1995年6月大学英语四级(CET-4)真题试卷
1995-06-CET4.mp3
Part I Listening Comprehension (20 minutes)
Section A
1. A) Librarian and student.
B) Operator and caller.
C) Boss and secretary.
D) Customer and repairman.
2. A) Look for the key.
B) Repair the car.
C) Fix a shelf.
D) Paint a shelf.
3. A) To make the woman angry.
B) To please the man’s mother.
C) David is the man’s good friend.
D) David is good at carrying on conversations.
4. A) He must meet his teacher.
B) He must attend a class.
C) He must go out with his girlfriend.
D) He must stay at school to finish his homework.
5. A) He wants to pay.
B) he doesn’t want to eat out
C) He wants to eat somewhere else.
D) He doesn’t like Japanese food.
6. A) He didn’t work as hard as he was supposed to.
B) He didn’t pass the physics exam.
C) He did better in an earlier exam.
D) He found something wrong with the exam.
7. A) He is attending his sick mother at home.
B) He is on a European tour with his mother.
C) He is at home on sick leave.
D) He is in Europe to see his mother.
8. A) They don’t know how to get to Mike’s home.
B) They are discussing when to meet again.
C) They went to the same party some time ago.
D) They will go to Mike’s birthday party.
9. A) Five lessons.
B) Three lessons.
C) Twelve lessons.
D) Fifteen lessons.
10. A) Find a larger room.
B) Sell the old table.
C) Buy two bookshelves.
D) Rearrange some furniture.
Section B
Passage One
Questions 11 to 13 are based on the passage you have just heard.
11. A) Courses in British history.
B) Language courses.
C) Courses in sports.
D) Teacher training courses.
12. A) To attract more students.
B) To make the courses suitable for students of all levels.
C) To let the students have a good rest.
D) To make the summer school more like a holiday.
13. A) Because they all work very hard.
B) Because their teachers are all native speakers of English.
C) Because they learn not only in but also out of class.
D) Because they are all advanced students.
Passage Two
Questions 14 to 16 are based on the passage you have just heard.
14. A) Because it takes too long to process all the applications.
B) Because its resources are limited.
C) Because it is a library for special purposes.
D) Because there is a shortage of staff.
15. A) Discard his application from.
B) Forbid him to borrow any items.
C) Cancel his video card.
D) Ask him to apply again.
16. A) One month.
B) One week.
C) Two weeks.
D) Two months.
Passage Three
Questions 14 to 16 are based on the passage you have just heard.
17. A) Chemicals.
B) Vapor.
C) Water.
D) Gas.
18. A) By passing steam over dry ice.
B) By turning ordinary ice into steam.
C) By heating dry ice.
D) By mixing dry ice with ordinary ice.
19. A) It takes a longer time to melt.
B) It is lighter to carry.
C) It is cleaner to use than ordinary ice.
D) It is not so cold as ordinary ice.
20. A) In the 1920’s.
B) In the 1930’s.
C) In the 1940’s.
D) In the 1950’s.
Part II Reading Comprehension (35 minutes)
Passage One
Questions 21 to 25 are based on the following passage.
Researchers have established that when people are mentally engaged, biochemical changes occur in the brain that allow it to act more effectively in cognitive (认知的) areas such as attention and memory. This is true regardless of age.
People will be alert (警觉的) and receptive (接受能力强的) if they are faced with information that gets them to think about things they are interested in. And someone with a history of doing more rather than less will go into old age more cognitively sound than someone who has not had an active mind.
Many experts are so convinced of the benefits of challenging the brain that they are putting, the theory to work in their own lives. “The idea is not necessarily to learn to memorize enormous amounts of information.” says James Fozard, associate director of the national Institute on Aging. “Most of us don’t need that kind of skill. Such specific training is of less interest than being able to maintain mental alertness. Fozard and others say they challenge their brains with different mental skill, both because they enjoy them and because they are sure that their range of activities will help the way their brains work.
Gene Cohen, acting director of the same institute, suggests that people in their old age should engage in mental and physical activities individually as well as in groups. Cohen says that we are frequently advised to keep physically active as we age, but older people need to keep mentally active as well. Those who do are more likely to maintain their intellectual abilities and to be generally happier and better adjusted. “The point is, you need to do both,” Cohen says. “Intellectual activity influences brain-cell health and size.”
21. People who are cognitively healthy are those ________.
A) who can remember large amounts of information
B) who are highly intelligent
C) whose minds are alert and receptive
D) who are good at recognizing different sounds
22. According to Fozard’s argument people can make their brains work more efficiently by ________.
A) constantly doing memory work
B) taking part in various mental activities
C) going through specific training
D) making frequent adjustments
23. The findings of James and other scientists in their work ________.
A) remain a theory to be further proved
B) have been generally accepted
C) have been challenged by many other experts
D) are practiced by the researchers themselves
24. Older people are generally advised to ________.
A) keep fit by going in for physical activities
B) keep mentally active by challenging their brains
C) maintain mental alertness through specific training
D) maintain a balance between individual and group activities
25. What is the passage mainly about?
A) How biochemical changes occur in the human brain.
B) Why people should keep active not only physically but also mentally.
C) How intellectual activities influence brain-cell health.
D) Why people should receive special mental training as they age.
Passage Two
Questions 26 to 30 are based on the following passage.
Attention to detail is something everyone can and should do—especially in a tight job market. Bob Crossley, a human-resources expert notices this in the job applications that come across his desk every day. “It’s amazing how many candidates eliminate themselves.” he says.
Resume (简历) arrive with stains. Some candidates don’t bother to spell the company’s name correctly. Once I see a mistake, I eliminate the candidate, Crossley concludes. “If they cannot take of these details, why should we trust them with a job?”
Can we pay too much attention to detail? Absolutely. Perfectionists struggle over little things at the cost of something larger they work toward, “To keep from losing the forest for the trees”, says Charles Garfield, associate professor at the University of California, San Francisco, “We must constantly ask ourselves how the details we’re working on fit into the larger picture. If they don’t, we should drop them and move to something else”.
Garfield compares this process to his work as a computer scientist at NASA. “The Apollo II moon launch was slightly off-course 90 percent of the time.” Says Garfield, “But a successful landing was still likely because we knew the exact coordinates of our goal. This allowed us to make adjustments as necessary.” Knowing where we want to go helps us judge the importance of every task we undertake.
Too often we believe what accounts for others’ success is some special secret or a lucky break (机遇). But rarely is success so mysterious. Again and again, we see that by doing little things within our grasp well, large rewards follow.
26. According to the passage, some job applicants were rejected ________.
A) because of their carelessness as shown in their failure to present a clean copy of a resume
B) because of their inadequate education as shown in their poor spelling in writing a resume
C) because they failed to give detailed description of their background in their applications
D) because they eliminated their names from the applicants’ list themselves
27. The word “perfectionists” (Para. 3, Line) refers to those who ________.
A) demand others to get everything absolutely right
B) know how to adjust their goals according to the circumstances
C) pay too much attention to details only to lose their major objectives
D) are capable of achieving perfect results in whatever they do
28. Which of the following is the author’s device to the reader?
A) Although too much attention to details may be costly, they should not be overlooked.
B) Don’t forget details when drawing pictures.
C) Be aware of the importance of a task before undertaking it.
D) Careless applicants are not to be trusted.
29. The example of the Apollo II moon launch is given to illustrate that ________.
A) minor mistakes can be ignored in achieving major objectives
B) failure is the mother of success
C) adjustments are the key to the successful completion of any work
D) keeping one’s goal in mind helps in deciding which details can be overlooked
30. The best title for this passage would be ________.
A) Don’t Be a Perfectionist
B) Importance of Adjustments
C) Details and Major Objectives
D) Hard Work Plus Good Luck
Passage Three
Questions 31 to 35 are based on the following passage.
Britain almost more than any other country in the world must seriously face the problem of building upwards, that is to say, of accommodating a considerable proportion of its population in high blocks of flats. It is said that the English man objects to this type of existence, but if the case is such, he does in fact differ from the inhabitants of most countries of the world today. In the past our own blocks of flats have been associated with the lower-income groups and they have lacked the obvious provisions, such as central heating, constant hot water supply, electrically operated lifts from top to bottom, and so on, as well as such details, important notwithstanding (然而), as easy facilities for disposal of dust and rubbish and storage places for baby carriages in the ground floor, playgrounds for children on the top of the buildings, and drying grounds for washing. It is likely that the dispute regarding flats versus (对，对抗) individual houses will continue to rage on for a long time as far as Britain is concerned. And it is unfortunate that there should be hot feelings on both sides whenever this subject is raised. Those who oppose the building of flats base their case primarily on the assumption (设想) that everyone prefers an individual home and on the high cost per unit of accommodation. The latter ignores the higher cost of providing full services to a scattered community and the cost in both money and time of the journeys to work for the suburban resident.
31. We can infer from the passage that ________.
A) English people, like most people in other countries, dislike living in flats
B) people in most countries of the world today are not opposed to living in flats
C) people in Britain are forced to move into high blocks of flats
D) modern flats still fail to provide the necessary facilities for living
32. What is said about blocks of flats built in the past in Britain?
A) They were mostly inhabited by people who did not earn much.
B) They were usually not large enough to accommodate big families.
C) They were sold to people before necessary facilities were installed.
D) They provided playgrounds for children on the top of the buildings.
33. The word “rage” (Line 9) means ________.
A) be ignored
B) develop with great force
C) encourage people greatly
D) be in fashion
34. Some people oppose the building of flats because ________.
A) the living expenses for each individual family are higher
B) it involves higher cost compared with the building of houses
C) they believe people like to live in houses with gardens
D) the disposal of rubbish remains a problem for those living in flats
35. The author mentions that people who live in suburban houses ________.
A) do not have access to easy facilities because they live away from the city
B) have to pay a lot of money to employ people to do service work
C) take longer time to know each other because they are a scattered community
D) have to spend more money and time travelling to work every day
Passage Four
Questions 36 to 40 are based on the following passage.
Where do pesticides (杀虫剂) fit into the picture of environmental disease? We have seen that they now pollute soil, water and food, that they have the power to make our streams fishless and our gardens and woodlands silent and birdless. Man, however much he may like to pretend the contrary, is part of nature. Can he escape a pollution that is now so thoroughly distributed throughout our world:
We know that even single exposures to these chemicals, if the amount is large enough, can cause extremely severe poisoning. But this is not the major problem. The sudden illness or death of farmers, farm workers, and others exposed to sufficient quantities of pesticides is very sad and should not occur. For the population as a whole, we must be more concerned with the delayed effects of absorbing small amounts of the pesticides that invisibly pollute our world.
Responsible public health officials have pointed out that the biological effects of chemicals are cumulative (累积) over long periods of time, and that the danger to individual may depend on the sum of the exposures received throughout his lifetime. For these very reasons the danger is easily ignored. It is human nature to shake off what may seem to us a threat of future disaster. “Men are naturally most impressed by diseases which have obvious signs,” says a wise physician, Dr. Rene Dubos, “yet some of their worst enemies slowly approach them unnoticed.”
36. Which of the following is closest in meaning to the sentence “Man... is part of nature” (Para. 1, Lines 3-4)?
A) Man appears indifferent to what happens in nature.
B) Man acts as if he does not belong to nature.
C) Man can avoid the effects of environmental pollution.
D) Man can escape his responsibilities for environmental effects of pesticides?
37. What is the author’s attitude toward the environmental effects of pesticides?
A) Pessimistic
B) Indifferent
C) Defensive
D) Concerned
38. In the author’s view, the sudden death caused by exposure to large amounts of pesticides ________.
A) is not the worst of the negative consequences resulting from the use of pesticides
B) now occurs most frequently among all accidental deaths
C) has sharply increased so as to become the center of public attention
39. People tend to ignore the delayed effects of exposure to chemical because ________.
A) limited exposure to them does little harm to people’s health
B) the present is more important for them than the future
C) the danger does not become apparent immediately
D) humans are capable of withstanding small amounts of poisoning
40. It can be concluded from Dr. Dubos remarks that ________.
A) people find invisible diseases difficult to deal with
C) diseases with obvious signs are easy to cure
D) people tend to overlook hidden dangers caused by pesticides
Part III Vocabulary and Structure (20 minutes)
41. I would appreciate ________ it a secret.
A) your keeping
B) you to keep
C) that you keep
D) that you will keep
42. Mark often attempts to escape ________ whenever he breaks traffic regulations.
A) having been fined
B) to be fined
C) to have been fined
D) being fined
43. No matter how frequently ________, the works of Beethoven always attract large audiences.
A) performing
B) performed
C) to be performed
D) being performed
44. It is recommended that the project ________ until all the preparations have been made.
A) is not started
B) will not be started
C) not be started
D) is not to be started
45. I wish I ________ longer this morning, but I had to get up and come to class.
A) could have slept
B) slept
C) might have slept
D) have slept
46. We didn’t know his telephone number, otherwise we ________ him.
A) would have telephoned
B) must have telephoned
C) would telephone
D) had telephoned
47. Turn on the television or open a magazine and you ________ advertisements showing happy, balanced families.
A) are often seeing
B) often see
C) will often see
D) have often seen
48. While people may refer to television for up-to-minute news, it is unlikely that television ________ the newspaper completely.
A) replaced
B) have replaced
C) replace
D) will replace
49. An Olympic Marathon is 26 miles and 385 yards, ________ approximately from Marathon to Athens.
A) distance
B) is the distance
C) the distance
D) the distance is
50. You will want two trees about ten feet apart, from ________ to suspend your tent.
A) there
B) them
C) which
D) where
51. As I was just getting familiar with this job, I had ________ to ask my boss.
A) many
B) most
C) more
D) much
52. ________ quite recently, most mothers in Britain did not take paid work outside the home.
A) Before
B) Until
C) From
D) Since
53. The survival of civilization as we know it is ________ threat.
A) within
B) under
C) towards
D) upon
54. Scientists say it may be five or ten years ________ it is possible to test this medicine on human patients.
A) since
B) before
C) after
D) when
55. In some countries, ________ is called “equality” does not really mean equal rights for all people.
A) which
B) what
C) that
D) one
56. I walked too much yesterday and ________ are still aching now.
A) my leg’s muscles
B) my muscles of leg
C) my leg muscles
D) my muscles of the leg
57. Radio, television and press ________ of conveying news and information.
A) are the most three common means
B) are the most common three means
C) are the three most common means
D) are three the most common means
58. Liquids are like solids ________ they have a definite volume.
A) in that
B) for that
C) with that
D) at that
59. When a fire ________ at the National Exhibition in London, at least ten priceless paintings were completely destroyed.
A) broke off
B) broke out
C) broke down
D) broke up
60. The destruction of these treasures was a loss for mankind that no amount of money could ________.
A) stand up to
B) make up for
C) come up with
D) put up with
61. Then the speaker ________ the various factors leading to the present economic crisis.
A) went after
B) went for
C) went into
D) went on
62. The students was just about to ________ the questions, when suddenly he found the answer.
A) arrive at
B) submit to
C) work out
D) give up
63. When there are small children around, it is necessary to put bottles of pills out of ________.
A) reach
B) hand
C) hold
D) place
64. The ________ of blood always makes him feel sick.
A) sight
B) view
C) look
D) form
65. In Britain, the best season of the year is probably ________ spring.
A) later
B) last
C) latter
D) late
66. Free medical treatment in this country covers sickness of mind as well as ________ sickness.
A) normal
B) regular
C) average
D) ordinary
67. This hotel ________ $ 60 for a single room with bath.
A) claims
B) demands
C) prices
D) charges
68. Although he had looked through all the reference material on the subject, he still found it hard to understand this point and her explanation only ________ to his confusion.
A) extended
B) amounted
C) added
D) turned
69. A completely new situation will ________ when the examination system comes into existence.
A) arise
B) rise
C) raise
D) arouse
70. It took him several months to ________ the wild horse.
A) tend
B) cultivate
C) breed
D) tame
Part IV Cloze (15 minutes)
A land free from destruction, plus wealth, natural resources, and labor supply—all these were important __71__ in helping England to become the center for the Industrial Revolution. __72__ they were not enough. Something __73__ was needed to start the industrial process. That “something special” was men-__74__ individuals who could invent machines, find new __75__ of power, and establish business organizations to reshape society.
The men who __76__ the machines of the Industrial Revolution __77__ from many backgrounds and many occupations. Many of them were __78__ inventors than scientists. A man who is a __79__ scientist is primarily interested in doing his research __80__. He is not necessarily working __81__ that his findings can be used.
An inventor or one interested in applied science is __82__ trying to make something that has a concrete __83__. He may try to solve a problem by using the theories __84__ science or by experimenting through trial and error. Regardless of his method, he is working to obtain a __85__ result: the construction of a harvesting machine, the burning of a light bulb, or one of __86__ other objectives.
Most of the people who __87__ the machines of the Industrial Revolution were inventors, not trained scientists. A few were both scientists and inventors. Even those who had __88__ or no training in science might not have made their inventions __89__ a groundwork had not been laid by scientists years __90__.
71. A) cases
B) reasons
C) factors
D) situations
72. A) But
B) And
C) Besides
D) Even
73. A) else
B) near
C) extra
D) similar
74. A) generating
B) effective
C) motivation
D) creative
75. A) origins
B) sources
C) bases
D) discoveries
76. A) employed
B) created
C) operated
D) controlled
77. A) came
B) arrived
C) stemmed
D) appeared
78. A) less
B) better
C) more
D) worse
79. A) genuine
B) practical
C) pure
D) clever
80. A) happily
B) occasionally
C) reluctantly
D) accurately
81. A) now
B) and
C) all
D) so
82. A) seldom
B) sometimes
C) usually
D) never
83. A) plan
B) use
C) idea
D) means
84. A) of
B) with
C) to
D) as
85. A) single
B) sole
C) specialized
D) specific
86. A) few
B) those
C) many
D) all
87. A) proposed
B) developed
C) supplied
D) offered
88. A) little
B) much
C) some
D) any
89. A) as
B) if
C) because
D) while
90. A) ago
B) past
C) ahead
D) before
Part V Writing (30 minutes)
Directions: For this part, you are allowed thirty minutes to write a composition on the topic Advantage of a Job Interview. You should write at least 100 words and you should base your composition on outline (given in Chinese) below:
1. 现在找工作一般都要面试，通过面试，面试者(interviewer)和应试者(interviewee) 可以互相了解情况。
2. 面试者可以向应试者介绍情况如工作性质、条件、待遇等。
3. 应试者也有机会给对方留下一个好印象，如可以表现出自信心，可以介绍教育背景，工作能力等。
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