1、公共英语四级-(无语音，只提供参考)6 及答案解析(总分：103.00，做题时间：90 分钟)一、PART LISTENING COM(总题数：0，分数：0.00)二、SECTION A(总题数：1，分数：10.00)Slang in EnglishToday well discuss a common linguistic phenomenon in Englishslang. The features ofslang are listed as follows:. Slang affects the English (1)_ (1)_A. New words added for socia
2、l, scientific or artistic reasonsB. Slangthe social new words troubling conservative linguists. Slang is young peoples way of say.A. Created by (2)_ (2)_Reason: seek social statusResult: looked down upon by adultsconsidered unintelligent and (3)_ (3)_B. The conservative view: lack of standard Englis
3、h due to an education deficiencyC. Possible solution: use kids (4)_to help them learn standard English.(4)_. Slang is usually used by people of (5)_status. (5)_A. People who do not like slang are usually prejudicedthey do not want to hear other ways of talking.B. Much slang comes from (6)_ (6)_. Sla
4、ng equals change of languageA. Change of a language is to fit the (7)_of society (7)_e.g.: In Shakespeares time, many contractions used today were considered poorEnglish.B. People who oppose slang and new dialects of Englishdo not realize the way people speak (8)_time; (8)_prove themselves to be int
5、olerant of change.C. Language will be thought of (9)_in the future: (9)_1. people talk via the Internet now;2. the Internet has its own language-computer slang;e.g.: acronyms, used by the Netizens3. cyber-slang is not accepted by conservatives;4. it will probably appear in standard (10)_ (10)_. Conc
6、lusion: slang brings changes to language and prejudice against it is groundless.（分数：10.00）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:_三、SECTION B(总题数：1，分数：5.00)(1).According to the interview, what is the unique feature of magazine The Worm of English?A. Its arrangement in t
7、he bilingual English-Chinese form and its detailed explanatory notes.B. Its taste for people of all kinds of life.C. Its colorful pictures of the world.D. Its literary works.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(2).What columns doesnt The Worm of English have?A. The literary world, the art circles, social science-econo
8、mics.B. History and geography, science and technology.C. Species and animal knowledgeable sketches.D. Selected readings in newspapers and periodicals, culture and education, words and sentences, translation exercises, etc.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(3).Who are The Worm of Englishs target readers?A. People of
9、comparatively higher levels.B. People consisting largely of university students, postgraduates, English workers.C. Those who study English abroad.D. The lovers of English language.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(4).Which of the following places didnt Mr. Chen stay?A. A greater part of Burma.B. Xiannin, Beijing an
10、d Shanghai.C. South Korea and many other countries of Europe.D. Middle East and Southeast Africa.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(5).In which year did The World of English begin to appear?A. In 1938. B. In 1945. C. In 1950. D. In 1981.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.四、SECTION C(总题数：3，分数：4.00)（分数：2.00）(1).The man Mr. Cheney accid
11、entally shot and injured isA a doctor. B a secretary.C a lawyer. D a leader.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(2).The Bush Administration has been accused by Harry Reid ofA being covert. B shielding Dick.C being dishonest. D attacking the victim.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.1.According to a friend, which of the following is TRU
12、E about Marcheline Bertrand?A. She was an Oscar winner.B. She was devoted to hex children.C. She suffered from depression after she was diagnosed with cancer.D. She had been on poor terms with Brad Pitt.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.2.The statements which NATO-led forces made include all the following EXCEPTA th
13、ey have suspended this kind of rocket. B they are investigating the accident.C they had never killed civilians mistakenly. D they are still proceeding with the operation.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.五、PART READING COMPR(总题数：0，分数：0.00)六、TEXT A(总题数：1，分数：5.00)I cry easily. I once burst into tears when the curtain
14、came down on the Kirov Ballets “Swan Lake“. I still choke up every time I see a film of Roger Bannister breaking the “impossible“ four-minute mark for the mile. I figure I am moved by witnessing men and women at their best. But they need not be great men and women, doing great things.Take the night,
15、 some years ago, when my wife and I were going to dinner at a friends house in New York city. It was sleeting. As we hurried toward the house, with its welcoming light, I noticed a car pulling out from the curb. Just ahead, another car was waiting to back into the parking space - a rare commodity in
16、 crowded Manhattan. But before he could do so another car came up from behind, and sneaked into the spot. “Thats dirty pool.“ I thought.While my wife went ahead into our friends house. I stepped into the street to give the guilty driver a piece of my mind. A man in work clothes rolled down the windo
17、w.“Hey,“ I said, “this parking space belongs to that guy,“ I gestured toward the man ahead, who was looking back angrily. I thought I was being a good Samaritan, I guess - and I remember that the moment I was feeling pretty manly in my new trench coat. “Mind your own business!“ the driver told me.“N
18、o,“ I said. “You dont understand. That fellow was waiting to back into this space.“Things quickly heated up, until finally he leaped out of the car. My God, he was colossal. He grabbed me and bent me back over the hood of his car as if I was a rag doll. The sleet stung my face. I glanced at the othe
19、r driver, looking for help, but he gunned his engine and hightailed it out of there.The huge man shook his rock of a fist of me, brushing my lip and cutting the inside of my mouth against my teeth. I tasted blood. I was terrified. He snarled and threatened, and then told me to beat it.Almost in a pa
20、nic, I scrambled to my friends front door. As a former Marine, as a man, I felt utterly humiliated. Seeing that I was shaken, my wife and friends asked me what had happened. All I could bring myself to say was that I had had an argument about a parking space. They had the sensitivity to let it go at
21、 that.I sat stunned. Perhaps half an hour later, the doorbell rang. My blood ran cold. For some reason I was sure that the bruiser had returned for me. My hostess got up to answer it, but I stopped her. I felt morally bound to answer it myself.I walked down the hallway with dread. Yet I knew I had t
22、o face up to my fear. I opened the door. There he stood, towering. Behind him, the sleet came down harder than ever.“I came back to apologize,“ he said in a low voice. “When I got home, I said to myself,“ what right I have to do that?“ Im ashamed of myself. All I can tell you is that the Brooklyn Na
23、vy Yard is closing. Ive worked there for years. And today I got laid off. Im not myself. I hope youll accept my apology.“I often remember that big man. I think of the effort and courage it took for him to come back to apologize. He was man at last.And I remember that after I closed the door, my eyes
24、 blurred, as I stood in the hallway for a few moments alone.（分数：5.00）(1).From the passage, we can infer that the author is what kind of person?A. poorB. sensitiveC. excitingD. dull（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(2).On what occasion is the author likely to be moved?A. A young person cheated of the best firings in
25、life.B. A genius athlete breaks a world record.C. A little girl suffers from an incurable disease.D. When the curtain comes down on a touching play.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(3).What does “dirty pool“ at the end of the second paragraph mean?A. Improper deedsB. BriberyC. ChicaneryD. Dirty transaction（分数：1.00）
26、A.B.C.D.(4).Why didnt the writers wife and friends ask him what had happened?A. They sensed that something terrible happened, they didnt dare to ask.B. They were afraid that the writer might lose face if they asked.C. Theyd like to let it be for it was not their business.D. They tried to calm the wr
27、iter in this way.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(5).What touched the writer in the end?A. The big mans courage to admit his mistake.B. The big mans sincerity and confession.C. The big mans wretched experience.D. The man at his best.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.七、TEXT B(总题数：1，分数：5.00)That summer an army of crickets started a
28、war with my father. They picked a fight the minute they invaded our cellar. Dad didnt care for bugs much more than Mamma, but he could tolerate a few spiders and assorted creepy crawlers living in the basement. Every farm house had them. A part of rustic living, and something you needed to put up wi
29、th if you wanted the simple life.He told Mamma: Now that were living out here, you cant be jerking your head and swallowing your gum over whats plain natural, Ellen. But she was a city girl through and through and had no ears when it came to defending vermin. She said a cricket was just a noisy cock
30、roach, just a dumb horny bug that wouldnt shut up. She said in the city there were blocks of buildings overrun with cockroaches with no way for people to get rid of them. No sir, no way could she sleep with all that chirping going on; then to prove her point she wouldnt go to bed. She drank coffee a
31、nd smoked my fathers cigarettes and she paced between the couch and the TV. Next morning she threatened to pack up and leave, so Dad drove to the hardware store and hurried back. He squirted poison from a jug with a spray nozzle. He sprayed the basement and all around the foundation of the house. Wh
32、en he was finished he told us that was the end of it.But what he should have said was: This is the beginning, the beginning of our war, the beginning of our destruction. I often think back to that summer and try to imagine him delivering a speech with words like that, because for the next fourteen d
33、ays mamma kept finding dead crickets in the clean laundry. Shed shake out a towel or a sheet and a dead black cricket would roll across the linoleum. Sometimes the cat would corner one, and swat it around like he was playing hockey, then carry it away in his mouth. Dad said swallowing a few dead cri
34、ckets wouldnt hurt as long as the cat didnt eat too many. Each time Mamma complained he told her it was only natural that wed be finding a couple of dead ones for a while.Soon live crickets started showing up in the kitchen and bathroom. Mamma freaked because she thought they were the dead crickets
35、come back to haunt, but Dad said these was definitely a new batch, probably coming up on the pipes. He fetched his jug of poison and sprayed beneath the sink and behind the toilet and all along the baseboard until the whole house smelled of poison, and then he sprayed the cellar again, and then he w
36、ent outside and sprayed all around the foundation leaving a foot-wide moat of poison.For a couple of weeks we went back to finding dead crickets in the laundry. Dad told us to keep a sharp look out, He suggested that wed all be better off to hide as many as we could from mamma. I fed a few dozen to
37、the cat who I didnt like because he scratched and bit for no reason. I hoped the poison might kill him so we could get a puppy. A couple of weeks later, when both live and dead crickets kept turning up, he emptied the cellar of junk. Then he burned a lot of bundled newspapers and magazines which he
38、said the crickets had turned into nests.He stood over that fire with a rake in one hand and a garden hose in the other. He wouldnt leave it even when Mamma sent me out to fetch him for supper. He wouldnt leave the fire, and she wouldnt put supper on the table. Both my brothers were crying. Finally s
39、he went out and got him herself. And while we ate, the wind lifted some embers onto the wood pile. The only gasoline was in the lawn mowers fuel tank but that was enough to create an explosion big enough to reach the house. Once the roof caught, there wasnt much anyone could do.（分数：5.00）(1).The word
40、 “rustic“ in the first paragraph probably meansA urban. B rural. C metropolitan. D extravagant.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(2).Which of the following is TRUE of Dad and Mamma?A Compared with Mamma, Dad was more tolerant of bugs.B Mamma took Dads advice to put up with some crawlers.C Dad could hear to have spid
41、ers more than bugs.D Mamma often swallowed her gum in the house.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(3).Dad had to go to the hardware store to buyA some pesticide. B a toxic jug. C a spray nozzle. D some cigarettes.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(4).Dad sprayed poison in all of the following places EXCEPTA kitchen. B basement. C ba
42、throom. D sitting-room.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(5).The immediate cause of the fire isA the wind. B some embers.C the explosion of the fuel tank. D the materials of the roof.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.八、TEXT C(总题数：1，分数：5.00)Early in the film “A Beautiful Mind“, the mathematician John Nash is seen sitting in a Princet
43、on courtyard, hunched over a playing board covered with small black and white pieces that look like pebbles. He was playing Go, an ancient Asian game. Frustration at losing that game inspired the real Nash to pursue the mathematics of game theory, research for which he eventually was awarded a Nobel
44、 Prize.In recent years, computer experts, particularly those specializing in artificial intelligence, have felt the same fascination and frustration. Programming other board games has been a relative snap. Even chess has succumbed to the power of the processor. Five years ago, a chess-playing comput
45、er called Deep Blue not only beat but thoroughly humbled Garry Kasparov, the world champion at that time. That is because chess, while highly complex, can be reduced to a matter of brute force computation. Go is different. Deceptively easy to learn, either for a computer or a human, it is a game of
46、such depth and complexity that it can take years for a person to become a strong player. To date, no computer has been able to achieve a skill level beyond that of the casual player.The game is played on a board divided into a grid of 19 horizontal and 19 vertical lines. Black and white pieces calle
47、d stones are placed one at a time on the grids intersections. The object is to acquire and defend territory by surrounding it with stones. Programmers working on Go see it as more accurate than chess in reflecting the ways the human mind works. The challenge of programming a computer to mimic that p
48、rocess goes to the core of artificial intelligence, which involves the study of learning and decision-making, strategic thinking, knowledge representation, pattern recognition and perhaps most intriguingly, intuition.Along with intuition, pattern recognition is a large part of the game. While computers are good at crunching numbers, people are naturally good at matching patterns. Humans can recognize an acquaintance at a glance, even from the back.Daniel Bump, a mathematics professor at Stanford, wor
