英语专四真题全套

历年真题全套Tape script（2006） TEM 4 -----2006 Conversations Conversation 1 M: Hello! W: Oh, hello! You must be a new student. Did you find us OK? M: Well, I got a bit lost and I had to ask a stranger, but I got here eventually. W: Oh, dear! Have you come far today? M: Only from Brighton. I was staying with my brother. W: Oh, good. How did you get her? M: My brother took me to the railway station, and I got a bus at this end. (Q1) W: Aha, well you’d better tell me your name so I can find your form. M: It’s Mark Burn. W: Burn, Burn. Ah, yes. Oh, you’ve changed since this photo. What happened to your beard and mustache? And you are not wearing glasses, either. (Q2) M: No, I thought I’d better look smarter. W: Here is the key to your room. It’s 501. M: Thanks. How do I get there? W: Go to the end of this corridor. Turn left, and it’s the third door on the right. M: Thank you. Oh, there is a meeting for new students. What time is that? W: Half past five in the Common Room on the ground floor at the other end of the corridor. (Q3) M: Thanks a lot. Bye! Key: 1.C 2.A 3.B Conversation 2 W: Hi, Steve, how are things? M: Hi, Maggie. Good, thanks. What’s new with you? W: Oh, I was just wondering if you wanted to go out tonight. M: Well, I was thinking of going to the university library to do a bit of study. (Q4) What’ve you got in mind? W: I thought we could just go for a walk. Maybe down to that part near the beach. M: Tonight? You must be joking! It’s too cold! (Q5) W: Oh, yes, it’s too cold (Q5). But I still want to go out somewhere. That new Tom Cruise’s film is on in town. How about that? M: Ok. What time does it start? W: Oh, I think it’s half past eight or something. I’ll just get the paper and have a look. Just hang on for a minute. Look, the film got a fantastic review in the paper last week. M: Ok, Ok. Where’re we going to meet? W: It’d be easiest if we met at the cinema (Q6). M: Ok. Where is it? W: Near the town hall and opposite the bank. M: Oh, yeah. I know where it is. Ok, look, I’ll meet you there at fifteen past eight. Key: 4.D 5.B 6.D Conversation 3 W: What are you reading, Bill? M: It’s this week’s New Scientist, Why? W: I was just wondering. It looks interesting. But I’ve never actually read it myself (Q9). It’s for real scientists. Or can ordinary people like me understand it (Q9)? M: Oh, it’s for anyone really (Q9). It usually has articles and stories about current affairs, about science as well as papers about new development and research. I am reading about a new telephone that allows you to see the person you’re speaking to as well as hearing (Q10). W: Oh, I’ve heard about it. Is it on the market yet? Can I buy one? M: No, not this one (Q7). But the company has made other models to try out the business. This one is special because of its color, and the image is moving (Q7). W: OK, that’s interesting (Q9). M: You see the first video phones, that’s what they called, were made in Japan. But they can only show a still black-and-white image. So this videophone is much better than that. Mind you I am no sure I want one. Would you? W: Well, no. I don’t think I would. I bet it costs a lot of money. Does it say how much it costs (Q7)? M: Yes, the early black-and-white ones cost several hundred pounds. But the one that the story is about costs several thousand pounds (Q8). W: Mm, why does anybody want one, do you think (Q9)? M: Business organizations that need to frequently contact overseas organizations would want it. It’s like a face-to-face conversation, so maybe a lot of overseas travel can be avoided. W: Yes, I suppose so (Q9). Key: 7.C 8.D 9.B 10. A Passages Passage 1 If you are in a western country, you often see people walking their dogs. It is still true that the dog is the most useful animal in the world. However, the reason why one keeps a dog has changed (Q13). Once upon a time, a man met a dog and wanted to help him in the fight against other animals, and the dog listened to him and did what he told him to do. Later people used dogs for hunting other animals (Q11), and dogs did not eat what they got until their master agreed. Dogs were also used for driving sheep and guarding chickens (Q11). But now people in towns and cities do not need dogs to fight other animals anymore. Of course they keep them to fighting thieves, but the most important reason for keeping dogs is that they feel lonely in the city. For a child, a dog is his best friend when he has no friends to play with. For a young wife, a dog is her child when she does not have her own. For old people, a dog is also a child when their children have grown up and left. Now people do not have to use a dog, but they keep it as a friend, just like a member of the family (Q12). Key: 11.D 12.A 13.D Passage 2 I am going to work in a totally new environment. I’ll have to get used to different working conditions. I am used to working in quite a high-tech sort of industry that’s got lots of machinery and everything. But now I am going to a place that has no machinery as such apart from a typewiter. The place has no electricity at all, no photo copiers. All the things that you just take for granted here, they just won’t be there anymore (Q14). I’ll be staying near the school in quite a small village, and I will be staying in a teacher’s house, living with two or three other volunteer teachers (Q15). I’ll have to get used to not having the variety of different foods that you have here like 20 different varieties of breakfast serial. And the range of food there is much smaller, not many choices (Q16). I’ll also have to get used to getting water from the well. Not having electricity, which means gas lamp in the evening, which means the difficulty of preparing for the next day’s lessons in poor light. (Q15), which means different ways of getting your clothes washed. There’ll be all sorts of big differences like that I’ll have to get used to when I arrive there (Q17). Key: 14.B 15.D 16.A 17.C Passage 3 The most common type of child abuse, you know, is beating with hands or with an instrument, usually a cane in some places. Nearly a third of the abused children we see are in the age group between 6 and 10, and about 65% of them are boys. This is the age group when children are first expected to study hard (Q18), and parents have great expectations of their progress in school. Boys, of course, attract more abuse such as beating, because once again parental expectations are high and boys tend to be more energetic and difficult to control than girls (Q20). Most experts seem to agree that child abuse is caused by a combination of social and psychological factors. Families who beat their children are not particularly different from other people. The only difference that exists between them is that they lack skills in establishing good relationship with their children. These families too, generally speaking, have other problems such as marriage problems or financial problems (Q19). Some parents are hurting their children because they strongly believe in the use of traditional disciplinary methods, but many of them have emotional problems (Q19). They are often t