1、12018 年 6 月大学英语四级真题（第 3 套)Part I Writing （30 minutes）Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30minutes to write a short essay on the importance of speaking ability and how to develop it. You should write at least 120 words but no more than180 words._Part II Listening Comprehension (25 minutes)说明：
2、由于 2018 年 6 月四级考试全国共考了两套听力, 本套真题听力与前两套内容相同, 只是选项顺序不同, 因此在本套真题中不再重复出现。Part Reading Comprehension (40 minutes)Section ADirections: In this section, there is a passage with ten blanks. You are required to select one word for each blank from a list of choices given in a word bank following the passage.
3、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 with a single line through the centre. You may not use any of the words in the bank more than once.Neon (霓虹 ) is to H
4、ong Kong as red phone booths are to London and fog is to San Francisco. When night falls, red and blue and other colors 26 a hazy (雾蒙蒙的) glow over a city lit up by tens of thousands of neon signs. But many of them are going dark, 27 by more practical, but less romantic, LEDs (发光二极管).Changing buildin
5、g codes, evolving tastes, and the high cost of maintaining those wonderful old signs have businesses embracing LEDs, which are energy 28 , but still carry great cost. “To me, neon represents memories of the past,“ says photographer Sharon Blance, whose series Hong Kong Neon celebrates the citys famo
6、us signs. “Looking at the signs now I get a feeling of amazement, mixed with sadness.“Building a neon sign is an art practiced by 29 trained on the job to mold glass tubes into 30 shapes and letters. They fill these tubes with gases that glow 2when 31 . Neon makes orange, while other gases make yell
7、ow or blue. It takes many hours to craft a single sign.Blance spent a week in Hong Kong and 32 more than 60 signs; 22 of them appear in the series that capture the signs lighting up lonely streetsan 33 that makes it easy to admire their colors and craftsmanship. “I love the beautiful, handcrafted, o
8、ld-fashioned 34 of neon,“ says Blance. The signs do nothing more than 35 a restaurant, theater, or other business, but do so in the most striking way possible.A) alternative B) approach C) cast D) challenging E) decorative F) efficient G) electrified H) identify I) photographed J) professionalsK) qu
9、ality L) replaced M) stimulate N) symbolizes O) volunteers Section BDirections: In this section, you are going to read a passage with ten statements attached to it. Each statement contains information given in one of the paragraphs. Identify the paragraph from which the information is derived. You m
10、ay 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.New Jersey School District Eases Pressure on StudentsBaring an Ethnic DivideA) This fall, David Aderhold, the chief of a high-achieving school dist
11、rict near Princeton, New Jersey, sent parents an alarming 16-page letter. The school district, he said, was facing a crisis. Its students were overburdened and stressed out, having to cope with too much work and too many demands. In the previous school year, 120 middle and high school students were
12、recommended for mental health assessments and 40 were hospitalized. And on a survey administered by the district, students wrote things like, “I hate going to school,“ and “Coming out of 12 years in this district, I have learned one thing: that a grade, a percentage or even a point is to be valued o
13、ver anything else.“B) With his letter, Aderhold inserted West Windsor-Plainsboro Regional School District into a national discussion about the intense focus on achievement at elite schools, and whether it has gone too far. At follow-up meetings, he urged parents to join him in advocating a “whole ch
14、ild“ approach to schooling that respects “social-emotional development“ and “deep and meaningful learning“ over academics alone. The alternative, he suggested, was to face the prospect of becoming another Palo Alto, California, where outsize stress on teenage students is believed to have contributed
15、 to a number of suicides in the last six years.3C) But instead of bringing families together, Aderholds letter revealed a divide in the district, which has 9,700 students, and one that broke down roughly along racial lines. On one side are white parents like Catherine Foley, a former president of th
16、e Parent-Teacher-Student Association at her daughters middle school, who has come to see the districts increasingly pressured atmosphere as opposed to learning. “My son was in fourth grade and told me, Im not going to amount to anything because I have nothing to put on my resume,“ she said. On the o
17、ther side are parents like Mike Jia, one of the thousands of Asian-American professionals who have moved to the district in the past decade, who said Aderholds reforms would amount to a “dumbing down“ of his childrens education. “What is happening here reflects a national anti-intellectual trend tha
18、t will not prepare our children for the future,“ Jia said.D) About 10 minutes from Princeton and an hour and a half from New York City, West Windsor and Plainsboro have become popular bedroom communities for technology entrepreneurs, researchers and engineers, drawn in large part by the public schoo
19、ls. From the last three graduating classes, 16 seniors were admitted to MIT. It produces Science Olympiad winners, classically trained musicians and students with perfect SAT scores.E) The district has become increasingly popular with immigrant families from China, India and Korea. This year, 65 per
20、cent of its students are Asian-American, compared with 44 percent in 2007. Many of them are the first in their families born in the United States. They have had a growing influence on the district. Asian-American parents are enthusiastic supporters of the competitive instrumental music program. They
21、 have been huge supporters of the districts advanced mathematics program, which once began in the fourth grade but will now start in the sixth. The change to the program, in which 90 percent of the participating students are Asian-American, is one of Aderholds reforms.F) Asian-American students have
22、 been eager participants in a state program that permits them to take summer classes off campus for high school credit, allowing them to maximize the number of honors and Advanced Placement classes they can take, another practice that Aderhold is limiting this school year. With many Asian-American c
23、hildren attending supplementary instructional programs, there is a perception among some white families that the elementary school curriculum is being sped up to accommodate them.G) Both Asian-American and white families say the tension between the two groups has grown steadily over the past few yea
24、rs, as the number of Asian families has risen. But the division has become more obvious in recent months as Aderhold has made changes, including no-homework nights, an end to high school midterms and finals, and an initiative that made it easier to participate in the music program.4H) Jennifer Lee,
25、professor of sociology at the University of California, Irvine, and an author of the Asian American Achievement Paradox, says misunderstanding between first-generation Asian-American parents and those who have been in this country longer are common. What white middle-class parents do not always unde
26、rstand, she said, is how much pressure recent immigrants feel to boost their children into the middle class. “They dont have the same chances to get their children internships (实习职位 ) or jobs at law firms,“ Lee said. “So what they believe is that their children must excel and beat their white peers
27、in academic settings so they have the same chances to excel later. “I) The issue of the stresses felt by students in elite school districts has gained attention in recent years as schools in places like Newton, Massachusetts, and Palo Alto have reported a number of suicides. West Windsor-Plainsboro
28、has not had a teenage suicide in recent years, but Aderhold, who has worked in the district for seven years and been chief for the last three years, said he had seen troubling signs. In a recent art assignments, a middle school student depicted (描绘) an overburdened child who was being scolded for ea
29、rning an A, rather than an A+ , on a math exam. In the image, the mother scolds the student with the words, “Shame on you!“ Further, he said, the New Jersey Education Department has flagged at least two pieces of writing on state English language assessments in which students expressed suicidal thou
30、ghts.J) The survey commissioned by the district found that 68 percent of high school honor and Advanced Placement students reported feeling stressed about school “always or most of the time.“ “We need to bring back some balance,“ Aderhold said. “You dont want to wait until its too late to do somethi
31、ng. “K) Not all public opinion has fallen along racial lines. Karen Sue, the Chinese-American mother of a fifth-grader and an eighth-grader, believes the competition within the district has gotten out of control. Sue, who was born in the United States to immigrant parents, wants her peers to dial it
32、 back. “Its become an arms race, an educational arms race,“ she said. “We all want our kids to achieve and be successful. The question is, at what cost?“36. Aderhold is limiting the extra classes that students are allowed to take off campus.37. White and Asian-American parents responded differently
33、to Aderholds appeal.38. Suicidal thoughts have appeared in some students writings.39. Aderholds reform of the advanced mathematics program will affect Asian-American students most.40. Aderhold appealed for parents support in promoting an all-round development of children, instead of focusing only on
34、 their academic performance.541. One Chinese-American parent thinks the competition in the district has gone too far.42. Immigrant parents believe that academic excellence will allow their children equal chances to succeed in the future.43. Many businessmen and professionals have moved to West Winds
35、or and Plainsboro because of the public schools there.44. A number of students in Aderholds school district were found to have stress-induced mental health problems.45. The tension between Asian-American and white families has increased in recent years.Section CDirections: There are 2 passages in th
36、is 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 letter on Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through the centre.Passage OneQuestions 46 an
37、d 50 are based on the following passage.For thousands of years, people have known that the best way to understand a concept is to explain it to someone else. “While we teach, we learn,“ said Roman philosopher Seneca. Now scientists are bringing this ancient wisdom up-to-date. Theyre documenting why
38、teaching is such a fruitful way to learn, and designing innovative ways for young people to engage in instruction.Researchers have found that students who sign up to tutor others work harder to understand the material, recall it more accurately and apply it more effectively. Student teachers score h
39、igher on tests than pupils whore learning only for their own sake. But how can children, still learning themselves, teach others? One answer: They can tutor younger kids. Some studies have found that first-born children are more intelligent than their later-born siblings (兄弟姐妹). This suggests their
40、higher IQs result from the time they spend teaching their siblings. Now educators are experimenting with ways to apply this model to academic subjects. They engage college undergraduates to teach computer science to high school students, who in turn instruct middle school students on the topic.But t
41、he most cutting-edge tool under development is the “teachable agent“a computerized character who learns, tries, makes mistakes and asks questions just like a real-world pupil. Computer scientists have created an animated (动画的) figure called Bettys Brain, who has been “taught“ about environmental sci
42、ence by hundreds of middle school students. Student teachers are 6motivated to help Betty master certain materials. While preparing to teach, they organize their knowledge and improve their own understanding. And as they explain the information to it, they identify problems in their own thinking.Fee
43、dback from the teachable agents further enhances the tutors learning. The agents questions compel student tutors to think and explain the materials in different ways, and watching the agent solve problems allows them to see their knowledge put into action.Above all, its the emotions one experiences
44、in teaching that facilitate learning. Student tutors feel upset when their teachable agents fail, but happy when these virtual pupils succeed as they derive pride and satisfaction from someone elses accomplishment.46. What are researchers rediscovering through their studies?A) Senecas thinking is st
45、ill applicable today.B) Better learners will become better teachers.C) Human intelligence tends to grow with age.D) Philosophical thinking improves instruction.47. What do we learn about Bettys Brain?A) It is a character in a popular animation.B) It is a teaching tool under development.C) It is a cu
46、tting-edge app in digital games.D) It is a tutor for computer science students.48. How does teaching others benefit student tutors?A) It makes them aware of what they are strong at.B) It motivates them to try novel ways of teaching.C) It helps them learn their academic subjects better.D) It enables
47、them to better understand their teachers.49. What do students do to teach their teachable agents?A) They motivate them to think independently.B) They ask them to design their own questions.C) They encourage them to give prompt feedback.7D) They use various ways to explain the materials.50. What is t
48、he key factor that eases student tutors learning?A) Their sense of responsibility. B) Their emotional involvement. C) The learning strategy acquired.D) The teaching experience gained.Passage TwoQuestions 51 to 55 are based on the following passage.A new batch of young womenmembers of the so-called Millennial (千禧的) generation has been entering the workforce for the past decade. At the starting line of their careers, they are better educated than th
