2021年6月大学英语四级考试真题试卷（第1套）
Diretions: For this part you are allowecd 30 mimtes to write an esscy titled *Are people being addicted to technology ? ". The statement given below is for your reference.You shouid write at least 120 words buct no more than 180 words.the brain as drug addition. Numerous studies claim thataddictionto technology isrealandithasthe sameeffect on
(25 minutes)
Section A
Direetions :In this section yo w /hear hree news reports. A the end ofeach news report yo wil hear vo or three questions. Both the newsreport and the questions wil be spoken only once. Affer you her α ques- tion you mast choose the best answer from the four choices marked A) 5) C) and D). Then mark the corresponding leter on Arswer Sheet 7with α single line thsrough the centre.
Questions I and 2 are based on the news report you have just heard.
1. A) Enrol him in a Newcastle football club.B) Send him to an after-school art class.D) Help him post his drawings online. C) Forbid him to draw in his workbook.
2. A) Contacted Joe to decorate its dining-room.B) Hired Joe to paint llthe walls of its buildings. C) Renovated its kitchen and allthe dining-rooms.D) Asked Joe for permission to use his online drawings.
Questions 3 and 4 are based on the news report you have just heard.
3. A) Get her pet dog back.B)Beg for help from the police.C) Identify the suspect on the security video.D) Post pictures of her pet dog on social media.
4. A) It is suffering a great deal from the incident.B) It is helping the police with the investigation.D) It is offering a big reward to anyone who helps. C) It is bringing the case to the local district court.
Questions 5 to 7 are based on the news report you have just heard.
5. A) Provide free meals to the local poor. B)Help people connect with each other.C) Help eliminate class difference in his area.
D) Provide customers with first-class service.
6. A) It does not supervise is employees.B) It donates regularly to a local charity. C) It does not use volunteers.D) It is open round the clock.
7. A) They will realise the importance of munication.C)They will care less about their own background. B) They will e to the cafe even more frequently.D) They will find they have something in mon.
Section B
sation you will hear four questions. Both the conversation and the questions will bespoken only once. After you hear α question you must choose the best answer from the four choices marked A) B) C) and D). Then mark the corresponding leter on AnswerSheet 7 with α single line through the centre.
Direetions :In this section you will hear wo long coversations. At the end of each conver-
Questions 8 to 11 are based on the conversation you have just heard.
8. A) A surprise party for Pauls birthday.B) Travel plans for the ing weekend.C) Preparations for Saturday's get-together. D) The new market on the other side of town.
9. A) It makes the hostess’s job a whole lot easier.B) It enables guests to walk around and chat freely.D) It requires fewer tables and chairs. C) It saves considerable time and labor.
10. A) It offers some big discounts. B) It is quite close to her house.C) It is more spacious and less crowded. D) It sells local wines and soft drinks.
11. A) Cook a dish for the party.B)Arrive 10 minutes earlier.D) Bring his puter and speakers. C) Prepare a few opening remarks.
Questions 12 to 15 are based on the conversation you have just heard.
12. A) For muting to work. B) For long-distance travel.13. A) They are reliable. C) For getting around in Miami. D) For convenience at weekends. B) They are pact.s D) They are easy to drive.14. A) Buy a second-hand car. C) Seek advice from his friend. B) Trust her own judgment. D) Look around before deciding.15. A) He sells new cars. B) He can be trusted.C) He is starting a business. D) He is a successful car dealer.
Seetion C
Direetions : In this section you w ° /hear three passages. At the end of each passage yot
will hear three or four questions. Both the pasage and the questions w * /be spoken onlyonce. After you hecr α question you must choose tihe best answer from the four choicesmarked A) 5) C) and D) Then mark the corresponding letter on Arnswer Sheet 7 witiα single line through the centre.
Questions 16 to 18 are based on the passage you have just heard.
16. A) Many escaped from farms and became wild.
17. A) They often make sudden attacks on people. B)They break up nature's food supply chain.C) They cause much environmental pollution.D) They carry a great many diseases.
18. A) They lived peacefully with wild pigs. B) They ran out of food pletely.C) They fell victim to eagles. D) They reproduced quickly.
Questions 19 to 21 are based on the passage you have just heard.
19. A) Taste coffee while in outer space. B) Roast coffe beans in outer space.C) Develop a new strain of coffee bean. D) Use a pressurised tank to brew coffe.20. A) They can easily get burned. B) They float around in the oven.C) They have to be heated to 360 °C. D) They receive evenly distributed heat.
21. A) They charged a high price for their space-roasted coffee beans.B) They set up a branch in Dubai to manufacture coffee roasters.C) They collaborated on building the first space coffee machine. D) They abandoned the attempt to roast coffee beans in space.
Questions 22 to 25 are based on the passage you have just heard.
22. A) It is the best time for sightseeing. B) A race passes through it annually. It is when the villagers choose a queen.23. A) Its children's baking skills. C)They e to clean the IditarodTrail. D) B) Its unique winter scenery.C)Its tasty fruit pies. D) Its great food variety.24. A) The contestants. C) Jan Newton and her friends. B) The entire village. D) People from the state of Idaho.
25. A) She owned a restaurant in Idaho.B) She married her husband in 1972.C) She went to Alaska to pete in a race.
D) She helped the village to bee famous.
Part HI
(40 minutes)
Reading Comprehension
Section A
Diretions :In this section there is α passage with ten blnks. You are reqired to select one word for each blank from a list of choices given in α word bank following the passage.Read the passoge through carefiatly before making yosr choices. Each choice in the bank is
identijfied by a lerter. Please mark the corresponding letter for each item on Answer Sheet2with a single line rhrough he centre Youmy notse any of the words in the bank morethan once.
Most animals seek shade when temperatures in the Sahara Desert soar to 120 degreesFahrenheit. But for the Saharan silver ant 26 from their underground nests into thesun's brutal rays to 27 for food this is the perfect time to seek lunch. In 2015 these ants were joined in the desert by scientists from two Belgian universities who spent a month inthe 28 heat tracking the ants and digging out their nests. The goal was simple to discov-er how the 29 adapted to the kind of heat that can 30 melt the bottom of shoes.
found that their 31 triangular hair reflects light like a prism (棱锁) giving them a me- Back in Belgium the scientists looked at the ants under an electronic microscope andtallic reflection and protecting them from the sun's awful heat. When Ph. D. student Quentin s d se e ind e a e m ye e g u n perature jumped.
The ants' method of staying cool is 34 among animals. Could this reflective type ofhair protect people? Willot says panies are interested in 35 these ants’ method of heat protection for human use including everything from helping to protect the lives of fire-fighters to keeping homes cool in summer.
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Section B
Diretions : In this section you are going fo read α passage with Ien statements altached tograph from which the information is derived. You may choose α paragraph more than il. Each statement confains information given in one of the paragraphs. Identify the para-once. Each paragraph is marked with α lerter. Answer the questions by marking the corre-sponcling letter on Answer Sheet 2.
The start of high school doesn't have to be stressful
A) This month more than 4 million students across the nation will begin high school.Many will do well. But many will not. Consider that nearly two-thirds of students will experi- ence the ninth-grade shock " which refers to a dramatic drop in a student's academic per-formance. Some students cope with this shock by avoiding challenges. For instance theymay drop difficult coursework. Others may experience a hopelessness that results in failing their core classes such as English science and math.
B) This should matter a great deal to parents teachers and policymakers. Ultimately itrransitioning (过)to the ninth grade can have long-term consequences not only for the should matter to the students themselves and society at large because students' experience ofstudents themselves but for their home munities. We make these observations as research
psychologists who have studied how schools and families can help young people thrive.
CIn the new global economy students who fail to finish the ninth grade with passing
grades in college preparatory coursework are very unlikely to graduate on time and go on to get jobs. One study has calculated that the lifetime benefit to the local economy for a singleadditional student who pletes high school is half a million dollars or more. This is basedon higher earnings and avoided costs in health care crime welfare dependence and other things.
D The consequences of doing poorly in the ninth grade can impact more than students*ability to find a good job. It can also impact the extent to which they enjoy life. Students losemany of the friends they turned to for support when they move from the eighth to the ninth grade. One study of ninth-grade students found that 50 percent of friendships among ninthgraders changed from one month to the next signaling striking instability in friendships.
greatest increases in depression of any year over the lifespan. Researchers think that one ex- EIn addition studies find the first year of high school typically shows one of theplanation is that ties to friends are broken while academic demands are rising. Furthermore most adult cases of clinical depression first emerge in adolescence (青春期）. The WorldHealth Organization reports that depression has the greatest burden of disease worldwide in terms of the total cost of treatment and the loss of productivity.
FGiven all that's riding on having a successful ninth grade experience it pays to ex-plore what can be done to meet the academic social and emotional challenges of the transi- tion to high school. So far our studies have yielded one main insight: Students? beliefs aboutchangetheir beliefs about whether people are stuck one way forever or whether people canchange their personalities and abilitiesare related to their ability to cope succeed academi- cally and maintain good mental health. Past research has called these beliefs mindsets (思维模式) "with a “fixed mindset” referring to the belief that people cannot change and a° growth mindset” referring to the belief that people can change.
GIn one recent study we examined 360 adolescents beliefs about the nature of *sm-artness” that is their fixed mindsets about intelligence. We then assessed biological stressresponses for students whose grades were dropping by examining their stress hormones (荷尔蒙） . Students who believed that intelligence is fixedthat you are stuck being “ not smart" if you struggle in schoolshowed higher levels of stress hormones when their gradeswere declining at the beginning of the ninth grade. If students believed that intelligence couldshowed lower levels of stress hormones when their grades were declining. This was an excit- improve-that is to say when they held more of a growth mindset of intelligence-theying result because it showed that the body's stress responses are not determined solely byone's grades. Instead declining grades only predicted worse stress hormones among students who believed that worsening grades were a permanent and hopeless state of affairs.
HWe also investigated the social side of the high school transition. In this study in-standing that is whether they are bullied or excluded or left out-can change over time. stead of teaching students that their smartness can change we taught them that their socialWe then looked at high school students² stress responses to daily social difficulties. That is
