2024英语专业4级真题集训

作者简介

刘绍龙，语言学博士，国家社科基金项目主持人，原广东外语外贸大学高级翻译学院教授、副院长。在《外语教学与研究》《外国语》《中国翻译》《现代外语》《中国外语》《外语与外语教学》《外语研究》《外语教学》等学术期刊上发表论文30余篇，并主持普通高等教育“十五”国家级规划教材项目，主编英语专业本科生系列教材《听说教程》1～4册（上海外语教育出版社）和英语专业4、8级辅导教材20余本。

内容简介

适用对象： 英语基础弱的考生，语法基础差的考生；专四词汇量少，大一开始备考专四的学生；第二次考专四的学生；阅读文章生词很多，看不懂文章的考生。 推荐理由： 1. 由专四专八命题研究中心上海外国语大学名师主审，从命题者角度分析真题，基础弱的学生也看得懂； 2. 试卷和答案解析分册装订，方便对照答案和学习； 3. 大题量训练：10套真题 20篇听写 10篇讲座 16篇会话 10篇完型 10套语言运用 23篇阅读 10篇作文； 真题淘金式详解6大模块，适合基础弱考生：听力双语字幕、全文翻译、难句归纳、词汇注释、解题技巧、干扰项排除； 5. 紧跟听写改革，所有听写真题及训练的音频与2022年真题模式一致，第2、3遍由逐句重复的朗读方式改为全文读完第2遍再读第3遍； 真题音频均为考场原音，配套同步中英双语字幕，可在线听，可下载，可倍速，适合精听提升； 7. 专项解题技巧及精选课12节，讲解题型、答题步骤和技巧，帮忙考生熟悉题型，掌握考场应试技巧。

书籍目录

（注：2020年停考，故缺2020年真题） 英语专四真题试卷TEM4级试题册2024—2014 英语专四真题试卷TEM4级答案册2024—2014 英语专业四级听写与听力理解基础训练 语专业四级阅读理解与写作基础训练 英语专业四级完型填空与语言运用基础训练 高频专四词汇（附册） 专四真题新题型试卷、专四听力新题型基础训练与附册听力录音（扫码获取音频与字幕） 听写与听力理解视频课3节（听写·听力理解基础训练内文扫码获取）；完型填空与语言运用视频课2节（完型填空·语言运用基础训练内文扫码获取）；阅读理解与写作视频课2节（阅读理解·写作基础训练内文扫码获取）； 专四精选课程7节（封底扫码获取）。

试读内容

(1) Downturn’s new spending habits show the way to greater satisfaction.

(2) As the months passed, out went stacks of sweaters, shoes, pots and pans, even the television after a trial separation during which it was relegated to a closet. Eventually, Tammy Strobel and her husband Logan Smith, both 31, got rid of their cars, too. Her mother called her crazy. Today, three years after the couple began downsizing, they live in a studio with a nice-sized kitchen. They have money to travel and to contribute to the education funds of nieces and nephews. Because their debt is paid off, Ms. Strobel works fewer hours, giving her time to be outdoors and to volunteer. “The idea that you need to go bigger to be happy is false,” she says. “I really believe that the acquisition of material goods doesn’t bring about happiness.”

(3) While Ms. Strobel and her husband overhauled their spending habits before the recession, legions of other consumers have since had to adapt in ways that could ultimately make them happier.

(4) New studies of consumption and happiness show, for instance, that people are happier when they spend money on experiences instead of material objects.

(5) While the current round of stinginess may simply be a response to the economic downturn, some analysts say consumers may also be permanently adjusting their spending based on what they’ve discovered about what truly makes them happy or fulfilled.

(6) “This actually is a topic that hasn’t been researched very much until recently,” says Elizabeth Dunn, a psychology professor, who is at the forefront of research on consumption and happiness. “There’s massive literature on income and happiness. It’s amazing how little there is on how to spend your money.”

(7) Studies over the last few decades have shown that money, up to a certain point, makes people happier because it lets them meet basic needs. The latest round of research is all about emotional efficiency: how to reap the most happiness for your dollar.

(8) One major finding is that spending money for an experience — concert tickets, language lessons, dumpling-making classes — produces longer-lasting satisfaction than spending money on plain old stuff. “‘It’s better to go on a vacation than buy a new couch’ is basically the idea,” says Professor Dunn. Jennifer Black, president of the retailing research company Jennifer Black & Associates, said: “I think people are realizing they don’t need what they had. They’re more interested in creating memories.”

(9) Unlike consumption of material goods, spending on leisure and services typically strengthens social bonds, which in turn helps amplify happiness, research suggests. Paying for experiences also gives us longer-lasting happiness, because we can reminisce about them, researchers says. That’s true for even the most exasperating of experiences. That trip to Rome during which you waited in endless lines, broke your camera and argued with your spouse will typically be airbrushed with “rosy recollection”, says Professor Dunn. “Trips aren’t all perfect, but we remember them as perfect.”

(10) And experiences can’t be absorbed at once — it takes more time to adapt to them and engage with them than it does to put on a new leather jacket or turn on that shiny flat-screen TV. “We buy a new house, we get accustomed to it,” says Professor Lyubomirsky, who studies what psychologists call “hedonic adaptation”, a phenomenon in which people quickly become used to changes, great or terrible, in order to maintain a stable level of happiness. “We stop getting pleasure from it,” she says. And then, of course, we buy new things. Scholars have discovered that one way consumers combat hedonic adaptation is to buy many small pleasures instead of one big one. Instead of a new Jaguar, Professor Lyubomirsky advises, buy a massage once a week, have lots of fresh flowers delivered and make phone calls to friends overseas. Instead of a two-week long vacation, take a few three-day weekends. “We do adapt to the little things,” she says, “but because there’s so many, it will take longer.”

(11) Ms. Strobel now writes about her own life choices on the Internet. “My lifestyle now would not be possible if I still had a huge two-bedroom apartment filled with stuff, two cars, and 30 grand in debt,” she says. “Give away some of your stuff. See how it feels.”