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1、2018年6月大学英语四级真题（第3套)PartI Writing （30minutes）Directions:Forthispart,youareallowed30minutestowriteashortessayontheimportance ofspeakingabilityandhowtodevelopit.Youshouldwriteatleast120wordsbutnomorethan180words._PartII ListeningComprehension (25minutes)说明：由于2018年6月四级考试全国共考了两套听力, 本套真题听力与前两套内容相同, 只是选项顺
2、序不同, 因此在本套真题中不再重复出现。Part ReadingComprehension (40minutes)SectionADirections: 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 you
3、r 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.Neon (霓虹) is to Hong Kong as red phone booths are to London and fog is
4、 to San Francisco. When night falls, red and blue and other colors 26 a hazy (雾蒙蒙的) glow over a city lit up by tens of thousands of neon signs. But many of them are going dark, 27 by more practical, but less romantic, LEDs (发光二极管).Changing building codes, evolving tastes, and the high cost of mainta
5、ining those wonderful old signs have businesses embracing LEDs, which are energy 28 , but still carry great cost. To me, neon represents memories of the past, says photographer Sharon Blance, whose series Hong Kong Neon celebrates the citys famous signs. Looking at the signs now I get a feeling of a
6、mazement, mixed with sadness.Building a neon sign is an art practiced by 29 trained on the job to mold glass tubes into 30 shapes and letters. They fill these tubes with gases that glow when 31 . Neon makes orange, while other gases make yellow or blue. It takes many hours to craft a single sign.Bla
7、nce spent a week in Hong Kong and 32 more than 60 signs; 22 of them appear in the series that capture the signs lighting up lonely streetsan 33 that makes it easy to admire their colors and craftsmanship. I love the beautiful, handcrafted, old-fashioned 34 of neon, says Blance. The signs do nothing
8、more than 35 a restaurant, theater, or other business, but do so in the most striking way possible.A) alternative B) approach C) cast D) challenging E) decorative F) efficient G) electrified H) identify I) photographed J) professionals K) quality L) replaced M) stimulate N) symbolizes O) volunteers
9、Section 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 mar
10、ked with a letter. Answer the questions by marking the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 2.New Jersey School District Eases Pressure on StudentsBaring an Ethnic DivideA) This fall, David Aderhold, the chief of a high-achieving school district near Princeton, New Jersey, sent parents an alarming 1
11、6-page letter. The school district, he said, was facing a crisis. Its students were overburdened and stressed out, having to cope with too much work and too many demands. In the previous school year, 120 middle and high school students were recommended for mental health assessments and 40 were hospi
12、talized. And on a survey administered by the district, students wrote things like, I hate going to school, and Coming out of 12 years in this district, I have learned one thing: that a grade, a percentage or even a point is to be valued over anything else.B) With his letter, Aderhold inserted West W
13、indsor-Plainsboro Regional School District into a national discussion about the intense focus on achievement at elite schools, and whether it has gone too far. At follow-up meetings, he urged parents to join him in advocating a whole child approach to schooling that respects social-emotional develop
14、ment and deep and meaningful learning over academics alone. The alternative, he suggested, was to face the prospect of becoming another Palo Alto, California, where outsize stress on teenage students is believed to have contributed to a number of suicides in the last six years.C) But instead of bringing families together, Aderholds letter revealed a divide in the district, which has 9,700 students, and one that broke down roughly along racial lines. On one side are white parents like Catherine Foley, a former president of the Parent-Teacher-Student Association at her dau
