2015年12月四级真题第2套答案详解.pdf

2 0 1 5 * u B x m m m B s i%Bf-tj!i4JJfct!jg$JtL w,0jtfc Thank you. Now education. Which school did you go to? W; (9) I went to a secondary school in South Town. M: And have you been to college? W: No. (9) I left full-time education when I was 18. M: I see. Any qualifications? W: Yes. I gained a shorthand and typing diploma at evening classes. M: Thats good. Now, where are you working at the moment? W: (10) Well, Ive got a job as a shorthand-typist. But Im not eijoying it very much and it doesnt pay very well. M; I see. Have you applied for any other jobs? W: Yes. I thought Id like to be a policewoman. But they turned me down because I was too short. M: What would you like to do now, then? W: Well, I think Id like to work in a travel agency. M: I see. (11) I think the best thing is for me to see what we might find for you. And then. 8lRff5t;n i wanted column, she, tour guide, policewoman job education, school m college *$n,m 8 . How d i d t h e woman g e t t o know a b o u t t h e man s c o m p a n y ? 9. What f o r m a l e d u c a t i o n d i d t h e woman r e c e i v e ? C)o South Town 18 0 frMW, C) o 1 0 . What d o we l e a r n a b o u t t h e woman s o c c u p a t i o n ? a) mnm *iwj?mmc fir*wmift, nmm s b ii a)0 1 1 . What w i l l t h e man p r o b a b l y d o n e x t ? b) 0 B itte n * b) 0 | | C o n v e r s a t i o n Two | W: Steve, can you tell me how long youve been a pub owner? M: Well, four years, I suppose. (12) Ive been involved with pubs off and on for ten years. Ive sort of done hotel work and Ive also run a restaurant pub. And now Ive got what you call a good old-fashioned pub. (13) That is, a public bar, with all the social games going with it, which is what weve always wanted to have, you know. W: It sounds like youve always worked in pubs, but not always in this one. M: No, no. I worked in quite a variety of pubs. 2015.12/12 m i m W: What makes a good pub? I mean, you said, you know, it has got a good variety of things. M: Well, (14) I think having the right customers to start with, selling the right beer, keeping it good, and most of all, keeping a good attitude yourself, even though you probably feel very tired. But the idea is, if you generate from your side, its got to affect the other side, if youre getting the right customers in. W: Yeah. I must say thats one thing that has always struck me about being a pub owner. I mean, a lot of people seem to think that its a nice job, you know. Everybody says, “Oh, Id love to retire and get a country pub. ” (15 ) But it seems to me that its actually very hard work. M Mi M 12 1 41 W career opportunities fPH 15 M4* W tough job, pTIU IffXtig 1 2 . What d o e s t h e man s a y a b o u t h i s i n v o l v e m e n t w i t h p u b s ? 1 3 . What c h a r a c t e r i z e s t h e o l d - f a s h i o n e d p u b , a c c o r d i n g t o t h e man? 1 4 . What d o e s t h e man s a y i s m o s t i m p o r t a n t i n m a k i n g a g o o d p u b ? WE) c o m m u n i c a t e d i h i , i f f i ; G) e x p e r i e n c e s J ) o c c u r s f t i S ! ; a ; L ) r e a l i z e iURPJ;$l!;M) r e d u c e R M f t ; /h;N) s a w J M E . S J f t A ) a d d i t i o n a l a s s o c i a t e d (Hi,O) s p e c i f i c 2015.12/15(2) SIJ 18: H) globally # tfs;I) logically 26. N ) saw0 9rW1|i, tfeSo A) additional“M h iM ,UtiDK)” A) additional,B) associated fq O) specific, nI ii? $f:|Bl,lSCfflii,#C#lo 34. M) reduceo WkWffl SfiPlfsSS-ti:f-ft3i.ji.jEft-0 .-eLjfcft-#; jfcft-|f-#fti i# o 16 t T o f fiM + ft#-?-*? iJt*#AtfiR: 4Hifc- * ft-io * # # Sft $ # fl- % i t 14% admit to not enjoying kitchen work and just 7% wont go near the stove at all. But this doesnt necessarily translate to real cooking, and the result of this survey shouldnt surprise anyone: 52% o f t h o s e 6 5 o r o l d e r cook at home five or more times per week; o n l y a t h i r d o f y o u n g people do. I l l F)gifSPiii3MT BtmBAamEfcflHS every time you cook, you a d v a n c e your level of skills. Someday you wont even need recipes. My advice is that you not pay attention to the number of steps and ingredients, because they can be deceiving. Will 40. In the mid-20th century, most families ate dinner at home instead of eating out. f by not cooking at home, were not eating the right things, and the c o n s e q u e n c e s are hard to overstate. 2015.12 / 19jjg2jg) fjRSaWPa all you need is real food. Im not saying local food isnt better; it is. But there is plenty of decent food in the grocery stores. a b# o =#t m mm m utt 44. We get a fairly large portion of calories from fast food and snacks. WfrMUL i M T 4* M calories, fast foodfn snacks /El33CM C )g li C) And yet we arent cooking. If you eat three meals a day and behave like most Americans, you probably get at least a third of your daily calories (outside the home. Nearly two-thirds of us grab fast food once a week, and we get almost 25% of our daily calories from snacks. So were eating out or taking in, and we dont sit downor we do, but we hurry. a a * i 25% 0C)o 45. The popularity of TV led to the popularity of frozen food. popularity, TV m frozen food t# H) H) Although frozen dinners were invented in the 40s, their popularity didnt boom until televisions became popular a decade or so later. Since then, packaged, pre-prepared meals have been whats for dinner. The microwave and fast-food chains were the biggest catalysts (), but the big food companieswhich want to sell anything except the raw ingredients that go into cooking-made the home cook an endangered species. mnm 40 m m * H 0 Section C Passage One (46) f A (49/50) . fe ft ft D ) -aaiifc6” ,-5*a*Aiu*0W“*#gttftife*r 48. D)0 W makes the author feel uncomfortable : But across society, the abstraction of the idea of cash makes me uneasy. Maybe Im just old-fashioned. But earning money isnt quick or easy for most of us. Isnt it a bit weird that spending it should happen in half a blink (BiBd) of an eye? d) 0 jt # *m S ,0 J lt # lt ;B ) “j l s 49. A ) o iHPptfM why fO whats happening to the wallet JgfiMUHSHzipJ: What bothers me about the death of the wallet is the change it represents in our physical environment. IBrWffl whats happening to the wallet riPF3cw*fto (EZD b) iviitAttM fm #ft*f L - f r ; p - fit, .ft W sleeping habits ft PJ Hft: Everybody sleeps, but what people stay up late to catchor wake up early in order not to missvaries by culture. H#M ;:*-KHaAnttiR-5:fcte,-D) Mgmxi i H T t1 W a device to record their sleep patterns /Efif!lII/H SH -x-feJ: .not everyone has a device to record their sleep patterns.only the richest people do. And people who elect to track their sleep may try to get more sleep than the average person. WISo BPEAiBJl Bfl8K*tgMI)fC0MS3lftll8MJt*Sll*B) d) t a M is n s B t iH i .issim 55. B) o Sl/H i S: .people who elect to track their sleep may try to get more sleep than the average person. If the most health-conscious among us have such deep swings in our shut- eye levels throughout the year, how much sleep are the rest of us losing? m n m juaggmB. * * * * !aa c) “ w m tn wwiKfewgi:”, m d ) “ a nmvc n mmmMomm vaiy veari v. l -N?. hit the hay j Part IV Translation Lijiang, an ancient town in Yunnan Province, is one of the most famous tourist attractions in China. The life tempo there is slower than that of most Chinese cities. There is beautiful natural scenery everywhere in Lijiang, and many minorities provide tourists with various and colorful cultural experience. It has also been known as the “ City of Love” in history. Numerous legends about people who were bom for love and died for love circulate among the local folk. Nowadays, this ancient town is r