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大学四级考试新题型
2013
年
12
月大 学英语四级
(CET4)
考试样卷
Part I Writing (30 minutes)
Directions:
For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write an essay. You should start your
essay with
a brief description
of the picture and then express your views on the
importance of learning basic skills. You should write at least
120
words but no
more than
180
words. Write your essay on
Answer Sheet 1
.
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答题卡
1
上作答。
PartII Listening Comprehension (30 minutes)
Section A
Directions:
In this section, you will hear 8 short conversations and 2 long conversations. At
the end of each conversation, one or more questions will be asked about what
was said. Both the conversation and the questions will be spoken only once. After
each question there will be a pause. During the pause, you must read the four
choices marked A), B), C) and D), and decide which is the best answer. Then
mark the corresponding letter on
Answer Sheet 1
with a single line through
the centre.
注意：此部分试题请在
答题卡
1
上作答。
1. A) The man has left a good impression on her family.
B) The man
’
s jeans and T-shirts are stylish.
C) The man should buy himself a new suit.
D) The man can dress casually for the occasion.
2. A) Its price.
C) Its location.
B) Its comfort.
D) Its facilities.
3. A) It is a routine offer.
C) It is new on the menu.
B) It is quite healthy.
D) It is a good bargain.
4. A) Read the notice on the window.
C) Go and ask the staff.
B) Board the bus to Cleveland.
D) Get a new bus schedule.
5. A) He is ashamed of his present condition.
B) He is careless about his appearance.
C) He changes jobs frequently.
D) He shaves every other day.
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6. A) The woman had been fined many times before.
B) The woman knows how to deal with the police.
C) The woman had violated traffic regulations.
D) The woman is good at finding excuses.
7. A) She got hurt in an accident yesterday.
B) She has to go to see a doctor.
C) She is black and blue all over.
D) She stayed away from work for a few days.
8. A) She will ask David to talk less.
B) She will meet the man halfway.
C) She is sorry the man will not come.
D) She has to invite David to the party.
Questions 9 to 11 are based on the conversation you have just heard.
9. A) Beautiful scenery in the countryside.
B) A sport he participates in.
C) Dangers of cross-country skiing.
D) Pain and pleasure in sports.
10. A) He can
’
t find good examples to illustrate his point.
B) He can
’
t find a peaceful place to do the assignment.
C) He can
’
t decide whether to include the effort part of skiing.
D) He doesn
’
t know how to describe the beautiful country scenery.
11. A) New ideas come up as you write.
B) Much time is spent on collecting data.
C) A lot of effort is made in vain.
D) The writer
’
s point of view often changes.
Questions 12 to 15 are based on the conversation you have just heard.
12. A) Having her bicycle repaired.
C) Lecturing on business management.
B) Hosting an evening TV program.
D) Conducting a market survey.
13. A) He repaired bicycles.
C) He worked as a salesman.
B) He coached in a racing club.
D) He served as a consultant.
14. A) He wanted to be his own boss.
B) He didn
’
t want to be in too much debt.
C) He didn
’
t want to start from scratch.
D) He found it more profitable.
15. A) They are all the man
’
s friends.
C) They are paid by the hour.
B) They work five days a week.
D) They all enjoy gambling.
Section B
Directions:
In this section, you will hear 3 short passages. At the end of each passage, you
will hear some questions. Both the passage and the questions will be spoken
only once. 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 centre.
注意：此部分试题请在
答题卡
1
上作答。
Passage One
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Questions 16 to 18 are based on the passage you have just heard.
16. A) They shared mutual friends in school.
B) They had many interests in common.
C) They shared many extracurricular activities.
D) They had known each other since childhood.
17. A) At a local club.
C) At the boarding school.
B) At Joe
’
s house.
D) At the sports center.
18. A) Durable friendships can be very difficult to maintain.
B) One has to be respectful of other people in order to win respect.
C) Social divisions will break down if people get to know each other.
D) It is hard for people from different backgrounds to become friends.
Passage Two
Questions 19 to 21 are based on the passage you have just heard.
19. A) The art of Japanese brush painting.
C) Characteristics of Japanese artists.
B) Some features of Japanese culture.
D) The uniqueness of Japanese art.
20. A) To calm themselves down.
C) To show their impatience.
B) To enhance concentration.
D) To signal lack of interest.
21. A) How speakers can misunderstand the audience.
B) How speakers can win approval from the audience.
C) How listeners in different cultures show respect.
D) How different Western and Eastern art forms are.
Passage Three
Questions 22 to 25 are based on the passage you have just heard.
22. A) They mistake the firefighters for monsters.
B) They do not realize the danger they are in.
C) They cannot hear the firefighters for the noise.
D) They cannot see the firefighters because of the smoke.
23. A) He teaches Spanish in a San Francisco community.
B) He often teaches children what to do during a fire.
C) He travels all over America to help put out fires.
D) He provides oxygen masks to children free of charge.
24. A) He is very good at public speaking.
B) He rescued a student from a big fire.
C) He gives informative talks to young children.
D) He saved the life of his brother choking on food.
25. A) Kids should learn not to be afraid of monsters.
B) Informative speeches can save lives.
C) Carelessness can result in tragedies.
D) Firefighters play an important role in America.
Section C
Directions:
In this section, you will hear a passage three times. When the passage is read for
the first time, you should listen carefully for its general idea. When the passage is
read for
the
second time, you are required to fill in the blanks with the exact
words you have just heard. Finally, when the passage is read for the third time,
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you should check what you have written.
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答题卡
1
上作答。
Almost every child, on the first day he sets foot in a school building, is smarter,
more 26 , less afraid of what he doesn
’
t know, better at finding and 27 ,
more confident,
resourceful
(
机敏的
), persistent and 28 than he will ever be
again in his schooling
–
or, unless he is very unusual and very lucky, for the rest of his life.
Already, by paying close attention to and 29 the world and people around him, and without any
school-type formal instruction, he has done a task far more difficult, complicated and 30 than
anything he will be asked to do in school, or than any of his teachers has done for years. He has
solved the 31 of language. He has discovered it
–
babies don
’
t even know that language exists
–
and he has found out how it works and learned to use it 32 . He has done it by exploring, by
experimenting, by developing his own model of the grammar of language, by 33 and seeing
whether it works, by gradually changing it and 34 it until it does work. And while he has been
doing this, he has been learning other things as well, including many of the
―
35
‖
that the
schools think only they can teach him, and many that are more complicated than the ones they
do try to teach him.
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.
Questions 36 to 45 are based on the following passage.
One in six. Believe it or not, that
’
s the number of Americans who struggle with hunger. To
make tomorrow a little better, Feeding America, the nation
’
s largest
36 hunger-relief organization, has chosen September as Hunger Action Month. As part of its 30
Ways in 30 Days program, it
’
s asking 37 across the country to help the more than 200 food
banks and 61,000 agencies in its network provide low- income individuals and families with the
fuel they need to 38 .
It
’
s
the
kind
of
work
that
’
s
done
every
day
at
St.
Andrew
’
s
Episcopal
Church
in
San
Antonio. People who 39 at its front door on the first and third Thursdays of each month aren
’
t
looking for God
–
they
’
re there for something to eat. St. Andrew
’
s runs a
food pantry
(
食品室
)
that 40 the city and several of the 41 towns. Janet Drane is its manager.
In the wake of the 42 , the number of families in need of food assistance began to grow. It
is 43 that 49 million Americans are unsure of where they will find their next meal. What
’
s most
surprising is that 36% of them live in 44 where at least one adult is working.
―
It used to be that
one job was all you needed,
‖
says St. Andrew
’
s Drane.
―
The people we see now have three or
four part-time jobs and they
’
re still right on the edge 45 .
‖
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2
上作答。
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A) accumulate
I) households
B) circling
J) recession
C) communities
K) reported
D) competition
L) reviewed
E) domestic
M) serves
F) financially
N) surrounding
G) formally
O) survive
H) gather
Section B
Directions:
In this section, you are going to read a passage with ten statements attached to it.
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
.
Universities Branch Out
A)
As
never
before
in
their
long
history,
universities
have
become
instruments
of
national
competition as well as instruments of peace. They are the place of the scientific discoveries that
move economies forward, and the primary means of educating the talent required to obtain and
maintain competitive advantage. But at the same time, the opening of national borders to the
flow of goods, services, information and especially people has made universities a powerful
force for global integration, mutual understanding and geopolitical stability.
B)
In
response
to
the
same
forces
that
have
driven
the
world
economy,
universities
have
become more self-consciously global: seeking students from around the world who represent
the entire range of cultures and values, sending their own students abroad to prepare them for
global careers, offering courses of study that address the challenges of an interconnected world
and
collaborative
(
合作的
)
research
programs
to
advance
science
for
the
benefit
of
all
humanity.
C)
Of the forces shaping higher education none is more sweeping than the movement across
borders. Over the past three decades the number of students leaving home each year to study
abroad has grown at an annual rate of 3.9 percent, from 800,000 in 1975 to 2.5 million in 2004.
Most travel from one developed nation to another, but the flow from developing to developed
countries is growing rapidly. The reverse flow, from developed to developing countries, is on
the rise, too. Today foreign students earn 30 percent of the doctoral degrees awarded in the
United States and 38 percent of those in the United Kingdom. And the number crossing borders
for undergraduate study is growing as well, to 8 percent of the undergraduates at America
’
s best
institutions and 10 percent of all undergraduates in the U.K. In the United States, 20 percent of
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the newly hired professors in science and engineering are foreign-born, and in China many
newly hired faculty members at the top research universities received their graduate education
abroad.
D) Universities are also encouraging students to spend some of their undergraduate years in
another country. In Europe, more than 140,000 students participate in the Erasmus program
each
year,
taking
courses
for
credit
in
one
of
2,200
participating
institutions
across
the
continent.
And
in
the
United
States,
institutions
are
helping
place
students
in
summer
internships
(
实习
) abroad to prepare them for global careers. Yale and Harvard have led the
way,
offering
every
undergraduate
at
least
one
international
study
or
internship
opportunity
—
and providing the financial resources to make it possible.
E) Globalization is also reshaping the way research is done. One new trend involves sourcing
portions of a research program to another country. Yale professor and Howard Hughes Medical
Institute
investigator
Tian
Xu
directs
a
research
center
focused
on
the
genetics
of
human
disease
at
Shanghai
’
s
Fudan
University,
in
collaboration
with
faculty
colleagues
from
both
schools.
The
Shanghai
center
has
95
employees
and
graduate
students
working
in
a
4,300-square-meter
laboratory
facility.
Yale
faculty,
postdoctors
and
graduate
students
visit
regularly
and
attend
videoconference
seminars
with
scientists
from
both
campuses.
The
arrangement benefits both countries; Xu
’
s Yale lab is more productive, thanks to the lower costs
of conducting research in China, and Chinese graduate students, postdoctors and faculty get
on-the-job training from a world-class scientist and his U.S. Team.
F) As a result of its strength in science, the United States has consistently led the world in the
commercialization of major new technologies, from the mainframe computer and the integrated
circuit of the 1960s to the Internet
infrastructure
(
基础设施
) and applications software of the
1990s. The link between university-based science and industrial application is often indirect
but sometimes highly visible: Silicon Valley was intentionally created by Stanford University,
and Route 128 outside Boston has long housed companies spun off from MIT and Harvard.
Around
the
world,
governments
have
encouraged
copying
of
this
model,
perhaps
most
successfully in Cambridge, England, where Microsoft and scores of other leading software and
biotechnology companies have set up shop around the university.
G)
For
all
its
success,
the
United
States
remains
deeply
hesitant
about
sustaining
the
research-university model. Most politicians recognize the link between investment in science
and national economic strength, but support for research funding has been unsteady. The budget
of the National Institutes of Health doubled between 1998 and 2003, but has risen more slowly
than inflation since then. Support for the physical sciences and engineering barely kept pace
with inflation during that same period. The attempt to make up lost ground is welcome, but the
nation would be better served by steady, predictable increases in science funding at the rate of
long-term GDP growth, which is on the order of inflation plus 3 percent per year.
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H) American politicians have great difficulty recognizing that admitting more foreign students
can greatly promote the national interest by increasing international understanding. Adjusted
for inflation, public
funding for international exchanges and
foreign-language
study is
well
below the levels of 40 years ago. In the wake of September 11, changes in the visa process
caused
a
dramatic
decline
in
the
number
of
foreign
students
seeking
admission
to
U.S.
universities, and a corresponding surge in enrollments in Australia, Singapore and the U.K.
Objections from American university and business leaders led to improvements in the process
and a reversal of the decline, but the United States is still seen by many as unwelcoming to
international students.
I) Most Americans
recognize
that universities
contribute to the
nation
’
s
well-being through
their scientific research, but many fear that foreign students threaten American competitiveness
by taking their knowledge and skills back home. They fail to grasp that welcoming foreign
students to the United States has two important positive effects: first, the very best of them stay
in
the
States
and
—
like
immigrants
throughout
history
—
strengthen
the
nation;
and
second,
foreign
students
who study
in
the
United
States
become
ambassadors
for
many
of
its
most
cherished
(
珍视
) values when they return home. Or at least they understand them better. In
America as elsewhere, few instruments of foreign policy are as effective in promoting peace
and stability as welcoming international university students.
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2
上作答。
46.
American universities prepare their undergraduates for global careers by giving them
chances for international study or internship.
47.
Since the mid-1970s, the enrollment of overseas students has increased at an annual
rate of 3.9 percent.
48. The enrollment of international students will have a positive impact on America rather
than threaten its competitiveness.
way research is carried out in universities has changed as a result of globalization.
50.
Of the newly hired professors in science and engineering in the United States, twenty
percent come from foreign countries.
51.
The number of foreign students applying to U.S. universities decreased sharply after
September 11 due to changes in the visa process.
52. The U.S. federal funding for research has been unsteady for years.
the
world,
governments
encourage
the
model
of
linking
university-based
science and industrial application.
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t-day universities have become a powerful force for global integration.
foreign students leave America, they will bring American values back to their
home countries.
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.
Global warming is causing more than 300,000 deaths and about $$125 billion in economic
losses each year, according to a report by the Global Humanitarian Forum, an organization
led by Kofi Annan, the former United Nations secretary general.
The report, to be released Friday, analyzed data and existing studies of health, disaster,
population
and
economic
trends.
It
found
that
human-influenced
climate
change
was
raising
the
global
death
rates
from
illnesses
including
malnutrition
(
营养不良
)
and
heat-related health problems.
But even before its release, the report drew criticism from some experts on climate and risk,
who questioned its methods and conclusions.
Along with the deaths, the report said that the lives of 325 million people, primarily in poor
countries, were being seriously affected by climate change. It projected that the number
would double by 2030.
Roger Pielke Jr., a political scientist at the University of Colorado, Boulder, who studies
disaster trends, said the Forum
’
s report was
―
a methodological embarrassment
‖
because
there was no way to distinguish deaths or economic losses related to human-driven global
warming
amid
the
much
larger
losses
resulting
from
the
growth
in
populations
and
economic development in
vulnerable
(
易受伤害的
) regions. Dr. Pielke said that
―
climate
change is an important problem requiring our utmost attention.
‖
But the report, he said,
―
will harm the cause for action on both climate change and disasters because it is so deeply
flawed
(
有瑕疵的
).
‖
However, Soren Andreasen, a social scientist at Dalberg Global Development Partners who
supervised the writing of the report, defended it, saying that it was clear that the numbers
were rough estimates. He said the report was aimed at world leaders, who will meet in
Copenhagen in December to negotiate a new international climate treaty.
In a press release describing the report, Mr. Annan stressed the need for the negotiations to
focus
on
increasing
the
flow
of
money
from
rich
to
poor
regions
to
help
reduce
their
vulnerability to climate hazards while still curbing the emissions of the heat-trapping gases.
More than 90% of the human and economic losses from climate change are occurring in
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