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2019
年
12
月大学英语四级真题完整版（第三套）
Part I Writing
（
30 minutes
）
Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a news report to
your campus newspaper on a visit to a Hope elementary school organized by
your Student Union.. You should write at least 120 words but no more than 180
words.
【参考范文】
On the morning of June 1st, a group of volunteers from our university’s Student
Union paid a visit to a Hope Primary School to help the children there have a
happy Children’s Day.
We arrived at this school at nine in the morning and the children welcomed us
warmly. This volunteer activity mainly include three parts. In the first place, we
introduced ourselves briefly, which helped us to know each other better.
Additionally, we organized some recreational activities. For example, our
talented volunteers taught those children to dance and sing. In the end, we
gave the stationery prepared in advance to these lovely children.
This volunteer activity was really impressive. It gave us an opportunity to
experience a diff
erent life and we were really moved by the children’s
enthusiasm.
【参考译文】
1
6
月
1
日上午，< br>我校学生会的部分志愿者参观了一所希望小学。
此行的目的是帮
助那里的孩子们过一个快 乐的儿童节。
我们早上九点钟到达该希望小学，
孩子们热情地欢迎我们的到来。本次志愿者活
动主要分为三部分。
首先，
我们都做了简单的自我介绍，
以 便大家能更好地了解
彼此。此外，我们组织了一些娱乐活动。例如，我们当中多才多艺的志愿者们教这些孩子唱歌、
跳舞。
最后，
我们把事先准备好的文具送给了这些可爱的孩子们。
这次志愿者活动真的让人印象深刻。
它让我们有机会去体验不同的生活，
孩 子们
的热情也深深地感动了我们。
Part
Ⅱ
Listening Comprehension
（
25 minutes
）
说明：
由于
2019
年
6
月四级考试全国共考了
2
套听力 ，
本套真题听力与前
2
套
内容完全一样，只是顺序不一样，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 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 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.
Just because they can’t sing opera or ride a bicycle doesn’t mean that animals
don’t have culture. There’s no better example of this than killer whales. As one
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of the most __26__ predators
（食肉动物）
，
killer whales may not fit the __27__
of a cultured creature. However, these beasts of the sea do display a vast
range of highly __28__ behaviors that appear to be driving their genetic
development.
The word “culture” comes from the Latin “colere,” which __29__ means “to
cultivate.” In other words, it refers to anything that is __30__ or learnt, rather
than instinctive or natural. Among human populations, culture not only affects
the way we live, but also writes itself into our genes, affecting who we are. For
instance, having spent many generations hunting the fat marine mammals of
the Arctic, the Eskimos of Greenland have developed certain genetic __31__
that help them digest and utilize this fat-rich diet, thereby allowing them to
__32__ in their cold climate.
Like humans, killer whales have colonized a range of different __33__ across
the globe, occupying every ocean basin on the planet, with an empire that
__34__ from pole to pole. As such, different populations of killer whales have
had to learn different hunting techniques in order to gain the upper hand over
their local prey
（猎物）
. This, in turn, has a major effect on their diet, leading
scientists to __35__ that the ability to learn population- specific hunting
methods could be driving the animals’ genetic development.
A
）
acquired
B
）
adaptations
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C
）
brutal
D
）
deliberately
E
）
expressed
F
）
extends
G
）
habitats
H
）
humble
I
）
image
J
）
litereally
K
）
refined
L
）
revolves
M
）
speculate
N
）
structure
O
）
thrive
26-30 CIKJA
31-35 BOGFM
Section B
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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 derived. You
may choose a paragraph more than once. Each paragraph is marked with a
letter. Answer the questions by marking the corresponding letter on Answer
Sheet 2.
Living with parents edges out other living arrangements for 18-to 34-year-olds
A
）
Broad demographic
（人口的）
shifts is marital status, educational
attainment and employment have transformed the way young adults in the U.S.
are living, and a new Pew Research Center analysis highlights the implications
of these changes for the most basic element of their lives
—
where they call
home. In 2014,for the first time in more than 130 years, adults ages 18 to 34
were slightly more likely to be living in their parents’ home than they were to be
living with a spouse or partner in their own household.
B
）
This turn of events is fueled primarily by the dramatic drop in the share of
young Americans who are choosing to settle down romantically before age 35.
Dating back to 1880, the most common living arrangement among young
adults has been living with a romantic partner, whether a spouse or a
significant other. This type of arrangement peaked around 1960, when 62% of
the nation’s 18
-to 34-year-olds were living with a spouse or partner in their own
household, and only one-in-five were living with their parents.
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C
）
By 2014, 31.6% of young adults were living with a spouse or partner in
their own household, below the share living in the home of their parent
（
s
）
（
32.1%
）
. Some 14% of young adults lived alone, were a single parent or lived
with one or more roommates. The remaining 22% lived in the home of another
family member
（
such as a grandparent, in-law or sibling
（兄弟姐妹））
, a
non-relative, or in group quarters like college dormitories.
D
）
It’s worth noting that the overall sh
are of young adults living with their
parents was not at a record high in 2014. This arrangement peaked around
1940, when about 35% of the nation’s 18
-to 34-year-olds lived with mom
and/or dad
（
compared with 32% in 2014
）
. What has changed, instead, is the
relative share adopting different ways of living in early adulthood, with the
decline of romantic coupling pushing living at home to the top of a much less
uniform list of living arrangements.
Among young adults, living arrangements differ significantly by gender. For
men ages 18 to 34, living at home with mom and/or dad has been the
dominant living arrangement since 2009, In 2014,28% of young men were
living with a spouse of partner in their own home, while 35% were living in the
home of their parent
（
s
）
. Young women, however,are still more likely to be
living with a spouse of romantic partner
（
35%
）
than they are to be living with
their parent
（
s
）（
29%
）
.
F
）
In 2014, more young women
（
16%
）
than young men
（
13%
）
were
heading up a household without a spouse or is mainly because
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women are more likely than men to be sigle parents living with their children.
For their part, young men
（
25%
）
are more likely than young women
（
19%
）
to be living in the home of another family member, a non- relative or in some
type of group quarters.
G
）
A variety of factors contribute to the long-run increase in the share of
young. Adults living with the parents. The first in the postponement of, if not
retreat from, marriage. The average age of first marriage has risen steadily for
decades. In addition, a growing share of young adult may be avoiding
marriage altogether. A previous Pew Research Center analysis projected that
as many as one- in-
four of today’s young adult may never marry. While
cohabitation
（同居）
has been on the rise, the overall share of young adults
either married or living with an unmarried patner has substantially fallen since
1990.
H
）
In addition, trends in both employment status and wages have likely
contributed to the growing share of young adults who are living in the home of
their parent
（
s
）
, and this is especially true of young men. Employed young men
are much less likely to live at home than young men without a job, and
employment among young men has fallen significantly in recent decades. The
share of young men with jobs peaked around 1960 at 84%. In 2014, only 71%
of 18-to-34-year-
old men were employed. Similarly with earnings, young men’s
wages
（
after adjusting for inflation
）
have been on a downward trajectory
（轨
迹）
since 1970 and fell significantly form 2000 to 2010. As wages have
fallen ,the share of young men living in the home of their parent
（
s
）
has risen.
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I
）
Economic factors seem to explain less of why young adult women are
increasingly likely to live at home. Generally, young women have had growing
success in the paid labor market since 1960 and hence might increasingly be
expected to be a be to afford to afford to live independently of their parents.
For women, delayed marriage
—
which is related, in part, to labor market
outcomes for men
—
may explain more of the increase in their living in the
family home.
J
）
The Great Recession
（
and modest recovery
）
has also been associated
with an increase in young adults living at home. Initially in the wake of the
recession, college enrollments expanded, boosting the ranks of young adults
living at home. And given the weak job opportunities facing young adults, living
at home was part of the private safety net help young adults to weather the
economic storm.
K
）
Beyond gender, young adult’s living arrangements differ consid
erable by
education
—
which is tied to financial means. For young adults without a
bachelor’s degree, as of 2008 living at home with their parents was more
prevalent than living with a romantic partner. By 2014, 36% of 18-to
34-year-olds who had not complete
d a bachelor’s degree were living with their
parent
（
s
）
while 27% were living with a spouse or partner. Among college
graduates, in 2014 46% were married or living with a partner, and only 19%
were living with their parent
（
s
）
. Young adults with a college degree have fared
much better in the labor market than their less-educated counterparts, which
has in turn made it easier to establish their own households.
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