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2016年6月大学英语四级考试真题（一）
Part I Writing
(30minutes)
Directions:For this part,you are allowed 80 minutes to write a leter to express your thanks to one of your
school teachers wpon entering college、You should write at least 120 words but no more than 180 words.
Part I Listening Comprehension
(25 minutes)
Section A
Dlrections,In this sectiomn,you wilI hear three news reports、At the end of each news report,you will hear
fwo or three questions.Both the news report and the questions will be spoken orly once.After you hear a
question,yow must choose the best aiswer from the four choices marked A),B),C) and D). Then mark
the corresponding leLter on Answer Shst 1 with a single line through the certre、
Questions 1 and 2 are hased on the news report you have just heard.
1.A)The International Labour Organization's key objective.
B) The basic social protection for the most vulnerable.
C)Rising unempfoyment worldwide.
D)Global economic recovery,
2.A)Many coumtries have not taken measures to create enough jobs.
B)Few countries know how to address the current econormic crisis.
C)Few countries have realised the seriousness of the current crisis.
D)Many countries need support to improve their people's livelihood.
Questions 3 and 4 are baeed on the news report yon have Juet heart.
3.A) Serve standardised food nationwide. C)Increase protein content in the food.
B)Put calorie information on the menu. D) Offer convenient food to customers.
4.A)They will e fined. C) They will get a warning.
B)They will be closed. D) They will lose customers.
Questions 5 to 7 are besed on the Dews report you hAve just heard
5.A)Inability to implement their business plans.
B)Inability to keep turning out aovel products.
C)Lack of a successful business model of their own.
D)Faiklure to integrate innovation into their business.
6. A)It is the secret to business success. C)It is a magic tool to bring big rewards.
B)It is the creation of something new. D)It is an essential part of business culture.
7. A)Its hardworking employees. C) Its innovation culture.
B)Its flexible promotion strategy. D)Its willingness to make investments.
四级2016年6月 1Section B
Directinms:In this section,you will hear two long conversations.At the end of each conversation,you will
hear four quextions.Both the conversntion and the guestions will be spoken ontly omce. After you hear a
question,you must choose the best answer from the four choices marnked A),B),C) and D)、Then mark
the corresponding letter on Anawer Sheet 1 with a single line through the centre.
Questions 8 to 11 Are based an the conversation yon have jst heard.
8.A)He's got addicted to technology. C)He is crazy about text-messaging.
B)He is not very good at socializing. D) He does not talk long on the phone.
9.A)Talk big. C) Gossip a lot.
B) Talk at length. D)Forget herself.
10. A) He thought it was cool. C) He wanted to stay connected with them.
B)He needed the practice. D)He had an urgent message to snd.
1l1. A It poses a challenge to senior3. C)It is childish and unprofessional.
B)It saves both time and money. D)It is cool and convenient.
Questons 12 to 15 are based o the corveratio yo have just heard、
12.A)He wants to change his job assignment.
B)He is unhappy with his department manager.
C)He thinks he deserves extra pay for overtime.
D)He is often singled out for criticism by his boss.
13.A)His workload was much too heavy.
B)His imrediate boss did not trust him.
C)His colleagues often refused to cooperate.
D)His salary was too low for his responsibility.
14.A)He never knows how to reftuse. C) His bos has a lot of trust in hin.
B) He is always ready to help others. D)His boss has no sense of fairness.
15. A)Put all his complaints in writing, C)Learn to say no when necesary.
B)Wait and se what happens next. D)Talk to his boss in person first.
Section C
DIrestioms: In this section,you wil hear three passages. At the end of each passage,you will hear three or
four questions.Both the pasage and the questions wif be spokcen only once、Afer you hear a question,you
must choase the best answer fromn the four choices marked A),B),C)and D),Then mark the
corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 1 with a single line through the centre.
Questions 16 to 18 are based on the passage y0u have just heard,
16.A) The importance of sleep to a healthy life.
B)Reasons for Armericans' decline in sleep.
C) Sorne tips to improve the quality of sleep.
D) Diseases associated with lack of sleep.
17. A)They are more health-conscious. C)They get les and less sleep.
B)They are changing their living habits. D)They know the dangers of lack of sleep.
18.A)Their weight will go down. C)Their work efficiency will decrease.
B)Their mind function will deteriorate、 D) Their bhood pressure will rise.
Questions 19 to 21 are hased 0 the passnge yo have just heard.
19. A)How mch yon can afford to pay.
B)What course you are going to choose.
C) Which university you are going to apply to.
D)When you are going to submit your application.
四级 2016年6月 220.A)The list of courses studlied. C) The references from teachers.
B)The full record of scores. D) The persona] statement.
21.A)Specify what they would like to do after graduation.
B)Describe in detail how much they would enjoy studying.
C) Indicate they have reflected and thought about the subject.
D)Emphasize that they admire the professors in the university.
Questions22 t 25 are based on the ps8ge yow have just heard
C>It was purchased by the Royal family.
22.A)It was equipped with rubber tyres.
B)It was built in the late 19th century. D)It was designed by an English engineer,
23.A) They consumed lots of petrol. C) They were difficult to drive.
B)They took two passengers only. D) They often broke down.
24.A)They were produced on the assembly line.
B)They were bilt with less costly materials.
C)They were modeled after British cars.
D)They were made for ordinary use.
25.A)It made news all over the world.
B)It was buit for the Royal famnily.
C) It marked a new era in motor travel.
D)It attracted large nummbers of motorists,
Part Ⅱ Reading Comprehension
(40 minutes)
Section A
Drections:In this section, there is a passage with ten blanky.You are required to select one word for each
blank from a lis? of choices given in a word banik following the paoage.Read the pggsage throukh carefraltly
before making your choices.Each choice in the bank is identied by a leter. Please mark the corresponding
letter for each itemn 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.
Questions 26 to 35 are based on the following passage
Physical activity does the body good,and there's growing evidence that it helps the brain too.
Researchers in the Netherlands report that children who get more exercise,whether at school or on their
own,26to have higher GPAs and better scores on standardized tests. In a 27of 14 studies
that looked at physical activity and academic 28 , investigators found that the more children
moved, the beter their grades were in school,29
in the basic subjects of math,English and
“己出当呼
The data will certainly fuel the ongoing debate over whether physical education classes should be cut
as schools struggle to 300on smaller budgets. The arguments against physical education have
included concerns that gym time may be taking away from study time. With standardized test scores in the
U.S.31in recent years,some adrministrators believe students need to spend more time in the
classroom instead of on the playground. But as these findings show,exercise and academics may not be
32 exclusive. Physical activity can improve bood 33to the brain,fueling memory,
attention and creativity, wbich are34 to learning. And exercise releases hormones that can
improve __35
and relieve stress,which can also help learming. So while it may seem as if kids are just
exercising their bodies when they're running around,they may actually be exercising their brains as well.
四级2016年6月 3A>attendance F) esential K)particularly
G feasible
B) consequently L)performance
C> crren ED flow
M) review
D mood
D)depresing N) survive
E)dropping J) mutually O) tend
Sectlon B
Directions:In this section,you are going fo read a passage with ten statermnents attached to it.Each
statement contains information giver in one of the paragraphs. Identify the parngraph fromnt which the
infonmation is derived. You may choose a paragraph more than onuce. Each paragraph is marked with a
letter,Answer the questionts by marking the corresponding letter on AnsMer Sheet 2、
Finding tbe Right Homme一and Coutentntent，Too
A) When your elderly relative needs to enter some sort of long-ter care facility—a moment tew parents
or children approach without fear—what you would like is to have everything made clear,
B)Does assisted living really tmark a great improvement over a nursing home,or has the industry simply
hired better interior designers? Are nursing homes as bad as people fear, or is that an out-moded
stereotype（固定看法）? Can doing one's homework really steer families to the best places? It is
genuinely hard to know.
C)I am about to make things more complicated by suggesting that what kind of facility an older person
lives in may matter less than we have assumed. And that the characteristics adult children look for
when they begin the search are not necessarily the things that make a difference to the people who are
going to move in.I am not talking about the quality of care, let me hastily add. Nobody flourishes in
a gloomy environment with irresponsible staff and a poor safety record,But an accumulating body of
research indicates that some distinctions between one type of elder care and another have little real
bearing on how well residents do.
D) The most recent of these studies,published in The Journal of Aplied Gerorrology,surveyed
150 Connecticut residents of assisted living,nursing homes and smaller residential care homes(known
in some states as board and care homes or adult care homes). Researchers from the University of
Connecticut Health Center asked the residents a large number of questions about their quality of life,
emotional well-being and social interaction,as well as about the quality of the facilities,
E)"We thought we would see differences based on the housing types," said the lead author of the study,
Julie Robison, an associate professor of medicine at the university.A reasonable assumption—don't
families struggle to avoid nursing homes and suffer real guilt if they can't?
F) In the initial results,assisted living residents did paint the most positive picture. They were less likely
to report symptoms of depression than those in the other facilities,for instance,and less likely to be
bored or lonely. They scored higher on social interaction.
G)But when the researchers plugged in a number of other variables,such differences disappeared. It is
not the housing type,they found, that creates differences in residents'responses."It is the
characteristics of the specific environment they are in, combined with their own personal
characteristics—how healthy they feel they are, their age and marital status,"Dr,Robison explained.
Whether residents felt imvolved in the decision to move and how long they had lived there also proved
significant.
四级2016年6月 4HAn elderly person who describes herself as in poor health,therefore,might be no less depressed in
assisted living(even if her children preferred it)than in a nursing home、A person who had input into
where he woutd move and has had time to adapt to it might do as well in a nursing home as in a small
residential care home,other factors being equal.It is an interaction between the person and the place,
not the sort of place in itself, that leads to better or worse experiences. "You can't just say,'Let's put
this person in a residential care home instead of a rursing home—she will be much better off,'"
Dr. Robison said. What matters, she added,"is a combination of what people bring in with them,
and what they find there."
I) Such findings,which run counter to common sense,have surfaced before. In a multi-state studly of
assisted living,for instance,University of North Carolina researchers found that a host of variables—
the facility's type,size or age; whether a chain owned it; how attractive the neighborhood was—had
no significant relationship to how the residents fared in terms of illness,mental decline,
hospitalizations or mortality. What mattered most was the residents'physical health and mental status,
What people were like when they came in had greater consequence than what happened once they were
there.
J) As I was considering all this,a press release from a respected research firm crossed my desk,
annoancing that the five-star rating system that Medicare developed in 2008 to help families compare
nursing home quality also has litle relationship to how satisfied its residents or their farmily members
are. As a matter of fact,consumers expressed higher satisfaction with the one-star facilities, the
lowest rated,than with the five-star ones.(More on this study and the star ratings will appear in a
subsequent pOost.)
K)Before we collectively tear our hair cut—how are we supposed to find our way in a landscape this
confusing?—here is a thought from Dr.Philip Sloane，a geriatrician（老年病学专家）at the
University of North Carolina:"In a way, that could be liberating for families,"
L) Of course,sons and datghters want to visit the facilities, talk to the administrators and residents and
other families,and do everything possible to fulill their duties. But perhaps they don'c have to tur
themselves into private investigators or Congressionat subcommittees. "Families can look a bit more for
where the residents are going to be happy,"Dr.Sloane said. And involving the future resident in the
process can be very important.
M)We all have cur own ideas about what would bring our parents happiness. They have their ideas,too.
A friend recently took her mother to visit an expensive assisted living/nursing home near my town,I
have seen this place—it is elegant,inside and ourt. But nobody greeted the daughter and mother when
they arrived, though the visit had been planned; nobody introduced them to the other residents. When
they had lunch in the dining room, they sat alone at a tab[e.
N)The daughter feared her mother would be ignored there, and so she decided to move her into a more
welcoming facility, Based on what is emerging from some of this research,that might have been as
rational a way as any to reach a decision.
36,Many people feel guilty when they cannot find a place other than a mursing home for their parents.
37.Though it helps for children to investigate care facilities,involving their parents in the decision-
making process may prove very important.
38. It is really difficalt to tell if assisted living is better than a nursing home,
39.How a resident feels depends on an interaction between themselves and the care facility they liye in.
四级2016年6月 540. The author thinks her friend made a rational decision in choosing a more hospitable place over an
apparently elegant ssisted living home.
41. The system Medicare developed to rate nursing home quality is of little help to finding a satisfactory
Plaec.
42. At first the researchers of the most recent sthudy found residents in assisted living facilities gave higher
scores on social interaction.
43. What kind of care facility old people live in may be tess important than we think.
44. The findings of the latest research were similar to an earlier multi-state study of asisted living-
45. A resident's satisfaction with a care facility has much to do with whether they had participated in the
decision to move in and how long they had stayed there.
Section C
Drectionms;There are 2 pasages in this section.Each passage is followed by some questions or wnfinished
statements. For each of them there are four choices muarked A),B),C)and D)、You should decide on
the best choice and nark the corresponding letter on. AnsWer Sheet 2 with a single ine through the centre.
Paage One
Questlons 46 to 50 are besed on the following passage,
As Artificial Intelligence(AI)becomes increasingly sophisticated,there are growing concerns that
robots could become a threat. This danger can be avoided,according to computer science professor
Stuart Rusell,if we figure ourt how to turn buman values into a programmable code.
Russell argues that as robots take on more complicated tasks,it's necessary to translate our morals
int0 AI langwage.
For example,if a robot does chores around the house, you wouldn't want it to put the pet cat in the
oven to make dinner for the hungry children."You would want that robot preloaded with a good set of
values,"said Russel1.
Some robots are already prograrmrned with basic human values. For example, mobile robots have been
programmed to keep a comfortable distance from humans. Obviously there are cultural differences, but if
you were talking to another person and they came up close in your personal space, you would't think that's
the kind of thing a properly brought-up person would to.
It will be possible to create more sophisticated moral machines,if only we can find a way to set out
human values as clear rules.
Robots could also learn values from drawing patterns from large sets of data on human behavior.
They are dangerous only if programmers are careless.
The biggest concern with robots going against human values is that human beings fail to do sufficient
testing and they've produced a system that will break sorne kind of taboo（禁忌）.
One simple check woald be to programn a robot to check the correct course of action with a human
when presented with an uusval situation.
If the robot is unsure whether an animal is suitable for the microwave,it has the opportumity to stop,
sent out beeps（哪峰声），and ask for directions from a human.If we humans aren't quite sure about a
decision, we go and ask somebody else.
The most difficult step in programming values will be deciding exactly what we believe is moral, and
how to create aset of ethical rles. But if we come up with an answer, robots could be good for humanity.
四级2016年6月 646. What does the author say about the threat of robots?
A)It may constitute a challenge to computer programmers.
B)It accompanies all machinery involving high technology.
C)It can be avoided if human values are translated into their language.
D)It has become an inevitable peril as technology gets more sophisticated.
47,What would we think of a person who invades our personal space according to the author?
A)They are aggressive. C)They are ignorant.
B)They are outgoing, D)They are il]-bred.
48, How do robots learn hurnan values?
A)By interacting with hurmans in everyday life situations.
B)By fotlowing the daily routines of civilized human beings.
C)By picking up patterns from massive data on human behavior.
D)By imitating the behavior of properly brought-up human beings.
49.What will a well-programmed robot do when facing an unusual situation?
A)Keep a distance from possible dangers.
B)Stop to seek advice from a hurman being.
C)Trigger its built-in alarm system at once.
D)Do sufficient testing before taking action.
50.What is most dfficult to do when we turn human values into a programmable code?
A)Determine what is moral and ethical.
B)Design some large-scale experiments.
C) Set rules for man-machine interaction.
D)Develop a more sophisticated program.
Pasge Tw0
Qnestions 51 to 55 are hased on the followling pnssage,
Why do some peope live to be older than others? You know the standard explanatiorts: keeping a
moderate diet,engaging in regular exercise,etc.But what effect does your personality have on your
lorgevity（长寿）?Do some kinds of personalities lead to longer lives? A new study in the Jourmnal of the
American Geriatrics Society looked at this question by examining the personality characteristics of
246 children of people who had lived to be at least 100.
The study shows that those living the longest are more outgoing，more active and jess nezurotic{神经
质的）than other people. Long-living women are also more likely to be sympathetic and cooperative than
women with a norma] life span.These findings are in agreement with what you would expect from the
evohutionary theory: those who like to make friends and help others can gather enough resources to make
it through tough times.
Interestingly, however,other characteristics that you might consider advantageous had no impact on
whether study participants were likely to live longer,Those who were more self-disciplined,for instance,
were no more likely to live to be very old.Also, being open to new ideas had no relationship to long life,
which might explain all those bad-tempered old people who are fixed in their ways.
Whether you can successully change your personality as an adult is the subject of a longstanding
psychological debate. But the new paper suggests that if you want long life, you should strive to be as
Outgoing as possible.
四级2016年6月 7Unfortunately, another recent study shows that your mother's personality may also help determine
your longevity.That study looked at nearly 28,000 Norwegian mothers and found that those moms who
were more anxious, depressed and angry were more likely to feed their kids unhealthy diets. Patterns of
childhood eating can be hard to break when we're adults,which mnay mean that kids of depressed moms
end up dying younger.
Personality isn't destiny（命运），and everyone kows that individuals can learn to change，But both
studies show that long life isn't just a matter of your physical health but of your mental health.
51. The aim of the study in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Sociefy is _____.
A)to see whether people's personality affects their life span
B) to find out if one's litestyle has any effect on their health
C)to investigate the role of exercise in living a long life
D) to examine all the factors contributing to longevity
52.What does the author imply about outgoing and sympathetic people?
A) They have a good understanding of evolution.
B)They are better at negotiating an agreement.
C) They generally appear more resourceful,
D)They are more likely to get over hardship.
53,What finding of the study might prove somewhat out of our expectation?
A)Easy-going people can also live a relatively long life.
B)Personality characteristics that prove advantageous actually vary with times.
C) Such personality characteristics as self-discipline have no effect on longevity.
D)Readiness to accept new ideas helps one enjoy longevity.
54. What does the recent study of Norwegian mothers show?
A)Children's personality characteristics are invariably determined by their mothers.
B)People with unhealthy eating habits are likely to die sooner.
C) Mothers' influence on children may last longer than fathers'.
D)Mothers'negative personality characteristics may affect their children's life span,
55.What can we lear from the findings of the two new studies?
A)Anxiety and depression more often than not cut short one's life span.
B)Longevity results from a combination of mental and physical health.
C)Personality plays a decisive role in how healthy one is.
D)Health is in large part related to one's lifestyle.
Part Ⅳ Translation
(30 minutes)
Directioms:For this part,you are allowed 80 minutes to translale a passage frormn Chinese into Erglish.You
shotuld write your answer or AnsMer Stheet 2.
功夫（Kung Fu）是中国武术（martial arts）的俗称。中国式术的起源可以追溯到自卫的需要、特猎活动
以及古代中国的军事训结。它是中国传统体育运动的一种，单轻人和老年人靠练。它已遵渐演变成了中
国文化的独特元素。作为中国的国宝，功夫有上百种不同的风格，是世界上练得最多的武术形式。有些风
格模仿了动物的动作，还有一些则受到了中国哲学思想、神话和传说的启发。
四级2016年6月 8
