1、 2002 年 6 月大学英语四级考试试题Part I Listening Comprehension (20 minutes)Section A1. A) His father. B) His mother.C) His brother. D) His sister.2. A) A job opportunity. B) A position as general manager.C) A big travel agency. D) An inexperienced salesman.3. A) Having a break. B) Continuing the meeting.C) Mov
2、ing on to the next item. D) Waiting a little longer.4. A) The weather forecast says it will be fine. B) The weather doesnt count in their plan.C) They will not do as planned in case of rain. D) They will postpone their program if it rains.5. A) He wishes to have more courses like it. B) He finds it
3、hard to follow the teacher.C) He wishes the teacher would talk more. D) He doesnt like the teachers accent.6. A) Go on with the game. B) Draw pictures on the computer.C) Review his lessons. D) Have a good rest.7. A) She does not agree with Jack. B) Jacks performance is disappointing.C) Most people w
4、ill find basketball boring. D) She shares Jacks opinion.8. A) The man went to a wrong check-in counter. B) The man has just missed his flight.G) The plane will leave at 9:14. D) The planes departure time remains unknown.9. A) At a newsstand. B) At a car dealers.C) At a publishing house. D) At a news
5、paper office.10. A) He wants to get a new position. B) He is asking the woman for help.C) He has left the woman a good impression. D) He enjoys letter writing.Section BPassage OneQuestions 11 to 13 are based on the passage you have just heard.11. A) They are interested in other kinds of reading.B) T
6、hey are active in voluntary services.C) They tend to be low in education and in income.D) They live in isolated areas.12. A) The reasons why people dont read newspapers are more complicated than assumed.B) There are more uneducated people among the wealthy than originally expected.C) The number of n
7、ewspaper readers is steadily increasing.D) There are more non-readers among young people nowadays.13. A) Lowering the prices of their newspapers.B) Shortening their news stories.C) Adding variety to their newspaper content.D) Including more advertisements in their newspapers.Passage TwoQuestions 14
8、to 17 are based on the passage you have just heard.14. A) A basket. B) A cup. C) An egg. D) An oven.15. A) To let in the sunshine. B) To serve as its door.C) To keep the nest cool. D) For the bird to lay eggs.16. A) Branches. B) Grasses. C) Mud. D) Straw.17. A) Some are built underground. B) Some ca
9、n be eaten.C) Most are sewed with grasses. D) Most are dried by the sun.Passage ThreeQuestions 18 to 20 are based on the passage you have just heard.18. A) To examine the chemical elements in the Ice Age.B) To look into the pattern of solar wind activity.C) To analyze the composition of different tr
10、ees.D) To find out the origin of carbon-14 on Earth.19. A) The lifecycle of trees.B) The number of trees.C) The intensity of solar burning.D) The quality of air.20. A) It affects the growth of trees.B) It has been increasing since the Ice Age.C) It is determined by the chemicals in the air.D) It fol
11、lows a certain cycle.Part II Reading Comprehension (35 minutes)Passage OneQuestions 21 to 25 are based on the following passage:In the 1960s, medical researchers Thomas Holmes and Richard Rahe developed a checklist of stressful events. They appreciated the tricky point that any major change can be s
12、tressful. Negative events like “serious illness of a family member“ were high on the list, but so were some positive life-changing events, like marriage. When you take the Holmes-Rahe test you must remember that the score does not reflect how you deal with stress it only shows how much you have to d
13、eal with. And we now know that the way you handle these events dramatically affects your chances of staying healthy.By the early 1970s, hundreds of similar studies had followed Holmes and Rahe. And millions of Americans who work and live under stress worried over the reports. Somehow, the research g
14、ot boiled down to a memorable message. Womens magazines ran headlines like “Stress causes illness!“ If you want to stay physically and mentally healthy, the articles said, avoid stressful events.But such simplistic advice is impossible to follow. Even if stressful events are dangerous, many - like t
15、he death of a loved one-are impossible to avoid. Moreover, any warning to avoid all stressful events is a prescription (处方) for staying away from opportunities as well as trouble. Since any change can be stressful, a person who wanted to be completely free of stress would never marry, have a child,
16、take a new job or move.The notion that all stress makes you sick also ignores a lot of what we know about people. It assumes were all vulnerable (脆弱的) and passive in the face of adversity (逆境). But what about human initiative and creativity ? Many come through periods of stress with more physical an
17、d mental vigor than they had before. We also know that a long time without change or challenge can lead to boredom, and physical and mental strain. 21. The result of Holmes-Rahes medical research tells usA) the way you handle major events may cause stress _.B) what should be done to avoid stressC) w
18、hat kind of event would cause stressD) how to cope with sudden changes in life22. The studies on stress in the early 1970s led to _.A) widespread concern over its harmful effectsB) great panic over the mental disorder it could causeC) an intensive research into stress-related illnessesD) popular avo
19、idance of stressful jobs23. The score of the Holmes-Rahe test shows _.A) how much pressure you are underB) how positive events can change your lifeC) how stressful a major event can beD) how you can deal with life-changing events24. Why is “such simplistic advice“ (Line 1, Para. 3) impossible to fol
20、low?A) No one can stay on the same job for long.B) No prescription is effective in relieving stress.C) People have to get married someday.D) You could be missing opportunities as well.25. According to the passage people who have experienced ups and downs may become _.A) nervous when faced with diffi
21、cultiesB) physically and mentally strainedC) more capable of coping with adversityD) indifferent toward what happens to themPassage TwoQuestions 26 to 30 are based on the following passage:Most episodes of absent-mindedness - forgetting where you left something or wondering why you just entered a ro
22、om - are caused by a simple lack of attention, says Schacter. “Youre supposed to remember something, but you havent encoded it deeply.“Encoding, Schacter explains, is a special way of paying attention to an event that has a major impact on recalling it later. Failure to encode properly can create an
23、noying situations. If you put your mobile phone in a pocket, for example, and dont pay attention to what you did because youre involved in a conversation, youll probably forget that the phone is in the jacket now hanging in your wardrobe (衣柜). “Your memory itself isnt failing you,“ says Schacter. “R
24、ather, you didnt give your memory system the information it needed.“Lack of interest can also lead to absent-mindedness. “A man who can recite sports statistics from 30 years ago,“ says Zelinaki, “may not remember to drop a letter in the mailbox.“ Women have slightly better memories than men, possib
25、ly because they pay more attention to their environment, and memory relies on just that.Visual cues can help prevent absent-mindedness, says Schacter. “But be sure the cue is clear and available, he cautions. If you want to remember to take a medication (药物) with lunch, put the pill bottle on the ki
26、tchen table - dont leave it in the medicine chest and write yourself a note that you keep in a pocket.Another common episode of absent-mindedness: walking into a room and wondering why youre there. Most likely, you were thinking about something else. “Everyone does this from time to time,“ says Zeli
27、nski. The best thing to do is to return to where you were before entering the room, and youll likely remember.26. Why does the author think that encoding properly is very important?A) It helps us understand our memory system better.B) It enables us to recall something from our memory.C) It expands o
28、ur memory capacity considerably.D) It slows down the process of losing our memory.27. One possible reason why women have better memories than men is that _.A) they have a wider range of interestsB) they are more reliant on the environmentC) they have an unusual power of focusing their attentionD) th
29、ey are more interested in whats happening around them28. A note in the pocket can hardly serve as a reminder because _.A) it will easily get lostB) its not clear enough for you to readC) its out of your sightD) it might get mixed up with other things29. What do we learn from the last paragraph?A) If
30、 we focus our attention on one thing, we might forget another. _.B) Memory depends to a certain extent on the environment.C) Repetition helps improve our memory.D) If we keep forgetting things, wed better return to where we were.30. What is the passage mainly about?A) The process of gradual memory l
31、oss.B) The causes of absent-mindedness.C) The impact of the environment on memory.D) A way of encoding and recalling.Passage ThreeQuestions 31 to 35 are based on the following passage:It is hard to track the blue whale, the oceans largest creature, which has almost been killed off by commercial whal
32、ing and is now listed as an endangered species. Attaching radio devices to it is difficult, and visual sightings are too unreliable to give real insight into its behavior.So biologists were delighted early this year when, with the help of the Navy, they were able to track a particular blue whale for
33、 43 days, monitoring its sounds. This was possible because of the Navys formerly top-secret system of underwater listening devices spanning the oceans.Tracking whales is but one example of an exciting new world just opening to civilian scientists after the cold war as the Navy starts to share and pa
34、rtly uncover its global network of underwater listening system built over the decades to track the ships of potential enemies.Earth scientists announced at a news conference recently that they had used the system for closely monitoring a deep-sea volcanic eruption (爆发) for the first time and that th
35、ey plan similar studies.Other scientists have proposed to use the network for tracking ocean currents and measuring changes in ocean and global temperatures.The speed of sound in water is roughly one mile a second - slower than through land but faster than through air. What is most important, differ
36、ent layers of ocean water can act as channels for sounds, focusing them in the same way a stethoscope (听诊器) does when it carries faint noises from a patients chest to a doctors ear. This focusing is the main reason that even relatively weak sounds in the ocean, especially low-frequency ones, can oft
37、en travel thousands of miles.31. The passage is chiefly about _.A) an effort to protect an endangered marine speciesB) the civilian use of a military detection systemC) the exposure of a U. S, Navy top-secret weaponD) a new way to look into the behavior of blue whales32. The underwater listening sys
38、tem was originally designed _.A) to trace and locate enemy vesselsB) to monitor deep-sea volcanic eruptionsC) to study the movement of ocean currentsD) to replace the global radio communications network33. The deep-sea listening system makes use of _.A) the sophisticated technology of focusing sound
39、s under waterB) the capability of sound to travel at high speedC) the unique property of layers of ocean water in transmitting soundD) low-frequency sounds traveling across different layers of water34. It can be inferred from the passage that _.A) new radio devices should be developed for tracking t
40、he endangered blue whalesB) blue whales are no longer endangered with the use of the new listening systemC) opinions differ as to whether civilian scientists should be allowed to use military technologyD) military technology has great potential in civilian use35. Which of the following is true about
41、 the U.S. Navy underwater listening network?A) It is now partly accessible to civilian scientists.B) It has been replaced by a more advanced system.C) It became useless to the military after the cold war.D) It is indispensable in protecting endangered species.Passage FourQuestions 36 to 40 are based
42、 on the following passage:The fitness movement that began in the late 1960s and early 1970s centered around aerobic exercise (有氧操).Millions of individuals became engaged in a variety of aerobic activities, and literally thousands of health spas developed around the country to capitalize (获利) on this
43、 emerging interest in fitness, particularly aerobic dancing for females. A number of fitness spas existed prior to this aerobic fitness movement, even a national chain with spas in most major cities. However, their focus was not on aerobics, but rather on weight-training programs designed to develop
44、 muscular mass, strength, and endurance in their primarily male enthusiasts. These fitnessspas did not seem to benefit financially from the aerobic fitness movement to better health, since medical opinion suggested that weight-training programs offered few, ff any, health benefits. In recent years,
45、however, weight training has again become increasingly popular for males and for females. Many current programs focus not only on developing muscular strength and endurance but on aerobic fitness as well.Historically, most physical-fitness tests have usually included measures of muscular strength an
46、d endurance, not for health-related reasons, but primarily because such fitness components have been related to performance in athletics. However, in recent years, evidence has shown that training programs designed primarily to improve muscular strength and endurance might also offer some health ben
47、efits as well. The American College of Sports Medicine now recommends that weight training be part of a total fitness program for healthy Americans. Increased participation in such training is one of the specific physical activity and fitness objectives of Healthy People 2000: National Health Promot
48、ion and Disease Prevention Objectives.36. The word “spas“ ( Line 3, Para. 1 ) most probably refers to _.A) sports activitiesB) places for physical exerciseC) recreation centersD) athletic training programs37. Early fitness spas were intended mainly for _.A) the promotion of aerobic exerciseB) endurance and muscular developmentC) the improvement of womens figuresD) better performance in aerobic dancing38. What was the attitude of doctors towards weight training in healt
