2016年英语专业四级考试参考答案
Part I DICTATION
Think Positive and Feel Positive
Are you confident or insecure in a difficult situation? / Do you react positively or negatively? / The answer may depend in part on whom you’re around. / A study found that negative thinking can be contagious in some cases. / For example, the researchers studied 103 college roommates. / They measured each roommate’s tendency towards negative thinking. / It was found that thinking patterns can be contagious. / Students with a negative thinking roommate became more depressed themselves, / and students with more positive thinking roommates / were more likely to become more positive as well.
Part II LISTENING COMPREHENSION
SECTION A TALK
1. success
2. challenging settings
3. National Spelling Contest
4. passion and perseverance
5. future a reality
6. marathon
7. grittier
8. measures of talent
9. not fixed / changeable
10. a temporary condition
SECTION B CONVERSATIONS
1.Why does the woman call the man?
答案:[D] To tell the man the procedure of the interview.2.What kind of questions can the man ask in the interview?
答案:[A] Questions related to the job.3.Which is the last part of the interview?
答案:[C]Presentation from the interviewee.4. What might be expected from the man’s presentation?
答案:[D]Company future and his contribution.5. When is the interview scheduled?
答案:[B]11 a.m. next Thursday.
6.What is the interview mainly about?
答案:[C] How to handle the problem of college loans.
7.How does the cost of college education change every year?
答案:[A]It was increased by 6 to 8%.8.What is used to measure student loan debt as a guideline?
答案:[B]First year salary after graduation.9.What is the advantage of joining a college savings plan?
答案:[D]Students withdraw without paying tax.10.What is the possible social cost of a college loan?
答案:[A]Giving up charitable or volunteer work.
Part III LANGUAGE KNOWLEDGE11. How can I concentrate if you_____ continually_____ me with silly questions?
答案:[A] have...interrupted12. Among the four sentences below, Sentence _____ expresses the highest degree of possibility.
答案:[D] It should take a long time to find a solution to the problem.13. She is a better speaker than _____ in the class.
答案:[A] any boy14. Nobody heard him sing, _____?
答案:[D] did they15. I can’t put up with _____.
答案:[B] that friend of yours16. There has been an increasing number of _____ in primary schools in the past few years.
答案:[D] men teachers17. This is one of the issues that deserve _____ .
答案:[B] mentioning
18. The audience _____ excited on seeing _____ favorite star glide onto the stage.
答案:[A] were...their19. _____ your advice, I would have made the wrong decision.
答案:[B] Had it not been for20. The sentence I wish I had been more careful in spending money expresses the speaker’s _____ .
答案:[C] regret21. The Attorney General ordered a federal autopsy of Brown’s body, seeking to _____ the family and community there would be a thorough investigation into his death.
答案:[C] assure22. The police department came under strong criticism for both the death of an unarmed man and its handling of the _____.
答案:[D] aftermath23. The Foreign Secretary tried to _____ doubts about his handling of the crisis.
答案:[A] dispel24. Mutual funds are thus best for investors who don’t want to take the time to study stocks in detail or who _____ the resources to build a portfolio.
答案:[B] lack25. Chris ran _____ John at a sporting-goods trade show and the two quickly struck _____ an easy rapport.
答案:[A] into...up26. “I am leaving the country soon,” he told a _____ convened group of reporters.
答案:[C] specially27. Israel and Hamas had reached a deal on extending the _____ ceasefire by an extra 24 hours until Tuesday at midnight.
答案:[D] temporary28. _____ to unplugging the alarm clock and trusting your ability to wake on time on your own, you should probably ease yourself into the new arrangement by keeping a very regular schedule for several weeks.
答案:[B] Prior29. If you are an athlete, strong abdominal muscles help you ensure a strong back and freedom from injury during _____ upper-body movement.
答案:[D] vigorous30. Finning is a cruel _____ in which the shark’s fins are lopped off, and the live shark is thrown back to sea.
答案:[C] practice
Part IV CLOZE
31. [H]lists
32. [L]shaped
33. [I]promulgated
34. [E]generations
35. [D]disseminated
36. [K]scant
37. [O]virtual
38. [C]directly
39. [M]sophisticated
40. [G]instead
Part V READING COMPREHENSION
SECTION A
MULTIPLE-CHOICE QUESTIONS
PASSAGE ONE41. In Para. 1, the phrase “set my feet” probably means _______.
答案:B. prepare me42. It can be concluded from Para. 2 that _______.
答案:A. the man wanted to maintain dignity though starved43. Compared with Brother A, Brother B was more_______towards the effect of the one-million-pound bank-note on a total stranger.
答案:D. positive
PASSAGE TWO44. Which of the following is the best title for the passage?
答案:B. Popular Peace Symbols.45. The rainbow represents the connection between human beings and their gods in all the following countries EXCEPT_______.
答案:D. China46. In North Europe mistletoe was often hung in doorways to indicate_______.
答案:A. friendship47. The origin of the ankh can date back to_______.
答案:D. ancient Egypt
PASSAGE THREE48. What is the author’s attitude toward