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1、2014 年 6 月四大学英语四级考试真题（第三套）Part I Writing(30 minutes)Directions:For this part,you are allowed 30 minutes to write a short essay on the following question.You should write at least 120 words but No more than 180 words.Suppose a foreign friend of yours is coming to visit China,what is the first place y
2、ou would like to take him/her to see and why?Part Listening Comprehension(30 minutes)（说明：由于 2014 年 6 月六级考试全国共考了2 套听力，本套真题听力与前2套内容完全一样，只是顺序不一样，因此在本套真题中不再重复出现）Part Reading Comprehension(40 minutes)Section A Directions:In this section,there is a passage with ten blanks.You are required to select one wo
3、rd for each blank from a list of choices given in a word bank following the passage:Read the passage through carefully before making your choices.Each choice in the bank is identified by a letter.Please mark the corresponding letter for each item on Answer Sheet 2with a single line through the centr
4、e.You may not use any of the words in the bank more than once.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 have experienced a 20,000-year-long warming as the last ice age ended and the ice
5、36 away.However,we have already reached temperatures that are in 37 with other minimum-ice periods,so continued warming is likely not natural.We are 38 to a predicted worldwide increase in temperatures 39 between 1 and 6 over the next 100 years.The warming will be more 40 in some areas,less in other
6、s,and some places may even cool off.Likewise,the 41 of this warming will be very different depending on where you are-coastal areas must worry about rising sea levels,while Siberia and northern Canada may become more habitable(益居的)and 42 for humans than these areas are now.|精.|品.|可.|编.|辑.|学.|习.|资.|料
7、.*|*|*|*|欢.|迎.|下.|载.第 1 页，共 9 页The fact remains,however,that it will likely get warmer,on 43,everywhere.Scientists are in general agreement that the warmer conditions we have been experiencing are at least in part the result of a human-induced global warming trend.Some scientists 44 that the changes
8、 we are seeing fall within the range of random(无规律的)variationsome years are cold,others warm,and we have just had an unremarkable string of warm years 45 but that is becoming an increasingly rare interpretation in the face of continued and increasing warm conditions.A)appealing B)average C)contribut
9、ing D)dramatic E)frequently F)impact G)line H)maintain I)melted J)persist K)ranging L)recently M)resolved N)sensible O)shock Section B Directions: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.Iden
10、tify 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 questions by marking the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 2.The End of the Book?A Amazon,by far the largest bookseller in the country,reported on M
11、ay 19 that it is now selling more books in its electronic Kindle format than in the old paper-and-ink format.That is remarkable,considering that the Kindle has only been around for four years.E-books now account for 14 percent of all book sales in this country and are increasing far faster than over
12、all book sales.E-book sales are up 146 percent over last year,while hardback sales increased 6 percent and paperbacks decreased 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 that the book business will go through a tra
13、nsformation in the next decade or so more profound than any it has seen since Gutenberg introduced printing from moveable type in the 1450s.|精.|品.|可.|编.|辑.|学.|习.|资.|料.*|*|*|*|欢.|迎.|下.|载.第 2 页，共 9 页文档编码:CC10P6Y4U1K4 HN8Z1D2H2X3 ZY7U6M1C2Y10文档编码:CC10P6Y4U1K4 HN8Z1D2H2X3 ZY7U6M1C2Y10文档编码:CC10P6Y4U1K4 H
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18、档编码:CC10P6Y4U1K4 HN8Z1D2H2X3 ZY7U6M1C2Y10文档编码:CC10P6Y4U1K4 HN8Z1D2H2X3 ZY7U6M1C2Y10文档编码:CC10P6Y4U1K4 HN8Z1D2H2X3 ZY7U6M1C2Y10文档编码:CC10P6Y4U1K4 HN8Z1D2H2X3 ZY7U6M1C2Y10文档编码:CC10P6Y4U1K4 HN8Z1D2H2X3 ZY7U6M1C2Y10文档编码:CC10P6Y4U1K4 HN8Z1D2H2X3 ZY7U6M1C2Y10文档编码:CC10P6Y4U1K4 HN8Z1D2H2X3 ZY7U6M1C2Y10文档编码:CC
19、10P6Y4U1K4 HN8Z1D2H2X3 ZY7U6M1C2Y10文档编码:CC10P6Y4U1K4 HN8Z1D2H2X3 ZY7U6M1C2Y10文档编码:CC10P6Y4U1K4 HN8Z1D2H2X3 ZY7U6M1C2Y10文档编码:CC10P6Y4U1K4 HN8Z1D2H2X3 ZY7U6M1C2Y10文档编码:CC10P6Y4U1K4 HN8Z1D2H2X3 ZY7U6M1C2Y10文档编码:CC10P6Y4U1K4 HN8Z1D2H2X3 ZY7U6M1C2Y10文档编码:CC10P6Y4U1K4 HN8Z1D2H2X3 ZY7U6M1C2Y10文档编码:CC10P6Y4
20、U1K4 HN8Z1D2H2X3 ZY7U6M1C2Y10文档编码:CC10P6Y4U1K4 HN8Z1D2H2X3 ZY7U6M1C2Y10文档编码:CC10P6Y4U1K4 HN8Z1D2H2X3 ZY7U6M1C2Y10C Physical books will surely become much rarer in the marketplace.Mass market paperbacks,which have been declining for years anyway,will probably disappear,as will hardbacks for mysteries
21、,thrillers,“romance fiction”,etc.Such books,which only rarely end up in permanent collections,either private or public,will probably only be available as e-books within a few years.Hardback and trade paperbacks for“serious”nonfiction and fiction will surely last longer.Perhaps it will become the mar
22、k of an author to reckon with that he or she is still published in hard copy.D As for children s books,who knows?Children s books are like dog food in that the purchasers are not the consumers,so the market(and the marketing)is inherently strange.E For clues to the book s future,let s look at some e
23、xamples of technological change and see what happened to the old technology.F One technology replaces another only because the new technology is better,cheaper,or both.The greater the difference,the sooner and more thoroughly the new technology replaces the old.Printing with moveable type on paper d
24、ramatically reduced the cost of producing a book compared with the old-fashioned ones handwritten on vellum,which comes from sheepskin.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
25、house.There were perhaps 50,000 books in all of Europe in 1450.By 1500 there were 10 million.G But while printing quickly caused the handwritten book to die out,handwriting lingered on(继续存在)well into the 16th century.Very special books are still occasionally produced on vellum,but they are one-of-a-
26、kind show pieces.H Sometimes a new technology doesn t drive the old one out,but only parts of it while forcing the rest to evolve.The movies were widely predicted to drive live theater out of the marketplace,but they didn t,because theater turned out to have qualities movies could not reproduce.Equa
27、lly,TV was supposed to replace movies but,again,did not.|精.|品.|可.|编.|辑.|学.|习.|资.|料.*|*|*|*|欢.|迎.|下.|载.第 3 页，共 9 页文档编码:CC10P6Y4U1K4 HN8Z1D2H2X3 ZY7U6M1C2Y10文档编码:CC10P6Y4U1K4 HN8Z1D2H2X3 ZY7U6M1C2Y10文档编码:CC10P6Y4U1K4 HN8Z1D2H2X3 ZY7U6M1C2Y10文档编码:CC10P6Y4U1K4 HN8Z1D2H2X3 ZY7U6M1C2Y10文档编码:CC10P6Y4U1K4 H
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34、U1K4 HN8Z1D2H2X3 ZY7U6M1C2Y10I Movies did,however,fatally impact some parts of live theater.And while TV didn t kill movies,it did kill second-rate pictures,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 beca
35、use you can t drive a car and watch television at the same time,rush hour became radio s 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 a much larger one.K Sometimes old technology lingers for centuries
36、because of its symbolic power.Mounted cavalry(骑兵)replaced the chariot(二轮战车)on the battlefield around 1000 BC.But chariots maintained their place in parades and triumphs right up until the end of the Roman Empire 1,500 years later.The sword hasn t had a military function for a hundred years,but is st
37、ill part of an officer s full-dress uniform,precisely because a sword always symbolized“an 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 the 1950s,for instance.And so the old technology remains as a backup.Steamsh
38、ips captured the North Atlantic passenger business from sail in the 1840s because of its much greater speed.But steamships didn t lose their sails until the 1880s,because early marine engines had a nasty habit of breaking down.Until ships became large enough(and engines small enough)to mount two eng
39、ines side by side,they needed to keep sails.(The high cost of steam and the lesser need for speed kept the majority of the world s ocean freight moving by sail until the early years of the 20th century.)M Then there is the fireplace.Central heating was present in upper-and-middle-class home by the s
40、econd half of the 19th century.But functioning fireplaces remain to this day a powerful selling point in a house or apartment.I suspect the reason is a deep-rooted love of fire.Fire was one of the earliest major technological advances for humankind,providing heat,protection,and cooked food(which is
41、much easier to eat and digest).Human control of fire goes back far enough(over a million years)that evolution could have produced a genetic leaning towards fire as a central aspect of human life.|精.|品.|可.|编.|辑.|学.|习.|资.|料.*|*|*|*|欢.|迎.|下.|载.第 4 页，共 9 页文档编码:CC10P6Y4U1K4 HN8Z1D2H2X3 ZY7U6M1C2Y10文档编码:C
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47、1C2Y10文档编码:CC10P6Y4U1K4 HN8Z1D2H2X3 ZY7U6M1C2Y10文档编码:CC10P6Y4U1K4 HN8Z1D2H2X3 ZY7U6M1C2Y10文档编码:CC10P6Y4U1K4 HN8Z1D2H2X3 ZY7U6M1C2Y10文档编码:CC10P6Y4U1K4 HN8Z1D2H2X3 ZY7U6M1C2Y10文档编码:CC10P6Y4U1K4 HN8Z1D2H2X3 ZY7U6M1C2Y10文档编码:CC10P6Y4U1K4 HN8Z1D2H2X3 ZY7U6M1C2Y10文档编码:CC10P6Y4U1K4 HN8Z1D2H2X3 ZY7U6M1C2Y10
48、文档编码:CC10P6Y4U1K4 HN8Z1D2H2X3 ZY7U6M1C2Y10文档编码:CC10P6Y4U1K4 HN8Z1D2H2X3 ZY7U6M1C2Y10文档编码:CC10P6Y4U1K4 HN8Z1D2H2X3 ZY7U6M1C2Y10文档编码:CC10P6Y4U1K4 HN8Z1D2H2X3 ZY7U6M1C2Y10N Books especially books the average person could afford haven t been around long enough to produce evolutionary change in humans.Bu
49、t they have a powerful hold on many people nonetheless,a hold extending far beyond their literary content.At their best,they are works of art and there is a tactile(触觉的)pleasure in books necessarily lost in e-book versions.The ability to quickly thumb through pages is also lost.And a room with books
50、 in it induces,at least in some,a feeling not dissimilar to that of a fire in the fireplace on a cold winter s night.O For these reasons I think physical books will have a longer existence as a commercial product than some currently predict.Like swords,books have symbolic power.Like fireplaces,they