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 teach English in Please recommend a city to You should write at least 120 words but no more than 180

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Part II Listening Comprehension (30 minutes)

Section A News Report

Directions： In this section, you will hear three news At the end of each news report, you will hear two or three Both the news report 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

Questions 1 and 2 are based on the news report you have just

A) Many facilities were destroyed by a wandering

B) A wandering cow knocked down one of its

C) Some tourists were injured by a wandering

D) A wandering cow was captured by the

A) It was shot to death by a police

B) It found its way back to the park's

C) It became a great attraction for

D) It was sent to the animal control

Questions 3 and 4 are based on the news report you have just

A) It is the largest of its

B) It is going to be

C) It is displaying more fossil

D) It is staring an online

A) A collection of bird fossils from

B) Photographs of certain rare fossil

C) Some ancient wall paintings from

D) Pictures by winners of a wildlife photo

Questions 5 to 7 are based on the news report you have just

A) Pick up

B) Amuse

C) Deliver

D) Play with

A) They are especially

B) They are children's

C) They are quite easy to

D) They are clean and

A) Children may be harmed by the

B) Children may be tempted to drop

C) Children may contract bird

D) Children may overfeed the

Section B Conversation

Directions： In this section, you will hear two long At the end of each conversations you will hear four Both the conversations and the question-s will be spoken only After you hear a 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

Questions 8 to 11 are based on the conversation you have just

A) It will be produced at Harvard

B) It will be hosted by famous

C) It will cover different areas of

D) It will focus on recent scientific

A)It will be more

B) It will be more

C) It will be more

D) It will be easier to

A) People interested in

B) Youngsters eager to

C) Children in their early

D) Students majoring in

A) Offer professional

B) Provide financial

C) Help promote it on the

D) Make episodes for its first

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

A)

B)

C)

D)

A) He is too concerned with being

B) He loses heart when faced with

C) He is too ambitious in achieving

D) He takes on projects beyond his

A)

B)

C)

D)

A) Try to be optimistic whatever

B) Compare his present with his past

C) Always learn from others'

D) Treat others the way he would be

Section C Passage

Directions： In this section, you will hear three At the end of each passage, you will hear three or four 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

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

A) They have a stronger sense of social

B) They are more likely to succeed in the

C) They are more likely to become

D) They have greater potential to be

A) Praise girls who like to speak up

B) Encourage girls to solve problems on their

c) Insist that boys and girls work together

D) Respond more positively to boys'

A) Offer personalized teaching

B) Provide a variety of optional

C) Place great emphasis on test

D) Pay extra attention to top

Questions 19 to 21 are based on the passage you have just

A) It often rains cats and

B) It seldom rains in summer

C) It does not rain as much as people

D) It is one of the most rainy cities in the

A) They drive most of the

B) The rain is usually very

C) They have got used to the

D) The rain comes mostly at

A) It has a lot of places for

B) It has never seen thunder and

C) It has fewer cloudy days than any other coastal

D) It has mild weather both in summer and in

Questions 22 to 25 are based on the passage you have just

A) It occurs when people are doing a repetitive

B) It results from exerting one's muscles

C) It happens when people engage in an uncommon

D) It comes from staining one's muscles in an unusual

A) Blood flow and body heat increase in the affected

B) Body movements in the affected area become

C) They begin to make repairs

D) They gradually become

A) About one

B) About two

C) About ten

D) About four

A) Apply muscle

B) Drink plenty of

C) Have a hot

D) Take

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

When travelling overseas, do you buy water in plastic bottles or take your chances with tap water? Imagine you are wandering about on a Thai island or __26__ the ruins of It's hot so you grab a bottle of water from a local It's the safe thing to do, right? The bottle is __27__ , and the label says "pure water". But maybe what's inside is not so __28__ . Would you still be drinking it if you knew that more than 90 percent of all bottled water sold around the world __29__ microplastics?

That's the conclusion of a recently __30__ study, which analysed 259 bottles from 11 brands sold in nine countries, __31__ an average of 325 plastic particles per litre of These microplastics included a __32__ commonly known as PET and widely used in the manufacture of clothing and food and __33__ The study was conducted at the State University of New York on behalf of Orb Media, a journalism About a million bottles are bought every minute, not only by thirsty tourists but also by many of the billion worldwide who live with unsafe drinking

Confronted with this __34__ , several bottled-water manufacturers including Nestle and Coca-Cola undertook their own studies using the same These studies showed that their water did contain microplastics, but far less than the Orb study Regardless, the World Health Organisation has launched a review into the __35__ health risks of drinking water from plastic

A) adequate

B) admiring

C) contains

D) defending

E) evidence

F) instant

G) liquid

H) modified

I) natural

J) potential

K) released

L) revealing

M) sealed

N) solves

O) substance

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

Make Stuff, Fail, And Learn While You're At It

A) We've always been a hands-on, do it-yourself kind of Ben Franklin, one of America's founding fathers, didn't just invent the lightning His creations include glasses, innovative stoves and

B) Franklin, who was largely self-taught, may have been a genius, but he wasn't really an exception when it comes to American making and

C) The personal computing revolution and philosophy of disruptive innovation of Silicon Valley grew, in part, out of the creations of the Homebrew Computer Club, which was founded in a garage in Menlo Park, California, in the Members-including guys named Jobs and Wozniak-started making and inventing things they couldn't

D) So it's no surprise that the Maker Movement today is thriving in communities and some schools across Making is available to ordinary people who aren't tied to big companies, big defense labs or research The maker philosophy echoes old ideas advocated by John Dewey, Montessori, and even ancient Greek philosophers, as we pointed out

E) These maker spaces are often outside of classrooms, and are serving an important educational The Maker Movement is rediscovering learning by doing, which is Dewey's phrase from 100 years We are rediscovering Dewey and Montessori and a lot of the practices that they pioneered that have been forgotten or at least put A maker space is a place which can be in a school, but it doesn't look like a It can be in a It can be out in the It has tools and It's a place where you get to make things based on your interest and on what you, re learning to

F) Ideas about learning by doing have struggled to become mainstream educationally, despite being old concepts from Dewey and Montessori, Plato and Aristotle, and in the American context, Ralph Emerson, on the value of experience and It's not necessarily an efficient way to We learn, in a sense, by trial and Learning from experience is something that takes time and It's very If your goal is to have standardized approaches to learning, where everybody learns the same thing at the same time in the same way, then learning by doing doesn't really fit that mold It's not the world of It's not the world of

G) Learning by doing may not be efficient, but it is Project-based learning has grown in popularity with teachers and However, project-based learning is not Although there is a connection, there is also a The difference lies in whether the project is in a sense defined and developed by the student or whether it's assigned by a We'll all get the kids to build a small We are all going to learn about X, Y, and That tends to be one form of project- based

H) I really believe the core idea of making is to have an idea within your head—or you just borrow it from someone—and begin to develop it, repeat it and improve Then, realize that idea That thing that you make is valuable to you and you can share it with I'm interested in how these things are expressions of that person, their ideas, and their interactions with the

I) In some ways, a lot of forms of making in school trivialize (使变得无足轻重) The thing that you make has no value to Once you are done demonstrating whatever concept was in the; textbook, you throw away the pipe cleaners, the straws, the cardboard

J) Making should be student-directed and student-led, otherwise it's It doesn't have the motivation of the I'm not saying that students should not learn concepts or not learn They But to really harness their motivation is to build upon their It's to let them be in control and to drive the

K) Teachers should aim to build a supportive, creative environment for students to do this A very social environment, where they are learning from each When they have a problem, it isn't the teacher necessarily coming in to solve They are responsible for working through that It might be they have to talk to other students in the class to help get an

L) The teacher's role is more of a coach or Sometimes, to people, it sounds like this is a diminished role for I think it's a heightened You're creating this environment, like a maker You have 20 kids doing different You are watching them and really it's the human behaviors you're looking Are they engaged? Are they developing and repeating their project? Are they stumbling (受挫)? Do they need something that they don't have? Can you help them be aware of where they are?

M) My belief is that the goal of making is not to get every kid to be hands-on, but it enables us to be good It's not the knowledge that is valuable; it's the practice of learning new things and understanding how things These are processes that you are developing so that you are able, over time, to tackle more interesting problems, more challenging problems-problems that require many people instead of one person, and many skills instead of

N) If teachers keep it form-free and student-led, it can still be tied to a curriculum and an educational I think a maker space is more like a library in that there are multiple subjects and multiple things that you can What seems to be missing in school is how these subjects integrate, how they fit t together in any meaningful Rather than saying, "This is science, over here is history," I see schools taking this idea of projects and looking at: How do they support children in higher level learning?

O) I feel like this is a shift away from a subject matter-based curriculum to a more experiential curriculum or It's still in its early stages, but I think it's shifting around not what kids learn but how they

maker space is where people make things according to their personal

teachers, role is enhanced in a maker space as they have to monitor and facilitate during the

up with an idea of one's own or improving one from others is key to the concept of

to structured learning, learning by doing is highly

is a nation known for the idea of making things by

will be boring unless students are able to take

can be related to a project, but it is created and carried out by students

author suggests incorporating the idea of a maker space into a school

maker concept is a modern version of some ancient philosophical

is not taken seriously in school when students are asked to make something meaningless to them based on

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

Professor Ashok Goel of Georgia Tech developed an artificially intelligent teaching assistant to help handle the enormous number of student questions in the online class, Knowledge-Based Artificial This online course is a core requirement of Georgia Tech's online Master of Science in Computer Science Professor Goel already had eight teaching assistants, but that wasn't enough to deal with the overwhelming number of daily questions from

Many students drop out of online courses because of the lack of teaching When students feel isolated or confused and reach out with questions that go unanswered, their motivation to continue begins to Professor Goel decided to do something to remedy this situation and his solution was to create a virtual assistant named Jill Watson, which is based on the IBM Watson

Goel and his team developed several versions of Jill Watson before releasing her to the online At first, the virtual assistant wasn't too But Goel and his team sourced the online discussion forum to find all the 40,000 questions that had ever been asked since the class was Then they began to feed Jill with the questions and After some adjustments and sufficient time, Jill was able to answer the students' questions correctly 97% of the The virtual assistant became so advanced and realistic that the students didn't know she was a The students, who were studying artificial intelligence, were interacting with the virtual assistant and couldn't tell it apart from a real human Goel didn't inform them about Jill's true identity until April The students were actually very positive about the

The goal of Professor Goel's virtual assistant next year is to take over answering 40% of all the questions posed by students on the online The name Jill Watson will, of course, change to something else next Professor Goel has a much rosier outlook on the future of artificial intelligence than, say, Elon Musk, Stephen Hawking, Bill Gates or Steve

What do we lear about Knowledge-Based Arificial Itelligence?

A) It is a robot that can answer students'

B) It is a course designed for students to leamn

C) It is a high-tech device that revolutionizes

D) It is a computer program that aids student

What problem did Professor Goel meet with?

A) His students were unsatisfied with the

B) His course was too difficult for the

C) Students' questions were too many to

D) Too many students dropped out of his

What do we lear about Jill Watson?

A) She turned out to be a great

B) She got along pretty well with

C) She was unwelcome to students at

D) She was released online as an

How did the students feel about Jill Watson?

A) They thought she was a bit too

B) They found her not as capable as

C) They could not but admire her

D) They could not tell her from a real

What does Professor Goel plan to do next with Jill Watson?

A) Launch different versions of her

B) Feed her with new questions and

C) Assign her to answer more of students'

D) Encourage students to interact with her more

Passage Two

Questions 51 to 55 are based on the following

Thinking small, being engaging, and having a sense of humor don't Those are a few of the traits of successful science crowdfunding efforts that emerge from a recent study that examined nearly 400 But having a large network and some promotional skills may be more

Crowdfunding, raising money for a project through online appeals, has taken off in recent years for everything from making movies to producing water-saving Scientists have tried to tap Internet donors, too, with mixed Some raised more than twice their goals, but others have fallen short of reaching even modest

To determine what separates science crowdfunding triumphs from failures, a team led by science communications scholar Mike Sch?fer of the University of Zurich examined the content of the webpages for 371 recent

Four traits stood out for those that achieved their goals, the researchers report in Public Understanding of For one, they use a crowdfunding platform that specializes in raising money for science, and not just any kind of Although sites like Kickstarter take all comers, platforms such as and only present scientific For another, they present the project with a funny video because good visuals and a sense of humor improved Most of them engage with potential donors, since projects that answered questions from interested donors fared And they target a small amount of The projects included in the study raised $4,000 on average, with 30% receiving less than $1, The more money a project sought, the lower the chance it reached its goal, the researchers

Other factors may also significantly influence a project's success, most notably, the size of a scientist's personal and professional networks, and how much a researcher promotes a project on their Those two factors are by far more critical than the content on the Crowdfunding can be part of researchers' efforts to reach the public, and people give because "they feel a connection to the person" who is doing the fundraising—not necessarily to the

What do we learn about the scientists trying to raise money online for their projects?

A) They did not raise much due to modest

B) They made use of mixed fundraising

C) Not all of them achieved their anticipated

D) Most of them put movies online for the

What is the purpose of Mike Schafer' s research of recent crowdfunding campaigns?

A) To create atractive content for science

B) To identify reasons for their different

C) To help scientists to launch innovative

D) To separate science projects from general

What trait contributes to the success of a crowdfiunding campaign?

A) The potential benefit to future

B) Its interaction with prospective

C) Its originality in addressing financial

D) The value of the proposed

What did the researchers think of the financial targets of crowdfunding projects?

A) They should be small to be

B) They should be based on actual

C) They should be assed with great

D) They should be ambitious to gain

What motivates people to donate in a crowdfunding campaign?

A) The ease of access to the content of the

B) Their desire to contribute to the cause of

C) The significance and influence of the project

D) Their feeling of connection to the scientists

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

中国家庭十分重视孩子的教育。许多父母认为应该努力工作，确保孩子受到良好教育。他们不仅非常情愿为孩子的教育投资，而且花很多时间督促他们学习。多数家长希望孩子能上名牌大学。由于改革开放，越来越多的家长能送孩子到国外学习或参与国际交流项目，以拓宽其视野。通过这些努力，他们期望孩子健康成长，为国家的发展和繁荣作出贡献。

四级真题参考答案(完整版)

Part Ⅰ Writing

Hi Mark,

I'm so glad that you have made up your mind to teach English in Before you make a decision about your precise destination, let me introduce my hometown,

Located in southwest China, Chongqing may not enjoy worldwide fame as much as Beijing or Shanghai, but it is a thriving metropolis with lower cost of Working and living here, you can achieve your career goals without feeling too much The locals are known for being warm and hospitable, and you can teach in a way that feels good for To be sure, teaching a foreign language in a city where residents speak a dialect all the time can be very It takes time indeed to correct pronunciation mistakes each student But since you are always praised for your kindness and patience, it should hardly be an obstacle for

Anyway, I will support and help you as much as possible, whichever city you go I believe living and teaching in China will be a pleasant and memorable experience for

Best wishes,

Li Ming

Part Ⅱ Listening Comprehension

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Part III Reading Comprehension

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Part IV Translation

Chinese families attach great importance to their children's Many parents hold that they should work hard to ensure their children's access to good Not only are they perfectly willing to invest in their children's education, but they also spend much time urging them to Most parents expect their children to get admitted to elite Owing to China s reform and opening-up, an increasing number of parents can send their children to study abroad or participate in international exchange programs to broaden their Through these efforts, they expect their children grow up strong and healthy and make a contribution to the nation's development and

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