B) To show its effort to overcome complacency.
C) To show its quick adaptation to the digital revolution. D) To show its will to compete with Japan’s Fuji photo.
64. Why do large companies have difficulty switching to new markets? A) They find it costly to give up their existing assets. B) They tend to be slow in confronting new challenges. C) They are unwilling to invest in new technology. D) They are deeply stuck in their glorious past.
65. What does the author say Kodak’s history has become? A) A burden. B) A mirror. C) A joke.
D) A challenge.
66. What was Kodak’s fatal mistake?
A) Its blind faith in traditional photography. B) Its failure to see Fuji photo’s emergence. C) Its refusal to sponsor the 1984 Olympics. D) Its overconfidence in its corporate culture.
Part V Cloze (15 minutes)
Directions: There are 20 blanks in the following passage. For each blank there are four choices marked A), B), C) and D). You should choose the ONE that best fits into the passage. Then mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through the centre.
Whether you think you need daytime rest or not, picking up a nap（午睡）habit is a smart, healthy move. The Mayo Clinic says naps 67 relaxation, better mood and alertness, and a sharper working 68 . A 2008 British study found that compared to getting more nighttime sleep, a mid-day nap was the best way to cope 69 the mid-afternoon sleepiness.
According to the Harvard Health Letter, several studies have shown that people 70 new information better when they take a nap shortly after learning it. And, most 71 , a 2007 study of nearly 24,000 Greek adults in the Archives of Internal Medicine found that people who napped 72 had a 37 percent reduced risk of dying 73 heart disease compared to people who didn’t nap.
Of course, napping isn’t 74 for everyone. If you’re suffering from inability to sleep, naps that are too long or taken too late in the day can 75 with your ability to fall or stay asleep at night.
But for most, naps can make you feel sharper and happier. Naps provide different benefits 76 on how long they are. A 20-minute nap will boost alertness and concentration; a 90-minute snooze（小睡）can 77 creativity.
According to prevention.com, you 78 a natural dip in body temperature 79 1 p.m. and 3 p.m. A short nap at this time can boost alertness 80 several hours and, for most people, shouldn’t 81 being able to fall asleep at night.
Pick a dark, cozy place that’s not too warm or too chilly. prevention.com 82 snapping
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on the couch instead of in bed, so you’re less 83 to snooze for too long.
Surprisingly, the best place to take a nap may be a hammock（吊床）if you have one. A Swiss study 84 last year found that people fell asleep faster and had deeper sleep when they napped in a hammock than in a bed. That same rocking 85 that puts babies to sleep works 86 for grown-ups, too.
67. A) enforce B) promote C) operate D) support 68. A) feeling B) frame C) sense D) mind 69. A) with B) aside C) about D) upon 70. A) remark B) consider C) remember D) concern 71. A) reportedly B) incredibly C) constantly D) frankly 72. A) regularly B) enormously C) heavily D) strongly 73. A) off B) under C) against D) from 74. A) exact B) correct C) right D) precise 75. A) influence B) eliminate C) compete D) interfere 76. A) focusing B) depending C) relying D) basing 77. A) enlarge B) engage C) enhance D) enlighten 78. A) explore B) experience C) exercise D) execute 79. A) between B) amidst C) among D) besides 80. A) of B) beyond C) during D) for 81. A) produce B) dispose C) affect D) hasten 82. A) illustrates B) decides C) predicts D) recommends 83. A) inclined B) involved C) adopted D) attracted 84. A) pronounced B) published C) discovered D) cultivated 85. A) mood B) model C) motion D) motive 86. A) wonders B) passions C) mystery D) pleasure
Part VI Translation (5 minutes)
Directions: Complete the sentences by translating into English the Chinese given in brackets. Please write you translation on Answer Sheet 2.
87. Although only in her teens, my sister is looking forward to _________________（独自去海外学习 ).
88. It’s true that we are not always going to succeed in our ventures, _______________（即使我们投入时间和金钱 ).
89. The old couple hoped that their son ________________（将不辜负他们的期望 ).
90. So badly _________________(他在车祸中受伤 )that he had to stay in the hospital for a whole year.
91. Nowadays, some people still have trouble ________________（从网上获取信息 ).
2013年6月英语四级答案详解
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Part I Writing
对白
子：Dad, I'm a bit worried about disposing of nuclear waste（处理核废料）
父：If you can empty the dustbin（垃圾筒） here, you can do anything
范文：
The picture shows us a dialogue between a father and a son. The son told his father, “Dad, I’m a bit worried about disposing of nuclear waste”. While his father told him, “If you can empty the dustbin here you can do anything”. It reveals the importance of doing small things well before undertaking something big. There is also an old Chinese saying to go with this that a person can’t sweep the world before he can sweep his own room.
Unquestionably, doing small things is the first step of success and will layroot for doing something big. By doing something small, we are enabled to accumulate experience, master skills and train ourselves to be more patient. In other word, we can be well prepared for further challenges in the course of fulfilling small things. By contrast, those who set out to do something big will be constantly haunted by disappointment, frustrations or even failures. As when opportunity “something big” appears, they can hardly seize them because of the lack of experience and confidence stems from doing small things.Taking the picture presented above as a case in point, how can the little boy succeed in disposing of
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nuclear weapons if he even doesn’t know how to empty the dustbin? From my perspective, under no circumstances should we undervalue the power of doing small things. Instead, we should regard small things as the source of experience, skills and the prerequisite of success. “Great achievement only belongs to those who can do small things perfectly.” Aristotle once said.
Part II Reading Comprehension (Skimming and Scanning)
1. A. they are not rescued once a new edition comes out
2. B. They haven’t fixed all the shortcomings of print books. 3. A. they find it troublesome to take notes with an iPad. 4. D. they are no more than print versions put on a screen 5. C. a platform for building multimedia content
6. A. share his learning experience with the best and brightest thinkers 7. C. professors can join in students’ online discussions 8. manpower to put together each one 9. cost
10. remains to be seen 【整体点评】
这是一篇讨论电子课本能否取代纸质课本的议论文。电子书在现在社会已逐渐推广，因此，该话题对于考生而言并不陌生。文章通过对比，电子课本和纸质课本的优劣，最后，得出结论：电子课本未来能否取代纸质课本仍然是一个未知数。文章整体脉络清晰，论点鲜明。考生只要依照文章顺序，按图索骥，答对本篇阅读中的题目还是相对容易的。 【逐题细评】
1. 答案：A. they are not rescued once a new edition comes out 解析：【细节题】。由关键词the biggest problem 定位至文章第二段首句。由“But the worst part is that print editions of textbooks are constantly undergoing revisions.”可知，纸质版课本最大的问题是经常修订，因此，正确答案为A。
2. 答案：B. They haven’t fixed all the shortcomings of print books. 解析：【细节题】。由第三段“Which is why digital textbooks, if they live up to their promise, could help ease many of these shortcomings. But till now, they’ve been something like a mirage (幻影) in the distance,”可知，电子课本没能解决纸质书的所有问题。因此，正确答案为B。
3. 答案：A. they find it troublesome to take notes with an iPad. 解析：【细节题】。由Kalpit Shah定位到第五段。由“They weren’t using it as a source of communication because they couldn’t read or write in it.”可知，他们不使用电子书，是因为他们不能用电子书进行读写，因此，正确答案为A。
4. 答案：D. they are no more than print versions put on a screen 解析：【细节题】。由Inkling CEO Matt Maclnnis 定位到第九段。由 “What I
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mean by that is the current perspective of the digital textbook is it’s an exact copy of the print book. There’s Course Smart, etc., these guys who take an image of the page and put it on a screen.”可知，Course Smart现在的电子课本只是对纸质课本的复制，因此，正确答案为D。 5. 答案：C. a platform for building multimedia content 解析：【细节题】。由第十段首句“He calls Inkling a platform for publishers to build rich multimedia content from the ground up, with a heavy emphasis on real-world functionality.”可知，Matt Maclnnis 认为，Inkling是为出版商搭建丰富的多媒体资源的一个平台，因此，正确答案为C。
6. 答案：A. share his learning experience with the best and brightest thinkers 解析：【细节题】。由第14段首句 “But the most exciting part about Inkling，to me，is its notation (批注)system.”和第16段最后一句“The best comments are then sorted democratically by a voting system, meaning that your social learning experience is shared with the best and brightest thinkers.”，可知，最令作者兴奋的是，它的批注系统可以让用户与最优秀的人分享学习经验，因此，正确答案为A。
7. 答案：C. professors can join in students’ online discussions 解析：【细节题】。由第17段首句，“As a bonus, professors can even chime in (插话) on discussions.”可知，作为一项福利，教授们可以参与学生们的晚上讨论，因此，正确答案为C。
8．答案：manpower to put together each one 解析：【细节题】。由第21段“Each interactive textbook is a media-heavy experience built from the ground up, and you can tell that it takes a respectable amount of manpower to put together each one.”可知，因此，答案为manpower to put together each one。 9．答案：cost 解析：【细节题】。由第22段“For now the app is also iPad-exclusive, and though a few of these educational institutions are giving the hardware away for free, for other students who don’t have such a luxury it，s an added layer of cost and an expensive one at that”可知，因此，答案为cost。
10. 答案：remains to be seen 解析：【细节题】。由23段“Whether digitally interactive ones like Inkling actually take off or not remains to be seen, and we probably won’t have a definite answer for the next few years.”可知，因此，答案为remains to be seen。
Part III Listening Comprehension
Section A
Directions: In this section, you will hear 8 short conversations and 2 long conversations. At the end of each conversation, one or more questions will be asked about what was said. Both the conversation and the questions will be spoken only once. After each question there will be a pause. During
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2013年6月英语四级真题及答案详解 - 图文
