2017 年 6 月四级考试真题 （第三套） Part I Writing (30 minutes) D1rect10ns: For th is part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write an advertisement on your campus website to sell a computer Part II you used at college. Your advertisement may include its brand, specifications/features, condition and price, and your contact information. You should write at least 120 words but no more than 180 words. Listening Comprehension 说明：2017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。 Part ID Reading Comprehension (40 minutes) Section A Directions: In this section, there is a passage with ten blanks. You are required to select one word for each blank from a list of cho即 esgiven 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. The method for making beer has changed over time. Hops ( 啤酒花），forexample, which give many a modern beer its bitter flavor, are a 26 recent addition to the beverage. This was f1ISt mentioned in reference to brewing in the ninth century. Now, researchers have found a 27 ingredient in residue ( 残留物） from 5 ,000-year-old beer brewing equipment. While digging two pits at a site in the central plains of China , scientists discovered fragments from pots and vessels. The different shapes of the containers 28 they were used to brew, filter, and store beer. They may be ancient beer-making tools, and the earliest 29 evidence of beer brewing in China, the researchers reported in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. To 30 that theory, the team examined the yellowish, dried 31 inside the vessels. The majority of the grains, about 80% , were from cereal crops like barley ( 大麦），andabout 10% were bits of roots, 32 lily, which would have made the beer sweeter, the scientists say. Barley was an unexpected find: the crop was domesticated in Western Eurasia and didnt become a 33 food in central China until about 2,000 years ago, according to the researchers. Based on that timing, they indicate barley may have 34 in the region not as food, but as 35 material for beer brewing. A) arrivedB) consumingC) direct D) exclusivelyE) includingF) inform G) rawH) reachedI) relatively J) remainsK)resourcesL) staple M) suggestN) surprisingO) test 1 - - Section B Directions: In this section, you are going to read a passage with ten statements attached to it. Each statement contains 叫o rmation given in one of the paragraphs. Identify the paragraph from咖 chthe information is derived. You may choose a paragraph more than once. Each paragraph is marked with a letter. Answer the questions by marking the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 2. The Blessing and Curse of the People who Never Forget A handful of people can recall al叩st every day of their lives in enormous detailand after years of research , neuroscientists are finally beginning to understand how they do it. A)For most of us, memory is a mess of blurred and faded pictures of our lives. As much as we would like to cling on to our past, even the saddest moments can be washed away with time. B) Ask Nima Veiseh what he was doing for any day in the past 15 years, however, and he will give you the details of the weather, what he was wearing, or even what side of the train he was sitting on his journey to work. My memory is like a library of video tapes, walk-throughs of every day of my life from waking to sleeping, he explains. C) V eiseh can even put a date on when those tapes started recording : 15 December 2000 , when he met his fast girlfriend at his best friends 16th birthday party. He had always had a good memory, but the thrill of young love seems to have shifted a gear in his mind : from now on, he would start recording his whole life in detail. I could tell you everything about every day after that. D) Needless to say, people like Veiseh are of great interest to neuroscientists ( 神经科学专家） hoping to understand the way the brain