2019年12月英语四级考试真题及答案卷-2019四级考试卷子.pdf

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1、欢迎您阅读并下载本文档，本文档来源于互联网，如有侵权请联系删除！我们将竭诚为您提供优质的文档！2019 年 12 月英语四级考试真题及答案【卷二】作文 Part I Writing(30 minutes)Directions:For this part,you are allowed 30 minutes to write a letter to a foreign friend who wants to learn e recommend a university to should write at least 120words but no more than 180words.听力 P

2、art Listening Comprehension(25 minutes)Section A Directions:In this section,you will hear three news reports.At the end of each news report,you will hear two or three questions.Both the news report and the questions will be spoken only once.After you hear a question,you must choose the best answer f

3、rom the four choices marked A),B),C)and D).Then mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 1 with a single line through the centre.Questions l and 2 are based on the news report you have just heard.1.A)Many facilities were destroyed by a wandering cow.B)A wandering cow knocked down one of its fen

4、ces.C)Some tourists were injured by a wandering cow.D)A wandering cow was captured by the police.2.A)It was shot to death by a police officer.B)It found its way back to the parks zoo.C)It became a great attraction for tourists.D)It was sent to the animal control department.Questions 3 and 4 are base

5、d on the news report you have just heard.3.A)It is the largest of its kind.B)It is going to be expanded.C)It is displaying more fossil specimens.D)It is staring an online exhibition.4.A)A collection of bird fossils from Australia.B)Photographs of certain rare fossil exhibits.C)Some ancient wall pain

6、tings from Australia.D)Pictures by winners of a wildlife photo contest.Questions 5 to 7 are based on the news report you have just heard.5.A)Pick up trash.B)Amuse visitors.C)Deliver messages.D)Play with children.6.A)They are especially intelligent.B)They are childrens favorite.C They are quite easy

7、to tame.D)They are clean and pretty.7.A)Children may be harmed by the rooks.B)Children may be tempted to drop litter.C)Children may contract bird diseases.欢迎您阅读并下载本文档，本文档来源于互联网，如有侵权请联系删除！我们将竭诚为您提供优质的文档！D)Children may overfeed the rooks.Section B Directions:In this section,you will hear two long conv

8、ersations.At the end of each conversation,you will hear four questions.Both the conversation 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 1 with a si

9、ngle line through the centre.Questions 8 to 11 are based on the conversation you have just heard.8.A)It will be produced at Harvard University.B)It will be hosted by famous professors.C)It will cover different areas of science.D)It will focus on recent scientific discoveries.9.A)It will be more futu

10、ristic.B)It will be more systematic.C)It will be more entertaining.D)It will be easier to understand.10.A)People interested in science.B)Youngsters eager to explore.C)Children in their early teens.D)Students majoring in science.11.A)Offer professional advice.B)Provide financial support.C)Help promot

11、e it on the Internet.D)Make episodes for its first season.Questions 12 to 15 are based on the conversation you have just heard.12.A)Unsure.B)Helpless.C)Concerned.D)Dissatisfied.13.A)He is too concerned with being perfect.B)He loses heart when faced with setbacks.C)He is too ambitious in achieving go

12、als.D)He takes on projects beyond his ability.14.A)Embarrassed.B)Unconcerned.C)Miserable.D)Resentful.15.A)Try to be optimistic whatever happens.B)Compare his present with his past only.C)Always learn from others achievements.D)Treat others the way he would be treated.Section C Directions:In this sec

13、tion,you will hear three passages.At the end of each passage,you will hear three or four questions.Both the passage and the questions will be spoken only once.After you 欢迎您阅读并下载本文档，本文档来源于互联网，如有侵权请联系删除！我们将竭诚为您提供优质的文档！hear a question,you must choose the best answer from the four choices marked A),B),C

14、)and D).Then mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 1 with a single line through the centre.Questions 16 to 18 are based on the passage you have just heard.16.A)They have a stronger sense of social responsibility.B)They are more likely to succeed in the humanities.C)They are more likely to be

15、come engineers.D)They have greater potential to be leaders.17.A)Praise girls who like to speak up frequently.B)Encourage girls to solve problems on their own.c)Insist that boys and girls work together more.D)Respond more positively to boys comments.18.A)Offer personalized teaching materials.B)Provid

16、e a variety of optional courses.C)Place great emphasis on test scores.D)Pay extra attention to top students.Questions 19 to 21 are based on the passage you have just heard.19.A)It often rains cats and dogs.B)It seldom rains in summer time.C)It does not rain as much as people think.D)It is one of the

17、 most rainy cities in the US.20.A)They drive most of the time.B)The rain is usually very light.C)They have got used to the rain.D)The rain comes mostly at night.21.A)It has a lot of places for entertainment.B)It has never seen thunder and lighting.C)It has fewer cloudy days than any other coastal ci

18、ty.D)It has mild weather both in summer and in winter.Questions 22 to 25 are based on the passage you have just heard.22.A)It occurs when people are doing a repetitive activity.B)It results from exerting ones muscles continuously.C)It happens when people engage in an uncommon activity.D)It comes fro

19、m staining ones muscles in an unusual way.23.A)Blood flow and body heat increase in the affected area.B)Body movements in the affected area become difficult.C)They begin to make repairs immediately.D)They gradually become fragmented.24.A)About one week.B)About two days.C)About ten days.D)About four

20、weeks.25.A)Apply muscle creams.B)Drink plenty of water.C)Have a hot shower.欢迎您阅读并下载本文档，本文档来源于互联网，如有侵权请联系删除！我们将竭诚为您提供优质的文档！D)Take pain-killers.阅读理解 选词填空 Section A Finally,some good news about airplane traverl.If you are on a plane with a sick passenger,you are unlikely to get sick.That is the 26 of a

21、 new study that looked at how respiratory(呼吸道)viruses 27 on airplanes.Researchers found that only people who were seated in individual had a high risk of catching the illness.All other passengers had only a very 28 chance of getting sick,according to the findings.Media reports have not necessarily p

22、resented 29 information about the risk of getting infected on an airplane in the past.Therefore,these new findings should help airplane passengers to feel less 30 to catching respiratory infections while traveling by air.Prior to the new study,litter was known about the risks of getting 31 infected

23、by common respiratory viruses,such as the flu or common cold,on an airplane,the researchers said.So,to 32 the risks of infection,the study team flew on 10 different 33 in the U.S.34 side of a person infected with flu,as well as those sitting one roe in front of or behind this individual,had about an

24、 80 person chance of getting sick.But other passengers were 35 safe from infection.They had a less than 3 percent chance of catching the flu.A)accurate B)conclusion C)directly D)either E)evaluate F)explorations G)flights H)largely I)nearby J)respond K)slim L)spread M)summit N)vividly O)vulnerable Se

25、ction B Directions: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 wit

26、h a letter.Answer the questions by marking the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 2.A South Korean city designed for the future takes on a life of its own A)Getting around a city is one thing and then theres the matter of getting from one city to another.One vision of the perfect city of the futur

27、e:a place that offers easy access to air travel.In 2011,a University of North Carolina business professor named John Kasarda published a book called Aerotropolis:The Way Well Live Next.Kasarda says future cities should be built intentionally around or near airports.The idea,as he has put it,is to of

28、fer businesses“rapid,欢迎您阅读并下载本文档，本文档来源于互联网，如有侵权请联系删除！我们将竭诚为您提供优质的文档！long-distance connectivity on a massive scale.”B)“The 18th century really was a waterborne(水运的)century,the 19th century a rail century.the 20th century a highway,car,truck century 一 and the 21st century will increasingly be an aviat

29、ion century,as the globe becomes increasingly connected by air,”Kasarda says.Songdo,a city built from scratch in South Korea,is one of Kasarda s prime examples.It has existed for just a few years.“From the get-go,it was designed on the basis of connectivity and competitiveness,”says Kasada.“The gove

30、rnment built the bridge directly from the airport to the Songdo International Business District.And the surface infrastructure was built in tandem with the new airport.”C)Songdo is a stone s throw from South Korea s Incheon Airport,its main international hub(枢纽).But it takes a lot more than a nearby

31、 airport to be a city of the future.Just building a place as an“international business district”doesn t mean it will become one.Park Yeon Soo conceived(构想)this city of the future back in 1986.He considers Songdo his baby.“I am a visionary,”he says.Thirty years after he imagined the city,Parks baby i

32、s close to 70 percent built,with 36.000 people living in the business district and 90,000 residents in greater Songdo.Its about an hour outside Seoul,built on reclaimed tidal flats along the Yellow Sea,Theres a Coast Guard building and a tall trade tower,as well as a park,golf course and university.

33、D)Chances are youve actually seen this place.Songdo appears in the most famous music video ever to come ou of South Korea.“Gangnam Style”refers to the fashionable Gangnam district in Seoul.But some of the video was filmed in Songdo.“I dont know if you remember,there was a scene in a subway station.T

34、hat was not Gangnam.That was actually Songdo,”says Jung Won Son,a professor of urban development at Londons Bartlett School of Planning,“Part of the reason to shoot there is that its new and nice.”E)The city was supposed to be a hub for global companies,with employees from all over the world.But hat

35、 s not how it has turned out.Songdo s reputation is as a futuristic ghost town.But the reality is more complicated.A bridge with big,light-blue loops leads into the business district.In the center of the main road,theres a long line of flags of the world.On the corner,theres a Starbucks and a 7-Elev

36、en-all of the international brands that you see all over the world nowadays.F)The city is not empty.There are mothers pushing strollers,old women with walkers-even in the middle of the day.when its 90 degrees out.Byun Young-Jin chairs the Songdo real estate association and started selling property h

37、ere when the first phase of the city opened in 2005.He says demand has boomed in the past couple of years.Most of his clients are Korean.In fact,the developer says,99 percent of the homes here are sold to Koreans.Young families move here because the schools are great.And thats the problem:Songdo has

38、 become a popular Korean city 一 more popular as a residential area than a business one.Its not yet the futuristic international business hub that planners imagined.“It s a great place to live.And it s becoming a great place to work,”says Scott Summers,the vice president of Gale International,the dev

39、eloper of the city.The floor-to-ceiling windows of his companys offices overlook Songdo Central Park,with a canal full of kayaks and paddle boats.Shimmering(闪烁的)glass towers line the canals edge.G)“What s happened is,because we focused on creating that quality of life first,which enabled the residen

40、ts to live here,what has probably missed the mark is for companies to locate here,”he says.“There needs to be strong economic incentives.”The city is still unfinished,and it feels 欢迎您阅读并下载本文档，本文档来源于互联网，如有侵权请联系删除！我们将竭诚为您提供优质的文档！a bit like a theme park.It doesnt feel all that futuristic.Theres a high-

41、tech underground trash disposal system.Buildings are environmentally friendly.Everybodys television set is connected to a system that streams personalized language or exercise classes.H)But Star Trek this is not.And to some of the residents,Songdo feels hollow.“Im,like,in prison for weekdays.Thats w

42、hat we call it in the workplace,”says a woman in her 20s.She doesnt want to use her name for fear of being fired from her job.She goes back to Seoul every weekend.“I say I m prison-breaking on Friday nights.”But she has to make the prison break in her own car.Theres no high-speed train connecting So

43、ngdo to Seoul,just over 20 miles away.I)The man who first imagined Songdo feels frustrated.too.Park says he built South Korea a luxury vehicle,“like Mercedes or BMW.It s a good car now.But we re waiting for a good driver to accelerate.”But there are lots of other good cars out there,too.The world is

44、 dotted with futuristic,high-tech cities trying to attract the biggest international companies J)Songdos backers contend that its still early,and business space is filling upabout 70 percent of finished offices are now occupied.Brent Ryan,who teaches urban design at MIT,says Songdo proves a universa

45、l principle.“There have been a lot of utopian(乌托邦的)cities in history.And the reason we dont know about a lot of them is that a lot of them have vanished entirely.”In other words,when it comes to citiesor anything elseit is hard to predict the future.36.Songdos popularity lies more in its quality of

46、life than its business attraction.37.The man who conceives Songdo feels disappointed because it has fallen short of his expectations.38.A scene in a popular South Korean music video was shot in Songdo.39.Songdo still lacks the financial stimulus for businesses to set up shop there.40.Airplanes will

47、increasingly become the chief means of transportation,according to a professor.41.Songdo has ended up different from the city it was supposed to be.42.Some of the people who work in Songdo complain about boredom in the workplace.43.A business professor says that a future city should have easy access

48、 to international transportation.44.Acording to an urban design professor,it is difficult for city designers to foresee what happen in the future.45.Park Yeon So.Who envisioned Songdo,feels a parental connection with the city.Section C Directions:There are 2 passages in this section.Each passage is

49、followed by some questions or unfinished statements.For each of them there are four choices marked A),B),C)and D).You should decide on the best choice and mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through the centre.Passage One Questions 46 to 50 are based on the following p

50、assage.The fifth largest city in the US passed a significant soda tax proposal that will levy(征税)1.5 cents per liquid ounce on distributors.Philadelphias new measure was approved by a 13 to 4 city council vote.It sets a new bar for similar initiatives across the county.It is proof that taxes on suga