1、2017 年 06 月大学英语四级考试真题(第 1 套) Part Writing (30 minutes) Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write an advertisement on your campus website to sell a computer you used at college. Your advertisement may include its brand, specifications/features, condition and price, and your conta
2、ct information. You should write at least 120 words but no more than 180 words. Part Listening Comprehension (25 minutes) Section A Questions 1 and 2 are based on the news report you have just heard. 1. A. The man in the car was absent-minded. B. The test driver made a wrong judgement. C. The self-d
3、riving system was faulty. D. The car was moving at a fast speed. 2. A. They have done better than conventional. B. They have caused several severe crashes. C. They have posed a threat to other drivers. D. They have generally done quite well. 3. A. He works at a national park. B. He is a queen bee sp
4、ecialist. C. He removed the beyond from the boot. D. He drove the bees away from his car. 4. A. They were looking after the queen. B. They were making a lot of noise. C. They were looking for a new box to live in. D. They were dancing in a unique way. 5. A. The discovery of a new species of snake. B
5、. The second trip to a small remote island. C. The finding of 2 new species of frog. D. The latest test on a rare animal species. 6. A. A poisonous snake attacked him on this field trip. B. He discovered a rare fog on a deserted island. C. A snake crawled onto his head in his sleep. D. He fell from
6、a tall palm tree by accident. 7. A. From its genes. B. From its length. C. From its origin. D. From its colour. 8. A. The security check takes time. B. He has to check a lot of luggage. C. His flight is leaving in less than 2 hours. D. The airport is a long way from the hotel. 9. A. In cash. B. By c
7、redit card.C. With a travelers check. D. With his smart phone. 10. A. Give him a receipt. B. Confirm his flight. C. Look after his luggage. D. Find a porter for him. 11. A. Signing up for membership of S Hotel. B. Staying in the same hotel next time he comes. C. Loading her luggage onto the airport
8、shuttle. D. Posting a comment on the hotels webpage. 12. A. He is the only boy in his family. B. He becomes tearful in wind. C. He has stopped making terrible faces. D. He is his teachers favorite student. 13. A. Tell him to play in her backyard. B. Do something funny to amuse him. C. Give him some
9、cherry stones to play with. D. Warn him of danger by making up a story. 14. A. They could break pps legs. B. They could sometimes terrify adults. C. They could fly against a strong wind. D. They could knock pp unconscious. 15. A. One would get a spot on their tongues if they told a lie deliberately.
10、 B. One would have to shave their head to remove a bat in their hair. C. One would go to prison if they put a stamp on upside down. D. One would have curly hair if they ate too much stale bread. 16. A. Everything seemed to be changing. B. People were formal and disciplined. C. People were excited to
11、 go traveling overseas. D. Things from the Victorian era came back alive. 17. A. Watching TV at home. B. Meeting people. C. Drinking coffee. D. Trying new foods. 18. A. He was interested in stylish dresses. B. He was able to make a lot of money. C. He was a young student in the 1960s. D. He was a ma
12、n full of imagination. Questions 19 to 21 are based on the passage you have just heard. 19. A. They avoid looking at them. B. They run away immediately. C. They show anger on their faces. D. They make threatening sounds. 20. A. It turns to its owner for help.B. It turns away to avoid conflict. C. It
13、 looks away and gets angry too. D. It focuses its eyes on their mouths. 21. A. By observing their facial features carefully. B. By focusing on a particular body movement. C. By taking in their facial expressions as a whole. D. by interpreting different emotions in different ways. Questions 22 to 25
14、are based on the passage you have just heard. 22. A. They have to look for food and shelter underground. B. They take little notice of the changes in temperature. C. They resort to different means to survive the bitter cold. D. They have difficulty adapting to the changed environment. 23. A. They ha
15、ve their weight reduced to the minimum. B. They consume energy stored before the long sleep. C. They can maintain their heart beat at the normal rate. D. They can keep their body temperature warm and stable. 24. A. By staying in hiding places and eating very little. B. By seeking food and shelter in
16、 peoples houses. C. By growing thicker hair to stay warm. D. By storing enough food beforehand. 25. A. To stay safe. B. To save energy. C. To keep company. D. To protect the young. Part Reading Comprehension (40 minutes) Section A Directions: In this section, there is a passage with ten blanks. You
17、are required to select one word for each blank from a list of choices given in a word bank following the passage. Read the passage through carefully before making your choices. Each choice in the bank is identified by a letter. Please mark the corresponding letter for each item on Answer Sheet 2 wit
18、h a single line through the center. You may not use any of the words in the bank more than once. Questions 26 to 35 are based on the following passage. The method for making beer has changed over time. Hops, for example, which give many a modern beer its bitter flavor, are a _(26)recent addition to
19、the beverage. This was mentioned in reference to brewing in the ninth century. Now, researchers have found a _(27)ingredient in residue(残留物) from 5000-year-old beer brewing equipment. While excavating two pits at a site in the central plains of China, scientists discovered fragments from pots, funne
20、ls, amphorae, and stoves (stove fragment pictured). The different shapes of the containers _(28)they were used to brew, filter, and store beer. They may be ancient “beer-making toolkits,” and the earliest _(29)evidence of beer brewing in China, the researchers report online today in the Proceedings
21、of the National Academy of Sciences. To _(30)that hypothesis, the team examined the yellowish, dried _(31)inside the vessels. The majority of the grains, about 80%, were from cereal crops like millet and barley(大麦), and about 10% were bits of roots, _(32)likely, would have made the beer sweeter, the
22、 scientists say. Barley was an unexpected find: The crop was domesticated in western Eurasia and didnt become a _(33)food in central China until about 2000 years ago, according to the researchers. Based on that timing, they suggest barley may have _(34)in the region not as food, but as_(35)material
23、for beer brewing. A. arrived B. consuming C. direct D. exclusively E. including F. inform G. raw H. reached I. relatively J. remains K. resources L. staple M. surprising N. suggest O. test Section B Directions: In this section, you are going to read a passage with ten statements attached to it. Each
24、 statement contains information given in one of the paragraphs. Identify the paragraph from which the information is derived. You may choose a paragraph more than once. Each paragraph is marked with a letter. Answer the questions by marking the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 2. The Blessing an
25、d Curse of the People Who Never Forget A handful of people can recall almost every day of their lives in enormous detailand after years of research, neuroscientists are finally beginning to understand how they do it. A. For most of us, memory is a mess of blurred and faded pictures of our lives. As
26、much as we would like to cling on to our past, even the saddest moments can be washed away with time.B. Ask Nima Verseh what he was doing for any day in the past 15years, however, and he will give you the details of the weather, what he was wearing, or even what side of the train he was sitting on h
27、is journey to work. “My memory is like a library of video tapes, walk-throughs of every day of my life from waking to sleeping,” he explains. C. Veiseh can even put a date on when those tapes started recording: 15 December 2000, when he met his first girlfriend at his best friends 16th birthday part
28、y. He had always had a good memory, but the thrill of young love seems to have shifted a gear in his mind: from now on, he would start recording his whole life in detail. “I could tell you everything about every day after that.” D. Needless to say, people like Veiseh are of great interest to neurosc
29、ientists (神经科学专家) hoping to understand the way the brain records our lives. A couple of recent papers have finally opened a window on these peoples extraordinary minds. And such research might even suggest ways for us all to relive our past with greater clarity. E. Highly superior autobiographical m
30、emory (or HSAM for short) , first came to light in the early 2000s, with a young woman named Jill Price, Emailing the neuroscientist and memory researcher Jim McGaugh one day, she claimed that she could recall every day of her life since the age of 12. Could he help explain her experiences? F. McGau
31、gh invited her to his lab, and began to test her: he would give her a date and ask her to tell him about the world events on that day. True to her word, she was correct almost every time. G. It didnt take long for magazines and documentary film-makers to come to understand her “total recall”, and th
32、anks to the subsequent media interest, a few dozen other subjects (including Verseh) have since come forward and contacted the team at the University of California, Irvine. H. Interestingly, their memories are highly self-centred: although they can remember “autobiographical” life events in extraord
33、inary detail, they seem to be no better than average at recalling impersonal information, such as random (任意选取的) lists of words. Nor are they necessarily better at remembering a round of drinks, say. And although their memories are vast, they are still likely to suffer from “false memories”. Clearly
34、, there is no such thing as a “perfect” memorytheir extraordinary minds are still using the same flawed tools that the rest of us rely on. The question is, how? I. Lawrence Patihis at the University of Southern Mississippi recently studied around 20 people with HSAM and found that they scored partic
35、ularly high on two measures: fantasy proneness (倾向) and absorption. Fantasy proneness could be considered a tendency to imagine and daydream, whereas absorption is the tendency to allow yur mind to become fully absorbed in an activityto pay complete attention to the sensations (感受) and the experienc
36、es. “Im extremely sensitive to sounds, smells and visual detail,” explains Nicole Donohue, who has taken part in many of these studies. “I definitely feel things more strongly than the average person.” J. The absorption helps them to establish strong foundations for recollection, says Patihis, and t
37、he fantasy proneness means that they revisit those memories again and again in the coming weeks and months. Each time this initial memory trace is “replayed”, it becomes even stronger. In some ways, you probably go through that process after a big event like your wedding daybut the difference is tha
38、t thanks to thir other psychological tendencies, the HSAM subjects are doing it day in, day out, for the whole of their lives. K. Not everyone with a tendency to fantasies will develop HSAM, though, so Patihis suggests that something must have caused them to think so much about their past. “Maybe so
39、me experience in their childhood meant that they became obsessed (着迷) with calendars and what happened to them,” says Patihis. L. The people with HSAM Ive interviewed would certainly agree that it can be a mixed blessing. On the plus side, it allows you to relive the most transformative and enrichin
40、g experiences. Verseh, for instance, travelled a lot in his youth. In his spare time, he visited the local art galleries, and the paintings are now lodged deep in his autobiographical memories. M. “Imagine being able to remember every painting, on every wall, in every gallery space, between nearly 4
41、0 countries,” he says. “Thats a big education in art by itself.” With this comprehensive knowledge of the history of art, he has since become a professional painter. N. Donohue, now a history teacher, agrees that it helped during certain parts of her education: “I can definitely remember what I lear
42、ned on certain days at school. I could imagine what the teacher was saying or what it looked life in the book.” O. Not everyone with HSAM has experienced these benefits, however. Viewing the past in high definition can make it very difficult to get over pain and regret. “It can be very hard to forge
43、t embarrassing moments,” say Donohue. “You feel the same emotionsit is just as raw, just as fresh You cant turn off that stream of memories, no matter how hard you try.” Veiseh agrees: “It is like having these open woundsthey are just a part of you,” he says. P. This means they often have to make a
44、special effort to lay the past to res. Bill, for instance, often gets painful “flashbacks”, in which unwanted memories intrude into his consciousness, but overall he has chosen to see it as the best way of avoiding repeating the same mistakes. “Some people are absorbed in the past but not open to ne
45、w memories, but thats not the case for me. I look forward to each day and experiencing something new.” 36. People with HSAM have the same memory as ordinary people when it comes to impersonal information. 37. Fantasy proneness will not necessarily cause people to develop HSAM. 38. Verseh began to re
46、member the details of is everyday experiences after he met his first young love. 39. Many more people with HSAM started to contact researchers due to the mass media. 40. People with HSAM often have to make efforts to avoid focusing on the past. 41. Most people do not have clear memories of past even
47、ts. 42. HSAM can be both a curse and a blessing. 43. A young woman sought explanation from a brain scientist when she noticed her unusual memory. 44. Some people with HSAM find it very hard to get rid of unpleasant memories. 45. A recent study of people with HSAM reveals that they are liable to fant
48、asy and full absorption in an activity. Section C Directions: There are 2 passages in this section. 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 lette
49、r on Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through the center. Passage One Questions 46 to 50 are based on the following passage. The phrase almost completes itself: midlife crisis. Its the stage in the middle of the journey when people feel youth vanishing, their prospects narrowing and death approaching. Theres only one problem with the clich (套话) . It isnt true. “In fact, there is almost no hard evidence for midlife crisis
