1995年英语四级真题及答案.docx

1、1995年英语四级真题及答案1995年6月英语四级真题及答案Part I Listening Comprehension (20 minutes)Section A1. A) Librarian and student.B) Operator and caller.C) Boss and secretary.D) Customer and repairman.（D）2. A) Look for the key.B) Repair the car.C) Fix a shelf.D) Paint a shelf.（C）3. A) To make the woman angry.B) To plea

2、se the mans mother.C) David is the mans good friend.D) David is good at carrying on conversations.（B）4. A) He must meet his teacher.B) He must attend a class.C) He must go out with his girlfriend.D) He must stay at school to finish his homework.（A）5. A) He wants to pay.B) he doesnt want to eat outC)

3、 He wants to eat somewhere else.D) He doesnt like Japanese food.（A）6. A) He didnt work as hard as he was supposed to.B) He didnt pass the physics exam.C) He did better in an earlier exam.D) He found something wrong with the exam.（B）7. A) He is attending his sick mother at home.B) He is on a European

4、 tour with his mother.C) He is at home on sick leave.D) He is in Europe to see his mother.（D）8. A) They dont know how to get to Mikes home.B) They are discussing when to meet again.C) They went to the same party some time ago.D) They will go to Mikes birthday party.（C）9. A) Five lessons.B) Three les

5、sons.C) Twelve lessons.D) Fifteen lessons.（B）10. A) Find a larger room.B) Sell the old table.C) Buy two bookshelves.D) Rearrange some furniture.（D）Section BPassage OneQuestions 11 to 13 are based on the passage you have just heard.11. A) Courses in British history.B) Language courses.C) Courses in s

6、ports.D) Teacher training courses.（B）12. A) To attract more students.B) To make the courses suitable for students of all levels.C) To let the students have a good rest.D) To make the summer school more like a holiday.（D）13. A) Because they all work very hard.B) Because their teachers are all native

7、speakers of English.C) Because they learn not only in but also out of class.D) Because they are all advanced students.（C）Passage TwoQuestions 14 to 16 are based on the passage you have just heard.14. A) Because it takes too long to process all the applications.B) Because its resources are limited.C)

8、 Because it is a library for special purposes.D) Because there is a shortage of staff.（B）15. A) Discard his application from.B) Forbid him to borrow any items.C) Cancel his video card.D) Ask him to apply again.（C）16. A) One month.B) One week.C) Two weeks.D) Two months.（A）Passage ThreeQuestions 14 to

9、 16 are based on the passage you have just heard.17. A) Chemicals.B) Vapor.C) Water.D) Gas.（D）18. A) By passing steam over dry ice.B) By turning ordinary ice into steam.C) By heating dry ice.D) By mixing dry ice with ordinary ice.（A）19. A) It takes a longer time to melt.B) It is lighter to carry.C)

10、It is cleaner to use than ordinary ice.D) It is not so cold as ordinary ice.（C）20. A) In the 1920s.B) In the 1930s.C) In the 1940s.D) In the 1950s.（A）Part II Reading Comprehension (35 minutes)Passage OneQuestions 21 to 25 are based on the following passage.Researchers have established that when peop

11、le are mentally engaged, biochemical changes occur in the brain that allow it to act more effectively in cognitive (认知的) areas such as attention and memory. This is true regardless of age.People will be alert (警觉的) and receptive (接受能力强的) if they are faced with information that gets them to think abo

12、ut things they are interested in. And someone with a history of doing more rather than less will go into old age more cognitively sound than someone who has not had an active mind.Many experts are so convinced of the benefits of challenging the brain that they are putting, the theory to work in thei

13、r own lives. “The idea is not necessarily to learn to memorize enormous amounts of information.” says James Fozard, associate director of the national Institute on Aging. “Most of us dont need that kind of skill. Such specific training is of less interest than being able to maintain mental alertness

14、. Fozard and others say they challenge their brains with different mental skill, both because they enjoy them and because they are sure that their range of activities will help the way their brains work.Gene Cohen, acting director of the same institute, suggests that people in their old age should e

15、ngage in mental and physical activities individually as well as in groups. Cohen says that we are frequently advised to keep physically active as we age, but older people need to keep mentally active as well. Those who do are more likely to maintain their intellectual abilities and to be generally h

16、appier and better adjusted. “The point is, you need to do both,” Cohen says. “Intellectual activity influences brain-cell health and size.”21. People who are cognitively healthy are those _.A) who can remember large amounts of informationB) who are highly intelligentC) whose minds are alert and rece

17、ptiveD) who are good at recognizing different sounds（C）22. According to Fozards argument people can make their brains work more efficiently by _.A) constantly doing memory workB) taking part in various mental activitiesC) going through specific trainingD) making frequent adjustments（B）23. The findin

18、gs of James and other scientists in their work _.A) remain a theory to be further provedB) have been generally acceptedC) have been challenged by many other expertsD) are practiced by the researchers themselves（D）24. Older people are generally advised to _.A) keep fit by going in for physical activi

19、tiesB) keep mentally active by challenging their brainsC) maintain mental alertness through specific trainingD) maintain a balance between individual and group activities（A）25. What is the passage mainly about?A) How biochemical changes occur in the human brain.B) Why people should keep active not o

20、nly physically but also mentally.C) How intellectual activities influence brain-cell health.D) Why people should receive special mental training as they age.（B）Passage TwoQuestions 26 to 30 are based on the following passage.Attention to detail is something everyone can and should doespecially in a

21、tight job market. Bob Crossley, a human-resources expert notices this in the job applications that come across his desk every day. “Its amazing how many candidates eliminate themselves.” he says.Resume (简历) arrive with stains. Some candidates dont bother to spell the companys name correctly. Once I

22、see a mistake, I eliminate the candidate, Crossley concludes. “If they cannot take of these details, why should we trust them with a job?”Can we pay too much attention to detail? Absolutely. Perfectionists struggle over little things at the cost of something larger they work toward, “To keep from lo

23、sing the forest for the trees”, says Charles Garfield, associate professor at the University of California, San Francisco, “We must constantly ask ourselves how the details were working on fit into the larger picture. If they dont, we should drop them and move to something else”.Garfield compares th

24、is process to his work as a computer scientist at NASA. “The Apollo II moon launch was slightly off-course 90 percent of the time.” Says Garfield, “But a successful landing was still likely because we knew the exact coordinates of our goal. This allowed us to make adjustments as necessary.” Knowing

25、where we want to go helps us judge the importance of every task we undertake.Too often we believe what accounts for others success is some special secret or a lucky break (机遇). But rarely is success so mysterious. Again and again, we see that by doing little things within our grasp well, large rewar

26、ds follow.26. According to the passage, some job applicants were rejected _.A) because of their carelessness as shown in their failure to present a clean copy of a resumeB) because of their inadequate education as shown in their poor spelling in writing a resumeC) because they failed to give detaile

27、d description of their background in their applicationsD) because they eliminated their names from the applicants list themselves（A）27. The word “perfectionists” (Para. 3, Line) refers to those who _.A) demand others to get everything absolutely rightB) know how to adjust their goals according to th

28、e circumstancesC) pay too much attention to details only to lose their major objectivesD) are capable of achieving perfect results in whatever they do（C）28. Which of the following is the authors device to the reader?A) Although too much attention to details may be costly, they should not be overlook

29、ed.B) Dont forget details when drawing pictures.C) Be aware of the importance of a task before undertaking it.D) Careless applicants are not to be trusted.（A）29. The example of the Apollo II moon launch is given to illustrate that _.A) minor mistakes can be ignored in achieving major objectivesB) fa

30、ilure is the mother of successC) adjustments are the key to the successful completion of any workD) keeping ones goal in mind helps in deciding which details can be overlooked（D）30. The best title for this passage would be _.A) Dont Be a PerfectionistB) Importance of AdjustmentsC) Details and Major

31、ObjectivesD) Hard Work Plus Good Luck（C）Passage ThreeQuestions 31 to 35 are based on the following passage.Britain almost more than any other country in the world must seriously face the problem of building upwards, that is to say, of accommodating a considerable proportion of its population in high

32、 blocks of flats. It is said that the English man objects to this type of existence, but if the case is such, he does in fact differ from the inhabitants of most countries of the world today. In the past our own blocks of flats have been associated with the lower-income groups and they have lacked the