1、2006年英语专业四级试题答案真题 120PART I DICTATION第1题：参考答案：THE INTERNET The Internet is the most significant progress in the field of communications. Imagine a book that never ends, a library with a million floors, or imagine a research project with thousands of scientists working around the clock forever. This
2、is the magic of the Internet. Yet the Internet has the potential for good and bad. One can find well-organized, information-rich websites. At the same time, one can also find wasteful websites. Most websites are known as different Internet applications. These include online games, chat rooms and so
3、on. These applications have great power too. Sometimes the power can be so great that young people may easily become victims to their attraction. So we need to recognize the seriousness of the problem. We must work together to use its power for better ends.详细解答：Part II LISTENING COMPREHENSION In Sec
4、tions A、B and C you will hear everything once only.Listen carefully and then answer the questions that follow. Mark the correct answer to each question on your ANSWER SHEET. SECTION A CONVERSATIONS In this section you will hear several conversations. Listen to the conversations carefully and then an
5、swer the questions that follow.听力原文M: Hello. W: Oh, hello, you must be a new student. Did you find us ok? M: Well, I got a bit lost and I had to ask a stranger, but I got here eventually. W: Oh, dear. Have you come far today? M: Only from Britain. I was staying with my brother. W: Oh, good. How did
6、you get here? M: My brother took me to the railway station and I got a bus at this end. W: Aha, well, youd better tell me your name, so I can find your form. M: Its Mark Bern. W: Bern, Bern. Ah, yes. Oh, youve changed since this photo. What happened to your beard and moustache, and you are not weari
7、ng glasses, either? M: No, I thought Id better look smarter. W: Here is the key to your room. It is 501. M: Thanks. How do I get there? W: Go to the end of this corridor, turn left and its the third door on the right. M: Thank you. Oh, there is a meeting for new students. What time is that? W: Half
8、past five in the Common Room on the ground floor at the other end of the corridor. M: Thanks a lot. Bye. 第2题：参考答案：C答案解析：第3题：参考答案：B答案解析：第4题：参考答案：B答案解析：听力原文W: Hi, Steve, how are things? M: Hi, Maggie. Good, thanks. Whats new with you? W: Oh, I was just wondering if you wanted to go out tonight. M: Wel
9、l, I was thinking of going to the university library to do a bit of study. What have you got in mind? W: I thought we could just go for a walk, maybe down to that park near the beach. M: Tonight? You must be joking. Its too cold. W: Oh, yes. Its too cold, but I still want to go out somewhere. That n
10、ew Tom Cruises film is on in town. How about that? M: Ok, what time does it start? W: Oh, I think its half past eight something. I will just get the paper and have a look. Just turn on for a minute. Look, the film got fantastic review in the paper last week. M: Ok, ok. Where are we going to meet? W:
11、 Itd be easier if we met at the cinema. M: Ok. Where is it? W: Oh, you know, the Olyang. M: Where is that? W: Near the Town Hall and opposite the bank. M: Oh, yeah. I know where it is. Ok, look, I will meet you there at fifteen past eight. 第5题：参考答案：D答案解析：第6题：参考答案：B答案解析：第7题：参考答案：D答案解析：听力原文W: What are
12、 you reading, Bill? M: Its this weeks New Scientist, why? W: I was just wondering. It looks interesting. But Ive never actually read it myself. Its for real scientists?or can ordinary people like me understand it? M: Oh, its for anyone really. It usually has articles and stories about character affa
13、irs and about science as well as papers about new development and research. I am reading about new telephone that allows you to see the person you are speaking to as well as hear him. W: Oh, I heard about it. Is it on the market yet? Can I buy one? M: No, not this one. But the company has made other
14、 models to try out on business. This one is special because its color and the image is moving. W: Oh, thats interesting. M: You see the first video phones that what they called were made in Japan. But they can only show a still, black and white image. So this videophone is much better than that. Min
15、d you and Im not sure I want one, would you? W: Well, no. I dont think I would. I bet it costs a lot of money. Does it say how much it costs? M: Yes, the early black and white one costs several hundred pounds, but the one the story is about costs several thousand pounds. W: En. Why does anybody want
16、 one, do you think? M: Business organizations that need to frequently contact overseas organizations would want it. Its like a face-to-face conversation. So maybe a lot of overseas travel can be avoided. W: Yes, I suppose so. 第8题：参考答案：B答案解析：第9题：参考答案：C答案解析：第10题：参考答案：A答案解析：第11题：参考答案：C答案解析：SECTION B PA
17、SSAGES In this section, you will hear several passages. Listen to the passages carefully and then answer the questions that follow.听力原文If youre in a western country, you often see people walking their dogs. It is still true that a dog is the most useful animal in the world. However the reason why on
18、e keeps the dog has changed. Once upon a time, a man met a dog and wanted it to help him in the fight against the other animals. And the dog listened to him and did what he told him to do. Later people used dogs for hunting other animals. And dogs did not eat what they got until their masters agreed
19、. Dogs were also used for driving sheep and guarding chickens. But now people in towns and cities do not need dogs to fight other animals any more. Of course, they keep them to frighten thieves. But the most important reason for keeping dogs is that they feel lonely in the city. For a child, a dog i
20、s his best friend when he has no friends to play with; for a young wife, a dog is her child when she does not have her own; for old people, a dog is also a child when their real children have grown up and left. Now people do not have to use a dog, but they keep it as a friend, just like a member of
21、the family. 第12题：参考答案：D答案解析：第13题：参考答案：A答案解析：第14题：参考答案：D答案解析：听力原文I am going to work in a totally new environment. Ill have to get used to different working conditions. I am used to working in quite high-tech sort of industry that has got lots of machinery and everything. But now I am going to a place
22、 that has no machinery as such, apart from a typewriter. The place has no electricity at all, no photocopiers, all the things that you just take for granted here. They just wont be there any more. Ill be staying near the school in quite a small village. And I will be staying in a teachers house, liv
23、ing with two or three other volunteer teachers. Ill have to get used to not having the variety of different foods that you have here like twenty different varieties of breakfast serial. And the range of food there is much smaller, not many choices. Ill also have to get used to getting water from a w
24、ell, not having electricity which means gas lamps in the evening; which means the difficulty of preparing for the next days lessons in poor light; which means different ways of getting your clothes washed. There will be all sorts of big differences like that, but Ill have to get used to when I arriv
25、e there. 第15题：参考答案：B答案解析：第16题：参考答案：B答案解析：第17题：参考答案：D答案解析：第18题：参考答案：A答案解析：听力原文The most common type of child abuse you know is beating with the hands or with an instrument usually a cane in some places. Nearly a third of the abused children we see are in the age group between six and ten, and about si
26、xty-five percent of them are boys. This is the age group when children are first to expect to study hard and parents have great expectations of their progresses in school. Boys of course attract more abuse such as beating because once again parental expectations are high, and boys tend to be more en
27、ergetic and difficult to control than girls. Most experts seem to agree that the child abuse is caused by a combination of social and psychological factors. Families who beat their children are not particularly different from other people. The only difference that exists between them is that they la
28、ck skills in the establishing good relationships with their children. These families too, generally speaking, have other problems such as marriage problems or financial problems. Some parents are hurting their children because they strongly believe in the use of traditional discipline methods. But m
29、any of them have emotional problems. They are often the victims of violence themselves. Sometimes they even bear an unreasonable hatred for a child because they believe that the child has brought the family bad luck. 第19题：参考答案：D答案解析：第20题：参考答案：B答案解析：第21题：参考答案：B答案解析：SECTION C NEWS BROADCAST In this se
30、ction,you will hear several news items. Listen to them carefully and then answer the questions that follow.听力原文American coast guard officials in Florida say they have returned to Cuba a group of would-be migrants who try to make their way to the United States in an unusual vessel, a floating truck.
31、They said one of their planes spotted the Cubans more than half way through their journey, and the coast guard could not believe their eyes when they saw the vessel. The Cubans had attached floats and propellers to a 1951 shabby truck. 第22题：参考答案：A答案解析：第23题：参考答案：C答案解析：听力原文All large and medium-sized C
32、hinese cities will have greater air quality monitoring by 2010. says a government official. The government has spent 150 million yuan on air quality monitoring systems across China since 2000 when officials began paying great attention to air quality monitoring. More than 220 cities now have air qua
33、lity monitoring systems and 42 others will have systems in place by the end of this year. 第24题：参考答案：B答案解析：听力原文Storms sank two river ferries in southern Bangladesh on Sunday and some 90 passengers were reported missing while at least another 68 died. One of the packed ferries carrying around 150 peop
34、le capsized early on Sunday on the Meghna river and 50 were rescued. A second ferry sank on the same river just one kilometer away leaving 40 passengers missing after 6 were rescued. 第25题：参考答案：A答案解析：第26题：参考答案：B答案解析：听力原文The Indonesian government has given official approval for an Australian consulate
35、 in Dili. The first Australian consulate officials will travel to the East Timor capital next week as well as serving the consular needs of Australian in the region. The consulate will facilitate Australian support to the United Nations assistance mission in East Timor. The announcement follows in p
36、rinciple their agreement reached on the opening of the consulate between Australian prime minister and Indonesian president in Barley last month. 第27题：参考答案：A答案解析：听力原文PepsiCo of the US and Unilever of the UK have become the latest foreign entrance in Chinas competitive bottle tea market. The two comp
37、anies launched Liptons iced tea in Guangzhou last week in a 50-50 venture. PepsiCo is contributing its bottling facilities and distribution networks to the alliance while Unilever provides the famous tea brand and recipe, company executive said. China has a growing bottle tea market estimated to be
38、worth 10 billion Yuan. It has been dominated in recent years by two Taiwanese brands, Master Kang and Uni-President. Three other big brands, Nestle, Guangdong based Jianlibao and Lipton, have just entered the market this year. Swiss company Nestle is working in conjunction with Coca Cola. 第28题：参考答案：
39、B答案解析：第29题：参考答案：D答案解析：听力原文The Isreali peace camp has launched the biggest protest in years with more than 100,000 people protesting on Saturday and demanding the country leave Gaza, after Palestinian militants dealt Israels army its deadliest blow since 2002. Crowds at Tel Avivs main square added to
40、 the growing call for withdrawal from the war-torn territory. The killing of 13 soldiers by militants in the Gaza Strip last week has deepened already strong support in Israel for Prime Minister Sharons Gaza pullout plan which is being delayed by hardliners in his right-wing Likud party. 第30题：参考答案：B
41、答案解析：第31题：参考答案：A答案解析：PART CLOZE Decide which of the choices given below would best complete the passage if inserted in the corresponding blanks. Mark the best choice for each blank on your ANSWER SHEET.第32题：参考答案：B答案解析：本句意为“流传最广泛的迷信是”。widely“广泛地，普遍地”，符合句意；broadly“宽广地，广阔地”，主要指地域的辽阔；quickly和speedily指速度
42、的快捷。第33题：参考答案：C答案解析：本句意为“即使是从人行道走到繁忙的马路上去。”step off“齐步前进，(从上)走下来”，符合句意。run from“从处跑出”；jump off “跳离”；keep from“阻止，隐瞒”。第34题：参考答案：A答案解析：此处应该使用表示假设的从属连词，只能选If。第35题：参考答案：C答案解析：本句意为“如果必须从梯子下经过，可以通过来避免厄运”。avoid“避免，消除”，强调的是“预防措施”，符合句意；erase“抹去，擦”；remove“除去，开除”；ease“减轻，放松”。第36题：参考答案：B答案解析：本句中介词by的宾语为and连接的两个
43、并列成分，前一宾语为动名词crossing your fingers，因此，后一宾语也需要采用动名词形式，即keeping。第37题：参考答案：D答案解析：通过前句you can和后句you may，可知空格处应为表示并列意义的词。Alternatively“二者选一地”，符合句意；Consequently“从而，因此”，表示因果关系；However“可是，然而”，表示转折关系；Comparatively“比较地，相当地”，表示比较关系。第38题：参考答案：A答案解析：本句意为“在鞋尖处划一个十字”。make“做出(某种行为、举动等)”，符合用法。print“印刷，出版”；perform“履行
44、，表演”；produce“生产，制”。第39题：参考答案：C答案解析：本句意为“直到鞋尖上划的十字痕迹干了后再看。”mark“标志，痕迹”，符合句意；label“标签，商标”；symbol“符号，象征”；cut“削减，伤口”。第40题：参考答案：B答案解析：文章从本句开始介绍第二个迷信说法，此处与首句中的one of the most构成固定搭配 oneanother，所以空格处为superstition“迷信”。第41题：参考答案：D答案解析：前半句中的it is unlucky和此处的bringto the person意义相一致，而且下文也出现了 the worst misfortune
45、，因此，misfortune“不幸，灾祸”符合句意。loss“损失，遗失”；tragedy“悲剧，灾难”，语意过重。第42题：参考答案：B答案解析：本句意为“这会给(在屋内)打伞的人或全家人带来不幸。”household“家庭，一家人”，符合句意；house“房子，住宅”，侧重建筑物；home“家，家乡，国内”，与“出门(国)在外”相对应； circle“圆形物，循环”。第43题：参考答案：C答案解析：上文提到在屋内打伞会带来厄运，而本句意思是“晴天打伞是.，因为它会带来雨。”由此推断“带来雨”并不是一件不幸的事，只能是不受欢迎的。unpopular“不流行的，不受欢迎的”，符合句意；unwi
46、se“不明智的，轻率的”；unintelligent“缺乏才智的，愚钝的”；unfortunate“不幸的”。第44题：参考答案：A答案解析：本句意为“某个月份的13号适逢星期五”。Fall“发生，落到”，习惯上和on搭配使用，符合句意；drop“落下，降低”，通常不与日期搭配使用。第45题：参考答案：C答案解析：在西方，13是不吉利的数字，因此每个月的这一天，人们为了避免不幸，最好呆在家里。indoors“在户内，在室内”，符合句意。第46题：参考答案：B答案解析：前半句句意为“打碎镜子会给人带来最大的不幸”，后半句句意为“它会带来长达7年的坏运气”。显然两个分句间是一种因果关系，as有“因
47、为”的含义，符合句意。第47题：参考答案：A答案解析：本句意为“迷信应该在古代的时候就已经出现了”。表示已经出现，应该使用完成时态。第48题：参考答案：C答案解析：本句意为“在英国黑猫通常被认为是吉利的，尽管人们经常把黑猫和巫术联系起来”。be associated with“与联系”，符合句意；be concerned about“关心，挂念”；be related with“与符合”；connect经常与介词with搭配，意为“与连接”。第49题：参考答案：A答案解析：前句提到“黑猫通常被认为是吉利的”和本句的“情况下尤为吉利”构成递进关系。Especially“特别，尤其”，指程度的加深加强，符合句意；specially“特别地，与众不同地”；frequently“经常地”；rarely“很少地”。第50题：参考答案：B答案解析：本句意为“还有一个普遍的迷信说法是触摸木头祈求好运”。for“为了”，表示目的，符合句意。第51题：参考答案：D答案
