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1、2015年12月英语四级真题及答案第三套Part Writing ( 30 minutes)Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write an essay commenting on the sayingNever go out there to see what happens, go out there to make things happen. You can citexamples to illustrate the importance of being participants rather than

2、 mere onlookers inlife.You should write at least 120 words but no more than 180 words.Part Listening Comprehension ( 30 minutes)Section ADirections : In this section, you will hear 8 short conversations and 2 long conversations.At the end ofeach conversation, one or more questions will be asked abou

3、t what was said.Both theconversation and the questions will be spoken only once.After each question there will bea pause.During the pause, you must read the four choices marked A, B, Cand D,and decide which is the best answer. Then mark the corresponding letter on AnswerSheet 1 with a single line th

4、rough the centre.1.A.Children should be taught to be more careful.B.Children shouldnt drink so much orange juice.C.There is no need for the man to make such a fuss.D.Timmy should learn to do things in the right way.2. A.Fitness training.B.The new job offer.C.Computer programming.D.Directorship of th

5、e club.3.A.He needs to buy a new sweater.B.He has got to save on fuel bills.C.The fuel price has skyrocketed.D.The heating system doesnt work.4. A.Committing theft. B.Taking pictures.C.Window shopping.D.Posing for the camera.5. A.She is taking some medicine.B.She has not seen a doctor yet.C.She does

6、 not trust the mans advice. D.She has almost recovered from the cough.6. A.Pamelas report is not finished as scheduled.B.Pamela has a habit of doing things in a hurry.C.Pamela is not good at writing research papers.D.Pamelas mistakes could have been avoided.7.A.In the left-luggage office.B.At the ho

7、tel reception.C.In a hotel room.D.At an airport.8. A.She was an excellent student at college.B.She works in the entertainment business.C.She is fond of telling stories in her speech.D.She is good at conveying her message.Questions 9 to 11 are based on the conversation you have just heard.9.A.Arrangi

8、ng the womans appointment with Mr.Romero.B.Fixing the time for the designers latest fashion show.C.Talking about an important gathering on Tuesday.D.Preparing for the filming on Monday morning.10.A.Her travel to Japan.B.The awards ceremony.C.The proper hairstyle for her new role.D.When to start the

9、make-up session.11.A.He is Mr.Romeros agent.B.He is an entertainment journalist. C.He is the womans assistant.D.He is a famous movie star.Questions 12 to 15 are based on the conversation you have just heard.12. A.Make an appointment for an interview.B.Send in an application letter.C.Fill in an appli

10、cation form.D.Make a brief self-introduction on the phone.13.A.Someone having a college degree in advertising.B.Someone experienced in business management.C.Someone ready to take on more responsibilities.D.Someone willing to work beyond regular hours.14. A.Travel opportunities.B.Handsome pay. C.Pros

11、pects for promotion.D.Flexible working hours.15. A.It depends on the working hours.B.It is about 500 pounds a week. C.It will be set by the Human Resources.D.It is to be negotiated.Section BDirections.In this section, you will hear 3 short passages.At the end of each passage, you will hearsome quest

12、ions.Both the passage and the questions will be spoken only once.After youhear a question, you must choose the best answer from the four choices marked A., B,Cand D.Then mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 1 with a single linethrough the center.Passage OneQuestions 16 to 19 are based on th

13、e passage you have just heard.16.A.To give customers a wider range of choices.B.To make shoppers see as many items as possible.C.To supply as many varieties of goods as it can.D.To save space for more profitable products.17. A.On the top shelves.B.On the bottom shelves.C.On easily accessible shelves

14、.D.On clearly marked shelves.18.A.Many of them buy things on impulse.B.A few of them are fathers with babies.C.A majority of them are young couples.D.Over 60% of them make shopping lists.19.A.Sales assistants promoting high margin goods.B.Sales assistants following customers around.C.Customers compe

15、ting for good bargains.D.Customers losing all sense of time.Passage TwoQuestions 20 to 22 are based on the passage you have just heard.20.A.Teaching mathematics at a school.B.Doing research in an institute.C.Studying for a college degree.D.Working in a hi-tech company21. A.He studied the designs of

16、various clocks.B.He did experiments on different materials. C.He bought an alarm clock with a pig face.D.He asked different people for their opinions.22. A.Its automatic mechanism.B.Its manufacturing process.C.Its way of waking people up.D.Its funny-looking pig face.Passage ThreeQuestions 23 to 25 a

17、re based on the passage you have just heard.23.A.It is often caused by a change of circumstances.B.It actually doesnt require any special treatment.C.It usually appears all of a sudden.D.It generally lasts for several years.24.A.They cannot mix well with others.B.They irrationally annoy their friend

18、s.C.They depend heavily on family members.D.They blame others for ignoring their needs.25. A.They lack consistent support from peers.B.They doubt their own popularity.C.They were born psychologically weak.D.They focus too much on themselves.Section CDirections: In this section, you will hear a passa

19、ge three times.When the passage is read for the firsttime, you should listen carefully for its general idea.When the passage is read for thesecond time, you are required to fill in the blanks with the exact words you have justheard.Finally, when the passage is read for the third time, you should che

20、ck what youhave written.There was a time when any personal information that was gathered about us was typed on a pieceof paper and26 in a file cabinet.It could remain there for years and, often27, never reachthe outside world.Things have done a complete about-face since then.28 the change has been t

21、he astonishingly29 development in recent years of the computer.Today, any data that is 30 about us in oneplace or another-and for one reason or another-can be stored in a computer bank.It can then beeasily passed to other computer banks.They are owned by individuals and by private businesses andcorp

22、orations, lending 31 , direct mailing and telemarketing firms, credit bureaus, credit cardcompanies, and32 at the local, state, and federal level.A growing number of Americans are seeing the accumulation and distribution of computerized dataas a frightening33 of their privacy.Surveys show that the n

23、umber of worried Americans has beensteadily growing over the years as the computer becomes increasingly 34, easier to operate, andless costly to purchase and maintain.In 1970, a national survey showed that 37 percent of the people35felt their privacy was being invaded.Seven years later, 47 percent e

24、xpressed the same worry.Arecent survey by a credit bureau revealed that the number of alarmed citizens had shot up to 76percent.Part Reading Comprehension(40 minutes)Section ADirections: In this section, there is a passage with ten blanks.You are required to select one word foreach blank from a list

25、 of choices given, in a word bank following the passage.Read thepassage through carefully before making your choices. Each.choice in the bank isidentified by a letter.Please mark the corresponding letter for each item on Answer Sheet2 with a single line through the center.You may not use any of the

26、words in the bankmore than once.Questions 36 to 45 are based on the following passage.Children do not think the way adults do.For most of the first year of life, if something is out ofsight, its out of mind.If you cover a babys36toy with a piece of cloth, the baby thinks the toyhas disappeared and s

27、tops looking for it.A 4-year-old may 37 that a sister has more fruit juicewhen it is only the shapes of the glasses that differ, not the38 of juice.Yet children are smart in their own way.Like good little scientists, children are always testingtheir child-sized39 about how things work.When your chil

28、d throws her spoon on the floor for thesixth time as you try to feed her, and you say, Thats enough! I will not pick up your spoon again!the child will 40 test your claim.Are you serious? Are you angry? What will happen if she throwsthe spoon again? She is not doing this to drive you41; rather, she

29、is learning that her desires andyours can differ, and that sometimes those42 are important and sometimes they are not.How and why does childrens thinking change? In the 1920s, Swiss psychologist Jean Piagetproposed that childrens cognitive (认知的) abilities unfold 43, like the blooming of a flower,alm

30、ost independent of what else is44in their lives.Although many of his specific conclusions havebeen45 or modified over the years, his ideas inspired thousands of studies by investigators all overthe world.A.advocateB.amount C.confirmed D.crazy E. definite F. differencesG. favorite H. happeningI. Imme

31、diatelyJ. NaturallyK. ObtainingL. PrimarilyM. ProtestN. RejectedO. theoriesSection BDirections: In this section, you are going to read a passage with, ten statements attached to it.Eachstatement contains information given in one of the paragraphs.Identify the paragraphfrom which the information is d

32、erived.You may choose a paragraph more than once.Each paragraph is marked with a letter. Answer the questions by marking thecorresponding letter on Answer Sheet 2.The Perfect EssayA.Looking back on too many years of education, I can identify one truly impossible teacher.Shecared about me, and my int

33、ellectual life, even when I didnt.Her expectations were high-impossibly 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 exactlythe same condition, save for a single word added in the margin of the fina

34、lpage : Flawless. Thisdream came true for me one afternoon in the ninth grade.Of course, I had heard that genius couldshow itself at an early age, so I was only slightly taken aback that I had achieved perfection at thetender age of 14.Obviously, I did what any professional writer would do; I hurrie

35、d off to spread thegood news.I didnt get very 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 rareoccasion 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

36、fact that my English teacher had let my ego get so out of hand.In any event,my mother and her red pen showed me how deeply flawed a flawless essay could be.At the time,I am sure she thought she was teaching me about mechanics, transitions (过渡), structure, styleand voice.But what I learned, and what

37、stuck with me through my time teaching writing atHarvard, 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, alsoleaves an existential imprint (印记) on you as a person.I have heard people say that

38、 a writershould never take criticism 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.Theintimate nature of genuine criticism implies something about who is able to give it, namely,someone

39、who knows you well enough to show you how your mental life is getting in the way ofgood writing.Conveniently, they are also the people who care enough to see you through thispainful realization.For me it took the form of my first, and I hope only, encounter with writersblock-I was not able to produc

40、e anything for three years.F. Franz Kafka once said: Writing is utter solitude (独处), the descent into the cold abyss (深渊) ofoneself. My mothers criticism had shown me that Kafka is right about the cold abyss, and whenyou make the introspective (内省的) descent that writing requires you are not always p

41、leased bywhat you find.But, in the years that followed, her sustained tutoring suggested that Kafka might bewrong about the solitude.I was lucky enough to find a critic and teacher who was willing to makethe journey of writing with me.It is a thing of no great difficulty, according to Plutarch, tora

42、ise objections against another mans speech, it is a very easy matter; but to produce a better in itsplace is a work extremely troublesome. I am sure I wrote essays in the later years of high schoolwithout my mothers guidance, but I cant recall them.What I remember, however, is how shetook up the ext

43、remely troublesome work of ongoing criticism.G. There are two ways to interpret Plutarch when he suggests that a critic should be able to produce abetter in its place. In a straightforward sense, he could mean that a critic must be more talentedthan the artist she critiques (评论).My mother was well c

44、overed on this count.But perhapsPlutarch is suggesting something slightly different, something a bit closer to Marcus Ciceros claimthat one should criticize by creation, not by finding fault. Genuine criticism creates a preciousopening for an author to become better on his own terms-a process that i

45、s often extremely 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 eachassignment, I was to write the best essay I could.Real criticism is not meant to find obviousmistakes, so if she found any-the type I could have fou

46、nd on my own-I had to start from scratch.From scratch.Once the essay was flawless, she would take an evening to walk me through myerrors.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)

47、.She hadno patience for brilliant but irrelevant figures of speech.Writers cant bluff (虚张声势) their waythrough ignorance. That was news to me-I would need to freed another way to structure my dailyexistence.J. She trimmed back my flowery language, drew lines through my exclamation marks and argued fo

48、rthe value of restraint in expression.John, she almost whispered.I leaned in to hear her:I canthear you when you shout at me. So I stopped shouting and bluffing, and slowly my writingimproved.K. Somewhere along the way I set aside my hopes of writing that flawless essay.But perhaps I missedsomething important in my mothers lessons about creativity and perfection.Perhaps the point ofwriting the flawless essay was not to give up, but to never willingly finish.Whitman repeatedlyreworked Song of Myself betw