2021年6月英语四级考试真题试卷附答案(完整版第2套)_4

1、2021 年 6 月英语四级考试真题试卷附答案( 完整版 第 2 套)Part I Writing (30 minutes)Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a letter to express your thanks to one of your school teachers upon entering college. You should write at least 120 words but no more than 180 words.注意：此部分试题在答题卡 1 上Part II Li

2、stening Comprehension (30 minutes) 听力音频 MP3文件，点击进入听力真题页面Section A News ReportDirections： In this section， you will hear three news reports 。 At the end of each news report， you will hear two or three questions 。 Both the newsreportand the questionswill be spoken only once。 After you hear a question，

3、 youmust choose the best answer from the four choices marked A）， B ）， C） and D ） 。 Then mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 1 with a single line through the centre。第 27 页 共 27 页Drections: Questions 1 and 2 are based on the news report you have just heard.注意：此部分试题请在答题卡 1 上作答。Question 1A) Ho

4、w college students can improve their sleep habits.B) Whysufficientsleepis importantforcollegestudents.C) Why college students are more likely to have stress problems.D) How college students can handle their psychological problems.Question 2A) It is not easy to improve ones sleep habits.B) It is not

5、good for students to play video games.C) Students who are better prepared generally get higher scores in examinations.D) Making last-minute preparations for tests may be lesseffective than sleeping.Drections: Questions 3 and 4 are based on the news report you have just heard.Question 3A) Whether mor

6、e airports should be built around London.B) Whether adequate investment is being made to improveairport facilities.C) Whether the British Airports Authority should sell off some of its assets.D) Whether the Spanish companycould offerbetterservice.Question 4A) Inefficient management.B) Poor ownership

7、 structure.C) Lack of innovation and competition.D) Lack of runway and terminal capacity.Drections: Questions 5 to 7 are based on the news report you have just heard.Question 5A) Report the nicotine content of their cigarettes.B) Set a limit to the production of their cigarettes.C) Take steps to red

8、uce nicotine in their products.D) Study the effects of nicotine on young smokers.Question 6A) The biggest increase in nicotine content tended to be in brands young smokers like.B) Big tobacco companies were frank with their customersabout the hazards of smoking.C) Brands which containhighernicotinec

9、ontentwere foundto be much more popular.D) Tobacco companiesrefusedtodiscussthedetailed nicotine content of their products.Question 7A) Theypromisedtoreducethenicotinecontentin cigarettes.B) They have not fully realized the harmful effect of nicotine.C) They were not prepared to commenton the cigare

10、ttestudy.D) They will pay more attention to the quality of their products.Section B ConversationDirections： In this section， you will hear two long conversations。 Atthe end of each conversationsyou willhear fourquestions 。 Both the conversationsand the question-swill be spoken only once。 After you h

11、ear a question。 Youmust choose the best answer from the four choices marked A）， B）， C）and D）。 Then mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 1 with a single line through the centre。注意：此部分试题请在答题卡 1 上作答。Drections:Questions 8 to 11 are based on the conversation you have just heard.Question 8A) Indo

12、nesia.B) Holland.C) Sweden.D) England.Question 9A) Getting a coach who can offer real help.B) Talking with her boyfriend in Dutch.C) Learning a language where it is not spoken.D) Acquiring the necessary ability to socialize.Question 10A) Listening to language programs on the radio.B) Trying to speak

13、 it as much as one can.C) Making friends with native speakers.D) Practicing reading aloud as often as possible.Question 11A) It creates an environment for socializing.B) It offers various courses with credit points.C) It trains young peoples leadership abilities.D) It provides opportunities for lang

14、uage practice.Drections:Questions 12 to 15 are based on the conversation you have just heard.Question 12A) The impact of engine design on road safety.B) The role policemen play in traffic safety.C) A sense of freedom driving gives.D) Rules and regulations for driving.Question 13A) Make cars with aut

15、omatic control.B) Make cars that have better brakes.C) Make cars that are less powerful.D) Make cars with higher standards.Question 14A) They tend to drive responsibly.B) They like to go at high speed.C) They keep within speed limits.D) They follow traffic rules closely.Question 15A) It is a bad ide

16、a.B) It is not useful.C) It is as effective as speed bumps.D) It should be combined with education.Section C PassageDirections：Inthissection ，you willhear three passages 。Attheend ofeach passage ， you willhearthreeorfour questions 。 Both the passage and the questions will be spokenonly once 。 After

17、you hear a question， you must choosethe best answer from the four choices marked A）， B）， C）and D）。Then mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 1 with a single line through the centre。Drections:Questions 16 to 18 are based on the passage you have just heard.注意：此部分试题请在答题卡 1 上作答。Question 16A) The

18、 card got damaged.B) The card was found invalid.C) The card reader failed to do the scanning.D) The card reader broke down unexpectedly.Question 17A) By covering the credit card with a layer of plastic.B) By calling the credit card company for confirmation.C) By seeking help from the card reader mak

19、er Verifone.D) By typingthe creditcard number intothe cash register.Question 18A) Affect the sales of high-tech appliances.B) Change the lifestyle of many Americans.C) Give birth to many new technological inventions.D) Produce many low-tech fixes for high-tech failures.Drections:Questions 19 to 21 a

20、re based on the passage you have just heard.Question 19A) They are set by the dean of the graduate school.B) They are determined by the advising board.C) They leave much room for improvement.D) They vary among different departments.Question 20A) By consulting the examining committee.B) By reading th

21、e Bulletin of Information.C) By contacting the departmental office.D) By visiting the universitys website.Question 21A) They specify the number of credits students must earn.B) They are harder to meet than those for undergraduates.C) They have to be approved by the examining committee.D) They arethe

22、same among variousdivisionsofthe university.Drections:Questions 22 to 25 are based on the passage you have just heard.Question 22A) Students majoring in nutrition.B) Students in health classes.C) Ph.D. candidates in dieting.D) Middle and high school teachers.Question 23A) Its overestimate of the eff

23、ect of dieting.B) Its mistaken conception of nutrition.C) Its changing criteria for beauty.D) Its overemphasis on thinness.Question 24A) To illustrate her point that beauty is but skin deep.B) To demonstrate the magic effect of dieting on women.C) To explain how computer images can be misleading.D)

24、To prove that technology has impacted our culture.Question 25A) To persuade girls to stop dieting.B) To promote her own concept of beauty.C) To establish an emotional connection with students.D) To help students rid themselves of bad living habits.Part III Reading Comprehension (40 minutes) Section

25、ADirections: In this section, there is a passage with tenblanks.You are requiredto selectone word foreach blankfrom a list of choices given in a word bank following the passage.Read the passage through carefullybeforemaking your choices. Each choice inthe bankisidentifiedby a letter. Please mark the

26、 corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 2 with a single linethroughthe centre.You maynot use any of the words in the bank more than once.Questions 26 to 35 are based on the following passage.Physical activity does the body good, and theres growing evidencethatithelpsthebraintoo.Researchersinthe Nether

27、landsreportthatchildrenwho get more exercise,whether at school or on theirown,26to have higherGPAsand better scores on standardized tests. In a27of 14 studies thatlooked at physicalactivityand academic28, investigators found thatthe more childrenmoved, the bettertheirgrades were in school,29in the b

28、asic subjects of math, English andreading.The datawillcertainlyfueltheongoingdebateover whether physical education classes should be cut as schoolsstruggle to30on smaller budgets. The arguments againstphysicaleducationhave includedconcerns thatgym time may betaking away from study time. With standar

29、dized test scores in the U.S.31in recent years, some administrators believe students need to spend more time in the classroom instead of on the playground. But as these findings show, exercise and academics may not be32exclusive. Physical activity can improve blood33to the brain, fueling memory, att

30、ention and creativity, which are34to learning. And exercise releases hormones that can improve35and relieve stress, which can also help learning. So while it may seem as if kids are just exercising their bodies when theyre running around, they may actually be exercising their brains as well.A.attend

31、anceB.consequentlyC.currentD.depressing E.droppingF.essentialG.feasibleH.flowI.moodJ.mutually K.particularly L.performance M.review N.survive O.tendSection BDirections:In thissection,you are going to read a passage with ten statements attached to it. Each statement containsinformationgiveninoneofthe

32、paragraphsIdentifytheparagraph from which the informationisderived.You maychoose a paragraph more than once. Each paragraph is marked with aletter.Answer thequestionsbymarkingthecorresponding letter on Answer Sheet 2.Finding the Right Home and Contentment,TooA Whenyour elderlyrelativeneeds to enters

33、omesortof long-termcarefacility a moment fewparentsorchildren approachwithoutfear whatyouwouldlikeistohave everything made clear.B Does assisted living really mark a great improvement over a nursing home, or has the industry simply hired better interior designers? Are nursing homes as bad as people

34、fear,or isthatan out-moded stereotype( 固定看法 )? Can doing oneshomework reallysteerfamiliestothebestplaces?Itis genuinely hard to know.C I amabout to makethings more complicated by suggesting that what kind of facility an older person lives in may matter less than we have assumed. And that the charact

35、eristics adultchildrenlook forwhenthey begin the search are not necessarily the things that make a difference to the people who are goingto move in. I am not talking about the quality of care, let me hastily add. Nobody flourishes in a gloomy environment withirresponsiblestaffandapoorsafetyrecord.Bu

36、tan accumulatingbody of researchindicatesthatsomedistinctions between one type of elder care and another have little realbearing on how well residents do.D The most recent of these studies, published in TheJournalofAppliedGerontology,surveyed150Connecticut residentsofassistedliving,nursinghomes ands

37、maller residentialcare homes (known insome statesas board and care homesor adultcare homes). Researchers from the Universityof Connecticut Health Center asked the residents a large numberof questionsabout theirqualityof life,emotionalwell-being and social interaction, as well as about the quality of

38、 thefacilities.E We thought we would see differences based on thehousing types,said the lead author of the study,JulieRobison, anassociateprofessorofmedicineattheuniversity.A reasonableassumption dontfamiliesstruggletoavoid nursing homes and suffer real guilt if they cant?F In the initial results, a

39、ssisted living residents didpaint the most positive picture. They were less likely to report symptoms of depression than those in the other facilities, for instance, and less likely to be bored or lonely. They scoredhigher on social interaction.G But when the researchers plugged in a number of other

40、 variables,such differencesdisappeared.Itisnot the housing type,theyfound,thatcreatesdifferencesinresidentsresponses.Itisthecharacteristicsofthespecific environmenttheyarein,combined withtheirown personal characteristicshow healthythey feelthey are,theirage and maritalstatus,Dr. Robison explained.Wh

41、ether residentsfelt involved in the decision to move and how long they had livedthere also proved significant.H An elderly person who describes herself as in poorhealth,therefore,mightbeno lessdepressedinassisted living (even if her children preferred it) than in a nursinghome. A person who had inpu

42、t into where he would move and hashad time to adapt to it might do as well in a nursing home as in a small residential care home, other factors being equal.Itisan interactionbetween theperson and theplace, not thesortofplaceinitself,thatleadstobetterorworse experiences. You cant just say, Lets put t

43、his person in aresidential care home instead of a nursing homeshe will bemuch better off, Dr. Robison said. What matters, she added, is a combination of what people bring in with them, and what they find there.I Such findings,which run counterto commonsense, have surfacedbefore.In a multi-statestudy

44、 of assistedliving,for instance, University ofNorthCarolina researchersfound thata host of variables the facilitys type, size or age; whether a chain owned it; how attractive the neighborhood washad no significant relationship to how the residents fared in termsof illness, mental decline, hospitaliz

45、ations or mortality.What mattered most was the residents, physical health and mental status. What people were like when they came in hadgreater consequence than what happened once they were there.J As I was considering all this, a press release from a respected research firm crossed my desk, announc

46、ing that thefive-starratingsystem thatMedicare developed in 2021 to helpfamiliescomparenursinghome qualityalsohaslittle relationship to how satisfied its residents or their familymembers are. As a matter of fact, consumers expressed highersatisfaction with the one-star facilities, the lowest rated,t

47、han withthe five-starones. (More on this study andthe star ratings will appear in a subsequent post.)K Before we collectively tear our hair outhow are we supposed to find our way in a landscape this confusing? here is a thought from Dr. Philip Sloane, a geriatrician (老年病学专家) at the University of Nor

48、th Carolina：In a way, that could be liberating for families.L Ofcourse,sonsanddaughterswanttovisitthefacilities, talk to the administrators and residents and other families, and do everything possible to fulfill their duties.But perhaps they dont have to turn themselves into privateinvestigators or

49、Congressional subcommittees. Families canlook a bit more for where the residents are going to be happy, Dr. Sloane said. And involving the future resident in the process can be very important.M We all have our own ideas about what would bring our parentshappiness.Theyhavetheirideas,too.A friend rece

50、ntlytookhermothertovisitanexpensiveassisted living/nursing home near my town. I have seen this placeitis elegant, inside and out. But nobody greeted the daughter andmother when they arrived, though the visit had been planned; nobody introduced them to the other residents. When they had lunch in the

51、dining room, they sat alone at a table.N The daughterfearedher mother would be ignoredthere,and so she decided tomove her intoa more welcoming facility. Based on what is emerging from someof thisresearch,thatmight have been as rational a way as any to reach a decision.36. Many people feel guilty whe

52、n they cannot find a place other than a nursing home for their parents.37. Though ithelpsforchildrentoinvestigatecarefacilities, involving their parents in the decision-making process may prove very important.38. It is really difficult to tell if assisted living isbetter than a nursing home.39. Howa

53、 residentfeelsdepends on an interactionbetween themselves and the care facility they live in.40. The author thinks her friend made a rational decisionin choosing a more hospitableplace over an apparentlyelegant assisted living home.41. The system Medicare developed to rate nursing homequality is of

54、little help to finding a satisfactory place.42. At firstthe researchersof the most recentstudy found residents in assisted living facilities gave higher scores onsocial interaction.43. What kind of care facility old people live in may be less important than we think.44. The findingsof the latestresearchwere similarto an earlier multi-state study of assisted living.45. A residents satisfaction with a care facility has much to do with whether they had participated in the decision to move in and how long they had stayed there.Section CDirectio