2010年6月大学英语四级考试全真预测(八)
听力Section B
Directions: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 marked , , and .Then mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through the centre.
Passage One
Questions 26 to 28 are based on the passage you have just heard.
26.He was good at writing about interesting people.
It was much easier to write stories about people.
He believed that people like to read about other people.
He thought people played an important role in world events.
27.Action. World News.
Enterprise. Faces and Places.
28.He is a sportsman. He is an actor.
He is a photographer. He is a publisher.
Passage Two
Questions 29 to 31 are based on the passage you have just heard.
29.Beauty. Loyalty.
Luck. Durability.
30.He wanted to follow the tradition of his country.
He believed that it symbolized an everlasting marriage.
It was thought that a blood vessel in that finger led directly to the heart.
It was supposed that the diamond on that finger would bring good luck.
31.The two people can learn about each other’s likes and dislikes.
The two people can have time to decide if they are a good match.
The two people can have time to shop for their new home.
The two people can earn enough money for their wedding.
Passage Three
Questions 32 to 35 are based on the passage you have just heard.
32.It had many problems.
It was the most democratic country in the world.
It was fair to women.
It had some minor problems to solve.
33.The women of some states.
The women in the state of Wyoming only.
The members of the National Women’s Association.
The women in the state of Massachusetts only.
34.At the very beginning of the 20th century.
At the end of the 19th century.
After Susan Anthony’s death.
Just before Susan Anthony’s death.
35.She worked on the draft of the American Constitution.
She was the chairman of the National Women’s Association.
She was born in New York and died in Massachusetts.
She was an activist in the women’s movement for equal rights.
听力原文及答案
Passage One
Mr. Foster started his publishing business with only one magazine. It was called “World News”. Mostly it had summaries of important week events from around the world. But it always included one or two stories about interesting people. Mr. Foster put these in because he believed all people like to read about other people. Several years ago, Mr. Foster started two other magazines. One was called “Enterprise”. It is for business people. And the other was called “Action”, for sportsmen. Like “World News”, they always have two or three stories about interesting people. Five years ago. Mr. Foster got another idea for a magazine. He wanted this one to have even more stories about people than the others and to have more photographs. This one was named “Faces and Places”. From the very beginning, it was a big success.
Questions 26 to 28 are based on the passage you have just heard.
26.Why did Mr. Foster add stories about interesting people to the magazine “World News”?
【解析】Mr. Foster put these in because he believed all people like to read about other people.他认为人们更喜欢读有关他人的信息。
27.Which magazine is a sportsman most likely to buy?
【解析】本题文中直接可见答案。And the other was called “Action”, for sportsmen.因此可见，运动员最可能买的杂志是Action。
28.What is Mr. Foster’s profession?
【解析】根据首句“Mr. Foster started his publishing business...”可知，福斯特先生是个出版商。He is a publisher.
Passage Two
The period of engagement is the time between the marriage proposal and the wedding ceremony. Two people agree to marry when they decide to spend their lives together. The man usually gives the woman a diamond engagement ring? That tradition is said to have started when an Austrian man gave a diamond ring to the woman he wanted to marry. The diamond represented beauty. He placed it on the third finger of her left hand. He chose that finger because it was thought that a blood vessel in that finger went directly to the heart. Today, we know that this is not true. Yet the tradition continues.
Americans generally are engaged for a period of about one year if they are planning a wedding ceremony and party. During the time, friends of the bride may hold a party at which women friends and family members give the bride gifts that she will need as a wife. These could include cooking equipment or new clothing.
Friends of the man who is getting married may have a bachelor party for him. This usually takes place the night before the wedding. Only men are invited to the bachelor party.
During the marriage ceremony, the bride and her would-be husband usually exchange gold rings that represent the idea that their union will continue forever. The wife often wears both the wedding ring and engagement ring on the same finger. The husband wears his ring on the third finger of his left hand.
Many people say the purpose of the engagement period is to permit enough time to plan the wedding. But the main purpose is to let enough time pass so the two people are sure they want to marry each other. Either person may decide to break the engagement. If this happens, the woman usually returns the ring to the man; they also return any wedding gifts they have received.
Questions 29 to 31 are based on the passage you have just heard.
29.What was the diamond ring said to represent?
【解析】本题可在文中直接听出答案。The diamond represented beauty.钻石戒指代表美丽。
30.Why did the Austrian man place the diamond ring on the third finger of the left hand of his would-be wife?
【解析】他将戒指戴在未婚妻的左手第三个手指上是因为他认为，这个手指的血管是直接通到心脏的。He chose that finger because it was thought that a blood vessel in that finger went directly to the heart.因此可见，正确答案为It was thought that a blood vessel in that finger led directly to the heart.
31.What is the chief advantage of having the engagement period?
【解析】 许多人认为订婚之后这段时间是为了有足够的时间准备婚礼。但事实上，是让两个人都有充足的时间考虑今生将与对方携手度过。Many people say the purpose of the engagement period is to permit enough time to plan the wedding .But the main purpose is to let enough time pass so the two people are sure they want to marry each other.
Passage Three
Susan Anthony was born in Massachusetts in 1820 and died in Rochester, New York, in 1906. In the 1850s, she saw many problems in her country and wanted to do something about them. One of these problems was that women did not have the right to vote in the United States. Susan Anthony and many others felt that women and men should have equal rights. In 1869 she helped start the National Women’s Association. This group worked hard to get women the right to vote in the United States.
In 1869, the state of Wyoming gave women the right to vote. Some other states also allowed women to vote. But Susan Anthony and the National American Women’s Association wanted all women to have the right to vote. They worked to add this to the constitution of the United States. Finally, in 1920, fourteen years after Susan Anthony’s death, an article was added to the Constitution. It gave all American women the right to vote.
Questions 32 to 35 are based on the passage you have just heard.
32.What did Susan Anthony think about her country?
【解析】苏珊看到了美国很多的问题并且希望为此做些什么。In the 1850s, she saw many problems in her country and wanted to do something about them. 在十九世纪五十年代，苏珊认为她的国家存在很多问题。
33.Who among the American women had the right to vote before 1920?
【解析】怀俄明州以及美国部分州的妇女拥有投票权。In 1869, the state of Wyoming gave women the right to vote. Some other states also allowed women to vote.
34.When did all women finally get the right to vote in the United States?
【解析】文中最后一句给出了本题的答案。1920年一项条款写进了宪法，它赋予了所有美国妇女选举的权利。
35. What do we learn about Susan Anthony from the passage?
【解析】苏珊是个一直在为女性争取平等权利的人。因此，答案是She was an activist in the women’s movement for equal rights.
阅读理解
Section A
Directions: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. 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.
Questions 47 to 56 are based on the following passage.
Many students find the experience of attending university lectures to be a confusing and frustrating experience. The lecturer speaks for one or two hours, perhaps 47 the talk with slides, writing up important information on the blackboard, distributing reading material and giving out 48 .The new student sees the other students continuously writing on notebooks and wonders what to write. Very often the student leaves the lecture 49 notes which do not catch the main points and which become hard even for the 50 to understand.
Most institutions provide courses which assist new students to develop the skills they need to be 51 listeners and note-takers. If these are unavailable, there are many useful study-skills guides which 52 learners to practice these skills independently. In all cases it is important to 53 the problem before actually starting your studies.
It is important to 54 that most students have difficulty in acquiring the language skills required in college study. One way of 55 these difficulties is to attend the language and study-skills classes which most institutions provide throughout the academic year. Another basic 56 is to find a study partner with whom it is possible to identify difficulties, exchange ideas and provide support.
with enable assignments
effective acknowledge information
strategy illustrating average
tackle sustain advocate
students ignore overcoming
【全文翻译】
许多学生认为，参加大学的讲座是一种令人困惑和沮丧的经历。老师会花一两个小时用幻灯片来解释讲课的内容，写出一些重要的信息，散发一些阅读材料，布置作业。新生看着其他学生不停地在笔记本上做笔记，而不知道要记些什么。通常学生听完讲座，却记了一些抓不住重点的笔记，连他们自己也不明白。
大部分学校都会开设一些课程，帮助新生培养有效听课和记笔记所需的技能。如果没有这些课程，有许多有益的学习方法，能够使初学者独立地掌握这些技能。通常，学生在开始学习之前，就应该解决这种听课技能的问题。
承认大多数学生在获取大学学习所需要的语言技能方面有困难，这是很重要的。克服这些困难的一种方法是，参加学习语言和学习技能课程，许多学校常年都会开设这样的课程。另一种基本的方案或者策略是找一个学习的伙伴，这样可以与他一起发现困难、交流想法和互相提供帮助。
【答案解析】
47.【解析】选illustrating。此处意为“老师会花一两个小时用幻灯来解释讲课的内容，写出一些重要的信息,散发一些阅读材料,布置作业”。illustrate用图解说明，举例说明。
48.【解析】选assignments。assignments作业，任务。
49.【解析】选with。with结构在此表示伴随的结果，说明学生听完讲座却记了一些抓不住重点的笔记。
50.【解析】选students。此句意为：学生记下的笔记连自己也无法明白。
51.【解析】选effective。effective有效的。
52.【解析】选enable。enable sb. to do sth.使人能够干什么。
53.【解析】选tackle。此句意为“通常学生在开始学习之前就应该解决这种听课技能的问题”，此处to tackle problem意为“解决问题”。
54.【解析】选acknowledge。这里的意思是“承认大多数学生在获取语言技能方面有困难，这是很重要的”。所以选acknowledge承认，认可。
55.【解析】选overcoming。克服困难用overcome difficulty。
56.【解析】选strategy。此句意为：另一种基本的方案或策略是寻找一个学习的伙伴。strategy策略，方案。
阅读理解 Section B
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 , , and .You should decide on the best choice and mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through the centre.
Passage One
Questions 57 to 61 are based on the following passage.
In a family where the roles of men and women are not sharply separated and where many household tasks are shared to a greater or lesser extent, notions of male superiority are hard to maintain. The pattern of sharing in tasks and in decision makes for equality and this in turn leads to further sharing. In such a home, the growing boy and girl learn to accept equality more easily than did their parents and to prepare more fully for participation in a world characterized by cooperation rather than by the “battle of the sexes”.
If the process goes too far and man’s role is regarded as less important—and that has happened in some cases—we are as badly off as before, only in reverse. It is time to reassess the role of the man in the American family. We are getting a little tired of “Momism”—but we don’t want to exchange it for a “neo睵opism”. What we need, rather, is the recognition that bringing up children involves a partnership of equals. There are signs that psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers, and specialists on the family are becoming more aware of the part men play and that they have decided that women should not receive all the credit—nor the blame. We have almost given up saying that a woman’s place is in the home. We are beginning, however, to analyse man’s place in the home and to insist that he does have a place in it. Nor is that place irrelevant to the healthy development of the child.
The family is a co-operative enterprise for which it is difficult to lay down rules, because each family needs to work out its own ways for solving its own problems. Excessive authoritarianism(命令主义)has unhappy consequences, whether it wears skirts or trousers, and the ideal of equal rights and equal responsibilities is pertinent(相关的，切题的)not only to a healthy democracy, but also to a healthy family.
57.The ideal of equal rights and equal responsibilities is .
fundamental to a sound democracy not pertinent to healthy family life
responsible for Momism what we have almost given up
58.The danger in the sharing of household tasks by the mother and the father is that .
the role of the father may become an inferior one
the role of the mother may become an inferior one
the children will grow up believing that life is a battle of sexes
sharing leads to constant arguing
59.The author states that bringing up children .
is mainly the mother’s job belongs among the duties of the father
is the job of schools and churches involves a partnership of equals
60.According to the author, the father’s role in the home is .
minor because he is an ineffectual parent
irrelevant to the healthy development of the child
pertinent to the healthy development of the child
identical to the role of the child’s mother
61.With which of the following statements would the author be most likely to agree?
A healthy, co-operative family is a basic ingredient of a healthy society.
Men are basically opposed to sharing household chores.
Division of household responsibilities is workable only in theory.
A woman’s place in the home—now as always.
【全文翻译】
在男女角色没有明显划分、家务事或多或少由双方共同承担的家庭中，男尊女卑的观点是很难维持的。双方共同承担家务和共同决策的模式造就了平等的观念，而平等的观念反过来又进一步促进了双方的共同承担。在这种家庭中长大的孩子，比他们的父母更容易接受平等的观念，并做好充分准备，去融入一个合作的、而不是“性别大战”的社会中。
如果离这个进程太远，认为男人的角色不那么重要了——在某些情况下已经发生了——我们就和以前一样严重偏离了，只不过方向正好相反。是应该重新评价美国男人在家庭中的地位的时候了，我们对“妈妈主义”有些厌倦了，但是我们也不想把它换成“新爸爸主义”，更确切地说，我们需要认识到的是，父母在抚养孩子的过程中是一种平等的合作关系。有一些迹象表明，精神病学家、心理学家、社会工作者和有关家庭方面的心理学家，更深刻地意识到男性在家庭中的作用，他们认为在涉及家庭方面的问题上不应该由女性承担所有的赞扬或指责。我们已经不再坚持认为女性就应该待在家里，开始分析男人在家庭里的地位，并且坚持认为他们在家庭中应该占有一席之地，这种地位与孩子的健康成长有直接的关系。
家庭是一个合作的事业，很难为它制定规则，因为每个家庭需要为解决自己的问题制定合适的方法。过度的命令主义会带来不良的后果，是穿衬衣呢还是穿裤子，理想的平等权利和平等责任不仅仅与健康的民主相关，更与健康的家庭相关。
【答案解析】
57.【解析】主旨题。文章的最后一段的后半句是本文的主题句，它明确说the ideal of equal rights and equal responsibilities is pertinent (相关的，切题的) not only to a healthy democracy, but also to a healthy family，此处的pertinent与题干中的fundamental在此处的意思是一样的。
58.【解析】推断题。本题较难，表面是个细节题，但实际是推断题。有两处线索：第一处是第二段的第一句话，该句承接第一段中谈论的sharing household，指出如果过分了的话，就会导致男人被认为较不重要，即是选项A的意思。第二处线索是第三段的倒数第二句话中“... that he does have a place in it”。
59.【解析】细节题。线索见第二段的第四句话What we need, rather, is the recognition that bringing up children involves a partnership of equals.
60.【解析】推断题。本题的线索同59题一致。What we need, rather, is the recognition that bringing up children involves a partnership of equals，孩子的健康成长还是需要父母扮演同样重要的角色，即是父母的作用同样重要。
61.【解析】推断题。本题除了用排除法做以外，仍然考的是主题句。最后一句中的a healthy democracy是从社会的角度来讲的。
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