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岁月无痕效果怎么样 岁月无痕有用吗 岁月无痕精油 岁月无痕岁月无痕精油 /sitemap.html 友情提供资料 03年6月21日四级真题与答案Part I Listening Comprehension (20 minutes)Section ADirections: In this section, you will hear 10 short conversations. At the end of each conversation, a question will 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 the office.B) In the waiting room.C) At the airport.D) In a restaurant.From the conversation we know that the two were talking about some work they had to finish in the evening. This 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 D1.W: George, look at the long waiting line. Im glad youve made the reservation.M: More and more people enjoy eating out now. Besides, this place is especially popular with oversea students.Q: Where did this conversation most probably take place?2.M: I wonder if you can drop by tomorrow evening. The Stevensons is coming over for dinner .Id like you to meet them.W: Sure. Id love to. Ive heard theyre interesting people.Q: What do we learn from the conversation?3.W: The presentation made by Professor Jackson was too complicated to understand.M: Well, I think he didnt speak slowly enough for us to take notes.Q: What is the mans complaint?4.W: Youve got your apartment furnished, havent you?M: Yes. I bought some used furniture at the Sunday Market and it was a real bargain.Q: What does the man mean?5.M: Mary doesnt want me to take the job. She says our child is too young and the job requires much traveling.W: You should talk to her again and see if you can find a way out. Think about the gains and loses before you make a decision.Q: What do we learn from the conversation?6.M: I havent got my scores on the GRE test yet. Do you think I should call to make inquiries?W: There is no hurry. The test scores are released at least eight weeks after the test.Q: What does the woman advise the man to do?7.M: Have you finished reading the book you bought last month?W: Oh, I didnt read it straight through the way you read a novel. I just cover the few chapters that interested me most.Q: How did the woman read the book?8.W: Hi, John! Havent seen you for quite a while. Are you fine?M: Oh, yes. But luck seemed to go against me. I had a car accident, only some minor injuries, though.Q: What happened to John?9.M: The taxi is waiting downstairs. Lets hurry.W: Wait a minute. Ill take some food with us. I dont like the meal served on the train.Q: What are the speakers going to do?10.W: Is that optional course as hard as everybody says?M: Exactly even worse, believe it or not.Q: What does the man say about the course?1. A) At a theatre. C) At a railway station.B) At a booking office. D)At a restaurant.2. A) The man is inviting the woman to dinner.B) The woman is too busy to join the man for dinner.C) The woman is a friend of the Stevensons.D) The man is going to visit the Stevensons.3. A) The professors presentation was not convincing enough.B) The professors lecture notes were too complicated.C) The professor spoke with a strong accent.D) The professor spoke too fast.4. A) The furnished apartment was inexpensive.B) The apartment was provided with some old furniture.C) The furniture in the market was on sale every Sunday.D) The furniture he bought was very cheap.5. A) The man is thinking about taking a new job.B) The man likes a job that enables him to travel.C) The man is sure that he will gain more by taking the job.D) The man doesnt want to stay home and take care of their child.6. A) Take the GRE test again in 8 weeks. C) Be patient and wait.B) Call to check his scores. D) Inquire when the test scores are released.7. A) She read it selectively. C) She read it slowly.B) She went over it chapter by chapter. D) She finished it at a stretch.8. A) He was kept in hospital for a long time.B) He was slightly injured in a traffic accident.C) He was seriously wounded in a mine explosion.D) He was fined for speeding.9. A) Wait for a taxi. C) Go on a trip.B) Buy some food. D) Book train tickets.10. A) Its not as hard as expected.B) Its too tough for some students.C) Its much more difficult than people think.D) Its believed to be the hardest optional course.Section BDirections: 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 choice marked A), B), C) and D). Then mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the centre.Passage OneMy father woke me up early one morning when I was fourteen and announced: Get up! Youre going with me to cut grass. I felt proud and excited because my father thought I was responsible enough to help him in his business. Still that first day was really hard. From sunrise to sunset, my father, my younger brother and I cut and trimmed very large yards in a well-to-do part of the city. By the end of the day I was exhausted but I felt food. I had put in a hard days labor and had earned six dollars. One day my father spotted some weeds I had missed cutting and pulled me aside. Get that section again, he said firmly. Dont let me have to tell you to do the job right the first time. In every job I have held，from cutting lawns to washing dishes to working a machine in a construction site, I have learnt something that help me in my next job. If you look hard enough, you can learn from any job you do.11. How did the speaker feel when his father asked him to help cut grass?12.What did his father do when the speaker missed cutting some leaves?13.What did the speaker want to tell us in this passage?Questions 11 to 13 are based on the passage you have just heard.11. A) Anxious and worried. C) Nervous and confused.B) Proud and excited. D) Inspired and confident.12. A) His father scolded him severely. C) His father made him do the cutting again.B) His father took back the six dollars. D) His father cut the leaves himself.13. A) One can benefit a lot from working with his father.B) Manual labourers shouldnt be looked down upon.C) One should always do his job earnestly.D) Teenagers tend to be careless.Passage TwoI live in a small village in the country. My wife and I run the village shop. We have a very peaceful life. Boring , some might say. But we love it. We know all the people in the village and have plenty of time to stop and chat. I have plenty of time for my hobbies too, gardening, fishing, and walking in the countryside. I love the outdoor life. It wasnt always like this though. I used to have a really stress job, working till late in the office every evening and often bringing work home at the weekend. The advertising world is very competitive and when I look back, I cant imagine how I stayed it. I had no private life at all, no time for the really important things in life. Because of the pressure of the job I used to smoke and drink too much. The crisis came when my wife left me .She complained that she never saw me and I had no time for family life. This made me realize what was really important to me. I talked things through with her and decided to get back together again and started a new and better life together. I gave up tobacco and alcohol, and searched for new hobbies. Now I am afraid looking back since the past life seemed a horrible dream.14. What did the speaker use to do for a living?15. What do we know about the speakers life in the past?16. What made the speaker change his life style?Questions 14 to 16 are based on the passage you have just heard.14. A) He ran a village shop. C) He worked in an advertising agency.B) He worked on a farm. D) He was a gardener.15. A) It was stressful. C) It was peaceful.B) It was colorful. D) It was boring.16. A) His desire to start Iris own business. C) The decline in his health.B) The crisis in his family life. D) His dream of living in the countryside.Passage ThreeWhere is the university is the question many visitors to Cambridge asked, but no one could point them in any one direction because there is no campus. The university consists of thirty-one self-governing colleges. It has lecture halls, libraries, laboratories, museums and offices throughout the city. Individual colleges choose their own students who have to meet the minimum entrance requirements set by the university. Undergraduates usually live and study in their colleges where they are taught in very small groups. Lectures and laboratory and practical work are organized by the university and held in university buildings. There are over 10,000 undergraduates and 3,500 post-graduates, about 40% of them are women and some 8% from overseas. As well as teaching, research is of major importance. Since the beginning of the 20th century, more than 60 university members have won Nobel Prizes. University has a huge number of buildings for teaching and research. It has more than 60 specialist subject libraries as well as the university library, which, as a copyright library, is entitled to a copy of every book published in Britain. Examinations are set and degrees are awarded by the university. It allowed women to take the university exams in 1881, but it was not until 1948 that they were awarded degrees.17.Why is it difficult for visitors to locate Cambridge University?18. What does the passage tell us about the colleges of Cambridge University?19. What can be learnt from the passage about the libraries in Cambridge University?20. What does the passage tell about women students in Cambridge University?Questions 17 to 20 are based on the passage you have just heard.17. A) Because there are no signs to direct them.B) Because no tour guides are available.C) Because all the buildings in the city look alike.D) Because the university is everywhere in the city.18. A) They set their own exams. C) They award their own degrees.B) They select their own students. D) They organize their own laboratory work.19. A) Most of them have a long history.B) Many of them are specialized libraries.C) They house more books than any other university library.D) They each have a copy of every book published in Britain.20. A) Very few of them are engaged in research.B) They were not awarded degrees until 1948.C) They have outnumbered male students.D) They were not treated equally until 1881.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 line through the centre.Passage OneQuestions 21 to 25 are based on the following passage.On average, American kids ages 3 to 12 spent 29 hours a week in school, eight hours more that they did in 1981. They also did more household work and participated in more of such organized activities as soccer and ballet (芭蕾舞). Involvement in sports, in particular, rose almost 50% from 1981 to 1997: boys now spend an average of four hours a week playing sports; girls log hall that time. All in all, however, childrens leisure time dropped from 40% of the day in 1981 to 25%Children are affected by the same time crunch (危机) that affects their parents, says Sandra Hofferth, who headed the recent study of childrens timetable. A chief reason, she says, is that more mothers are working outside the home. (Nevertheless, children in both double-income and male breadwinner households spent comparable amounts of time interacting with their parents.19 hours and 22 hours respectively. In contrast, children spent only 9 hours with their single mothers.)All work and no play could make for some very messed-up kids. Play is the most powerful way a child explores the world and learns about himself, says T. Berry Brazelton, professor at Harvard Medical School Unstructured play encourages independent thinking and allows the young to negotiate their relationships with their peers, but kids ages 3 to 12 spent only 12 hours a week engaged in it.The children sampled spent a quarter of their rapidly decreasing free time watching television. But that, believe it or not, was one of the findings parents might regard as good news. If theyre spending less time in front of the TV set, however, kids arent replacing it with reading. Despite efforts to get kids more interested in books, the children spent just over an hour a week reading. Lets face it, whos got the time?21. By mentioning the same time crunch (Line 1, Para. 2) Sandra Hofferth meansA) children have little time to play with their parentsB) children are not taken good care of by their working parentsC) both parents and children suffer from lack of leisure timeD) both parents and children have trouble managing their time22. According to the author, the reason given by Sandra Hofferth for the time crunch isA) quite convincing C) totally groundlessB) partially true D) rather confusing23. According to the author a child develops better ifA) he has plenty of time reading and studyingB) he is left to play with his peers in his own wayC) he has more time participating in school activitiesD) he is free to interact with his working parents24. The author is concerned about the fact that American kidsA) are engaged in more and more structured activitiesB) are increasingly neglected by their working mothersC) are spending more and more time watching TVD) are involved less and less in household work25. We can infer from the passage thatA) extracurricular activities promote childrens intelligenceB) most children will turn to reading with TV sets switched offC) efforts to get kids interested in reading have been fruitfulD) most parents believe reading to be beneficial to childrenPassage TwoQuestions 26 to :30 are based on the following passage.Henry Ford, the famous U.S. inventor and car manufacturer, once said, The business of America is business. By this he meant that the U.S. way of life is based on the values of the business world.Few would argue with Fords statement. A brief glimpse at a daily newspaper vividly shows how much people in the United States think about business. For example, nearly every newspaper has a business section, in which the deals and projects, finances and management, stock prices and labor problems of corporations are reported daily. In addition, business news can appear in every other section. Most national news has an important financial aspect to it. Welfare, foreign aid, the federal budget, and the policies of the Federal Reserve Bank are all heavily affected by business. Moreover, business news appears in some of the unlikeliest places. The world of arts and entertainment is often referred to as the entertainment industry or show business.The positive side of Henry Fords statement can be seen in the prosperity that business has brought to U.S. life. One of the most important reasons so many people from all over the world come to live in the United States is the dream of a better job. Jobs are produced in abundance (大量地) because the U.S. economic system is driven by competition. People believe that this system crates more wealth, more jobs, and a materially better way of life.The negative side of Henry Fords statement, however, can be seen when the word business is taken to mean big business. And the term big business referring to the biggest companies, is seen in opposition to labor. Throughout U.S. history working people have had to fight hard for higher wages, better working conditions, and the fight to form unions. Today, many of the old labor disputes are over, but there is still some employee anxiety. Downsizing the laying off of thousands of workers to keep expenses low and profits high creates feelings of insecurity for many.26. The United States is a typical countryA) which encourages free trade at home and abroadB) where peoples chief concern is how to make moneyC) where all businesses are managed scientificallyD) which normally works according to the federal budget27. The influence of business in the U.S. is evidenced by the fact thatA) most newspapers are run by big businessesB) even public organizations concentrate on working for profitsC) Americans of all professions know how to do businessD) even arts and entertainment are regarded as business28. According to the passage, immigrants choose to settle in t