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RSS订阅1998年1月大学英语四级考试试题
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Part I Listening Comprehension (20 minutes)
Section A
Directions: In this section, you will hear 10 short conversations.At the end of each conversation, a question will be asked about what was said.Both the conversation and the question 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 the Answer Sheet with a single line through the center.
Example: You will hear :
You will read : A) At the office. B) In the waiting room.
C) At the airport. D) In a restaurant.
From the conversation we know that the two were talking about some work they had to finish in the evening.This is most likely to have taken place at the office.Therefore, A)"At the office" is the best answer.You should choose ［A］on the Answer Sheet and mark it with a single line through the center.
Sample Answer ［ A ］［B］ ［C］ ［D］
1. A) The man wants to attend tomorrow's show.
B) There aren't any tickets left for tonight's show.
C) There aren't any tickets left for tomorrow's show.
D) The man doesn't want to attend tomorrow's show.
2. A) Detective stories. B) Stories about jail escapes.
C) Love stories. D) Stories about royal families.
3. A) It was a long lecture, but easy to understand.
B) It was not as easy as she had thought.
C) It was as difficult as she had expected.
D) It was interesting and easy to follow.
4. A) To put him through to the director.
B) To have a talk with the director about his work.
C) To arrange an appointment for him with the director.
D) To go and see if the director can meet him right now.
5. A) Margaret wanted to return some magazines to the woman
B) Margaret wanted to lend some magazines to the woman.
C) Margaret wanted to borrow some magazines from the woman.
D) Margaret wanted to get some magazines back from the woman.
6. A) He doesn't care much about it.
B) He enjoys it very much.
C) He doesn't mind ever though it's tedious.
D) He hates working overtime.
7. A) The woman doesn't think it exciting to travel by air.
B) They'll stay at home during the holidays.
C) Tbey are offered some plane tickets for their holidays.
D) They'll be flying somewhere for their vacation.
8. A) Something went wrong with the bus.
B) She took somebody to hospital.
C) Something prevented her from catching the bus.
D) She came on foot instead of taking a bus.
9. A) Do her homework. B) Clean the backyard.
C) Wash clothes. D) Enjoy the beautiful day.
10. A) The man is looking for a place to live in.
B) The man has ahouse for rent.
C) The woman is a secretary.
D) The two speakers are old friends.
Section B Compound Dictation
注意：听力理解的B节(Section B) 为复合式听写(Compound Dictation),题目在试卷二上。
现在请取出试卷二。
Part Ⅱ Reading Comprehension (35 minutes)
Directions: There are 4 passages in this part. Each passage is followed by some questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A) , B) , C) and D) . You should decide on the best choice and mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the center.
Questions 11 to 15 are based on the following passage：
In bringing up children, every parent watches eagerly the child's acquisition(学会) of each new skill the first spoken words, the first independent steps, or the beginning of reading and writing.It is often tempting to hurry the child beyond his natural learning rate, but this can set up dangerous feelings of failure and states of worry in the child.This might happen at any stage. A baby might be forced to use a toilet too early, a young child might be encouraged to learn to read before he knows the meaning of the words he reads. On the other hand, though, if a child is left alone too much, or without any learning opportunities,he loses his natural enthusiasm for life and his desire to find out new things for himself.
Parents vary greatly in their degree of strictness towards their children. Some
may be especially strict in money matters. Others are sever over times of coming home at night or punctuality for meals. In general, the controls imposed represent the needs of the parents and the values of the community as much as the child's own happiness.
As regards the development of moral standards in the growing child, consistency
is very important in parental teaching. To forbid a thing one day and excuse it the next is no foundation for morality(道德). Also, parents should realize that"example is better than precept". If they are not sincere and do not practise what they preach (说教), their children may grow confused, and emotionally insecure when they grow old enough to think for themselves, and realize they have been to some extent fooled.
A sudden awareness of a marked difterence between their parents' principles and
their morals can be a dangerous disappointment.
11. Eagerly watching the child's acquisition of new skills ______ .
A) should be avoided
B) is universal among parents
C) sets up dangerous states of worry in the child
D) Will make him lose interest in learning new things
12. In the process of children's learning new skills parents ______ .
A)should encourage them to read before they know the meaning of the words they read
B) should not expect too much of them
C) should achieve a balance between pushing them too hard and leaving them on
their own
D) should create as many learning opportunities as possible
13. The second paragraph mainly tells us that ______ .
A) parents should be strict with their children
B) parental controls reflect only the needs of the parents and the values of the
community
C) parental restrictions vary, and are not always enforced for the benefit of the
children alone
D) parents vary in their strictness towards their children according to the
situation
14. The word "precept"( Line 3, Para. 3) probably means "______ ".
A) idea B) punishment C) behaviour D) instruction
15. In moral matters, parents should _______ .
A) observe the rules themselves
B) be aware of the marked difference between adults and children
C) forbid things which have no foundation in morality
D) consistently ensure the security of their children
Questions 16 to 20 are based on the following passage：
A good modern newspaper is an extraordinary piece of reading. It is remarkable first for what it contains: the range of news from local crime to international politics, from sport to business to fashion to science, and the range of comment and special features (特定) as well, from editorial page to feature articles and interviews to criticism of books, art, theatre and music. A newspaper is even more remarkable for the way one reads it: never completely, never straight through, but always by jumping from here to there, in and ont glancing at one piece, reading another article all the way through, reading just a few paragraphs of the next. A good modern newspaper offers a variety to attract many different readers, but far more than any one reader is interesied in. What brings this variety together in one place is its topicality (时事性), its immediate relation to what is happening in your world and your locality now. But immediacy and the speed of production that goes with it mean also that much of what appears in a newspaper has no more than transient(短暂的) value. For all these reasons, no two people really read the same paper: what each person does is to put together out of the pages of that day's paper, his own selection and sequence, his own news paper. For all these reasons, reading newspapers efficiently, which means getting what you want from them without missing things you need but without wasting time, demands skill and selfawareness as you modify and apply the techniques of reading .