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2019
年
12
月大学英语四级考试真题（第一套）
Part
I
Writing
(30
minutes)
For this
part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a short
essay on
how to
Directions
：
best
handle
the
relationship
between
parents
and
children
.
You
should write at least 120 words but no
more than 180 words.
Part
Ⅱ
Listening Comprehension
(25
minutes)
Section A
Directions:
In
this section, you will hear three news reports. At
the end of each news
report, you will
hear two or
three
questions. Both the news report 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 1
with a single
line through the centre.
Questions 1 and 2 are based on the news
report you have just heard.
1. A) Her
friend Erika.
B) Her little brother.
C)
Her grandfather
D) Her grandmother
C) By selling lemonade and pictures
D) By asking for help on social media
2. A) By taking pictures for passers-
by.
B) By
working part time at a hospital.
Questions 3 and 4 are based on the news
report you have just heard.
3. A)
Finding cheaper ways of highway construction
B) Generating electric power for
passing vehicles
C) Providing clean
energy to five million people
D)
Testing the efficiency of the new solar panel
4. A) They can stand the wear and tear
of natural elements
B) They can be laid right on top of
existing highways
C) They are only about half an inch
thick
D) They
are made from cheap materials
Questions 5 to 7 are based on the news
report you have just heard.
5. A)
Endless fighting in the region
C) Inadequate funding for research
B) The hazards
from the desert
D) The lack of clues about species
6. A) To observe the wildlife in the
two national parks
B) To identify the reasons for the
lions’ disappearance
C) To study the habitat of
the lions in Sudan and Ethiopia
D) To find evidence of the
existence of the “lost lions”.
7. A) Lions walking
B) Lions’
tracks
Section B
Directions:
In this section,
you will hear two long conversations. At the end
of each
conversation
you
will
hear
four
questions.
Both
the
conversations
and
the question-s 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 1
with a single
line through the centre.
Questions 8 to 11 are based
on the conversation you have just heard.
8.
A) Her ‘lucky
birthday’
B) A call from her dad
C) Her wedding anniversary
D) A special gift from the man
C) Took her on a trip overseas.
D) Threw her a surprise party
C) Some camping facilities
D) Traps set by local hunters
9. A) Gave her a big model plane
B)
Bought her a gold necklace
10. A) The gift her husband has bought.
B) The trip her husband has planned.
C) What has been troubling her husband.
D) What her husband and the man are up
to.
11.
A) He will be glad
to be a guide for the couple’s holi
day
trip.
B) He will tell the women the
secret if her husband agrees.
C) He is
eager to learn how the couple’s holiday turns
out.
D) He wants to find out
about the couple’s holiday plan.
Questions 12 to 15 are
based on the conversation you have just heard.
12. A) They are sensitive to the
dynamics of a negotiation.
B) They see
the importance of making compromises.
C) They know when to adopt a tough
attitude.
D) They take the rival’s
attitude into account.
13.
A) They know how to adapt.
B) They know when to stop.
C) They know when to make compromises.
D) They know how to control their
emotion.
14. A) They are patient.
C)
They learn quickly.
D) They uphold
their principles.
C) Formulate
one
’
s strategy.
D) Get to know the other side.
B) They are good at expression.
15. A) Make clear
one
’
s intentions.
B) Clarify items of negotiation.
Section C
Directions:
In
this section, you will hear three passages. At the
end of each passage,
you will hear
three or four 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
1
with
a
single
line through
the centre.
Questions 16 to 18 are based on the
passage you have just heard.
16. A)
When America
’
s earliest
space program started.
B) When the
International Space Station was built.
C) How many space shuttle missions
there will be.
D) How space research
benefits people on Earth.
17. A) They
accurately calculated the speed of the orbiting
shuttles.
B) They developed objects for
astronauts to use in outer space.
C)
They tried to meet
astronauts
’
specific
requirements.
D) They tried to make
best use of the latest technology.
18.
A) They are extremely accurate.
B) They
are expensive to make.
Questions 19 to 21 are based on the
passage you have just heard.
19. A) It
was when her ancestors came to America.
B) People had plenty of land to
cultivate then.
C) It marked the
beginning of something new.
D)
Everything was natural and genuine then.
20. A) They believed in working for
goals.
B) They enjoyed living a life
of ease.
C) They had all kinds of
entertainment.
D) They were known to be
creative.
21. A) Chatting with her
ancestors.
C) Polishing all the silver work.
D) Doing needlework by the fire.
B) Furnishing her country house.
C) They were
first made in space.
D) They were
invented in the 1970s.
Questions 22 to 25 are based on the
passage you have just heard.
22. A) Use
a map to identify your location.
B)
Call your family or friends for help.
C) Sit down and try to calm yourself.
D) Try to follow your footprints back.
23. A) You may find a way out without
your knowing it.
B) You may expose
yourself to unexpected dangers.
C) You
may get drowned in a sudden flood.
D)
You may end up entering a wonderland.
24. A) Look for food.
B) Wait patiently.
C) Start a
fire.
D) Walk uphill.
25. A)
Inform somebody of your plan.
B)
Prepare enough food and drink.
C) Check
the local weather.
D) Find a map and a
compass.
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
by
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
26 to 35 are based on the following passage.
A rat or pigeon might not be the
obvious choice to tend to someone who is sick,
but
these
creatures
have
some
26
skills
that
could
help
the
treatment
of
human
diseases.
Pigeons are often seen as dirty birds
and an urban
27
, but they are just the
latest in a long line of animals that
have been found to have abilities to help humans.
Despite having a brain no bigger than
the
28
of your index finger, pigeons have a
very impressive
29__ memory. Recently it was shown that
they could be trained to
be as accurate
as humans at detecting breast cancer in images.
Rats
are
often
30
with
spreading
disease
rather
than
31
it,
but
this
long-
tailed animal is highly
32
. Inside a rat's nose are
up to 1,000 different types
of
olfactory receptors
（嗅觉感受器）
,
whereas humans only have 100 to 200 types.
This gives rats the ability to
detect__33
smells. As a
result, some rats are being put
to work
to detect TB
. When the rats detect the
smell, they stop and rub their
（肺结核）
legs to
34
a
sample is infected.
Traditionally, a
hundred samples would take lab technicians more
than two days
to
35
, but for a
rat it takes less than 20 minutes. This rat
detection method doesn't
rely on
specialist equipment. It is also more
accurate
—
the rats are able
to find more
TB infections and,
therefore, save more lives.
A)
associated
B) examine
C)
indicate
D) nuisance
E) peak
F)
preventing
H) sensitive
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
question
by
marking
the
corresponding letter on
Answer Sheet 2
.
Do In-Class Exams Make
Students Study Harder?
Research
suggests they may study more broadly for the
unexpected rather than search
for
answers.
[A] I have always
been a poor test-taker. So it may seem rather
strange that I have
returned to college
to finish the degree I left undone some four
decades ago. I am
making my way through
Columbia University, surrounded by students who
quickly
supply the verbal answer while
I am still processing the question.
[B] Since there is no way for me to
avoid exams, I am currently questioning what
I)
slight
J) specify
K)
superior
L) suspicious
M)
tip
N) treated
O) visual
G) prohibiting
kind are the most taxing and ultimately
beneficial. I have already sweated through
numerous in-class midterms and finals,
and now I have a professor who issues
take-home ones. I was excited when I
learned this, figuring I had a full week to do the
research, read the texts, and write it
all up. In fact, I was still rewriting my midterm
the morning it was due. To say I had
lost the thread is putting it mildly.
[C] As I was suffering through my week
of anxiety, overthinking the material and
guessing my grasp of it, I did some of
my own polling among students and professors.
David Eisenbach, who teaches a popular
class on U.S. presidents at Columbia, prefers
the in-class variety. He believes
students ultimately learn more and encourages them
to form study gro
ups. “That
way they socialize over history outside the class,
which
wouldn’t happen without the
pressure of an in
-
class
exam,” he explained,
“Furthermore,
in
-class exams force students to learn
how to perform under pressure,
and
essential work skill.”
[D] He also says there is less chance
of cheating with the in-class variety. In 2012,
125 students at Harvard were caught up
in a scandal when it was discovered they had
cheated on a take-
home exam
for a class entitled “Introduction
t
o Congress”
.
Some
college
s have what they
call an “honor code,” though if you are smart
enough to get
into these schools, you
are either smart enough to get around any codes or
hopefully,
too ethical to consider
doing so. As I sat blocked and clueless for two
solid days, I
momenta
rily
wondered if I couldn’t just call an expert on the
subject matter which I
was tackling, or
someone who took the class previously, to get me
going.
[E] Following the
Harvard scandal, Mary Miller, the former dean of
students at Yale,
made an impassioned
appeal to her school’s professors to
refrain from take
-hone
exams. “Students risk health and
well
-being, as well as performance in
other
end-of-term work, when faculty
offers take-home exams without clear, time-limited
boundaries,” she told me. “Research
now shows that regular quizzes, short
essays, and
other assignments over the
course of a term better enhance learning and
retention.”
[F] Most college professors agree the
kind of exam they choose largely depends on
the subject. A quantitative-based one,
for example, is unlikely to be sent home, where
one could ask their older brothers and
sisters to help. Vocational-type classes, such as
computer science or journalism, on the
other hand, are often more research-oriented
and lend themselves to take-home
testing. Chris Koch, who teaches
“History of
Broadcast Journalism” at
Montgomery Community College in Rockville,
Maryland,