大学英语四级复习资料答案

【解析】选[D]。从男士的话Think of the money you’d save可以判断他关

public.” And some people thought that advertising was “truth well told.”

心的是money，因此答案选[D]。[A] Grades是女士关心的问题。[B]和[C]Now more and more people describe it in this way： Advertising is the 两项对话中未谈及。 Section B

paid, nonpersonal, and usually persuasive description of goods, services and ideas through various media.

Passage One When you turn on the radio, you hear an All advertisements try to make people believe that the product, idea, or advertisement. When you watch television, you hear and see an service advertised can do well to them. Advertisements exist everywhere in advertisement. If you turn the pages of a newspaper or magazine, again our lives.

you find an advertisement. If you walk down the street, you see one Questions 26 to 28 are based on the passage you have just heard. advertising board after another. All day, every day, people who want to sell 26. What is the passage mainly about?

you something competent to catch your attention. As a result, 【解析】选[D]。这篇材料开篇就提到了广播、电视、报纸上的广告advertisements are almost everywhere. In the West, advertisements are the (advertisement)，随后讲了广告的定义，结尾说广告到处都存在，这表明fuel that makes mass media work. The government does not give money to 本篇 讲的是广告的繁荣发展，故选项[D]符合题意。

mass media such as TV stations, newspapers, magazines and radio stations. 27. What’s the financial source of the privately owned mass media? They are all owned privately. So where does the money come from? From 【解析】选[C]。选项[C]符合题意，依据是So where does the moneycome advertisements. Without advertisements, there would not be these private from? From advertisements。 businesses.

28. According to the passage, what is one of the features of advertisements?

Have you ever asked yourself what advertising is? Through the years, 【解析】选[B]。选项[B] 符合题意，依据是Advertising is the paid, people have given different answers to the question. For some time it was nonpersonal, and usually persuasive description of goods, services and felt that advertising was a means of “keeping your name before the ideas through various media。convincing是persuasive的同义转述，意为

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making you believe that something is true or right，即“使相信，使确认”。 29. What do the environmental groups think of the Salt Lake Olympic Passage Two

Games?

Officials at the Olympic Games taking place in Salt Lake City, Utah, say 【解析】[D]。在听录音之前，预览四个选项可知本文可能谈论的是The they have met their environmental goals. However, environmental groups games与environment的问题。原文中用转折语言引出环境组织的意见，say the Salt Lake Olympic Games have done pemp3anent hamp3 to the however,...have done pemp3anent hamp3 to the area,故选[D]。 area. Protection of the environment is now officially one of the three goals 30. Which is not a goal of the Olympic movement?

of the Olympic movement. The other two goals are sports and culture. 【解析】[C]。四个选项均为含有积极色彩的名词短语，需要在听的过程Today, many cities seeking to hold the Olympic Games promise to offer 中留意和它们有关的信息。

greater protection for the environment. However, an environmental group 31. According to the environmental groups what is needed to decrease says that the Salt Lake Olympic Committee make promises that it has not airpollution during the Games?

kept. For example, activists criticize ski jumps that were built into the 【解析】[B]。预读选项可以推测此题考查的是保护环境的行为，需要留sides of the mountains. They also criticize the officials for pemp3itting 意文中有关这些行为的细节。 trees to be cut down and new roads built for the Olympic Games. They Passage Three

said better public transportation is needed to help decrease air pollution Diet, diet, diet! It gets to be a constant battle for many of us to stay fit and during the Games. And they said not enough has been done to reduce healthy. But diets don’t always allow us to learn new eating habits, energy use. Lawyers say the Olympics are being used as an excuse to improve our self-image, or make lifestyle changes. Developing good eating pemp3it development that nomp3ally would be unacceptable under the habits and proper exercise is a pemp3anent issue. And it’s the main topic current environmental laws.

Questions 29 to 31 are based on the passage you have just heard.

of this workshop.

In order to keep a healthy diet and minimize the risk of disease, it’s essential to eat a diet that consists of low fat foods and to maximize energy

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with carbohydrates. Beef, nuts, oils, and most dairy products are rich in 【解析】选[B]。预读选项可知此题询问有关食物种类的细节，听的过程fat, so you should eat less of those; while pastry, rice, potatoes, and bread 中需要留意对它们的描述。本题答案依据为When you exercise, contain almost no fat and are a high energy source of complex cabohydrates are the first calories to burn, 根据常识sugar正是碳水化合carbohydrates. You know that many food manufactures use sugar to make 物的一种，故选[B]。

low fat or fat free foods taste good, but don’t worry too much about that. 34. According to the speaker, what is the most effective exercise time You don’t necessarily “get fat” by eating sugar, since sugar is an indirect schedule for reducing weight? fat.

【解析】选[D]。预读选项可知此题询问的有关锻炼的时间安排。注意，

When you exercise, carbohydrates are the first calories to burn, if you 只要抓住three to four days a week这个关键信息就可以了。 want to burn off fat, it’s good to do some sort of aerobic exercise such as 35. What does the speaker say is burned at the beginning of exercise? biking, swimming, running, or fast walking. But you have to keep doing 【解析】选[A]。预读选项可知此题询问的有关食物营养成分的细节。注this exercise for at least twenty minutes because it takes about that long 意，Carbohydrates的意思是“碳水化合物”。 before we start to burn fat. And then the effect of burning fat decreases Section C

【解析】choose。根据本空前的动词不定式小品词to及空后的介词fromafter forty-five minutes of exercise. So if you do some sort of aerobic 36.

exercise for three to four days a week for about thirty to forty minutes, 可知，本空中应填一原形动词。所填词与from构成固定搭配，并且是名you’ll have an affective schedule for reducing weight.

Questions 32 to 35 are based on the passage you have just heard. 32. What is the main topic of this talk?

【解析】选[D]。在听录音之前，预览选项可知本文与饮食习惯和锻炼有关。

词choice的同根词复现。

37.【解析】variety。a (considerable, great, wide)variety of为习惯用语，表示“各种各样的, 种类繁多的”。

38.【解析】tradition。从空格前的a long和空格后的介词of可以推断此处应填一名词。空后的history对所填词起一定的提示作用。

39.33. According to the speaker, which will burn most quickly with exercise? 【解析】throughout。从空格后的逗号后面是一个完整的句子可以判断

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所填词应该是介词。空后的 its history及 the country has welcomed … 【Main Points】overseas students usually take these courses from all over the world, most of whom have needed to learn English中两处用的现在完成时起提示作用。

46.【答案】the chance to get to know the school where they will be studying and become more familiar with the American academic environment 【Main Points】the chance to know their school and the American

40.【解析】immigrants。所填词作welcomed的宾语，并且这些人是来自academic environment 世界各地，他们中的大多数都需要学英语。

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41.【解析】experienced。从and可以判断所填词和qualified构成并列关Section A 系，因此所填词应为一形容词，概念上与qualified相近，共同修饰teachers。 11-15. A C B B B 42.【解析】overseas。所填词修饰students，因此应该为一形容词。空前16-20. B D D B C 的from allover the world起提示作用。

21-25. C D B D A

43.【解析】enroll。所填词作who的谓语，并且与students在数上一致，Section B 故应填一原形动词，并且此动词和介词on搭配。

26-30. C B A D B

44.【答案】Most of these institutions provide preparation courses for 31-35. C C B B A students who need to improve their English before they start university Section C study

36. claim

【Main Points】Students who need to improve their English before they 37. produce start university study can take preparation courses in these universities 38. complaint and colleges

39. assuming

45.【答案】they are the most common type of courses taken by overseas 40. person students

41. acceptable

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