-
2012
年
12
月英语
四级真题及答案
答案
作文
On Excessive Packaging
In recent years, with the economy
growing, all kinds of goods are
flowing
into our life. The packaging of goods becomes more
and more
attracting our eyes. However,
the problem of excessive packaging has
aroused people’s wide
concern.
This phenomenon
exists for a number of reasons. For one thing, the
business has seen through the mind of
most consumers who are
face-saving, for
they thought that the more beautiful the packaging
of
goods is, the best people like. For
another thing, excessive packaging
can
make the majority of merchants get high profit for
the cheap
commodity by improving price.
Perhaps the primary reason lies that
the form far outweighs the content.
In my opinion, it is more advisable to
focus on the quality of goods
than to
decorate its appearance. So, it is urgent that
immediate
measures should be taken to
stop the situation. Only in this way can
we reduce unnecessary waste and have a
rational and pure shopping
condition,
making our money worthwhile.
快速阅读
1
．
B
2
．
D
3
．
D
4
．
D
5
．
D
6
．
B
7
．
A
8. The
proportion of students taking college-level exams
9. A look at many different measures
10. tackle tough subjects under the
guidance of gifted teachers
听力部分
短对话：
11. D.
Discussing a house plan.
12. D. She is
tired of the food in the canteen.
13.
C. Listening to some loud music.
14. C.
The man can dress casually for the occasion.
15. A. 100% cotton pants in dark blue.
16. C. Its location.
17. C.
Travel overseas.
18. A. It is a fair
bargain.
长对话：
19.
D Hosting an evening TV program
20. A
He worked as a salesman
21. B He wanted
to be his own boss
22. A They are all
the man’s friends
23. B It
remains a major of industrial activity
24. C Transport problem
25.
D Measures to create job opportunities.
短文：
26
．
B. They had
known each other since childhood.
27
．
B. At Joe’s
houses.
28
．
A.
Social divisions will break down if people get to
know each
other.
29. A. In
his building’s parking lot.
30. A. It had been stolen by someone.
31. B. In the city garage.
32. D. The mysteriousness of
creativity.
33. A. It is the source of
all artistic work.
34. D. Creative
imagination.
35. A. It is part of
everyday life.
听写：
36. calculators
37. handle
38. items
39. Responding
40. emergencies
41. rarely
42. occur
43. murders
44. there have been hundreds of thefts
and cases of deliberate
damaging of
public property
45. Things get stolen
when it’s easy to steal them, because they are
left lying around unwatched.
46. A better way to solve this problem
might be for all of us to be more
careful with our things.
深度阅读
47. E.
domestic
48. C. communities
49. O. survive
50. H. gather
51. M. serves
52. N.
surroundings
53. J. recession
54. K. reported
55. I.
households
56. F. financially
57-61 CDDDA
62-66 CBACC
完形填空
67-71 CBDCA
72-76 AABBD
77-81 BCDAD
82-86 ADBAB
翻译
87
．
hadn’t been
watered for a long time
88
．
one thousand
pound cheaper than mine.
89
．
as well listen
to the music
90. lights on and doors
open
91. have been translated into
multiple languages
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(
< br>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
bureaucracies(
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 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
)
“
Hillsjail.
”
Jeff
Gilbert.
A
Hillsdale
teacher who became principal last year,
remembers sitting w
ith other teachers
watching students file out of a graduation
ceremony
and
asking
one
another
in
astonishment,
“
How
did
that
student
graduate?
”
So
in
2003
Hillsdale
remade
itself
into
three
“
houses,
”
romantically
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
“
advisory
”
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
.
“
We
’
r
e
constantly
talking
about
one
another
’
s
advisers,
”
says
English
teacher
Chris
Crockett.
“
If
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.
“
It
was
rough
for
some.
But
by
senior
year,
two-
thirds
have
moved
up to physics,
”
says Gilbert
“
Our kids are
coming to school in part
because
they
know
there
are
adults
here
who
know
them
and
care
for
them.
”
But not all
schools
show advances
after
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 yea
r a group
of 38
superintendents(
地区教育主管
)from
five states wrote to
ask
that
their
schools
be
excluded
from
the
calculation.
“
It
is
impossible
to
know
which
high
schools
are
‘
the
best
’
in
the
nation,
”
their
letter
read.
in
part.
“
Determining
whether
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 SAT
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.
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.
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
r a group of 38
superintendents(
地区教育主管
)from
five states wrote to
ask
that
their
schools
be
excluded
from
the
calculation.
“
It
is
impossible
to
know
which
high
schools
are
‘
the
best
’
in
the
nation,
”
their
letter
read.
in
part.
“
Determining
whether
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 SAT
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.
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.
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.
ek 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
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.
ing to
Jeff Gilbert, the
“
advisory<
/p>
”
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 A)
、
B)
< br>、
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。
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 .
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.
B) He found it more profitable
C)He
didn
’
t want to start from
scratch.
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.