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2017年6月大学英语四级考试真题（第 3套）
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Part I Writing
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Part Ⅱ Listening Comprehension
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Part Ⅲ
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Section A
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Directions; In this section, there is a passage with ten blamks. You are required to select one word
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passage through carefully before making your choices. Each choice in the bank is
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New York's Attorney General's office 26an investigation in the fall into whether or not
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Verizon,Cablevision and Time Warner are delivering broadband that's as fast as the providers 27it
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is. Earlier this month,the office asked for the public's help to measure their speed results, saying
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consumers 28 to get the speeds they were promised."Too many of us may be paying for one
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thing, and getting another,"the Attorney General said.
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bandwidth speed and cost. Just this week,an investigation found that media and telecom giant
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found that the number of Americans with high-speed Internet at home today 35 fell during the last
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2017.6/1（第3套）
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From Accountant to Yogi: Making a Radical Career Change
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will seek it out;for others it will feel like an unwelcome intrusion into otherwise stable careers.
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change to completely reinvent herself. In her search to live a life of purpose,Leah left her high-
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paying accounting job,her husband, and her home. In the process, she built a radically new life
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new community of people. Even if your personal reinvention is less drastic, we think there are
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lessons from her experience that apply.
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attention to the whispers so you won't have to hear the screams."Often the best ideas for big
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weak signals or slight signs that point to big changes to come. Leah reflects on a time she listened
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isn't right.'"She then realized that her life no longer matched her vision for it.
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put lots of stuff in it, and had a baby."I did what everybody else thought looked successful,"she
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and developing new capabilities. First trying physical exercise and dieting,she lost some weight
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and discovered an iner strength."I felt powerful because I broke through my own limitations,"
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a bench with my aunt at a yoga studio,"she said,"and having a moment of clarity right then and
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done with this."In that moment of clarity Leah made an important leap, conquering her inner
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your way. When Leah made the commitment to change, she primed herself to new opportunities
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this space on Queen Anne."He knew my love for yoga and had seen a space close to where he
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lived that he thought might be good to serve as a yoga studio. As soon as I saw the location,I knew
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this was it. Of course I was scared, yet I had this strong sense of "I have to do this."Only a few
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months later Leah opened her first yoga studio, but success was not instant.
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toward the big changes of the future. When it's time to make the leap, they take action and
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immediately drop what's no longer serving their purpose. Initially Leah stayed with her accounting
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2017.6/2（第3套）
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change is not easy.
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one incident that triggered her fears, when her investors threatened to shut her down:"I was
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probably up against the most fear I've ever had,"she says. "I had spent two years cultivating this
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community,and it had become successful very fast, but within six months I was facing the prospect
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Urbanization—migration away from the suburbs to the city center—will be the biggest real estate
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industry, as cities across the country imitate the walkability and transit-oriented development making
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cities like New York and San Francisco so successful.
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health of the real-estate market, but also our ability to remain globally competitive.
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not yet occurred.
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old information is sometimes pushed out of the brain for new memories to form.
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in a new study, researchers demonstrated for the first time how this effect occurs in the brain.
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desired and associated but irrelevant information is recalled.
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The majority of previous research has focused on how we learn and remember new information.
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But current studies are beginning to place greater emphasis on the conditions under which we forget,as
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its importance begins to be more appreciated.
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become too full.
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51. What have past behavioural studies found about our brain?
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52. What is the benefit of forgetting?
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B)It helps slow down our aging process.
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53. What is the emphasis of current studies of memory?
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54.What do people find about their rare ability to remember every detail of their life?
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55. What does the passage say about forgetting?
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