1、2017 年 6 月大学英语四级真题试题一(完整版)Part I Writing (25 minutes)(请于正式开考后半小时内完成该部分，之后将进行听力考试)Directions:For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write an advertisement on your campuswebsite to sell a computer you used at college. Your advertisement may include its brand, specifications/features, condition a
2、nd price, and your contact information.You should write at least 120 words but no more than 180 words.Part II Listening Comprehension (30 minutes)Section ADirections:In this section, you will hear three news reports. At the end of each news report, you will hear two or three questions. Both the news
3、 report and questions will be spoken only once. After you hear questions, you must choose the best answer from the four choices marked A), B), C) and D). Then mark the corresponding letter onAnswer Sheet 1 with a single line through the centre.注意：此部分试题请在答题卡 1 上作答。Questions 1 to 2 are based on the co
4、nversation you have just heard.1. A) The man in the car was absent-minded.B)The test driver made a wrong judgement.C)The self-driving system was faulty.D)The car was moving at a fast speed.2. A) They have done better than conventional cars.B) They have caused several severe crashes.C) They have pose
5、d a threat to other drivers.D) They have generally done quite well.Questions 3 to 4 are based on the conversation you have just heard.3. A) He works at a national park.B) He is a queen been specialist.C) He removed the beyond from the boot.D) He drove the bees away from his car.4. A) They were looki
6、ng after the queenB) They were making a lot of noiseC) They were looking for a new box to live inD) They were dancing in a unique wayQuestions 5 to 7 are based on the conversation you have just heard.5. A) The discovery of a new species of snakeB) The second trip to a small remote islandC) The findi
7、ng of 2 new species of frogD) The latest test on rare animal species6. A) A poisonous snake attacked him on his field tripB)He discovered a rare fog on a desertedC) A snake crawled onto his head in his sleepD)He fell from a tall palm tree by accident7. A) From its genesB)From its lengthC) From its o
8、riginD) From its colourSection BDirections: In this section, you will hear two long conversations. At the end of each conversation, you will hear four questions. Both the conversation and the questions will be spoken only once. After you hear a question, you must choose the best answer from the four
9、 choices marked A), B), C) and D). Then mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 1 with a single line through the centre.Questions 8 to 11 are based on the conversation you have just heard.8. A) The security check takes timeB) He has to check a lot of luggageC) His flight is leaving in less tha
10、n 2 hoursD) The airport is a long way from the hotel9. A) In cashB) By credit cardC) With a travelers checkD) With his smart phone10. A) Give him a receiptB) Confirm his flightC) Look after his luggageD) Find a porter for him11 . A) Signing up for membership of S HotelB) Staying in the same hotel ne
11、xt time he comesC) Loading her luggage onto the airport shuttleD) Posting a comment on the hotels webpageQuestions 12 to 15 are based on the conversation you have just heard.12. A) He is the only boy in his familyB) He becomes tearful in windC) He has stopped making terrible facesD) He is his teache
12、rs favorite student13. A) Tell him to play in her backyardB) Do something funny to amuse himC) Give him some cherry stones to play withD) Warn him of danger by making up a story14. A) They could break peoples legsB) They could sometimes terrify adultsC) They could fly against a strong windD) They co
13、uld knock people unconscious15. A) One would get a spot on their tongues if they told a lie deliberatelyB) One would have to shave their head to remove a bat in their hairC) One would go to prison if they put a stamp on upside downD) One would have curly hair if they ate too much stale breadSection
14、CDirections: In this section, you will hear three passages of lectures or talks followed by three or four questions. The recordings will be played only once. After you hear a question,you must choose the best answer from the four choices marked A), B), C) and D). Then mark the corresponding letter o
15、n Answer Sheet 1 with a single line throughthe centre.Questions 16 to18 are based on the passage you have just heard.16. A) Everything seemed to be changing.B) People were formal and disciplined.C) People were excited to go travelling overseas.D) Things from the Victorian era came back alive.17. A)
16、Watching TV at home. B) Meeting people.C) Drinking coffee. D) Trying new foods.18. A) He was interested in stylish dresses.B) He was able to take a lot of money.C) He was a student in the 1960s.D) He was a man full of imagination.Questions 19 to 21 are based on the passage you have just heard.19. A)
17、 They avoid looking at them.B) They run away immediately.C) They show anger on their faces.D) They make threatening sounds.20. A) It turns to its owner for help.B) It turns away to avoid conflict.C) It looks away and gets angry, too.D) It focuses its eyes on their mouths.21. A) By observing their fa
18、cial features carefully.B) By focusing on a particular body movement.C) By taking in their facial expressions as a whole.D) By interpreting different emotions in different ways.Questions 22 to 25 are based on the passage you have just heard.22. A) They have to look for food and shelter underground.B
19、) They take little notice of the changes in temperature.C) They resort to different means to survive the bitter cold.D) They have difficulty adapting to the changed environment.23. A) They have their weight reduced to minimum.B) They consume the energy stored before the long sleep.C) They can mainta
20、in their heart beat at the normal rate.D) They can keep their body temperature warm and stable.24. A) By staying in hiding places and eating very little.B) By seeking food and shelter in peoples houses.C) By growing thicker hair to stay warm.D) By storing enough food beforehand.25. A) To stay safe.B
21、) To save energy.C) To keep company.D) To protect the young.Part Reading Comprehension (40 minutes)Section ADirections: In this section, there is a passage with ten blanks. You are required to select one word for each blank from a list of choices given in a word bank following the passage. Read the
22、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 2 with a single line through the centre. You may not use any of the words in the bank more than once.Questions 26 to 35 are base
23、d on the following passage.The method for making beer has changed over time. Hops (啤酒花)，for example, which give many amodem beer its bitter flavor, are a (26)_recent addition to the beverage. This was first mentionedin reference to brewing in the ninth century. Now, researchers have found a (27)_ing
24、redient inresidue (残留物）from 5,000-year-old beer brewing equipment. While digging two pits at a site in the central plains of China, scientists discovered fragments from pots and vessels. The different shapes ofthecontainers (28)_ they wereused to brew, filter, and store beer. They may be ancient “be
25、er-makingtools,” and the earliest (29_evidence of beer brewing in China, the researchers reported in theProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. To (30)_ thattheory, the team examined theyellowish,dried (31)_ inside the vessels. The majority of the grains, about 80%, were from cerealcrops li
26、ke barley(大麦),and about 10% were bits of roots, (32)_lily,whichwould have madethe beer sweeter, the scientists say. Barley was an unexpected find: the crop was domesticated in Western Eurasia and didntbecome a (33)_food in central China until about 2,000 years ago, accordingto the researchers.Based
27、on that timing, they indicate barley may have (34)_in the region not asfood, but as (35)_material for beer brewing.注意：此部分试题请在答题卡 2 上作答。A) Arrived B) consuming C) direct D) exclusivelyE) including F) inform G) raw H) reachedI) relatively J) remains K)resources L) stapleM) suggest N) surprising O) tes
28、tSection BDirections: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. Identify the paragraph from which the information is derived. You may choose a paragraph more than once. Each paragraph is mar
29、ked with a letter. Answer the questions by marking the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 2.The Blessing and Curse of the People Who Never ForgetA handful of people can recall almost every day of their lives in enormous detailand after years of research, neuroscientists (神经科学专家) are finally beginn
30、ing to understand how they do it.AFor most of us, memory is a mess of blurred and faded pictures of our lives. As much as we would like to cling on to our past, even the saddest moments can be washed away with time.BAsk Nima Veiseh what he was doing for any day in the past 15 years, however, and he
31、will give you the details of the weather, what he was wearing, or even what side of the train he was sitting on his journey to work. “My memory is like a library of video tapes, walk-throughs of every day of my life from waking to sleeping,” he explains.CVeiseh can even put a date on when those tape
32、s started recording: 15 December 2000, when he met his first girlfriend at his best friends 16th birthday party. He had always had a good memory, but the thrill of young love seems to have shifted a gear in his mind: from now on, he would start recording his whole life in detail. “I could tell you e
33、verything about every day after that.”DNeedless to say, people like Veiseh are of great interest to neuroscientists hoping to understand the way the brain records our lives. A couple of recent papers have finally opened a window on these peoples extraordinary minds. And such research might even sugg
34、est ways for us all to relive our past with greater clarity.E“Highly superior autobiographical memory”（or HSAM for short) first came to light in the early 2000s, with a young woman named Jill Price. Emailing the neuroscientist and memory researcher Jim McGaugh one day, she claimed that she could rec
35、all every day of her life since the age of 12. Could he help explain her experiences?FMcGaugh invited her to his lab, and began to test her: he would give her a date and ask her to tell him about the world events on that day. True to her word, she was correct almost every time.GIt didnt take long fo
36、r magazines and documentary film-makers to come to understand her “total recall”， and thank to the subsequent media interest, a few dozen other subjects (including Veiseh) have sincecome forward and contacted the team at the University of California, Irvine.HInterestingly, their memories are highly
37、self-centred: although they can remember “autobiographical” life events in extraordinary detail, they seem to be no better than average at recalling impersonal information, such as random (任意选取的）lists of words. Nor are they necessarily better at remembering a round of drinks, say. And although their
38、 memories are vast, they are still likely to suffer from “false memories”.Clearly, there is no such thing as a “perfect” memorytheir extraordinary minds are still using the same flawed tools that the rest of us rely on. The question is, how?ILawrence Patihis at the University of Southern Mississippi
39、 recently studied around 20 people with HSAM and found that they scored particularly high on two measures: fantasy proneness (倾向)and absorption. Fantasy proneness could be considered a tendency to imagine and daydream, whereas absorption is the tendency to allow your mind to become fully absorbed in
40、 an activityto pay complete attention to the sensations (感受) and the experiences. “Im extremely sensitive to sounds, smells and visual detail,” explains Nicole Donohue, who has taken part in many of these studies. “I definitely feel things more strongly than the average person.”JThe absorption helps
41、 them to establish strong foundations for recollection, says Patihis, and the fantasy proneness means that they revisit those memories again and again in the coming weeks and months. Each time this initial memory trace is “replayed”, it becomes even stronger. In some ways, you probably go through th
42、at process after a big event like your wedding day,but the difference is that thanks to their other psychological tendencies, the HSAM subjects are doing it day in, day out, for the whole of their lives.KNot everyone with a tendency to fantasise will develop HSAM, though, so Patihis suggests that so
43、mething must have caused them to think so much about their past. “Maybe some experience in their childhood meant that they became obsessed(着迷）with calendars and what happened to them,” says Patihis.LThe people with HSAM Ive interviewed would certainly agree that it can be a mixed blessing. On the pl
44、us side, it allows you to relive the most transformative and enriching experiences. Veiseh, for instance, travelled a lot in his youth. In his spare time,he visited the local art galleries, and the paintings are now lodged deep in his autobiographical memories.M“Imagine being able to remember every
45、painting, on every wall, in every gallery space, between nearly 40 countries， ” he says. “Thats a big education in art by itself.” With this comprehensive knowledge of the history of art, he has since become a professional painter.NDonohue, now a history teacher, agrees that it helped during certain
46、 parts of her education. “I can definitely remember what I learned on certain days at school. I could imagine what the teacher was saying or what it looked like in the book.”ONot everyone with HSAM has experienced these benefits, however. Viewing the past in high definition can make it very difficul
47、t to get over pain and regret. “It can be very hard to forget embarrassing moments,” says Donohue. “You feel the same emotionsit is just as raw, just as fresh. You cant turn off that stream of memories, no matter how hard you try.” Veiseh agrees. “It is like having these open woundsthey are just a p
48、art of you,” he says.PThis means they often have to make a special effort to lay the past to rest. Bill, for instance, often gets painful “flashbacks”，in which unwanted memories intrude into his consciousness, but overall he has chosen to see it as the best way of avoiding repeating the same mistake
49、s. “Some people are absorbed in the past but not open to new memories, but thats not the case for me. I look forward to each day and experiencing something new.”注意：此部分试题请在答题卡 2 上作答。36.People with HSAM have the same memory as ordinary people when it comes to impersonal information.37.Fantasy proneness will not necessarily cause people to develop HSAM.38.Veiseh began to remember the details of his everyday experiences after he met his first young love.39.Many
