Your composition
should be based on the following outline (give in Chinese)
1. 失败是常有的事?
2. 人们对失败有各种不同的态度。
3. 我对失败的态度。
You should write your composition in three paragraphs. Remember to write your
composition in readable handwriting on the right side of this sheet.
Is Failure a Bad Thing?
1992年1月四级参考答案
Part I Listening Comprehension
1. B
2. D
3. A
4. A
5. D
6. B
7. C
8. C
9. B
10. B
11. C
12. A
13. C
14. A
15. D
16. D
17. D
18. C
19. A
20. B
Part II Reading Comprehension
21. D
22. B
23. A
24. B
25. C
26. A
27. B
28. C
29. C
30. D
31. C
32. D
33. D
34. C
35. C
36. B
37. A
38. D
39. B
40. C
Part III Vocabulary and Structure
41. C
42. A
43. A
44. A
45. B
46. D
47. B
48. D
49. B
50. C
51. D
52. A
53. C
54. A
55. C
56. B
57. D
58. B
59. C
60. C
61. B
62. B
63. A
64. D
65. D
66. C
67. A
68. A
69. B
70. D
Part IV Close
71. C
72. D
73. B
74. A
75. D
76. B
77. A
78. B
79. A
80. D
81. B
82. B
83. C
84. A
85. D
86. C
87. A
88. C
89. D
90. C
Part V Writing (略)
1992年6月大学英语四级(CET-4)真题试卷
Part I Listening Comprehension (20 minutes)
Section A
1. A) The man should stay a little longer.
B) The man should leave at once.
C) The man will miss the train.
D) The man must try to catch the last train.
2. A) Walking.
B) Boating.
C) Shopping.
D) Driving.
3. A) Twenty minutes.
B) Twenty-five minutes.
C) Fifty minutes.
D) Fifty-five minutes.
4. A) Go and buy a new dress.
B) Try to get some tickets.
C) Go and see a performance.
D) Do some sewing at home.
5. A) Do the work for the woman.
B) Take care of the woman.
C) Work together with the woman.
D) Drive the woman home.
6. A) The man is showing the woman round the city.
B) The woman is asking the way.
C) The man is a stranger to the city.
D) The two persons are talking about sending letters.
7. A) Buying a car costs too much.
B) Driving lessons are too expensive.
C) Taking the bus is more convenient.
D) Driving is too dangerous.
8. A) By twelve o’clock.
B) By three o’clock.
C) By nine o’ clock.
D) By two o’clock.
9. A) She is going to see her uncle there.
B) She has a relative who once lived there.
C) She will visit the city soon.
D) She used to have an apartment there.
10. A) 7:30
B) 8:00
C) 8:30
D) 7:00
Section B
Passage One
Questions 11 to 13 are based on the passage you have just heard.
11. A) In green forests.
B) In the North Pole region.
C) In the Pacific Ocean.
D) In dry deserts.
12. A) Snakes like warmth.
B) Snakes like to stay in the sun.
C) Snakes are used to extra-hot weather.
D) Snakes are good swimmers.
13. A) They are unintelligent.
B) They are not very intelligent.
C) They are fairly intelligent.
D) They are very intelligent.
Passage Two
Questions 14 to 16 are based on the passage you have just heard.
14. A) He was talking to a policeman.
B) He was making a phone call.
C) He was watching a film.
D) He was shopping.
15. A) Her beautiful figure.
B) Her unusual height.
C) Her attractive manners.
D) Her fashionable handbag.
16. A) He was arrested by the police.
B) He was only making a joke.
C) He had taken the woman’s bag by mistake.
D) He was acting in a film.
Passage Three
Questions 18 to 20 are based on the passage you have just heard.
17. A) 6 million dollars.
B) 25 million dollars.
C) 70 million dollars.
D) 400 million dollars.
18. A) An engine room.
B) A big kitchen.
C) A high building.
D) A great theatre.
19. A) More than 200.
B) More than 300.
C) More than 400.
D) More than 600.
20. A) The giant jet will be forced to land.
B) The giant jet will crash.
C) The mechanical pilots will do the job.
D) The engines of the giant jet will stop working.
Part II Reading Comprehension (35 minutes)
Passage One
Questions 21 to 25 are based on the following passage.
Looking back on my childhood, I am convinced that naturalists are born and not
made.
Although we were all brought up in the same way, my brothers and sisters soon
abandoned their pressed flowers and insects. Unlike them, I had no ear for music and
languages. I was not an early reader and I could not do mental arithmetic.
Before world I we spent our summer holidays in Hungary. I have only the dim
memory of the house we lived in, of my room and my toys. Nor do I recall clearly the
large family of grandparents, aunts, uncles and cousins who gathered next door. But I do
have a crystal-clear memory of the dogs, the farm animals, the local birds and, above all
the insects.
I am a naturalist, not a scientist. I have a strong love of the natural world, and my
enthusiasm has led me into varied investigations. I love discussing my favorite topics and
enjoy burning the midnight oil while reading about other people’s observations and
discoveries. Then something happens that brings these observations together in my
conscious mind. Suddenly you fancy you see the answer to the riddle (谜), because it all
seems to fit together. This has resulted in my publishing 300 papers and books, which
some might honour with the title of scientific research.
But curiosity, a keen eye, a good memory and enjoyment of the animal and plant
world do not make a scientist: one of the outstanding and essential qualities require is
self-discipline, quality I lack. A scientist requires not only self-discipline but all training,
determination and a goal. A scientist, up to a point, can be made. A naturalist is born. If
you can combine the two, you get the best of both worlds.
21. The first paragraph tells us that the author ________.
A) was born to a naturalist’s family
B) lost his hearing when he was a child
C) didn’t like his brothers and sisters
D) was interested in flowers and insects in his childhood
22. The author can’t remember his relatives clearly because ________.
A) he didn’t live very long with them
B) he was fully occupied with observing nature
C) he was too young when he lived with them
D) the family was extremely large
23. It can be inferred from the passage that the author was ________.
A) no more than a born naturalist
B) a naturalist but not a scientist
C) a scientist as well as a naturalist
D) first of all a scientist
24. The author says that he is a naturalist rather than a scientist probably because he
thinks he ________.
A) lacks some of the qualities required of a scientist
B) has a great deal of trouble doing mental arithmetic
C) just reads about other people’s observations and discoveries
D) comes up with solutions in a most natural way
25. According to the author, a born naturalist should first of all be ________.
A) full of ambition
B) full of enthusiasm
C) knowledgeable
D) self-disciplined
Passage Two
Questions 26 to 30 are based on the following passage.
Sporting activities are essentially modified forms of hunting behaviour. Viewed
biologically, the modern footballer is in reality a member of a hunting group. His killing
weapon has turned into a harmless football and his prey (猎物) into a goalmouth. If his
aim is accurate and he scores a goal, he enjoys the hunter’s triumph of killing his prey.
To understand how this transformation has taken place we must briefly look back at
our forefathers. They spent over a million years evolving (进化) as cooperative hunters.
Their very survival depended on success in the hunting-field. Under this pressure their
whole way of life, even their bodies, became greatly changed. They became chasers,
runners, jumpers, aimers, throwers and prey-killers. They cooperated as skillful
male-group attackers.
Then about ten thousand years ago, after this immensely long period of hunting their
food, they became farmers. Their improved intelligence, so vital to their old hunting life,
was put to a new use—that of controlling and domesticating their prey. The hunt became
suddenly out of date. The food was there on the farms, awaiting their needs. The risks
and uncertainties of the hunt were no longer essential for survival.
The skills and thirst for hunting remained, however, and demanded new outlets.
Hunting for sport replaced hunting for necessity. This new activity involved all the
original hunting sequencer but the aim of the operation was no longer to avoid starvation.
Instead the sportsmen set off to test their skill against prey that were no longer essential
to their survival, to be sure, the kill may have been eaten, but there were other, much
simpler ways of obtaining a meaty meal.
26. The author believes that sporting activities ________.
A) are forms of biological development
B) are essentially forms of taming the prey
C) have actually developed from hunting
D) have changed the ways of hunting
27. For over a million years, our forefathers were basically ________.
A) any member of the opposing team
B) the goal-mouth
C) the goal keeper
D) the football
28. For over a million years, our foregathers were basically ________.
A) co-operating hunters,
B) successful farmers
C) runners and jumpers
D) skillful sportsmen
29. The word “operation” (Para. 4, Line 4) refers to ________.
A) domesticating animals
B) hunting
C) prey killing
D) sports activities
30. Which of the following best summarizes the main idea of the passage?