2015年英语专四真题及答案解析

A. My friend teaches chemistry in a school. B. I’ll give it to you after I return. C. What is the matter with you?

D. London stands on the River Thames.

55. It is not so much the language ____ the cultural background that makes the film difficult to understand.

A. but B. nor C. like D. as

56. There is no doubt ____ the committee has made the right decision on the housing project.

A. why B. that C. whether D. when

57. All the President’s Men ____ one of the important books for scholars who study the

Watergate Scandal.

A. remains B. remained C. remain D. is remaining

58. If you explained the situation to your lawyer, he ___ __ able to advise you much

better than I can.

A. will be B. was C. would be D. were

59. Which of the following is a stative verb (静态动词)? A. Drink B. Close C. Rain D. Belong

60. Which of the following italicized parts indicates a subject-verb relation? A. The man has a large family to support.

B. She had no wish to quarrel with her brother. C. He was the last guest to leave. D. Mary needs a friend to talk to.

61. The following are all correct responses to ―Who told the news to the teacher?‖

EXCEPT __ ___?

A. Bob did it B. Bob did so C. Bob did that D. Bob did. 62. Which of the following is INCORRECT?

A. Another two girls B. Few words C. This work D. A bit of flowers 63. Which of the following italicized words does NOT indicate willingness? A. What will you do when you graduate? B. They will be home by now. C. Who will go with me?

D. Why will you go there alone?

64. When one has good health, ___ should feel fortunate A. you B. she C. he D. we

65. There ____ nothing more for discussion, the meeting came to an end half an hour earlier.

A. to be B. to have been C. be D. being

66. Two of her brothers were _ __ during the Second World War. A. called up B. called on C. called for D. called out 67. Bottles from this region sell __ ____ at about $50 a case. A. entirely B. totally C. wholesale D. together

68. The product contains no ____ colours, flavours, or preservatives. A. fake B. artificial C. false D. wrong

69. Davis accepted the defeat in the semi-final with good grace. The underlined part is

closest in meaning to ___ ___.

A. cheerfully B. wholeheartedly C. politely D. quietly

70. __ ___ and business leaders were delighted at the decision to hold the national motor

fair in the city.

A. Civil B. Civilized C. Civilian D. Civic

71. The city council is planning a huge road-building programme to ease congestion. The

underlined part means __ ___.

A. calm B. relieve C. comfort D. still

72. His unfortunate appearance was offset by an attractive personality. The underlined

part means all the following EXCEPT ____.

A. improved B. made up for C. balanced D. compensated for

73. The doctor said that the gash in his check required stitches. The underlined part means ____.

A. lump B. depression C. swelling D. cut

74. During the economic crisis, they had to cut back production and __ ___ workers. A. lay off B. lay into C. lay down D. lay aside

75. The university consistently receives a high __ ____ for the quality of its teaching and research.

A. standard B. evaluation C. rating D. comment

76. To mark its one hundredth anniversary, the university held a series of activities

including conferences, film shows, etc. The underlined part means __ ___. A. signify B. celebrate C. symbolize D. suggest

77. His fertile mind keeps turning out new ideas. The underlined part means _ ____. A. abundant B. unbelievable C. productive D. generative 78. The local news paper has a ___ __ of 100,000 copies a day. A. spread B. circulation C. motion D. flow

79. These issues were discussed at length during the meeting. The underlined part means __ ___.

A. eventually B. subsequently C. lastly D. fully

80. A couple of young people were giving out leaflets in front of the department store.

The underlined part means __ ___.

A. distributing B. handling C. dividing D. arranging PART V READING COMPREHENSION

Text A

Inundated by more information than we can possibly hold in our head, we're increasingly handing off the job of remembering to search engines and smart phones. Google is even

reportedly working on eyeglasses that could one day recognize faces and supply details about whoever you're looking at. But new research shows that outsourcing our memory – and

expecting that information will be continually and instantaneously available --is changing our cognitive habits.

Research conducted by Betsy Sparrow, an assistant professor of psychology at Columbia University, has identified three new realities about how we process information in the Internet age. First, her experiments showed that when we don't know the answer to a question, we now think about where we can find the nearest Web connection instead of the subject of the question itself. A second revelation is that when we expect to be able to find information again later on, we don't remember it as well as when we think it might become unavailable.

And then there is the researchers' final observation: the expectation that we'll he able to locate inforination down the line leads us to form a memory not of the fact itself but of where we'II be able to find it.

But this handoff comes with a downside. Skills like critical thinking and analysis must develop in the context of facts: we need something to think and reason about, after all. And these facts can't be Googled as we go;they need to be stored in the original hard drive, our long-term memory. Especially in the case of children, \says Daniel Willingham, a professor of psychology, at the University of Virginia -- meaning that the days of drilling the multiplication table and memorizing the names of the Presidents aren't over quite yet. Adults, too, need to recruit a supply of stored knowledge in order to situate and evaluate new information they encounter. You can't Google context.

Last, there's the possibility, increasingly terrifying to contemplate, that our machines fail us. As Sparrow puts it, \more like losing a friend.\make sure it's fully charged.

81. Google’s eyeglasses are supposed to _ __.

[A]improve our memory [B]function like memory [C]help us see faces better [D]work like smart phones 82. According to the passage, ―cognitive habits‖ refers to _ __.

[A] how we deal with information [B] functions of human memory [C] the amount of information [D] the availability of information

83. Which of the following statements about Sparrow’s research is CORRECT? [A] We remember people and things as much as before. [B] We remember more Internet connections than before.

[C] We pay equal attention to location and content of information. [D]We tend to remember location rather than the core of facts. 84. What does the author mean by ―context‖?

[A]It refers to long-term memory. [B]It refers to a new situation. [C]It refers to a store of knowledge. [D]It refers to the search engine. 85. What is the implied message of the author? [A]Web connections aid our memory. [B]People differ in what to remember. [C]People keep memory on smart phones. [D]People need to exercise their memory.

Text B

I was a second-year medical student at the university, and was on my second day of rounds at a nearby hospital. My university's philosophy was to get students seeing patients early in their education. Nice idea,but it overlooked one detail:second-year students know next to nothing about medicine.

Assigned to my team that day was an attending - a senior faculty member who was there mostly to make patients feel they weren't in the hands of amateurs. Many attendings were researchers who didn't have much recent hospital experience. Mine was actually an arthritis specialist. Also along was a resident (the real boss, with a staggering mastery of medicine, at least to a rookie like myself). In addition there were two interns(住院实习医生). These guys were just as green as I was，but in a scarier way: they had recently graduated from the medical

school, so they were technically MDs.

I began the day at 6:30 am. An intern and I did a quick check of our eight patients; later, we were to present our findings to the resident and then to the attending. I had three patients and the intern had the other five - piece of cake.

But when I arrived in the room of 71-year-old Mr. Adams，he was sitting up in bed, sweating heavily and panting (喘气). He'd just had a hip operation and looked terrible. I listened to his lungs with my stethoscope, but they sounded clear. Next I checked the log of his vital signs and saw that his respiration and heart rate had been climbing, but his

temperature was steady. It didn't seem like heart failure, nor did it appear to be pneumonia. So I asked Mr. Adams what he thought was going on. \

So I attributed his condition to the stuffy room and told him the rest of the team would return in a few hours. He smiled and feebly waved goodbye.

At 8:40 am., during our team meeting, \loudspeaker. I froze.

That was Mr. Adams's room.

When we arrived, he was motionless.

The autopsy (尸体解剖) later found Mr. Adams had suffered a massive pulmonary embolism (肺部栓塞). A blood clot had formed in his leg, worked its way to his lungs, and cut his breathing capacity in half. His symptoms had been textbook: heavy perspiration and shortness of breath despite clear lungs. The only thing was: I hadn't read that chapter in the textbook yet. And I was too scared, insecure, and proud to ask a real doctor for help.

This mistake has haunted me for nearly 30 years, but what's particularly frustrating is that the same medical education system persists. Who knows how many people have died or suffered harm at the hands of students as naive as I, and how many more will?

86. Why was the author doing rounds in a hospital? [A]He himself wanted to have practice. [B]Students of all majors had to do so. [C]It was part of his medical training. [D]He was on a research team.

87. We learn that the author’s team members had __.

[A]much practical experience [B]adequate knowledge

[C]long been working there [D]some professional deficiency

88. While the author was examining Mr. Adams, all the following symptoms caught his

attention EXCEPT __ __.

[A]moving difficulty [B]steady temperature [C]faster heart rate [D]breathing problem

89. ―His symptoms had been textbook‖ means that his symptoms were _ ___. [A]part of the textbook [B]no longer in the textbook

[C]recently included in the textbook [D]explained in the textbook

90. At the end of the passage, the author expresses __ __ about the medical education system.

[A]optimism [B]hesitation [C]concern [D]support

TEXT C

The war on smoking, now five decades old and counting, is one of the nation's greatest