2019年6月英语四级考试真题

1、-WORDB式一可编辑-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. Eachpassage 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 correspon

2、ding letter on AnswerSheet 2 with a single line through the centre.Passage OneQuestions 46 to 50 are based on the followingpassage.Educators today are more and more oftenheard to saythat computer literacy is absolutely necessary forcollegestudents. Many even argue that each incomingfreshman should h

3、ave permanentaccess to his or her ownmicrocomputer. What advantages do computers offer thecollege students?the need to rewriteAny 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 proc

4、essor, most ,findrevising and editingmuch easier on it. One can alter, insert, or delete just bypressing a few keys, thus eliminatingorre-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.

5、For these reasons, many freshman English cottrses requiretheuseof 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 Fren

6、ch, 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 rep

7、resent 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

8、 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 scien

9、ce 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、

10、 The word"literacy" (Line 1,Paragraph 1) meansA.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 intheir own classroomB.analyze advantages anddisadvantages of com

11、puter useamong college studentsC.identify some of the waysthat computers benefit college students.describe how computers canbe used to teachforeign languages48、According to the author, aword processor can be used to.A.revise papersB.retype papersC.reduce the psychologicalburden of writingpapers D.im

12、prove the writing skillsof a student49、 In this passage, thewriter's argument is developed primarily through the use of.A.cause-effect analysisB.comparison andcontrastC.induction.examples50、According to the author,the reason for students to go to college is.A.to learn somethingB.to perfect thems

13、elvesC.to improve computerskillsD.to make the best use ofcomputersPassage Twoa livingthing, constantlyQuestions 51 to 55 are based on the followingpassage.Language is, and should be,enriched with new words and forms of expression. Butthere isa vital distinction between good developments, which add t

14、o the language,enabling us to say things wecould not saybefore, 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 i

15、s perhaps akin tothe cult （迷信.of theunfinished work, which haseroded most ofthe 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 d

16、ecline in the standard of spoken English. Wespeak very much less well than wascommonamong educated Englishmen a generation or two ago.The modem theatre has played a baneful （有害的 in ） part dimming our appreciation oflanguage. Insteadoftheimmensely articulate dialogue of, for example, Shaw（whowas also

17、 very insistent on good pronunciation.,audiences are now subjectedto streams of barely literate trivia, often designed, only too well, toexhibit'laek ofcommunication', and larded （夹杂.with theobscenities（下流的话 .and grammatical errors of theintellectually impoverished. Emily Post once advised h

18、er 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 helpi

19、ng 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 shock

20、ing experience of verbalsqualor. And the prospect seems to be of evenworse to come. School teachers areactively encouraged to ignore little Johnny's incoherent grammar,atrociousspelling and haphazard punctuation, because worrying about such thingsmight inhibit his creative genius.51、The writer r

21、elateslinguisticslovenliness totendencies in the arts today in that they bothA.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

22、, Paragraph 1 ) meansA.an artist's 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 whichA.is incoherent an