1994年6月英语四级真题及答案

1994年6月英语四级真题及答案 Part I Listening Comprehension (20 minutes) Section A 1. A) His wife doesn’t want him to. B) He will be out of town. C) He has some work to do. D) He doesn’t want to. 2. A) Do shopping. B) Make a phone call. C) Take a bus. D) Give them to the woman. 3. A) Maria’s friends don’t call her very often. B) Maria likes to talk on the phone with her friends. C) Maria doesn’t like to talk on the phone with her friends. D) Maria doesn’t have any friends. 4. A) In October. B) Between April and October. C) In April. D) She isn’t certain. 5. A) Once it starts raining, it’ll rain a lot. B) It has been raining for some time. C) They’re ready to catch the train. D) The train has just started off. 6. A) He offered her a pencil. B) He was afraid of losing his pen. C) He lent her his extra pen. D) He said he didn’t have any ink. 7. A) Bob will be on time. B) She hopes Bob won’t come. C) Bob can’t come. D) Bob will be late. 8. A) To the beach. B) To a restaurant. C) To a theatre. D) To the zoo. 9. A) Ask the woman to find Mr. White for him. B) Hold the phone. C) Pay the manager a visit. D) Make another call. 10. A) She is going to give up biology. B) She spends half of her time on biology and half on math. C) To her match is even more difficult than biology. D) To her biology is difficult, but math is not. Section B Passage One Questions 11 to 13 are based on the passage you have just heard. 11. A) He had to get a job. B) He was afraid of failure. C) He wanted to join the Army. D) He wasn’t interested in studying. 12. A) She was shocked. B) She was disappointed. C) She expressed doubts. D) She encouraged him. 13. A) He was lucky. B) He had a good wife. C) He was determined. D) He had a good teacher. Passage Two Questions 14 to 16 are based on the passage you have just heard. 14. A) She was driving along a country road. B) She was lying in a hospital bed. C) She was lying near a lonely road trembling. D) She was telling an astonishing story to a doctor. 15. A) She was attacked by robbers. B) She was stopped by a policeman. C) She fainted due to the effects of some drug. D) She was forced to enter a flying saucer. 16. A) The woman had been taken a long distance away from her home. B) The woman had intended to leave her husband without telling him. C) The woman had been dishonest to her husband. D) The woman made up an astonishing story. Passage Three Questions 17 to 20 are based on the passage you have just heard. 17. A) In the 15th century. B) In the 16th century. C) In the 5th century. D) In the 6th century. 18. A) Because it was at the seaside. B) Because it was the only modern building there. C) Because of the beautiful garden in front of it. D) Because of its old style of architecture. 19. A) To keep the tourists away. B) To welcome the tourists. C) To make money. D) To warn the tourists not to ruin his garden. 20. A) In order to earn more money. B) In order to have more peace. C) In order to welcome more visitors. D) In order to have a bigger garden. Part II Reading Comprehension (35 minutes) Passage One Questions 21 to 25 are based on the following passage. The failed Skylab will come screaming home to earth in dis sometime next month. But it will fall we know not where. That precise information is beyond even the calculations of scienti their computers. The best they can tell us is that the space station, weighing 77 tons and as h i g h a s a 1 2 sbt uo ir lyd i, n w gill break into hundreds of pieces that w scattered across a track 100 miles wide and 4,000 miles long. W e a r e a g a i n e x p o s e d t o o n e o f t h o s e misadventures, of science that attractsour attention from the boring routines of daily existence and encourages us to think a lot about man’s future. u n e x What w orries R S ichard t S ’s director, mith, i t “big hes p heieces kylab ” t hatw ill c o m e t h r o u g h t h e a t m o s p h e r e , Tw o l u m p s , w e i g h i n g 2 t o n s weighing at least 1,000 pounds each, will come in at speeds of hundreds of miles an hour and if they crash on land they will dig holes up to 100 feet deep. W h a t w o r r i e s u s , w i t h o u r l a c k imagination, i b t b s a oth l p he a ig p nd a very small chance that anyone will be injured by them. o f s c i e n t i fi c o ittle s t ieces, i k n o w l e lthoug That’s g ood t k ob inow, d ’t r emove ut t t d oesn he o t m oubts w s f he remember the nuclear accident at Three Mile Island. That accident took place in 1979 in spite of what the officials had assured us as to the safely of the nuclear reactor. 21. Where the Skylab will fall? A) is kept secret B) has been made public C) has been predicted by scientists D) can’t be predicted even by computers 22. According t t us to do? p o w he A) Not to believe in officials. d assage, a i s ahatt f oes S l n ncident illio B) To think about our future. C) Has been predicted by scientists. D) To fear for our lives. 23. The author suggests that ________. A) the danger of the Skylab’s fall has been overestimated B) it’s useless to worry over things you can’t do anything about C) the danger of the Skylab’s fall has been underestimated D) computers can solve the problem caused by the broken Skylab 24. The author refers to Three Mils Island ________. A) because he is doubtful about what the officials said B ) b e c a u s e h e f e a r s t h a t a p i e c e o f t h e S ky l a b m a y s t r i ke a n u c l e a r p o w e r plant C) because he is afraid of the use of nuclear power D) because the nuclear reactor there and the Skylab were both built by the same company 25. This passage is mainly about the author’s ________. A) interest in the failure of the Skylab B) willingness to give his advice C) eagerness to see more new scientific discoveries D) concern that science cannot answer all questions Passage Two Questions 26 to 30 are based on the following passage. As supplier of most of the food we eat and of raw material industrial processes, agriculture is clearly an important area of the economy. But t h e i n d u s t r i a l p e r f o r m a n c e o f a g r i c u l t u r e ( t h e r e l a t i v e e ffi c i e n c y o f a g r i production c t ompared o a i t eo theri e mreas i n t he conomy) this. For in nations where the productivity of farmers is low, most of the working population i n t sr eeded f a f po aise a a ood f t nd p ew eople of investment goods or for other activities required for economic growth. Indeed, one of the factors related most closely to the per income capita (人均收入) of a nation is the fraction of its population engaged in farming. In the poorest nations of the world more than half of the population lives on farms. This sharply w l tith 1 pess i han w E0 ercent a l t 4n p estern i t urope United States. In short, the course of economic development in general