2018年6月大学英语四级真题（第3套)Part IWriting(30 minutes)Directions:For this part,you are allowed 30minutes to write a short essay on the importanceof speaking ability and how to develop it.You should write at least 120 words but no more than180 words.Part IIListening Comprehension(25 minutes)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。只是选项顺序不同，因此在本套真题中不再置复出现。Reading Comprehension(40 minutes)Section ADirections:In this section,there is a passage with ten blanks.You are required to select one word for eachblank from a list of choices given in a word bank following the passage.Read the passage through carefullybefore making your choices.Each choice in the bank is identified by a letter.Please mark the correspondingletter for each item on Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through the centre.You may not use any of the wordsin the bank more than once.Neon (is to Hong Kong as red phone booths are to London and fog is to San Francisco.Whennight falls,.red and blue and other colors.26ahay(雾蒙蒙的)glow over a city lit up by tens ofthousands 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 maintaining those wonderful old signshave businesses embracing LEDs,which are energy 28 but still carry great cost."To me,neon representsmemories of the past,"says photographer Sharon Blance,whose series Hong Kong Neon celebrates the city'sfamous signs."Looking at the signs now I get a feeling of amazement,mixed with sadness."Building a neon sign is an art practiced by 29 trained on the job to mold glass tubes into 30shapes and letters.They fill these tubes with gases that glow when 31.Neon makes orange,while othergases make yellow or blue.It takes many hours to craft a single sign.Blance spent a week in Hong Kong and 32 more than 60 signs;22 of them appear in the series thatcapture the signs lighting up lonely streets-an33that makes it easy to admire their colors andcraftsmanship."I love the beautiful,handcrafted,old-fashioned 34 of neon,"says Blance.The signs donothing more than 35 a restaurant,theater,or other business,but do so in the most striking way possible.A)altemativeB)approachC)castD)challengingE)decorativeF)efficientG)electrifiedH)identifyD)photographedJ)professionalsK)qualityL)replacedM)stimulateN)symbolizesO)volunteersSection BDirections:In this section,you are going to read a passage with ten statements attached to it.Each statementcontains information given in one of the paragraphs.Identify the paragraph from which the information isderived.You may choose a paragraph more than once.Each paragraph is marked with a letter.Answer thequestions by marking the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 2.New Jersey School District Eases Pressure on Students-Baring an Ethnic DivideA)This fall,David Aderhold,the chief of a high-achieving school district near Princeton,New Jersey,sentparents an alarming 16-page letter.The school district,he said,was facing a crisis.Its students wereoverburdened and stressed out,having to cope with too much work and too many demands.In the previousschool year,120 middle and high school students were recommended for mental health assessments and 40were hospitalized.And on a survey administered by the district,students wrote things like,"I hate going toschool,"and "Coming out of 12 years in this district,I have leamed one thing:that a grade,a percentage oreven a point is to be valued over anything else."B)With his letter,Aderhold inserted West Windsor-Plainsboro Regional School District into a nationaldiscussion about the intense focus on achievement at elite schools,and whether it has gone too far.Atfollow-up meetings,he urged parents to ioin him in advocating a"whole child"approach to schooling thatrespects "social-emotional development"and "deep and meaningful learning"over academics alone.Thealternative,he suggested,was to face the prospect of becoming another Palo Alto,California,where outsizestress 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,Aderhold's letter revealed a divide in the district,which has9,700 students,and one that broke down roughly along racial lines.On one side are white parents likeCatherine Foley,a former president of the Parent-Teacher-Student Association at her daughter's middle school,who has come to see the district's increasingly pressured atmosphere as opposed to learning."My son was infourth grade and told me,'I'm not going to amount to anything because I have nothing to put on my resume,'"she said.On the other side are parents like Mike Jia,one of the thousands of Asian-American professionalswho have moved to the district in the past decade,who said Aderhold's reforms would amount to a "dumbingdown"of his children's education."What is happening here reflects a national anti-intellectual trend that willnot prepare our children for the future,"Jia said.D)About 10 minutes from Princeton and an hour and a half from New York City,West Windsor andPlainsboro have become popular bedroom communities for technology entrepreneurs,researchers andengineers,drawn in large part by the public schools.From the last three graduating classes,16 seniors wereadmitted to MIT.It produces Science Olympiad winners,classically trained musicians and students withperfect SAT scores.E)The district has become increasingly popular with immigrant families from China,India and Korea.This year,65 percent of its students are Asian-American,compared with 44 percent in 2007.Many of themare the first in their families bom in the United States.They have had a growing influence on the district.Asian-American parents are enthusiastic supporters of the competitive instrumental music program.Theyhave been huge supporters of the district's advanced mathematics program,which once began in the fourthgrade but will now start in the sixth.The change to the program,in which 90 percent of the participatingstudents are Asian-American,is one of Aderhold's reforms.F)Asian-American students have been eager participants in a state program that permits them to takesummer classes off campus for high school credit,allowing them to maximize the number of honors andAdvanced Placement classes they can take,another practice that Aderhold is limiting this school year.Withmany Asian-American children attending supplementary instructional programs,there is a perceptionamong some white families that the elementary school curriculum is being sped up to accommodate them.G)Both Asian-American and white families say the tension between the two groups has grown steadilyover the past few years,as the number of Asian families has risen.But the division has become moreobvious in recent months as Aderhold has made changes,including no-homework nights,an end to highschool midterms and finals,and an initiative that made it easier to participate in the music program.H)Jennifer Lee,professor of sociology at the University of California,Irvine,and an author of the AsianAmerican Achievement Paradox,says misunderstanding between first-generation Asian-American parentsand those who have been in this country longer are common.What white middle-class parents do notalways understand,she said,is how much pressure recent immigrants feel to boost their children into themiddle class."They don't have the same chances to get their children internships (or jobs at lawfirms,"Lee said."So what they believe is that their children must excel and beat their white peers inacademic settings so they have the same chances to excel later."I)The issue of the stresses felt by students in elite school districts has gained attention in recent years asschools in places like Newton,Massachusetts,and Palo Alto have reported a number of suicides.WestWindsor-Plainsboro has not had a teenage suicide in recent years,but Aderhold,who has worked in thedistrict for seven years and been chief for the last three years,said he had seen troubling signs.In a recentart assignments,a middle school student depicted (an overburdened child who was being scolded forearning an A,rather than an A+,on a math exam.In the image,the mother scolds the student with the