2015年6月大学英语四级考试真题试卷(第二套).doc

大 学 英 语 四 级 考 试COLLEGE ENGLISH TEST- Band Four -得到监考老师指令前，不得翻阅该试题册!Part 1 Writing (30 minutes)(请于正式开考后半小时内完成该部分，之后将进行听力考试)Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write an essay based on the picture below. You should start your essay with a brief description of the picture and then comment on the kids understanding of going to school. You should write at least 120 words but no more than 180 words.请用黑色签字笔在答题卡1指定区域作答作文题，在试题册上的作答无效。Part II Listening Comprehension (30minutes)Section ADirections: In this section, you will hear 8 short conversations and 2 long conversations. At the end of each conversation, one or more questions will be asked about what was said. Both the conversation and the questions will be spoken only once. After each question there will be a pause. During the pause, you must read the four choices marked A), B), C) and D), and decide which is the best answer. Then mark the corresponding letter on Answer sheet 1 with a single line through the center.注意：此部分试题请在答题卡1上作答。1. A) He will give the woman some tips on the game.B) The woman has good reason to quit the game.C) He is willing to play chess with the woman.D) The woman should go on playing chess.2. A) The man can forward the mail to Mary.B) She can call Mary to take care of the mail.C) Mary probably knows Sallys new address.D) She would like to resume contact with Sally.3. A) His handwriting has a unique style.C) He did not attend todays class.B) His notes are not easy to read. D) He is very pleased to be able to help.4. A) The man had better choose another restaurant.B) The new restaurant is a perfect place for dating.C) The new restaurant caught her fancy immediately.D) The man has good taste in choosing the restaurant.5. A) He has been looking forward to spring.B) He has been waiting for the winter sale.C) He will clean the womans boots for spring.D) He will help the woman put things away.6. A) The woman is rather forgetful.B) The man appreciates the womans help.C) The man often lends books to the woman.D) The woman often works overtime at weekends.7. A) Go to work on foot. C) Start work earlier than usual.B) Take a sightseeing trip. D) Take a walk when the weather is nice. 8. A) The plane is going to land at another airport.B) All flights have been delayed due to bad weather.C) Temporary closing has disturbed the airports operation.D) The airports management is in real need of improvement.Questions 9 to 12 are based on the conversation you just heard.9. A) It specializes in safety from leaks. C) It has a partnership with LCP.B) It is headquartered in London. D) It has a chemical processing plant. 10. A) He is Mr. Grands friend. B) He is a safety inspector.C) He is a salesman.D) He is a chemist.11. A) Director of the safety department.B) Mr. Grands personal assistant. C) Head of the personnel department.D) The public relations officer.12. A) Wait for Mr. Grand to call back.B) Leave a message for Mr. Grand.C) Provide details of their products and services.D) Send a comprehensive description of their work.Questions 13 to 15 are based on the conversation you have just heard.13. A) She learned playing the violin from a famous French musician.B) She dreamed of working and living in a European country.C) She read a lot about European musicians and their music.D) She listened to recordings of many European orchestras.14. A) She began taking violin lessons as a small child.B) She was a pupil of a famous European violinist.C) She gave her first performance with her father.D) She became a professional violinist at fifteen.15. A) It gave her a chance to explore the city. B) It was the chance of a lifetime.C) It was a great challenge to herD) It helped her learn classical French music. Section BDirections: In this section, you will hear 3 short passages. At the end of each passage, you will hear some questions. Both the passage and the questions will be spoken only once. After you hear a question, you must choose the best answer from the four choices marketed A), B), C) and D). Then mark the corresponding letter on Answer sheet 1 with a single line through the center.注意： 此部分试题请在答题卡1上作答。Passage oneQuestions 16 to 18 are based on the passage you have just heard.16.A) There are mysterious stories behind his works.B) There are many misunderstandings about him.C) His works have no match worldwide.D) His personal history is little known.17. A) He moved to Stratford-on-Avon in his childhood.B) He failed to go beyond grammar school.C) He was a member of the town council.D) He once worked in a well-known acting company.18. A) Writers of his time had no means to protect their works.B) Possible sources of clues about him were lost in a fire.C) His works were adapted beyond recognition.D) People of his time had little interest in him.Passage TwoQuestions 19 to 21 are based on the passage you have just heard. 19. A) Theft.B) Cheating.C) Air crash.D) Road accidents.20. A) Learn the local customs. B) Make hotel reservations.C) Book tickets well in advance. D) Have the right documents.21.A) Contact your agent.B) Get a lift if possible.C) Use official transport.D) Have a friend meet you.Passage ThreeQuestions 22 to 25 are based on the passage you have just heard.22. A) Cut down production cost.C) Specialise in gold ornaments.B) Sell inexpensive products.D) Refine the taste of his goods.23. A) At a national press conference.B) During a live television interview.C) During a local sales promotion campaign. D) At a meeting of top British businesspeople.24. A) Insulted. B) Puzzled.C) Distressed. D)Discouraged.25. A) The words of some businesspeople are just rubbish.B) He who never learns from the past is bound to fail.C) There should be a limit to ones sense of humour.D) He is not laughed at, that laughs at himself first.Section CDirections: In this section, you will hear a passage three times. When the passage is read for the first time, you should listen carefully for its general idea. When the passage is read for the second time, you are required to fill in the blanks with the exact words you have just heard. Finally, when the passage is read for the third time, you should check what you have written.注意：此部分试题请在答题卡1上作答。Looking at the basic biological systems, the world is not doing very well. Yet economic indicators show the world is (26) _. Despite a slow start at the beginning of the eighties, global economic output increased by more than a fifth during the (27) _. The economy grew, trade increased, and millions of new jobs were created. How can biological indicators show the (28) _of economic indicators?The answer is that the economic indicators have a basic fault: they show no difference between resource uses that (29) _ progress and those uses that will hurt it. The main measure of economic progress is the gross national product (GNP). (30)_, this totals the value of all goods and services produced and subtracts loss in value of factories and equipment. Developed a half-century ago, GNP helped (31) _ a common way among countries of measuring change in economic output. For some time, this seemed to work (32) _well, but serious weaknesses are now appearing. As indicated earlier, GNP includes loss in value of factories and equipment, but it does not (33) _the loss of natural resources, including nonrenewable resources such as oil or renewable resources such as forests.This basic fault can produce a (34) _sense of national economic health. According to GNP, for example, countries that overcut forests actually do better than those that preserve their forests. The trees cut down are counted as income but no subtraction is made for (35) _the forests.Part III Reading Comprehension (40minutes)Section ADirection: 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 choices. Each choice in the bank is identificated 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 36 to 45 are based on the following passage.As a teacher, you could bring the community into your classroom in many ways. The parents and grandparents of your students are resources and 36 for their children. They can be 37 teachers of their own traditions and histories. Immigrant parents could talk about their country of 38 and why they emigrated to the United States. Parents can be invited to talk about their jobs or a community project. Parents, of course, are not the only community resources. Employees at local businesses and staff at community agencies have 39 information to share in classrooms. Field trips provide another opportunity to know the community. Many students dont have the opportunity to 40 concerts or visit museums or historical sites except through field trips. A school district should have 41 for selecting and conducting field trips. Families must be made 42 of field trips and give permission for their children to participate.Through school projects, students can learn to be 43 in community projects ranging from planting trees to cleaning up a park to assisting elderly people. Students, 44 older ones, might conduct research on a community need that could lead to action by a city council or state government. Some schools require students to provide community service by 45 in a nursing home, child care center or government agency. These projects help students understand their responsibility to the larger community.注意：此部分试题请在答题卡2上作答。A) assetsF) expensiveK) observeB) attendG) guidelines L) originC) awareH) involvedM) recruitedD) especiallyI) joiningN) up-to-dateE) excellentJ) naturallyO) volunteeringSection 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 question by marking the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 2.Reaping the Rewards of Risk-taking A Since Steve Jobs resigned as chief esecutive of Apple, much has been said about him as a peerless corporate leader who has created immense wealth for shareholders, and guided the design of hit products that are transforming entire industries, like music and mobile communications.B All true, but lets think different, to borrow the Apple marketing slogan of years back. Lets look at Mr. Jobs as a role model.C Above all, he is an innovator（创新者）. His creative force is seen in products like the iPod, iPhone and iPad, and in new business models for pricing and distributing music and mobile software online. Studies of innovation come to the same conclusion: you cant engineer innovation, but you can increase the odds of it occurring. And Mr. Jobss career can be viewed as a consistent pursuit of improving those odds, both for himself and the companies he has led. Mr. Jobs, of course, has enjoyed singular success. But innovation, broadly defined, is the crucial ingredient in all economic progress higher growth for nations, more competitive products for companies, and more prosperous careers for individuals. And Mr. Jobs, many experts say, exemplifies what works in the innovation game.D “We can look at and learn from Steve Jobs what the essence of American innovation is,” says John Kao, an innovation consultant to corporations and governments. Many other nations, Mr. Kao notes, are now ahead of the United States in producing what are considered the raw materials of innovation. These include government financing for scientific research, national policies to support emerging industries, educational achievement, engineers and scientists graduated, even the speeds of Internet broadband service.E Yet what other nations typically lack, Mr. Kao adds, is a social environment that encourages diversity, experimentation, risk-taking, and combining skills from many fields into products that he calls “recombinant mash-ups,”（打碎重组） like the iPhone, which redefined the smartphone category. “The culture of other countries doesnt support the kind of innovation that Steve Jobs exemplifies, as America does,” Mr. Kao says.F Workers of every rank are told these days that wide-ranging curiosity and continuous learning are vital to thriving in the modern economy. Formal education matters, career counselors say, but real-life experience is often even more valuable.G An adopted child, growing up in Silicon Valley, Mr. Jobs displayed those traits early on. He was fascinated by electronics as a child, building Heathkit do-it-yourself projects, like radios. Mr. Jobs dropped out of Reed College after a semester and trekked around India in search of spiritual enlightenment, before returning to Silicon Valley to found Apple with his friend, Stephen Wozniak, an engineering wizard（奇才）. Mr. Jobs was forced out of Apple in 1985, went off and founded two other companies, Next and Pixar, before returning to Apple in 1996 and becoming chief executive in 1997.H His path was unique, but innovation experts say the pattern of exploration is not unusual. “Its often people like Steve Jobs who can draw from a deep reservoir of diverse experience that generate breakthrough ideas and insights,” says Hal B. Gregersen, a professor at the European Institute of Business Administration.I Mr. Gregersen is a co-author of a new book, “The Innovators DNA” (Harvard Business School Press), based on an eight-year study of 5,000 entrepreneurs （创业者）and executives worldwide. His two collaborators and co-authors are Jeff Dyer, a professor at Brigham Young University, and Clayton M. Christensen, a professor at the Harvard Business School, whose 1997 book “The Innovators Dilemma” popularized the concept of “disruptive （颠覆性的） innovation.”J The academics identify five traits that are common to the disruptive innovators: questioning, experimenting, observing, associating and networking. Their bundle of characteristics echoes the ceaseless curiosity and willingness to take risks noted by other experts. Networking, Mr. Gregersen explains, is less about career-building relationships than a search for new ideas. Associating, he adds, is the ability to make idea-producing connections by linking concepts from different disciplines.K “Innovato