1、2014 年 6 月大学英语四级考试真题（二）12014 年 6 月大学英语四级考试真题（第 2 套）Part IWriting(30 minutes)Directions：Forthispart,youareallowed30minutestowriteashortessayonthefollowingquestion.Youshouldwriteatleast120 wordsbutnomorethan180 words.Supposea foreign friend of yoursis coming to visit your campus,what isthemost interes
2、ting placeyou would like to takehim/her to see and why?Part IIListening Comprehension(30 minutes)SectionADirections：Inthissection,youwillhear8shortconversationsand2longconversations.Attheendofeachconversation,oneormorequestionswillbeaskedaboutwhatwassaid.Boththeconversationandthequestionswillbespoke
3、nonlyonce.Aftereachquestiontherewillbeapause.Duringthepause,youmustreadthefourchoicesmarkedA),B),C)andD),anddecidewhichisthebestanswer.ThenmarkthecorrespondingletteronAnswer Sheet 1 withasinglelinethroughthecentre.1.A)They came in five different colors.C)They were a very good design.B)They were good
4、 value for money.D)They were sold out very quickly.2.A)Ask her roommate not to speak loudly on the phone.B)Ask her roommate to make her phone calls outside.C)Go and find a quieter place to review her lessons.D)Report her problem to the dorm management.3.A)The washing machine is totally beyond repair
5、.B)He will help Wendy prepare her annual report.C)Wendy should give priority to writing her report.D)The washing machine should be checked annually.4.A)The man fell down when removing the painting.B)The wall will be decorated with a new painting.C)The woman likes the painting on the wall.D)The paint
6、ing is now being refrained.5.A)It must be missing.C)The man took it to the market.B)It was left in the room.D)She placed it on the dressing table.6.A)Go to a play.C)Book some tickets.B)Meet Janet.D)Have a get-together.7.A)One box of books is found missing.C)Replacements have to be ordered.B)Some of
7、the boxes arrived too late.D)Some of the books are damaged.8.A)The man will pick up Professor Johnson at her office.B)The man did not expect his paper to be graded so soon.C)Professor Johnson has given the man a very high grade.D)Professor Johnson will talk to each student in her office.Questions9to
8、11arebasedontheconversationyouhavejustheard.9.A)To buy a present for his friend who is getting married.B)To find out the cost for a complete set of cookware.2014 年 6 月大学英语四级考试真题（二）2C)To see what he could ask his friends to buy for him.D)To make inquiries about the price of an electric cooker.10.A)To
9、 teach him how to use the kitchenware.B)To discuss cooking experiences with him.C)To tell him how to prepare delicious dishes.D)To recommend suitable kitchenware to him.11.A)There are so many different sorts of knives.B)Cooking devices are such practical presents.C)A mixer can save so much time in m
10、aking cakes.D)Saucepans and frying pans are a must in the kitchen.Questions12to15arebasedontheconversationyouhavejustheard.12.A)Some new problems in her work.C)Her chance for promotion in the bank.B)Cooperation with an international bank.D)Her intention to leave her present job.13.A)The World Bank.C
11、)A US finance corporation.B)Bank of Washington.D)An investment bank in New York.14.A)Supervising financial transactions.B)Taking charge of public relations.C)Making loans to private companies in developing countries.D)Offering service to international companies in the United States.15.A)It is a firs
12、t major step to realizing the womans dream.B)It is an honor for the woman and her present employer.C)It is a loss for her current company.D)It is really beyond his expectation.SectionBDirections：Inthissection,youwillhear3shortpassages.Attheendofeachpassage,youwillhearsomequestions.Boththepassageandt
13、hequestionswillbespokenonlyonce.Afteryouhearaquestion,youmustchoosethebestanswerfromthefourchoicesmarkedA),B),C),andD).ThenmarkthecorrespondingletteronAnswer Sheet 1 withasinglelinethroughthecentre.PassageOneQuestions16to18arebasedonthepassageyouhavejustheard.16.A)Carry out a thorough checkup.C)Keep
14、 extra gas in reserve.B)Try to keep the gas tank full.D)Fill up the water tank.17.A)Attempting to leave your car to seek help.C)Running the engine every now and then.B)Opening a window a bit to let in fresh air.D)Keeping the heater on for a long time.18.A)It exhausts you physically.C)It causes you t
15、o lose body heat.B)It makes you fall asleep easily.D)It consumes too much oxygen.PassageTwoQuestions19to21arebasedonthepassageyouhavejustheard.19.A)They are very generous in giving gifts.C)They regard gifts as a token of friendship.B)They refuse gifts when doing business.D)They give gifts only on sp
16、ecial occasions.20.A)They enjoy giving gifts to other people.C)They have to follow many specific rules.B)They spend a lot of time choosing gifts.D)They pay attention to the quality of gifts.21A)Gift-giving plays an important role in human relationships.2014 年 6 月大学英语四级考试真题（二）3B)We must be aware of c
17、ultural differences in giving gifts.C)We must learn how to give gifts before going abroad.D)Reading extensively makes one a better gift-giver.PassageThreeQuestions22to25arebasedonthepassageyouhavejustheard.22.A)It reflects American peopled view of French politics.B)It is first published in Washingto
18、n and then in Paris.C)It explains American politics to the French public.D)It is popular among French government officials.23.A)Work on her column.C)Entertain her guests.B)Do housework at home.D)Go shopping downtown.24.A)To report to her newspaper.C)To visit her parents.B)To refresh her French.D)To
19、meet her friends.25.A)She might be recalled to France.C)She might close her Monday column.B)She might change her profession.D)She might be assigned to a new post.SectionCDirections：Inthissection,youwillhearapassagethreetimes.Whenthepassageisreadforthefirsttime,youshouldlistencarefullyforitsgeneralid
20、ea.Whenthepassageisreadforthesecondtime,youarerequiredtofillintheblankswiththeexactwordsyouhavejustheard.Finally,whenthepassageisreadforthethirdtime,youshouldcheckwhatyouhavewritten.According to American law,if someone is accused of a crime,he is considered26until the court proves the person isguilt
21、y.To arrest a person,the police have to be reasonably sure that a crime has been27.The police must give the suspect thereasons why they are arresting him and tell him his rights under the law.Then the police take the suspect to the police station,where the name of the person and the28against him are
22、 formally listed.The next step is for the suspect to go before a judge.The judge decides whether the suspect should be kept in jail or 29.If the suspect has no previous criminal record and the judge feels that he will return to court 30 run away,he can go free.Otherwise,the suspect must put up bail(
23、保释金).At this time,too,the judge will 31a court lawyer to defend the suspect if hecant afford one.The suspect returns to court a week or two later.A lawyer from the district attorneys office presents a case against thesuspect.The attorney may present32as well as witnesses.The judge then decides wheth
24、er there is enough reason to 33.The American justice system is very complex and sometimes operates slowly.However,every step is 34 to protect therights of the people.These individual rights are the 35 of the American government.Part Reading Comprehension(40 minutes)SectionADirections：Inthissection,t
25、hereisapassagewithtenblanks.Youarerequiredtoselectonewordforeachblankfromalistofchoicesgiveninawordbankfollowingthepassage.Readthepassagethroughcarefullybeforemakingyourchoices.Eachchoiceinthebankisidentifiedbyaletter.PleasemarkthecorrespondingletterforeachitemonAnswer Sheet 2withasinglelinethrought
26、hecentre.Youmaynotuseanyofthewordsinthebankmorethanonce.Questions 36 to 45 are based on the following passage.Global warming is a trend toward warmer conditions around the world.Part of the warming is natural;we haveexperienced a 20,000-year-long warming as the last ice age ended and the ice 36 away
27、.However,we have already reachedtemperatures that are in 37 with other minimum-ice periods,so continued warming is likely not natural.We are 38 to a2014 年 6 月大学英语四级考试真题（二）4predicted worldwide increase in temperatures 39 between 1and 6 over the next 100 years.The warming will be more 40in some areas,
28、less in others,and some places may even cool off.Likewise,the 41 of this warming will be very differentdepending on where you arecoastal areas must worry about rising sea levels,while Siberia and northern Canada may becomemore habitable(宜居的)and 42 for humans than these areas are now.The fact remains
29、,however,that it will likely get warmer,on 43,everywhere.Scientists are in general agreement thatthe warmer conditions we have been experiencing are at least in part the result of a human-induced global warming trend.Somescientists44 that thechanges we are seeing fall within therange of random(无规律的）
30、variationsome years are cold,otherswarm,and we have just had an unremarkable string of warm years 45 but that is becoming an increasingly rare interpretationin the face of continued and increasing warm conditions.SectionBDirections：Inthissection,youaregoingtoreadapassagewithtenstatementsattachedtoit
31、Eachstatementcontainsinformationgiveninoneoftheparagraphs.Identifytheparagraphfromwhichtheinformationisderived.Youmaychooseaparagraphmorethanonce.Eachparagraphismarkedwithaletter.AnswerthequestionsbymarkingthecorrespondingletteronAnswer Sheet 2.TheEndoftheBook?A)Amazon,by far the largest bookseller
32、in the country,reported on May 19 that it is now selling more books in its electronicKindle format than in the old paper-and-ink format.That is remarkable,considering that the Kindle has only been aroundfor four years.E-books now account for 14 percent of all book sales in this country and are incre
33、asing far faster than overallbook sales.E-book sales are up 146 percent over last year,while hardback sales increased 6 percent and paperbacksdecreased 8 percent.B)Does this spell the doom of the physical book?Certainly not immediately,and perhaps not at all.What it does mean is thatthe book busines
34、s will go through a transformation in the next decade or so more profound than any it has seen sinceGutenberg introduced printing from moveable type in the 1450s.C)Physical books will surely become much rarer in the marketplace.Mass market paperbacks,which have been declining foryears anyway,will pr
35、obably disappear,as will hardbacks for mysteries,thrillers,“romance fiction,”etc.Such books,whichonly rarely end up in permanent collections,either private or public,will probably only be available as e-books within a fewyears.Hardback and trade paperbacks for“serious”nonfiction and fiction will sur
36、ely last longer.Perhaps it will become themark of an author to reckon with that he or she is still published in hard copy.D)As for childrens books,who knows?Childrens books are like dog food in that the purchasers are not the consumers,so themarket(and the marketing)is inherently strange.E)For clues
37、 to the books future,lets look at some examples of technological change and see what happened to the oldtechnology.F)One technology replaces another only because the new technology is better,cheaper,or both.The greater the difference,thesooner and more thoroughly the new technology replaces the old.
38、Printing with moveable type on paper dramaticallyA)appealingI)meltedB)averageJ)persistC)contributingK)rangingD)dramaticL)recentlyE)frequentlyM)resolvedF)impactN)sensibleG)lineO)shockH)maintain2014 年 6 月大学英语四级考试真题（二）5reduced the cost of producing a book compared with the old-fashioned ones handwritte
39、n on vellum,which comes fromsheepskin.A Bibleto be sure,a long bookrequired vellum made from 300 sheepskins and countless man-hours of labor.Before printing arrived,a Bible cost more than a middle-class house.There were perhaps 50,000 books in all of Europe in1450.By 1500 there were 10 million.G)But
40、 while printing quickly caused the handwritten book to die out,handwriting lingeredon(继续存在)well into the 16thcentury.Very special books are still occasionally produced on vellum,but they are one-of-a-kind show pieces.H)Sometimes a new technology doesnt drive the old one out,but only parts of it whil
41、e forcing the rest to evolve.The movieswere widely predicted to drive live theater out of the marketplace,but they didnt,because theater turned out to havequalities movies could not reproduce.Equally,TV was supposed to replace movies but,again,did not.I)Movies did,however,fatally impact some parts o
42、f live theater.And while TV didnt kill movies,it did kill second-ratepictures,shorts,and cartoons.J)Nor did TV kill radio.Comedy and drama shows(“Jack Benny,“Amos and Andy,“The Shadow”)all migrated to television.But because you cant drive a car and watch television at the same time,rush hour became
43、radios prime time,while music,talk,and news radio greatly enlarged their audiences.Radio is today a very different business than in the late 1940s and amuch larger one.K)Sometimes old technology lingers for centuries because of its symbolic power.Mounted cavalry(骑兵)replaced thechariot(二轮战车）on the ba
44、ttlefield around 1000 BC.But chariots maintained their place in parades and triumphs right upuntil theend of theRoman Empire 1,500 years later.The sword hasnt had a military function for a hundred years,but is stillpart of an officers full-dress uniform,precisely because a sword always symbolized“an
45、 officer and a gentleman.L)Sometimes new technology is a little cranky(不稳定的）at first.Television repairman was a common occupation in the1950s,for instance.And so the old technology remains as a backup.Steamships captured the North Atlantic passengerbusiness from sail in the 1840s because of its much
46、 greater speed.But steamships didnt lose their sails until the 1880s,because early marine engines had a nasty habit of breaking down.Until ships became large enough(and engines smallenough)to mount two engines side by side,they needed to keep sails.(The high cost of steam and the lesser need for spe
47、edkept the majority of the worlds ocean freight moving by sail until the early years of the 20th century.)M)Then there is the fireplace.Central heating was present in every upper-and middle-class home by the second half of the19th century.But functioning fireplaces remain to this day a powerful sell
48、ing point in a house or apartment.I suspect thereason isa deep-rooted love of fire.Fire was oneof theearliest major technological advances for humankind,providing heat,protection,and cooked food(which is much easier to eat and digest).Human control of fire goes back far enough(over amillion years)th
49、at evolution could have produced a genetic leaning towards fire as a central aspect of human life.N)Booksespecially books the average person could affordhavent been around long enough to produce evolutionarychange in humans.But they have a powerful hold on many people nonetheless,a hold extending fa
50、r beyond their literarycontent.At their best,they are works of art and there is a tactile(触觉的）pleasure in books necessarily lost in e-bookversions.The ability to quickly thumb through pages is also lost.And a room with books in it induces,at least in some,afeeling not dissimilar to that of a fire in
