【星火英语版】2016年6月大学英语四级真题参考答案
2016年6月大学英语四级第2套真题及答案
2016年6月大学英语四级真题（第2套)Part I WritingDirections:For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a letter to express your thanks to one of your school teachers upon entering college. You should write at least 120 words but no more than 180 words.Part ⅡListening ComprehensionSection ADirections: In this section, you will hear three news reports. At the end of each news report, you will hear two or three questions. Both the news report and the questions will be spoken only once. After you hear a question, you must choose the best answer from the four choices marked A), B), C) and D). Then mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 1 with a single line through the centre.Questions 1 and 2 are based on the news report you have just heard.1. A)How college students can improve their sleep habits.B)Why sufficient sleep is important for college students.C)Why college students are more likely to have stress problems.D)How college students can handle their psychological problems.2. A)It is not easy to improve one’s sleep habits.B)It is not good for students to play video games.C)Students who are better prepared generally get higher scores in examinations.D)Making last-minute preparations for tests may be less effective than sleeping.Questions 3 and 4 are based on the news report you have just heard.3. A)Whether more airports should be built around London.B)Whether adequate investment is being made to improve airport facilities.C)Whether the British Airports Authority should sell off some of its assets.D)Whether the Spanish company could offer better service.4. A)Inefficient management. B)Poor ownership structure.C)Lack of innovation and competition. D)Lack of runway and terminal capacity. Questions 5 to 7 are based on the news report you have just heard.5. A)Report the nicotine content of their cigarettes.B)Set a limit to the production of their cigarettes.C)Take steps to reduce nicotine in their products.D)Study the effects of nicotine on young smokers.6. A)The biggest increase in nicotine content tended to be in brands young smokers like.B)Big tobacco companies were frank with their customers about the hazards of smoking.C)Brands which contain higher nicotine content were found to be much more popular.D)Tobacco companies refused to discuss the detailed nicotine content of their products.7. A)They promised to reduce the nicotine content in cigarettes.B)They have not fully realized the harmful effect of nicotine.C)They were not prepared to comment on the cigarette study.D)They will pay more attention to the quality of their products.Section BDirections: In this section, you will hear two long conversations. At the end of each conversation, you will hear four questions. Both the conversation and the questions will be spoken only once. After you hear a question, you must choose the best answer from the four choices marked A), B), C)and D). Then mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 1 with a single line through the centre.Questions 8 to 11 are based on the conversation you have just heard.8. A)Indonesia. B)Holland. C)Sweden. D)England.9.A)Getting a coach who can offer real help. B)Talking with her boyfriend in Dutch.C)Learning a language where it is not spoken . D)Acquiring the necessary ability to socialize .10. A)Listening language programs on the radio. B)Trying to speak it as much as one can.C)Making friends with native speakers. D)Practicing reading aloud as often as possible.11.A)It creates an environment for socializing.B)It offers various courses with credit points.C)It trains young people’s leadership abilities.D)It provides opportunities for language practice.Questions 12 to 15 are based on the conversation you have just heard.12. A)The impact of engine design on rode safety. B)The role policemen play in traffic safety.C)A sense of freedom driving gives. D)Rules and regulations for driving.13. A)Make cars with automatic control. B)Make cars that have better brakes.C)Make cars that are less powerful. D)Make cars with higher standards.14. A)They tend to drive responsibly. B)They like to go at high speed.C)They keep within speed limits. D)They follow traffic rules closely.15.A)It is a bad idea. B)It is not useful.C)It is as effective as speed bumps . D)It should be combined with education.Section CDirections: In this section, you will hear three passages. At the end of each passage, you will hear three or four questions. Both the passage and the questions will be spoken only once. After you hear a question, you must choose the best answer from the four choices marked A), B), C)and D).Then mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 1 with a single line through the centre.Questions 16 to 18 are based on the passage you have just heard.16.A)The card got damaged . B)The card was found invalid.C)The card reader failed to do the scanning. D)The card reader broke down unexpectedly.17. A)By converting the credit card with a layer of plastic.B)By calling the credit card company for confirmation.C)By seeking help from the card reader maker Verifone.D)By typing the credit card number into the cash register.18.A)Affect the sales of high-tech appliances.B)Change the life style of many Americans.C)Give birth to many new technological inventions.D)Produce many low-tech fixes for high-tech failures.Questions 19 to 21 are based on the passage you have just heard.19. A)They are set by the dean of the graduate school.B)They are determined by the advising board.C)They leave much room for improvement.D)They vary among different departments.20. A)By consulting the examining committee . B)By reading the Bulletin of Information.C)By contacting the departmental office. D)By visiting the university’s website.21. A)They specify the number of credits students must earn.B)They are harder to meet than those for undergraduates.C)They have to be approved by the examining committee.D)They are the same among various divisions of the university.Questions 22 to 25 are based on the passage you have just heard.22. A)Students majoring in nutrition. B)Students in health classes.C)Ph.D. candidates in dieting. D)Middle and high school teachers.23. A)Its overestimate of the effect of dieting. B)Its mistaken conception of nutrition.C)Its changing criteria for beauty. D)Its overemphasis on thinness.24. A)To illustrate her point that beauty is but skin deep.B)To demonstrate the magic effect of dieting on women.C)To explain how computer images can be misleading.D)To prove that technology has impacted our culture.25. A)To persuade girls to stop dieting.B)To promote her own concept of beauty.C)To establish an emotional connection with students.D)To help students rid themselves of bad living habits.Section ADirections:In this section, there is a passage with ten blanks. You are required to select one word for each blank from a list of choices given in a word bank following the passage. Read the passage through carefully before making your choices. Each choice in the bank is identified by a letter. Please mark the corresponding letter for each item on Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through the centre. You may not use any of the words in the bank more than once.Contrary to popular belief, older people generally do not want to live with their children.Moreover, most adult children 26 every bit as much care and support to their aging parentsas was the case in the “good old days”, and most older people do not feel 27 .About 80% of people 65years and older have living children, and about 90% of them have 28 contact with their children. About 75% of elderly parents who don’t go to nursing homes live within 30 minutes of at least one of their children.However, 29 having contact with children does not guarantee happiness in old age. In fact, some research has found that people who are most involved with their families have the lowest spirits. This research may be 30 , however, as ill health often makes older people more 31 and thereby increases contact with family members. So it is more likely that poor health, not just family involvement, 32 spirits.Increasingly, researchers have begun to look at the quality of relationships, rather than at the frequency of contact, between the elderly and their children. If parents and children share interests and values and agree on childrearing practices and religious 33 , they are likely to enjoy each other’s company. Disagreements on such matters can 34 cause problems. If parents are agreed by their daughter’s d ivorce, dislike her new husband, and disapprove of how she is raising their grandchildren, 35 are that they are not going to enjoy her visits.Section BDirections: In this section, you are going to read a passage with ten statements attached to it. Each statement contains information given in one of the paragraphs. Identify the paragraph from which the information is derived. You may choose a paragraph more than once. Each paragraph is marked with a letter. Answer the questions by marking the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 2.Could Food Shortages Bring Down Civilization?[A] For many years I have studied global agricultural, population, environmental and economictrends and their interactions. The combined effects of those trends and the political tensions they generate point to the breakdown of governments and societies. Yet I, too, have resisted the idea that food shortages could bring down not only individual governments but also our global civilization.[B] I can no longer ignore that risk. Our continuing failure to deal with the environmental declinesthat are undermining the world food economy forces me to conclude that such a collapse is possible.[C] As demand for food rises faster than supplies are growing, the resulting food-price inflationputs severe stress on the governments of many countries. Unable to buy grain or grow their own, hungry people take to the streets. Indeed, even before the steep climb in grain prices in 2008, the number of failing states was expanding. If the food situation continues to worsen, entire nations will break down at an ever increasing rate. In the 20th century the main threat to international security was superpower conflict; today it is failing states.[D] States fail when national governments can no longer provide personal security, food securityand basic social services such as education and health care. When governments lose theircontrol on power, law and order begin to disintegrate. After a point, countries can become so dangerous that food relief workers are no longer safe and their programs are halted. Failing states are of international concern because they are a source of terrorists, drugs, weapons and refugees(难民), threatening political stability everywhere.[E] The surge in world grain prices in 2007 and 2008—and the threat they pose to foodsecurity——has a different, more troubling quality than the increases of the past. During the second half of the 20th century, grain prices rose dramatically several times. In 1972, for instance, the Soviets, recognizing their poor harvest early, quietly cornered the world wheat market. As a result, wheat prices elsewhere more than doubled, pulling rice and corn prices up with them. But this and other price shocks were event-driven——drought in the Soviet Union, crop-shrinking heat in the U.S. Corn Belt. And the rises were short-lived: prices typically returned to normal with the next harvest.[F] In contrast, the recent surge in world grain prices is trend-driven, making it unlikely to reversewithout a reversal in the trends themselves. On the demand side, those trends include the ongoing addition of more than 70 million people a year, a growing number of people wanting to move up the food chain to consume highly grain-intensive meat products, and the massive diversion(转向) of U.S. grain to the production of bio-fuel.[G] As incomes rise among low-income consumers, the potential for further grain consumption ishuge. But that potential pales beside the never-ending demand for crop-based fuels. A fourth of this year’s U.S. grain harvest will go to fuel cars.[H] What about supply? The three environmental trends——the shortage of fresh water, the lossof topsoil and the rising temperatures——are making it increasingly hard to expand the world’s grain supply fast enough to keep up with demand. Of all those trends, however, the spread of water shortages poses the most immediate threat. The biggest challenge here is irrigation, which consumes 70% the world’s fresh water. Millions of irrigation wells in many countries are now pumping water out of underground sources faster than rainfall can refill them. The result is falling water tables(地下水位) in countries with half the world’s people, including the three big grain producers——China, India and the U.S.[I] As water tables have fallen and irrigation wells have gone dry, China’s wheat crop, the world’slargest, has declined by 8% since it peaked at 123 million tons in 1997. But water shortages are even more worrying in India. Millions of irrigation wells have significantly lowered water tables in almost every state.[J] As the world’s food security falls to pieces, individual countries acting in their own self-interest are actually worsening the troubles of many. The trend began in 2007, when leading wheat-exporting countries such as Russia and Argentina limited or banned their exports, in hopes of increasing local food supplies and thereby bringing down domestic food prices.Vietnam banned its exports for several months for the same reason. Such moves may eliminate the fears of those living in the exporting countries, but they are creating panic in importing countries that must rely on what is then left for export.[K] In response to those restrictions, grain-importing countries are trying to nail down long-term trade agreements that would lock up future grain supplies. Food-import anxiety is even leading to new efforts by food-importing countries to buy or lease farmland in other countries. In spite of such temporary measures, soaring food prices and spreading hunger in many other countries are beginning to break down the social order.[L] Since the current world food shortage is trend-driven, the environmental trends that cause it must be reversed. We must cut carbon emissions by 80% from their 2006 levels by 2020, stabilize the world’s population at eight billion by 2040, completely remove poverty, and restore forests and soils. There is nothing new about the four objectives. Indeed, we have made substantial progress in some parts of the world on at least one of these——the distribution of family-planning services and the associated shift to smaller families.[M]For many in the development community, the four objectives were seen as positive, promoting development as long as they did not cost too much. Others saw them as politically correct and morally appropriate. Now a third and far more significant motivation presents itself: meeting these goals may be necessary to prevent the collapse of our civilization. Yet the cost we project for saving civilization would amount to less than $200 billion a year, 1/6 of current global military spending. In effect, our plan is the new security budget.36.The more recent steep climb in grain prices partly results from the fact that more and morepeople want to consume meat products.37. Social order is breaking down in many countries because of food shortages.38. Rather than superpower conflict, countries unable to cope with food shortages now constitutethe main threat to world security.39. Some parts of the world have seen successful implementation of family planning.40. The author has come to agree that food shortages could ultimately lead to the collapse of worldcivilization.41. Increasing water shortages prove to be the biggest obstacle to boosting the world’s grainproduction.42. The cost for saving our civilization would be considerably less than the world’s currentmilitary spending.43. To lower domestic food prices, some countries limited or stopped their grain exports.44. Environmental problems must be solved to ease the current global food shortage.45. A quarter of this year’s American grain harvest will be used to produce bio-fuel for cars. Section CDirections: There are 2 passages in this section. Each passage is followed by some questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A), B), C) and D). You should decide on the best choice and mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through the centre.Passage OneQuestions 46 to 50 are based on the following passage.Declining mental function is often seen as a problem of old age, but certain aspects of brain function actually begin their decline in young adulthood, a new study suggests.The study, which followed more than 2,000 healthy adults between the ages of 18 and 60, found that certain mental functions—including measures of abstract reasoning, mental speed and puzzle-solving—started to dull as early as age 27.Dips in memory, meanwhile, generally became apparent around age 37.On the other hand, indicators of a person’s accumulated knowledge—like performance on tests of vocabulary and general knowledge—kept improving with age, according to findings published in the journal Neurobiology of Aging.The results do not mean that young adults need to start worrying about their memories. Mostpeople’s minds function at a high level even in their later years, according to researcher Timothy Salthouse.“These patterns suggest that some type s of mental flexibility decrease relatively early in adulthood, but that the amount of knowledge one has, and the effectiveness of integrating it with one’s abilities, may increase throughout all of adulthood if there are no dise ases,” Salthouse said in a news release.The study included healthy, educated adults who took standard tests of memory, reasoning and perception at the outset and at some point over the next seven years.The tests are designed to detect subtle (细微的) changes in mental function, and involve solving puzzles, recalling words and details from stories, and identifying patterns in collections of letters and symbols.In general, Salthouse and his colleagues found, certain aspects of cognition (认知能力) generally started to decline in the late 20s to 30s.The findings shed light on normal age-related changes in mental function, which could aid in understanding the process of dementia (痴呆), according to the researchers.“By following individuals over time,” Salthouse said, “we gain insig ht in cognition changes, and may possibly discover ways to slow the rate of decline.”The researchers are currently analyzing the study participants’ health and lifestyle to see which factors might influence age-related cognitive changes.46. What is the common view of mental function?A)It varies from person to person. B)It weakens in one’s later years.C)It gradually expands with age. D)It indicates one’s health condition.47. What does the new study find about mental functions?A)Some diseases inevitably lead to their decline.B)They reach a peak at the age of 20 for most people.C)They are closely related to physical and mental exercise.D)Some of them begin to decline when people are still young.48. What does Timothy Salthouse say abo ut people’s minds in most cases?A)They tend to decline in people’s later years.B)Their flexibility determines one’s abilities.C)They function quite well even in old age.D)Their functioning is still a puzzle to be solved.49. Although people’s minds may function less flexibly as they age, they _____.A)may be better at solving puzzlesB)can memorize things with more easeC)may have greater facility in abstract reasoningD)can put what they have learnt into more effective use50. According to Salthouse, their study may help us_____.A)find ways to slow down our mental declineB)find ways to boost our memoriesC)understand the complex process of mental functioningD)understand the relation between physical and mental healthPassage TwoQuestions 51 to 55 are based on the following passage.The most important thing in the news last week was the rising discussion in Nashville about the educational needs of children. The shorthand(简写)educators use for this is “pre-K”—meaning instruction before kindergarten—and the big idea is to prepare 4-year-olds and even younger kids to be ready to succeed on their K-12 journey.But it gets complicated. The concept has multiple forms, and scholars and policymakers argue about the shape, scope and cost of the ideal program.The federal Head Start program, launched 50 years ago, has served more than 30 million children. It was based on concepts developed at Vanderbilt University’s Peabody College by Susan Gray, the legendary pioneer in early childhood education research.A new Peabody study of the Tennessee V oluntary Pre-K program reports that pre-K works, but the gains are not sustained through the third grade. It seems to me this highlights quality issues in elementary schools more than pre-K, and indicates longer-term success must connect pre-K with all the other issues related to educating a child.Pre-K is controversial. Some critics say it is a luxury and shouldn’t be free to families able to pay. Pre-K advocates insist it is proven and will succeed if int egrated with the rest of the child’s schooling. I lean toward the latter view.This is, in any case, the right conversation to be having now as Mayor Megan Barry takes office. She was the first candidate to speak out for strong pre-K programming. The important thing is for all of us to keep in mind the real goal and the longer, bigger picture.The weight of the evidence is on the side of pre-K that early intervention (干预)works. What government has not yet found is the political will to put that understanding into full practice with a sequence of smart schooling that provides the early foundation.For this purpose, our schools need both the talent and the organization to educate each child who arrives at the schoolhouse door. Some show up ready, but many do not at this critical time when young brains are developing rapidly.51.What does the author say about pre-kindergarten education?A)It should cater to the needs of individual children.B)It is essential to a person’s future academic success.C)Scholars and policymakers have different opinions about it.D)Parents regard it as the first phase of children’s development.52.What does the new Peabody study find?A)Pre-K achievements usually do not last long.B)The third grade marks a new phase of learning.C)The third grade is critical to children’s development.D)Quality has not been the top concern of pre-K programs.53.When does the author think pre-K works the best?A)When it is accessible to kids of all families.B)When it is made part of kids’ education.C)When it is no longer considered a luxury.D)When it is made fun and enjoyable to kids.54.What do we learn about Mayor Megan Barry?A)She knows the real goal of education. B)She is a mayor of insight and vision.C)She has once run a pre-K program. D)She is a firm supporter of pre-K.55.What does the author think is critical to kids’ education?A)Teaching method. B)Kids’ interest.C)Early intervention. D)Parents’ involvement.Part IV Translation Directions:For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to translate a passage from Chinese into English. You should write your answer on Answer Sheet 2.在山东省潍坊市，风筝不仅仅是玩具，而且还是这座城市文化的标志。
6月大学英语四级真题及答案
2016年 6月英语四级考试真题及答案Part I Writing (30 minutes)Directions： For this part， you are allowed 30 minutes to write a letter to express your thanks to one of your friends who helped you most when you were in difficulty。
You should write at least 120 words but no more than 180 wordsPart n Listening Comprehension (25 minutes)Section ADirections ： In this section ， you will hear three news reports 。
At the end of each news report ， you will hear two or three questions 。
Both the news report and the questions will be spoken only once。
After you hear a question ， you must choose the best answer from the four choices marked A )， B )， C ) and D )。
Then mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 1 with a single line through the centre 。
Questions 1 and 2 are based on the news report you have just heard.1. A ) The International Labor Organization ' s key ob.jectiveB ) The basic social protection for the most vulnerable.(C ) Rising unemployment worldwide.D ) Global economic recovery.2. A ) Many countries have not taken measures to create enough jobs.B ) Few countries know how to address the current economic crisis.C ) Few countries have realized the seriousness of the current crisis.D ) Many countries need support to improve their people ' s li.velihoodQuestions 3 and 4 are based on the news report you have just heard.3. A ) Serve standardized food nationwide.@B ) Put calorie information on the menu.C ) Increase protein content in the food.D ) Offer convenient food to customers.4. A ) They will be fined.B ) They will be closed.C ) They will get a warning.D ) They will lose customers.Questions 5 to 7 are based on the news report you have just heard.5.】6. A ) Inability to implement their business plans.B ) Inability to keep turning out novel products.C ) Lack of a successful business model of their own.D ) Failure to integrate innovation into their business.7. A ) It is the secret to business success.B ) It is the creation of something new.C ) It is a magic tool to bring big rewards.D ) It is an essential part of business culture.8.…9. A ) Its hardworking employees.B ) Its flexible promotion strategy.C ) Its innovation culture.D ) Its willingness to make investments.Section BDirections ： In this section， you will hear two long conversations. At the end of each conversations you will hear four questions. Both the conversations and the question-s will be spoken only once. After you hear a question. You must choose the best answer from the four choices marked A )，B )，C )and D ). Then mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 1 with a single line through the centre.Questions 8 to 11 are based on the conversation you have just heard.10.A ) He' s got addicted to technology.$B ) He is not very good at socializing.C ) He is crazy about text-messaging.D ) He does not talk long on the phone.11.A ) Talk big.B ) Talk at length.C ) Gossip a lot.D ) Forget herself.12. A ) He thought it was cool.B)$C)He needed the practice.D) He wan ted to stay conn ected with them.E)He had an urge nt message to send.13.A) It poses a challenge to seniors.B)It saves both time and money.C)It is childish and un professi on al.D)It is cool and convenient.Questions 12 to 15 are based on the conversation you have just heard.14.—15.A) He wants to change his job assignment.B)He is un happy with his departme nt man ager.C ) He thi nks he deserves extra pay for overtime.D) He is often singled out for criticism by his boss.16.A) His workload was much too heavy.B)His immediate boss did not trust him.C ) His colleagues ofte n refused to cooperate.D) His salary was too low for his resp on sibility.17.；18.A) He n ever knows how to refuse.B) He is always ready to help others.C ) His boss has a lot of trust in him.D) His boss has no sense of fair ness.19.A) Put all his complaints in writing.B) Wait and see what happe ns n ext.C ) Lear n to say no whe n n ecessary.D) Talk to his boss in person first.！Sectio n CDirections : In this sect ion , you will hear three passages. At the end of each passage, you will hear three or four questi ons. Both the passage and the questi ons will be spoke n only once. After you hear a question , you must choose the best answer from the four choices marked A ), B) , C ) and D ) .Then mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 1 with a single line through the cen tre.Questi ons 16 to 18 are based on the passage you have just heard.20.A) The importa nee of sleep to a healthy life.B) Reas ons for America ns ' decli ne in sleepC ) Some tips to improve the quality of sleep.D) Diseases associated with lack of sleep.21.A) They are more health-c on scious.！B) They are cha nging their livi ng habits.C ) They get less and less sleep.D) They know the dan gers of lack of sleep.22.A) Their weight will go dow n.B) Their mi nd fun ctio n will deteriorate.C ) Their work efficie ncy will decrease.D) Their blood pressure will rise.Questi ons 19 to 21 are based on the passage you have just heard.23.…24.A) How much you can afford to pay.B) What course you are going to choose.C ) Which uni versity you are going to apply to.D) When you are going to submit your applicati on.25.A) The list of courses studied.B) The full record of scores.C ) The references from teachers.D) The pers onal stateme nt.26.&27.A) Specify what they would like to do after graduati on.B) Describe in detail how much they would enjoy study ing.C ) In dicate they have reflected and thought about the subject.D) Emphasize that they admire the professors in the uni versity.Questi ons 22 to 25 are based on the passage you have just heard.28.A) It was equipped with rubber tyres.B)It was built in the late 19th century.C)It was purchased by the Royal family.D)—E)It was designed by an English engineer.29.A) They consumed lots of petrol.B)They took two passengers only.C)They were difficult to drive.D)They often broke down.30.A) They were produced on the assembly line.B) They were built with less costly materials.C ) They were modeled after British cars.@D) They were made for ordi nary use.31.A) It made n ews all over the world.B) It was built for the Royal family.C ) It marked a new era in motor travel.D) It attracted large nu mbers of motorists.Part III Reading Comprehension (40 minutes)Section ADirections： In this sect ion, there is a passage with ten bla nks. You are required to select one word for each blank from a list of choices given in a word bank following the passage. Read the passage through carefully beforemaking your choices. Each choice in the bank is identified by a letter. Please mark the corresponding letter for each item on Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through the centre. You may not use any of the words in the bank morethan once.?Questi ons 26 to 35 are based on the passage you have just heard.Physical activity does the body good and there ' s growing evidenee thatit helps the brain too. Researchersin the Netherlands report that children who get more exercise, whether at school or on their own, 26 to have higher GPAs and betterscores on standardized tests. In a _27 of 14 studies that looked at physical activity and academic 28 , inv estigators found that the more childre n moved, the better their grades were in school, 29 in the basic subjects of math,En glish and readi ng.The data will certai nly fuel the ongoing debate over whether physical educati on classes should be cut as schools struggle to 30 on smaller budgets. The argume nts aga inst physical educati on have in cluded concerns that gym time may be taking away from study time. With sta ndardized test scores in the U.S. 31 in rece nt years some admi nistrators believe stude nts n eed to spe nd more time in the classroom in stead of on the playgro und. But as these findings show , exercise and academics may not be 32 exclusive. Physical activity can improve blood _____________________________________________ 33to the brai n, fueli ng memory, atte nti on and creativity, which are 34 to learning. And exercise releases horm ones that can improve 35 a nd relieve stress which can also help learning. So while it may seem as if kids are just exercising their bodies when they ' re runnintheyromny actually be exercisingtheir brains as well.》注意：此部分试题请在答题卡2上作答.A ) attendanceB ) consequentlyC ) currentD ) depressingE ) dropping F) essential G) feasible H) flow I) mood J) mutually K) particularlyL) performanee M) review N) survive O) tendSecti on BDirections： In this sect ion, you are going to read a passage with ten stateme nts attached to it. Each statement contains information given in oneof the paragraphs. Identify the paragraph from which the information is derived. You may choose aparagraph more than once. Each paragraph is marked with a letter. Answer the questi ons by marking the corresp onding letter on An swer Sheet 2.Finding the Right Home — and Contentment , Too[A]When your elderly relative needs to enter some sort of Iong-term care facility — a mome nt few pare nts or childre n approach without fear — what you would like is to have everyth ing made clear.[B]Does assisted living really mark a great improvement over a nursing home or has the in dustry simply hired better in terior desig nerQ Are nursing homes as badas people fear or is that an out-moded stereotype (固定看法)？ Can doing one ' s homework really steer families to the best places It is genuin ely hard to know.[C]I am about to make thi ngs more complicated by suggest ing that what kind offacility an older person lives in may matter less than we have assumed. And that the characteristics adult childre n look for whe n they begi n the search are not n ecessarily the things that make a difference to the people who are going to move in. I am not talking about the quality of care, let me hastily add. Nobody flourishes in a gloomy environment with irresponsible staff and a poor safety record. But an accumulating body of research in dicates that some dist in cti ons betwee n one type of elder care and another have little real bearing on how well residents do.[D]The most recent of these studies, published in The journal of Applied Gerontology, surveyed 150 Connecticut residents of assisted living nursing homes and smaller residential care home( known in some states as board and care homes or adult care homes) . Researchersfrom the University of Connecticut Health Center asked the residents a large number of questions about their quality of life emotional well-be ing and social interacti on, as well as about the quality of the facilities.[E]“ We thought we would s ee differe nces based on the hous ing typ”ssaid thelead author of the study, Julie Robis on, an associate professor of medici ne at the uni versity. A reas on able assumption— don' t families struggle to avoid nursing homes and suffer real guilt if they can ? 't[F]In the initial results, assistedliving residentsdid paint the most positive picture. They were less likely to report symptoms of depression than those in the other facilities , for instance, and less likely to be bored or Ionely. They scored higher on social in teracti on.[G]But when the researchersplugged in a number of other variables, such differences disappeared. It is not the housing type, they found, that creates differences in residents responses “It is the characteristics of the specific en vir onment they are in, comb ined with their own pers onal characteristics— how healthy they feel they are , their age and marital status, ” Dr Robison explained. Whether residents felt involved in the decision to move and how long they had lived there also proved sig nifica nt.[H]An elderly person who describes herself as in poor health therefore, might be no less depressed in assisted living (even if her children preferred it) than in a nursing home. A pers on who bad in put into where he would move and has had time to adapt to it might do as well in a nursing home as in a small residential care home , other factors being equal. It is an in teract ion betwee n the pers on and the place not the sort of place in itself, that leads to better or worse experiences. “ You can ' t just say,‘ Let ' s put this pers on in a reside ntialhame in stead of a nursing hom—shewill be much better off, ” Dr. Robison said. What matters, she added, “ isacomb in ati on of what people bring in with them, and what they find there”[I]Such findings, which run coun ter to com mon sense have surfaced before. In a multi-state study of assisted living, for instance, University of North Carolina researchers found that a host of variable—the facility ' ,s tsp© or age whethera chain owned it ； how attractive the neighborhood was—— had no significant relationship to how the residents fared in terms of illness, mental decline,hospitalizatio ns or mortality. What mattered most was the reside nts ' physical health and men tal status. What people were like whe n they came in had greater con seque neethan what happe ned one they were there.[J]As I was con sideri ng all this, a press release from a respected research firm crossed my desk, announcing that the five-star rati ng system that Medicare developed in 2008 to help families compare nursing home quality also has little relati on ship to how satisfied its reside nts or their family members are. As a matter of fact, consumers expressed higher satisfaction with the one-star facilities the lowest rated, tha n withthe five-star on es. （More on this study and the star rati ngs willappear in a subseque nt post.[K]B efore we collectively tear our hair out — how are we supposed to find our way in a Iandscape this confusing ? ——here is a thought from Dr. Philip Sloane , a geriatrician （老年病学专家） at the University of North Carolina : “Ira way, that could be liberating for families. ”[L]O f course, sons and daughters want to visit the facilities , talk to the adm ini strators and reside nts and other families and do everyth ing possible to fulfill their duties. But perhaps they don 't betvent themselves into private investigators or Congressional subcommittees. “ Familiescan look a bit more for where the reside nts are going to be happy ” DrSloa ne said. And involving the future reside nt in the process can be very importa nt.[M]We all have our own ideas about what would bring our pare nts happ in ess. They have their ideas, too. A frie nd rece ntly took her mother to visit an expe nsive assisted living/nursing home near my town. I have seen this place— it is elegan, in side and out. But n obody greeted the daughter and mother whe n they arrived, though the visit had bee n pla nn ed; n obody in troduced them to the other reside nts. Whe n they had lunch in the dining room, they sat alone at a table.[N]The daughter feared her mother would be ignored there and so she decided to move her into a more welcoming facility. Based on what is emerging from some of this research that might have bee n as rati onal a way as any to reach a decisi on.36.Many people feel guilty whe n they cannot find a place other tha n a nursing home for their pare nts.37.Though it helps for children to investigate care facilities , involving their pare nts in the decisi on-mak ing process may prove very importa nt.38.It is really difficult to tell if assisted living is better than a nursing home.39.How a reside nt feels depe nds on an in teractio n betwee n themselves and thecare facility they live in.40.The author thinks her frie nd made a ratio nal decisi on in choos ing a more hospitable place over an apparently elegant assisted living home.41.The system Medicare developed to rate nursing home quality is of little help to finding a satisfactory place.42.At first the researchersof the most recent study found residents in assisted living facilities gave higher scores on social interaction.43.What kind of care facility old people live in may be less important than we thi nk.44.The findings of the latest research were similar to an earlier multi-state study of assisted livi ng.45.A reside nt ' s satisfact ion with a careifaCibs much to do with whether they had participated in the decisi on to move in and how long they had stayed there.Section CDirections： There are 2 passages in this sect ion. Each passage is followed by some questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A),B) , C) and D) . You should decide on the best choice and mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through the centre.Passage oneQuestions 46 to 50 are based on the following passage.As Artificial Intelligenee (AI) becomes increasingly sophisticated there aregrow ing concerns that robots could become a threat. This dan ger can be avoided, according to computer scienee professor Stuart Russell if we figure out how to turn huma n values into a programmable code.Russell argues that as robots take on more complicated tasks it ' s necessary to tran slate our morals into AI Ian guage.For example, if a robot does chores around the hous,e you wouldn ' t want it to put the pet cat in the oven to make dinner for the hungry children. “ You would want that robot preloaded with a good set of values ” said Russe llSome robots are already programmed with basic huma n values. For example mobilerobots have bee n programmed to keep a comfortable dista nee from huma ns. Obviously there are cultural differe nces, but if you were talki ng to ano ther pers on and they came up close in your personal space you wouldn ' t think that ' s the kind of thing a properly brought-up pers on would do.It will be possible to create more sophisticated moral machi nes if only we can find a way to set out huma n values as clear rules.Robots could also lear n values from draw ing patter ns from large sets of data on huma n behavior. They are dan gerous only if programmers are careless.The biggest concern with robots going against human values is that human beings fail to so sufficient testing and they ' ve produced a system that will break somekind of taboo (禁忌).One simple check would be to program a robot to check the correct course of action with a huma n whe n prese nted with an unu sual situati on.If the robot is unsure whether an animal is suitable for the microwave it has the opport un ity to stop, send out beeps 嘟嘟声),and ask for direct ions from a huma n. If we humans aen' t quite sure about a decision we go and ask somebody else.The most difficult step in program ming values will be decidi ng exactly what we believe in moral, and how to create a set of ethical rules. But if we come up with an answer, robots could be good for huma nity.46.What does the author say about the threat of robotsA)It may constitute a challenge to computer progranmers.B)It accompa nies all mach inery involving high tech no logy.C)It can be avoided if human values are translated into their Ianguage.D)It has become an in evitable peril as tech no logy gets more sophisticated.47.What would we thi nk of a pers on who inv ades our pers onal space accordi ng to the author?A)They are aggressive.B)They are outgoing.C)They are ignorant.D)They are ill-bred.48.How do robots lear n huma n valuesA)By interacting with humans in everyday life situations.B)By following the daily routines of civilized human beings.C)By pick ing up patter ns from massive data on huma n behavior.D)By imitating the behavior of property brought-up human beings.49.What will a well-programmed robot do whe n facing an unu sual situatio?A)keep a dista nee from possible dan gers.B)Stop to seek advice from a human being.C)Trigger its built-in alarm system at once.D)Do sufficient testing before taking action.50.What is most difficult to do when we turn human values into a programmable code?A)Determine what is moral and ethical.B)Design some large-scale experiments.C)Set rules for man-machine interaction.D)Develop a more sophisticated program.Passage TwoQuesti ons 51 to 55 are based on the follow ing passage.Why do some people live to be older than others? You know the standard explanations：keeping a moderate diet engaging in regular exercise etc. But what effect does your personality have on your Iongevity (长寿)？ Do some kinds of pers on alities lead to Ion ger lives? A new study in the Jour nal of the America n Geriatrics Society looked at this questi on by exam ining the pers on ality characteristics of 246 children of people who had lived to be at least 100.The study shows that those livi ng the Ion gest are more outgo ing, more active and less neurotic (神经质的) than other people. Long-living women are also morelikely to be sympathetic and cooperative than women with a normal life span. These findings are in agreeme nt with what you would expect from the evoluti onary theory thosewho like to make frie nds and help others can gather eno ugh resources to make it through tough times.Interestingly , however, other characteristics that you might consider adva ntageous had no impact on whether study participa nts were likely to live Ion ger. Those who were more self-discipli ned, for in sta nee, were no more likely to live to be very old. Also, being ope n to new ideas had no relati on ship to long life which might explai n all those bad-tempered old people who are fixed in their ways.Whether you can successfully cha nge your pers on ality as an adult is the subject of a Ion gsta nding psychological debate. But the new paper suggests that if you want longlife , you should strive to be as outgoing as possible.Unfortunately, another recent study shows that your mother ' s personality mayalso help determine your Iongevity. That study looked at nearly 28 , 000 Norwegian mothers and found that those moms who were more an xious, depressed and angrywere more likely to feed their kids un healthy diets. Patter ns of childhood eat ing can be hard to break when we ' re, adwtsch may mean that kids of depressed moms end up dying youn ger.Pers on ality isn ' t d(s ft n运),and every one knows that in dividuals can lear n to change. But both studies show that long life isn 'just a matter of your physical healthbut of your men tal health.51.The aim of the study in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Societyis ___ .A)to see whether people ' s personality affects their life spanB)to find out if one ' s lifestyle has any effect on their healthC)to investigate the role of exercise in living a long lifeD)to examine all the factors contributing to Iongevity52.What does the author imply about outgo ing and sympathetic peopleA)They have a good understanding of evolution.B)They are better at negotiating an agreement.C)They gen erally appear more resourceful.D)They are more likely to get over hardship.53.What finding of the study might prove somewhat out of our expectationA)Easy-going people can also live a relatively long life.B)Pers on ality characteristics that prove adva ntageous actually vary with times.C)Such personality characteristics as self-discipline have no effect on Iongevity.D)Read in ess to accept new ideas helps one enjoy Ion gevity.54.What does the rece nt study of Norwegia n mothers showA)Children ' personality characteristics are invariably determined by their mothers.B)People with unhealthy eating habits are likely to die sooner.C)Mothers' in flue nee on childre n may last Ion ger tha n fathers ' D)Mothers' negative personality characteristics may affect their children ' slif spa ns.55.What can we lear n from the findings of the two new studiesA)Anxiety and depression more often than not cut short one . ' s life spanB)Lon gevity results from a comb in atio n of men tal and physical health.C)Pers on ality plays a decisive role in how healthy one is.D)Health is in large part related to one . ' s lifestylePart IV Tran slation (30 mi nutes)Direct ions： For this part, you are allowed 30 minu tes to tran slate a passage from Chi nese into En glish. You should write your an swer on the ANSWER SHEET2.功夫（Kong Fu）是中国武术（martial arts）的俗称冲国武术的起源可以追溯到自卫的需要，狩猎活动以及古代中国的军士训练•它是中国传统体育运动的一种，年轻人和老年人都练•它已逐渐演变成了中国文化的独特元素•作为中国的国宝，武术有上百种不同的风格，是世界上练得最多的武术形式.有些风格模仿了动物的动作，还有一些则受到了中国哲学思想，神话和传说的启发四级写作：第一版For this part, you are allowed 30 minu tes to write a letter to express your tha nks to one of your frie nds who helped you most whe n you were in difficulty. You should write at least 120 words but no more than 180 words.第一段：写出写信目的.（表达感谢）第二段：阐述感谢的原因.第三段:再次表达感谢，并可表述希望有机会可以给对方回报.Dear Mary,I would like to take this opport unity to express my heartfelt gratitude to you for your help when I was in difficulty. You have been very kind and helpful since we knew each other.Last week, I caught a bad cold and had to stay at home for a week. Whe n I was worrying about the lessons, you came to my home after school and helped me with every subject. With your help, I didn ' t fall behind others.Aga in, tha nks so much for your en thusiastic help. Eve n though you are to about to go abroad for further education I know that I will always stay in touch with you. I wish you every success in the future and I hope we can excha nge more viewpo ints on study.Please keep in touch, and drop in and visit us whe never you are in this part of the world.Very sin cerelyPeter第二版For this part, you are allowed 30 minu tes to write a letter to express your tha nks to one of your school teachers upon en teri ng college. You should write at least 120 words but no more tha n 180 words.第一段:写出写信目的.（表达感谢）第二段：阐述感谢的原因.第三段:再次表达感谢，并可表述希望有机会可以给对方回报.Dear sir,I am writing to you to express my thanks for your help in learning English. You are one of the best teachers who I have ever met .There are many good points that I learn from you.During these days in your class, I have acquired much knowledge from you and it really helps me a lot. Firstly, you let me know what the west th inking pattern is —straight thinking pattern. As an English learner, it is important for me to understand the difference between them. There is no denying the fact that this can help me with my examin ati on and in teractio n with foreig ners. What' snore, I ' nglad to be your stude nt, and I am very happy to lear n the course un der your guida nce. En glish is an important tool, through which we can share our experience with the world. I treasure the cha nce of lear ning En glish, and I enjoy the happ in ess from your course.The last not the least, please forgive those mistakes I have made which may upset you. What I have learned from you will help me pass the coming exam in ati ons and also be useful for my further educati on in abroad. It is not only a progress of lear ning, but also a cultivati on of my ability.May everyth ing go well around you.Your stude nt,Li li ng第三版For this part, you are allowed 30 minu tes to write a letter to express your tha nks to your parents or any family members upon making memorable achievement. You should write at least 120 words but no more than 180 words.第一段：写出写信目的.（表达感谢）第二段：阐述感谢的原因.第三段:再次表达感谢，并可表述希望有机会可以给对方回报.Dear pare nts.This letter is to tell you my true feelings from the bottom of my heart. Although we can keep in virtual touch every day, I still feel it not eno ugh to let you know how much I love you and how much I ' ve appreciated what you ' ve done for me.In the past 20 years, you have done a lot for me. Firstly, tha nk you so much for bringing me up. I know how hard you've being work ing in the past. I can imag ine how many difficulties and obstacles you've conq uered. Secon d, I want to tha nk you for your good educatio n on me. There is an old say ing goes like this “ pare nts are the first teachers to their children ” . Both of you are the typical ones. The most importantthing that I want to say “thank you ” is for your great admiration on my own freedom.You told me to look over the horizons and to pursuit my own dreams without hesitati on.I really feel that my pen fails me when I am writing this thank you letter. The only thing I hope you can do for me is to take good care of yourselves and you will be always proud of me.Yours belovedSon四级翻译（功夫）：功夫（Kung Fu）是中国武术（martial arts）的俗称.中国武术的起源可以追溯自卫的需要，狩猎活动以及古代中国的军事训练，它是中国传统体育运动的一种.年轻人，老年人都练，它已逐渐演变成了中国文化的独特元素，作为中国的国宝，功夫有上百种的风格，是世界上练得最多的艺术形式，有些风格模仿了动物的动作.还有一些则受到中国哲学思想，神话和传说的启发.Kung Fu is the folk n ame of Chin ese martial arts, which dates back to the n eed of self-defense, hunting, and military drill in ancient China. It is one of China' s。
【四六级真题】2016年6月大学英语四级真题及解析(第一套)
2016年6月大学英语四级真题（第1套）Part I Writing (30 minutes)Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a letter to express your thanks to one of your school teachers upon entering college. You should write at least 120 words but no more than 180 words.注意：此部分试题在答题卡1上______________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________ __Part II Listening Comprehension ( 25 minutes)Section ADirections:In this section, you will hear three news reports. At the end of each news report, you will hear two or three questions. Both the news report and the questions will be spoken only once. After you hear a question, you must choose the best answer from the four choices marked A), B), C) and D).Then mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 1 with a single line through the centre.注意：此部分在答题卡1上作答Questions 1 and 2 are based on the news report you have just heard.1. A) How college students can improve their sleep habits.B) Why sufficient sleep is important for college students.C) Why college students are more likely to have stress problems.D) How college students can handle their psychological problems.2. A) It is not easy to improve one’s sleep habits.B) It is not good for students to play video games.C) Students who are better prepared generally get higher scores in examinations.D) Making last-minute preparations for tests may be less effective than sleeping. Questions 3 and 4 are based on the news report you have just heard.3. A) Whether more airports should be built around London.B) Whether adequate investment is being made to improve airport facilities.C) Whether the British Airports Authority should sell off some of its assets.D) Whether the Spanish company could offer better service.4. A) Inefficient management. B) Poor ownership structure.C) Lack of innovation and competition. D) Lack of runway and terminal capacity. Questions 5 to 7 are based on the news report you have just heard.5. A) Report the nicotine content of their cigarettes.B) Set a limit to the production of their cigarettes.C) Take steps to reduce nicotine in their products.D) Study the effects of nicotine on young smokers.6. A) The biggest increase in nicotine content tended to be in brands young smokers like.B) Big tobacco companies were frank with their customers about the hazards of smoking.C) Brands which contain higher nicotine content were found to be much more popular.D) Tobacco companies refused to discuss the detailed nicotine content of their products.7. A) They promised to reduce the nicotine content in cigarettes.B) They have not fully realized the harmful effect of nicotine.C) They were not prepared to comment on the cigarette study.D) They will pay more attention to the quality of their products.Section BDirections: In this section, you will hear two long conversations. At the end of each conversation, you will hear four questions. Both the conversation and the questions will be spoken only once. After you hear a question, you must choose the best answer from the four choices marked A), B), C) and D). Then mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 1 with a single line through the centre.Conversation oneQuestions 8 to 11 are based on the conversation you have just heard.8. A) Indonesia. B) Holland. C) Sweden. D) England.9. A) Getting a coach who can offer real help. B) Talking with her boyfriend in Dutch.C) Learning a language where it is not spoken . D) Acquiring the necessary ability to socialize .10. A) Listening language programs on the radio. B) Trying to speak it as much as one can.C) Making friends with native speakers. D) Practicing reading aloud as often as possible.11.A) It creates an environment for socializing.B) It offers various courses with credit points.C) It trains young people’s leadership abilities.D) It provides opportunities for language practice.Questions 12 to 15 are based on the conversation you have just heard.12. A) The impact of engine design on rode safety. B) The role policemen play in traffic safety.C) A sense of freedom driving gives. D) Rules and regulations for driving.13. A) Make cars with automatic control. B) Make cars that have better brakes.C) Make cars that are less powerful. D) Make cars with higher standards.14. A) They tend to drive responsibly. B) They like to go at high speed.C) They keep within speed limits. D) They follow traffic rules closely.15. A) It is a bad idea. B) It is not useful.C) It is as effective as speed bumps . D) It should be combined with education. Section CDirections: In this section, you will hear three passages. At the end of each passage, you will hear three or four questions. Both the passage and the questions will be spoken only once.After you hear a question, you must choose the best answer from the four choices marked A), B), C)and D).Then mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 1 with a single line through the centre.注意：此部分在答题卡1上作答Passage oneQuestions 16 to 18 are based on the passage you have just heard.16. A) The card got damaged . B) The card was found invalid.C) The card reader failed to do the scanning. D) The card reader broke down unexpectedly.17. A) By converting the credit card with a layer of plastic.B) By calling the credit card company for confirmation.C) By seeking help from the card reader maker Verifone.D) By typing the credit card number into the cash register.18. A) Affect the sales of high-tech appliances.B) Change the life style of many Americans.C) Give birth to many new technological inventions.D) Produce many low-tech fixes for high-tech failures.Passage twoQuestions 19 to 21 are based on the passage you have just heard.19. A) They are set by the dean of the graduate school.B) They are determined by the advising board.C) They leave much room for improvement.D) They vary among different departments.20. A) By consulting the examining committee . B) By reading the Bulletin of Information.C) By contacting the departmental office. D) By visiting the university’s website.21. A)They specify the number of credits students must earn.B)They are harder to meet than those for undergraduates.C)They have to be approved by the examining committee.D)They are the same among various divisions of the university.Passage threeQuestions 22 to 25 are based on the passage you have just heard.22. A) Students majoring in nutrition. B) Students in health classes.C) Ph.D. candidates in dieting. D) Middle and high school teachers.23. A) Its overestimate of the effect of dieting. B) Its mistaken conception of nutrition.C) Its changing criteria for beauty. D) Its overemphasis on thinness.24. A) To illustrate her point that beauty is but skin deep.B) To demonstrate the magic effect of dieting on women.C) To explain how computer images can be misleading.D) To prove that technology has impacted our culture.25. A) To persuade girls to stop dieting.B) To promote her own concept of beauty.C) To establish an emotional connection with students.D) To help students rid themselves of bad living habits.Part Ⅲ Reading Comprehension (40 minutes)Section ADirections: In this section, there is a passage with ten blanks. You are required to select one word for each blank from a list of choices given in a word bank following the passage. Read the passage through carefully before making your choices. Each choice in the bank is identified by a letter. Please mark the corresponding letter for each item on Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through the center. You may not use any of the words in the bank more than once.Question 26 to 35 are based on the following passage2016年6月份第一套一、精读开头，抓中心词二、判定空中的词性三、审核空中词的属性：情感、态度、方向等。
2016年6月大学英语四级真题试卷(一)(题后含答案及解析)
2016年6月大学英语四级真题试卷（一）(题后含答案及解析)题型有：1. Writing 2. Listening Comprehension 3. Reading Comprehension 4. TranslationPart I Writing1．For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a letter to express your thanks to one of your school teachers upon entering college. You should write at least 120 words but no more than 180 words.正确答案：Dear Professor Smith, I would like to extend my sincere gratitude to you for your selfless assistance during my preparation for the college entrance examination. Without your tremendous support and continuous encouragement, I would have never entered my ideal college. It goes without saying that it was your enlightening guidance that ushered me into the academic world. Otherwise, I would just wander around without an aim in life. For one thing, your care and love helped me blend into the whole class, which brought dramatic changes to me. I started to reflect on the true essence of life and set a goal for my study. For another, your help and support in my study undoubtedly unleashed the enormous potential in me, which made me readily indulge into the sea of knowledge. Finally I fulfilled my dream. In a word, my appreciation for you is beyond words. It is really an honor for me to be your student and I will always bear your instruction and scholarly spirit in mind. Best wishes! Yours sincerely, DerekPart II Listening ComprehensionSection A听力原文：(1)The International Labor Organization says the number of people without jobs is increasing. In its latest update on global employment trends, the agency says projections of the number of unemployed people this year range from 210 million to nearly 240 million people. The report warns that 200 million poor workers are at risk of joining the ranks of people living on less than two dollars per day in the past three years.(2)The director general of the International Labor Organization Juan Somavia notes that some countries have taken measures to address the effects of the global crisis. However, he points out that many countries have not done so. And based on past experiences, it takes four to five years after economic recovery for unemployment to return to pre-crisis levels. Mr. Somavia says the International Labor Organization is proposing a global jobs agreement to deal with unemployment. “Its key objective is to place at the center of recovery efforts measures that would generate higher levels of employment and provide basic social protection for the most vulnerable. “Questions 1 and 2 are based on the news reportyou have just heard.1. What is the news report mainly about?2. What does Juan Somavia, director general of the International Labor Organization, say?2．A．The International Labour Organization’s key objective.B．The basic social protection for the most vulnerable.C．Rising unemployment worldwide.D．Global economic recovery.正确答案：C解析：新闻开篇提到，国际劳工组织称失业人数正在增加，随后具体说明今年全球失业人数达到2．1亿至2．4亿，故答案为C)。
2016年6四级真题及答案解析
2016年6月四级考试真题（第一套）Part I Writing （30 minutes）Directions：For this part，you are allowed 30 minutes to write a letter to express your thanks to one of your friends who helped youmost when you were in difficulty. You should write at least120 words but no more than 180 words.Part II Listening Comprehension (30 minutes)Section ADirections:In this section, you will hear three news reports. At the end of each news report, you will hear two or three questions.Both the news report and the questions will be spoken onlyonce. After you hear a question, you must choose the bestanswer from the four choices marked A), B), C) and D). Thenmark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 1with a singleline through the centre.注意：此部分试题请在答题卡1上作答。
Questions 1 and 2 are based on the news report you have just heard.1. A) The International Labor Organization’s key objective.B) The basic social protection for the most vulnerable.C) Rising unemployment worldwide.D) Global economic recovery.2. A) Many countries have not taken measures to create enough jobs.B) Few countries know how to address the current economic crisis.C) Few countries have realized the seriousness of the current crisis.D) Many countries need support to improve their people’s livelihood.Questions 3 and 4 are based on the news report you have just heard.3. A) Serve standardised food nationwide.B) Put calorie information on the menu.C) Increase protein content in the food.D) Offer convenient food to customers.4. A) They will be fined.B) They will be closed.C) They will get a warning.D) They will lose customers.Questions 5 to 7 are based on the news report you have just heard.5. A) Inability to implement their business plans.B) Inability to keep turning out novel products.C) Lack of a successful business model of their own.D) Failure to integrate innovation into their business.6. A) It is the secret to business success.B) It is the creation of something new.C) It is a magic tool to bring big rewards.D) It is an essential part of business culture.7. A) Its hardworking employees.B) Its flexible promotion strategy.C) Its innovation culture.D) Its willingness to make investments.Section BDirections: In this section, you will hear two long conversations. At the end of each conversation, you will hear four questions.Both the conversation and the questions will be spoken onlyonce. After you hear a question, you must choose the bestanswer from the four choices marked A),B),C)and D). Then markthe corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 1 with a single linethrough the centre.注意：此部分试题请在答题卡1上作答。
2016年6月四级考试真题卷一及答案解析
2016年6月四级考试真题(第一套)Part Ⅰ Writing(30 minutes)Directions：For this part,you are allowed 30 minutes to write a letter to express your thanks to one of your friends who helped you most when you were in difficulty．You should write at least 120 words but no more than 180 words．Part Ⅱ Listening Comprehension (25 minutes)Section ADirections：In this section，you will hear three news reports．At the end of each news report,you will hear two or three questions．Both the news report and the questions will be spoken only once．After you hear a question,you must choose the best answer from the four choices marked A．，B．，C．,and D．,Then mark the corresponding letter on answer Sheet 1 with d single line through the centre.Questions 1 and 2 are based on the news report you have just heard．1．A． How college students can handle their psychological problems．B． Why college students are more likely to have stress problems．C． Why sufficient sleep is important for college students．D． HOW college students can improve their sleep habits．2．A．It is not easy to improve one’s sleep habits．B．It is not good for students to play video games．C．Making last．minute preparations for tests may be less effective than sleeping．D．Students who are better prepared generally get higher scores in examinationsQuestions 3 and 4 are based on the news report you have just heard .3．A．Whether adequate investment is being made to improve airport facilitiesB．Whether the British Airports Authority should sell off some of its assets．C．Whether the Spanish company could offer better service．D．Whether more airports should be built around London．4．A．Poor ownership structure．C．Lack of innovation and competition．B．Inefficient management．D．Lack of runway and terminal capacity．Questions 5 to7 are based on the news report you have just heard.5．A．Study the effects of nicotine on young smokers．B．Set a limit to the production of their cigarettes．C．Take steps to reduce nicotine in their products．D．Report the nicotine content of their cigarettes．6．A．The biggest increase in nicotine content tended to be in brands young smokers like．B． Brands which contain higher nicotine content were found to be much more popular．C．Tobacco companies refused to discuss the detailed nicotine content of their products．D．Big tobacco companies were flank with their customers about the hazards of smoking ．7．A．They will pay more attention to the quality of their products．B．They were not prepared to comment on the cigarette study．C．They promised to reduce the nicotine content in cigarettes．D．They have not fully realized the harmful effect of nicotine．Section BDirections：In this section，you will hear two long conversations．At the end of each conversation，you will hear four questions．Both the conversation and the questions will be spoken only once．After you hear a question，you must choose the best answer from the four choices marked A，B，C and D．Then mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 1 with a single line through the centre．Questions 8 tol1 are based on the conversation you have just heard．8．A．Holland．B．Indonesia．C．England．D．Sweden．9．A．Talking with her boyfriend in Dutch．B．Getting a coach who can offer real help．C．Acquiring the necessary ability to socialize．D．Learning a language where it is not spoken．10．A．Practicing reading aloud as often as possible．B．Listening to language programs on the radio．C．Trying to speak it as much as one can．D．Making friends with native speakers．11．A．It provides opportunities for language practice．B．It trains young people’s leadership abilities．C．It offers various courses with credit points．D．It creates an environment for socializing ．Questions 12 tol5 are based on the conversation you have just heard．12．A．A sense of freedom driving gives．B．Rules and regulations for driving ．C．The role policemen play in traffic safety．D． The impact of engine design on road safety．13．A．Make cars with automatic control．B．Make cars with higher standards．C．Make cars that are less powerful．D． Make cars that have better brakes．14．A．They follow traffic rules closely．B． They keep within speed limits．C．They like to go at high speed．D． They tend to drive responsibly．15．A． It is a bad idea．B．It is as effective as speed bumps．C．It is not useful．D．It should be combined with education．Section CDirections：In this section，you will hear three passages．At the end of each passage,you will hear three or four questions．Both the passage and the questions will be spoken only once．After you hear a question，you must choose the best answer from the four choices marked A，B，C,and D,Then mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet l with a single line through the centre．Questions 16 tol8 are based on the passage you have just heard．16．A．The card got damaged．B．The card was found invalid．C．The card reader broke down unexpectedly．D．The card reader failed to do the scanning．17．A．By seeking help from the card reader maker Verifone．B．By covering the credit card with a layer of plastic．C．By calling the credit card company for confirmation．D．By typing the credit card number into the cash register．18．A．Produce many low-tech fixes for high．tech failures．B． Give birth to many new technological inventions．C． Change the lifestyle of many Americans．D． Affect the sales of high．tech appliances．Questions 19 to21 are based on the passage you have just heard．19．A．They vary among different departments．B．They leave much room for improvement．C．They are determined by the advising board．D．They are set by the dean of the graduate school．20．A．By consulting the examining committee．B． By reading the Bulletin of Information．C． By visiting the university’s website．D． By contacting the departmental office．21．A．They are harder to meet than those for undergraduates．B．They specify the number of credits students must earn．C．They have to be approved by the examining committee．D．They are the same among various divisions of the university．Questions 22 to 25 are based oil the passage you have just heard．22．A．Ph．D．candidates in dieting．B．Students majoring in nutrition．C．Students in health classes．D．Middle and high school teachers．23．A．Its overemphasis on thinness．B．Its changing criteria for beauty．C．Its mistaken conception of nutrition．D．Its overestimate of the effect of dieting．24．A．To demonstrate the magic effect of dieting on women．B．To explain how computer images can be misleading．C．To prove that technology has impacted our culture．D．To illustrate her point that beauty is but skin deep．25．A．To help students rid themselves of bad living habits．B．To establish an emotional connection with students．C．To promote her own concept of beauty．D．To persuade girls to stop dieting．Part Ⅲ Reading Comprehension (40 minutes)Section ADirections：In this section，there is a passage with ten blanks．You are required to select one word for each blank from a list of choices given in a word bank following the passage．Read the passage through carefully before making your choices．Each choice in the bank is identified by a letter． Please mark the corresponding letter for each item on Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through the centre．You may not use any of the words in the bank more than once．Signs barring cell—phone use are a familiar sight to anyone who has ever sat in a hospital waiting room．But the 26 popularity of electronic medical records has forced hospital．based doctors to become 27 on computers throughout the day,and desktops—which keep doctors from bedsides—are 28 giving way to wireless devices． As clerical loads increased，“something had to 29 ．and that was always face time with patients．”says Dr．Bhakti Patel．a former chief resident in the University of Chicago’s intenal-medicine program．In fall2010，she helped 30 a pilot project in Chicago to see if the iPad could improve working conditions and patient care．The experiment was so 31 that all internal．medicine residents at the university now get iPads when they begin the program．Johns Hopkins’ internal．medicine program adopted the same 32 in 2011．Medical schools at Yale and Stanford now have paperless．iPad-based curriculums．“You’11 want an iPad just so you can wear this”is the slogan for one of the new lab coats 33 with large pockets to accommodate tablet computers． A study of the University of Chicago iPad project found that patients got tests and 34 faster if they were cared for by iPad．equipped residents．Many patients also 35 a better understanding of the illnesses mat landed them in the hospital in the first place．A．dependentB． designedC． fastD． flyingE．gainedF．giveG．growingH．launchI．policyJ．prospectK．ratherL．reliableM．signalN．successfulO．treatmentsSection BDirections：In this section，you are going to read a passage with ten statements attached to it．Each statement contains information given in one of the paragraphs．Identify the paragraph from which the information is derived You may choose a paragraph more than once．Each paragraph is marked with a letter．Answer the questions by marking the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 2．Ancient Greek Wisdom Inspires Guidelines to Good LifeA．Is it possible to enjoy a peaceful life in a world that is increasingly challenged by threats and uncertainties from wars，terrorism，economic crises and a widespread outbreak of infectious diseases?The answer is yes，according to a new book The 10 Golden Rules．"Ancient Wisdom from the Greek Philosophers on Living a Good Life．The book is co-authored by Long Island University’s philosophy professor Michael Soupios and economics professor Panos Mourdoukoutas．B．The wisdom of the ancient Greek philosophers is timeless，says Soupios．The philosophy professor says it is as relevant today as when it was first written many centuries ago．“There is no expiration(失效) date on wisdom．”he says．“There is no shelf life on intelligence．I think that things have become very gloomy these days，lots of misunderstanding，misleading cues，a lot of what the ancients would have called sophistry(诡辩)．The nice thing about ancient philosophy as offered by the Greeks is that they tended to see life clear and whole，in a way that we tend not to see life today．”Examine your lifeC．Soupios，along with his co—author Panos Mourdoukoutas，developed their 10 golden rules by turning to the men behind that philosophy—Aristotle，Socrates，Epictetus and Pythagoras，among others．The first rule—examine your life—is the common thread that runs through the entire book．Soupios says that it is based on Plato’s observation that the unexamined life is not worth living．“The Greeks are always concerned about boxing themselves in，in terms of convictions(信念)，”he says．“So take a step back， switch off the automatic pilot and actually stop and reflect about things like our priorities，our values， and our relationships．”Stop worrying about what you can not controlD．As we begin to examine our life，Soupios says，we come to Rule No．2：Worry only about things that you can control．“The individual who promoted this idea was a Stoic philosopher．His name is Epictetus，”he says．“And what the Stoics say in general is simply this：There is a larger plan in life．You are not really going to be able to understand all of the dimensions of this plan．You are not going to be able to control the dimensions of this plan．”E．So，Soupios explains，it is not worth it to waste our physical，intellectual and spiritual energy worrying about things that are beyond our control．“I can not control whether or not l wind up getting the disease swine flu，for example，”he says．“I mean，there are some cautious steps I can take，but ultimately I can not guarantee myself that．So what Epictetus would say is sitting at home worrying about that would be wrong and wasteful and irrational．You should live your life attempting to identify and control those things which you can genuinely control．’’Seek true pleasureF．To have a meaningful，happy life we need friends．But according to Aristotle—a student of Plato and teacher of Alexander the Great—most relationships don’t qualify as true friendships．“Just because I have a business relationship with an individual．In our pursuit of the good life，he says，it is important to seek out true pleasures—advice which was originally offered by Epicurus．But unlike the modem definition of Epicureanism as a life of indulgence (放纵)and luxury,for the ancient Greeks，it meant finding a state of calm，peace and mental ease．dual and I can profit from that relationship．it does not necessarily mean that this person is my friend，”Soupios says．“Real friendship is when two individuals share the same soul．It is a beautiful and uncharacteristically poetic image that Aristotle offers．”H．“This was the highest and most desirable form of pleasure and happiness for the ancient Epicureans，” Soupios says．“This is something that is very much well worth considering here in the modem era．I do not think that we spend nearly enough time trying to concentrate on achieving a sort of calmness，a sort of contentment in a mental and spiritual way,which was identified by these people as the highest form of happiness and pleasure．”Do good to othersI． Other golden rules counsel us to master ourselves，to avoid excess and not to be a prosperous(发迹的) fool．There are also rules dealing with interpersonal relationships：Be a responsible human being and do not do evil things to others．J．“This is Hesiod，of course，a younger contemporary poet，we believe，with Homer,”Soupios says．“Hesiod offers an idea—which you very often find in some of the world’s great religions。
2016-大学英语四级真题及答案
2016年6月英语四级考试真题及答案Part I Writing （30 minutes）Directions：For this part，you are allowed 30 minutes to write a letter to express your thanks to one of your friends who helped you most when you were in difficulty。
You should write at least 120 words but no more than 180 words。
Part Ⅱ Listening Comprehension （25 minutes）Section ADirections：In this section，you will hear three news reports。
At the end of each news report，you will hear two or three questions。
Both the news report and the questions will be spoken only once。
After you hear a question，you must choose the best answer from the four choices marked A），B），C）and D）。
Then mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 1 with a single line through the centre。
Questions 1 and 2 are based on the news report you have just heard.1. A）The International Labor Organization?s key objective.B）The basic social protection for the most vulnerable.C）Rising unemployment worldwide.D）Global economic recovery.2. A）Many countries have not taken measures to create enough jobs.B）Few countries know how to address the current economic crisis.C）Few countries have realized the seriousness of the current crisis.D）Many countries need support to improve their people?s livelihood.Questions 3 and 4 are based on the news report you have just heard.3. A）Serve standardized food nationwide.B）Put calorie information on the menu.C）Increase protein content in the food.D）Offer convenient food to customers.4. A）They will be fined.B）They will be closed.C）They will get a warning.D）They will lose customers.Questions 5 to 7 are based on the news report you have just heard.5. A）Inability to implement their business plans.B）Inability to keep turning out novel products.C）Lack of a successful business model of their own.D）Failure to integrate innovation into their business.6. A）It is the secret to business success.B）It is the creation of something new.C）It is a magic tool to bring big rewards.D）It is an essential part of business culture.7. A）Its hardworking employees.B）Its flexible promotion strategy.C）Its innovation culture.D）Its willingness to make investments.Section BDirections：In this section，you will hear two long conversations. At the end of each conversations you will hear four questions. Both the conversations and the question-s will be spoken only once. After you hear a question. You must choose the best answer from the four choices marked A），B），C）and D）. Then mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 1 with a single line through the centre.Questions 8 to 11 are based on the conversation you have just heard.8. A）He?s got addicted to technology.B）He is not very good at socializing.C）He is crazy about text-messaging.D）He does not talk long on the phone.9. A）Talk big.B）Talk at length.C）Gossip a lot.D）Forget herself.10. A）He thought it was cool.B）He needed the practice.C）He wanted to stay connected with them.D）He had an urgent message to send.11. A）It poses a challenge to seniors.B）It saves both time and money.C）It is childish and unprofessional.D）It is cool and convenient.Questions 12 to 15 are based on the conversation you have just heard.12. A）He wants to change his job assignment.B）He is unhappy with his department manager.C）He thinks he deserves extra pay for overtime.D）He is often singled out for criticism by his boss.13. A）His workload was much too heavy.B）His immediate boss did not trust him.C）His colleagues often refused to cooperate.D）His salary was too low for his responsibility.14. A）He never knows how to refuse.B）He is always ready to help others.C）His boss has a lot of trust in him.D）His boss has no sense of fairness.15. A）Put all his complaints in writing.B）Wait and see what happens next.C）Learn to say no when necessary.D）Talk to his boss in person first.Section CDirections：In this section，you will hear three passages. At the end of each passage，you will hear three or four questions. Both the passage and the questionswill be spoken only once. After you hear a question，you must choose the best answer from the four choices marked A），B），C）and D）.Then mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 1 with a single line through the centre.Questions 16 to 18 are based on the passage you have just heard.16. A）The importance of sleep to a healthy life.B）Reasons for Americans? decline in sleep.C）Some tips to improve the quality of sleep.D）Diseases associated with lack of sleep.17. A）They are more health-conscious.B）They are changing their living habits.C）They get less and less sleep.D）They know the dangers of lack of sleep.18. A）Their weight will go down.B）Their mind function will deteriorate.C）Their work efficiency will decrease.D）Their blood pressure will rise.Questions 19 to 21 are based on the passage you have just heard.19. A）How much you can afford to pay.B）What course you are going to choose.C）Which university you are going to apply to.D）When you are going to submit your application.20. A）The list of courses studied.B）The full record of scores.C）The references from teachers.D）The personal statement.21. A）Specify what they would like to do after graduation.B）Describe in detail how much they would enjoy studying.C）Indicate they have reflected and thought about the subject.D）Emphasize that they admire the professors in the university.Questions 22 to 25 are based on the passage you have just heard.22. A）It was equipped with rubber tyres.B）It was built in the late 19th century.C）It was purchased by the Royal family.D）It was designed by an English engineer.23. A）They consumed lots of petrol.B）They took two passengers only.C）They were difficult to drive.D）They often broke down.24. A）They were produced on the assembly line.B）They were built with less costly materials.C）They were modeled after British cars.D）They were made for ordinary use.25. A）It made news all over the world.B）It was built for the Royal family.C）It marked a new era in motor travel.D）It attracted large numbers of motorists.Part III Reading Comprehension （40 minutes）Section ADirections：In this section，there is a passage with ten blanks. You are required to select one word for each blank from a list of choices given in a word bank following the passage. Read the passage through carefully before making your choices. Each choice in the bank is identified by a letter. Please mark thecorresponding letter for each item on Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through the centre. You may not use any of the words in the bank more than once.Questions 26 to 35 are based on the passage you have just heard.Physical activity does the body good，and there?s growing evidence that it helps the brain too. Researchers in the Netherlands report that children who get more exercise，whether at school or on their own，26to have higher GPAs and better scores on standardized tests. In a 27of 14 studies that looked at physical activity and academic28，investigators found that the more children moved，the better their grades were in school，29in the basic subjects of math，English and reading.The data will certainly fuel the ongoing debate over whether physical education classes should be cut as schools struggle to 30on smaller budgets. The arguments against physical education have included concerns that gym time may be taking away from study time. With standardized test scores in the U.S. 31in recent years，some administrators believe students need to spend more time in the classroom instead of on the playground. But as these findings show，exercise and academics may not be 32exclusive. Physical activity can improve blood 33 to the brain，fueling memory，attention and creativity，which are 34to learning. And exercise releases hormones that can improve 35and relieve stress，which can also help learning. So while it may seem as if kids are just exercising their bodies when they?re running around，they may actually be exercising their brains as well.注意：此部分试题请在答题卡2上作答.A）attendance B）consequently C）current D）depressing E）dropping F）essential G）feasible H）flow I）mood J）mutually K）particularlyL）performance M）review N）survive O）tendSection BDirections：In this section，you are going to read a passage with ten statements attached to it. Each statement contains information given in one of the paragraphs. Identify the paragraph from which the information is derived. You may choose a paragraph more than once. Each paragraph is marked with a letter. Answer the questions by marking the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 2.Finding the Right Home—and Contentment，Too[A] When your elderly relative needs to enter some sort of long-term care facility—a moment few parents or children approach without fear—what you would like is to have everything made clear.[B] Does assisted living really mark a great improvement over a nursing home，or has the industry simply hired better interior designers？Are nursing homes as bad as people fear，or is that an out-moded stereotype （固定看法）？Can doing one?s homework really steer families to the best places？It is genuinely hard to know.[C] I am about to make things more complicated by suggesting that what kind of facility an older person lives in may matter less than we have assumed. And that the characteristics adult children look for when they begin the search are not necessarilythe things that make a difference to the people who are going to move in. I am nottalking about the quality of care，let me hastily add. Nobody flourishes in a gloomy environment with irresponsible staff and a poor safety record. But an accumulating body of research indicates that some distinctions between one type of elder care and another have little real bearing on how well residents do.[D] The most recent of these studies，published in The journal of Applied Gerontology，surveyed 150 Connecticut residents of assisted living，nursing homes and smaller residential care homes （known in some states as board and care homes or adult care homes）. Researchers from the University of Connecticut Health Center asked the residents a large number of questions about their quality of life，emotional well-being and social interaction，as well as about the quality of the facilities.[E] “We thought we would see differences based on the housing types，” said the lead author of the study，Julie Robison，an associate professor of medicine at the university. A reasonable assumption—don?t families struggle to avoid nursing homes and suffer real guilt if they can?t？[F] In the initial results，assisted living residents did paint the most positive picture. They were less likely to report symptoms of depression than those in the other facilities，for instance，and less likely to be bored or lonely. They scored higher on social interaction.[G] But when the researchers plugged in a number of other variables，such differences disappeared. It is not the housing type，they found，that creates differences in residents? responses.“It is the characteristics of the specificenvironment they are in，combined with their own personal characteristics—how healthy they feel they are，their age and marital status，” Dr. Robison explained. Whether residents felt involved in the decision to move and how long they had livedthere also proved significant.[H] An elderly person who describes herself as in poor health，therefore，might be no less depressed in assisted living （even if her children preferred it）than in a nursing home. A person who bad input into where he would move and has had time to adapt to it might do as well in a nursing home as in a small residential care home，other factors being equal. It is an interaction between the person and the place，not the sort of place in itself，that leads to better or worse experiences. “You can?t just say，,Let?s put this person in a residential care home instead of a nursing home—she will be much better off，” Dr. Robison said. What matters，she added，“is a combination of what people bring in with them，and what they find there.”[I] Such findings，which run counter to common sense，have surfaced before. In a multi-state study of assisted living，for instance，University of North Carolina researchers found that a host of variables—the facility?s type，size or age；whether a chain owned it；how attractive the neighborhood was—had no significant relationship to how the residents fared in terms of illness，mental decline，hospitalizations or mortality. What mattered most was the residents? physical health and mental status. What people were like when they came in had greater consequence than what happened one they were there.[J] As I was considering all this， a press release from a respected research firm crossed my desk，announcing that the five-star rating system that Medicare developed in 2008 to help families compare nursing home quality also has little relationship to how satisfied its residents or their family members are. As a matter of fact，consumers expressed higher satisfaction with the one-star facilities，the lowest rated，than with the five-star ones. （More on this study and the star ratings will appear in a subsequent post.）[K] Before we collectively tear our hair out—how are we supposed to find our way in a landscape this confusing？—here is a thought from Dr. Philip Sloane， a geriatrician（老年病学专家）at the University of North Carolina：“In a way，that could be liberating for families.”[L] Of course，sons and daughters want to visit the facilities，talk to the administrators and residents and other families，and do everything possible to fulfill their duties. But perhaps they don?t have t o turn themselves into private investigatorsor Congressional subcommittees. “Families can look a bit more for where the residents are going to be happy，” Dr. Sloane said. And involving the future residentin the process can be very important.[M] We all have our own ideas about what would bring our parents happiness.They have their ideas，too. A friend recently took her mother to visit an expensive assisted living/nursing home near my town. I have seen this place—it is elegant，inside and out. But nobody greeted the daughter and mother when they arrived，though the visit had been planned；nobody introduced them to the other residents. When they had lunch in the dining room，they sat alone at a table.[N] The daughter feared her mother would be ignored there，and so she decided to move her into a more welcoming facility. Based on what is emerging from some ofthis research，that might have been as rational a way as any to reach a decision.36. Many people feel guilty when they cannot find a place other than a nursing home for their parents.37.Though it helps for children to investigate care facilities，involving their parents in the decision-making process may prove very important.38.It is really difficult to tell if assisted living is better than a nursing home.39.How a resident feels depends on an interaction between themselves and the care facility they live in.40.The author thinks her friend made a rational decision in choosing a more hospitable place over an apparently elegant assisted living home.41.The system Medicare developed to rate nursing home quality is of little helpto finding a satisfactory place.42.At first the researchers of the most recent study found residents in assisted living facilities gave higher scores on social interaction.43.What kind of care facility old people live in may be less important than wethink.44.The findings of the latest research were similar to an earlier multi-state studyof assisted living.45.A resident?s satisfaction with a care facil ity has much to do with whether they had participated in the decision to move in and how long they had stayed there.Section CDirections：There are 2 passages in this section. Each passage is followed by some questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A），B），C）and D）. You should decide on the best choice and mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through the centre.Passage oneQuestions 46 to 50 are based on the following passage.As Artificial Intelligence（AI）becomes increasingly sophisticated，there are growing concerns that robots could become a threat. This danger can be avoided，according to computer science professor Stuart Russell，if we figure out how to turn human values into a programmable code.Russell argues that as robots take on more complicated tasks，it?s necessary to translate our morals into AI language.For example，if a robot does chores around the house，you wouldn?t want it to put the pet cat in the oven to make dinner for the hungry children. “You would want that robot preloaded with a good set of values，” said Russell.Some robots are already programmed with basic human values. For example，mobile robots have been programmed to keep a comfortable distance from humans. Obviously there are cultural differences，but if you were talking to another person and they came up close in your personal space，you wouldn?t think that?s the kind of thing a properly brought-up person would do.It will be possible to create more sophisticated moral machines，if only we can find a way to set out human values as clear rules.Robots could also learn values from drawing patterns from large sets of data on human behavior. They are dangerous only if programmers are careless.The biggest concern with robots going against human values is that human beings fail to so sufficient testing and they?ve produced a system that will break some kind of taboo（禁忌）.One simple check would be to program a robot to check the correct course of action with a human when presented with an unusual situation.If the robot is unsure whether an animal is suitable for the microwave，it has the opportunity to stop，send out beeps（嘟嘟声），and ask for directions from a human. If we humans ar en?t quite sure about a decision，we go and ask somebody else.The most difficult step in programming values will be deciding exactly what we believe in moral，and how to create a set of ethical rules. But if we come up with an answer，robots could be good for humanity.46.What does the author say about the threat of robots？A）It may constitute a challenge to computer progranmers.B）It accompanies all machinery involving high technology.C）It can be avoided if human values are translated into their language.D）It has become an inevitable peril as technology gets more sophisticated.47.What would we think of a person who invades our personal space accordingto the author？A）They are aggressive.B）They are outgoing.C）They are ignorant.D）They are ill-bred.48.How do robots learn human values？A）By interacting with humans in everyday life situations.B）By following the daily routines of civilized human beings.C）By picking up patterns from massive data on human behavior.D）By imitating the behavior of property brought-up human beings.49.What will a well-programmed robot do when facing an unusual situation？A）keep a distance from possible dangers.B）Stop to seek advice from a human being.C）Trigger its built-in alarm system at once.D）Do sufficient testing before taking action.50.What is most difficult to do when we turn human values into a programmable code？A）Determine what is moral and ethical.B）Design some large-scale experiments.C）Set rules for man-machine interaction.D）Develop a more sophisticated program.Passage TwoQuestions 51 to 55 are based on the following passage.Why do some people live to be older than others？You know the standard explanations：keeping a moderate diet，engaging in regular exercise，etc. But what effect does your personality have on your longevity（长寿）？Do some kinds of personalities lead to longer lives？ A new study in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society looked at this question by examining the personality characteristicsof 246 children of people who had lived to be at least 100.The study shows that those living the longest are more outgoing，more active and less neurotic （神经质的）than other people. Long-living women are also more likely to be sympathetic and cooperative than women with a normal life span. These findings are in agreement with what you would expect from the evolutionary theory：those who like to make friends and help others can gather enough resources to make it through tough times.Interestingly，however，other characteristics that you might consider advantageous had no impact on whether study participants were likely to live longer. Those who were more self-disciplined，for instance，were no more likely to live to be very old. Also，being open to new ideas had no relationship to long life，which might explain all those bad-tempered old people who are fixed in their ways.Whether you can successfully change your personality as an adult is the subjectof a longstanding psychological debate. But the new paper suggests that if you wantlong life，you should strive to be as outgoing as possible.Unfortunately，another recent study shows that your mother?s personality may also help determine your longevity. That study looked at nearly 28，000 Norwegian mothers and found that those moms who were more anxious，depressed and angry were more likely to feed their kids unhealthy diets. Patterns of childhood eating canbe hard to break when we?re adults，which may mean that kids of depressed moms end up dying younger.Personality isn?t destiny（命运），and everyone knows that individuals can learn to change. But both studies show that long life isn?t just a matter of your physical health but of your mental health.51. The aim of the study in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society is____.A）to see whether people?s personality affects their life spanB）to find out if one?s lifestyle has any effect on their healthC）to investigate the role of exercise in living a long lifeD）to examine all the factors contributing to longevity52. What does the author imply about outgoing and sympathetic people？A）They have a good understanding of evolution.B）They are better at negotiating an agreement.C）They generally appear more resourceful.D）They are more likely to get over hardship.53. What finding of the study might prove somewhat out of our expectation？A）Easy-going people can also live a relatively long life.B）Personality characteristics that prove advantageous actually vary with times.C）Such personality characteristics as self-discipline have no effect on longevity.D）Readiness to accept new ideas helps one enjoy longevity.54. What does the recent study of Norwegian mothers show？A）Children?s personality characteristics are invariably determined by their mothers.B）People with unhealthy eating habits are likely to die sooner.C）Mothers? influence on children may last longer than fathers?.D）Mothers? negative personality characteristics may affect their children?s life spans.55.What can we learn from the findings of the two new studies？A）Anxiety and depression more often than not cut short one?s life span.B）Longevity results from a combination of mental and physical health.C）Personality plays a decisive role in how healthy one is.D）Health is in large part related to one?s lifestyle.Part IV Translation （30 minutes）Directions：For this part，you are allowed 30 minutes to translate a passage from Chinese into English. You should write your answer on the ANSWER SHEET2.功夫（Kong Fu）是中国武术（martial arts）的俗称.中国武术的起源可以追溯到自卫的需要，狩猎活动以及古代中国的军士训练.它是中国传统体育运动的一种，年轻人和老年人都练.它已逐渐演变成了中国文化的独特元素.作为中国的国宝，武术有上百种不同的风格，是世界上练得最多的武术形式.有些风格模仿了动物的动作，还有一些则受到了中国哲学思想，神话和传说的启发四级写作：第一版For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a letter to express your thanksto one of your friends who helped you most when you were in difficulty. You shouldwrite at least 120 words but no more than 180 words.第一段: 写出写信目的. (表达感谢)第二段: 阐述感谢的原因.第三段:再次表达感谢,并可表述希望有机会可以给对方回报.Dear Mary,I would like to take this opportunity to express my heartfelt gratitude to you foryour help when I was in difficulty. You have been very kind and helpful since we knew each other.Last week, I caught a bad cold and had to stay at home for a week. When I was worrying about the lessons, you came to my home after school and helped me with every subject. With your help, I didn?t fall behind others.Again, thanks so much for your enthusiastic help. Even though you are to aboutto go abroad for further education I know that I will always stay in touch with you. Iwish you every success in the future and I hope we can exchange more viewpoints on study.Please keep in touch, and drop in and visit us whenever you are in this part of the world.Very sincerelyPeter第二版For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a letter to express your thanksto one of your school teachers upon entering college. You should write at least 120 words but no more than 180 words.第一段: 写出写信目的. (表达感谢)第二段: 阐述感谢的原因.第三段:再次表达感谢,并可表述希望有机会可以给对方回报.Dear sir,I am writing to you to express my thanks for your help in learning English. Youare one of the best teachers who I have ever met .There are many good points that I learn from you.During these days in your class, I have acquired much knowledge from you and itreally helps me a lot. Firstly, you let me know what the west thinking pattern is —straight thinking pattern. As an English learner, it is important for me to understandthe difference between them. There is no denying the fact that this can help me withmy examination and interaction with foreigners. What?s more, I?m glad to be your student, and I am very happy to learn the course under your guidance. English is animportant tool, through which we can share our experience with the world. I treasurethe chance of learning English, and I enjoy the happiness from your course.The last but not the least, please forgive those mistakes I have made which mayupset you. What I have learned from you will help me pass the coming examinationsand also be useful for my further education in abroad. It is not only a progress of learning, but also a cultivation of my ability.May everything go well around you.Your student,Li ling第三版For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a letter to express your thanksto your parents or any family members upon making memorable achievement. Youshould write at least 120 words but no more than 180 words.第一段: 写出写信目的. (表达感谢)第二段: 阐述感谢的原因.第三段:再次表达感谢,并可表述希望有机会可以给对方回报.Dear parents,This letter is to tell you my true feelings from the bottom of my heart. Althoughwe can keep in virtual touch every day, I still feel it not enough to let you know howmuch I love you and how much I?ve appreciated what you?ve done for me.In the past 20 years, you have done a lot for me. Firstly, thank you so much forbringing me up. I know how hard you've being working in the past. I can imaginehow many difficulties and obstacles you've conquered. Second, I want to thank youfor your good education on me. There is an old saying goes like this “parents are the first teachers to their children”. Both of you are the typical ones. The most important thing that I want to say “thank you” is for your great admiration on my own freedom. You told me to look over the horizons and to pursuit my own dreams without hesitation.。
2016 年 6 月大学英语四级真题试卷及答案完整版
2016 年6 月大学英语四级真题试卷及答案完整版Part III Reading Comprehension （40 minutes）Section ADirections：In this section，there is a passage with ten blanks。
You are required to selectone word for each blank from a list of choices given in a word bank following the passage。
Read the passage through carefully before making your choices。
Each choice in the bank is identified by a letter。
Please mark the corresponding letter for each item on Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through the centre。
You may not use any of the words in the bank more than once。
Questions 26 to 35 are based on the passage you have just heard。
Physical activity does the body good，and there’s growing evidence that it helps the brain too。
Researchers in the Netherlands report that children who get more exercise，whether at school or on their own，26 to have higher GPAs and better scores on standardized tests。
2016年6月英语四级真题及答案
2016年6月英语四级真题及答案Part I Writing (30 minutes)Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a letter to express your thanks to one of your friends who helped you most when you were in difficulty. You should write at least 120 words but no more than 180 words.Part ⅡListening Comprehension (25 minutes)Section ADirections: In this section, you will hear three news reports. At the end of each news report, you will hear two or three questions. Both the news report and the questions will be spoken only once. After you hear a question, you must choose the best answer from the four choices marked A), B), C) and D). Then mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 1 with a single line through the centre.Questions 1 and 2 are based on the news report you have just heard.1. A)The International Labor Organization’s key objective.B)The basic social protection for the most vulnerable.C)Rising unemployment worldwide.D)Global economic recovery.2. A)Many countries have not taken measures to create enough jobs.B)Few countries know how to address the current economic crisis.C)Few countries have realized the seriousness of the current crisis.D)Many countries need support to improve their people’s livelihood.Questions 3 and 4 are based on the news report you have just heard.3. A)Serve standardized food nationwide.B)Put calorie information on the menu.C)Increase protein content in the food.D)Offer convenient food to customers.4. A)They will be fined.B)They will be closed.C)They will get a warning.D)They will lose customers.Questions 5 to 7 are based on the news report you have just heard.5. A)Inability to implement their business plans.B)Inability to keep turning out novel products.C)Lack of a successful business model of their own.D)Failure to integrate innovation into their business.6. A)It is the secret to business success.B)It is the creation of something new.C)It is a magic tool to bring big rewards.D)It is an essential part of business culture.7. A)Its hardworking employees.B)Its flexible promotion strategy.C)Its innovation culture.D)Its willingness to make investments.Section BDirections: In this section, you will hear two long conversations. At the end of each conversations you will hear four questions. Both the conversations and the question-s will be spoken only once. After you hear a question. You must choose the best answer from the four choices marked A),B),C)and D). Then mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 1 with a single line through the centre.Questions 8 to 11 are based on the conversation you have just heard.8. A)He’s got addicted to technology.B)He is not very good at socializing.C)He is crazy about text-messaging.D)He does not talk long on the phone.9. A)Talk big.B)Talk at length.C)Gossip a lot.D)Forget herself.10. A)He thought it was cool.B)He needed the practice.C)He wanted to stay connected with them.D)He had an urgent message to send.11. A)It poses a challenge to seniors.B)It saves both time and money.C)It is childish and unprofessional.D)It is cool and convenient.Questions 12 to 15 are based on the conversation you have just heard.12. A)He wants to change his job assignment.B)He is unhappy with his department manager.C)He thinks he deserves extra pay for overtime.D)He is often singled out for criticism by his boss.13. A)His workload was much too heavy.B)His immediate boss did not trust him.C)His colleagues often refused to cooperate.D)His salary was too low for his responsibility.14. A)He never knows how to refuse.B)He is always ready to help others.C)His boss has a lot of trust in him.D)His boss has no sense of fairness.15. A)Put all his complaints in writing.B)Wait and see what happens next.C)Learn to say no when necessary.D)Talk to his boss in person first.Section CDirections: In this section, you will hear three passages. At the end of each passage, you will hear three or four questions. Both the passage and the questions will be spoken only once. After you hear a question, you must choose the best answer from the four choices marked A),B),C)and D).Then mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 1 with a single line through the centre.Questions 16 to 18 are based on the passage you have just heard.16. A)The importance of sleep to a healthy life.B)Reasons for Americans’decline in sleep.C)Some tips to improve the quality of sleep.D)Diseases associated with lack of sleep.17. A)They are more health-conscious.B)They are changing their living habits.C)They get less and less sleep.D)They know the dangers of lack of sleep.18. A)Their weight will go down.B)Their mind function will deteriorate.C)Their work efficiency will decrease.D)Their blood pressure will rise.Questions 19 to 21 are based on the passage you have just heard.19. A)How much you can afford to pay.B)What course you are going to choose.C)Which university you are going to apply to.D)When you are going to submit your application.20. A)The list of courses studied.B)The full record of scores.C)The references from teachers.D)The personal statement.21. A)Specify what they would like to do after graduation.B)Describe in detail how much they would enjoy studying.C)Indicate they have reflected and thought about the subject.D)Emphasize that they admire the professors in the university. Questions 22 to 25 are based on the passage you have just heard.22. A)It was equipped with rubber tyres.B)It was built in the late 19th century.C)It was purchased by the Royal family.D)It was designed by an English engineer.23. A)They consumed lots of petrol.B)They took two passengers only.C)They were difficult to drive.D)They often broke down.24. A)They were produced on the assembly line.B)They were built with less costly materials.C)They were modeled after British cars.D)They were made for ordinary use.25. A)It made news all over the world.B)It was built for the Royal family.C)It marked a new era in motor travel.D)It attracted large numbers of motorists.Part III Reading Comprehension (40 minutes)Section ADirections: In this section, there is a passage with ten blanks. You are required to select one word for each blank from a list of choices given in a word bank following the passage. Read the passage through carefully before making your choices. Each choice in the bank is identified by a letter. Please mark the corresponding letter for each item on Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through the centre. You may not use any of the words in the bank more than once.Questions 26 to 35 are based on the passage you have just heard.Physical activity does the body good, and there’s growing evidence that it helps the brain too. Researchers in the Netherlands report that children who get more exercise, whether at school or on their own, 26to have higher GPAs and better scores on standardized tests. In a 27 of 14 studies that looked at physical activity and academic28, investigators found that the more children moved, the better their grades were in school, 29in the basic subjects of math, English and reading.The data will certainly fuel the ongoing debate over whether physical education classes should be cut as schools struggle to 30on smaller budgets. The arguments against physical education have included concerns that gym time may be taking away from study time. With standardized test scores in the U.S. 31in recent years, some administrators believe students need to spend more time in the classroom instead of on the playground. But as these findings show, exercise and academics may not be 32exclusive. Physical activity can improve blood 33 to the brain, fueling memory, attention and creativity, which are 34to learning. And exercise releases hormones that can improve 35and relieve stress, which can also help learning. So while it may seem as if kids are just exercising their bodies when they’re running around, they may actually be exercising their brains as well.注意：此部分试题请在答题卡2上作答。
2016年6月四级真题及答案解析(第一套)
2016年6月四级考试真题（第一套）Part I Writing （30 minutes）Directions：For this part，you are allowed 30 minutes to write a letter to express your thanks to one of your friends who helped you most when youwere in difficulty. You should write at least 120 words but no morethan 180 words.Part II Listening Comprehension (30 minutes)Section ADirections:In this section, you will hear three news reports. At the end of each news report, you will hear two or three questions. Both the news reportand the questions will be spoken only once. After you hear a question,you must choose the best answer from the four choices marked A), B),C) and D). Then mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 1with a single line through the centre.注意：此部分试题请在答题卡1上作答。
Questions 1 and 2 are based on the news report you have just heard.1. A) The International Labor Organization’s key objective.B) The basic social protection for the most vulnerable.C) Rising unemployment worldwide.D) Global economic recovery.2. A) Many countries have not taken measures to create enough jobs.B) Few countries know how to address the current economic crisis.C) Few countries have realized the seriousness of the current crisis.D) Many countries need support to improve their people’s livelihood.Questions 3 and 4 are based on the news report you have just heard.3. A) Serve standardised food nationwide.B) Put calorie information on the menu.C) Increase protein content in the food.D) Offer convenient food to customers.4. A) They will be fined.B) They will be closed.C) They will get a warning.D) They will lose customers.Questions 5 to 7 are based on the news report you have just heard.5. A) Inability to implement their business plans.B) Inability to keep turning out novel products.C) Lack of a successful business model of their own.D) Failure to integrate innovation into their business.6. A) It is the secret to business success.B) It is the creation of something new.C) It is a magic tool to bring big rewards.D) It is an essential part of business culture.7. A) Its hardworking employees.B) Its flexible promotion strategy.C) Its innovation culture.D) Its willingness to make investments.Section BDirections:In this section, you will hear two long conversations. At the end of each conversation, you will hear four questions. Both the conversation andthe questions will be spoken only once. After you hear a question, youmust choose the best answer from the four choices marked A),B),C)andD). Then mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 1 with asingle line through the centre.注意：此部分试题请在答题卡1上作答。
2016年度6月全国大学英语四级考试精选题.规范标准答案(共三套)
2016年6月全国大学英语四级考试真题答案（共三套）听力注：听力部分共有2套。
第一套Section A1. C) Rising unemployment worldwide.2. A) Many countries have not taken measures to create enough jobs.3. B) Put calorie information on the menu.4. A) They will be fined.5. D) Failure to integrate innovation into their business.6. B) It is the creation of something new.7. C) Its innovation culture.Section B8. D) He does not talk long on the phone.9. B) Talk at length.10. A) He thought it was cool.11. C) It is childish and unprofessional.12. B) He is unhappy with his department manager.13. A) His workload was much too heavy.14. C) His boss has a lot of trust in him.15. D) Talk to his boss in person first.Section C16. A) The importance of sleep to a healthy life.17. C) They get less and less sleep.18. D) Their blood pressure will rise.19. B) What course you are going to choose.20. D) The personal statement.21. C) Indicate they have reflected and thought about the subject.22. B) It was built in the late 19th century.23. D) They often broke down.24. A) They were produced on the assembly line.25. C) It marked a new era in motor travel.第二套1. C) Why sufficient sleep is important for college students.2. C) Making last-minute preparations for tests may be less effective than sleeping.3. B) Whether the British irports Authority should sell off some of its assets.4. D) Lack of runway and terminal capacity.5. D) Report the nicotine content of their cigarettes.6. A) The biggest increase in nicotine content tended to be in brands young smokers like.7. B) They were not prepared to comment on the cigarette study.Section B8. A) Holland.9. D) Learning a language where it is not spoken.10. C) Trying to speak it as much as one can.11. A) It provides opportunities for language practice.12. B) Rules and regulations for driving.13.C) Make cars that are less powerful.14. D) They tend to drive responsibly.15. C) It is not useful.Section C16. D) The card reader failed to do the scanning.17. B) By covering the credit card with a layer of plastic.18. A) Produce many low-tech fixes for high-tech failures.19. A) They vary among different departments.20.D) By contacting the deparmental office.21. B) They specify the number of credits students must earn.22. C) Students in health classes.23. A) Its overemphasis on thinness.24. B) To explain how computer images can be misleading.25. C) To promote her own concept of beauty.◆◆◆阅读第一套Section A26.O) tend27.M) review28.L) performance29.K) particularly31.E) dropping32.J) mutually33.H) flow34.F) essential35.I) moodSection B36. E）“We thought we would see differences based on the housing types,”......37. L）Of course, sons and daughters want to visit the facilities, ......38. B）Does assisted living really mark a great improvement over a nursing home, ......39. H）An elderly person who describes herself as in poor health, therefore, ......40. N）The daughter feared her mother would be ignored there, ......41. J）As I was considering all this, a press release from a respected research firm crossed my desk，......42. F）In the initial results, assisted living residents did paint the most positive picture. ......43. C）I am about to make things more complicated by suggesting that what kind of facility an older person lives ......44. I）Such findings, which run counter to common sense, have surfaced before. ......45. G）But when the researchers plugged in a number of other variables, such differences disappeared. ......Section C46. C) It can be avoided if human values are translated into their language.47. D) They are ill-bred.48. C) By picking up patterns from massive data on human behavior.49. B) Stop to seek advice from a human being.50. A) Determine what is moral and ethical.51. A) to see whether people's personality affects their life span52. D) They are more likely to get over hardship.53. C) Such personality characteristics as self-discipline have no effect on longevity.54. D) Mothers' negative personality characteristics may affect their children's life span.55. B) Longevity results from a combination of mental and physical health.第二套Section A26.G) growing27.A) dependent28.C) fast29.F) give30.H) launch31.N) successful32.I) policyl33.B) designed34.O) treatments35.E) gainedSection B36. D)As we begin to examine our life, Soupios says, we come to Rule No. 2: Worry only about things that you can control. ......37. B)The wisdom of the ancient Greek philosophers is timeless, says Soupios. ......38. F)To have a meaningful, happy life we need friends. But according to Aristotle—......39. A) Is it possible to enjoy a peaceful life in a world that is increasingly challenged by ......40. L)“This is Aesop, the fabulist (寓言家), the man of these charming little tales, ......41. H)“This was the highest and most desirable form of pleasure and happiness for ......42. C)Soupios, along with his co-author Panos Mourdoukoutas, developed their 10 golden rules by turning to ......43. K)Instead, Soupios says, ancient wisdom urges us to do good. Golden Rule No. 10 for a good life is that kindness toward others tends to be rewarded.44. B)The wisdom of the ancient Greek philosophers is timeless, says Soupios. ......45. J)“This is Hesiod, of course, a younger contemporary poet, we believe, with Homer,”......Section C46. D) It usually draws different reactions from different age groups.47. A) It does not seem to create a generational divide.48. B) It helps with their mobility.49. A) The location of their residence.50. C) The wealthy.51. C) Their daily routine followed the rhythm of the natural cycle.52. B) It brought family members closer to each other.53. D) Pace of life.54. B) It is varied, abundant and nutritious.55. A) They enjoyed cooking as well as eating.第三套Section A26.M) provide27.A) abandoned28.I) frequent29.L) merely30.C) biased31.G) dependent32.F) dampens33.E) commitment34.N) understandably35.O) unrealisticallySection B36.［F］In contrast, the recent surge in world grain prices is trend-driven, ......37.［K］In response to those restrictions, grain-importing countries are trying to ......38.［C］As demand for food rises faster than supplies are growing, the resulting food-price inflation puts severe stress on ......39.［L］Since the current world food shortage is trend-driven, the environmental trends that cause it must be reversed. ......40.［B］I can no longer ignore that risk. Our continuing failure to deal with the environmental ......41.［H］What about supply? The three environmental trends—the shortage of fresh water, the loss of topsoil and the rising temperatures—......42.［M］For many in the development community, the four objectives were seen as positive, ......43.［J］As the world's food security falls to pieces, individual countries acting in their own self-interest are actually worsening the troubles of many. ......44.［L］Since the current world food shortage is trend-driven, the environmental trends that cause it must be reversed. ......45.［G］As incomes rise among low-income consumers, the potential for further grain consumption is huge. ......Section C46. B) It weakens in one's later years.47. D) Some of them begin to decline when people are still young.48. C) They function quite well even in old age.49. D) can put what they have learnt into more effective use50. A) find ways to slow down our mental decline51. C) Scholars and policymakers have different opinions about it.52. A) Pre-K achievements usually do not last long.53. B) When it is made part of kids' education.54. D) She is a firm supporter of pre-K.55. C) Early intervention.◆◆◆翻译第一套功夫(Kung Fu)是中国武术（martial arts）的俗称。
6月第二套大学英语四级真题试卷及答案
6月第二套大学英语四级真题试卷及答案2016年6月第二套大学英语四级真题试卷及答案英语成绩的提高离不开多听、多看、多听和多练。
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Part I Writing (30 minutes)Directions：For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a letterto express your thanks to one of your school teachers uponenteringcollege. You should write at least 120 words but nomore than 180 words.Part III Reading Comprehension (40 minutes)Section ADirections: In this section, there is a passage with ten blanks. You are required to select one word for each blank from a list of choices given in a word bank following the passage.Contrary to popular belief, older people generally do not want to live with their children. Moreover, most adult children _____(26)every bit as much care and support to their aging parents as was the case in the "good old days", and roost older people do not feel _____(27).About 80% of people 65 years and older have living children, and about 90% of them have _____(28)contact with their children. About 75% of elderly parents who don't go to nursing homes live within 30 minutes of at least one of their children.However, _____(29)having contact with children does not guarantee happiness in old age. In fact, some research has found that people who are most involved with their families have the lowest spirits. This research may be _____(30), however, as ill health often makes older people more _____(31)and therebyincreases contact with family members. So it is more likely that poor health, not just family involvement, _____(32)spirits.Increasingly, researchers have begun to look at the quality of relationships, rather than at the frequency of contact, between the elderly and their children. If parents and children share interests and values and agree on childrearing practices and religious _____(33)they are likely to enjoy each other's company. Disagreements on such matters can _____(34)cause problems. If parents are angered by their daughter's divorce, dislike her new husband, and disapprove of how she is raising their grandchildren, _____(35)are that they are not going to enjoy her visits.A.abandonedB.advancedC.biasedD.chancesmitmentF.dampensG.dependentH.distantI.frequentJ.fulfillmentK.grantL.merelyM.provideN.understandablyO.unrealisticallySection BDirections: In this section, you are going to read a passage with ten statements attached to it. Each statement containsinformation given in one of the paragraphs. Identify the paragraph from which the information is derived. You may choose a paragraph more than once. Each paragraph is marked with a letter. Answer the questions by marking the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 2.Could Food Shortages Bring Down Civilization?[A] For many years I have studied global agricultural, population, environmental and economic trends and their interactions. The combined effects of those trends and the political tensions they generate point to the breakdown of governments and societies. Yet I, too, have resisted the idea that food shortages could bring down not only individual governments but also our global civilization.[B] I can no longer ignore that risk. Our continuing failure to deal with the environmental declines that are undermining the world food economy forces me to conclude that such a collapse is possible.[C] As demand for food rises faster than supplies are growing, the resulting food-price inflation puts severe stress on the governments of many countries. Unable to buy grain or grow their own, hungry people take to the streets. Indeed, even before the steep climb in grain prices in 2008, the number of failing states was expanding. If the food situation continues to worsen, entire nations will break down at an ever increasing rate. In the 20th century the main threat to international security was superpower conflict; today it is failing states.[D] States fail when national governments can no longer provide personal security, food security and basic social services such as education and health care. When governments lose their control on power, law and order begin to disintegrate. After apoint, countries can become so dangerous that food relief workers are no longer safe and their programs are halted. Failing states are of international concern because they are a source of terrorists, drugs, weapons and refugees(难民), threatening political stability everywhere.[E] The surge in world grain prices in 2007 and 2008—and the threat they pose to food security——has a different, more troubling quality than the increases of the past. During the second of the 20th century, grain prices rose dramatically several times. In 1972, for instance, the Soviets. I recognizing their poor harvest early, quietly cornered the world wheat market. As a result, wheat prices elsewhere more than doubled, pulling rice and com prices up with them. But this and other price shocks were event-driven——drought in the Soviet Union, crop-shrinking heat in the U.S. Corn Belt. And the rises were short-lived: prices typically returned to normal with the next harvest.[F]In contrast, recent surge in world grain prices is trend-driven, making it unlikely to reverse without a reversal in the trends themselves. On the demand side, those trends include the ongoing addition of more than 70 million people a year, a growing number of people wanting to move up the food chain to consume highly grain-intensive meat products, and the massive diversion(转向)of U.S. grain to the production of bio-fuel.[G]As incomes rise among low-income consumers, the potential for further grain consumption is huge. But that potential pales beside the never-ending demand for crop-based fuels. A fourth of this year's U.S. grain harvest will go to fuel cars.[H]What about supply? The three environmental trends——the shortage of fresh water, the loss of topsoil and the rising temperatures——are making it increasingly hard to expand theworld's grain supply fast enough to keep up with demand. Of all those trends, however, the spread of water shortages poses the most immediate threat. The biggest challenge here is irrigation, which consumes 70% the world's fresh water. Millions of irrigation wells in many countries are now pumping water out of underground sources faster than rainfall can refill them. The result is falling water tables(地下水位)in countries with half the world's people, including the three big grain producers——China, India and the U.S.[I]As water tables have fallen and irrigation wells have gone dry, China's wheat crop, the world's largest, has declined by 8% since it peaked at 123 million tons in 1997. But water shortages are even more worrying in India. Millions of irrigation wells have significantly lowered water tables in almost every state.[J]As the world's food security falls to pieces, individual countries acting in their own self-interest are actually worsening the troubles of many. The trend began in 2007, when leading wheat-exporting countries such as Russia and Argentina limited or banned their exports, in hopes of increasing local food supplies and thereby bringing down domestic food prices. Vietnam banned its exports for several months for the same reason. Such moves may eliminate the fears of those living in the exporting countries, but they are creating panic in importing countries that must rely on what is then left for export.[K]In response to those restrictions, grain-importing countries are trying to nail down long-term trade agreements that would lock up future grain supplies. Food-import anxiety is even leading to new efforts by food-importing countries to buy or lease farmland in other countries. In spite of such temporary measures, soaring food prices and spreading hunger in manyother countries are beginning to break down the social order.[L]Since the current world food shortage is trend-driven, the environmental trends that cause it must be reversed. We must cut carbon emissions by 80% from their 2006 levels by 2020, stabilize the world's population at eight billion by 2040, completely remove poverty, and restore forests and soils. There is nothing new about the four objectives. Indeed, we have made substantial progress in some parts of the world on at least one of these——the distribution of family-planning services and the associated shift to smaller families.[M]For many in the development community, the four objectives were seen as positive, promoting development as long as they did not cost too much. Others saw them as politically correct and morally appropriate. Now a third and far more significant motivation presents itself: meeting these goals may necessary to prevent the collapse of our civilization. Yet the cost we project for saving civilization would amount to less than $200 billion a year, 1/6 of current global military spending. In effect, our plan is the new security budget.36.The more recent steep climb in grain prices partly results from the fact that more and more people want to consume meat products.37.Social order is breaking down in many countries because of food shortages.38.Rather than superpower conflict, countries unable to cope with food shortages now constitute the main threat to world security.39.Some parts of the world have seen successful implementation of family planning.40.The author has come to agree that food shortages couldultimately lead to the collapse of world civilization.41.Increasing water shortages prove to be the biggest obstante to boosting the world's grain production.42.The cost for saving our civilization would be considerably less than the world's current military spending.43.To lower domestic food prices, some countries limited or stopped their grain exports.44.Environmental problems must be solved to case the current global food shortage.45.A quarter of this year's American grain harvest will be used to produce bio-fuel for cars.Section CPassage OneQuestions 46 to 50 are based on the following passage.Declining mental function is often seen as a problem of old age，but certain aspects of brain function actually begin their decline in young adulthood, a new study suggests.The study, which followed more than 2,000 healthy adults between the ages of 18 and 60, found that certain mental functions—including measures of abstract reasoning, mental speed and puzzle-solving—started to dull as early as age 27.Dips in memory, meanwhile, generally became apparent around age 37.On the other hand, indicators of a person’s accumulated knowledge—like performance on tests of vocabulary and general knowledge—kept improving with age, according to findings published in the journal Neurobiology of Aging.The results do not mean that young adults need to start worrying about their memories. Most people’s minds function at a high level even in their later years, according to researcherTimothy Salthouse."These patterns suggest that some types of mental flexibility decrease relatively early in adulthood, but that the amount of knowledge one has, and the effectiveness of integrating it with one’s abilities，may increase throughout all of adulthood if there are no dispases," Salthouse said in a news release.The study included healthy, educated adults who took standard tests of memory, reasoning and perception at the outset and at some point over the next seven years.The tests are designed to detect subtle (细微的)changes in mental function, and involve solving Puzzles, recalling words and details from stories, and identifying patterns in collections of letters and symbols.In general, Salthouse and his colleagues found, certain aspects of cognition (认知能力)generally started to decline in the late 20s to 30s.The findings shed light on normal age-related changes in mental function, which could aid in understanding the process of dementia(痴呆),according to the researchers.“By following individuals over time,” Salthouse said, "we gain insight in cognition changes, and may possibly discover ways to slow the rate of decline.”The researchers are currently analyzing, the study participants' health and lifestyle to see which factors might influence age-related cognitive changes.46.What is the common view of mental function?A.It varies from person to person.C.It gradually expands with age.B.It weakens in one’s later years.D.It indicates one’s health condition.47.What does the new study find about mental functions?A.Some diseases inevitably lead to their decline.B.They reach a peak at the age of 20 for most people.C.They are closely related to physical' and mental exercise.D.Some of them begin to decline when people are still young.48.What does Timothy Salthouse say about people's minds in most cases?A.They tend to decline in people’s later years.B.Their flexibility determines one’s abilities.C.They function quite well even in old age.D.Their functioning is still a puzzle to be solved.49.Although people’s minds ma y function less flexibly as they age, they_____.A.may be better at solving puzzlesB.can memorize things with more easeC.may have greater facility in abstract reasoningD.can put what they have learnt into more effective use50.According to Salthouse, their study may help us_____.A.find ways to slow down our mental decline6.find ways to boost our memoriesC.understand the complex process of mental functioningD.understand the relation between physical and mental health。
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【星火英语版】2016年6月大学英语四级真题参考答案Part ⅡListening Comprehension（听力部分共有两套）四级第一套Section A1. C) Rising unemployment worldwide.2. A) Many countries have not taken measures to create enough jobs.3. B) Put calorie information on the menu.4. A) They will be fined.5. D) Failure to integrate innovation into their business.6. B) It is the creation of something new.7. C) Its innovation culture.Section B8. D) He does not talk long on the phone.9. B) Talk at length.10. A) He thought it was cool.11. C) It is childish and unprofessional.12. B) He is unhappy with his department manager.13. A) His workload was much too heavy.14. C) His boss has a lot of trust in him.15. D) Talk to his boss in person first.Section C16. A) The importance of sleep to a healthy life.17. C) They get less and less sleep.18. D) Their blood pressure will rise.19. B) What course you are going to choose.20. D) The personal statement.21. C) Indicate they have reflected and thought about the subject.22. B) It was built in the late 19th century.23. D) They often broke down.24. A) They were produced on the assembly line.25. C) It marked a new era in motor travel.四级第二套Section A1. C) Why sufficient sleep is important for college students.2. C) Making last-minute preparations for tests may be less effective than sleeping.3. B) Whether the British irports Authority should sell off some of its assets.4. D) Lack of runway and terminal capacity.5. D) Report the nicotine content of their cigarettes.6. A) The biggest increase in nicotine content tended to be in brands young smokers like.7. B) They were not prepared to comment on the cigarette study.Section B8. A) Holland.9. D) Learning a language where it is not spoken.10. C) Trying to speak it as much as one can.11. A) It provides opportunities for language practice.12. B) Rules and regulations for driving.13.C) Make cars that are less powerful.14. D) They tend to drive responsibly.15. C) It is not useful.Section C16. D) The card reader failed to do the scanning.17. B) By covering the credit card with a layer of plastic.18. A) Produce many low-tech fixes for high-tech failures.19. A) They vary among different departments.20.D) By contacting the deparmental office.21. B) They specify the number of credits students must earn.22. C) Students in health classes.23. A) Its overemphasis on thinness.24. B) To explain how computer images can be misleading.25. C) To promote her own concept of beauty.Part Ⅲ Reading Comprehension四级第一套Section A26.O) tend27.M) review28.L) performance29.K) particularly30.N) survive31.E) dropping32.J) mutually33.H) flow34.F) essential35.I) moodSection B36.E）“We thought we would see differences based on thehousing types,” said the lead author of the study, Julie Robison, an associate professor of medicine at the university. ......37.L）Of course, sons and daughters want to visit the facilities, talk to the administrators and residents and other families, and do everything possible to fulfill their duties. ......38.B）Does assisted living really mark a great improvement over a nursing home, or has the industry simply hired better interior designers? ......39.H）An elderly person who describes herself as in poor health, therefore, might be no less depressed in assisted living (even if her children preferred it) than in a nursing home. ......40.N）The daughter feared her mother would be ignored there, and so she decided to move her into a more welcoming facility. Based on what is emerging from some of this research, that might have been as rational a way as any to reach a decision.41.J）As I was considering all this, a press release from a respected research firm crossed my desk， announcing that the five-star rating system that Medicare developed in 2008 to help families......42.F）In the initial results, assisted living residents did paint the most positive picture. They were less likely to report symptoms of depression than those in the other facilities, for instance, and less likely to be bored or lonely. They scored higher on social interaction.43.C）I am about to make things more complicated by suggesting that what kind of facility an older person lives in may matter less than we have assumed. ......44.I）Such findings, which run counter to common sense, have surfaced before. In a multi-state study of assisted living, for instance, University of North Carolina researchers found that a host of variables—the facility's type, size or age; ......45.G）But when the researchers plugged in a number of other variables, such differences disappeared. It is not the housing type, they found, that creates differences in residents' responses. ......Section C46. C) It can be avoided if human values are translated into their language.47.D) They are ill-bred.48. C) By picking up patterns from massive data on human behavior.49. B) Stop to seek advice from a human being.50. A) Determine what is moral and ethical.51. A) to see whether people's personality affects their life span52. D) They are more likely to get over hardship.53. C) Such personality characteristics as self-discipline have no effect on longevity.54. D) Mothers' negative personality characteristics may affect their children's life span.55. B) Longevity results from a combination of mental and physical health.四级第二套Section A26.G) growing27.A) dependent28.C) fast29.F) give30.H) launch31.N) successful32.I) policyl33.B) designed34.O) treatments35.E) gainedSection B36.D)As we begin to examine our life, Soupios says, we come to Rule No. 2: Worry only about things that you can control. ......37.B)The wisdom of the ancient Greek philosophers is timeless, says Soupios. The philosophy professor says it is as relevant today as when it was first written many centuries ago. ......38.F)To have a meaningful, happy life we need friends. But according to Aristotle—a student of Plato and teacher of Alexander the Great—most relationships don't qualify as true friendships. ......39.A) Is it possible to enjoy a peaceful life in a world that isincreasingly challenged by threats and uncertainties from wars, terrorism, ......40.L)“This is Aesop, the fabulist (寓言家), the man of these charming little tales, often told in terms of animals and animal re lationships,” he says. ......41.H)“This was the highest and most desirable form of pleasure and happiness for the ancient Epicureans,” Soupios says. “This is something that is very much well worth considering here ......42.C)Soupios, along with his co-author Panos Mourdoukoutas, developed their 10 golden rules by turning to the men behind that philosophy—Aristotle, Socrates, Epictetus and Pythagoras, ......43.K)Instead, Soupios says, ancient wisdom urges us to do good. Golden Rule No. 10 for a good life is that kindness toward others tends to be rewarded.44.B)The wisdom of the ancient Greek philosophers is timeless, says Soupios. The philosophy professor says it is as relevant today as when it was first written many centuries ago. ......45.J)“This is Hesiod, of course, a younger contemporary poet, we believe, with Homer,” Soupios says. “Hesiod offers an idea—which you very often find in some of the world's great religions,......Section C46. D) It usually draws different reactions from different age groups.47. A) It does not seem to create a generational divide.48. B) It helps with their mobility.49. A) The location of their residence.50. C) The wealthy.51. C) Their daily routine followed the rhythm of the natural cycle.52. B) It brought family members closer to each other.53. D) Pace of life.54. B) It is varied, abundant and nutritious.55. A) They enjoyed cooking as well as eating.四级第三套Section A26.M) provide27.A) abandoned28.I) frequent29.L) merely30.C) biased31.G) dependent32.F) dampens33.E) commitment34.N) understandably35.D) chancesSection B36.［F］In contrast, the recent surge in world grain prices is trend-driven, making it unlikely to reverse without a reversal inthe trends themselves.......37.［K］In response to those restrictions, grain-importing countries are trying to nail down long-term trade agreements that would lock up future grain supplies. ......38.［C］As demand for food rises faster than supplies are growing, the resulting food-price inflation puts severe stress on the governments of many countries. ......39.［L］Since the current world food shortage is trend-driven, the environmental trends that cause it must be reversed. We must cut carbon emissions by 80% from their 2006 levels by 2020, ......40.［B］I can no longer ignore that risk. Our continuing failure to deal with the environmental declines that are undermining the world food economy forces me to conclude that such a collapse is possible.41.［H］What about supply? The three environmental trends—the shortage of fresh water, the loss of topsoil and the rising temperatures—are making it increasingly hard to expand the world's grain supply fast enough to keep up with demand. ......42.［M］For many in the development community, the four objectives were seen as positive, promoting development as long as they did not cost too much. Others saw them as politically correct and morally appropriate. ......43.［J］As the world's food security falls to pieces, individual countries acting in their own self-interest are actually worsening the troubles of many. The trend began in 2007, when leading wheat-exporting countries such as Russia and Argentina limited or banned their exports, ......44.［L］Since the current world food shortage is trend-driven, the environmental trends that cause it must be reversed. We must cut carbon emissions by 80% from their 2006 levels by 2020, ......45.［G］As incomes rise among low-income consumers, the potential for further grain consumption is huge. But that potential pales beside the never-ending demand for crop-based fuels. A fourth of this year's U.S. grain harvest will go to fuel cars.Section C46. B) It weakens in one's later years.47. D) Some of them begin to decline when people are still young.48. C) They function quite well even in old age.49. D) can put what they have learnt into more effective use50. A) find ways to slow down our mental decline51. C) Scholars and policymakers have different opinions about it.52. A) Pre-K achievements usually do not last long.53. B) When it is made part of kids' education.54. D) She is a firm supporter of pre-K.55. C) Early intervention.Part Ⅳ Translation四级第一套功夫(Kung Fu)是中国武术（martial arts）的俗称。