1、大学英语四级第3套真题及答案2016年6月大学英语四级第3套真题及答案2016 年 6 月大学英语四级考试真题（第三套）Part I Writing (30 minutes) For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a letter to express your thanks to your parents or any family members upon making memorable achievement. You should write at least 120 words but no more than 180
2、 words.Directions:注意：此部分试题请在答题卡 1 上作答。Part 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 choices given in a word bank following the passage. Read the passage through caref
3、ully 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 center. You may not use any of the words in the bank more than once. Signs barring cell-phone use are a familiar sig
4、ht to anyone who has ever sat in a hospital waiting room. But the 26 popularity of electronic medical records has forced hospital-based doctors to become 27 on computers throughout the day, and desktopswhich keep doctors from bedsidesare 28 giving way to wireless devices.As clerical loads increased,
5、 “something had to 29 , and that was always face time with patients,” says Dr.Bhakti Patel, a former chief resident in the University of Chicagos internal-medicine program. In fall 2010, she helped 30 a pilot project in Chicago to see if the iPad could improve working conditions and patient care. Th
6、e experiment was so 31 that all internal-medicine program adopted the same 32 in 2011. Medical schools at Yale and Stanford now have paperless, iPad-based curriculums. “Youll want an iPad just so you can wear this” is the slogan for one of the new lab coats 33 with philosophers is timeless, says Sou
7、pios. The philosophy professor says it is as relevant today as when it was first written many centuries ago. “There is no expiration (失效) date on wisdom,” he says, “There is no shelf life on intelligence. I think that things have become very gloomy these day, lots of misunderstanding, misleading cue
8、s, a lot of what the ancients would have called sophistry (诡辩). The nice thing about ancient philosophy as offered by the Greeks is that they tended to see life clear and whole, in a way that we tend not to see life today.” Examine your lifeC Soupios, along with his co-author Panos Mourdoukoutas, de
9、veloped their 10 golden rules by turning to the men behind that philosophyAristotle, Socrates, Epictetus and Pythagoras, among others. The first ruleexamine your lifeis the common thread that runs through the entire book. Soupios says that it is based on Platos observation that the unexamined life i
10、s not worth living. “The Greeks are always concerned about boxing themselves in, in terms of convictions (信念),” he says. “So take a step back, switch off the automatic pilot and actually stop and reflect about things like our priorities, our values, and our relationships.” Stop worrying about what y
11、ou can not controlD As we begin to examine our life, Soupios says, we come to Rule No.2: Worry only about things that you can control. “The individual who promoted this idea was a Stoic philosopher. His name is Epictetus,” he says. “And what the Stoics say in general is simply this: There is a large
12、r plan in life. You are not really going to be able to understand all of the dimensions of this plan. You are not going to be able to control the dimensions of this plan.”E So, Soupios explains, it is not worth it to waste our physical, intellectual and spiritual energy worrying about things that ar
13、e beyond our control. “I can not control whether or not I wind up getting the disease swine flu, for example.” He says. “I mean, there are some cautious steps I can take, but ultimately I can not guarantee myself that. So what Epictetus would say is sitting at home worrying about that would be wrong
14、 and wasteful and irrational. You should live your life attempting to identify and control those things which you can genuinely control.” Seek true pleasureF To have a meaningful, happy life we need friends. But according to Aristotlea student of Plato and teacher of Alexander the Greatmost relation
15、ships dont qualify as true friendships. “Just because I have a business relationship with an individual and I can profit from that relationship, it does not necessarily mean that this person is my friend,” Soupios says. “Real friendship is when two individuals share the same soul. It is a beautiful
16、and uncharacteristically poetic image that Aristotle offers.” G In our pursuit of the good life, he says, it is important to seek out true pleasuresadvice which was originally offered by Epicurus. But unlike the modern definition of Epicureanism as a life of indulgence (放纵) and luxury, for the ancie
17、nt Greeks, it meant finding a state of calm, peace and mental ease. H “This was the highest and most desirable form of pleasure and happiness for the ancient Epicureans,” Soupios says. “This is something that is very much well worth considering here in the modern era. I do not think that we spend ne
18、arly enough time trying to concentrate on achieving a sort of calmness, a sort of contentment in mental and spiritual way, which was identified by these people as the highest form of happiness and pleasure.” Do good to others I Other golden rules counsel us to master ourselves, to avoid excess and n
19、ot to be a prosperous (发迹的) fool. There are also rules dealing with interpersonal relationships: Be a responsible human being and do not do evil things to others.J “This is Hesiod, of course, a younger contemporary poet, we believe, with Homer,” Soupios says. “Hesiod offers an ideawhich you very oft
20、en find in some of the worlds great religions, in the Judeo-Christian tradition and in Islam and othersthat in some sense, when you hurt another human being, you hurt yourself. That damaging other people in your community and in your life, trashing relationships, results in a kind of self-inflicted
21、(自己招致的) spiritual wound.”K Instead, Soupios says, ancient wisdom urges us to do good. Golden Rule No.10 for a good life is that kindness toward others tends to be rewarded. L “This is Aesop, the fabulist (寓言家), the man of these charming little tales, often told in terms of animals and animal relatio
22、nships,” he says. “I think what Aesop was suggesting is that when you offer a good turn to another human being, one can hope that that good deed will come back and sort of pay a profit to you, the doer of the good deed. Even if there is no concrete benefit paid in response to your good deed, at the
23、very least, the doer of the good deed has the opportunity to enjoy a kind of spiritually enlightened moment.”M Soupios says following the 10 Golden Rules based on ancient wisdom can guide us to the path of the good life where we stop living as onlookers and become engaged and happier human beings. A
24、nd that, he notes, is a life worth living. 注意：此部分试题请在答题卡 2 上作答。36. According to an ancient Greek philosopher, it is impossible for us to understand every aspect of our life.37. Ancient Philosophers saw life in a different light from people of today.38. Not all your business partners are your soul ma
25、tes.39. We can live a peaceful life despite the various challenges of the modern world.40. The doer of a good deed can feel spiritually rewarded even when they gain no concrete benefits.41. How to achieve mental calmness and contentment is well worth our consideration today.42. Michael Soupios sugge
26、sts that we should stop and think carefully about our priorities in life.43. Ancient philosophers strongly advise that we do good.44. The wise teachings of ancient Greek thinkers are timeless, and are applicable to contemporary life.45. Do harm to others and you do harm to yourself.Section CDirectio
27、n: There are two passages in this section. Each passage is followed by some questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A), B), C) and D). You should decide on the best choice and mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through the ce
28、nter.Passage OneQuestions 46 to 50 are based on the following passage.Attitudes toward new technologies often fall along generational lines. That is, generally, younger people tend to outnumber older people on the front end of a technological shift. It is not always the case, though. When you look a
29、t attitudes toward driverless cars, there doesnt seem to be a clear generational divide. The public overall is split on whether theyd like to use a driverless car. In a study last year, of all people surveyed, 48 percent said they wanted to ride in one, while 50 percent did not. The fact that attitu
30、des toward self-driving cars appear to be so steady across generations suggests how transformative the shift to driverless cars could be. Not everyone wants a driverless car nowand no one can get one yetbut among those who are open to them, every age group is similarly engaged. Actually, this isnt s
31、urprising. Whereas older generations are sometimes reluctant to adopt new technologies, driverless cars promise real value to these age groups in particular. Older adults, especially those with limited mobility or difficulty driving on their own, are one of the classic use cases for driverless cars.
32、 This is especially interesting when you consider that younger people are generally more interested in travel-related technologies than older ones. When it comes to driverless cars, differences in attitude are more pronounced based on factors not related to age. College graduates, for example, are particularly interested in driverless cars compared with those who have less education: 59 percent of college graduates said they would like to use a driverless car compared with 38 percent of those with a high-school diploma or less. Where a person li
