2023年6月四级真题卷二部分.doc

6月大学英语四级考试部分真题（B卷）Part I Writing (30 minutes)Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a short essay on the following topic. You should write at least 120 words but no more than 180 words.Suppose a foreign friend of yours is coming to visit China, what is the most interesting place you would like to take him/her to see and why?注意：此部分试题请在答题卡1上作答 Part III Reading Comprehension (40 minutes)Section ADirections: In this section, there is a passage with ten blanks. You are required to select one word for each blank from a list of choices given in a word bank following the passage. Read the passage through carefully before making your choices. Each choice in the bank is identified by a letter. Please mark the corresponding letter 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 36 to 45 are based on the following passage.　 MANY Brazilians cannot read. In , a quarter of those aged 15 and older were functionally illiterate. Many 36 do not want to. Only one literate adult in three reads books. The 37 Brazilian reads 1.8 non-academic books a year—less than half the figure in Europe and the United States. In a recent survey of reading habits, Brazilians came 27th out of 30 countries, spending 5.2 hours a week with a book. Argentines, their neighbours, 38 18th.　 The government and businesses are all striving in different ways to change this. On March 13th the government 39 a National Plan for Books and Reading. This seeks to boost reading, by founding libraries and financing publishers among other things. 　 One discouragement to reading is that books are 40 . Most books have small print-runs, pushing up their price.　 But Brazilians' indifference to books has deeper roots. Centuries of slavery meant the country's leaders long 41 education. Primary schooling became universal only in the 1990s. 　 All this means that Brazil's book market has the biggest growth 42 in the western world.　 But reading is a difficult habit to form. Brazilians bought fewer books in —289m, including textbooks 43 by the government—than they did in 1991. Last year the director of Brazil's national library 44 . He complained that he had half the librarians he needed and termites (白蚁) had eaten much of the 45 . That ought to be a cause for national shame.注意：此部分试题请在答题卡2上作答。

A) average I) normalB) collection J) particularlyC) distributed K) potentialD) exhibition L) quitE) expensive M) rankedF) launched N) simplyG) named O) treasuredH) neglectedSection 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 from which 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 corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 2.The Touch-Screen GenerationA) On a chilly day last spring, a few dozen developers of children’s apps for phones and tablets (平板电脑) gathered at an old beach resort in Monterey, California, to show off their games. The gathering was organized by Warren Buckleitner, a longtime reviewer of interactive children’s media. Buckleitner spent the breaks testing whether his own remote-control helicopter could reach the hall’s second story, while various children who had come with their parents looked up in awe (敬畏) and delight. But mostly they looked down, at the iPads and other tablets displayed around the hall like so many open boxes of candy. I walked around and talked with developers, and several paraphrased a famous saying of Maria Montessori’s, “The hands are the instruments of man’s intelligence.”B) What, really, would Maria Montessori have made of this scene? The 30 or so children here were not down at the shore poking (戳) their fingers in the sand or running them along mossy stones or picking seashells. Instead they were all inside, alone or in groups of two or three, their faces a few inches from a screen, their hands doing things Montessori surely did not imagine. C) In , the American Academy of Pediatrics updated its policy on very young children and media. In 1999, the group had discouraged television viewing for children younger than 2, citing research on brain development that showed this age group’s critical need for “direct interactions with parents and other significant care givers.” The updated report began by acknowledging that things had changed significantly since then. In , 90 percent of parents said that their children younger than 2 consumed some form of electronic media. Nonetheless, the group took largely the same approach it did in 1999, uniformly discouraging passive media use, on。