2019年12月四级真题第1套.docx

淘宝店铺：光速考研工作室 机密*启用前 大 学 英 语 四 级 考 试 COLLEGE ENGLISH TEST —Band Four— (2019年12月第1套) 试 题 册 敬 告 考 生 一、在答题前，请认真完成以下内容: 1. 请检查试题册背面条形码粘贴条、答题卡的印刷质量，如有问题及时向监考员反映，确认无误后完成以下两点要求。 2. 请将试题册背面条形码粘贴条揭下后粘贴在答题卡1的条形码粘贴框内，并将姓名和准考证号填写在试题册背面相应位置。 3. 请在答题卡1和答题卡2指定位置用黑色签字笔填写准考证号、姓名和学校名称，并用HB-2B铅笔将对应准考证号的信息点涂黑。 二、在考试过程中，请注意以下内容: 1. 所有题目必须在答题卡上规定位置作答，在试题册上或答题卡上非规定位置的作答一律无效。 2. 请在规定时间内在答题卡指定位置依次完成作文、听力、阅读、翻译各部分考试，作答作文期间不得翻阅该试题册。听力录音播放完毕后，请立即停止作答，监考员将立即收回答题卡1，得到监考员指令后方可继续作答。 3. 作文题内容印在试题册背面，作文题及其他主观题必须用黑色签字笔在答题卡指定区域内作答。 4. 选择题均为单选题，错选、不选或多选将不得分，作答时必须使用HB-2B铅笔在答题卡上相应位置填涂，修改时须用橡皮擦净。 三、以下情况按违规处理: 1. 未正确填写(涂)个人信息，错贴、不贴、毁损条形码粘贴条。 2. 未按规定翻阅试题册、提前阅读试题、提前或在收答题卡期间作答。 3. 未用所规定的笔作答、折叠成毁损答题卡导致无法评卷。 4. 考试期间在非听力考试时间佩戴耳机。 全国大学英语四、六级考试委员会 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 teach English in China. Please recommend a city to him. You should write at least 120 words but no more than 180 words. Part II 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 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 centre. Questions 1 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 fences. 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 park's zoo. C) It became a great attraction for tourists. D) It was sent to the animal control department. Questions 3 and 4 are based 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 starting an online exhibition. 4. A) A collection of bird fossils from Australia. B) Photographs of certain rare fossil exhibits. C) Some ancient wall paintings 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. C) They are quite easy to tame. B) They are children's favorite. D) They are clean and pretty. 7. A) Children may be harmed by the rooks. C) Children may contract bird diseases. B) Children may be tempted to drop litter. D) Children may overfeed the rooks. Section B Directions: In this section, you will hear two long conversations. 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 single 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 futuristic. C) It will be more entertaining. B) It will be more systematic. D) It will be easier to understand. 10. A) People interested m science. C) Children in their early teens. B) Youngsters eager to explore. D) Students majoring science. 11. A) Offer professional advice. C) Help promote it on the Internet. B) Provide financial support. 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 goals. 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 section, 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 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 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 become 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) Provide 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 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 lightning. C) 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 based on the passage you have just heard. 22. A) It occurs when people are doing a repetitive activity. B) It results from exerting one's muscles continuously. C) It happens when people engage in an uncommon activity. D) It comes from straining one's 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. C) About ten days. B) About two days. D) About four weeks. 25. A) Apply muscle creams. C) Have a hot shower. B) Drink plenty of water. D) Take pain-killers. Part III Reading Comprehension (40 minutes) Section A Directions: 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 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 Sheet 2 with a single line through the centre. You may not use any of the words in the bank more than once. Questions 26 to 35 are based on the following passage. When travelling overseas, do you buy water in plastic bottles or take your chances with tap water? Imagine you are wandering about on a Thai island or 26 the ruins of Angkor. It’s hot so you grab a bottle of water from a local vendor. It’s the safe thing to do, right? The bottle is 27 , and the label says “pure water”. But maybe what’s inside is not so 28 . Would you still be drinking it if you knew that more than 90 percent of all bottled water sold around the world 29 microplastics? That’s the conclusion of a recently 30 study, which analysed 259 bottles from 11 brands sold in nine countries, 31 an average of 325 plastic particles per litre of water. These microplastics included a 32 commonly known as PET and widely used in the manufacture of clothing and food and 33 containers. The study was conducted at the State University of New York on behalf of Orb Media, a journalism organisation. About a million bottles are bought every minute, not only by thirsty tourists but also by many of the 2.1 billion worldwide who live with unsafe drinking water. Confronted with this 34 , several bottled-water manufacturers including Nestle and Coca-Cola undertook their own studies using the same methodology. These studies showed that their water did contain microplastics, but far less than the Orb study suggested. Regardless, the World Health Organisation has launched a review into the 35 health risks of drinking water from plastic bottles. A) adequate I) natural B) admiring J) potential C) contains K) released D) defending L) revealing E) evidence M) sealed F) instant N) solves G) liquid O) substance H) modified Section B Directions: In this section, you are going to read a passage with ten statements attached to 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 with a letter. Answer the questions by marking the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 2. The quiet heroism of mail delivery A) On Wednesday, a polar wind brought bitter cold to the Midwest. Overnight, Chicago reached a low of 21 degrees Fahrenheit below zero, making it slightly colder than Antarctica (南极洲）, Alaska, and the North Pole Wind chills were 64 degrees below zero in Park Rapids, Minnesota and 45 degrees below zero in Buffalo, North Dakota, according to the National Weather Service. Schools, restaurants, and businesses closed, and more than 1,000 flights were canceled. B) Even the United States Postal Service (USPS) suspended mail delivery. “Due to this arctic outbreak and concerns for the safety of USPS employees,” USPS announced Wednesday morning, “the Postal Service is suspending delivery Jan. 30 in some 3-digit ZIP Code locations.” Twelve regions were listed as unsafe on Wednesday, on Thursday, eight remained. C) As global surface temperatures increase, so does the likelihood of extreme weather. In 2018 alone, wildfires, volcanic, eruptions, hurricanes, mudslides, and other natural disasters cost at least $49 billion in the United States. As my colleague Vann Newkirk reported, Puerto Rico is still confronting economic and structural destruction and resource scarcity from 2017’s Hurricane Maria. Natural disasters can wreck a community’s infrastructure, disrupting systems for months or years. Some services, however, remind us that life will eventually return, in some form, to normal. D) Days after the deadly 2017 wildfires in Santa Rosa, California, a drone (无人机）caught footage (连续镜头）of a USPS worker, Trevor Smith, driving through burned homes in that familiar white van, collecting mail in an affected area. The video is striking: The operation is familiar, but the scene looks like the end of the world. According to Rae Ann Haight, the program manager for the national-preparedness office at USPS, Smith was fulfilling a request made by some of the home owners to pick up any mail that was left untouched. For Smith, this was just another day on the job. “I followed my route like I normally do,” Smith told a reporter. “As I came across a box that was up but with no house, I checked, and there was mail—outgoing mail—in it. And so we picked those up and carried on.” E) USPS has sophisticated emergency plans for natural disasters. Across the country, 285 emergency management teams are devoted to crisis control. These teams are trained annually using a framework known as the three Ps: people, property, product. After mail service stops due to weather, the agency’s top priority is ensuring that employees are safe. Then it evaluates the health of infrastructure, such as the roads that mail carriers drive on. Finally, it decides when and how to re-open operations. If the destruction is extreme, mail addressed to the area will get sent elsewhere. In response to Hurricane Katrina in 2005, USPS redirected incoming New Orleans mail to existing mail facilities in Houston. Mail that was already processed in New Orleans facilities was moved to an upper floor so it would be protected from water damage. F) As soon as it’s safe enough to be outside, couriers (邮递员) start distributing accumulated mail on the still-accessible routes. USPS urges those without standing addresses to file change-of-address forms with their new location. After Hurricane Katrina hit in 2005, mail facilities were set up in dozens of locations across the country in the two weeks that USPS was unable to provide street delivery. G) Every day, USPS processes, on average, 493.4 million pieces of mail—anything from postcards to Social Security checks to medicine. Spokespeople from both USPS and UPS told me all mail is important. But some mail can be extremely sensitive and timely. According to data released in January 2017, 56 percent of bills are paid online, which means that just under half of payments still rely on delivery services to be completed. H) It can be hard to identify which parcels are carrying crucial items such as Social Security checks, but USPS and UPS try their best to prioritize sensitive material. They will coordinate with the Social Security Administration to make sure that Social Security checks reach the right people in a timely fashion. After Hurricane Florence and Hurricane Michael last fall, USPS worked with state and local election boards to make sure that absentee ballots were available and received or time. I) Mail companies are logistics (物流）companies, which puts them in a special position to help when disaster strikes. In a 2011 USPS case study, the agency emphasized its massive infrastructure as a “unique federal asset” to be called upon in a disaster or terrorist attack. “I think we’re unique as a federal agency,” USPS official Mike Swigart told me, “because we’re in literally every community in this country…We’re obligated to deliver to that point on a daily basis.” J) Private courier companies, which have more dollars to spend, use their expertise in logistics to help revitalize damaged areas after a disaster. For more than a decade, FedEx has support