2017年6月大学英语四级真题(三套全)及答案.docxVIP

第 第 PAGE \* MERGEFORMAT 1 页 共 NUMPAGES \* MERGEFORMAT 19 页 2017年6月大学英语四级真题及答案 (第一套) Part Ⅲ Reading Comprehension (40 minutes) Section A Questions 26 to 35 are based on the following passage. The method for making beer has changed over time. Hops (啤酒花)，for example, which give many a modem beer its bitter flavor, are a (26)_______ recent addition to the beverage. This was first mentioned in reference to brewing in the ninth century. Now, researchers have found a (27)_______ingredient in residue (残留物）from 5,000-year-old beer brewing equipment. While digging two pits at a site in the central plains of China, scientists discovered fragments from pots and vessels. The different shapes of the containers (28)_______ they were used to brew, filter, and store beer. They may be ancient “beer-making tools,” and the earliest (29_______ evidence of beer brewing in China, the researchers reported in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. To (30)_______ that theory, the team examined the yellowish, dried (31)_______ inside the vessels. The majority of the grains, about 80%, were from cereal crops like barley (大麦),and about 10% were bits of roots, (32)_______lily,which would have made the beer sweeter, the scientists say. Barley was an unexpected find: the crop was domesticated in Western Eurasia and didnt become a (33)_______food in central China until about 2,000 years ago, according to the researchers. Based on that timing, they indicate barley may have (34)_______ in the region not as food, but as (35)_______material for beer brewing. 注意：此部分试题请在答题卡2上作答。 Arrived B) consuming C) direct D) exclusively E) including F) inform G) raw H) reached I) relatively J) remains K)resources L) staple M) suggest N) surprising O) test Section B 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 der