12月英语四级真题试卷一完整版(文字版)(2)

1、12月英语四级真题试卷一完整版(文字版)(2) xx年12月英语四级真题试卷一完整版(文字版) Passage Three Questions 23 to 25 are based on the passage you have just heard. 23. A) He had only a third-grade education. B) He once threatened to kill his teacher. C) He grew up in a poor ? D) He often helped his ? 24.A) Careless. B) Stupid. C) Brave

2、. D) Active. 25.A) Write two book reports a week. B) Keep a diary. C) Help with housework. D) Watch education? Section C Directions:In this section, you will hear a passage three times. When the passage is read for the first time, you should listen carefully for its general idea. When the passage is

3、 read for the second time, you are required to fill in the blanks with the exact words you have just heard. Finally, 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 bodies out there besides the mo

4、on and stars. One of the most of this is a et. Comets were formed around the same the earth was formed. They are made up of ice and other frozen liquids and gasses. these dirty snow balls begin to orbit the sun just as the plas do. As a et gets closer to the sun, some gasses in it begin to unfreeze.

5、 They bine with dust particles from the et to form a huge cloud. As the et gets even nearer to the sun and solar wind blows the cloud behind the et thus forming its tail. The tail and generally fuzzy atmosphere around the et are that can help this phenomenon in the night sky. In any given year，about

6、 dozen known ets e close to the sun in their orbits. The average person cant see them all of course. Usually there is only one or two a year bright enough to be seen with the _eye. Comet Hale-Bopp discovered in 1995 was an unusually bright et. Its orbit bought it _to the earth within 122 million mil

7、es of it. But Hale-Bopp came a long way on its earthly visit. It wont be back for another 4 thousand years or so. Part 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 choic

8、es 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 word

9、s in the bank more than once. Questions 36 to 45 are based on the following passage. For many Americans, xx ended with an unusually bitter cold spell. November and December 36 early snow and bone-chilling temperatures in much of the country, part of a year when, for the first time in two 37 , record

10、-cold days will likely turn out to have outnumbered record-warm ones. But the U.S. was the exception; November was the warmest ever 38 , and current data indicates that xx is likely to have been the fourth hottest year on record. Enjoy the snow now, because 39 are good that xx will be even hotter, p

11、erhaps the hottest year since records have been kept. Thats because, scientists are predicting, xx will be an EI Niuo year. EI niuo, Spanish for “the child”, 40 when surface ocean waters in the southern Pacific bee abnormally warm. So large is the Pacific, covering 30% of the plas surface, that the

12、41 energy generated by its warming is enough to touch off a series of weather changes around the world. EI Ninos are 42 with abnormally dry conditions in Southeast Asia and Australia. They can lead to extreme rain in parts of North and South America, even as southern Africa 43 dry weather. Marine li

13、fe may be affected too; EI Ninos can 44 the rising of the cold, nutrient-rich(营养丰富的)water that supports large fish 45 ,and the unusually warm ocean temperatures can destroy coral(珊瑚). 注意：此部分试题请在答题卡2上作答。 Section B Directions:In this section, you are going to read a passage with ten statements attache

14、d 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 question by marking the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 2. The

15、 Perfect Essay A) Looking back on too many years of education, I can identify one truly impossible teacher. She cared about me, and my in _ectual life, even when I didnt. Her expectations were highimpossibly 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