1、20162016 年年 6 6 月大学英语四级考试月大学英语四级考试真题及参考答案真题及参考答案PartPart Listening ComprehensionListening Comprehension（听力部分共有两套）四级第一套四级第一套Section A1.C)Rising unemployment worldwide.2.A)Many countries have not taken measures to create enough jobs.3.B)Put calorie information on the menu.4.A)They will be fined.C)They
2、 will get a warning.5.D)Failure to integrate innovation into their business.6.B)It is the creation of something new.7.C)Its innovation culture.Section B8.D)He does not talk long on the phone.9.B)Talk at length.10.A)He thought it was cool.11.C)It is childish and unprofessional.12.B)He is unhappy with
3、 his department manager.13.A)His workload was much too heavy.14.C)His boss has a lot of trust in him.15.D)Talk to his boss in person first.Section C16.A)The importance of sleep to a healthy life.17.C)They get less and less sleep.18.D)Their blood pressure will rise.19.B)What course you are going to c
4、hoose.20.D)The personal statement.21.C)Indicate they have reflected and thought about the subject.22.B)It was built in the late 19th century.23.D)They often broke down.24.A)They were produced on the assembly line.25.C)It marked a new era in motor travel.第 1 页四级第二套四级第二套Section A1.C)Why sufficient sle
5、ep is important for college students.2.C)Making last-minute preparations for tests may be less effective than sleeping.3.B)Whether the British irports Authority should sell off some of its assets.4.D)Lack of runway and terminal capacity.5.D)Report the nicotine content of their cigarettes.6.A)The big
6、gest increase in nicotine content tended to be in brands young smokers like.7.B)They were not prepared to comment on the cigarette study.Section B8.A)Holland.9.D)Learning a language where it is not spoken.10.C)Trying to speak it as much as one can.11.A)It provides opportunities for language practice
7、.12.B)Rules and regulations for driving.13.C)Make cars that are less powerful.14.D)They tend to drive responsibly.15.C)It is not useful.Section C16.D)The card reader failed to do the scanning.17.B)By covering the credit card with a layer of plastic.18.A)Produce many low-tech fixes for high-tech fail
8、ures.19.A)They vary among different departments.20.D)By contacting the deparmental office.21.B)They specify the number of credits students must earn.22.C)Students in health classes.23.A)Its overemphasis on thinness.24.B)To explain how computer images can be misleading.25.C)To promote her own concept
9、 of beauty.PartPart Reading ComprehensionReading Comprehension四级第一套Section ASection A26.O)tend第 2 页27.M)review28.L)performance29.K)particularly30.N)survive31.E)dropping32.J)mutually33.H)flow34.F)essential35.I)moodSection BSection B36.E）“We thought we would see differences based on the housing types,
10、”said the lead authorof the study,Julie Robison,an associate professor of medicine at the university.A reasonableassumptiondont families struggle to avoid nursing homes and suffer real guilt if they cant?37.L）Of course,sons and daughters want to visit the facilities,talk to the administrators andres
11、idents and other families,and do everything possible to fulfill their duties.But perhaps theydont have to turn themselves into private investigators or Congressional subcommittees.“Families can look a bit more for where the residents are going to be happy,”Dr.Sloane said.And involving the future res
12、ident in the process can be very important.38.B）Does assisted living really mark a great improvement over a nursing home,or has theindustry simply hired better interior designers?Are nursing homes as bad as people fear,or isthat an out-moded stereotype(固定看法)？Can doing ones homework really steer fami
13、lies tothe best places?It is genuinely hard to know.39.H）An elderly person who describes herself as in poor health,therefore,might be no lessdepressed in assisted living(even if her children preferred it)than in a nursing home.A personwho had input into where he would move and has had time to adapt
14、to it might do as well in anursing home as in a small residential care home,other factors being equal.It is an interactionbetween the person and the place,not the sort of place in itself,that leads to better or worseexperiences.“You cant just say,Lets put this person in a residential care home inste
15、ad of anursing homeshe will be much better off,”Dr.Robison said.What matters,she added,“isa combination of what people bring in with them,and what they find there.”40.N）The daughter feared her mother would be ignored there,and so she decided to move herinto a more welcoming facility.Based on what is
16、 emerging from some of this research,that mighthave been as rational a way as any to reach a decision.41.J）As I was considering all this,a press release from a respected research firm crossed mydesk，announcing that the five-star rating system that Medicare developed in 2008 to helpfamilies compare n
17、ursing home quality also has little relationship to how satisfied its residents ortheir family members are.As a matter of fact,consumers expressed higher satisfaction with the第 3 页one-star facilities,the lowest rated,than with the five-star ones.(More on this study and the starratings will appear in
18、 a subsequent post.)42.F）In the initial results,assisted living residents did paint the most positive picture.They wereless likely to report symptoms of depression than those in the other facilities,for instance,andless likely to be bored or lonely.They scored higher on social interaction.43.C）I am
19、about to make things more complicated by suggesting that what kind of facility anolder person lives in may matter less than we have assumed.And that the characteristics adultchildren look for when they begin the search are not necessarily the things that make adifference to the people who are going
20、to move in.I am not talking about the quality of care，letme hastily add.Nobody flourishes in a gloomy environment with irresponsible staff and a poorsafety record.But an accumulating body of research indicates that some distinctions betweenone type of elder care and another have little real bearing
21、on how well residents do.44.I）Such findings,which run counter to common sense,have surfaced before.In a multi-statestudy of assisted living,for instance,University of North Carolina researchers found that a host ofvariablesthe facilitys type,size or age;whether a chain owned it;how attractive thenei
22、ghborhood washad no significant relationship to how the residents fared in terms of illness,mental decline,hospitalizations or mortality.What mattered most was the residents physicalhealth and mental status.What people were like when they came in had greater consequencethan what happened once they w
23、ere there.45.G）But when the researchers plugged in a number of other variables,such differencesdisappeared.It is not the housing type,they found,that creates differences in residentsresponses.“It is the characteristics of the specific environment they are in,combined with theirown personal character
24、isticshow healthy they feel they are,their age and marital status,”Dr.Robison explained.Whether residents felt involved in the decision to move and how long theyhad lived there also proved significant.Section C46.C)It can be avoided if human values are translated into their language.47.D)They are il
25、l-bred.48.C)By picking up patterns from massive data on human behavior.49.B)Stop to seek advice from a human being.50.A)Determine what is moral and ethical.51.A)to see whether peoples personality affects their life span52.D)They are more likely to get over hardship.53.C)Such personality characterist
26、ics as self-discipline have no effect on longevity.54.D)Mothers negative personality characteristics may affect their childrens life span.55.B)Longevity results from a combination of mental and physical health.第 4 页四级第二套Section A26.G)growing27.A)dependent28.C)fast29.F)give30.H)launch31.N)successful3
27、2.I)policyl33.B)designed34.O)treatments35.E)gainedSection B36.D)As we begin to examine our life,Soupios says,wecome to Rule No.2:Worry only aboutthings that you can control.“The individual who promoted this idea was a Stoic philosopher.Hisname is Epictetus,”he says.“And what the Stoics say in genera
28、l is simply this:There is a largerplan in life.You are not really going to be able to understand all of the dimensions of this plan.You are not going to be able to control the dimensions of this plan.”37.B)The wisdom of the ancient Greek philosophers is timeless,says Soupios.The philosophyprofessor
29、says it is as relevant today as when it was first written many centuries ago.“There isno expiration(失效)date on wisdom,”he says.“There is no shelf life on intelligence.I thinkthat things have become very gloomy these days,lots of misunderstanding,misleading cues,a lotof what the ancients would have c
30、alled sophistry(诡辩).The nice thing about ancient philosophyas offered by the Greeks is that they tended to see life clear and whole,in a way that we tend notto see life today.”38.F)To have a meaningful,happy life we need friends.But according to Aristotle a student ofPlato and teacher of Alexander t
31、he Great most relationships dont qualify as true friendships.“Just because I have a business relationship with an individual and I can profit from thatrelationship,it does not necessarily mean that this person is my friend,”Soupios says.“Realfriendship is when two individuals share the same soul.It
32、is a beautiful and uncharacteristicallypoetic image that Aristotle offers.”39.A)Is it possible to enjoy a peaceful life in a world that is increasingly challenged by threats anduncertainties from wars,terrorism,economic crises and a widespread outbreak of infectiousdiseases?The answer is yes,accordi
33、ng to a new book The 10 Golden Rules:Ancient Wisdom fromthe Greek Philosophers on Living a Good Life.The book is co-authored by Long Island Universitysphilosophy professor Michael Soupios and economics professor Panos Mourdoukoutas.第 5 页40.L)“This is Aesop,the fabulist(寓言家),the man of these charming
34、 little tales,often told interms of animals and animal relationships,”he says.“I think what Aesop was suggesting is thatwhen you offer a good turn to another human being,one can hope that that good deed willcome back and sort of pay a profit to you,the doer of the good deed.Even if there is no concr
35、etebenefit paid in response to your good deed,at the very least,the doer of the good deed has theopportunity to enjoy a kind of spiritually enlightened moment.”41.H)“This was the highest and most desirable form of pleasure and happiness for the ancientEpicureans,”Soupios says.“This is something that
36、 is very much well worth considering here inthe modern era.I do not think that we spend nearly enough time trying to concentrate onachieving a sort of calmness,a sort of contentment in a mental and spiritual way,which wasidentified by these people as the highest form of happiness and pleasure.”42.C)
37、Soupios,along with his co-author Panos Mourdoukoutas,developed their 10 golden rules byturning to the men behind that philosophyAristotle,Socrates,Epictetus and Pythagoras,among others.The first rule examine your lifeis the common thread that runs through theentire book.Soupios says that it is based
38、 on Platos observation that the unexamined life is notworth living.“The Greeks are always concerned about boxing themselves in,in terms ofconvictions(信念),”he says.“So take a step back,switch off the automatic pilot and actuallystop and reflect about things like our priorities,our values,and our rela
39、tionships.”43.K)Instead,Soupios says,ancient wisdom urges us to do good.Golden Rule No.10 for a goodlife is that kindness toward others tends to be rewarded.44.B)The wisdom of the ancient Greek philosophers is timeless,says Soupios.The philosophyprofessor says it is as relevant today as when it was
40、first written many centuries ago.“There isno expiration(失效)date on wisdom,”he says.“There is no shelf life on intelligence.I thinkthat things have become very gloomy these days,lots of misunderstanding,misleading cues,a lotof what the ancients would have called sophistry(诡辩).The nice thing about anc
41、ient philosophyas offered by the Greeks is that they tended to see life clear and whole,in a way that we tend notto see life today.”45.J)“This is Hesiod,of course,a younger contemporary poet,we believe,with Homer,”Soupiossays.“Hesiod offers an ideawhich you very often find in some of the worlds grea
42、t religions,inthe Judeo-Christian tradition and in Islam and othersthat in some sense,when you hurtanother human being,you hurt yourself.That damaging other people in your community and inyour life,trashing relationships,results in a kind of self-inflicted(自己招致的)spiritual wound.”Section C46.D)It usu
43、ally draws different reactions from different age groups.47.A)It does not seem to create a generational divide.48.B)It helps with their mobility.49.A)The location of their residence.第 6 页50.C)The wealthy.51.C)Their daily routine followed the rhythm of the natural cycle.52.B)It brought family members
44、 closer to each other.53.D)Pace of life.54.B)It is varied,abundant and nutritious.55.A)They enjoyed cooking as well as eating.四级第三套Section A26.M)provide27.A)abandoned28.I)frequent29.L)merely30.C)biased31.G)dependent32.F)dampens33.E)commitment34.N)understandably35.O)unrealisticallySection B36.F In co
45、ntrast,the recent surge in world grain prices is trend-driven,making it unlikely toreverse without a reversal in the trends themselves.On the demand side,those trends includethe ongoing addition of more than 70 million people a year,a growing number of people wantingto move up the food chain to cons
46、ume highly grain-intensive meat products,and the massivediversion（转向）of U.S.grain to the production of bio-fuel.37.KIn response to those restrictions,grain-importing countries are trying to nail downlong-term trade agreements that would lock up future grain supplies.Food-import anxiety is evenleadin
47、g to new efforts by food-importing countries to buy or lease farmland in other countries.Inspite of such temporary measures,soaring food prices and spreading hunger in many othercountries are beginning to break down the social order.38.CAs demand for food rises faster than supplies are growing,the r
48、esulting food-priceinflation puts severe stress on the governments of many countries.Unable to buy grain or growtheir own,hungry people take to the streets.Indeed,even before the steep climb in grain pricesin 2008,the number of failing states was expanding.If the food situation continues to worsen,e
49、ntire nations will break down at an ever increasing rate.In the 20th century the main threat tointernational security was superpower conflict;today it is failing states.第 7 页39.L Since the current world food shortage is trend-driven,the environmental trends thatcause it must be reversed.We must cut
50、carbon emissions by 80%from their 2006 levels by 2020,stabilize the worlds population at eight billion by 2040,completely remove poverty,and restoreforests and soils.There is nothing new about the four objectives.Indeed,we have madesubstantial progress in some parts of the world on at least one of t
