1、大学英语四级-136 及答案解析(总分：100.00，做题时间：90 分钟)一、Reading Comprehensio(总题数：0，分数：0.00)二、Section A(总题数：1，分数：30.00)It seems you always forgetyour reading glasses when you are rushing to work, your coat when you are going to the 1 , your credit card when you are shopping. Such absent-mindedness may be 2 to you. N
2、ow British and German scientists are developing memory glasses that 3 everything the user sees. The glasses can play back memories 4 to help the wearer remember things they have forgotten such as where they left their keys. And the glasses also allow the user to “label“ items so information can be u
3、sed later on. The wearer could walk around an office or a factory 5 certain items by pointing at them. Objects indicated are then given a blank label on a screen inside the glasses that the user then 6 in. It could be used in 7 plants by mechanics looking to identify machine parts or by electricians
4、 wiring complicated a device. A spokesman for the project, said: “A car 8 for instance could find at a glance where a part on a certain car model is so that it can be identified and repaired. “For the 9 the system could highlight accident black spots or dangers on the road.“ In other cases the glass
5、es could be worn by people going on a guided tour, indicating points of 10 or by people looking at panoramas where all the sites could be identified. A. later B. motorists C. moisture D. noticeable E. frustrating F. fills G. dashing H. necessity I. record J. halts K. cleaners L. mechanic M. industri
6、al N. interest O. identifying（分数：30.00）三、Section B(总题数：1，分数：30.00)Big is BackA Corporate giants were on the defensive for decades. Now they have the advantage again. In 1996, in one of his most celebrated phrases, Bill Clinton declared that “the era of big government is over“. He might have added th
7、at the era of big companies was over, too. The organisation that de-freed capitalism for much of the 20th century was then in retreat, attacked by corporate raiders, annoyed by shareholders and outwitted by entrepreneurs (企业家). Great names such as Pan Am had disappeared. Others had survived only by
8、huge bloodletting: IBM sacked 122,000 people, a quarter of its workforce, between 1990 and 1995. Everyone agreed that the future lay with entrepreneurial start-ups such as Yahoo! which in late 1998 had the same market capitalisation with 637 employees as Boeing with 230,000. The share of GDP produce
9、d by big industrial companies fell by half between 1974 and 1998, from 36% to 17%. B Today the balance of advantage may be shifting again. To a degree, the financial crisis is responsible. It has destroyed the venture-capital market, the lifeblood of many young firms. Governments have been rescuing
10、companies they consider too big to fail, such as Citigroup and General Motors. Recession is squeezing out smaller and less well-connected firms. But there are other reasons too, which are giving big companies a self-confidence they have not displayed for decades. C Of course, big companies never wen
11、t away. There were still plenty of first-rate ones: Unilever and Toyota continued to innovate through thick and thin. And not all start-ups were models of success: Netscape and Enron promised to revolutionise their industries only to crash and burn. Nevertheless, the balance had shifted in favour of
12、 small organisations. The entrepreneurial boom was supercharged by two developments. Deregulation (撤销管制规定) opened protected markets. Some national champions, such as AT it forces you to understand another cultural and intellectual system. So I hope British education will develop a more rational appr
13、oach to the foreign languages available to students in line with their political importance. Because so many people believe it“s no longer important to know another language, I fear that time devoted to language teaching in schools may well continue to decline. But you can argue that learning anothe
14、r language well is more exhausting than, say, learning to play chess well-it involves sensitivity to a set of complicated rules, and also to context. Technology will certainly make a difference to the use of foreign languages. Computers may, for instance, relieve the hard work that a vast translatio
15、n represents. But no one who has seen a computer translation will think it can substitute for live knowledge of the different languages. A machine will always be behind the times. Still more important is the fact that no computer will ever get at the associations beyond the words associations that m
16、ay not be expressed but which carry much of the meaning. In languages like Arabic that context is very important. Languages come with heavy cultural baggage tooin French or German ff you miss the cultural references behind a word you“re very likely to be missing the meaning. It will be very hard to
17、teach all that to a computer. All the predictions are that English will be spoken by a declining proportion of the world“s population in the 21st century. I don“t think foreign languages will really become less important, but they might be perceived to beand that would in the end bea very bad thing.
18、（分数：20.00）(1).Which of the following statements about Chinese is true?（分数：4.00）A.Chinese will soon become the universal language.B.Chinese is a language of intellectuals.C.There are many dialects in Chinese.D.Chinese will be regarded as important as English.(2).According to the second paragraph, the
19、 author may most probably agree that _.（分数：4.00）A.other languages should be taught principally for practical reasonsB.learning a language is to know a country“s cultural and intellectual systemC.British education has a rational approach to the teaching of foreign languagesD.learning another language
20、 well is too exhausting and complicated(3).The worst disadvantage of computer translation is that _.（分数：4.00）A.the expressions used in it are always behind the timesB.it can only be used in the translation of certain languagesC.it cannot replace live knowledge of the different languagesD.it can neve
21、r express the implied meanings beyond word associations(4).By saying “languages come with heavy cultural baggage“, the author means that _.（分数：4.00）A.much unnecessary cultural background blocks the understanding of a languageB.a language usually contains important cultural traditions and customC.it
22、is a burden for a language learner to understand the related cultureD.the understanding of a language is affected by the various contexts it is in(5).The author thinks it would be a bad thing if _.（分数：4.00）A.English is spoken by fewer people in the 21st centuryB.foreign languages become less importa
23、nt in the 21st centuryC.English is not as important as foreign languages in the 21st centuryD.foreign languages are regarded as less important in the 21st century大学英语四级-136 答案解析(总分：100.00，做题时间：90 分钟)一、Reading Comprehensio(总题数：0，分数：0.00)二、Section A(总题数：1，分数：30.00)It seems you always forgetyour readin
24、g glasses when you are rushing to work, your coat when you are going to the 1 , your credit card when you are shopping. Such absent-mindedness may be 2 to you. Now British and German scientists are developing memory glasses that 3 everything the user sees. The glasses can play back memories 4 to hel
25、p the wearer remember things they have forgotten such as where they left their keys. And the glasses also allow the user to “label“ items so information can be used later on. The wearer could walk around an office or a factory 5 certain items by pointing at them. Objects indicated are then given a b
26、lank label on a screen inside the glasses that the user then 6 in. It could be used in 7 plants by mechanics looking to identify machine parts or by electricians wiring complicated a device. A spokesman for the project, said: “A car 8 for instance could find at a glance where a part on a certain car
27、 model is so that it can be identified and repaired. “For the 9 the system could highlight accident black spots or dangers on the road.“ In other cases the glasses could be worn by people going on a guided tour, indicating points of 10 or by people looking at panoramas where all the sites could be i
28、dentified. A. later B. motorists C. moisture D. noticeable E. frustrating F. fills G. dashing H. necessity I. record J. halts K. cleaners L. mechanic M. industrial N. interest O. identifying（分数：30.00）解析：K解析 由前面的 the，可知此处应为名词，再根据上下文的并列结构及关键词“coat”，可推断此处是一个表示地点的名词，在词库中只能选 cleaners。解析：E解析 此处应该是形容词，或动词的
29、现在分词，充当 be 的表语。根据 absent-mindedness 可以判断该词应表消极意义，因此答案为 frustrating。解析：I解析 此处应为及物动词，在从句中作谓语，that 指代 memory glasses，根据主谓一致的原则，可知该词为动词原形。词库中的动词原形只有 record。另外根据上下文可以推断记忆眼镜可以记录佩戴者看到的东西，因此答案是 record。解析：A解析 此处可以是副词，作句子的状语；也可能是形容词或动词分词，作 memories 的后置定语。但根据句中 play back, help. remember 等词及该句句意，可以推断 later 最适合。
30、解析：O解析 此处可能是动词的现在分词结构，该动词是及物动词，宾语是 certain items。该句是对上一句的举例说明，根据上句中的“label” items 可以推断该动词表明的意思与 label 相近，都有“辨别”之义，因此答案是 identifying。解析：F解析 此处应为第三人称单数动词，可与介词 in 搭配，构成从句的谓语。分析该句的成分，可以发现该动词词组的宾语是 a blank label，而从句应表明由使用者填写空白标签，因此 fills 最合适。解析：M解析 此处应为形容词。根据 plants, mechanics, machine parts 等词，可以确定该形容词为
31、industrial。industrial plants 意为“工厂”。解析：L解析 此处应为名词。由 for instance 可知本句是为了举例说明记忆眼镜对什么人有用处。根据下文的 repair 可以推断空白处表示的是修理工人，词库中只有 mechanic 符合要求。解析：B解析 此处应为名词。该句是另一个说明记忆眼镜如何应用于现实生活的例子，因此该名词也是表示人的名词，而从下文的 accident black spots 和 dangers on the road 可以推断 motorists 为正确答案。解析：N解析 此处应为名词，语义与 guided tour 有关，只有 inte
32、rest 最适合，points of interest意为“景点”。三、Section B(总题数：1，分数：30.00)Big is BackA Corporate giants were on the defensive for decades. Now they have the advantage again. In 1996, in one of his most celebrated phrases, Bill Clinton declared that “the era of big government is over“. He might have added that th
33、e era of big companies was over, too. The organisation that de-freed capitalism for much of the 20th century was then in retreat, attacked by corporate raiders, annoyed by shareholders and outwitted by entrepreneurs (企业家). Great names such as Pan Am had disappeared. Others had survived only by huge
34、bloodletting: IBM sacked 122,000 people, a quarter of its workforce, between 1990 and 1995. Everyone agreed that the future lay with entrepreneurial start-ups such as Yahoo! which in late 1998 had the same market capitalisation with 637 employees as Boeing with 230,000. The share of GDP produced by
35、big industrial companies fell by half between 1974 and 1998, from 36% to 17%. B Today the balance of advantage may be shifting again. To a degree, the financial crisis is responsible. It has destroyed the venture-capital market, the lifeblood of many young firms. Governments have been rescuing compa
36、nies they consider too big to fail, such as Citigroup and General Motors. Recession is squeezing out smaller and less well-connected firms. But there are other reasons too, which are giving big companies a self-confidence they have not displayed for decades. C Of course, big companies never went awa
37、y. There were still plenty of first-rate ones: Unilever and Toyota continued to innovate through thick and thin. And not all start-ups were models of success: Netscape and Enron promised to revolutionise their industries only to crash and burn. Nevertheless, the balance had shifted in favour of smal
38、l organisations. The entrepreneurial boom was supercharged by two developments. Deregulation (撤销管制规定) opened protected markets. Some national champions, such as AT it forces you to understand another cultural and intellectual system. So I hope British education will develop a more rational approach
39、to the foreign languages available to students in line with their political importance. Because so many people believe it“s no longer important to know another language, I fear that time devoted to language teaching in schools may well continue to decline. But you can argue that learning another lan
40、guage well is more exhausting than, say, learning to play chess well-it involves sensitivity to a set of complicated rules, and also to context. Technology will certainly make a difference to the use of foreign languages. Computers may, for instance, relieve the hard work that a vast translation rep
41、resents. But no one who has seen a computer translation will think it can substitute for live knowledge of the different languages. A machine will always be behind the times. Still more important is the fact that no computer will ever get at the associations beyond the words associations that may no
42、t be expressed but which carry much of the meaning. In languages like Arabic that context is very important. Languages come with heavy cultural baggage tooin French or German ff you miss the cultural references behind a word you“re very likely to be missing the meaning. It will be very hard to teach
43、 all that to a computer. All the predictions are that English will be spoken by a declining proportion of the world“s population in the 21st century. I don“t think foreign languages will really become less important, but they might be perceived to beand that would in the end bea very bad thing.（分数：2
44、0.00）(1).Which of the following statements about Chinese is true?（分数：4.00）A.Chinese will soon become the universal language.B.Chinese is a language of intellectuals.C.There are many dialects in Chinese. D.Chinese will be regarded as important as English.解析：解析 推理判断题。本题考查复合句的理解。本题最大的干扰选项是 B，理解第 1 段最后一
45、句是关键。可以先把定语从句和分词结构去掉，剩下的就是对 Chinese 的完整描述，即：a language of intellectuals alongside a large number of variations，由此可见，选项 B 过于片面。A 项与首段第2 句不符，D 项未提及。(2).According to the second paragraph, the author may most probably agree that _.（分数：4.00）A.other languages should be taught principally for practical rea
46、sonsB.learning a language is to know a country“s cultural and intellectual system C.British education has a rational approach to the teaching of foreign languagesD.learning another language well is too exhausting and complicated解析：解析 观点态度题。本题其实是要求判断说法的正误。第 2 段的第 2 句表明了作者的态度，也就是选项 B。选项 A、C 都与原文的陈述不符，
47、选项 D 不是作者的观点。(3).The worst disadvantage of computer translation is that _.（分数：4.00）A.the expressions used in it are always behind the timesB.it can only be used in the translation of certain languagesC.it cannot replace live knowledge of the different languagesD.it can never express the implied mean
48、ings beyond word associations 解析：解析 推理判断题。本题考查强对比处。第 3 段第 5 句中的 Still more important 是答题的关键，表明紧接着的才是计算机翻译最大的缺点，而前面提到的都不是最严重的，由此可推断选项 A 和 C 不对，而选项 B 在文中并无相关细节支持。(4).By saying “languages come with heavy cultural baggage“, the author means that _.（分数：4.00）A.much unnecessary cultural background blocks t
49、he understanding of a languageB.a language usually contains important cultural traditions and custom C.it is a burden for a language learner to understand the related cultureD.the understanding of a language is affected by the various contexts it is in解析：解析 词义推断题。本题主要考查 baggage 一词的理解。baggage 带有“惯例、传统”的意思，但这个意思并不包括在考纲词汇里。baggage 虽有“包袱、累赘”之义，但从文中可见，baggage 是与前一句中的 context 同样重要的东西，都能影响对语言的理解，因此，作者使用这个词并无贬义，由此可否定选项 A 和 C。从 baggage 后的 too 一词可推断，baggage 是与 context 不同的影响理解语言的因素，由此也可否定选项 D。(5).The author thinks it would be
