2006年6月24日大学英语新四级真题与答案

Directions:There are 2 passage in this section .Eath passage is followed by some questions or unfinished statements.For each of them there are four choises maked A) B) C)and D) .You should decide on the best choise and mark the corresponding letter
on Answer sheet 2 with a single line through the centre.

Passage One

Questions 57 to 61 ared based on the following passage.
Communications technologies are far from equal when it comes tp conveying the truth.The first study to tell lies in phone conversations as they are in emails.The fact that emails are antomatically recorded-and can come back to haunt(困扰)you. APPears to be the key to the finding.
Jeff Hancock of Cornell University in Ithaca,Mew York,asked 30 students to keep a communications diary for a week.In it they noted the number of conversations or email exchanges they had lasting more than 10 minutes,and confessed to how many lies they told.Hancock then worked out the numberof lies per conversation foe each medium .He found that lies made up 14 per cent of emails,21 per cent of instant messages,27 per cent of face-to-face interactions and an astonishing 37 per cent of phone calls.

His resules to be presented at the conference on human-computer interaction in Vienna, Austria, in April, have surprised psychologists. Some ecpected emailers to be the biggest liars, reasoning that beacuse deception makes people unconfortable, the detachment(非直接接触）of emailing would make it easier to lie. Others expected people to lie more in face-to-face exchanges becaue we are most peactised at that form of communication.

But Hancock says it is also crucial whether a conversation is being recorded and could be reread, and whether it occurs in real time. People apprar to be afraid to lie when they know the communication could later be used to hold them to account, he says. This is why fewer lies appear in email than on the phone.

People are also more likey to lie in ral time in a instant message or phone call say-than if they have time to think of a rasponse, says Hancock. He fond many lies are spontaneous(脱口而出的)resonses to an unexpected demand, such as:"Do you like my dress?"

Hankcock hopes his research will help companies work our the besr ways for their employees to communicate.For instance,the phone might be the best medium foe sales where employees are encouraged to stretch the truth.But ,given his result,work assessment where honesty is a priority,might be best done using email.

注意：此部分试题请在答题卡2上作答。

57.Hancock's study focuses on ____________.
A)the consequences of lying in various communcations media.
B)the success of communications technologies in conveying ideas.
C)people are less likely to lie in instant messages.
D)people 's honesty levels across a range of communications media.
58.Hancock's research finding surprised those who belived that________________.
A)people are less likely to lie in instant messages.
B)people are unlikely to lie in face-to-face interactions.
C)people are most likely to lie in email communication
D)People are twice as likely to lie in phone conversations.
59. According to the passage,why are people more likely to tell the truth through certain media of communication?
A)They are afraid of leaving behind traces of their lies.
B)They believe that honesty is the best policy.
C)They tend to be relaxeg when using those media.
D)They are most practised at those forms of communication.
60. According to Hancock the telephone is a preferable medium for premoting sales because____________.
A)Salemen can talk directly to their cunstomers.
B)Salemen may feel less restrained to exaggerate.
C)Salemen can impress customers as being trustworthy.
D)Salemen may pass on instant messages effectively.
61. It can be inferren from the passage that_____________.
A)Honesty should be encouraged in interpersonal communications
B)more employers will use emails to communicate with their employees
C)suitable media should be chosem for different communication perposes
D) email is now the dominant medium of communication within a company.

Passage Two
 
Questions 62 to 66 are based on the following passage.
In a country that defines itself by ideals,not by shared blood,who should be allowed to come worl and live here?In the wake of the Sept.11 attacks these questions have never seemet more pressing.
on December .11,2001,as part of the effort to increase homeland securty ,federal and local authorities in 14 states staged "Operation Safe Travel" -raids on airports to arrest employees with false identification(身份证明).In Salt Lake City there were 69 arrests.But those captured were anything but terrorists,most of them illegal immigrants from Central or Sounth American .Authorities said the undocumented worker's illegal status made them open to blankmall(讹诈)by terrorists Many immigrants in Salt Lake City were angered by the arrests and said they felt as if they were being treated like disposable goods.
Mayor Anderson said those feelings were judtified to a certain extent."We're saying we want you to work in these places,we're going to look the other way in terms of what our laws are,and then when it's convenient for us,or when we can try to make a point in terms of national security,especially after Sept.11,then you'er disposable There are whole families being uprooted for all of the wrong reasons,"Anderson said.
If Sept.11 had never happened the airport workers would not have been arrested and could have gone on quietly living in America,probably indefinitely .Ana Castro,a ,amanager at a Ben & Jerry'sice cream shop at the airport.had been working 10 years with the same false Social Aecurity card when she was arrested in the December airport raid.Now she and her family are living under the threat of deporation(驱逐出境)。Castro's case is currently waiting to be settled.While she awaits the outcome ,the government has granted her permission to work here and she has returned to her job at Ben&Jerry's.
62.Accroding to the author ,the United States claims to be a nation____________.
A)composed of people having different vaules
B)encouraging individual pursuits
C)sharing common interests
D)founded on shared ideals
63.How did the immigrants in Salt Lake City feel about "Operation Safe Travel" ?
A)Guilty
B)Offended
C)Disappointed
D)Discouraged
64.Undocumented workers became the target of"Operation Safe Travel" because__________.
A)evidence was found that they were potential terrorists
B)most of them worked at airports under threat of terrorists
C)terrorists might take advantage of their illgal status
D) they were reportedly helping hide terrorists around the airport.
65.By saying"...we're going to look the other way in terms of what pur laws are"(Line 2 ,Para.4),Mayor Aiderson means"________________".
A)we will turn a blind eye to your illegal atatus
B)we will examine the laws in a different way
C)there are other ways of enforcing the law
D) the existing laws must not be ignored
66.What do we learn about Ana Castro from the last paragraph?
A)she will be deported sooner or later.
B)She is allowed to stady permanently .
C)Her case has been dropped
D)Her fate remains uncertain.