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第1题

We had better move forward, for it will not do us any good to_____the past.

A、shrug off

B、dwell on

C、live on

D、single out

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第2题

听力原文：W: Martin, we've had these chairs since we got married. They are very comfortable

M. That doesn't mean we've got to have them the rest of our lives. Anyway they're falling apart.

Q: What can be inferred from the conversation？

(19)

A．They will keep the chairs for a long time.

B．The man suggests they move to another place.

C．The woman is complaining about the bad chairs.

D．The man thinks they had better have the chairs replaced.

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第3题

We learn from the passage that _________.A．television instruction should be a substitute f

We learn from the passage that _________.

A．television instruction should be a substitute for classroom lessons

B．children's shows are worthless

C．TV programs had better mend their ways

D．mystery programs should be banned

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第4题

长篇阅读：Finding the Right Home—and Contentment, Too When your elderly relative needs to enter

Section B（2016年6月大学英语四级卷1真题及答案）

Directions: In this section, you are going to read a passage with ten statements attached to it. Each statement contains information given in one of the paragraphs. Identify the paragraph from 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 the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 2.

Finding the Right Home—and Contentment, Too

[A] When your elderly relative needs to enter some sort of long-term care facility—a moment few parents or children approach without fear—what you would like is to have everything made clear.

[B] Does assisted living really mark a great improvement over a nursing home, or has the industry simply hired better interior designers？ Are nursing homes as bad as people fear, or is that an out-moded stereotype(固定看法)？ Can doing one's homework really steer families to the best places？ It is genuinely hard to know.

[C] I am about to make things more complicated by suggesting that what kind of facility an older person lives in may matter less than we have assumed. And that the characteristics adult children look for when they begin the search are not necessarily the things that make a difference to the people who are going to move in. I am not talking about the quality of care, let me hastily add. Nobody flourishes in a gloomy environment with irresponsible staff and a poor safety record. But an accumulating body of research indicates that some distinctions between one type of elder care and another have little real bearing on how well residents do.

[D] The most recent of these studies, published in The journal of Applied Gerontology, surveyed 150 Connecticut residents of assisted living, nursing homes and smaller residential care homes (known in some states as board and care homes or adult care homes). Researchers from the University of Connecticut Health Center asked the residents a large number of questions about their quality of life, emotional well-being and social interaction, as well as about the quality of the facilities.

[E] “We thought we would see differences based on the housing types,” said the lead author of the study, Julie Robison, an associate professor of medicine at the university. A reasonable assumption—don't families struggle to avoid nursing homes and suffer real guilt if they can't？

[F] In the initial results, assisted living residents did paint the most positive picture. They were less likely to report symptoms of depression than those in the other facilities, for instance, and less likely to be bored or lonely. They scored higher on social interaction.

[G] But when the researchers plugged in a number of other variables, such differences disappeared. It is not the housing type, they found, that creates differences in residents' responses. “It is the characteristics of the specific environment they are in, combined with their own personal characteristics—how healthy they feel they are, their age and marital status,” Dr. Robison explained. Whether residents felt involved in the decision to move and how long they had lived there also proved significant.

[H] An elderly person who describes herself as in poor health, therefore, might be no less depressed in assisted living (even if her children preferred it) than in a nursing home. A person who bad input into where he would move and has had time to adapt to it might do as well in a nursing home as in a small residential care home, other factors being equal. It is an interaction between the person and the place, not the sort of place in itself, that leads to better or worse experiences. “You can't just say, ‘Let's put this person in a residential care home instead of a nursing home—she will be much better off,” Dr. Robison said. What matters, she added, “is a combination of what people bring in with them, and what they find there.”

[I] Such findings, which run counter to common sense, have surfaced before. In a multi-state study of assisted living, for instance, University of North Carolina researchers found that a host of variables—the facility's type, size or age; whether a chain owned it; how attractive the neighborhood was—had no significant relationship to how the residents fared in terms of illness, mental decline, hospitalizations or mortality. What mattered most was the residents' physical health and mental status. What people were like when they came in had greater consequence than what happened one they were there.

[J] As I was considering all this, a press release from a respected research firm crossed my desk, announcing that the five-star rating system that Medicare developed in 2008 to help families compare nursing home quality also has little relationship to how satisfied its residents or their family members are. As a matter of fact, consumers expressed higher satisfaction with the one-star facilities, the lowest rated, than with the five-star ones. (More on this study and the star ratings will appear in a subsequent post.)

[K] Before we collectively tear our hair out—how are we supposed to find our way in a landscape this confusing？—here is a thought from Dr. Philip Sloane, a geriatrician(老年病学专家)at the University of North Carolina：“In a way, that could be liberating for families.”

36. Many people feel guilty when they cannot find a place other than a nursing home for their parents.

37.Though it helps for children to investigate care facilities, involving their parents in the decision-making process may prove very important.

38.It is really difficult to tell if assisted living is better than a nursing home.

39.How a resident feels depends on an interaction between themselves and the care facility they live in.

40.The author thinks her friend made a rational decision in choosing a more hospitable place over an apparently elegant assisted living home.

41.The system Medicare developed to rate nursing home quality is of little help to finding a satisfactory place.

42.At first the researchers of the most recent study found residents in assisted living facilities gave higher scores on social interaction.

43.What kind of care facility old people live in may be less important than we think.

44.The findings of the latest research were similar to an earlier multi-state study of assisted living.

45.A resident's satisfaction with a care facility has much to do with whether they had participated in the decision to move in and how long they had stayed there.

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第5题

Having passed what I considered the worst obstacle, our spirits【C1】______. We made towards

the left of the cliff, where the going was better, though【C2】______steeper. Here we found【C3】______snow, as most of it seemed【C4】______blown off the mountain. There was no【C5】______of the mountains in the distance because clouds were forming all around us. About 1 oclock a storm【C6】______suddenly. We ought to have noticed its approach but we were concentrating【C7】______cutting steps, and before we had time to do anything, we were【C8】______by snow. We could not move up or down and had to wait motionless, getting colder and colder.【C9】______my hood(兜帽), my nose and cheeks were frostbitten and I dared not【C10】______a hand out of my glove to warm them. After two hours of this, I realized we would have to do something to avoid being frozen【C11】______death. We stood from time to time through the mist, and I had【C12】______the outline of a dark buttress(扶垛)just above us; to descend in this wind was out of the【C13】______; our only hope was to【C14】______up to this buttress, and dig out a platform. at the foot of it【C15】______we could put up our tent. We climbed to this place and started to cut away the ice. At first my companion seemed to regard the situation【C16】______hopeless but gradually the wind【C17】______and he cheered up. At last we had made a platform. big enough to【C18】______the tent, and we did this as best as we could. We【C19】______into our sleeping bags and【C20】______asleep, feeling that we were lucky to be still alive.

【C1】

A．rose

B．raise

C．arose

D．aroused

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第6题

4.Because the departure was not easy, we had better make it brief.

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第7题

We are ______ to move, but we had no choice.A．willingB．reluctantC．hesitantD．determined

We are ______ to move, but we had no choice.

A．willing

B．reluctant

C．hesitant

D．determined

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第8题

Our house was the oldest in the village. It was nearly three hundred years old. Although w

e were six children, and a mother and a father, we were not by any means alone in the house. We were sharing it with big families of mice and spiders(蜘蛛). There were great- grandparents, grandparents, fathers and mothers, and hundreds of mouse and spider children.

My mother would never let us kill a spider, not even a hairy old grandfather. "If you want to live and rich," she used to say, "let a spider run alive." And so the spiders, our enemies, were beaten and kicked but never killed. But she had no such dealing with the mice.

One of our problems was that my mother hated cats; and we never owned a single cat. We kept dogs, often two or three at the same time, but very few dogs can move fast enough to catch a lively young mouse. Every night we set a dozen mousetraps(捕鼠器), each with a small piece of cheese. Sometimes the cheese disappeared, but the mice usually seemed too wise to go near the traps. We seldom caught anything.

My mother herself had far better luck. Her arms and hands moved as fast as any cat's paws. Often, when she was scrubbing or polishing a floor on her hands and knees, some foolish little grey fellow would try to run past her. He never got very far. Quick as lightning her hard hands would smack(用掌击) together--and there on the floor would be one dead mouse. "Oh, you were a proud one," she would say to it then.

One day my father decided to clean out the water tank, which stood on four iron legs in a corner upstairs. He was soon sorry that he had started the job. In the mud at the bottom of the tank, there were sixteen of the little grey fellows, all as solid and hard as stones. We had been drinking the water from that tank for twelve years.

Which of followlng statements is true？

A．Because the house was old, the family were troubled by lots of mice and spiders.

B．The children did not live in the house because they were afraid of the spiders.

C．The trouble was that there was no water supply in the old house.

D．Spiders and mice are a part of the family.

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第9题

It's ________ that we had better go for a walk.A、so a beautiful nightB、such beautif

It's ________ that we had better go for a walk.

A、so a beautiful night

B、such beautiful a night

C、a night so beautiful

D、so beautiful a night

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第10题

A．It is difficult for people living in a Stone Age culture to move into a modern world

B．Invention is a new idea to modern people.

C．We human beings have abilities to solve such problems as war and pollution.

D．What we need is demands from others to work for a better future.

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