2018年6月英语四级真题及答案第三套

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2018 年 6 月英语四级真题及答案第三套

Part I Writing (30 minutes)

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

the importance of speaking ability and how to develop it. You should write at

least 120 words but no more than 180 words.

Part Ⅱ Listening Comprehension (25 minutes)

特别说明：由于四级考试全国共考了两套听力，本套真题听力与前两套内容相同，只是选

项顺序不同，故不再重复给出。

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.

Neon (霓虹) is to Hong Kong as red phone booths are to London and fog is to San

Francisco. When night falls, red and blue and other colors 26 a hazy (雾蒙蒙的)

glow over a city lit up by tens of thousands of neon signs. But many of them

are going dark, 27 by more practical, but less romantic, LEDs ( 发光二极

管).Changing building codes, evolving tastes, and the high cost of maintaining

those wonderful old signs have businesses embracing LEDs, which are energy 28 ,

but still carry great cost. “To me, neon represents memories of the past,”

says photographer Sharon Blance, whose series Hong Kong Neon celebrates the

city’s famous signs. “Looking at the signs now I get a feeling of

amazement,mixed with sadness.”Building a neon sign is an art practiced by 29

trained on the job to mold glass tubes into 30 shapes and letters. They

fill these tubes with gases that glow when 31 . Neon makes orange, while other

gases make yellow or blue. It takes many hours to craft a single sign.Blance

spent a week in Hong Kong and 32more than 60 signs; 22 of them appear in the

series that capture the signs lighting up lonely streets – an 33 that makes

it easy to admire their colors and craftsmanship. “I love the beautiful,

handcrafted, old-fashioned 34 of neon,” says Blance. The signs do nothing

more than 35a restaurant, theater, or other business, but do so in the most

striking way possible.

A) alternative I) photographed

B) approach J) professionals

C) cast K) quality

D) challenging L) replaced

E) decorative M) stimulate

F) efficient N) symbolizes

G) electrified O) volunteers

H) identify

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.

New Jersey School District Eases Pressure on Students – Baring an Ethnic

Divide

A) This fall, David Aderhold, the chief of a high-achieving school district

near Princeton, New Jersey, sent parents an alarming 16-page letter. The school

district, he said, was facing a crisis. Its students were overburdened and

stressed out, having to cope with too much work and too many demands. In the

previous school year, 120 middle and high school students were recommended for

mental health assessments and 40 were hospitalized. And on a survey

administered by the district, students wrote things like, “I hate going to

school,” and “Coming out of 12 years in this district, I have learned one

thing: that a grade, a percentage or even a point is to be valued over anything

else.”

B) With his letter, Aderhold inserted West Windsor-Plainsboro Regional School

District into a national discussion about the intense focus on achievement at

elite schools, and whether it has gone too far. At follow-up meetings, he urged

parents to join him in advocating a “whole child” approach to schooling that

respects “social-emotional development” and “deep and meaningful learning”

over academics alone. The alternative, he suggested, was to face the prospect

of becoming another Palo Alto, California, where outsize stress on teenage

students is believed to have contributed to a number of suicides in the last

six years.

C) But instead of bringing families together, Aderhold’s letter revealed a

divide in the district, which has 9,700 students, and one that broke down

roughly along racial lines. On one side are white parents like Catherine Foley,

a former president of the Parent-Teacher-Student Association at her daughter’s

middle school, who has come to see the district’s increasingly pressured

atmosphere as opposed to learning. “My son was in fourth grade and told me,

‘I’m not going to amount to anything because I have nothing to put on my

résumé,’” she said. On the other side are parents like Mike Jia, one of the

thousands of Asian-American professionals who have moved to the district in the

past decade, who said Aderhold’s reforms would amount to a “dumbing down” of

his children’s education. “What is happening here reflects a national anti-

intellectual trend that will not prepare our children for the future,” Jia

said.

D) About 10 minutes from Princeton and an hour and a half from New York City,

West Windsor and Plainsboro have become popular bedroom communities for

technology entrepreneurs, researchers and engineers, drawn in large part by the

public schools. From the last three graduating classes, 16 seniors were

admitted to MIT. It produces Science Olympiad winners, classically trained

musicians and students with perfect SAT scores.

E) The district has become increasingly popular with immigrant families from

China, India and Korea. This year, 65 percent of its students are Asian-

American, compared with 44 percent in 2007. Many of them are the first in their

families born in the United States. They have had a growing influence on the

district. Asian-American parents are enthusiastic supporters of the competitive

instrumental music program. They have been huge supporters of the district’s

advanced mathematics program, which once began in the fourth grade but will now

start in the sixth. The change to the program, in which 90 percent of the

participating students are Asian-American, is one of Aderhold’s reforms.

F) Asian-American students have been eager participants in a state program

that permits them to take summer classes off campus for high school credit,

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