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1、2015 专四套题PART 1 DICTATION 10 MINListen to the following passage. Altogether thepassage will be read to you four times. During the first reading, which will be done at normalspeed, listen and try to understand the meaning. For the second and third readings, thepassage will be read sentence by sentenc

2、e, or phrase by phrase, with intervals of 15 seconds.The last reading will be done at normal speed again and during this time you should check yourwork. You will then be given 1 minute to check through your work once more.PART II LISTENING COMPREHENSION 20 MINSECTION A TALKIn this section you will h

3、ear a talk. You will hear the talk ONCE ONLY. While listening, you maylook at ANSWER SHEET ONE and write NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS for each gap. Make surethe word(s) you fill in is (are) both grammatically and semantically acceptable. You may use theblank sheet for note-taking.You have THIRTY seconds

4、 to preview the gap-filling task.Now listen to the talk. When it is over, you will be given TWO minutes to complete your work.Speech during Freshmens Week1. Class attendance_1_attendance is requiredNot doing so: no attendance certificate_2_ in assigned groupsIndividual work: _3_Private study: _4_hou

5、rs per day2. Methods of assessmentFinal assessment5 pieces of written work from _5_Final exam of 3 three-hour papers, or a 10,000 essayMore _6_information from tutorsRulesNo _7_in classrooms3. _8_9_No more than 5 guests during the dayReserve _10_for larger partiesSECTION B CONVERSATIONSIn this secti

6、on you will hear two conversations. At the end of each conversation, five questionswill be asked about what was said. Both the conversation and the questions will be spokenONCE ONLY. After each question there will be a ten-second pause. During the pause, youshould read the four choices of A, B, C an

7、d D, and mark the best answer to each question onANSWER SHEET TWO.You have thirty seconds to preview the questions.Now, listen to the conversations.Conversation One1.A. The return trip is too expensive.B. There is no technology to get people back.C. People dont want to return.D. The return trip is t

8、oo risky.2.A. Intelligence.B. Health.C. Calmness.D. Skills.3.A. He cant calmly cope with problems.B. He is not smart and health.C. He belongs to people with specific skills.D. He is too shy to sign up for the trip.4.A. The Olympics audienceB. The whole worldC. The participants themselvesD. People wa

9、tching the mission on television.5.A. Curiosity and hobbies of the speakersB. Interest in watching the mission on TV.C. The kind of people suitable for the trip.D. Recruitment of people for the trip.Conversation Two6.A. Going to the high street.B. Visiting everyday shops.C. Visiting shops and buying

10、 online.D. Buying things like electrical goods.7.A. Shoes.B. Electrical products.C. Smartphones.D. Newspapers.8.A. 3%B. 33%C. 42%D. 24%9.A. They want to see the real thing first.B. They want to know more about pricing.C. They can return the product later.D. They can bargain for a lower shop price.10

11、.A. Increase prices.B. Sell more products.C. Offer discount vouchers.D. Reduce costs.PART III LANGUAGE KNOWLEDGEThere are twenty sentences in this section. Beneath each sentence there are four words, phrases or statements marked A, B, C and D. Choose one word, phrase or statement that best completes

12、 the sentence.Mark your answers on ANSWER SHEET TWO.11. When you have finished with that book, dont forget to put it back on the shelf, _?A. will youB. do youC. dont youD. wont you12. Which of the following statements is INCORRECT?A. Five miles seem like a long walk to me.B. Ten dollars was stolen f

13、rom the cash register.C. Either my sister or my brother is wrong.D. Only one out of six were present at the meeting.13. It is not so much the language _ the cultural background that makes the film difficult to understand.A. butB. norC. likeD. as14. There is no doubt _ the committee has made the righ

14、t decision on the housing project.A. whyB. thatC. whetherD. when15. If you explained the situation to your lawyer, he _ able to advise you much better than I can.A. will beB. would beC. wasD. were16. Which of the following is a stative verb (静态动词)?A. DrinkB. CloseC. RainD. Belong17. Which of the fol

15、lowing italicized parts indicates a subject-verb relation?A. The man has a large family to support.B. She had no wish to quarrel with her brother.C. He was the last guest to leave.D. Mary needs a friend to talk to.18. Which of the following is INCORRECT?A. A bit of flowersB. Few wordsC. This workD.

16、Another two girls19. When one has good health, _ should feel fortunateA. youB. sheC. heD. we20. There _ nothing more for discussion, the meeting came to an end half an hour earlier.A. to beB. to have beenC. beingD. be21. Bottles from this region sell _ at about $50 a case.A. wholesaleB. totallyC. en

17、tirelyD. together22. The product contains no _ colours, flavours, or preservatives.A. fakeB. falseC. artificialD. wrong23. _ and business leaders were delighted at the decision to hold the national motor fair in the city.A. CivilB. CivilizedC. CivilianD. Civic24. The city council is planning a huge

18、road-building programme to ease congestion. The underlined part means _.A. calmB. relieveC. comfortD. still25. His unfortunate appearance was offset by an attractive personality. The underlined part means all the following EXCEPT _.A. improvedB. made up forC. balancedD. compensated for26. The doctor

19、 said that the gash in his check required stitches. The underlined part means _.A. lumpB. depressionC. swellingD. cut27. During the economic crisis, they had to cut back production and _ workers.A. lay intoB. lay offC. lay downD. lay aside28. To mark its one hundredth anniversary, the university hel

20、d a series of activities including conferences, film shows, etc. The underlined part means _.A. celebrateB. signifyC. symbolizeD. suggest29. His fertile mind keeps turning out new ideas. The underlined part means _.A. abundantB. unbelievableC. productiveD. generative30. These issues were discussed a

21、t length during the meeting. The underlined part means _.A. eventuallyB. subsequentlyC. lastlyD. fullyPART IV CLOZE 10 MINDecide which of the words given in the box below would best complete the passage if inserted in the corresponding blanks. The words can be used ONCE ONLY. Mark the letter for eac

22、h word on ANSWER SHEET TWO.A. asB. aimlessC. botherD. fastE. flightsF. helplessG. labor-savingH. levelsI. money-savingJ. pauseK. quiteL. stand byM. standstillN. trafficO. trappedElectricity is such a part of our everyday lives and so much taken for granted nowadays that we rarely think twice when we

23、 switch on the light or turn on the TV set. At night, roads are brightly lit, enabling people and _31_ to move freely. Neon lighting used in advertising has become part of the character of every modern city. In the home, many _32_ devices are powered by electricity. Even when we turn off the bedside

24、 lamp and are _33_ asleep, electricity is working for us, driving our refrigerators, heating our water, or keeping our rooms air-conditioned. Every day, trains, buses and subways take us to and from work. We rarely _34_ to consider why or how they rununtil something goes wrong. In the summer of 1959

25、, something did go wrong with the power-plant that provided New York with electricity. For a great many hours, life came almost to a _35_. Trains refused to move and the people in them sat in the dark, powerless to do anything; lifts stopped working, so that even if you were lucky enough not to be _

26、36_ between two floors, you had the unpleasant task of finding your way down _37_ of stairs. Famous streets like Broadway and Fifth Avenue in an instant became as gloomy and uninviting _38_ the most remote back streets. People were afraid to leave their houses, for although the police had been order

27、ed to _39_ in case of emergency, they were just as confused and _40_ as anybody else.PART V READING COMPREHENSION 35 MINSECTION A MULTIPLE-CHOICE QUESTIONSIn this section there are several passages followed by ten multiple-choice questions. For each question, there are four suggested answers marked

28、A, B, C and D. Choose the one that you think is the best answer and mark your answers on ANSWER SHEET TWO.PASSAGE ONEInundated by more information than we can possibly hold in our heads, were increasingly handing off the job of remembering to search engines and smart phones. Google is even reportedl

29、y working on eyeglasses that could one day recognize faces and supply details about whoever youre looking at But new research shows that outsourcing our memory and expecting that information will be continually and instantaneously available is changing our cognitive habits.Research conducted by Bets

30、y Sparrow, an assistant professor of psychology at Columbia University，has identified three new realities about how we process information in the Internet age. First, her experiments showed that when we dont know the answer to a question, we now think about where we can find the nearest Web connecti

31、on instead of the subject of the question itself. A second revelation is that when we expect to be able to find information again later on, we dont remember it as well as when we think it might become unavailable. And then there is the researchers final observation: the expectation that well be able

32、 to locate information down the line leads us to form a memory not of the fact itself but of where well be able to find it.But this handoff comes with a downside. Skills like critical thinking and analysis must develop in the context of facts: we need something to think and reason about, after all.

33、And these facts cant be Googled as we go; they need to be stored in the original hard drive, our long-term memory. Especially in the case of children, “factual knowledge must precede skill”，says Daniel Willingham, a professor of psychology，at the University of Virginia meaning that the days of drill

34、ing the multiplication table and memorizing the names of the Presidents arent over quite yet Adults, too, need to recruit a supply of stored knowledge in order to situate and evaluate new information they encounter. You cant Google context.41. Googles eyeglasses are supposed to _.A. improve our memo

35、ryB. function like memoryC. help us see faces betterD. work like smart phones42. Which of the following statements about Sparrows research is CORRECT?A. We remember people and things as much as before.B. We remember more Internet connections than before.C. We pay equal attention to location and cont

36、ent of information.D. We tend to remember location rather than the core of facts.43. What is the implied message of the author?A. Web connections aid our memory.B. People differ in what to remember.C. People need to exercise their memory.D. People keep memory on smart phones.PASSAGE TWOI was a secon

37、d-year medical student at the university, and was on my second day of rounds at a nearby hospital. My universitys philosophy was to get students seeing patients early in their education. Nice idea, but it overlooked one detail: second-year students know next to nothing about medicine.Assigned to my

38、team that day was an attending - a senior faculty member who was there mostly to make patients feel they werent in the hands of amateurs. Many attendings were researchers who didnt have much recent hospital experience. Mine was actually an arthritis specialist. Also along was a resident (the real bo

39、ss, with a staggering mastery of medicine, at least to a rookie like myself). In addition there were two interns(住院实习医生 ). These guys were just as green as I was，but in a scarier way: they had recently graduated from the medical school, so they were technically MDs.I began the day at 6:30 am. An int

40、ern and I did a quick check of our eight patients; later, we were to present our findings to the resident and then to the attending. I had three patients and the intern had the other five - piece of cake.But when I arrived in the room of 71-year-old Mr. Adams，he was sitting up in bed, sweating heavi

41、ly and panting (喘气). Hed just had a hip operation and looked terrible. I listened to his lungs with my stethoscope, but they sounded clear. Next I checked the log of his vital signs and saw that his respiration and heart rate had been climbing, but his temperature was steady. It didnt seem like hear

42、t failure, nor did it appear to be pneumonia. So I asked Mr. Adams what he thought was going on.“Its really hot in here, Doc,“ he replied.So I attributed his condition to the stuffy room and told him the rest of the team would return in a few hours. He smiled and feebly waved goodbye.At 8:40 am., du

43、ring our team meeting, “Code Blue Room 307!“ blared from the loudspeaker. I froze.That was Mr. Adamss room.When we arrived, he was motionless.The autopsy (尸体解剖) later found Mr. Adams had suffered a massive pulmonary embolism (肺部栓塞). A blood clot had formed in his leg, worked its way to his lungs, an

44、d cut his breathing capacity in half. His symptoms had been textbook: heavy perspiration and shortness of breath despite clear lungs. The only thing was: I hadnt read that chapter in the textbook yet. And I was too scared, insecure, and proud to ask a real doctor for help.This mistake has haunted me

45、 for nearly 30 years, but whats particularly frustrating is that the same medical education system persists. Who knows how many people have died or suffered harm at the hands of students as naive as I, and how many more will?44. We learn that the authors team members had _D_.A. some professional def

46、iciencyB. much practical experienceC. adequate knowledgeD. long been working there45. “His symptoms had been textbook” means that his symptoms were _D_.A. part of the textbookB. explained in the textbookC. no longer in the textbookD. recently included in the textbook46. At the end of the passage, th

47、e author expresses _B_ about the medical education system.A. optimismB. hesitationC. supportD. concernPASSAGE THREEThe war on smoking, now five decades old and counting, is one of the nations greatest public health success stories - but not for everyone.As a whole, the country has made amazing progr

48、ess. In 1964, four in ten adults in the US smoked; today fewer than two in ten do. But some states - Kentucky, South Dakota and Alabama to name just a few - seem to have missed the message that smoking is deadly.Their failure is the greatest disappointment in an effort to save lives that was started

49、 on Jan. 11, 1964, by the first Surgeon Generals Report on Smoking and Health. Its finding that smoking is a cause of lung cancer and other diseases was major news then. The hazards of smoking were just starting to emerge.The report led to cigarette warning labels, a ban on TV ads and eventually an anti-smoking movement that shifted the nations attitude on smoking. Then, smokers were cool. Today, many are outcasts, reje