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1、精选优质文档-倾情为你奉上2016年英语专四1. A) They admire the courage of space explorers. B) They enjoyed the movie on space exploration.C) They were going to watch a wonderful movie.D) They like doing scientific exploration very much.2. A) At a gift shop. B) At a graduation ceremony. C) In the office of a travel age
2、ncy. D) In a school library.3. A) He used to work in the art gallery. B) He does not have a good memory. C) He declined a job offer form the art gallery. D) He is not interested in any part-time jobs.4.A) Susan has been invited to give a lecture tomorrow. B) He will go to the birthday party after th
3、e lecture. C) The woman should have informed him earlier. D) He will be unable to attend the birthday party.5.A) Reward those having made good progress. B) Set a deadline for the staff to meet. C) Assign more workers to the project. D) Encourage the staff to work in small groups.6. A) The way to the
4、 visitors parking. B) The rate for parking in Lot C. C) How far away the parking lot is. D) Where she can leave her car.7. A) He regrets missing the classes. B) He plans to take the fitness classes. C) He is looking forward to a better life. D) He has benefited form exercise.8.A) How to ? work effic
5、iency.B) How to select secretaries.C)The responsibilities of secretaries.D) The secretaries in the mans company.Conversation OneQuestions 9 to 11 are based on the conversation you have just heard.9.A) It is more difficult to learn than English. B) It is used by more people than English. C) It will b
6、e as commonly used as English. D) It will eventually become a world language.10.A) It has words words from many languages, B) Its popularity with the common people. C) The influence of the British Empire. D) The effect of the Industrial Revolution.11.A) It includes a lot of words form other language
7、s. B) It has a growing number of newly coined words, C) It can be easily picked up by overseas travelers. D) It is the largest among all languages in the world.Conversation 2Questions 12 to 15 are based on the conversation you have just heard.12.A) To return some goods. B) To apply for a job. C) To
8、place an order. D) To make a complaint.13. A) He has become somewhat impatient with the woman. B) He is not familiar with the exact details of goods. C) He has not worked in the sales department for long. D) He works on a part-time basis for the company.14. A) It is not his responsibility. B) It wil
9、l be free for large orders. C) It costs 15 more for express delivery. D) It depends on a number of factors.15.A) Report the information to her superior. B) Pay a visit to the saleswoman in charge. C) Ring back when she comes to a decision. D) Make inquiries with some other companies.Section B Passag
10、e OneQuestions 16 to 18 are based on the passage you have just heard.16. A) No one knows exactly where they were ? B) No one knows for sure when thy came into being. C) No one knows for what purpose they were ? D) No one knows what they will ?17. A) Carry ropes across rivers. B) Measure the speed of
11、 wind. C) Pass on secret messages. D) Give warnings of danger.18. A) To protect houses against lightning. B) To test the effects of the lightning rod. C) To find out the strength of silk for kites. D) To prove the lightning is electricity.Passage Two Questions 19 to 22 are based on the passage you h
12、ave just heard.19.A) She enjoys teaching languages. B) She can speak several languages. C) She was trained to be an interpreter. D) She was born with a talent for languages.20. A) They acquire an immunity to culture shock. B) They would like to live abroad permanently. C) They want to learn as many
13、foreign languages as possible. D) They have an intense interest in cross-cultural interactions.21.A) She became an expert in horse racing. B) She got a chance to visit several European countries. C) She was able to translate for a German sports judge. D) She learned to appreciate classical music.22.
14、 A) Taste the beef and give her comment. B) Take part in a cooking competition. C) Teach vocabulary for food in ? D) Give cooking lessons on ?Passage Three Questions 23 to 25 are based on the passage you have just heard.23. A) He had only a third-grade education. B) He once threatened to kill his te
15、acher. C) He grew up in a poor ? D) He often helped his ?24.A) Careless. B) Stupid. C) Brave. D) Active.25.A) Write two book reports a week. B) Keep a diary. C) Help with housework. D) Watch education?Section CDirections:In this section, you will hear a passage three times. When the passage is read
16、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.When you l
17、ook up at the night sky, what do you see？There are other bodies out there besides the moon and stars. One of the most of this is a comet. Comets were formed around the same the earth was formed. They are made up of ice and other frozen liquids and gasses. these dirty snow balls begin to orbit the su
18、n just as the planets do. As a comet gets closer to the sun, some gasses in it begin to unfreeze. They combine with dust particles from the comet to form a huge cloud. As the comet gets even nearer to the sun and solar wind blows the cloud behind the comet thus forming its tail. The tail and general
19、ly fuzzy atmosphere around the comet are that can help this phenomenon in the night sky. In any given year，about dozen known comets come close to the sun in their orbits. The average person cant see them all of course. Usually there is only one or two a year bright enough to be seen with the _eye. C
20、omet Hale-Bopp discovered in 1995 was an unusually bright comet. Its orbit bought it _to the earth within 122 million miles of it. But Hale-Bopp came a long way on its earthly visit. It wont be back for another 4 thousand years or so.Part Reading Comprehension (40 minutes)Section AQuestions 36 to 45
21、 are based on the following passage.For many Americans, 2013 ended with an unusually bitter cold spell. November and December 36 early snow and bone-chilling temperatures in much of the country, part of a year when, for the first time in two 37 , record-cold days will likely turn out to have outnumb
22、ered record-warm ones. But the U.S. was the exception; November was the warmest ever 38 , and current data indicates that 2013 is likely to have been the fourth hottest year on record.Enjoy the snow now, because 39 are good that 2014 will be even hotter, perhaps the hottest year since records have b
23、een kept. Thats because, scientists are predicting, 2014 will be an EI Niuo year.EI niuo, Spanish for “the child”, 40 when surface ocean waters in the southern Pacific become abnormally warm. So large is the Pacific, covering 30% of the planets surface, that the 41 energy generated by its warming is
24、 enough to touch off a series of weather changes around the world. EI Ninos are 42 with abnormally dry conditions in Southeast Asia and Australia. They can lead to extreme rain in parts of North and South America, even as southern Africa 43 dry weather. Marine life may be affected too; EI Ninos can
25、44 the rising of the cold, nutrient-rich（营养丰富的）water that supports large fish 45 ,and the unusually warm ocean temperatures can destroy coral(珊瑚).Section B The Perfect EssayA) Looking back on too many years of education, I can identify one truly impossible teacher. She cared about me, and my intelle
26、ctual life, even when I didnt. Her expectations were highimpossibly so. She was an English teacher. She was also my mother.B) When good students turn in an essay, they dream of their instructor returning it to them in exactly the same condition, save for a single word added in the margin of the fina
27、l page.“Flawless.” This dream came true for me one afternoon in the ninth grade. Of course, I had heard that genius could show itself at an early age, so I was only slightly taken aback that I had achieved perfection at the tender age of 14. Obviously, I did what and professional writer would do; I
28、hurried off to spread the good news. I didnt get very far. The first person I told was my mother.C) My mother, who is just shy of five feet tall, is normally incredibly soft-spoken, but on the rare occasion when she got angry, she was terrifying. I am not sure if she was more upset by my hubris（得意忘形
29、）or by the fact that my English teacher had let my ego get so out of hand. In and event. My mother and her red pen showed me how deeply flawed a flaw less essay could be. At the time, I am sure she thought she was teaching me about mechanics, transitions（过渡）, structure, style and voice. But what I l
30、earned, and what stuck with me through my time teaching writing at Harvard, was a deeper lesson about the nature of creative criticism.D) First off, it hurts. Genuine criticism, the type that leaves a lasting mark on you as a writer, also leaves an existential imprint（印记）on you as a person. I have h
31、eard people say that a writer should never take criticism personally. I say that we should never listen to these people.E) Criticism, at its best, is deeply personal, and gets to the heart of why we write the way we do. The intimate nature of genuine criticism implies something about who is able to
32、give it, namely, someone who knows you well enough to show you how your mental life is getting in the way of good writing. Conveniently, they are also the people who care enough to see you through this painful realization. For me it took the form of my first, and I hope only, encounter with writers
33、blockI was not able to produce anything for three years.F) Franz Kafka once said; “Writing is utter solitude（独处）, the descent into the cold abyss（深渊）of oneself.” My mothers criticism had shown me that Kafka is right about the cold abyss, and when you make the introspective（内省的）descent that writing r
34、equires you are not always pleased by what you find. But, in the years that followed, her sustained tutoring suggested that Kafka might be wrong about the solitude, I was lucky enough to find a critic and teacher who was willing to make the journey of writing with me. “It is a thing of no great diff
35、iculty.”according to Plutarch, “to raise objections against another mans speech. it is a very easy matter, but to produce a better in its place is a work extremely troublesome.” I am sure I wrote essays in the later years of high school without my mothers guidance, but I cant recall them. What I rem
36、ember, however, is how she took up the“extremely troublesome”work of ongoing criticism.G) There are two ways to interpret Plutarch when he suggests that a critic should be able to produce“a better in its place.”In a straightforward sense, he could mean that a critic must be more talented than the ar
37、tist she critiques（评论）.My mother was well covered on this count. But perhaps Plutarch is suggesting something slightly different, something a bit closer to Marcus Ciceros claim that one should“criticize by creation, not by finding fault.”Genuine criticism creates a precious opening for an author to
38、become better on his own termsa process that is often extremely painful, but also almost always meaningful.H) My mother said she would help me with my writing, but first I had to help myself. For each assignment, I was to write the best essay I could. Real criticism is not meant to find obvious mist
39、akes, so if she found anythe type I could have found on my ownI had to start from scratch. From scratch. Once the essay was“flawless,” she would take an evening to walk me through my errors. That was when true criticism, the type that changed me as a person, began.I) She criticized me when I include
40、d little-known references and professional jargon（行话）. She had no patience for brilliant but irrelevant figures of speech.“Writers cant bluff（虚张声势）their way through ignorance.” That was news to meI would need to find another way to structure my daily existence.J) She trimmed back my flowery language
41、, drew lines through my exclamation marks and argued for the value of restraint in expression.“John,” she almost whispered. I leaned in to hear her: “I cant hear you when you shout at me.” So I stopped shouting and bluffing, and slowly my writing improved.K) Somewhere along the way I set aside my ho
42、pes of writing that flawless essay. But perhaps I missed something important in my mothers lessons about creativity and perfection. Perhaps the point of writhing the flawless essay was not to give up, but to never willingly finish. Whitman repeatedly reworked“song of Myself” between 1855 and 1891. R
43、epeatedly. We do our absolute best with a piece of writing, and come as close as we can to the ideal. And, for the time being, we settle. In critique, however, we are forced to depart, to give up the perfection we thought we had achieved for the chance of being even a little bit better. This is the
44、lesson I took from my mother: If perfection were possible, it would not be motivating.46. The author was advised against the improper use of figures of speech.47. The authors mother taught him a valuable lesson by pointing out lots of flaws in his seemingly perfect essay.48. A writer should polish h
45、is writing repeatedly so as to get closer to perfection.49. Writers may experience periods of time in their life when they just cant produce anything.50. The author was not much surprised when his school teacher marked his essay as“flawless”.51. Criticizing someones speech is said to be easier than
46、coming up with a better one.52. The author looks upon his mother as his most demanding and caring instructor.53. The criticism the author received from his mother changed his as a person.54. The author gradually improved his writing by avoiding fancy language.55. Constructive criticism gives an auth
47、or a good start to improve his writing.Section C Passage One Questions 56 to 60 are based on the following passage.The wallet is heading for extinction. As a day-to-day essential, it will die off with the generation who read print newspapers. The kind of shoppingwhere you hand over notes and count o
48、ut change in returnnow happens only in the most minor of our retail encounters，like buying a bar of chocolate or a pint of milk from a comer shop. At the shops where you spend any real money, that money is increasingly abstracted. And this is more and more true, the higher up the scale you go. At the most cutting-edge retail storesVictoria Beckha