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1、【知识分享】2020年大学英语四级考试试题及参考答案完整版(第一套)Part I Writing(25minutes)Directions:For this part,you are allowed 30 minutes to write a letter to a foreign friendwho wants to study.Please recommend a university to him.You should write at least120 words but no more than 180 words.【参考范文】Dear,I am delighted to hear

2、that you are going to study in a Chinese university.Since youhaveasked for my advice about choosing which university I will try to give you some usefulsuggestions hereIt is well known that Peking University is a great place to lean.There are severalfactorsaccounting for this choice and the following

3、 are the most typical ones.First andforemostPeking University is one of the top universities in China and the birthplace of manygreat minds.Therefore,it can provide high-quality teaching resources,which isessential for a foreign learner.In addition,Beijing is the capital of China and there are【知识分享】

4、various historic buildings.They provide foreign students to know Chinese culture andhistoryI hope you will find these suggestions helpful and wish you all the best!Yours,Li Ming【参考译文】亲爱的露丝：得知你要来中国的大学学习我很高兴。既然你针对大学的选择问题询问了我的看法我将在这里给你提供一些有用的建议。众所周知,北京大学是学习的好地方。做出这种选择有多种原因但以下是最典型的首先,北京大学是中国最顶尖的大学之一，这里也

5、培养出了许多栋梁之才。因此它可以提供高质量的教学资源，这对于外国学习者来说是最根本的。此外，北京是中国的首都，这里有各种各样的历史建筑。这些建筑能为外国学生提供了了解中国文化和历史的好机会。希望以上建议对你有帮助，祝一切顺利！诚挚的,李明Part II Listening Comprehension(25 minutes)Section ADirections:In this section,you will hear three news reports.At the end of each newsreport,you will hear two or three questions.Bo

6、th the news report and the questions【知识分享】will be spoken only once.After you hear a question,you must choose the best answerfrom the four choices marked A),B)z C)and D).Then mark the corresponding letter onAnswer Sheet 1 with a single line through the centre.Questions I and 2 are based on the news r

7、eport you have just heard.1 A)Many facilities were destroyed by a wandering cowB)A wandering cow knocked down one of its fencesC)Some tourists were injured by a wandering cow.D)A wandering cow was captured by the police2.A)It was shot to death by a police officer.B)It found its way back to the parks

8、 zooC)It became a great attraction for touristsD)It was sent to the animal control departmentQuestions 3 and 4 are based on the news report you have just heard3.A)It is the largest of its kindB)It is going to be expanded.C)It is displaying more fossil specimensD)It is staring an online exhibition.【知

9、识分享】4.A)A collection of bird fossils from Australia.B)Photographs of certain rare fossil exhibitsC)Some ancient wall paintings from AustraliaD)Pictures by winners of a wildlife photo contest.Questions 5 to 7 are based on the news report you have just heard5A)Pick up trashB)Amuse visitorsC)Deliver me

10、ssagesD)Play with children6.A)They are especially intelligentB)They are children s favoriteD)They are clean and pretty7.A)Children may be harmed by the rooksB)Children may be tempted to drop litter.C)Children may contract bird diseasesD)Children may overfeed the rooks【知识分享】Section BDirections:In thi

11、s section,you will hear two long conversations.At the end of eachconversation,you will hear four questions.Both the conversation and the questionswill be spoken only once.After you hear a question,you must choose the best answer from the four choicesmarked A),B),C)and D).Then mark the corresponding

12、letter on Answer Sheet 1 with asingle line through the centre.Questions 8 to 11 are based on the conversation you have just heard8.A)It will be produced at Harvard UniversityB)It will be hosted by famous professorsC)It will cover different areas of scienceD)It will focus on recent scientific discove

13、ries9.A)It will be more futuristicB)It will be more systematicC)It will be more entertainingD)It will be easier to understand.10.A)People interested in science.【知识分享】B)Youngsters eager to exploreC)Children in their early teens11.A)Offer professional adviceB)Provide financial support.C)Help promote i

14、t 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)UnsureB)Helpless.C)ConcernedD)Dissatisfied.13.A)He is too concerned with being perfect.B)He loses heart when faced with setbacksC)He is too ambitious in achieving goalsD)H

15、e takes on projects beyond his ability14.A)Embarrassed【知识分享】B)UnconcernedC)MiserableD)Resentful15.A)Try to be optimistic whatever happensB)Compare his present with his past onC)Always learn from others achievementsD)Treat others the way he would be treatedSection CDirections:In this section,you will

16、 hear three passages.At the end of each passage,you will hear three or four questions.Both the passage and the questions will bespoken only once.After you hear a question,you must choose the best answer fromthe four choices marked A),B),C)and,D).Then mark the corresponding letter onAnswer Sheet 1 wi

17、th 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 responsibilityB)They are more likely to succeed in the humanities.C)They are more likely to become【知识分享】D)They have greater potential to be leaders17.A)Praise

18、 girls who like to speak up frequentlyB)Encourage girls to solve problems on their ownConsist that boys and girls work together moreD)Respond more positively to boys comments.18.A)Offer personalized teaching materials.B)Provide a variety of optional coursesPlace great emphasis on test scoresD)Pay ex

19、tra attention to top studentsQuestions 19 to 21 are based on the passage you have just heard.19.A)It often rains cats and dogsB)It seldom rains in summer timeC)It does not rain as much as people think.D)It is one of the most rainy cities in the US20.A)They drive most of the timeB)The rain is usually

20、 very light.【知识分享】C)They have got used to the rainD)The rain comes mostly at night21.A)It has a lot of places for entertainment.B)It has never seen thunder and lightingC)It has fewer cloudy days than any other coastal city.D)It has mild weather both in summer and in winter.Questions 22 to 25 are bas

21、ed on the passage you have just heard.22.A)It occurs when people are doing a repetitive activityB)It results from exerting ones muscles continuouslyC)It happens when people engage in an uncommon activity.D)It comes from staining ones muscles in an unusual way23.A)Blood flow and body heat increase in

22、 the affected area.B)Body movements in the affected area become difficult.C)They begin to make repairs immediatelyD)They gradually become fragmented24.A)About one week.【知识分享】B)About two daysC)About ten daysD)About four weeks25.A)Apply muscle creams.B)Drink plenty of waterC)Have a hot showerD)Take pa

23、in-killers【参考答案】1-5 A D C BC6-10 B D A B D11-15 A D B D A16-20 C C D C A21-25 BD DABPartm Reading comprehension(40minutes)Directions:In this section,there is a passage with ten blanks.You are required to selectone word for each blank from a list of choices given in a word bank following thepassage.R

24、ead the passage through carefully before making your choices.Each choice【知识分享】in the bank is identified by a letter.Please mark the corresponding letter for each itemon Answer Sheet 2 with a single the center.You may not use any of the words in thebank more than once.Questions 26 to 35 are based on

25、the following passage.Finally,some good news about airplane travel.If you are on a plane with a sickpassenger.You are unlikely to get sick.That is the 26 of a new study that looked athow respiratory（呼吸道）viruses 27 on airplanes.Researchers found that onlypeople who were seated in individual had a hig

26、h risk of catching the illness.All otherpassengers had only a very 28 chance of getting sick according to the findings.Media reports have not necessarily presented.29 information about the risk of gettinginfected on an airplane in the past.Therefore,these new findings should help airplanepassengers

27、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 infectedby common respiratory viruses,such as the flu or common cold,on an airplane,theresearchers said.So,to 32 the risks of infection,the study team flew

28、on 10different 33 in the Us.34 side of a person infected with flu,as well as those sittingone roe in font of or behind this individual,had about an 80 person chance ofgetting sick.But other passengers were 35 safe from infection.【知识分享】They had a less than 3 percent chance of catching the flu.A)accur

29、ateB)conclusionC)directlyD)eitherE)evaluateF)explorationsG)flightsH)largelyI)NearbyJ)respondK)SlimL)spreadN)vividly0)vulnerable【参考答案】26-30 B LK AO31-35 C EG DHSection BDirections:In this section,you are going to read a passage with ten statementsattached to it.Each statement contains information giv

30、en in one of the paragraphs.Identify the paragraph from which the information is derived.You may choose aparagraph more than once.Each paragraph is marked with a letter.Answer thequestions by marking the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 2A South Korean city designed for the future takes on a lif

31、e of its ownA)Getting around a city is one thing-and then theres the matter of getting from onecity to another One vision of the perfect city of the future:a place that offers easyaccess to air travel.In 2011,a University of North Carolina business professor named【知识分享】John Kasarda published a book

32、called Aerotropolis:The Way Well Live Next Kasardasays future cities should be built intentionally around or near airports.The idea,as hehas put itz is to offer businesses rapid long-distance connectivity on a massive scale.B）The 18th century really was a waterborne（水运的）century,the 19th century a ra

33、ilcentury.the 20th century a highway,car；truck century and the 21st century willincreasingly be an aviation century,as the globe becomes increasingly connected byair,Kasarda says Songdo,a city built from scratch in South Korea,is one of Kasardasprime examples.It has existed for just few years.From t

34、he get-go,it was designed onthe basis of connectivity and competitiveness,“says Kasada.The government builtthe bridge directly from the airport to Songdo international business district.And thesurface infrastructure was built in tandem with the new airport/C）Songdo is a stones throw from South Korea

35、s Incheon Airport,its maininternational hub（枢纽）.But it takes a lot more than a nearby airport to be a city of thefuture.Just building a place as an international business district doesn t mean it willbecome one.Park Yeon Soo conceived 构想）this city of the future back in 1986.Heconsiders Songdo his ba

36、by.I am a visionary,he says.Thirty years after he imaginedthe city,Parks baby is close to 70 percent built,with 36.000 people living in thebusiness district and 90,000 residents in greater Songdo.Its about an hour outsideSeoul,built on reclaimed tidal flats along the Yellow Sea,There s a coast Guard

37、building and a tall trade tower,as well as a park,golf course and university.【知识分享】D)Chances are youve actually seen this place.Songdo appears in the most famousmusic video ever to come out of South Korea.Gangnam Style refers to the fashionableGangnam district in Seoul.But some of the video was film

38、ed in Songdo.I dont knowif you remember,there was a scene in a subway station.That was not Gangnam.Thatwas 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 andnice.E)The city was supposed to be

39、 a hub for global companies；with employees from allover the world.But hats not how it has turned out.Songdo s reputation is as afuturistic ghost town.But the reality is more complicated.A bridge with big,light-blueloops leads into the business district.In the center of the main road theres a long li

40、neof flags of the world.On the comer,there s a Starbucks and a 7-日even-all of theinternational brands that you see all over the world nowadays.F)The city is not empty.There are mothers pushing strollers,old women with walkerseven in the middle of the day.when its 90 degrees out.Byun Young-Jin chairs

41、 theSongdo real estate association and started selling property here when the first phaseof 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 hereare sold to Koreans.Young families move here

42、 because the schools are great.Andthats the problem:Songdo has become a popular Korean city more popular as a【知识分享】residential area than a business one Its not yet the futuristic international business hubthat planners imagined.Its a great place to live.And its becoming a great place towork,says Sco

43、tt Summers,the vice president of Gale International,the developer ofthe city.The floor-to-ceiling windows of his companys offices overlook SongdoCentral Park,with a canal full of kayaks and paddle boats.Shimmering闪烁的)glasstowers line the canals edge.G)Whats happened is,because we focused on creating

44、 that quality of life first,whichenabled the residents to live here,what has probably missed the mark is for companiesto locate here,he says.There needs to be strong economic incentives.The city is stillunfinished,and it feels a bit like a theme park.It doesh t feel all that futuristic.Theresa high-

45、tech underground trash disposal system.Buildings are environmentally friendly.Everybodys television set is connected to a system that streams personalizedlanguage or exercise classes.H)But Star Trek this is not.And to some of the residents,Songdo feels hollow.Im,like:inprison for weekdays.Thats what

46、 we call it in the workplace*says a woman in her 20s.Shedoesnt want to use her name for fear of being fired from her job.She goes back toSeoul every【知识分享】weekend.MI say Im prison-breaking on Friday nights.But she has to make the prisonbreak inher own car.Theres no high-speed train connecting Songdo

47、to SeouL just over 20miles away.I)The man who first imagined Songdo feels frustrated,too.Park says he built SouthKorea aluxury vehicle,like Mercedes or BMW.It*s a good car now.But were waiting for agood driverto accelerate-But there are lots of other good cars out there,too.The world is dottedwithfu

48、turistic,high-tech cities trying to attract the biggest international companies.J)Songdo5s backers contend that its still early,and business space is filling up about70percent of finished offices are now occupied.Brent Ryan:who teaches urban design atUT,saysSongdo proves a universal principle.There

49、have been a lot of utopian 归托井的)citiesin history.And the reason we dont know about a lot of them is that a lot of them have vanishedentirely.In other words,when it comes to cities-r anything else-it is hard to predictthe future.【知识分享】36.Songdos popularity lies more in its quality of life than its bu

50、siness attraction.37.The man who conceives Songdo feels disappointed because it has fallen short ofhisexpectations.38.A scene in a popular South Korean music video was shot m Songdo.39.Songdo still lacks the financial stimulus for businesses to set up shop there.40.Airplanes will increasingly become