英语四级真题2018年6月份(第三套)试卷及答案解析.docx

2018 年6 月四级考试真题 （第三套）Part I Writing (30 minutes)Directions : 几 rthis part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a short essayon the importanceof speaking ability and how to develop it. You should write at least 120 words butno more than 180 words.Part II Listening Comprehension说明：2018年 6月四级真题全国共考了两套听力 本套的听力内容与第二套的完全 一 样，只是选项的顺序不 一样而巳8——Part IDSection AReading Comprehension (40 minutes)Directions:/ 几 th"is section, there is a passage with ten blanks. You are required to select oneword for each blank from a list of cho 即 geisven 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 for each item 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.An office tower on Miller Street in Manchester is completely covered in solar panels. They areused to create some of the energy used by the insurance company inside. When the tower wasfrrst 26 in 1962, it was covered with thin square stones. These small square stones becamea problem for the building and continued to fall off the face for 40 years until a major renovationwas 27 . During this renovation the building's owners, CIS, 28 the solar panel company, Solarcentury. They agreed to cover the entire building in solar panels. In 2004, the completed CIStower became Europe's largest 29 of vertical solar panels. A vertical solar project on such alarge30 has never been repeated since.Covering a skyscraper with solar panels had never been done before , and the CIS tower waschosen as one ofthe "10 best green energy projects" . For a long time after this renovation project, it was the tallest building in the United Kingdom, but it was 31 overtaken by the Millbank Tower.Green buildings like this aren't 32 cost-efficient for the investor, but it does produce muchless pollution than that caused by energy 33 through fossil fuels. As solar panels get 34 , the world is likely to see more skyscrapers covered in solar panels, collecting energy much liketrees do. Imagine a world where building the tallest skyscraper wasn't a race of 35 , but ratherone to collect the most solar energy.A)cheaperB)cleanerC)collectionD)competedE)constructedF)consultedG)dimensionH)discoveredI)eventuallyJ) height K)necessarilyL)productionM) range N)scale0)undertakenSection BDirections: In this section, you are going to read a passage withten statementsattached to it. Each statementcontains information given in one of the paragraphs. Identify the paragraph fromwhich the information is derived. You may choose a paragraph more than oncEea.ch paragraph is marked with a letter.Answer the questions by marking thecorresponding letter on Answer Sheet 2.Some College Students Are Angry That They Have to Pay to Do Their HomeworkA) Digital learning systems now charge students for access codes needed to complete coursewtoarkke, quizzes, and tum in homework. As universities go digital, students are complaining of anew hit to their finances that's replacing— and sometimes joining— expensive textbooks:priceyonline access codes that are required to complete coursework and submit assignments.B) The codes— which typically range in price from MYM80 to MYM155 per course— give studentsonlineaccess tosystemsdeveloped by education companies like McGraw Hill and Pearson.Thesecompanies,which long reaped big profits as textbook publishers, have boasted thatheir newonline offerings, when pushed to students through universities they partner with, represent thefuture of the industry.C) But critics say the digital access codes representht e same profit-seeking ethos( 观念） of thetextbook business,and are even harder for students to opt out of.W 压 lethey could once buysecond-hand textbooks, or share copies with friends, the digital systems are essentiallyimpossible to avoid.D) "When we talk about the access code we see it as the new face of the textbook monopo( l垄y 断），a new way tolock students around this system," said EthanSenack, the higher educationadvocate for the U.S. Public Interest Research Group,to BuzzFeed News. "Rather than MYM250(for a print textbook) you're paying MYM120," said Senack. " But becauseit's all digital it eliminates the used book market and eliminates any sharing and because homework andtests arethrough an accescsode, it eliminates any ability to opt out. "E) Sarina Harper, a 19-year-old student at Virginia Tech, was faced with a tough dilemma whenshefirst started college in 2015— pay rent or pay to tum in her chemistry homework. She toldBuzzFeed News that her freshman chemistry class required her to use Connect, a systemprovidedby McGraw Hill where students can submithomework, take exams and track theirgrades.But。