1、 第 1 页 共 69 页2017 年 6 月大学英语四级真题及答案详解(第一套)Part I Writing (25 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 advertisement on your campus website to sell a computer you used at college. Your advertisement may include its brand, specifications/feat
2、ures, condition and price, and your contact information.You should write at least 120 words but no more than 180 words.Part II Listening Comprehension (30 minutes)Section ADirections: In this section, you will hear three news reports. At the end of each news report, you will hear two or three questi
3、ons. Both the news report and questions will be spoken only once. After you hear questions, you must choose the best answer from the four choices marked A), B), C) and D). Then mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 1 with a single line through the centre.注意：此部分试题请在答题卡 1 上作答。Questions 1 to 2
4、are based on the conversation 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-driving system was faulty.D) The car was moving at a fast speed.2. A) They have done better than conventional cars.第 2 页 共 69 页B) They have caused severa
5、l severe crashes.C) They have posed a threat to other drivers.D) They have generally done quite well.Questions 3 to 4 are based on the conversation you have just heard.3. A) He works at a national park.B) He is a queen been specialist.C) He removed the beyond from the boot.D) He drove the bees away
6、from his car.4. A) They were looking after the queenB) They were making a lot of noiseC) They were looking for a new box to live inD) They were dancing in a unique wayQuestions 5 to 7 are based on the conversation you have just heard.5. A) The discovery of a new species of snakeB) The second trip to
7、 a small remote islandC) The finding of 2 new species of frogD) The latest test on rare animal species第 3 页 共 69 页6. A) A poisonous snake attacked him on his field tripB) He discovered a rare fog on a desertedC) A snake crawled onto his head in his sleepD) He fell from a tall palm tree by accident7.
8、 A) From its genesB) From its lengthC) From its originD) From its colourSection BDirections: In this section, you will hear two long conversations. At the end of each conversation, you will hear four questions. Both the conversation and the questions will be spoken only once. After you hear a questi
9、on, you must choose the best answer from the four choices marked A), B), C) and D). Then mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 1 with a single line through the centre.Questions 8 to 11 are based on the conversation you have just heard.8. A) The security check takes timeB) He has to check a l
10、ot of luggageC) His flight is leaving in less than 2 hoursD) The airport is a long way from the hotel第 4 页 共 69 页9. A) In cashB) By credit cardC) With a travelers checkD) With his smart phone10. A) Give him a receiptB) Confirm his flightC) Look after his luggageD) Find a porter for him11 . A) Signin
11、g up for membership of S HotelB) Staying in the same hotel next time he comesC) Loading her luggage onto the airport shuttleD) Posting a comment on the hotels webpageQuestions 12 to 15 are based on the conversation you have just heard.12. A) He is the only boy in his familyB) He becomes tearful in w
12、indC) He has stopped making terrible facesD) He is his teachers favorite student13. A) Tell him to play in her backyardB) Do something funny to amuse him第 5 页 共 69 页C) Give him some cherry stones to play withD) Warn him of danger by making up a story14. A) They could break pps legsB) They could some
13、times terrify adultsC) They could fly against a strong windD) They could knock pp unconscious15. A) One would get a spot on their tongues if they told a lie deliberatelyB) One would have to shave their head to remove a bat in their hairC) One would go to prison if they put a stamp on upside downD) O
14、ne would have curly hair if they ate too much stale breadSection CDirections: In this section, you will hear three passages of lectures or talks followed by three or four questions. The recordings will be played only once. After you hear a question,you must choose the best answer from the four choic
15、es marked A), B), C) and D). Then mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 1 with a single line through the centre.Questions 16 to 18 are based on the passage you have just heard.16. A) Everything seemed to be changing.B) People were formal and disciplined.C) People were excited to go travellin
16、g overseas.D) Things from the Victorian era came back alive.第 6 页 共 69 页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 take a lot of money.C) He was a student in the 1960s.D) He was a man full of ima
17、gination.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 looks away and gets
18、 angry, too.D) It focuses its eyes on their mouths.21. A) By observing their facial features carefully.第 7 页 共 69 页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 are based on
19、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 have their weight re
20、duced to minimum.B) They consume the 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 peoples houses.C) By g
21、rowing thicker hair to stay warm.D) By storing enough food beforehand.25. A) To stay safe. B) To save energy.第 8 页 共 69 页C) To keep company. D) To protect the young.Part Reading Comprehension (40 minutes)Section ADirections: In this section, there is a passage with ten blanks. You are required to se
22、lect 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 with a single line th
23、rough the centre. 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 (啤酒花)，for example, which give many a modem beer its bitter flavor, are a (26)_ recent addition to the beverage. T
24、his was first mentioned in reference to brewing in the ninth century. Now, researchers have found a (27)_ingredient in residue (残留物）from 5,000-year-old beer brewing equipment. While digging two pits at a site in the central plains of China, scientists discovered fragments from pots and vessels. The
25、different shapes of the containers (28)_ they were used to brew, filter, and store beer. They may be ancient “beer-making tools,” and the earliest (29_ evidence of beer brewing in China, the researchers reported in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. To (30)_ that theory, the team e
26、xamined the yellowish, dried (31)_inside the vessels. The majority of the grains, about 80%, were from cereal crops like barley (大麦) ,and about 10% were bits of roots, (32)_lily,which would have made the beer sweeter, the scientists say. Barley was an unexpected find: the crop was domesticated in We
27、stern Eurasia and didnt become a (33)_food in central China until about 2,000 years ago, according to the researchers. Based on that timing, they indicate barley may have (34)_ in the region not as food, but as (35)_material for beer brewing.第 9 页 共 69 页注意：此部分试题请在答题卡 2 上作答。A) Arrived B) B) consuming
28、 C) C) direct D) D) exclusivelyE) including F) inform G) raw H) reachedI) relatively J) remains K)resources L) stapleM) suggest N) surprising O) testSection BDirections: In this section, you are going to read a passage with ten statements attached to it. Each statement contains information given in
29、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 and Curse of the People Who Never ForgetA ha
30、ndful of people can recall almost every day of their lives in enormous detailand after years of research, neuroscientists (神经科学专家) 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 much as we would like to cling on to
31、 our past, even the saddest moments can be washed away with time.B Ask Nima Veiseh what he was doing for any day in the past 15 years, 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 his journey to work. “My memory is li
32、ke 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 party. He had always had a good memory, bu
33、t 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.”第 10 页 共 69 页D Needless to say, people like Veiseh are of great interest to neuroscientists hoping to understa
34、nd 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 memory”（or HSAM for short) first came
35、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 McGaugh invited her to his lab, and began to t
36、est 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 thank to the subsequent media interest, a few
37、 dozen other subjects (including Veiseh) 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 extraordinary detail, they seem to be no better than a
38、verage 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, there is no such thing as a “perfect” memoryth
39、eir 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 particularly high on two measures: fantasy proneness (倾向
40、)and absorption. Fantasy proneness could be considered a tendency to imagine and daydream, whereas absorption is the tendency to allow your mind to become fully absorbed in an activity to pay complete attention to the sensations (感受 )and the experiences. “Im extremely sensitive to sounds, smells and
41、 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 the 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 day,but the difference is that thanks
