2017年6月大学英语四级考试真题（第3套）Part IWriting(30 minutes)Directions:For this part,you are allowed 30 minutes to write an advertisement on your campusbrand,specifications/features,condition and price,and your contact information.Youshould write at least 120 words but no more than 180 words.Listening Comprehension(25 minutes)说明：由于2017年6月四级考试全国共考了2套听力，本套真题听力与前2套内容完全一样，只是顺序不一样，因此在本套真题中不再重复出现。PartⅢReading Comprehension(40 minutes)Section ADirections:I this section,there is a passage with ten blanks.You are required to select one wordfor each blank from a list of choices given in a word bank following the passage.Read thepassage through carefully before making your choices.Each choice in the bank isidentified by a letter.Please mark the corresponding letter for each item on AnswerSheet 2 with a single line through the centre.You may not use any of the words in thebank more than once.Questions 26 to 35 are based on the following passage.America's Internet is faster than ever before,but people still complain about their Internet beingtoo slow.New York's Attorney General's office 26 an investigation in the fall into whether or notVerizon,Cablevision and Time Warner are delivering broadband that's as fast as the providers 27 itis.Earlier this month,the office asked for the public's help to measure their speed results,sayingconsumers 28 to get the speeds they were promised."Too many of us may be paying for onething,and getting another,"the Attorney General said.If the investigation uncovers anything,it wouldn't be the first time a telecom provider got into29 over the broadband speeds it promised and delivered customers.Back in June,the FederalCommunications Commission fined AT&T 100 million over 30 that the carrier secretly reducedwireless speeds after customers consumed a certain amount of 31Even when they stay on the right side of the law,Internet providers arouse customers'anger overbandwidth speed and cost.Just this week,an investigation found that media and telecom giantComcast is the most 32 provider.Over 10 months,Comcast received nearly 12,000 customercomplaints,many33_to its monthly data cap and overage(超过额度的)charges..Some Americans are getting so 34 with Internet providers they're just giving up.A recent studyfound that the number of Americans with high-speed Internet at home today 35 fell during the lasttwo years,and 15%of people now consider themselves to be "cord-cutters.A)accusationsI)hatedB)actuallyJ)launchedC)claimK)relatingD)communicatingL)timesE)complainM)troubleF)dataN)usuallyG)deservedO)worriedH)frustrated2017.6/1(第3套)Section BDirections:I this section,you are going to read a passage with ten statements attached to it.Eachstatement contains information given in one of the paragraphs.Identify the paragraphfrom which the information is derived.You may choose a paragraph more than once.Each paragraph is marked with a letter.Answer the questions by marking theFrom Accountant to Yogi:Making a Radical Career ChangeA)At some point,almost all of us will experience a period of radical professional change.Some of uswill seek it out;for others it will feel like an unwelcome intrusion into otherwise stable careers.Either way,we have choices about how we respond to it when it comes.B)We recently caught up with yoga entrepreneur Leah Zaccaria,who put herself through the fire ofchange to completely reinvent herself.In her search to live a life of purpose,Leah left her high-paying accounting job,her husband,and her home.In the process,she built a radically new lifeand career.Since then,she has founded two yoga studios,met a new life partner,and formed anew community of people.Even if your personal reinvention is less drastic,we think there arelessons from her experience that apply.C)Where do the seeds of change come from?The Native American Indians have a saying:"Payattention to the whispers so you won't have to hear the screams.Often the best ideas for bigchanges come from unexpected places-it's just a matter of tuning in.Great leaders recognize theweak signals or slight signs that point to big changes to come.Leah reflects on a time she listenedto the whispers:"About the time my daughter was five years old,I started having a sense that 'thisisn't right.'"She then realized that her life no longer matched her vision for it.D)Up until that point,Leah had followed traditional measures of success.After graduating with adegree in business and accounting,she joined a public accounting firm,married,bought a house,put lots of stuff in it,and had a baby."I did what everybody else thought looked successful,"shesays.Leah easily could have fallen into a trap of feeling content;instead,her energy sparked aperiod of experimentation and renewal.E)Feeling the need to change,Leah started playing with future possibilities by exploring her interestsand developing new capabilities.First trying physical exercise and dieting,she lost some weightand discovered an inner strength."I felt powerful because I broke through my own limitations,she recalls.F)However,it was another interest that led Leah to radically reinvent herself."I remember sitting ona bench with my aunt at a yoga studio,"she said,"and having a moment of clarity right then andthere:Yoga is saving my life.Yoga is waking me up.I'm not happy and I want to change and I'mdone with this.In that moment of clarity Leah made an important leap,conquering her innerresistance to change and making a firm commitment to take bigger steps.G)Creating the future you want is a lot easier if you are ready to exploit the opportunities that comeyour way.When Leah made the commitment to change,she primed herself to new opportunitiesshe may otherwise have overlooked.She recalls:H)One day a man I worked with,Ryan,who had his office next to mine,said,"Leah,let's go look atthis space on Queen Anne.He knew my love for yoga and had seen a space close to where helived that he thought might be good to serve as a yoga studio.As soon as I saw the location,I knewthis was it.Of course I was scared,yet I had this strong sense of "I have to do this."Only a fewmonths later Leah opened her first yoga studio,but success was not instant.I)Creating the future takes time.That's why leaders continue to manage the present while buildingtoward the big changes of the future.When it's time to make the leap,they take action andimmediately drop what's no longer serving their purpose.Initially Leah stayed with her accountingjob while starting up the yoga studio to make it all work.J)Soon after,she knew she had to make a bold move to fully commit to her new future.Within two2017.6/2(第3套)years,Leah shed the safety of her accounting job and made the switch complete.Such drasticchange is not easy.K)Steering through change and facing obstacles brings us face to face with our fears.Leah reflects onone incident that triggered her fears,when her investors threatened to shut her down:"I wasprobably up against the most fear I've ever had,she says."I had spent two years cultivating thiscommunity,and it had become successful very fast,but within six months I was facing the prospectof losing it all.”L)She connected with her sense of purpose and dug deep,cultivating a tremendous sense of strength."I was feeling so intentional and strong that I wasn't going to let fear just take over.I was thinking,OK,guys,if you want to try to shut me down,shut me down.'And I knew it was a negotiationscheme,so I was able to say to myself,'This is not real.'By naming her fears and facing themhead-on,Leah gained confidence.For most of us,letting go of the safety and security of the pastgives us great fear.Calling out our fears explicitly,as Leah did,can help us act decisively.M)The cycle of renewal never ends.Leah's growth spurred her to open her second studio-and itwasn't for the money.N)I have no desire to make millions of dollars.It's not about that;it's about growth for me.Honestly,I didn't need to open a second studio.I was making as much money as I was as an accountant.ButI know if you don't grow,you stand still,and that doesn't work for me.O)Consider the current moment in your own life,your team or your organization.Where are you inthe cycle of renewal:Are you actively preserving the present,or selectively forgetting the past,orboldly creating the future?What advice would Leah give you to move you ahead on your journey?Once we're on the path of growth,we can continually move through the seasons of transformationand renewal.36.Readiness to take advantage of new opportunities will make it easier to create one's desired future.37.By conventional standards,Leah was a typical successful woman before she changed her career.38.Leah gained confidence by laying out her fears and confronting them directly.39.In search of a meaningful life,Leah gave up what she had and set up her own yoga studios.40.Leah's interest in yoga prompted her to make a firm decision to reshape her life.41.Small signs may indicate great changes to come and therefore merit attention.42.Leah's first yoga studio was by no means an immediate success.43.Some people regard professional change as an unpleasant experience that disturbs their stablecareers.44.The worst fear Leah ever had was the prospect of losing her yoga business.45.As she explored new interests and developed new potentials,Leah felt powerful internallySection CDirections:There are 2 passages in this section.Each passage is followed by some questions orunfinished statements.For each of them there are four choices marked A),B),C)andD).You should decide on the best choice and mark the corresponding letter on AnswerSheet 2 with a single line through the centre.Passage OneQuestions 46 to 50 are based on the following passage.Urbanization-migration away from the suburbs to the city center-will be the biggest real estatetrend in 2015,according to a new report.The report says America's urbanization will continue to be the most significant issue affecting theindustry,as cities across the country imitate the walkability and transit-oriented development makingcities like New York and San Francisco so successful.As smaller cities copy the model of these "24-hour cities,"more affordable versions of these2017.6/3(第3套)