TEM4-2017

英语专业四级考试（TEM-4，Test for English Majors-Band 4），全称为全国高校英语专业四级考试。自1991年起由中国大陆教育部实行，考察全国综合性大学英语专业学生。

考试内容：考试内容涵盖英语听、说、读、写四个方面。

口试自1998年开始正式实施，需另行报名。

本考试共有六个部分：一. 写作 二. 听写 三. 听力理解 四. 完形填空 五. 语法及词汇 六. 阅读理解。前两部分需时60分钟。后四部分需时80分钟，整个考试需时140分钟。

考试时间：每年四月份的第三个周六

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TEST FOR ENGLISH MAJORS (2017)
-GRADE FOUR-
PART I  DICTATION
Listen to the following passage.
Altogether the passage will be read to you four times.
During the first reading, which will be done at normal speed,
listen and try to understand the meaning.
For the second and third readings,
the passage, except the first sentence,
will be read sentence by sentence, or phrase by phrase,
with intervals of 15 seconds.
The last reading will be done at normal speed again
and during this time you should check your work.
You will then be given ONE minute
to check through your work once more.
Write on ANSWER SHEET ONE.
The first sentence of the passage is already provided.
Now, listen to the passage.
Learning Sympathy
A big part of being human is feeling sympathy,
but how early on in our lives do we learn this.
Scientists find that babies respond to other people,
by crying when other babies cry.
However, babies can't distinguish between themselves and others
until they're eighteen to twenty months old.
Toddlers start to show concern for others around this time.
Kids also begin to do things like comforting other people.
And by the time they're three,
most children will try to protect a victim in a fight.
The second and third reading.
You should begin writing now.
Scientists find that babies respond to other people,
Scientists find that babies respond to other people,
by crying when other babies cry.
by crying when other babies cry.
However, babies can't distinguish between themselves and others
However, babies can't distinguish between themselves and others
until they're eighteen to twenty months old.
until they're eighteen to twenty months old.
Toddlers start to show concern for others around this time.
Toddlers start to show concern for others around this time.
Kids also begin to do things like comforting other people.
Kids also begin to do things like comforting other people.
And by the time they're three,
And by the time they're three,
most children will try to protect a victim in a fight.
most children will try to protect a victim in a fight.
The last reading.
Learning Sympathy
A big part of being human is feeling sympathy,
but how early on in our lives do we learn this.
Scientists find that babies respond to other people,
by crying when other babies cry.
However, babies can't distinguish between themselves and others
until they're eighteen to twenty months old.
Toddlers start to show concern for others around this time.
Kids also begin to do things like comforting other people.
And by the time they're three,
most children will try to protect a victim in a fight.
Now You have one minute to check through your work.
This is the end of PART I DICTATION.
PART II  LISTENING COMPREHENSION
SECTION A  TALK
In this section you will hear a talk.
You will hear the talk ONCE ONLY.
While listening,
you may look at the task on ANSWER SHEET ONE
and write NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS for each gap.
Make sure what you fill in
is both grammatically and semantically acceptable.
You may use the blank sheet for note-taking.
You have thirty seconds to preview the gap-filling task.
Now listen to the talk.
When it is over, you will be given TWO minutes to check your work.
Online Education
Good morning, everybody.
In today's lecture, we will talk about online education.
You know in some parts of the world,
it is not that easy for people to receive education.
And even in the United States where education is available,
it might not be within reach.
Thus, online courses provided by those world famous universities
can bring the best quality education
to as many people as we could around the world, and for free.
First, let's talk a little bit about some of the components
that go into online education.
The first component is that
when you move away from the constraints of a physical classroom
and design content for an online format, you can break away from,
for example, the one-hour lecture format.
You can break up the material,
for example, into short, modular units of 8 to 12 minutes,
and each of the short unit introduces a coherent concept.
Students can deal with this material in different ways,
depending on their background, their skills or their interests.
So, for example,
some students might benefit from a little bit of preparatory material
that other students might already have.
Other students might be interested in a particular topic
that they want to pursue individually.
So this format allows students to break away
from the one-size-fits-all model of education,
and allows students to follow a much more personalized curriculum.
Second, and perhaps one of the biggest components of our online education
is that we need to have students
who practice with the material in order to really understand it.
There's been a range of studies that demonstrate the importance of this.
A study in Science last year, for example,
demonstrates that even simple retrieval practice,
where students are just supposed to repeat
what they already learned gives considerably improved results
on various achievement tests.
So we need to build in much more meaningful practice questions.
Now, fortunately,
technology has helped us
to provide the students with feedback on those questions.
We can now grade a range of interesting types of homework online.
The third component is what is called collaborative learning.
Students could collaborate in different online courses in a variety of ways.
First of all, there was a question and answer forum,
where students could pose questions,
and other students could answer these questions.
And what is really amazing is that, because there were so many students,
it means that even if a student posed a question at 3 o'clock in the morning,
somewhere around the world,
there would be somebody
who was awake and working on the same problem
and he might answer that question.
And so, in many of the online courses,
the median response time
for a question on the question and answer forum was 22 minutes.
So in a word, if we wanted to offer top quality education
to everyone around the world for free,
what would that affect us?
Three things.
First, it would establish education as a fundamental human right,
where anyone around the world with the ability and the motivation
could get the skills they need.
Second, it would enable lifelong learning.
It's a shame that for so many of us,
learning stops when we finish high school or when we finish college.
By making this amazing content available,
we would be able to learn something new every time we wanted,
whether it's just to expand our minds or it's to change our lives.
And finally, this would make a wave of innovation possible,
because amazing talent can be found everywhere.
To sum up today,
we have talked about some features of online education and its benefits.
We are sure that online education will have a promising future.
In the next lecture,
we are going to learn
how online education has changed people around the world.
Now, you have two minutes to check through your work.
This is the end of section A TALK.
SECTION B  CONVERSATIONS
In this section you will hear two conversations.
At the end of each conversation,
five questions will be asked about what was said.
Both the conversations and the questions will be spoken ONCE ONLY.
After each question there will be a ten-second pause.
During the pause,
you should read the four choices of A, B, C and D,
and mark the best answer to each question on ANSWER SHEET TWO.
You have thirty seconds to preview the choices.
Now, listen to the conversations.
Conversation One
Question 1 to 5 are based on Conversation One
W: Good afternoon,
this is BES customers service line, Maggie speaking.
How can I help you?
M: Yeah, yeah. Look,
it's about the computer I've bought off you one month ago.
W: Yes, what seems to be the problem?
M: Well, I was transferring my files to it from my flash drive
and they got lost, everything.
W: OK, now don't worry,
I am sure we can sort something out.
First, can you give me a few details?
The computer has lost all your data you're saying?
M: Yes, but you don't understand
it has wiped everything of the flash drive as well.
My whole life! My whole life was in those files.
W: Oh my goodness. Are you sure?
Sounds like a problem is with your flash drive.
M: Of course not.
There's nothing wrong with my flash drive.
I've had it for years.
And I used it yesterday in my office in another computer.
W: OK. I can understand how upset you must be.
Now I don't think we can deal with it on the phone.
So I'm going to send a service engineer to see
if they can retrieve your data.
Can you give me your product reference number?
M: Eh... yes, it's... here it is. it's RF40-101.
W: Thank you.
M: I'll be expecting a total refund and compensation
if this can't be fixed.
W: I'm sorry, but we're not authorized to give refunds,
what I can do is to send you a brand new computer.
How would that be?
M: But mine is supposed to be a brand new computer.
You think I want another one of this
after what the last one did to my files?
W: Well, let's see what our engineer can do.
Hopefully, it's not quite as bad as you think.
Now I've got your address here in your customer file.
No.23 Bond Street, right?
M: Yep, right.
W: And it's Mr. Adams. Isn't it?
M: Yes.
W: Right. Mr. Adams,
we'll have an engineer with you early tomorrow morning,
and I'll ask him to bring a new hard disk with him.
Will you be at home?
M: Yes, but not before 8:30.
W: OK. Our engineer will contact you before he comes.
Can you be reached by this number, 6574-3205?
M: Yes, sure.
W: Well, best of luck this afternoon.
I hope we can solve the problem for you.
M: Well, thanks. Er... goodbye.
W: Goodbye, Mr. Adams.
Question 1 to 5 are based on Conversation One.
1. What's wrong with the man's computer?
2.How would the man be compensated if the computer can't be fixed?
3. How did the man feel about the woman's offer of compensation?
4.When will the service engineer come to fix the computer?
5. What is the man's phone number?
This is the end of Conversation One.
Conversation Two
Question 6 to 10 are based on Conversation Two.
M: Well, for years,
people have been trying to keep up with the Joneses,
but instead of competing with your neighbors,
how about actually trying to get along with them?
Joining us with some simple tips
on how to deal with
those likeable and not so likeable neighbors is Betty Wong;
she is the Executive Editor of Family Circle magazine.
Good morning, Betty.
W: Good morning, Allen.
M: Well, in an ideal world,
I guess we would all get along with our neighbors, wouldn't we?
W: Right, right. We hope so.
M: But how do we establish a good relationship?
When you move into a neighborhood, right,
should you reach out to the neighbors
or should they be reaching out to you?
W: I think it could work either way.
I mean, certainly, if they don't reach out to you,
don't assume that they are being rude or unfriendly.
They just might be holding back
because they think you are too busy.
So if they don't make that first step,
you know, after a few days, go ahead and introduce yourself.
M: Yeah, neighbors can be really helpful,
but of course they can also be annoying.
For example, neighbors who make a lot of noise.
W: Well. Loud music is one of those top complaints,
and I think you know for most reasons...
people, they probably aren't even aware that
they are causing problems for their neighbors.
And I think if you bring it up to your neighbors' attention
they will be more than happy to fix it.
You could say something like,
you know, I'm kind of,
I'm really a light sleeper or I suffer from headache.
Can you help me out by, you know,
turning down the music during those evening hours or the early morning,
or come up with a compromise that works for both of you.
M: Don't just call the police, right?
Which a lot of people do.
W: Of course, no.
M: Right, then what about a nosy neighbor.
W: Right, I think a lot of time
as we may mistake nosy behavior for being,
you know, nosy or poky
when they are just being kind of trying to be friendly,
or maybe that person's lonely.
It's... You kind of have to see what the motive is there,
and oftentimes, if you are little evasive,
or, you just don't answer their question,
they often take the hint and back off.
M: And the neighbor that comes to visit and won't go away?
W: Well, I think, you know that,
there might be somebody who is just really lonely and wants a friend.
You know oftentimes I think the rule is a five or ten minute-visit, is fine.
Because you know that way
you are not imposing on that person's schedule or that person's plan.
But you know,
you don't have to be best friends with your neighbor at all,
you can just be polite, and say hello in the morning,
and that makes everybody's relationship so much better.
M: Well, that's important.
Betty Wong, thanks so much for the tips
we appreciate from Family Circle magazine
and for more on this topic and others,
head to the Early Show website at CBSnews.com.
Question 6 to 10 are based on Conversation Two.
6. What should we do if our neighbors didn't reach out?
7. Which is the best way to handle a noisy neighbor?
8. What should we do if we have a nosy neighbor?
9. How long do we expect our neighbors to stay?
10. Where can we get more information on this topic?
This is the end of Conversation Two.
This is the end of PART II  LISTENING COMPREHENSION.