英语专业四级真题及答案.docx

1、英语专业四级真题及答案PART 1 DICTATION 10 MINListen to the following passage. Altogether the passage will be read to you four times. During the first reading, which will be done at normal speed, listen and try to understand the meaning. For the second and third readings, the passage will be read sentence by se

2、ntence, 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 your work. 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

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

4、TY seconds 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 stu

5、dy: _4_hours 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

6、this section you will hear two conversations. At the end of each conversation, five questions will be asked about what was said. Both the conversation and the questions will be spoken ONCE ONLY. After each question there will be a ten-second pause. During the pause, you should read the four choices

7、of A, B, C and D, and mark the best answer to each question on ANSWER 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 re

8、turn trip is too 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 themselv

9、esD. People watching 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 sh

10、ops and buying 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

11、 shop price.10.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

12、best completes 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 dollar

13、s was stolen from 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

14、 made the right 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. Wh

15、ich of the following 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

16、. This workD. 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

17、. totallyC. entirelyD. 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 pl

18、anning a huge 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 for

19、26. The doctor 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

20、university held 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 we

21、re discussed at 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

22、letter for each 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

23、 twice when we 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 o

24、ff the bedside 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

25、summer of 1959, 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 enou

26、gh not to be _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

27、had been ordered 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 a

28、nswers marked 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

29、even reportedly 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 con

30、ducted by Betsy 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 neares

31、t Web connection 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 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