2. 了解社会的途径(大众媒介、社会服务等)
3. 我打算怎么做。
Getting to Know the World Outside the Campus
1997年6月四级参考答案
Part I
1. B
2. C
3. A
4. C
5. D
6. D
7. B
8. C
9. A
10. A
Part II
11. C
12. D
13. B
14. A
15. B
16. C
17. A
18. D
19. A
20. B
21. D
22. A
23. B
24. C
25. D
26. C
27. D
28. A
29. C
30. B
Part III
31. D
32. C
33. B
34. D
35. A
36. A
37. B
38. D
39. B
40. C
41. C
42. B
43. A
44. B
45. D
46. A
47. A
48. C
49. A
50. D
51. D
52. A
53. C
54. B
55. C
56. A
57. B
58. D
59. D
60. C
Part IV
61. D
62. C
63. B
64. A
65. C
66. B
67. C
68. D
69. D
70. C
71. A
72. C
73. B
74. A
75. D
76. B
77. B
78. A
79. D
80. A
S1. typical
S2. relatively
S3. boring
S4. describe
S5. variety
S6. normal
S7. uniform
S8. seven bad men jumped out, one man had a knife and we got into a fight.
S9. She was trying to get to the hospital, but there was a bad traffic jam.
S10. the baby waited to “arrive” until we got to the hospital.
1998年1月大学英语四级(CET-4)真题试卷
Part I Listening Comprehension (20 minutes)
Section A
Directions: In this section, you will hear 10 short conversations. At the end of each
conversation, a question will be asked about what was said. Both the
conversation and the question will be spoken only once. After each question
there will be a pause. During the pause, you must read the four choices
marked A), B), C) and D), and decide which is the best answer. Then mark
the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the
center.
Example:
You will hear:
You will read:
A) 2 hours.
B) 3 hours.
C) 4 hours.
D) 5 hours.
From the conversation we know that the two were talking about some work they
will start at 9 o’clock in the morning and have to finish at 2 in the afternoon. Therefore,
D) “5 hours” is the correct answer. You should choose [D] on the Answer Sheet and mark
it with a single line through the center.
Sample Answer [A] [B] [C] [D]
1. A) The man wants to attend tomorrow’s show.
B) There aren’t any tickets left for tonight’s show.
C) There aren’t any tickets left for tomorrow’s show.
D) The man doesn’t want to attend tomorrow’s show.
2. A) Detective stories.
B) Stories about jail escapes.
C) Love stories.
D) Stories about royal families.
3. A) It was a long lecture, but easy to understand.
B) It was not as easy as she had thought.
C) It was as difficult as she had expected.
D) It was interesting and easy to follow.
4. A) To put him through to the director.
B) To have a talk with the director about his work.
C) To arrange an appointment for him with the director.
D) To go and see if the director can meet him right now.
5. A) Margaret wanted to return some magazines to the woman.
B) Margaret wanted to lend some magazines to the woman.
C) Margaret wanted to borrow some magazines from the woman.
D) Margaret wanted to get some magazines back from the woman.
6. A) He doesn’t care much about it.
B) He enjoys it very much.
C) He doesn’t mind even though it’s tedious.
D) He hates working overtime.
7. A) The woman doesn’t think it exciting to travel by air.
B) They’ll stay at home during the holidays.
C) They are offered some plane tickets for their holidays.
D) They’ll be flying somewhere for their vacation.
8. A) Something went wrong with the bus.
B) She took somebody to hospital.
C) Something prevented her from catching the bus.
D) She came on foot instead of taking a bus.
9. A) Do her homework.
B) Clean the backyard.
C) Wash clothes.
D) Enjoy the beautiful day.
10. A) The man is looking for a place to live in.
B) The man has a house for rent.
C) The woman is a secretary.
D) The two speakers are old friends.
Section B Compound Dictation
Directions: 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. Then listen
to the passage again. When the passage is read for the second time, you are
required to fill in the blanks numbered from S1 to S7 with the exact works
you have just heard. For blanks numbered from S8 to S10 you are required
to fill in the missing information. You can either use the exact works you
have just heard or write down the main points in your own words. Finally,
when the passage is read for the third time, you should check what you have
written.
Very few people can get college degree before 11, but Michael was an exception. He
started high school when he was 5, finish in just nine months. He became the (S1)
________ youngest college graduate when he was 10 years and 4 months old, earning an
(S2) ________ degree. Now at 11 Michael’s working on a master’s degree in (S3)
________ intelligence.
But Michael’s (S4) ________ hasn’t always come easy. (S5) ________ his
intelligence. He still lacks important life (S6) ________.
In one class, he had to struggle to understand (S7) ________ novels, because, he
says, “I’m 11. I’ve never been in love before.”
Another challenge was his size. (S8) ________.
He likes computers so much (S9) ________
He wants to make robots do all the heavy tasks. (S10) ________
Part II Reading Comprehension (35 minutes)
Directions: There are 4 passages in this part. Each passage is followed by some
questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices
marked A), B), C) and D). You should decide on the best choice and mark
the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the
center.
Passage One
Questions 11 to 15 are based on the following passage.
In bringing up children, every parent watches eagerly the child’s acquisition (学会)
of each new skill-the first spoken words, the first independent steps, or the beginning of
reading and writing. It is often tempting to hurry the child beyond his natural learning
rate, but this can set up dangerous feelings of failure and states of worry in the child: This
might happen at any stage. A baby might be forced to use a toilet too early, a young child
might be encouraged to learn to read before he knows the meaning of the words he reads.
On the other hand, though, if a child is left alone too much, or without any learning
opportunities, he loses his natural enthusiasm for life and his desire to find out new things
for himself.
Patents vary greatly in their degree of strictness towards their children. Some may
be especially strict in money matters. Others are sever over times of coming home at night
or punctuality for meals. In general, the controls imposed represent the needs of the
parents and the values of the community as much as the child’s own happiness.
As regards the development of moral standards in the growing child, consistency is
very important in parental teaching. To forbid a thing one day and excuse it the next is no
foundation for morality (道德). Also, parents should realize that “example is better than
precept”. If they are not sincere and do not practise what they preach (说教), their
children may grow confused, and emotionally insecure when they grow old enough to
think for themselves, and realize they have been to some extent fooled.
A sudden awareness of a marked difference between their parents’ principles and
their morals can be a dangerous disappointment.
11. Eagerly watching the child’s acquisition of new skills ________.
A) should be avoided
B) is universal among parents
C) sets up dangerous states of worry in the child
D) will make him lose interest in learning new things
12. In the process of children’s learning new skills parents ________.
A) should encourage them to read before they know the meaning of the words they
read
B) should not expect too much of them
C) should achieve a balance between pushing them too hard and leaving them on
their own
D) should create as many learning opportunities as possible
13. The second paragraph mainly tells us that ________.
A) parents should be strict with their children
B) parental controls reflect only the needs of the parents and the values of the
community
C) parental restrictions vary, and are not always enforced for the benefit of the
children alone
D) parents vary in their strictness towards their children according to the situation
14. The word “precept” (Line 3, Para. 3) probably means “________”.
A) idea
B) punishment
C) behavior
D) instruction
15. In moral matters, parents should ________.
A) observe the rules themselves
B) be aware of the marked difference between adults and children
C) forbid things which have no foundation in morality
D) consistently ensure the security of their children
Passage Two
Questions 16 to 20 are based on the following passage.
A good modern newspaper is an extraordinary piece of reading. It is remarkable first
for what it contains: the range of news from local crime to international politics, from
sport to business to fashion to science, and the range of comment and special features (特
写) as well, from editorial page to feature articles and interviews to criticism of books, art,
theatre and music. A newspaper is even more remarkable for the way one reads it: never
completely, never straight through, but always by jumping from here to there, in and not
glancing at one piece, reading another article all the way through, reading just a few
paragraphs of the next. A good modern newspaper offers variety to attract many
different readers, but far more than nay one reader is interested in. What brings this
variety together in one place is its topicality (时事性), its immediate relation to what is
happening in your world and your locality now, but immediacy and the speed of
production that goes with it mean also that much of what papers in a newspaper has no
more than transient (短暂的) value. For all these reasons, no two people really read the
same paper: what each person does is to put together out of the pages of that day’s paper,
his own selection and sequence, his own newspaper. For all these reasons, reading
newspapers efficiently, which means getting what you want from them without missing
things you need but without wasting time, demands skill and self-awareness as you
modify and apply the techniques of reading.
16. A modern newspaper is remarkable for all the following except its ________.
A) wide coverage
B) uniform style
C) speed in reporting news
D) popularity
17. According to the passage, the reason why no two people really read the “same”
newspaper is that ________.
A) people scan for the news they are interested in
B) different people prefer different newspapers
C) people are rarely interested in the same kind of news
D) people have different views about what a good newspaper is
18. It can be conclude from the passage that newspaper readers ________.
A) apply reading techniques skillfully
B) jump from one newspaper to another
C) appreciate the variety of a newspaper
D) usually read a newspaper selectively
19. A good newspaper offers “a variety” to readers because ________.
A) it tries to serve different readers
B) it has to cover things that happen in a certain locality
C) readers are difficult to please
D) readers like to read different newspapers
20. The best title for this passage would be “________”.
A) The Importance of Newspaper Topicality
B) The Characteristics of a Good Newspaper
C) The Variety of a Good Newspaper
D) Some Suggestions on How to Read a Newspaper
Passage Three
Questions 21 to 25 are based on the following passage.
American society is not nap (午睡) friendly. In fact, says David Dinges, a sleep
specialist at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. “There’s even a
prohibition against admitting we need sleep.” Nobody wants to be caught napping or
found asleep at work. To quote proverb: “Some sleep five hours, nature requires seven,
laziness nine and wickedness eleven.”
Wrong. The way not to fall asleep at work is to take naps when you need them. “We
have to totally change our attitude toward napping”, says Dr. William Dement of
Stanford University, the godfather of sleep research.
Last year a national commission led by Dement identified an “American sleep debt”
which one member said was as important as the national debt, the commission was
concerned about the dangers of sleepiness: people causing industrial accidents or falling
asleep while driving. This may be why we have a new sleep policy in the White House.
According to recent reports, president Clinton is trying to take a half-hour snooze (打瞌
睡) every afternoon.
About 60 percent of American adults nap when given the opportunity. We seem to
have “a midafternoon quiet phase” also called “a secondary sleep gate.” Sleeping 15
minutes to two hours in the early afternoon can reduce stress and make us refreshed.
Clearly, we were born to nap.
We Superstars of Snooze don’t nap to replace lost shut-eye or to prepare for a night
shift. Rather, we “snack” on sleep, whenever, wherever and at whatever time we feel like
it. I myself have napped in buses, cars, planes and on boats; on floors and beds; and in
libraries, offices and museums.
21. It is commonly accepted in American society that too much sleep is ________.
A) unreasonable
B) criminal
C) harmful
D) costly
22. The research done by the Dement commission shows that Americans ________.
A) don’t like to take naps
B) are terribly worried about their national debt
C) sleep less than is good for them
D) have caused many industrial and traffic accidents
23. The purpose of this article is to ________.
A) warn us of the wickedness of napping
B) explain the danger of sleepiness
C) discuss the side effects of napping
D) convince the reader of the necessity of napping
24. The “American sleep debt” (Line 1, Para. 3) is the result of ________.
A) the traditional misconception the Americans have about sleep
B) the new sleep policy of the Clinton Administration
C) the rapid development of American industry
D) the Americans’ worry about the danger of sleepiness
25. The second sentence of the last paragraph tells us that it is ________.
A) preferable to have a sound sleep before a night shift
B) good practice to eat something light before we go to bed
C) essential to make up for cost sleep
D) natural to take a nap whenever we feel the need for it
Passage Four
Questions 26 to 30 are based on the following passage.
Violin prodigies (神童), I learned, have come in distinct waves from distinct regions.
Most of the great performers if the late 19th and early 20th centuries were born and
brought up in Russia and Eastern Europe. I asked Isaac Stern, one of the world’s greatest
violinists the reason for this phenomenon. “It is very clear,” he told me. “They were all
Jews (犹太人) and Jews at the time were severely oppressed and ill-treated in that part of
the world. They were not allowed into the professional fields, but they were allowed to
achieve excellence on a concert stage.” As a result, every Jewish parent’s dream was to
have a child in the music school because it was a passport to the West.
Another element in the emergence of prodigies, I found, is a society that values
excellence in a certain field to nurture (培育) talent. Nowadays, the most nurturing
societies seem to be in the Far East. “In Japan, a most competitive society, with stronger
discipline than ours,” says Isaac Stem, children are ready to test their limits every day in
many fields, including music. When Western music came to Japan after World War II,
that music not only became part of their daily lives, but it became a discipline as well. The
Koreans and Chinese as we know, are just as highly motivated as the Japanese.
That’s a good thing, because even prodigies must work hard. Next to hard work,
biological inheritance plays an important role in the making of a prodigy. J. S. Bach, for
example, was the top of several generations of musicians, and four of his sons had
significant careers in music.
26. Jewish parents in Eastern Europe longed for their children to attend music school
because ________.
A) it would allow them access to a better life in the West
B) Jewish children are born with excellent musical talent
C) they wanted their children to enter into the professional field
D) it would enable the family to get better treatment in their own country
27. Nurturing societies as mentioned in the passage refer to societies that, ________.
A) enforce strong discipline on students who want to achieve excellence
B) treasure talent and provide opportunities for its full development
C) encourage people to compete with each other
D) promise talented children high positions
28. Japan is described in the passage as a country that attaches importance to ________.
A) all-round development
B) the learning of Western music
C) strict training of children
D) variety in academic studies
29. Which of the following contributes to the emergence of musical prodigies according
to the passage?