2021年12月英语四级真题试卷一(凡人英语版).pdf
20212021 年年 1212 月英语四级真题试卷一月英语四级真题试卷一（凡人英（凡人英语版）语版）Part IWriting(30 minutes)Directions:For this part，you are allowed 30 minutes to write a shortessay on the challenges of starting a career after graduation.You shouldwrite at least 120 words but no more than180 words.PartListening Comprehension(25 minutes)Section ADirections:In this section,you will hear three news reports.At the end ofeach news report,you will hear two or three questions.Both the newsreport and then questions will be spoken only once.After you hear aquestion,you must choose the best answer from the four choicesmarked A），B),C)and D).Then mark the corresponding letter on AnswerSheet 1with a single line through the centre.Questions 1 and 2 are based on the news report you have just heard.1.A)Land a space vehicle on the moon in 2021.B)Design a new generation of mobile phones.C)Set up a mobile phone network on the moon.D)Gather data from the noon with a tiny device.12.A)It is stable.B)It is durable.C)It is inexpensive.D)It is sophisticated.Questions 3 and 4 are based on the news report you have just heard.3.A)It lasted more than six hours.B)No injuries were yet reported.C)Nobody was in the building when it broke out.D)It had burned for 45 minutes by the time firefighters arrived.4.A)Recruit and train more firefighters.B)Pull down the deserted shopping mall.C)Turn the shopping mall into an amusement park.D)Find money to renovate the local neighborhood.Questions 5 and 6 are based on the news report you have just heard.5.A)Shrinking potato farming.B)Heavy reliance on import.C)Widespread plant disease.D)Insufficient potato supply.6.A)It intends to keep its traditional diet.B)It wants to expand its own farming.2C)It is afraid of the spread of disease.D)It is worried about unfair competition.7.A)Global warning.B)Ever-rising prices.C)Government regulation.D)Diminishing investment.Section BDirections:In this section,you will hear two long conversations.At theend of each conversation,you will hear four questions.Both theconversation and the questions will be spoken only once.After you heara question,you must choose the best answer from the four choicesmarked A），B），C)and D).Then mark the corresponding letter onAnswer Sheet 1 with a single line through the centre.Questions 8 to 11 are based on the conversation you have just heard.8.A)Informative.B)Inspiring.C)Dull.D)Shallow.9.A)She types on a keyboard.B)She does recording.3C)She take photos.D)she take notes.10.A)It keeps her mind active.B)It makes her stay awake.C)It enables her to think hard.D)It helps her kill time.11.A)It enables her to improve her pronunciation.B)It helps her better remember what she learns.C)It turns out to be an enjoyable way of learning.D)It proves to be far more effective than writing.Questions 12 to 15 are based on the conversation you have just heard.12.A)To spend her honeymoon.B)To try autbentic Indian food.C)To take photos of the Jaj Mahal.D)To trace the origin of a love story.13.A)In memory of a princess.B)In honor of a great cmperor.C)To mark the death of an emperor of the 1600s.D)To celebrate the birth of a princesss 14th child.14.A)It looks older than expected.4B)It is built of wood and bricks.C)It stores lots of priceless antiques.D)It has walls decorated with jewels.15.A)Their streets are narrow.B)Each on has a unique character.C)They are mostly crowded.D)Life can be tedious in some places.Section CDirections:In this section,you will hear three passages.At the end ofeach passage,you will hear three or four questions.Both the passageand 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 asingle line through the centre.Questions 16 to 18 are based on the passage you have just heard.16.A)They help spread the latest technology.B)They greatly enrich peoples leisure life.C)They provide residents with theD)They allow free access to digital books and videos.17.A)By helping them find jobs.5B)By keeping them off the streets.C)By inspiring their creativity.D)By providing a place of relaxation.18.A)Their interaction with teenagers proved fruitful.B)They used libraries less often than teenagers.C)They tended to visit libraries regularly.D)Their number increased modestly.Questions 19 to 21 are based on the passage you have just heard.19.A)It is the cleverest cat in the world.B)It is an unusual cross breed.C)It is the largest cat in Africa.D)It is a large-sized wild cat.20.A)They are as loyal as doges.B)They are fond of sleeping in cabinets.C)They have unusually long tails.D)They know how to please their owners.21.A)They shake their front paws.B)They shower with them.C)They teach them to dive.D)They shout at them.6Questions 22 to 25 are based on the passage you have just heard.22.A)Contented and relieved.B)Anxious and depressed.C)Proud but a bit nervous.D)Excited but somewhat sad.23.A)It starts the moment they are born.B)It depends on their parents for success.C)It is gaining increasing public attention.D)It is becoming parents biggest concern.24.A)Choose the right school for them.B)Help them to learn by themselves.C)Read books and magazines to them.D)Set a good example for them to follow.25.A)Their intelligence.B)Their home life.C)The quality of their school.D)The effort they put in learning.Part Reading Comprehension(40 minutes)Section ADirections:In this section,there is a passage with ten blanks.You are7required to select one word for each blank from a list of choices given ina word bank following the passage.Read the passage through carefullybefore making your choices.Each choice in the bank is identified by aletter.Please mark the corresponding letter for each item on AnswerSheet 2 with a single line through the centre.You may not use any of thewords in the bank more than onceQuestions 26 to 35 are based on the following passage.Millions die early from air pollution each year.Air pollution costs theglobal economy more than$5 trillion annually in welfare costs,with themost serious26occurring in the developing world.The figures include a number of costs27with air pollution.Lostincome alone amounts to$225 billion a year.The report includes both indoor and outdoor air pollution.Indoorpollution,which includes28like home heating and cooking,has remained29over thepast several decades despite advances in the area.Levels of outdoorpollution have grown rapidly along with rapid growth in industry andtransportation.Director of Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation Chris Murray30it as an“urgent call to action.”“One of the risk factors for8premature deaths is the air we breathe,over which individuals have little31,”he said.The effects of air pollution are worst in the developing world,where insome places lost-labor income32nearly 1%of GDP.Around 9 in 10people in low-and middle-income countries live in places where they33experience dangerous levels of outdoor air pollution.But the problem is not limited34to the developing world.Thousands die prematurely in the U.S.as a result of related illnesses.Inmany European countries,where diesel(柴油)35have becomemore common in recent years,that number reaches tens of thousands.A)abilityI)exclusivelyB)associatedJ)innovatedC)consciouslyK)regularlyD)constantL)relatesE)controlM)sourcesF)damageN)undermineG)describedO)vehiclesH)equalsSection BDirections:In this section,you are going to read a passage with ten9statements attached to each statement contains information given inone of the paragraphs.Identify the paragraph from which theinformation is derived.You may choose a paragraph more than once.Each paragraph is marked with a letter.Answer the questions by markingthe corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 2.Food-as-Medicine Movement Is Witnessing ProgressA Several times a month,you can find a doctor in the aisles of Ralphsmarket in Huntington Beach,California,wearing a white coat and helpingpeople learn about food.On one recent day,this doctor was DanielNadeau,wandering the cereal aisle with Allison Scott,giving her someidea on how to feed kids who persistently avoid anything that is healthy.“Have you thought about trying fresh juices in the morning?”he asks her.“The frozen oranges and apples are a little cheaper,and fruits are reallygood for the brain.Juices are quick and easy to prepare,you can take thefrozen fruit out the night before and have it ready the next morning.”B Scott is delighted to get food advice from a physician who is programdirector of the nearby Mary and Dick Allen Diabetes Center,part of theSt.Joseph Hoag Health alliance.The centers Shop with Your Docprogram sends doctors to the grocery store to meet with any patientswho sign up for the service,plus any other shoppers who happen to be10around with questions.C Nadeau notices the pre-made macaroni(通心粉)-and-cheese boxesin Scott s shopping cart and suggests she switch to whole grain macaroniand real cheese.“So Id have to make it？”she asks,her enthusiasmfading at the thought of how long that might take,just to have her kidsreject it.“Im not sure theyd eat it.They just wont eat it.”D Nadeau says sugar and processed foods are big contributors to therising diabetes rates among children.“In America,over 50 percent of ourfood is processed food,”Nadeau tells her.“And only 5 percent of ourfood is plant-based food.I think we should try to reverse that.”Scottagrees to try more fruit juices for the kids and to make real macaroni andcheese.Score one point for the doctor,zero for diabetes.E Nadeau is part of a small revolution developing across California.Thefood-as-medicine movement has been around for decades,but itsmaking progress as physicians and medical institutions make food aformal part of treatment,rather than relying solely on medications(药物).By prescribing nutritional changes or launching programs such asShop with your Doc,they are trying to prevent,limit or even reversedisease by changing what patients eat.“There s no question people cantake things a long way toward reversing diabetes,reversing high blood11pressure,even preventing cancer by food choices,”Nadeau says.F In the big picture,says Dr.Richard Afable,CEO and president of ST.Joseph Hoag Health,medical institutions across the state are starting tomake a philosophical switch to becoming a health organization,not just ahealth care organization.That feeling echoes the beliefs of theTherapeutic Food Pantry program at Zuckerberg San Francisco GeneralHospital,which completed its pilot phase and is about to expand on anongoing basis to five clinic sites throughout the city.The program willoffer patients several bags of food prescribed for their condition,alongwith intensive training in how to cook it.“We really want to link food andmedicine,and not just give away food,”says Dr.Rita Nguyen,thehospitals medical director of Healthy Food Initiatives.“We want peopleto understand what theyre eating,how to prepare it,the role food playsin their lives.”G In Southern California,Loma Linda University School of Medicine isoffering specialized training for its resident physicians in LifestyleMedicine that is a formal specialty in using food to treat disease.Research findings increasingly show the power of food to treat or reversediseases,but that does not mean that diet alone is always the solution,or that every illness can benefit substantially from dietary changes.12Nonetheless,physicians say that they look at the collective data and aclear picture emerges:that the salt,sugar,fat and processed foods in theAmerican diet contribute to the nations high rates of obesity,diabetesand heart disease.According to the World Health Organization,80percent of deaths from heart disease and stroke are caused by highblood pressure,tobacco use,elevated cholesterol and low consumptionof fruits and vegetables.H“Its a different paradigm（范式）of how to treat disease,”says Dr.Brenda Rea,who helps run the family and preventive medicine residencyprogram at Loma Linda University School of Medicine.The lifestylemedicine specialty is designed to train doctors in how to prevent andtreat disease,in part,by changing patients nutritional habits.Themedical center and school at Loma Linda also has a food cupboard andkitchen for patients.This way,patients not only learn about which foodsto buy,but also how to prepare them at home.I Many people dont know how to cook,Rea says,and they only knowhow to heat things up.That means depending on packaged food withhigh salt and sugar content.So teaching people about which foods arehealthy and how to prepare them,she says,can actually transform apatients life.And beyond that,it might transform the health and lives of13that patients family.“What people eat can be medicine or poison,”Reasays.“As a physician,nutrition is one of the most powerful things youcan change to reverse the effects of long-term disease.”J Studies have explored evidence that dietary changes can slowinflammation（炎症）,for example,or make the body inhospitable tocancer cells.In general,many lifestyle medicine physicians recommend aplant-based diet particularly for people with diabetes or otherinflammatory conditions.K“As what happened with tobacco,this will require a cultural shift,butthat can happen,”says Nguyen.“In the same way physicians used tosmoke,and then stopped smoking and were able to talk to patientsabout it,I think physicians can have a bigger voice in it.”36.More than half of the food Americans eat is factory-produced.37.There is a special program that assigns doctors to give advice toshoppers in food stores.38.There is growing evidence from research that food helps patientsrecover from various illnesses.39.A healthy breakfast can be prepared quickly and easily.40.Training a patient to prepare healthy food can change their life.41.One food-as-medicine program not only prescribes food for14treatment but teaches patients how to cook it.42.Scott is not keen on cooking food herself,thinking it would simply bea waste of time.43.Diabetes patients are advised to eat more plant-based food.44.Using food as medicine is no novel idea,but the movement is makingheadway these days.45.Americans high rates of various illnesses result from the way theyeat.Section CDirections:There are 2 passages in this section.Each passage is followedby some questions or unfinished statements.For each of them there arefour choices marked A),B),C)and D).You should decide on the bestchoice and mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 2 with asingle line through the centre.Passage OneQuestions 46 to 50 are based on the following passage.California has been facing a drought for many years now,with certainareas even having to pump freshwater hundreds of miles to theirdistribution system.The problem is growing as the population of thestate continues to expand.New research has found deep water reserves15under the state which could help solve their drought crisis.Previousdrilling of wells could only reach depthsof 1,000 feet,but due to newpumping practices,water
