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2019年6月四级真题（第3套）
Part I Writing (30 minutes)
Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a news report to your campus newspaper on a
volunteer activity organized by your Student Union to assist elderly people in the neighborhood.You should
write at least 120 words but no more than180 words.
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PartⅡ Listening Comprehension (25 minutes)
说明：由于2019年6月四级考试全国共考了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．
Ships are often sunk in order to create underwater reefs (暗礁)perfect for scuba diving (水肺式潜泳)and
preserving marine 26 . Turkish authorities have just sunk something a little different than a ship, and it
wouldn’t normally ever touch water, an Airbus A300. The hollowed-out A300 was 27 of everything potentially
harmful to the environment and sunk off the Aegean coast today. Not only will the sunken plane 28 the perfect
skeleton for artificial reef growth, tut authorities hope this new underwater attraction will bring tourists to the area.
The plane 29 a total length of 54 meters, where experienced scuba divers will 30 be able to venture
through the cabin and around the plane’s 31 . Aydin Municipality bought the plane from a private company
for just under US$100,000, but they hope to see a return on that 32 through the tourism industry. Tourism
throughout Turkey is expected to fall this year as the country has been the 33 of several deadly terrorist
attacks. As far as sunken planes go, this Airbus A300 is the largest 34 sunk aircraft ever.
Taking a trip underwater and 35 the inside of a sunken A300 would be quite an adventure, and that is
exactly what Turkish authorities are hoping this attraction will make people think. Drawing in adventure seekers
and experienced divers, this new artificial Airbus reef will be a scuba diver’s paradise (天堂).
A)create I)intentionally
B)depressed J)investment
C)eventually K)revealing
D)experiences L)stretches
E)exploring M)stripped
F)exterior N)territory
G)habitats O)victim
H)innovate
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.
Make Stuff, Fail, And Learn While You’re At It
A) We’ve always been a hands-on, do-it-yourself kind of nation. Ben Franklin, one of America’s founding fathers,
didn’t just invent the lightning rod. His creations include glasses, innovative stoves and more.
B) Franklin, who was largely self-taught, may have been a genius, but he wasn’t really an exception when it
第 1 页 共 5 页comes to American making and creativity.
C) The personal computing revolution and philosophy of disruptive innovation of Silicon Valley grew, in part, out
of the creations of the Homebrew Computer Club, Which was founded in a garage in Menlo Park, California, in
the mid-1970s. Members — including guys named Jobs and Wozniak — started making and inventing things
they couldn’t buy.
D) So it’s no surprise that the Maker Movement today is thriving in communities and some schools across
America. Making is available to ordinary people who aren’t tied to big companies, big defense labs or research
universities. The maker philosophy echoes old ideas advocated by John Dewey, Montessori, and even ancient
Greek philosophers, as we pointed out recently.
E) These maker spaces are often outside of classrooms, and are serving an important educational function. The
Maker Movement is rediscovering learning by doing, which is Dewey’s phrase from 100 years ago. We are
rediscovering Dewey and Montessori and a lot of the practices that they pioneered that have been forgotten or at
least put aside. A maker space is a place which can be in a school, but it doesn’t look like a classroom. It can be
in a library. It can be out in the community. It has tools and materials. It’s a place where you get to make things
based on your interest and on what you’re learning to do.
F) Ideas about learning by doing have struggled to become mainstream educationally, despite being old concepts
from Dewey and Montessori, Plato and Aristotle, and in the American context, Ralph Emerson, on the value of
experience and self-reliance. It’s not necessarily an efficient way to learn. We learn, in a sense, by trial and
error. Learning from experience is something that takes time and patience. It’s very individualized. If your goal
is to have standardized approaches to learning, where everybody learns the same thing at the same time in the
same way, then learning by doing doesn’t really fit that mold anymore. It’s not the world of textbooks. It’s not
the world of testing.
G）Learning by doing may not be efficient, but it is effective. Project-based learning has grown in popularity with
teachers and administrators. However, project-based learning is not making. Although there is a connection,
there is also a distinction. The difference lies in whether the project is in a sense defined and developed by the
student or whether it’s assigned by a teacher. We’ll all get the kids to build a small boat. We are all going to
learn about X, Y, and Z. That tends to be one form of project-based learning.
H）I really believe the core idea of making is to have an idea within your head — or you just borrow it from
someone — and begin to develop it , repeat it and improve it. Then, realize that idea somehow. That thing that
you make is valuable to you and you can share it with others. I’m interested in how these things are expressions
of that person, their ideas, and their interactions with the world.
I）In some ways, a lot of forms of making in school trivialize（使变得无足轻重）making. The thing that you
make has no value to you. Once you are done demonstrating whatever concept was in the textbook, you throw
away the pipe cleaners, the cardboard tubes.
J）Making should be student-directed and student-led, otherwise it’s boring. It doesn’t have the motivation of the
student. I’m not saying that students should not learn concepts or not learn skills. They do. But to really harness
their motivation is to build upon their interest. It’s to let them be in control and to drive the car.
K）Teachers should aim to build a supportive, creative environment for students to do this work. A very social
environment, where they are learning from each other. When they have a problem, it isn’t the teacher
necessarily coming in to solve it. They are responsible for working through that problem. It might be they have
to talk to other students in the class to help get an answer.
L) The teacher’s role is more of a coach or observer. Sometimes, to people, it sounds like this is a diminished rote
for teachers. I think it’s a heightened role. You’re creating this environment, like a maker space. You have 20
kids doing different things. You are watching them and really it’s the human behaviors you’re looking at . Are
they engaged? A they developing and repeating their project? Are they stumbling (受挫)？ Do they need
something that they don’t have? Can you help them be aware of where they are?
M)My belief is that the goal of making is not to get every kid to be hands-on, but it enable us to be good learners.
第 2 页 共 5 页It’s not the knowledge that is valuable, It’s the practice of learning new things and understanding how things
work. These are processes that you are developing so that you are able, over time, to tackle more interesting
problems, more challenging problems—problems that require many people instead of one person, and many
skills instead of one.
N) If teachers keep it form-free and student-led, it can still be tied to a curriculum and an educational plan. I think
a maker space is more like a like a library in that there are multiple subjects and multiple things that you can
learn. What seems to be missing in school is how these subjects integrate, how they fit together in any
meaningful way. Rather than saying, ‘This is science, over here is history,’ I see schools taking this idea of
projects and looking at: How do they support children in higher level learning?
O) I feel like this is a shift away form a subject matter-based curriculum to a more experiential curriculum or
learning. It’s still in its early stages, but I think it’s shifting around not what kids learn but how they learn.
36.A maker space is where people make things according to their personal interests.
37.The teachers’ role is enhanced in a maker space as they have to monitor and facilitate during the process.
38.Coming up with an idea of one’s own or improving one from others is key to the concept of making.
39.Contrary to structured learning, learning by doing is highly individualized.
40.America is a nation known for the idea of making things by oneself.
41.Making will be boring unless students are able to take charge.
42.Making can be related to a project, but it is created and carried out by students themselves.
43.The author suggests incorporating the idea of a maker space into a school curriculum.
44.The maker concept is a modern version of some ancient philosophical ideas.
45.Making is not taken seriously in school when students are asked to make something meaningless to them based
on textbooks.
Section C
Directions: There are 2 passages in this section. Each passage is followed by some questions or unfinished
statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A), B), C) and D). You should decide on the best
choice and mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through the centre.
Passage One
Questions 46 to 50 are based on the following passage.
Most kids grow up learning they cannot draw on the walls. But it might be time to unlearn that training—this
summer, group of culture addicts, artists and community organizers are inviting New Yorkers to write all over the
walls of an old house on Governor’s Island.
The project is called Writing On It All, and it’s a participatory writing project and artistic experiment that has
happened on Governor’s Island every summer since 2013.
“Most of the participants are people who are just walking by or are on the island for other reasons, or they
just kind of happen to be there,” Alexandra Chasin, artistic director of Writing On It All,tells Smithsonian.com.
The 2016 season runs through June 26 and features sessions facilitated by everyone from dancers to domestic
workers. Each session has a theme, and participants are given a variety of materials and prompts and asked to
cover surfaces with their thoughts and art. This year, the programs range from one that turns the house into a
collaborative essay to one that explores the meaning of exile.
Governor’s Island is a national historic landmark district long used for military purposes. Now known as
“New York’s shared space for art and play,” the island, which lies between Manhattan and Brooklyn in Upper New
York Bay, is closed to cars but open to summer tourists who flock for festivals, picnics, adventures, as well as
these “legal graffiti(涂鸦)” Sessions.
The notes and art scribbled(涂画) on the walls are an experiment in self-expression. So far, participants have
ranged in age from 2 to 85. Though Chasin says the focus of the work is on the activity of writing, rather than the
text that ends up getting written, some of the work that comes out of the sessions has stuck with her.
“One of the sessions that moved me the most was state violence on black women and black girls,” says
第 3 页 共 5 页Chasin, explaining that in one room, people wrote down the names of those killed because of it.“People do
beautiful work and leave beautiful messages.”
46.What does the project Writing On It All invite people to do?
A) Unlearn their training in drawing.
B) Participate in a state graffiti show.
C) Cover the walls of an old house with graffiti.
D) Exhibit their artistic creations in an old house.
47.What do we learn about the participants in the project?
A) They are just culture addicts. B) They are graffiti enthusiasts.
C) They are writers and artists. D) They are mostly passers-by.
48.What did the project participants do during the 2016 season?
A) They were free to scribble on the walls whatever came to their mind.
B) They expressed their thoughts in graffiti on the theme of each session.
C) They learned the techniques of collaborative writing.
D) They were required to cooperate with other creators.
49.What kind of place is Governor’s Island?
A) It is a historic site that attracts tourists and artists.
B) It is an area now accessible only to tourist vehicles.
C) It is a place in Upper New York Bay formerly used for exiles.
D) It is an open area for tourists to enjoy themselves year round.
50.What does Chasin say about the project?
A) It just focused on the sufferings of black females.
B) It helped expand the influence of graffiti art.
C) It has started the career of many creative artists.
D) It has created some meaningful artistic works.
Passage Two
Questions 51 to 55 are based on the following passage.
Online programs to fight depression are already commercially available. While they sound efficient and cost-
saving, a recent study reports that they are not effective, primarily because depressed patients are not likely to
engage with them or stick with them.
The study looked at computer-assisted cognitive(认知的) behavioral therapy(CBT) and found that it was no
more effective in treating depression than the usual care patients receive from a primary care doctor.
Traditional CBT is considered an effective form of talk therapy for depression, helping people challenge
negative thoughts and change the way they think in order to change their mood and behaviors. However, online
CBT programs have been gaining popularity, with the attraction of providing low-cost help wherever someone has
access to a computer.
A team of researchers from the University of York conducted a randomized(随机的) control trial with 691
depressed patients from 83 physician practices across England. The patients were split into three groups: one
group received only usual care from a physician while the other two groups received usual care from a physician
plus one of two computerized CBT programs. Participants were balanced across the three groups for age, sex,
educational background, severity and duration of depression, and use of antidepressants(抗抑郁药).
After four months, the patients using the computerized CBT programs had no improvement in depression
levels over the patients who were only getting usual care from their doctors.
“It’s an important, cautionary note that we shouldn’t get too carried away with the idea that a computer
system can replace doctors and therapists, ” says Christopher Dowrick, a professor of primary medical care at the
University of Liverpool. “We do still need the human touch or the human interaction, particularly when people are
depressed.”
第 4 页 共 5 页Being depressed can mean feeling “lost in your own small, negative, dark world,” Dowrick says. Having a
person, instead of a computer, reach out to you is particularly important in combating that sense of isolation.
“When you’re emotionally vulnerable, you’re even more in need of a caring human being ,” he says.
51.What does the recent study say about online CBT programs?
A)Patients may not be able to carry them through for effective cure.
B)Patients cannot engage with them without the use of a computer.
C)They can save patients trouble visiting physicians.
D)They have been well received by a lot of patients.
52.What has made online CBT programs increasingly popular?
A)Their effectiveness in combating depression.
B)The low efficiency of traditional talk therapy.
C)Their easy and inexpensive access by patients.
D)The recommendation by primary care doctors.
53. What is the major finding by researchers at the University of York?
A) Online CBT programs are no more effective than regular care from physicians.
B) The process of treating depression is often more complicated than anticipated.
C) The combination of traditional CBT and computerized CBT is most effective.
D) Depression is a mental condition which is to be treated with extreme caution.
54. What is Professor Dowrick’s advice concerning online CBT programs?
A) They should not be neglected in primary care.
B) Their effectiveness should not be overestimated.
C) They should be used by strictly following instructions.
D) Their use should be encouraged by doctors and therapists.
55. What is more important to an emotionally vulnerable person?
A) A positive state of mind. B) Appropriate medication.
C) Timely encouragement. D) Human interaction.
Part Ⅳ Translation (30 minutes)
Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to translate a passage from Chinese into English. You
should write your answer on Answer Sheet 2.
剪纸是中国民间艺术的一种独特形式，已有2,000多年历年。剪纸很可能源于汉代，继纸张发明之后。
从此，它在中国的许多地方得到了普及。剪纸用的材料和工具很简单：纸和剪刀。剪纸作品通常是用红纸
做成的，因为红色在中国传统文化中与幸福相联。因此，在婚礼、春节等喜庆场合，红颜色的剪纸是门窗
装饰的首选。
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