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1、精选优质文档-倾情为你奉上2015年12月英语四级(CET4)真题试卷Part I Writing ( 30 minutes)For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write an essay commenting on the saying “Learning is a daily experience and lifetime mission.”You can cite examples to illustrate the importance of lifelong learning. You should write at least

2、120words but no more than180words.Part II Listening Comprehension ( 30 minutes)Section ADirections: In this section, you will hear 8 short converions 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 ques

3、tions 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.A) They admire the cou

4、rage of space explorers. B) They enjoyed the movie on space exploration. C) They were going to watch a wonderful movie. D) They like doing scientific exploration very much.2. A) At a gift shop. B) At a graduation ceremony. C) In the office of a travel agency. D) In a school library.3. A) He used to

5、work in the art gallery. B) He does not have a good memory. C) He declined a job offer form the art gallery. D) He is not interested in any part-time jobs.4.A) Susan has been invited to give a lecture tomorrow. B) He will go to the birthday party after the lecture. C) The woman should have informed

6、him earlier. D) He will be unable to attend the birthday party.5.A) Reward those having made good pross.B) Set a deadline for the staff to meet.C) Assign more workers to the project.D) Encourage the staff to work in small groups.6. A) The way to the visitors parking. B) The rate for parking in Lot C

7、. C) How far away the parking lot is. D) Where she can leave her car.7. A) He regrets missing the classes. B) He plans to take the fitness classes. C) He is looking forward to a better life. D) He has benefited form exercise.8.A) How to ? work efficiency.B) How to select secretaries.C)The responsibi

8、lities of secretaries.D) The secretaries in the mans company.Converion OneQuestions 9 to 11 are based on the conversation you have just heard.9.A) It is more difficult to learn than English. B) It is used by more people than English. C) It will be as commonly used as English. D) It will eventuallyom

9、e a world language.10.A) It has words words from many languages, B) Its popularity with the common people. C) The influence of the British Empire. D) The effect of the Industrial Revolution.11.A) It includes a lot of words form other languages. B) It has a growing number of newly coined words, C) It

10、 can be easily picked up by overseas travelers. D) It is the largest among all languages in the world.Conversation 2Questions 12 to 15 are based on the conversation you have just heard. 12.A) To return some goods. B) To apply for a job. C) To place an order. D) To make a complaint.13. A) He has beco

11、me somewhat impatient with the woman. B) He is not familiar with theexact details of goods. C) He has not worked in the sales department for long. D) He works on a part-time basis for the company.14. A) It is not his responsibility. B) It will be free for large orders. C) It costs 15 more for expres

12、s delivery. D) It depends on a number of factors.15.A) Report the information to her superior. B) Pay a visit to the saleswoman in charge. C) Ring back when she comes to a decision. D) Make inquiries with some other companies.Section BDirections:In this section, you will hear 3 short passages. At th

13、e 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 throug

14、h the centre.Passage OneQuestions 16 to 18 are based on the passage you have just heard.16. A) No one knows exactly where they were ? B) No one knows for sure when thy came into being. C) No one knows for what purpose they were ? D) No one knows what they will ?17. A) Carry ropes across rivers. B) M

15、easure the speed of wind. C) Pass on secret messages. D) Give warnings of danger.18. A) To protect houses against lightning. B) To test the effects of the lightning rod. C) To find out the strength of silk for kites. D) To prove the lightning is electricity.Passage TwoQuestions 19 to 22 are based on

16、 the passage you have just heard.19.A) She enjoys teaching languages. B) She can speak several languages. C) She was trained to be an interpreter. D) She was born with a talent for languages.20. A) They acquire an immunity to culture shock. B) They would like to live abroad permanently. C) They want

17、 to learn as many foreign languages as possible. D) They have an intense interest in cross-cultural interactions.21.A) Sheame an expert in horse racing. B) She got a chance to visit several European countries. C) She was able to translate for a German sports judge. D) She learned to appreciate class

18、ical music.22. A) Taste the beef and give her comment. B) Take part in a cooking competition. C) Teach vocabulary for food in ? D) Give cooking lessons on ?Passage ThreeQuestions 23 to 25 are based on the passage you have just heard.23. A) He had only a third-grade education. B) He once threatened t

19、o kill his teacher. C) Hew up in a poor ? D) He often helped his ?24.A) Careless. B) Stupid. C) Brave. D) Active.25.A) Write two book reports a week. B) Keep a diary. C) Help with housework. D) Watch education?Section CDirections:In this section, you will hear a passage three times. When the passage

20、 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, you should check what you have written.W

21、hen you look up at the night sky, what do you see？There are other bodies out there besides the moon and stars. One of the most of this is a comet. Comets were formed around the same the earth was formed. They are made up of ice and other frozen liquids and gasses. these dirty snow balls begin to orb

22、it the sun just as the planets do. As a comet gets closer to the sun, some gasses in it begin to unfreeze. They combine with dust particles from the comet to form a huge cloud. As the comet gets even nearer to the sun and solar wind blows the cloud behind the comet thus forming its tail. The tail an

23、d generally fuzzy atmosphere around the comet are that can help this phenomenon in the night sky. In any given year，about dozen known comets come close to the sun in their orbits. The average person cant see them all of course. Usually there is only one or two a year bright enough to be seen with th

24、e _eye. Comet Hale-Bopp discovered in 1995 was an unusually bright comet. Its orbit bought it _to the earth within 122 million miles of it. But Hale-Bopp came a long way on its earthly visit. It wont be back for another 4 thousand years or so.Part Reading Comprehension (40 minutes)Section ADirection

25、s: 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 givenin 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 t

26、he corresponding letter for each item onAnswer Sheet 2with 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.For many Americans, 2013 ended with an unusually bitter cold spell. November and December36ea

27、rly snow and bone-chilling temperatures in much of the country, part of a year when, for the first time in two37, record-cold days will likely turn out to have outnumbered record-warm ones. But the U.S. was the exception; November was the warmest ever 38, and current data indicates that 2013 is like

28、ly to have been the fourth hottest year on record.Enjoy the snow now,ause39are good that 2014 will be even hotter, perhaps the hottest year since records have been kept. Thats because, scientists are predicting, 2014 will be an EI Niuo year.EI niuo, Spanish for “the child”,40when surface ocean water

29、s in the southern Pacific become abnormally warm. So large is the Pacific, covering 30% of the planets surface, that the41energy generated by its warming is enough to touch off a series of weather changes around the world. EI Ninos are42with abnormally dry conditions in Southeast Asia and Australia.

30、 They can lead to extreme rain in parts of North and South America, even as southern Africa43dry weather. Marine life may be affected too; EI Ninos can44the rising of the cold, nutrient-rich（营养丰富的）water that supports large fish45,and the unusually warm ocean temperatures can destroy coral(珊瑚).注意：此部分

31、试题请在答题卡2上作答。Section 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 parag

32、raph is marked with a letter. Answer the question by marking the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 2.The Perfect EssayA) Looking back on too many years of education, I can identify one truly impossible teacher. She cared about me, and my intellectual life, even when I didnt. Her expectations were

33、 highimpossibly so. She was an English teacher. She was also my mother.B) When good students turn in an essay, they dream of their instructor returning it to them in exactly the same condition, save for a single word added in the margin of the final page.“Flawless.” This dream came true for me one a

34、fternoon in the ninth grade. Of course, I had heard that genius could show itself at an early age, so I was only slightly taken aback that I had achieved perfection at the tender age of 14. Obviously, I did what and professional writer would do; I hurried off to spread the good news. I didnt get ver

35、y far. The first person I told was my mother.C) My mother, who is just shy of five feet tall, is normally incredibly soft-spoken, but on the rare occasion when she got angry, she was terrifying. I am not sure if she was more upset by my hubris（得意忘形）or by the fact that my English teacher had let my e

36、go get so out of hand. In and event. My mother and her red pen showed me how deeply flawed a flaw less essay could be. At the time, I am sure she thought she was teaching me about mechanics, transitions（过渡）, structure, style and voice. But what I learned, and what stuck with me through my time teach

37、ing writing at Harvard, was a deeper lesson about the nature of creative criticism.D) First off, it hurts. Genuine criticism, the type that leaves a lasting mark on you as a writer, also leaves an existential imprint（印记）on you as a person. I have heard people say that a writer should nevertake criti

38、cism personally. I say that we should never listen to these people.E) Criticism, at its best, is deeply personal, and gets to the heart of why we write the way we do. The intimate nature of genuine criticism implies something about who is able to give it, namely, someone who knows you well enough to

39、 show you how your mental life is getting in the way of good writing. Conveniently, they are also the people who care enough to see you through this painful realization. For me it took the form of my first, and I hope only, encounter with writers blockI was not able to produce anything for three yea

40、rs.F) Franz Kafka once said; “Writing is utter solitude（独处）, the descent into the cold abyss（深渊）of oneself.” My mothers criticism had shown me that Kafka is right about the cold abyss, and when you make the introspective（内省的）descent that writing requires you are not always pleased by what you find.

41、But, in the years that followed, her sustained tutoring suggested that Kafka might be wrong about the solitude, I was lucky enough to find a critic and teacher who was willing to make the journey of writing with me. “It is a thing of noat difficulty.”according to Plutarch, “to raise objections again

42、st another mans speech. it is a very easy matter, but to produce a better in its place is a work extremely troublesome.” I am sure I wrote essays in the later years of high school without my mothers guidance, but I cant recall them. What I remember, however, is how she took up the“extremely troubles

43、ome”work of ongoing criticism.G) There are two ways to interpret Plutarch when he suggests that a critic should be able to produce“a better in its place.”In a straightforward sense, he could mean that a critic must be more talented than the artist she critiques（评论）.My mother was well covered on this

44、 count. But perhaps Plutarch is suggesting something slightly different, something a bit closer to Marcus Ciceros claim that one should“criticize by creation, not by finding fault.”Genuine criticism creates a precious opening for an author toome better on his own termsa process that is often extreme

45、ly painful, but also almost always meaningful.H) My mother said she would help me with my writing, but first I had to help myself. For each assignment, I was to write the best essayI could. Real criticism is not meant to find obvious mistakes, so if she found anythe type I could have found on my own

46、I had to start from scratch. From scratch. Once the essay was“flawless,” she would take an evening to walk me through my errors. That was when true criticism, the type that changed me as a person, began.I) She criticized me when I included little-known references and professional jargon（行话）. She had

47、 no patience for brilliant but irrelevant figures of speech.“Writers cant bluff（虚张声势）their way through ignorance.” That was news to meI would need to find another way to structure my daily existence.J) She trimmed back my flowery language, drew lines through my exclamation marks and argued for the value of restraint in expression.“John,” she almost whispered. I leaned in to hear her: “I cant hear you when you shout at me.” So I stopped shouting and bluffing, and slowly my writing improved.K) Somewhere along the way I set aside my hopes of writing that flawless essay. But perhaps I misse