2023年大学英语四级考试试题及与详解.doc

6月21日大学英语四级考试试卷Part Ⅰ Listening Comprehension (20 minutes)Section A Directions: In this section, you will hear 10 short conversations. At the end of each conversation, a question will be asked about what was said. Both the conversation and the question will be spoken only once. After each question there will be a pause. During the pause, you must read the four choices marked A), B), C) and D), and decide which is the best answer. Then mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the centre .1. A）At a theatre.B）At a booking office. C）At a railway station. D）At a restaurant. 2. A）The man is inviting the woman to dinner. B）The woman is too busy to join the man for dinner. C）The woman is a friend of the Stevensons’. D）The man is going to visit the Stevensons’. 3. A）The professor’s presentation was not convincing enough. B）The professor’s lecture notes were too complicated. C）The professor spoke with a strong accent. D）The professor spoke too fast. 4. A）The furnished apartment was inexpensive. B）The apartment was provided with some old furniture. C）The furniture in the market was on sale every Sunday. D）The furniture he bought was very cheap. 5. A）The man is thinking about taking a new job. B）The man likes a job that enables him to travel. C）The man is sure that he will gain more by taking the job. D）The man doesn’t want to stay home and take care of their child. 6. A）Take the GRE test again in 8 weeks.B）Call to check his scores.C）Be patient and wait. D）Inquire when the test scores are released. 7. A）She read it selectively. B）She went over it chapter by chapter. C）She read it slowly.D）She finished it at a stretch. 8. A）He was kept in hospital for a long time. B）He was slightly injured in a traffic accident. C）He was seriously wounded in a mine explosion. D）He was fined for speeding. 9. A）Wait for a taxi.B）Buy some food.C）Go on a trip.D）Book train tickets. 10.A）It’s not as hard as expected. B）It’s too tough for some students. C）It’s much more difficult than people think. D）It’s believed to be the hardest optional course. Section B Passage One Questions 11 to 13 are based on the passage you have just heard. 11.A）Anxious and worried.B）Nervous and confused. C）Proud and excited. D）Inspired and confident. 12.A）His father scolded him severely. B）His father made him do the cutting again. C）His father took back the six dollars.D）His father cut the leaves himself. 13.A）One can benefit a lot from working with his father. B）Manual labors shouldn’t be looked down upon. C）One should always do his job earnestly. D）Teenagers tend to be careless. Passage Two Questions 14 to 16 are based on the passage you have just heard. 14.A）He ran a village shop.B）He worked in an advertising agency. C）He worked on a farm. D）He was a gardener. 15.A）It was stressful.B）It was colorful.C）It was peaceful.D）It was boring. 16.A）His desire to start his own business.B）The crisis in his family life. C）The decline in his health. D）His dream of living in the countryside. Passage Three Questions 17 to 20 are based on the passage you have just heard. 17 .A）Because there are no signs to direct them.B）Because no tour guides are available. C）Because all the buildings in the city look alike. D）Because the university is everywhere in the city. 18. A）They set their own exams.B）They select their own students.C）They award their own degrees.D）They organize their own laboratory work. 19. A）Most of them have a long history. B）Many of them are specialized libraries. C）They house more books than any other university library. D）They each have a copy of every book published in Britain. 20. A）Very few of them are engaged in research. B）They were not awarded degrees until 1948. C）They have outnumbered male students. D）They were not treated equally until 1881. PartⅡ Reading Comprehension（35minutes） Passage One Questions 21 to 25 are based on the following passage. On average, American kids ages 3 to12 spent 29 hours a week in school, eight hours more than they did in 1981.They also did more household work and participated in more of such organized activities as soccer and ballet（芭蕾舞）.Involvement in sports, in particular ,rose almost50%from1981to1997:boys now spend an average of four hours a week playing sports; girls log half that time. All in all, however, children’s leisure time dropped from40%of the day in1981to25%.  “Children are affected by the same time crunch（危机）that affects their parents,” says Sandra Hofferth,who headed the recent study of children’s timetable. A chief reason, she says, is that more mothers are working outside the home.（Nevertheless, children in both double-income and “male breadwinner” households spent comparable amounts of time interacting with their parents, 19 hours and 22 。