2015年12月大学英语四级考试真题(2+答案)

2015

年

12

月大学英语四级考试真题（第

2

套）

Part I

Writing

（

30 minutes

）

Directions: For this part

，

you are allowed 30 minutes to write an essay commenting on the saying

is

a

daily

experience

and

a

lifetime

mission.”

You

can

cite

examples

to

illustrate

the

importance of lifelong learning. You should write at least 120 words but no more than 180 words.

Part II

Listening Comprehension

（

30 minutes

）

Questions 9 to 11 are based on the conversation you have just heard.

9. A) From the wanted column.

C) From a telephone directory.

B) From some of her friends.

D) From a television commercial.

10. A) She received full- time education abroad.

C) She finished her secondary school.

B) She graduated from an open university.

D) She studied in a vocational college.

11. A) She is a shorthand-typist.

C) She is a policewoman.

B) She works as a tour guide.

D) She teaches an evening class.

Questions 12 to 15 are based on the conversation you have just heard.

12. A) It provides him with career opportunities.

C) It has been off and on for ten years.

B) It helps enlarge his customer network.

D) It was interrupted for four years.

13. A) Individualized service.

C) Home-made beer.

B) Traditional setting.

D) Social games.

14. A) The quality of beer.

C) The owner's attitude.

B) The atmosphere.

D) The right location.

15. A) It is a rather tough job

．

C) It helps old people kill time.

B) It is a profitable business.

D) It makes retirees feel useful.

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. 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 18 are based on the passage you have just heard.

16. A) It is becoming increasingly popular.

C) It gives rise to serious social instability.

B) It helps the user to escape reality.

D) It hurts a person and those around them.

17. A) They use drugs just for fun.

C) They use drugs as medicine.

B) They take drugs to get high.

D) They keep drug use a secret.

18. A) It is quite common in entertainment circles.

B) It is the cause of various social problems.

C) It is hard to get rid of.

D) It is fatal to the user.

Passage Two

Questions 19 to 22 are based on the passage you have just heard.

19. A) Taking up exercises after recovery.

C) Finding new ways to cure heart disease.

B) Producing tasty healthy frozen food.

D) Going on a diet upon leaving the hospital.

20. A) It was carefully tested with consumers.

C) It was disapproved by many diet experts.

B) It was promoted by health organizations.

D)

It

was

highly

expected

by

the

general

public.

21. A) Competitive price.

C) Vigorous promotion.

B) Low expectations.

D) Unique ingredients.

22. A) It was suggested by the firm's vice-president.

B) It matches the food's dark green packaging.

C) It has a positive implication for consumers.

D) It tricks the elders into impulse purchasing.

Passage Two

Questions 23 to 25 are based on the passage you have just heard.

23. A) It is practiced in most of the states.

C) It has drawn a lot of criticism from overseas.

B) It will be abolished sooner or later.

D) It has to be approved by the Supreme Court.

24. A) Whether the practice should be allowed to continue in future.

B) Whether there should be a minimum age limit for execution

C) What type of criminals should receive it.

D) What effect it might have on youngsters.

25. A) The court sentenced him to life in prison for killing two friends.

B) The governor changed his death sentence to life in prison.

C) He was the first minor to be executed in South Carolina.

D) He was sentenced to death for a crime he committed as a minor.

Part IIII

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.

Late

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

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, because 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 El Nino

year.

El Nino

，

Spanish for

，

40 when surface ocean waters in the southern Pacific become

abnormally warm. So 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. El

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: El 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）．

A)additional

I)logically

B) associated

J)occurs

C)bore

K) populations

D) chances

L) realize

E)communicated

M) reduce

F)decades

N) saw

G)experiences

O) specific

H) globally

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.

How to Eat Well

A) Why do so many Americans eat tons of processed food, the stuff that is correctly called junk

（垃圾）

and should really carry warning labels?

B) It's not because fresh ingredients are hard to come by. Supermarkets offer more variety than ever,

and there are over four times as many farmers' markets in the U. S. as there were 20 years ago.

Nor is it for lack of available information. There are plenty of recipes

（食谱），

how-to videos and

cooking

classes

available

to

anyone

who

has

a

computer,

smartphone

or

television.

if

anything,

the information is overwhelming.

C) And yet we aren't cooking. If you eat three meals a day and behave like most Americans

，

you

probably get at least a third of your daily calories

（

卡路里）

outside the home. Nearly two-thirds of

us grab fast food once a week, and we get almost 25% of our daily calories from snacks. So we're

eating out or taking in, and we don't sit down-or we do

，

but we hurry.

D) Shouldn't preparing-and consuming- food be a source of comfort, pride

，

health

，

well- being

，

relaxation,

sociability?

Something

that

connects

us

to

other

humans?

Why

would

we

want

to

outsource

（外包）

this basic task, especially when outsourcing it is so harmful?

E) When I talk about cooking, I'm not talking about creating elaborate dinner parties or three-day

science projects. I'm talking about simple

，

easy, everyday meals. My mission is to encourage green

hands

and

those

lacking

time

or

money

to

feed

themselves.

That

means

we

need

modest,

realistic expectations

，

and we need to teach people to cook food that's good enough to share

with family and friends.

F) Perhaps a return to real cooking needn't be far off. A recent Harris poll revealed that 79% of

Americans say they enjoy cooking and 30%

；

14% admit to not enjoying kitchen work and

just 7% won't go near the stove at all. But this doesn't necessarily translate to real cooking, and

the result of this survey shouldn't surprise anyone: 52% of those 65 or older cook at home five or

more times per week; only a third of young people do.

G) Back in the 1950s most of us grew up in households where Mom cooked virtually every night. The

intention

to

put

a

home-cooked

meal

on

the

table

was

pretty

much

universal.

Most

people

couldn't afford to do otherwise.

H) Although frozen dinners were invented in the '40s

，

their popularity didn't boom until television

became

popular

a

decade

or

so

later.

Since

then,

packaged,

pre-prepared

meals

have

been

what's for dinner. The microwave and fast-food chains were the biggest catalysts

（催化剂）

< br>，

but

the

big

food

companies-which

want

to

sell

anything

except

the

raw

ingredients

that

go

into

cooking- made the home cook an endangered species.

I) Still

，

I find it strange that only a third of young people report preparing meals at home regularly.

Isn't this the same crowd that rails against processed junk and champions craft cooking? And isn't

this the generation who say they're concerned about their health and the well-being of the planet?

If these are truly the values of many young people

，

then their behavior doesn't match their beliefs.

J)

There

have

been

half-hearted

but

well-publicized

efforts

by

some

food

companies

to

reduce

calories in their processed foods

，

but the Standard American Diet is still the polar opposite of the

healthy,

mostly

plant-based

diet

that

just

about

every

expert

says

we

should

be

eating.

Considering that the government's standards are not nearly ambitious enough, the picture is clear:

by not cooking at home

，

we're not eating the right things

，

and the consequences are hard to