2019年6月英语四级考试真题.doc

同学是上海交大的，从他老师那里要来的题，说是今年命题组会出，现在分享给大家，不管你信不信，反正我信Directions: There are 2 passages in this section. Each passage is followed by some questions orunfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A, B, C andD . You should decide on the best choice and mark the corresponding letter on AnswerSheet 2 with a single line through the centre.Passage OneQuestions 46 to 50 are based on the following passage.Educators today are more and more oftenheard to say that computer literacy is absolutely necessary forcollegestudents. Many even argue that each incoming freshman should have permanentaccess to his or her ownmicrocomputer. What advantages do computers offer thecollege students?Any student who has used a word processorwill know one compelling reason to use a computer: to writepapers. Although notall students feel comfortable composing on a word processor, most ,findrevising and editingmuch easier on it. One can alter, insert, or delete just bypressing a few keys, thus eliminating the need to rewrite orre-type.Furthermore, since the revision process is less burdensome, students are morelikely to revise as often as isnecessary to end up with the best paperpossible. For these reasons, many freshman English cottrses require the useof aword processor.Computers are also useful in the contextof language courses, where they are used to drill students in basicskills.Software programs reinforce ESL(English as a Second Language .instruction, aswell as instrnction in French, German, Spanish, and other languages. By usingthese programs on a regular basis, students can improvetheir proficiency in alanguage while proceeding at their own pace.Science students take advantage ofcomputers in many ways. Using computer graphic capabilities, forexample, botanystudents can represent and analyze different plant growth patterns. Medicalstudents can learn tointerpret computerized images of internal body structures.Physics students can complete complex calculations farmore quickly than theycould without the use of computer.Similarly, business and accountingstudents find that computer spreadsheet programs are all but indispensabletomany aspects of their work, while students pursuing careers in graphic arts,marketing, and public relations find thatknowledge of computer graphic isimportant Education majors learn to develop grading systems usingcomputers,while social science students use computers for analyzing andgraphically displacing their research results.It is no wonder, then, that educatorssupport the purchase and use of microcomputers by students. A Versatile tool, the computer can help students learn.And that is, after all, the reason for going to college.46、The wordliteracy (Line 1,Paragraph 1) means _.A.the ability to read andwriteB.the ability to useC.literatureD.the knowledge of language47、The main purpose of thispassage is to _.A.persuade the educators toincrease computer use in their own classroomB.analyze advantages anddisadvantages of computer use among college studentsC.identify some of the waysthat computers benefit college studentsD.describe how computers canbe used to teach foreign languages48、According to the author, aword processor can be used to_.A.revise papersB.retype papersC.reduce the psychologicalburden of writing papersD.improve the writing skillsof a student49、In this passage, thewriters argument is developed primarily through the use of_.A.cause-effect analysisB.comparison andcontrastC.inductionD.examples50、According to the author,the reason for students to go to college is _.A.to learn somethingB.to perfect themselvesC.to improve computerskillsD.to make the best use ofcomputersPassage TwoQuestions 51 to 55 are based on the following passage.Language is, and should be, a livingthing, constantly enriched with new words and forms of expression. Butthere isa vital distinction between good developments, which add to the language,enabling us to say things wecould not say before, and bad developments, whichsubtract from the language by rendering it less precise. Avivacious, colorfuluse of words is not to be confused with mere slovenliness. The kind ofslovenliness in whichsome professionals deliberately indulge is perhaps akin tothe cult ( 迷信. of theunfinished work, which haseroded most of the arts in our time. And the trueanswer to it is the same that art is enhanced, not hindered, bydiscipline. Youcannot carve satisfactorily in butter.The corruption of written English hasbeen accompanied by an even sharper decline in the standard of spoken English. We speak very much less well than wascommon among educated Englishmen a generation or two ago.The modem theatre has played a baneful (有害的) part in dimming our appreciation oflanguage. Instead ofthe immensely articulate dialogue of, for example, Shaw(who was also very insistent on good pronunciation.,audiences are now subjectedto streams of barely literate trivia, often designed, only too well, toexhibitlaek ofcommunication, and larded (夹杂. with theobscenities (下流的话. and grammatical errors of theintellectually impoverished. Emily Post once advised her readers: Thetheatre is the best possible place to hear correctly-enunciated speech. Alas, no more. One young actress was recently reported to be taking lessons inhow to speakbadly, so that she should fit in better.But the BBC is the worst traitor. Aideryears of very successfully helping to raise the general standard ofspokenEnglish, it suddenly went into reverse. As the head of the Pronunciation Unitcoyly (含蓄地. put it, In the1960s the BBC opened thefield to a much wider range of speakers. To hear a BBC disc jockeytalking to thelatest ape-like pop idol is a truly shocking experience of verbalsqualor. And the prospect seems to be of evenworse to come. School teachers areactively encouraged to ignore little Johnnys incoherent grammar,atrociousspelling and haphazard punctuation, because worrying about such thingsmight inhibit his creative genius.51、The writer relateslinguistic slovenliness to tendencies in the arts today in that they both_A.occasionally aim at acertain fluidityB.appear to shunperfectionC.from time to time showregard for the finishing touchD.make use of economical shortcuts52、Art is enhanced, nothindered, by discipline (Lines 6-7, Paragraph 1 ) means_A.an artists work will befiner if he observes certain aesthetic standardsB.an unfinished work is boundto be comparatively inferiorC.the skill of certain artistsconceals their slovenlinessD.artistic expression isinhibited by too many rules53、Many modem plays, theauthor finds, frequently contain speech which _A.is incoherent andli