英語四級考試真題試卷及答案【三套全】

1、20XX 年 12 月英語四級考試真題及答案【三套全】Part I Writing (30 minutes)Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write an essay commenting on the sayingListe ning is more importa nt tha n talk in g? You can cite examples to illustrate the importa nce ofpaying attention to others opinions. You should w

2、rite at least 120words but no more tha n 180words.注意：此部分試題在答題卡1 上Flirt IIListening Compreliension(30 minutes)Seztion ADirections：hi Ulis艸unll Item S sltort comtsations and 2 knig convetsatiotis. AfOie cud of each caier$nti&itrotiv oi tiiorc qttestiotis 苗皿 1 疋 askcti 皿血甘 was 訊 S. Eofhflicamvcrsatwn a

3、nd 斑 grgHous 諭 I be spoken ni!yQJICC. After each qucsitaii dtcre unll be a pause.Dwrwjg ilic pause, ym nmst rcati tlic jvnr cticiccs ttiaiiicd A)fB)fC)回羽 D)farid decide which is Uwbest aiicr. Theft riMrk ttw ccnrcspatidui letter on Answer Sheet 1 witli a single line fhrotih t)iccentre.注意：此部分試題請在答翼卡

4、E 上作答.1.A) They admire the courage of space explorers.B) They were going to watch a won derful movie.C) They enjoyed the movie on space explorati on.D) They like doing scientific exploration very much.2.A) In a school library.B) At a gift shop.C) In the office of a travel age ncy.D) At a graduati on

5、 ceremony.3.A) He used to work in the art gallery.B) He does not have a good memoiy.C) He is not in terested in any part-time jobs.D) He decli ned a job offer from the art gallery.4.A) He will be un able to atte nd the birthday party.B) The woma n should have in formed him earlier.C) He will go to t

6、he birthday party after the lecture.D) Susa n has bee n in vited to give a lecture tomorrow.5.A) Set a deadli ne for the staff to meet.B) Assig n more workers to the project.C) Reward those havi ng made good progress.D) En courage the staff to work in small groups.6.A) Where she can leave her car.B)

7、 The rate for park ing in Lot C.C) How far away the park ing lot is.D) The way to the visitors park ing.7.A) He regrets miss ing the classes.B) He has ben efited from exercise.C) He pla ns to take the fitn ess classes.12.D) He is look ing forward to a better life.8.A) How to select secretaries.B) Ho

8、w to raise work efficie ncy.C) The resp on sibilities of secretaries.D) The secretaries in the mans compa ny.Questions 9 to 11 are based on the conversation you have just heard.9.A) It is used by more people tha n En glish.B) It is more difficult to lear n tha n En glish.C) It will be as com monly u

9、sed as En glish.D) It will eve ntually become a world Ian guage.10.A) Its popularity with the com mon people.B) The effect of the In dustrial Revolutio n.C) The in flue nee of the British Empire.D) Its loa n words from many Ian guages.11.A) It has a grow ing nu mber of n ewly coined words.B) It in c

10、ludes a lot of words from other Ian guages.C) It is the largest among all la nguages in the world.D) It can be easily picked up by overseas travellers.Questions 12 to 15 are based on the conversation you have just heard.A) To place an order.B) To apply for a job.C) To return some goods.D) To make a

11、compla int.13.A) He works on a part-time basis for the company.B) He has not worked in the sales departme nt for long.C) He is not familiar with the exact details of the goods.D) He has become somewhat impatie nt with the woma n.14.A) It is not his resp on sibility.B) It win be free for large orders

12、.C) It depe nds on a nu mber of factors.D) It costs 15 more for express delivery.15.A) Make inq uiries with some other compa ni es.B) Report the information to her superior.C) Pay a visit to the saleswoma n in charge.D) Ring back whe n she comes to a decisi on.Section BDii action In thh section, yow

13、 Jicar 3 sJiort passages. At flic enA of eachyew 説 MHlicar sonic questionsBoth E址 嚴訊尉and tiie qncstits will 恥 spoken otily cticc. After you Iwar a(juestion, yon tnust dioosc tlw best tvi$ii?er fiotti t!忙fimt choicer nintkedA), B)fC) and D 人 Tltcit marktileC?TJletter an Answer Sheet 1 smlc Unc Huotig

14、h Hie ccritic.注意匕此部分試羈請在答題卡 1 上作答.Passage OneQuestio ns 16 to 18 are based on the con versati on you have just heard.16.A) No one knows for sure whe n they came into being.B) No one knows exactly where they were first made.C) No one knows for what purpose they were inven ted.D) No one knows what the

15、y will look like in the future.17.A) Measure the speed of wind.B) Give warnings of dan ger.C) Pass on secret messages.D) Carry ropes across rivers.18.A) To find out the stre ngth of silk for kites.B) To test the effects of the light ning rod.C) To prove that light ning is electricity.D) To protect h

16、ouses aga inst light ning.Passage TwoQuesti ons 19 to 22 are based on the passage you have just heard.19.A) She was born with a tale nt for Ian guages.B) She was trained to be an in terpreter.C) She can speak several la nguages.D) She enjoys teach ing Ian guages.20.A) They want to lear n as many for

17、eig n Ian guages as possible.B) They have an intense in terest in cross-cultural in teracti ons.C) They acquire an immun ity to culture shock.D) They would like to live abroad perma nen tly.21.A) She became an expert in horse rac ing.B) She lear ned to appreciate classical music.C) She was able to t

18、ran slate for a Germa n sports judge.D) She got a cha nee to visit several Europea n coun tries.22.A) Take part in a cook ing competiti on.B) Taste the beef and give her comme nt.C) Teach vocabulary for food in En glish.D) Give cook ing less ons on Wester n food.Passage ThreeQuestions 23 to 25 are b

19、ased on the passage you have just heard.23.A) He had only a third-grade educati on.B) He once threate ned to kill his teacher.C) He ofte n helped his mother do housework.D) He grew up in a poor sin gle-pare nt family.24.A) Stupid.B) Active.C) Brave.D) Careless.25.A) Watch educati onal TV programs on

20、ly.B) Write two book reports a week.C) Help with housework.D) Keep a diary.Section CDirections: In /Jits scctio?ifyen icill hear a passage three hmes. QICHthe passage is read for flic firsttitJii：. you sJtoiiitl listen civ cjitUy fbr its gcticifil idea. Whe the passage is read /ixr血second護 w arcrequ

21、ired to fill 加 tiicrcipiircd to fill in the Vlmiks with flic exact ytwZwwrtf, FHUJ期血passage is冗M for Hie third yent should dicck wlutt卿?M7c ufrittcii,注意：此部分試題請在答翻卡上上作答。When you look up at the ni ght sky, what do you see? There are other _26_ bodies out there besidesthe moon and stars. One of the mos

22、t _27_ of these is a comet (彗星).Comets were formed around the same time the Earth was formed. They are _28_ ice and other frozen liquids and gases. _29_ these dirty sno wballs begi n to orbit the sun, just as the pla nets do.As a comet gets closer to the sun, some gases in it begi n to un freeze. Th

23、ey _30_ dust particles fromthe comet to form a huge cloud. As the comet gets even nearer to the sun, a solar wind blows the cloudbehind the comet, thus forming its tail. The tail and the _31_ fuzzy (模糊的) atmosphere around acomet are _32_ that can help ide ntify this _33_ in the ni ght sky.In any giv

24、en year, about a dozen known comets come close to the sun in their orbits. The average person cant see them all, of course. Usually there is only one or two a year bright eno ugh to be seen withthe _34_ eye. Comet Hale-Bopp, discovered in 1995, was an unusually bright comet. Its orbitbrought it _35_

25、 close to the Earth, within 122 million miles of it. But Hale-Bopp came a long way on itsearthly visit. It wont be back for ano ther four .【參考答案】26. heave nly27. fasci nat ing28. made up of29. Now and then30. comb ine with31. gen erally32. characteristics33. phe nomenon34. naked35. relativelyPartlll

26、 Reading Comprehension (40 minutes)Section ADirections: In this sect ion, there is a passage with ten bla nks. You are required to select one word foreach bla nk from a list of choices give n in a word bank followi ng the passage. Read thepassage through carefully before maki ng your choices. Each c

27、hoice in the bank is identified by a letter. Please mark the corresp onding letter for each item on An swer Sheet 2with a sin gle line through the cen tre. You may not use any of the words in the bank moretha n onceQuestions 36 to 45 are based on the following passage.Scholars of the in formati on s

28、ociety are divided over whether social in equality decreases or in creasesin an in formati on-based society. However, they gen erally agree with the idea that in equality in the informatio n society is _36_ differe nt from that of an in dustrial society. As in formatizati on progressesin society, th

29、e cause and structural n ature of social in equality cha nges as well.It seems that the in formati on society _37_ the qua ntity of in formati on available to the members ofa society by revoluti onizing the ways of using and excha nging in formati on. But such a view is a_38_ an alysis based on the

30、qua ntity of in formati on supplied by various forms of the mass media. Adiffere nt _39_ is possible whe n the actual amount of in formatio n _40_ by the user is take n intoacco un t. In fact, the more in formatio n _41_ throughout the en tire society, the wider the gapbecomes betwee n in formati on

31、 haves and in formati on have-no ts , leadi ng to digital divide.Accord ing to rece nt studies, digital divide has bee n caused by three major _42_: class, sex, andgen erati on. In terms of class, digital divide exists among differe nt types of workers and betwee n theupper and middle classes and th

32、e lower class. With _43_ to sex, digital divide exists betwee n menand wome n. The greatest gap, however, is betwee n the Net-ge nerati on, _44_ with pers onalcomputers and the Intern et, and the older gen erati on, _45_ to an in dustrial society.A) accustomedB) acquiredC) assemblyD) attributeE) cha

33、mpi onsF) eleme ntsG) expandsH) familiarI)flowsJ) fun dame ntallyK) in terpretati onL) passiveM) regardN) respectivelyO) superficialJoy: A Subject Schools LackBecoming educated should not require giving up pleasure.A) When Jonathan Swift proposed, in 1729, that the people of Ireland eat their childr

34、en, he insisted itwould solve three problems at once: feed the hungry masses, reduce the population duri ng a severedepressi on, and stimulate the restaura nt bus in ess. Even as a satire (諷朿 9), it seems disgusting andshocking in America with its child-centered culture. But actually, the country is

35、 closer to his proposal than you might think.B) If you spe nd much time with educators and policy makers, youll hear a lot of the follow ing words:standards, results, skills, self-control, accountability, and so on. I have visited some of the newer supposedly effective schools, where childre n shout

36、 sloga ns in order to leam self-c on trol ormust sta nd beh ind their desk whe n they cant sit still.C) A look at what goes on in most classrooms these days makes it abundantly clear that when peoplethink about educatio n, they are not thinking about what it feels like to be a child, or what makesch

37、ildhood an importa nt and valuable stage of life in its own right.D) rm a mother of three, a teacher, and a developme ntal psychologist. So rve watched a lot of children talk ing, play ing, arguing, eat ing, study ing, and being young. Heres whatve come to un derstand. The thi ng that sets childre n

38、 apart from adults is not their ignorance, nor their lack of skills. Its theireno rmous capacity for joy. Think of a 3-year-old lost i n the pleasures of finding out what he can andcannot sink in the bathtub, a 5-year-old beside herself with the thrill of putt ing together stri ngs ofnonsen sical wo

39、rds with her best frien ds, or an 11-year-old completely absorbed in a fasc in ati ngcomic strip. A childs ability to become deeply absorbed in someth ing, and derive intense pleasure fromthat absorption, is something adults spend the rest of their lives trying to return to.E） A frie nd told me the

40、followi ng story. One day, whe n he went to get his 7-year-old son from soccerpractice, his kid greeted him with a dow ncast face and a sad voice. The coach had criticized him for notfocus ing on his soccer drills. The little boy walked out of the school with his head and shouldershanging dow n. He

41、seemed wrapped in sad ness. But just before he reached the car door, he suddenlystopped, crouching （蹲伏）down to peer at something on the sidewalk. His face went dow n lower andlower, and the n, with complete joy he called out, Dad. Come here. This is the stra ngest bug rve eversee n. It has, like, a

42、millio n legs. Look at this. Its amaz in g. He looked upat his father, his features overflowing with energy and delight. Cant we stay here for just a minu te? Iwant to find out what he does with all those legs. This is the coolest ever.F） The traditional view of such moments is that they constitute

43、a charming but irrelevant byproduct ofyouth something to be pushed aside to make room for more important qualities, like perseveranee（堅持不懈 ） ,obligation, and practicality. Yet moments like this one are just the kind of intense absoiption and pleasure adults spe nd the rest of their lives seek ing. H

44、uma n livesare gover ned by the desire to experie nee joy. Beco ming educated should not require givi ng up joy butrather lead to finding joy in new kinds of thin gs: readi ng no vels in stead of play ing with small figures,con duct ingexperime nts in stead of sinking cups in the bathtub, and debati

45、 ng serious issues rather tha n stri ngingtogether nonsense words, for example. In some cases, schools should help childre n find n ew, moregrow n-up ways of doing the same things that are con sta nt sources of joy: making art, making frien ds,making decisi ons.G） Buildi ng on a childs ability to fe

46、el joy, rather tha n push ing it aside, would nt be that hard. It wouldjust require a shift in the education worlds mindset（思維模式） .Instead of trying to get childre n to workhard, why not focus on gett ing them to take pleasure in meanin gful, productive activity, like making things, work ing with ot

47、hers, explori ng ideas, and solv ing problems? These focuses are not so differe ntfrom the things in which they delight.H） Before you brush this argume nt aside as rubbish, or think of joy as an un affordable luxury in anation where there is awful poverty, low academic achievement, and high dropout

48、rates, think aga in.The more horrible the school circumsta nces, themore importa nt pleasure is to achievi ngany educati onal success.I） Many of the assig nments and rules teachers come up with, ofte n because they are pressured bytheir adm ini strators, treat pleasure and joy as the en emies of com

49、pete nee and resp on sibility. Theassumpti on is that childre n should nt chat i n the classroom because it hin ders hard work; in stead,they should lea in to delay gratificatio n （，快樂）so that they can pursue abstract goals, like going tocollege.J) Not only is this a bori ng and awful way to treat c

50、hildre n, it makes no sense educati on ally. Decadesof research have show n that i n order to acquire skills and real kno wledge in school, kidsneed to want to learn. You can force a child to stay in his or her seat, fill out a worksheet, or practicedivision. But you cant force the child to think ca

51、refully, erjoy books, digest complex in formatio n, ordevelop a taste for lear ning. To make that happe n, you have to help the child find pleasure inlearning to see school as a source of joy.K) Adults tend to talk about lear ning as if it were medic ine; un pleasa nt, but n ecessary and goodfor you

52、. Why not in stead think of lear ning as if it were food someth ing so valuable to huma nsthat they have evolved to experie nee it as a pleasure?L) Joy should not be trained out of childre n or left for after-school programs. The more difficult a childslife circumsta nces, the more importa nt it is

53、for that child to find joy in his or her classroom. Pleasureis not a dirty word. And it does nt run coun ter to the goals of public educatio n. It is, in fact, the prec onditi on.46. It will not be difficult to make learning a source of joy if educators change their way of thi nki ng.47. What disti

54、nguishes childre n from adults is their strong ability to derive joy from what they are doing.48. Childre n in America are being treated with shock ing cruelty.49. It is huma n n ature to seek joy in life.50. Grow n-ups are likely to thi nk that lear ning to childre n is what medici ne is to patie n

55、ts.51. Bad school con diti ons make it all the more importa nt to turn lear ning into a joyful experie nee.52. Adults do not con sider childre ns feeli ngs whe n it comes to educati on.53. Administrators seem to believe that only hard work will lead children to their educational goals.54. I n the so

56、-called effective schools, childre n are taught self-c on trol un der a set of strict rules.55. To make lear ning effective, educators have to en sure that childre n want to leam.Passage OneQuestions 56 to 60 are based on the following passage.When its five oclock, people leave their office. The len

57、 gth of the workday, for many workers, is defi nedby time. They leave whe n the clock tells them theyre done.These days, the time is everywhere-, not just on clocks or watches, but on cell-phones and computers.That may be a bad thing, particularly at work. New research shows that clock-based work sc

58、heduleshinder morale ( 士氣)and creativity.Clock-timers orga nize their day by blocks of mi nu tes and hours. For example: a meeti ng from 9 a. m.to 10 a. m. , research from 10 a. m. to noon, etc. On the other hand, task-timers have a list of things theywant to accomplish. They work dow n the list, ea

59、ch task starts whe n the previous task is completed. Itis said that all of us employ a mix of both these types of pla nning.What, the n, are the effects of thi nking about time in these differe nt ways? Does one make us moreproductive? Better at the tasks at hand? Happier? In experime nts con ducted

60、 by Tamar Avnet andAnne-Laure Sellier, they had participants organize different activities from project planning, holidayshopping, to yoga by time or to-do list to measure how they performed under clock time vs tasktime. They found clock timers to be more efficie nt but less happy because they felt