deserted2015年12月英语四级真题及答案

2021年1月8日发(作者：蒋梦麟)
2015年12月英语四级真题及答案
admire the courage of space explorers.
They enjoyed the movie on space exploration.
They were going to watch a wonderful movie.
They like doing scientific exploration very much.

a gift shop.
At a graduation ceremony.
In the office of a travel agency.
In a school library.

used to work in the art gallery.
He does not have a good memory.
He declined a job offer form the art gallery.
He is not interested in any part-time jobs.

has been invited to give a lecture tomorrow.
He will go to the birthday party after the lecture.
The woman should have informed him earlier.
He will be unable to attend the birthday party.

those having made good progress.
Set a deadline for the staff to meet.
Assign more workers to the project.
Encourage the staff to work in small groups.

way to the visitor’s parking.
The rate for parking in Lot C.

How far away the parking lot is.
Where she can leave her car.

regrets missing the classes.
He plans to take the fitness classes.
He is looking forward to a better life.
He has benefited form exercise.

8.A. How to ? work efficiency.
B. How to select secretaries.
C. The responsibilities of secretaries.
D. The secretaries in the man’s company.



Conversation 1

is more difficult to learn than English.
It is used by more people than English.
It will be as commonly used as English.
It will eventually become a world language.

has words words from many languages,
Its popularity with the common people.
The influence of the British Empire.
The effect of the Industrial Revolution,

includes a lot of words form other languages.
It has a growing number of newly coined words,

It can be easily picked up by overseas travellers.
It is the largest among all languages in the world.

Conversation 2

return some goods.
To apply for a job.
To place an order.
To make a complaint.

13. He has become somewhat impatient with the woman.
He is not familiar with the exact details of goods.
He has not worked in the sales department for long.
He works on a part-time basis for the company.

is not his responsibility.
It will be free for large orders.
It costs 15 more for express delivery.
It depends on a number of factors.

the information to her superior.
Pay a visit to the saleswoman in charge.
Ring back when she comes to a decision.
Make inquiries with some other companies.

Section B

Passage 1

one knows exactly where they were ?

No one knows for sure when thy came into being.
No one knows for what purpose they were ?
No one knows what they will ?

ropes across rivers.
Measure the speed of wind.
Pass on secret messages.
Give warnings of danger.

protect houses against lightning.
To test the effects of the lightning rod.
To find out the strength of silk for kites.
To prove the lightning is electricity.

Passage 2

enjoys teaching languages,
She can speak several languages,
She was trained to be an interpreter.
She was born with a talent for languages.

acquire an immunity to culture shock.
They would like to live abroad permanently.
They want to learn as many foreign languages as possible.
They have an intense interest in cross-cultural interactions.
became an expert in horse racing.
She got a chance to visit several European countries.

She was able to translate for a German sports judge.
She learned to appreciate classical music.
the beef and give her comment.
Take part in a cooking competition.
Teach vocabulary for food in ?
Give cooking lessons on ?

Passage 3

had only a third-grade education.
He once threatened to kill his teacher.
He grew up in a poor ?
He often helped his ???
ss.
Stupid.
Brave.
Active.
two book reports a week.
Keep a diary.
Help with housework.
Watch education??

Section C
When you look up at the night sky, what do you see? There are other… besides the moon
and stars. One of the most 27___ of the …

Comets were formed around the same time the Earth was formed. …and other frozen liquids
and gases. 29___ these “dirty snow…” just as the planets do.
As a comet get closer to the sun, some gases in it begin to unfreeze…particles form the
comet to form a huge cloud. As the comet gets …wind blows the cloud behind the comet, thus
forming its tail. The tail…(模糊的) atmosphere around a comet are 32____ that can help… in the
night sky.
In any given year, about a dozen known comets come close to … average person can’t see
them all, of course. Usually there is only one … to be seen with 34___ eye. Comet Hale-Bopp,
discovered… bright comet. Its orbit brought it 35___ close to the Earth, … But Hale- Bopp came a
long way an its earthly visit. It won’t be back…or so.

Part III Reading Comprehension (40 minutes)
Section A

Directions:

In this section, there is a passage with ten blanks, You are required to select one word for
each blank from a list of choices given in a word bank following the passage. Read the passage
through carefully before making your choices. Each choice in the bank is identified a letter. Please
mark the corresponding letter for each item on Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through the
centre. You may not use any of the words in the bank more than once.

Questions 36 to 45 are based on the following passage.

Scholars of the information society are divided over whether social inequality decreases or
increases in an information-based society, However, they generally agree with the idea that
equality in the information society is 36 different from that of an industrial society. As
informatization progresses in society, the cause and structural nature of social inequality changes
as well.

It seems that the information society 37 the quantity of Information available to the
members of a society by revolutionizing the Ways of using and exchanging information. But such
a view is a 38 analysis based on the quantity of information supplied by various forms of the mass
media. A different 39 is possible when the actual amount of information 40 by the user is taken
into account. In fact, the more information 41 throughout the entire society, the wider the gap
becomes between -nots,

According to recent studies, digital divide has been caused by three major 42 classy, sex, and
generation. In terms of class, digital divide exists among different types of workers and between
the upper and middle classes and the lower class. With 43 to sex, digital divide exists between
men and women. The greatest gap, however, is between the Net-generation, 44 with personal
computers and the Internet, and the older generation, 45 to an industrial society.

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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 derived. You may choose a paragraph more than once. Each paragraph is
marked with a letter. Answer the questions by marking the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet
2.

Joy: A Subject Schools Lack

Becoming educated should not require giving up pleasure.

A) When Jonathan Swift proposed, in 1729, that the people of Ireland eat their children, he
insisted it would solve three problems at once: feed the hungry masses, reduce the population
during a severe depression, and stimulate the restaurant business. Even as a satire (讽刺), it
seems disgusting and shocking in America with its child-centered culture. But actually, the
country is closer to his proposal than you might think.

B) If you spend much time with educators and policy makers, you’ll hear a lot of the
following words: “standards,” “results,” “skills,” “self-control,” “accountability,” and so on. I have
visited some of the newer supposedly “effective” schools, where children shout slogans in order
to lean self-control or must stand behind their desk when they can’t sit still.

C) A look at what goes in in most classrooms these days makes it abundantly clear that when
people think about education, they are not thinking about what it feels like to be a child, or what
makes childhood an important and valuable stage of life in its own right.

D) I’m a mother of three, a teacher, and a developmental psychologist. So I’ve watched a lot
of children-talking, playing, arguing, eating, studying, and being young. Here’s what I’ve come to
understand. The thing that sets children apart from adults is not their ignorance, nor their lack of
skills. It’s their enormous capacity for joy. Think of a 3-year-old lost in the pleasures of finding out
what he can and cannot sink in the bathtub, a 5-year-old beside herself with the thrill of putting
together strings of nonsensical words with her best friends, or an 11-year-old completely
absorbed in a fascinating comic strip. A child’s ability to become deeply absorbed in something,
and derive intense pleasure from that absorption, is something adults spend the rest of their lives
trying to return to.

E) A friend told me the following story. One day, when he went to get his 7-year-old son
from soccer practice, his kid greeted him with a downcast face and a sad voice. The coach had
criticized him for not focusing on his soccer drills. The little boy walked out of the school with his
head and shoulders hanging down. He seemed wrapped in sadness. But just before he reached
the car door, he suddenly stopped, crouching (蹲伏) down to peer at something on the sidewalk.
His face went down lower and lower, and then, with complete joy he called out, “Dad. Come here.
This is the strangest bug I’ve ever seen. It has, like, a million legs. Look at this. It’s amazing.” He
looked up at his father, his features overflowing with all those legs. This is the coolest ever.”

F) The traditional view of such moments is that they constitute a charming but irrelevant
byproduct of youth——something to be pushed aside to make room for more important
qualities, like perseverance (坚持不懈), obligation, and practicality. Yet moments like this one are
just the kind of intense absorption and pleasure adults spend the rest of their lives seeking.
Human lives are governed by the desire to experience joy. Becoming educated should not require
giving up joy but rather lead to finding joy in new kinds of things: reading novels instead of
playing with small figures, conducting experiments instead of sinking cups in the bathtub, and
debating serious issues rather than stringing together nonsense words, for example. In some
cases, schools should help children find new, more grown-up ways of doing the same things that
are constant sources of joy: making art, making friends, making decisions.

G) Building on a child’s ability to feel joy, rather than pushing it aside, wouldn’t be that
hard. It would just require a shift in the education world’s mindset (思 维 模 式). Instead of
trying to get children to work hard, why not focus on getting them to take pleasure in meaningful,
productive activity, like marking things, working with others, exploring ideas, and solving
problems? These focuses are not so different from the things in which they delight.

H) Before you brush this argument aside as rubbish, or think of joy as an unaffordable luxury
in a nation where there is awful poverty, low academic achievement, and high dropout rates,
think again. The more horrible the school circumstances, the more important pleasure is to
achieving any educational success.

I) Many of the assignments and rules teachers come up with, often because they are
pressured by their administrators, treat pleasure and joy as the enemies of competence and
responsibility. The assumption is that children shouldn’t chat in the classroom because it hinders
hard work; instead, they should learn to delay gratification (快乐) so that they can pursue
abstract goals, like going to college.

J) Not only is this a boring and awful way to treat children, it makes no sense educationally.
Decades of research have shown that in order to acquire skills and real knowledge in school, kids
need to want to learn. You can force a child to stay in his or her seat, fill out a worksheet, or
practice division. But you can’t force the child to think carefully, enjoy books, digest complex
information, or develop a taste for learning. To make that happen, you have to help the child find
pleasure in learning——to see school as a source of joy.

K) Adults tend to talk about learning as if it were medicine; unpleasant, but necessary and
good for you. Why not instead think of learning as if it were food——something so valuable to
humans that they have evolved to experience it as a pleasure?

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46. It will not be difficult to make learning a source of joy if educators change their way of
thinking.

47. What distinguishes children from adults is their strong ability to derive joy from what
they are doing.

48. Children in America are being treated with shocking cruelty.

49. It is human nature to seek joy in life.

50. Grown-ups are likely to think that learning to children is what medicine is to patients.

51. Bad school conditions make it all the more important to turn learning into a joyful
experience.

52. Adults do not consider children’s feeling when it comes to education.

53. Administrators seem to believe that only hard work will lead children to their
educational goals.