2019年12月四级真题第二套-真题(共12页).docx

精选优质文档-倾情为你奉上2019年12月四级真题（第2套）Part Writing (30 minutes) Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a letter to a foreign friend who wants to learn Chinese. Please recommend a university to him. You should write at least 120 words but no more than 180 words.Part Listening Comprehension (25 minutes)Section A Directions: In this section, you will hear three news reports. At the end of each news report, you will hear two or three questions. Both the news report 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. Questions l and 2 are based on the news report you have just heard. 1. A) The number of male nurses has gone down.B) There is discrimination against male nurses.C)There is a growing shortage of medical personnel.  D)The number of nurses has dropped to a record low.2.  A) Working conditions.   C) Inadequate pay. B) Educational system.   D) Cultural bias.    Questions 3 and 4 are based on the news report you have just heard.3. A) He fell out of a lifeboat.   C) He lost his way on a beachB) He was almost drowned. D) He enjoyed swimming in the sea4. A) The lifeboats patrol the area round the clock.B) The beach is a good place to watch the tide.C) The emergency services are efficient.D) The beach is a popular tourist resort.Questions 5 to 7 are based on the news report you have just heard.5. A) It climbed 25 storeys at one go.  C) It escaped from a local zoo.B) It broke into an office room.  D) It became an online star.6. A) Release it into the wild.  c) Send it back to the zoo.B) Return it to its owner.  D) Give it a physical checkup.7. A) A raccoon can perform acts no human can.  B) A raccoon can climb much higher than a cat.C) The raccoon did something no politician could. D) The raccoon became as famous as some politicians.Section B  Directions: In this section, you will hear two long conversations. At the end of each conversation, you will hear four questions. Both the conversation 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.   Questions 8 to 11 are based on the conversation you have just heard.8. A) She received a bonus unexpectedly.  C) She received herfirst monthly salary.B)She got a well-paying job in a bank.  D) She got a pay raise for her performance.9. A) Two decades ago.  C) Just last monthB) Several years ago.  D) Right after graduation10. A) He sent a small check to his parents.  C) He tooka few of his friends to a gym. B) He treated his parents to a nice meal.  D) He immediately deposited it in a bank.11. A) Join her colleagues for gym exercise.  C) Buy some professional clothes.B) Visit her former university campus.  D) Budget her salary carefully.Questions 12 to 15 are based on the conversation you have just heard.12. A) He has just too many things to attend to.  C) He has a difficult decision to make.B) He has been overworked recently.  D) He has just quarreled with his girlfriend13. A) Turn to his girlfriend for assistance.  C) Think twice before making the decision.B) Give priority to things more urgent.  D) Seek advice from his family and advisor.14. A) His girlfriend does not support his decision.B) He is not particularly keen on the job offered.C) He lacks the money for his doctoral program.D) His parents and advisor have different opinions.15. A) They need time to make preparations.B) They haven't started their careers yet.C) They need to save enough money for it.D) They haven't won their parents' approval. Section C    Directions: In this section, you will hear three passages. At the end of each passage, you will hear three or four 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.    Questions 16 to 18 are based on the passage you have just heard.16. A) Expressing ideas and opinions freely.  B) Enriching social and intellectual livesC) Acquiring information and professional knowledge.D) Using information to understand and solve problems. 17. A) Traveling to different places in the world.  B) Playing games that challenge one's mind. C) Improving mind-reading strategies. D) Reading classic scientific literature.18. A) Participate in debates or discussions.   B) Expose themselves to different cultures.  C) Discard personal biases and prejudices. D) Give others freedom to express themselves.Questions 19 to 21 are based on the passage you have just heard.19. A) Why dogs can be faithful friends of humans. B) The nature of relationships between dogs.C) The reason a great many people love dogs.D) How dogs feel about their bonds with humans.20. A) They behave like other animals in many ways. B) They have an unusual sense of responsibility.C) They can respond to humans' questions.D) They can fall in love just like humans. 21. A) They stay with one partner for life.  B) They have their own joys and sorrows.C) They experience true romantic love.  D) They help humans in various ways.Questions 22 to 25 are based on the passage you have just heard.22.  A) A rare animal.  B) A historical site.C) A cow bone.D) A precious stone23. A) Dating it.B) Preserving it.C) Measuring it  D) Identifying it.24. A) The channel needs to interview the boy.B) The boy should have called an expert.C) The boy's family had acted correctly.D) The site should have been protected.25. A) Conduct a more detailed search.B) Ask the university to reward Jude.C) Search for similar fossils elsewhere.D) Seek additional funds for the search.Part 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.    Finally, some good news about airplane travel. If you are on a plane with a sick passenger, you are unlikely to get sick. That is the _26_ of a new study that looked at how respiratory (呼吸道) viruses _27_ on airplanes. Researchers found that only people who were seated in individual - had a high risk of catching the illness. All other passengers had only a very _28_ chance of getting sick according to the findings. Media reports have not necessarily presented _29_ information about the risk of getting infected on an airplane in the past. Therefore , these new findings should help airplane passengers to feel less _30 _to catching respiratory infections while traveling by air.    Prior to the new study, little was known about the risks of getting _31_ infected by common respiratory viruses, such as the flu or common cold, on an airplane, the researchers said. So, to _32_ the risks of infection, the study team flew on 10 different _33_ in the US. _34_ side of a person infected with fl, as well as those sitting one roe in font of or behind this individual, had about an 80 person chance of getting sick. But other passengers were _35_ safe from infection. They had a less than 3 percent chance of catching the flu.    A) accurate  B) conclusion   C) directly  D) either    E) evaluate  F) explorations G) flights    H) largely    I) nearby      J) respond        K) slim        L) spread    M) summit   N) vividly          O) vulnerable 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.    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 theres the matter of getting from one city to another. One vision of the perfect city of the future: a place that offers easy access to air travel.In 2011, a University of North Carolina business professor named John Kasarda published a book called Aerotropolis: The Way Well Live Next. Kasarda says future cities should be built intentionally around or near airports. The idea, as he has put it, is to offer businesses “rapid, long-distance connectivity on a massive scale.”    B) “The 18th century really was a waterborne (水运的) century, the 19th century a rail century. the 20th century a highway, car, truck century一and the 21st century will increasingly be an aviation century, as the globe becomes increasingly connected by air,” Kasarda says. Songdo, a city built from scratch in South Korea, is one of Kasardas prime examples. It has existed for just a few years.“ From the get-go, it was designed on the basis of connectivity and competitiveness,”says Kasada. “The government built the bridge directly from the airport to the Songdo International Business District. And the surface infrastructure was built in tandem with the new airport.”    C) Songdo is a stones throw from South Koreas Incheon Airport, its main international hub (枢纽). But it takes a lot more than a nearby airport to be a city of the future. Just building a place as an “international business district” doesnt mean it will become one. Park Yeon Soo conceived (构想) this city of the future back in 1986. He considers Songdo his baby. “I am a visionary,” he says. Thirty years after he imagined the city, Parks baby is close to 70 percent built, with 36.000 people living in the business district and 90,000 residents in greater Songdo. Its about an hour outside Seoul, built on reclaimed tidal flats along the Yellow Sea, Theres a Coast Guard building and a tall trade tower, as well as a park, golf course and university.    D) Chances are youve actually seen this place. Songdo appears in the most famous music video ever to come ou of South Korea. “Gangnam Style” refers to the fashionable Gangnam district in Seoul. But some of the video was filmed in Songdo.“I dont know if you remember, there was a scene in a subway station. That was not Gangnam. That was actually Songdo,” says Jung Won Son, a professor of urban development at Londons Bartlett School of Planning, “Part of the reason to shoot there is that its new and nice.”    E) The city was supposed to be a hub for global companies, with employees from all over the world. But hats not how it has turned out. Songdos reputation is as a futuristic ghost town. But the reality is more complicated. A bridge with big, light-blue loops leads into the business district. In the center of the main road, theres a long line of flags of the world. On the corner, theres a Starbucks and a 7-Eleven-all of the international brands that you see all over the world nowadays.    F) The city is not empty. There are mothers pushing strollers, old women with walkers - even in the middle of the day. when its 90 degrees out. Byun Young-Jin chairs the Songdo real estate association and started selling property here when the first phase of the city opened in 2005. He says demand has boomed in the past couple of years. Most of his clients are Korean. In fact, the developer says, 99 percent of the homes here are sold to Koreans. Young families move here because the schools are great. And thats the problem: Songdo has become a popular Korean city 一more popular as a residential area than a business one. Its not yet the futuristic international business hub that planners imagined. “Its a great place to live. And its becoming a great place to work,” says Scott Summers, the vice president of Gale International, the developer of the city. The floor-to-ceiling windows of his companys offices overlook Songdo Central Park, with a canal full of kayaks and paddle boats. Shimmering (闪烁的)glass towers line the canals edge.“Whats 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 says. “There needs to be strong economic incentives.” The city is still unfinished, and it feels a bit like a theme park. It doesnt feel all that futuristic. Theres a high-tech underground trash disposal system. Buildings are environmentally friendly. Everybodys television set is connected to a system that streams personalized language or exercise classes.    H) But Star Trek this is not. And to some of the residents, Songdo feels hollow. “Im, like, in prison for weekdays. Thats what we call it in the workplace,” says a woman in her 20s. She doesnt want to use her name for fear of being fired from her job. She goes back to Seoul every weekend. “I say Im prison-breaking on Friday nights.” But she has to make the prison break in her own car. Theres no high-speed train connecting Songdo to Seoul, just over 20 miles away.    I) The man who first imagined Songdo feels frustrated. too. Park says he built South Korea a luxury vehicle, “like Mercedes or BMW. Its a good car now. But were waiting for a good driver to accelerate.”    But there are lots of other good cars out there, too. The world is dotted with futuristic, high-tech cities trying to attract the biggest international companies    J) Songdos backers contend that its still early, and business space is filling upabout 70 percent of finished offices are now occupied. Brent Ryan, who teaches urban design at MIT, says Songdo proves a universal principle. “There have been a lot of utopian (乌托邦的) cities in history. And the reason we dont know about a lot of them is that a lot of them have vanished entirely.” In other words, when it comes to citiesor anything elseit is hard to predict the future.    36. Songdos popularity lies more in its quality of life than its business attraction.   37. The man who conceives Songdo feels disappointed because it has fallen short of his expectations.    38. A scene in a popular South Korean music video was shot in Songdo.    39. Songdo still lacks the financial stimulus for businesses to set up shop there.   40. Airplanes will increasingly become the chief means of transportation, according