1990年大学英语四级.docx

1、1990年大学英语四级1990年6月大学英语四级(CET-4)真题试卷Part I Listening Comprehension (20 minutes)Section ADirections: In this section, you will hear 10 short conversations. At the end of each conversation, a question will be asked about what was said. Both the conversation and the question will be spoken only once. Af

2、ter each question there will be pause. During the pause, you must read the four choices marked A), B), C) and D), and decide which is the best answer. Then mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet with a line through the centre.Example:You will hear:You will read:A) At the office.B) In the

3、waiting room.C) At the airport.D) In a restaurant.From the conversation we know that the two were talking about some work they had to finish in the evening. This is most likely to have taken place at the office. There fore, A) “At the office” is the best answer. You should choose A on the Answer She

4、et and mark it with a single line through the centre.Sample Answer A B C D1. A) Every day.B) Every other day.C) Every week.D) Every other week.（B）2. A) Saturday morning.B) Saturday afternoon.C) Sunday morning.D) Sunday afternoon.（D）3. A) The unsmiling faces.B) The sun.C) The Londoners.D) The weather

5、.（D）4. A) Marias friends dont call her very often.B) Maria doesnt like to talk on the phone with her friends.C) Maria likes to talk on the phone with her friends.D) Maria doesnt have any friends.（C）5. A) The chemistry book.B) The English book.C) The math book.D) The history book.（A）6. A) Hold the ph

6、one.B) Make another call.C) Pay the manager a visit.D) Ask the woman to find Mr. White for him.（B）7. A) He will pay a visit to Prof. Wang.B) He will congratulate Prof. Wang.C) He is ready to help Prof. Wang.D) He will tell Prof. Wang the good news.（C）8. A) To take a bus.B) To make a phone call.C) To

7、 do shopping.D) To give them to the woman.（A）9. A) Listening to the radio.B) Reading a newspaper.C) Watching television.D) Watching a sports game.（B）10. A) He hasnt seen any movie for a long time.B) The movie he saw was “Gone with the Wind”.C) It is one of the best movies he has ever seen.D) He like

8、s seeing movies very much.（C）Section BDirections: In this section, you will hear 3 short passages. At the end of each passage, you will hear some questions. Both the passage and the questions will be spoken only once. After you hear a question, you must choose the best answer from the four choices m

9、arked A), B), C) and D), Then mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the centre.Passage OneQuestions 11 to 13 based on the passage you have just heard.11. A) Go and visit friends.B) Have a dinner together with friends.C) Go around making new friends.D) Play joke

10、s on friends.（D）12. A) For seven hundred years.B) For several decades.C) For several hundred years.D) For seventy years.（C）13. A) A new means of transportation from London to Australia.B) A newly-published newspaper in London.C) A non-existent island in the Pacific.D) A new kind of Italian noodle.（D

11、）Passage TwoQuestions 14 to 17 are based on the passage you have just heard.14. A) More than nine million.B) About half a million.C) More than five million.D) About two and a half million.（A）15. A) It is for students of the same community only.B) It only offers a two-year basic course.C) It only tra

12、ins students to be office managers.D) It only accepts students rejected by universities.（B）16. A) One who is staying in that state as a writer.B) One whose home is in that state.C) One who has been in the army.D) One who has been in health services.（B）17. A) Community colleges in the U.S.B) The numb

13、er of high school graduates.C) Higher education in the U.S.D) The difference between private and state universities.（C）Passage ThreeQuestions 18 to 20 are based on the passage you have just heard.18. A) He had to get a job.B) He was afraid of failure.C) He wanted to join the Army.D) He wasnt interes

14、ted in studying.（A）19. A) Attending patients.B) Repairing machines.C) Driving taxis.D) Delivering letters.（D）20. A) She encouraged him.B) She was disappointed.C) She expressed doubt.D) She was shocked.（A）Part II Reading Comprehension (35 minutes)Directions: There are 4 reading passages in this part.

15、 Each passage is followed by some questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A), B), C) and D). You should decide on the best choice and mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the centre.Passage OneQuestions 21 to 25 are b

16、ased on the following passage.You are a German living in Berlin. One day youre walking down the street, minding your own business, when suddenly a stranger approached with a smile on his face. After stopping you, he holds a small electronic device close to his face and speaks slowly into it, saying,

17、 in English: “Can you tell me where I can buy some sauerkraut?” What should you do? (a) Run away; (b) Call the police; or, (c) Listen closely for the device to say, in German, “Konnen Sie mir bitte sager, which Sauerkraut Kaufen Kann?”The most appropriate response would be (c) because the person in

18、front of you is only a tourist trying to enjoy himself. The device is said to he the worlds first portable transistora hand-held microcomputer thatat the same time converts one spoken language into another.The four-pound battery-operated product is called the Voice, and it is the creation of Advance

19、d Products and Technologies an American electronics company. When the Voice is introduced in the United States in late Aprilat a price of $1,500it will be capable of converting spoken English into Italian, German, French and Spanish. The product comes with separate cartridges (盒式储存器) for each of the

20、 four languages, which can be changed when the user travels from one country to another. The item will be sold in Europe soon after the U.S. Introduction, with cartridges that covert Italian, German, French and Spanish into English.The Voice uses a microchip (微型集成块) and artificial Intelligence to tr

21、anslate Languages. It is started by voice command and produces voice output through a built-in speaker. Then the user makes a statement or asks a question, the Voice immediately repeats what has been said in another Language.21. The stranger holding the Voice seems to be _.A) asking for some informa

22、tionB) greeting the GermanC) amusing himselfD) practising his German（C）22. The German sentence “Konnen Sie Kann?” means _.A) “Why dont you ask the policeman.”B) “Would you listen closely for the device to say?”C) “Can you say it again, please?”D) “Can you tell me where I can buy some sauerkraut?”（D）

23、23. The word “speaker” in the last paragraph refers to _.A) the person who speaks to the deviceB) a component part of the VoiceC) the person who speaks GermanD) the speech produced by the Voice（B）24. Which of the following is NOT TRUE?A) The voice is an invention of an electronics company.B) The voi

24、ce is a hand-held translator.C) The voice is new product in wide use.D) The voice is mainly a microcomputer.（C）25. The Voice can translate _.A) from German into any of the other four languages mentionedB) from and into English by using the same cartridgesC) between any two of the above-mentioned lan

25、guagesD) from English into any of the other four languages or the other way round（D）Passage TwoQuestions 26 to 30 are based on the following passage.Computers may one day turn night into daywith good old, natural sunlight.Colossal computer-controlled mirrors, thousands of feet across, may one day or

26、bit the earth, reflecting sunlight onto a darkened United States.Some Scientists say that 16 of these mirrors, each about a half mile across, could aim their reflected light at one area on the earth that was about 200 miles by 300 miles. That much light would equal about 56 moons.The mirrors would b

27、e so high that they could catch the suns light as it was shining on the other side of the earth. The mirrors could orbitthousands of miles highat the same speed as the earth turns on its axis (轴). That way, the mirrors would always be over the same spot.The aluminum-coated (涂铝的), plastic mirrors cou

28、ld be folded up and packed into a spaceship, according to the scientists. Once released a few hundred miles in space, the mirrors, powered by a solar-powered engine, could mark the rest of the trip into space on their own.The scientists say that the computer-controlled mirrors could also be made to

29、tilt (倾斜) slowly, so the reflected sunlight would sweep slowly along the surface of the earth. For example, as night fell, the mirrors could be tilted to light up Boston. Later on, as darkness spread slowly westward. Chicago, for example, then San Francisco could be lit up. The reflected sunlight wo

30、uld allow these cities to save up electricity. And in emergencies, such as power-failures, the mirrors could light up the affected area.What no one knows yet is what effect this artificial daytime would have on plants, animals, and humans. Would it confuse some animals and harm plants that are used

31、to regular day-night cycles? The scientists recommend that studies be done to find out what had effects there might be.26. The word “colossal” in Line 3 most likely means _.A) nuclear-poweredB) orbitingC) giantD) spinning（D）27. Which of the following is NOT TRUE of the mirrors?A) They would be made

32、of plastic and coated with aluminum.B) They could be launched directly into space.C) They would stay in the same position over the earth.D) They could reflect sunlight to a large area on the earth.（B）28. The reflected light should sweep slowly along the surface of the earth because the mirrors _.A) would be operated by