1、公共英语四级口试考试试卷 真题Part A ( 2 minutes)Interlocutor:Good morning/afternoon. Could I have your mark sheets, please? Thank you.(Hand over the mark sheets to the Assessor. )My name is and this is my colleague He/she will just listen to us. So, you are. (name) and . (name) ? Thank you.First of all , we d lik
2、e to know something about you, so I m going to ask you some questions.( Select two or more questions from each of the following categories for Candidate A.)(Select two or more questions from each of the following categories for Candidate B.)Part B (3 minutes)Interlocutor:Now I d like you to talk abo
3、ut something between yourselves. Please speak loudly so that we can hear you. You should take care to share the opportunity of speaking.(Put the Pictures for Candidates p. 7 in front of both candidates and give instructions with reference to the picture. )If you need a place to live in, you can eith
4、er rent an apartment or buy one on bank loan.Make your choice and give your reasons.This picture is for your reference. You have three minutes for this. Would you like to begin now, please? PicturePart C (7 minutes)Interlocutor: I m going to give each of you a picture and I d like you to first descr
5、ibe it briefly and thengive your comment on what you see in the picture.(Put picture 1 for Candidates p. 8 in front of both candidates. ) (Name of Candidate A), this is your picture. You have three minutes to talk about it. ( Name of Candidate B ), listen carefully while ( Name of Candidate A) is sp
6、eaking. When he/she has finished. I d like you to ask him/her a question about what he/she has said. .(Name of Candidate A), would you like to begin now, please?Candidate A: ( about three minutes)Interlocutor: Thank you. Now, (Name of Candidate B), could you please ask your partner a question? (Half
7、 a minute for asking and answering the question. ) 全国公共英语等级考试四级真题加入收藏 【大 中 小】 2010-6-8 Section I Listening Comprehension,Part A You will hear a recording of a conversation between Mary and John about the Hilton Hotel and the Hotel Rossiya. Listen to it and fill out the table with the information you
8、ve heard for questions 1-5. Some of the information has been completed for you. Write not more than 3 words in each numbered box. You will hear the recording twice. You now have 25 seconds to read the table below. Information about the Hilton Hotel and the Hotel Rossiya The Hilton Hotel The Hotel Ro
9、ssiya Number of Bedrooms 1 3,200Number of Employees 2 3,000Number of Restaurants 12 3Number of Elevators 4Country of Location U.S. 5Tapescript:M: Hi, Mary. Hows everything?W: Fine. You know, John, Im planning to go to Las Vegas for a holiday and would like to stay in a large hotel. Anything to recom
10、mend?M: Er? the Hilton Hotel there is quite a large one. It has ? er ? 3,174 bedrooms. It also has 12 restaurants and about 125,000 square feet of convention space. Therere a 10-acre recreation deck and a stage show dining hall. Over 3,600 people now work for it.W: Oh, great! Is it the largest hotel
11、 in the U.S.?M: Yes, it is. But it may not be the largest in the world. Er ? as far as I know, the Hotel Rossiya in Moscow is larger than Hilton. It is a 12-story building that has 3,200 rooms. It can provide accommodation for 6,000 guests. It takes nearly 8 years and a half to spend one night in ea
12、ch room. Besides, theres a 21-story “Presidential tower“ in the central courtyard. It has 15 restaurants and 93 elevators. And it employs about 3,000 people. The ballroom is known as the worlds largest. Russians are not allowed to live in that hotel. And foreigners are charged 16 times more than the
13、 very low rate charged Russian officials.W: Its unbelievable ?fade outNow you will hear the recording again. (The recording is repeated.)That is the end of Part A.Part B You will hear a radio weather forecast. Answer questions 6-10 while listening. Use not more than 5 words for each answer. You will
14、 hear the recording twice. You now have 40 seconds to read the questions.When will showers reach south-west England and the southern coast of Wales? 6What will the minimum temperature be in the south during the night? 7On what day of the week do you think this weather forecast was given? 8What will
15、be the general feeling about the weekend in the Netherlands? 9What part of England will be cloudy and dry over the weekend? 10TapescriptW: Hello. Its been another warm and fine day for most of us. Temperatures in south-east England reached twenty-six degrees Centigrade by mid-afternoon, and Brighton
16、 had fifteen hours of lovely sunshine. But already the weather is beginning to change, Im afraid, and during the night showers will slowly move in from the Atlantic to reach south-west England and the southern coast of Wales by early morning.The rest of the country will have a very mild, dry night w
17、ith minimum temperatures no lower than fifteen degrees in the south, a little cooler ? eleven degrees or so ? in the north. Any remaining showers in northwest Scotland will pass quickly, to leave a mild, dry night there too.And now, the outlook for Friday and the weekend. Well, southern Europe will
18、once again get the best of the weekend weather, and if your holiday starts this weekend, then southern Spain is the place to go, with temperatures of thirty-four degrees along the Mediterranean coast. At the eastern end of the Med, too, you can expect uninterrupted sunshine and temperatures of up to
19、 thirty-two degrees Centigrade in Greece and south-east Italy, but further north the weathers not so settled. Much of France, Belgium and the Netherlands will be cloudy with occasional rain and maximum temperatures will be around twenty-two degrees ? very disappointing for this time of the year.Scot
20、land and Northern Ireland will have heavy rain for much of the weekend and temperatures will drop to a cool seventeen degrees. Across most of England the weather will be cloudy but mainly dry with sunny periods. And when the sun does come out temperatures could rise to a maximum of twenty-three degr
21、ees.Now you will hear the recording again. (The recording is repeated.)That is the end of Part B.Part CYou will hear three dialogues or monologues. Before listening to each one, you will have time to read the questions related to it. While listening, answer each question by choosing A, B, C or D. Af
22、ter listening, you will have time to check your answer. You will hear each piece once only.Questions 11-13 are based on the following talk introducing Emily Dickinson, a well-known American poet. You now have 30 seconds to read questions 11-13.11. How long did Emily Dickinson live in the house where
23、 she was born?A almost all her lifeB less than half her lifeC until 1830D before 187212. Which of the following is true of Emily Dickinson?A She was not a productive poet.B She saw many of her poems published.C She was not a sociable person.D She had contact only with a few poets.13. When was Emily
24、Dickinson widely recognized?A after Henry James referred highly to herB after seven of her poems were publishedC after her poems became known to othersD after she was dead for many yearsTapescript:M: Emily Dickinson is one of the greatest American poets. She was born in a typical New England village
25、 in Massachusetts on December 10, 1830. She was the second child of the family. She died in the same house fifty-six years later. During her life time she never left her native land. She left her home state only once. She left her village very few times. And after 1872 she rarely left her house and
26、yard. In the last years of her life she retreated to a smaller and smaller circle of family and friends. In those later years she dressed in white, avoided strangers, and communicated chiefly through notes and poems even with intimates. The doctor who attended her illness was allowed to “examine“ he
27、r in another room, seeing her walk by an opened door. She was thought of as a “strange“ figure in her home village. When she died on May 15, 1886, she was unknown to the rest of the world. Only seven of her poems had appeared in print.But to think Emily Dickinson only as a strange figure is a seriou
28、s mistake. She lived simply and deliberately. She faced the essential facts of life. According to Henry James, a famous American novelist, she was one of those on whom nothing was lost. Only by thus living could Dickinson manage both to fulfill her obligations as a daughter, a sister, and a housekee
29、per and to write on the average one poem a day.She read only a few books but knew them deeply. Her poems are simple but remarkably rich. Not until 1950s was she recognized as one of the greatest American poets.Section II Use of EnglishRead the following text. Choose the best word for each numbered b
30、lank and mark A, B, C or D on ANSWER SHEET （1）.During the 1980s, unemployment and underemployment in some countries was as high as 90 per cent. Some countries did not 1 enough food; basic needs in housing and clothing were not（2） . Many of these countries looked to the industrial processes of the de
31、veloped nations （3） solutions.（4） , problems cannot always be solved by copying the industrialized nations. Industry in the developed nations is highly automated and very（5） . It provides fewer jobs than labor-intensive industrial processes, and highly （6） workers are needed to（7）and repair the equi
32、pment. These workers must be trained, （8） many nations do not have the necessary training institutions. Thus, the （9） of importing industry becomes higher. Students must be sent abroad to （10） vocational and professional training. （11） , just to begin training, the students must （12） learn English,
33、French, German, or Japanese. The students then spend many years abroad, and （13） do not return home.All nations agree that science and technology （14） be shared. The point is: countries （15） the industrial processes of the developed nations need to look carefully （16） the costs, because many of thes
34、e costs are （17） . Students from these nations should （18） the problems of the industrialized countries closely. （19） care, they will take home not the problems of science and technology, （20） the benefits.1. Agenerate Braise Cproduce Dmanufacture2. Aanswered Bmet Ccalculated Dremembered3. Afor Bwit
35、hout Cas Dabout4. AMoreover BTherefore CAnyway DHowever5. Aexpensive Bmechanical Cflourishing Dcomplicated6. Agifted Bskilled Ctrained Dversatile7. Akeep Bmaintain Cretain D protect8. Asince Bso Cand Dyet9. Acharge Bprice Ccost Dvalue10. Aaccept Bgain Creceive Dabsorb11. AFrequently BIncidentally CD
36、eliberately DEventually12. Asoon Bquickly Cimmediately Dfirst13. Asome Bothers Cseveral Dfew14. Amight Bshould Cwould Dwill15. Aadopting Bconducting Creceiving Dadjusting16. Ato Bat Con Dabout17. Aopaque Bsecret Csealed Dhidden18. Atackle Blearn Cstudy Dmanipulate19. AIn BThrough CWith DUnder20. Aex
37、cept Bnor Cor DbutSection III Reading ComprehensionPart ARead the following four texts. Answer the questions below each text by choosing A, B, C or D. Mark your answers on ANSWER SHEET 1.Text 1It was 3:45 in the morning when the vote was finally taken. After six months of arguing and a final 16 hour
38、s of hot parliamentary debates, Australias Northern Territory became the first legal authority in the world to allow doctors to take the lives of incurably ill patients who wish to die. The measure was passed by the convincing vote of 15 to 10. Almost immediately word flashed on the Internet and was
39、 picked up, half a world away, by John Hofsess, executive director of the Right to Die Society of Canada. He sent it on via the groups on-line service, Death NET. Says Hofsess: “We posted bulletins all day long, because of course this isnt just something that happened in Australia. Its world history
40、.“The full import may take a while to sink in. The NT Rights of the Terminally Ill law has left physicians and citizens alike trying to deal with its moral and practical implications. Some have breathed sighs of relief; others, including churches, right-to-life groups and the Australian Medical Asso
41、ciation, bitterly attacked the bill and the haste of its passage. But the tide is unlikely to turn back. In Australia ? where an aging population, life-extending technology and changing community attitudes have all played their part ? other states are going to consider making a similar law to deal w
42、ith euthanasia. In the U.S. and Canada, where the right-to-die movement is gathering strength, observers are waiting for the dominoes to start falling.Under the new Northern Territory law, an adult patient can request death ? probably by a deadly injection or pill ? to put an end to suffering. The p
43、atient must be diagnosed as terminally ill by two doctors. After a “cooling off“ period of seven days, the patient can sign a certificate of request. After 48 hours the wish for death can be met. For Lloyd Nickson, a 54-year-old Darwin resident suffering from lung cancer, the NT Rights of Terminally
44、 Ill law means he can get on with living without the haunting fear of his suffering: a terrifying death from his breathing condition. “Im not afraid of dying from a spiritual point of view, but what I was afraid of was how Id go, because Ive watched people die in the hospital fighting for oxygen and
45、 clawing at their masks,“ he says. 1. From the second paragraph we learn thatA the objection to euthanasia is diminishing in some countries.B physicians and citizens have the same view on euthanasia.C technological changes are chiefly responsible for the new law.D it takes time to appreciate the sig
46、nificance of laws passed.2. By saying that “observers are waiting for the dominoes to start falling“, the authormeans thatA observers are taking a wait-and-see attitude towards the future of euthanasia.B there is a possibility of similar bills being passed in the U.S. and Canada.C observers are wait
47、ing to see the movement end up in failure.D the process of the bill taking effect may finally come to a stop.3. When Lloyd Nickson is close to death, he willA undergo a cooling off period of seven days.B experience the suffering of a lung cancer patient.C have an intense fear of terrible suffering.D
48、 face his death with the calm characteristic of euthanasia.4. What is the authors attitude towards euthanasia?A Hostile.B Suspicious.C Approving.D Indifferent.5. We can infer from the text that the author believes the success of the right-to-diemovement isA only a matter of time.B far from certain.C
49、 just an illusion.D a shattered hope.Part BRead the following text carefully and then translate the underlined segments into Chinese. Your translation should be written clearly on ANSWER SHEET 2.Do animals have rights? This is how the question is usually put. It sounds like a useful, ground-clearing way to start. 61) Actually, it i
