2019年12月大学英语四级真题及答案-第一套-USB迷|专注于互联网分享

2024年3月22日发(作者：悉运华)

2019年12月大学英语四级考试真题-第一套

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 learn Chinese. Please recommend a university 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 l and 2 are based on the news report you have just heard.

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.

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.

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 staring an online exhibition.

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.

A) Pick up trash.

B) Amuse visitors.

C) Deliver messages.

D) Play with children.

A) They are especially intelligent.

B) They are children’s favorite.

C They are quite easy to tame.

D) They are clean and pretty.

A) Children may be harmed by the rooks.

B) Children may be tempted to drop litter.

C) Children may contract bird diseases.

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.

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.

A)It will be more futuristic.

B) It will be more systematic.

C) It will be more entertaining.

D) It will be easier to understand.

10.

A) People interested in science.

B) Youngsters eager to explore.

C) Children in their early teens.

D) Students majoring in science.

11.

A) Offer professional advice.

B) Provide financial support.

C) Help promote it 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) 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 lighting.

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 staining 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.

B) About two days.

C) About ten days.

D) About four weeks.

25.

A) Apply muscle creams.

B) Drink plenty of water.

C) Have a hot shower.

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.

Finally, some good news about airplane travel. If you are on a plane with a sick

passenger, you are unlikely to get sick. That is the 26 of a new study that looked

at how respiratory (呼吸道) viruses 27 on airplanes. Researchers found that only

people who were seated in individual - had a high risk of catching the illness. All

other passengers 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 getting infected on an airplane in the past. Therefore , these new findings

should help airplane passengers 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 infected by

common respiratory viruses, such as the flu or common cold, on an airplane, the

researchers said. So, to 32 the risks of infection, the study team flew on 10

different 33 in the US. 34 side of a person infected with flu, as well as those

sitting one roe in font of or behind this individual, had about an 80 person chance

of getting sick. But other passengers were 35 safe from infection. They had a

less than 3 percent chance of catching the flu.

A) accurate B) conclusion C) directly D) either

E) evaluate F) explorations G) flights H) largely

I) nearby J) respond K) slim L) spread

M) summit N) vividly O) vulnerable

Section B

Directions: 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

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.

A South Korean city designed for the future takes on a life of its own

A) Getting around a city is one thing — and then there’s the matter of getting

from one city to another. One vision of the perfect city of the future: a place that

offers easy access to air travel.

In 2011, a University of North Carolina business professor named John Kasarda

published a book called Aerotropolis: The Way We’ll Live Next. Kasarda says

future cities should be built intentionally around or near airports. The idea, as he

has put it, 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

rail century. the 20th century a highway, car, truck century一and the 21st century

will increasingly be an aviation century, as the globe becomes increasingly

connected by air,” Kasarda says. Songdo, a city built from scratch in South Korea,

is one of Kasarda’s prime examples. It has existed for just a few years.“ From

the get-go, it was designed on the basis of connectivity and competitiveness,”

says Kasada. “The government built the bridge directly from the airport to the

Songdo International Business District. And the surface infrastructure was built in

tandem with the new airport.”

C) Songdo is a stone’s throw from South Korea’s Incheon Airport, its main

international hub (枢纽). But it takes a lot more than a nearby airport to be a city

of the future. Just building a place as an “international business district”

doesn’t mean it will become one. Park Yeon Soo conceived (构想) this city of the

future back in 1986. He considers Songdo his baby. “I am a visionary,” he says.

Thirty years after he imagined the city, Park’s baby is close to 70 percent built,

with 36.000 people living in the business district and 90,000 residents in greater

Songdo. It’s about an hour outside Seoul, built on reclaimed tidal flats along the

Yellow Sea, There’s a Coast Guard building and a tall trade tower, as well as a

park, golf course and university.

D) Chances are you’ve actually seen this place. Songdo appears in the most

famous music video ever to come ou of South Korea. “Gangnam Style” refers

to the fashionable Gangnam district in Seoul. But some of the video was filmed in

Songdo.“I don’t know if you remember, there was a scene in a subway station.

That was not Gangnam. That was actually Songdo,” says Jung Won Son, a

professor of urban development at London’s Bartlett School of Planning, “Part

of the reason to shoot there is that it’s new and nice.”

E) The city was supposed to be a hub for global companies, with employees from

all over the world. But hat’s not how it has turned out. Songdo’s reputation is

as a futuristic ghost town. But the reality is more complicated. A bridge with big,

light-blue loops leads into the business district. In the center of the main road,

there’s a long line of flags of the world. On the corner, there’s a Starbucks and

a 7-Eleven--all of the international brands that you see all over the world

nowadays.

F) The city is not empty. There are mothers pushing strollers, old women with

walkers -- even in the middle of the day. when it’s 90 degrees out. Byun Young-

Jin chairs the Songdo real estate association and started selling property here

when the first phase of 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 here are sold to Koreans. Young families move here

because the schools are great. And that’s the problem: Songdo has become a

popular Korean city 一more popular as a residential area than a business one. It’

s not yet the futuristic international business hub that planners imagined. “It’s a

great place to live. And it’s becoming a great place to work,” says Scott

Summers, the vice president of Gale International, the developer of the city. The

floor-to-ceiling windows of his company’s offices overlook Songdo Central Park,

with a canal full of kayaks and paddle boats. Shimmering (闪烁的) glass towers line

the canal’s edge.

G) “What’s happened is, because we focused on creating that quality of life

first, which enabled the residents to live here, what has probably missed the mark

is for companies to locate here,” he says. “There needs to be strong economic

incentives.” The city is still unfinished, and it feels a bit like a theme park. It

doesn’t feel all that futuristic. There’s a high-tech underground trash disposal