2000年6月大学英语四级真题及答案解析
2000年大学英语四级真题
2000年全国英语专业四级考试试题英美者 英语专业网站来源:英美者英语专业网站作者:全国英语专业四级八级考试委员会[编辑]导言:2000年全国英语专业四级考试试题Part ⅠWRITING ［45 MIN.］SECTION A COMPOSITIONWrite on ANSWER SHEET ONE a composition of about 150 words on the following topic: College life should be varied and colourful. And extracurricular activities are an important aspect of it. However, at present, there is much room for improveme nt in this regard. Write an article to the university radio entitled:The Importance of Extracurricular ActivitiesIn the first part of your article you should clearly present yourview, and in t he second part you should support your opinion with appropriate details. In the last part you should bring what you have written to a natural conclusion or summ ary.Marks will be awarded for content, organization, grammar and appropriacy. Failur e to follow the above instructions may result in a loss of marks.SECTION B NOTE-WRITING［10 MIN.］Write on ANSWER SHEET ONE a note of about 50-60 words based on the following situation:You’ve read on the notice board that the university library is looking for a par t-time library assistant who can work at weekends. You think that your classmate , George, is a suitable person for this vacancy. Write him a note, telling him w hat you know about the vacancy and trying to persuade him to go for an interview Marks will be awarded for content organization, grammar and appropriacy.Part ⅡDICTATION ［15 MIN.］Listen to the following passage. Altogether the passage will be read to you four times. During the first reading, which will be read at normal speed, listen and try to understand the meaning. For thesecond and third readings, the passage w ill be read sentence by sentence, or phrase by phrase, with intervals of 15 seco nds. The last reading will be read at normal speed again and during this time yo u should check your work. You will then be given 2 minutes to check through your work once more. Please write the whole passage on ANSWER SHEET TWOPart ⅢLISTENING COMPREHENSION ［20 MIN.］ In Sections A, B, and C you will hear everything ONCE ONLY. Listen carefully an d then answer the questions that follow. Mark the best answer to each question o n your answer sheet.Section A STATEMENTIn this section you will hear nine statements. At the end of the statement you w ill be given 10 seconds to answer each of the following nine questions. 1. What is said about Harry’s brother?A. He is happy with his job.B. He is a very ambitious man.C. He is too ambitious to be an engine driver.D. He doesn’t like to be an engine driver.2. What do you learn about Ms. Ellis?A. She has been waiting.B. She is examining her patient.C. She is seeing her doctor.D. She wouldn’t mind waiting.3. Joan is probably a___.A. nurseB. doctorC. lawyerD. saleswoman4. The speaker sees Mary wear ___ different silk scarves in a wee k.A. 2B.5C.7D. 65. Where will the passengers change trains to go to Gilford?A. East Croydon.B.Victoria.C. Southeast.D.Red Hill.6. What is the speaker probably doing?A. Interviewing a clerk.B. Writing a job ad.C. Dismissing a clerk.D. Making inquires7. What does the speaker mean?A. Emily is neither honest nor trustworthy.B. Emily used to be honest only.C. Emily used to be trustworthy only.D. Emily is more than honest and trustworthy.8. When does the next train leave?A. 6:56.B. 7:00.C.7:28.D.8:38.9. What was wrong with Malcolm?A. He had trouble working hard.B. He didn’t know where to go.C. He never went anywhere.D. He worked hard but never succeeded.SECTION B CONVERSATIONIn this section, you will hear eight short conversations between two speakers. A t the end of each conversation you will be given 10 seconds to answer each of th e following eight questions.10. What’s the probable relationship between the two speakers?A. Teacher and student.B. Doctor and patient.C. Lawyer and client.D. Boss and secretary.11. What is the weather usually like in November?A. Hotter than the present weather.B. More humid than the present weather.C. Drier than the present weather.D. Cooler than the present weather.12. What conclusion can we draw from this conversation?A. Public buses are fast and cheap.B. Parking is becoming a big problem.C. Subway trains are even safer than taxis.D. Taxis are more convenient than buses.13. What are the two speakers talking about?A. Fixing the woman’s computer.B. Ordering some new parts by Friday.C. Getting the new parts ready by Friday.D. Sending the woman’s computer for repair.14. What can we learn from the conversation?A. Neither of them has a favourable opinion of the service.B. The woman is having a terrible time serving in the restaurant.C. Both agree it’s time for the restaurant to fire some staff.D. The man thinks the restaurant is all right, but the woman doesn’t.15. Who will pay for the call?A. The man.B. The operator.C. The man’s sister.D. The man and his sister.16. What does the man think of the woman’s choice of clothing?A. He thinks her choice is good.B. He thinks her choice is terrible.C. He doesn’t like the colour.D. He doesn’t like the style.17. What happened to Mr. Runt’s project?A. It was fairly successful.B. It was hard and futile.C. It failed for lack of fund.D. It stopped for lack of land.SECTION C NEWS BROADCASTQuestion 18 is based on the following news. At the end of the news item, you wil l be given 1O seconds to answer the question.Now listen to the news.18. According to the news, NATO and Russia___.A. have finalized a charter on their new relationshipB. still have differences in military and political issuesC. will hold a fifth round of talks in LuxembourgD. made no progress in this round of talksQuestions 19 and 20 are based on the following news. At the end of the news item , you will be given 20 seconds to answer the two questions.Now listen to the news.19. ___ people were killed during the air crash.A. 61B. 51C. 41D.1020. According to the news, the plane crashed___.A. shortly before it landedB. minutes after it took offC. after it cleared the mountainsD. at the foot of the mountainsQuestions 21 and 22 are based on the following news. At the end of the news item , you will be given 20 seconds to answer the two questions.Now listen to the news.21. Which of the following is NOT listed as a terrorist group by the US ?A. The pro-Iranian Hezbollah.B. The Palestinian group Hamas.C. The Irish Republican Army.D. The Basque separatist group ETA.22. The affected groups will be prevented from___.A. entering the United States legallyB. freezing US financial assets abroadC. receiving support from other countriesD. giving weapons to other terrorist groupsQuestion 23 is based on the following news. At the end of the news item, you wil l be given 1O seconds to answer the question.Now listen to the news.23. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu___.A. has been prosecuted by the Justice MinistryB. may be prosecuted by the Justice MinistryC. has been prosecuted by the policeD. will be prosecuted on MondayQuestions 24 and 25 are based on the following news. At the end of the news item , you will be given 20 seconds to answer the two questions.Now listen to the news.24. The winners of the reported elections are___.A. the left-wing ConservativesB. the left-wing SocialistsC. the centre-right ConservativesD. the centre-right Socialists25. If the left secures the parliamentary majority,___.A. Chirac will share his presidential power with JospinB. Jospin will share his prime ministerial power with ChiracC. Jospin will become prime minister, and Chirac will remainD. Jospin will become prime minister, and Chirac will resign完型填空Part ⅣCLOZE ［15 MIN.］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.The difference between a liquid and a gas is obvious ( 26 ) the conditions of temperature and pressure commonly found at the sur face of the Earth. A liquid can be kept in an open container and ( 27 ) it to the level of a free surface. A gas forms no free surface but ( 28 ) to diffuse throughout the space available; it must ( 29 ) be kept in a closed container, as ( 30 ) aplanet’s atmosphere. The distinction was a prominent feature of early theories ( 31 )the phases of matter. In the nineteenth century, for example, one theory maintained that a liquid could be “dissolved”in a vapor without losing its identity, and another theory held that the two phases are ( 32 ) different kinds o f molecules(分子). The theories now prevailing ( 33 ) a quit e different approach by emphasizing what liquids and gases have in common. They are both forms of matter that have no permanent structure, and they both flow ea sily. They are fluids.The ( 34 ) similarly of liquids and gases becomes clear ly apparent when the temperature and pressure are raised somewhat. ( 35 ) a closed container partially filled with a liquid is heated. The li quid expands or ( 36 ) , becomes less dense; some of it evapor ates. ( 37 ) , the vapor above the liquid surface becomes dense r as the evaporated molecules are added to it. The combination of temperature an d pressure ( 38 ) the densities become equal is ( 3 9 ) the critical point. Above the critical point the liquid and the gas can no longer be ( 40 ) ; there is a single, undifferentiated fluid phase of uniform density.26. A. in B. on C. under D. beyond27. A. fills B. be filled C. filling D. to fill28. A. intends B. tends C. inclines D. contends29. A. however B. nevertheless C. so D. therefore30． A. in the event of B. in the case of C. with a view to D. with reference to31. A. having described B. described C. describing D. to have described32. A. made up of B. consisted of C. constituted of D. made from33. A. apply B. adapt C. take D. conduct34. A. elementary B. crucial C. rudimentaryD. fundamental35. A. Suppose B. To suppose C. Being supposed D. Supposed36. A. in a word B. in the meantime C. in other words D. in that case37. A. Similarly B. In contrast C. Furthermore D. Instead38. A. on that B. on which C. at that D. at which39. A. known B. defined C. called D. referred to40. A. classified B. recognized C. categorized D. distinguished转自[英美者]-英语专业网站：/cn/Html/TEM/Test4/7393488198093.html2000年全国英语专业四级考试试题Part ⅤGRAMMAR AND VOCABULARY ［15 MIN.］There are twenty-five sentences in this section. Beneath each sentence there are four words or phrases marked A, B, C and D. Choose one word or phrase that best completes the sentence. Mark your answers on your answer sheet.41. Acute hearing helps most animals sense the approach of thunderstorm s long before people___.A. doB. hearC. do themD. hearing it42. This is an illness that can result in total blindness ___ left u ntreated.A. afterB. ifC. sinceD.unless43. The central provinces have floods in some years, and ___.A. drought in othersB. droughts are othersC. while other droughtsD. others in drought44. Do help yourself to some fruit,___ you?A. can’tB. don’tC. wouldn’tD. won’t45. There___ nothing more for discussion, the meeting came to an e nd half an hour earlier.A. to beB. to have beenC. beingD.be46. My mother can’t get ___ because she has rheumatism (风湿病).A. aboutB.onC. throughD. in47. I was very much put ___ by Mark’s rude behavior; it really annoy ed me.A.overB.offC.upD.by48. You ___ Jim anything about it. It was none of his business.A. needn’t have toldB. needn’t tellC. mustn’t have toldD. mustn’t tell49. All of us would have enjoyed the party much more if there___ q uite such a crowd of people there.A. weren’tB. hasn’t beenC. hadn’t beenD.w ouldn’t be50. Firms that use computers have found that the number of staff ___ quality control can be substantially reduced.A.whoseB.asC.whatD.that51. ___ at in this way, the present economic situation doesn’t seem so gloomy.A. LookingB. LookedC. Having lookedD. To look52. Many people are ___ to insect bites, and some even have to go to hospital.A. insensitiveB. allergicC. sensibleD. infected53. When you’re driving on a motorway, you must obey the signs telling you to get into the right ___.A.wayB.trackC.roadne54. The motorist had to ___to avoid knocking the old woman down in the middle of the road.A. swerveB. twistC. departD. swing55. In winter drivers have trouble stopping their cars from ___ on icy roads.A. skatingB. skiddingC. slidingD. slipping56. This project would ___ a huge increase in defense spending.A. resultB. assureC. entailD. accomplish57. The chances of a repetition of these unfortunate events are ___ indeed.A. distantB. slimC. unlikelyD. narrow58. We should make a clear ___ between ’competent’and ’proficient’for the purposes of our discussion.A. separationB. divisionC. distinctionD. diffe rence59. In the present economic ___ we can make even greater progress than previously.A. airB. moodC. areaD. climate60. Rite of Passage is a good novel by any standards;___, it shoul d rank high on any list of science fiction.A. consistentlyB. consequentlyC. invariablyD. fortunately61. The diversity of tropical plants in the region represents a seeming ly___ source of raw materials, of which only a few have been utilized.A. exploitedB. controversialC. inexhaustibleD.remarkable62. While he was in Beijing, he spent all his time ___ some import ant museums and buildings.A. visitingB. travelingC. watchingD. touring63. You must let me have the annual report without ___ by ten o’cl ock tomorrow morning.A. failureB. hesitationC. troubleD. fail64. As the director can’t come to the reception, I’m representing the c ompanyA. on his accountB. on his behalfC. for his partD. in his interest65. Dreams are___ in themselves, but when combined with other data, they can tell us much about the dreamer.A. uninformativeB. startlingC.harmless D. uncontrollable阅读理解APart ⅥREADING COMPREHENSION ［30 MIN.］ SECTION A READING COMPREHENSION［25 MIN.］In this section there are four passages followed by questions or unfinished stat ements, each with four suggested answers marked A, B, C and D. Choose the one th at you think is the best answer. Mark your answers on your answer sheet.TEXT AClearly if we are to participate in the society in which we live we must communi cate with other people. A great deal of communicating is performed on a person-t o-person basis by the simple means of speech. If we travel in buses, buy things in shops, or eat in restaurants, we are likely to have conversations where we gi ve information or opinions, receive news or comment, and very likely have our vi ews challenged by other members of society.Face-to-face contact is by no means the only form of communication and during th e last two hundred years the art of mass communication has become one of the dom inating factors of contemporary society. Two things, above others, have caused t he enormous growth of the communication industry. Firstly, inventiveness has led to advances in printing, telecommunications, photography, radio and television. secondly, speed has revolutionised the transmission and reception of communicat ions so that local news often takes a back seat to national news, which itself i s often almost eclipsed by international news.No longer is the possession of information confined to a privileged minority. In the last century the wealthy man with his own library was indeed fortunate, but today there are public libraries. Forty years ago people used to flock to the c inema, but now far more people sit at home and turn on the TV to watch a program me that is being channelled into millions of homes. Communication is no longer merely concerned with the transmission of information . The modem communication industry influences the way people live in society and broadens their horizons by allowing access to information, education and entert ainment. The printing,broadcasting and advertising industries are all involved with informing, educating and entertaining.Although a great deal of the material communicated by the mass media is very val uable to the individual and to the society of which he is a part, the vast modem network of communications is open to abuse. However, the mass media are with us for better, for worse, and there is no turning back.66. In the first paragraph the writer emphasizes the___ of face-t o-face contact in social settings.A. natureB. limitationC. usefulnessD. creativity67. It is implied in the passage that___.A. local news used to be the only source of information.B. local news still takes a significant place.C. national news is becoming more popular.D. international news is the fastest transmitted news.68. Which of the following statements is INCORRECT?A. To possess information used to be a privilege.B. Public libraries have replaced private libraries.C. Communication means more than transmission.D. Information influences ways of life and thinking.69. From the last paragraph we can infer that the writer is___.A. indifferent to the harmful influence of the mass mediaB. happy about the drastic changes in the mass mediaC. pessimistic about the future of the mass mediaD. concerned about the wrong use of the mass mediaTEXT BThe men and women of Anglo-Saxon England normally bore one name only. Distinguis hing epithets were rarely added. These might be patronymic, descriptive or occup ational. They were, however, hardly surnames. Heritable names gradually became g eneral in the three centuries following the Norman Conquest in 1066. It was not until the 13th and 14th centuries that surnames became fixed, although for many years after that, the degree of stability in family names varied considerably in different parts of the country.British surnames fall mainly into four broad categories: patronymic,occupationa l, descriptive and local. A few names, it is true, will remain puzzling: foreign names, perhaps, crudely translated, adapted or abbreviated; or artificial names . In fact, over fifty per cent of genuine British surnames derive from place names of different kinds, and so they belong to the last of our four main categories. Even such a name as Simpson may belong to this last group, and not to the first , had the family once had its home in the ancient village of that name. Otherwis e, Simpson means “the son of Simon”, as might be expected.Hundreds of occupational surnames are at once familiar to us, or at least r ecognisable after a little thought: Archer, Carter, Fisher, Mason, Thatcher, Tay lor, to name but a few. Hundreds of others are more obscure in their meanings an d testify to the amazing specialisation in medieval arts, crafts and functions. Such are “Day”, (Old English for breadmaker) and “Walker”(a fuller whose job it was to clean and thicken newly made cloth).All these vocational names carry with them a certain gravity and dignity, w hich descriptive names often lack. Some, it is true, like “Long”, “Short” or “Li ttle”, are simple. They may be taken quite literally. Others require more thinki ng: their meanings areslightly different from the modem ones. “Black”and “White ”implied dark and fair respectively. “Sharp”meant genuinely discerning, alert, acute rather than quick-witted or clever. Place-names have a lasting interest since there is hardly a town or village in a ll England that has not at some time given its name to a family. They may be pic turesque, even poetical; or they may be pedestrian, even trivial. Among the comm oner names which survive with relatively little change from old-English times ar e “Milton”(middle enclosure) and “Hilton”(enclosure on a hill).70. Surnames are said to be ___ in Anglo-Saxon England.A. commonB. vocationalC. unusualD. descriptiv e71. We learn from the first paragraph ___ for many years after the 13th and 14th centuries.A. family names became descriptive and occupationalB. people in some areas still had no surnamesC. some people kept changing their surnamesD. all family names became fixed in England72. “Patronymic”in the second paragraph is closest in meaning to“forme d from ___.A. the name of one’s father”B. the family occupation”C. one’s family home”D. one’s family history”73. Which of the following sentences is an opinion rather than a fact?A. hundreds of occupational names are at once familiar to us.B. “Black”and “White”implied “dark”and “fair”respectively.C. V ocational names carry with them a certain gravity and dignity.D. Every place in England has given its name to a family. TEXT CSince the early 1930s, Swiss banks had prided themselves on their system of banking secrecy and numbered accounts. Over the years, they had successfully w ithstood every challenge to this system by their own government who, in turn, ha d been frequently urged by foreign governments to reveal information about the f inancial affairs to certain account holders. The result of this policy of secre cy was that a kind of mystique had grown up around Swissbanking. There was a w idely-held belief that Switzerland was irresistible to wealthy foreigners, mainl y because of its numbered accounts and bankers’ reluctance to ask awkward questi ons of depositors. Contributing to the mystique was the view, carefully propagat ed by the banks themselves, that if this secrecy was ever given up, foreigners w ould fall over themselves in the rush to withdraw money, and the Swiss banking s ystem would virtually collapse overnight.To many, therefore, it came like a bolt out of the blue, when, in 1977, the Swiss banks announced they had signed a pact with the Swiss National Bank (the Central Bank). The aim of the agreement was to prevent to improper use of the c ountry’s ban k secrecy laws, and its effect was to curb severely the system of se crecy.The rules which the banks had agreed to observe made the opening of numbere d accounts subject to much closer scrutiny than before. The banks would be requ ired, if necessary, to identify the origin of foreign funds going into numbered and other accounts. The idea was to stop such accounts being used for dubious p urposes. Also they agreed not to accept funds resulting from tax evasion or from crime.The pact represented essentially a tightening up of banking rules. Although the banks agreed to end relations with clients whose identities were unclear or who were performing improper acts, they were still not obliged to inform on a client to anyone, including the Swiss government. To some extent, therefore, the princ iple of secrecy had been maintained.74. Swiss banks took pride in___.A. the number of their accountsB. withholding client informationC. being mysterious to the outsidersD. attracting wealthy foreign clients75. According to the passage, the widely-held belief that Switzerland w as irresistible to wealthy foreigners was ___ by banks themselves.A. deniedB. criticizedC. reviewedD. defended76. In the last paragraph, the writer thinks that___.A. complete changes had been introduced into Swiss banksB. Swiss banks could no longer keep client informationC. changes in the bank policies had been somewhat superficialD. more changes need to be considered and madeTEXT DCoketown was a town of red brick, or of brick that would have been red if the sm oke and the ashes had allowed it; but as matters stood it was a town of unnatura l red and black like the painted face of a savage. It was a town of machinery an d tall chimneys, out of which smoke trailed themselves for ever and ever. It had a black canal in it, and a river that ran purple with ill-smelling dye, and vas t piles of buildings full of windows where there was a rattling and a trembling all day long, and where the piston of the steam-engine worked monotonously up an d down like the head of an elephant in a state of madness. The town contained se veral large streets all very like one another, and many small streets still more like one another, inhabited by people equally like one another.A sunny midsummer day. There was such a thing sometimes, even in Coketown. Seen from a distance in such weather, Coketownlay covered in a haze of its own. You only knew the town was there, because you knew there could have been no such blo tch upon the view without a town.The streets were hot and dusty on the summer day, and the sun was so bright that it even shone through the haze over Coketown, and could not be looked at steadi ly. Workers emerged from low underground doorways into factory yards, and sat on posts and steps, wiping their faces and contemplating coals. The whole town see med to be frying in oil. There was a stifling smell of hot oil everywhere. The a tmosphere of those places was like the breath of hell, and their inhabitants was ting with heat, toiled languidly in the desert. But no temperature made the mad elephants more mad or more sane. Their wearisome heads went up and down at the s ame rate, in hot weather and in cold, wet weather and dry fair weather and foul. The measured motion of their shadows on the walls, was the substitute Coketown had to show for the shadows of rustling woods; while for the summer hum of insec ts, it could offer all the year round, from the dawn of Monday to the night of S aturday, the whirr of shafts and wheels.77. Which of the following adjectives is NOT appropriate todescribe Co ketown?A. dullB. dirtyC. noisyD. savage78. From the passage we know that Coketown was mainly a(n) ___town .A. industrialB. agriculturalC. residentialD. commercial79. Only ___ were not affected by weather.转自[英美者]-英语专业网站：/cn/Html/TEM/Test4/7393488198093_2.ht ml2000年全国英语专业四级考试试题A. the workmenB. the inhabitantsC. the steam-enginesD. the rustling woods80. Which is the author’s opinion of Coketown?A. Coketown should be replaced by woods.B. The town was seriously polluted.C. The town had too much oil in it.D. The town’s atmosphere was traditional.BSECTION B SKIMMING AND SCANNINGIn this section there are seven passages with a total often multiple-choice ques tions. Skim or scan them as required and then mark your answers on your answer s heet.TEXT EFirst read the following question.81. The writer is concerned about___.A. budget housekeepingB. the retail tradeC. computer skillsD. mental arithmeticNow read Text E quickly and mark your answer on your answer sheet.A lot of attention is being given to children who leave school unable to read or write. I think there should be equal concern for those who are unable to cope w ith simple mental arithmetic -particularly girls. It is often stated that today’s children are growing up in a computer world and they don’t need the same skills that their grandparents did. But is it any wonde r that many young girls trying to cope with budget housekeeping fail for the sim ple reason they cannot keep accurate checks on their purchases? Shopping in markets is no source of cheap purchasing unless one is able to keep pace with the apparent mental agility of the vendor. Must we face the thought that at some time in the distant future everyone will n eed to carry in their handbag or pocket one of the miniature calculators?TEXT FFirst read the following question.82. This is a letter of___.A. referenceB. applicationC. inquiryD. complaint。
全国英语专业四级2000年考试试题参考答案
2000年全国英语专业四级考试试题参考答案:听力原文PART ⅡDICTA TIONWhat We Know About LanguageMany things about language are a mystery and will remain so. However, we now do know something about it. First, we know that all human beings have a language of some sort. No human race anywhere on earth is so backward that it has no language of its own at all. Second , there is no such thing as a primitive language. There are many people whose cultures are undeveloped but the languages they speak are by no means primitive. In all the languages existing in the world today, there are complexities that must have been developed for years. Third, we know that all languages are perfectly adequate. Each is a perfect means of expressing its culture. And finally, we know that language changes over time, which is natural and normal if a language is to survive. The language which remains unchanged is nothing but dead.PART ⅢLISTENING COMPREHENSIONSECTION A STA TEMENT1. Harry’s brother would not remain an engine driver if he were ambitious.2. Would you mind waiting a few minutes? Ms Ellis is being examined by her physician at this moment.3. Joan is in hospital. I’d like to send her a handbag she can use later in the law office, where she is employed.4. Mary and I work in the same office. We are on five days and off two days in a week. Every timeI see her, she is wearing a different silk scarf.5. We’ll come aboard Southeast Service to Red Hill, East Corydon and Victoria, with changes in Red Hill for Gilford.6. What we need here is a clerk who is careful and CONSIDERA TE. Let’s write that in the ad: carefulness and consideration are a must.7. I used to think Emily was honest and trust-worthy, but now I know better.8. The first train to Green Hill leaves at 6:28. There is a train every hour on the hour and every 28 minutes PAST the hour.9. The trouble is no matter how hard he tried, Malcolm didn’t seem to get anywhere.SECTION B CONVERSA TION10. M：What do you think? Am I OK?W: Well, there is some information that seems to me ... I want to have a thorough checkup and do some tests.11. M: It’s hot! I wish it would rain and cool off!W: This isn’t usual for November. I don’t remember it ever being so hot and dry in November before.12. M: Many people prefer taking public buses or the subway or even taxis because parking is getting to be a real headache in some parts of the city.W: That doesn’t surprise me.13. M: Hello, Good morning, I’m calling to check on the status of my computer.W: Well, the new parts have just been coming in,so it should be ready by Friday.14. M：My goodness, the service in this restaurant is really terrible, a lot worse than before. W: Right. It’s high time they got rid of half the staff here if you ask me.15. M: Operator, I booked a long-distance collect call for my sister in Switzerland 25 minutes ago, but I haven’t got a reply yet.W: Sorry，I ring it for you right now.16. W: I’ll wear this blue jacket. I like the color on me, don’t you think?M: I think it looks terrific on you,really.17. M: How did Mr. Hunt’s project turn out? I heard he had trouble with the financing, but then he could get the loan he wanted.W: It’s true. He did have difficulties at first. But all in all, the project couldn’t have turned out better.SECTION C NEWS BROADCASTNews Item One (18)NA TO and Russia are reporting some progress in efforts to finalize a charter governing their post-cold-war relationship. But they stressed more work must be done to settle their differences in military and political issues. A fifth round of talks between the Russian foreign minister and NA TO Secretary General ended Tuesday in Luxembourg.News Item Two (19-20)A Boeing 727 aircraft with 51 passengers and 10 crew on board has crashed into a mountain side just outside the Columbia capital, Bogota. Police and rescue workers said everyone was killed when the plane exploded scattering wreckage over a wide area. The crash happened shortly after take-off when the plane was unable to gain enough height to clear the mountains. The aircraft belonged to Ecuadorian Airline, but it had been chartered by Air-France for the route from Bogota to Ecuadorian Capital, Quito.News Item Three (21-22)The US has designated thirty international groups as terrorist organizations, barring them from receiving money, weapons or other support from US citizens. The new terrorist list includes a Palestinian group Hamas, the Pro-Iranian Hezbollah, Cambodian’s Khmer Rouge, the Basque separatist group ETA, Sri Lanka’s Tamitigers, and Peru-based Shining Path and Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement. The list does not include the Irish Republican Army or the Palestinian Liberation Organization. US Secretary of State Maddine Albright says the affected groups will have their US visas revoked and US financial assets frozen.News Item Four (23)Israeli prosecutors are reviewing charges against Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, after Israeli police called off his indictment. Justice Ministry officials say they hope a decision on whether to bring charges against the Israeli leader will be announced Sunday. The case stems from the appointment of Runny Barong as Israeli attorney general. Critics charged the appointment was part of a conspiracy to end the trial of Netanyahu’s political ally.News Item Five (24-25)The combined left-wing opposition in France has defeated President Jaque Chirac’s ruling conservative coalition in the first round of the country’s parliamentary elections. Projections by French TV give the Socialist-led opposition 40% of the vote and Mr. Chirac’s center-right coalition 37%. If the left secures the majority of seats in parliament, Socialist leader Leono Jospin would likely became prime minister in the power-sharing arrangement with President Chirac.PART ⅢLISTENING COMPREHENSIONSECTION A STA TEMENT1. 答案：A【问句译文】关于Harry的弟弟，下列哪一说法正确？【试题分析】本题为推理题。
2000年6月大学英语四级考试试题答案与详解
2000年6月大学英语四级考试试题答案与详解21. As we can no longer wait for the delivery of our order, we have to ____ it.A) delay B) refuse C) cancel D) postponeC)。
【译文】我们订购的货物仍未送到，已经不能再等了，我们只好取消了订单。
【解析】动词辨析题。
Cancel“取消，废除”，本句说不能再等下去了，显然是要取消订单，故选C）。
delay“耽搁；延误”；refuse“拒绝；回绝”；postpone意为“延期，推迟”，与delay同义。
22. These books, which you can get at any bookshop, will give you ____ you need.A) all of information B) all of the informationsC) all the informations D) all the informationD)。
【译文】你可以在任何书店买到这些书，它们会给你提供你所需要的全部信息。
【解析】不可数名词题。
Information是不可数名词，因为本句中的information特指“你所需要的信息”，故information前面要有定冠词the，all作形容词，可以修饰复数名词或不可数名词，表示“全部的”。
All作代词，与of连用时，表示某一特定范围内的全部，所以选项A)中的information前也要有定冠词the；information是不可数名词，没有复数形式，故排除B)或C)。
23. Not until the game had begun ____ at the sports ground.A) should he have arrivedB) had he arrivedC) did he arriveD) would he have arrivedC)。
2000年英语专业四级考试真题及答案
2000年英语专业四级考试真题及答案Part Ⅰ WRITING［45 MIN.］SECTION A COMPOSITIONWrite on ANSWER SHEET ONE a composition of about 150 words on the following topic: College life should be varied and colourful. And extracurricular activities are an important aspect of it. However, at present, there is much room for improveme nt in this regard. Write an article to the university radio entitled:The Importance of Extracurricular ActivitiesIn the first part of your article you should clearly present your view, and in t he second part you should support your opinion with appropriate details. In the last part you should bring what you have written to a natural conclusion or summ ary.Marks will be awarded for content, organization, grammar and appropriacy. Failur e to follow the above instructions may result in a loss of marks.SECTION B NOTE-WRITING［10 MIN.］Write on ANSWER SHEET ONE a note of about 50-60 words based on the following situation:You’ve read on the notice board that the university library is looking for a par t-time library assistant who can work at weekends. You think that your classmate , George, is a suitable person for this vacancy. Write him a note, telling him w hat you know about the vacancy and trying to persuade him to go for an interview Marks will be awarded for content organization, grammar and appropriacyPart Ⅳ CLOZE［15 MIN.］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.The difference between a liquid and a gas is obvious ( 26 )the conditions of temperature and pressure commonly found at the sur face of the Earth. A liquid can be kept in an open container and ( 27 ) it to the level of a free surface. A gas forms no free surface but ( 28 ) to diffuse throughout the space available; it must ( 29 ) be kept in a closed container, as ( 30 ) a planet’s atmosphere. The distinction was a prominent feature of early theories ( 31 )the phases of matter. In the nineteenth century, for example, one theory maintained that a liquid could be “dissolved” in a vapor without losing its identity, and another theory held that the two phases are( 32 ) different kinds o f molecules(分子). The theories now prevailing ( 33 ) a quit e different approach by emphasizing what liquids and gases have in common. They are both forms of matter that have no permanent structure, and they both flow ea sily. They are fluids.The ( 34 ) similarly of liquids and gases becomes clear ly apparent when the temperature and pressure are raised somewhat. ( 35 ) a closed container partially filled with a liquid is heated. The li quid expands or ( 36 ) , becomes less dense; some of it evapor ates. ( 37 ) , the vapor above the liquid surface becomes dense r as the evaporated molecules are added to it. The combination of temperature an d pressure ( 38 ) the densities become equal is ( 3 9 ) the critical point. Above the critical point the liquid and the gas can no longer be ( 40 ) ; there is a single, undifferentiated fluid phase of uniform density.26. A. in B. on C. under D. beyond27. A. fills B. be filled C. filling D. to fill28. A. intends B. tends C. inclines D. contends29. A. however B. nevertheless C. so D. therefore 30． A. in the event of B. in the case of C. with a view to D. with reference to31. A. having described B. describedC. describingD. to have described32. A. made up of B. consisted of C. constitutedof D. made from33. A. apply B. adapt C. take D. conduct34. A. elementary B. crucialC. rudimentaryD. fundamental35. A. Suppose B. To suppose C. Being supposed D. Supposed36. A. in a word B. in the meantime C. in otherwords D. in that case37. A. Similarly B. In contrast C. Furthermore D. Instead38. A. on that B. on which C. at that D. at which39. A. known B. defined C. called D. referred to40. A. classified B. recognized C. categorized D. distinguishedPart Ⅴ GRAMMAR AND VOCABULARY［15 MIN.］There are twenty-five sentences in this section. Beneath each sentence there are four words or phrases marked A, B, C and D. Choose one word or phrase that best completes the sentence. Mark your answers on your answer sheet.41. Acute hearing helps most animals sense the approach of thunderstorm s long before people___.A. doB. hearC. do themD. hearing it42. This is an illness that can result in total blindness ___ left u ntreated.A. afterB. ifC. sinceD.unless43. The central provinces have floods in some years, and ___.A. drought in othersB. droughts are othersC. while other droughtsD. others in drought44. Do help yourself to some fruit,___ you?A. can’tB. don’tC. wouldn’tD. won’t45. There___ nothing more for discussion, the meeting came to an e nd half an hour earlier.A. to beB. to have beenC. beingD. be46. My mother can’t get ___ because she has rheumatism (风湿病).A. aboutB.onC. throughD. in47. I was very much put ___ by Mark’s rude behavior; it really annoy ed me.A.overB.offC.upD.by48. You ___ Jim anything about it. It was none of his business.A. needn’t have toldB. needn’t tellC. mustn’t have toldD. mustn’t tell49. All of us would have enjoyed the party much more if there___ q uite such a crowd of people there.A. weren’tB. hasn’t beenC. hadn’t beenD. w ouldn’t be50. Firms that use computers have found that the number of staff ___ quality control can be substantially reduced.A.whoseB.asC.whatD.that51. ___ at in this way, the present economic situation doesn’t seem so gloomy.A. LookingB. LookedC. Having lookedD. To look52. Many people are ___ to insect bites, and some even have to goto hospital.A. insensitiveB. allergicC. sensibleD. infected53. When you’re driving on a m otorway, you must obey the signs telling you to get into the right ___.A.wayB.trackC.roadne54. The motorist had to ___to avoid knocking the old woman down in the middle of the road.A. swerveB. twistC. departD. swing55. In winter drivers have trouble stopping their cars from ___ on icy roads.A. skatingB. skiddingC. slidingD. slipping56. This project would ___ a huge increase in defense spending.A. resultB. assureC. entailD. accomplish57. The chances of a repetition of these unfortunate events are ___ indeed.A. distantB. slimC. unlikelyD. narrow58. We should make a clear ___ between ’competent’and ’proficient’ for the purposes of our discussion.A. separationB. divisionC. distinctionD. diffe rence59. In the present economic ___ we can make even greater progress than previously.A. airB. moodC. areaD. climate60. Rite of Passage is a good novel by any standards;___, it shoul d rank high on any list of science fiction.A. consistentlyB. consequentlyC. invariablyD. fortunately61. The diversity of tropical plants in the region represents a seeming ly___ source of raw materials, of which only a few have been utilized.A. exploitedB. controversialC.inexhaustible D. remarkable62. While he was in Beijing, he spent all his time ___ some import ant museums and buildings.A. visitingB. travelingC. watchingD. touring63. You must let me have the annual report without ___ by ten o’cl ock tomorrow morning.A. failureB. hesitationC. troubleD. fail64. As the director can’t come to the reception, I’m represent ing the c ompanyA. on his accountB. on his behalfC. for his partD. in his interest65. Dreams are___ in themselves, but when combined with other data, they can tell us much about the dreamer.A. uninformativeB. startlingC. harmlessD. uncontrollablePart Ⅵ READING COMPREHENSION［30 MIN.］SECTION A READING COMPREHENSION［25 MIN.］In this section there are four passages followed by questions or unfinished stat ements, each with four suggested answers marked A, B, C and D. Choose the one th at you think is the best answer.Mark your answers on your answer sheet.TEXT AClearly if we are to participate in the society in which we live we must communi cate with other people. A great deal of communicating is performed on a person-t o-person basis by the simple means of speech. If we travel in buses, buy things in shops, or eat in restaurants, we are likely to have conversations where we gi ve information or opinions, receive news or comment, and very likely have our vi ews challenged by other members of society.Face-to-face contact is by no means the only form of communication and during th e last two hundred years the art of mass communication has become one of the dom inating factors of contemporary society. Two things, above others, have caused t he enormous growth of the communication industry. Firstly, inventiveness has led to advances in printing, telecommunications, photography, radio and television. secondly, speed has revolutionised the transmission and reception of communicat ions so that local news often takes a back seat to national news, which itself i s often almost eclipsed by international news.No longer is the possession of information confined to a privileged minority. In the last century the wealthy man with his own library was indeed fortunate, but today there are public libraries. Forty years ago people used to flock to the c inema, but now far more people sit at home and turn on the TV to watch a program me that is being channelled into millions of homes. Communication is no longer merely concerned with the transmission of information . The modem communication industry influences the way people live in society and broadens their horizons by allowing access to information, education and entert ainment. The printing, broadcasting and advertising industries are all involved with informing, educating and entertaining.Although a great deal of the material communicated by the mass media is very val uable to the individual and to the society of which he is a part, the vast modem network of communications is open to abuse. However, the mass media are with us for better, for worse, and there is no turning back.66. In the first paragraph the writer emphasizes the___ of face-t o-face contact in social settings.A. natureB. limitationC. usefulnessD. creativity67. It is implied in the passage that___.A. local news used to be the only source of information.B. local news still takes a significant place.C. national news is becoming more popular.D. international news is the fastest transmitted news.68. Which of the following statements is INCORRECT?A. To possess information used to be a privilege.B. Public libraries have replaced private libraries.C. Communication means more than transmission.D. Information influences ways of life and thinking.69. From the last paragraph we can infer that the writer is___.A. indifferent to the harmful influence of the mass mediaB. happy about the drastic changes in the mass mediaC. pessimistic about the future of the mass mediaD. concerned about the wrong use of the mass mediaTEXT BThe men and women of Anglo-Saxon England normally bore one name only. Distinguis hing epithets were rarely added. These might be patronymic, descriptive or occup ational. They were, however, hardly surnames. Heritable names gradually became g eneral in the three centuries following the Norman Conquest in 1066. It was not until the 13th and 14th centuries that surnames became fixed, although for many years after that, the degree of stability in family names varied considerably in different parts of the country.British surnames fall mainly into four broad categories: patronymic, occupationa l, descriptive and local. A few names, it is true, will remain puzzling: foreign names, perhaps, crudely translated, adapted or abbreviated; or artificial names . In fact, over fifty per cent of genuine British surnames derive from place names of different kinds, and so they belong to the last of our four main categories. Even such a name as Simpson may belong to this last group, and not to the first , had the family once had its home in the ancient village of that name. Otherwis e, Simpson means “the son of Simon”, as might be expected.Hundreds of occupational surnames are at once familiar to us, or at least r ecognisable after a little thought: Archer, Carter, Fisher, Mason, Thatcher, Tay lor, to name but a few. Hundreds of others are more obscure in their meanings an d testify to the amazing specialisation in medieval arts, crafts and functions. Such are “Day”, (Old English for breadmaker) and “Walker” (a fuller whose job it was to clean and thicken newly made cloth).All these vocational names carry with them a certain gravity and dignity, w hich descriptive names often lack. Some, it is true, like “Long”, “Short” or “Li ttle”, are simple. They may be taken quite literally. Others require more thinki ng: their meanings are slightlydifferent from the modem ones. “Black” and “White ” implied dark and fair respectively. “Sharp” meant genuinely discerning, alert, acute rather than quick-witted or clever. Place-names have a lasting interest since there is hardly a town or village in a ll England that has not at some time given its name to a family. They may be pic turesque, even poetical; or they may be pedestrian, even trivial. Among the comm oner names which survive with relatively little change from old-English times ar e “Milton”(middle enclosure) and “Hilton”(enclosure on a hill).70. Surnames are said to be ___ in Anglo-Saxon England.A. commonB. vocationalC. unusualD. descriptiv e71. We learn from the first paragraph ___ for many years after the 13th and 14th centuries.A. family names became descriptive and occupationalB. people in some areas still had no surnamesC. some people kept changing their surnamesD. all family names became fixed in England72. “Patronymic” in the second paragraph is closest in meaning to “forme d from ___.A. the nam e of one’s father”B. the family occupation”C. one’s family home”D. one’s family history”73. Which of the following sentences is an opinion rather than a fact?A. hundreds of occupational names are at once familiar to us.B. “Blac k” and “White” implied “dark” and “fair” respectively.C. Vocational names carry with them a certain gravity and dignity.D. Every place in England has given its name to a family.TEXT CSince the early 1930s, Swiss banks had prided themselves on their system of banking secrecy and numbered accounts. Over the years, they had successfully w ithstood every challenge to this system by their own government who, in turn, ha d been frequently urged by foreign governments to reveal information about the f inancial affairs to certain account holders. The result of this policy of secre cy was that a kind of mystique had grown up around Swiss banking. There was a w idely-held belief that Switzerland was irresistible to wealthy foreigners, mainl y because of its numbered accounts and bankers’ reluctance to ask awkward questi ons of depositors. Contributing to the mystique was the view, carefullypropagat ed by the banks themselves, that if this secrecy was ever given up, foreigners w ould fall over themselves in the rush to withdraw money, and the Swiss banking s ystem would virtually collapse overnight.To many, therefore, it came like a bolt out of the blue, when, in 1977, the Swiss banks announced they had signed a pact with the Swiss National Bank (the Central Bank). The aim of the agreement was to prevent to improper use of the c ountry’s bank secrecy laws, and its effect was to curb severely the system of se crecy.The rules which the banks had agreed to observe made the opening of numbere d accounts subject to much closer scrutiny than before. The banks would be requ ired, if necessary, to identify the origin of foreign funds going into numbered and other accounts. The idea was to stop such accounts being used for dubious p urposes. Also they agreed not to accept funds resulting from tax evasion or from crime.The pact represented essentially a tightening up of banking rules. Although the banks agreed to end relations with clients whose identities were unclear or who were performing improper acts, they were still not obliged to inform on a client to anyone, including the Swiss government. To some extent, therefore, the princ iple of secrecy had been maintained.74. Swiss banks took pride in___.A. the number of their accountsB. withholding client informationC. being mysterious to the outsidersD. attracting wealthy foreign clients75. According to the passage, the widely-held belief that Switzerland w as irresistible to wealthy foreigners was ___ by banks themselves.A. deniedB. criticizedC. reviewedD. def ended76. In the last paragraph, the writer thinks that___.A. complete changes had been introduced into Swiss banksB. Swiss banks could no longer keep client informationC. changes in the bank policies had been somewhat superficialD. more changes need to be considered and madeTEXT DCoketown was a town of red brick, or of brick that would have been red if the sm oke and the ashes had allowed it; but as matters stood it was a town of unnatura l red and black like the painted face of a savage. It was a town of machinery an d tall chimneys, out of which smoke trailed themselves for ever and ever. It had a black canal in it, and a river that ran purple with ill-smelling dye, and vas t piles of buildings full of windows where there was a rattling and a trembling all day long, and where the piston of the steam-engine worked monotonously up an d down like the head of an elephant in a state of madness. The town contained se veral large streets all very like one another, and many small streets still more like one another, inhabited by people equally like one another.A sunny midsummer day. There was such a thing sometimes, even in Coketown. Seen from a distance in such weather, Coketown lay covered in a haze of its own. You only knew the town was there, because you knew there could have been no such blo tch upon the view without a town.The streets were hot and dusty on the summer day, and the sun was so bright that it even shone through the haze over Coketown, and could not be looked at steadi ly. Workers emerged from low underground doorways into factory yards, and sat on posts and steps, wiping their faces and contemplating coals. The whole town see med to be frying in oil. There was a stifling smell of hot oil everywhere. The a tmosphere of those places was like the breath of hell, and their inhabitants was ting with heat, toiled languidly in the desert. But no temperature made the mad elephants more mad or more sane. Their wearisome heads went up and down at the s ame rate, in hot weather and in cold, wet weather and dry fair weather and foul. The measured motion of their shadows on the walls, was the substitute Coketown had to show for the shadows of rustling woods; while for the summer hum of insec ts, it could offer all the year round, from the dawn of Monday to the night of S aturday, the whirr of shafts and wheels.77. Which of the following adjectives is NOT appropriate to describe Co ketown?A. dullB. dirtyC.noisy D. savage78. From the passage we know that Coketown was mainly a(n) ___town .A. industrialB. agriculturalC. residentialD. commercial79. Only ___ were not affected by weather.A. the workmenB. the inhabitantsC. the steam-enginesD. the rustling woods80. Which is the author’s opinion of Coketown?A. Coketown should be replaced by woods.B. The town was seriously polluted.C. The town had too much oil in it.D. The town’s atmosphere was traditional.SECTION B SKIMMING AND SCANNINGIn this section there are seven passages with a total oftenmultiple-choice ques tions. Skim or scan them as required and then mark your answers on your answer s heet.TEXT EFirst read the following question.81. The writer is concerned about___.A. budget housekeepingB. the retail tradeC. computer skillsD. mental arithmeticNow read Text E quickly and mark your answer on your answer sheet.A lot of attention is being given to children who leave school unable to read or write. I think there should be equal concern for those who are unable to cope w ith simple mental arithmetic -particularly girls. It is often stated that today’s children are growing up in a computer world and they don’t need the same skills that their grandpare nts did. But is it any wonde r that many young girls trying to cope with budget housekeeping fail for the sim ple reason they cannot keep accurate checks on their purchases? Shopping in markets is no source of cheap purchasing unless one is able to keep pace with the apparent mental agility of the vendor. Must we face the thought that at some time in the distant future everyone will n eed to carry in their handbag or pocket one of the miniature calculators?TEXT FFirst read the following question.82. This is a letter of___.A. referenceB. applicationC.inquiry D. complaint10 Garden Ave.EssexThe Personnel OfficerBelgian Medico Ltd.P0 Box 920BrusselsBelgium5th May 200___Dear Sir,With reference to your advertisement in the “Daily Star”,I’d like to apply for the position of translator with your firm. I hold a degree in German and French from the University of London. And I have w orked as a translator for the past three years with Watson & Sons, Ltd., manufac turer of laboratory instruments, translating business correspondence from French and German into English. I am 25 years old and unmarried. I enjoy living and working in different countri es and I should welcome the chance of moving to Belgium.Yours sincerely,(Mi ss) Janet HolbrookeTEXT GFirst read the following question.83. The passage is mainly about___.A. lonelinessB. experienceC.memoryD. i solationLoneliness is a curious thing. Most of us can remember feeling most lonely when we were not in fact alone at all, but when we were surrounded by people. Everyon e has experienced, at some time, that strong sense of isolation that comes over you when you are at a party or in a room full of happy laughing people. It sudde nly seems to you as if everybody knows everybody else, everybody knows what is g oing on; everybody, that is, except you.This feeling of loneliness which can overcome you when you are in a crowd is ver y difficult to get rid of. People living alone are advised to tackle their lonel iness by joining a club or a society, by going out and meeting people.TEXT HFirst read the following question.84. The author mainly discusses ___ of public transportation.A. the priceB. the typesC. the improveme ntD. the advantageNow read Text H quickly and mark your answer on your answer sheet.The price of public transportation in Beijing has doubled twice since 1989, but it is still a bargain. Using the subway and minibuses used to show class status; now people of all classes take them, while some wealthy prefer taxis or private cars. What a change in just a few years!But there are downfalls to having more cars on the roads. Fortunately, the gover nment is aware of the problem. No-lead gasoline is the only one permitted in the city, and the rest of the country follows. Thousands of trees are planted in an d around the city every year. Children are taught why and how to protect the env ironment. At the same time, public transportation has marked real progress: buse s are everywhere and run frequently. We no longer see those old buses with broke n windows. Instead, there are fast buses, double-decker buses, air-conditioned o r heated buses, all offering a good service.TEXT IFirst read the following questions.85. Each participating team should at least have ___A. twoB.threeC.fourD. five86. Participants can bring along their ___ to the competition.A. Christmas treesB. Christmas presentsC. festival costumesD. decoration materialsNow read Text I quickly and mark your answers on your answer sheet.With Christmas D ay around the corner, Hong Kong’s Provisional Regional Council announced that a Christmas tree decoration competition will be held on Sunday in conjunction with the ongoing Regional Council Festival. Members of the public are welcome to take part in the competition as families or small groups. Each team should be formed by at least three persons. A total of 99 Christmas trees of 1.5 metres in height will be available for the participating teams to decorate. Participants can bring along their own decorati on materials and to use their imagination and creativity to achieve the best res ults.Each participating team can take home the Christmas tree it has decorated as a souvenir. In addition, there will be cash awards for the winners.TEXT JFirst read the following questions.87. If you only have time for a half-day trip, which day would you choo se?A. Sunday 23 July.B. Saturday 15 July.C. Wednesday 9 August.D. Saturday 5 August.88. Which of the following trips offers you the opportunity to see Geor gian architecture?A. Trip One.B. Trip Two.C. Trip Three.D. Trip Four.Now read Text quickly and mark your answers on your answer sheet.Summer OutingsTrip OneSaturday 15 July Stratford-upon-Avon and “Julius Caesar”The coach will leave at 9 am, allowing a couple of hours to visit Stratford befo re the performance of “Julius Caesar” at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre. Back around 7:30 pm.Trip TwoSunday 23 July BathThe spa town of Bath contains the country’s finest Roman ruins, and much elegant Georgian architecture. The coach will depart at 9 am, returning at around 6:30 pm.Trip ThreeSaturday 5 August Stratford-upon-Avon and “The Taming of the Shrew” Another chance to visit S tratford. “The Taming of the Shrew” stars Josie Lawrenc e in the title role. The coach will leave at 9 am, returning at around 7:30 pm.Trip FourWednesday 9 August Oxford and “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” Ahalf-day trip to Oxford. The coach will leave at 2:15 pm, allowing an afternoo n to see the sights before one of Shakespeare’s most popular plays at the Playho use Theatre. Back after the show.TEXT KFirst read the following questions.89. Which nation is thought to be business-minded?A. The Dutch.B. The Italians.C. The British.D. The Germans.90. The opinions seem to be most divided on___.A. the GermansB. the DutchC. theFrench D. the BritishNow read Text K quickly and mark your answers on your answer sheet.Some of the data from a survey on national stereotypes in some European countries is summarized below:Germans Liked themselves best of all. Most Europeans agreed that theGermans had the highest proportion of good qualities. They considered themselves very tolerant, but nobody else did.French Not really admired by anyone except the Italians. Other Europeans found them conservative, withdrawn, brilliant, superficial. Also, not very friendl y.British Mixed reactions. Some found them calm, reserved, open- minded, others thought they were insular and superior. The British most admired the Dutch.Italians Generally considered by everyone to be lazy and untrustworthy, an d the Italians agreed! Most also found them to be charming, hospitable and noisy. The Italians admired the French. Hardly anyone loved the Italians except the French.Dutch Most admired people in Europe—except by their neighbours—the Belgians. Everyone agreed that the Dutch are hardworking, thrifty, good-natur参考答案：PART Ⅰ WRITINGSECTION A［参考范文］The Importance of Extracurricular ActivitiesDear Editor,People have different ideas about how students should spend their school days. Some believe that students should spend the whole day on academic studies. Others believe that extracurricular activities should be a required part of every school day. I think both ways have their advantages. But I prefer the latter. As a student, our main task is to concentrate on our academic study. We have to attend classes, reading books and doing assignments. Only by working hard can we learn our courses well. But I don’t think we should spend every hour and minute on academic study. A proverb says, “All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.” Without good health and strong body, how can we improve our study efficiency and make great achievements in our academic study? Besides, spending the whole day on academic study may make us exhausted and weak. We should find other meaningful things to do besides studying. For example, doing extracurricular activities can make students’ life more colorful and beneficial. There are various forms of exercise. My favorite one is football. I play football with my classmates for one hour every afternoon.。
2000年英语专业四级考试真题及答案
2000年英语专业四级考试真题及答案Part Ⅰ WRITING ［45 MIN.］?SECTION A COMPOSITION??Write on ANSWER SHEET ONE a composition of about 150 words on the following topic:?? College life should be varied and colourful. And extracurricular activities are an important aspect of it. However, at present, there is much room for improveme nt in this regard. Write an article to the university radio entitled:The Importance of Extracurricular Activities ??In the first part of your article you should clearly present your view, and in t he second part you should support your opinion with appropriate details. In the last part you should bring what you have written to a natural conclusion or summ ary.Marks will be awarded for content, organization, grammar and appropriacy. Failur e to follow the above instructions may result in a loss of marks.SECTION B NOTE-WRITING［10 MIN.］?Write on ANSWER SHEET ONE a note of about 50-60 words based on the following situation:??You’ve read on the notice board that the university library is looking for a par t-time library assistant who can work at weekends. You think that your classmate , George, is a suitable person for this vacancy. Write him a note, telling him w hat you know about the vacancy and trying to persuade him to go for an interview Marks will be awarded for content organization, grammar and appropriacy?Part Ⅳ CLOZE ［15 MIN.］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.?? The difference between a liquid and a gas is obvious ?( 26 )? the conditions of temperature and pressure commonly found at the sur face of the Earth. A liquid can be kept in an open container and ?( 27 )? it to the level of a free surface. A gas forms no free surface but ( 28 )? to diffuse throughout the space available; it must ? ( 29 )? be kept in a closed container, as ?( 30 )?a planet’s atmosphere.The distinction was a prominent feature of early theories ?( 31 )the phases of matter. In the nineteenth century, for example, one theory maintained that a liquid could be “dissolved” in a vapor without losing its identity, and another theory held that the two phases are ?( 32 )? different kinds o f molecules(分子). The theories now prevailing ?( 33 )? a quit e different approach by emphasizing what liquids and gases have in common. They are both forms of matter that have no permanent structure, and they both flow ea sily. They are fluids. ?The ?( 34 )? similarly of liquids and gases becomes clear ly apparent when the temperature and pressure are raised somewhat.?( 35 )? a closed container partially filled with a liquid is heated. The li quid expands or ?( 36 )?, becomes less dense; some of it evapor ates.?( 37 )?, the vapor above the liquid surface becomes dense r as the evaporated molecules are added to it. The combination of temperature an d pressure ?( 38 )? the densities become equal is ?( 3 9 )? the critical point. Above the critical point the liquid and the gas can no longer be ?( 40 )?; there is a single, undifferentiated fluid phase of uniform density.26. A. in B. on? C. under D. beyond ?27. A. fills B. be filled ? C. filling D. to fill ?28. A. intends B. tends ? C. inclines D. contends ?29. A. however B. nevertheless ? C. so D. therefore ?30． A. in the event of B. in the case of? C. with a view to D. with reference to ?31. A. having described B. described? C. describing D. to have described ?32. A. made up of B. consisted of? C. constituted of D. made from ?33. A. apply B. adapt? C. take D. conduct ?34. A. elementary B. crucial ? C. rudimentary D. fundamental ?35. A. Suppose B. To suppose ? C. Being supposed D. Supposed ?36. A. in a word B. in the meantime C. in other words D. in that case ?37. A. Similarly B. In contrast ? C. Furthermore D. Instead ?38. A. on that B. on which ? C. at that D. at which ?39. A. known B. defined ? C. called D. referred to ?40. A. classified B. recognized ? C. categorized D. distinguishedPart Ⅴ GRAMMAR AND VOCABULARY ［15 MIN.］There are twenty-five sentences in this section. Beneath each sentence there are four words or phrases marked A, B, C and D. Choose one word or phrase that best completes the sentence.? Mark your answers on your answer sheet.??41. Acute hearing helps most animals sense the approach of thunderstorm s long before people___.?A. doB. hearC. do themD. hearing it ?42. This is an illness that can result in total blindness ___ left u ntreated.?A. afterB. ifC. sinceD.unless ?43. The central provinces have floods in some years, and ___.?A. drought in othersB. droughts are others?C. while other droughtsD. others in drought ?44. Do help yourself to some fruit,___ you??A. can’tB. don’tC. wouldn’tD. won’t ?45. There___ nothing more for discussion, the meeting came to an e ndhalf an hour earlier.?A. to beB. to have beenC. beingD. be46. My mother can’t get ___ because she has rheumatism (风湿病). ?A. aboutB.onC. throughD. in47. I was very much put ___ by Mark’s rude behavior; it really annoy ed me.?A.overB.offC.upD.by ?48. You ___ Jim anything about it. It was none of his business.?A. needn’t have toldB. needn’t tell?C. mustn’t have toldD. mustn’t tell ?49. All of us would have enjoyed the party much more if there___ q uite such a crowd of people there.?A. weren’tB. hasn’t beenC. hadn’t beenD. w ouldn’t be ?50. Firms that use computers have found that the number of staff ___ quality control can be substantially reduced.?A.whoseB.asC.whatD.that ?51. ___ at in this way, the present economic situation doesn’t seem so gloomy.?A. LookingB. LookedC. Having lookedD. To look ?52. Many people are ___ to insect bites, and some even have to go to hospital.?A. insensitiveB. allergicC. sensibleD. infected ?53. When you’re driving on a motorway, you must obey the signs telling you to get into the right ___.?A.wayB.trackC.roadne ?54. The motorist had to ___to avoid knocking the old woman down in the middle of the road.?A. swerveB. twistC. departD. swing ?55. In winter drivers have trouble stopping their cars from ___ on icy roads.?A. skatingB. skiddingC. slidingD. slipping ?56. This project would ___ a huge increase in defense spending.?A. resultB. assureC. entailD. accomplish ?57. The chances of a repetition of these unfortunate events are ___ indeed.?A. distantB. slimC. unlikelyD. narrow ?58. We should make a clear ___ between ’competent’ and ’proficient’ for the purposes of our discussion.?A. separationB. divisionC. distinctionD. diffe rence ?59. In the present economic ___ we can make even greater progress than previously.?A. airB. moodC. areaD. climate ?60. Rite of Passage is a good novel by any standards;___, it shoul d rank high on any list of science fiction.?A. consistentlyB. consequentlyC. invariablyD. fortunately ?61. The diversity of tropical plants in the region represents a seeming ly___ source of raw materials, of which only a few have been utilized.?A. exploitedB. controversialC. inexhaustibleD. remarkable ?62. While he was in Beijing, he spent all his time ___ some import ant museums and buildings.?A. visitingB. travelingC. watchingD. touring ?63. You must let me have the annual report without ___ by ten o’cl ock tomorrow morning.?A. failureB. hesitationC. troubleD. fail64. As the director can’t come to the reception, I’m representing the c ompany?A. on his accountB. on his behalf ?C. for his partD. in his interest ?65. Dreams are___ in themselves, but when combined with other data, they can tell us much about the dreamer.?A. uninformativeB. startling?C. harmlessD. uncontrollablePart Ⅵ READING COMPREHENSION ［30 MIN.］?SECTION A READING COMPREHENSION［25 MIN.］??In this section there are four passages followed by questions or unfinished stat ements, each with four suggested answers marked A, B, C and D. Choose the one th at you think is the best answer.??Mark your answers on your answer sheet.??TEXT AClearly if we are to participate in the society in which we live we must communi cate withother people. A great deal of communicating is performed on a person-t o-person basis by the simple means of speech. If we travel in buses, buy things in shops, or eat in restaurants, we are likely to have conversations where we gi ve information or opinions, receive news or comment, and very likely have our vi ews challenged by other members of society.?Face-to-face contact is by no means the only form of communication and during th e last two hundred years the art of mass communication has become one of the dom inating factors of contemporary society. Two things, above others, have caused t he enormous growth of the communication industry. Firstly, inventiveness has led to advances in printing, telecommunications, photography, radio and television. secondly, speed has revolutionised the transmission and reception of communicat ions so that local news often takes a back seat to national news, which itself i s often almost eclipsed by international news.?No longer is the possession of information confined to a privileged minority. In the last century the wealthy man with his own library was indeed fortunate, but today there are public libraries. Forty years ago people used to flock to the c inema, but now far more people sit at home and turn on the TV to watch a program me that is being channelled into millions of homes.? Communication is no longer merely concerned with the transmission of information . The modem communication industry influences the way people live in society and broadens their horizons by allowing access to information, education and entert ainment. The printing, broadcasting and advertising industries are all involved with informing, educating and entertaining.?Although a great deal of the material communicated by the mass media is very val uable to the individual and to the society of which he is a part, the vast modem network of communications is open to abuse. However, the mass media are with us for better, for worse, and there is no turning back.?66. In the first paragraph the writer emphasizes the___ of face-t o-face contact in social settings.?A. natureB. limitationC. usefulnessD. creativity ?67. It is implied in the passage that___.?A. local news used to be the only source of information.?B. local news still takes a significant place.?C. national news is becoming more popular.?D. international news is the fastest transmitted news. ?68. Which of the following statements is INCORRECT??A. To possess information used to be a privilege.?B. Public libraries have replaced private libraries.?C. Communication means more than transmission.?D. Information influences ways of life and thinking. ?69. From the last paragraph we can infer that the writer is___.?A. indifferent to the harmful influence of the mass media?B. happy about the drastic changes in the mass media?C. pessimistic about the future of the mass media?D. concerned about the wrong use of the mass media ??TEXT B?The men and women of Anglo-Saxon England normally bore one name only. Distinguis hing epithets were rarely added. These might be patronymic, descriptive or occup ational. They were, however, hardly surnames. Heritable names gradually became g eneral in the three centuries following the Norman Conquest in 1066. It was not until the 13th and 14th centuries that surnames became fixed, although for many years after that, the degree of stability in family names varied considerably in different parts of the country.?British surnames fall mainly into four broad categories: patronymic, occupationa l, descriptive and local. A few names, it is true, will remain puzzling: foreign names, perhaps, crudely translated, adapted or abbreviated; or artificial names .? In fact, over fifty per cent of genuine British surnames derive from place names of different kinds, and so they belong to the last of our four main categories. Even such a name as Simpson may belong to this last group, and not to the first , had the family once had its home in the ancient village of that name. Otherwis e, Simpson means “the son of Simon”, as might be expected.?Hundreds of occupational surnames are at once familiar to us, or at least r ecognisable after a little thought: Archer, Carter, Fisher, Mason, Thatcher, Tay lor, to name but a few. Hundreds of others are more obscure in their meanings an d testify to the amazing specialisation in medieval arts, crafts and functions. Such are “Day”, (Old English for breadmaker) and “Walker” (a fuller whose job it was to clean and thicken newly made cloth).?All these vocational names carry with them a certain gravity and dignity, w hich descriptive names often lack. Some, it is tru e, like “Long”, “Short” or “Li ttle”, are simple. They may be taken quite literally. Others require more thinki ng: their meanings are slightly different from the modem ones. “Black” and “White ” implied dark and fair respectively. “Sharp” meant genuinely discerning, alert, acute rather than quick-witted or clever.? Place-names have a lasting interest since there is hardly a town or village in a ll England that has not at some time given its name to a family. They may be pic turesque, even poetical; or they may be pedestrian, even trivial. Among the comm oner names which survive with relatively little change from old-English times ar e “Milton”(middle enclosure) and “Hilton”(enclosure on a hill).?70. Surnames are said to be ___ in Anglo-Saxon England.?A. commonB. vocationalC. unusualD. descriptiv e ?71. We learn from the first paragraph ___ for many years after the 13th and 14th centuries.?A. family names became descriptive and occupational?B. people in some areas still had no surnames?C. some people kept changing their surnames?D. all family names became fixed in England ?72. “Patronymic” in the second paragraph is closest in meaning to “forme d from ___.?A. the name of one’s father”B. the family occupation”?C. one’s family home”D. one’s family history” ?73. Which of the following sentences is an opinion rather than a fact??A. hundreds of occupational names are at once familiar to us.?B. “Black” and “White” implied “dark” and “fair” respective ly.?C. Vocational names carry with them a certain gravity and dignity.?D. Every place in England has given its name to a family. ??TEXT CSince the early 1930s, Swiss banks had prided themselves on their system of banking secrecy and numbered accounts. Over the years, they had successfully w ithstood every challenge to this system by their own government who, in turn, ha d been frequently urged by foreign governments to reveal information about the f inancial affairs to certain account holders. The result of this policy of secre cy was that a kind of mystique had grown up around Swiss banking. There was a w idely-held belief that Switzerland was irresistible to wealthy foreigners, mainl y because of its numbered accounts and bankers’ reluctanc e to ask awkward questi ons of depositors. Contributing to the mystique was the view, carefully propagat ed by the banks themselves, that if this secrecy was ever given up, foreigners w ould fall over themselves in the rush to withdraw money, and the Swiss banking s ystem would virtually collapse overnight.?To many, therefore, it came like a bolt out of the blue, when, in 1977, the Swiss banks announced they had signed a pact with the Swiss National Bank (the Central Bank). The aim of the agreement wa s to prevent to improper use of the c ountry’s bank secrecy laws, and its effect was to curb severely the system of se crecy.?The rules which the banks had agreed to observe made the opening of numbere d accounts subject to much closer scrutiny than before. The banks would be requ ired, if necessary, to identify the origin of foreign funds going into numbered and other accounts. The idea was to stop such accounts being used for dubious p urposes. Also they agreed not to accept funds resulting from tax evasion or from crime.?The pact represented essentially a tightening up of banking rules. Although the banks agreed to end relations with clients whose identities were unclear or who were performing improper acts, they were still not obliged to inform on a client to anyone, including the Swiss government. To some extent, therefore, the princ iple of secrecy had been maintained.?74. Swiss banks took pride in___.?A. the number of their accounts?B. withholding client information?C. being mysterious to the outsiders?D. attracting wealthy foreign clients ?75. According to the passage, the widely-held belief that Switzerland w as irresistible to wealthy foreigners was ___ by banks themselves.?A. deniedB. criticizedC. reviewedD. defended ?76. In the last paragraph, the writer thinks that___.?A. complete changes had been introduced into Swiss banks?B. Swiss banks could no longer keep client information?C. changes in the bank policies had been somewhat superficial?D. more changes need to be considered and made ??TEXT DCoketown was a town of red brick, or of brick that would have been red if the sm oke and the ashes had allowed it; but as matters stood it was a town of unnatura l red and black like the painted face of a savage. It was a town of machinery an d tall chimneys, out of which smoke trailed themselves for ever and ever. It had a black canal in it, and a river that ran purple with ill-smelling dye, and vas t piles of buildings full of windows where there was a rattling and a trembling all day long, and where the piston of the steam-engine worked monotonously up an d down like the head of an elephant in a state of madness. The town contained se veral large streets all very like one another, and many small streets still more like one another, inhabited by people equally like one another.?A sunny midsummer day. There was such a thing sometimes, even in Coketown. Seen from a distance in such weather, Coketown lay covered in a haze of its own. You only knew the town was there, because you knew there could have been no such blo tch upon the view without a town.?The streets were hot and dusty on the summer day, and the sun was so bright that it even shone through the haze over Coketown, and could not be looked at steadi ly. Workers emerged from low underground doorways into factory yards, and sat on posts and steps, wiping their faces and contemplating coals. The whole town see med to be frying in oil. There was a stifling smell of hot oil everywhere. The a tmosphere of those places was like the breath of hell, and their inhabitants was ting with heat, toiled languidly in the desert. But no temperature made the mad elephants more mad or more sane. Their wearisome heads went up and down at the s ame rate, in hot weather and in cold, wet weather and dry fair weather and foul. The measured motion of their shadows on the walls, was the substitute Coketown had to show for the shadows of rustling woods; while for the summer hum of insec ts, it could offer all the year round, from the dawn of Monday to the night of S aturday, the whirr of shafts and wheels.?77. Which of the following adjectives is NOT appropriate to describe Co ketown??A. dullB. dirtyC. noisyD. savage ?78. From the passage we know that Coketown was mainly a(n) ___town .?A. industrialB. agriculturalC. residentialD. commercial ?79. Only ___ were not affected by weather.?A. the workmenB. the inhabitants?C. the steam-enginesD. the rustling woods ?80. Which is the author’s opinion of Coketown??A. Coketown should be replaced by woods.?B. The town was seriously polluted.?C. The town had too much oil in it.?D. The town’s atmosphere was traditional.SECTION B SKIMMING AND SCANNINGIn this section there are seven passages with a total often multiple-choice ques tions. Skim or scan them as required and then mark your answers on your answer s heet. TEXT EFirst read the following question.??81. The writer is concerned about___.?A. budget housekeepingB. the retail trade?C. computer skillsD. mental arithmetic ?Now read Text E quickly and mark your answer on your answer sheet.A lot of attention is being given to children who leave school unable to read or write. I think there should be equal concern for those who are unable to cope w ith simple mental arithmetic -parti cularly girls.? It is often stated that today’s children are growing up in a computer world and they don’t need the same skills that their grandparents did. But is it any wonde r that many young girls trying to cope with budget housekeeping fail for the sim ple reason they cannot keep accurate checks on their purchases?? Shopping in markets is no source of cheap purchasing unless one is able to keep pace with the apparent mental agility of the vendor.? Must we face the thought that at some time in the distant future everyone will n eed to carry in their handbag or pocket one of the miniature calculators??TEXT FFirst read the following question.??82. This is a letter of___.?A. referenceB. applicationC. inquiryD. complaint ?Now read Text F quickly and mark your answer on your answer sheet.??10 Garden Ave.?Essex?The Personnel Officer?Belgian Medico Ltd.?P0 Box 920?Brussels?Belgium?5th May 200___ ?Dear Sir,?With reference to your advertisement in the “Daily Star”,I’d like to apply for the position of translator with your firm.? I hold a degree in German and French from the University of London. And I have w orked as a translator for the past three years with Watson & Sons, Ltd., manufac turer of laboratory instruments, translating business correspondence from French and German into English.? I am 25 years old and unmarried. I enjoy living and working in different countri es and I should welcome the chance of moving to Belgium.?Yours sincerely,?(Miss) Janet Holbrooke??TEXT GFirst read the following question.??83. The passage is mainly about___.?A. lonelinessB. experienceC.memoryD. isolation ?Now read Text G quickly and mark your answer on your answer sheet.Loneliness is a curious thing. Most of us can remember feeling most lonely when wewere not in fact alone at all, but when we were surrounded by people. Everyon e has experienced, at some time, that strong sense of isolation that comes over you when you are at a party or in a room full of happy laughing people. It sudde nly seems to you as if everybody knows everybody else, everybody knows what is g oing on; everybody, that is, except you.?This feeling of loneliness which can overcome you when you are in a crowd is ver y difficult to get rid of. People living alone are advised to tackle their lonel iness by joining a club or a society, by going out and meeting people.??TEXT HFirst read the following question.??84. The author mainly discusses ___ of public transportation.?A. the priceB. the typesC. the improveme ntD. the advantage ?Now read Text H quickly and mark your answer on your answer sheet.??The price of public transportation in Beijing has doubled twice since 1989, but it is still a bargain. Using the subway and minibuses used to show class status; now people of all classes take them, while some wealthy prefer taxis or private cars. What a change in just a few years!But there are downfalls to having more cars on the roads. Fortunately, the gover nment is aware of the problem. No-lead gasoline is the only one permitted in the city, and the rest of the country follows. Thousands of trees are planted in an d around the city every year. Children are taught why and how to protect the env ironment. At the same time, public transportation has marked real progress: buse s are everywhere and run frequently. We no longer see those old buses with broke n windows. Instead, there are fast buses, double-decker buses, air-conditioned o r heated buses, all offering a good service.?? TEXT IFirst read the following questions.??85. Each participating team should at least have ___?A. twoB.threeC.fourD. five ?86. Participants can bring along their ___ to the competition.?A. Christmas treesB. Christmas presents?C. festival costumesD. decoration materials ?Now read Text I quickly and mark your answers on your answer sheet.??With Christmas Day around the corner, Hong Kong’s Provisional Regional Council announced that a Christmas tree decoration competition will be held on Sunday in conjunction with the ongoing Regional Council Festival.? Members of the public are welcome to take part in the competition as families or small groups. Each team should be formed by at least three persons.? A total of 99 Christmas trees of 1.5 metres in height will be available for the participating teams to decorate. Participants can bring along their own decorati on materials and to use their imagination and creativity to achieve the best res ults.?Each participating team can take home the Christmas tree it has decorated as a souvenir. In addition, there will be cash awards for the winners.??TEXT JFirst read the following questions.??87. If you only have time for a half-day trip, which day would you choo se??A. Sunday 23 July.B. Saturday 15 July.?C. Wednesday 9 August.D. Saturday5 August. ?88. Which of the following trips offers you the opportunity to see Geor gian architecture??A. Trip One.B. Trip Two.C. Trip Three.D. Trip Four. ?Now read Text quickly and mark your answers on your answer sheet.??Summer Outings?Trip One?Saturday 15 July Stratford-upon-Avon and “Julius Caesar”?The coach will leave at 9 am, allowing a couple of hours to visit Stratford befo re the performance of “Julius Caesar” at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre. Back around 7:30 pm.??Trip Two?Sunday 23 July Bath?The spa town of Bath contains the country’s finest Roman ruins, and much elegant Georgian architecture. The coach will depart at 9 am, returning at around 6:30 pm.?? Trip Three?Saturday 5 August Stratford-upon-Avon and “The Taming of the Shrew”? Another chance to visit Stratford. “The Taming of the Shrew” stars Josie Lawrenc e in the title role. The coach will leave at 9 am, returning at around 7:30 pm.??Trip Four?Wednesday 9 August Oxford and “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”? A half-day trip to Oxford. The coach will leave at 2:15 pm, allowing an afternoo n to see the sights before one of Shakespeare’s most popular play s at the Playho use Theatre. Back after the show.??TEXT KFirst read the following questions.??89. Which nation is thought to be business-minded??A. The Dutch.B. The Italians.C. The British.D. The Germans. ?90. The opinions seem to be most divided on___.?A. the GermansB. the DutchC. the FrenchD. the British ?Now read Text K quickly and mark your answers on your answer sheet.??Some of the data from a survey on national stereotypes in some European countries is summarized below:?Germans Liked themselves best of all. Most Europeans agreed that the Germans had the highest proportion of good qualities. They considered themselves very tolerant, but nobody else did.French Not really admired by anyone except the Italians. Other Europeans found them conservative, withdrawn, brilliant, superficial. Also, not very friendl y.British Mixed reactions. Some found them calm, reserved, open- minded, others thought they were insular and superior. The British most admired the Dutch.Italians Generally considered by everyone to be lazy and untrustworthy, an d the。
2000年6月四级真题与答案11
Section B Passage One There are three groups of English learners; beginners, intermediate learners, and learners of special English. Beginners need to learn the basics of English. Students who have reached an intermediate level benefit from learning general English skills. But what about students who want to lean specialist English for their work or professional life? Most students, who fit into this third group have a clear idea about what they want to lean. A bank clerk, for example, wants to u se this specialist vocabulary and technical terms of finance. But for teachers, deciding how to teach specialist English is not always so easy. For a start, the variety is enormous. Every field from airline pilots to secretaries has its own vocabulary and technical terms. Teachers also need to have an up-to-date knowledge of the that specialist language, and not many teachers are exposed to working environments outside the classroom. These issues have influenced the way specialist English is taught in schools. This type of course is usually known as English for Specific Purposes, or ESP and there isn't ESP courses for almost every area of professional and working life. In Britain, for example, there are courses which teach English for doctors, lawyers, reporters, travel agents and people working in the hotel industry. By far, the most popular ESP courses are for business English. 11. What is the characteristic of learners of special English? 12. Who needs ESP courses most? 13. What are the most popular ESP courses in Britain? 14. What is the speaker mainly talking about? Passage Two The first step to stop drug abuse is knowing why people start to use drugs. The reasons people abuse drugs are as different as people are from one to another. but there seems to be one common thread: people seem to take drugs to changes the way they feel. They want to feel better or feel happy or to feel nothing. Sometimes, they want to forget or to remember. People often feel better about themselves when they are under the influence of drugs. But the effects don't last long. Drugs don't solve problems. They just postpone them. No matter how far drug s may take you, it's always around trip. After a while, people who miss drugs ma y feel worse about themselves, and they may use more drugs. If someone you know is using or abusing drugs, you can help. The most important part you can pl ay is to be there. You can let your friends know that you care. You can listen and try to solve the problem behind your friend's need to use drugs. Two people together can often solve a problem that seems too big for one person alone. Studies of heavy abusers in the United States show that they felt unloved and unwanted. They didn't have close friends to talk to. When you or your friends take the time to care for each other, you're all helping to stop drugs abuse. After all, what is a friend for? 15. Why do some people abuse drugs? 16. According to the passage, what is the best way to stop friends from abusing drugs? 17. What are the findings of the studies about heavy drug users? Passage Three Bows and arrows, are one of man's oldest weapons. They gave early man an effective weapon to kill his enemies. The ordinary bow or short bow as used by nearly all early people. This bow had limited power and short range. However, man overcame these faults by learning to track his targets at a close range. The long how was most likely discovered when someone found out that a five-foot piece of wood made a better bow than a three-food piece. Hundreds of thousands of these bows were made and used for three hundred years. However, not one is known to survive today. We believe that a force of about one hundred pounds was needed to pull the string all the way back on a long bow. For a long time the bow was just a bent stick and string. In fact, more changes have taken place in a bow in the past 25 years than in the last 7 centuries. Today, bow is forceful. It is as exact as a gun. In addition, it requires little strength to draw the string. Modern bows also have precise aiming devices. In indoor contest, perfect scores from 40 yards are common. The invention of the bows itself ranks with discovery of fire and the wheel. It was a great-step-forward for man. 18. Why did man have no track his target at a close range when using a short bow ? 19. What does the passage tell us about long bow? 20. What do we know about modern bows?。
2000年英语专业四级真题+解析+听力原文学习啊
学英语简单吗？肯定会有许多学生说：“难死了”。
为什么有好多学生对英语的学习都感到头疼呢？答案只有一个：“不得法。
” 英语与汉语一样都是一种语言，为什么你说汉语会如此流利？那是因为你置身于一个汉语环境中，如果你在伦敦呆上半年，保准说起英语来会非常流利。
但很多中学生没有很好的英语环境，那么你可以自己设置一个英语环境，坚持“多说”、“多听”、“多读”、“多写”，那么你的英语成绩肯定会很出色。
一、多“说”。
自己多创造机会与英语教师多讲英语，见了同学，尤其是和好朋友在一起时尽量用英语去问候，谈心情……这时候你需随身携带一个英汉互译小词典，遇到生词时查一下这些生词，也不用刻意去记，用的多了，这个单词自然而然就会记住。
千万别把学英语当成负担，始终把它当成一件有趣的事情去做。
或许你有机会碰上外国人，你应大胆地上去跟他打招呼，和他谈天气、谈风景、谈学校……只是别问及他的年纪，婚史等私人问题。
尽量用一些你学过的词汇，句子去和他谈天说地。
不久你会发现与老外聊天要比你与中国人谈英语容易的多。
因为他和你交谈时会用许多简单词汇，而且不太看重说法，你只要发音准确，准能顺利地交流下去。
只是你必须要有信心，敢于表达自己的思想。
如果没有合适的伙伴也没关系，你可以拿过一本书或其它什么东西做假想对象，对它谈你一天的所见所闻，谈你的快乐，你的悲伤等等，长此坚持下去你的口语肯定会有较大的提高。
二、多“听”寻找一切可以听英语的机会。
别人用英语交谈时，你应该大胆地去参与，多听听各种各样人的发音，男女老少，节奏快的慢的你都应该接触到，如果这样的机会少的话，你可以选择你不知内容的文章去听，这将会对你帮助很大，而你去听学过的课文的磁带，那将会对你的语言语调的学习有很大的帮助。
三、多“读”。
“读”可以分为两种。
一种是“默读”。
每天给予一定时间的练习将会对你提高阅读速度有很大的好处，读的内容可以是你的课本，但最好是一些有趣的小读物，因为现在的英语高考越来越重视阅读量和阅读速度。
2000年6月全国大学英语四级(CET-4)考试真题及参考答案
2000年6月全国大学英语四级CET4考试真题和答案Part I Listening Comprehension (20 minutes)Section ADirections: In this section, you will hear 10 short conversations. At the end of each conversation, a question will be asked about what was said. Both the conversation and the question will be spoken only once. After each question there will be a pause. During the pause, you must read the four choices marked A), B), C) and D), and decide which is the best answer. Then mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the center. Example:You will hear:You will read:A) 2 hours.B) 3 hours.C) 4 hours.D) 5 hours.From the conversation we know that the two were talking about some work they will start at 9 o’clock in the morning and have to finish at 2 in the afternoon. Therefore, D) “5 hours” is the correct answer. You should choose [D] on the Answer Sheet and mark it with a single line through the center.Sample Answer [A] [B] [C] [D]1. A) She is not interested in the article.B) She has given the man much trouble.C) She would like to have a copy of the article.D) She doesn’t want to take the trouble to read the article.2. A) He saw the big tower he visited on TV.B) He has visited the TV tower twice.C) He has visited the TV tower once.D) He will visit the TV tower in June.3. A) The woman regrets having taken up much of the professor’s time.B) The woman regrets having taken up much of the professor’s time.C) The woman knows the professor has been busy.D) The woman knows the professor has run into trouble.4. A) He doesn’t enjoy business trips as much as he used to.B) He doesn’t think he is capable of doing the job.C) He thinks the pay is too low to support his family.D) He wants to spend more time with his family.5. A) The man thought the essay was easy.B) They both had a hard time writing the essay.C) The woman thought the essay was easy.D) Neither of them has finished the assignment yet.6. A) In the park.B) Between two buildings.C) In his apartment.D) Under a huge tree.7. A) It’s awfully dull.B) It’s really exciting.C) It’s very exhausting.D) It’s quite challenging.8. A) A movie.B) A lecture.C) A play.D) A speech.9. A) The weather is mild compared to the past years.B) They are having the coldest winter ever.C) The weather will soon get warmer.D) The weather may get even colder.10. A) A mystery story.B) The hiring of a shop assistant.C) The search for a reliable witness.D) An unsolved case of robbery.Section BDirections: In this section, you will hear 3 short passages. At the end of each passage, you will hear some 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 the Answer Sheet with a single line through the center.Passage oneQuestions 11 to 14 are based on the passage you have just heard.11. A) They want to change the way English is taught.B) They learn English to find well-paid jobs.C) They want to have an up-to-date knowledge of English.D) They know clearly what they want to learn.12. A) Professionals.B) College students.C) Beginners.D) Intermediate learners.13. A) Courses for doctors.B) Courses for businessmen.C) Courses for reporters.D) Courses for lawyers.14. A) Three groups of learners.B) The importance of business English.C) English for Specific Purposes.D) Features of English for different purposes.Passage TwoQuestions 15 to 17 are based on the passage you have just heard.15. A) To show off their wealth.B) To feel good.C) To regain their memory.D) To be different from others.16. A) To help solve their psychological problems.B) To play games with them.C) To send them to the hospital.D) To make them aware of its harmfulness.17. A) They need care and affection.B) They are fond of round-the-world trips.C) They are mostly form broken families.D) They are likely to commit crimes.Passage ThreeQuestions 18 to 20 are based on the passage you have just heard.18. A) Because it was too heavy.B) Because it did not bend easily.C) Because it did not shoot far.D) Because its string was short.19. A) It went out of use 300 years ago.B) It was invented after the short bow.C) It was discovered before fire and the wheel.D) It’s still in use today.20. A) They are accurate and easy to pull.B) Their shooting range is 40 yards.C) They are usually used indoors.D) They took 100 years to develop.Part II Vocabulary and Structure (20 minutes)Directions: There are 30 incomplete sentences in this part. For each sentence there are four choices marked A), B), C) and D). Choose the ONE that best completes the sentence. Then mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the center.21. As we can no longer wait for the delivery of our order, we have to ________ it.A) postponeB) refuseC) delayD) cancel22. These books, which you can get at any bookshop, will give you ________ you need.A) all the informationB) all the informationC) all of informationD) all of the information23. Not until the game had begun ________ at the sports ground.A) had he arrivedB) would he have arrivedC) did he arriveD) should he have arrived24. Young people are not ________ to stand and look at works of art; they want art they can participate in.A) conservativeB) contentC) confidentD) generous25. Most broadcasters maintain that TV has been unfairly criticized and argue that the power of the medium is ________.A) grantedB) impliedC) exaggeratedD) remedied26. These surveys indicate that many crimes go ________ by the police, mainly because not all victims report them.A) unrecordedB) to be unrecordedC) unrecordingD) to have been unrecorded27. I have no objection ________ your story again.A) to hearB) to hearingC) to having heardD) to have heard28. The clothes a person wears may express his ________ or social position.A) curiosityB) statusC) determinationD) significance29. By law, when one makes a large purchase, he should have ________ opportunity to change his mind.A) accurateB) urgentC) excessiveD) adequate30. You will see this product ________ wherever you go.A) to be advertisedB) advertisedC) advertiseD) advertising31. The early pioneers had to ________ many hardships to settle on the new land.A) go along withB) go back onC) go throughD) go into32. The suggestion that the major ________ the prizes was accepted by everyone.A) would presentB) presentC) presentsD) ought to present33. Beer is the most popular drink among male drinkers, ________ overall consumption is significantly higher than that of women.A) whoseB) whichC) thatD) what34. Peter, who had been driving all day, suggested ________ at the next town.A) to stopB) stoppingC) stopD) having stopped35. I didn’t know the word. I had to ________ a dictionary.A) look outB) make outC) refer toD) go over36. The professor could hardly find sufficient grounds ________ his arguments in favour of the new theory.A) to be based onB) to base onC) which to base onD) on which to base37. There are signs ________ restaurants are becoming more popular with families.A) thatB) whichC) in whichD) whose38. I think I was at school, ________ I was staying with a friends during the vacation when I heard the news.A) or elseB) and thenC) or soD) even so39. It is said that the math teacher seems ________ towards bright students.A) partialB) beneficialC) preferableD) liable40. In order to show his boss what a careful worker he was, he took ________ trouble over thefigures.A) extensiveB) spareC) extraD) supreme41. —“May I speak to your manager Mr. Williams at five o’clock tonight?”—“I’m sorry. Mr. Williams ________ to a conference long before then.”A) will have goneB) had goneC) would have goneD) has gone42. You ________ him so closely; you should have kept your distance.A) shouldn’t followB) mustn’t followC) couldn’t’ have been followingD) shouldn’t have been following43. The growth of part-time and flexible working patterns, and of training and retraining schemes, ________ more women to take advantage of employment opportunities.A) have allowedB) allowC) allowingD) allows44. Everybody ________ in the hall where they were welcomed by the secretary.A) assembledB) accumulatedC) piledD) joined45. Putting in a new window will ________ cutting away part of the roof.A) includeB) involveC) containD) comprise46. Living in the western part of the country has its problems, ________ obtaining fresh water is not the least.A) with whichB) for whichC) of whichD) which47. In the ________ of the project not being a success, the investors stand to lose up to $30 million.A) faceB) timeC) eventD) course48. The manager would rather his daughter ________ in the same office.A) had not workedB) not to workC) does not workD) did not work49. ________, he does get annoyed with her sometimes.A) Although much he likes herB) Much although he likes herC) As he likes her muchD) Much as he likes her50. The British constitution is ________ a large extent a product of the historical events described above.A) withinB) toC) byD) atPart III Reading Comprehension (35 minutes)Directions: There are 4 passages in this part. 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 the Answer Sheet with a single line through the center.Passage OneQuestions 21 to 25 are based on the following passage.Long after the 1998 World Cup was won, disappointed fans were still cursing the disputed refereeing (裁判) decisions that denied victory to their team. A researcher was appointed to study the performance of some top referees.The researcher organized an experimental tournament (锦标赛) involving four youth teams. Each match lasted an hour, divided into three periods of 20 minutes during which different referees were in charge.Observers noted down the referees’ errors, of which there were 61 over the tournament. Converted to a standard match of 90 minutes, each referee made almost 23 mistakes, a remarkably high number.The researcher then studied the videotapes to analyse the matches in detail. Surprisingly, he found that errors were more likely when the referees were close to the incident. When the officials got it right, they were, on average, 17 meters away from the action. The average distance in the case of errors was 12 meters. The research shows the optimum (最佳的) distance is about 20 meters.There also seemed to be an optimum speed. Correct decisions came when the referees were moving at a speed of about 2 meters per second. The average speed for errors was 4 meters per second.If FIFA, football’s internati onal ruling body, wants to improve the standard of refereeing at the next World Cup, it should encourage referees to keep their eyes on the action from a distance, rather than rushing to keep up with the ball, the researcher argues.He also says that FIFA’s insistence that referees should retire at age 45 may be misguided. Ifkeeping up with the action is not so important, their physical condition is less critical.51. The experiment conducted by the researcher was meant to ________.A) review the decisions of referees at the 1998 World CupB) analyse the causes of errors made by football refereesC) set a standard for football refereeingD) reexamine the rules for football refereeing52. The number of refereeing errors in the experimental matches was ________.A) slightly above averageB) higher than in the 1998 World CupC) quite unexpectedD) as high as in a standard match53. The findings of the experiment show that ________.A) errors are more likely when a referee keeps close to the ballB) the farther the referee is from the incident, the fewer the errorsC) the more slowly the referee runs, the more likely will errors occurD) errors are less likely when a referee stays in one spot54. The word “officials” (Line 2, Para. 4) most probably refers to ________.A) the researchers involved in the experimentB) the inspectors of the football tournamentC) the referees of the football tournamentD) the observers at the site of the experiment55. What is one of the possible conclusions of the experiment?A) The ideal retirement age for an experienced football referee is 45.B) Age should not be the chief consideration in choosing a football referee.C) A football referee should be as young and energetic as possible.D) An experienced football referee can do well even when in poor physical condition. Passage TwoQuestions 56 to 60 are based on the following passage.While still in its early stages, welfare reform has already been judged a great success in many states—at least in getting people off welfare. It’s es timated that more than 2 million people have left the rolls since 1994.In the past four years, welfare rolls in Athens Country have been cut in half. But 70 percent of the people who left in the past tow years took jobs that paid less than $6 an hour. The result: The Athens County poverty rate still remains at more than 30 percent—twice the national average.For advocates (代言人) for the poor, that’s an indication much more needs to be done.“More people are getting jobs, but it’s not making their lives any better,” says Kathy Lairn, a policy analyst at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities in Washington.A center analysis of US Census data nationwide found that between 1995 and 1996, a greater percentage of single, female-headed households were earning money on their own, but that average income for these households actually went down.But for many, the fact that poor people are able to support themselves almost as well without government aid as they did with it is in itself a huge victory.“Welfare was a poison. It was a toxin (毒素) that was poisoning the family,” says Robert Rector,a welfare-reform policy analyst. “The reform in changing the moral climate in low-income communities. It’s beginning to rebuild the work ethic (道德观), which is much more impor tant.”Mr. Rector and others argued that once “the habit of dependency is cracked,” then the country can make other policy changes aimed at improving living standards.56. From the passage, it can be seen that the author ________.A) believes the reform ha s reduced the government’s burdenB) insists that welfare reform is doing little good for the poorC) is overenthusiastic about the success of welfare reformD) considers welfare reform to be fundamentally successful57. Why aren’t people enjoying better l ives when they have jobs?A) Because many families are divorced.B) Because government aid is now rare.C) Because their wages are low.D) Because the cost of living is rising.58. What is worth noting from the example of Athens County is that ________.A) greater efforts should be made to improve people’s living standardsB) 70 percent of the people there have been employed for two yearsC) 50 percent of the population no longer relies on welfareD) the living standards of most people are going down59. From the passage we know that welfare reform aims at ________.A) saving welfare fundsB) rebuilding the work ethicC) providing more jobsD) cutting government expenses60. According to the passage before the welfare reform was carried out, ________.A) the poverty rate was loverB) average living standards were higherC) the average worker was paid higher wagesD) the poor used to rely on government aidPassage ThreeQuestions 61 to 65 are based on the following passage.Americans are pound of their variety and individuality, yet they love and respect few things more than a uniform, whether it is the uniform of an elevator operator or the uniform of afive-star general. Why are uniforms so popular in the United States?Among the arguments for uniforms, one of the first is that in the eyes of most people they look more professional than civilian (百姓的) clothes. People have become conditioned to expect superior quality from a man who wears a uniform. The television repairman who wears uniform tends to inspire more trust than one who appears in civilian clothes. Faith in the skill of a garage mechanic is increased by a uniform. What easier way is there for a nurse, a policeman, a barber, or a waiter to lose professional identity (身份) than to step out of uniform?Uniforms also have many practical benefits. They save on other clothes. They save on laundry bills. They are tax-deductible (可减税的). They are often more comfortable and more durable than civilian clothes.Primary among the arguments against uniforms is their lack of variety and the consequent lossof individuality experienced by people who must wear them. Though there are many types of uniforms, the wearer of any particular type is generally stuck with it, without change, until retirement. When people look alike, they tend to think, speak, and act similarly, on the job at least.Uniforms also give rise to some practical problems. Though they are long-lasting, often their initial expense is greater than the cost of civilian clothes. Some uniforms are also expensive to maintain, requiring professional dry cleaning rather than the home laundering possible with many types of civilian clothes.61. It is surprising that Americans who worship variety and individuality ________.A) still judge a man by his clothesB) hold the uniform in such high regardC) enjoy having a professional identityD) will respect an elevator operator as much as a general in uniform62. People are accustomed to think that a man in uniform ________.A) suggests quality workB) discards his social identityC) appears to be more practicalD) looks superior to a person in civilian clothes63. The chief function of a uniform is to ________.A) provide practical benefits to the wearerB) make the wearer catch the pubic eyeC) inspire the wearer’s co nfidence in himselfD) provide the wearer with a professional identity64. According to the passage, people wearing uniforms ________.A) are usually helpfulB) have little or no individual freedomC) tend to lose their individualityD) enjoy greater popularity65. The best title for this passage would be ________.A) Uniforms and SocietyB) The Importance of Wearing a UniformC) Practical Benefits of Wearing a UniformD) Advantages and Disadvantages of UniformsPassage FourQuestions 66 to 70 are based on the following passage.Since we are social beings, the quality of our lives depends in large measure on our interpersonal relationships. One strength of the human condition is our tendency to give and receive support from one another under stressful circumstances. Social support consists of the exchange of resources among people based on their interpersonal ties. Those of us with strong support systems appear better able to cope with major life changes and daily hassles (困难). People with strong social ties live longer and have better health than those without such ties. Studies over a range of illnesses, from depression to heart disease, reveal that the presence of social support helps people fend off (挡开) illness, and the absence of such support makes poor health more likely.Social support cushions stress in a number of ways. First, friends, relatives, and co-workers may let us know that they value us. Our self-respect is strengthened when we feel accepted by others despite our faults and difficulties. Second, other people often provide us with informational support. They help us to define and understand our problems and find solutions to them. Third, we typically find social companionship supportive. Engaging in leisure-time activities with others helps us to meet our social needs while at the same time distracting (转移…注意力) us from our worries and troubles. Finally, other people may give us instrumental support—financial aid, material resources, and needed services—that reduces stress by helping us resolve and cope with our problems.66. Interpersonal relationships are important because ________.A) they are indispensable to people’s social well-beingB) they awaken people’s desire to exchange resourcesC) they help people to cope with life in the information eraD) they can cure a range of illnesses such as heart disease, etc67. Research shows that people’s physical and mental health ________.A) relies on the social welfare systems which support themB) has much to do with the amount of support they get from othersC) depends on their ability to deal with daily worries and troublesD) is closely related to their strength for coping with major changes in their lives68. Which of the following is closest in meaning to the word “cushions” (Line 1, Para. 2)?A) Adds up to.B) Does away with.C) Lessens the effect of.D) Lays the foundation for.69. Helping a sick neighbor with some repair work is an example of ________.A) instrumental supportB) informational supportC) social companionshipD) the strengthening of self-respect70. Social companionship is beneficial in that ________.A) it helps strengthen our ties with relativesB) it enables us to eliminate our faults and mistakesC) it makes our leisure-time activities more enjoyableD) it draws our attention away from our worries and troublesPart IV Translation (15 minutes)Directions: In this part, there are four items, each consisting of one or two sentences for you to translate into Chinese. These sentences are all taken from the Reading Passages you have just read in Part Three of Test Paper One. You should refer back to the passages so as to identify their meanings in the context.S1. (Lines 1-2, Para. 1, Passage 1)Long after the 1998 World Cup was won, disappointed fans were still cursing the disputed refereeing (裁判) decisions that denied victory to their team.S2. (Lines 1-2, Para. 6, Passage 2)But for many, the fact that poor people are able to support themselves almost as well withoutgovernment aid as they did with it is in itself a huge victory.S3. (Lines 5-6, Para. 2, Passage 3)What easier way is there for a nurse, a policeman, a barber, or a waiter to lose professional identity (身份) than to step out of uniform?S4. (Lines 3-4, Para. 1, Passage 4)Social support consists of the exchange of resources among people based on their inter personal ties.Part V Writing (30 minutes)Directions: For this part, you are allowed thirty minutes to write a composition on the topic Is a Test of Spoken English Necessary? The first sentence has already been written for you. You should write at least 100 words, and base your competition on the outline given in Chinese below:1. 很多人认为有必要举行英语口语考试，理由是…2. 也有人持不同意见，...3. 我的看法和打算Is a Test of Spoken English NecessaryA test of spoken English will be included as an optional component of the College English Test (CET)答案Part I1. C2. C3. B4. D5. B6. D7. A8. C9. D 10. D11. D 12. A 13. B 14. C 15. B16. A 17. A 18. C 19. B 20. APart II21. D 22. A 23. C 24. B 25. C26. A 27. B 28. B 29. D 30. B31. C 32. B 33. A 34. B 35. C36. D 37. A 38. A 39. A 40. C41. A 42. D 43. D 44. A 45. B46. C 47. C 48. D 49. D 50. BPart III51. B 52. C 53. A 54. C 55. B56. D 57. C 58. A 59. B 60. D61. B 62. A 63. D 64. C 65. D66. A 67. B 68. C 69. A 70. DS1. 1998年世界杯足球赛早已尘埃落定，但失望的球迷们仍在责骂那些颇有争议的判罚，声称正是那些判罚使他们的球队没能获胜。
2000英语四级真题及答案
2000年6月大学英语四级真题PartI Writing(30 minutes)Directions:For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a short essay on the topic of Online Shopping. You should write at least 120 words following the outline given below:1．现在网上购物已成为一种时尚2．网上购物有很多好处，但也有不少问题3．我的建议Online Shopping注意：此部分试题在答题卡1上。
Part II Reading Comprehension (Skimming and Scanning) (15minutes)Directions:In this part, you will have 15 minutes to go over the passage quickly and answer the questions on Answer Sheet 1. For questions 1-7, choose the best answer from the four choices marked A), B), C) and D). For questions 8-10, complete the sen tences with the information given in the passage.British Cuisine: the Best of Old and NewBritish cuisine (烹饪) has come of age in recent years as chefs (厨师) combine the best of old and new.Why does British food have a reputation for being so bad? Because it is bad! Those are not the most encouraging words to hear just before eating lunch at one of Hong Kong's smartest British restaurants, Alfie's by KEE, but head chef Neil Tomes has more to say."The past 15 years or so have been a noticeable period of improvement for food in England," the English chef says, citing the trend in British cuisine for better ingredients, preparation and cooking methods, and more appealing presentation. Chefs such as Delia Smith, Nigel Slater, Jamie Oliver and Gordon Ramsay made the public realise that cooking - and eating - didn't have to be a boring thing. And now, most of the British public is familiar even with the ex tremes of Heston BlumenthaPs molecular gastronomy, a form of cooking that employs scientific methods to create the perfect dish."It's no longer the case that the common man in England is embarrassed to show he knows about food," Tomes says.There was plenty of room for improvement. The problems with the nation's cuisine can be traced back to the Second World War. Before the War, much of Britain's food was imported and when German U-boats began attacking ships bringing food to the country, Britain went on rations (配给)."As rationing came to an end in the 1950s, technology picked up and was used to mass-produce food," Tomes says. "And by then people were just happy to have a decent quantity of food in their kitchens."They weren't looking for cured meats, organic produce or beautiful presentation; they were looking for whatever they could get their hands on, and this prioritisatio n of quantity over quality prevailed for decades, meaning a generation was brought up with food that couldn't compete with neighbouring France, Italy, Belgium or Spain.Before star chefs such as Oliver began making cooking fashionable, it was hard to find a restaurant in London that was open after 9pm. But in recent years the capital's culinary (烹饪的) scene has developed to the point that it is now confident of its ability to please the tastes of any international visitor.With the opening of Alfie's in April, and others such as The Pawn, two years ago, modern British food has made its way to Hong Kong. "With British food, I think that Hong Kong restaurants are keeping up," says David Tamlyn, the Welsh executive chef at The Pawn in Wan Chai. "Hong Kong diners are ex tremely responsive to new ideas or presentations, which is good news for new dishes."Chefs agree that diners in Hong Kong are embracing the modern British trend. Some restau rants are modifying the recipes (菜谱) of British dishes to breathe new life into the classics, while others are using better quality ingredients but remaining true to British traditions and tastes.Tamlyn is in the second camp. "We select our food very particularly. We use US beef, New Zealand lamb and for our custards (牛奶蛋糊)we use Bird's Custard Powder," Tamlyn says. "Some restaurants go for custard made fresh with eggs, sugar and cream, but British custard is different, and we stay true to that."Matthew Hill, senior manager at the two-year-old SoHo restaurant Yorkshire Pudding, also uses better ingredients as a means of improving dishes. "There are a lot ofex isting perceptions about British food and so we can't alter these too much. We're a traditional British restaurant so there are some staples (主菜) that will remain essentially unchanged."These traditional dishes include fish and chips, steak and kidney pie and large pieces of roasted meats. At Alfie's, the newest of the British restaurants in town and perhaps the most gentlemen's club-like in design, Neil Tomes ex plains his passion for provenance (原产地)."Britain has started to become really proud of the food it's producing. It has excellent organic farms, beautifully crafted cheeses, high-quality meats."However, the British don't have a history of ex porting their foodstuffs, which makes it difficult for restaurants in Hong Kong to source authentic ingredients."We can get a lot of our ingredients once a week from the UK," Tamlyn ex plains. "But there is also pressure to buy local and save on food miles, which means we take our vegetables from the local markets, and there are a lot that work well with British staples."The Phoenix, in Mid-Levels, offers the widest interpretation of "British cuisine", while still trying to maintain its soul. The gastro-pub has ex isted in various locations in Hong Kong since 2002. Singaporean head chef Tommy Teh Kum Chai offers daily specials on a blackboard, rather than sticking to a menu. This enables him to reinterpret British cuisine depending on what is avail able in the local markets."We use a lot of ingredients that people wouldn't perhaps associate as British, but are pre sented in a British way. Bell peppers stuffed with couscous, alongside ratatouille, is a very popular dish."Although the ingredients may not strike diners as being traditional, they can be found in dishes across Britain.Even the traditional chefs are aware of the need to adapt to local tastes and customs, while maintaining the Britishness of their cuisine.At Yorkshire Pudding, Hill says that his staff asks diners whether they would like to share their meals. Small dishes, shared meals and "mix ing it up" is not something commonly done in Britain, but Yorkshire Pudding will bring full dishes to the table and offer individual plates for each diner. "That way, people still get the presentation of the dishes as they were designed, but can carve them up however they like," Hill says.This practice is also popular at The Pawn, although largely for rotisseries (烤肉馆),Tamlyn says. "Some tables will arrive on a Sunday, order a whole chicken and a shoulder of lamb or a baby pig, and just stay for hours enjoying everything we bring out for them."Some British traditions are too sacred (神圣的)to mess with, however, Tomes says. "I'd never change a full English breakfast."注意：此部分试题请在答题卡1上作答。
2000年英语专业四级考试真题及答案
2000年英语专业四级考试真题及答案Part ⅠWRITING ［45 MIN.］SECTION A COMPOSITIONWrite on ANSWER SHEET ONE a composition of about 150 words on the following topic: College life should be varied and colourful. And extracurricular activities are an important aspect of it. However, at present, there is much room for improveme nt in this regard. Write an article to the university radio entitled:The Importance of Extracurricular ActivitiesIn the first part of your article you should clearly present your view, and in t he second part you should support your opinion with appropriate details. In the last part you should bring what you have written to a natural conclusion or summ ary.Marks will be awarded for content, organization, grammar and appropriacy. Failur e to follow the above instructions may result in a loss of marks.SECTION B NOTE-WRITING［10 MIN.］Write on ANSWER SHEET ONE a note of about 50-60 words based on the following situation:Youve read on the notice board that the university library is looking for a par t-time library assistant who can work at weekends. You think that your classmate , George, is a suitable person for this vacancy. Write him a note, telling him w hat you know about the vacancy and trying to persuade him to go for an interview Marks will be awarded for content organization, grammar and appropriacyPart ⅣCLOZE ［15 MIN.］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.The difference between a liquid and a gas is obvious ( 26 ) the conditions of temperature and pressure commonly found at the sur face of the Earth. A liquid can be kept in an open container and ( 27 ) it to the level of a free surface. A gas forms no free surface but ( 28 ) to diffuse throughout the space available; it must ( 29 ) be kept in a closed container, as ( 30 ) a planets atmosphere. The distinction was a prominent feature of early theories ( 31 )the phases of matter. In the nineteenth century, for example, one theory maintained that a liquid could be dissolved in a vapor without losing its identity, and another theory held that the two phases are ( 32 ) different kinds o f molecules(分子). The theories nowprevailing ( 33 ) a quit e different approach by emphasizing what liquids and gases have in common. They are both forms of matter that have no permanent structure, and they both flow ea sily. They are fluids.The ( 34 ) similarly of liquids and gases becomes clear ly apparent when the temperature and pressure are raised somewhat. ( 35 ) a closed container partially filled with a liquid is heated. The li quid expands or ( 36 ) , becomes less dense; some of it evapor ates. ( 37 ) , the vapor above the liquid surface becomes dense r as the evaporated molecules are added to it. The combination of temperature an d pressure ( 38 ) the densities become equal is ( 3 9 ) the critical point. Above the critical point the liquid and the gas can no longer be ( 40 ) ; there is a single, undifferentiated fluid phase of uniform density.26. A. in B. on C. under D. beyond27. A. fills B. be filled C. filling D. to fill28. A. intends B. tends C. inclines D. contends29. A. however B. nevertheless C. so D. therefore30．A. in the event of B. in the case of C. with a view to D. withreference to31. A. having described B. described C. describing D. to have described32. A. made up of B. consisted of C. constituted of D. made from33. A. apply B. adapt C. take D. conduct34. A. elementary B. crucial C. rudimentary D. fundamental35. A. Suppose B. To suppose C. Being supposed D. Supposed36. A. in a word B. in the meantime C. in other words D. in that case37. A. Similarly B. In contrast C. Furthermore D. Instead38. A. on that B. on which C. at that D. at which39. A. known B. defined C. called D. referred to40. A. classified B. recognized C. categorized D. distinguishedPart ⅤGRAMMAR AND VOCABULARY ［15 MIN.］There are twenty-five sentences in this section. Beneath each sentence there are four words or phrases marked A, B, C and D. Choose one word or phrase that best completes the sentence. Mark your answers on your answer sheet.41. Acute hearing helps most animals sense the approach of thunderstorm s long before people___.A. doB. hearC. do themD. hearing it42. This is an illness that can result in total blindness ___ left u ntreated.A. afterB. ifC. sinceD.unless43. The central provinces have floods in some years, and ___.A. drought in othersB. droughts are othersC. while other droughtsD. others in drought44. Do help yourself to some fruit,___ youA. cantB. dontC. wouldntD. wont45. There___ nothing more for discussion, the meeting came to an e nd half an hour earlier.A. to beB. to have beenC. beingD. be46. My mother cant get ___ because she has rheumatism (风湿病).A. aboutB.onC. throughD. in47. I was very much put ___ by Marks rude behavior; it really annoyed me.A.overB.offC.upD.by48. You ___ Jim anything about it. It was none of his business.A. neednt have toldB. neednt tellC. mustnt have toldD. mustnt tell49. All of us would have enjoyed the party much more if there___ q uite such a crowd of people there.A. werentB. hasnt beenC. hadnt beenD. w ouldnt be50. Firms that use computers have found that the number of staff ___ quality control can be substantially reduced.A.whoseB.asC.whatD.that51. ___ at in this way, the present economic situation doesnt seem so gloomy.A. LookingB. LookedC. Having lookedD. To look52. Many people are ___ to insect bites, and some even have to go to hospital.A. insensitiveB. allergicC. sensibleD. infected53. When youre driving on a motorway, you must obey the signs telling you to get into the right ___.A.wayB.trackC.roadne54. The motorist had to ___to avoid knocking the old woman down in the middle of the road.A. swerveB. twistC. departD. swing55. In winter drivers have trouble stopping their cars from ___ on icy roads.A. skatingB. skiddingC. slidingD. slipping56. This project would ___ a huge increase in defense spending.A. resultB. assureC. entailD. accomplish57. The chances of a repetition of these unfortunate events are ___ indeed.A. distantB. slimC. unlikelyD. narrow58. We should make a clear ___ between competent and proficient for the purposes of our discussion.A. separationB. divisionC. distinctionD. diffe rence59. In the present economic ___ we can make even greater progress than previously.A. airB. moodC. areaD. climate60. Rite of Passage is a good novel by any standards;___, it shoul d rank high on any list of science fiction.A. consistentlyB. consequentlyC. invariablyD. fortunately61. The diversity of tropical plants in the region represents a seeming ly___ source of raw materials, of which only a few have been utilized.A. exploitedB. controversialC. inexhaustibleD. remarkable62. While he was in Beijing, he spent all his time ___ some import antmuseums and buildings.A. visitingB. travelingC. watchingD. touring63. You must let me have the annual report without ___ by ten ocl ock tomorrow morning.A. failureB. hesitationC. troubleD. fail64. As the director cant come to the reception, Im representing the c ompanyA. on his accountB. on his behalfC. for his partD. in his interest65. Dreams are___ in themselves, but when combined with other data, they can tell us much about the dreamer.A. uninformativeB. startlingC. harmlessD. uncontrollablePart ⅥREADING COMPREHENSION ［30 MIN.］SECTION A READING COMPREHENSION［25 MIN.］In this section there are four passages followed by questions or unfinished stat ements, each with four suggested answers marked A, B, C and D. Choose the one th at you think is the best answer.Mark your answers on your answer sheet.TEXT AClearly if we are to participate in the society in which we live we must communi cate with other people. A great deal of communicating isperformed on a person-t o-person basis by the simple means of speech. If we travel in buses, buy things in shops, or eat in restaurants, we are likely to have conversations where we gi ve information or opinions, receive news or comment, and very likely have our vi ews challenged by other members of society.Face-to-face contact is by no means the only form of communication and during th e last two hundred years the art of mass communication has become one of the dom inating factors of contemporary society. Two things, above others, have caused t he enormous growth of the communication industry. Firstly, inventiveness has led to advances in printing, telecommunications, photography, radio and television. secondly, speed has revolutionised the transmission and reception of communicat ions so that local news often takes a back seat to national news, which itself i s often almost eclipsed by international news.No longer is the possession of information confined to a privileged minority. In the last century the wealthy man with his own library was indeed fortunate, but today there are public libraries. Forty years ago people used to flock to the c inema, but now far more people sit at home and turn on the TV to watch a program me that is being channelled into millions of homes. Communication is no longer merely concerned with the transmission of information . The modem communication industry influences the way people live in society and broadens their horizons byallowing access to information, education and entert ainment. The printing, broadcasting and advertising industries are all involved with informing, educating and entertaining.Although a great deal of the material communicated by the mass media is very val uable to the individual and to the society of which he is a part, the vast modem network of communications is open to abuse. However, the mass media are with us for better, for worse, and there is no turning back.66. In the first paragraph the writer emphasizes the___ of face-t o-face contact in social settings.A. natureB. limitationC. usefulnessD. creativity67. It is implied in the passage that___.A. local news used to be the only source of information.B. local news still takes a significant place.C. national news is becoming more popular.D. international news is the fastest transmitted news.68. Which of the following statements is INCORRECTA. To possess information used to be a privilege.B. Public libraries have replaced private libraries.C. Communication means more than transmission.D. Information influences ways of life and thinking.69. From the last paragraph we can infer that the writer is___.A. indifferent to the harmful influence of the mass mediaB. happy about the drastic changes in the mass mediaC. pessimistic about the future of the mass mediaD. concerned about the wrong use of the mass mediaTEXT BThe men and women of Anglo-Saxon England normally bore one name only. Distinguis hing epithets were rarely added. These might bepatronymic, descriptive or occup ational. They were, however, hardly surnames. Heritable names gradually became g eneral in the three centuries following the Norman Conquest in 1066. It was not until the 13th and 14th centuries that surnames became fixed, although for many years after that, the degree of stability in family names varied considerably in different parts of the country.British surnames fall mainly into four broad categories: patronymic, occupationa l, descriptive and local. A few names, it is true, will remain puzzling: foreign names, perhaps, crudely translated, adapted or abbreviated; or artificial names . In fact, over fifty per cent of genuine British surnames derive from place names of different kinds, and so they belong to the last of our four main categories. Even such a name as Simpson may belong to this last group, and not to the first , had the family once had its home in the ancient village of that name. Otherwis e, Simpson means the son of Simon, as might be expected.Hundreds of occupational surnames are at once familiar to us, or at least r ecognisable after a little thought: Archer, Carter, Fisher, Mason, Thatcher, Tay lor, to name but a few. Hundreds of others are more obscure in their meanings an d testify to the amazing specialisation in medieval arts, crafts and functions. Such are Day, (Old English for breadmaker) and Walker (a fuller whose job it was to clean and thicken newly made cloth).All these vocational names carry with them a certain gravity and dignity, w hich descriptive names often lack. Some, it is true, like Long, Short or Li ttle, are simple. They may be taken quite literally. Others require more thinki ng: their meanings are slightly different from the modem ones. Black and White implied dark and fair respectively. Sharp meant genuinely discerning, alert, acute rather than quick-witted or clever. Place-names have a lasting interest since there is hardly a town or village in a ll England that has not at some time given its name to a family. They may be pic turesque, even poetical; or they may be pedestrian, even trivial. Among the comm oner names which survive with relatively little change from old-English times ar e Milton(middle enclosure) and Hilton(enclosure on a hill).70. Surnames are said to be ___ in Anglo-Saxon England.A. commonB. vocationalC. unusualD. descriptiv e71. We learn from the first paragraph ___ for many years after the 13th and 14th centuries.A. family names became descriptive and occupationalB. people in some areas still had no surnamesC. some people kept changing their surnamesD. all family names became fixed in England72. Patronymic in the second paragraph is closest in meaning to formed from ___.A. the name of ones fatherB. the family occupationC. ones family homeD. ones family history73. Which of the following sentences is an opinion rather than a factA. hundreds of occupational names are at once familiar to us.B. Black and White implied dark and fair respectively.C. V ocational names carry with them a certain gravity and dignity.D. Every place in England has given its name to a family.TEXT CSince the early 1930s, Swiss banks had prided themselves on their system of banking secrecy and numbered accounts. Over the years, they had successfully w ithstood every challenge to this system by their own government who, in turn, ha d been frequently urged by foreigngovernments to reveal information about the f inancial affairs to certain account holders. The result of this policy of secre cy was that a kind of mystique had grown up around Swiss banking. There was a w idely-held belief that Switzerland was irresistible to wealthy foreigners, mainl y because of its numbered accounts and bankers reluctance to ask awkward questi ons of depositors. Contributing to the mystique was the view, carefully propagat ed by the banks themselves, that if this secrecy was ever given up, foreigners w ould fall over themselves in the rush to withdraw money, and the Swiss banking s ystem would virtually collapse overnight.To many, therefore, it came like a bolt out of the blue, when, in 1977, the Swiss banks announced they had signed a pact with the Swiss National Bank (the Central Bank). The aim of the agreement was to prevent to improper use of the c ountrys bank secrecy laws, and its effect was to curb severely the system of se crecy.The rules which the banks had agreed to observe made the opening of numbere d accounts subject to much closer scrutiny than before. The banks would be requ ired, if necessary, to identify the origin of foreign funds going into numbered and other accounts. The idea was to stop such accounts being used for dubious p urposes. Also they agreed not to accept funds resulting from tax evasion or from crime.The pact represented essentially a tightening up of banking rules.Although the banks agreed to end relations with clients whose identities were unclear or who were performing improper acts, they were still not obliged to inform on a client to anyone, including the Swiss government. To some extent, therefore, the princ iple of secrecy had been maintained.74. Swiss banks took pride in___.A. the number of their accountsB. withholding client informationC. being mysterious to the outsidersD. attracting wealthy foreign clients75. According to the passage, the widely-held belief that Switzerland w as irresistible to wealthy foreigners was ___ by banks themselves.A. deniedB. criticizedC. reviewedD. defended76. In the last paragraph, the writer thinks that___.A. complete changes had been introduced into Swiss banksB. Swiss banks could no longer keep client informationC. changes in the bank policies had been somewhat superficialD. more changes need to be considered and madeTEXT DCoketown was a town of red brick, or of brick that would have been red if the sm oke and the ashes had allowed it; but as matters stood it was a town of unnatura l red and black like the painted face of a savage. It was a town of machinery an d tall chimneys, out of which smoke trailed themselves for ever and ever. It had a black canal in it, and a river that ran purple with ill-smelling dye, and vas t piles of buildings full of windows where there was a rattling and a trembling all day long, and where the piston of the steam-engine worked monotonously up an d down like the head of an elephant in a state of madness. The town contained se veral large streets all very like one another, and many small streets still more like one another, inhabited by people equally like one another.A sunny midsummer day. There was such a thing sometimes, even in Coketown. Seen from a distance in such weather, Coketown lay covered in a haze of its own. You only knew the town was there, because you knew there could have been no such blo tch upon the view without atown.The streets were hot and dusty on the summer day, and the sun was so bright that it even shone through the haze over Coketown, and could not be looked at steadi ly. Workers emerged from low underground doorways into factory yards, and sat on posts and steps, wiping their faces and contemplating coals. The whole town see med to be frying in oil. There was a stifling smell of hot oil everywhere. The a tmosphere of those places was like the breath of hell, and their inhabitants was ting with heat, toiled languidly in the desert. But no temperature made the mad elephants more mad or more sane. Their wearisome heads went up and down at the s ame rate, in hot weather and in cold, wet weather and dry fair weather and foul. The measured motion of their shadows on the walls, was the substitute Coketown had to show for the shadows of rustling woods; while for the summer hum of insec ts, it could offer all the year round, from the dawn of Monday to the night of S aturday, the whirr of shafts and wheels.77. Which of the following adjectives is NOT appropriate to describe Co ketownA. dullB. dirtyC. noisyD. savage78. From the passage we know that Coketown was mainly a(n) ___town .A. industrialB. agriculturalC. residentialD. commercial79. Only ___ were not affected by weather.A. the workmenB. the inhabitantsC. the steam-enginesD. the rustling woods80. Which is the authors opinion of CoketownA. Coketown should be replaced by woods.B. The town was seriously polluted.C. The town had too much oil in it.D. The towns atmosphere was traditional.SECTION B SKIMMING AND SCANNINGIn this section there are seven passages with a total often multiple-choice ques tions. Skim or scan them as required and then mark your answers on your answer s heet.TEXT EFirst read the following question.81. The writer is concerned about___.A. budget housekeepingB. the retail tradeC. computer skillsD. mental arithmeticNow read Text E quickly and mark your answer on your answer sheet.A lot of attention is being given to children who leave school unable to read or write. I think there should be equal concern for those who are unable to cope w ith simple mental arithmetic -particularly girls. It is often stated that todays children are growing up in a computer world and they dont need the same skills that their grandparents did. But is it any wonde r that many young girls trying to cope with budget housekeeping fail for the sim ple reason they cannot keep accurate checks on their purchases Shopping in markets is no source of cheap purchasing unless one is able to keep pace with the apparent mental agility of the vendor. Must we face the thought that at some time in the distant future everyone will n eed to carry in their handbag or pocket one of the miniature calculatorsTEXT FFirst read the following question.82. This is a letter of___.A. referenceB. applicationC. inquiryD. complaintNow read Text F quickly and mark your answer on your answer sheet.10 Garden Ave.EssexThe Personnel OfficerBelgian Medico Ltd.P0 Box 920BrusselsBelgium5th May 200___Dear Sir,With reference to your advertisement in the Daily Star, Id like to apply for the position of translator with your firm. I hold a degree in German and French from the University of London. And I have w orked as a translator for the past three years with Watson Sons, Ltd., manufac turer of laboratory instruments, translating business correspondence from French and German into English. I am 25 years old and unmarried. I enjoy living and working in different countri es and I should welcome the chance of moving to Belgium.Yours sincerely,(Miss) Janet HolbrookeTEXT GFirst read the following question.83. The passage is mainly about___.A. lonelinessB. experienceC.memoryD. isolationNow read Text G quickly and mark your answer on your answer sheet.Loneliness is a curious thing. Most of us can remember feeling most lonely when we were not in fact alone at all, but when we were surrounded by people. Everyon e has experienced, at some time, that strong sense of isolation that comes over you when you are at a party or in a room full of happy laughing people. It sudde nly seems to you as if everybody knows everybody else, everybody knows what is g oing on; everybody, that is, except you.This feeling of loneliness which can overcome you when you are in a crowd is ver y difficult to get rid of. People living alone are advised to tackle their lonel iness by joining a club or a society, by going out and meeting people.TEXT HFirst read the following question.84. The author mainly discusses ___ of public transportation.A. the priceB. the typesC. the improveme ntD. the advantageNow read Text H quickly and mark your answer on your answer sheet.The price of public transportation in Beijing has doubled twice since 1989, but it is still a bargain. Using the subway and minibuses used to show class status; now people of all classes take them, while some wealthy prefer taxis or private cars. What a change in just a few years!But there are downfalls to having more cars on the roads. Fortunately, the gover nment is aware of the problem. No-lead gasoline is the only one permitted in the city, and the rest of the country follows. Thousands of trees are planted in an d around the city every year. Children are taught why and how to protect the env ironment. At the same time, public transportation has marked real progress: buse s are everywhere and run frequently. We no longer see those old buses with broke n windows. Instead, there are fast buses, double-decker buses, air-conditioned o r heated buses, all offering a good service.TEXT IFirst read the following questions.85. Each participating team should at least have ___A. twoB.threeC.fourD. five86. Participants can bring along their ___ to the competition.A. Christmas treesB. Christmas presentsC. festival costumesD. decoration materialsNow read Text I quickly and mark your answers on your answer sheet.With Christmas Day around the corner, Hong Kongs Provisional Regional Council announced that a Christmas tree decoration competition will be held on Sunday in conjunction with the ongoing Regional Council Festival. Members of the public are welcome to take part in the competition as families or small groups. Each team should be formed by at least three persons. A total of 99 Christmas trees of 1.5 metres in height will be available for the participating teams to decorate. Participants can bring along their own decorati on materials and to use their imagination and creativity to achieve the best res ults.Each participating team can take home the Christmas tree it has decorated as a souvenir. In addition, there will be cash awards for the winners.TEXT JFirst read the following questions.87. If you only have time for a half-day trip, which day would you choo seA. Sunday 23 July.B. Saturday 15 July.C. Wednesday 9 August.D. Saturday 5 August.88. Which of the following trips offers you the opportunity to see Geor gian architectureA. Trip One.B. Trip Two.C. Trip Three.D. Trip Four.Now read Text quickly and mark your answers on your answer sheet.Summer OutingsTrip OneSaturday 15 July Stratford-upon-Avon and Julius CaesarThe coach will leave at 9 am, allowing a couple of hours to visit Stratford befo re the performance of Julius Caesar at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre. Back around 7:30 pm.Trip TwoSunday 23 July BathThe spa town of Bath contains the countrys finest Roman ruins, and much elegant Georgian architecture. The coach will depart at 9 am,returning at around 6:30 pm.Trip ThreeSaturday 5 August Stratford-upon-Avon and The Taming of the Shrew Another chance to visit Stratford. The Taming of the Shrew stars Josie Lawrenc e in the title role. The coach will leave at 9 am, returning at around 7:30 pm.Trip FourWednesday 9 August Oxford and A Midsummer Nights Dream A half-day trip to Oxford. The coach will leave at 2:15 pm, allowing an afternoo n to see the sights before one of Shakespeares most popular plays at the Playho use Theatre. Back after the show.TEXT KFirst read the following questions.89. Which nation is thought to be business-mindedA. The Dutch.B. The Italians.C. The British.D. The Germans.90. The opinions seem to be most divided on___.A. the GermansB. the DutchC. the FrenchD. the BritishNow read Text K quickly and mark your answers on your answer sheet.Some of the data from a survey on national stereotypes in some European countries is summarized below:Germans Liked themselves best of all. Most Europeans agreed that the Germans had the highest proportion of good qualities. They considered themselves very tolerant, but nobody else did.French Not really admired by anyone except the Italians. Other Europeans found them conservative, withdrawn, brilliant, superficial. Also, not very friendl y.British Mixed reactions. Some found them calm, reserved, open- minded, others thought they were insular and superior. The British most admired the Dutch.Italians Generally considered by everyone to be lazy and untrustworthy, an d the Italians agreed! Most also found them to be charming, hospitable and noisy. The Italians admired the French. Hardly anyone loved the Italians except the French.Dutch Most admired people in Europeexcept by their neighboursthe Belgians. Everyone agreed that the Dutch are hardworking, thrifty, good-natured, tolerant and business-minded.。
2000年06月大学英语四级(CET-4)真题试卷(含答案)
Part II Vocabulary (20 minutes)21. As we can no longer wait for the delivery of our order, we have to _______it.A) postpone B) refuse C) delay D) cancel22. These books, which you can get at any bookshop, will give you _______ you need.A) all the information B) all the informationsC) all of information D) all of the informations23. Not until the game had begun_______ at the sports ground.A) had he arrived B) would he have arrivedC) did he arrive D) should he have arrived24. Young people are not _______ to stand and look at works of art; they want art they can participate in.A) conservative B) content C) confident D) generous25. Most broadcasters maintain that TV has been unfairly criticized and argue that the power of the medium is _______.A) granted B) implied C) exaggerated D) remedied26. These surveys indicate that many crimes go _______ by the police, mainly because not all victims report them.A) unrecorded B) to be unrecorded C) unrecording D) to have been unrecorded27. I have no objection _______ your story again.A) to hear B) to hearing C) to having heard D) to have heard28. The clothes a person wears may express his _______ or social position.A) curiosity B) status C) determination D) significance29. By law, when one makes a large purchase, he should have _______ opportunity to change his mind.A) accurate B) urgent C) excessive D) advertising30. You will see this product _______ wherever you go.A) to be advertised B) advertised C) advertise D) advertising31. The early pioneers had to _______ many hardships to settle on the new land.A) go along with B) go back on C) go through D) go into32. The suggestion that the mayor _______ they prizes was accepted by everyone.A) would present B) present C) presents D) ought to present33. Beer is the most popular drink among male drinkers, _______ overall consumption is significantly higher than that of women.A) whose B) which C) that D) what34. Peter, who had been driving all day, suggested _______ at the next town.A) to stop B) stopping C) stop D) having stopped35. I didn't know the word. I had to _______ a dictionary.A) look out B) make out C) refer to D) go over36. The professor could hardly find sufficient grounds _______ his arguments in favour of the new theory.A) to be based on B) to base on C) which to base on D) on which to base37. There are signs _______ restaurants are becoming more popular with families.A) that B) which C) in which D) whose38. I think I was at school, _______ I was staying with a friend doring the vacation when I heard the news.A) or else B) and then C) or so D) even so39. It is said that the math teacher seems _______ towards bright students.A) partial B) beneficial C) preferable D) liable40. In order to show his boss what a careful worker he was, he took _______ trouble over the figures.A) extensive B) spare C) extra D) supreme41. --"May I speak to your manager Mr. Williams at five o'clock tonight?"--"I'm sorry. M. Williams _______ to a conference long before then."A) will have gone B) had gone C) would have gone D) has gone42. You _______ him so closely; you should have kept your distance.A) shouldn't follow B) mustn't followC) couldn't have been following D) shouldn't have been following43. The growth of parta2time and flexible working patterns, and of trainingand retraining schemes, _______ more women to take advantage of employment opportunities.A) have allowed B) allow C) allowing D) allows44. Everybody _______ in the hall where they were welcomed by the secretary.A) assembled B) accumulated C) piled D) joined45. Putting in a new window will _______ cutting away part of the roof.A) include B) involve C) contain D) comprise46. Living in the western part of the country has its problems, _______ obtaining fresh water is not the leastA) with which B) for which C) of which D) which47. In the _______ of the project not being a success, the investors stand to lose up to $30 million.A) face B) time C) event D) course48. The manager would rather his daughter _______ in the same office.A) had not worked B) not to work C) does not work D) did not work49. _______, he does get annoyed with her sometimes.A) Although much he likes her B) Much although he likes herC) As he likes her much D) Much as he likes her50. The British constitution is _______ a large extent a product of the historical events described above.A) within B) to C) by D) atPart III Reading Comprehension (35 minutes)Passage OneLong after the 1998 World Cup was won, disappointed fans were still cursing the disputed refereeing（裁判）decisions that denied victory to their team. A researcher was appointed to study the performance of some top referees.The researcher organized an experimental tournament（锦标赛）involving four youth teams. Each match lasted an hour, divided into three periods of 20 minutes during which different referees were in charge.Observers noted down the referees’ errors, of which there were 61 over the tournament. Converted to a standard match of 90 minutes, each referee made almost 23 mistakes, a remarkably high number.The researcher then studied the videotapes to analyse the matches in detail. Surprisingly, he found that errors were more likely when the referees were close to the incident. When the officials got it right, they were, on average, 17 meters away from the action. The average distance in the case of errors was 12 meters. The research shows the optimum（最佳的）distance is about 20 meters.There also seemed to be an optimum speed. Correct decisions came when the referees were moving at a speed of about 2 meters per second. The average speed for errors was 4 meters per second.If FIFA, football’s international ruling body, wants to improve the standard of refereeing at the next World Cup, it should encourage referees to keep their eyes on the action from a distance, rather than rushing to keep up with the ball, the researcher argues.He also says that FIFA’s insistence that referees should retire at age 45 may bemisguided. If keeping up with the action is not so important, their physical condition is less critical.51. The experiment conducted by the researcher was meant to _______.A) review the decisions of referees at the 1998 World CupB) analyse the causes of errors made by football refereesC) set a standard for football refereeingD) reexamine the rules for football refereeing52. The number of refereeing errors in the experimental matches was _______.A) slightly above averageB) higher than in the 1998 World CupC) quite unexpectedD) as high as in a standard match53. The findings of the experiment show that _______.A) errors are more likely when a referee keeps close to the ballB) the farther the referee is from the incident, the fewer the errorsC) the more slowly the referee runs, the more likely will errors occurD) errors are less likely when a referee stays in one spot54. The word “officials” (Line 2, Para.4) most probably refers to _______.A) the researchers involved in the experimentB) the inspectors of the football tournamentC) the referees of the football tournamentD) the observers at the site of the experiment55. What is one of the possible conclusions of the experiment?A) The ideal retirement age for an experienced football referee is 45.B) Age should not be the chief consideration in choosing a football referee.C) A football referee should be as young and energetic as possible.D) An experienced football referee can do well even when in poor physical condition. Passage TwoWhile still in its early stages, welfare reform has already been judged a great success in many states —at least in getting people off welfare. It’s estimated that more than 2 million people have left the rolls since 1994.In the past four years, welfare rolls in Athens Country have been cut in half. But 70 percent of the people who left in the past tow years took jobs that paid less than $6 an hour. The result: The Athens County poverty rate still remains at more than 30 percent — twice the national average.For advocates（代言人）for the poor, that’s an indication much more needs to be done.“More people are getting jobs, but it’s not making their lives any better,” says Kathy Lairn, a policy analyst at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities inWashington.A center analysis of US Census data nationwide found that between 1995 and 1996, a greater percentage of single, female-headed households were earning money on their own, but that average income for these households actually went down.But for many, the fact that poor people are able to support themselves almost as well without government aid as they did with it is in itself a huge victory.“Welfare was a poison. It was a toxin（毒素）that was poisoning the family,” says Robert Rector, a welfare-reform policy analyst. “The reform in changing the moral climate in low-income communities. It’s beginning to rebuild the work ethic（道德观）, which is much more important.”Mr. Rector and o thers argued that once “the habit of dependency is cracked,” then the country can make other policy changes aimed at improving living standards.56. From the passage, it can be seen that the author _______.A) believes the reform has reduced the government’s burdenB) insists that welfare reform is doing little good for the poorC) is overenthusiastic about the success of welfare reformD) considers welfare reform to be fundamentally successful57. Why aren’t people enjoying better lives when they have jobs?A) Because many families are divorced.B) Because government aid is now rare.C) Because their wages are low.D) Because the cost of living is rising.58. What is worth noting from the example of Athens County is that _______.A) greater efforts should b e made to improve people’s living standardsB) 70 percent of the people there have been employed for two yearsC) 50 percent of the population no longer relies on welfareD) the living standards of most people are going down59. From the passage we know that welfare reform aims at _______.A) saving welfare fundsB) rebuilding the work ethicC) providing more jobsD) cutting government expenses60. According to the passage before the welfare reform was carried out, _______.A) the poverty rate was loverB) average living standards were higherC) the average worker was paid higher wagesD) the poor used to rely on government aidPassage ThreeAmericans are pound of their variety and individuality, yet they love and respectfew things more than a uniform, whether it is the uniform of an elevator operator or the uniform of a five-star general. Why are uniforms so popular in the United States?Among the arguments for uniforms, one of the first is that in the eyes of most people they look more professional than civilian（百姓的）clothes. People have become conditioned to expect superior quality from a man who wears a uniform. the television repairman who wears uniform tends to inspire more trust than one who appears in civilian clothes. Faith in the skill of a garage mechanic is increased by a uniform. What easier way is there for a nurse, a policeman, a barber, or a waiter to lose professional identity（身份）than to step out of uniform?Uniforms also have many practical benefits. They save on other clothes. They save on laundry bills. They are tax-deductible（可减税的）. They are often more comfortable and more durable than civilian clothes.Primary among the arguments against uniforms is their lack of variety and the consequent loss of individuality experienced by people who must wear them. Though there are many types of uniforms, the wearer of any particular type is generally stuck with it, without change, until retirement. When people look alike, they tend to think, speak, and act similarly, on the job at least.Uniforms also give rise to some practical problems. Though they are long-lasting, often their initial expense is greater than the cost of civilian clothes. Some uniforms are also expensive to maintain, requiring professional dry cleaning rather than the home laundering possible with many types of civilian clothes.61. It is surprising that Americans who worship variety and individuality _______.A) still judge a man by his clothesB) hold the uniform in such high regardC) enjoy having a professional identityD) will respect an elevator operator as much as a general in uniform62. People are accustomed to think that a man in uniform _______.A) suggests quality workB) discards his social identityC) appears to be more practicalD) looks superior to a person in civilian clothes63. The chief function of a uniform is to _______.A) provide practical benefits to the wearerB) make the wearer catch the pubic eyeC) inspire the wearer’s confidence in himselfD) provide the wearer with a professional identity64. According to the passage, people wearing uniforms _______.A) are usually helpfulB) have little or no individual freedomC) tend to lose their individualityD) enjoy greater popularity65. The best title for this passage would be _______.A) Uniforms and SocietyB) The Importance of Wearing a UniformC) Practical Benefits of Wearing a UniformD) Advantages and Disadvantages of UniformsPassage FourSince we are social beings, the quality of our lives depends in large measure on our interpersonal relationships. One strength of the human condition is our tendency to give and receive support from one another under stressful circumstances. Social support consists of the exchange of resources among people based on their interpersonal ties. Those of us with strong support systems appear better able to cope with major life changes and daily hassles（困难）. People with strong social ties live longer and have better health than those without such ties. Studies over a range of illnesses, from depression to heart disease, reveal that the presence of social support helps people fend off（挡开）illness, and the absence of such support makes poor health more likely.Social support cushions stress in a number of ways. First, friends, relatives, andco-workers may let us know that they value us. Our self-respect is strengthened when we feel accepted by others despite our faults and difficulties. Second, other people often provide us with informational support. They help us to define and understand our problems and find solutions to them. Third, we typically find social companionship supportive. Engaging in leisure-time activities with others helps us to meet our social needs while at the same time distracting（转移…注意力）us from our worries and troubles. Finally, other people may give us instrumental support —financial aid, material resources, and needed services — that reduces stress by helping us resolve and cope with our problems.66. Interpersonal relationships are important because _______.A) they are indispensable to people’s social well-beingB) they awaken people’s desire to exchange resourcesC) they help people to cope with life in the information eraD) they can cure a range of illnesses such as heart disease, etc.67. Research shows that people’s physical and mental health _______.A) relies on the social welfare systems which support themB) has much to do with the amount of support they get from othersC) depends on their ability to deal with daily worries and troublesD) is closely related to their strength for coping with major changes in their lives68. Which of the following is closest in meaning to the word “cushions” (Line 1, Para.2)?A) Adds up to.B) Does away with.C) Lessens the effect of.D) Lays the foundation for.69. Helping a sick neighbor with some repair work is an example of _______.A) instrumental supportB) informational supportC) social companionshipD) the strengthening of self-respect70. Social companionship is beneficial in that _______.A) it helps strengthen our ties with relativesB) it enables us to eliminate our faults and mistakesC) it makes our leisure-time activities more enjoyableD) it draws our attention away from our worries and troublesPart IV Translation (15 minutes)Directions: In this part, there are four items, each consisting of one or two sentences for you to translate into Chinese. These sentences are all taken from the Reading Passages you have just read in Part Three of Test Paper One. You should refer back to the passages so as to identify their meanings in the context.S1. (Lines 1-2, Para.1, Passage 1)Long after the 1998 World Cup was won, disappointed fans were still cursing the disputed refereeing（裁判）decisions that denied victory to their team.S2. (Lines 1-2, Para.6, Passage 2)But for many, the fact that poor people are able to support themselves almost as well without government aid as they did with it is in itself a huge victory.S3. (Lines 5-6, Para.2, Passage 3)What easier way is there for a nurse, a policeman, a barber, or a waiter to lose professional identity（身份）than to step out of uniform?S4. (Lines 3-4, Para.1, Passage 4)Social support consists of the exchange of resources among people based on their inter personal ties.Part V Writing (30 minutes)Directions: For this part, you are allowed thirty minutes to write a composition on the topic Is a Test of Spoken English Necessary? The first sentence has already been written for you. You should write at least 100 words, and base your competition on the outline given in Chinese below:1, 很多人认为有必要举行英语口语考试，理由是．．．2, 也有人持不同意见，．．．3, 我的看法和打算Is a Test of Spoken English NecessaryA test of spoken English will be included as an optional component of the College English Test (CET)参考答案：Part II Vocabulary21.D) cancel22.A) all the information23.C) did he arrive24.B) content25.C) exaggerated26.A) unrecorded27.B) to hearing28.B) status29.D) adequate30.B) advertised31.C) go through32.B) present33.A) whose34.B) stopping35.C) refer to36.D) on which to base37.A) that38.A) or else39.A) partial40.C) extra41.A) will have gone42.D) shouldn’t have been following43.D) allows44.A) assembled45.B) involve46.C) of which47.C) event48.D) not to work49.D) Much as he likes her50.B) toPart III Reading Comprehension51.B) analyse the causes of errors made by football referees52.C) quite unexpected53.A) errors are more likely when a referee keeps close to the ball54.C) the referees of the football tournament55.B) Age should not be the chief consideration in choosing a football referee56.D) considers welfare reform to be fundamentally successful57.C) Because their wages are low58.A) greater efforts should be made to improve people’s livin g standards59.B) rebuilding the work ethic60.D) the poor used to rely on government aid61.B) hold the uniform in such high regard62.A) suggests quality work63.D) provide the wearer with a professional identity64.C) tend to lose their individuality65.D) Advantages and Disadvantages of Uniforms66.A) they are indispensable to people’s social well-being67.B) has much to do with the amount of support they get from others68.C) Lessens the effect of69.A) instrumental support70.D) it draws our attention away from our worries and troublesPart IV TranslationS1. 1998年世界杯足球赛早已尘埃落定，但失望的球迷们仍在责骂那些颇有争议的判罚，声称正是那些判罚使他们的球队没能获胜。
2000-2006年大学英语四级考试试题及参考答案050604
2005年6月四级真题Part I Listening ComprehensionSection A1. A) The man hates to lend his tools to other people.B) The man hasn’t finished working on the bookshelf.C) The tools have already been returned to the woman.D) The tools the man borrowed from the woman are missing.2. A) Give the ring to a policeman.B) Wait for the owner of the ring in the rest room.C) Hand in the ring to the security office.D) Take the ring to the administration building.3. A) Save time by using a computer.B) Buy her own computerC) Borrow Martha’s computer.D) Stay home and complete her paper4. A) The man doesn’t have money for his daughter’s graduate studies.B) The man doesn’t think his daughter will get a business degree.C) The man insists that his daughter should pursue her studies in science.D) The man advises his daughter to think carefully before making her decision.5. A) The cinema is some distance away from where they are.B) He would like to read the film review in the newspaper.C) They should wait to see the movie at a later time.D) He’ll find his way to the cinema.6. A) He’s been to Seattle many times.B) He has chaired a lot of conferences.C) He has a high position in his company.D) He lived in Seattle for many years.7. A) Teacher and student.B) Doctor and patient. .C) Manager and office worker.D) Travel agent and customer8. A) She knows the guy who will give the lecture .B) She thinks the lecture might be informativeC) She wants to add something to her lecture .D) She’ll finished her report th is weekend9. A) An art museum. B) A beautiful park.C) A college campus D) An architectural exhibition10. A) The houses for sale are of poor qualityB) The houses are too expensive for the couple to buyC) The housing developers provide free trips for potential buyersD) The man is unwilling to take a look at the houses for saleSection BPassage 111. A) Synthetic fuel B) Solar energyC) Alcohol D) Electricity12. A) Air traffic conditions B) Traffic jams on highwaysC) Road conditions D) New traffic rules13. A) Go through a health check B) Carry little luggageC) Arrive early for boarding D) Undergo security checksPassage 214. A) In a fast-food restaurant B) At a shopping centerC) At a county fair D) In a bakery15. A) Avoid eating any foodB) Prepare the right type of pie to eatC) Wash his hands thoroughlyD) Practice eating a pie quickly16. A) On the table B) Behind his backC) Under his bottom D) On his lap17. A) Looking sideways to see how fast your neighbor eats.B) Eating from the outside toward the middleC) Swallowing the pie with waterD) Holding the pie in the right positionPassage 318. A) Beauty B) LoyaltyC) Luck D) Durability19. A) He wanted to follow the tradition of his countryB) He believed that it symbolized an everlasting marriageC) It was thought a blood vessel in that finger led directly to the heartD) It was supposed that the diamond on that finger would bring good luck20. A) The two people can learn about each other’s likes and dislikesB) The two people can have time to decide if they are a good matchC) The two people can have time to shop for their new home.D) The two people can earn enough money for their weddingPart II Reading ComprehensionPassage 1Is there enough oil beneath the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (保护区) (ANWR) to help secure America’s energy future ? President Bush certainly thinks so. He has argued that tappin g ANWR’s oil would help ease California’s electricity crisis and provide a major boost to the country’s energy independence. But no one knows for sure how much crude oil lies buried beneath the frozen earth with the last government survey, conducted in 1998, projecting output anywhere from 3 billion to 16 billion barrels.The oil industry goes with the high end of the range, which could equal as much as 10% of U.S. consumption for as long as six years. By pumping more than 1 million barrels a day from the reserve for the next two three decades, lobbyists claim, the nation could cut back on imports equivalent to all shipments to the U.S. from Saudi Arabia. Sounds good. An oil boom would alsomean a multibillion-dollar windfall（意外之财）in tax revenues, royalties(开采权使用费)and leasing fees for Alaska and the Federal Government. Best of all, advocates of drilling say , damage to the environment would be insignificant . “We’ve never had a document case of oil rig chasing deer out onto the pack ice.” says Alaska State Re presentative Scott Ogan .Not so far, say environmentalists. Sticking to the low end of government estimates, the National Resources Defense Council says there may be no more than 3.2 billion barrels of economically recoverable oil in the coastal plain of ANWR, a drop in the bucket that would do virtually nothing to ease America’s energy problems. And consumers would wait up to a decade to gain any benefits, because drilling could begin only after much bargaining over leases, environmental permits and regul atory review. As for ANWR’s impact on the California power crisis, environmentalists point out that oil is responsible for only 1% of the Golden State’s electricity output –and just 3% of the nation’s.21. What does President Bush think of tapping oil in ANWR?A) It will exhaust the nation’s oil reserves.B) It will help secure the future of ANWR.C) It will help reduce the nation’s oil importsD) It will increase America’s energy consumption22. We learn from the second paragraph that the American oil industry _______A) believes that drilling for oil in ANWR will produce high yieldsB) tends to exaggerate America’s reliance on foreign oilC) shows little interest in tapping oil in ANWRD) expects to stop oil imports from Saudi Arabia23. Those against oil drilling in ANWR argue that _________A) it can cause serious damage to the environmentB) it can do little to solve U.S. energy problemsC) it will drain the oil reserves in the Alaskan regionD) it will not have much commercial value24. What do the environmentalists mean by saying “Not so fast” (Line 1, Para .3)?A) Oil exploitation takes a long timeB) The oil drilling should be delayedC) Don’t be too optimisticD) Don’t expect fast returns25. It can be learned from the passage that oil ex ploitation beneath ANWR’s frozen earth ______.A) remains a controversial issueB) is expected to get under way soonC) involves a lot of technological problemsD) will enable the U.S. to be oil independentPassage 2“Tear ‘em apart!” “Kill the fool!” “ Murder the referee ( 裁判)！”These are common remarks one may hear at various sporting events. At the time they are made, they may seem innocent enough. But let’s not kid ourselves. They have been known to influence behavior in such a way as to lead to real bloodshed. V olumes have been written about the way words affect us .It has been shown that words having certain connotations (含义) may cause us to react in ways quite foreign to what we consider to be our usual humanistic behavior . Isee the term “opponent “ as one of those words . Perhaps the time has come to delete it from sports terms.The dictionary meaning of the term “opponent “is “adversary “:“enemy “; “one who opposes your interests.” “Thus, when a player meets an opponent, he or she may ten d to treat that opponent as an enemy. At such times, winning may dominate one’s intellect, and every action, no matter how gross, may be considered justifiable. I recall an incident in a handball game when a referee refused a player’s request for a time ou t for a glove change because he did not considered then wet enough. The player proceeded to rub his gloves across his wet T-shirt and then exclaimed. “Are they wet enough now?”In the heat of battle, players have been observed to throw themselves across the court without considering the consequences that such a move might have on anyone in their way. I have also witnessed a player reacting to his opponent’s international and illegal blocking by deliberately hitting him with the ball as hard as he could during the course of play. Off the court, they are good friends. Does that make any sense? It certainly gives proof of a court attitude which departs from normal behavior.Therefore, I believe it is time we elevated(提升)the game to the level where it belongs th ereby setting an example to the rest of the sporting world . Replacing the term “opponent “with “associate” could be an ideal way to start.The dictionary meaning of the term “associate “ is “colleague” ; “friend” ; “companion.” Reflect a moment! You may soon see and possibly feel the difference in your reaction to the term “associate” rather than “opponent.”26. Which of the following statements best expresses the author’s view?A) Aggressive behavior in sports can have serious consequencesB) The words people use can influence their behaviorC) Unpleasant words in sports are often used by foreign athletesD) Unfair judgments by referees will lead to violence on the sports field27. Harsh words are spoken during games because the players _______A) are too eager to winB) are usually short-tempered and easily offendedC) cannot afford to be polite in fierce competitionD) treat their rivals as enemies28. What did the handball player do when he was not allowed a time out to change his gloves?A) He refused to continue the gameB) He angrily hit the referee with a ballC) He claimed that the referee was unfairD) He wet his gloves by rubbing them across his T-shirt29. According to the passage, players, in a game , may _______A) deliberately throw the ball at anyone illegally blocking their wayB) keep on screaming and shouting throughout the gameC) lie down on the ground as an act of protestD) kick the ball across the court with force30. The author hopes to have the current situation in sports improved by ______A) calling on players to use clean language on the courtB) raising the referee’s sense of responsibilityC) changing the attitude of players on the sports fieldD) regulating the relationship between players and refereesPassage 3Consumers are being confused and misled by the hodge-podge (大杂烩) of environmental claims made by household products, according to a “green labeling” study published by Consumers International Friday .Among the report’s more outrageous (令人无法容忍的) findings-a German fertilizer described itself as “ earthworm friendly” a brand of flour said it was “non-polluting” and a British toilet paper claimed to be “environmentally friendlier”The study was written and researched by Britain’s National Consumer Co uncil (NCC) for lobby group Consumer International. It was funded by the German and Dutch governments and the European Commission.“ While many good and useful claims are being made , it is clear there is a long way to go in ensuring shoppers are adequatel y informed about the environmental impact of products they buy,” said Consumers International director Anna Fielder .The 10-country study surveyed product packaging in Britain. Western Europe, Scandinavia and the United States. It found that products sold in Germany and the United Kingdom made the most environmental claims on average.The report focused on claims made by specific products , such as detergent (洗涤剂) insect sprays and by some garden products . It did not test the claims, but compared them to labeling guidelines set by the International Standards Organization (ISO) in September, 1999. Researchers documented claims of environmental friendliness made by about 2,000 products and found many too vague or too misleading to meet ISO standards.“Many products had specially-designed labels to make them seem environmentally friendly, but in fact many of these symbols mean nothing,” said report researcher Philip Page.“Laundry detergents made the most number of claims with 158. Household cleaners were sec ond with 145 separate claims, while paints were third on our list with 73. The high numbers show how very confusing it must be for consumers to sort the true from the misleading.” he said.The ISO labeling standards ban vague or misleading claims on product packaging, because terms such as “environmentally friendly” and “non-polluting” cannot be verified. “What we are now pushing for is to have multinational corporations meet the standards set by the ISO.” said Page.31. According to the passage, the NCC found it outrageous that ______A) all the products surveyed claim to meet ISO standardsB) the claims made by products are often unclear or deceivingC) consumers would believe many of the manufactures’ claimD) few products actually prove to be environment friendly32. As indicated in this passage , with so many good claims , the consumers ___A) are becoming more cautious about the products they are going to buyB) are still not willing to pay more for products with green labelingC) are becoming more aware of the effects different products have on the environmentD) still do not know the exact impact of different products on the environment33. A study was carried out by Britain’s NCC to _______A) find out how many claims made by products fail to meet environmental standardsB) inform the consumers of the environmental impact of the products they buyC) examine claims made by products against ISO standardsD) revise the guidelines set by the International Standards Organization34. What is one of the consequences caused by the many claims of household products?A) They are likely to lead to serious environmental problemsB) Consumers find it difficult to tell the true from the falseC) They could arouse widespread anger among consumerD) Cons umers will be tempted to buy products they don’t need35. It can be inferred from the passage that the lobby group Consumer International wants to ____.A) make product labeling satisfy ISO requirementsB) see all household products meet environmental standardsC) warn consumers of the danger of so-called green productsD) verify the efforts of non-polluting productsPassage 4Two hours from the tall buildings of Manhattan and Philadelphia live some of the world’s largest black bears. They are in nor thern Pennsylvania’s Pocono Mountains, a home they share with an abundance of other wildlife.The streams, lakes, meadows (草地), mountain ridges and forests that make the Poconos an ideal place for black bears have also attracted more people to the region. Open spaces are threatened by plans for housing estates and important habitats (栖息地) are endangered by highway construction . To protect the Poconos’ natural beauty from irresponsible development, the Nature Conservancy (大自然保护协会) named the area one of A merica’s “Last Great Places”.Operating out of a century-old schoolhouse in the village of Long Pond, Pennsylvania, the conservancy’s bud Cook is working with local people and business leaders to balance economic growth with environmental protection. By forging partnerships with people like Francis Altemose, the Conservancy has been able to protect more than 14,000 acres of environmentally important land in the area.Altemose’s family has farmed in the Pocono area for generations. Two years ago Franci s worked with the Conservancy to include his farm in a county farmland protection program. As a result, his family’s land can be protected from development and the Altemoses will be better able to provide a secure financial future for their 7-year-old grandson.Cook attributes the Conservancy’s success in the Poconos to having a local presence and a commitment to working with local residents“The key to protecting these remarkable lands is connecting with the local community,” Cook said. “The people who live there respect the land. They value quiet forests, clear streams and abundant wildlife. They are eager to help with conservation effort.For more information on how you can help the Nature Conservancy protect the Poconos and the world’s other “Last Great Places,” please call 1-888-564 6864 or visit us on the World Wide Web at .36. The purpose in naming the Poconos as one of America’s “Last Great Places” is to ________A) gain support from the local communityB) protect it from irresponsible developmentC) make it a better home for black bearsD) provide financial security for future generations37. We learn from the passage that _______A) the population in the Pocono area is growingB) wildlife in the Pocono area is dying out rapidlyC) the security of the Pocono residents is being threatenedD) farmlands in the Pocono area are shrinking fast38. What is important in protecting the Poconos according to Cook?A) The setting up of an environmental protection websiteB) Support from organizations like The Nature ConservancyC) Cooperation with the local residents and business leadersD) Inclusion of farmlands in the region’s protection program39. What does Bud Cook mean by “having a local presence “ (Line 1, Para. 5)?A) Financial contributions from local business leadersB) Consideration of the interests of the local residentsC) The establishment of a wildlife protection foundation in the areaD) The setting up of a local Nature Conservancy branch in the Pocono area40. The passage most probably is ________A) an official documentB) a news storyC) an advertisementD) a research reportPart III Vocabulary41. A word processor is much better than a typewriter in that it enables you to enter and_______your text more easilyA) register B) editC) propose D) discharge42. We don’t know why so many people in that region like to wear dresses of such ______colorsA) low B) humbleC) mild D) dull43. The news has just _____ that the president is going to visit China next monthA) come down B) come upC) come out D) come about44. The ______ that exists among nations could certainly be lessened if misunderstanding andmistrust were removedA) tension B) strainC) stress D) intensity45. The other day , Mum and I went to St. James’s Hospital , and they did lots and lots of tests onme , most of them _____ and frighteningA) cheerful B) horribleC) hostile D) friendly46. In the Mediterranean seaweed is so abundant and so easily harvested that it is never of great _.A) fare B) paymentC) worth D) expense47. The writer was so ____ in her work that she didn’t notice him enter the roomA) absorbed B) abandonedC) focused D) centered48. Actually, information technology can ______ the gap between the poor and the rich.A) link B) breakC) ally D) bridge49. Some research workers completely ______ all those facts as though they never existed.A) ignore B) leaveC) refuse D) miss50. Computer power now allows automatic searches of fingerprint files to match a print at a crime______.A) stage B) sceneC) location D) occasion51. The most basic reason why dialects should be preserved is that language helps to ______ acultureA) retain B) relateC) remark D) review52. Companies are struggling to find the right _______between supply and demand, but it is noeasy taskA) equation B) formulaC) balance D) pattern53. Mass advertising helped to _______ the emphasis from the production of goods to theirconsumptionA) vary B) shiftC) lay D) moderate54. Because of his excellent administration, people lived in peace and _____ and all previouslyneglected matters were taken care of.A) conviction B) contestC) consent D) content55. I know you’ve got a smooth tongue, so don’t talk me ______ buying itA) away B) downC) out D) into56. Showing some sense of humor can be a(n) _______ way to deal with some stressful situationA) effective B) efficientC) favorable D) favorite57. The situation described in the report ______ terrible, but it may not happenA) inclines B) maintainsC) sounds D) remains58. The company is trying every means to ______ the wholesale price of its productsA) pull down B) put downC) set down D) bring down59. The mayor ______ the police officer a medal of honor for his heroic deed in rescuing theearthquake victimsA) rewarded B) awardedC) credited D) prized60. The native Canadians lived in _______ with nature, for they respected nature as a provider oflifeA) coordination B) acquaintanceC) contact D) harmony61. Many people are asking whether traditional research universities in fact have any future_______.A) at all B) so farC) in all D) on end62. I was impressed _______ the efficiency of the work done in the companyA) in B) aboutC) with D) for63. Now in Britain, wines take up four times as much ______ in the storehouse as both beer andspiritsA) block B) landC) patch D) space64. His hand shook a little as he _______ the key in the lockA) squeezed B) insertedC) stuffed D) pierced65. For professional athletes, _______ to the Olympics means that they have a chance to enter thehistory booksA) access B) attachmentC) appeal D) approach66. In the long _________, the new information technologies may fundamentally alter out way ofA) view B) distanceC) jump D) run67. All the arrangements should be completed _______ your departure.A) prior to B) superior toC) contrary to D) parallel to68. We need to create education standards that prepare our next generation who will be _______with an even more competitive marketA) tackled B) encounteredC) dealt D) confronted69. In the late seventies, the amount of fixed assets required to produce one vehicle in Japan was______ equivalent to that in the United StatesA) rudely B) roughlyC) readily D) coarsely70. Many people believe we are heading for environmental disaster ______ we radically changeway we liveA) but B) althoughC) unless D) lestPart IV Short Answer QuestionsWe commonly think of sportsmanship in connection with athletic contests, but it also applies to individual outdoor sports. Not everyone who picks up a fishing rod or goes out with a gun is a sportsman. The sportsman first of all obeys the fish and game laws, not because he is liable to be punished as a violator, but because he knows that in the main these laws are made for his bestinterests.The following are some of the things that those who would qualify for membership in the sportsmanship fraternity (圈内人) will do.1. Take no more game than the bag limit provided for by the fish and game laws. The person who comes back from a trip boasting about the large number of fish or game taken is not a sportsman but a game hog (贪得无厌的捕猎者) .2. Observe the unwritten rules of fair play. This means shooting game birds only when the birds are “on the wing”. For the same reason, do not use a shotgun to shoot a rabbit or similar animal while it is sitting or standing still.3. Be careful in removing illegal or undersized fish from the hook. This should be done only after wetting the hands. This is necessary because the body of the fish is covered with a thin, protective film which will stick to your dry hands. If the hands are dry when the fish is handled, the film is torn from the body of the fish. Without the protective film, the fish is more easily attacked by diseases. If you wish to release a fish that is hooked in such a way that it will be impossible to be close to the hook as convenient. In a remarkably short time, the hook will break down and the fish will remain almost unharmed. Fish have been known to feed successfully while hooks were still in their lips.4. Be sure of the identity of your target before you shoot. Many useful and harmless species of wildlife are thoughtlessly killed by the uninformed person who is out with a gun to kill whatever flies within range.S1. In what respect does the author think individual outdoor sports are similar to athletic contests?________ ________ ________ ________ ________________ ________ ________ ________ ________S2. A person who goes out fishing with a fishing rod or hunting with a gun is not necessarily _________.________ ________ ________ ________ ________________ ________ ________ ________ ________S3. What’s the most important thing a true sportsman should bear in mind when he goes fishing or hunting _______.________ ________ ________ ________ ________________ ________ ________ ________ ________S4.Those who violate the fish and game laws will not be ______ for membership in the sportsmanship fraternity.________ ________ ________ ________ ________________ ________ ________ ________ ________S5. What are people called when they break the bag limit and boast about their big catch?________ ________ ________ ________ ________________ ________ ________ ________ ________S6. A true sportsman will not shoot an animal which is not ______S7. What are people advised to do before they remove illegal or undersized fish from the hook?________ ________ ________ ________ ________________ ________ ________ ________ ________S8. What should sportsman do to avoid killing rare species of wildlife?________ ________ ________ ________ ________________ ________ ________ ________ ________Part ⅤWritingDirections：For this part，you are allowed 30 minutes to write a short essay in honor of teachers on the occasion of Teacher’s Day . you should write at least 120 words following theoutline given below：1、向老师致以节日祝贺2、从一件难忘的事回忆老师的教诲和无私的奉献3、我如何回报老师的关爱Part I Listening Comprehension1 D The tools the man borrowed from the woman are missing .2 C Hand in the ring to the security office .3 B Buy her own computer4 D The man advises his daughter to think carefully before making her decision .5 A The cinema is some distance away from where they are .6 A He’s been to Seattle many times .7 C Manager and office worker .8 B She thinks the lecture might be informative9 C A college campus10 D The man is unwilling to take a look at the houses for sale11 D Electricity12 A Air traffic conditions13 B Carry little luggage14 C At a county fair15 A Avoid eating any food16 B Behind his back17 B Eating from the outside toward the middle18 A Beauty19 C It was thought a blood vessel in that finger led directly to the heart20 B The two people can have time to decide if they are a good matchPart II Reading Comprehension21 C It will help reduce the nation’s oil imports22 A believes that drilling for oil in ANWR will produce high yields23 B it can do little to solve U.S. energy problems24 C Don’t be too optimistic25 A remains a controversial issue26 B The words people use can influence their behavior27 D treat their rivals as enemies28 D He wet his gloves by rubbing them across his T-shirt29 A deliberately throw the ball at anyone illegally blocking their way30 c changing the attitude of players on the sports field31 B the claims made by products are often unclear or deceiving32 D still do not know the exact impact of different products on the environment33 C examine claims made by products against ISO standards34 B Consumers find it difficult to tell the true from the false35 A make product labeling satisfy ISO requirements36 B protect it from irresponsible development37 A the population in the Pocono area is growing38 C Cooperation with the local residents and business leaders39 D The setting up of a local Nature Conservancy branch in the Pocono area40 D a research reportpart III Vocabulary41 B edit 42 D dull 43 C come out 44 A tension 45 B horrible 46 C worth 47 A absorbed 48 D bridge 49 A ignore 50 B scene51 A retain 52 C balance 53 B shift 54 D content 55 D into56 A effective 57 C sounds 58 D bring down 59 B awarded 60 D harmony 61 A at all 62 C with 63 D space 64 B inserted 65 A access66 D run 67 A prior to 68 D confronted 69 B roughly 70 C unlessPart IV Short Answer QuestionsS1. Both of them are in common with sportsmanshipS2. a sportsmanS3. To obey the law.S4. qualifiedS5. A game hog.S6. movingS7. To wet their hands.S8. They should know the identity of the target.。
2000年英语专业四级真题试卷及其参考答案
2000年英语专业四级真题试卷及其参考答案Source: 恒星英语学习网Onion 2011-02-23 我要投稿论坛FavoritePart ⅡDICTATION ［15 MIN.］Listen to the following passage. Altogether the passage will be read to you four times. During the first reading, which will be read at normal speed, listen and try to understand the meaning. For the second and third readings, the passage w ill be read sentence by sentence, or phrase by phrase, with intervals of 15 seco nds. The last reading will be read at normal speed again and during this time yo u should check your work. You will then be given 2 minutes to check through your work once more.Please write the whole passage on ANSWER SHEET TWOPart ⅢLISTENING COMPREHENSION ［20 MIN.］In Sections A, B, and C you will hear everything ONCE ONLY. Listen carefully an d then answer the questions that follow. Mark the best answer to each question o n your answer sheet.Section A STATEMENTIn this section you will hear nine statements. At the end of the statement you w ill be given 10 seconds to answer each of the following nine questions.1. What is said about Harry’s brother?A. He is happy with his job.B. He is a very ambitious man.C. He is too ambitious to be an engine driver.D. He doesn’t like to be an engine driver.2. What do you learn about Ms. Ellis?A. She has been waiting.B. She is examining her patient.C. She is seeing her doctor.D. She wouldn’t mind waiting.3. Joan is probably a___.A. nurseC. lawyerD. saleswoman4. The speaker sees Mary wear ___ different silk scarves in a wee k.A.2B.5C.7D.65. Where will the passengers change trains to go to Gilford?A.East Croydon.B.Victoria.C.Southeast.D.Red Hill.6. What is the speaker probably doing?A. Interviewing a clerk.B. Writing a job ad.C. Dismissing a clerk.D. Making inquires7. What does the speaker mean?A. Emily is neither honest nor trustworthy.B. Emily used to be honest only.C. Emily used to be trustworthy only.D. Emily is more than honest and trustworthy.8. When does the next train leave?B. 7:00.C.7:28.D.8:38.9. What was wrong with Malcolm?A. He had trouble working hard.B. He didn’t know where to go.C. He never went anywhere.D. He worked hard but never succeeded.SECTION B CONVERSATIONIn this section, you will hear eight short conversations between two speakers. A t the end of each conversation you will be given 10 seconds to answer each of th e following eight questions.10. Wh at’s the probable relationship between the two speakers?A. Teacher and student.B. Doctor and patient.C. Lawyer and client.D. Boss and secretary.11. What is the weather usually like in November?A. Hotter than the present weather.B. More humid than the present weather.C. Drier than the present weather.D. Cooler than the present weather.12. What conclusion can we draw from this conversation?A. Public buses are fast and cheap.B. Parking is becoming a big problem.C. Subway trains are even safer than taxis.D. Taxis are more convenient than buses.13. What are the two speakers talking about?A. Fixing the woman’s computer.B. Ordering some new parts by Friday.C. Getting the new parts ready by Friday.D. Sending the woman’s computer for repair.14. What can we learn from the conversation?A. Neither of them has a favourable opinion of the service.B. The woman is having a terrible time serving in the restaurant.C. Both agree it’s tim e for the restaurant to fire some staff.D. The man thinks the restaurant is all right, but the woman doesn’t.15. Who will pay for the call?A. The man.B. The operator.C. The man’s sister.D. The man and his sister.16. What does t he man think of the woman’s choice of clothing?A. He thinks her choice is good.B. He thinks her choice is terrible.C. He doesn’t like the colour.D. He doesn’t like the style.17. What happened to Mr. Runt’s project?A. It was fairly successful.B. It was hard and futile.C. It failed for lack of fund.D. It stopped for lack of land.SECTION C NEWS BROADCASTQuestion 18 is based on the following news. At the end of the news item, you wil l be given 1O seconds to answer the question.Now listen to the news.18. According to the news, NATO and Russia___.A. have finalized a charter on their new relationshipB. still have differences in military and political issuesC. will hold a fifth round of talks in LuxembourgD. made no progress in this round of talksQuestions 19 and 20 are based on the following news. At the end of the news item , you will be given 20 seconds to answer the two questions.Now listen to the news.19. ___ people were killed during the air crash.A. 61B. 51C. 41D. 1020. According to the news, the plane crashed___.A. shortly before it landedB. minutes after it took offC. after it cleared the mountainsD. at the foot of the mountainsQuestions 21 and 22 are based on the following news. At the end of the news item , you will be given 20 seconds to answer the two questions.Now listen to the news.21. Which of the following is NOT listed as a terrorist group by the US ?A. The pro-Iranian Hezbollah.B. The Palestinian group Hamas.C. The Irish Republican Army.D. The Basque separatist group ETA.22. The affected groups will be prevented from___.A. entering the United States legallyB. freezing US financial assets abroadC. receiving support from other countriesD. giving weapons to other terrorist groupsQuestion 23 is based on the following news. At the end of the news item, you wil l be given 1O seconds to answer the question.Now listen to the news.23. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu___.A. has been prosecuted by the Justice MinistryB. may be prosecuted by the Justice MinistryC. has been prosecuted by the policeD. will be prosecuted on MondayQuestions 24 and 25 are based on the following news. At the end of the news item , you will be given 20 seconds to answer the two questions.Now listen to the news.24. The winners of the reported elections are___.A. the left-wing ConservativesB. the left-wing SocialistsC. the centre-right ConservativesD. the centre-right Socialists25. If the left secures the parliamentary majority,___.A. Chirac will share his presidential power with JospinB. Jospin will share his prime ministerial power with ChiracC. Jospin will become prime minister, and Chirac will remainD. Jospin will become prime minister, and Chirac will resignPart ⅣCLOZE ［15 MIN.］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.The difference between a liquid and a gas is obvious ( 26 ) the conditions of temperature and pressure commonly found at the sur face of the Earth. A liquid can be kept in an open container and ( 27 ) it to the level of a free surface. A gas forms no free surface but ( 28 ) to diffuse throughout the space available; it must ( 29 ) be kept in a closed container, as ( 30 )a planet’s atmosphere.The distinction was a prominent feature of early theories ( 31 )the phases of matter. In the nineteenth century, for example, one theory maintained that a liquid could be “dissolved” in a vapor without losing its identity, and another theory held that the two phases are ( 32 ) different kinds o f molecules(分子). The theories now prevailing ( 33 ) a quit e different approach by emphasizing what liquids and gases have in common. They are both forms of matter that have no permanent structure, and they both flow ea sily. They are fluids.The ( 34 ) similarly of liquids and gases becomes clear ly apparent when the temperature and pressure are raised somewhat.( 35 ) a closed container partially filled with a liquid is heated. The li quid expands or ( 36 ), becomes less dense; some of it evapor ates.( 37 ), the vapor above the liquid surface becomes dense r as the evaporated molecules are added to it. The combination of temperature an d pressure ( 38 ) the densities become equal is ( 3 9 ) the critical point. Above the critical point the liquid and the gas can no longer be ( 40 ); there is a single, undifferentiated fluid phase of uniform density.26. A. in B. on C. under D. beyond27. A. fills B. be filled C. filling D. to fill28. A. intends B. tends C. inclines D. contends29. A. however B. nevertheless C. so D. therefore30． A. in the event of B. in the case of C. with a view to D. with reference to31. A. having described B. described C. describing D. to have described32. A. made up of B. consisted of C. constituted of D. made from33. A. apply B. adapt C. take D. conduct34. A. elementary B. crucial C. rudimentary D. fundamental35. A. Suppose B. To suppose C. Being supposed D. Supposed36. A. in a word B. in the meantime C. in other words D. in that case37. A. Similarly B. In contrast C. Furthermore D. Instead38. A. on that B. on which C. at that D. at which39. A. known B. defined C. called D. referred to40. A. classified B. recognized C. categorized D. distinguishedPart ⅤGRAMMAR AND VOCABULARY ［15 MIN.］There are twenty-five sentences in this section. Beneath each sentence there are four words or phrases marked A, B, C and D. Choose one word or phrase that best completes the sentence. Mark your answers on your answer sheet.41. Acute hearing helps most animals sense the approach of thunderstorm s long before people___.A. doB. hearC. do themD. hearing it42. This is an illness that can result in total blindness ___ left u ntreated.A. afterB. ifC. sinceD.unless43. The central provinces have floods in some years, and ___.A. drought in othersB. droughts are othersC. while other droughtsD. others in drought44. Do help yourself to some fruit,___ you?A. can’tB. don’tC. wouldn’tD. won’t45. There___ nothing more for discussion, the meeting came to an e nd half an hour earlier.A. to beB. to have beenC. beingD. be46. My mother can’t get ___ because she has rheumatism (风湿病).A. aboutB.onC. throughD. in47. I was very much put ___ by Mark’s rude behavior; it really annoyed me.A.overB.offC.upD.by48. You ___ Jim anything about it. It was none of his business.A. needn’t have toldB. needn’t tellC. mustn’t have toldD. mustn’t tell49. All of us would have enjoyed the party much more if there___ quite such a crowd of people there.A. weren’tB. hasn’t beenC. hadn’t beenD. wouldn’t be50. Firms that use computers have found that the number of staff ___ quality control can be substantially reducedA. whoseB.asC. whatD. that51. ___ at in this way, the present economic situation doesn’t seem so gloomy.A. LookingB. LookedC. Having looked52. Many people are ___ to insect bites, and some even have to go to hospital.A. insensitiveB. allergicC. sensibleD. infected53. When you’re driving on a motorway, you must obey the signs telling you to get into the right ___.A.wayB.trackC.roadne54. The motorist had to ___to avoid knocking the old woman down in the middle of the road.A. swerveB. twistC. departD. swing55. In winter drivers have trouble stopping their cars from ___ on icy roads.A. skatingB. skiddingC. slidingD. slipping56. This project would ___ a huge increase in defense spending.A. resultC. entailD. accomplish57. The chances of a repetition of these unfortunate events are ___ indeed.A. distantB. slimC. unlikelyD. narrow58. We should make a clear ___ between “competent” and “proficient” for the purposes of our discussion.A. separationB. divisionC. distinctionD. difference59. In the present economic ___ we can make even greater progress than previously.A. airB. moodC. areaD. climate60. Rite of Passage is a good novel by any standards;___, it shoul d rank high on any list of science fiction.A. consistentlyB. consequentlyC. invariably61. The diversity of tropical plants in the region represents a seeming ly___ source of raw materials, of which only a few have been utilized.A. exploitedB. controversialC. inexhaustibleD. remarkable62. While he was in Beijing, he spent all his time ___ some import ant museums and buildings.A. visitingB. travelingC. watchingD. touring63. You must let me have the annual report without ___ by ten o’cl ock tomorrow morning.A. failureB. hesitationC. troubleD. fail64. As the director can’t come to the reception, I’m representing the c ompanyA. on his accountB. on his behalfC. for his partD. in his interest65. Dreams are___ in themselves, but when combined with other data, they can tell us much about the dreamer.A. uninformativeC. harmlessD. uncontrollablePart ⅥREADING COMPREHENSION ［30 MIN.］SECTION A READING COMPREHENSION［25 MIN.］In this section there are four passages followed by questions or unfinished statements, each with four suggested answers marked A, B, C and D. Choose the one that you think is the best answer.Mark your answers on your answer sheet.TEXT AClearly if we are to participate in the society in which we live we must communicate with other people. A great deal of communicating is performed on a person-t o-person basis by the simple means of speech. If we travel in buses, buy things in shops, or eat in restaurants, we are likely to have conversations where we give information or opinions, receive news or comment, and very likely have our views challenged by other members of society.’Face-to-face contact is by no means the only form of communication and during th e last two hundred years the art of mass communication has become one of the dom inating factors of contemporary society. Two things, above others, have caused t he enormous growth of the communication industry. Firstly, inventiveness has led to advances in printing, telecommunications, photography, radio andtelevision. secondly, speed has revolutionised the transmission and reception of communicate ions so that local news often takes a back seat to national news, which itself i s often almost eclipsed by international news.No longer is the possession of information confined to a privileged minority. In the last century the wealthy man with his own library was indeed fortunate, but today there are public libraries. Forty years ago people used to flock to the cinema, but now far more people sit at home and turn on the TV to watch a program me that is being channeled into millions of homes.’Communication is no longer merely concerned with the transmission of information. The modem communication industry influences the way people live in society and broadens their horizons by allowing access to information, education and entertainment. The printing, broadcasting and advertising industries are all involved with informing, educating and entertaining.’Although a great deal of the material communicated by the mass media is very valuable to the individual and to the society of which he is a part, the vast modem network of communications is open to abuse. However, the mass media are with us for better, for worse, and there is no turning back.66. In the first paragraph the writer emphasizes the___ of face-t o-face contact in social settings.A. natureB. limitationC. usefulnessD. creativity67. It is implied in the passage that___.A. local news used to be the only source of information.B. local news still takes a significant place.C. national news is becoming more popular.D. international news is the fastest transmitted news.68. Which of the following statements is INCORRECT?A. To possess information used to be a privilege.B. Public libraries have replaced private libraries.C. Communication means more than transmission.D. Information influences ways of life and thinking.69. From the last paragraph we can infer that the writer is___.A. indifferent to the harmful influence of the mass mediaB. happy about the drastic changes in the mass mediaC. pessimistic about the future of the mass mediaD. concerned about the wrong use of the mass mediaTEXT B’The men and women of Anglo-Saxon England normally bore one name only. Distinguishing epithets were rarely added. These might be patronymic, descriptive or occupational. They were, however, hardly surnames. Heritable names gradually became general in the three centuries following the Norman Conquest in 1066. It was not until the 13th and 14th centuries that surnames became fixed, although for many years after that, the degree of stability in family names varied considerably in different parts of the country.’British surnames fall mainly into four broad categories: patronymic, occupational, descriptive and local. A few names, it is true, will remain puzzling: foreign names, perhaps, crudely translated, adapted or abbreviated; or artificial names. In fact, over fifty per cent of genuine British surnames derive from place names of different kinds, and so they belong to the last of our four main categories. Even such a name as Simpson may belong to this last group, and not to the first, had the family once had its home in the ancient village of that name. Otherwise, Simpson means “the son of Simon”, as might be expected.’Hundreds of occupational surnames are at once familiar to us, or at least recognisable after a little thought: Archer, Carter, Fisher, Mason, Thatcher, Taylor, to name but a few. Hundreds of others are more obscure in their meanings an d testify to the amazing specialization in medieval arts, crafts and functions. Such are “Day”, (Old English for bread maker) and “Walker” (a fuller whose job it was to clean and thicken newly made clo th).’All these vocational names carry with them a certain gravity and dignity, w hich descriptive names often lack. Some, it is true, like “Long”, “Short” or “Li ttle”, are simple. They may be taken quite literally. Others require more thinki ng: their me anings are slightly different from the modem ones. “Black” and “White “ implied dark and fair respectively. “Sharp” meant genuinely discerning, alert,acute rather thanquick-witted or clever.Place-names have a lasting interest since there is hardly a town or village in a ll England that has not at some time given its name to a family. They may be pic turesque, even poetical; or they may be pedestrian, even trivial. Among the comm oner names which survive with relatively little change from old-English time s ar e “Milton”(middle enclosure) and “Hilton”(enclosure on a hill).70. Surnames are said to be ___ in Anglo-Saxon England.A. commonB. vocationalC. unusualD. descriptiv e71. We learn from the first paragraph ___ for many years after the 13th and 14th centuries.A. family names became descriptive and occupationalB. people in some areas still had no surnamesC. some people kept changing their surnamesD. all family names became fixed in England72. “Patronymic” in the second paragraph is closest in meaning to “forme d from ___.A. the name of one’s father”B. the family occupation”C. one’s family home”D. one’s family history”73. Which of the following sentences is an opinion rather than a fact?A. hundreds of occupational names are at once familiar to us.B. “Black” and “White” implied “dark” and “fair” respectively.C. Vocational names carry with them a certain gravity and dignity.D. Every place in England has given its name to a family.TEXT CSince the early 1930s, Swiss banks had prided themselves on their system of banking secrecy and numbered accounts. Over the years, they had successfully withstood every challenge to this system by their own government who, in turn, ha d been frequently urged by foreign governments to reveal information about the financial affairs to certain account holders. The result of this policy of secrecy was that a kind of mystique had grown up around Swiss banking. There was a widely-held belief that Switzerland was irresist ible to wealthy foreigners, mainly because of its numbered accounts and bankers’ reluctance to ask awkward questions of depositors. Contributing to the mystique was the view, carefully propagated by the banks themselves, that if this secrecy was ever given up, foreigners would fall over themselves in the rush to withdraw money, and the Swiss banking system would virtually collapse overnight.’To many, therefore, it came like a bolt out of the blue, when, in 1977, the Swiss banks announced they had signed a pact with the Swiss National Bank (the Central Bank). The aim of the agreement was to prevent to improper use of the country’s bank secrecy laws, and its effect was to curb severely the system of secrecy.’The rules which the banks had agreed to observe made the opening of numbere d accounts subject to much closer scrutiny than before. The banks would be required, if necessary, to identify the origin of foreign funds going into numbered and other accounts. The idea was to stop such accounts being used fo r dubious purposes. Also they agreed not to accept funds resulting from tax evasion or from crime.’The pact represented essentially a tightening up of banking rules. Although the banks agreed to end relations with clients whose identities were unclear or who were performing improper acts, they were still not obliged to inform on a client to anyone, including the Swiss government. To some extent, therefore, the principle of secrecy had been maintained.74. Swiss banks took pride in___.A. the number of their accountsB. withholding client informationC. being mysterious to the outsidersD. attracting wealthy foreign clients75. According to the passage, the widely-held belief that Switzerland w as irresistible to wealthy foreigners was ___ by banks themselves.A. deniedB. criticizedC. reviewedD. defended76. In the last paragraph, the writer thinks that___.A. complete changes had been introduced into Swiss banksB. Swiss banks could no longer keep client informationC. changes in the bank policies had been somewhat superficialD. more changes need to be considered and madeTEXT DCoketown was a town of red brick, or of brick that would have been red if the sm oke and the ashes had allowed it; but as matters stood it was a town of unnatura l red and black like the painted face of a savage. It was a town of machinery an d tall chimneys, out of which smoke trailed themselves for ever and ever. It had a black canal in it, and a river that ran purple with ill-smelling dye, and vas t piles of buildings full of windows where there was a rattling and a trembling all day long, and where the piston of thesteam-engine worked monotonously up an d down like the head of an elephant in a state of madness. The town contained se veral large streets all very like one another, and many small streets still more like one another, inhabited by people equally like one another.’A sunny midsummer day. There was such a thing sometimes, even in Coketown. Seen from a distance in such weather, Coketown lay covered in a haze of its own. You only knew the town was there, because you knew there could have been no such blo tch upon the view without a town.’The streets were hot and dusty on the summer day, and the sun was so bright that it even shone through the haze over Coketown, and could not be looked at steadi ly. Workers emerged from lowunderground doorways into factory yards, and sat on posts and steps, wiping their faces and contemplating coals. The whole town see med to be frying in oil. There was a stifling smell of hot oil everywhere. The a tmosphere of those places was like the breath of hell, and their inhabitants was ting with heat, toiled languidly in the desert. But no temperature made the mad elephants more mad or more sane. Their wearisome heads went up and down at the s ame rate, in hot weather and in cold, wet weather and dry fair weather and foul. The measured motion of their shadows on the walls, was the substitute Coketown had to show for the shadows of rustling woods; while for the summer hum of insec ts, it could offer all the year round, from the dawn of Monday to the night of S aturday, the whirr of shafts and wheels.77. Which of the following adjectives is NOT appropriate to describe Co ketown?A. dullB. dirtyC. noisyD. savage78. From the passage we know that Coketown was mainly a(n) ___town .A. industrialB. agriculturalC. residentialD. commercial79. Only ___ were not affected by weather.A. the workmenB. the inhabitantsC. the steam-enginesD. the rustling woods80. Which is the author’s opinion of Coketown?A. Coketown should be replaced by woods.B. The town was seriously polluted.C. The town had too much oil in it.D. The town’s atmospher e was traditional.SECTION B SKIMMING AND SCANNINGIn this section there are seven passages with a total often multiple-choice ques tions. Skim or scan them as required and then mark your answers on your answer s heet.TEXT EFirst read the following question.81. The writer is concerned about___.A. budget housekeepingB. the retail tradeC. computer skillsD. mental arithmeticNow read Text E quickly and mark your answer on your answer sheet.’A lot of attention is being given to children who leave school unable to read or write. I think there should be equal concern for those who are unable to cope w ith simple mental arithmetic -particularly girls.’It is often stated that today’s children are growing up in a computer world and they don’t need the same skills that their grandparents did. But is it any wonde r that many young girls trying to cope with budget housekeeping fail for the sim ple reason they cannot keep accurate checks on theirpurchases?’Shopping in mark ets is no source of cheap purchasing unless one is able to keep pace with the apparent mental agility of the vendor.’Must we face the thought that at some time in the distant future everyone will n eed to carry in their handbag or pocket one of the miniature calculators?TEXT FFirst read the following question.82. This is a letter of___.A. referenceB. applicationC. inquiryD. complaintNow read Text F quickly and mark your answer on your answer sheet.10 Garden Ave.EssexThe Personnel OfficerBelgian Medico Ltd.P0 Box 920BrusselsBelgium5th May 200___Dear Sir,’With reference to your advertisement in the “Daily Star”,I’d like to apply for the position of translator with your firm.’I hold a degree in German and French from t he University of London. And I have w orked as a translator for the past three years with Watson & Sons, Ltd., manufac turer of laboratory instruments, translating business correspondence from French and German into English.’I am 25 years old and unmarried. I enjoy living and working in different countri es and I should welcome the chance of moving to Belgium.Yourssincerely, (Miss) Janet HolbrookeTEXT GFirst read the following question.83. The passage is mainly about___.A. lonelinessB. experienceC. memoryD. isolationNow read Text G quickly and mark your answer on your answer sheet.’Loneliness is a curious thing. Most of us can remember feeling most lonely when we were not in fact alone at all, but when we were surrounded by people. Everyon e has experienced, at some time, that strong sense of isolation that comes over you when you are at a party or in a room full of happy laughing people. It sudde nly seems to you as if everybody knows everybody else, everybody knows what is g oing on; everybody, that is, except you.’This feeling of loneliness which can overcome you when you are in a crowd is ver y difficult to get rid of. People living alone are advised to tackle their lonel iness by joining a club or a society, by going out and meeting people.TEXT HFirst read the following question.84. The author mainly discusses ___ of public transportation.A. the priceB. the typesC. the improveme ntD. the advantageNow read Text H quickly and mark your answer on your answer sheet.’The price of public transportation in Beijing has doubled twice since 1989, but it is still a bargain. Using the subway and minibuses used to show class status; now people of all classes take them, while some wealthy prefer taxis or private cars. What a change in just a few years!But there are downfalls to having more cars on the roads. Fortunately, the gover nment is aware of the problem. No-lead gasoline is the only one permitted in the city, and the rest of the country follows. Thousands of trees are planted in an d around the city every year. Children are taught why and how to protect the env ironment. At the same time, public transportation has marked real progress: buse s are everywhere and run frequently. We no longer see those old buses with broke n windows. Instead, there are fast buses, double-decker buses, air-conditioned o r heated buses, all offering a good service.TEXT IFirst read the following questions.85. Each participating team should at least have ___A. two。
2000年英语专业四级考试全真试卷及答案.doc
2000年英语专业四级考试全真试卷及答案Part ⅡDICTATION ［15 MIN.］?Listen to the following passage. Altogether the passage will be read to you four times. During the first reading, which will be read at normal speed, listen and try to understand the meaning. For the second and third readings, the passage w ill be read sentence by sentence, or phrase by phrase, with intervals of 15 seco nds. The last reading will be read at normal speed again and during this time yo u should check your work. You will then be given 2 minutes to check through your work once more.?Please write the whole passage on ANSWER SHEET TWO???Part ⅢLISTENING COMPREHENSION ［20 MIN.］?In Sections A, B, and C you will hear everything ONCE ONLY. Listen carefully an d then answer the questions that follow. Mark the best answer to each question o n your answer sheet.???Section A STATEMENT??In this section you will hear nine statements. At the end of the statement you w ill be given 10 seconds to answer each of the following nine questions.??1. What is said about Harry’s brother??A. He is happy with his job.?B. He is a very ambitious man.?C. He is too ambitious to be an engine driver.?D. He doesn’t like to be an engine driver. ?2. What do you learn about Ms. Ellis??A. She has been waiting.?B. She is examining her patient.?C. She is seeing her doctor.?D. She wouldn’t mind waiting. ?3. Joan is probably a___.?A. nurseB. doctorC. lawyerD. saleswoman ?4. The speaker sees Mary wear ___ diff。
2000年英语专业四级试题及答案
Part Ⅱ DICTATION ［15 MIN.］ Listen to the following passage. Altogether the passage will be read to you four times. During the first reading, which will be read at normal speed, listen and try to understand the meaning. For the second and third readings, the passage w ill be read sentence by sentence, or phrase by phrase, with intervals of 15 seco nds. The last reading will be read at normal speed again and during this time yo u should check your work. You will then be given 2 minutes to check through your work once more. Please write the whole passage on ANSWER SHEET TWO Part Ⅲ LISTENING COMPREHENSION ［20 MIN.］ In Sections A, B, and C you will hear everything ONCE ONLY. Listen carefully an d then answer the questions that follow. Mark the best answer to each question o n your answer sheet. Section A STATEMENT In this section you will hear nine statements. At the end of the statement you w ill be given 10 seconds to answer each of the following nine questions. 1. What is said about Harry's brother? A. He is happy with his job. B. He is a very ambitious man. C. He is too ambitious to be an engine driver. D. He doesn't like to be an engine driver. 2. What do you learn about Ms. Ellis? A. She has been waiting. B. She is examining her patient. C. She is seeing her nd waiting. 3. Joan is probably a___. A. nurse B. doctor C. lawyer D. saleswoman 4. The speaker sees Mary wear ___ different silk scarves in a wee k. A. 2 B.5 C.7 D. 6 5. Where will the passengers change trains to go to Gilford? A. East Croydon. B.Victoria. C. Southeast. D.Red Hill. 6. What is the speaker probably doing? A. Interviewing a clerk. B. Writing a job ad. C. Dismissing a clerk. D. Making inquires 7. What does the speaker mean? A. Emily is neither honest nor trustworthy. B. Emily used to be honest only. C. Emily used to be trustworthy only. D. Emily is more than honest and trustworthy.
2000年英语专业四级真题试卷及其参考答案
2000年英语专业四级真题试卷及其参考答案Source: 恒星英语学习网 Onion 2011-02-23 我要投稿论坛FavoritePart ⅡDICTATION ［15 MIN.］Listen to the following passage. Altogether the passage will be read to you four times. During the first reading, which will be read at normal speed, listen and try to understand the meaning. For the second and third readings, the passage w ill be read sentence by sentence, or phrase by phrase, with intervals of 15 seco nds. The last reading will be read at normal speed again and during this time yo u should check your work. You will then be given 2 minutes to check through your work once write the whole passage on ANSWER SHEET TWOPart ⅢLISTENING COMPREHENSION ［20 MIN.］In Sections A, B, and C you will hear everything ONCE ONLY. Listen carefully an d then answer the questions that follow. Mark the best answer to each question o n your answer sheet.Section A STATEMENTIn this section you will hear nine statements. At the end of the statement you w ill be given 10 seconds to answer each of the following nine questions.1. What is said about Harry’s brotherA. He is happy with his job.B. He is a very ambitious man.C. He is too ambitious to be an engine driver.D. He doesn’t like to be an engine driver.2. What do you learn about Ms. EllisA. She has been waiting.B. She is examining her patient.C. She is seeing her doctor.D. She wouldn’t mind waiting.3. Joan is probably a___.A. nurseB. doctorC. lawyerD. saleswoman4. The speaker sees Mary wear ___ different silk scarves in a wee k.5. Where will the passengers change trains to go to GilfordCroydon...Hill.6. What is the speaker probably doingA. Interviewing a clerk.B. Writing a job ad.C. Dismissing a clerk.D. Making inquires7. What does the speaker meanA. Emily is neither honest nor trustworthy.B. Emily used to be honest only.C. Emily used to be trustworthy only.D. Emily is more than honest and trustworthy.8. When does the next train leaveA. 6:56.B. 7:00.:28.:38.9. What was wrong with MalcolmA. He had trouble working hard.B. He didn’t know where to go.C. He never went anywhere.D. He worked hard but never succeeded.SECTION B CONVERSATIONIn this section, you will hear eight short conversations between two speakers. A t the end of each conversation you will be given 10 seconds to answer each of th e following eight questions.10. What’s the probable relationship between the two speakersA. Teacher and student.B. Doctor and patient.C. Lawyer and client.D. Boss and secretary.11. What is the weather usually like in NovemberA. Hotter than the present weather.B. More humid than the present weather.C. Drier than the present weather.D. Cooler than the present weather.12. What conclusion can we draw from this conversationA. Public buses are fast and cheap.B. Parking is becoming a big problem.C. Subway trains are even safer than taxis.D. Taxis are more convenient than buses.13. What are the two speakers talking aboutA. Fixing the woman’s computer.B. Ordering some new parts by Friday.C. Getting the new parts ready by Friday.D. Sending the woman’s computer for repair.14. What can we learn from the conversationA. Neither of them has a favourable opinion of the service.B. The woman is having a terrible time serving in the restaurant.C. Both agree it’s time for the restaurant to fire some staff.D. The man thinks the restaurant is all right, but the woman doesn’t.15. Who will pay for the callA. The man.B. The operator.C. The man’s sister.D. The man and his sister.16. Wha t does the man think of the woman’s choice of clothingA. He thinks her choice is good.B. He thinks her choice is terrible.C. He doesn’t like the colour.D. He doesn’t like the style.17. What happened to Mr. Runt’s projectA. It was fairly successful.B. It was hard and futile.C. It failed for lack of fund.D. It stopped for lack of land.SECTION C NEWS BROADCASTseconds to answer the question.Now listen to the news.18. According to the news, NATO and Russia___.A. have finalized a charter on their new relationshipB. still have differences in military and political issuesC. will hold a fifth round of talks in LuxembourgD. made no progress in this round of talksQuestions 19 and 20 are based on the following news. At the end of the news item , you will be given 20 seconds to answer the two questions.Now listen to the news.19. ___ people were killed during the air crash.A. 61B. 51C. 41D. 1020. According to the news, the plane crashed___.A. shortly before it landedB. minutes after it took offC. after it cleared the mountainsD. at the foot of the mountainsgiven 20 seconds to answer the two questions.Now listen to the news.21. Which of the following is NOT listed as a terrorist group by the USA. The pro-Iranian Hezbollah.B. The Palestinian group Hamas.C. The Irish Republican Army.D. The Basque separatist group ETA.22. The affected groups will be prevented from___.A. entering the United States legallyB. freezing US financial assets abroadC. receiving support from other countriesD. giving weapons to other terrorist groupsQuestion 23 is based on the following news. At the end of the news item, you wil l be given 1O seconds to answer the question.Now listen to the news.23. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu___.A. has been prosecuted by the Justice MinistryB. may be prosecuted by the Justice MinistryC. has been prosecuted by the policeD. will be prosecuted on Mondaygiven 20 seconds to answer the two questions.Now listen to the news.24. The winners of the reported elections are___.A. the left-wing ConservativesB. the left-wing SocialistsC. the centre-right ConservativesD. the centre-right Socialists25. If the left secures the parliamentary majority,___.A. Chirac will share his presidential power with JospinB. Jospin will share his prime ministerial power with ChiracC. Jospin will become prime minister, and Chirac will remainD. Jospin will become prime minister, and Chirac will resignPart ⅣCLOZE ［15 MIN.］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.The difference between a liquid and a gas is obvious ( 26 ) the conditions of temperature and pressure commonly found at the sur face of the Earth. A liquid can be kept in an open container and ( 27 ) it to the level of a free surface. A gas forms no free surface but ( 28 ) to diffuse throughout the space available; it must ( 29 ) be kept in a closed container, as ( 30 )a planet’s atmosphere. The distinction was a prominent feature of early theories ( 31 )the phases of matter. In the nineteenth century, for example, one theory maintained that a liquid could be “dissolved” in a vapor without losing its identity, and another theory held that the two phases are ( 32 ) different kinds o f molecules(分子). The theories now prevailing ( 33 ) a quit e different approach by emphasizing what liquids and gases have in common.They are both forms of matter that have no permanent structure, and they both flow ea sily. They are fluids.The ( 34 ) similarly of liquids and gases becomes clear ly apparent when the temperature and pressure are raised somewhat.( 35 ) a closed container partially filled with a liquid is heated. The li quid expands or ( 36 ), becomes less dense; some of it evapor ates.( 37 ), the vapor above the liquid surface becomes dense r as the evaporated molecules are added to it. The combination of temperature an d pressure ( 38 ) the densities become equal is ( 3 9 ) the critical point. Above the critical point the liquid and the gas can no longer be ( 40 ); there is a single, undifferentiated fluid phase of uniform density.26. A. in B. on C. under D. beyond27. A. fills B. be filled C. filling D. to fill28. A. intends B. tends C. inclines D. contends29. A. however B. nevertheless C. so D. therefore30． A. in the event of B. in the case of C. with a viewto D. with reference to31. A. having described B. describedC. describingD. to have described32. A. made up of B. consisted of C. constitutedof D. made from33. A. apply B. adapt C. take D. conduct34. A. elementary B. crucial C. rudimentary D. fundamental35. A. Suppose B. To suppose C. Being supposed D. Supposed36. A. in a word B. in the meantime C. in other words D. in that case37. A. Similarly B. In contrast C. Furthermore D. Instead38. A. on that B. on which C. at that D. at which39. A. known B. defined C. called D. referred to40. A. classified B. recognized C. categorized D. distinguishedPart ⅤGRAMMAR AND VOCABULARY ［15 MIN.］There are twenty-five sentences in this section. Beneath each sentence there are four words or phrases marked A, B, C and D. Choose one word or phrase that best completes the sentence. Mark your answers on your answer sheet.41. Acute hearing helps most animals sense the approach of thunderstorm s long before people___.A. doB. hearC. do themD. hearing it42. This is an illness that can result in total blindness ___ left u ntreated.A. afterB. ifC. since43. The central provinces have floods in some years, and ___.A. drought in othersB. droughts are othersC. while other droughtsD. others in drought44. Do help yourself to some fruit,___ youA. can’tB. don’tC. wouldn’tD. won’t45. There___ nothing more for discussion, the meeting came to an e nd half an hour earlier.A. to beB. to have beenC. beingD. be46. My mother can’t get ___ because she has rheumatism (风湿病).A. aboutC. throughD. in47. I was very mu ch put ___ by Mark’s rude behavior; it really annoyed me.48. You ___ Jim anything about it. It was none of his business.A. needn’t have toldB. needn’t tellC. mustn’t have toldD. mustn’t tell49. All of us would have enjoyed the party much more if there___ quite such a crowd of people there.A. weren’tB. hasn’t beenC. hadn’t beenD. wouldn’t be50. Firms that use computers have found that the number of staff ___ quality control can be substantially reducedA. whoseC. whatD. that51. ___ at in this way, the present economic situation doesn’t seem so gloomy.A. LookingB. LookedC. Having lookedD. To look52. Many people are ___ to insect bites, and some even have to go to hospital.A. insensitiveB. allergicC. sensibleD. infected53. When you’re driving on a motorway, you must obey the signs telling you to get into the right ___.54. The motorist had to ___to avoid knocking the old woman down in the middle of the road.A. swerveB. twistC. departD. swing55. In winter drivers have trouble stopping their cars from ___ on icy roads.A. skatingB. skiddingC. slidingD. slipping56. This project would ___ a huge increase in defense spending.A. resultB. assureC. entailD. accomplish57. The chances of a repetition of these unfortunate events are ___ indeed.A. distantB. slimC. unlikelyD. narrow58. We should make a clear ___ between “competent” and “proficient” for the purposes of our discussion.A. separationB. divisionC. distinctionD. difference59. In the present economic ___ we can make even greater progress than previously.A. airB. moodC. areaD. climate60. Rite of Passage is a good novel by any standards;___, it shoul d rank high on any list of science fiction.A. consistentlyB. consequentlyC. invariablyD. fortunately61. The diversity of tropical plants in the region represents a seeming ly___ source of raw materials, of which only a few have been utilized.A. exploitedB. controversialC. inexhaustibleD. remarkable62. While he was in Beijing, he spent all his time ___ some import ant museums and buildings.A. visitingB. travelingC. watchingD. touring63. You must let me have the annual report without ___ by ten o’cl ock tomorrow morning.A. failureB. hesitationC. troubleD. fail64. As the director c an’t come to the reception, I’m representing the c ompanyA. on his accountB. on his behalfC. for his partD. in his interest65. Dreams are___ in themselves, but when combined with other data, they can tell us much about the dreamer.A. uninformativeB. startlingC. harmlessD. uncontrollablePart ⅥREADING COMPREHENSION ［30 MIN.］SECTION A READING COMPREHENSION［25 MIN.］In this section there are four passages followed by questions or unfinished statements, each with four suggested answers marked A, B, C and D. Choose the one that you think is the best answer.Mark your answers on your answer sheet.TEXT AClearly if we are to participate in the society in which we live we must communicate with other people. A great deal of communicating is performed on a person-t o-person basis by the simplemeans of speech. If we travel in buses, buy things in shops, or eat in restaurants, we are likely to have conversations where we give information or opinions, receive news or comment, and very likely have our views challenged by other members of society.’Face-to-face contact is by no means the only form of communication and during th e last two hundred years the art of mass communication has become one of the dom inating factors of contemporary society. Two things, above others, have caused t he enormous growth of the communication industry. Firstly, inventiveness has led to advances in printing, telecommunications, photography, radio and television. secondly, speed has revolutionised the transmission and reception of communicate ions so that local news often takes a back seat to national news, which itself i s often almost eclipsed by international news.No longer is the possession of information confined to a privileged minority. In the last century the wealthy man with his own library was indeed fortunate, but today there are public libraries. Forty years ago people used to flock to the cinema, but now far more people sit at home and turn on the TV to watch a program me that i s being channeled into millions of homes.’Communication is no longer merely concerned with the transmission of information. The modem communication industry influences the way people live in society and broadens their horizons by allowing access to information, education and entertainment. The printing, broadcasting and advertising industries are all involved with informing, educating and entertaining.’Although a great deal of the material communicated by the mass media is very valuable to the individual and to the society of which he is a part, the vast modem network of communications is open to abuse. However, the mass media are with us for better, for worse, and there is no turning back.66. In the first paragraph the writer emphasizes the___ of face-t o-face contact in social settings.A. natureB. limitationC. usefulnessD. creativity67. It is implied in the passage that___.A. local news used to be the only source of information.B. local news still takes a significant place.C. national news is becoming more popular.D. international news is the fastest transmitted news.68. Which of the following statements is INCORRECTA. To possess information used to be a privilege.B. Public libraries have replaced private libraries.C. Communication means more than transmission.D. Information influences ways of life and thinking.69. From the last paragraph we can infer that the writer is___.A. indifferent to the harmful influence of the mass mediaB. happy about the drastic changes in the mass mediaC. pessimistic about the future of the mass mediaD. concerned about the wrong use of the mass mediaTEXT B’The men and women of Anglo-Saxon England normally bore one name only. Distinguishing epithets were rarely added. These might be patronymic, descriptive or occupational. They were, however, hardly surnames. Heritable names gradually became general in the three centuries following the Norman Conquest in 1066. It was not until the 13th and 14th centuries that surnames became fixed, although for many years after that, the degree of stability in family names varied considerably in different parts of the country.’British surnames fall mainly into four broad categories: patronymic, occupational, descriptive and local. A few names, it is true, will remain puzzling: foreign names, perhaps, crudely translated, adapted or abbreviated; or artificial names. In fact, over fifty per cent of genuine British surnames derive from place names of different kinds, and so they belong to the last of our four main categories. Even such a name as Simpson may belong to this last group, and not to the first, had the family once had its home in the ancient village of that name. Otherwise, Simpson means “the son of Simon”, as might be expected.’Hundreds of occupational surnames are at once familiar to us, or at least recognisable after a little thought: Archer, Carter, Fisher, Mason, Thatcher, Taylor, to name but a few. Hundreds of others are more obscure in their meanings an d testify to the amazing specialization in medieval arts, crafts and functions. Such are “Day”, (Old English for bread maker) and “Walker” (a fuller whose job it was to clean and thicken newly made cloth).’All these vocational names carry with them a certain gravity and dignity, w hich descriptive names often lack. Some, it is true, like “Long”, “Short” or “Li ttle”, are simple. They may be taken quite literally. Others require more thinki ng: their meanings are slightly different from the modem ones. “Black” and “White “ implied dark and fair respectively. “Sharp” meant genuinely discerning, alert, acute rather than quick-witted or have a lasting interest since there is hardly a town or village in a ll England that has not at some time given its name to a family. They may be pic turesque, even poetical; or they may be pedestrian, even trivial. Among the comm oner names which survive with relatively little change from old-English times ar e “Milton”(middle enclosure) and “Hilton”(enclosure on a hill).70. Surnames are said to be ___ in Anglo-Saxon England.A. commonB. vocationalC. unusualD. descriptiv e71. We learn from the first paragraph ___ for many years after the 13th and 14th centuries.A. family names became descriptive and occupationalB. people in some areas still had no surnamesC. some people kept changing their surnamesD. all family names became fixed in England72. “Patronymic” in the second paragraph is closest in meaning to “forme d from ___.A. the name of one’s father”B. the family occupation”C. one’s family home”D. one’s family history”73. Which of the following sentences is an opinion rather than a factA. hundreds of occupational names are at once familiar to us.B. “Black” and “White” implied “dark” and “fair” respectively.C. Vocational names carry with them a certain gravity and dignity.D. Every place in England has given its name to a family.TEXT CSince the early 1930s, Swiss banks had prided themselves on their system of banking secrecy and numbered accounts. Over the years, they had successfully withstood every challenge to this system by their own government who, in turn, ha d been frequently urged by foreign governments to reveal information about the financial affairs to certain account holders. The result of this policy of secrecy was that a kind of mystique had grown up around Swiss banking. There was a widely-held belief that Switzerland was irresistible to wealthy foreigners, mainly because of its numbered accounts and ban kers’ reluctance to ask awkward questions of depositors. Contributing to the mystique was the view, carefully propagated by the banks themselves, that if this secrecy was ever given up, foreigners would fall over themselves in the rush to withdraw money, a nd the Swiss banking system would virtually collapse overnight.’To many, therefore, it came like a bolt out of the blue, when, in 1977, the Swiss banks announced they had signed a pact with the Swiss National Bank (the Central Bank). The aim of the agreement was to prevent to improper use of the country’s bank secrecy laws, and its effect was to curb severely the system of secrecy.’The rules which the banks had agreed to observe made the opening of numbere d accounts subject to much closer scrutiny than before. The banks would be required, if necessary, to identify the origin of foreign funds going into numbered and other accounts. The idea was to stop such accounts being used for dubious purposes. Also they agreed not to accept funds resulting from tax evasion or from crime.’The pact represented essentially a tightening up of banking rules. Although the banks agreed to end relations with clients whose identities were unclear or who were performing improper acts, they were still not obliged to inform on a client to anyone, including the Swiss government. To some extent, therefore, the principle of secrecy had been maintained.74. Swiss banks took pride in___.A. the number of their accountsB. withholding client informationC. being mysterious to the outsidersD. attracting wealthy foreign clients75. According to the passage, the widely-held belief that Switzerland w as irresistible to wealthy foreigners was ___ by banks themselves.A. deniedB. criticizedC. reviewedD. defended76. In the last paragraph, the writer thinks that___.A. complete changes had been introduced into Swiss banksB. Swiss banks could no longer keep client informationC. changes in the bank policies had been somewhat superficialD. more changes need to be considered and madeTEXT DCoketown was a town of red brick, or of brick that would have been red if the sm oke and the ashes had allowed it; but as matters stood it was a town of unnatura l red and black like the painted face of a savage. It was a town of machinery an d tall chimneys, out of which smoke trailed themselves for ever and ever. It had a black canal in it, and a river that ran purple withill-smelling dye, and vas t piles of buildings full of windows where there was a rattling and a trembling all day long, and where the piston of the steam-engine worked monotonously up an d down like the head of an elephant in a state of madness. The town contained se veral large streets all very like one another, and many small streets still more like one another, inhabited by people equally like one another.’A sunny midsummer day. There was such a thing sometimes, even in Coketown. Seen from a distance in such weather, Coketown lay covered in a haze of its own. You only knew the town was there, because you knew there could have been no such blo tch upon the view without a town.’The streets were hot and dusty on the summer day, and the sun was so bright that it even shone through the haze over Coketown, and could not be looked at steadi ly. Workers emerged from low underground doorways into factory yards, and sat on posts and steps, wiping their faces and contemplating coals. The whole town see med to be frying in oil. There was a stifling smell of hot oil everywhere. The a tmosphere of those places was like the breath of hell, and their inhabitants was ting with heat, toiled languidly in the desert. But no temperature made the mad elephants more mad or more sane. Their wearisome heads went up and down at the s ame rate, in hot weather and in cold, wet weather and dry fair weather and foul. The measured motion of their shadows on the walls, was the substitute Coketown had to show for the shadows of rustling woods; while for the summer hum of insec ts, it could offer all the year round, from the dawn of Monday to the night of S aturday, the whirr of shafts and wheels.77. Which of the following adjectives is NOT appropriate to describe Co ketownA. dullB. dirtyC. noisyD. savage78. From the passage we know that Coketown was mainly a(n) ___town .A. industrialB. agriculturalC. residentialD. commercial79. Only ___ were not affected by weather.A. the workmenB. the inhabitantsC. the steam-enginesD. the rustling woods80. Which is th e author’s opinion of CoketownA. Coketown should be replaced by woods.B. The town was seriously polluted.C. The town had too much oil in it.D. The town’s atmosphere was traditional.SECTION B SKIMMING AND SCANNINGIn this section there are seven passages with a total often multiple-choice ques tions. Skim or scan them as required and then mark your answers on your answer s heet.TEXT EFirst read the following question.81. The writer is concerned about___.A. budget housekeepingB. the retail tradeC. computer skillsD. mental arithmeticNow read Text E quickly and mark your answer on your answer sheet.’A lot of attention is being given to children who leave school unable to read or write. I think there should be equal concern for those who are unable to cope w ith simple mental arithmetic -particularly girls.’It is often stated that today’s children are growing up in a computer world and they don’t need the same skills that their grandparents did. Bu t is it any wonde r that many young girls trying to cope with budget housekeeping fail for the sim ple reason they cannot keep accurate checks on their purchases’Shopping in markets is no source of cheap purchasing unless one is able to keep pace with the apparent mental agility of the vendor.’Must we face the thought that at some time in the distant future everyone will n eed to carry in their handbag or pocket one of the miniature calculatorsTEXT FFirst read the following question.82. This is a letter of___.A. referenceB. applicationC. inquiryD. complaintNow read Text F quickly and mark your answer on your answer sheet.10 Garden Ave.EssexThe Personnel OfficerBelgian Medico Ltd.P0 Box 920BrusselsBelgium5th May 200___D ear Sir,’With reference to your advertisement in the “Daily Star”,I’d like to apply for the position of translator with your firm.’I hold a degree in German and French from the University of London. And I have w orked as a translator for the past three years with Watson & Sons, Ltd., manufac turer of laboratory instruments, translating business correspondence from French and German into English.’I am 25 years old and unmarried. I enjoy living and working in different countri es and I should welcome the chance of moving toBelgium.Yourssincerely,(Miss) Janet HolbrookeTEXT GFirst read the following question.83. The passage is mainly about___.A. lonelinessB. experienceC. memoryD. isolationNow read Text G quickly and mark your answer on your answer sheet.’Loneliness is a curious thing. Most of us can remember feeling most lonely when we were not in fact alone at all, but when we were surrounded by people. Everyon e has experienced, at some time, that strong sense of isolation that comes over you when you are at a party or in a room full of happy laughing people. It sudde nly seems to you as if everybody knows everybody else, everybody knows what is g oing on; everybody, that is, except you.’This feeling of loneliness which can overcome you when you are in a crowd is ver y difficult to get rid of. People living alone are advised to tackle their lonel iness by joining a club or a society, by going out and meeting people.TEXT HFirst read the following question.84. The author mainly discusses ___ of public transportation.A. the priceB. the types。
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2000年6月大学英语四级(CET-4)真题试卷(教师版)Part I Listening Comprehension (20 minutes)Section A1. A) She is not interested in the article.B) She has given the man much trouble.C) She would like to have a copy of the article.D) She doesn’t want to take the trouble to read the article.（C）2. A) He saw the big tower he visited on TV. B) He has visited the TV tower twice.C) He has visited the TV tower once. D) He will visit the TV tower in June.（C）3. A) The woman has trouble getting along with the professor.B) The woman regrets having taken up much of the professor’s time.C) The woman knows the professor has been busy.D) The woman knows the professor has run into trouble.（B）4. A) He doesn’t enjoy business trips as much as he used to.B) He doesn’t think he is capable of doing the job.C) He thinks the pay is too low to support his family.D) He wants to spend more time with his family.（D）5. A) The man thought the essay was easy.B) They both had a hard time writing the essay.C) The woman thought the essay was easy.D) Neither of them has finished the assignment yet.（B）6. A) In the park. B) Between two buildings.C) In his apartment. D) Under a huge tree.（D）7. A) It’s awfully dull. B) It’s really exciting.C) It’s very exhausting. D) It’s quite challenging.（A）8. A) A movie. B) A lecture. C) A play. D) A speech.（C）9. A) The weather is mild compared to the past years.B) They are having the coldest winter ever.C) The weather will soon get warmer.D) The weather may get even colder.（D）10. A) A mystery story. B) The hiring of a shop assistant.C) The search for a reliable witness. D) An unsolved case of robbery.（D）Section B Passage oneQuestions 11 to 14 are based on the passage you have just heard.11. A) They want to change the way English is taught.B) They learn English to find well-paid jobs.C) They want to have an up-to-date knowledge of English.D) They know clearly what they want to learn.（D）12. A) Professionals. B) College students. C) Beginners. D) Intermediate learners.（A）13. A) Courses for doctors. B) Courses for businessmen.C) Courses for reporters. D) Courses for lawyers.（B）14. A) Three groups of learners. B) The importance of business English.C) English for Specific Purposes. D) Features of English for different purposes.（C）Passage TwoQuestions 15 to 17 are based on the passage you have just heard.15. A) To show off their wealth. B) To feel good.C) To regain their memory. D) To be different from others.（B）16. A) To help solve their psychological problems. B) To play games with them.C) To send them to the hospital. D) To make them aware of its harmfulness.（A）17. A) They need care and affection. B) They are fond of round-the-world trips.C) They are mostly from broken families. D) They are likely to commit crimes.（A）Passage ThreeQuestions 18 to 20 are based on the passage you have just heard.18. A) Because it was too heavy. B) Because it did not bend easily.C) Because it did not shoot far. D) Because its string was short.（C）19. A) It went out of use 300 years ago. B) It was invented after the short bow.C) It was discovered before fire and the wheel. D) It’s still in use today.（B）20. A) They are accurate and easy to pull. B) Their shooting range is 40 yards.C) They are usually used indoors. D) They took 100 years to develop.（A）Part II Reading Comprehension (35 minutes)Passage OneQuestions 21 to 25 are based on the following passage.Long after the 1998 World Cup was won, disappointed fans were still cursing the disputed refereeing (裁判) decisions that denied victory to their team. A researcher was appointed to study the performance of some top referees.The researcher organized an experimental tournament (锦标赛) involving four youth teams. Each match lasted an hour, divided into three periods of 20 minutes during which different referees were in charge. Observers noted down the referees’ errors, of which there were 61 over the tournament. Converted to a standard match of 90 minutes, each referee made almost 23 mistakes, a remarkably high number.The researcher then studied the videotapes to analyse the matches in detail. Surprisingly, he found that errors were more likely when the referees were close to the incident. When the officials got it right, they were, on average, 17 meters away from the action. The average distance in the case of errors was 12 meters. The research shows the optimum (最佳的) distance is about 20 meters.There also seemed to be an optimum speed. Correct decisions came when the referees were moving at a speed of about 2 meters per second. The average speed for errors was 4 meters per second.If FIFA, football’s international ruling body, wants to improve the standard of refereeing at the next World Cup, it should encourage referees to keep their eyes on the action from a distance, rather than rushing to keep up with the ball, the researcher argues.He also says that FIFA’s insistence that referees should retire at age 45 may be misguided. If keeping up with the action is not so important, their physical condition is less critical.51. The experiment conducted by the researcher was meant to ________.A) review the decisions of referees at the 1998 World CupB) analyse the causes of errors made by football refereesC) set a standard for football refereeingD) reexamine the rules for football refereeing（B）52. The number of refereeing errors in the experimental matches was ________.A) slightly above average B) higher than in the 1998 World CupC) quite unexpected D) as high as in a standard match（C）53. The findings of the experiment show that ________.A) errors are more likely when a referee keeps close to the ballB) the farther the referee is from the incident, the fewer the errorsC) the more slowly the referee runs, the more likely will errors occurD) errors are less likely when a referee stays in one spot（A）54. The word “officials” (Line 2, Para. 4) most probably refers to ________.A) the researchers involved in the experimentB) the inspectors of the football tournamentC) the referees of the football tournamentD) the observers at the site of the experiment（C）55. What is one of the possible conclusions of the experiment?A) The ideal retirement age for an experienced football referee is 45.B) Age should not be the chief consideration in choosing a football referee.C) A football referee should be as young and energetic as possible.D) An experienced football referee can do well even when in poor physical condition.（B）Passage TwoQuestions 56 to 60 are based on the following passage.While still in its early stages, welfare reform has already been judged a great success in many states —at least in getting people off welfare. It’s estimated that more than 2 million people have left the rolls since 1994.In the past four years, welfare rolls in Athens Country have been cut in half. But 70 percent of the people who left in the past two years took jobs that paid less than $6 an hour. The result: The Athens County poverty rate still remains at more than 30 percent —twice the national average.For advocates (代言人) for the poor, that’s an indication much more needs to be done.“More people are getting jobs, but it’s not making their lives any better,” says Kathy Lairn, a policy analyst at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities in Washington.A center analysis of US Census data nationwide found that between 1995 and 1996, a greater percentage of single, female-headed households were earning money on their own, but that average income for these households actually went down.But for many, the fact that poor people are able to support themselves almost as well without government aid as they did with it is in itself a huge victory.“Welfare was a poison. It was a toxin (毒素) that was poisoning the family,”says Robert Rector, a welfare-reform policy analyst. “The reform is changing the moral climate in low-income communities. It’s beginning to rebuild the work ethic (道德观), which is much more important.”Mr. Rector and others argued that once “the habit of dependency is cracked,” then the country can make other policy changes aimed at improving living standards.56. From the passage, it can be seen that the author ________.A) believes the reform has reduced the government’s burdenB) insists that welfare reform is doing little good for the poorC) is overenthusiastic about the success of welfare reformD) considers welfare reform to be fundamentally successful（D）57. Why aren’t people enjoying better lives when they have jobs?A) Because many families are divorced. B) Because government aid is now rare.C) Because their wages are low. D) Because the cost of living is rising.（C）58. What is worth noting from the example of Athens County is that ________.A) greater efforts should be made to improve people’s living standardsB) 70 percent of the people there have been employed for two yearsC) 50 percent of the population no longer relies on welfareD) the living standards of most people are going down（A）59. From the passage we know that welfare reform aims at ________.A) saving welfare funds B) rebuilding the work ethicC) providing more jobs D) cutting government expenses（B）60. According to the passage before the welfare reform was carried out, ________.A) the poverty rate was lover B) average living standards were higherC) the average worker was paid higher wages D) the poor used to rely on government aid（D）Passage ThreeQuestions 61 to 65 are based on the following passage.Americans are proud of their variety and individuality, yet they love and respect few things more than a uniform, whether it is the uniform of an elevator operator or the uniform of a five-star general. Why are uniforms so popular in the United States?Among the arguments for uniforms, one of the first is that in the eyes of most people they look more professional than civilian (百姓的) clothes. People have become conditioned to expect superior quality from a man who wears a uniform. The television repairman who wears uniform tends to inspire more trust than one who appears in civilian clothes. Faith in the skill of a garage mechanic is increased by a uniform. What easier way is there for a nurse, a policeman, a barber, or a waiter to lose professional identity (身份) than to step out of uniform?Uniforms also have many practical benefits. They save on other clothes. They save on laundry bills. They are tax-deductible (可减税的). They are often more comfortable and more durable than civilian clothes. Primary among the arguments against uniforms is their lack of variety and the consequent loss of individuality experienced by people who must wear them. Though there are many types of uniforms, the wearer of any particular type is generally stuck with it, without change, until retirement. When people look alike, they tend to think, speak, and act similarly, on the job at least.Uniforms also give rise to some practical problems. Though they are long-lasting, often their initial expense is greater than the cost of civilian clothes. Some uniforms are also expensive to maintain, requiring professional dry cleaning rather than the home laundering possible with many types of civilian clothes.61. It is surprising that Americans who worship variety and individuality ________.A) still judge a man by his clothes B) hold the uniform in such high regardC) enjoy having a professional identityD) will respect an elevator operator as much as a general in uniform（B）62. People are accustomed to thinking that a man in uniform ________.A) suggests quality work B) discards his social identityC) appears to be more practical D) looks superior to a person in civilian clothes（A）63. The chief function of a uniform is to ________.A) provide practical benefits to the wearer B) make the wearer catch the public eyeC) inspire the wearer’s confidence in himself D) provide the wearer with a professional identity（D）64. According to the passage, people wearing uniforms ________.A) are usually helpful B) have little or no individual freedomC) tend to lose their individuality D) enjoy greater popularity（C）65. The best title for this passage would be ________.A) Uniforms and Society B) The Importance of Wearing a UniformC) Practical Benefits of Wearing a Uniform D) Advantages and Disadvantages of Uniforms（D）Passage FourQuestions 66 to 70 are based on the following passage.Since we are social beings, the quality of our lives depends in large measure on our interpersonal relationships. One strength of the human condition is our tendency to give and receive support from one another under stressful circumstances. Social support consists of the exchange of resources among people based on their interpersonal ties. Those of us with strong support systems appear better able to cope with major life changes and daily hassles (困难). People with strong social ties live longer and have better health than those without such ties. Studies over a range of illnesses, from depression to heart disease, reveal that the presence of social support helps people fend off (挡开) illness, and the absence of such support makes poor health more likely.Social support cushions stress in a number of ways. First, friends, relatives, and co-workers may let us know that they value us. Our self-respect is strengthened when we feel accepted by others despite our faults and difficulties. Second, other people often provide us with informational support. They help us to define and understand our problems and find solutions to them. Third, we typically find social companionship supportive. Engaging in leisure-time activities with others helps us to meet our social needs while at the same time distracting (转移…注意力) us from our worries and troubles. Finally, other people may give us instrumental support —financial aid, material resources, and needed services —that reduces stress by helping us resolve and cope with our problems.66. Interpersonal relationships are important because ________.A) they are indispensable to people’s social well-beingB) they awaken people’s desire to exchange resourcesC) they help people to cope with life in the information eraD) they can cure a range of illnesses such as heart disease, etc（A）67. Research shows that people’s physical and mental health ________.A) relies on the social welfare systems which support themB) has much to do with the amount of support they get from othersC) depends on their ability to deal with daily worries and troublesD) is closely related to their strength for coping with major changes in their lives（B）68. Which of the following is closest in meaning to the word “cushions” (Line 1, Para. 2)?A) Adds up to. B) Does away with.C) Lessens the effect of. D) Lays the foundation for.（C）69. Helping a sick neighbor with some repair work is an example of ________.A) instrumental support B) informational supportC) social companionship D) the strengthening of self-respect（A）70. Social companionship is beneficial in that ________.A) it helps strengthen our ties with relativesB) it enables us to eliminate our faults and mistakesC) it makes our leisure-time activities more enjoyableD) it draws our attention away from our worries and troubles（D）Part V Writing (30 minutes)Directions: For this part, you are allowed thirty minutes to write a composition on the topic Is a Test of Spoken English Necessary? The first sentence has already been written for you. Y oushould write at least 100 words, and base your competition on the outline given in Chinesebelow:1. 很多人认为有必要举行英语口语考试，理由是…2. 也有人持不同意见，...3. 我的看法和打算Is a Test of Spoken English Necessary?A test of spoken English will be included as an optional component of the College English Test (CET)Part I Listening ComprehensionSection A1. M: Would you like a copy of P rofessor Smith’s article?W: Thanks, if it’s not too much trouble.Q: What does the woman imply?2. W: Did you visit the Television Tower when you had your vacation in Shanghai last summer?M: I couldn’t make it last June. But I finally visited it two months later. I plan to visit it again sometime next year.Q: What do we learn about the man?3. M: Prof. Kennedy has been very busy this semester. As far as I know, he works until midnight every day. W: I wouldn’t have troubled him so much if I had know n he was so busy.Q: What do we learn from the conversation?4. W: If I were you, I would have accepted the job.M: I turned down the offer because it would mean frequent business trips away from my family.Q: Why didn’t the man accept the job?5. M: How are you getting on with your essay, Mary? I’m having a real hard time with mine.W: After two sleepless nights, I’m finally through with it.Q: What do we learn from this conversation?6. W: Where did you say you found this bag?M: It was lying under a big tree between the park and the apartment building.Q: Where did the man find the bag?7. M: Wouldn’t you get bored with the same routine year after year teaching the same things to children? W: I don’t think it would be as boring as working in an office. Teaching is most stimulating.Q: What does the woman imply about office work?8. M: I was terribly embarrassed when some of the audience got up and left in the middle of theperformance.W: Well, some people just can’t seem to appreciate real-life drama.Q: What are they talking about?9. W: Oh, it’s so cold. We haven’t had such a severe winter for so long, have we?M: Yes, the forecast says it’s going to get worse before it warms up.Q: What do we learn from the conversation?10. M: You were seen hanging about the store on the night when it was robbed, weren’t you?W: Me? You must have made a mistake. I was at home that night.Q: What are they talking about?Section BPassage OneThere are three groups of English learners: beginners, intermediate learners, and learners of special English. Beginners need to learn the basics of English. Students who have reached an intermediate level benefit from learning general English skills. But what about students who want to learn specialist English for their work or professional life? Most students, who fit into this third group have a clear idea about what they want to learn. A bank clerk, for example, wants to use this specialist vocabulary and technical terms of finance. But for teachers, deciding how to teach specialist English is not always so easy. For a start, the variety is enormous. Every field from airline pilots to secretaries has its own vocabulary and technical terms. Teachers also need to have an up-to-date knowledge of that specialist language, and not many teachers areexposed to working environments outside the classroom. These issues have influenced the way specialist English is taught in schools. This type of course is usually known as English for Specific Purposes, or ESP and there isn’t ESP courses for almost every area of professional and working life. In Britain, for example, there are courses which teach English for doctors, lawyers, reporters, travel agents and people working in the hotel industry. By far, the most popular ESP courses are for business English.Questions 11 to 14 are based on the passage you have just heard.11. What is the characteristic of learners of special English?12. Who needs ESP courses most?13. What are the most popular ESP courses in Britain?14. What is the speaker mainly talking about?Passage TwoThe first step to stop drug abuse is knowing why people start to use drugs. The reasons people abuse drugs are as different as people are from one to another. But there seems to be one common thread: people seem to take drugs to change the way they feel. They want to feel better or feel happy or to feel nothing. Sometimes, they want to forget or to remember. People often feel better about themselves when they are under the influence of drugs. But the effects don’t last long. Drugs don’t solve problems. They just postpone them. No matter how far drugs may take you, it’s always around trip. After a while, people who miss drugs may feel worse about themselves, and then they may use more drugs. If someone you know is using or abusing drugs, you can help. The most important part you can play is to be there. You can let your friends know that you care. You can listen and try to solve the problem behind your friend’s need to use drugs. Two people together can often solve a problem that seems too big for one person alone. Studies of heavy abusers in the United States show that they felt unloved and unwanted. They didn’t have close friends to talk to. When you or your friends take the time to care for each other, you’re all helping to stop drugs abuse. After all, what is a friend for?Questions 15 to 17 are based on the passage you have just heard.15. Why do some people abuse drugs?16. According to the passage, what is the best way to stop friends from abusing drugs?17. What are the findings of the studies about heavy drug users?Passage ThreeBows and arrows, are one of man’s oldest weapons. They gave early man an e ffective weapon to kill his enemies. The ordinary bow or short bow was used by nearly all early people. This bow had limited power and short range. However, man overcame these faults by learning to track his targets at a close range. The long bow was most likely discovered when someone found out that a five-foot piece of wood made a better bow than a three-foot piece. Hundreds of thousands of these bows were made and used for three hundred years. However, not one is known to survive today. We believe that a force of about one hundred pounds was needs to pull the string all the way back on a long bow. For a long time the bow was just a bent stick and string. In fact, more changes have taken place in a bow in the past 25 years than in the last 7 centuries. Today, bow is forceful. It is as exact as a gun. In addition, it requires little strength to draw the string. Modern bows also have precise aiming devices. In indoor contests, perfect scores from 40 yard are common. The invention of the bows itself ranks with discovery of fire and the wheel. It was a great-step-forward for man.Questions 18 to 20 are based on the passage you have just heard.18. Why did man have to track his target at a close range when using a short bow?19. What does the passage tell us about the long bow?20. What do we know about modern bows?2001年1月大学英语四级(CET-4)真题试卷Part I Listening Comprehension (20 minutes)Section A1. A) Get some change from Jane. B) Use the woman’s phone.C) Go look for a pay phone. D) Pay for the phone call.（B）2. A) At a bookstore. B) In a workshop.C) At an art gallery. D) In a department store.（C）3. A) She’s bought the man a pair of glasses today. B) She will help the man to catch up.C) She is worried about the man’s health. D) She has bought the man an up-to-date map.（B）4. A) He is going to give a talk on fishing. B) He thinks fishing is a good way to kill time.C) He has the same hobby as Susan’s father. D) He is eager to meet Susan’s parents.（C）5. A) He finds the presentation hard to follow.B) He considers the presentation very dull.C) He thinks Professor White has chosen an interesting topic.D) He speaks highly of the presentation.（D）6. A) High quality paper. B) A typewriter.C) A bookshelf. D) Some stocks.（A）7. A) They go to the seaside. B) They set off early.C) They go sightseeing. D) They wait for a fine day.（B）8. A) He was late for school on the first day. B) He had a funny face.C) He was the first person she met at school. D) He liked to show off in class.（A）9. A) Her car can stand any crash. B) Her car is not as good as his.C) Her car is maintained as well as his. D) Her car is kept in good condition.（D）10. A) She is too busy to go. B) She doesn’t want to wait long.C) She’s willing to go swimming. D) She enjoys the wonderful weather.（C）Section BPassage oneQuestions 11 to 13 are based on the passage you have just heard.11. A) He was once a friend of the ruler. B) He was a tax collector.C) He was a government official. D) He was once a school teacher in India.（D）12. A) To declare new ways of collecting tax.B) To entertain those who had made great contributions to the government.C) To collect money from the persons invited.D) To reward outstanding tax collectors.（C）13. A) They tried to collect more money than the ruler asked for.B) They were given some silver and gold coins by the ruler.C) They were excused from paying income tax.D) They enjoyed being invited to dinner at the ruler’s palace.（A）Passage TwoQuestions 14 to 16 are based on the passage you have just heard.14. A) They liked traveling. B) They wanted to find a better place to live in.C) They were driven out of their homes. D) The reasons are unknown.（D）15. A) They try to put up with Gypsies. B) They are envious of Gypsies.C) They are unfriendly to Gypsies. D) They admire the musical talent of the Gypsies.（C）16. A) Special schools have been set up for them. B) Permanent homes have been built for them.C) They are now taught in their own language. D) They are now allowed to attend local schools.（A）Passage ThreeQuestions 17 to 20 are based on the passage you have just heard.17. A) The causes are obvious. B) The causes are very complicated.C) The causes are familiar. D) The causes are not well understood.（B）18. A) Regular driver training. B) Improved highway design.C) Stricter traffic regulations. D) Better public transportation.（B）19. A) Highway crime. B) Poor traffic control.C) Confusing road signs. D) Drivers’ errors.（D）20. A) Designing better cars.B) Building more highways.C) Increasing people’s awareness of traffic problems.D) Enhancing drivers’ sense of responsibility.（A）Part II Reading Comprehension (35 minutes)Passage OneQuestions 21 to 25 are based on the following passage.Dogs are social animals and without proper training, they will behave like wild animals. They will soil your house, destroy your belongings, bark excessively, fight other dogs and even bite you. Nearly all behavior problems are perfectly normal dog activities that occur at the wrong time or place or are directed at the wrong thing. The key to preventing or treating behavior problems is learning to teach the dog to redirect its normal behavior to outlets that are acceptable in the domestic setting.One of the best things you can do for your dog and yourself is to obedience train it. Obedience training doesn’t solve all behavior problems, but it is the foundation for solving just about any problem. Training pens up a line of communication between you and your dog. Effective communication is necessary to instruct your dog about what you want it to do.Training is also an easy way to establish the social rank order. When your dog obeys a simple request of “come here, sit,” it is showing obedience and respect for you. It is not necessary to establish yourself as top dog or leader of the pack (群) by using extreme measure. You can teach your dog its subordinate (从属的) role by teaching it to show submission to you. Most dogs love performing tricks for you to pleasantly accept that you are in charge.Training should be fun and rewarding for you and your dog. It can enrich your relationship and make living together more enjoyable. A well-trained dog is more confident and can more safely be allowed a greater amount of freedom than an untrained animal.21. Behavior problems of dogs are believed to ________.A) be just part of their nature B) worsen in modern societyC) occur when they go wild D) present a threat to the community（A）22. The primary purpose of obedience training is to ________.A) teach the dog to perform clever tricksB) make the dog aware of its owner’s authorityC) provide the dog with outlets for its wild behavior。