so the mom stuck an iP

40、ad in front of her and played a short movie so everyone else could enjoy their lunch. When she saw me watching, she gave me the universal tense look of mothers who feel they are being judged. “At home,“ she assured me, “I only let her watch movies in Spanish. “ G)By their reactions, these parents ma

41、de me understand the problem of our age: as technology becomes almost everywhere in our lives, American parents are becoming more, not less, distrustful of what it might be doing to their children. Technological ability has not, for parents, translated into comfort and ease. On the one hand, parents

42、 want their children to swim expertly in the digital stream that they will have to navigate(航行 )all their lives; on the other hand, they fear that too much digital media, too early, will sink them. Parents end up treating tablets as precision surgical(外科的 )instruments, devices that might perform mir

43、acles for their childs IQ and help him win some great robotics competition but only if they are used just so. Otherwise, their child could end up one of those sad, pale creatures who cant make eye contact and has a girlfriend who lives only in the virtual world. H)Norman Rockwell, a 20th-century art

44、ist, never painted Boy Swiping Finger on Screen, and our own vision of a perfect childhood has never been adjusted to accommodate that now-common scene. Add to that our modern fear that every parenting decision may have lasting consequences that every minute of enrichment lost or mindless entertainm

45、ent indulged(放纵的 )will add up to some permanent handicap(障碍 )in the future and you have deep guilt and confusion. To date, no body of research has proved that the iPad will make your preschooler smarter or teach her to speak Chinese, or alternatively that it will rust her nervous system the device h

46、as been out for only three years, not much more than the time it takes some academics to find funding and gather research subjects. So what is a parent to do? 47 The author attended the conference, hoping to find some guiding principles for parenting in the electronic age. 48 American parents are be

47、coming more doubtful about the benefits technology is said to bring to their children. 49 Some experts believe that human intelligence develops by the use of hands. 50 The author found a former Montessori teacher exercising strict control over her kids screen time. 51 Research shows interaction with

48、 people is key to babies brain development. 52 So far there has been no scientific proof of the educational benefits of iPads. 53 American parents worry that overuse of tablets will create problems with their kids interpersonal relationships. 54 The author expected developers of childrens apps to sp

49、ecify the benefits of the new technology. 55 The kids at the gathering were more fascinated by the iPads than by the helicopter. 56 The author permits her children to use the screen for at most half an hour a day. Section C 56 When young women were found to make only 82 percent of what their male peers do just one year out of college, many were at a loss to explain it. All the traditional reasons put forward to interpret the pay gap tha