【正文】 anguage. D) They live on charity and social welfare. 59. What do many AfricanAmericans write about in their blogs? A) Whether Michelle can live up to the high expectations of her fans. B) How Michelle should behave as a public figure. C) How proud they are to have a black woman in the White House. D) What Michelle should do as wife and mother in the White … . 60. What does the author say about Michelle Obama as a First Lady? A) However many fans she has, she should remain modest, B) She shouldn’t disappoint the AfricanAmerican munity. C) However hard she tries, she can’t expect to please everybody. D) She will give priority to AfricanAmerican women’s concerns. 61. What do many AfricanAmerican women hope Michelle Obama will do? A) Help change the prevailing 盛行、占優(yōu)勢 view about black women. B) Help her husband in the task of changing America. C) Outshine previous First Lady. 4 D) Fully display her fine qualities. Passage Two Questions 62 to 66 are based on the following passage. When next year’s crop of highschool graduates arrive at Oxford University in the fall of 2022, they’ll be joined by a new face。s mood. C) Forcing a person to think positive thoughts may lower their 。t urged to think positive thoughts. The paper provides support for newer forms of psychotherapy (心理治療 ) that urge people to accept their negative thoughts and feelings rather than fight them. In the fighting, we not only often fail but can make things worse. Meditation (靜思 ) techniques, in contrast, can teach people to put their shortings into a larger, more realistic perspective. Call it the power of negative thinking. 62. What do we learn from the first paragraph about the selfhelp industry? A) It is a highly profitable industry. B) It is based on the concept 觀念 of positive thinking. C) It was established by Norman Vincent Peale. D) It has yielded positive results. 63. What is the finding of the Canadian researchers? A) Encouraging 鼓勵 positive thinking many do more harm than good. B) There can be no simple therapy for psychological problems. C) Unhappy people cannot think positively. D) The power of positive thinking is limited. 64. What does the author mean by … you39。 selfesteem. The participants were then asked to write down their thoughts and feelings for four minutes. Every 15 seconds, one group of students heard a bell. When it rang, they were supposed to tell themselves, I am lovable. Those with low selfesteem didn39。s authors, Joanne Wood and John Lee of the University of Waterloo and Elaine Perunovic of the University of New Brunswick, begin by citing older research showing that when people get feedback which they believe is overly positive, they actually feel worse, not better. If you tell your dim friend that he has the potential of an Einstein, you39。原因 B) The total number of passengers on board. C) The scene of the crash and extent of the damage. D) Homing signals sent by the pilot before the crash. 59. Why was the black box redesigned in 1965? A) New materials became available by that time. B) Too much space was needed for its installation. C) The early models often got damaged in the crash. D) The early models didn39。re still likely to turn up. In the approximately 20 deepsea crashes over the past 30 years, only one plane39。s final moments. Placed in an insulated (隔絕的 ) case and surrounded by a quarterinchthick panels of stainless steel, the boxes can withstand massive force and temperatures up to 2,000℉ . When submerged, they39。s homing signal five days later, the discovery marked a huge step toward determining the cause of a tragedy in which 152 passengers were killed. In 1958, Australian scientist David Warren developed a flightmemory recorder that would track basic information like altitude and direction. That was the first mode for a black box, which became a requirement on all . mercial flights by 1960. Early models often failed to withstand crashes, however, so in 1965 the device was pletely redesigned and moved to the rear of the plane – the area least subject to impact – from its original position in the landing wells (起落架艙 ). The same year, the Federal Aviation Authority required that the boxes, which were never actually black, be painted orange or yellow to aid visibility. Modern airplanes have two black boxes: a voice recorder, which tracks pilots39。re traveling and whether everything on your airplane is functioning normally. Their ability to withstand almost any disaster makes them seem like something out of a ic 39。 1 2022 年 6 月英語四級考試真題 Passage One Questions 57 to 61 are based on the following passage. You never see him, but they39。re with you every time you fly. They record where you are going,how fast you39。re known as the black box. When planes fall from the sky, as a Yemeni airliner did on its way to Comoros Islands in the India ocean June 30, 2022, the black box is the best bet for identifying what went wrong. So when a French submarine (潛水艇 ) detected the device39。 conversations,and a flightdata recorder, which monitors fuel levels, engine noises and other operating functions that help investigators reconstruct the aircraft39。re also able to emit signals from depths of 20,000 ft. Experts believe the boxes from Air France Flight 447, which crashed near Brazil on June 1,2022, are in water nearly that deep, but statistics say they39。s black boxes were never recovered. 57. What does the author say about the black box? A) It ensures the normal functioning of an airplane. B) The idea for its design es from a ic book. C) Its ability to ward off disasters is ，難以置信的 D) It is an indispensable device on an airplane. 58. What information could be found from the black box on the Yemeni airliner? A) Data