2021年12月四级真题全3套.docx

2021年12月大学英语四级考试真题（第1套) Part I Writing (30minutes) Directions: Suppose your school is organizing an orientation program to help the freshmen adapt to the new environment and academic studies. You are now to write a proposal, which may include its aim, duration, participants and activities. You will have 30 minutes to write the proposal. 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) It found a pet dog on board a plane to a city in Texas. B) It had one of its cargo planes land at a wrong airport. C) It sent two dogs to the wrong destinations. D) It had two of its domestic flights mixed up. 2. A) Correct their mistake as soon as possible. B) Give the two pets a physical checkup. C) Hire a charter jet to bring the pets back. D) Send another plane to continue the flight. Questions 3 and 4 are based on the news report you have just heard. 3.A) She weighs 130 kilograms. C) She was brought from Africa. B) She has had babies before. D) She has a big family of six. 4.A) It took 22 hours. C) It was smooth. B) It had some complications. D) It was monitored by Dr.Sue Tygielski. Questions 5 to 7 are based on the news report you have just heard. 5.A) It enjoyed great popularity. C) It was frequented by newly-weds. B) It started business three years ago. D) It was built above the sea-water. 6. A) Expand his business on the beach. B) Replace the restaurant’s wooden deck. C) Post a picture of his restaurant online. D) Celebrate his silver wedding anniversary. 7. A) She sold it for two thousand dollars.C) She posted its picture on Facebook. B) She took it to the restaurant manager.D) She returned it to its owner right away. 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) The number of ducks has declined sharply in recent years. B) Climate change has little effect on the lives of wild ducks. C) Duck meat is not eaten in Australia, Canada and the U.S. D) Duck hunting remains legal in many parts of the world. 9. A) Droughts. B) Bushfires. C) Farming. D) Hunting. 10. A) They are not easy to domesticate.C) It is not environmentally friendly. B) Their meat is not that popular.D) It is not considered cost-effective. 11. A) They hunted ducks as a traditional sport. B) They killed wild ducks and geese for food. C) They raised ducks and geese for their eggs. D) They poisoned wild ducks in large numbers. Questions 12 to 15 are based on the conversation you have just heard. 12. A) Have her house repainted. C) Move into a newly-painted house. B) Replace some of her old furniture. D) Calculate the cost of the paint job. 13. A) How long the work will take. C) How the paint job is to be done. B) How much the work will cost. D) How many workers are needed. 14. A) Cover up her furniture. C) Stay somewhere else. B) Ask some friends for help. D) Oversee the work herself. 15. A) She could have asked a friend for help with the paint job. B) Painting a house involves more trouble than she thought. C) She should have repainted her house much earlier. D) Moving her furniture is harder than the paint job. 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) To cultivate good habits. C) To review what is learned in class. B) To prepare for secondary school. D) To stimulate interest in learning. 17. A) Discuss their academic achievements with them. B) Create an ideal study environment for them. C) Allow them to learn independently. D) Check their homework promptly. 18. A) Finish them before they get tired. B) Tackle the most difficult task first. C) Start with something they enjoy. D) Focus on the most important ones. Questions 19 to 21 are based on the passage you have just heard. 19. A) Workers who meet its body weight standards. B) Workers who can lose 30 pounds in a year. C) Workers who try the hardest to lose weight. D) Workers who are in the top 10% of the slimmest. 20. A) Impractical. C) Unmanageable. B) Inconsistent. D) Unfair. 21. A) Offer them much fatter bonuses. C) Encourage healthy behaviors. B) Improve working environment. D) Provide free lunch and snacks. Questions 22 to 25 are based on the passage you have just heard. 22. A) It has not done enough to help left-handed children. B) It has treated left-handed children as being disabled. C) It has not built facilities specially for the left-handed. D) It has ignored campaigns on behalf of the left-handed. 23. A) They are as intelligent as other children. B) They have a distinctive style of handwriting. C) They sometimes have psychological problems. D) They tend to have more difficulties in learning. 24. A) Punish teachers discriminating against left-handed students. B) Lay more emphasis on improving children’s mental health. C) Encourage students to develop various professional skills. D) Keep track of left-handed children’s school performance. 25. A) How they can be reduced in number. C) What percentage they account for. B) Why their numbers are so high. D) If their percentage keeps increasing. 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.（淘宝店铺：光速考研工作室） Questions 26 to 35 are based on the following passage. Many people believe that passion and commitment are the foundations of strong romantic relationships. But a relationship is made of two 26 individuals. And the personality traits (特性) these individuals 27 or lack can often make a relationship more- or less- likely to 28 . Recent research has found that one trait in particular—humility(谦逊)— is an important indicator of successful relationships. Humility can sometimes be 29 with a lack of confidence. But researchers have come to realize that being humble generally indicates the 30 of deeply admirable personal qualities. Being humble means you have the ability to accurately 31 your deficiencies without denying your skills and strengths. For example, you might recognize that you are intelligent, but realize that you are not a 32 . Thus, humility leads to an honest view of one’s own advantages and shortcomings. Humble people do not ignore, avoid, or try to deny their limits or deficiencies. They can 33 mistakes, see value in things that are far from perfect and identify areas for improvement. Perhaps it is not 34 , then, that humility appears to be a huge asset to relationships. One study found that people tend to rate this quality 35 in their spouse. The study also found that someone who is humble is more likely to initiate a romantic relationship, perhaps because they are less likely to see themselves as “too good” for someone else. Thus, a humble partner might be your ideal partner. A) acknowledge B) assess C) confused D) endure E) extremely F) genius G) highly H) permanent I) possess J) presence K) puzzled L) status M) surprising N) thoroughly O) unique Section B There’s a stress gap between men and women A) “I used to work very hard. I love to create things, grow them and solve problems, “said Meng Li, a successful app developer in San Francisco. “I didn’t really care about my mind and my body until they decided to go on strike.” B) Ms. Li said her stress led to sleeplessness. When she did sleep, she experienced “problem-solving dreams,” which left her feeling unrested when she woke up. “After I became a first-time mother, I quickly realized I was so busy caring for other people and work that I felt like I’d lost myself,” she said. C) It’s a common story- one we frequently ridicule and readily dismiss, for example, by claiming that women tend to complain more than men, despite the growing sum of research that underlines the problem. Women are twice as likely to suffer from severe stress and anxiety as men, according to a 2016 study published in The Journal of Brain & Behavior. The American Psychological Association reports a gender gap year after year showing that women consistently report higher stress levels. Clearly, a stress gap exists. D) “The difference is not really news to me, as a clinical psychologist,” said Erin Joyce, a women and couples therapist in Los Angeles. “It’s been well documented in extensive research over the years that prevalence rates for the majority of the anxiety disorders are higher in women than men.” Some people may argue that this is merely reported data, and they say many men feel the same pressures as women in terms of fulfilling responsibilities at work and home. In other words, we’re all really, really stressed. E) “The difference, however, is in the nature and scope of these responsibilities in the home environment in particular,” Dr. Joyce said. For example, the United Nations reported that women do nearly three times as much unpaid domestic work as men. The problem is, housework is often overlooked as work, even though it is often as laborious (or in some cases, more so) as any paid job. As the scholar Silvia Federici put it in 1975, the unpaid nature of domestic work reinforces the assumption that “housework is not work, thus preventing women from struggling against it.” F) It’s not just inside the home, though. Research from Nova Southeastern University found that female managers were more likely than male managers to display “surface acting,” or forcing emotions that are not wholly felt. “They expressed optimism, calmness and sympathy even when these were not the emotions that they were actually feeling,” the study said. G) Surface acting is a prime example of “emotional labor,” a concept that the writer Jess Zimmerman made familiar in a 2015 essay. The essay sparked a massive thread on the internet community blog MetaFilter. Hundreds of women spoke up about their own experience with emotional labor: the duties that are expected of them, but go unnoticed. These invisible duties become apparent only when you don’t do them. Like domestic labor, emotional labor is generally dismissed and not labeled work. But research shows it can be just as exhausting as paid work. Emotional labor can lead to difficulty in sleeping and family conflict. Sure, circumstantial stress, like losing a job, may lead to these same issues. But emotional labor is not circumstantial. It’s an enduring responsibility based on the socialized gender role of women. H) Like Ms. Li, many women try to manage the added stress to reach what Dr. Joyce said was an unattainable ideal. “Some professional women aim to do it all. They want to reach the top of the corporate ladder and fly like supermom,” she said. When women don’t reach this ideal, they feel guilty; and even more stressed. After her own struggle with this, Ms. Li took a step back and used her experience to build Sanity & Self, a self-care app and platform for overworked women. "The realizations I had in that process helped me gain insights and ultimately got me ready to integrate self- care into my daily life,“ she said. I) The stress problem extends beyond mental health when you consider the link between stress, anxiety and heart health. Worse, most of what we know about heart disease comes from studies involving men. However, “there are many reasons to think that it’s different in women,” Harvard Medical School reported. For example, women are more likely to experience disturbed sleep, anxiety and unusual fatigue before a heart attack. Stress is so normalized that it is easy for women to shrug off those symptoms as simply the consequences of stress. Many women also do not experience chest pain before a heart attack the way men do, which leads to fewer women discovering problematic heart issues. Harvard reports that women are “much more likely than men to die within a year of having a heart attack” and “many women say their physicians sometimes don’t even recognize the symptoms.” J) The good news is, women are more likely than men to take charge of their stress and manage it, the American Psychological Association reports. The concept of self-care, at its core, is quite simple. “The basics of adequate sleep, healthy diet and exercise are a good place to start,” Dr. Joyce said. “Support from trusted relationships is vital. This includes professional support from various health and wellness providers if stress is becoming increasingly overwhelming.” K) Disconnecting from work and home responsibilities is also obviously important. But it’s much easier said than done. It is important to understand what causes your stress in the first place. “Get really specific with what’s stressing you out,” Ms. Li said. “We often chalk up our stress to broad experiences like work. But work stress can take many different forms. Is a colleague being disrespectful of your time? Is a boss undermining your day-to-day control over decision making? These are different causes of stress and can benefit from different kinds of self-care.” L） Ideally, your spouse or partner will be supportive, rather than dismissive, of your stress. It is important to talk through these issues before they come to a head. “Women working outside of the home should make an effort to have a conscious conversation with their partners about more equitable s