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2013
年
12
月大学英语四级考试真题（第三套）
Part I
Writing
（
30
minutes
）
Directions: For this part, you are
allowed 30 minutes to write a short essay based on
the picture
below. You should start
your essay with a brief account of the increasing
use of the mobile phone
in
people
’
s life and then
explain the consequences of overusing it. You
should write at least 120
words but no
more than 180 words.
Part
II
Listenin
g
Compre
hension
（
30
minutes
）
Section
A
Directions: In this section, you will
hear 8 short conversations 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.
1.
A
）
He
has proved to be a better reader than the woman.
B
）
He has difficulty understanding the
book.
C
）
He
cannot get access to the assigned book.
D
）
He cannot finish his assignment before
the deadline.
2.
A
）
She
will drive the man to the supermarket.
B
）
The man should buy a car of his own.
C
）
The man needn
’
t
go shopping every week.
D
）
She
can pick the man up at the grocery store.
3.
A
）
Get
more food and drinks.
C
）
Tidy up the place.
B
）
Ask
his friend to come over.
D
）
Hold a party.
4.
A
）
The
talks can be held any day except this Friday.
B
）
He could change his schedule to meet
John Smith.
C
）
The
first-round talks should start as soon as
possible.
D
）
The
woman should contact John Smith first.
5.
A
）
He
understands the woman
’
s
feelings.
B
）
He
has gone through a similar experience.
C
）
The woman should have gone on the field
trip.
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D
）
The
teacher is just following the regulations.
6.
A
）
She
will meet the man halfway.
C
）
She
will ask David to talk less.
B
）
She
is sorry the man will not come.
D
）
She
has to invite David to the party.
7.
A
）
Few students understand Prof.
Johnson
’
s lectures.
B
）
Few
students meet Prof.
Johnson
’
s requirements.
C
）
Many students find Prof.
Johnson
’
s lectures boring.
D
）
Many students have dropped Prof.
Johnson
’
s class.
8.
A
）
Check their computer files.
C
）
Study a computer program.
B
）
Make some computations.
D
）
Assemble a computer.
Questions 9 to 12 are based on the
conversation you have just heard.
9.
A
）
It allows him to make a lot of friends.
C
）
It
enables him to apply theory to practice.
B
）
It requires him to work long hours.
D
）
It helps him understand people better.
10.
A
）
It is
intellectually challenging.
B
）
It
requires him to do washing-up all the time.
C
）
It
exposes him to oily smoke all day long.
D
）
It
demands physical endurance and patience.
11.
A
）
In a hospital.
C
）
At
a laundry.
B
）
At
a coffee shop.
D
）
In
a hotel.
12.
A
）
Getting along
well with colleagues.
C
）
Planning everything in advance.
B
）
Paying attention to every detail.
D
）
Knowing the needs of customers.
Questions 13 to 15 are
based on the conversation you have just heard.
13.
A
）
The pocket
money British children get.
B
）
The
annual inflation rate in Britain.
C
）
The
things British children spend money on.
D
）
The
rising cost of raising a child in Britain.
14.
A
）
It enables
children to live better.
C
）
It often rises higher than inflation.
B
）
It goes down during economic recession.
D
）
It has gone up 25% in the past decade.
15.
A
）
Save up for
their future education.
C
）
Buy
their own shoes and socks.
B
）
Pay
for small personal things.
D
）
Make donations when necessary.
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 1 with a single line through the
centre.
Passage One
Questions 16 to 19 are based on the
passage you have just heard.
16.
A
）
District managers.
C
）
Sales directors.
B
）
Regular customers.
D
）
Senior clerks.
17.
A
）
The support provided by the regular
clients.
B
）
The
initiative shown by the sales representatives.
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C
）
The
urgency of implementing the
company
’
s plans.
D
）
The
important part played by district managers.
18.
A
）
Some of them
were political-minded.
C
）
One third of
them were senior managers.
B
）
Fifty percent of them were female.
D
）
Most of them were rather conservative.
19.
A
）
He used too
many quotations.
C
）
He
did not keep to the point.
B
）
He
was not gender sensitive.
D
）
He
spent too much time on details.
Passage Two
Questions 20 to
22 are based on the passage you have just heard.
20.
A
）
State your
problem to the head waiter.
B
）
Demand a discount on the dishes
ordered.
C
）
Ask to see the manager politely but
firmly.
D
）
Ask the name of the person waiting on
you.
21.
A
）
Your problem
may not be understood correctly.
B
）
You
don
’
t know if you are
complaining at the right time.
C
）
Your complaint may not reach the person
in charge.
D
）
You
can
’
t tell how the person on
the line is reacting.
22.
A
）
Demand a
prompt response.
C
）
Send it by express mail.
B
）
Provide all the details.
D
）
Stick to the point.
Passage Three
Questions 23
to 25 are based on the passage you have just
heard.
23.
A
）
Fashion
designer.
C
）
City planner.
B
）
Architect.
D
）
Engineer.
24.
A
）
Do some
volunteer work.
C
）
Work flexible hours.
B
）
Get
a well-paid part-time job.
D
）
Go
back to her previous post.
25.
A
）
Few baby-sitters can be considered
trustworthy.
B
）
It
will add to the family
’
s
financial burden.
C
）
A
baby-sitter is no replacement for a mother.
D
）
The
children won
’
t get along
with a baby-sitter.
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.
Almost every child, on the
first day he sets foot in a school building, is
smarter, more curious,
less
afraid
of
what
he
doesn
’
t
know,
better
at
finding
and
（
26
）
__________,
more
confident,
resourceful
（机敏的）
,
persistent
and
（
27
）
__________
than
he
will
ever
be
again
in
his
schooling
—
or,
unless he is very unusual and very lucky, for the
rest of his life. Already, by paying
close
attention
to
and
（
28
）
__________
the
world
and
people
around
him,
and
without
any
school-type
（
29
）
__________
instruction, he has done a task far more
difficult, complicated and
（
30
）
__________ than anything
he will be asked to do in school, or than any of
his teachers has
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done for years. He has solved the
（
31
）
_______
___ of language. He has discovered
it
—
babies
don
’
t
even
know
that
language
exists
—
and
he
has
found
out
how
it
works
and
learnt
to
use
it
（
32
）
_________
_. He has done it by exploring, by experimenting,
by developing his own model
of
the grammar
of
language,
by
（
33
）
__________
and
seeing
whether
it
works,
by
gradually
changing it and
（
34
）
__
________ it until it does work. And while he has
been doing this, he has
been learning
other things as well, including many of the
（
35
）
________
__ that the schools think
only they can
teach him, and many that are more complicated than
the ones they do try to teach
him.
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 36 to 45 are based on the
following passage.
The mobile phone is
a magic device widely used these days. Although it
has been nearly 30
years
since
the
first
commercial
mobile-phone
network
was
launched,
advertisers
have
yet
to
figure out how to get their ___36___
out to mobile-phone users in a big way. There are
2.2 billion
cell-phone users worldwide,
a ___37___ that is growing by about 25% each year.
Yet spending on
ads carried over cell-
phone networks last year ___38___ to just $$1.5
billion worldwide, a fraction
of the
$$424 billion global ad market.
But as
the number of eyeballs glued to ___39___ screens
multiplies, so too does the mobile
phone
’
s value as
a pocket billboard
（广告牌）
.
Consumers are ___40___ using their phones for
things
other
than
voice
calls,
such
as
text
messaging,
downloading
songs
and
games,
and
___41___ the Internet.
By 2010, 70 million Asians are expected to be
watching videos and TV
programs on
mobile phones. All of these activities give
advertisers ___42___ options for reaching
audiences. During
soccer
’
s World Cup last
summer, for example, Adidas used real-time scores
and
games to ___43___ thousands of fans
to a website set up for mobile-phone access.
“
Our target
audience was males aged 17 to
25,
”
says Marcus
Spurrell, Adidas regional manager for Asia.
“
Their mobiles are always
on, always in their
pocket
—
you just
can
’
t ___44___ cell phones
as an
advertising
tool.
”
Mobile-
phone marketing has become as ___45___ a platform
as TV, online or
print.
A
）
accessing
I
）
increasingly
B
）
amounted
J
）
messages
C
）
approaching
K
）
patiently
D
）
attract
L
）
tiny
E
）
casual
M
）
total
F
）
characters
N
）
violated
G
）
fresh
O
）
vital
H
）
ignore
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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.
A Mess on the Ladder of Success
A
）
Throughout
American
history
there
has
almost
always
been
at
least
one
central
economic
narrative that gave
the ambitious or unsatisfied reason to pack up and
seek their fortune elsewhere.
For the
first 300 or so years of European settlement, the
story was about moving outward: getting
immigrants to the continent and then to
the frontier to
clear the prairies
（大草原）
, drain the
wetlands and build new cities.
B
）
By the end of
the 19th century, as the frontier vanished, the US
had a mild panic attack. What
would
this energetic, enterprising country be without
new lands to conquer? Some people, such as
Teddy Roosevelt, decided to keep on
conquering
（
Cuba, the
Philippines, etc.
）
, but
eventually, in
industrialization, the
US found a new narrative of economic mobility at
home. From the 1890s to
the 1960s,
people moved from farm to city, first in the North
and then in the South. In fact, by the
1950s, there was enough prosperity and
white-collar work that many began to move to the
suburbs.
As the population aged, there
was also a shift from the cold Rust Belt to the
comforts of the Sun
Belt.
We
think
of
this
as
an
old
person
’
s
migration,
but
it
created
many
jobs
for
the
young
in
construction and health
care, not to mention tourism, retail and
restaurants.
C
）
For the last 20
years
—
from the
end of the cold war through two burst bubbles in a
single
decade
—
the
US
has
been
casting
about
for
its
next
economic
narrative.
And
now
it
is
experiencing
another
period
of
panic,
which
is
bad
news
for
much
of
the
workforce
but
particularly for its
youngest members.
D
）
The US has
always been a remarkably mobile country, but new
data from the Census Bureau
indicate
that mobility has reached its lowest level in
recorded history. Sure, some people are stuck
in homes valued at less than their
mortgages
（抵押贷款）
, but many
young people
—
who
don
’
t
own homes
and don
’
t yet have
families
—
are staying put,
too. This suggests, among other things,
that people
aren
’
t packing up for new
economic opportunities the way they used to.
Rather than
dividing the country into
the 1 percenters versus
（与??相对）
everyone
else, the split in our
economy is
really between two other classes: the mobile and
immobile.
E
）
Part of the problem is that the
country
’
s largest industries
are in decline. In the past, it was
perfectly
clear
where
young
people
should
go
for
work
（
Chicago
in
the
1870s, Detroit
in
the
1910s,
Houston
in
the
1970s
）
and,
more
or
less,
what
they
’
d
be
doing
when
they
got
there
（
killing cattle, building
cars, selling oil
）
. And
these industries were large enough to offer jobs
to
each class of worker, from unskilled
laborer to manager or engineer. Today, the few
bright spots in
our economy are
relatively small
（
though
some promise future growth
）
and decentralized. There
are
great jobs in Silicon Valley,
in the
biotech research capitals of Boston and Raleigh-
Durham
and in advanced manufacturing
plants along the southern I-85 corridor. These
companies recruit
all over the country
and the globe for workers with specific abilities.
（
You
don
’
t need to be the
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