2014年6月英语四级真题第3套

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2014 年 6 月英语四级真题（第三套）

Part I Writing (30 minutes)

Directions:

For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a short essay on

the following question. You should write at least 120 words but No

more than 180 words.

Suppose a foreign friend of yours is coming to visit China, what is the

first place you would like to take him/her to see and why?

Part Ⅱ Listening Comprehension (30 minutes)

（说明：由于 2014 年 6 月六级考试全国共考了 2 套听力，本套真题听力与前 2 套内容完全

一样，只是顺序不一样，因此在本套真题中不再重复出现）

Part Ⅲ Reading Comprehension (40 minutes)

Section A

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 passage: 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.

Questions 36 to 45 are based on the following passage.

Global warming is a trend toward warmer conditions around the world. Part

of the warming is natural; we have experienced a 20,000-year-long warming as

the last ice age ended and the ice 36 away. However, we have already reached

temperatures that are in 37 with other minimum-ice periods, so continued

warming is likely not natural. We are 38 to a predicted worldwide increase in

temperatures 39 between 1℃ and 6℃ over the next 100 years. The warming will

be more 40 in some areas, less in others, and some places may even cool off.

Likewise, the 41 of this warming will be very different depending on where

you are-coastal areas must worry about rising sea levels, while Siberia and

northern Canada may become more

habitable

( 益居的) and 42 for humans than

these areas are now.

The fact remains, however, that it will likely get warmer, on 43 ,

everywhere. Scientists are in general agreement that the warmer conditions we

have been experiencing are at least in part the result of a human-induced

global warming trend. Some scientists 44 that the changes we are seeing fall

within the range of

random

(无规律的) variation—some years are cold, others

warm, and we have just had an unremarkable string of warm years 45 but that

is becoming an increasingly rare interpretation in the face of continued and

increasing warm conditions.

A) appealing

B) average

C) contributing

D) dramatic

E) frequently

F) impact

G) line

H) maintain

I) melted

J) persist

K) ranging

L) recently

M) resolved

N) sensible

O) shock

Section B

Directions:

In this section, you are going to read a passage with ten

statements attached to it. Each statement contains 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.

The End of the Book?

[A] Amazon, by far the largest bookseller in the country, reported on May 19

that it is now selling more books in its electronic Kindle format than in

the old paper-and-ink format. That is remarkable, considering that the

Kindle has only been around for four years. E-books now account for 14

percent of all book sales in this country and are increasing far faster than

overall book sales. E-book sales are up 146 percent over last year, while

hardback sales increased 6 percent and paperbacks decreased 8 percent.

[B] Does this spell the doom of the physical book? Certainly not immediately,

and perhaps not at all. What it does mean is that the book business will go

through a transformation in the next decade or so more profound than any it

has seen since Gutenberg introduced printing from moveable type in the

1450s.

[C] Physical books will surely become much rarer in the marketplace. Mass

market paperbacks, which have been declining for years anyway, will probably

disappear, as will hardbacks for mysteries, thrillers, “romance fiction”,

etc. Such books, which only rarely end up in permanent collections, either

private or public, will probably only be available as e-books within a few

years. Hardback and trade paperbacks for “serious” nonfiction and fiction

will surely last longer. Perhaps it will become the mark of an author to

reckon with that he or she is still published in hard copy.

[D] As for children’s books, who knows? Children’s books are like dog food in

that the purchasers are not the consumers, so the market (and the marketing)

is inherently strange.

[E] For clues to the book’s future, let’s look at some examples of

technological change and see what happened to the old technology.

[F] One technology replaces another only because the new technology is better,

cheaper, or both. The greater the difference, the sooner and more thoroughly

the new technology replaces the old. Printing with moveable type on paper

dramatically reduced the cost of producing a book compared with the old-

fashioned ones handwritten on vellum, which comes from sheepskin. A Bible—

to be sure, a long book—required vellum made from 300 sheepskins and

countless man-hours of labor. Before printing arrived, a Bible cost more

than a middle-class house. There were perhaps 50,000 books in all of Europe

in 1450. By 1500 there were 10 million.

[G] But while printing quickly caused the handwritten book to die out,

handwriting

lingered on

(继续存在) well into the 16th century. Very special

books are still occasionally produced on vellum, but they are one-of-a-kind

show pieces.

[H] Sometimes a new technology doesn’t drive the old one out, but only parts

of it while forcing the rest to evolve. The movies were widely predicted to

drive live theater out of the marketplace, but they didn’t, because theater

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