2013年06月大学英语四级考试真题及答案解析第1套.pdfVIP

2013 6 ( 1 ) 年 月大学英语四级考试真题 第 套 PartI Writing (30minutes) Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a short essay. You should startyour essay with a brief description of thepicture and then express your views on the importance of reading literature. You should writeatleast120words butnomorethan180words. PartII ReadingComprehension(Skimmingand Scanning) (15minutes) Directions:In thispart,you will have 15 minutes togo over thepassage quickly and answer the questions onAnswer Sheet 1. For questions 1-7, choose the best answer from thefour choices marked A), B), C) and D). For questions 8-10, complete the sentences with the informationgiven in thepassage. SurvivingtheRecession America’s recession began quietly at the end of 2007. Since then it has evolved into aglobal crisis.Reasonablepeoplemay disagree about whom toblame.Financiers who were not as clever as they thought they were? Regulators falling asleep at work? Consumers who borrowed too much? Politicians who thoughtlessly promoted home-ownership for those who could not afford it? All are guilty; and what a mess theyhavecreated. Since 2007 America has shed 5 million jobs. More than 15% of the workforce are jobless or underemployed—roughly 25 million workers. The only industries swelling their payrolls are health care,utilities and the federal government. The value of listed shares in American firms collapsedby 57% from itspeak in October 2007to a low in March this year, though it has since bounced back somewhat. Industrial production fellby 12.8% in theyear toMarch,theworst slide sincethe Second World War.Mark Zandi,an economist at Moody’sE,predictsthat therecession will shrink America’s economy by 3.5% in total. For most execut