2014年6月英语四级考试真题试卷附答案 第3套(6)
Passage Three
Barbara Sanders is a wife and the mother of two children, ages 2 and 4. Her husband, Tom, isan engineer and makes an excellent salary. (23) Before Barbara had children, she worked as anarchitect for the government, designing government housing. She quit her job when shebecame pregnant, but is now interested in re-turning to work. She's been offered an excellentjob with the government her husband feels it's unnecessary for her to work since the familydoes not need the added income. He also thinks that a woman should stay home with herchildren. (24) If Barbara feels the need to do socially important work, he thinks that she shoulddo volunteer work one or two days a week. Barbara, on the other hand, has missed theexcitement of her profession and does not fed she would be satisfied doing volunteer work. Shewould also like to have her own income, so she does not have to ask her husband for moneywhenever she wants to buy something. She does not think it's necessary to stay home everyday with the childrenand she knows a very reliable baby-sitter who's willing to come to herhouse. (25) Tom does not think a baby-sitter can replace a mother and thinks it's a bad ideafor the children to spend so much time with someone who's not part of the family.
预览三道题各选项，第23题涉及不同职业,第24题涉及具体的工作形式,第25题提到了 baby-sitter -词,由此推断短文可能是关于工作与照看孩子的问题。
23. What was Barbara's profession before she had children?
B)。详解：短文一开始提到，芭芭拉.桑德斯现在是两个孩子的母亲，在有孩子之前，她曾是政府部门的建筑设计师,设计政府大楼，故答案为B)。
24. What does Barbara's husband suggest she do if she wants to work?
A)。详解：短文中间部分提到,芭芭拉o桑德斯的丈夫不希望她重新工作，而是希望她照顾孩子,如果她想做有社会意义的工作，他建议她每周做一两天的志愿者工作,故答案为A)。
25. What does Tom think about hiring a baby-sitter?
C)。详解：短文末尾部分提到，芭芭拉o桑德斯想请一位靠得住的保姆照看孩子,汤姆认为,保姆无法取代母亲,孩子长时间与非家庭成员接触并非好事，故答案为C)。
26 curious。详解：此处应该填一个形容词与more共同构成比较级结构。curious意为"好奇的，求知的"。
27 figuring things out详解：此处应该填一个动名词短语，与finding构成并列结构。figure things out 意为"把事情弄明白"。
28. independent。详解：此处应该填一个形容词,与前面的形容词confident，resourceful,persistent构成并列结构。independent意为"独立的，不受约束的"。
29. interacting with ,详:解此处应该填一个动名词短语，与paying dose attention to构成并列结构。interact with意为"交流，交往'
30. abstract。详解：此处应该填一个形容词,与difficult, complicated并列构成比较级结构。abstract意为"抽象的"。
31 mystery详解：由冠词the可知此处应该填一个名同D mystery意为"秘密,奥秘"
32. appropriately详解：此处应该填入一个副同，修饰前面的use。Appropriately意为"适当地,合适地"
33 trying it out详解：此处应该填一个动名词短语，作前面介词by的宾语，并与空格后面的seeing... 并列。Trysth. out意为"试验，检验"。
34. refining。详解：此处应该填一个动名词,与空格前面的changing并列。refine意为"改进，完善"。
35. concepts ?详解此处应该填一个名同的复数形式,被后面that引导的定语从句所修饰。concept意为"观念,想法"。
Part III Reading Comprehension
Section A
36-45：NEFLJ MIGKO
Section B
46-55：HCALN FHMDJ
Section C
56-65：ACBCB DBCDA
Part IV Translation
In order to promote education equity, China has invested 36 billion to improve ruraleducational facilities and strengthen the rural compulsory education in the central and westernregions. The funds were used to better school facilities, buy books, which benefited more than160,000 primary and secondary schools. They were also spent to purchase music andpainting apparatus. Nowadays children in rural and mountainous areas can have music andart classes the same as those children in coastal cities. Some students who transfer to citiesfor better education return to the local rural schools again.