2009年12月英语4级真题与答案解析(共8页).doc

精选优质文档-倾情为你奉上2009年12月(CET-4)真题Part IIIListening Comprehension(35 minutes)11.A) Get some small change.B) Find a shopping center.C) Cash a check at a bank.D) Find a parking meter.12.A) Shopping with his son.B) Buying a gift for a child.C) Promoting a new product.D) Bargaining with a salesgirl.13.A) Taking photographs.B) Enhancing images.C) Mending cameras.D) Painting pictures.14.A) He moved to Baltimore when he was young.B) He can provide little useful information.C) He will show the woman around Baltimore.D) He will ask someone else to help the woman.15.A) He is rather disappointed.B) He is highly ambitious.C) He cant face up to the situation.D) He knows his own limitations.16.A) She must have paid a lot for the gym.B) She is known to have a terrific figure.C) Her gym exercise has yielded good results.D) Her effort to keep fit is really praiseworthy.17.A) Female students are unfit for studying physics.B) He can serve as the womans tutor.C) Physics is an important course at school.D) The professors suggestion is constructive.18.A) Indifferent.B) Doubtful.C) Pleased.D) Surprised.Questions 19 to 22 are based on the conversation you have just heard.19.A) He prefers the smaller evening classes.B) He has signed up for a day course.C) He has to work during the day.D) He finds the evening course cheaper.20.A) Learn a computer language.B) Learn data processing.C) Buy some computer software.D) Buy a few coursebooks.21.A) Thursday evening, from 7:00 to 9:45.B) From September 1 to New Years eve.C) Every Monday, lasting for 12 weeks.D) Three hours a week, 45 hours in total.22.A) What to bring for registration.B) Where to attend the class.C) How he can get to Frost Hall.D)Whether he can use a check.Questions 23 to 25 are based on the conversation you have just heard.23.A) A training coach.B) A trading adviser.C) A professional manager.D) A financial trader.24.A) He can save on living expenses.B) He considers cooking creative.C) He can enjoy healthier food.D) He thinks take-away is tasteless.25.A) It is something inevitable.B) It is frustrating sometimes.C) It takes patience to manage.D) It can be a good thing.Questions 26 to 28 are based on the conversation you have just heard.26.A) There were no planets without moons.B) There was no air or water on Jupiter.C) Life was not possible in outer space.D) The mystery of life could not be resolved.27.A) It has a number of active volcanoes.B) It has an atmosphere like the earths.C) It has a large ocean under its surface.D) It has deep caves several miles long.28.A) Light is not an essential element to it.B) Life can form in very hot temperatures.C) Every form of life undergoes evolution.D) Oxygen is not needed for some life forms.Questions 29 to 31 are based on the passage you have just heard.29.A) Whether they should take the child home.B) What Dr. Meyers instructions exactly were.C) Who should take care of the child at home.D) When the child would completely recover.30.A) She encourages them to ask questions when in doubt.B) She makes them write down all her instructions.C) She has them act out what they are to do at home.D) She asks them to repeat what they are supposed to do.31.A) It lacks the stability of the printed word.B) It contains many grammatical errors.C) It is heavily dependent on the context.D) It facilitates interpersonal communication.Questions 32 to 35 are based on the passage you have just heard.32.A) Job security.B) Good labour relations.C) Challenging work.D) Attractive wages and benefits.33.A) Many tedious jobs continue to be done manually.B) More and more unskilled workers will lose jobs.C) Computers will change to nature of many jobs.D) Boring jobs will gradually be made enjoyable.34.A) Offer them chances of promotion.B) Improve their working conditions.C) Encourage them to compete with each other.D) Give them responsibilities as part of a team.35.A) They will not bring real benefits to the staff.B) They concern a small number of people only.C) They are arbitrarily set by the administrators.D) They are beyond the control of ordinary workers.Section C注意：此部分试题请在答题卡2上作答。 In the humanities, authors write to inform you in many ways. These methods can be (36)    into three types of informational writing: factual, descriptive, and process.Factual writing provides (37)     information on an author, composer, or artist or on a type of music, literature, or art. Example of factual writing include notes on a book jacket or (38)    cover and longer pieces, such as an article describing a stle of music which you might read in a music (39)    courses. This kind of writing provides a (40)    for your study of the humanities.As its name (41)    , descriptive writing simply describes, or provides an (42)    of, a piece of music, art, or literature. For example, descriptive writing might list the colors an artist used in a painting or the (43)    a composer included in a musical composition, so as to make pictures or sounds in the readers mind by calling up specific details of the work. (44) _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _.Process writing explains a series of actions that bring about a result. (45) _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _. This kind of writing is often found in art, where understanding how an artist created a certain effect is important. (46) _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _.Part IVReading Comprehension (Reading in Depth)(25 minutes)Questions 47 to 56 are based on the following passage.In families with two working parents, fathers may have more impact on a childs language development than mothers, a new study suggests.Researchers 47 92 families from 11 child care centers before their children were a year old, interviewing each to establish income, level of education and child care arrangements. Overall, it was a group of well-educated middle-class families with married parents both living in the home.When the children were 2, researchers videotaped them at home in free-play sessions with both parent, 48 all of their speech. The study will appear in the November issue of The Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology.The scientists measured the 49 number of utterances (话语) of the parents, the number of different words they used, the complexity of their sentences and other 50 of their speech. On average, fathers spoke less than mothers did, but they did not differ in the length of utterances or proportion of questions asked. Finally, the researchers 51 the childrens speech at age 3, using a standardized language test. The only predictors of high scores on the test were the mothers level of education, the 52 of child care and the number of different words the father used.The researchers are 53 why the fathers speech, and not the mothers, had an effect.“Its well 54 that the mothers language does have an impact,” said Nadya Pancsofar, the lead author of the study. It could be that the high-functioning mothers in the study had 55 had a strong influence on their childrens speech development, Ms. Pancsofar said, “or it may be that mothers are 56 in a way we didnt measure in the study.”注意：此部分试题请在答题卡2上作答。A)alreadyB)analyzed I)quoted C)aspects J)recordingD)characters K)recruitedE)contributing L)totalF)describing M)unconsciousG)established N)unsure H)quality O)yetSection BQuestions 57 to 61 are based on the following passage.Throughout this long, tense election, everyone has focused on the presidential candidates and how theyll change America. Rightly so. But selfishly. Im more fascinated by Michelle Obama and what she might be able to do, not just for this country, but for me as an Afircan-American woman. As the potential First Lady, she would have the worlds attention. And that means that for the first time people will have a chance to get up close and personal with the type of African-American woman they so rarely see.Usually, the lives of black women go largely unexamined. The prevailing theory seems to be that were all hot-tempered single mothers who cant keep a man. Even in the world of make-believe, black women still cant escape the stereotype of being eye-roling, oversexed females raised by our never-married, alcoholic （酗酒的） mothers.These images have helped define the way all black women are viewed, including Michelle Obama. Before she ever gets the chance to commit to a cause, charity or foundation as First Lady, her most urgent and perhaps most complicated duty may be simply to be herself.It wont be easy. Because few mainstream publications have done in-depth features on regular African-American women, little is known about who we are, what we think and what we face on a regular basis. For better or worse, Michelle will represent us all.Just as she will have her critics, she will also have millions of fans who usually have little interest in the First Lady. Many African-Ameircan blogs have written about what theyd like to see Michelle bring to the White Housemainly showing the world that a black woman can support her man and raise a strong black family. Michelle will have to work to please everyonean impossible task. But for many African-American women like me, just a little of her poise (沉着), confidence and intelligence will go a long way in changing an image thats been around for far too long.注意：此部分试题请在答题卡2上作答。57.Why does Michelle Obama hold a strong fascination for the author?A) She serves as a role model for African-American women.B) She possesses many admirable qualities becoming a First Lady.C) She will present to the world a new image of African-American women.D) She will pay closer attention to the interests of African-American women.58.What is the common stereotype of African-American women according to the author?A) They are victims of family violence.B) They are of an inferior social group.C) They use quite a lot of body language.D) They live on charity and social welfare.59.What do many African-Americans write about in their blogs.A) Whether Michelle can live up to the high expectations of her fans.B) How Michelle should behave as a public figure.C) How proud they are to have a black woman in the White House.D) What Michelle should do as wife and mother in the White House.60.What does the author say about Michelle Obama as a First Lady?A) However many fans she has, she should remain modest.B) She shouldnt disappoint the Afircan-American community.C) However hard she tries, she cant expect to please everybody.D) She will give priority to African-American womens concerns.61.What do many African-American women hope Michelle Obama will do?A) Help change the prevailing view about black women.B) Help her husband in the task of changing America.C) Outshine previous First Ladies.D) Fully display her fine qualities.Passage TwoQuestions 62 to 66 are based on the following passage.When next years crop of high-school graduates arrive at Oxford University in the fall of 2009, theyll be joined by a new face: Andrew Hamilton, the 55-year-old provost (教务长) of Yale, wholl become Oxfords vice-chancellora position equivalent to university president in America.Hamilton isnt the only educator crossing the Atlantic. Schools in France, Egypt, Singapore, etc. have also recently made top-level hires from abroad. Higher education has become a big and competitive business nowadays, and like so many businesses, its gone global. Yet the talent flow isnt universal. High-level personnel tend to head in only one direction: outward from America.The chief reason is that American schools dont tend to seriously consider looking abroad. For example, when the board of the University of Colorado searched for a new president, it wanted a leader familiar with the state government, a major source of the universitys budget. “We didnt do any global consideration,” says Patricia Hays, the boards chair. The board ultimately picked Bruce Benson, a 69-year-old Colorado businessman and political activist (活动) who is likely to do well in the main task of modern university president: fund-raising. Fund-raising is a distinctively American thing, since U.S. schools rely heavily on donations. The fund-raising ability is largely a product of experience and necessity.Many European universities, meanwhile, are still mostly dependent on government funding. But government support has failed to keep pace with rising student numbers. The decline in government support has made fund-raising an increasingly necessary ability among administrators, and has hiring committees hungry for Americans.In the past few years, prominent schools around the world have joined the trend. In 2003, when Cambridge University appointed Alison Richard, another former Yale provost, as its vice-chancellor, the university publicly stressed that in her previous job she had overseen (监督) “a major strengthening of Yales financial position.”Of course, fund-raising isnt the only skill outsiders offer. The globalization of education means more universities will be seeking heads with international experience of some kind to promote international programs and attract a global student body. Foreigners can offer a fresh perspective on established practices.62.What is the current trend in higher education discussed in the passage?A) Institutions worldwide are hiring administrators from the U.S.B) A lot of political activists are being recruited as administrators.C) American universities are enrolling more international students.D) University presidents are paying more attention to fund-raising.63.What is the chief consideration of American universities when hiring top-level administrators?A) Their political correctness.B) Their ability to raise funds.C) Their fame in academic circles.D) Their administrative experience.64.What do we learn about European universities from the passage?A) The tuitions they charge have been rising considerably.B) Their operation is under strict government supervision.C) They are strengthening their position by globalization.D) Most of their revenues come from the government.65.Cambridge University appointed Alison Richard as its vice-chancellor chiefly because _.A) she was known to be good