1、大学四级-161 及答案解析(总分：710.00，做题时间：90 分钟)一、BPart Writing(总题数：1，分数：106.50)1.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 according to the information conveyed. You should write
2、at least U120/U words but no more than U180/U words.（分数：106.50）_二、BPart Listenin(总题数：0，分数：0.00)三、BSection A/B(总题数：4，分数：106.50)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
3、 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 1 with a single line thro
4、ugh the centre.（分数：35.50）(1). A.At a theatre. B.At a booking office. C.At a railway station. D.At a restaurant.（分数：7.10）A.B.C.D.(2). A.The man is inviting the woman to dinner. B.The woman is too busy to join the man for dinner. C.The woman is a friend of the Stevensons. D.The man is going to visit t
5、he Stevensons.（分数：7.10）A.B.C.D.(3). A.The professors presentation was not convincing enough. B.The professors lecture notes were too complicated. C.The professor spoke with a strong accent. D.The professor spoke too fast.（分数：7.10）A.B.C.D.(4). A.The furnished apartment was inexpensive. B.The apartmen
6、t was provided with some old furniture. C.The furniture in the market was on sale every Sunday. D.The furniture he bought was very cheap.（分数：7.10）A.B.C.D.(5). A.The man is thinking about taking a new job. B.The man likes a job that enables him to travel. C.The man is sure that he will gain more by t
7、aking the job. D.The man doesnt want to stay home and take care of their child.（分数：7.10）A.B.C.D.（分数：21.30）(1). A.Take the GRE test again in 8 weeks. B.Call to check his scores. C.Be patient and wait. D.Inquire when the test scores are released.（分数：7.10）A.B.C.D.(2). A.She read it selectively. B.She w
8、ent over it chapter by chapter. C.She read it slowly. D.She finished it at a stretch.（分数：7.10）A.B.C.D.(3). A.He was kept in hospital for a long time. B.He was slightly injured in a traffic accident. C.He was seriously wounded in a mine explosion. D.He was fined for speeding.（分数：7.10）A.B.C.D.Question
9、s 9 to 11 are based on the conversation you have just heard. （分数：21.30）(1). A.An employee in the city council at Birmingham. B.Assistant Director of the Admissions Office. C.Head of the Overseas Students Office. D.Secretary of Birmingham Medical School.（分数：7.10）A.B.C.D.(2). A.Nearly fifty percent ar
10、e foreigners. B.About fifteen percent are from Africa. C.A large majority are from Latin America. D.A small number are from the Far East.（分数：7.10）A.B.C.D.(3). A.She will have more contact with students. B.It will bring her capability into fuller play. C.She will be more involved in policy-making. D.
11、It will be less demanding than her present job.（分数：7.10）A.B.C.D.BQuestions 12 to 15 are based on the conversation you have just heard./B （分数：28.40）(1). A.The hotel clerk had put his reservation under another name. B.The hotel clerk insisted that he didnt make any reservation. C.The hotel clerk tried
12、 to take advantage of his inexperience. D.The hotel clerk couldnt find his reservation for that night.（分数：7.10）A.B.C.D.(2). A.A grand wedding was being held in the hotel. B.There was a conference going on in the city. C.The hotel was undergoing major repairs. D.It was a busy season for holiday-maker
13、s.（分数：7.10）A.B.C.D.(3). A.It was free of charge on weekends. B.It had a 15% discount on weekdays. C.It was offered to frequent guests only. D.It was 10% cheaper than in other hotels.（分数：7.10）A.B.C.D.(4). A.Demand compensation from the hotel. B.Ask for an additional discount. C.Complain to the hotel
14、manager. D.Find a cheaper room in another hotel.（分数：7.10）A.B.C.D.四、BSection B/B(总题数：0，分数：0.00)五、BPassage One/B(总题数：1，分数：21.30)Questions 16 to 19 are based on the passage you have just heard. （分数：21.30）(1). A.Anxious and worried. B.Proud and excited. C.Nervous and confused. D.Inspired and confident.（
15、分数：7.10）A.B.C.D.(2). A.His father scolded him severely. B.His father took back the six dollars. C.His father made him do the cutting again. D.His father cut the leaves himself.（分数：7.10）A.B.C.D.(3). A.One can benefit a lot from working with his father. B.Manual laborers shouldnt be looked down upon.
16、C.One should always do his job earnestly. D.Teenagers tend to be careless.（分数：7.10）A.B.C.D.六、BPassage Two/B(总题数：1，分数：21.30)Questions 19 to 21 are based on the passage you have just heard. （分数：21.30）(1). A.He ran a village shop. B.He worked on a farm. C.He worked in an advertising agency. D.He was a
17、gardener.（分数：7.10）A.B.C.D.(2). A.It was stressful. B.It was colorful. C.It was peaceful. D.It was boring.（分数：7.10）A.B.C.D.(3). A.His desire to start Iris own business. B.The crisis in his family life. C.The decline in his health. D.His dream of living in the countryside.（分数：7.10）A.B.C.D.七、BPassage T
18、hree(总题数：1，分数：28.40)Questions 22 to 25 are based on the passage you have just heard. （分数：28.40）(1). A.Because there are no signs to direct them. B.Because no tour guides are available. C.Because all the buildings in the city look alike. D.Because the university is everywhere in the city.（分数：7.10）A.B
19、.C.D.(2). A.They set their own exams. B.They select their own students. C.They award their own degrees. D.They organize their own laboratory work.（分数：7.10）A.B.C.D.(3). A.Most of them have a long history. B.Many of them are specialized libraries. C.They house more books than any other university libr
20、ary. D.They each have a copy of every book published in Britain.（分数：7.10）A.B.C.D.(4). A.Very few of them are engaged in research. B.They were not awarded degrees until 1948. C.They have outnumbered male students. D.They were not treated equally until 1881.（分数：7.10）A.B.C.D.八、BSection C/B(总题数：1，分数：71.
21、00)Directions: In the 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, w
22、hen the passage is read for the third time, you should check what you have written.We Chat is an app, which is U U 1 /U /Uon Android, iPhone, BlackBerry, Windows Phone and Symbian phones clients but these U U 2 /U /Uthe user to have the app installed on a supported mobile phone for authentication. A
23、s of August 2014, WeChat has 438 million active users; with 70 million outside of China. Why is WeChat so popular among mobile internet users? Whats the key point for WeChat to win the market in such a short period? Doesnt it forecast a new U U 3 /U /Ufor mobile marketing?One of the very important r
24、eason is that WeChat is quite funny, U U 4 /U /Uwhen used for marketing. It could become more attractive than weibo and branded webpages. The reasons are as follows. First, information could be sent to U U 5 /U /Uconsumer, from which receivers could feel kind of special treatment. Just like a conver
25、sation between brands and consumers. Second, information is more U U 6 /U /Uand receivers get it spontaneously. Third, the interface has nothing except for marketers information and users finger. This is very essential when users U U 7 /U /Uoverwhelmed ads on websites. Fourth, it is free. Fifth, ric
26、h media U U 8 /U /Uthe marketing to be quite high-end. Sixth, U U 9 /U /Ulocations, you can never imagine how much fun could be discovered. Last but not least, how can you realize those fun mentioned above? Just make others U U 10 /U /Uyour account and update the message regularly. （分数：71.00）填空项 1:_
27、填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_九、BPart Reading (总题数：0，分数：0.00)十、BSection A/B(总题数：1，分数：35.50)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 pa
28、ssage. 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.Prospective
29、 students should bear in mind that housing will be an expensive item in their budget, approaching in magnitude the cost of tuition and food. In general, the amount that a student spends for housing should be held to U U 1 /U /Uone-fourth of the total available for living expenses (as opposed to U U
30、2 /U /Uexpenses, such as tuition and fees). If the amount U U 3 /U /Ufor housing reaches one-third of the total budget for living expenses, the student is certainly spending too much; however, if it drops to one-sixth, it is possible that the U U 4 /U /Uare unsafe, unhealthy, and possibly U U 5 /U /
31、U.For detailed information on local housing U U 6 /U /U, students should contact the housing office or the foreign student adviser of the institution that has admitted them. Students should also be advised that commuting to campus from a distance is usually very difficult, because public transportat
32、ion in many towns and cities in the United States is simply not U U 7 /U /Uor convenient.On arrival in the United States, students can usually obtain U U 8 /U /Uinformation on local housing options from the foreign students adviser; the housing office of the institution; the “for rent“ U U 9 /U /Uof
33、 campus or community newspapers; fellow students who attend the institution; and a host family in the community. A local international hospitality organization may also be a source of U U 10 /U /Uin finding a suitable place to live.AillegalBfurtherCindifferentDspentErefuseFequalGassistanceHregularly
34、IadequateJalternativesKeducationalLcolumnsMapproximatelyNofficialsOquarters（分数：35.50）填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_十一、BSection B/B(总题数：1，分数：71.00)Directions: In this section, you are going to read a passage with ten statements attached to it. Each statement co
35、ntains 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.Waking the DeadAOf the many i
36、lls that can befall (降临) the human body, brain damage is one of the most devastating-and confusing. When a person suffers from a traumatic brain injury that leaves him or her in an uncommunicative state, doctors and loved ones face one of medical sciences most confounding questions: How do we know w
37、hen a person is still there? When is a body just a body?BThose question only get more complicated with the startling news that the brains of some patients in a vegetative (植物的) state appear to recognize familiar faces. The implications are mind-boggling (难以置信的).CBrain deathwhen there is zero brain f
38、unctionis both a medical and legal term, and it is, quite literally, death. But when there is some brain function left, the lines blur rather quickly. A brain-damaged patient may live for months and even years, in limbo: her eyes may open and she may sleep and wake up in what appears to be a normal
39、cycle, but she has no meaningful interactions and shows no awareness of her surroundingsor herself. She is in what the medical community calls a “persistent vegetative state,“ awake but unaware. Its unlikely that she will ever recover, and if she does, she will probably face severe physical and neur
40、ological impairments. Not what most of us call living.DSomeone in a vegetative state raises an essential moral and ethical question and an often bitter debate: How much should we do to keep a body on autopilot going? The debate has intensified in recent years, as a few studies have found striking ex
41、amples of vegetative patients who seem to be able, on some level, to communicate. “With changing paradigms of imaging and other techniques,“ Dr. Karen Hirsch, a neurologist and neurosurgeon at the Stanford University Medical Center, told Newsweek, “we are learning that maybe some of these people do
42、have some awareness.“E Using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) (功能性磁共振成像), researchers working in Tel Aviv looked at the brain activity in both healthy and vegetative subjects. First they showed both groups pictures of strangers, and then pictures of familiar faces. The brain activity pat
43、terns of the vegetative patients matched that of the healthy subjects.FThat study advances some work released earlier this year: Researchers out of the University of Cambridge said they found that vegetative patients could not only respond to stimulus, but could respond to direct questions with a “y
44、es“ or “no“ response, and a Western University (Canada) study touted similar results. Both built on a landmark study from a few years earlier, out of Britain and Belgium, in which a handful of patients in vegetative states were “taught“ to visualize two specific scenes: one in which they were playin
45、g tennis, and another in which they were walking around a familiar place. The researchers claim that one patient was even able to use those two scenes as analogs for “yes“ and “no.“ When asked, for example, “Is your fathers name Alexander?“ the patient was purportedly able to visualize the scene tha
46、t corresponded to the correct answer.GThere are some large caveats (告诫) to those studies. In the Cambridge study, “patients“ was really “patient,“ and it took repeating the words “yes“ and “no“ 5,400 times to get that that patients brain to develop an “attentiveness“ to the words. The Canadian study was the same: Only one of 21 patients studied showed an ability to respond.HThese two patients may just be data outliers, cases where
