历年英语四级真题及答案3套
Part I Writing (30 minutes)
Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a letter to a foreign friend who wants to study in Please recommend a university to You should write at least 120 words but no more than 180
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Part II Listening Comprehension (30 minutes)
说明:由于20XX年12月四级考试全国共考了两套听力, 本套真题听力与前两套内容相同, 只是选项顺序不同, 因此在本套真题中不再重复出现。
Part III Reading Comprehension (40 minutes)
Section A
Directions: In this section, there is a passage with ten You are required to select one word for each blank from a list of choices given in a word bank following the Read the passage through carefully before making your Each choice in the bank is identified by a Please mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through the You may not use any of the words in the bank more than
Millions of people travel by plane every single If you're planning on being one of them soon, you might not be looking forward to the __26__ feeling air travel often leaves you Besides the airport crowds and stress, travelling at a high altitude has real efects on the Although the pressure of the cabin is __27__ to prevent altitude sickness, you could still __28__ sleepiness or a The lower oxygen pressure found in an aircraft cabin is __29__ to that at 6,000-8,000 feet of A drop in oxygen pressure can cause headaches in certain __30__ To help prevent headaches, drink plenty of water, and avoid alcohol and
Aiplane food might not really be as tateless as you __31__ The air you breathe in a plane dries out your mouth and nose, which can affect your sense of Perception of sweet and salty foods dropped by almost 30 percent in a simulation of air However, you can make your taste buds active again by drinking A dry mouth may __32__ taste sensitivity, but taste is restored by drinking
Although in-flight infections __33__ in dry environments like airplanes, your risk of getting sick from an airplane is actually low because of the air __34__ Unless you 're stting next to someone who is coughing or sneezing, you shouldn't worry too much about getting However, bacteria have been shown to live on cabin surfaces, so wash your hands
A) adjusted
B) channels
C) equivalent
D) experience
E) filters
F) frequently
G) individuals
H) originally
I) particular
J) primarily
K) reduce
L) renovated
M) smooth
N) thrive
O) unpleasant
Section B
Directions: In this section, you are going to read a passage with ten statements attached to Each statement contains information given in one of the paragraphs Identify the paragraph from which the information is You may choose a paragraph more than Each paragraph is marked with a Answer the questions by marking the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet
A south Korean city designed for the future takes on a life of its own
A) Getting around a city is one thing -- and then there's the matter of getting from one city to One vision of the perfect city of the future: a place that offers easy access to air 20XX, a University of North Carolina business professor named John Kasarda published a book called Aerotropolis: The Way We'll Live Kasarda says future cities should be built intentionally around or near The idea, as he has put it, is to offer businesses "rapid, long-distance connectivity on a massive "
B) "The 18th century really was a waterborne century, the 19th century a rail century, the 20th century a highway, car, truck century -- and the 21st century will increasingly be an aviation century, as the globe becomes increasingly connected by air," Kasarda , a city built from scratch in South Korea, is one of Kasarda's prime It has existed for just a few "From the get-go, it was designed on the basis of connectivity and competitiveness," says "The government built the bridge directly from the airport to the Songdo International Business And the surface infrastructure was built in tandem with the new "
C) Songdo is a stone's throw from South Korea's Incheon Airport, its main international But it takes a lot more than a nearby airport to be a city of the Just building a place as an "international business district" doesn't mean it will become Park Yeon Soo conceived this city of the future back in He considers Songdo his "I am a visionary," he years after he imagined the city, Park's baby is close to 70 percent built, with 36,000 people living in the business district and 90,000 residents in greater It's about an hour outside Seoul, built on reclaimed tidal flats along the Yellow There's a Coast Guard building and a tall trade tower, as well as a park, golf course and
D) Chances are you've actually seen this Songdo appears in the most famous music video ever to come out of South "Gangnam Style" refers to the fashionable Gangnam district in But some of the video was filmed in "I don't know if you remember, there was a scene in a subway That was not That was actually Songdo," says Jung Won Son, a professor of urban development at London's Bartlett School of "Part of the reason to shoot there is that it's new and "
E) The city was supposed to be a hub for global companies, with employees from all over the But that's not how it has turned 's reputation is as a futuristic ghost But the reality is more bridge with big, light-blue loops leads into the business In the center of the main road, there's a long line of flags of the On the corner, there's a Starbucks and a 7-Eleven -- all of the international brands that you see all over the world
F) The city is not There are mothers pushing strollers, old women with walkers -- even in the middle of the day, when it's 90 degrees Byun Young-Jin chairs the Songdo real estate association and started selling property here when the first phase of the city opened in He says demand has boomed in the past couple of of his clients are In fact, the developer says, 99 percent of the homes here are sold to Young families move here because the schools are that's the problem: Songdo has become a popular Korean city -- more popular as a residential area than a business It's not yet the futuristic international business hub that planners "It's a great place to And it's becoming a great place to work," says Scott Summers, the vice president of Gale International, the developer of the The floor-to-ceiling windows of his company's offices overlook Songdo Central Park, with a canal full of kayaks and paddle Shimmering glass towers line the canal’s
G) "What's happened is, because we focused on creating that quality of life first, which enabled the residents to live here, what has probably missed the mark is for companies to locate here," he "There needs to be strong economic "The city is still unfinished, and it feels a bit like a theme It doesn't feel all that There's a high-tech underground trash disposal Buildings are environmentally Everybody's television set is connected to a system that streams personalized language or exercise
H) But Star Trek this is And to some of the residents, Songdo feels "I'm, like, in prison for That's what we call it in the workplace," says a woman in her She doesn't want to use her name for fear of being fired from her She goes back to Seoul every "I say I'm prison-breaking on Friday "But she has to make the prison break in her own There's no high-speed train connecting Songdo to Seoul, just over 20 miles
I) The man who first imagined Songdo feels frustrated, Park says he built South Korea a luxury vehicle, "like Mercedes or It's a good car But we're waiting for a good driver to "But there are lots of other good cars out there, The world is dotted with futuristic, high-tech cities trying to attract the biggest international
J) Songdo's backers contend that it's still early, and business space is filling up -- about 70 percent of finished offices are now Ryan, who teaches urban design at MIT, says Songdo proves a universal "There have been a lot of utopian cities in And the reason we don't know about a lot of them is that a lot of them have vanished "In other words, when it comes to cities -- or anything else -- it is hard to predict the
Songdo's popularity lies more in its quality of life than its business
The man who conceived Songdo feels disappointed because it has fallen short of his
A scene in a popular South Korean music video was shot in
Songdo still lacks the financial stimulus for businesses to set up shop
Airplanes will increasingly become the chief means of transportation, according to a
Songdo has ended up diferent from the city it was supposed to
Some of the people who work in Songdo complain about boredom in the
A business professor says that a future city should have easy access to international
According to an urban design professor, it is difficult for city designers to foresce what will happen in the
Park Yeon Soo, who envisioned Songdo, feels a parental connction with the
Section C
Directions: In this section, you will hear a passage three When the passage is read for the first time,you should listen carefully for its general the passage is read for the second time,you are required to fill in the blanks with the exact words you have just Finally,when the passage is read for the third time,you should check what you have
Passage One
Questions 46 to 50 are based on the following
The fifth largest city in US passed a significant soda tax proposal that will levy (征税) cents per liquid ounce on
Philadelphil's new measure was approved by a 13 to 4 city council It sets a new bar for similar initiatives across the It is proof that taxes on sugary drinks can win substantial support outside super-liberal Until now, the only city to successfully pass and implement a soda tax was Berkeley, California, in
The tax will apply to regular and diet sodas, as well as other drinks with adder sugar, such as Gatorade and iced It's expected to raise $410 million over the next five years, most of which will go toward funding a universal pre-kindergarten program for the
While the city council vote was met with applause inside the council room, opponents to the measure, including soda lobbyists, made sharp criticisms and a promise to challenge the tax in
"The tax passed today unfairly singles out beverages — including low —and no-calorie choices," said Lauren Kane, spokeswoman for the American Beverage "But most importantly, it is against the So we will side with the majority of the people of Philadelphia who oppose this tax and take legal action to stop "
An industry-backed anti-tax campaign has spent at least $4 million on The ads criticized the measure, characterizing it as a "grocery tax".
Public health groups applauded the approved tax as step toward fixing certain lasting health issues that plague "The move to recapture a small part of the profits from an industry that pushed a product that contributes to diabetes, obesity and heart disease in poorer communities in order to reinvest in those communities will sure be inspirational to many other places," said Jim Krieger, executive director of Healthy Food "indeed, we are already hearing from some of It's not 'just Berkeley' "
Similar measures in California's Albany, Oakland, San Francisco and Colorado's Boulder are becoming hot-button Health advocacy groups have hinted that even more might be
What does the passage say about the newly-approved soda tax in Philadelphia?
A) It will change the lifestyle of many
B) It may encourage other US cities to fllow
C) It will cut soda consumption among low-income
D) It may influence the marketing strategies of the soda
What will the opponents probably do to respond to the soda tax proposal?
A) Bargain with the city
B) Refuse to pay additional
C) Take legal action against
D) Try to win public
What did the industry-backed anti-tax campaign do about the soda tax proposal?
A) It tried to arouse hostile felings among
B) It tried to win grocers' support against the
C) It kept sending ltters of protest to the
D) It criticized the measure through
What did public health groups think the soda tax would do?
A) Alert people to the risk of sugar-induced
B) Help people to fix certain long-time health
C) Add to the fund for their rescarch on
D) Benefit low-income people across the
What do we lear about similar measures concening the soda tax in some other citics?
A) They are becoming rather sensitive
B) They are spreading panic in the soda
C) They are reducing the incidence of sugar-induced
D) They are taking away a lot of proft from the soda
Passage Two
Questions 51 to 55 are based on the following
Popping food into the microwave for a couple of minutes may seem utterly harmless, and Europe's stock of these quick-cooking ovens emit as much carbon as nearly 7million cars, a new study has found, and the problem is With costs falling and kitchen appliances becoming "status" users, owners are throwing many microwave after an average of eight This is pushing sales of new microwave which are expected to reach 135 million annually in the EU by the end of the
A study by the University of Manchester worked out the emissions of carbon dioxide -- the main greenhouse gas responsible for climate change -- at every stage of microwaves, from manufacture to waste "It is electricity consumption by microwaves that has the biggest impact on the environment," say the authors, who also calculate that the emissions from using 19 microwaves over a year are the same as those from a According to the same study, efforts to reduce consumption should focus on improving consumer awareness and behaviour to use appliances more For example, electricity consumption by microwaves can be reduced by adjusting the time of cooking to the type of "
However, David Reay, professor of carbon management argues that, although microwaves use a great deal of enery, their emissions are minor compared to those from In the UK alone and these emit way more than all the emissions from microwaves in the Backing this up, recent data show that passenger cars in the UK emitted 69m tonnes of CO2 in This is 10 times the amount this new microwave oven study estimates for annual emissions for all the microwave ovens in the whole of the " further, the energy used by microwaves is lower than any other form of Among common kitchen appliances used for cooking, microwaves are the most energy efficient, followed by a stove and finally a standard Thus, rising microwave sales could be seen as a positive
What is the finding of the new study?
A) Quick-cooking microwave ovens have become more
B) The frequent use of microwaves may do harm to our
C) CO2 emissions constitute a major threat to the
D) The use of microwaves emits more CO2 than people
Why are the sales of microwaves expected to rise?
A) They are becoming more
B) They have a shorter life cycle than other
C) They are gtting much easier to
D) They take less tine to cook than other
What recommendation does the study by the University of Manchester make?
A) Cooking food of dfferent
B) Improving microwave users'
C) Eating less to cut energy
D) Using microwave ovens less
What does Professor David Reay try to argue?
A) There are far more emissions from cars than from
B) People should be persuaded into using passenger cars less
C) The UK produces less CO2 than many other countries in the
D) More data are needed to show whether microwaves are
What does Professor David Reay think of the use of microwaves?
A) It will become less popular in the coming
B) It makes everyday cooking much more
C) It plays a positive role in envronmental
D) It consumes more power than conventional
Part IV Translation (30 minutes)
Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to translate a passage from Chinese into You should write your answer on Answer Sheet
中国汉族人的全名由姓和名组成。中文姓名的特点是,姓总是在前,名跟在其后。千百年来,父姓一直世代相传。然而,如今,孩子跟母亲姓并不罕见。一般来说,名有一个或两个汉字,通常承载父母对孩子的愿望。从孩子的名字可以推断出父母希望孩子成为什么样的人,或者期望他们过什么样的生活。父母非常重视给孩子取名,因为名字往往会伴随孩子一生。
四级真题参考答案(完整版)
Part I Writing
Hello Tom,
I'm pretty excited to hear that you are going to pursue a postgraduate degree in economics in If you are still uncertain about which college to apply to, why not go to Renmin University of China (RUC)?
I recommend it mainly because of its academic Today, it is widely recognized for its strengths in the fields of humanities and social
The School of Economics often invites distinguished scholars at home and abroad to academic forums or You will definitely gain new insights into various economic issues by attending them as a Another striking feature of this university is its vibrant campus life, as evidenced by activities such as Fun Sports Games, school orienteering competitions and the annual International Culture You will find them all highly Moreover, RUC is conveniently situated close to bus stops and subway stations, so you can spend your spare time exploring the city of
Of course, it's totally up to Let me know if you make a final Anyway, welcome to
Yours,
Zhang Lei
Part III Reading Comprehension
26-35:OADCG HKNEF
36-45:FIDGB EHAJC
46-55:BCDBA DABAC
Part IV Translation
The full name of a Han Chinese consists of a family name and a given A distinctive feature of the Chinese name is that the family name always comes first, followed by the given For thousands of years, Chinese family names have been passed down through the Nowadays, however, it is not uncommon for a child to adopt the mother's family Generally, a given name is made up of one or two characters, usually carrying the parents' wishes for their It can be inferred from the name what kind of person the parents want their child to be, or what kind of life they expect him or her to Chinese parents attach great importance to the choice of their child's name, as the name tends to accompany the child for his or her entire