2014年12月英语四级真题及答案(共15页).doc

精选优质文档-倾情为你奉上2014年12月英语四级真题及答案（文字版）考试采取“多题多卷”模式，试题顺序不统一，请依据试题进行核对 Part I Writing  Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a short essay on the following topic. You should write at least 120 words but no more than 180 words. 作文题一：印象最深的活动 AA campus activity that has benefited most.作文题二：印象最深的课程 A course that has impressed you most in college. 作文题三:印象最深的同学 A classmate of yours who has influenced you most in college Part II ListeningSection 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 I with a single line through the centre. Question 1 A.The man is not good at balancing his budget. B.She will go purchase the gift herself. C.The gift should not be too expensive. D.They are gonging to Jane's house-warming party. Question 2 A.He is quite willing to give the woman a hand. B.It takes patience to go through the statistics. C.He has prepared the statistics for the woman. D.The woman should take a course in statistics. Question 3 A.Page 55 is missing from the woman's scripts. B.They cannot begin their recording right away. C.The woman does not take the recording seriously. D.The man wants to make some changes in the scripts. Question 4 A.The date of Carl's wedding. B.The birthday of Carl's bride. C.A significant event in July. D.Preparation for a wedding. Question 5 A.The woman forgot to tell the man in advance. B.The man was absent from the weekly meeting. C.The woman was annoyed at the man's excuse. D.The man was in charge of scheduling meetings. Question 6 A.The woman is a marvelous cook. B.The woman has just bought an oven. C.The man has to leave in half an hour. D.The man cannot want for his meal. Question 7 A.How she can best help the man. B.Where the man got the bad news. C.What items sell well in the store. D.Whether the man can keep his job. Question 8 A.The woman can sign up for a swimming class. B.He works in the physical education department. C.The woman has the potential to swim like a fish. D.He would like to teach the woman how to swim. Questions 9 to 11 are based on the conversation you have just heard. Question 9 A.He teaches in a law school. B.He loves classical music. C.He is a diplomat. D.He is a wonderful lecturer. Question 10 A.Went to see a play. B.Watched a soccer game. C.Took some photos. D.Attended a dance. Question 11 A.She decided to get married in three years. B.Her mother objected to Erics flying lessons. C.She insisted that Eric pursue graduate studies. D.Her father said she could marry Eric right away. Questions 12 to 15 are based on the conversation you have just heard. Question 12 A.Editor. B.Teacher. C.Journalist D.Typist. Question 13 A.The beautiful Amazon rainforests. B.A new railway under construction. C.Big changes in the Amazon valley. D.Some newly discovered scenic spot. Question 14 A.In news weeklies. B.In newspapers' Sunday editions. C.In a local evening paper. D.In overseas editions of U.S. magazines. Question 15 A.To be employed by a newspaper. B.To become a professional writer. C.To sell her articles to a news service. D.To get her life story published soon. Section BDirections：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 I with a single line through the centre. Passage One Questions 16 to 18 are based on the passage you have just heard. Question 16 A.Nodding one's head. B.Waving one's hand. C.Holding up the forefinger. D.Turning the right thumb down. Question 17 A.Looking away from them. B.Forming a circle with fingers. C.Bowing one's head them. D.Waving or pointing to them. Question 18 A.Looking one's superior in the eye. B.Keeping one's arms folded while talking. C.Showing the sole of one's foot to a guest. D.Using a lot of gestures during a conversation. Passage Two Questions 19 to 21 are based on the passage you have just heard. Question 19 A.They had to beg for foot after the harvest. B.They grew wheat and corn on a small farm. C.They shared a small flat with their relatives. D.The children walked to school on dirt roads. Question 20 A.Tour Ecuador's Andes Mountains. B.Earn an annual income of $2800. C.Purchase a plot to build a home on. D.Send their children to school. Question 21 A.The achievements of the Trickle Up Program. B.A new worldwide economic revolution. C.Different forms of assistance to the needy. D.The life of poor people in developing countries. Passage Three Questions 22 to 25 are based on the passage you have just heard. Question 22 A.They are highly sensitive to cold. B.They are vitally important to our life. C.They are a living part of our body. D.They are a chief source of our pain. Question 23 A.It has to be removed in time by a dentist. B.It is a rare oral disease among old people. C.It contains many nerves and blood vessels. D.It is sticky and colorless film on the teeth. Question 24 A.It can change into acids causing damage to their outer covering. B.It greatly reduces their resistance to the attacks of bacteria. C.It makes their nerves and blood vessels more sensitive to acid food. D.It combines with food particles to form a film on their surface. Question 25 A.Food particles. B.Gum disease. C.Unhealthy living habits. D.Chemical crosion. Section CStunt people(替身演员) are not movie stars, but they are the hidden heroes of many movies. They were around long before films. Even Shakespeare may have used them in fight scenes. To be good, a fight scene has to look real. Punches must (26)_ enemies' jaws. Sword fights must be fought with(27)_ swords. Several actors are usually in a fight scene. Their moves must be set up so that no one gets hurt. It is almost like planning a dance performance. If a movie scene is dangerous, stun people usually(28)_the stars. You may think you see Tom Cruise running along the top of a train. But it is(29)_ his stunt double. Stunt people must(30)_ the stars they stand in for. Their height and build should be about the same. But when close-ups are needed, the film(31)_ the star. Some stunt people(32)_ in certain kinds of scenes. For instance, a stunt woman named Jan Davis does all kinds of jumps. She has leapt from planes and even off the top of a waterfall. Each jump required careful planning and expert(33)_. Yakima Canutt was a famous cowboy stunt man. Among other stunts, he could jump from a second story window onto a horse's back. He(34)_ the famous trick of sliding under a moving stagecoach. Canutt also(35)_ a new way to make a punch look real. He was the only stunt man ever to get anOscar.Part III Reading Comprehension (40 minutes)Section ADirections：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.For decades, Americans have taken for granted the XXXX development of new technologies. The innovations(创新)XXXX opment during World War II and afterwards were(36)_ to the prosperity of the nation in the second half of the 20th century. Those innovations, upon which virtually all aspects of(37)_ society now depend, were possible because the United States then(38)_ the world in mathematics and science education. Today, however, despite increasing demand for workers with strong skills in mathematics and science, the(39)_ of degrees awarded in science, math, and engineering are decreasing.The deeling in degree production in what are called the STEM disciplines(science, technology, engineering, and math.)seems to be(40)_related to the comparatively weak performance by U.S. schoolchildren on international assessments of math and science. Many students entering college have weak skills in mathematics. According to the 2005 report of the Business Higher Education Forum, 22 percent of college freshmen must take remediat(补习的)math(41)_, and less than half of the students who plan to major in science or engineering(42)_complete a major in those fields.The result has been a decrease in the number of American college graduates who have the skills, (43)_ in mathematics, to power a workforce that can keep the country at the forefront(前言)of innovation and maintain its standard of living. With the(44)_ performance of American students in math and science has come increased competition from students from other countries that have strongly supported education in these areas. Many more students earn(45)_ in the STEM disciplines in developing countries than in the United States.A.accelerating B.actually C.closely D.contemporary E.courses F.critical G.declining H.degrees I.especially J.future K.led L.met M.procedures N.proportions O.sphetesSection BDirections：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.Ban sugary drinks that will add fuel to the obesity warA On a train last Thursday, I sat opposite a man who was so fat he filled more than one seat. He was pale and disfigured and looked sick to death, which he probably was: obesity(肥胖的)leads to many nasty ways of dying. Looking around the carriage, I saw quite a few people like him, including a couple of fatty children with swollen checks pressing against their eyes. These people are part of what is without exaggeration an epidemic(流行病)of obesity.B But it is quite unnecessary: there is a simple idea- far from new- that could spare millions of such people a lifetime of chronic(长期的)ill health, and at the same time save the National Health Service(NHS)at least 14 billion a year in England and Wales. There would, you might think, be considerable public interest in it. This simple idea is that sugar is as good- or as bad- as poison and should be avoided. It is pure, white and deadly, as Professor John Yudkin described it 40 years ago in a revolutionary book of that name. The subtitle was How Sugar Is Killing Us.C In its countless hidden forms, in ready meals, junk food and sweet drinks, sugar leads to addiction(瘾), to hormonal upsets to the appetite, to metabolic(新陈代谢的)malfunctions and obesity and from there to type 2 diabetes(糖尿病)and its many horrible complication. If people really grasped that, they would try to kick the habit, particularly as Britain is the “ fat man of Europe” . They might even feel driven to support government measures to prevent people from consuming this deadly stuff. Yet so far this idea has met little but resistance.D It is not difficult to imagine the vested interests(既得利益集团)lined up against any sugar control- all the food and drink manufacturers, processors, promoters and retailers who make such easy pickings out of the magic powers of sugar. Then there are the liberals, with whom I would normally side, who protest that government regulation would be yet another instance of interference in our lives.EThat is true, but people should realize that you cannot have a welfare state without a nanny state(保姆国家), to some degree. If we are all to be responsible for one anothers health insurance, through socialized medicine, then we are all closely involved in one anothers health, including everyones eating and drinking. That has already been admitted, finally, with smoking. But it has yet to be admitted with overeating, even though one in four adults in this country is obese and that number is predicted to double by the year 2050.Quite apart from anything else, obesity will cripple the NHS.FRecently, though, there have been signs that the medical establishment is trying to sound the alarm. Last month the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges(AMRC)published a report saying that obesity is the greatest public health issue affecting the UK and urging government to do something.GThe report offers 10 recommendations, of which the first is imposing a tax of 20 percent on sugary drinks for at least a year, on top of the existing 20 percent value-added tax. That at least would be an excellent start. The amounts of sugar in soft drinks are horrifying, and turn straight to fat. As Professor Terence Stephenson, head of the AMRC, has said, sugary soft drinks are “the ultimate bad food. You are just consuming neat sugar. Your body didnt evolve to handle this kind of thing.”HPrecisely. The risks of eating too much fat or salt(which are very different)pale into insignificant compared with the harm done by sugar. And it is everywhere.IIt is difficult to buy anything in a supermarket, other than plain, unprepared meat, fish or vegetables, that doesnt have a large amount of sugar in it. This has come about because the prevailing scientific views of the 1960s and 1970s ignored the evidence about sugar, and instead saw fat as the really serious risk, both to the heart and other organs, as well as the cause of obesity.JThe fashion was to avoid fat. But finding that food with much of its fat removed is not very appetizing, food producers turned to sugar as a magic alternative flavor enhancer, often in the forms of syrups(糖浆)that had recently been developed from corn, and put it generously into most prepared foods and soft drinks.KThis stuff is not just fattening. It is addictive. It interferes with the bodys metabolism, possibly via the activity of an appetite-controlling hormone. Theres plenty of evi