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往年英语四级考试真题

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往年英语四级考试真题

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2019年6月英语四级真题试卷二
Part I Writing (30 minutes)
Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a news
report to your campus newspaper on a visit to a local farm organized by your
Student Union. You should write at least 120 words but no more than180
words.
PartⅡ Listening Comprehension (25 minutes)
Section A
Directions: In this section, you will hear three news reports. At the end
of each news report, you will hear two or three questions. Both the news report
and then questions will be spoken only once. After you hear a question, you must
choose the best answer from the four choices marked A), B), C) and D).Then mark
the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 1 with a single line through the
centre.
Questions 1 and 2 are based on the news report you have just heard.
1.A)Heavy floods.
B)Safety concerns.
C)Bad economy.
D)Workers’ strikes.
2.A)It is competitive with its numerous tourist destinations.
B)It provides many job opportunities for French people.
C)It is the biggest concern of the French government.
D)It plays an important role in the nation’s economy.
Questions 3 and 4 are based on the news report you have just heard.
3.A)To carry out a scientific survey.
B)To establish a new research station.
C)To rescue two sick American workers.
D)To deliver urgent medical supplies.
4.A)The darkness and cold.
B)The heavy snow and fog.
C)The biting winds.
D)The ice all around.
Questions 5 to 7 are based on the news report you have just heard.
5.A)By tying it to a door handle.
B)By shaking it back and forth.
C)With a remote control craft.
D)With a full-sized helicopter.
6.A)He has lots of fans on Facebook.
B)He has rich experience in flying.
C)He often suffers from toothaches.
D)He has learned to pull teeth from a video.
7.A)Spend more time together.
B)Tell them adventure stories.
C)Do something fun and creative.
D)Play with them in a safe place.
Section B
Directions: In this section, you will hear two long conversations. At the
end of each conversation, you will hear four questions. Both the conversation
and the questions will be spoken only once. After you hear a question, you must
choose the best answer from the four choices marked A)，B)，C)and D). Then mark
the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 1 with a single line through the
centre.
Questions 8 to 11 are based on the news report you have just heard.
8.A)To confirm an urgent appointment.
B)To collect a package from the woman.
C)To ask the woman to sign a document.
D)To arrange the delivery of a package.
9.A)She is doing shopping.
B)She is visiting a friend.
C)She is not at home.
D)She is not feeling well.
10.A)He will be off duty the whole day.
B)He will be working somewhere else.
C)He will have to have his car repaired.
D)He will be too busy to spare and time.
11.A)Sign her name.
B)Confirm online.
C)Pay a small fee.
D)Show up in person.
Questions 12 to 15 are based on the news report you have just heard.
12.A)Vacation in Italy.
B)Study abroad.
C)Throw a farewell party.
D)Go to a fashion show in Milan.
13.A)Quite sleepy.
B)Very excited.
C)Rather depressed.
D)Nearly exhausted.
14.A)He has to attend a party.
B)He has to meet a friend.
C)He has to make a presentation.
D)He has to finish an assignment.
15.A)Say goodbye to the woman at the airport.
B)Meet the woman at the Black Cat Cafe.
C)Drive the Woman to the airport.
D)Have lunch with the woman.
Section C
Directions: In this section, you will hear three passages. At the end of
each passage, you will hear three or four questions. Both the passage and the
questions will be spoken only once. After you hear a question, you must choose
the best answer from the four choices marked A), B), C) and D). Then mark the
corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 1 with a single line through the
centre.
Questions 16 to 18 are based on the passage you have just heard.
16.A) It has kept growing over the centuries.
B) Its top is hidden in clouds of volcanic smoke.
C) Its height changes with each volcanic eruption.
D) It has a recorded history of 1500 years.
17.A) They are now a tourist destination.
B) They attract a lot of migrating birds.
C) They provide shelter for the farmers.
D) They make good fields for farming.
18.A) They nest on the volcano’s slopes.
B) They feed on certain small mammals.
C) They compete with each other for food.
D) They match large mammals in strength.
Questions 19 to 21 are based on the passage you have just heard.
19.A) He is self-employed.
B) He is a career advisor.
C) He studies talent.
D) He owns a magazine.
20.A) Doing what they like best.
B) Loving the work they do.
C) Making no excuses for failures.
D) Following their natural instinct.
21.A) It does not come to anything without hard work.
B) It may prove to be quite different from hard work.
C) It is a natural gift only some special people can possess.
D) It does not come to you until something special happens.
Questions 22 to 25 are based on the passage you have just heard.
22.A) It is a bit difficult to learn.
B) It was popular in New Zealand.
C) It is a traditional type of ballet.
D) It evolved in the mid-1970s.
23.A) She wanted her to be a ballet dancer.
B) She used to be a ballet dancer herself.
C) She hated to see her idling about.
D) She was too busy to look after her.
24.A) After she started teaching English.
B) Before she left for New Zealand.
C) When she moved to New York city.
D) Once she began to live on her own.
25.A) It has renewed her passion for life.
B) It has made her happy and energetic.
C) It has helped her make new friends.
D) It has enabled her to start a new career.
Part III Reading Comprehension (40 minutes)
Section A
Directions: In this section, there is a passage with ten blanks. You are
required to select one word for each blank from a list of choices given in a
word bank following the passage. Read the passage through carefully before
making your choices. Each choice in the bank is identified by a letter. Please
mark the corresponding letter for each item on Answer Sheet 2 with a single line
through the centre. You may not use any of the words in the bank more than
once.
Ships are often sunk in order to create underwater reefs (暗礁)perfect for
scuba diving (水肺式潜泳)and preserving marine 26 Turkish authorities have just sunk
something a little different than a ship, and it wouldn’t normally ever touch
water, an Airbus A300. The hollowed-out A300 was 27 of everything potentially
harmful to the environment and sunk off the Aegean coast today. Not only will
the sunken plane 28 the perfect skeleton for artificial reef growth, tut
authorities hope this new underwater attraction will bring tourists to the
area.
The plane 29 a total length of 54 meters, where experienced scuba divers
will 30 be able to venture through the cabin and around the plane’s 31 . Aydin
Municipality bought the plane from a private company for just under US$100,000,
but they hope to see a return on that 32 through the tourism industry. Tourism
throughout Turkey is expected to fall this year as the country has been the 33
of several deadly terrorist attacks. As far as sunken planes go, this Airbus
A300 is the largest 34 sunk aircraft ever.
Taking a trip underwater and 35 the inside of a sunken A300 would be quite
an adventure, and that is exactly what Turkish authorities are hoping this
attraction will make people think. Drawing in adventure seekers and experienced
divers, this new artificial Airbus reef will be a scuba diver’s paradise
(天堂).
A)create
B)depressed
C)eventually
D)experiences
E)exploring
F)exterior
G)habitats
H)innovate
I)intentionally
J)investment
K)revealing
L)stretches
M)stripped
N)territory
O)victim
Section B
Directions: In this section, you are going to read a passage with ten
statements attached to each statement contains information given in one of the
paragraphs. Identify the paragraph from which the information is derived. You
may choose a paragraph more than once. Each paragraph is marked with a letter.
Answer the questions by marking the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 2.
Make Stuff, Fail, And Learn While You’re At It
A)We’ve always been a hands-on, do-it-yourself kind of nation. Ben
Franklin, one of America’s founding fathers, didn’t just invent the lightning
rod. His creations include glasses, innovative stoves and more.
B)Franklin, who was largely self-taught, may have been a genius, but he
wasn’t really an exception when it comes to American making and creativity.
C)The personal computing revolution and philosophy of disruptive innovation
of Silicon Valley grew, in part, out of the creations of the Homebrew Computer
Club, Which was founded in a garage in Menlo Park, California, in the mid-1970s.
Members — including guys named Jobs and Wozniak — started making and inventing
things they couldn’t buy.
D)So it’s no surprise that the Maker Movement today is thriving in
communities and some schools across America. Making is available to ordinary
people who aren’t tied to big companies, big defense labs or research
universities. The maker philosophy echoes old ideas advocated by John Dewey,
Montessori, and even ancient Greek philosophers, as we pointed out recently.
E)These maker spaces are often outside of classrooms, and are serving an
important educational function. The Maker Movement is rediscovering learning by
doing, which is Dewey’s phrase from 100 years ago. We are rediscovering Dewey
and Montessori and a lot of the practices that they pioneered that have been
forgotten or at least put aside. A maker space is a place which can be in a
school, but it doesn’t look like a classroom. It can be in a library. It can be
out in the community. It has tools and materials. It’s a place where you get to
make things based on your interest and on what you’re learning to do.
F)Ideas about learning by doing have struggled to become mainstream
educationally, despite being old concepts from Dewey and Montessori, Plato and
Aristotle, and in the American Contcxt, Ralph Emerson, on the value of
experience and self-reliance. It’s not necessarily an efficient way to learn. We
learn, in a sense, by trial and error. Learning from experience is something
that takes time and patience. It’s very individualized. If your goal is to have
standardized approaches to learning, where everybody learns the same thing at
the same time in the same way, then learning by doing doesn’t really fit that
mold anymore. It’s not the world of textbooks. It’s not the world of
testing.
G)Learning by doing may not be efficient, but it is effective.
Project-based learning has grown in popularity with teachers and administrators.
However, project-based learning is not making. Although there is a connection,
there is also a distinction. The difference lies in whether the project is in a
sense defined and developed by the student or whether it’s assigned by a
teacher. We’ll all get the kids to build a small boat. We are all going to learn
about X, Y, and Z. That tends to be one form of project-based learning.
H)I really believe the core idea of making is to have an idea within your
head — or you just borrow it from someone — and begin to develop it , repeat it
and improve it. Then, realize that idea somehow. That thing that you make is
valuable to you and you can share it with others. I’m interested in how these
things are expressions of that person, their ideas, and their interactions with
the world.
I)In some ways, a lot of forms of making in school
trivialize(使变得无足轻重)making. The thing that you make has no value to you. Once you
are done demonstrating whatever concept was in the textbook, you throw away the
pipe cleaners, the cardboard tubes.
J)Making should be student-directed and student-led, otherwise it’s boring.
It doesn’t have the motivation of the student. I’m not saying that students
should not learn concepts or not learn skills. They do. But to really harness
their motivation is to build upon their interest. It’s to let them be in control
and to drive the car.
K)Teachers should aim to build a supportive, creative environment for
students to do this work. A very social environment, where they are learning
from each other. When they have a problem, it isn’t the teacher necessarily
coming in to solve it. They are responsible for working through that problem. It
might be they have to talk to other students in the class to help get an
answer.
L)The teacher’s role is more of a coach or observer. Sometimes, to people,
it sounds like this is a diminished rote for teachers. I think it’s a heightened
role. You’re ereating this environment, like a maker space. You have 20 kids
doing different things. You are watching them and really it’s the human
behaviors you’re looking at . Are they engaged? A they developing and repeating
their project? Are they stumbling (受挫)? Do they need something that they don’t
have? Can you help them be aware of where they are?
M)My belief is that the goal of making is not to get every kid to be
hands-on, but it enable us to be good learners. It’s not the knowledge that is
valuable, It’s the practice of learning new things and understanding how things
work. These are processes that you are developing so that you are able, over
time, to tackle more interesting problems, more challenging problems—problems
that require many people instead of one person, and many skills instead of
one.
N) If teachers keep it form-free and student-led, it can still be tied to a
curriculum and an educational plan. I think a maker space is more like a like a
library in that there are multiple subjects and multiple things that you can
learn. What seems to be missing in school is how these subjects integrate, how
they fit together in any meaningful way. Rather than saying, ‘This is science,
over here is history,’ I see schools taking this idea of projects and looking
at: How do they support children in higher level learning?
O) I feel like this is a shift away form a subject matter-based curriculum
to a more experiential curriculum or learning. It’s still in its early stages,
but I think it’s shifting around not what kids learn but how they learn.
36.A maker space is where people make things according to their personal
interests.
37.The teachers’ role is enhanced in a maker space as they have to monitor
and facilitate during the process.
38.Coming up with an idea of one’s own or improving one from others is key
to the concept of making.
39.Contrary to structured learning, learning by doing is highly
individualized.
40.America is a nation known for the idea of making things by oneself.
41.Making will be boring unless students are able to take charge.
42.Making can be related to a project, but it is created and carried out by
students themselves.
43.The author suggests incorporating the idea of a maker space into a
school curriculum.
44.The maker concept is a modern version of some ancient philosophical
ideas.
45.Making is not taken seriously in school when students are asked to make
something meaningless to them based on textbooks.
Section C
Directions: There are 2 passages in this section. Each passage is followed
by some questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four
choices marked A), B), C) and D). You should decide on the best choice and mark
the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through the
centre.
Passage One
Questions 46 to 50 are based on the following passage.
Most kids grow up learning they cannot draw on the walls. But it might be
time to unlearn that training—this summer, group of culture addicts, artists and
community organizers are inviting New Yorkers to write all over the walls of an
old house on Governor’s Island.
The project is called Writing On It All, and it’s a participatory writing
project and artistic experiment that has happened on Governor’s Island every
summer since 2013.
“Most of the participants are people who are just walking by or are on the
island for other reasons, or they just kind of happen to be there,” Alexandra
Chasin, artistic director of Writing On It All,tells Smithsonian.com.
The 2016 season runs through June 26 and features sessions facilitated by
everyone from dancers to domestic workers. Each session has a theme, and
participants are given a variety of materials and prompts and asked to cover
surfaces with their thoughts and art. This year, the programs range from one
that turns the house into a collaborative essay to one that explores the meaning
of exile.
Governor’s Island is a national historic landmark district long used for
military purposes. Now known as “New York’s shared space for art and play,” the
island, which lies between Manhattan and Brooklyn in Upper New York Bay, is
closed to cars but open to summer tourists who flck for festivals, picnics,
adventures, as well as these “legal graffiti(涂鸦)” Sessions.
The notes and art scribbled(涂画) on the walls are an experiment in
self-expression. So far, participants have ranged in age from 2 to 85. Though
Chasin says the focus of the work is on the activity of writing, rather than the
text that ends up getting written, some of the work that comes out of the
sessions has stuck with her.
“One of the sessions that moved me the most was state violence on black
women and black girls,” says Chasin, explaining that in one room, people wrote
down the names of those killed because of it.“People do beautiful work and leave
beautiful messages.”
46.What does the project Writing On It All invite people to do?
A) Unlearn their training in drawing.
B) Participate in a state graffiti show.
C) Cover the walls of an old house with graffiti.
D) Exhibit their artistic creations in an old house.
47.What do we learn about the participants in the project?
A) They are just culture addicts.
B) They are graffiti enthusiasts.
C) They are writers and artists.
D) They are mostly passers-by.
48.What did the project participants do during the 2016 season?
A) They were free to scribble on the walls whatever came to their mind.
B) They expressed their thoughts in graffiti on the theme of each
session.
C) They learned the techniques of collaborative writing.
D) They were required to cooperate with other creators.
49.What kind of place is Governor’s Island?
A) It is a historic site that attracts tourists and artists.
B) It is an area now accessible only to tourist vehicles.
C) It is a place in Upper New York Bay formerly used for exiles.
D) It is an open area for tourists to enjoy themselves year round.
50.What does Chasin say about the project?
A) It just focused on the sufferings of black females.
B) It helped expand the influence of graffiti art.
C) It has started the career of many creative artists.
D) It has created some meaningful artistic works.
Passage Two
Questions 51 to 55 are based on the following passage.
Online programs to fight depression are already commercially available.
While they sound efficient and cost-saving, a recent study reports that they are
not effective, primarily because depressed patients are not likely to engage
with them or stick with them.
The study looked at computer-assisted cognitive(认知的) behavioral
therapy(CBT) and found that it was no more effective in treating depression than
the usual care patients receive from a primary care doctor.
Traditional CBT is considered an effective form of talk therapy for
depression, helping people challenge negative thoughts and change the way they
think in order to change their mood and behaviors. However, online CBT programs
have been gaining popularity, with the attraction of providing low-cost help
wherever someone has access to a computer.
A team of researchers from the University of Y ork conducted a
randomized(随机的) control trial with 691 depressed patients from 83 physician
practices across England. The patients were split into three groups: one group
received only usual care from a physician while the other two groups received
usual care from a physician plus one of two computerized CBT programs.
Participants were balanced across the three groups for age, sex, educational
background, severity and duration of depression, and use of
antidepressants(抗抑郁药).
After four months, the patients using the computerized CBT programs had no
improvement in depression levels over the patients who were only getting usual
care from their doctors.
“It’s an important, cautionary note that we shouldn’t get too carried away
with the idea that a computer system can replace doctors and therapists, ” says
Christopher Dowrick, a professor of primary medical care at the University of
Liverpool. “We do still need the human touch or the human interaction,
particularly when people are depressed.”
Being depressed can mean feeling “lost in your own small, negative, dark
world,” Dowrick says. Having a person, instead of a computer, reach out to you
is particularly important in combating that sense of isolation. “When you’re
emotionally vulnerable, you’re even more in need of a caring human being ,” he
says.
51.What does the recent study say about online CBT programs?
A)Patients may not be able to carry them through for effective cure.
B)Patients cannot engage with them without the use of a computer.
C)They can save patients trouble visiting physicians.
D)They have been well received by a lot of patients.
52.What has made online CBT programs increasingly popular?
A)Their effectiveness in combating depression.
B)The low efficiency of traditional talk therapy.
C)Their easy and inexpensive access by patients.
D)The recommendation by primary care doctors.
What is the major finding by researchers at the University of York?
Online CBT programs are no more effective than regular care from
physicians.
The process of treating depression is often more complicated than
anticipated.
The combination of traditional CBT and computerized CBT is most
effective.
Depression is a mental condition which is to be treated with extreme
caution.
What is Professor Dowrick’s advice concerning online CBT programs?
They should not be neglected in primary care.
Their effectiveness should not be overestimated.
They should be used by strictly following instructions.
Their use should be encouraged by doctors and therapists.
What is more important to an emotionally vulnerable person?
A positive state of mind.
Appropriate medication.
Timely encouragement.
Human interaction.
Part Ⅳ Translation (30 minutes)
Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to translate a
passage from Chinese into English. You should write your answer on Answer Sheet
2.
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