2018年6月英语四级真题（卷三）

2018 年 6 月大学英语四级真题（第 3 套)Part IWriting（30 minutes）Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30minutes to write a short essay on the importanceof speaking ability and how to develop it. You should write at least 120 words but no more than180 words._Part IIListening Comprehension(25 minutes)说明：由于 2018年 6月四级考试全国共考了两套听力, 本套真题听力与前两套内容相同, 只是选项顺序不同, 因此在本套真题中不再重复出现。Part Reading Comprehension(40 minutes)Section ADirections: In this section, there is a passage with ten blanks. You are required to select one wordfor each blank from a list of choices given in a word bank following the passage. Read the passagethrough 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 throughthe centre. You may not use any of the words in the bank more than once.Neon (霓虹) is to Hong Kong as red phone booths are to London and fog is to San Francisco.When night falls, red and blue and other colors 26a hazy (雾蒙蒙的) glow over a city litup by tens of thousands of neon signs. But many of them are going dark, 27by morepractical, but less romantic, LEDs (发光二极管).Changing building codes, evolving tastes, and the high cost of maintaining those wonderfulold signs have businesses embracing LEDs, which are energy 28 , but still carrygreat cost. "To me, neon represents memories of the past," says photographer Sharon Blance,whose series Hong Kong Neon celebrates the city's famous signs. "Looking at the signs now I geta feeling of amazement, mixed with sadness."Building a neon sign is an art practiced by 29trained on the job to moldglass tubes into 30shapes and letters. They fill these tubes with gases that glow1 when 31. Neon makes orange, while other gases make yellow or blue. It takesmany hours to craft a single sign.Blance spent a week in Hong Kong and 32more than 60 signs; 22 of themappear in the series that capture the signs lighting up lonely streetsan 33thatmakes it easy to admire their colors and craftsmanship. "I love the beautiful, handcrafted,old-fashioned 34of neon," says Blance. The signs do nothing more than 35a restaurant, theater, or other business, but do so in the most striking way possible.A) alternative B) approach C) cast D) challenging E) decorativeF) efficient G) electrified H) identify I) photographed J) professionalsK) quality L) replaced M) stimulate N) symbolizes O) volunteersSection BDirections: 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 fromwhich 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 correspondingletter on Answer Sheet 2.New Jersey School District Eases Pressure on StudentsBaring an Ethnic DivideA) This fall, David Aderhold, the chief of a high-achieving school district near Princeton, NewJersey, sent parents an alarming 16-page letter. The school district, he said, was facing a crisis. Itsstudents were overburdened and stressed out, having to cope with too much work and too manydemands. In the previous school year, 120 middle and high school students were recommended formental health assessments and 40 were hospitalized. And on a survey administered by the district,students wrote things like, "I hate going to school," and "Coming out of 12 years in this district, Ihave learned one thing: that a grade, a percentage or even a point is to be valued over anythingelse."B) With his letter, Aderhold inserted West Windsor-Plainsboro Regional School District into anational discussion about the intense focus on achievement at elite schools, and whether it hasgone too far. At follow-up meetings, he urged parents to join him in advocating a "whole child"approach to schooling that respects "social-emotional development" and "deep and meaningfullearning" over academics alone. The alternative, he suggested, was to face the prospect ofbecoming another Palo Alto, California, where outsize stress on teenage students is believed tohave contributed to a number of suicides in the last six years.2 C) But instead of bringing families together, Aderhold's letter revealed a divide in the district,which has 9,700 students, and one that broke down roughly along racial lines. On one side arewhite parents like Catherine Foley, a former president of the Parent-Teacher-Student Associationat her daughter's middle school, who has come to see the district's increasingly pressuredatmosphere as opposed to learnin