1994年1月全国大学英语四级考试试卷.DOC

1、英语四级考试网 www.CET4V.com 鼎力帮助考生顺利通过大学英语四级考试！英语四级考试网 www.CET4V.com 经典奉献 11994 年 1 月全国大学英语四级考试 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 c

2、onversation and the question will be spoken only once. After 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.Exampl

3、e:You will hear:You will read:A) At the office.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. There fore, A) “At the office”

4、is the best answer. You should choose A on the Answer Sheet and mark it with a single line through the centre.Sample Answer A B C D1. A) Once a week. B) Twice a week.C) Three times a week. D) Four times a week.2. A) He left his notes at home.B) He doesnt know where his notes are.C) He doesnt want to

5、 lend his notes to the woman.D) He agrees to lend her his notes.3. A) He will go in spite of the cold weather.B) He wont go since he is not feeling well.C) He will go when he feels better.D) He wont go as he hasnt finished his work.4. A) Check the timetable. B) Go to the railway station earlier.英语四级

6、考试网 www.CET4V.com 鼎力帮助考生顺利通过大学英语四级考试！英语四级考试网 www.CET4V.com 经典奉献 2C) Travel on a later train. D) Cancel the trip earlier.5. A) In New York. B) In Boston. C) In Newport. D) In Washington.6. A) A clerk at the airport information desk.B) A clerk at the railway station information desk.C) A policeman.D)

7、A taxi-driver.7. A) A guest and a receptionist. B) A passenger and an air hostess.C) A customer and a shop assistant. D) A guest and a waitress.8. A) Hes better. B) Hes feeling worse.C) Hes sick in bed. D) He has recovered.9. A) The man didnt want the woman to have her hair cut.B) The woman followed

8、 the mans advice.C) The woman is wearing long hair now.D) The man didnt care if the woman had her hair cut or not.10. A) He will return from Paris in two weeks.B) He is studying French in Paris.C) He is having a vacation in Paris.D) He is planning to go back to Paris in a year.Section BPassage OneQu

9、estions 11 to 14 are based on the passage you have just heard.11. A) Washing plates. B) Clearing tables.C) Shining shoes. D) Sweeping the floor.12. A) He must work six days a week.B) He should never be late for work.C) He must study hard in his spare time.D) He should not bring his friends to the re

10、staurant.13. A) To pay him for his work.B) To let him have 3 meals a day in the restaurant.C) To give his friends free drinks.英语四级考试网 www.CET4V.com 鼎力帮助考生顺利通过大学英语四级考试！英语四级考试网 www.CET4V.com 经典奉献 3D) To allow him to have more free time.14. A) Because the boy was not a full-time worker.B) Because the b

11、oy had made some mistakes.C) Because he thought the boy had failed to meet his requirements.D) Because he thought it was his son who should pay him.Passage TwoQuestions 15 to 17 are based on the passage you have just heard.15. A) Watching traditional plays. B) Visiting the magnificent libraries.C) B

12、oating on the river. D) Cycling in narrow streets.16. A) There are many visitors there. B) There are many students there.C) There are many old streets there. D) There are many bicycles there.17. A) He thinks the city is too crowded.B) He likes the place very much.C) He thinks the streets are too nar

13、row.D) He admires the comfortable life of the students there.Passage ThreeQuestions 18 to 20 are based on the passage you have just heard.18. A) He was good at writing about interesting people.B) It was much easier to write stories about people.C) He believed that people are always easier to learn a

14、bout other people.D) He thought people played an important role in world events.19. A) Action. B) World News. C) Enterprise. D) Faces and places.20. A) He is a sportsman. B) He is an actor.C) He is a photographer. D) He is a publisher.Part II Reading Comprehension (35 minutes)Passage OneQuestions 21

15、 to 25 are based on the following passage.Suppose we built a robot (机器人 ) to explore the planet Mars. We provide the robot with seeing detectors to keep it away from danger. It is powered entirely by the sun. Should we 英语四级考试网 www.CET4V.com 鼎力帮助考生顺利通过大学英语四级考试！英语四级考试网 www.CET4V.com 经典奉献 4program the

16、robot to be equally active at all times? No. The robot would be using up energy at a time when it was not receiving any. So we would probably program it to cease its activity at night and to wake up at dawn the next morning.According to the evolutionary (进化的) theory of sleep, evolution equipped us w

17、ith a regular pattern of sleeping and waking for the same reason. The theory does not deny (否认) that sleep provides some important restorative functions. It merely says that evolution has programmed us to perform those functions at a time when activity would be inefficient and possibly dangerous. Ho

18、wever, sleep protects us only from the sort of trouble we might walk into; it does not protect us from trouble that comes looking for us. So we sleep well when we are in familiar, safe place, but we sleep lightly, if at all, when we fear that bears will nose into the tent.The evolutionary theory acc

19、ounts well for differences in sleep among creatures. Why do cats, for instance, sleep so much, while horses sleep so little? Surely cats do not need five times as much repair and restoration as horses do. But cats can afford to have long periods of inactivity because they spend little time eating an

20、d are unlikely to be attacked while they sleep. Horses must spend almost all their waking hours eating, because what they eat is very low in energy value. Moreover, they cannot afford to sleep too long or too deeply, because their survival depends on their ability to run away from attackers.21. The

21、author uses the example of the robot in space exploration to tell us _.A) the differences between robots and menB) the reason why men need to sleepC) about the need for robots to save powerD) about the danger of men working at night22. Evolution has programmed man to sleep at night chiefly to help h

22、im _.A) maintain a regular pattern of lifeB) prevent trouble that comes looking for himC) avoid danger and inefficient laborD) restore his bodily functions23. According to the author, we cannot sleep well when we _.A) are worrying about our safetyB) are overworkedC) are in a tentD) are away from hom

23、e24. Cats sleep much more than horses do partly because cats _.英语四级考试网 www.CET4V.com 鼎力帮助考生顺利通过大学英语四级考试！英语四级考试网 www.CET4V.com 经典奉献 5A) need more time for restorationB) are unlikely to be attackersC) are more active than horses when they are awakeD) spend less time eating to get enough energy25. Whic

24、h of the following is the main idea of the passage? _.A) Evolution has equipped all creatures with a regular pattern of sleeping and waking.B) The study of sleep is an important part of the evolutionary theory.C) Sleeping patterns must be taken into consideration in the designing of robots.D) The sl

25、eeping pattern of a living creature is determined by the food it eats.Passage TwoQuestions 26 to 30 are based on the following passage.“Congratulations, Mr. Jones, its a girl.”Fatherhood is going to have a different meaning and bring forth a different response from every man who hears these words. S

26、ome feel pride when they receive the news, while others worry, wondering whether they will be good father. Although there are some men who like children and may have had considerable experience with them, others do not particularly care for children and spend little time with them. Many fathers and

27、mothers have been planning and looking forward to children for some time. For other couples, pregnancy (怀孕) was an accident that both husband and wife have accepted willingly or unwillingly.Whatever the reaction to the birth of a child, it is obvious that the shift from the role of husband to that o

28、f father is a difficult task. Yet, unfortunately, few attempts have been made to educate fathers in this resocialization process. Although numerous books have been written about American mothers, only recently has literature focused on the role of a father.It is argued by some writers that the trans

29、ition to the fathers role, although difficult, is not nearly as great as the transition the wife must make to the mothers role. The mothers role seems to require a complete transformation in daily routine (生活规律 ) and highly innovative (创新的) adaptation, on the other hand, the fathers role is less dem

30、anding and immediate. However, even though we mentioned the fact that growing numbers of women are working outside the home, the father is still thought by many as the breadwinner in the household.26. According to the author, being a father _.A) brings a feeling of excitement to some menB) has a dif

31、ferent meaning for those who have daughtersC) makes some men feel proud and others uneasy英语四级考试网 www.CET4V.com 鼎力帮助考生顺利通过大学英语四级考试！英语四级考试网 www.CET4V.com 经典奉献 6D) means nothing but more responsibilities27. It is stated in the passage that _.A) some parents are not prepared to have a childB) young coup

32、les do not like children at allC) working couples do not have much time to take care of their childrenD) many parents look forward to having a boy as their first child28. In the second paragraph, the author _.A) criticizes fathers for not taking enough responsibilities in bringing up their childrenB

33、) excuses the American writers for ignoring the difficulties of being a fatherC) supports the idea that the chief role of a father is to earn money for the familyD) complains about the lack of social programs to help husbands adjust themselves to being a father29. The transition to the mothers role

34、requires that the wife _.A) change her life style in a highly innovative wayB) make a complete change in her everyday life to deal with the new situationC) stay at home to take care of the babyD) help her husband in his resocialization process30. Some writers argue that with respect to the change of

35、 roles, fathers, compared with mothers, _.A) have to shoulder more burdensB) have to make more difficult adaptationsC) have an easier job to doD) can usually do a better jobPassage ThreeQuestions 31 to 35 are based on the following passage.Reading is thought to be a kind of conversation between the

36、reader and the text. The reader puts questions, as it were, to the text and gets answers. In the light of these he puts further questions, and so on.For most of the time this “conversation” goes on below the level of consciousness. At times, however, we become aware of it. This is usually when we ar

37、e running into difficulties, when mismatch is occurring between expectations and meaning. When successful matching is being experienced, our questioning of the text continues at the unconscious level.英语四级考试网 www.CET4V.com 鼎力帮助考生顺利通过大学英语四级考试！英语四级考试网 www.CET4V.com 经典奉献 7Different people converse with

38、the text differently. Some stay very close to the words on the page; others take off imaginatively from the words, interpreting, criticizing, analyzing and examining. The former represents a kind of comprehension which is written in the text. The latter represents higher levels of comprehension. The

39、 balance between these is important, especially for advanced readers.There is another conversation which from our point of view is equally important, and that is to do not with what is read but with how it is read. We call this a “process” conversation as opposed to a “content” conversation. It is c

40、oncerned not with meaning but with the strategies (策略) we employ in reading. If we are an advanced reader our ability to hold a process conversation with a text is usually pretty well developed. Not so our ability to hold a content conversation. It is precisely this kind of conversation that is of i

41、mportance when we are seeking to develop our reading to meet the new demands being placed upon us by studying at a higher level.31. Reading as a kind of conversation between the reader and the text becomes conscious only when _.A) the readers expectations agree with what is said in the textB) the re

42、ader has trouble understanding what the author saysC) the reader asks questions and gets answersD) the reader understands a text very well32. At a lower level of comprehension, readers tend to _.A) read a text slowlyB) read without thinking hardC) interpret a text in their own wayD) concentrate on t

43、he meaning of words only33. A “process” conversation has to do with _.A) the application of reading strategiesB) matching our expectations with the meaning of a textC) the development of our ability to check the detailsD) determining the main idea of a text34. According to the passage, it is of grea

44、t importance for readers at a higher level to maintain a balance between _.A) conscious and unconscious levels of comprehensionB) the readers expectations and the meaning of a textC) lower and higher levels of comprehensionD) interpreting and criticizing a text英语四级考试网 www.CET4V.com 鼎力帮助考生顺利通过大学英语四级考

45、试！英语四级考试网 www.CET4V.com 经典奉献 835. If we want to develop our reading ability at an advanced level, we should _.A) learn to use different approaches in reading different textsB) make our reading process more consciousC) pay more attention to the content of a textD) take a critical attitude towards the

46、 authors ideaPassage FourQuestions 36 to 40 are based on the following passage.Although April did not bring us the rains we all hoped for, and although the Central Valley doesnt generally experience the atmospheric sound and lightning that can accompany those rains, its still important for parents t

47、o be able to answer the youthful questions about thunder and lightning.The reason these two wonders of nature are so difficult for many adults to explain to children is that they are not very well understood by adults themselves. For example, did you know that the lightning we see flashing down to t

48、he earth from a cloud is actually flashing up to a cloud from the earth? Our eyes trick us into thinking we see a downward motion when its actually the other way around. But then, if we believed only what we think we see, wed still insist that the sun rises in the morning and sets at night.Most ligh

49、tning flashes take place inside a cloud, and only a relative few can be seen jumping between two cloud or between earth and a cloud. But, with about 2,000 thunderstorms taking place above the earth every minute of the day and night, theres enough activity to produce about 100 lightning strikes on earth every second.Parents can use thunder and lightning to help their children learn more about the world around them. When children understand that