awaken2012年12月英语四级完整版真题

2021年1月8日发(作者：敖明模)
2012年12月英语四级完整版真题:第二套
Questions 19 to 21 are based on the conversation you have just heard.

19. A) Make phone calls to promote sales.
B) Arrange business negotiations.
C) Handle complaints from customers.
D) Take orders over the phone.

20. A) They had different business strategies.
B) Customers often mistook one for the other.
C) Conflicts between them could not be properly solved.
D) Customers' questions could not be answered on the same day.

21. A) They each take a week.
B) They like to spend it together.
C) They have to take it by turns.
D) They are given two weeks each.

Questions 22 to 25 are based on the conversation you have just heard.
22. A) At a road crossing.
B) Outside a police station.
C)
D) In front of a kindergarten.

23. A) He drove too fast to read it.
B) He did not notice it.
C) It says 45 miles an hour.
D) It is not clearly visible.



24. A) It should have been renewed two months ago.
B) It actually belongs to somebody else.
C) It is no longer valid.
D) It is not genuine.

25. A) He got a ticket.
B) He was fined $$35.
C) He had his driver's license canceled.
D) He had to do two weeks' community service.

Section B
Passage One
Questions 26 to 29 are based on the conversation you have just heard.

26. A) They care more about an item's price than its use.
B) They grab whatever they think is a good bargain.
C) They become excited as if they had never been there.
D) They behave as if their memories have failed totally.

27. A) Those with a VIP card. C) Those needing assistance.
B) Those with 15 items or less. D) Those paying in cash.

28. A) Go back and pick up more items. C) Change the items they have
picked up.
B) Take out some unwanted purchases. D) Calculate the total cost of the
groceries.

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29. A) It calls for carefulness. C) It needs a good knowledge of math.
B) It requires tolerance. D) It involves communication skills.

Passage Two
Questions 30 to 32 are based on the passage you have just heard.

30. A) A package of ideas formally presented.
B) A short presentation clearly delivered.
C) A natural and spontaneous style ot speech.
D) A clever use of visual aids in presentation.

31. A) The skillful use of gestures and facial expressions.
B) Differences in style between writing and speaking.
C) Different preferences of audiences.
D) The importance of preparation.

32. A) The differences between American and Asian cultures.
B) The significance of cross-cultural communication.
C) The increasing importance of public speaking.
D) The key to becoming a good speaker.

Passage Three

Questions 33 to 35 are based on the passage you have just heard.

33. A) By comparing his performance with others'.
B) By being repeatedly .
C) By observing what their teachers do.


D) By being given constant praise.

34. A) The best students are usually smart by nature.
B) It is only natural for children to make errors.
C) Children cannot detect their own mistakes.
D) All children should have equal opportunities.

35. A) It is favorable to knowledge accumulation.
B) It is beneficial to independent children.
C) It is unhealthy to students' upbringing.
D) It is unhelpful to students' learning.

Passage One
Questions 57 to 61 are based on the following passage.

I've worked in the factories surrounding my hometown every summer
since I graduated from high school. but making the transition（转变）
between school and full-time blue-collar work during the break never gets
any easier. For a student like me who considers any class before noon to
be uncivilized, getting to a factory by 6 o'clock each morning is torture. My
friends never seem to understand why I'm so relieved to be back at school
or that my summer vacation has been anything but a vacation.
There're few people as self-confident as a college student who has
never been out in the real world. People my age always seem to
overestimate the value of their time and knowledge. In fact, all the classes
did not prepare me for my battles with the machine 1 ran in the plant,
which would jam whenever I absent-mindedly put in a part backward .
The most stressful thing about blue-collar life is knowing your job
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could disappear overnight. Issues like downsizing（裁员）and overseas
relocation had always seemed distant to me until my co-workers told me
that the unit I was working in would shut down within six months and
move to Mexico, where people would work for 60 cents an hour.
After working 12-hour shifts in a factory, the other options have
become only too clear. When I'm back at the university, skipping classes
and turning in lazy re-writes seems too irresponsible after seeing what I
would be doing without school. All the advice and public-service
announcements about the value of an education that used to sound stale
now ring true.
These lessons I'm learning, however valuable, are always tinged（带
有）with a sense of guilt. Many people pass their lives in the places I briefly
work, spending 30 years where I spend only two months at a time.
job pays well, but it's hell on the body,
and keep reading,
My experiences in the factories have inspired me to make the most of
my college years before I enter the real world for good.

57. How did the author look back on his summer days while at college?
A) They brought him nothing but torture.
B) They were no holiday for him at all.
C) They were a relief from his hard work at school.
D) They offered him a chance to know more people.

58. What does the author say about college students?
A) They expect too much from the real world.
B) They have little interest in blue-collar life.
C) They think too highly of themselves.


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D) They are confident of their future.

59. What, according to the author, is most frustrating for blue-collar
workers?
A) They do not get decent pay.
B) They do not have job security.
C) They have to work 12-hour shifts.
D) They have to move from place to place.

60. In what important way has the author's work experience changed him?
A) He learned to be more practical.
B) He acquired a sense of urgency.
C) He came to respect blue-collar workers.
D) He came to appreciate his college education

61. Why does the author feel somewhat guilty?
A) He realizes there is a great divide between his life and that of blue-collar
workers.
B) He looks down upon the mechanical work at the assembly line.
C) He has not done much to help his co-workers at the factory.
D) He has stayed at school just for the purpose of escaping from the real
world.


Passage Two
Questions 62 to 66 are based on the following passage.

Are people suffering from gadget（小器具）overload? Are they
exhausted by the consumer equivalent of the brain fatigue- information
overload that is caused by constant updates of devices and online media?
Underwriters Laboratories issued a report last week that found 48%
of consumers
faster than people need them.
There are two possible explanations. The first, obvious one is that the
pace of innovation（创新）is too fast for consumers. The second less
obvious one is that, in fact, innovation is too slow. That is, the new
offerings companies are pushing out the door every six months or so are
me-too products or ones with just a couple of new features. Marketing
schedules, not product innovation, are driving the corporate（公司的）train.
Manufacturers in America valued to marketmore than in other
countries, the report found.
Sara Greenstein, Underwriters Laboratories' chief strategy officer,
offered her interpretation of the survey results.
if corners are cut.
For the high-tech sector, there are a few other interesting findings.
Consumers are less concerned about safety in high-tech products than
categories like fresh and processed food. But their top safety concerns are
emissions and wireless radio waves. Many people, it seems, are uneasy
living in a thickening cloud of radio waves from mobile phone towers and
the gadgets they communicate with.
A finding that was a hit surprising is that to consumers, the inner
parts of high-tech devices do apparently matter. Some 55% of consumers,
according to the report, said they are concerned about where
high-tech components come from than where the product was
assembled.
The report doesn't really say how that information would affect


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consumer buying decisions. It could be complicated. Manufacturing
companies on average rely on more than 35 contract suppliers around the
world to create a single product. That number would be higher for a
laptop.

But maybe some sort of supply-chain labeling showing where parts
come from in a product?

注意：此部分试题请在答题卡2上作答。

62. What is the finding in Underwriters Laboratories' report about many
consumers?
A) They are exhausted by the information overload.
B) They are tired of the constant updating of devices.
C) They feel products are updated faster than needed.
D) They have difficulty following high-tech innovations.

63. What does the author mean by
A) Products with no substantial difference.
B) Products tailored to individual users.
C) Products everyone is eager to possess.
D) Products companies compete to make.

64. What do American businesses give priority to when marketing their
products?
A) The constant updating of their technology.
B) The speed of putting them on the market.
C) The quality of their new products.
D) The pace of product innovation.

65. What is the consumers' chief concern about high-tech products?
A) User- friendliness. B) Product quality.
C) Place of assembly. D) Radio emissions.

66. Why does the author suggest supply-chain labeling?
A) It guarantees the safe shipping of products.
B) It promotes the competitiveness of the supplier.
C) Consumers care about where components are made.
D) Consumers tend to buy products they are .
Conversation One

W: So John ,I hear you and Arthur share a job, don't you?

M: Yeah .(19) We 've shared a sales job at Sonatech for about two years
now.

W: Well ,how do you divide up your schedule?

M: (19)You know we are both sales representatives and we take orders
over the phone. When we started job sharing it was difficult, because we
both worked all day Monday. I worked Tuesday and Thursday and Arthur worked
Wednesday and Friday. (20)The problem was that when I was in the office
on Tuesday, I would talk to people. Then they would call back on Wednesday
with a question. But Arthur couldn't answer the question and he couldn't
ask me about it because I wasn't in the office. So he had to ask the people
to call me back the next day, Thursday. Of course, they didn't like to wait
until the next day to have their questions answered.

W: Yes, that sounds like a problem.

M: So, finally we decided that Arthur would work in the mornings and
I would work in the afternoons. Now if someone calls with the question for
me in the morning, Arthur tells them to call me in the afternoon. This way,
people get their questions answered the same day.

W: What do you do about vacations?

M: Well, (21)Sonatech gives the usual two weeks of vacation to
full-time employees. I take a week and Arthur takes a week.

W: It sounds like job sharing has worked out well for you.

M: Yes, it has. We are both happy with it.

19. What do John and Arthur do at Sonatech？ 答案：D)

20. What problem did John and Arthur have when they started job
sharing？答案：D)

21. What does John say about their annual vacation？答案：A)

Conversation Two

W: May I see your license, please?

M: But officer, did I do something wrong?

W: (23) Do you mean to say you didn't see the speed limit sign back
there?

M: (23) Um , no , ma'am, I guess 1 didn't.

W: In other words, you drove by too fast to read it. The sign says 35
miles an hour. (22)A school is just nearby, you know.



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M: Don't get me wrong, but my speedometer didn't read much faster than
that.

W: Then , why is it that my radar showed you were going 45? Let me put
it another way. I'm going to have to give you a ticket. Again, may I see
your license, please?

M: Here it is ,officer. But let me explain. I was late for an important
appointment and I was worried that I wouldn't make it on time. So...

W: Aha,just a minute,here. (24) Your license is no longer valid. You
should have renewed it two weeks ago. I'm going to have to write you up
for that, too.

M: What? Really?

W: Your license becomes invalid on your birthday and that was two weeks
ago according to the date here. You are in violation of the law-driving
without a valid license.

M: I'm sorry, ma'am. I hadn't realized that.

W: (25) Here's the ticket for not having a valid license. But I'm only
going to give you a warning about exceeding the speed limit .Be careful
next time.

M: Yes, ma'am, officer, I will. Thank you.

22. Where was the man stopped by the police officer？答案：C)

23. What did the man claim about the speed limit sign？答案：B)

24. What did the woman say about the man's driving license？答案：
C)



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B)

25. What was the man's penalty？答案：A)

Section B

Passage One

Since I started working part-time at a grocery store, I have learned
that a customer is more than someone who buys something.(26)To me, a
customer is a person whose memory fails entirely once he or she started
to push a shopping card. One of the first things customers forget is how
to count. (27)there is no other way to explain how so many people get in
their express line, which is clearly marked 15 items or less, with 20,25
or even a cart load of items.(28)Customers also forget why they came the
store in the first place. Just as I finish ringing up an order, a customer
will say, “Oops ,I forgot to pick up a fresh loaf of bread. I hope you
don't mind waiting while I go get it. ”Five minutes later, he's back with
the bread ,a bottle of milk and three rolls of paper towels. Strange as
it seems customers also seem to forget that they have to pay for their
groceries. Instead of writing a check or looking for a credit card while
I am ringing up the groceries, my customer will wait until I announce the
total. Then ,in surprise, she says,
book?
because she's forgotten hers. (29)But I have to be tolerant of customers
because they pay my salary, and that's something I can't afford to forget.

26. What does the speaker say about customers' entering the grocery
store？答案：D)

27. Which customers are supposed to be in the express line？答案：
28. What does the speaker say some customers do when they arrive at
the check-out counter？答案：A)

29. What does the speaker say about his job at the end of the talk？
答案：B)

Passage Two

The speech delivery style of Europeans and Asians tends to be very
formal. Speakers of these cultures often read oral presentations from
carefully written manuscripts. On the other hand, American speakers are
generally more informal relative to speakers in other cultures. (30)
American audiences prefer a natural,spontaneous delivery, that conveys a
lively sense of communication. They don't relay well to speakers who read
from a manuscript. If you use an outline of your ideas instead of a prepared
text, your speech will not only sound more natural, but you will also be
able to establish better relationship with your listeners and keep their
attention. (31)The language and style you use when making an oral
presentation should not be the same as the language and style you use when
writing. Well-written information, that is meant to be read, does not work
as well when it is heard. It is, therefore, important for you to adapt
written texts or outlines for presentations. Good speakers are much more
informal when speaking than when writing. They also use their own words
and develop their own speaking styles. Whenever possible, they use short
words. Listeners appreciate it when speakers use simple, everyday words
in a presentation. One advantage is that it's much easier for speakers to
pronounce short words correctly. Another is that long and sophisticated
vocabulary choices make listening more difficult.

30. What does the speaker say American audiences prefer？答案：C)



31. What should one pay attention to when making an oral presentation？
答案：B)

32. What does the speaker focus on in the talk？答案：D)

Passage Three

Let Children Learn to Judge Their Own Work

A child learning to talk doesnot' learn by being corrected all the time.
if corrected too much ,he will stop talking. (33) He compares a thousand
times a day the difference between language as he uses it and language as
those around him use it. Bit by bit, he makes the necessary changes to make
his language like other people's. (33)In the same way, kids learning to
do all the other things they learn without adult teachers, to walk ,run,
climb, ride a bike, play games ,compare their own performance with what
more skilled people do, and slowly make the needed changes. (34) But in
school we never give a child a chance to detect his mistakes. We do it all
for him. We act as if we thought he would never notice a mistake unless
it was pointed out to him. (35) Soon he becomes dependent on the expert.
We should let him do it himself. Let him figure out,with the help of other
children if he wants it,what this word says, what is the answer to that
problem, whether this is a good way of saying or doing this or that. If
right answers need to be given, as in mathematics or science, give him the
answer book. Let him correct his own papers. (35) Why should we teachers
waste time on such tedious work? Our job should be to help children when
they tell us that they can't find the way to get the right answer.

33. How does a child learn to do something according to the speaker ？
答案：A)

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34. What belief do teachers commonly hold according to the speaker ？
答案：C)

35. What does the speaker imply about the current way of teaching ？
答案：D)

Section B

57.【定位】由题干中的look back, at college定位到首段末句My friends
never seem to understand why I'm so relieved to be back at school or that
my summer vacation has been anything but a vacation.

B)【精析】细节辨认题。文章开篇提及“我”每年暑假都会在工厂打工，
很早就起 床工作，非常痛苦。在第一段最后，作者明确提出他的暑假
has been anything but a vacation，此处的anything but为固定搭配，意
为“根本不，决不” ，联系上文可知他的暑假很辛苦，根本算不上假
期，故答案为B)。

58.【定位】由题干中的college students定位到第二段前两句There're few
people as self-confident as a college student who has never been out in
the real world. People my age always seem to overestimate the value of
their time and knowledge.
C)【精析】细节辨认题。文章第二段第一句提到，很少有人像从来没步
人社会的大学生一样自信。 隐含的意思是大学生过于自信。第二句提
到“我”的同龄人似乎总是高估自己的时间和知识的价值。C） 中的think
too highly of是对文中overestimate的同义转述，故答案为C)。

59.【定位】由题干中的most frustrating定位到第三段第一句The most


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stressful thing about blue- collar life is knowing your job could disappear
overnight.

B)【精析】细节辨认题。文章第三段第一句指出，蓝领工 人生活中压力
最大的事情是知道自己可能会一夜之间丢掉工作。B)“他们没有工作保
障”就是 表示随时可能丢掉工作，故答案为B)。

60.【定位】由题干中的work experience和changed定位到第四段第二
句When I'm back at the university... 和文章最后一句My experiences in
the factories have inspired me to make the most of my college years
before I enter the real world for good.

D)【精析】综合理解题。第四段第二句提到，当“我”回到大学时，
“我”意识到逃课、上交因不努力而被要求重写的作业看起来都太不
负责任了，并且认为关于教 育价值的建议和公共服务声明都是有道理
的。这些表明作者学习态度的转变。文章最后一句提到工厂的工 作经
历激励“我”充分利用大学时光，也体现了作者的变化，故答案为D)。

61.【定位】由题干中的guilty定位到第五段前两句These lessons I'm
learning, however valuable, are always tinged with a sense of guilt.., where
I spend only two months at a time.

A)【精析】推理判断题。作者在第五段第 一句提到他对自己获得的经
验略带一丝内疚。第二句进一步解释，他仅仅在工厂待了两个月。作
者之后会回学校接受教育，将来会有更好的工作机会，但是很多人只
能一辈子在工厂做工，这是他和蓝领 工人之间巨大的差异，也是他感
到内疚的原因。故答案为A),

Passage Two

62.【定位】由题干中的finding和Underwriters Labomtories' report定位
到第二段第一句Underwriters Laboratories issued a report last week that
found 48% of consumers“feel high-tech manufacturers bring new products
to market faster than people need them.”

C)【精析】细节推断 题。第二段提到美国保险商实验室公司发布的一项
报告指出，48％的消费者“认为高科技制造商向市场 投放新产品的速
度快于人们的需求度”。C)“他们认为产品的更新速度比人们所需要的
快”是 原文的同义转述，故为答案。

63.【定位】由题干中的“me-too products”，定位到第三段第四句That
is, the new offerings companies are pushing out the door every six months
or so are me- too products or ones with just a couple of new features.

A)【精析】推理判断题。文章第三段第四句指出各公司每隔半年左右
推出的新产品是me- too products or ones with just a couple of new
features，句中使用连词or，由此我们可推测me-too products和ones
with just a couple of new features意思相似，而后者比较好理 解，意为
“仅有几个新特征的产品”，也可以理解为“没有很大区别的产品”，
故答案为．A) 。

64.【定位】由题干中的American businesses, give priority to 和marketing
定位到第三段最后一句Manufacturers in America valued “speed to
market”more than in other countries, the report found.

B)【精析】语义理解题。文章第三段最后一句提到，美国制造商比其他


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国家的制造商更加注重“产品上市速度”。这里的“更加注重”即“优
先考虑”的 意思，也就是说，美国制造商优先考虑的是向市场投放产
品的速度，故答案为B)。

65.【定位】由题干中的chief concern, high-tech products定位到第五段
第三句But their top safety concerns are emissions and wireless radio
waves.
< br>D)【精析】细节推断题。文章第五段提到了消费者关心的一些问题，
明确指出他们最关心的安全 问题是辐射和无线电波。故答案为D)。

66.【定位】由题干中的supply- chain labeling定位到最后一段第一句But
maybe some sort of supply-chain labeling showing where parts come from
in a product?

C)【精析】推理判断题。文章第六段最 后一句提到消费者更关心高科技
组件的来源地而不是产品的组装地，第七段提到单个产品的各个组件来自不同的供货商，最后一段提出要用供应链标签标注组件的来源地，
故答案为C)。


2012年12月英语四级完整版真题:第三套

Section B
Passage One
Questions 57 to 61 are based on the following passage.


It's no secret that some of the resolutions that many of us vowed to
pursue in the new year-eat healthy, lose weight, quit smoking, save more
money一have already fallen by the wayside.
Many of them are likely the same resolutions that we abandoned last
January. And it's a good thing for those who sell health club memberships,
quit-smoking programs and other products that help us think we can
improve our lives.
Many gyms see new memberships double in January, making up for
the third of their members who do not renew each year.
And many who sign up in January will be no-shows by February.

the next quick fix,Lisa Lahey, who coaches executives how to sustain
behavior change, told The Times.
The Biggest Loser Resort at Fitness Ridge doesn't offer any quick fixes,
just a 12-hour schedule full of exercise, a 1 200-calories-a-day diet and a
fee of $$2000 a week. The resort teaches its clients that
management
my recent weight gain, and the fact that I was turning 50,
Jennifer Conlin wrote in The Times,'' I wanted to start a program that
would make 2012 the year I finally got in shape.
years, the advice to the overweight people has been that we
simply need to eat less and exercise more,Tara Parker-Pope wrote.

human body continues to fight against weight loss long after dieting has
stopped. This translates into a sobering（令人清醒的）reality: once we
become fat, most of us, despite our best efforts, will probably stay fat.
Of course this revelation（揭示）, it proven true by further study, is not
good news for the weight-loss industry. But chances are it won't have


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much impact on the human tendency to resolve to get to the gym more
and avoid chocolate cake when the clock strikes midnight on December
31.

注意：此部分试题请在答题卡2上作答

57. What do we learn from the first paragraph about new year
resolutions?
A) They are hard to sustain. C) They help shed bad habits.
B) They test one's strength. D) They promise a good year.

58. Who do new year resolutions eventually benefit?
A) Society in general. C) Health club members.
B) Business executives. D) Health industries.

59. What is special about the Biggest Loser Resort's weight management
program?
A) It gives top priority to emotional health.
B) It does not resort to any quick fixes.
C) It focuses on one's behavior change.
D) It is not cheap but extremely effective.

60. What happens when people stop dieting?
A) They regain their appetite. C) Their weight bounces back.
B) They usually stay in shape. D) Their health is likely to fail

61. What do people tend to do about new year resolutions?
A) They keep making them year after year.