2022年6月新四级真题预测试卷及解析.doc

6月大学英语四级考试

Part Ⅰ Writing （30 minutes）
Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a short essay. You should start your essay with a brief description of the picture and then express your views on the importance of doing small things before undertaking something big. You should write at least 120 words but no more than 180 words.

Part Ⅱ Listening Comprehension (30 minutes)
Section A
Directions: In this section, you will hear 8 short conversations and 2 long conversations. At the end of each conversation, one or more questions will be asked about what was said. Both the conversation and the questions will be spoken only once. After each question there will be a pause. During the pause, you must read the four choices marked A), B), C) and D), and decide which is the best answer. Then mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through the centre.

1. A) The woman is the manager’s secretary.
B) The man found himself in a wrong place.
C) The man is the manager’s business associate.
D) The woman was putting up a sign on the wall.
2. A) He needs more time for the report.
B) He needs help to interpret the data.
C) He is sorry not to have helped the woman.
D) He does not have sufficient data to go on.
3. A) A friend from New York. C) A postal delivery.
B) A message from Tony. D) A change in the weather.
4. A) She is not available until the end of next week.
B) She is not a reliable source of information.
C) She does not like taking exams.
D) She does not like psychology.
5. A) He will help the woman carry the suitcase.
B) The woman’s watch is twenty minutes fast.
C) The woman shouldn’t make such a big fuss.
D) There is no need for the woman to be in a hurry.
6. A) Mary is not so easygoing as her.
B) Mary and she have a lot in common.
C) She finds it hard to get along with Mary.
D) She does not believe what her neighbors said.
7. A) At an information service. C) At a repair shop.
B) At a car wash point. D) At a dry cleaner’s.
8. A) The woman came to the concert at the man’s request.
B) The man is already fed up with playing the piano.
C) The piece of music the man played is very popular.
D) The man’s unique talents are the envy of many people.

Questions 9 to 12 are based on the conversation you have just heard.
9. A) He has taught Spanish for a couple of years at a local school.
B) He worked at the Brownstone Company for several years.
C) He owned a small retail business in Michigan years ago.
D) He has been working part-time in a school near Detroit.
10. A) He prefers a full-time job with more responsibility.
B) He is eager to find a job with an increased salary.
C) He likes to work in a company close to home.
D) He would rather get a less demanding job.
11. A) Sports. B) Travel. C) Foreign languages. D) Computer games.
12. A) When he is supposed to start work.
B) What responsibilities he would have.
C) When he will be informed about his application.
D) What career opportunities her company can offer.

Questions 13 to 15 are based on the conversation you have just heard.
13. A) She is pregnant. C) She has just finished her project.
B) She is over 50. D) She is a good saleswoman.
14. A) He takes good care of Lisa. C) He is good at business management.
B) He is the CEO of a giant company. D) He works as a sales manager.
15. A) It is in urgent need of further development.
B) It produces goods popular among local people.
C) It has been losing market share in recent years.
D) It is well positioned to compete with the giants.

Section B
Directions: In this section, you will hear 3 short passages. At the end of each passage, you will hear some questions. Both the passage and the questions will be spoken only once. After you hear a question, you must choose the best answer from the four choices marked A), B), C) and D). Then mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through the centre.
Passage One
Questions 16 to 19 are based on the passage you have just heard.
16. A) It is lined with tall trees. C) It has high buildings on both sides.
B) It was widened recently. D) It used to be dirty and disorderly.
17. A) They repaved it with rocks. C) They beautified it with plants.
B) They built public restrooms on it. D) They set up cooking facilities near it.
18. A) What makes life enjoyable. C) What a community means.
B) How to work with tools. D) How to improve health.
19. A) They were obliged to fulfill the signed contract.
B) They were encouraged by the city officials’ praise.
C) They wanted to prove they were as capable as boys.
D) They derived happiness from the constructive work.

Passage Two
Questions 20 to 22 are based on the passage you have just heard.
20. A) The majority of them think it less important than computers.
B) Many of them consider it boring and old-fashioned.
C) The majority of them find it interesting.
D) Few of them read more than ten books a year.
21. A) Novels and stories. C) History and science books.
B) Mysteries and detective stories. D) Books on culture and tradition.
22. A) Watching TV. C) Reading magazines.
B) Listening to music. D) Playing computer games.

Passage Three
Questions 23 to 25 are based on the passage you have just heard.
23. A) Advice on the purchase of cars.
B) Information about the new green-fuel vehicles.
C) Trends for the development of the motor car.
D) Solutions to global fuel shortage.
24. A) Limited driving range.
C) The short life of batteries.
B) Huge recharging expenses.
D) The unaffordable high price.
25. A) They need to be further improved.
B) They can easily switch to natural gas.
C) They are more cost-effective than vehicles powered by solar energy.
D) They can match conventional motor cars in performance and safety.

Section C
Directions: In this section, you will hear a passage three times. When the passage is read for the first time, you should listen carefully for its general idea. When the passage is read for the second time, you are required to fill in the blanks with the exact words you have just heard. Finally, when the passage is read for the third time, you should check what you have written.

My favorite TV show? “The Twilight Zone.” I (26) ________ like the episode called “The Printer’s Devil.” It’s about a newspaper editor who’s being (27) ________ out of business by a big newspaper syndicate—you know, a group of papers owned by the same people.
He’s about to (28) ________ suicide when he’s interrupted by an old man who says his name is Smith. The editor is not only offered 5,000 to (29) ________ his newspaper’s debts, but this Smith character also offers his services for free. It (30) ________ that the guy operates the printing machine with amazing speed, and soon he’s turning out newspapers with (31) ________ headlines. The small paper is successful again. The editor is amazed at how quickly Smith gets his stories—only minutes after they happen—but soon he’s presented with a (32) ________ to sign. Mr. Smith, it seems, is really the devil! The editor is frightened by this news, but he is more frightened by the idea of (33) ________ his newspaper, so he agrees to sign. But soon Smith is reporting the news even before it happens—and it’s all terrible—one disaster after another. Anyway, there is a little more to tell, but I don’t want to (34) ________ the story for you. I really like these old episodes of “The Twilight Zone” because the stories are fascinating. They are not realistic. But then again, in a way they are, because they (35) ________ human nature.

Part Ⅲ Reading Comprehension (40 minutes)
Section A
Directions: In this section, there is a passage with ten blanks. You are required to select one word for each blank from a list of choices given in a word bank following the passage. Read the passage through carefully before making your choices. Each choice in the bank is identified by a letter. Please mark the corresponding letter for each item on Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through the centre. You may not use any of the words in the bank more than once.
Questions 36 to 45 are based on the following passage.
Walking, if you do it vigorously enough, is the overall best exercise for regular physical activity. It requires no equipment, everyone knows how to do it and it carries the 36 ________ risk of injury. The human body is designed to walk. You can walk in parks or along a river or in your neighborhood. To get 37________ benefit from walking, aim for 45 minutes a day, an average of five days a week.
Strength training is another important 38 ________ of physical activity. Its purpose is to build and 39 ________ bone and muscle mass, both of which shrink with age. In general, you will want to do strength training two or three days a week, 40________ recovery days between sessions.
Finally, flexibility and balance training are 41________ important as the body ages. Aches and pains are high on the list of complaints in old age. The result of constant muscle tension and stiffness of joints, many of them are 42________, and simple flexibility training can 43 ________ these by making muscles stronger and keeping joints lubricated (润滑). Some of this you do whenever you stretch. If you watch dogs and cats, you’ll get an idea of how natural it is. The general 44________ is simple: whenever the body has been in one position for a while, it is good to 45 ________stretch it in an opposite position.

A) allowing B) avoidable C) briefly D) component
E) determined F) helping G) increasingly H) lowest
I) maintain J) maximum K) prevent L) principle
M) provoke N) seriously O) topic

Section B
Directions: In this passage, you are going to read a passage with ten statements attached to it. Each statement contains information given in one of the paragraphs. Identify the paragraph from which the information is derived. You may choose a paragraph more than once. Each paragraph is marked with a letter. Answer the questions by marking the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 2.
Can Digital Textbooks Truly Replace the Print Kind?
[A] The shortcomings of traditional print edition textbooks are obvious: For starters they’re heavy, with the average physics textbook weighing 3.6 pounds. They’re also expensive, especially when you factor in the average college student’s limited budget, typically costing hundreds of dollars every semester.
[B] But the worst part is that print versions of textbooks are constantly undergoing revisions. Many professors require that their students use only the latest versions in the classroom, essentially rendering older texts unusable. For students, it means they’re basically stuck with a four pound paper-weight that they can’t sell back.
[C] Which is why digital textbooks, if they live up to their promise, could help ease many of these shortcomings. But till now, they’ve been something like a mirage (幻影) in the distance, more like a hazy (模糊旳) dream than an actual reality. Imagine the promise: Carrying all your textbooks in a 1.3 pound iPad? It sounds almost too good to be true.
[D] But there are a few pilot schools already making the transition (过渡) over to digital books. Universities like Cornell and Brown have jumped onboard. And one medical program at the University of California, Irvine, gave their entire class iPads with which to download textbooks just last year.
[E] But not all were eager to jump aboard.
[F] “People were tired of using the iPad textbook besides using it for reading,” says Kalpit Shah, who will be going into his second year at Irvine’s medical program this fall. “They weren’t using it as a source of communication because they couldn’t read or write in it. So a third of the people in my program were using the iPad in class to take notes, the other third were using laptops and the last third were using paper and pencil.”
[G] The reason it hasn’t caught on yet, he tells me, is that the functionality of e-edition textbooks is incredibly limited, and some students just aren’t motivated to learn new study behavior.
[H] But a new application called Inkling might change all that. The company just released an updated version last week, and it’ll be utilized in over 50 undergraduate and graduate classrooms this coming school year.
[I] “Digital textbooks are not going to catch on,” says Inkling CEO Matt MacInnis as he’s giving me a demo (演示) over coffee. “What I mean by that is the current perspective of the digital textbook is it’s an exact copy of the print book. There’s Course Smart, etc., these guys who take an image of the page and put it on a screen. If that’s how we’re defining digital textbooks, there’s no hope of that becoming a mainstream product.”
[J] He calls Inkling a platform for publishers to build rich multimedia content from the ground up, with a heavy emphasis on real-world functionality. The traditional textbook merely serves as a skeleton.[K] At first glance Inkling is an impressive experience. After swiping (触击) into the iPad app (应用软件), which you can get for free here, he opens up a few different types of textbooks.
[L] Up first is a chemistry book. The boot time is pretty fast, and he navigates through (浏览) a few chapters before swiping into a fully rendered 3D molecule that can be spun around to view its various building blocks. “Publishers give us all of the source media, artwork, videos,” he says. “We help them think through how to actually build something for this platform.”
[M] Next he pulls up a music composition textbook, complete with playable demos. It’s a learning experience that attacks you from multiple sensory directions. It’s clear why this would be something a music major would love.
[N] But the most exciting part about Inkling, to me, is its notation (批注) system. Here’s how it works:
[O] When you purchase a used print book, it comes with its previous owner’s highlights and notes in the margins. It uses the experience of someone who already went through the class to help improve your reading (how much you trust each notation is obviously up to you).
[P] But with Inkling, you can highlight a piece of content and make notes. Here’s where things get interesting, though: If a particularly important passage is highlighted by multiple Inkling users, that information is stored on the cloud and is available for anyone reading the same textbook to come across. That means users have access to notes from not only their classmates and Facebook friends, but anyone who purchased the book across the country. The best comments are then sorted democratically by a voting system, meaning that your social learning experience is shared with the best and brightest thinkers.
[Q] As a bonus, professors can even chime in (插话) on