2017年12月四级考试真题（第一套）
Part I Writing (30 minutes)
D1rect10ns: 凡r this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a short essay on how to best handle the relationship between parents and children. You should write at least 120 words but no叩re than 180 words.
Part II Listening Comprehension
Section A
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Directions: In this ction, 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 choo the best answer from the four choices
marked A) , B) , C) and D) . Then mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet I
with a single line through the centre.
Questions I and 2 are bad on the news report you have just heard.
.It tnes to entertain its audience.
1A) B)It tries to look into the distance.
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C)It has got one of its limbs injured.D)It wants to catch people's attention.
2.A) Its picture won a photography prize.
B)Its videos were posted on social media.
C)It was filmed by a local television reporter.
D)It was spotted by animal protection officials.
Questions 3 and 4 are bad on the news report you have just heard.
关于花生的谜语3.A) The spending on gas.B)The distance travelled.
C)The incidence of road accidents.D)The number of people travelling.
4.A) Gas consumption is soaring.
C)Fewer people are commuting.B)Job growth is slowing down.
D)Rush-hour traffic is worning.
Questions 5 to 7 are bad on the news report you have just heard.
5.A) He told a stranger the sad story about himlf.
B)He went up to a stranger and pulled at his sleeves.
C)He helped a stranger to carry groceries to his car.
D)He washed a stranger's car in return for some food.
6.A) He ordered a lot of food for his family.
B)He gave him a job at his own company.
C)He offered him a scholarship for college.
D)He raid a large sum of money for him.
7.A) He is an excellent student at school.
C)He is very good at making up stories.B)He has been disabled since boyhood.
D)He works hard to support his family.
Section B
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Directions: In讥is ction, 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 choo 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.
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Questions 8 to 11 are bad on the conversation you have just heard.
8.A) Had a drink at Queen Victoria.
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B)Had dinner at a new restaurant.
C)Attended an econormcs lecture.
D)Taken a walk on Charles Street.
9.A) Visit some of his high school friends.
B)Attend his brother's birthday party.
C)Make preparations for a minar.
D)Treat a college friend to dinner.
10.A) Join him in his brother's birthday celebration.
B)Meet with Jonathan's friends on the weekend.
C)Throw a surpri birthday party.
D)Gather statistics for his lecture.
11.A) By car.
C)By taxi.B)By bus.
D)By train.
Questions 12 to 15 are bad on the conversation you have just heard.
12.A) Taking a vacation abroad.
B)Reviewing for his last exam.
C)Finding a better way to earrn money.
D)Saving enough money for a rainy day
13.A) Preparing for his final exams.
B)Working part time as a waiter.
C)Helping the woman with her cours.
D)Negotiating with his boss for a rai.
14.A) Save enough money.
C)Learn a little bit of Spanish.
15.A) He speaks Spanish fluently.
C)He is also eager to go to Spain. Section C B)Finish her term paper.
D)Ask her parents'pem邯sion.
B)He is easy to get along with.
D)He has rich sailing experience.
Directions: In this ction, 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
choo the best answer from the four choices marked A) , B) , C) and D) . Then mark the corresponding
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letter on Answer Sheet 1 with a single line through the centre.
大理洱海旅游攻略Questions 16 to 18 are bad on the passage you have just heard.
16.A) She was also a Nobel Prize winner.
B)She won the Nobel Prize two times.
C)She worked as a nur in the First World War.
D)She went to the same university as her mother.
17.A) She helped to t up veral military hospitals.
B)She made donations to save wounded soldiers.
C)She fought bravely in a ries of military operations.
D)She developed X-ray facilities for military hospitals.
18.A) Both won military medals.
B)Both died of blood cancer.
C)Both fought in World War I .
D)Both married their assistants.
Questions 19 to 21 are bad on the passage you have just heard.
19.A) They ttled on a small island north of England.
B)They discovered Iceland in the ninth century.
C)They were the conquerors of Norway.
D)They were the first ttlers in Europe.
20.A) It was covered with green most time of the year.
B)It was the Vikings'most important discovery.
C)It was a rocky mass of land covered with ice.颜色五行属性
D)It was some five hundred miles west of Norway.
21.A) The Vikings'everyday life.
B)The Vikings'ocean explorations.
C)The making of European nations.
D)The Europeans'Arctic discoveries.
Questions 22 to 25 are bad on the passage you have just heard.
22.A) Dream about the future.B)Save against a r扣ny day.
C)Work hard for a better life.
23.A) Dwell on the dreams he had dreamed when young.
B)Exchange his two-story hou for a beach cottage.
C)Change what he has for his past imaginary world.
D)Teach foreign languages for the rest of his life.
24.A) Criminal law.
C)lntematlonal busmess.
25.A) Take things easy in life.
C)Enjoy whatever you are doing.D)Make mistakes now and then.
B)City planning.
D)Oriental architecture.
B)Dream and make plans.
D)Be content with what you have.
Part ID 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 f rom 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.
A rat or pigeon might not be the obvious choice to tend to someone who is sick, but the creatures have some
26 skills that could help the treatment of human dias.
Pigeons are often en as dirty birds and an urban 27 , but they are just the latest in a long line of animals that have been found to have abilities to help humans. Despite having as brain no bigger than the 28 of your index finger, pigeons have a very impressive 29 memory. Recently it was shown that they could be trained to be as accurate as humans at detecting breast cancer in images.
Rats are often 30 with spreading dia rather than 31 it, but this long-tailed画mal is highly 32 —. Inside a rat's no are up to 1 ,000 different types of olfactoryreceptors (嗅觉感受器），whereas humans only have 100 to 200 types. This gives rats the ability to detect 33 smells. As a result, some rats are being put to work to detect TB (肺结核）. When the rats detect the smell, they stop and rub their legs to 34 a sample is infected.
Traditionally, a hundred samples would take lab technicians more than two days to 35 , but for a rat it takes less than 20 minutes. This rat detection method doesn't rely on specialist equipment. It is also more accurate—the rats are able to find more TB infections and, therefore, save more lives.
Section B A)associated
D)nuisance
G)prohibiting
J)speci fy
M)tip
B)examine
E)peak
H)nsitive
K)superior
N)treated
C)indicate
F)preventing
I)slight
L)suspicious
兔子可以吃什么O)visual
Directions: In this ction, you are going to read a passage with ten statements attached to it. Each statement contains 叫ormation 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.
Do In-Class Exams Make Students Study Harder?
Rearch suggests they may study more broadly for the unexpected rather than arch for answers.共同的近义词
A)I have always been a poor test-taker. So it may em rather strange that I have returned to college to finish the
degree I left undone some four decades ago. I am making my way through Columbia University, surrounded by students who quickly supply the verbal answer while I am still processing the question.
B)Since there is no way for me to avoid exams ,I am currently questioning what kind are the most taxing and ultimately beneficial. I have already sweated through numerous in-class midterms and finals, and now I have a professor who issues take-home ones. I was excited when I learned this, figuring I had a full week to do the rearch, read the texts, and write it all up. In fact, I was still rewriting my midterm the morning it was due. To
say I had lost the thread is putting it mildly.
C)As I was suffering through my week of anxiety, overthinking the material and guessing my grasp of it, I did
some of my own polling among students and professors. David Einbach, who teaches a popular class on U.S.
presidents at Columbia, prefers the in-class variety. He believes students ultimately learn more and
encourages them to form study groups. "That way they socialize over history outside the class, which wouldn't happen without the pressure of an in-class exam," he explained. "Furthermore, in-class exams force students to learn how to perform under pressure , an esntial work skill. "
D)He also says there is less chance of cheating with the in-class variety. In 2012, 125 students at Harvard were
caught up in a scandal when it was discovered they had cheated on a take-home exam for a class entitled "Introduction To Congress. "Some colleges have what they call an "honor code," though if you are smart enough to get into the schools, you are either smart enough to get around any codes or hopefully, too ethical to consider doing so. As I sat blocked and clueless for two solid days, I momentarily wondered if I couldn't just call an expert on the subject matter which I was tackling, or someone who took the class previously, to get me go m g.
E)Following the Harvard scandal, Mary Miller, the former dean of students at Yale, made an impassioned appeal
to her school's professors to refrain from take-home exams. "Students risk health and well being, as well as performance in other end-of-term work, when faculty offers take-home exams without clear, ti
me-limited boundaries," she told me. "Rearch now shows that regular quizzes, short essays, and other assignments over the cour of a term better enhance learning and retention. "
F)Most college professors agree the kind of exam they choo largely depends on the subject. A quantitative-bad
one, for example, is unlikely to be nt home, where one could ask their older brothers and sisters to help.
Vocational-type class, such as computer science or journalism, on the other hand, are often more rearchoriented and lend themlves to take-home testing. Chris Koch, who teaches "History of Broadcast Journalism"
at Montgomery Community College in Rockville, Maryland, points out that reporting is about investigation rather than the memorization of minute details. "In my field, it's not what you know—it's what you know how to find out, "says Koch. "There is way too much information, and more coming all the time, for anyone to remember.
I want my students to arch out the answers to questions by using all the resources available to them. "
G)Students'test-form preferences vary, too, often depending on the subject and cour difficulty. "I prefer take
home essays becau it is then really about the writing, so you have time to edit and do more rearch, "says Elizabeth Dresr, a junior at Barnard. Then there is the stress factor. Francesca Haass, a nior at Middlebury, says, "I find the in-class ones are more stressful in the short term, but there is immediate relief as you swallow information like mad, and then you get to forget it all. Take-homes require thoughtful engagement which can lead to longer term stress as there is never a moment when the time is up. "Meanwhile, Olivia Rubin, a sophomore at Emory, says she hardly even considers take-homes true exams. "If you understand the material and have the ability to articulate (说出）your thoughts, they should be a breeze. "
H)How students ultimately handle tests may depend on their personal test-taking abilities. There are people who
always wait until the last minute, and make it much harder than it needs to be. And then there are tho who, not knowing what questions are coming at them , and having no resources to refer to , can freeze. And then there are we rare folks who fit both tho descriptions.
I)Yes , my advanced age must factor into the equation (等式），in part becau of my inability to access the information as quickly. As another returning student at Columbia, Kate Marber, told me, "We are learning not only all this information, but esntially how to learn again. Our fellow students have just come out of high school. A lot has changed since we were last in school. "
