2015年12月大学英语四级考试真题及解析卷一

1、2015年12月大学英语四级考试真题及解析（卷一）Part I Writing ( 30 minutes)For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write an essay commenting on the saying "Learning is a daily experienee and lifetime mission.” You can cite examples to illustrate the importa nee of life long lear ning. You should write at least

2、120 words but no more tha n 180 words.Part II Listening Comprehension ( 30 minutes)Sectio n ADirections: In this secti on, you will hear 8 short con versati ons and 2 long con versati ons. At the end of each con versati on, one or more questi ons will be asked about what was said. Both the conversat

3、ion and the questions will be spoken only once. After each question there will be a pause. During the pause, you must read the four choices marked A), B), C) and D), and decide which is the best an swer. Then mark the corresp onding letter on An swer Sheet 1 with a sin gle line through the cen tre.1

4、. A) They admire the courage of space explorers.B) They enjoyed the movie on space exploratio n.C) They were going to watch a won derful movie.D) They like doing scie ntific explorati on very much.2. A) At a gift shop.B) At a graduati on ceremony.C) In the office of a travel age ncy.D) In a school l

5、ibrary.3. A) He used to work in the art gallery.B) He does not have a good memory.C) He decli ned a job offer form the art gallery.D) He is not in terested in any part-time jobs.4. A) Susa n has bee n in vited to give a lecture tomorrow.B) He will go to the birthday party after the lecture.C) The wo

6、ma n should have in formed him earlier.D) He will be un able to atte nd the birthday party.5. A) Reward those havi ng made good progress.B) Set a deadli ne for the staff to meet.C) Assig n more workers to the project.D) En courage the staff to work in small groups.6. A) The way to the visitor '

7、s parking.B) The rate for park ing in Lot C.C) How far away the park ing lot is.D) Where she can leave her car.7. A) He regrets miss ing the classes.B) He pla ns to take the fitn ess classes.C) He is look ing forward to a better life.D) He has ben efited form exercise.8. A) How to ? work efficie ncy

8、.B) How to select secretaries.C) The resp on sibilities of secretaries.D) The secretaries in the man ' s company.Con versati on OneQuesti ons 9 to 11 are based on the con versati on you have just heard.9. A) It is more difficult to lear n tha n En glish.B) It is used by more people tha n En glis

9、h.C) It will be as com monly used as En glish.D) It will even tually become a world Ian guage.10. A) It has words words from many Ian guages,B) Its popularity with the com mon people.C) The in flue nee of the British Empire.D) The effect of the In dustrial Revoluti on.11. A) It in cludes a lot of wo

10、rds form other Ian guages.B) It has a grow ing nu mber of n ewly coined words,C) It can be easily picked up by overseas travelers.D) It is the largest among all la nguages in the world.Con versati on 2Questi ons 12 to 15 are based on the con versati on you have just heard.12. A) To retur n some good

11、s.B) To apply for a job.C) To place an order.D) To make a compla int.13. A) He has become somewhat impatie nt with the woma n.B) He is not familiar with the exact details of goods.C) He has not worked in the sales departme nt for long.D) He works on a part-time basis for the compa ny.14. A) It is no

12、t his resp on sibility.B) It will be free for large orders.C) It costs 15 more for express delivery.D) It depe nds on a nu mber of factors.15. A) Report the in formatio n to her superior.B) Pay a visit to the saleswoma n in charge.C) Ring back whe n she comes to a decisi on.D) Make inq uiries with s

13、ome other compa ni es.Sectio n BDirections: In this secti on, you will hear 3 short passages. At the end of each passage, you will hear some questi ons. Both the passage and the questi ons will be spoke n only once. After you hear a questi on, you must choose the best an swer from the four choices m

14、arked A), B), C) and D ). Then mark the corresp onding letter on An swer Sheet I with a sin gle line through the cen tre.Passage OneQuesti ons 16 to 18 are based on the passage you have just heard.16. A) No one knows exactly where they were ?B) No one knows for sure whe n thy came into being.C) No o

15、ne knows for what purpose they were ?D) No one knows what they will ?17. A) Carry ropes across rivers.B) Measure the speed of wind.C) Pass on secret messages.D) Give warnings of dan ger.18. A) To protect houses aga in st light ning.B) To test the effects of the light ning rod.C) To find out the stre

16、 ngth of silk for kites.D) To prove the light ning is electricity.Passage TwoQuesti ons 19 to 22 are based on the passage you have just heard.19. A) She enjoys teach ing Ian guages.B) She can speak several la nguages.C) She was trained to be an in terpreter.D) She was born with a tale nt for Ian gua

17、ges.20. A) They acquire an immu nity to culture shock.B) They would like to live abroad perma nen tly.C) They want to lear n as many foreig n Ian guages as possible.D) They have an intense in terest in cross-cultural in teracti ons.21. A) She became an expert in horse raci ng.B) She got a cha nee to

18、 visit several Europea n coun tries.C) She was able to tran slate for a Germa n sports judge.D) She lear ned to appreciate classical music.22. A) Taste the beef and give her comme nt.B) Take part in a cook ing competiti on.C) Teach vocabulary for food in ?D) Give cooki ng less ons on ?Passage ThreeQ

19、uesti ons 23 to 25 are based on the passage you have just heard.23. A) He had only a third-grade educati on.B) He once threate ned to kill his teacher.C) He grew up in a poor ?D) He ofte n helped his ?24. A) Careless.B) Stupid.C) Brave.D) Active.25. A) Write two book reports a week.B) Keep a diary.C

20、) Help with housework.D) Watch educatio n?Sectio n CDirections: In this secti on, you will hear a passage three times. When the passage is read for the first time, you should liste n carefully for its gen eral idea. When the passage is read for the second time, you are required to fill in the blanks

21、 with the exact words you have just heard. Fin ally, whe n the passage is read for the third time, you should check what you have writte n.When you look up at the night sky, what do you see? There are other bodies out there besides the moon and stars. One of the most of this is a comet. Comets were

22、formed around the same the earth was formed. They are made up of ice and other froze n liquids and gasses. these dirty snow balls begi n to orbit the sun just as the pla nets do. As a comet gets closer to the sun, some gasses in it beg in to un freeze. They comb ine with dust particles from the come

23、t to form a huge cloud. As the comet gets even n earer to the sun and solar wind blows the cloud behi nd the comet thus forming its tail. The tail and gen erally fuzzy atmosphere around the comet are that can help this phe nomenon in the ni ght sky .In any give n year , about doze n known comets com

24、e close to the sun in their orbits. The average person can ' t see them all of course. Usually there is only one or two a year bright eno ugh to be see n with the eye. Comet Hale-Boppdiscovered in 1995 was an unusually bright comet. Its orbit bought it to the earth with in 122 milli on miles of

25、it. But Hale-Bopp came a long way on its earthly visit. It won ' t be back for ano ther 4 thousa nd years or so.Part 山 Reading Comprehension (40 minutes)Sectio n ADirections: In this secti on, there is a passage with ten bla nks. You are required to select one word for each blank from a list of

26、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 cen tre. You may not use any of th

27、e words in the bank more tha n once.Questi ons 36 to 45 are based on the follow ing passage.For many America ns, 2013 en ded with an unu sually bitter cold spell. November and December 36 early snow and bon e-chilli ng temperatures in much of the coun try, part of a year when, for the first time in

28、two 37 , record-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 curre nt data in dicates that 2013 is likely to have bee n the fourth hottest year on record.Enjoy the snow now, because 39 are good that 2014 w

29、ill be even hotter, perhaps the hottest year since records have been kept. That ' s because, scientists are predicting, 2014 will be an EI Niuo year.EI niuo, Spanish for “ the child ” , 40 when surface ocean waters in the southern Pacific become abnormally warm. So large is the Pacific, covering

30、 30% of the planet ' s surface, that the 41 en ergy gen erated by its warm ing is eno ugh to touch off a series of weather cha nges 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,

31、 even as southern Africa 43 dry weather. Marine life 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。A) additional1) logtcakyBj aS5O<iatedJj occ

32、urs口 borekj populationsDj chancesL) realizeEj communicatedreduceFi decadesNJ 5a?.Gj peneiKesOj specificHj globallySection BDirections: In this secti on, you are going to read a passage with ten stateme nts attached to it. Each stateme nt contains in formatio n give n in one of the paragraphs. Ide nt

33、ify the paragraph from which the in formatio n is derived. You may choose a paragraph more tha n once. Each paragraph is marked with a letter. An swer the questi on by mark ing the corresp onding letter on An swer Sheet 2.The Perfect EssayA）Look ing back on too many years of educati on, I can ide nt

34、ify one truly impossible teacher. She cared about me, and my intellectual life, even when I didn ' t. Her expectations were high impossibly so. She was an En glish teacher. She was also my mother.B）When good stude nts turn in an essay, they dream of their in structor retur ning it to themin exac

35、tly the same condition, save for a single word added in the margin of the final page.“ Flawless.” This dream came true for me one after noon in the ninth grade. Of course, I had heard that genius could show itself at an early age, so I was only slightly take n aback that I had achieved perfect ion a

36、t the ten der age of 14. Obviously, I did what and professi onal writer would do; I hurried off to spread the good news. I didn ' t get very far. The first person I told was my mother.C）My mother, who is just shy of five feet tall, is no rmally in credibly soft-spoke n, but on the rare occasi on

37、 whe n she got an gry, she was terrify in g. I am not sure if she was more upset by my hubris（得意忘形）or by the fact that my English teacher had let my ego get so out of hand. In and event. My mother and her red pen showed me how deeply flawed a flaw less essay could be. Atthe time, I am sure she thoug

38、ht she was teaching me about mechanics, transitions（过渡）, structure, style and voice. But what I lear ned, and what stuck with me through my time teach ing writ ing at Harvard, was a deeper less on about the n ature of creative criticism.D）First off, it hurts. Genuine criticism, the type that leaves

39、a lasti ng mark on you as a writer, also leaves an existential imprint（ E卩i己）on you as a person. I have heard people say that a writer should n ever take criticism pers on ally. I say that we should n ever liste n to these people.E）Criticism, at its best, is deeply pers on al, and gets to the heart

40、of why we write the way we do. The intimate nature of genuine criticism implies something about who is able to give it, n amely, some one who knows you well eno ugh to show you how your men tal life is gett ing in the way of good writi ng. Convenien tly, they are also the people who care eno ugh to

41、see you through this painful realization. For me it took the form of my first, and I hope only, encounter with writer' s block I was not able to produce anything for three years.F）Franz Kafka once said; “Writing is utter solitude（ 独处）,the descent into the cold abyss（深渊 ）of on eself. ” My mother

42、' s criticism had show n me that Kafka is right about the cold abyss, and when you make the introspective（内省的）descent that writing requires you are not alwayspleased by what you find. But, i n the years that followed, her susta ined tutori ng suggested thatKafka might be wrong about the solitude

43、, I was lucky eno ugh to find a critic and teacher who was willing to make the journey of writing with me. “ It is a thing of no great difficulty. ” according to Plutarch, “ to raise object ions aga inst ano ther man ' s speech. it is a very easy matter, but to produce a better in its place is a

44、 work extremely troublesome. ” I am sure I wrote essays in the later years of high school without my mother ' s guidanee, but I can' t recall them. What I remember, however, is how she took up the “extremely troublesome ” work of ongoing criticism.G）There are two ways to in terpret Plutarch

45、whe n he suggests that a critic should be able to produce “ a better in its place. ” In a straightforward sense, he could mean that a critic must be more talented than the artist she critiques（ 评论）.My mother was well covered on this count. But perhaps Plutarch is suggesting something slightly differ

46、ent, something a bit closer to Marcus Cicero' s claim that one should “ criticize by creation, not by finding fault. ” Genuine criticism creates a precious ope ning for an author to become better on his own terms a process that is ofte n extremely pain ful, but also almost always meanin gful.H）M

47、y mother said she would help me with my writ ing, but first I had to help myself. For each assig nmen t, I was to write the best essay I could. Real criticism is not meant to find obvious mistakes, so if she found anythe type I could have found on my own I had to start from scratch. From scratch. On

48、ce the essay was “ flawless, ” she would take an evening to walk me through my errors. That was whe n true criticism, the type that cha nged me as a pers on, bega n.I）She criticized me whe n I in cluded little-k nown references and professi on al jarg on（ 行话）. She had no patienee for brilliant but i

49、rrelevant figures of speech. “ Writers can ' t bluff（虚张声 势）their way through ignorance. ” That was news to me I would need to find another way to structure my daily existe nee.J）She trimmed back my flowery Ianguage, drew lines through my exclamation marks and argued for the value of restraint in

50、 expression. “ John,” she almost whispered. I leaned in to hear her: "I can' t hear you when you shout at me. ” So I stopped shouting and bluffing, and slowly my writ ing improved.K）Somewhere along the way I set aside my hopes of writi ng that flawless essay. But perhaps I missed something

51、important in my mother ' s lessons about creativity and perfection. Perhaps the point of writhi ng the flawless essay was not to give up, but to n ever willi ngly fini sh. Whitma n repeatedly reworked “ song of Myself ” between 1855 and 1891. Repeatedly. We do our absolute best with a piece of w

52、rit ing, and come as close as we can to the ideal. And, for the time being, we settle. In critique, however, we are forced to depart, to give up the perfecti on we thought we had achieved for the cha nee of being eve n a little bit better. This is the less on I took from my mother:If perfect ion wer

53、e possible, it would not be motivati ng.注意：此部分试题请在答题卡2上作答。46. The author was advised aga inst the improper use of figures of speech.47. The author ' s mother taught him a valuable less on by poin ti ng out lots of flaws in his seem in gly perfect essay.48. A writer should polish his writi ng rep

54、eatedly so as to get closer to perfect ion.49. Writers may experienee periods of time in their life when they just can' t produce anything.50. The author was not much surprised when his school teacher marked his essay as “flawless ” .51. Criticiz ing some one ' s speech is said to be easier

55、tha n coming up with a better one.52. The author looks upon his mother as his most dema nding and cari ng in structor.53. The criticism the author received from his mother cha nged his as a pers on.54. The author gradually improved his writ ing by avoidi ng fancy Ian guage.55. Con structive criticis

56、m gives an author a good start to improve his writ ing.Sectio n CPassage OneQuesti ons 56 to 60 are based on the follow ing passage.The wallet is heading for extinction. As a day-to-day essential, it will die off with the generation who read print newspapers. The kind of shopping-where you hand over

57、 notes and count out change in return now happens only in the most minor of our retail encounters , like buying a bar of chocolate or a pint of milk from a comer shop. At the shops where you spe nd any real mon ey, that money is in creas in gly abstracted. And this is more and more true, the higher

58、up the scale you go. At the most cutt in g-edge retail stores Victoria Beckham on Dover Street, for instanee you don ' t go and stand at any kind of cash register when you decide to pay. The staff are equipped with iPads to take your payme nt while you relax on a sofa.Which is nothing more or less than excellent service, if you have the money. But across society, the abstract ion of the idea of cash makes me un easy. Maybe I ' m just old-fashi on ed. But earning money isn ' t quick or easy for most of us. Isn ' t it a bit weird that spending it should happen in half a bl