2003年9月全国大学英语四级考试全真试题
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Part I Listening Comprehension (20 minutes)
Section A
Directions: In this section, you will hear 10 short conversation. At the end of each conversation, a question wilt be asked about what was said. Both the conversation and the question will be spoken only once. After each question there will be a pause. During the pause, you must read the four choices marked A), B), C) and D). and decide which is the best answer Then mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the centre.
Example:
You will hear:
You will read:
A) At thee office.
B) In the waiting room.
C) At the airport.
D) In a restaurant.
From tile conversation we know that the two were talking about some work they had to finish in the evening. This conversation is most likely to have taken place at the office. Therefore, A) “At the office” is the best answer You should choose [A] on the Answer Sheet and mark it with a single line through the centre.
Sample Answer [A] [B] [C] [D]
B :Go and pick Bob up.
C :Go look for Bob.
D :Wait for Bob.
B :Life in the suburbs is lonely.
C :Jobs are easier to find in the city.
D :It’s less expensive living in the city.
B :At a publishing house.
C :At a bookstore.
D :In a library.
B :They try to think of a solution.
C :The woman find a spare key.
D :They come downstairs.
B :Working in an office.
C :Talking on the phone.
D :Doing spelling practice.
B :Go shopping with the man.
C :Go for a ride around town.
D :Have a picnic.
B :The woman arrived for registration too early.
C :The woman missed registration for the biology course.
D :The woman got a wrong class permit.
B :The woman will stay in New York a long time.
C :The man is planning to visit New York.
D :It’s quite cold in New York now.
B :An old lady took the couple’s suitcase for her own.
C :The couple’s suitcase was stolen in the restaurant.
D :The man forgot to put the toys in their suitcase.
B :She's going to buy an air ticket.
C :She's going to say good-bye to Bill.
D :She's leaving for Hong Kong with Bill.
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 A), B), C) and D). Then mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the centre.
Passage One
Questions 11 to 13 are based on the passage you have just heard.
B :They each do jobs they are good at.
C :They close the hotel during low seasons.
D :They employ as few workers as possible.
B :Book-keeping.
C :Cleaning and washing up.
D :Gardening and flower arranging.
B :They provide delicious food.
C :They make their guests feel at home.
D :They give parties regularly for their visitors.
Questions 14 to 17 are based on the passage you have just heard.
B :To cash a cheek.
C :To rob the bank.
D :To get his prize.
B :A bank employee.
C :A car mechanic.
D :A movie actor.
B :They helped him find large bills.
C :They pressed the alarm.
D :They called the police.
B :Large bills were not within his reach.
C :The maximum sum allowed was 55,000.
D :He was limited by time and the size of his pockets.
Questions 18 to 20 are based on the passage you have just heard.
B :A professional diver.
C :A telephone operator.
D :A guard on the Golden Gate Bridge.
B :Someone on the bridge is being attacked.
C :Someone is threatening to destroy the bridge.
D :Someone on the bridge is attempting to kill himself.
B :Try to communicate with them first.
C :Help them to get out of their misty.
D :Remind them that they have children to take care of.
Part II Reading Comprehension (35 minutes)
Directions: There are 4 passages in this part. 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 the Answer Sheet with a single ling through the centre.
Passage One
Questions 21 to 25 are based on the following passage.
A recent study, published in last week’s Journal of the American Medical Association, offers a picture of how risky it is to get a lift from a teenage driver, Indeed, a 16-year-old driver with three or more passengers is three times as likely to have a fatal accident as a teenager driving alone, By contrast, the risk of death for drivers between 30 and 59 decreases with each additional passenger.
The authors also found that the death rates for teenage drivers increased dramatically after 10 p.m., and especially after midnight, with passengers in the car, the driver was even more likely to die in a late-night accident.
Robert Foss, a scientist at the University of North Carolina Highway Safety Research Center, says the higher death rates for teenage drivers have less to do with “really stupid behavior” than with just a lack of driving experience. “The basic issue.” Be says, “is that adults who are responsible for issuing licenses fail to recognize how complex and skilled a task driving is.”
Both he and the author of the study believe that the way to mitigate (使…缓解) the problem is to have states institute so-called graduated licensing systems, in which getting a license is a multistage process. A graduated license requires that a teenager first prove himself capable of driving in the presence of an adult, followed by a period of driving with night of passenger restrictions, before graduating to full driving privileges.
Graduated licensing systems have reduced teenage driver crashes, according to recent studies. About half of the states now have some sort of graduated licensing system in place, but only 10 of those states have restrictions on passengers, California is the strictest, with a novice (新手) driver prohibited from carrying any passenger under 20 (without the presence of an adult over 25) for the first six months.
B :A teenager driving after midnight with passengers in the car.
C :Adults driving with three or more teenage passengers late at night.
D :A teenager getting a lift from a stranger on the highway at midnight.
B :their improper way of driving
C :their lack of driving experience
D :their driving with passengers
B :Driving is a skill too complicated for teenagers to learn.
C :Restrictions should be imposed on teenagers applying to take driving lessons.
D :The licensing authorities are partly responsible for teenagers’ driving accidents.
B :they should be prohibited from taking on passengers
C :they should not be allowed to drive after 10 p.m.
D :the licensing system should be improved
B :is about to be set up
C :has been put into effect
D :has been perfected
Passage Two
Questions 26 to 30 are based on the following passage.
If you know exactly what you want, the best route to a job is to get specialized training. A recent survey shows that companies like graduates in such fields as business and health care who can go to work immediately with very little on-the-job training.
That’s especially true of booming fields that are challenging for workers. At Cornell’s School of Hotel Administration, for example, bachelor’s degree graduates get an average of four or five job offers with salaries ranging from the high teens to the low 20s and plenty of chances for rapid advancement. Large companies, especially, like a background of formal education coupled with work experience.
But in the long run, too much specialization doesn’t pay off. Business, which has been flooded with MBAs, no longer considers the degree an automatic stamp of approval. The MBA may open doors and command a higher salary initially, but the impact of a degree washes out after five years.
As further evidence of the erosion (销蚀) of corporate (公司的) faith in specialized degrees, Michigan State’s Scheetz cites a pattern in corporate hiring practices, although companies tend to take on specialists as new hires, they often seek out generalists for middle and upper-level management. “They want someone who isn’t constrained (限制) by nuts and bolts to look at the big picture, “says Scheetz.
This sounds suspiciously like a formal statement that you approve of the liberal-arts graduate. Time and again labor-market analysts mention a need for talents that liberal-arts majors are assumed to have: writing and communication skills, organizational skills, open-mindedness and adaptability, and the ability to analyze and solve problems, David Birch claims he does not hire anybody with an MBA or an engineering degree, “I hire only liberal-arts people because they have a less-than-canned way of doing things,” says Birch. Liberal-arts means an academically thorough and strict program that includes literature, history, mathematics, economics, science, human behavior—plus a computer course or two. With that under your belt, you can feel free to specialize, “A liberal-arts degree coupled with an MBA or some other technical training is a very good combination in the marketplace,” says Scheetz.
B :People with an MBA degree front top universities.
C :People with formal schooling plus work experience.
D :People with special training in engineering.
27. By saying “... but the impact of a degree washes out after five years” (Line 3, Para, 3), the author means ________.
B :an MBA degree does not help promotion to managerial positions
C :MBA programs will not be as popular in five years’ time as they are now
D :in five people will forget about the degree the MBA graduates have got
B :people who are talented in fine arts
C :people who are ambitious and aggressive
D :people who have received training in mechanics
B :they can stick to established ways of solving problems
C :they are thoroughly trained in a variety of specialized fields
D :they have attended special programs in management
B :Formal schooling is less important than job training.
C :On-the-job training is, in the long run, less costly.
D :Generalists will outdo specialists in management.
Passage Three
Questions 31 to 35 are based on the following passage.
About six years ago I was eating lunch in a restaurant in New York City when a woman and a young boy sat down at the next table, I couldn’t help overhearing parts of their conversation. At one point the woman asked: “So, how have you been?” And the boy—who could not have been more than seven or eight years old—replied. “Frankly, I’ve been feeling a little depressed lately.”
This incident stuck in my mind because it confirmed my growing belief that children are changing. As far as I can remember, my friends and I didn’t find out we were “depressed” until we were in high school.
The evidence of a change in children has increased steadily in recent years. Children don’t seem childlike anymore. Children speak more like adults, dress more like adults and behave more like adults than they used to.
Whether this is good or bad is difficult to say, but it certainly is different. Childhood as it once was no longer exists, Why?
Human development is based not only on innate (天生的) biological states, but also on patterns of access to social knowledge. Movement from one social rote to another usually involves learning the secrets of the new status. Children have always been taught adult secrets, but slowly and in stages: traditionally, we tell sixth graders things we keep hidden from fifth graders.
In the last 30 years, however, a secret-revelation (揭示) machine has been installed in 98 percent of American homes. It is called television, Television passes information, and indiscriminately (不加区分地), to all viewers alike, be they children or adults. Unable to resist the temptation, many children turn their attention from printed texts to the less challenging, more vivid moving pictures.
Communication through print, as a matter of fact, allows for a great deal of control over the social information to which children have access. Reading and writing involve a complex code of symbols that must be memorized and practices. Children must read simple books before they can read complex materials.
B :something hardly to be expected in a young child
C :an inevitable has of children’s mental development
D :a mental scale present in all humans, including children
B :gradually and under guidance
C :naturally and by biological instinct
D :through exposure to social information
B :the poor arrangement of teaching content
C :the fast pace of human intellectual development
D :the constantly rising standard of living
B :It develops children’s interest in reading and writing.
C :It helps children to memorize and practice more.
D :It can control what children are to learn.
B :He thinks it is a phenomenon worthy of note.
C :He considers it a positive development.
D :He seems to be upset about it.
Passage Four
Questions 36 to 40 are based on the following passage.
“Opinion” is a word that is used carelessly today. It is used to refer to matters of taste, belief, and judgment. This casual use would probably cause little confusion if people didn’t attach too much importance to opinion. Unfortunately, most to attach great importance to it. “I have as much right to my opinion as you to yours,” and “Everyone’s entitled to his opinion,” are common expressions. In fact, anyone who would challenge another’s opinion is likely to be branded intolerant.
Is that label accurate? Is it intolerant to challenge another’s opinion? It depends on what definition of opinion you have in mind. For example, you may ask a friend “What do you think of the new Ford cars?” And he may reply, “In my opinion, they’re ugly.” In this case, it would not only be intolerant to challenge his statement, but foolish. For it’s obvious that by opinion he means his personal preference, a matter of taste. And as the old saying goes, “It’s pointless to argue about matters of taste.”
But consider this very different use of the term, a newspaper reports that the Supreme Court has delivered its opinion in a controversial case. Obviously the justices did not shale their personal preferences, their mere likes and dislikes, they stated their considered judgment, painstakingly arrived at after thorough inquiry and deliberation.
Most of what is referred to as opinion falls somewhere between these two extremes. It is not an expression of taste. Nor is it careful judgment. Yet it may contain elements of both. It is a view or belief more or less casually arrived at, with or without examining the evidence.
Is everyone entitled to his opinion? Of course, this is not only permitted, but guaranteed. We are free to act on our opinions only so long as, in doing so, we do not harm others.
B :Free expression of opinions often leads to confusion.
C :Most people tend to be careless in forming their opinions.
D :Casual use of the word “opinion” often brings about quarrels.
B :Someone who can’t put up with others’ tastes.
C :Someone who values only their own opinions.
D :Someone whose opinion harms other people.
B :one should not always agree to others’ opinions
C :personal tastes are not something to be challenged
D :it is unwise to express one’s likes and dislikes in public
B :it reflects public like and dislikes
C :it is a result of a lot of controversy
D :it is based on careful thought
B :means that one can impose his preferences on others
C :doesn’t mean that one has the right to do things at will
D :doesn’t mean that one has the right to charge others without evidence
Part III Vocabulary and Structure (20 minutes)
Directions: There are 30 incomplete sentences it: this part. For each sentence there are four choices marked A), B), C) and D). Choose cite ONE answer that best completes the sentence. Then mark the Corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the centre.
B :transported
C :motivated
D :translated
B :if
C :since
D :lest
B :break down
C :break into
D :break out
B :commanded
C :required
D :requested
B :for
C :to
D :with
46. ________ the enormous flow of food from the entire globe, these countries have for many years not felt any population pressure.
B :By means of
C :In line with
D :With regard to
B :regardless of
C :in addition to
D :not to mention
B :included
C :secured
D :awarded
49. The rapid development of communications technology is transforming the ________ in which people communicate across time and space.
B :mission
C :manner
D :vision
50. Mr. Jones holds strong views against video games and ________ the closing of all recreation facilities for such games.
B :acknowledges
C :advocates
D :admits
B :elaborate
C :convey
D :contribute
B :do
C :is
D :have
B :must have been made
C :would have been made
D :ought to have been made
B :frustrating
C :profiting
D :misleading
55. It British government often says that furnishing children with ________ to the information superhighway is a top priority.
B :protection
C :allowance
D :access
56. Louis Herman, at the University of Hawaii, has ________ a series of new experiments in which some animals have learned to understand sentences.
B :equipped
C :devised
D :formatted
57. Researchers at the University of Illinois determined that the ________ of a father can help improve a child's grades.
B :interaction
C :association
D :communication
B :in order that
C :on the excuse that
D :on condition that
59. Many in the credit industry expect that credit cards will eventually ________ paper money for almost every purchase.
B :reduce
C :replace
D :trade
B :patch
C :comfort
D :ease
B :in
C :with
D :within
B :promoting
C :pushing
D :strengthening
B :identify
C :explore
D :distinguish
64. It is too early to say whether IBM’s competitors will be able to ________ their products to the new hardware at an affordable cost.
B :stick
C :yield
D :adopt
65. This research has attracted wide coverage in the ________ and has featured on BBC television’s Tomorrow’s World.
B :source
C :message
D :media
B :involved
C :enclosed
D :contained
B :as though
C :even as
D :now that
B :declined
C :deprived
D :rejected
B :print
C :process
D :press
B :taking away
C :chasing away
D :driving away
Part IV Short Answer Questions (15 minutes)
Directions: In this part there is a short passage with 8 questions or incomplete statements. R the passage
carefully. Then answer the questions or complete the statements in fewest possible words. Your answer may be a word,
a phrase, or a short sentence. Fewest possible words. Your answer may be a word, a phrase, or a short sentence. Write your answers in the spaces provided on the right of the page.
Sport is one of the world’s largest industries, and most athletes are professionals who are paid for their efforts. Because an athlete succeeds by achievement only—not by economic ground or family connections—sports can be a fast route to wealth, and many athletes play only for money than for love.
This has not always been true. In the ancient Olympics the winner got only a wreath of olive leaves (橄榄叶花环). Even though the winners became national heroes, the games remained amateur for centuries. Athletes won fame, but no money. As time passed, however, the contests became increasingly less amateur and cities began to hire athletes to represent them. By the fourth century A.D., the Olympics were ruined, and they were soon ended.
In 1896, the Olympic games were revived (使再度兴起) with the same goal of pure amateur competition. The rules bar athletes who have ever received a $50 prize or an athletic scholars or who have spent four weeks in a training camp. At least one competitor in the 1896 games met these qualifications. He was Spiridon Loues, a water carrier who won the marathon race, after race, a rich Athenian offered him anything he wanted. A true amateur, Loues accepted only a cart and a horse. Then he gave up running forever. But Loues was an exception and now, as the Chairman of the German Olympic Committee said, “Nobody pays any attention to these rules.” Many countries pay their athletes to train year-round, and Olympic athletes are eager to sell their names to companies that make everything from ski equipment to fast food.
Even the games themselves have become a huge business. Countries fight to hold the Olympics not only for honor, but for money. The 1972 games in Munich cost the Germans 545 million dollars, but by selling medal symbols, TV rights, food, drink, hotel rooms, and souvenirs (纪念品), they managed to make a profit. Appropriately, the symbol of victory in the Olympic games is no longer a simple olive wreath—it is a gold medal.
Part V Writing (30 minutes)
Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a composition on the topic The Day My Classmate Fell Ill (or Got Injured). You should write at least 120 words according to the outline given below in Chinese:
1. 简单叙述一下这位同学生病(或受伤)的情况
2. 同学、老师和我是如何帮助他/她的
3. 人与人之间的这种相互关爱给我的感受是…
The Day My Classmate Fell Ill (or Got Injured)
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