2018年12月大学英语四级真题完整版（第3套）
小说改编电影Part I Writing (30 minutes)
Directions: For this part，you are allowed 30 minutes to write a short essay on the challenges of studying abroad.阳明脉 You should write at least 120 words but no more than180 words.
PartⅡ Listening Comprehension (25 minutes)
Part Ⅲ Reading Comprehension ( 40 minutes)
Section A
Directions: In this ction, there is a passage with ten blanks. You are required to lect 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. Plea mark the corresponding letter for each item on
Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through the centre. You may not u any of the words in the bank more than once．
Questions 26 to 35 are bad on the following passage.
Have you ever ud email to apologize to a colleague? Delivered a 26 to a subordinate (下属) with a voice-mail message? Flown by plane across the country just to deliver important news in person? The various communication options at our fingertips today can be good for 27 and productivity---and at the same time very troublesome. With so many ways to communicate, how should a manager choo the one that’s best --- 28 when the message to be delivered is bad or unwelcome news for the recipient? We’ve 29 business communication consultants and etiquette (礼仪) experts to come up with the following guidelines for 30 using the alterative ways of delivering difficult messages.
First of all, choo how personal you want to be. A face-to-face communication is the most 31 .Other choices, in descending order of personalization, are: a real-time phone call, a voice-mail message, a handwritten note, a typewritten letter, and the most 32 is
email. Some of the may change order according to the 33 situation or your own preferences; for example, a handwritten note might em more personal than voice mail. How do you decide on the best choice for the difficult messagehg8245 you’ve got to deliver? “My 34 concern is: How can I soften or civilize this message?” says etiquette expert Dana Casperson. “So when I apologize, I usually choo in-person first, or a phone conversation as my top alternative, and maybe a handwritten note next. Apologizing by email is something I now totally 35 .”
A) avoid E) intimate I) reward M) unfriendly
B) convenience F) particularly J) silent N) warning
C) effectively G) primary K) specific O) witnesd
D) escape H) prompt L) surveyed
Section B
六镇
Directions: In this ction, 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 choo a paragraph more than once. Each paragraph is marked with a letter. Answer the questions by marking the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 2.
How a Poor, Abandoned Parisian Boy Became a Top Chef?
[A] The busy streets in Paris were uneven and caked in thick mud, but there was always a breathtaking sight to e in the shop windows of Patisrie de la Rue de la Paix. By 1814, people crowded农村医保卡 outside the bakery, straining for a glimp of the latest sweet food created by the young chef who worked inside.
[B] His name was Marie-Antoine Careme, and he had appeared, one day, almost out of nowhere. But in his short lifetime, which ended exactly 181 years ago today, he would forever revolutionize French gourmet food (拜将封侯美食 ) write best-lling cook books and think up magical dishes for royals and other important people.
[C] Careme’s childhood was one part tragedy, equal part mystery. Born the 16th child to poor parents in Paris in either 1783 or 1784, a young Careme was suddenly abandoned at the height of the French Revolution. At 8 years old, he worked as a kitchen boy for a restaurant in Paris in exchange for room and board. By age 15, he had become an apprentice (学徒) to Sylvain Bailly, a well-known desrt chef with a successful bakery in one of Paris’s most fashionable neighborhoods.
[D] Careme was quick at learning in the kitchen. Bailly encouraged his young apprentice to learn to read and write. Careme would often spend his free afternoons at the nearby National Library reading books on art and architecture. In the back room of the little bakery, his interest in design and his baking talent combined to work wonders he shaped delicious masterpieces out of flour, butter and sugar.
[万事遂心E] 小巧玲珑的意思In his teenage years, Careme fashioned eatable copies of the late 18th century’s most famous buildings---cookies in the shape of ruins of ancient Athens and pies in the shape of ancient Chine palaces and temples. Sylvain Bailly, his master, displayed the luxuriant creations---often as large as 4 feet tall---in his bakery windows.
[F] Careme creations soon captured the discriminating eye of a French diplomat, Charles Maurice de Talleyrand- Perigord. Around 1804, Talleyrand challenged Careme to produce a full menu for his Personal castle, instating e young baker to u local ason fruits and vegetables and to avoid repeating main dishes over the cour of an entire year. The experiment was a grand success and Talleyrand’s association with French nobility would prove a profitable connection for Careme.
