2015年12月英语四级考试真题及答案(第二套)

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年

12

月大学英语四级考试真题< /p>

(

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.

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Part II Listening Comprehension ( 30 minutes )

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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

bea

pause.

During

the

pause,

you

must

read

the

four

choices

marked

A),

B),

C.

and

D),

and

decide

which

is

the

best

mark

the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet I with a single line through the centre.

1. A. The agenda for the board of directors' meeting.

B. The details of the meeting to be held next week.

C. The reason for the man's absence from the meeting.

D. The time for the man's visit to the woman's company.

2.

A. At a travel agency.

B. At a department store.

C. In a library.

D. In a post office.

3.

A. He cannot hear the woman's call.

B. He cannot get through to New York.

C. He cannot recall the phone number.

D. He cannot find a public phone nearby.

4.

A. Watch a movie with the woman.

B. Revise his thesis in the office.

C. Do some shopping with Jane.

D. Discuss his thesis with Prof. Hudson.

5. A. He just cannot work properly without a watch.

B. He has no idea where he can buy a gold watch.

C. He still does not know where he left his watch.

D. He is not sure what went wrong with his watch.

6.

A. He forgot all about what he said.

B. He slipped and hurt his head.

C. He was sorry for being off sick last week.

D. He thought the woman's car had been sold.

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7.

A. She should try to catch an earlier bus.

B. She is absent from his class too often.

C. She is always making excuses for being late.

D. She should come up with a better excuse.

8.

A. He is going to help the woman out.

B. He has to move out of the building soon.

C. He is on his way to see a real estate agent.

D. He will stay with the woman's brother.

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

9.

A. From the wanted cohunn.

B. From some of her friends.

C. From a telephone directory.

D. From a television commercial.

10.

A. She received full-time education abroad.

B. She graduated from an open university.

C. She fmished her secondary school.

D. She studied in a vocational college.

11.

A. She is a shorthand-typist.

B. She works as a tour guide.

C. She is a policewoman.

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.

B. It helps enlarge his customer network.

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

D. It was interrupted for four years.

13.

A. Individualized service.

B. Traditional setting.

C. Home-made beer.

D. Social games.

14.

A. The quality of beer.

B. The atmosphere.

C. The owner's attitude.

D. The right location.

15.

A. It is a rather tough job.

B. It is a profitable business.

C. It helps old people kill time.

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 once. After youhear 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.

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Passage One

Questions 16 to 18 are based on the passage you have just heard.

16.

A. It is becoming increasingly popular.

B. It helps the user to escape reality.

C. It gives rise to serious social instability.

D. It hurts a person and those around them.

17.

A. They use drugs just for fun.

B. They take drugs to get high.

C. They use drugs as medicine.

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.

B. Producing tasty healthy frozen food.

C. Finding new ways to cure heart disease.

D. Going on a diet upon leaving the hospital.

20.

A. Itwas carefully tested with consumers.

B. It was promoted by health organizations.

C. It was disapproved by many diet experts.

D. It was highly expected by the general public.

21.

A. Competitive price.

B. Low expectations.

C. Vigorous promotion.

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 Three

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

23.

A. It is practiced in most of the states.

B. It will be abolished sooner or later.

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

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.

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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.

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

people

borrow

money

and

to pay it back.

Large loans

are seldom the issue; they are usually treated as business26, with the

terms spelled out on paper. But many women suffer27over problems like Carol's

friend

Ginny

is

always28cash,

she

says.

hate

to

recall

how

often

I've

'

loaned'

her a dollar or two for a drink or a movie. Each loan is so small I'd feel really

cheap

making

a

big

deal

out

of

it;

still,

I

do29the

fact

that

she

never

pays

me

back.

admits

to

being

something

to

demand

repayment,

but

she

has

resolved

tostop

lending

money

to

Ginny.

last

time

she

asked

for

five

dollars

to

pay

for

her

dry

cleaning,

I

just

told

her

I

couldn't31it.

woman

suggests

a

bolder32.

somebody

refuses

to

repay

a

loan,

I33byrequesting

one

myself,

she

says.

left

home

without

my

wallet,'

I'll

say.

'Can

you

lend

meenough

to

cover

lunch?'

Then,

when

the

money

is

safely

in

hand,

I

am

struck

by

a

sudden34Why,

this

is

exactly

the

amount I loaned you last week ! How35! Now you won't have to repay me'

it works like a charm.

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

choice in the bank isidentified 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

November

and

December36early snow and bone-chilling temperatures in much of the country, part

of a year when, for the first time in two37, record-cold days will likely turn out

to have

oumumbered record- warm

ones. But

the U.

S. was the exception:

November

was

the

warmest

ever38,

and

current

data

indicates

that

2013

is

likely

to

have

been

the

fourth

hottest

year

on

record.

Enjoy

the

snow

now,

because39are

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 Nifio Year. El

Nino, Spanish for

child

surface

ocean

waters

in

the

southern

Pacific

become

abnormally

warm.

So large is the Pacific, covering 30% of the planet's surface, that the41energy

generated by its warming is enough to touch off a series of weather changes around

the world. El Ninos are42with abnormally dry conditions in Southeast Asia and

Australia. They can lead to extreme rain in parts of North and South America, even

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as

southern

Africa43dry

weather.

Marine

life

may

be

affected

too:

E1

Ninos

can44the

rising

of

the

cold,

nutrient-rich

(

营养丰富的）

water

that

supports

large

fish45,

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.

Eachstatement

contains

information

given

in

one

of

the

paragraphs.

Identify the paragraphfrom which the information is derived. You may choose a

paragraph

more

than

paragraph

is

marked

with

a

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

dally

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 dally 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,

weli

－

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%

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;

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only a third of young people do.

G. Back in the 1950s most of us grew up in households where Morn 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

televisions

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

),

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

fmd

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

haft

－

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:

bynot

cooking

athome,

we're

not

eating the right things, and the consequences are hard to overstate.

K. To help quantify (

量化

). the costs of a poor diet, I recently tried to estimate

this impact in terms of a most famous food, the burger (

汉堡包

). I concluded that

the

profit

from

burgers

is

more

than

offset

(

抵消）

by

the

damage

they

cause

in

health

problems and environmental harm.

L.

Cooldng

real

food

is

the

best

defense

－

not

to

mention

that

any

meal

you're

likely

to eat at home contains about 200 fewer calories than one you would eat in a

restaurant.

M. To those Americans for whom money is a concern, my advice is simple: Buy what

you can afford,and cook it yourself. The common prescription is to primarily shop

the grocery store, since that's where fresh produce, meat and seafood, and dairy

are.

And

to

save

money

and

still

eat

well

you

don't

need

local,

organic

ingredients;

all

you

need

is

real

food.

I'm

not

saying

local

food

isn't

better;

it

is.

But

there

is plenty of decent food in the grocery stores.

N. The other sections you should get to know are the frozen foods and the canned

goods. Frozen produce is still produce; canned tomatoes are still tomatoes. Just

make

sure

you're

getting

real

food

without

tons

of

added

salt

or

sugar.

Ask

yourself,

would Grandma consider this food? Does it look like something that might occur in

nature? It's pretty much common sense: you want to buy food,not unidentifiable

foodlike objects.

O. You don't have to hit the grocery store daily, nor do you need an abundance of

skill. Since fewer than haft of Americans say they cook at an intermediate level

and only 20% describe their cooldng skills as advanced, the crisis is one of

confidence. And the only remedy for that is practice. There's nothing mysterious

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about cooking the evening meal. You just have to do a little thinking ahead and

redefine what qualifies as dinner. Like any skill, cooking gets easier as you do

it more; every time you cook, you advance your level of skills. Someday you won't

even need recipes. My advice is that you not pay attention to the number of steps

and ingredients, because they can be deceiving.

P. Time, I realize, is the biggest obstacle to cooking for most people. You must

adjust your priorities

to find time

to cook. For instance, you can move a TV to

the

kitchen

and watch your

favorite shows while you're standing at the sink. No one is asking you to give up

activities

you like,

but if you're watching food shows on TV,

try cooking instead.

46.

Cooking

benefits

people

in

many

ways

and

enables

them

to

connect

with

one

another.

47. Abundant information about cooking is available either online or on TV.

48. Young people do less cooking at home than the elderly these days.

49. Cooking skills can be improved with practice.

50.

In

the

mid-20th

century,

most

families

ate

dinner

at

home

instead

of

eating

out.

51. Even those short of time or money should be encouraged to cook for themselves

and their family.

52. Eating food not cooked by ourselves can cause serious consequences.

53. To eat well and still save money, people should buy fresh food and cook it

themselves.

54. We get a fairly large portion of calories from fast food and snacks.

55. The popularity of TV led to the popularity of frozen food.

Section C

Directions: There are 2

passages in

this

section. Each passage is

followed by some

questions

or

unfinished

statements.

For

each

of

them

there

are

four

choices

marked

A), B), C. and

D

).

You

should

decide

on

the

best

choice

and

mark

the

corresponding

letter

on

Answer

Sheet 2 with a single line through the centre.

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 Beckham 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

spending

it

should

happen

in

haft

a

blink

(

眨眼

).

of

an

eye?

Doesn't

a

wallet

－

that

time

－

honoured

Friday

－

night

feeling

of

pleasing,

promisingfatness

－

represent something that matters?

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But

I'll

leave

the

economics

to

the

experts.

What

bothers

me

about

the

death

of

the

wallet

is

thechange

it

represents

in

our

physical

environment.

Everything

about

the

look and feel of a wallet

－

theway the fastenings and materials wear and tear and

loosen with age, the plastic and paper and gold andsilver, and handwritten phone

numbers

and

printed

cinema

tickets

－

is

the

very

opposite

of

what

ourworld

is

becoming.

The opposite of a

wallet is a smartphone or an iPad..The rounded edges,

coolglass,

smooth and unknowable as a pebble (

鹅卵石

). Instead of digging through pieces of

paper

andpeering

into

corners,

we

move

our

fingers

left

and

right.

No

more

counting

out coins. Show yourwallet, if you still have one. It may not be here much longer.

56. What is happening to the wallet?

A. It is disappearing.

B. It is being fattened.

C. It is becoming costly.

D. It is changing in style.

57. How are business transactions done in big modern stores?

A. Individually.

B. Electronically.

C. In the abstract.

D. Via a cash register.

58. What makes the author feel uncomfortable nowadays?

A. Saving money is becoming 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.

60. What can we infer from the passage about the author?

A. He is resistant to social changes.

B. He is against technological progress.

C. He feels reluctant to part with the traditional wallet.

D. He feels insecure in the ever

－

changing modern world.

Passage Two

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

culture.

From

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

time

starting on October 's other late nights and early mornings generally

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correspond

to

public

holidays.

On

New

Year's

Eve,

Russians

have

the

world's

latest

bedtime, hitting 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

.

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 haft 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 sleeg are the rest of us losing?

61. What does the author say about people's sleeping habits?

A. They are culture

－

related.

B. They affect people's health.

C. They change with the seasons.

D. They vary from person to person.

62, What do we learn about the Russians regarding sleep?

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.

63. what 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.

64.

what

is

the

most

probable

reason

for

some

rich

people

to

use

a

device

to

record

their sleeppatterns?

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. Sleeplessness does harm to people's health.

B. Few people really know the importance of sleep.

C. It is important to study our sleep patterns.

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D. Average people probably sleep less than the rich.

Part TV 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城市都要缓< /p>

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因爱而生、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。

2015

年

12

月大学英语四级考 试真题答案与详解

(

第

2

套

)

这是一篇四级考试中常见的议论文。此次话题

lifelong

learning(

终身学习

)

在考生日常生

活中是比较常见的，

因此写起来 难度不大。

考生应该将重点放在第二段阐释终身学习的重要

性上 。尤其可以结合当今信息时代涌现的一些新事物、新现象，比如从近几年出现的网店、

打 车软件等展开讨论，从而使论证有理有据，避免空洞说理。

一、引出话题：终身学习很重要

(the importance of lifelong learning)

二、