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1、2013年12月大学英语四级考试真题（第3套）Part I Writing （30 minutes）Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a short essay based on the picture below. You should start your essay with a brief account of the impact of the Internet on the way people communicate and then explain whether electronic
2、communication can replace face-to-face contact. You should write at least 120 words but no more than 180 words._Part II Listening Comprehension （30 minutes）Section ADirections: In this section, you will hear 8 short conversations and 2 long conversations. At the end of each conversation, one or more
3、 questions will be asked about what was said. Both the conversation 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 answer. Then mark the corresponding lette
4、r on Answer Sheet 1 with a single line through the centre.1.A)Plan his budget carefully. C)Ask someone else for advice.B)Give her more information. D)Buy a gift for his girlfriend.2.A)Shell have some chocolate cake. C)Shell go without dessert.B)Shell take a look at the menu. D)Shell prepare the dinn
5、er.3.A)The man can speak a foreign language. C)The woman knows many different languages.B)The woman hopes to improve her English. D)The man wishes to visit many more countries.4.A)Go to the library. C)See Prof. Smith.B)Meet the woman. D)Have a drink in the bar.5.A)She isnt sure when Prof. Bloom will
6、 be back. C)The man can come back sometime later.B)The man shouldnt be late for his class. D)She can pass on the message for the man.6.A)He has a strange personality. C)His illness is beyond cure.B)Hes got emotional problems. D)His behavior is hard to explain.7.A)The tickets are more expensive than
7、expected.B)The tickets are sold in advance at half price.C)Its difficult to buy the tickets on the spot.D)Its better to buy the tickets beforehand.8. A)He turned suddenly and ran into a tree. B)He was hit by a fallen box from a truck. C)He drove too fast and crashed into a truck. D)He was trying to
8、overtake the truck ahead of him.Questions 9 to 11 are based on the conversation you have just heard.9. A)To go boating on the St. Lawrence River. C)To call on a friend in Quebec City. B)To go sightseeing in Quebec Province. D)To attend a wedding in Montreal.10.A)Study the map of Quebec Province. C)B
9、rush up on her French. B)Find more about Quebec City. D)Learn more about the local customs.11.A) Its most beautiful in summer. B)It has many historical buildings. C)It was greatly expanded in the 18th century. D)Its the only French-speaking city in Canada. Questions 12 to 15 are based on the convers
10、ation you have just heard.12.A)It was about a little animal. C)It was adapted from a fairy tale. B)It took her six years to write. D)It was about a little girl and her pet.13.A)She knows how to write best-selling novels. B)She can earn a lot of money by writing for adults. C)She is able to win enoug
11、h support from publishers. D)She can make a living by doing what she likes.14.A)The characters. C)Her ideas. B)The readers. D)Her life experiences.15.A)She doesnt really know where they originated. B)She mainly drew on stories of ancient saints. C)They popped out of her childhood dreams. D)They grew
12、 out of her long hours of thinking.Section BDirections: In this section, you will hear 3 short passages. At the end of each passage, you will hear some questions. Both the passage and the questions will be spoken only once. After you hear a question, you must choose the best answer from the four cho
13、ices marked A）, B）, C） and D）. Then mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 1 with a single line through the centre.Passage OneQuestions 16 to 18 are based on the passage you have just heard.16.A)Monitor students sleep patterns. C)Record students weekly performance. B)Help students concentrate
14、 in class. D)Ask students to complete a sleep report.17.A)Declining health. C)Loss of motivation. B)Lack of attention. D)Improper behavior.18.A)They should make sure their children are always punctual for school. B)They should ensure their children grow up in a healthy environment. C)They should hel
15、p their children accomplish high-quality work. D)They should see to it that their children have adequate sleep.Passage TwoQuestions 19 to 22 are based on the passage you have just heard.19.A)She stopped being a homemaker. C)She became a public figure. B)She became a famous educator. D)She quit drivi
16、ng altogether.20.A)A motorists speeding. C)Her lack of driving experience. B)Her running a stop sign. D)A motorists failure to concentrate.21.A)Nervous and unsure of herself. C)Courageous and forceful. B)Calm and confident of herself. D)Distracted and reluctant.22.A)More strict training of women dri
17、vers. B)Restrictions on cell phone use while driving. C)Improved traffic conditions in cities. D)New regulations to ensure childrens safety.Passage ThreeQuestions 23 to 25 are based on the passage you have just heard.23.A)They havent devoted as much energy to medicine as to space travel. B)There are
18、 too many kinds of cold viruses for them to identify. C)It is not economical to find a cure for each type of cold. D)They believe people can recover without treatment.24.A)They reveal the seriousness of the problem. C)They tell us what kind of medicine to take. B)They indicate how fast the virus spr
19、eads. D)They show our body is fighting the virus.25.A)It actually does more harm than good. B)It causes damage to some organs of our body. C)It works better when combined with other remedies. D)It helps us to recover much sooner.Section CDirections: In this section, you will hear a passage three tim
20、es. When the passage is read for the first time, you should listen carefully for its general idea. When the passage is 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 wha
21、t you have written.You probably have noticed that people express similar ideas in different ways, depending on the situation they are in. This is very 26 .All languages have two general levels of usage: a formal level and an informal level. English is no 27 .The difference in these two levels is the
22、 situation in which you use a 28 level. Formal language is the kind of language you find in textbooks, 29 , and in business letters. You would also use formal English in compositions and 30 that you write in school. Informal language is used in conversation with colleagues, family members and friend
23、s, and when we write 31 notes or letters to close friends.Formal language is different from informal language 32 .First, formal language tends to be more polite. What we may find interesting is that it usually takes more words to be polite. For example, I might say to a friend or a family member, Cl
24、ose the door, please.”but to a 33 ，I probably would say, Would you mind closing the door?Another difference between formal and informal language is some of the 34 .There are bound to be some words and phrases that 35 formal language and others that are informal. Lets say that I really like soccer. I
25、f Im talking to my friend, I might say Im just crazy about soccer!”But if I were talking to my boss, I would probably say I really enjoy soccer.”Part III Reading Comprehension （40 minutes）Section ADirections: In this section, there is a passage with ten blanks. You are required to select one word fo
26、r 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. Please mark the corresponding letter for each item on Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through the centre
27、. You may not use any of the words in the bank more than once.Questions 36 to 45 are based on the following passage.The mobile phone is a magic device widely used these days. Although it has been nearly 30 years since the first commercial mobile-phone network was launched, advertisers have yet to fi
28、gure out how to get their 36 out to mobile-phone users in a big way. There are 2.2 billion cell-phone users worldwide, a _ 37 that is growing by about 25% each year. Yet spending on ads carried over cell- phone networks last year 38 to just $ 1.5 billion worldwide, a fraction of the $ 424 billion gl
29、obal ad market.But as the number of eyeballs glued to 39 screens multiplies, so too does the mobile phones value as a pocket billboard (广告牌). Consumers are 40 using their phones for things other than voice calls, such as text messaging, downloading songs and games, and 41 the Internet. By2010, 70 mi
30、llion Asians are expected to be watching videos and TV programs on mobile phones. All of these activities give advertisers 42 options for reaching audiences. During soccers World Cup last summer, for example, Adidas used real-time scores and games to _43 thousands of fans to a website set up for mob
31、ile-phone access. Our target audience was males aged 17 to 25, says Marcus Spurrell, Adidas regional manager for Asia. Their mobiles are always on, always in their pocketyou just cant 44 cell phones as an advertising tool. Mobile-phone marketing has become as 45 a platform as TV, online or print. A)
32、accessing I)increasinglyB)amounted J)messagesC)approaching K)patientlyD)attract L)tinyE)casual M)total .F)characters N)violatedG)fresh O)vitalH)ignoreSection BDirections: In this section, you are going to read a passage with ten statements attached to it. Each statement contains information given in
33、 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 questions by marking the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 2.A Mess on the Ladder of SuccessA)Throughout American his
34、tory there has almost always been at least one central economic narrative that gave the ambitious or unsatisfied reason to pack up and seek their fortune elsewhere. For the first 300 or so years of European settlement, the story was about moving outward: getting immigrants to the continent and then
35、to the frontier to clear the prairies (大草原), drain the wetlands and build new cities.B)By the end of the 19th century, as the frontier vanished, the US had a mild panic attack. What would this energetic, enterprising country be without new lands to conquer? Some people, such as Teddy Roosevelt, deci
36、ded to keep on conquering ( Cuba, the Philippines, etc. ) , but eventually, in industrialization, the US found a new narrative of economic mobility at home. From the 1890s to the 1960s, people moved from farm to city, first in the North and then in the South. In fact, by the 1950s, there was enough
37、prosperity and white-collar work that many began to move to the suburbs. As the population aged, there was also a shift from the cold Rust Belt to the comforts of the Sun Belt. We think of this as an old persons migration, but it created many jobs for the young in construction and health care, not t
38、o mention tourism, retail and restaurants.C)For the last 20 yearsfrom the end of the cold war through two burst bubbles in a single decade the US has been casting about for its next economic narrative. And now it is experiencing another period of panic, which is bad news for much of the workforce bu
39、t particularly for its youngest members.D)The US has always been a remarkably mobile country, but new data from the Census Bureau indicate that mobility has reached its lowest level in recorded history. Sure, some people are stuck in homes valued at less than their mortgages (抵押贷款) , but many young
40、peoplewho dont own homes and dont yet have familiesare staying put, too. This suggests, among other things, that people arent packing up for new economic opportunities the way they used to. Rather than dividing the country into the percenters versus (与相对) everyone else, the split in our economy is r
41、eally between two other classes: the mobile and immobile.E)Part of the problem is that the countrys largest industries are in decline. In the past, it was perfectly clear where young people should go for work ( Chicago in the 1870s, Detroit in the 1910s, Houston in the 1970s) and, more or less, what
42、 theyd be doing when they got there ( killing caffle, building cars, selling oil). And these industries were large enough to offer jobs to each class of worker, from unskilled laborer to manager or engineer. Today, the few bright spots in our economy are relatively small ( though some promise future
43、 growth) and decentralized. There are great jobs in Silicon Valley, in the biotech research capitals of Boston and Raleigh-Durham and in advanced manufacturing plants along the southern I-85 corridor. These companies recruit all over the country and the globe for workers with specific abilities. (You dont need to be the next Mark Zuckerberg, founder of Facebook, to get a job in one of the microhubs(微中心) , by