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1、精品名师归纳总结资料word 精心总结归纳 - - - - - - - - - - - -20XX 年 12 月英语四级考试真题及答案【三套全】Part I Writing 30 minutesDirections: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write an essay commenting on the saying Listening is more important than talking. You can cite examples to illustrate the importance of paying att

2、ention to others opinions. You should write at least 120words but no more than 180 words.留意：此部分试题在答题卡1 上1.A) They admire the courage of space explorers.B) They were going to watch a wonderful movie.C) They enjoyed the movie on space exploration.D) They like doing scientific exploration very much.2.A

3、) In a school library.B) At a gift shop.C) In the office of a travel agency.可编辑资料 - - - 欢迎下载精品名师归纳总结学习资料 名师精选 - - - - - - - - - -第 1 页，共 38 页 - - - - - - - - - -可编辑资料 - - - 欢迎下载精品名师归纳总结资料word 精心总结归纳 - - - - - - - - - - - -D) At a graduation ceremony.3.A) He used to work in the art gallery.B) He does

4、 not have a good memoiy.C) He is not interested in any part-time jobs.D) He declined a job offer from the art gallery.4.A) He will be unable to attend the birthday party.B) The woman should have informed him earlier.C) He will go to the birthday party after the lecture.D) Susan has been invited to g

5、ive a lecture tomorrow.5.A) Set a deadline for the staff to meet.B) Assign more workers to the project.C) Reward those having made good progress.D) Encourage the staff to work in small groups.6.A) Where she can leave her car.B) The rate for parking in Lot C.C) How far away the parking lot is.D) The

6、way to the visitors parking.7.A) He regrets missing the classes.B) He has benefited from exercise.C) He plans to take the fitness classes.可编辑资料 - - - 欢迎下载精品名师归纳总结学习资料 名师精选 - - - - - - - - - -第 2 页，共 38 页 - - - - - - - - - -可编辑资料 - - - 欢迎下载精品名师归纳总结资料word 精心总结归纳 - - - - - - - - - - - -D) He is looking

7、 forward to a better life.8.A) How to select secretaries.B) How to raise work efficiency.C) The responsibilities of secretaries.D) The secretaries in the mans company.Questions 9 to 11 are based on the conversation you have just heard.9.A) It is used by more people than English.B) It is more difficu

8、lt to learn than English.C) It will be as commonly used as English.D) It will eventually become a world language.10.A) Its popularity with the common people.B) The effect of the Industrial Revolution.C) The influence of the British Empire.D) Its loan words from many languages.11.A) It has a growing

9、number of newly coined words.B) It includes a lot of words from other languages.C) It is the largest among all languages in the world.D) It can be easily picked up by overseas travellers.Questions 12 to 15 are based on the conversation you have just heard.12.A) To place an order.可编辑资料 - - - 欢迎下载精品名师

10、归纳总结学习资料 名师精选 - - - - - - - - - -第 3 页，共 38 页 - - - - - - - - - -可编辑资料 - - - 欢迎下载精品名师归纳总结资料word 精心总结归纳 - - - - - - - - - - - -B) To apply for a job.C) To return some goods.D) To make a complaint.13.A) He works on a part-time basis for the company.B) He has not worked in the sales department for long

11、.C) He is not familiar with the exact details of the goods.D) He has become somewhat impatient with the woman.14.A) It is not his responsibility.B) It win be free for large orders.C) It depends on a number of factors.D) It costs 15 more for express delivery.15.A) Make inquiries with some other compa

12、nies.B) Report the information to her superior.C) Pay a visit to the saleswoman in charge.D) Ring back when she comes to a decision.Passage One可编辑资料 - - - 欢迎下载精品名师归纳总结学习资料 名师精选 - - - - - - - - - -第 4 页，共 38 页 - - - - - - - - - -可编辑资料 - - - 欢迎下载精品名师归纳总结资料word 精心总结归纳 - - - - - - - - - - - -Questions 1

13、6 to 18 are based on the conversation you have just heard. 16.A) No one knows for sure when they came into being.B) No one knows exactly where they were first made.C) No one knows for what purpose they were invented.D) No one knows what they will look like in the future.17.A) Measure the speed of wi

14、nd.B) Give warnings of danger.C) Pass on secret messages.D) Carry ropes across rivers.18.A) To find out the strength of silk for kites.B) To test the effects of the lightning rod.C) To prove that lightning is electricity.D) To protect houses against lightning.Passage TwoQuestions 19 to 22 are based

15、on the passage you have just heard. 19.A) She was born with a talent for languages.B) She was trained to be an interpreter.C) She can speak several languages.D) She enjoys teaching languages.20.A) They want to learn as many foreign languages as possible.可编辑资料 - - - 欢迎下载精品名师归纳总结学习资料 名师精选 - - - - - -

16、- - - -第 5 页，共 38 页 - - - - - - - - - -可编辑资料 - - - 欢迎下载精品名师归纳总结资料word 精心总结归纳 - - - - - - - - - - - -B) They have an intense interest in cross-cultural interactions.C) They acquire an immunity to culture shock.D) They would like to live abroad permanently.21.A) She became an expert in horse racing.B)

17、 She learned to appreciate classical music.C) She was able to translate for a German sports judge.D) She got a chance to visit several European countries.22.A) Take part in a cooking competition.B) Taste the beef and give her comment.C) Teach vocabulary for food in English.D) Give cooking lessons on

18、 Western food.Passage ThreeQuestions 23 to 25 are based on the passage you have just heard.23.A) He had only a third-grade education.B) He once threatened to kill his teacher.C) He often helped his mother do housework.D) He grew up in a poor single-parent family.24.A) Stupid.B) Active.C) Brave.D) Ca

19、reless.可编辑资料 - - - 欢迎下载精品名师归纳总结学习资料 名师精选 - - - - - - - - - -第 6 页，共 38 页 - - - - - - - - - -可编辑资料 - - - 欢迎下载精品名师归纳总结资料word 精心总结归纳 - - - - - - - - - - - -25.A) Watch educational TV programs only.B) Write two book reports a week.C) Help with housework.D) Keep a diary.When you look up atthe night sky,

20、what doyou see. There are other 26 bodies out there besides the moon and stars. One of the most27 of these is a comet 彗星 .Comets were formed around the same time the Earth was formed. They are 28 ice and other frozen liquids and gases. 29 these dirty snowballs begin to orbit the sun, just as the pla

21、nets do.As a comet gets closer to the sun, some gases in it begin to unfreeze. They 30 dust particles from the comet to form a huge cloud. As the comet gets even nearer to the sun, a solar wind blowsthe cloudbehind the comet, thus formingits tail.The tailand the 31fuzzy 模糊的 atmosphere around a comet

22、 are 32 that can help identify this 33 in the night sky.In any given year, about a dozen known comets come close to the sun in their orbits. The average person cant see them all, of course. Usually there is only one or two a year bright enough to be seen with the 34 eye. Comet Hale-Bopp, discovered

23、in 1995, was an unusually bright comet.Its orbit brought it 35 close to the Earth, within 122 million miles of it. But Hale-Bopp came a long way on its earthly visit. It wont be back for another four .【参考答案】26. heavenly27. fascinating28. made up of29. Now and then可编辑资料 - - - 欢迎下载精品名师归纳总结学习资料 名师精选 -

24、- - - - - - - - -第 7 页，共 38 页 - - - - - - - - - -可编辑资料 - - - 欢迎下载精品名师归纳总结资料word 精心总结归纳 - - - - - - - - - - - -30. combine with31. generally32. characteristics33. phenomenon34. naked35. relativelyPartIII Reading Comprehension40 minutes Section ADirections: In this section, there is a passage with ten

25、 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 markthe corresponding letter for each item on Answer

26、 Sheet 2 with a single line through the centre. You may not use any of the words in the bank more than onceQuestions 36 to 45 are based on the following passage.Scholars of the information society are divided over whether social inequality decreases or increases in an information-based society. Howe

27、ver, they generally agree with the idea that inequality in the information society is 36 different from that of an industrial society. As informatization progresses in society, the cause and structural nature of social inequality changesas well.It seems that the information society 37 the quantity o

28、f information available to the members of a society by revolutionizing the ways of using and exchanging information. But such a view is a 38 analysis based on the quantity of information supplied by various forms of the mass media.A different 39 is possible when the actual amount of information 40 b

29、y the user is taken into account. In fact, the more information 41 throughout the entire society, the wider the gap becomes between information haves and information have-nots , leading to digital divide.According to recent studies, digital divide has been caused by three major 42 : class, sex, and

30、generation. In terms of class, digital divide exists among different types of workers and betweenthe upper and middle classes and the lowerclass. With 43to sex, digitaldivide exists between men and women. The greatest gap, however, is between the Net-generation, 44 with personal computers and the In

31、ternet, and the older generation, 45 to an industrial society.A) accustomed可编辑资料 - - - 欢迎下载精品名师归纳总结学习资料 名师精选 - - - - - - - - - -第 8 页，共 38 页 - - - - - - - - - -可编辑资料 - - - 欢迎下载精品名师归纳总结资料word 精心总结归纳 - - - - - - - - - - - -B) acquiredC) assemblyD) attributeE) championsF) elementsG) expandsH) familiarI

32、) flowsJ) fundamentallyK) interpretationL) passiveM) regardN) respectivelyO) superficialJoy: A Subject Schools LackBecoming educated should not require giving up pleasure.A) When Jonathan Swiftproposed, in 1729, that the people of Ireland eat their children,he insisted it wouldsolve three problems a

33、t once: feed the hungry masses, reduce the population during a severe depression, and stimulate the restaurant business. Even as a satire 讽刺 , it seems disgusting and shocking in America with its child-centered culture. But actually, the country is closer to his proposal than you might think.B) If y

34、ou spend much time with educators and policy makers, youll hear a lot of the followingwords: standards, results,skills,self-control,accountability,and so on. I have visited some of the newer supposedly effective schools, where children shout slogans in order to leam self-control or must stand behind

35、 their desk when they cant sit still.C) A look at what goes on inmost classrooms these days makes it abundantly clear that when people think about education, they are not thinking about what it feels like to be a child, or what makes childhood an important and valuable stage of life in its own right

36、.D) Im a mother of three, a teacher, and a developmental psychologist. So Ive watched a lot of children talking, playing, arguing, eating, studying, and being young. Heres what Ive come to可编辑资料 - - - 欢迎下载精品名师归纳总结学习资料 名师精选 - - - - - - - - - -第 9 页，共 38 页 - - - - - - - - - -可编辑资料 - - - 欢迎下载精品名师归纳总结资料w

37、ord 精心总结归纳 - - - - - - - - - - - -understand. The thing that sets children apart from adults is not their ignorance, nor their lack of skills. Its their enormous capacity for joy. Think of a 3-year-old lost in the pleasures of finding out what he can and cannot sink in the bathtub, a 5-year-old besi

38、de herself with the thrill of putting together strings of nonsensical words with her best friends, or an 11-year-old completely absorbed in a fascinating comic strip. A childs ability to become deeply absorbed in something, and derive intense pleasure fromthat absorption, is something adults spend t

39、he rest of their lives trying to return to.E) A friend told me the following story. One day, when he went to get his 7-year-old son from soccer practice, his kid greeted him with a downcast face and a sad voice. The coach had criticized him for not focusing on his soccer drills. The little boy walke

40、d out of the school with his head and shoulders hanging down. He seemed wrapped in sadness. But just before he reached the car door,he suddenly stopped, crouching 蹲伏 down to peer at something on the sidewalk. His face wentdown lower and lower, and then, with complete joy he called out, Dad. Come her

41、e. This is the strangest bug Ive ever seen. It has, like, a million legs. Look at this. Its amazing. He looked upat his father, his features overflowingwithenergy and delight.Cant we stay here for just a minute. I want to find out what he does with all those legs. This is the coolest ever. F) The tr

42、aditionalviewof such moments is that theyconstitutea charmingbutirrelevant byproduct ofyouth something to be pushed aside to make room formore important qualities, like perseverance 坚持不懈 , obligation, and practicality. Yet moments like this one are just the kind of intense absoiption and pleasure ad

43、ults spend the rest of their lives seeking. Human livesare governed by the desire to experience joy. Becoming educated should not require giving up joy but rather lead to finding joy in new kinds of things: reading novels instead of playing with small figures, conductingexperimentsinstead ofsinkingc

44、ups in the bathtub, and debating serious issues ratherthan stringing together nonsense words, for example. In some cases, schools should help children find new, more grown-up ways of doing the same things that are constant sources of joy: making art, making friends, making decisions.G) Building on a childs ability t