1、cet4199806试题及答案1998年6月大学英语四级考试试题Part I Listening Comprehension (20 minutes) Section A Directions: 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. Afte
2、r each question there will be a 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 single line through the center. Example: You will hear: You will read: A) At the office
3、. B) In the 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. Therefor, “At the office” is the best answer. You should choose Aon the a
4、nswer Sheet and mark it with a single line through the center. Sample Answer A B C D 1. A) They are twins. B) They are classmates. C) They are friends. D) They are colleagues. 2. A) The man is planning a trip to Austin. B) The man has not been to Austin before. C) The man doesnt like Austin. D) The
5、man has been to Austin before.3. A) The size of the room. B) Long working hours. C) The hot weather. D) The fan in the room. 4. A) The man has changed his destination. B) The man is returning his ticket. C) The man is flying to New York tomorrow morning. D) The man cant manage to go to New York as p
6、lanned. 5. A) It is difficult to identify. B) It has been misplaced. C) It is missing. D) It has been borrowed by someone. 6. A) Looking for a timetable. B) Buying some furniture. C) Reserving a table. D) Window shopping. 7. A) Cold and windy. B) Snow will be replaced by strong winds. C) It will get
7、 better. D) Rainy and cold. 8. A) It is no longer available. B) It has been reprinted four times. C) The store doesnt have it now, but will have it soon. D) The information in the book is out of date. 9. A) Henry doesnt like the color. B) Someone else painted the house.C) There was no ladder in the
8、house. D) Henry painted the house himself.10.A) In a cotton field. B) At a railway station. C) On a farm. D) On a train. Section B Directions: 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
9、only once. After you hear question, you must choose the best answer from the four choices marked A), B), C) and D). Then mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the center. Passage One Questions 11 to 13 are based on the passage you have just heard. 11. A) They i
10、nvited him to a party. B) They asked him to make a speech. C) They gave a special dinner for him. D) They invited his wife to attend th e dinner. 12. A) He was embarrassed. B) He felt greatly encouraged. C) He felt sad. D) He was deeply touched. 13. A) Sams wife did not think that the company was fa
11、ir to Sam. B) Sams wife was satisfied with the gold watch. C) Sam did not like the gold watch. D) The company had some financial problems. Passage Two Questions 14 to 16 are based on the passage you have just heard. 14. A) The number of students they take in is limited. B) They receive little or no
12、support from public taxes. C) They are only open to children from rich families. D) They have to pay more taxes. 15. A) Privaie schools admit more students. B) Private schools charge less than religious schools. C) Private schools run a variety of programs. D) Private schools allow students to enjoy
13、 more freedom. 16. A) The churches. B) The program designers. C) The local authorities. D) The state government. Passage Three Questions 17 to 20 are based on the passage you have just heard. 17. A) She was found stealing in a bookstore. B) She caught someone in the act of stealing. C) She admitted
14、having stolen something. D) She said she was wrongly accused of stealing. 18. A) A book. B) $ 3,000. C) A handbag. D) A Christmas card. 19. A) She was questioned by the police. B)She was shut in a small room for 20 minutes. C) She was insulted by the shopper around her. D)She was body searched by th
15、e store manager. 20. A)They refused to apologize for having followed her through the town.B)They regretted having wrongly accused her of stealing. C)They still suspected that she was a thief. D)They agreed to pay her $ 3,000 damages. Part Reading Comprehension (35 minutes) Directions: There are 4 pa
16、ssages in this part. 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 center. Questions 21 t
17、o 25 are based on the following passage. Psychologist George Spilich and colleagues at Washington College in Chestertown, Maryland, decided to find out whether, as many smokers say, smoking helps them to “think and conceniraie.” Spilich put young non smokers, active smokers and smokers deprived (被剥夺
18、) of cigarettes through a series of tests.In the first test, each subject (试验对象) sat before a computer screen and pres sed a key as soon as he or she recognized a target letter among a grouping of 96. In this simple test, smokers, deprived smokers and nonsmokers performed equally well. The next test
19、 was more complex, requiring all to scan sequences of 20 identical letters and respond the instant one of the letters transformed into a different one. Non-smokers were faster, but under the stimulation of nicotine (尼古丁), active smokers were faster than deprived smokers. In the third test of short-t
20、erm memory, non-smokers made the fewest errors, but deprived smokers committed fewer errors than active smokers. The fourth test required people to read a passage, then answer questions about it. Non-smokers remembered 19 percent more of the most important information tha n active smokers, and depri
21、ved smokers bested those who had smoked a cigarette ju st before testing. Active smokers tended not only to have poorer memories but al so had trouble separating important information from insignificant details. “As our tests became more complex.”Sums up Spilich,“non-smokers performed better than sm
22、okers by wider and wider margins”He predicts,“smokers might per form adequately at many jobs until they got complicated. A smoking airline pilot could fly adequately if no problems arose, but if something went wrong, smoking might damage his mental capacity.” 21. The purpose of George Spilichs exper
23、iments is _. A) to test whether smoking has a positive effect on the mental capacity of smokers B) to show how smoking damages peoples mental capacity C) to prove that smoking affects peoples regular performance D) to find out whether smoking helps peoples short term memory 22. George Spilichs exper
24、iment was conducted in such a way as to _.A) compel the subjects to separate major information from minor detailsB) put the subjects through increasingly complex tests C) check the effectiveness of nicotine on smokers D) register the prompt responses of the subjects 23. The word“bested”(Line 3, Para
25、. 5) most probably means _. A) beat B) envied C) caught up with D) made the best of 24. Which of the following statements is true? A) Active smokers in general performed better than deprived smokers. B) Active smokers responded more quickly than the other subjects. C) Non smokers were not better tha
26、n other subjects in performing simple tasks. D) Deprived smokers gave the slowest responses to the various tasks. 25. We can infer from the last paragraph that _. A) smokers should not expect to become airline pilots B) smoking in emergency cases causes mental illness C) no airline pilots smoke duri
27、ng flights D) smokers may prove unequal to handing emergency cases Questions 26 to 30 are based on the following passage. There is no denying that students should learn something about how computers work, just as we expect them at least to understandthat the internal combustion engine(内燃机) has somet
28、hing to do with burning fuel, expanding gases and pistons (活塞) being driven. For people should have some basic idea of how the things th at they use do what they do. Further, students might be helped by a course that considers the computers impact on society. But that is not what is meant by com put
29、er literacy. For computer literacy is not a form of literacy(读写能力);it is a trade skill that should not be taught as a liberal art. Learning how to use a computer and learning how to program one are two distinct activities, A case might be made that the competent citizens of tomorrow should free them
30、selves from their fear of computers. But this is quite different from s aying that all ought to know how to program one. Leave that to people who have c hosen programming as a career. While programming can be lots of fun, and while o ur society needs some people who are experts at it, the same is tr
31、ue of auto repair and violin making.Learning how to use a computer is not that difficult, and it gets easier all the time as programs become more“user friendly”. Let us assume that in the future everyone is going to have to know how to use a computer to be a competent citiz en. What does the phrase
32、“learning to use a computer”mean? It sounds like “le arning to drivea car”, that is, it sounds as if there is some set of definite skills that, once acquired, enable one to use a computer. In fact,“learning to use a computer”is much more like“learning to play a game”, but learning the rules of one game may not help you play a second game, whose rules maynot be the same. There is no such a thing as teaching someone how to use a computer.
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