2018年英语专业四级TEM-4真题及解析

2018 年英语专业四级真题及详解

TEST FOR ENGLISH MAJORS (2018)

-GRADE FOUR-

TIME LIMIT: 130 MIN

PART Ⅰ DICTATION [10 MIN]

Listen to the following 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 will be read sentence by sentence, or phrase by phrase, with intervals of 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 work once more.

Please write the whole passage on ANSWER SHEET ONE.

【答案与解析】

Emotional Reaction to Music

①No matter who you are, where you live, or what your cultural background is, people get some pleasure from listening to their favorite music. ②However, some people are simply not capable of enjoying music. ③This is not because they can‘t experience pleasure at all. ④They don‘ have trouble hearing music properly, either. ⑤Instead, they‘re just indifferent to music. ⑥Researchers have conducted studies to find out why some people have no emotional reaction to music. ⑦However, despite their efforts, the mystery r emains.

【难点点评】

1）句②中，capable 意为“能干的”，与“of”连用“表示能……的”，注意“of”不要遗漏。

（

2）句③中，注意“not”不要遗漏。

（

3）句⑥中，时态为现在完成时，注意动词用现在分词形式；conduct 意为“实施，执行”。

（

4）句⑦中，注意“mystery”的拼写，其意思为“谜团”。

（

PART Ⅱ LISTENING COMPREHENSION [20 MIN]

SECTION A TALK

In this section you will hear a talk. You will hear the talk ONCE ONLY. While listening, you may look at the task on 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 note-taking.

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 work.

The Linguistic Gift of Babies

Critical age

Decline of babies‘ language learning ability occurs at the age of (1) . (1) Lab work

Research focus:

•How babies learn (2) in the first critical period (2) Research aims:

•developing a model for babies in their critical periods of

—language acquisition

—social, emotional and (3) development (3) Research process:

•Babies need to listen.

•They are trained to turn their heads when (4) . (4) •A panda bear pounds a drum if babies are correct.

Participants:

•(5) babies (5) Results:

•Babies can (6) of all languages. (6) •Babies become language-bound before (7) . (7) —sound reaction between American and Japanese babies

-6 to 8 months old: (8)

-two months later: (9)

•Two events during the critical two m onths —(10) when listening to a language (8)

(9)

—change of babies, brains when distributions grow (10)

Conclusion

Language learning may slow down when sound distributions become stable.

【答案与解析】

1.seven

(录音提到“Babies and children are geniuses until they turn seven”，即婴儿和孩子在七岁前一直都是天才，故本题填入seven。)

2.sounds

(录音提到“that is the period in which babies try to master which sounds are used in their language”即这个时期是关于婴儿试着掌握他们语言中的声音，故本题填入sounds。)

3.cognitive

(录音提到“perhaps f or c ritical p eriods that ... and c ognitive development”，即或许关键期也出现在孩童期……也为了研究社会，情感和认知发展，故本题填入cognitive。)

4.a sound changes

(录音提到“and we train them to turn their heads when a sound changes”，即我们训练他们当听到一个声音就转头，故本题填入a sound changes。)

5.six-month-old

(录音提到“usually six-monther”，即6 个月大的婴儿，故本题填入six-month-old。)

6.discriminate the sounds

(录音提到“They can discriminate all the sounds of all languages”，即他们能区分所有语言的所有声音，故本题填入discriminate the sounds。)

7.their first birthdays

(录音提到“And the answer: before their first birthdays”，即答案是一岁之前，故本题填入their first birthdays。)

8.totally equivalent

(录音提到“So at six to eight months, the babies are totally equivalent”，即对于6 到8 个月的婴儿，他们的测试结果完全相似，故本题填入totally equivalent。)