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真题试卷
Part I
Writing
(
30 minutes)
For this part,
you are allowed 30 minutes to write an essay
commenting on the saying “Learning is
a
daily experience and lifetime mission.”You can
cite examples to
illustrate the
importance of
lifelong learning. You
should write at least 120 words but no more
than180words.
Part II
Listening Comprehension
( 30 minutes)
Section A
Directions: In this section, you will
hear 8 short conver
sat
ions
and 2 long conversations. At the
end of
each conversation, 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 A), B), C) and D),
and decide which is
the best answer.
Then mark the corresponding letter on
Answer Sheet 1 with a single line through
the centre.
A) They admire
the courage of space explorers.
B) They enjoyed the movie on space
exploration.
C) They were
going to watch a wonderful movie.
D) They like doing scientific
exploration very much.
2. A) At a gift
shop.
B) At a graduation
ceremony.
C) In the office
of a travel agency.
D) In
a school library.
3. A) He used to work
in the art gallery.
B) He
does not have a good memory.
C) He declined a job offer form the art
gallery.
D) He is not
interested in any part-time jobs.
4.A)
Susan has been invited to give a lecture tomorrow.
B) He will go to the
birthday party after the lecture.
C) The woman should have informed him
earlier.
D) He will be
unable to attend the birthday party.
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5.A) Reward those having made good
pro
gre
ss.
B)
Set a deadline for the staff to meet.
C) Assign more workers to the project.
D) Encourage the staff to work in small groups.
6. A) The way to the visitor?s
parking.
B) The
rate for parking in Lot C.
C) How far away the parking lot is.
D) Where she can leave her
car.
7. A) He regrets missing the
classes.
B) He plans to
take the fitness classes.
C) He is looking forward to a better
life.
D) 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.
Conver
sat
ion
One
Questions 9 to 11 are
based on the conversation you have just heard.
9.A) It is more difficult
to learn than English.
B)
It is used by more people than English.
C) It will be as commonly
used as English.
D) It
will eventually
bec
ome a
world language.
10.A) It has words
words from many languages,
B) Its popularity with the common
people.
C) The influence
of the British Empire.
D)
The effect of the Industrial Revolution.
11.A) It includes a lot of words form
other languages.
B) It has
a growing number of newly coined words,
C) It can be easily picked
up by overseas travelers.
D) It is the largest among all
languages in the world.
Conversation 2
Questions 12
to 15 are based on the conversation you have just
heard.
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12.A) To
return some goods.
B) To
apply for a job.
C) To
place an order.
D) To
make a complaint.
13. A) He has become
somewhat impatient with the woman.
B) He is not familiar with the exact
details of goods.
C) He
has not worked in the sales department for long.
D) He works on a part-
time basis for the company.
14. A) It
is not his responsibility.
B) It will be free for large orders.
C) It costs 15 more for
express delivery.
D) It
depends on a number of factors.
15.A)
Report the information to her superior.
B) Pay a visit to the
saleswoman in charge.
C)
Ring back when she comes to a decision.
D) Make inquiries with
some other companies.
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 I
with a single line through the centre.
Passage One
Questions 16 to 18 are based on the
passage you have just heard.
16. A) No one knows exactly where they
were ??
B) No one knows
for sure when thy came into being.
C) No one knows for what purpose they
were ?
D) No one knows
what they will ?????
17. A) Carry ropes
across rivers.
B) Measure
the speed of wind.
C)
Pass on secret messages.
D) Give warnings of danger.
18. A) To protect houses against
lightning.
B) To test the
effects of the lightning rod.
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C) To find out the strength of silk for
kites.
D) To prove the
lightning is electricity.
Passage Two
Questions 19 to
22 are based on the passage you have just heard.
19.A) She enjoys teaching
languages.
B) She can
speak several languages.
C) She was trained to be an
interpreter.
D) She was
born with a talent for languages.
20.
A) They acquire an immunity to culture shock.
B) They would like to
live abroad permanently.
C) They want to learn as many foreign
languages as possible.
D)
They have an intense interest in cross-cultural
interactions.
21.A) She
bec
ame an expert in horse
racing.
B) She got a
chance to visit several European countries.
C) She was able to
translate for a German sports judge.
D) She learned to appreciate classical
music.
22. A) Taste the beef and give
her comment.
B) Take part
in a cooking competition.
C) Teach vocabulary for food in ??
D) Give cooking lessons
on ????
Passage Three
Questions 23 to 25 are based on the
passage you have just heard.
23. A) He had only a third-grade
education.
B) He once
threatened to kill his teacher.
C) He
gre
w up in
a poor ???
D) He often
helped his ???
24.A) Careless.
B) Stupid.
C) Brave.
D)
Active.
25.A) Write two book reports a
week.
B) Keep a diary.
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C) Help with housework.
D) Watch education??
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 with the exact words you have just heard.
Finally, when
the passage is read for
the third time, you should check what you have
written.
When you look up at the night
sky, what do you see
?
There
are other
bodies out there
besides the moon and stars. One of the
most
of this is a comet.
Comets were formed around
the same the
earth was formed. They are made up of ice and
other frozen liquids and
gasses.
these dirty snow balls begin to orbit
the sun just as the planets do. As a comet gets
closer to the sun, some gasses in it
begin to unfreeze. They combine with dust
particles from the
comet to form a huge
cloud. As the comet gets even nearer to the sun
and solar wind blows the
cloud behind
the comet thus forming its tail. The tail and
generally fuzzy atmosphere around the
comet are
that can
help
this phenomenon in the
night sky. In any given
year
,
about
dozen
known comets come close to the sun in their
orbits. The average person can?t see them all
of course. Usually there is only one or
two a year bright enough to be seen with
the
_________eye.
Comet Hale-Bopp discovered in 1995 was an
unusually bright comet. Its
orbit
bought it _________to the earth within 122 million
miles of it. But Hale-Bopp came a long
way on its earthly visit. It won?t be
bac
k for another 4 thousand years or
so.
Part Ш
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 36 to 45 are based on the
following passage.
For many
Americans, 2013 ended with an unusually bitter
cold spell. November and
December 36
early snow and bone-chilling temperatures in much
of the country, part of a year
when,
for the first time in two 37 , record-cold
days will likely turn out to have outnumbered
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record-warm ones. But the U.S. was the
exception; November was the warmest ever
38 , and
current data
indicates that 2013 is likely to have been the
fourth hottest year on record.
Enjoy
the snow now,
bec
ause 39
are good that 2014 will be even hotter, perhaps
the hottest
year since records have
been kept. That?s because, scientists are
predicting, 2014 will be an EI
Niuo
year.
EI niuo, Spanish for “the
child”,
40 when surface ocean
waters in the southern Pacific become
abnormally warm. S
o large is
the Pacific, covering 30% of the planet?s surface,
that
the 41 energy generated by
its warming is enough to touch off a series of
weather changes
around the world. EI
Ninos are 42 with abnormally dry conditions
in Southeast Asia and
Australia. They
can lead to extreme rain in parts of North and
South America, even as southern
Africa
43 dry weather. Marine life may be affected
too; EI Ninos can 44 the rising of the
cold, nutrient-
rich
(营养丰富的)
water that
supports large fish 45 ,and the unusually
warm
ocean temperatures can destroy
coral(
珊瑚
).
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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 question by marking the corresponding
letter on Answer Sheet 2.
The Perfect
Essay
A) Looking back on too
many years of education, I can identify one truly
impossible teacher. She
cared about me,
and my intellectual life, even when I didn?t. Her
expectations were
high
—
impossibly
so. She was an English teacher. She was also my
mother.
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B) When good students turn
in an essay, they dream of their instructor
returning it to them in
exactly the
same condition, save for a single word added in
the margin of the final page.“Flawless.”
This dream came true for me one
afternoon in the ninth grade. Of course, I had
heard that genius
could show itself at
an early age, so I was only slightly taken aback
that I had achieved perfection
at the
tender age of 14. Obviously, I did what and
professional writer would do; I hurried off to
spread the good news. I
d
idn?t get very far. The first person I
told was my mother.
C) My
mother, who is just shy of five feet tall, is
normally incredibly soft-spoken, but on the rare
occasion when she got angry, she was
terrifying. I am not sure if she was more upset by
my hubris
(得意忘形)
or by the
fact that my English teacher had let my ego get so
out of hand. In and event.
My mother
and her red pen showed me how deeply flawed a flaw
less essay could be. At the time,
I am
sure she thought she was teaching me about
mechanics, transitions
(过渡)
,
structure, style
and voice. But what I
learned, and what stuck with me through my time
teaching writing at
Harvard, was a
deeper lesson about the nature of creative
criticism.
D) First off, it hurts.
Genuine criticism, the type that leaves a lasting
mark on you as a writer, also
leaves an
existential imprint
(印记)
on
you as a person. I have heard people say that a
writer
should never take criticism
personally. I say that we should never listen to
these people.
E) Criticism, at its
best, is deeply personal, and gets to the heart of
why we write the way we do.
The
intimate nature of genuine criticism implies
something about who is able to give it, namely,
someone who knows you well enough to
show you how your mental life is getting in the
way of
good writing. Conveniently, they
are also the people who care enough to see you
through this
painful realization. For
me it took the form of my first, and I hope only,
encounter with writer?s
block
—
I was not
able to produce anything for three years.
F) Franz
Kafka once said;
“Writing is utter
solitude
(独处)
, the descent
into the cold
abyss
(深
渊)
of
oneself.” My mother?s criticism had shown me that
Kafka is right about the cold abyss, and
when you make the
introspective
(内省的)
descent
that writing requires you are not always
pleased by what you find. But, in the
years that followed, her sustained tutoring
suggested that
Kafka might be wrong
about the solitude, I was lucky enough to find a
critic and teacher who was
willing to
make the journey of writing with me. “It
is
a thing of no
gre
at difficulty.”according
to
Plutarch, “to raise objections
against another man?s speech. it is a very easy
matter, but to pro
duce
a
better in its place is a work extremely
troublesome.” I am sure I wrote essays in the
later years of
high school without my
mother?s guidance, but I can?t recall them. What I
remember, however, is
how she took up
the“extremely troublesome”work of
on
going criticism.
G) There
are two ways to interpret Plutarch when he
suggests that a critic should be able to
produce“a better in its place.”In a
straightforward sense, he could mean that a critic
must be more
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talented than the artist
she critiques
(评论)
.My mother
was well covered on this count. But
perhaps Plutarch is suggesting
something slightly different, something a bit
closer to Marcus
Cicero?s claim that
one should“criticize by creation, not by finding
fault.”Genuine criticism
creates a
precious opening for an author to
bec
ome better on his own
terms
—
a process that is
often extremely painful, but also
almost always meaningful.
H) My mother
said she would help me with my writing, but first
I had to help myself. For each
assignment, I was to write the best
essay I could. Real criticism is not meant to find
obvious
mistakes, so if she found
any
—
the type I could have
found on my own
—
I had to
start from
scratch. From scratch. Once
the essay was“flawless,” she would take an evening
to walk me
through my errors. That was
when true criticism, the type that changed me as a
person, began.
I) She criticized me
when I included little-known references and
professional jargon
(行话)
. She
had no patience for brilliant but
irrelevant figures of speech.“Writers can?t
bluff
(虚张声势)
their
way through ignorance.” That was news
to me—
I would need to find another way
to structure my
daily existence.
J) She trimmed back my flowery
language, drew lines through my exclamation marks
and argued
for the value of restraint
in expression.“John,” she almost whispered. I
leaned in to hear her: “I
can?t hear
you when you shout at me.” So I stopped shouting
and bluffing, and slowly m
y writing
improved.
K) Somewhere along
the way I set aside my hopes of writing that
flawless essay. But perhaps I
missed
something important in my mother?s lessons about
creativity and perfection. Perhaps the
point of writhing the flawless essay
was not to give up, but to never willingly finish.
Whitman
repeatedly reworked“song of
Myself” between 1855 and 1891. Repeatedly. We do
our absolute
best with a piece of
writing, and come as close as we can to the ideal.
And, for the time being, we
settle. In
critique, however, we are forced to depart, to
give up the perfection we thought we had
achieved for the chance of being even a
little bit better. This is the lesson I took from
my mother:
If perfection were possible,
it would not be motivating.
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46. The author was advised against the
improper use of figures of speech.
47.
The author?s mother taught him a valuable lesson
by pointing out lots of flaws in his
seemingly perfect essay.
48.
A writer should polish his writing repeatedly so
as to get closer to perfection.
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49.
Writers may experience periods of time in their
life when they just can?t produce
anything.
50. The author was
not much surprised when his school teacher
marked his essay
as“flawless”.
51.
Criticizing someone?s speech is said to
be
easier than coming up with a better
one.
52. The author looks upon his
mother as his most demanding and caring
instructor.
53. The criticism the
author received from his mother changed his as a
person.
54. The author gradually
improved his writing by avoiding fancy language.
55. Constructive criticism gives an
author a good start to improve his writing.
Section C
Passage
One
Questions 56 to 60 are
based on the following passage.
The
wallet is heading for extinction. As a day-to-day
essential, it will die off with the generation
who read print newspapers. The kind of
shopping
-
where you hand over
notes and count out
change in
return
—
now happens only in
the most minor of our retail
encounters
,
like buying a bar
of chocolate or a pint of milk from a
comer shop. At the shops where you spend any real
money,
that money is increasingly
abstracted. And this is more and more true, the
higher up the scale you
go. At the most
cutting-edge retail
stores
—
Victoria
Bec
kham on Dover Street, for
instance
—
you
don?t go and stand at any kind of cash
register when you decide to pay. The staff are
equipped
with iPads to take your
payment while you relax on a sofa.
Which is nothing more or less than
excellent service, if you have the money. But
across society,
the abstraction of the
idea of cash makes me uneasy. Maybe I?m just
old
-fashioned. But earning
money isn?t quick or easy for most of
us. Isn?t it a bit weird that spe
nding
it should happen in half
a blink
(
眨眼
) of an eye? Doesn?t a
wallet—
that time-honoured Friday-night
feeling of pleasing,
promising
fatness
—
represent something
that matters?
But I?ll leave the
economics to the experts. What bothers me about
the death of
the wallet is the
change it represents in our physical
environment. Everything about the look and feel of
a
wallet
—
the way
the fastenings and materials wear and tear and
loosen with age, the plastic and
paper
and gold and silver, and handwritten phone numbers
and printed cinema
tickets
—
is the very
opposite of what our world is
bec
oming. The opposite of a
wallet is a smartphone of an iPad. The
rounded edges, cool glass, smooth and
unknowable as pebble (
鹅卵石
).
Instead of digging
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through
pieces of paper and peering into corners, we move
our fingers left and right. No more
counting out coins. Show your wallet,
if you still have one. It may not be here much
longer.
56. What is happening to the
wallet?
A) It is disappearing.
C) it is becoming costly.
B)
It is being fattened.
D) It is
changing in style.
57. How are business
transactions done in big modern stores?
A) Individually.
C) In the abstract.
B)
Electronically.
D) Via a cash
register.
58. What makes the author
feel uncomfortable nowadays?
A) Saving
money is
bec
oming a thing of
the past.
B) The pleasing Friday-night
feeling is fading.
C) Earning money is
getting more difficult.
D) Spending
money is so fast and easy.
59. Why does
the author choose to write about what?s happening
to the wallet?
A) It
represents a change in the modern world.
B) It has something to do with
everybody?s life.
C) It
marks the end of a time-honoured tradition.
D) It is the concern of contemporary
economists.
can we infer from the
passage about the author?
A)He is
resistant to social changes.
B)He is
against technological
pro
gre
ss.
C)He
feels reluctant to part with the traditional
wallet.
D)He fells insecure in the
ever-changing modern world.
Passage Two
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Questions 61 to 65 are based on the
following passage.
Everybody sleeps,but
what people stay up late to
catch
—
or wake up early in
order not to
miss
—
varies by
data collected,it seems the things that cause us
to lose the most
sleep,on average,are
sporting events,time changes,and holidays.
Around the world, people changed sleep
patterns thanks to the start or end of daylight
savings time.
Russians, for example,
began to wake up about a half-hour later each day
after President Vladimir
Putin shifted
the country permanently to “winter time”starting
on October 26.
Russia?s
other late nights and early mornings generally
correspond to public holidays. On New
Year?s Eve, Russians have the world?s
latest bedtime, hitt
ing the hay at
around 3:30 am.
Russians also get up an
hour later on International Women?s Day, the day
for treating and
celebrating female
relatives.
Similarly, Americans? late
nights late mornings, and longest sleeps fall on
three
-day weekends.
Canada
got the least sleep of the year the night it beat
Sweden in the Olympic
hockey(
冰球)
final.
The World Cup is also chiefly
responsible for sleep
deprivation(
剥夺)
, The worst
night for sleep
in the U.K. was the
night of the England-Italy match on June 14. Brits
stayed up a half-hour later
to watch
it, and then they woke up earlier than usual the
next morning thanks to summer nights,
the phenomenon in which the sun barely
sets in northern countries in the summertime. That
was
nothing, though, compared to
Germans, Italians, and the French, who stayed up
around an hour
and a half later on
various days throughout the summer to watch the
Cup.
It should be made clear that not
everyone has a device to record their sleep
patterns, in some of
these nations,
it?s likely that
only the richest
people do. And people who elect to track their
sleep
may try to get more sleep than
the average person. Even if that?s the case,
though, the above
findings are still
striking, If the most health-conscious among us
have such deep swings in our
shut-eye
levels throughout the year, how much sleep are the
rest of us losing?
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61.
What does the author say about people?s sleeping
habits?
A) They are culture-related
C)They change with the seasons.
B) They
affect people?s
health.
D)They
vary from person to person.
do we
learn about the Russians regarding sleep?
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A) They don?t fall asleep until very
late.
B) They don?t sleep
much on weekends.
C) They
get less sleep on public holidays.
D)
They sleep longer than people elsewhere.
is the major cause for Europeans? loss
of sleep?
A) The daylight
savings time.
B) The colorful night
life.
C) The World Cup.
D)
The summertime.
is the most probable
reason for some rich people to use a device to
record their patterns?
A) They have
trouble falling asleep.
B) They want to
get sufficient sleep.
C) They are
involved in a sleep research.
D) They
want to go to bed on regular hours.
65.
What does the author imply in the last
paragraph?
A) S
leeplessness
does harm to people?s health.
B) Few people really know the
importance of sleep.
C) It is important
to study our sleep patterns.
D) Average
people probably sleep less than the rich.
Part IV
Translation
( 30
minutes)
Directions: For
this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to translate
a passage from Chinese into
English.
You should write your answer on
Answer
Sheet 2
.
云南省的丽江古镇是中国著名的
旅游
目的地之一。
那里的生活节奏比大多数中国
的城市都要
缓慢。
丽江到处都是美丽的自然风光,
众多的少数民族同胞提供了各式各样,
丰富多彩的文
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化让游
客体验。历史上,丽江还以
“
爱之城
”
而闻名。当地人中流传着许多关于人生,为爱而
死的故事。如今
,在中外游客眼中,这个古镇被视为爱情和浪漫的天堂。(
paradise
)
2015
年
12
月大学英语四级听力真题及答案(一套)
2015
年
12
月四级听力原文第一版
Part
1
短对话
Question 1
- M
:
Do you remember the wonderful film on
space exploration we watched together last
month
?
- W
:
Sure
。
It?s actually the most impressive one
I?ve seen on that topic
。
Q
:
What do we
learn about the speakers
?
Question 2
-
W
:
Are you
looking for anything in
particular
?
-
M
:
Yes
。
My son is graduating from high
school
,
and I
want to get him something
special
。
Q
:
Where does the
conversation most probably take
place
?
Question 3
- M
:
Mike told me yesterday that he had been
looking in vain for a job in the art
gallery
。
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W
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Really
?
If I remember
right
,
he had a
chance to work there
,
but he turned it
down
。
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