2006年6月17日四級考試b卷參考答案和試卷簡評
part i 聽力部分答案
1c.they knew none of the other guests at the party.
2.b.to the dentist’s
3.c.dr. andrews used to keep the patients waiting.
4.a.tom is usually talkative.
5.d.to get the seminar schedule for the woman.
6.a.the woman has to get the textbooks in other ways.
7.b.give a speech.
8.a.jessie always says what she thinks.
9.d.helen is quiet.
10.d.jimmy’s words are often not reliable.
11.c.it has done more harm than good in the southern usa.
12.b.they will soon be overgrown with kudzu.
13.c.the climate there is unfavorable to its growth.
14.d.an association of teachers and scholars
15.a.its largest expansion took place during that period.
16.b.government funding.
17.c.he started the organization heifer international.
18.a.to help starving families to become self-supporting
19.a.they should help other families the way they have been helped.
20.b.it has helped relieve hunger in some developing countries.
聽力對話部分簡評：
這次聽力對話考查比較靈活，直接信息考查不多，需要簡單推理的言外之意考查較多。
下面是對話部分原文和選項，對照一下，正確答案就很清楚了。此處簡單分析一下解題的關鍵。
1. m: i think the hostess really went out of her way to make the party a success.
w: yes, the food and drinks were great, but if only we had known a few of the other guests.
q: what did the two speakers say about the party?
1. a) they went a long way to attend the party.
b) they didn't think much of the food and drinks.
c) they knew none of the other guests at the party.
d) they enjoyed the party better than the other guests.
第1題里的虛擬語氣…if only we had known a few of the other guests，表達了與過去事實相反的情況，“要是當時認識幾個其他客人就好了”。問題的答案就是過去的事實，那就是他們不認識聚會上的其他客人。
2. m: can you stop by the post office and get me some envelopes and 39 cents’ stamps?
w: well, i am not going to stop by the post office, but i can buy you some at the bookstore after i see the dentist on market street.
q: where will the woman go first?
2. a) to the bookstore.
b) to the dentist's.
c) to the market.
d) to the post office.
該題考查對話中動作信息的順序問題，要求考生記住所有動作的內容，然後記住提到的順序。同類考題是對話雙方提及多個信息（如多個時間），然後隨機考查其中某個具體信息。
3. m: how do you like the new physician who replaced dr. andrews?
w: he may not seem as agreeable or as thorough as dr. andrews, but at least he doesn’t keep patients waiting for hours.
q: what can we infer from the woman’s answer?
3. a) dr. andrews has been promoted for his thoroughness.
b) she disagrees with dr. andrews on many occasions.
c) dr. andrews used to keep his patients waiting.
d) she dislikes dr. andrews as much as the new physician.
第3題，兩人對話涉及到兩個醫生性格和習慣做法的對比。第二個說話人提到了新外科醫生不會讓病人久等幾小時這一事實，正確的選項就是從這個對比推理出來的。該題難度係數較低。
4. w: tom must be in a bad mood today. he hasn’t said half a dozen words all afternoon.
m: oh, really? that’s not like the tom we know.
q: what does the man imply?
4. a) tom is usually talkative.
b) tom has a very bad temper.
c) tom has dozens of things to attend to.
d) tom is disliked by his colleagues.
第4題首先提到tom現在的情緒不對頭，整下午沒說幾句話。第二個人很驚訝，“that’s not like the tom we know”，表明tom今天的情緒和大家對他的一貫表現不同。答案很顯然是tom通常是健談的（甚至可能是唐僧般的超級話匣子）。
5. w: do you have the seminar schedule with you? i’d like to find out the topic for friday.
m: i gave it to my friend, but there should be copies available in the library. i can pick one up for you.
q: what does the man promise to do?
5. a) to pickup the woman from the library.
b) to make a copy of the schedule for his friend.
c) to find out more about the topic for the seminar.
d) to get the seminar schedule for the woman.
這個題目考查了信息指代的連續性，seminar schedule“研討會日程表”是關鍵，後面的 “it”, “copies” 和 “one”都指向這一信息。問題就落在“one”上。註：seminar 大學裡在教師指導下定期進行討論的研究班/研討會。
6 w: i wonder if you could sell me the psychology textbooks. you took the course last semester, didn’t you?
m: as a matter of fact, i already sold them back to the school bookstore.
q: what do we learn from the conversation?
6. a) the woman has to get the textbooks in other ways.
b) the woman has sold her used textbooks to the bookstore.
c) the man is going to buy his textbooks from a bookstore.
d) the man doesn't want to sell his textbooks to the woman.
推理題。原文男的說了書賣回給書店了，也就是不在自己手上了，言外之意就是女士得另想辦法。注意，有的同學只聽到textbooks和bookstore就選了b或c，中了偷梁換柱的圈套，這兩個錯誤選項都利用了原文提到的信息，但從整個句子的意思來看卻都歪曲了原文。
7. w: here is this week’s schedule, tony. on monday, there is the board meeting. your speech to the lion’s club is on tuesday afternoon. then on wednesday you have an appointment with your lawyer and…
m: wait, you mean the business conference on tuesday is cancelled?
q: what will the man do this tuesday?
7. a) attend a conference.
b) give a speech.
c) meet his lawyer.
d) make a business trip.
這個題目與第2題有一點類似，這個要複雜一些，要求記住一堆時間和對應的事件/動作。題目考查的是記憶力，並不牽扯推理技巧。
8. m: can you believe it? jessie told her boss he was wrong to have fired his marketing director.
w: yeah, but you know jessie. if she has something in mind, everyone will know about it.
q: what does the woman mean?
8 a) jessie always says what she thinks.
b) jessie seems to have a lot on her mind.
c) jessie is wrong to find fault with her boss.
d) jessie should know the marketing director better.
該題難度不大。答案是原文第二個人對jessie的評價進行的改寫。“無論她腦子裡想什麼，大家都會知道。”也就是她向來是直言不諱。
9. m: we’ve got three women researchers in our group: mary, betty and helen. do you know them?
w: sure. mary is active and sociable. betty is the most talkative woman i’ve ever met. but guess what? helen’s just the opposite.
q: what do we learn from the woman’s remark about helen?
9. a) heien is talkative.
b) helen is active.
c) helen is sociable.
d) helen is quiet.
這個題目信息複雜程度有一次提高。三個人的性格進行列舉，“helen’s just the opposite”表明她跟betty進行了對比。根據betty既然最健談，那么helen最文靜。
10.w: jimmy said that he was going to marry a rich french businesswoman.
m: don’t be so sure. he once told me that he had bought a big house. yet he’s still sharing an apartment with mark.
q: what does the man imply?
10. a) jimmy will regret marrying a frenchwoman.
b) jimmy is not serious in making decisions.
c) jimmy is rich enough to buy a big house.
d) jimmy's words are often not reliable.
這個題目考查了轉折的用法。don’t be so sure意思是告訴對方不要太肯定jimmy說的話。然後舉例子說明jimmy是如何不厚道，“他曾告訴我他買了大房子，但實際上仍跟人合住一個公寓”。
part ii. 閱讀理解答案
21. d they have difficulty finding qualified personnel at home
22. d seeks either his own or his children’s development
23. a take cultural factors into consideration
24. c provide a detailed description of their study and work experiences.
25. b the differences between the varieties of english
26. c. rewarding
27. a. girls will turn out to be less vulnerable than boys
28. b. girls can gain equal access to education
29. c. it will yield greater returns than other known investments.
30. d. the economic and social benefits of educating women
31. c. to prevent the care thief from restarting it once it stops.
32. b. self-prepared tools are no longer enough for car theft.
33. a. a coded ignition key
34. d. to allow for possible errors in the gps system.
35. b. contact the car owner.
36. b. older parents can take better care of their children.
37. d. they have to go on working beyond their retirement age.
38. c. older parents tend to be concerned about their aging bodies.
39. a. approaching of death.
40. c. not until they had the twins did they feel that had formed a family.
閱讀簡評：
這次閱讀理解難度不大。從選材方面講，以人文為主，輔以一篇自然學科的。從命題思路來看，沒有什麼明顯變化，比如細節題上的偷梁換柱，常識錯位，推理題上的誇大後果，主旨題的以偏概全。這些在我的衝刺講義里都有詳細的例子對應。大家可以到我個人網站下載flash版的講義做參考。
我舉一個犯錯較多的例子簡單解析一下。
第一篇：講跨國求職簡歷寫作要求的。
25. according to the author's last piece of advice, the applicants should be aware of________.
a) the different educational systems in the us and the uk
b) the differences between the varieties of english
c) the recipient's preference with regard to the format
d) the distinctive features of american and british cultures
原文相關句有一點點迷惑性，但稍微有點英語語言常識的人不會犯低級錯誤的。
[if you are submitting your resume in english, find out if the recipient （收件人) uses british english or american english because there are variations between the two versions. ）for example, university education is often referred to as 'tertiary education' in the united kingdom, but this term is almost never used in the united states. [a reader who is unfamiliar with these variations may assume that your resume contains errors.]
根據我推薦的閱讀方法，文章最後一段的主題句和結尾句是必讀的，這裡面已經有答案了，如果審查簡歷的人不了解英式英語和美式英語的差別，可能會把簡歷里的一些用法當成錯誤。在第二句使用了例子來說明兩種英語的差別。因此答案並非是有的同學和老師理解的a選項“英美教育制度差異問題”。
part iii. 辭彙單選題答案
41 a current
42 b mood
43 d evidence
44 a held back
45 d preferences
46 c derive
47 b occur
48 d illegal
49 a feature
50 b forbids
51 c penalty
52 a distinguish
53 d pick up
54 c impression
55 b participate
56 d hold on to
57 b tackle
58 a state
59 c significant
60 d soared
61 c symptoms
62 a laid off
63 b traced
64 d proportion
65 b burdened
66 a performance
67 c apply
68 d affordable
69 b treat
70 d inspired
辭彙題簡評：
辭彙題難度較以往幾次略有增大，難度大點的題目都需要考生通過句子信息間的邏輯關係來判斷辭彙短語的語境含義。本來比較簡單的固定搭配題目也提出了類似要求。
但只要掌握大綱內的積極辭彙的基本含義和用法，學會經常分析句子意群之間的邏輯關係。這種題目的正確率就會大幅提高。下面舉兩個同學犯錯最多的題目簡單解析一下。
56. although they lost their jobs, savings and unemployment benefits allow the couple to____their comfortable home.
a) come in for b) catch up with c) look forward to d) hold on to
d選項短語hold on to 的意思是維持的意思。該題完全可以用代入排除法來確定邏輯含義最合理的選項。
64. it is clear that the dog has a much greater_______ of its brain devoted to smell than is the case with humans.
a) composition b) compound c) percent d) proportion
這個題目有語法的比較成分在裡面，對狗的大腦皮層和人的大腦皮層在嗅覺方面所占比例進行了比較。proportion指比例。同學欠缺大腦科學方面的常識也可能是答題出現失誤的原因。
part iv. 完形答案
71. a ago
72. c idea
73. b come
74. a indoor
75. d revealed
76. b down
77. c safe
78. a reduced
79. d destroy
80. b however
81. c completely
82. a or
83. b fact
84. d developed
85. a starts
86. d inevitably
87. c instead
88. c adopting
89. b beneficial
90. a entire
完型填空簡評：
完型填空部分題目比較容易，很多同學在前幾個題考慮太多，結果簡單的題目複雜化，反而選錯。比如71的ago, 73的 in years to come。
記住完型填空的信息是環環相扣，我們推導答案多數需要參考左鄰的信息，具體處理空白的方法要按意群進行停頓，然後選擇。做題要貫徹先易後難的原則。
part v. 作文
directions: for this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a poster recruiting volunteers. you should write at least 120 words following the outline given below:
1．校學生會將組織一次暑假志願者活動，現招募志願者
2．本次志願者活動的目的、活動安排等
3．報名條件及聯繫方式
參考範文
june 17, 2006
volunteers needed
you guys must have been tremendously tortured by the endless exams, undoubtedly longing for a relaxing summer vacation. have you ever considered spending a meaningful summer instead of idling it away as usual?
now you have a chance!
the students’ association is currently recruiting volunteers for an activity--harmonious community, aiming at broadening our vision and helping us explore the essence of harmony. this theme will be highlighted through a series of social work to be initiated in the neighborhood.
at the outset, we volunteers are going to visit the special education center and specifically, with assigned tasks like teaching and so on. afterwards, we are going to take care of the seniors at the home for the aged. then we will take part in the publicity activities in the community.
anyone who is enthusiastic and willing to dedicate your time to this activity is welcome.
if interested, please sign up at the students’ association. or you may email us at [email protected].
looking forward to your participation!
students’ association
這次作文仍然是近幾年常考的套用文體，但主體仍是考查說明文。
因為是海報，我們可以使用口語體，比如guy等辭彙。格式方面，海報不需要書信一樣必須有稱謂部分。但通常需要落款。作文我在六月初的四級衝刺課上里講過了類似的招募信寫法，留了題目，我回復了一些同學email給我的作文，相信他們這次作文會考得不錯。