-
四级勘误
2014
年
12
月第一套
1.
2014
年
12
月第一套
P31
第
23
题题目，不粗体；
2014
年
12
月第二套
1. 2014
年
12
月第二套
P1
6
第
1
题题
目
B
选项，
B) He was a
comedianpreviously.
改为
B)
Previously he was a comedian.
2.
2014
年
12
月
第
三
套
P43
，
passage
one
的
文
章
第
五
段
中
，
[59]
In
Massachusetts, where childcare centers
must hire one teacher for every three
infants, the price of care averaged
more than $$ 16,000 per year. In Mississippi,
where centers must hire one teacher for
every five infants, the price of care
averaged
less
than
$$
5,000.
另起一段变为
6.
[59]
In
Massachusetts,
where
childcare centers must
hire
one teacher for every three infants, the price of
care
averaged
more
than
$$
16,000
per
year.
In
Mississippi,
where
centers
must
hire
one
teacher
for every five
infants, the
price of care
averaged less
than $$
5,000.
相应后面跟的翻译也改为
6. [59]
在马萨诸塞州，托儿所里每三
< br>个婴儿必须雇用一位老师，护理的平均价格超过
1.6
万
美元一年。在密西西
比州，
托儿所里每五个婴儿必须雇用一位老
师，
护理的平均价格就不到
5000
美
元。最后一段前面的序号改为
7
3.
2014
年
12
月第三套
P45,
59
题中的解析
，根据题干
Mississippi
及
Massachusetts
可定位至第五段最后两句。改为根据题干
< br>Mississippi
及
Massachusetts
可定位至第六段。
2014
年
12
月第三套
1.
2014
年
12
月第三套
P9,
答案部分的
translation
删掉，整体更换
为：
The
Internet community in
China is developing fastest in the world. In 2010,
there were approximately
420
million netizens, and the number is
still
on a speedy increase.
The growing popularity of the Internet has led to
significant social changes. Usually,
Chinese netizens are different from
their
American
counterparts.
American
netizens
use
it
more
often
for
practical
needs,
and
they
use
it
to
send
emails,
purchase
and
buy
commodities,
plan
tours
or
pay.
For
Chinese
netizens,
the
Internet
is
more
frequently
used
for
social
purpose,
and
thus,
QQ
and
chatting
rooms are widely
preferred.
2015
年
6
月第一
套
1.
2
015
年
6
月第一套
< br>P7
到
P10
从
section
C
到最后的翻译部分全部删掉，整体
更换
为：
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 endless debate about
“work
-
life balance” often
contains a hopeful footnote about
stay
-at-home dads. If
American society and business won’t
make it easier on future female leaders who choose
to have children, there is
still the
ray of hope that increasing numbers of
full-
time fathers will. But based on
today’s socioeconomic trends,
this hope
is, unfortunately, misguided.
It’s true
that the number of men who have left work to do
their thing as full
-time parents has
doubled in a
decad
e, but
it’s still minuscule: only 0.8% of married couples
where the stay
-at-home father was out
of the labor
force for a year. Even
that percentage is likely inflated by men thrust
into their caretaker role by
a
downsizing.
This is simply not a large
enough group to reduce the social
stigma(
污名
) and force other
adjustments necessary
to supporting men
in this decision, even if only for a relatively
short time.
Even shorter times away
from work for working fathers are already
difficult. A study found that 85% of new
fathers take some time off after the
birth of a child
—but for all but a few,
it’s a week or two at most. Meanwhile,
the average for women who take leave is
more than 10 weeks.
Such
choices
impact
who
moves
up
in
the
organization.
While
you’re
away,
someone
else
is
doing
your
work,
making
your
sales,
taking
care
of
your
customers.
That
can’t
help
you
at
work.
It
can
only
hurt
you.”
Women, of course, face
the same issues of returning after a long absence.
But with many more women than men
choosing to leave the workforce
entirely to raise families, returning from an
extended parental leave doesn’t raise
as many eyebrows as it does for men.
Women would mak
e
more if they didn’t break their earning
trajectory(
轨迹
) by leaving
the workforce, or if
higher-paying
professions were more family-friendly. In the
foreseeable future, stay-at-home fathers may make
all
the difference for individual
families, but their pre
sence won’t
reduce the numbers of high
-potential
women who
are forced to choose between
family and career.
56.
What gives women a ray of hope to
achieve work-life balance?
A) More men taking an extended parental
leave.
B) People’s changing attitude
towa
rds family.
C) More women entering
business management.
D) The improvement
of their socioeconomic status.
57.
Why does the author say the hope for
more full-time fathers is misguided?
58.
Why do few men take a
long parental leave?
59.
What is the most likely reaction to men
returning from an extended parental leave?
60.
What does the author say about high-
potential women in the not-too-distant future?
A) They will benefit from
the trend of more fathers staying at home.
B) They will find high-paying
professions a bit more family-friendly.
C) They are unlikely to break their
career trajectory to raise a family.
D)
They will still face the difficult choice between
career and children.
A) Jealousy.
B) Surprise.
C) Admiration.
D) Sympathy.
A) A long leave
will have a negative impact on their career.
B) They just have too many
responsibilities to fulfill at work.
C)
The economic loss will be too much for their
family to bear.
D) They are likely to
get fired if absent from work for too long.
A) Women are better at taking care of
children.
B) Many men value work more
than their family.
C) Their number is
too small to make a difference.
D) Not
many men have the chance to stay at home.
Passage Two
Questions 61 to
65 are based on the following passage.
Some
of
the
world’s
most
significant
problems never
hit
headlines.
One
example
comes
from
agriculture.
Food
riots
and
hunger
make
news.
But
the
trend
lying
behind
these
matters
is
rarely
talked
about.
This
is
the
decline in the growth in
yiel
ds of some of the world’s major
crops. A new study by the University of Minnesota
and McGill University in Montreal looks
at where, and how far, this decline is occurring.
The
authors
take
a
vast
number
of
data
points
for
the
four
most
important
crops:
rice,
wheat,
corn
and
soybeans(
大豆
).
They find that on between 24% and 39% of all
harvested areas, the improvement in yields that
took place before the 1980s slowed down
in the 1990s and 2000s.
There are two
worrying features of the slowdown. One is that it
has been particularly sharp in the
world’s
most
populous(
人口多的
)
countries,
India
and
China.
Their
ability
to
feed
themselves
has
been
an important
source of relative stability both
within the countries and on world food markets.
That self-sufficiency cannot be
taken
for granted if yields continue to slow down or
reverse.
Second,
yield
growth
has
been
lower
in
wheat
and
rice
than
in
corn
and
soyabeans.
This
is
problematic
because wheat and rice are more
important as foods, accounting for around half of
all calories consumed. Corn and
soyabeans
are
more
important
as
feed
grains.
The
authors
note
that
“we
have
preferentially
focused
our
crop
improvement efforts on feeding animals
and cars rather than on crops that feed people and
are the basis of food
security in
much of the world.”
The report qualifies the more
optimistic findings of another new paper which
suggests that the world will not
have
to dig up a lot more land for farming in order to
feed 9 billion people in 2050, as the Food and
Agriculture
Organisation has argued.
Instead, it says, thanks to slowing
population growth, land currently ploughted up for
crops might be able to
revert(
回返
)
to
forest or
wilderness.
This
could happen.
The
trouble
is
that
the
forecast
assumes
continued
improvements in
yields, which may not actually happen.
注意：此部分试题请在答题卡
2
上作答。
61.
What does the author
try to draw attention to?
62. Why does the author
mention India and China in particular?
63.
What does the new study
by the two universities say about recent crop
improvement efforts?
A) Their self-
sufficiency is vital to the stability of world
food markets.
B) Their food yields have
begun to decrease sharply in recent years.
C) Their big populations are causing
worldwide concerns.
D) Their food self-
sufficiency has been taken for granted.
A) Food riots and hunger in the world.
B) News headlines in the leading media.
C) The decline of the grain yield
growth.
D) The food supply in populous
countries.
A) They fail to
produce the same remarkable results as before the
1980s.
B) They contribute a lot to the
improvement of human food production.
C) They play a major role in
guaranteeing the food security of the world.
D) They focus more on the increase of
animal feed than human food grains.
64.
What does the Food and Agriculture
Organisation say about world food production in
the coming decades?
65.
How does the author view the argument
of the Food and Agriculture Organisation?
A) It is built on the findings of a new
study.
B) It is based on a doubtful
assumption.
C) It is backed by strong
evidence.
D) It is open to further
discussion.
A) The growing population
will greatly increase the pressure on world food
supplies.
B) The optimistic prediction
about food production should be viewed with
caution.
C) The slowdown of the growth
in yields of major food crops will be reversed.
D) The world will be able to feed its
population without increasing farmland.
Part IV
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.
Translation
(30 minutes)
据报道，今年中国快递服务（
courier service
）将递送大约
120
亿件包裹。这将使
中国有可能超越美国成
为世界上最大的快递市场。大多数包裹里装着网上订购的物品。中
国给数百万在线零售商以极具竞争力的
价格销售商品的机会。仅在
11
月
11
日，中国消费者就从国内
最大的购物平台购买了价值
90
亿美元的商品。
中国有不少这样的特殊购物日，因此，快递业在中国扩展就不足为奇了。
2.
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/p>
2015
年
6
月
第一套
P11
缺照片
Part I
Writing
(30
minutes)
（请于正式开考后半小时内完成该部分，之后将进行听力考试）
Directions:
For
this
part,
you
are
allowed
30
minutes
to
write
an
essay
based
on
the
picture
below.
Y
ou
should start your essay with a brief
description of the picture and comment on this
kind of
3.
<
/p>
2015
年
6
月
第
一
套
P20
第
6
题，
AB
CD
选项
中
括
号
里
的（
350
）
，
（
6
）
，
（
500
）
，
（
170
）
全部删
掉；
4.
2015
年
6
月第一套
P39
第
46
题题目
Some
professionals
in
education
are
collecting
signatures
to
voice
their
o
pposition to automated
essay gradin.
a
re collecting
signatures to voice their
改为
Some professionals in
education
opposition to automated essay
grading
.
201
5
年
6
月第二套
1.
Part I
Directions:
Writing
(30
minutes)
（请于正式开考后半小时内完成该部分，之后将进行听力考试）
2015
年
6
的序号都往后错一位，如
[8]
改为
[
9],
依次
understanding of going
to school. Y
ou should write at least
120 words but no more than 180
类推，一直改到<
/p>
[24]
改为
[25]
For
this
part,
you
are
allowed
30
minutes
to
write
an
essay
based
on
the
picture
below.
Y
ou
P2
1-P30
，
月第二套
从第
9
题开始，
听力原文和翻译中答案所在句前面
should start your essay with a brief
description of the picture and then comment on the
kid’
s
2. 2015
年
6
< br>套
P30
，听
中
最
后
部
Even
worse,
of
his
employees
their jobs. It
been
a
very
expensive
月
第
二
力
原
文
分
，
25,000
had
lost
had
joke.