入夏-磨光片
文档收集于互联网，已重新整理排版
.word
版本可编辑
,
有帮助欢迎下载支持
.
2012
年
6
月大
学
英
语
四
级真题
Part
Ⅰ
Writing
(30minutes)
Directions:
For
this
part,
you
are
allowed
30
minutes
to
write
a
short
essay
entitled
Excessive
Packaging following the outline given
below. You should write at least 120 words but no
more than 180
words.
1.
目前
许
多商品存在
过
度包装的
现
象
.
2.
出
现这
一
现
象的原因
.
3.
我
对这
一
现
象的看法和建
议
.
On Excessive Packaging
Part
Ⅱ
Reading Comprehension
(Skimming and Scanning)(15minutes)
Directions:
In
this
part,
you
will
have
15
minutes
to
go
over
the
passage
quickly
and
answer
the
questions
on
Answer
sheet
1.
For
questions
1-7,choose
the
best
answer
from
the
four
choices
marked A)
，
B)
，
C
）
and D). For
questions 8-10,complete the sentences with the
information given in the passage.
Small Schools Rising
This
year's
list
of
the
top
100
high
schools
shows
that
today,
those
with
fewer
students
are
flourishing.
Fifty
years
ago,
they
were
the
latest
thing
in
educational
reform:
big,
modern,
suburban
high
schools with students counted in the
thousands. As baby boomers(
二
战
后
婴儿
潮
时
期出生的人
) came
of
high-school
age,
big
schools
promised
economic
efficiency.
A
greater
choice
of
courses,
and,
of
course,
better
football
teams.
Only
years
later
did
we
understand
the
trade-offs
this
involved:
the
creation of excessive bu
reaucracies(
官僚机
构
)
，
the difficulty of forging
personal connections between
teachers
and
scores
began
dropping
in
1963;today,on
average,30%
of
students
do
not
complete high school in
four years, a figure that rises to 50% in poor
urban neighborhoods. While the
emphasis
on
teaching
to
higher,
test-driven
standards
as
set
in
No
Child
Left
Behind
resulted
in
significantly better performance in
elementary(and some middle)schools, high schools
for a variety of
reasons seemed to have
made little progress.
Size
isn't
everything,
but
it
does
matter,
and
the
past
decade
has
seen
a
noticeable
countertrend
toward smaller
schools. This has been due ,in part ,to the Bill
and Melinda Gates Foundation, which has
invested $$1.8 billion in American high
schools, helping to open about 1,000 small
schools-most of them
with about 400
kids each with an average enrollment of only 150
per grade, About 500 more are on the
drawing
board.
Districts
all
over
the
country
are
taking
notice,
along
with
mayors
in
cities
like
New
York, Chicago and San Diego. The
movement includes independent public charter
schools, such as No.1
BASIS
in
Tucson,
with
only
120
high-
schoolers
and
18
graduates
this
year.
It
embraces
district-sanctioned magnet schools,
such as the Talented and Gifted School, with 198
students, and the
Science and
Engineering Magnet,with383,which share a building
in Dallas, as well as the City Honors
School in Buffalo, N.Y
.,
which grew out of volunteer
evening seminars for students. And it
includes
alternative schools with
students selected by lottery(
抽
签
)
，
such as H-B
Woodlawn in Arlington, Va.
And most
noticeable of all, there is the phenomenon of
large urban and suburban high schools that have
split up into smaller units of a few
hundred, generally
housed in the same
grounds that once boasted
thousands of
students all marching to the same band.
Hillsdale High School in San Mateo,
Calif, is one of those, ranking No.423-among the
top 2% in
1
文档来源为
:
从网络收集整理
.word
版本可编辑
.
文档收集于互联网，已重新整理排版
.word
版本可编辑
,
有帮助欢迎
下载支持
.
the country-on
Newsweek's annual ranking of America's top high
schools. The success of small schools
is
apparent
in
the
listings.
Ten
years
ago,
when
the
first
Newsweek
list
based
on
college-
level
test
participation was
published, only three of the top 100 schools had
graduating Classes smaller than 100
students. This year there are 22.
Nearly 250 schools on the full ,Newsweek list of
the top 5% of schools
nationally had
fewer than 200 graduates in 2007.
Although many of Hillsdale's students
came from wealthy households, by the late 1990
average test
scores
were
sliding
and
it
had
earned
the
unaffectionate
nickname
(
绰号
)
Jeff
Gilbert.
A
Hillsdale
teacher
who
became
principal
last
year,
remembers
sitting
with
other
teachers
watching
students
file
out
of
a
graduation
ceremony
and
asking
one
another
in
astonishment,
did
that
student
graduate?
So
in 2003
Hillsdale
remade
itself
into
three
named
Florence,
Marrakech
and Kyoto. Each of
the 300 arriving ninth graders are
randomly(
随
机地
)
assigned to one of the houses.
Where
they will keep the same four core subject teachers
for two years, before moving on to another for
11th and 12th grades. The closeness
this system cultivates is reinforced by the
institution of
classes Teachers meet
with students in groups of 25, five mornings a
week, for open-ended discussions
of
everything
from
homework
problems
to
bad
Saturday-
night
dates.
The
advisers
also
meet
with
students
privately
and
stay
in
touch
with
parents,
so
they
are
deeply
invested
in
the
students'
success.
you
hear
that
yours
isn't
doing
well
in
math,
or
see
them
sitting
outside
the
dean's
office,
it's
like
a
personal
failure.
Along
with
the
new
structure
came
a
more
demanding
academic
program,
the
percentage of freshmen
taking biology jumped from 17 to
95.
two-thirds have moved up to
physics,
know there are adults here who
know them and care for them.
downsizing,
and it remains to be seen whether smaller schools
will be a cure-all solution.
The
Newsweek list of top U.S. high schools was made
this year, as in years past, according to a
single
metric,
the
proportion
of
students
taking
college-level
exams.
Over
the
years
this
system
has
come in for its share of criticism for
its simplicity. But that is also its strength:
it's easy for readers to
understand,
and to do the arithmetic for their own schools if
they'd like.
Ranking schools is always
controversial, and this year a group of 38 superin
tendents(
地
区教
育主
管
)from five states wrote to ask
that their schools be excluded from the
calculation.
know which high schools are
'the best'
in the nation,
different schools do or don't offer a
high quality of education requires a look at man
different measures,
including students'
overall academic accomplishments and their
subsequent performance in college. And
taking into consideration the unique
needs of their communities.
In
the
end,
the
superintendents
agreed
to
provide
the
data
we
sought,
which
is,
after
all,
public
information.
There
is,
in
our
view,
no
real
dispute
here,
we
are
all
seeking
the
same
thing,
which
is
schools
that better serve our children and our nation by
encouraging students to tackle tough subjects
under the guidance of gifted teachers.
And if we keep working toward that goal, someday,
perhaps a list
won't be necessary.
注意：此部分
试题请
在答卡
1
上作答
.
1
．
Fifty years ago. big. Modern. Suburban
high schools were established in the hope of
.
A) ensuring no
child is left behind.
B) increasing
economic efficiency.
C) improving
students' performance on SA
T.
1
文档来源为
:
从网络收集整理<
/p>
.word
版本可编辑
.
文档收集于互联网，已重新整理排版
.word
版本
可编辑
,
有帮助欢迎下载支持
.
D)providing good education for baby
boomers.
2. What happened as a result
of setting up big schools?
A)Teachers'
workload increased.
B)Students'
performance declined.
C)Administration
became centralized.
D)Students focused
more on test scores.
3. What is said
about the schools forded by the Bill and Melinda
Gates foundation?
A)They are usually
magnet schools.
B)They are often located in poor
neighborhoods.
C)They are popular with high-achieving
students.
D)They are mostly small in size.
4. What is most noticeable about the
current trend in high school education?
A)Some large
schools have split up into smaller ones.
B)A great
variety of schools have sprung up in urban and
suburban areas.
C)Many schools compete for the Bill and
Melinda Gates Foundation funds.
D)Students have to meet
higher academic standards.
5. Newsweek
ranked high schools according to
.
A)their students' academic achievement.
B)the number of
their students admitted to college.
C)the size and number of
their graduating classes.
D)their college-level test
participation.
6. What can we learn
about Hillsdale's students in the late 1990s?
A)They were
made to study hard like prisoners.
B)They called each other by
unaffectionate nicknames.
C)Most of them did not have any sense
of discipline,
D)Their school performance was getting
worse.
7.
According
to
Jeff
Gilbert,
the
classes
at
Hillsdale
were
set
up
so
that
students
could
.
A)tell their
teachers what they did on weekends.
B)experience a great deal
of pleasure in learning.
C)maintain closer relationships with
their teachers.
D)tackle the demanding biology and
physics courses.
8.
is still
considered a strength of Newsweek's school ranking
system in spite of the criticism it
receives.
ing to the 38
superintendents, to rank schools scientifically,
it is necessary to use
.
better serve
the children and our nation, schools students to
take
.
Part
Ⅲ
Listening
Comprehension
(35minutes
)
Section A
Directions:
in
this
section
you
will
hear
8
short
conversations,
one
or
more
questions
will
be
asked
about what was said.
Both the conversation and the questions will be
spoken only
once.
After each
question there will be a pause. During the pause,
you must read the four choices
marked <
/p>
A)
、
B
）
、
C
）
and
D)
、
and
decide
which
is
the
best
answer.
Then
mark
the
corresponding letter on Answer sheet 2
with a single line through the centre.
注意：此部分
试题请
在答案卡
2
上作案。
1
文档来
源为
:
从网络收集整理
.word
版本可编辑
.
文档收集于互联网，已重新
整理排版
.word
版本可编辑
,
有帮助欢迎下载支持
.
11.
A)Trying to sketch a map.
C)Discussing a house plan.
B)Painting the dining room.
D)Cleaning the
kitchen.
12. A)She is tired of the food
in the canteen.
B)She often eats in a
French restaurant.
C) She usually takes
a snack in the KFC.
D)She in very fussy
about what she eats.
13. A) Listening
to some loud music.
C)Talking loudly on the
telephone.
B)Preparing for as oral examination.
D)Practicing for a speech contest.
14. A)The man has left a good
impression on her family.
B)The man can
dress casually for the occasion.
C)The
man should buy himself a new suit.
D)The man's jeans and T-shirts are
stylish.
15. A)Grey pants made from
pure cotton.
C)100% cotton pants in dark
blue.
B)
Fashionable pants in bright colors.
D)Something to
match her brown pants.
16. A) Its
price.
C)Its comfort.
B)Its location.
D)Its facilities.
17.
A)Travel overseas.
C)Take a photo.
B)Look for a new job.
D)Adopt a child.
18. A)It is
a routine offer.
C)It is quite healthy.
B)It is new on the menu.
D)It is a good bargain.
Questions 19 to 22 are based on the
conversation you have just heard.
19.
A
）
Hosting an evening TV
program.
C)Lecturing on business management.
B)
Having her bicycle repaired.
D)Conducting a
market survey.
20. A) He repaired
bicycles.
C)He worked as a salesman.
B)He served as a consultant.
D)He coached in a racing club.
21. A) He wanted to be his own boss.
C)He didn't
want to start from scratch.
B) He found it
more profitable.
D)He didn't want to be in too much
debt.
22. A)They work five days a week.
C)They are paid by the hour.
B)They are all the man's friends.
D)They all
enjoy gambling.
Questions 23 to 25 are
based on the conversation you have just heard.
23. A)It has gradually given way to
service industry.
B)It remains a major part
of industrial activity.
C)It has a history as long
as paper processing.
D)It accounts for 80
percent of the region's GDP.
24. A)
Transport problems.
C)Lack of
resources.
B)Shortage of funding.
D)poor management.
25. A)
Competition from rival companies.
C)Possible locations for a new
factory.
B)Product
promotion
campaigns.
D)Measures to create job opportunities.
Section B
Directions:
In
this
section you
will
hear
3
short
passages. At
the end
of
each
passage,
you
will
hear
some
questions.
Both
the
passage
and
the
questions
will
be
spoken
only
once
After
you
hear
a
question,
you
must
choose
the
best
answer
from
the
four
choices
marked
A),B),C)and D).Then
mark the corresponding letter on Answer sheet 2
with a single line
through the centre.
注意：此部分
试题请
在答
题
卡
2
上作答。
1
文档来源为
:
从网络收集整理
.word
版本可编辑
.
文档收集于互联网，已重新整理排版
.w
ord
版本可编辑
,
有帮助欢迎下载支
持
.
Passage One
Questions 26 to 28 are based on the
passage you have just heard.
26. A)They
shared mutual friends in school.
B)They
had known each other since childhood.
C)They shared many extracurricular
activities.
D)They had many interests
in common.
27. A)At a local club.
B)At the sports center.
B)At Joe's house.
D)At the bearing school.
28.
A)Durable friendships can be very difficult to
maintain.
B)One has to be respectful
of other people in order to win respect.
C)It is hard for people from different
backgrounds to become friends.
D)Social divisions will break down if
people get to know each other.
Passage
Two
Questions 29 to 31 are based as the
passage you have just heart.
29. A)Near
the entrance of a park.
C)At a parking
meter.
B)In his
building's parking lot.
D)At a street corner.
30.
A)It had been taken by the police
C)In had been stolen by
someone.
B)it had keen moved to the
next block.
D)it had been parked at a
wrong place.
31. A)At the Greenville
center.
C)In a neighboring town.
B)
At a public parking lot.
D)In a the city garage.
Passage Three
Questions 32
to 35 are based on the passage you have just
heard.
32. A)Famous creative
individuals.
C)A
major scientific discovery.
B)The
mysteriousness of creativity.
D)Creativity as shown in
arts.
33. A)It is something people all
engage in.
C) It starts
soon after we are born.
B) It helps
people acquire knowledge.
D) It is the source of all
artistic work.
34. A) Creative
imagination.
C) Natural curiosity.
B)
Logical reasoning.
D) Critical thinking.
35. A)It is beyond ordinary people.
C)It is part of
everyday life.
B)It is yet to be fully
understood.
D)It is a unique human
trait.
Section C
Directions:
In this section,
you will hear a passage three times. When the
passage is read for the first
time,
you
should
listen
carefully
for
its
general
idea.
When
the
passage
is
read
for
the
second time, you are
required to fill in the blanks numbered from 36 to
43 with the exact
words you have just
heard. For blanks numbered from 44 to 46 you are
required to fill in
the missing
information. For these blanks you can other use
the exact words you have just
heard or
write down the main points in your are words.
Finally, when the passage is read
for
the third time, you should check what you have
written.
注意：此部分
试题请
在答
题
卡
2
上作答。
Students
have
been
complaining
more
and
more
about
stolen
property.
Radios,
cell
phones,
bicycles, pocket(36)
,and books have
all been reported stolen. Are there enough campus
police
to do the job?
There
are 20 officers in the Campus Security Division
Their job is to(37)
crime, accidents
lost and found(38)
,and traffic problems on campus. More
than half of their time is spent directing
1
文档来源为
:
从网络收集整
理
.word
版本可编辑
.
文档收集于互联网，已重新整理排版
.word
版本可编辑
,
有帮助欢迎下载支持
.
traffic and writing parking
tickets.(39)
promptly to
accidents and other(40)
is important,
but it is their smallest job.
Dealing
with
crime
takes
up
the
rest
of
their
time.
Very(41)
do
any
violent
crimes
actually(42)
.In the last five years there have been no(43)
.seven
robberies and about
60
other
violent
attacks,
most
of
these
involving
fights
at
parties.
On
the
other
hand,(44)
,which
usually involves
breaking windows or lights or writing on walls.
The thefts are not the carefully planned
burglaries(
入室
盗
窃
)that you see in movies.(45)
.
Do we really
need more police? Hiring more campus police would
cost money, possibly making
our tuition
go up again.(46)
.
Part
Ⅳ
Reading
Comprehension(Reading in depth)
(25minntes)
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 ward bank.
Read the passage through carefully
before making your choices Each choice
in the bank is identified by a letter. Please mark
the corresponding letter for each them
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 47 to 56 are based on the
following passage,
One in six. Believe
it or not, that's the number of Americans who
struggle with hanger To make
tomorrow
a
little
better,
Feeding
A
merica,
the
nation’s
largest
47
hunger-relief
organization,
has chosen September as Hunger Month.
As part of its 30 Ways in 30 Days program, It's
asking
48
across
the
country
to
help
the
more
than
200
food banks
and 61,000
agencies
in
its
network
provide
low-income
individuals and families with the fuel they need
to
49
.
It's the kind of work that's done every
day at St. Andrew's Episcopal Church in San
Antonio, People
who
50
at
its
front
door
on
the
first
and
third
Thursdays
of
each
month
aren't
looking
for
God-
they're there for something to eat, St. Andrew's
runs a food pantry(
食品堂
)that
51
the
city and
several of the
52
towns. Janet Drane is its manager.
In the wake of the
53
.the number of families in need of food
assistance began to grow. It
is
54
that 49 million Americans are unsure of
where they will find their next meal What's most
surprising is that 36% of them live in
55
where at least one adult is
working.
that one job was all you
needed.
part-time jobs and they're still
right on the edge
56
.
注意：
此部分
试题请
在答
题
< br>卡
2
上作答。
A
）
survive
B)surrounding
C)serves
D)reviewed
E)reported
F)recession
G)households
H)gather
I)formally
J)financially
K)domestic
L)competition
M)communities
N)circling
O)accumulate
Section B
Directions:
there
are
2
passages
in
this
section.
Each
passage
is
followed
by
some
questions
or
1
文档来源为
:
从网络收集整理
.word
版本可编辑
.
文
档收集于互联网，已重新整理排版
.word
版本可编辑
,
有帮助欢迎下载支持
.
unfinished statements For each of them
there are four choices marked A),B),C) and D).You
should
decide
on
the best
choice
and
mark
the
corresponding
letter
on
Answer Sheer 2
with a single line through
the centre.
Passage One
Questions 57 to 61 are based on the
following passage.
In times of economic
crisis. Americans turn to their families for
support. If the Great Depression is
any
guide,
we
may
see
a
drop
in
our
skyhigh
divorce
rate.
But
this
won't
necessarily
represent.
an
increase
in
happy
marriages.
In
the
long
run,
the
Depression
weakened
American
families,
and
the
current
crisis will probably do the same.
We
tend
to
think
of
the Depression
as
a
time
when
families
pulled
together
to
survive
huge
job
losses,
By
1932.
when
nearly
one-quarter
of
the
workforce
was
unemployed,
the
divorce
rate
had
declined
by
around
25%
from
1929
But
this
doesn't
mean
people
were
suddenly
happier
with
their
marriages. Rather, with incomes
decreasing and insecure jobs, unhappy couples
often couldn't afford to
divorce. They
feared neither spouse could manage alone.
Today,
given
the
job
losses
of
the
past
year,
fewer
unhappy
couples
will
risk
starting
separate
households, Furthermore, the housing
market meltdown will make it more difficult for
them to finance
their separations by
selling their homes.
After financial
disasters family members also tend to do whatever
they can to help each other and
their
communities, A 1940 book. The Unemployed Man and
His Family, described a family in which the
husband initially reacted to losing his
job
for odd jobs to do.
The
problem is that such an impulse is hard to sustain
Across the country, many similar families
were unable to maintain the initial
boost in
morale(
士
气
). For
some, the hardships of life without steady
work eventually overwhelmed their
attempts to keep their families together. The
divorce rate rose again
during the rest
of the decade as the recovery took hold.
Millions of American families may now
be in the initial stage of their responses to the
current crisis,
working together and
supporting one another through the early months of
unemployment.
Today's economic crisis
could well generate a similar number of couples
whose relationships have
been irreparab
ly(
无法弥
补
地
)ruined. So it's only when the economy is healthy again that we'll begin to
see
just how many broken families have been created. <
/p>
注意：此部分
试题请
在答
题
卡
2
上作答。
57
．
In the
initial stage, the current economic crisis is
likely to
.
A)tear many
troubled families apart.
B)contribute to enduring family ties.
C)bring about a drop in the divorce
rate.
D)cause a lot
of conflicts in the family.
58. In the
Great Depression many unhappy couples close to
stick together because.
A)starting a new
family
would be hard.
B)they expected things
would turn better.
C)they wanted to
better protect their kids.
D)living
separately would be too costly.
59. In
addition to job losses. What stands in the way of
unhappy couples getting a divorce?
A)Mounting family debts.
B)A
sense of insecurity.
C)Difficulty in
getting a loan.
D)Falling housing
prices.
1
文档来源为
:
从网络收集整理
.word
版本可编辑
.
文档收集于互联网，已重新整理排版
.
word
版本可编辑
,
有帮助欢迎下载
支持
.
60. What will the
current economic crisis eventually do to some
married couples?
A)It will force them
to pull their efforts together.
B)It
will undermine their mutual understanding.
C)It will help strengthen their
emotional bonds.
D)It will irreparably
damage their relationship.
61. What can
be inferred from the last paragraph?
A)The economic recovery will see a
higher divorce rate.
B)Few couples can
stand the test of economic hardships.
C)A stable family is the best
protection against poverty.
D)Money is
the foundation of many a happy marriage.
Passage Two
Questions 62 to
66 are based on the following passage:
People
are
being
lured
(
引
诱
)onto
Facebook
with
the
promise
of
a
fun,
free
service
without
realizing
they're
paying
for
it
by
giving
up
toads
of
personal
information.
Facebook
then
attempts
to
make money by selling their data to
advertisers that want to send targeted messages.
Most Facebook users don't realize this
is happening. Even if they know what the company
is up to,
they still have no idea what
they're paying for Face book because people don't
really know what their
personal data is
worth.
The
biggest
problem,
however,
is
that
the
company
keeps
changing
the
rules
Early
on
you
keep
everything private. That was the great
thing about facebook you could create own little
private network.
Last year. The company
changed its privacy rules so that many things you
city. Your photo, your friends'
names-
were set, by default
(
默
认
)to be shared
with every one on the Internet.
According to Facebook's vice-president
Elliot Schrage, the company is simply making
changes to
improve its service, and if
people don't share information They have a
Some critics think this is more about
Facebook looking to make more money. In original
business
model, which involved selling
ads and putting then At the side of the pages
totally Who wants to took at
ads when
they're online connecting with their friends?
The
privacy
issue
has
already
landed
Facebook
in
hot
water
in
Washington.
In
April.
Senator
Charles
Schumer
called
on
Facebook
to
change
its
privacy
policy.
He
also
urged
the
Federal
Trade
Commission to set guidelines for
social-networking sites.
we had not been
clear about what the new products were and how
people could choose to use them or
not
to use them,
I
suspect
that
whatever
Facebook
has
done
so
far
to
invade
our
privacy,
it's
only
the
beginning.
Which is why I'm
considering deactivating(
撤
销<
/p>
)my account. Facebook is a handy site,
but I'm upset by
the idea that my
information is in the hands of people I don't
That's too high a price to pay.
注意：此部分<
/p>
试题请
在答
题
卡
2
上作答。
62. What do we learn about Facebook
from the first paragraph?
A)It is a
website that sends messages to targeted users.
B)It makes money by putting on
advertisements.
C)It profits by selling
its users' personal data.
D)It provides
loads of information to its users.
63.
What does the author say about most Facebook
users?
A)They are reluctant to give up
their personal information.
B)They
don't know their personal data enriches Facebook.
1
文档来源为
:
从网络收集整理
.word
版本可编辑
.