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1、精选优质文档-倾情为你奉上 2015年12月大学英语四级考试真题（第2套）Part I Writing（30 minutes）Directions: For this part，you are allowed 30 minutes to write an essay commenting on the saying Learning is a daily experience and a lifetime mission.” You can cite examples to illustrate the importance of lifelong learning. You should w

2、rite at least 120 words but no more than 180 words. Part II Listening Comprehension（30 minutes）Questions 9 to 11 are based on the conversation you have just heard.9. A) From the wanted column. C) From a telephone directory.B) From some of her friends. D) From a television commercial.10. A) She recei

3、ved full-time education abroad. C) She finished her secondary school. B) She graduated from an open university. D) She studied in a vocational college.11. A) She is a shorthand-typist. C) She is a policewoman. B) She works as a tour guide. D) She teaches an evening class.Questions 12 to 15 are based

4、 on the conversation you have just heard.12. A) It provides him with career opportunities. C) It has been off and on for ten years. B) It helps enlarge his customer network. D) It was interrupted for four years.13. A) Individualized service. C) Home-made beer. B) Traditional setting. D) Social games

5、.14. A) The quality of beer. C) The owners attitude. B) The atmosphere. D) The right location.15. A) It is a rather tough job C) It helps old people kill time. B) It is a profitable business. D) It makes retirees feel useful.Section BDirections: In this section，you will hear 3 short passages. At the

6、 end of each passage, you will hear some questions. Both the passage and the questions will be spoken only. 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 single line through the cent

7、re.Passage OneQuestions 16 to 18 are based on the passage you have just heard.16. A) It is becoming increasingly popular. C) It gives rise to serious social instability. B) It helps the user to escape reality. D) It hurts a person and those around them.17. A) They use drugs just for fun. C) They use

8、 drugs as medicine. B) They take drugs to get high. D) They keep drug use a secret.18. A) It is quite common in entertainment circles. B) It is the cause of various social problems. C) It is hard to get rid of. D) It is fatal to the user.Passage TwoQuestions 19 to 22 are based on the passage you hav

9、e just heard.19. A) Taking up exercises after recovery. C) Finding new ways to cure heart disease. B) Producing tasty healthy frozen food. D) Going on a diet upon leaving the hospital.20. A) It was carefully tested with consumers. C) It was disapproved by many diet experts. B) It was promoted by hea

10、lth organizations. D) It was highly expected by the general public.21. A) Competitive price. C) Vigorous promotion. B) Low expectations. D) Unique ingredients.22. A) It was suggested by the firms vice-president. B) It matches the foods dark green packaging. C) It has a positive implication for consu

11、mers. D) It tricks the elders into impulse purchasing.Passage TwoQuestions 23 to 25 are based on the passage you have just heard.23. A) It is practiced in most of the states. C) It has drawn a lot of criticism from overseas. B) It will be abolished sooner or later. D) It has to be approved by the Su

12、preme Court.24. A) Whether the practice should be allowed to continue in future. B) Whether there should be a minimum age limit for execution C) What type of criminals should receive it. D) What effect it might have on youngsters.25. A) The court sentenced him to life in prison for killing two frien

13、ds. B) The governor changed his death sentence to life in prison. C) He was the first minor to be executed in South Carolina. D) He was sentenced to death for a crime he committed as a minor.Part IIII Reading Comprehension（40 minutes）Section ADirections: In this section, there is a passage with ten

14、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

15、 Sheet 2 with 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. Late November and December 36 early snow and bone-chilling temperature

16、s in much of the country，part of a year when, for the first time in two 37，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 likely to have been the fourth hottest year

17、 on record. Enjoy the snow now, because 39 are 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 El Nino year.El Nino，Spanish for the child，40 when surface ocean waters in the southern Pacific become a

18、bnormally warm. So large is the Pacific, covering 30% of the planets surface, that the 41 energy generated by its warming is enough to touch off a series of weather changes around the world. El Ninos are 42 with abnormally dry conditions in Southeast Asia and Australia. They can lead to extreme rain

19、 in parts of North and South America, even as southern Africa 43 dry weather. Marine life may be affected too: El Ninos can 44 the rising of the cold, nutrient-rich（营养丰富的）water that supports large fish 45，and the unusually warm ocean temperatures can destroy coral（珊瑚）A)additional I)logicallyB) assoc

20、iatedJ)occursC)boreK) populationsD) chancesL) realizeE)communicatedM) reduceF)decades N) sawG)experiences O) specific H) globallySection 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 paragraph

21、s. 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.How to Eat WellA) Why do so many Americans eat tons of processed food, the st

22、uff that is correctly called junk （垃圾）and should really carry warning labels?B) Its not because fresh ingredients are hard to come by. Supermarkets offer more variety than ever, and there are over four times as many farmers markets in the U. S. as there were 20 years ago. Nor is it for lack of avail

23、able information. There are plenty of recipes（食谱），how-to videos and cooking classes available to anyone who has a computer, smartphone or television. if anything, the information is overwhelming.C) And yet we arent cooking. If you eat three meals a day and behave like most Americans，you probably get

24、 at least a third of your daily calories（卡路里）outside the home. Nearly two-thirds of us grab fast food once a week, and we get almost 25% of our daily calories from snacks. So were eating out or taking in, and we dont sit down-or we do，but we hurry.D) Shouldnt preparing-and consuming-food be a source

25、 of comfort, pride，health，well-being， relaxation, sociability? Something that connects us to other humans? Why would we want to outsource（外包）this basic task, especially when outsourcing it is so harmful?E) When I talk about cooking, Im not talking about creating elaborate dinner parties or three-day

26、 science projects. Im talking about simple，easy, everyday meals. My mission is to encourage green hands and those lacking time or money to feed themselves. That means we need modest, realistic expectations，and we need to teach people to cook food thats good enough to share with family and friends.F)

27、 Perhaps a return to real cooking neednt be far off. A recent Harris poll revealed that 79% of Americans say they enjoy cooking and 30% love it；14% admit to not enjoying kitchen work and just 7% wont go near the stove at all. But this doesnt necessarily translate to real cooking, and the result of t

28、his survey shouldnt surprise anyone: 52% of those 65 or older cook at home five or more times per week; only a third of young people do.G) Back in the 1950s most of us grew up in households where Mom cooked virtually every night. The intention to put a home-cooked meal on the table was pretty much u

29、niversal. Most people couldnt afford to do otherwise.H) Although frozen dinners were invented in the 40s，their popularity didnt boom until television became popular a decade or so later. Since then, packaged, pre-prepared meals have been whats for dinner. The microwave and fast-food chains were the

30、biggest catalysts（催化剂），but the big food companies-which want to sell anything except the raw ingredients that go into cooking-made the home cook an endangered species.I) Still，I find it strange that only a third of young people report preparing meals at home regularly. Isnt this the same crowd that

31、rails against processed junk and champions craft cooking? And isnt this the generation who say theyre concerned about their health and the well-being of the planet? If these are truly the values of many young people，then their behavior doesnt match their beliefs.J) There have been half-hearted but w

32、ell-publicized efforts by some food companies to reduce calories in their processed foods，but the Standard American Diet is still the polar opposite of the healthy, mostly plant-based diet that just about every expert says we should be eating. Considering that the governments standards are not nearl

33、y ambitious enough, the picture is clear: by not cooking at home，were not eating the right things，and the consequences are hard to overstate.K) To help quantify（量化）the costs of a poor diet, I recently tried to estimate this impact in terms of a most famous food, the burger（汉堡包）I concluded that the p

34、rofit from burgers is more than offset（抵消）by the damage they cause in health problems and environmental harm.L) Cooking real food is the best defense-not to mention that any meal youre likely to eat at home contains about 200 fewer calories than one you would eat in a restaurant.M) To those American

35、s for whom money is a concern, my advice is simple：Buy what you can afford, and cook it yourself. The common prescription is to primarily shop the grocery store, since thats where fresh produce，meat and seafood, and dairy are. And to save money and still eat well you dont need local, organic ingredi

36、ents；all you need is real food. Im not saying local food isnt better; it is. But there is plenty of decent food in the grocery stores.N) The other sections you should get to know are the frozen foods and the canned goods. Frozen produce is still produce; canned tomatoes are still tomatoes. Just make

37、 sure youre getting real food without tons of added salt or sugar. Ask yourself, would Grandma consider this food? Does it look like something that might occur in nature? Its pretty much common sense; you want to buy food, not unidentifiable foodlike objects.O) You dont have to hit the grocery store

38、 daily, nor do you need an abundance of skill. Since fewer than half of Americans say they cook at an intermediate level and only 2096 describe their cooking skills as advanced, the crisis is one of confidence. And the only remedy for that is practice. Theres nothing mysterious about cooking the eve

39、ning meal. You just have to do a little thinking ahead and redefine what qualifies as dinner. Like any skill，cooking gets easier as you do it more；every time you cook, you advance your level of skills. Someday you wont even need recipes. My advice is that you not pay attention to the number of steps

40、 and ingredients，because they can be deceiving.P) Time，I realize，is the biggest obstacle to cooking for most people. You must adjust your priorities to find time to cook. For instance，you can move a TV to the kitchen and watch your favorite shows while youre standing at the sink. No one is asking yo

41、u to give up activities you like，but if youre watching food shows on TV，try cooking instead.46. Cooking benefits people in many ways and enables them to connect with one another.47. Abundant information about cooking is available either online or on TV.48. Young people do less cooking at home than t

42、he elderly these days.49. Cooking skills can be improved with practice.50. In the mid-20th century，most families ate dinner at home instead of eating out.51. Even those short of time or money should be encouraged to cook for themselves and their family.52. Eating food not cooked by ourselves can cau

43、se serious consequences.53. To eat well and still save money, people should buy fresh food and cook it themselves.54. We get a fairly large portion of calories from fast food and snacks.55. The popularity of TV led to the popularity of frozen food.Section CDirections: There are 2 passages in this se

44、ction. Each passage is 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。”Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through the centre.Passage OneQuestions 56 to 60 are bas

45、ed on the following passage. The wallet is heading for extinction. As a day-to-day essential，it will die off with the generation who read print newspapers. The kind of shopping-where you hand over notes and count out change in return-now happens only in the most minor of our retail encounters, like

46、buying a bar of chocolate or a pint of milk from a corner shop. At the shops where you spend any real money, that money is increasingly abstracted. And this is more and more true，the higher up the scale you go. At the most cutting-edge retail stores-Victoria Beckham on Dover Street, for instance-you dont go and stand at any kind of cash register when you decide to pay. The staff are equipped with iPads to take your payment while you relax on a sofa. Which is nothing more or less than excellent service，if you have the money. But across society, the abstraction