1、2015年6月大学英语四级真题试题三(完整版)Part I Writing (30 minutes)(请于正式开考后半小时内完成该部分，之后将进行听力考试)Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write an essay basedon the picture below. You should start your essay with a brief description of thepicture and then comment on parents role in their childrens grow
2、th. You should writeat least 120 words but no more than 180 words.Part II Listening Comprehension (30 minutes)Section ADirections: In this section, you will hear 8 short conversations and 2 longconversations. At the end of each conversation, one or more questions will be askedabout what was said. Bo
3、th the conversation and the questions will be spoken onlyonce. After each question there will be a pause. During the pause, you must read thefour choices marked A),B),C)and D), and decide which is the best answer. Then markthe corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 1with a single line through the cent
4、re.注意：此部分试题请在答题卡1上作答。1. A) The woman should go on playing chess.B) He is willing to play chess with a woman.C) The woman has good reason to quit the game.D) He will give the woman some tips on the game.2. A) She would like to resume contact with Sally.B) The man can forward the mail to Marry.C) She
5、can call Mary to take care of the mail.D) Mary probably knows Sallys new address.3. A) He did not attend todays class.B) His handwriting has a unique style.C) His notes are not easy to read.D) He is very pleased to be able to help.4. A) The new restaurant is a perfect place for dating.B) The new res
6、taurant caught her fancy immediately.C) The man has good taste in choosing the restaurant.D) The man had better choose another restaurant.5. A) He will help the woman put things away.B) He has been waiting for the winter sale.C) He has been looking forward to spring.D) He will clean the womans boots
7、 for spring.6. A) The woman often works overtime at weekends.B) The man often lends books to the woman.C) The man appreciates the womans help.D) The woman is rather forgetful.7. A) Take a sightseeing trip.B) Go to work on foot.C) Start work earlier than usual.D) Take a walk when the weather is nice.
8、8. A) Temporary clothing has disturbed the airports operation.B) The plane is going to land at another airport.C) All flights have been delayed due to the bad weather.D) The airports management is in real need of improvement.Questions 9 to 12 are based on the conversation you have just heard.9. A) I
9、t specializes in safety from leaks.B) It is headquartered in London.C) It has a chemical processing plant.D) It has a partnership with lCP.10. A) He is a safety inspector.B) He is Mr. Grants friend.C) He is a chemist.D) He is a salesman.11. A) The public relations officer.B) Head of the personal dep
10、artment.C) Mr. Grants personal assistant.D) Director of the safety department.12. A) Send a comprehensive description of their work.B) Provide details of their products and services.C) Leave a message for Mr. Grant.D) Wait for Mr. Grant to call back.Questions 13 to 15 are based on the conversation y
11、ou have just heard.13. A) She listened to recordings of many European orchestras.B) She read a lot about European musicians and their music.C) She dreamed of working and living in a European country.D) She learned playing the violin from a famous French musician.14. A) She was a pupil of a famous Eu
12、ropean violinist.B) She gave her first performance with her father.C) She became a professional violinist at fifteen.D) She began taking violin lessons as a small child.15. A) It was a chance of a lifetime.B) It was a great challenge to her.C) It gave her a chance to explore the city.D) It helped he
13、r learn classical French music.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
14、 marked A),B),C)and D). Then mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 1with a single line through the centre.注意：此部分试题请在答题卡1上作答。Passage One Questions 16 to 18 are based on the passage you have just heard.16. A) There are mysterious stories behind his works.B) His personal history is little known
15、.C) His works has no match worldwide.D) There are many misunderstandings about him.17. A) He once worked in a well-known acting company.B) He moved to Stanford-on-Avon in his childhood.C) He failed to go beyond grammar school.D) He was a member of the town council.18. A) People of his time had littl
16、e interest in him.B) His works was adapted beyond recognition.C) Possible sources of clues about him were lost in a fire.D) Writers of his time had no means to protect their works.Passage Two Questions 19 to 21 are based on the passage you have just heard.19. A) Theft.B) Cheating.C) Air crash.D) Roa
17、d accidents.20. A) learn the local customs.B) Have the right documents.C) Book tickets well in advance.D) Make hotel reservations.21. A) Contact your agent.B) Use official transport.C) Get a lift if possible.D) Have a friend meet you.Passage ThreeQuestions 22 to 25 are based on the passage you have
18、just heard.22. A) Cut down production cost.B) Refine the taste of his goods.C) Sell inexpensive products.D) Specialise in gold ornaments.23. A) At a meeting of top British businesspeople.B) During a local sales promotion campaign.C) During a live television interview.D) At the national press confere
19、nce.24. A) Discouraged.B) Distressed.C) Puzzled.D) Insulted.25. A) He is not laughed at that laughs at himself first.B) There should be a limit to ones sense of humour.C) He who never learns from the past is bound to fail.D) The words of some businesspeople are just rubbish.Section CDirections: In t
20、his section, you will hear a passage three times. When the passage is read for the first time, you should listen carefully for its general idea. When the passage is read for the second time, you are required to fill in the blanks with the exact words you have just heard. Finally, when the passage is
21、 read for the third time, you should check what you have written.注意：此部分试题请在答题卡1上作答。Looking at the basic biological systems, the world is not doing very well. Yet economic indicators show the world is (26)_.Despite of show start at the beginning of the eighties, Global economic output increased by mo
22、re than a fifth during the(27)_.The economy grew, trade increased, and millions of new jobs were created. How can be biological indicators show the (28)_of economic indicators?The answer is that the economic indicators have a basic fault: they show no differencebetween resource uses that (29)_progre
23、ss and those uses that will hurt it. The main measure of economic progress is a gross national product (GNP). (30)_, this totals the value of all goods and services produced and subtracts loss in value of factories and equipment. Developed a half-century ago, GNP helped (31)_a common way among count
24、ries of measuring change in economic output. For some time, this seemed to work (32)_well, but serious witnesses are now appearing. As indicated earlier, GNP includes loss in value of factories and equipment, but it does not (33) _the loss of natural resources, including nonrenewable resources such
25、as oil or renewable resources such as forests.These basic fault can produce a (34)_sense of national economic health. According to GNP, for example, countries that overcut forests actually do better than those that preserve their forests, The trees cut down are counted as income but no substraction
26、is made for (35)_the forests.注意：此部分试题请在答题卡1上作答。Part Reading Comprehension (40 minutes)Section ADirections: In this section, there is a passage with ten blanks. You are required toselect one word for each blank from a list of choices given in a word bank followingthe passage. Read the passage through
27、 carefully before making your choices. Eachchoice in the bank is identified by a letter. Please mark the corresponding letter foreach item on Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through the centre. You may not useany of the words in the bank more than once.Questions 36 to 45 are based on the following
28、 passage.As a teacher, you could bring the community into your classroom in many ways.The parents and grandparents of your students are resources and (36)_ fortheir children. They can be (37)_Teachers of their own traditions andhistories. Immigrant parents could talk about their country of (38)_and
29、whythey emigrated to the United States. Parents can be invited to talk about their jobs or acommunity project. Parents, of course, are not the only community resources.Employees at local business and stuff at community agencies have(39)_information to share in classrooms.Field trips provide another
30、opportunity to know the community. Many studentsdont have the opportunity to (40)_concerts or visit museums or historicalsites except through field trips. A school district should have (41)_forselecting and conducting field trips. Families must be made (42)_ of fieldtrips and given permission for th
31、eir children to participate.Through school projects, students can learn to be (43)_In communityprojects ranging from planting trees to cleaning up a park to assisting elderly people.Students, (44)_Older ones, might conduct research on a community needthat could lead to action by a city council or st
32、ate government. Some schools requirestudents to provide community service by (45)_in a nursing home, childcare center or government agency. These projects help students understand theirresponsibility to the larger community.注意：此部分试题请在答题卡2上作答。A) assets I) joiningB) attend J) naturallyC) aware K) obse
33、rveD) especially L) originE) excellent M) recruitedF) expensive N) up-to-dateG) guidelines O) volunteeringH) involved Section BDirections: In this section, you are going to read a passage with ten statementsattached to it. Each statement contains information given in one of the paragraphs.Identify t
34、he paragraph from which the information is derived. You may choose aparagraph more than once. Each paragraph is marked with a letter. Answer thequestions by marking the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 2.Reaping the Rewards of Risk-TakingA Since Steve Jobs resigned as chief executive of Apple, m
35、uch has been said abouthim as peerless business leader who has created immense wealth for shareholders, andguided the design of hit products that are transforming entire industries, like musicand mobile communications.B All true, but lets think different, to borrow the apple marketing slogan of year
36、sback. Lets look at Mr. Jobs as a role model.C Above all, he is an innovator（创新者）.His creative force is seen in productssuch as the iPod, iPhone, and iPad, and in new business models for pricing anddistributing music and mobile software online. Studies of innovation come to thesame conclusion: you c
37、ant engineer innovation, but you can increase the odds of itoccurring. And Mr. Jobs career can be viewed as a consistent pursuit of improvingthose odds, both for himself and the companies he has lied. Mr. Jobs, of course, hasenjoyed singular success. But innovation broadly defined, is the crucial in
38、gredient inall economic processhigher growth for nations, more competitive products forcompliance, and more prosperous careers for individuals, and Mr. Job, many expertssay, exemplifies what works in the innovation game.D “We can look at and learn from Steve Jobs what the essence of Americaninnovati
39、on is, “says John Kao notes, and now ahead of the United States in producingwhat are considered the raw materials of innovation. These include governmentfinancing for scientific research, national politics to support emerging industries,educational achievement, engineers and scientists graduated, ev
40、en the speed ofInternet broadband service.E Yet what other nations typically lack, Mr. Kao adds is a social environment thatencourages diversity, Experimentation risk-taking, and combining skills from manyfields into products that he calls “recombinant mash-ups（打碎重组），“like theiPhone, which redefined
41、 the smartphone category.“ The culture of other countriesdoesnt support the kind of innovation that Steve Jobs, exemplifies, as Americadoes,“Mr. John Kao says.F Workers of every rank are told these days that wide-ranging curiosity Andcontinuous learning are vital to thriving in the modern economy. F
42、ormal educationmatters, career counselors say, but real-life experience is often even more valuable.G An adopted child, growing up in Silicon Valley, Mr. Jobs displayed those trialsearly on. He was fascinated by electronics as a child, building Heathkit do-it-yourselfprojects, like radios. Mr. Jobs
43、dropped out of Reed College after only a semester andtraveled around India in search of spiritual enlightenment, before returning to SiliconValley to found Apple with his friends, Stephen Wozniak, an engineering wizard（奇才）.Mr. Jobs was forced out of Apple in 1985, went off and founded two othercompa
44、nies, Next and Pixar, before returning to Apple in 1996 And becoming chiefexecutive in 1997.H His path was unique, but innovation experts say the pattern of exploration is notunusual.“ Its often people like Steve Jobs who can draw from a deep reservoir ofdiverse experiences that often generate break
45、through ideas and insights,“ says HalGregersen, a professor at the European Institute of Business Administration.I Mr. Gregerson is a co-author of new book, The Innovators DNA, which is basedon an eight-year study of 5,000 entrepreneurs（创业者）and executives worldwide.His two collaborators and co-autho
46、rs are Jeff Dyer, a professor at Brigham YoungUniversity, and Clayton Christensen, a professor at the Harvard Business School,Whose 1997 book The Innovators Dilemma popularized concept of “disruptive （颠覆性的） innovation.“J The academics identify five traits that are coming to the disruptive innovators
47、:questioning, experimenting, observing, associating and networking. Their bundle ofcharacteristics echoes the ceaseless curiosity and willingness to take risks noted byother experts. Networking, Mr. Hal Gregerson explains, is less about the career-building relationships than a consistent search for
48、new ideas. Associating he adds, isthe ability to make idea-producing connections by linking concepts from differentdisciplines.K “Innovators engage in these metal activities regularly,“ Mr. Gregersen says.“ Its ahabit for them.“ Innovative Companies, according to the authors, typically enjoyhigher valuations in the stock market, which they call an “Innovation premium（溢价）.“It is calculated by estimati
