2000年1月大学英语四级考试试题及参考答案

Section A
Directions: In this section, you will hear 10 short conversations. At the end of each conversation, a question will be asked about what was said. Both the conversation and the question will be spoken only once. After each question there will be a pause. During the pause, you must read the four choices marked A), B), C)and D), and decide which is the best answer. Then mark the corresponding¹ letter on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the centre.
Example:
you will read:
A)At the office
B)In the waiting room
C)At the airport
D)In a restaurant
From the conversation we know that the two were talking about some work they had to finish in the evening.This is most likely to have taken place at the office.Therefore,A)"At the office"is the best answer.You should choose [A] on the Answer sheet and mark it with a single line through the centre.
Sample Answer [A][B][C][D]
1.
A) The woman is seeing a doctor.
B) The woman is a close friend of the man.
C) The woman is tired of her work.
D) The woman has been working too hard.
2.
A) His mother can't make apple pies.
B) This pie can't match his mother's.
C) His mother likes the pie very much.
D) This apple pie tastes very good.
3.
A) Take a walk.
B) Listen to the music.
C) Dance to the music.
D) Give a performance.
4.
A) Read more than one article.
B) Choose a better article to read.
C) Present a different theory to the class.
D) Read an article on political science.
5.
A) The woman isn't a skillful² typist.
B) The woman should work as hard as Mary.
C) The woman should do the typing for Mary.
D) The woman would understand if she did Mary's job.
6.
A) He wants to change the time of the appointment.
B) He wants the woman to meet him at three o'clock.
C) He wants to make an appointment with Mr. Smith.
D) He wants to make sure that Mr. Smith will see him.
7.
A) He is an awful speaker.
B) He gets nervous very easily.
C) He is an inexperienced speaker.
D) He hasn't prepared his speech well.
8.
A) She didn't like the books the man bought.
B) The man bought a lot of books.
C) She wanted to see what the man bought.
D) There wasn't a large selection³ at the bookstore.
9.
A) Switch to a different flight.
B) Go to the airport immediately.
C) Ask the man to change the ticket for her.
D) Buy a ticket for the ten o'clock flight.
10.
A) Dr. Lemon has lost his patience.
B) Dr. Lemon is waiting for a patient.
C) Dr. Lemon is busy at the moment.
D) Dr. Lemon has gone out to visit a patient.
Section B
Directions: In this section, you will hear 3 short passages. At the end of each passage, you will hear some questions. Both the passage and the questions will be spoken only once. After you hear a question, you must choose the best answer from the four choices marked A), B), C) and D). Then mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the centre.
Passage One
Questions 11 to 14 are based on the passage you have just heard.
11.
A) Paul's car
B) The sports car.
C) A car outside the supermarket.
D) A car at the bottom of the hill.
12.
A) In the garage.
B) In the supermarket.
C) At the foot of the hill.
D) Inside the car.
13.
A) The man standing⁴ nearby.
B) The salesman from London.
C) The driver of the sports car.
D) The two girls inside the car.
14.
A) Paul.
B) Nobody
C) The bus driver.
D) The two girls.
Passage two
Question 15 to 17 are based on the passage you have just heard.
15.
A) It was too dark to put the key in the lock.
B) He didn't know where the back door was.
C) He couldn't find the key to his mailbox.
D) His friend gave him the wrong key.
16.
A) His friend would arrive any time.
B) The birds might have flown away.
C) He was afraid of being blamed by his friend.
D) It was getting dark.
17.
A) He realized that he had made a mistake.
B) He knew the policeman wouldn't believe him.
C) The torch light made him look very foolish.
D) He looked silly with only one leg inside the window.
Passage Three
Questions 18 to 20 are based on the passage you have just heard.
18.
A) The spread of the black powder from the fires.
B) The destruction⁵ of oil wells.
C) The exhaustion⁶ of energy resources.
D) The threat of poisonous desert animals and plants.
19.
A) The oil lakes soon dried up and stopped evaporating⁷ .
B) The underground water resources have not been polluted.
C) The underground oil resources have not been affected⁸.
D) Most of the desert animals and plants have managed to survive.
20.
A) To use the oil left in the oil lakes.
B) To estimate⁹ the losses caused by the fires.
C) To restore¹⁰ the normal production of the oil wells.
D) To remove the oil left in the desert.

听力原文
Section A
1.
M: Hello, Mrs. White, what can I do for you?
W: I don't know what's the matter with me? I'm always feeling tired, I'm usually worn out at the end of the day.
Q: What do we learn from the conversation?
2.
W: What do you think of the apple pie? I made it myself.
M: Very delicious indeed. Even my mother's cannot match this.
Q: What does the man mean?
3.
M: The music is so beautiful that I'd like to dance. But I don't know the steps.
W: It doesn't matter. No one will be looking at us in his crowd.
Q: What does the woman suggest they do?
4.
M: I'd better read one of the articles for our political science class.
W: You can't read just one. They say each presents a different theory.
Q: What does the woman tell the man he must do?
5.
W: Mary is always complaining about her job.
M: Maybe if you try typing letters every day, you'd see what it's like.
Q: What does the man mean?
6.
M: Good morning. This is John Parker speaking. I'm just ringing to confirm my appointment with Mr. Smith for this afternoon.
W: Yes. Mr. Smith's expecting you at 3 o'clock.
Q: Why is the man making the phone call?
7.
W: Tom looks awfully¹¹ nervous, doesn't he?
M: Yes. I'm afraid he is not used to making speeches.
Q: What do they think of Tom?
8.
M: I bought a few books at the new bookstore. Would you like to have a look at them?
W: A few? It looks like you bought out the bookstore
Q: What does the woman mean?
9.
M: Jane, you won't be able to get to the airport in time to catch the 10 o'clock flight.
W: I realize that now. I'll have to get my ticket changed.
Q: What will the woman have to do?
10.
M: Would you get me through to Dr. Lemon please?
W: I'm sorry. He's with a patient.
Q: What does the woman mean?
Sections B
Passage one
Paul, a salesman from London, was driving past a sports car parked outside a supermarket, when he saw it start to rool slowly down the hill. Inside the car were two young girls on the passenger seat - but no driver Paul stopped quickly, jumped in front of the sports car and tried to stop it, pushing against the front of the car. Another man who was standing nearby got into the car and put on the handbrake, saving¹² the girls from injury.
It was at this point that Paul noticed his own car rolling slowly down the hill and going too fast for him to stop it. It crashed into a bus at the bottom of the hill and was so badly damaged that it had to be pulled away to a garage.
As if this was not bad enough, Paul now found he had no one to blame. He was so busy chasing¹³ his car that he didn't get the name of the driver of the sports car, who just came out of the supermarket and drove away without realizing what had happened.
Questions 11 to 14 are based on the passage you have just heard.
11. Which car was badly damaged?
12. Where was the driver of the sports car when the accident happened?
13. Who did Paul think was to blame for the accident?
14. Who was injured in the accident?
Passage Two
My friend, Vemon Davies kept birds. One day he phoned and told me he was going away for a week. He asked me to feed the birds for him and said that he would leave the key to his front door in my mailbox.
Unfortunately, I forgot all about the birds until the night before Vemon was going to return. What was worse, it was already dark when I arrived at his house. I soon found the key Vernon gave me could not unlock¹⁴ either the front door or the back door. I was getting desperate. I kept thinking of what Vemon would say when he came back.
I was just going to give up when I noticed that one bedroom window was slightly open. I found a barrel¹⁵ and pushed it under the window. As the barrel was very heavy, I made a lot of noise. But in the end, I managed to climb up and open the window.
I actually had one leg inside the bedroom when I suddenly realized that someone was shining a torch up at me. I looked down and saw a policeman and an old lady, one of Verno's neighbours. "What are you doing up there?" said the policeman. Feeling like a complete fool, I replied, "I was just going to feed Mr. Davis's birds."
Questions 15 to 17 are based on the passage you have just heard.
15. Why couldn't the man open the door?
16. Why did the man feel desperate?
17. Why did the man feel like a fool?
Passage Three
When Iragi troops blew up hundreds of Kuwaiti oil well at the end of Gulf¹⁶ War, scientists feared environmental disaster. Would black powder in the smoke from the fires circles the globe and block out the sun?
Many said "No way" rain would wash the black powder from the atmosphere. But in America, air sampling balloons have detected¹⁷ high concentrations¹⁸ of particles¹⁹ similar to those collected in Kuwait. Now that the fires are out scientists are turning their attention to yet another threat:the oil that didn't catch fire. It has formed huge lakes in the Kuwaiti desert. They trap insects and birds, and poison a variety of other desert animals and plants.
The only good news is that the oil lakes have not affected the underground water resources. So far, the oil has not been absorbed because of the hard sand just below the surface.
Nothing, however, stops the oil from evaporating. The resulting poisonous gases are choking nearby residents²⁰.
Officials are trying to organize a quick cleanup, but they are not sure how to do it. One possibility is to burn the oil. Get those black-powder detectors²¹ ready.
Questions 18 to 20 are based on the passage you have just heard.
18. What were the scientists worried about soon after the Gulf War?
19. What was the good news for scientists?
20. What are the officials trying to do at the moment?

参考答案
Part I Listening Comprehension
1-10: A D C A D D C B A C
11-20: A B C B D C B A C D

1 corresponding   

adj.符合的，一致的，相同的，相应的，相当的

参考例句：

• We shall take the corresponding measures.我们将采取相应措施。
• Finally,some corresponding advices are put forword based on the above experiments.最后提出了几个相应的建议。

2 skillful   

adj.灵巧的，熟练的

参考例句：

• Soon they became very skillful in answering such questions.很快他们就会很熟练地回答这种问题了。
• It was very skillful of you to repair my bicycle.你修好了我的自行车，技术真好。

3 selection   

n.选择，挑选，精选品，可选择的东西

参考例句：

• We left the selection of the team to the captain.我们把挑选队员的工作交给了队长。
• The shop has a fine selection of cheeses.那家商店有各种精美乳酪可供选购。

4 standing   

n.持续，地位；adj.永久的，不动的，直立的，不流动的

参考例句：

• After the earthquake only a few houses were left standing.地震过后只有几幢房屋还立着。
• They're standing out against any change in the law.他们坚决反对对法律做任何修改。

5 destruction   

n.破坏，毁灭，消灭

参考例句：

• The enemy bombs caused widespread destruction.敌人的炸弹造成大面积的破坏。
• Overconfidence was his destruction.自负是他垮台的原因。

6 exhaustion   

n.耗尽枯竭，疲惫，筋疲力尽，竭尽，详尽无遗的论述

参考例句：

• She slept the sleep of exhaustion.她因疲劳而酣睡。
• His exhaustion was obvious when he fell asleep standing.他站着睡着了，显然是太累了。

7 evaporating   

adj.蒸发用的，蒸发作用的v.（使某物）蒸发掉( evaporate的现在分词 )；消失，不复存在；使脱水

参考例句：

• She went on separating, bolting, evaporating, filtering and mixing. 她不断地进行分离、熬煮、蒸发、滤清、调制。 来自辞典例句
• You transfer the solution to an evaporating basin. 转移溶液至一蒸发皿中。 来自辞典例句

8 affected   

adj.不自然的，假装的

参考例句：

• She showed an affected interest in our subject.她假装对我们的课题感到兴趣。
• His manners are affected.他的态度不自然。

9 estimate   

n.估计，估量；评价，看法；vt.估计，估量

参考例句：

• We estimate the cost to be five thousand dollars.我们估计费用为5000美元。
• The lowest estimate would put the worth of the jewel at ＄200.按最低的评估这块宝石也值200美元。

10 restore   

vt.把…恢复原状；归还，交还

参考例句：

• A good rest will restore you to health.好好休息一下可使你恢复健康。
• His recent success has helped to restore his faith in his own ability.他最近取得的成功使他恢复了对自己能力的信任。

11 awfully   

adv.可怕地，非常地，极端地

参考例句：

• Agriculture was awfully neglected in the past.过去农业遭到严重忽视。
• I've been feeling awfully bad about it.对这我一直感到很难受。

12 saving   

n.节省，节约；[pl.]储蓄金，存款

参考例句：

• Energy saving is term strategic policy of our country.节约能源是我国长期的战略国策。
• Old-fashioned housewives were usually very saving.旧时的家庭主妇通常都很节俭。

13 chasing   

n.雕镂术，雕刻工作；车螺丝；抛光；螺旋板

参考例句：

• My dog likes chasing rabbits. 我的狗喜欢追捕兔子。
• The children were having fun, chasing each other's shadows. 孩子们追逐着彼此的影子，玩得很开心。

14 unlock   

v.启示，揭示，开...的锁

参考例句：

• The border police required the traveler to unlock his luggage.边防警察要求旅客打开行李。
• We heard somebody unlock the door.我们听见有人开门锁。

15 barrel   

n.圆桶；一桶的量；枪管；vt.把...装桶

参考例句：

• I drew off three pints of beer from the barrel.我从酒桶里抽出三品脱啤酒。
• The man rolled the barrel into the yard.那个人把圆桶滚进院子。

16 gulf   

n.海湾；深渊，鸿沟；分歧，隔阂

参考例句：

• The gulf between the two leaders cannot be bridged.两位领导人之间的鸿沟难以跨越。
• There is a gulf between the two cities.这两座城市间有个海湾。

17 detected   

vt.[无]对…检波v.发现，发觉，查明( detect的过去式和过去分词 )

参考例句：

• I detected a suggestion of malice in his remarks. 我觉察出他说的话略带恶意。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• I detected a faint note of weariness in his voice. 我从他的声音中察觉出一丝倦意。 来自《简明英汉词典》

18 concentrations   

n.集中( concentration的名词复数 )；专心；关注；浓度

参考例句：

• Large concentrations of capital were in the hands of merchants. 大量资本集中在商人手里。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• More diphenylthiocarbazone should be used to estimate barbiturate concentrations above 1 mg/dl. 当测定浓度超过1毫克／100毫升的巴比妥类药物时，必须用更多的双硫腙。 来自辞典例句

19 particles   

微粒( particle的名词复数 )； 颗粒； 极少量； 小品词

参考例句：

• These small particles agglomerate together to form larger clusters. 这些颗粒聚结形成较大的团。
• The nucleus of an atom consists of neutrons, protons and other particles. 原子核由中子、质子和其他粒子构成。

20 residents   

n.居民( resident的名词复数 )；（旅馆的）住宿者

参考例句：

• Plans to build a new mall were deep-sixed after protests from local residents. 修建新室内购物中心的计划由于当地居民反对而搁浅。
• Local residents have reacted angrily to the news. 当地居民对这一消息表示愤怒。

21 detectors   

探测器( detector的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• The report advocated that all buildings be fitted with smoke detectors. 报告主张所有的建筑物都应安装烟火探测器。
• This is heady wine for experimenters using these neutrino detectors. 对于使用中微子探测器的实验工作者，这是令人兴奋的美酒。 来自英汉非文学 - 科技