2023年8月英语专业四级改革样卷新题型.doc

2023年8月英语专业四级改革新题型（样卷）

PART 1 DICTATION [10 MIN]

Listen to the following passage. Altogether the passage will be read to you four times. During the first reading, which will be done at normal speed, listen and try to understand the meaning. For the second and third readings, the passage will be read sentence by sentence, or phrase by phrase, with intervals of 15 seconds. The last reading will be done at normal speed again and during this time you should check your work. You will then be given 1 minute to check through your work once more

Please write the whole passage on ANSWER SHEET ONE.

PART II LISTENING COMPREHENSION [20 MIN]
SECTION A TALK
In this section you will hear a talk. You will hear the talk ONCE ONLY. While listening, you may look at ANSWER SHEET ONE and write NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS for each gap. Make sure the word(s) you fill in is (are) both grammatically and semantically acceptable. You may use the blank sheet for note-taking.
You have THIRTY seconds to preview the gap-filling task.
Now listen to the talk. When it is over, you will be given TWO minutes to complete your work.

SECTION B CONVERSATIONS
In this section you will hear two conversations. At the end of each conversation, five questions will be asked about what was said. Both the conversation and the questions will be spoken ONCE ONLY. After each question there will be a ten-second pause. During the pause, you should read the four choices of A, B, C and D, and mark the best answer to each question on ANSWER SHEET TWO.
You have thirty seconds to preview the questions.
Now, listen to the conversations.

Conversation One.
1. A. The return trip is too expensive.
B . There is no technology to get people back.
C. People don’t want to return.
D. The return trip is too risky.
2. A. Intelligence.
B. Health.
C. Skills.
D. Calmness.
3. A. The kind of people suitable for the trip.
B. Interests and hobbies of the speakers.
C. Recruitment of people for the trip.
D. Preparation for the trip to Mars.
…

Conversation Two
6. A. Going to the high street. B. Visiting everyday shops.
C. Buying things like electrical goods. D. Visiting shops and buying online.
7. A. 3%. B. 33%.
C. 42%. D. 24%.
8. A. They want to know more about pricing.
B. They can return the product later.
C. They want to see the real thing first.
D. They can bargain for a lower shop price.
…

PART III LANGUAGE KNOWLEDGE
There are twenty sentences in this section. Beneath each sentence there are four words, phrases or statements marked A, B, C and D. Choose one word, phrase or statement that best completes the sentence.
Mark your answers on ANSWER SHEET TWO.

11. When you have finished with that book, don’t forget to put it back on the shelf, ______?
A. don’t you B. do you
C. will you D. won’t you
12. Which of the following statements is INCORRECT?
A. Only one out of six were present at the meeting.
B. Ten dollars was stolen from the cash register.
C. Either my sister or my brother is coming.
D. Five miles seem like a long walk to me.
13. It is not so much the language ______ the cultural background that makes the film difficult to understand.
A. but B. nor
C. like D. as
14. There is no doubt ______ the committee has made the right decision on the housing project.
A. why B. that
C. whether D. when
15. If you explained the situation to your lawyer, he ______ able to advise you much better than I can.
A. will be B. was
C. would be D. were
16. Which of the following is a stative verb (静态动词)?
A. Drink. B. Close.
C. Rain. D. Belong.
17. Which of the following italicized parts indicates a subject-verb relation?
A. The man has a large family to support.
B. She had no wish to quarrel with her brother.
C. He was the last guest to leave.
D. Mary needs a friend to talk to.
18. Which of the following is INCORRECT?
A. Another two girls. B. Few words.
C. This work. D. A bit of flowers.
19. When one has good health, ______ should feel fortunate.
A. you B. she
C. he D. we
20. There ______ nothing more for discussion, the meeting came to an end half an hour earlier.
A. to be B. to have been
C. be D. being
21. Bottles from this region sell ______ at about $50 a case.
A. entirely B. totally
C. wholesale D. together
22. The product contains no ______ colours, flavours, or preservatives.
A. fake B. artificial
C. false D. wrong
23. ______ and business leaders were delighted at the decision to hold the national motor fair in the city.
A. Civil B. Civilized
C. Civilian D. Civic
24. The city council is planning a huge road-building programme to ease congestion. The underlined part means ______.
A. calm B. relieve
C. comfort D. still
25. His unfortunate appearance was offset by an attractive personality. The underlines part means all the following EXCEPT ______.
A. improved B. made up for
C. balanced D. compensated for
26. The doctor said that the gash in his cheek required ten stitches. The underlined part means ______.
A.
B.
C.
D.
27. During the economic crisis, they had to cut back production and ______ workers.
A. lay off B. lay into
C. lay down D. lay aside
28. To mark its one hundredth anniversary, the university held a series of activities including conferences, film shows, etc. The underlined part means ______.
A. signify B. celebrate
C. symbolize D. suggest
29. His fertile mind keeps turning out new ideas. The underlined part means ______.
A. abundant B. unbelievable
C. productive D. generative
30. These issues were discussed at length during the meeting. The underlined part means ______.
A. eventually B. subsequently
C. lastly D. fully

PART IV CLOZE [10 MIN]
Decide which of the words given in the box below would best complete the passage if inserted in the corresponding blanks. The words can be used ONCE ONLY. Mark the letter for each word on ANSWER SHEET TWO.

A. as B. aimless C. bother D. fast E. flights F. helpless G. labor-saving
H. levels I. money-saving J. pause K. quite L. stand by M. standstill
N. traffic O. trapped

Electricity is such a part of our everyday lives and so much taken for granted nowadays that we rarely think twice when we switch on the light or turn on the TV set. At night, roads are brightly lit, enabling people and (31) ______ to move freely. Neon lighting used in advertising has become part of the character of every modern city. In the home, many (32) ______ devices are powered by electricity. Even when we turn off the bedside lamp and are (33) ______ asleep, electricity is still working for us, driving our refrigerators, heating our water, or keeping our rooms air-conditioned. Every day, trains and subways take us to and from work. We rarely (34) ______ to consider why or how they run—until something goes wrong．In the summer of 1959, something did go wrong with power-plant that provided New York with electricity. For a great many hours, life came almost to a (35) ______. Trains refused to move and the people in them sat in the dark, powerless to do anything; lifts stopped working, so that even if you were lucky enough not to be (36) ______ between two floors, you had the unpleasant task of finding your way down (37) ______of stairs．Famous streets like Broadway and Fifth Avenue in an instant became as gloomy and uninviting (38) ______ the most remote back streets. People were afraid to leave their houses, for although the police had been ordered to (39) ______ in case of emergency. they were just as confused and (40) ______ as anybody else.

PART V READING COMPREHENSION [35 MIN]
SECTION A MULTIPLE-CHOICE QUESTIONS
In this section there are several passages followed by ten multiple-choice questions. For each question, there are four suggested answers marked A, B, C and D. Choose the one that you think is the best answer and mark your answers on ANSWER SHEET TWO.

PASSAGE ONE

Inundated by more information than we can possibly hold in our heads, we’re increasingly handing off the job of remembering to search engines and smart phones. Google is even reportedly working on eyeglasses that could one day recognize faces and supply details about whoever you’re looking at. But new research shows that outsourcing our memory – and expecting that information will be continually and instantaneously available – is changing our cognitive habits.
Research conducted by Betsy Sparrow, an assistant professor of psychology at Columbia University, has identified three new realities about how we process information in the Internet age. First, her experiments showed that when we don’t know the answer to a question, we now think about where we can find the nearest Web connection instead of the subject of the question itself. A second revelation is that when we expect to be able to find information again later on, we don’t remember it as well as when we think it might become unavailable. And then there is the researchers’ final observation: the expectation that we’ll he able to locate information down the line leads us to form a memory not of the fact itself but of where we’ll be able to find it.
But this handoff comes with a downside. Skills like critical thinking and analysis must develop in the context of facts: we need something to think and reason about, after all. And these facts can’t be Googled as we go; they need to be stored in the original hard drive, our long-term memory. Especially in the case of children, “factual knowledge must precede skill,” says Daniel Willingham, a professor of psychology, at the University of Virginia – meaning that the days of drilling the multiplication table and memorizing the names of the Presidents aren’t over quite yet. Adults, too, need to recruit a supply of stored knowledge in order to situate and evaluate new information they encounter. You can’t Google context.
Last, there’s the possibility, increasingly terrifying to contemplate, that our machines will fail us. As Sparrow puts it, “The experience of losing our Internet connection becomes more and more like losing a friend.” If you’re going to keep your memory on your smart phone, better make sure it’s fully charged.

41. Google’s eyeglasses are supposed to ____.
A. improve our memory B. function like memory
C. help us see faces better D. work like smart phones
42. Which of the following statements about Sparrow’s research is CORRECT?
A. We remember people and things as much as before.
B. We remember more Internet connections than before.
C. We pay equal attention to location and content of information.
D. We tend to remember location rather than the core of facts.
43. What is the implied message of the author?
A. Web connections aid our memory.
B. People differ in what to remember.
C. People keep memory on smart phones.
D. People need to exercise their memory.

PASSAGE TWO

I was a second-year medical student at the university, and was on my second day of rounds at a nearby hospital. My university’s philosophy was to get students seeing patients early in their education. Nice idea, but it overlooked one detail: second-year students know next to nothing about medicine.
Assigned to my team that day was an attending – a senior faculty member who was there mostly to make patients feel they weren’t in the hands of amateurs. Many attendings were researchers who didn’t have much recent hospital experience. Mine was actually an arthritis specialist. Also along was a resident (the real boss, with a staggering mastery of medicine, at least to a rookie like myself). In addition there were two interns(住院实习医生). These guys were just as green as I was，but in a scarier way: they had recently graduated from the medical school, so they were technically MDs.
I began the day at 6:30am. An intern and I did a quick check of our eight patients; later, we were to present our findings to the resident and then to the attending. I had three patients and the intern had the other five - piece of cake.
But when I arrived in the room of 71-year-old Mr. Adams，he was sitting up in bed, sweating heavily and panting (喘气). He’d just had a hip operation and looked terrible. I listened to his lungs with my stethoscope but they sounded clear. Next I checked the log of his vital signs and saw that his respiration and heart rate had been climbing, but his temperature was steady. It didn’t seem like heart failure, nor did it appear to be pneumonia. So I asked Mr. Adams what he thought was going on.
“It’s really hot in here, Doc,” he replied.
So I attributed his condition to the stuffy room and told him the rest of the team would return in a few hours. He smiled and feebly waved goodbye.
At 8:40 am., during our team meeting, “Code Blue Room 307!” blared from the loudspeaker.
I froze.
That was Mr. Adams’s room.
When we arrived, he was motionless.
The autopsy (尸体解剖) later found Mr. Adams had suffered a massive pulmonary embolism (肺部栓塞). A blood clot had formed in his leg, worked its way to his lungs, and cut his breathing capacity in half. His symptoms had been textbook: heavy perspiration and shortness of breath despite clear lungs. The only thing was: I hadn’t read that chapter in the textbook yet. And I was too scared, insecure, and proud to ask a real doctor for help.
This mistake has haunted me for nearly 30 years, but what’s particularly frustrating is that the same medical education system persists. Who knows how many people have died or suffered harm at the hands of students as naïve as I, and how many more will?

44. We learn that the author’s team members had _____.
A. much practical experience B. adequate knowledge
C. long been working there D. some professional deficiency
45. “His symptoms had been textbook” means that his symptoms were ______.
A. part of the textbook B. no longer in the textbook
C. recently included in the textbook D. explained in the textbook
46. At the end of the passage, the author expresses ____ about the medical education system
A. optimism B. hesitation C. concern D. support

PASSAGE THREE

The war on smoking, now five decades old and counting, is one of the nation’s greatest public health success stories – but not for everyone.
As a whole, the country has made amazing progress. In 1964, four in ten adults in the US smoked; today fewer than two in ten do. But some states – Kentucky, South Dakota and Alabama, to name just a few – seem to have missed the message that smoking is deadly.
Their failure is the greatest disappointment in an effort to save lives t