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2015年12月英语四级考试真题试卷（第三套）

Part I Writing (30 minutes)

Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write an **menting on the saying "Never

go out there to see what happens, go out there to make things happen. " You can cite examples

to illustrate the importance of being participants rather than mere onlookers in life. You should

write at least 120 words but no more than 180 words.

注意：此部分试题在答题卡1上

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Part Ⅱ Listening Comprehension ( 30 minutes)

Section A

Directions: In this section, you will hear 8 short conversations and 2 long the

end of each conversation, one or more questions will be asked about what was the

conversation and the questions will be spoken only each question there will be a

the pause, you must read the four choices marked A, B, C,and decide which

is the best mark the corresponding letter on Answer .Sheet I with a single line

through the center.

**) They admire the courage of space explorers.

B) They were going to watch a wonderful movie.

C) They enjoyed the movie on space exploration.

D) They like doing scientific exploration very much.

**) In a school library. B) At a gift shop.

C) In the office of a travel agency. D) At a graduation ceremony.

**) He used to work in the art gallery. B) He does not have a good memory.

C) He is not interested in any part-time jobs. D) He declined a job offer from the art gallery.

**) He will be unable to attend the birthday party.

B) The woman should have informed him earlier.

C) He will go to the birthday party after the lecture.

D) Susan has been invited to give a lecture tomorrow.

**) Set a deadline for the staff to meet. B) Assign more workers to the project.

C) Reward those having made good progress. D) Encourage the staff to work in small groups.

**) Where she can leave her car. B) The rate for parking in Lot C.

C) How far away the parking lot is. D) The way to the visitor's parking.

**) He regrets missing the classes. B) He has benefited from exercise.

C) He plans to take the fitness classes. D) He is looking forward to a better life.

8. A) How to select secretaries. B) How to raise work efficiency.

C) The responsibilities of secretaries. D) The secretaries in the man's company.

Questions 9 to 11 are based on the conversation you have just heard.

**) It is used by more people than English. B) It is more difficult to learn than English.

C) It will be as commonly used as English. D) It will eventually become a world language.

**) Its popularity with **mon people. B) The effect of the Industrial Revolution.

C) The influence of the British Empire. D) Its loan words from many languages.

**) It has a growing number of newly coined words.

B) It includes a lot of words from other languages.

C) It is the largest among all languages in the world.

D) It can be easily picked up by overseas travellers.

Questions 12 to 15 are based on the conversation you have just heard.

**) To place an order. B) To apply for a job.

C) To return some goods. D) To make a complaint.

**) He works on a part-time basis for **pany.

B) He has not worked in the sales department for long.

C) He is not familiar with the exact details of the goods.

D) He has become somewhat impatient with the woman.

**) It is not his responsibility. B) It win be free for large orders.

C) It depends on a number of factors. D) It costs ￡15 more for express delivery.

**) Make inquiries with some **panies.

B) Report the information to her superior.

C) Pay a visit to the saleswoman in charge.

D) Ring back when **es to a decision.

Section B

Directions：In this section, you will hear 3 short the end of each passage, you will

hear some the passage and the questions will be spoken only you hear

a question, you must choose the best answer from the four choices marked A, B, D .Then

mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 1 with a single line through the center.

Passage One

Questions 16 to 18 are based on the conversation you have just heard.

**) No one knows for sure when they came into being.

B) No one knows exactly where they were first made.

C) No one knows for what purpose they were invented.

D) No one knows what they will look like in the future.

**) Measure the speed of wind. B) Give warnings of danger.

C) Pass on secret messages. D) Carry ropes across rivers.

**) To find out the strength of silk for kites. B) To test the effects of the lightning rod.

C) To prove that lightning is electricity. D) To protect houses against lightning.

Passage Two

Questions 19 to 22 are based on the passage you have just heard.

**) She was born with a talent for languages. B) She was trained to be an interpreter.

C) She can speak several languages. D) She enjoys teaching languages.

**) They want to learn as many foreign languages as possible.

B) They have an intense interest in cross-cultural interactions.

C) They acquire an immunity to culture shock.

D) They would like to live abroad permanently.

**) She became an expert in horse racing.

B) She learned to appreciate classical music.

C) She was able to translate for a German sports judge.

D) She got a chance to visit several European countries.

**) Take part in a **petition. B) Taste the beef and give **ment.

C) Teach vocabulary for food in English. D) Give cooking lessons on Western food.

Passage Three

Questions 23 to 25 are based on the passage you have just heard.

**) He had only a third-grade education. B) He once threatened to kill his teacher.

C) He often helped his mother do housework. D) He grew up in a poor single-parent family.

**) Stupid. B) Active. C) Brave. D) Careless.

**) Watch educational TV programs only. B) Write two book reports a week.

C) Help with housework. D) Keep a diary.

Section C

Directions: In this section, you will hear a passage three the passage is read for the

first time, you should listen carefully for its general the passage is read for the second

time, you are required to fill in the blanks with the exact words you have just y, when

the passage is read for the third time, you should check what you have written.

When you look up at the night sky, what do you see? There are other __26__ bodies out there

besides the moon and stars. One of the most __27__ of these is a comet (彗星).

Comets were formed around the same time the Earth was formed. They are __28__ ice and other

frozen liquids and gases. __29__ these "dirty snowballs" begin to orbit the sun, just as the

planets do.

As a comet gets closer to the sun, some gases in it begin to unfreeze. They __30__ dust particles

from **et to form a huge cloud. As **et gets even nearer to the sun, a solar wind blows the cloud

behind **et, thus forming its tail. The tail and the __31__ fuzzy (模糊的) atmosphere around a

comet are __32__ that can help identify this __33__ in the night sky.

In any given year, about a dozen ****e close to the sun in their orbits. The average person can't

see them all, of course. Usually there is only one or two a year bright enough to be seen with the

__34__ eye. Comet Hale-Bopp, discovered in 1995, was an unusually **et. Its orbit brought it

__35__ close to the Earth, within 122 million miles of it. But Hale-Bopp came a long way on its

earthly visit. It won't be back for another four thousand years or so.

Part Ⅲ Reading Comprehension(40 minutes)

Section A

Directions : In this section, there is a passage with ten are required to select one word

for each blank from a list of choices given in a word bank following the the passage

through carefully before making your choice in the bank is identified by a

mark the corresponding letter for each item on Answer Sheet 2with a single line

through the center. You may not use any of the words in the bank more than once.

Questions 36 to 45 are based on the following passage.

Children do not think the way adults do. For most of the first year of life, if something is out of

sight, it's out of mind. If you cover a baby's __36__ toy with a piece of cloth, the baby thinks the

toy has disappeared and stops looking for it. A 4-year-old may __37__ that a sister has more fruit

juice when it is only the shapes of the glasses that differ, not the __38__ of juice.

Yet children are smart in their own way. Like good little scientists, children are always testing their

child-sized __39__ about how things work. When your child throws her spoon on the floor for

the sixth time as you try to feed her, and you say, "That's enough! I will not pick up your spoon

again!" the child will __40__ test your claim. Are you serious? Are you angiy? What will happen if

she throws the spoon again? She is not doing this to drive you __41__ ; rather, she is learning

that her desires and yours can differ, and that sometimes those __42__ are important and

sometimes they are not.

How and why does children's thinking change? In the 1920s, Swiss psychologist Jean Piaget

proposed that children's cognitive(认知的) abilities unfold __43__ , like the blooming of a flower,

almost independent of what else is __44__ in their lives. Although many of his specific

conclusions have been __45__ or modified over the years, his ideas inspired thousands of studies

by investigators all over the world.

A) advocate B) amount C) confirmed D) crazy E) definite

F) differences G) favorite H) happening I) immediately J) naturally

K) obtaining L) primarily M) protest N) rejected O) theories

Section B

Directions: In this section, you are going to read a passage with ten statements attached to

statement contains information given in one of the fy the paragraph

from which the information is may choose a paragraph more than once. Each

paragraph is marked with a the questions by marking the corresponding letter on

Answer Sheet 2.

The Perfect Essay

A) Looking back on too many years of education, I can identify one truly impossible teacher. She

cared about me, and my intellectual life, even when I didn't. Her expectations were

high-impossibly so. She was an English teacher. She was also my mother.

B) When good students turn in an essay, they dream of their instructor returning it to them in

exactly the same condition, save for a single word added in the margin of the final page: "

Flawless. " This dream came true for me one afternoon in the ninth grade. Of course, I had heard

that genius could show itself at an early age, so I was only slightly taken aback that I had achieved

perfection at the tender age of 14. Obviously, I did what any professional writer would do; I

hurried off to spread the good news. I didn't get very far. The first person I told was my mother.

C) My mother, who is just shy of five feet tall, is normally incredibly soft-spoken, but on the rare

occasion when she got angry, she was terrifying. I am not sure if she was more upset by my

hubris(得意忘形) or by the fact that my English teacher had let my ego get so out of hand. In any

event, my mother and her red pen showed me how deeply flawed a flawless essay could be. At

the time, I am sure she thought she was teaching me about mechanics, transitions (过渡),

structure, style and voice. But what I learned, and what stuck with me through my time teaching

writing at Harvard, was a deeper lesson about the nature of creative criticism.

D) First off, it hurts. Genuine criticism, the type that leaves a lasting mark on you as a writer, also

leaves an existential imprint (印记) on you as a person. I have heard people say that a writer

should never take criticism personally. I say that we should never listen to these people.

E) Criticism, at its best, is deeply personal, and gets to the heart of why we write the way we do.

The intimate nature of genuine criticism implies something about who is able to give it, namely,

someone who knows you well enough to show you how your mental life is getting in the way of

good writing. Conveniently, they are also the people who care enough to see you through this

painful realization. For me it took the form of my first, and I hope only, encounter with writer's

block-I was not able to produce anything for three years.

F) Franz Kafka once said:" Writing is utter solitude (独处), the descent into the cold abyss (深渊)

of oneself. " My mother's criticism had shown me that Kafka is right about the cold abyss, and

when you make the introspective (内省的) descent that writing requires you are not always

pleased by what you find. But, in the years that followed, her sustained tutoring suggested that

Kafka might be wrong about the solitude. I was lucky enough to find a critic and teacher who was

willing to make the journey of writing with me. "It is a thing of no great difficulty," according to

Plutarch, "to raise objections against another man's speech, it is a very easy matter; but to

produce a better in its place is a work extremely troublesome. " I am sure I wrote essays in the

later years of high school without my mother's guidance, but I can't recall them. What I

remember, however, is how she took up the "extremely troublesome" work of ongoing criticism.

G) There are two ways to interpret Plutarch when he suggests that a critic should be able to

produce " a better in its place. " In a straightforward sense, he could mean that a critic must be

more talented than the artist she critiques (评论). My mother was well covered on this count.

But perhaps Plutarch is suggesting something slightly different, something a bit closer to Marcus

Cicero's claim that one should " criticize by creation, not by finding fault. " Genuine criticism

creates a precious opening for an author to become better on his own terms-a process that is

often extremely painful, but also almost always meaningful.

H) My mother said she would help me with my writing, but first I had to help myself. For each

assignment, I was to write the best essay I could. Real criticism is not meant to find obvious

mistakes, so if she found any-the type I could have found on my own-I had to start from scratch.

From scratch. Once the essay was " flawless," she would take an evening to walk me through my

errors. That was when true criticism, the type that changed me as a person, began.

I) She criticized me when I included little-known references and professional jargon (行话) ?She

had no patience for brilliant but irrelevant figures of speech. "Writers can't bluff (虚张声势) their

way through ignorance. " That was news to me-I would need to find another way to structure my

daily existence.

J) She trimmed back my flowery language, drew lines through my exclamation marks and argued

for the value of restraint in expression. " John," she almost whispered. I leaned in to hear her: "I

can't hear you when you shout at me. " So I stopped shouting and bluffing, and slowly my writing

improved.

K) Somewhere along the way I set aside my hopes of writing that flawless essay. But perhaps I

missed something important in my mother's lessons about creativity and perfection. Perhaps the