2021年专四英语考试真题（含答案）
TEST FOR ENGLISH MAJORS (2021)
-GRADE FOUR-
TIME LIMIT: 130MIN
PARI I DICTATION
|10 M1N|
Listen to the fallowing passage. Altogether the passage will be read to you four times. During the first reading, which will be done at normal speed, listen and try to understand the meaning. For the second and third readings, the passage, except the first sentence, will be read sentence by sentence, or phrase by phrase, with interx als cf 15 seconds. The last reading will be done at normal speed again and during this time you should check your work. You will then be given ONE minute to check through your vxvrk once more.
Write on ANSWER SHEET ONE. The first sentence of the passage is already7 provided.
The Meaning of Home
The original meaning of the word home in English was of a safe dwelling place, a village, even a world.
PART II LISTENING COMPREHENSION
SECTION A TALK
|20 MIN|
In this section you will hear a talk. You will hear the talk ONCE ONLY. While listening, you may look at ANSWER SHEET ONE and write NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS for each gap. Make sure what you fill in is both grammatically and semantically' acceptable. You may use the blank sheet for notetaking.
You have THIRTY seconds to preview the gap-filling task.
Now, listen to the talk. When it is over, you will be given TWO minutes to check your wx)rk.
SECTION B CONVERSATIONS
In this section you will hear nvo conversations. At the end of each conversation, Jive questions will be asked about what wxis said. Both the conversations and the questions will he spoken ONCE 3LY. After each question there will be a ten-second pause. During the pause, you should read the Jour choices of A. B. C, and D. and mark the best answer to each question on ANSWER SHEET TWO.
You have THIRTY seconds to preview [he questions. Now, listen to the conversations. CONVERSATION ONE
Questions 1 to 5 are based on Conversation One. 1. A. Never. B. Just a few. C. Quite a few. D. Few. 2. A. They have negative feelings. B. They like being asked questions. C. They dislike some panel members. D. They both enjoy interviews.
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3. A. Dancer in a night club. C. Electronics engineer. 4. A. Excited. B. Ashamed.
5. A. To select the best among many candidates. B. Tosee who gives the lasting impression. C To find out who has acting potential.
D. To see how one reacts when uncomfortable.CONVERSATION TWO
Questions 6 to 10 are based on Conversation Two. 6. A. She failed the course.
C. Her performance was a bit worrying. 7. A. Il is hard for the required length. C. It is difficult to draw conclusions. 8. A.75%. B. 25%. 9. A. Russia. B. Canada.
10. A To collect more necessary infonnation.
B. To analyze the data she has obtained. C To propose some possible solutions.
D. To keep up her ^xxl work this term.
B. Children's entertainer. D. Shop assistant. C. Surprised. D. Afraid.
B. She made much progress.
D. Her performance was better than expected B. It is a very familiar subject. D. It is irrelevant to the topic. C. 30%. D.45% C. The United States. D. Saudi Arabia.
PARI 111 LANGUAGE USAGE
There are twenty sentences in this section. Beneath each sentence there are four options marked A, B, C,
and D. Choose the one that best completes the sentence or answ er the question. Mark you answers on ANSWER SHEET TWO.
11. If we abused by the power of the social rule, we must take steps to defuse its energy. A. were not to be B. are not to be C. should not be D. would not be
12. A team of engineers has been developing a space cleanup satellite to eliminate man-made orbital debris,
broken-down satellites or tossed away rocket stages. A. no matter B. whether it is C. if it is D. be it
13. Meiling relumed from abroad a totaify different person. The italicized part functions as a(n)
in the sentence.
A. complement B. object C. adverbial D. appositive
14. Welcome to this special edition of TV Picks, featuring things that must be read to be consumed, let alone
: books. A. being understood B.to understand C. understood D. understand 15. When you have finished with that novel, don't forget to retumto Tom, ?
A. will you B. do you C. don't you D. won't you
16. Cities have nonprofit associations, usually made up of Fire Department personnel working on their own
time to provide inspections. A. free home fire-safety B. home free fire-safety C. fire-safety free home D. fire-safety hone free 17. There is no means a man will nol resort to avoid the real labor of thinking.
A. where B. that C. when D. to which
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18. Person A: Where is Tim?
Person B: He might be next door.
What is the function of the modal auxiliary verb \"might” in the reply?
A. To express relief B. To dramatize a fact. C. To indicate possibility. D. To ask for permission.
19. ''After a confused silence, the speaker attempted a weak reply only to halt midway to confer with his assistant
and finally to admit that he had made a mistake?' The two infinitive phrases after \"midway\" are used to . A. show purpose B. indicate result C. indicate manner D. predict consequence 20. Which of the following italicized phrases is INCORECT?
A. The town is now ten times its original size. B. The seller asked for double the usual price. C. I wish I had two times his strength. D. They come here Jour times every year. 21. The program includes an of program options for ESL / EFL teachers. A. array B. arrangement C. agreement D. Assortment 22. The volcano n Friday, opening up an 800-meter-long crack in its crater.
A. ejected B. erupted C. spewed D. ignited
23. As previously suspected, the inhabitants of the region had been hunter-gatherers living relatively
lifestyles. A. separated B. remote C. lonely D. solitary 24. The governor posted a statement online saying he “misspoke\" and tried to nis comments.
A. clarify B. clear C. cleanse D. clean
25. The country is nraking progress on its bailout reform commitments but bad bank loans could a
fledgling recovery. A. divert B. deconstruct C. distract D. derail 26. The parents almost collapsed upon learning that lheir child had been diagnosed a rare disease.
A. for B. as C. with D. over 27. Major airlines have banned the transport of hunting trophies from Arica in the of the
outrage over the shooting death of a lion in Zimbabwe. A. call B. wake C. result D. midst 28. The cited study suggested that parental involvement in homework can boost a student's
academic performance. A. widely B. likely C. popularly D. eventually
29. Salespeople here are paid on a commission basis; however, continued employment is based on their ability
to sell service contracts rather than . A. commodity B. product C. produce D. merchandise 30. Anthropologists were intrigued to learn that Kennewick Man was difierent from today's nati ve Americans. A. anonymously B. autonomously C. anatomically D. analogously
PART IV CLOZE
Decide which of the w ords given in the box below would complete the passage if inserted in the corresponding blanks. The words can be used ONCE ONLY. Mark the letter far each word on ANSWER SHEET TWO.
A. actually F. intervention K. transmission B. cultural G. obviously L. unmediated C. digitized H. path M. virtual D. grammar I. though N. visual E. if J. transition O. way There is a curious cliche that says pictures don't lie. It is part of that greater cliche that says seeing is believing. Somehow a thing seen directly―or through a(n) (31) representation like a painting, a photograph, or a
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film— ring3 us closer to some actual reality. Words are too (32) not things themselves; words are made-up sounds, developed throughout the life of a culture, represented by made- up letters, put together in a contrived (33) lhat everyone in a culture uses to communicate through a decision that the particular words will refer to particular things. Language is clearly (34) and not natural: it is human made and accepted with some variations throughout a particular culture. Every English speaker understands what the word \"fbod\" refers to, even (35) the particular kind of food that comes to mind may vary to each individual. But seeing a thing seems to bring us something very close (o the thing itself—to \"reality”. Things that are seen appear to be and even feel as if they are (36) ; that is, they seem to be conveyed directly to us, not conveyed indirectly. Nothing stands in their(37) . They are true.
But, in fact, an image, whether photographed, painted, or (38) , is not the thing itself It is a representation of a mediated (39) , composed through tlie camera lens, or a computer, and transferred onto film or through binary code onto the computer screen, appearing to be the thing itself But even when we acknowledge the (40) of optics, computer science, and the human hand and eye of the photographer in recording and developing the photographic image, we still havenconsidered all the mediation that gpes on. An image of the thing is not the thing.
PART V READING COMPREHENSION
SECTION A MULTIPLE-CHOICE QUESTIONS
|35 M1N|
In this section there are three passages followed by ten multiple choice questions. For each multiple choice question, there are four suggested answers marked A, B, C and D. Choose the one you think is the best answer and mark your answ ers on ANSWER SHEET TWO. PASSAGE ONE
(1) As 1 write this, I have half an eye on an old James Bond film that is showing on my computer. But this is a story about how I stopped watching TV and began reading again for pleasure, after ten years in which I hardly turned a page.
(2) I suppose I was an avid reader ofTileralure\" between the ages of nine and fourteen. I had enough time to be White Fang. Robinson Crusoe, and Bilbo Baggins and Jeeves. Of course (here was room in the schoolboy's imagination for some real historical figures: Scott of the Antarctic, all of the Vikings, and Benjamin Franklin were good friends of mine.
(3) Then, in adolescence, I began a long search for strange and radical ideas. I wanted to challenge my elders and betters, and stir up my peers with amazing points of view. Of course, the only place to look was in books. I hunted out the longest titles and the authors with the funniest names, and scoured the library for completely unread books. Then 1 found one which became my' bible for the whole of 1982. It had a title composed of eleven long words and an author whose name I didn't know how to pronounce. It was really thick and looked dead serious. Even better, it put forward a whole world view that would lake days to explain. Perfect. I took it out of the library three times, proud to see the date-stamps lined up on the empty library insert.
(4) Later. 1 went to university. Expecting to spend evenings in learned discussion with clever people.
1 started reading philosophy. For some reason I never found the deep-thinking intellectuals I hoped to meet. Anyway, I was ready to impress with my profound knowledge of post-structuralism and existentialism. These things are usually explained in rather short books, but they take a long time to get through. They were lhe end of my youthfill reading
(5) Working life was hard to gpt used to after so much theory. It was the end of books for me. There didn't
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seem to be much in books that would actually gel things done. To do things you had to answer the telephone and work a computer. You had to travel about and speak to people who weren't at all interested in philosophy. 1 didn't stop reading, you can't avoid that. I read all day. But no books came my way. only manuals and pamphlets and contracts and documents. Maybe most people satisfy their need for stories and ideas with TV and, to tell the truth, it was all I needed for ten years. In those days I only had a book \"on the go\" for the duration of plane flights. At first I would come home and watch TV over dinner. Then. I moved the TV so I could watch it from bed. I even rigged up a switch so I could tum it off without getting out of bed. Then, one fateful day, my TV broke and my landlady took it away.
(6) My new TV is an extra circuit board inside my computer. It*s on a desk in front of a working chair and I can't see it from the bed. I still use it for the weather forecasts and it's nice to have it on while I'm typing this ... but what to do last thing at right? well, have another go with books.
(7) Now, I just like books. I have a pile of nice ones by my bed and I'm reading about six simultaneously. I don't want to be any of the characters. I don't care if a thousand people have already read then. I don't have to search through libraries. There are books everywhere and all of them have something (o read in them. I have the strange feeling that they've been there all along, waiting for me to pick them up.
41. Weleam from the author's reading habit in adolescence thathe liked .
A. unread and serious books B. real historical figures C. works of literature D. works of philosophy 42. What was reading like in the author's working life?
A. Philosophy was still his favorite. B. Reading was short and practical. C. Reading was completely abandoned. D. Television had replaced his reading. 43. It can be concluded from Para. 7 that the author . A. spends much time reading B. is hardly serious about reading C. still likes unread books D. has resumed his reading habit
PASSAGE TWO
(1) I was prepared to dislike Max Kelada even before I knew him. The war had just finished and the passenger traffic in the oceangoing liners was heavy. Accommodation was very hard to get and you had to put up with whatever the agents chose to ofler you. You could not hope for a cabin to yourself and I was thankful to be given one in which there were only two berths. But. when I was told the name of my companion my heart sank. It suggested closed portholes and the night air rigidly excluded. It was bad enough to share a cabin for fourteen days with anyone, but I should have looked upon it with less dismay if my fellow passenger's name had been Smith or Brown.
(2) When I went on board I found Mr. Kelada's luggage already below. I did not like the look of it; there were too many labels on the suitcases. And the wardrobe trunk was too big. He had unpacked his toilet things, and I observed that he was a patron of the excellent Monsieur Coty. 1 did not at all like Mr. Kelada. 1 made my way into the smoking room. I called for a pack of cards and began to play. I had scarcely started before a man came up to me and asked me if he was right in thinking my name was so and so.
(3) T am Mr. Kelada,\" he added, with a smile that showed a row of flashing teeth, and sat down. (4) “Oh, yes, we're sharing a cabin, I think.\"
(5) “Bit of luck. I call it. You never know whom you're going to be put in with. 1 was jolly glad when I heard you were English. I'm all for us English sticking together when we're abroad, if you understand what I mean.'*
(6) I blinked.
(7) \"Are you English?\" I asked, perhaps tactlessly.
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(8) \"Rather. You don't think I look like an American, do you? British to the backbone, that's what I am.\" (9) To prove it, Mr. Kelada took out of his pocket a passport and airily waved it under my nose.
(10) Mr. Kelada was short and of a sturdy build, clean shaven and dark skinned, with a fleshy, hooked nose and very large, lustrous and liquid eyes. His long black hair was sleek and curly. He spoke with a fluency in which there was nothing English and his gestures were exuberant. I felt pretty sure that a closer inspection of that British passport wx)uld have betrayed the fact that Mr. Kelada was bom under a bluer sk)' than is generally seen in England.
(11) \"What will you have?5' he asked me.
(12) I looked at him doubtfully. Prohibition was in force and to all appearance the ship was bone dry. When I am not thirsty I do not know which 1 dislike more, ginger ale or lemon squash. But Mr. Kelada flashed an oriental smile at me.
(13) \"Whisky and soda or a dry martini, you have only to say the word.\"
(14) From each of his hip pockets he fished a flask and laid it on the table before me. I chose the martini, and calling the steward he ordered a tumbler of ice and a couple of glasses.
(15) “A very good cocktail,\" I said.
(16) “Well, there are plenty more where that came from, and if you've 踌t any friends on board, you tell them you've got a pal who's got all the liquor in the word.\"
(17) Mr. Kelada was chatty. He talked of New York and of San Francisco. He discussed plays, pictures, and politics. I do not wish to put on airs, but I cannot help feeling that it is seemly in a total stranger to put mister before my name when he addresses me. Mr. Kelada, doubtless to set me at my ease, used no such formality. I did not like Mr. Kelada. I had put aside the cards when he sat down, but now, thinking that fbr this first occasion our conversation had lasted long enough, I went on with my game.
44. We can infer from the passage that Mr. Kelada's attitude towards the author is A. neutral B. enthusiastic C. biased D. unfriendly 45. The author did not like Mr. Kelada for the following reasons EXCEPT . A. his oversized wardrobe trunk B. his dubious British descent C. his informal manners D. his scope of knowledge Which of the following might be the best title of the passage? A. An Unforgettable Journey. B. An Interesting Conversation. C. An Irritating Companion. D. An Accidental Encounter.
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PASSAGE THREE
(1) One of our most firmly entrenched ideas of masculinity is that a real man doesn't cry. Although he might shed a discreet tear at a funeral, he's expected to quickly regain control. Sobbing openly is for girls.
(2) This isn t just a social expectation. One study found that women report crying significantly more than men do—five times as often, on average, and almost twice as long per episode.
(3) So il's perhaps surprising to learn that the gender gap in crying seems to be a recent development. Historically, men routinely wept, and no one saw i( as feminine or shameful.
(4) For example, in chronicles of the Middle Ages, we find one ambassador repeatedly bursting into
tears when addressing Philip the Good, and the entire audience at a peace congress throwing themselves on the ground, sobbing and groaning as they listen to the speeches, (n medieval romances, knights cried purely because they missed their girlfriends. In Chretien de Troyes's Lancelot, or. The Knight of the Cart, no less a hero than Lancelot weeps at a brief separation from Guinevere. At another point, he cries on a lady's shoulder at the thought
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that he won't get to go to a big tournament because of his captivity. What's more, instead ofbeing disgusted by this (哭诉),the lady is moved to help.
(5) There's no mention of the men in these stories trying to restrain or hide their tears. No one pretends to have something in his eye. No one makes an excuse to leave the room They cry in a crowded hall with their heads held high. Nor do their companions make fun of this public blubbering (大声哭)：it’s universally regarded as an admirable expression of feeling.
(6) So where did all the male tears go? There was no anti-crying movement. No leaders of church or state introduced measures to discourage them. Nevertheless, by the Romantic period, masculine tears were reserved for poets. From there, it was just a short leap to the poker-faced heroes of Ernest Hemingway, who, despite their poetic leanings, could not express grief by any means but drinking and shooting the occasional buffalo.
(7) The most obvious possibility is that this shift is the result of changes that took place as we moved from a feudal agrarian society to one that was urban and industrial. In the Middle Ages, most people spent their lives among those they had known since birth. A typical village had around 250 to 300 inhabitants, most of them related by blood or marriage. If men cried, they did 50 with people who would empathize.
(8) But from the 18th lo 20th centuries, the population became increasingly urbanized, and people were living in the midst of thousands of strangers. Furthermore, changes in the economy required men to work together in factories and offices where emotional expression and even private conversation were discouraged as time wasting. As Tom Lutz writes in Crying: The Natural and Cultural History of Tearsy \"You don't want emotions interfering with the smooth running of things.\"
(9) Yet human beings weren't designed to swallow their emotions, and there's reason to believe that sup-pressing tears can be hazardous to your well-being. Research from the 1980s has suggested a relationship between stress related illnesses and inadequate crying. Weeping is also, somewhat counterintuitively, correlated wilh happiness and wealth. Countries where people cry the most tend to be more democratic and their populations more extroverted.
(10) It's time lo open the floodgates. Time for men to give up emulating the stone-faced heroes of action movies and be more like the emotive heroes of Homer, like the weeping kings, saints. and statesmen of thousands of years of human history. When misfortune strikes, let us all—men and women— join together and ciy until our sleeves are drenched. As the Old Testament has it: \"They that sow in tears shall reap in joy.M 47. The examples in Para. 4 are cited to .
A. explain why men in the Middle Ages criedB. provide supporting evidence for Para.3 C. show similarity between now and then D. describe the manner in which men cried
48. Which of the following is the most likely reason for the disappearance of male tears?
A. Changes from urbanization and industrialization. B. Shift in expression of grief in fiction and poetry. C. Changes in the attitude of their companions. D. Measures introduced by church and state leaders.
49. Which of the following benefits of crying is the autlior LESS sure about?
A. Freedom. B. Openness. C. Health. D. Wealth. 5Q Whal is the author's main messa察 in the passage?
A. Men should cry secretly on occasions. B. Men should not cry in front of women.
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C. Men should not suppress theirtears. D. Men should cry as often as women.
SECTION B SHORT-ANSWER QUESTIONS
In this section there are five short-answer questions based on the passages in Section A. Answer the questions with NO MORE THAN TEN WORDS in the space provided on ANSWER SHEET TWO. PASSAGE ONE
51. What does the author mean by saying \"one which became my bible\" in Para. 3? 52. Give a title for the passage.
PASSAGE TWO
53. What, docs the italicized part imply according to the context (Para. 1)? 54. What does the author mean by the italicized part (Para. 10)? PASSAGE THREE
55. What docs the italicized part in Para. 2 suggest?
PART VI WRITING |45MIN|
Read carefully the following excerpt and then write your response in NO LESS THAN 200 WORDS, in which you should:
1) summarize the study results, and then
2) comment on the relationship between loneliness and wisdom. You can support yourself with information from the excerpt. Marks will he awarded for content relevance, content sufficiency, organizution and language quality. Failure to follow the above instructions may result in a loss of marks.
Write your response on ANSWER SHEET THREE,
Loneliness and Wisdom: Are They Related? Rising rates of loneliness may not be news, but the three periods when it peals may come as a surprise: More people reported feeling moderate to severe loneliness during their late 20s. their mid- 50s and their late 80s than in other life periods, according to the research published in the journal International Psy chogeriatrics. The general sense of isolation was also more prevalent than the researchers had expected. A full three-quarters of the study participants reported moderate to high levels of loneliness, said Dr. Philip Jeste, senior author of the study and a professor of psychiatry and neuroscience at the University of California. San Diego. \"One thing to remember is that loneliness is subjective. Loneliness does not mean being alone; loneliness does not mean not having friends.'' said Dr. Jeste, who is also director at the UC San Diego's Center for Healthy Aging, \"'Loneliness is defined as ^subjective distress'It is the discrepancy between the social relationships you want and the social relationships you have, he said. Within the dark clouds. Dr. Jeste also found a silver lining: An inverse relationship exists between loneliness and wisdom. \"In other words, people who have high levels of wisdom didn't feel lonely, and vice versa,5' he said.第8页，共14页
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2021年专四英语考试真题（含答案）
2021年英语专业四级真题（补充卷）
说明：本次考试全国共有两套试題，其中Part III LANGUAGE USAGE在两套试卷中采用不同 的试题，现补充
如下。
There are twenty sentences in this section. Beneath each sentence there are four options marked A, B, C, and
D. Choose the one that best completes the sentence or answ er the question. Mark you angers on ANSWER SHEET TWO.
author of The Red Badge of Courage. 11. Few eye witnesses give us of actual life on the battlefront as Stephen Crane, the
A. such keen a sense B. so keen a sense C. such keen sense D. a sense so keen
He convinces his campaign manager that if he successful in his election bid fora
PART III LANGUAGE USAGE 110 MINI
12 Senate seat, he is in need of a make-over.
A. is to be B. will be C. be D. is
Here arc 65 stories. Among them. you find at least a few you'll enjoy and care to remember. A.
B. should C. can D. may 13. will
Data has shown that more Hispanic and black students are majoring in computer science and engineering
. 14 than
A. those are being hired B. being hired
C. are being hired D. hired
The hole in the stratospheric ozone layer over Antarctica did not grow as fast this year
15. average between 1991 and 2006. on
A. as it B. as that C. as that did D. as it did
Drama in fiction occurs in any clash of will, desires, or powers—whether a conflict of
16character against character, or character against society.
. A. it must be B. it be C. it ought to be D. it was
Scientists used sonar to map the sea floor where the plane , and then searched for any remnants. A.
17. was thought, to crash B. was thought crashing
C. was thought to have crashed D. was thought having crashed
Person A: Shall MV get some dinner tonight?
Person B: That sounds like Jim.
In the dialogue above. Person A is .
A. offering a suggestion B. extending an invitation
C. giving a piece of advice D. making an inquiry
In the sentence “The manager interviewed Tony himself in the afternoon'', the italicized word refers to .
19. A. the subject B. the verb C. the object D. the prepositional phrase
\"We have finished, haven 7 we?\" The tag question in this sentence isused to .
A. express regret B. show surprise C. ask for confirmation D. elicit information
2The factual information in a historical novel, unlike that, in a history book, is of importance. Q A. inferior B. secondary C. subsidiary D. auxiliary
While waiting for a flight, we passed time with some newsstand paperback full of fast action and dialogue. 2Z
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A. nimble B. agile C. speedy D. brisk
23. Although a highly dramatic story may tend to assume a clearly recognizable structure, many contemporary writers avoid it, considering it too contrived and . A. arbitrary B. arduous C. assertive D. ardent
by the opposing goalkeeper. 24. The team's efforts to score were A. discouraged B. prevented C. frustrated D. dashed
25. The current trend in businesses has been towards on-demand, always available products and services that suit the customer^ . A. benefit B. availability C, suitability D. convenience The method of writing called ''stream of consciousness\" is used to describe the thoughts of passing through themind. A. procession B. provision C. prosecution D. proposition
lacking in 27. Instead of a hero, many recent novels have featured an anti hero: a protagonist one or more of the usual attributes of a traditional hero.
A. conspicuously B. conscientiously C. conservatively D. constitutionally
for any video 2K Police did not immediately comment on the cause of the accident, and footage of what happened. A. pleaded B. appealed C. inquired D. requested
. 29. Mrs. Brown's condition looks very serious and it is doubtful if she will A. pull back B. pull up C. pull through D. pull out
his lips. 3Q Tom sat at the dining table, looked at the inviting food and A. smacked B. opened C. parted D. separated
KEYS
PART I DICTATION
The Meaning of Home
The original meaning of the word home in English was of a sail dw elling place, a village, even a world. Now, home has implied meanings of a feeling of belonging and a flection, a place where you can find refuge and rest. It means something intimate and private. It even has the sense of destination, for example, homeward bound, and also the sense of a nation, such as home and foreign policy.
PART II LISTENING COMPREHENSION SECTION A
1. social rankings
4. exciting but expensive 7. school officials
10. generalist or specialist
2. goals and atmosphere 5. stronger social bonding 8. Facilities and Housing
3. Location 6. safe anytime
9. dorms and apartments
SECTION B
l.C 6.C
2. A 7. A
3.D 8.D
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4. B 9.C 5. A 10. C
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PART III LANGUAGE USAGE
11. B 16. A 21. A 26. C
12. D 17. D 22. B 27. B
13. A 18. C 23. D 28. A 14. C 19. A 24. A 29. D
15. A 20. C 25. D 30. C
PART IV CLOZE
31. N 36. L
32. G 37. O
33. D 38. C
34. B 39. K
35.1 40. F
PART V READING COMPREHENSION SECTION A
41. A 46. C
42. B 47. B
43. D 48. A
44. B 49. D
45. D 50. C
SEC TION B
51. 52. 53. 54. 55.
It is the very book he wanted and read constantly. Changes in Reading Habit Throughout My Life. The author dislikes the companion's name.
It's questionable whether Mr. Kelada was bom in England. Men actually don't cry as much as women.
PART VI WRITING
The Correlation between loneliness and Wisdom
Loneliness, a subjective feeling of being isolated, is found to be more prevalent than re searchers' expectations and to be stronger in one's late 20s, mid-50s and late 80s. A negative relationship is indicated between loneliness and wisdom. In other words, people who have higher levels of wisdom are less likely to feel lonely. As far as I am concerned, there are two reasons for the negative correlation between loneliness and wisdom.
On the one hand, more wisdom, more enjoyment of solitude. When being alone, the wise may spend most of their leisure time reading, thinking, and introspecting. Gradually, they become wiser, more modest and prudent, excelling in emotional regulation and decision-making under uncertain conditions. On the other hand, loneliness may limit one's ability to gain wisdom. Those who often feel isolated are more likely to waste their tiine in sorrow and grief. As a result, they indulge themselves in video games and other entertainment applications. It is more diflicult for them to get immersed in thought or reading a book. Eventually, they make no progress and tail to acquire the wisdom that could help them overcome the sense of isolation.
In conclusion, as loneliness is inversely correlated with wisdom, we should gain wisdom whenever possible, trying new things, reading books, and talking to the wise, before loneliness creeps in.
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2021年专四英语考试真题（含答案）
2021年英语专业四级真题（补充卷）
PART III LANGUAGE USAGE
11.B 16. B 21. B 26. A
12. A 17. C 22. D 27. A
13. D 18. B 23. A 28. B
14. C 19. A 24. C 29. C
15. D 20. C
3U. A
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