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2014年12月大学英语四级考试预测试卷
Part I Writing (30 minutes)
Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a short essay. You should start your essay with abrief description of the picture and then express your views on food safety problems. You should write at least120 words but no more than 180 words.
Part II Listening
1.A.Give his ankle a good rest.
B.Treat his injury immediately.
C.Continue his regular activities.
D.Be careful when climbing steps.
2、
A.On a train.
B.On a plane.
C.In a theater.
D.In a restaurant.
3、
A.A tragic accident.
B.A sad occasion.
C.Smith's unusual life story.
D.Smith's sleeping problem.
4、
A.Review the details of all her lessons.
B.ComPare notes with his classmates.
C.Talk with her about his learning problems.
D.Focus on the main points of her lectures.
5、
A.The man blamed the woman for being careless.
B.The man misunderstood the woman's apology.
C.The woman offered to pay for the man's coffee.
D.The woman spilt coffee on the man's jacket.
6、
A.Extremely tedious.
B.Hard to understand.
C.Lacking a good plot.
D.Not worth seeing twice.
7、
A.Attending every lecture.
B.Doing lots of homework.
C.Reading very extensively.
D.Using test-taking strategies.
8、
A.The digital TV system will offer different programs.
B.He is eager to see what the new system is like.
C.He thinks it unrealistic to have 500 channels.
D.The new TV system may not provide anything better.
9、Conversation One.
听材料，回答下列问题：
A.A notice by the electricity board.
B.Ads promoting electric appliances.
C.The description of a thief in disguise.
D.A new policy on pensioners' welfare.
10、
A.Speaking with a proper accent.
B.Wearing an official uniform.
C.Making friends with them.
D.Showing them his ID.
11、
A.To be on the alert when being followed.
B.Not to leave senior citizens alone at home.
C.Not to let anyone in without an appointment.
D.To watch out for those from the electricity board.
12、
A.She was robbed near the parking lot.
B.All her money in the bank disappeared.
C.The pension she had just drawn was stolen.
D.She was knocked down in the post office.
13、Conversation Two.
听材料，回答下列各题：
A.Marketing consultancy.
B.Professional accountancy.
C.Luxury hotel management.
D.Business conference organization.
14、
A.Having a good knowledge of its customs.
B.Knowing some key people in tourism.
C.Having been to the country before.
D.Being able to speak Japanese.
15、
A.It will bring her potential into full play.
B.It will involve lots of train travel.
C.It will enable her to improve her Chinese.
D.It will give her more chances to visit Japan
16、Passage One.
听材料，回答下列各题：
A.The lack of time.
B.The quality of life.
C.The frustrations at work.
D.The pressure on working families.
17、
A.They were just as busy as people of today.
B.They saw the importance of collective efforts.
C.They didn't complain as much as modem mann
D.They lived a hard lifebyhunting and gathering.
18、
A.To look for creative ideas of awarding employees.
B.To explore strategies for lowering production costs.
C.To seek new approaches to dealing with complaints.
D.To find effective ways to give employees flexibility.
19、Passage Two.
听材料，回答下列各题：
A.Family violence.
B.The Great Depression.
C.Her father's disloyalty.
D.Her mother's bad temper.
20、
A.His advanced age.
B.His children's efforts.
C.His improved financial condition.
D.His second wife's positive influence.
21、
A.Love is blind.
B.Love breeds love.
C.Divorce often has disastrous consequences.
D.Happiness is hard to find in blended families.
22、Passage Three.
听材料，回答下列各题：
A.It was located in a park.
B.Its owner died of a heart attack.
C.It went bankrupt all of a sudden.
D.Its potted plants were for lease only.
23、
A.Planting some trees in the greenhouse.
B.Writing a want ad to a local newspaper.
C.Putting up a Going Out of Business sign.
D.Helping a customer select some purchases.
24、
A.Opening an office in the new office park,
B.Keeping better relations with her company.
C.Developing fresh business opportunities.
D.Building a big greenhouse of his own.
25、
A.Owning the greenhouse one day.
B.Securing a job at the office park.
C.Cultivating more potted plants.
D.Finding customers out of town.
听力填空题
听材料，回答下列各题：
In this section, you will hear a passage three times. When the passage is read for the first time, youshould listen carefully for its general idea. When the passage is read for the second time, you are required to fill inthe blanks with the exact words you have just heard. Finally, when the passage is read for the third time, youshould check what you have written.
Job seekers in Britain say employers are _________26 applicants' degrees and certificates. They are making theirown entrance exams to test ability. They are concerned about decreasing _________27 of job seekers, because manyuniversity graduates with good degrees have shown a terrible _________28 to spell, and work out simple sums.
The chairman of the Standing Conference of Employers of Graduates, told our 29_________ : "We don't look atthe pieces of paper turned in to us, but we look at the people with real abilities." A senior _________ 30 with the Bankof England said that many companies were making their own _________ 31 tests so they could be sure that candidateswere the right people for the job.
In the Civil Service, only about 200 out of 2,000 candidates are chosen after the rest have been _________32 by the Service's own examinations and interviews. Forged certificates, printed in Germany, have been _________ 33 recently. These forged certificates are not easy to 34 _________ the real ones, and can be bought at ~25 apiece.Making fake degrees has also become a highly profitable business. Fake degrees and diplomas, including Ph.D.degrees, can be 35_________ for as little as ~20. Some so-called "universities" and "colleges" are even selling theseattractive diplomas.
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Section A
回答36-46题：
Some years ago I was offered a writing assignment that would require three months of travel through Europe.I had been abroad a couple of times, but I could hardly 36_________to know my way around the continent. Moreover, myknowledge of foreign languages was 37_________ to a little college French.
I hesitated. How would I, unable to speak the language,38 _________ unfamiliar with local geography ortransportation systems, set up 39_________ and do research? It seemed impossible, and with considerable 40_________ I sat downto write a letter begging off. Halfway through, a thought ran through my mind: you can't learn if you don't try. So Iaccepted the assignment.
There were some bad 41_________. But by the time I had finished the trip I was an experienced traveler. And eversince, I have never hesitated to head for even the most remote of places, without guides or even 42_________ bookings,confident that somehow I will manage.
The point is that the new, the different, is almost by definition 43_________. But each time you try something, you
learn, and as the learning piles up, the world opens to you.
I've learned to ski at 40, and flown up the Rhine River in a 44_________. And I know I'll go on doing such things. It'snot because I'm braver or more dating than others. I'm not. But I'll accept anxiety as another name for challengeand I believe I can 45 _________wonders.
A. accomplish I.manufacture
B.advanced J. moments
C.balloon K. news
D.claim L. reduced
E.constantly M. regret
F.declare N.scary
G. interviews O. totally
H. limited
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Section B
回答46-56题：
A. As never before in their long history, universities have become instruments of national competition as wellas instruments of peace. They are the place of the scientific discoveries that move economies forward, andthe primary means of educating the talent required to obtain and maintain competitive advantage. But at thesame time, the opening of national borders to the flow of goods, services, information and especiallypeople has made universities a powerful force for global integration, mutual understanding and geopoliticalstability.
B.In response to the same forces that have driven the world economy, universities have become more self-consciously global: seeking students from around the world who represent the entire range of cultures andvalues, sending their own students abroad to prepare them for global careers, offering courses of study thataddress the challenges of an interconnected world and collaborative (合作的) research programs to advancescience for the benefit of all humanity.
C.Of the forces shaping higher education none is more sweeping than the movement across borders. Over thepast three decades the number of students leaving home each year to study abroad has grown at an annual rateof 3.9 percent, from 800,000 in 1975 to 2.5 million in 2004. Most travel from one developed nation to another,but the flow from developing to developed countries is growing rapidly. The reverse flow from developed todeveloping countries, is on the rise, too. Today foreign students cam 30 percent of the doctoral degreesawarded in the United States and 38 percent of those in the United Kingdom. And the number crossing bordersfor undergraduate study is growing as well, to 8 percent of the undergraduates at America's best institutions andI0 percent of all undergraduates in the U.K. In the United States,20 percent of the newly hired professors inscience and engineering arc foreign-born, and in China many newly hired faculty members at the top researchuniversities received their graduate education abroad.
D.Universities are also encouraging students to spend some of their undergraduate years in another country; InEurope, more than 140,000 students participate in the Erasmus program each year, taking courses for credit inone of 2,200 participating institutions across the continent. And in the United States, institutions are helpingplace students in summer internships (实习) abroad to prepare them for global careers. Yale and Harvard haveled the way, offering every undergraduate at least one international study or internship opportunity--andproviding the financial resources to make it possible.
E. Globalization is also reshaping the way research is done. One new trend involves sourcing portions of aresearch program to another country. Yale professor and Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator TianXu directs a research center focused on the genetics of human disease at Shanghai's Fudan University, incollaboration with faculty colleagues from both schools. The Shanghai center has 95 employees and graduatestudents working in a 4,300-square-meter laboratory facility. Yale faculty, postdoctors and graduate studentsvisit regularly and attend videoconference seminars with scientists from both campuses. The arrangementbenefits both countries; Xu's Yale lab is more productive, thanks to the lower costs of conducting research inChina, and Chinese graduate students, postdoctors and faculty get on-the-job training from a world-classscientist and his U.S. team.
F.As a result of its strength in science, the United States has consistently led the world in the commercializationof major new technologies, from the mainframe computer and integrated circuit of the 1960s to the Internetinfrastructure (基础设施) and applications software of the 1990s. The link between university-based scienceand industrial application is often indirect but sometimes highly visible: Silicon Valley was intentionallycreated by Stanford University, and Route 128 outside Boston has long housed companies spun off from MITand Harvard. Around the world, governments have encouraged copying of this model, perhaps mostsuccessfully in Cambridge, England, where Microsoft and scores of other leading software and biotechnologycompanies have set up shop around the university.
G. For all its success, the United States remains deeply hesitant about sustaining the research-university model~Most politicians recognize the link between investment in science and national economic strength, but supportfor research funding has been unsteady. The budget of the National Institutes of Health doubled between 1998and 2003, but has risen more slowly than inflations since then. Support for the physical sciences andengineering barely kept pace with inflation during that same period. The attempt to make up lost ground iswelcome, but the nation would be better served by steady, predictable increases in science funding at the rate oflong-term GDP growth, which is on the order of inflation plus 3 percent per year.
H.American politicians have great difficulty recognizing that admitting more foreign students can greatly promotethe national interest by in. creasing international understanding. Adjusted for inflation, public funding: forinternational exchanges and foreign-language study is well beloW the levels of 40 yearS ago. In the wake ofSeptember 11, changes in the visa process caused a dramatic decline in'the number of foreign students seeking admission to U.S. universities, and a corresponding surge in enrollments in Australia, Singapore and the U.K.Objections from American university and business leaders led to improvements in the process and a reversal ofthe decline, but the United States is still seen by many as unwelcoming to international students.
I.Most Americans recognize that universities contribute to the nation's well-being through their scientificresearch, but many fear that foreign students threaten American competitiveness by taking their knowledge andskills back home. They fail to grasp that welcoming foreign students to the United States has two importantpositive effects: first, the very best of them stay in the States and--like immigrants throughout history--strengthen the nation; and second, foreign students who study in the United States become ambassadors formany of its most cherished (珍视) values when they return home. Or at least they understand them better. InAmerica as elsewhere, few instruments of foreign policy are as effective in promoting peace and stability aswelcoming international university students.
American universities prepare their undergraduates for global careers by giving them chances for international study or internship.
47、Since the mid-1970s, the enrollment of overseas students has increased at an annual rate of 3.9 percent.
48、The enrollment of international students will have a positive impact on America rather than threaten its competitiveness.
49、The way research is carried out in universities has changed as a result of globalization.
50、Of the newly hired professors in science and engineering in the United States, twenty percent come from foreign countries.
51、The number of foreign students applying to U.S. universities decreased sharply after September 11 due to changes in the visa process.
52、The U.S. federal funding for research has been unsteady for years.
53、Around the world, governments encourage the model of linking university-based science and industrial application.
54、Present-day universities have become a powerful force for global integration.
55、When foreign students leave America, they will bring American values back to their home countries.
Section C
回答56-61题：
Global warming may or may not be the great enviromental crisis of the 21st century, but---regardless ofwhether it is or isn't--we won't do much about it. We will argue over it and may even, as a nation, make somefairly solemn-sounding commitments to avoid it. But the more dramatic and meaningful these commitments seem,the less likely they are to be observed.
AI Gore calls giobal warming an "inconvenient truth," as if merely recognizing it could put us on a path to asolution. But the real truth is that we don't know enough to relieve global warming, and--without majortechnological
breakthroughs--we can't do much about it.
From 2003 to 2050, the world's population is projected to grow from 6.4 billion to 9.1 billion, a 42% increase.If energy use per person and technology remain the same, total energy use and greenhouse gas emissions(mainly CO2) will be 42% higher in 2050. But that's too low, because societies that grow richer use more energy.
We need economic growth unless we condemn the world's poor to their present poverty and freeze everyone else'sliving standards. With modest growth, energy use and greenhouse emissions more than double by 2050.
No government will adopt rigid restrictions on economic growth and personal freedom (limits on electricityusage, driving and travel) that might cut back global warming. Still, politicians want to show they're "doingsomething." Consider the Kyoto Protocol( 《京都议定书》). It allowed countries that joined to punish those thatdidn't. But it hasn't reduced CO2 emissions (up about 25% since 1990), and many signatories (签字国) didn'tadopt tough enough policies to hit their 2008-2012 targets.
The practical conclusion is that if global warming is a potential disaster, the only solution is new technology.Only an aggressive research and development program might find ways of breaking our dependence on fossil fuelsor dealing with it.
The trouble with the global warming debate is that it has become a moral problem when it's really an engineering one. The inconvenient truth is that if we don't solve the engineering problem, we're helpless.
What is said about global warming in the first paragraph?
A.It may not prove an environmental crisis at all.
B.It is an issue requiring worldwide commitments.
C.Serious steps have been taken to avoid or stop it.
D.Very little will be done to bring it under control.
57、According to the author's understanding, what is A1 Gore's view on global warming?
A.It is a reality both people and politicians are unaware of.
B.It is a phenomenon that causes us many inconveniences.
C.It is a problem that can be solved once it is recognized.
D.It is an area we actually have little knowledge about.
58、Greenhouse emissions will more than double by 2050 because of.________.
A.economic growth
B.wasteful use of energy
C.the widening gap between the rich and poor
D.the rapid advances of science and technology
59、The author believes that, since the signing of the Kyoto Protocol,
A.politicians have started to do something to better the situation
B.few nations have adopted real tough measures to limit energy use
C.reductions in energy consumption have greatly cut back global warming
D.international cooperation has contributed to solving environmental problems
60、What is the message the author intends to convey?
A.Global warming is more of a moral issue than a practical one.
B.The ultimate solution to global warming lies in new technology.
C.The debate over global warming will lead to technological breakthroughs.
D.People have to give up certain material comforts to stop global warming.
61、Questions{TSE}are based on the following passage.
Someday a stranger will read your e-mail without your permission or scan the Websites you've visited. Orperhaps someone will casually glance through your credit card purchases or cell phone bills to find out yourshopping preferences or calling habits.
In fact, it's likely some of these things have already happened to you. Who would watch you without yourpermission? It might be a spouse, a girlfriend, a marketing company, a boss, a cop or a criminal. Whoever it is, theywill see you in a way you never intended to be seen--the 21st century equivalent of being caught naked.
Psychologists tell us boundaries are healthy, that it's important to reveal yourself to friends, family and loversin stages, at appropriate times. But few boundaries remain. The digital bread crumbs (碎屑) you leave everywhere make it easy for strangers to reconstruct who you are, where you are and what you like. In somecases, a simple Google search can reveal what you think. Like it or not, increasingly we live in a world where yousimply cannot keep a secret.
The key question is: Does that matter?
For many Americans, the answer apparently is "no."
When opinion polls ask Americans about privacy, most say they are concerned about losing it. A survey foundan overwhelming pessimism about privacy, with 60 percent of respondents saying they feel their privacy is"slipping away, and that bothers me."
But people say one thing and do another. Only a tiny fraction of Americans change any behaviors in an effortto preserve their privacy. Few people turn down a discount at tollbooths (收费站) to avoid using the EZ-Pass system that can track automobile movements. And few turn down supermarket loyalty cards. Privacyeconomist Alessandro Acquisti has run a series of tests that reveal people will surrender personal information likeSocial Security numbers just to get their hands on a pitiful 50-cents-offcoupon(优惠劵).
But privacy does matter--at least sometimes. It's like health: When you have it, you don't notice it. Only when
it's gone do you wish you'd done more to protect it.
What does the author mean by saying "the 21 st century equivalent of being caught naked" (Line 3, Para.2 )?
A.People's personal information is easily accessed without their knowledge.
B.In the 21 st century people try every means to look into others' secrets.
C.People tend to be more frank with each other in the information age.
D.Criminals are easily caught on the spot with advanced technology.
62、What would psychologists advise on the relationships between friends?
A.Friends should open their hearts to each other.
B.Friends should always be faithful to each other.
C.There should be a distance even between friends.
D.There should be fewer disputes between friends.
63、Why does the author say "we live in a world where you simply cannot keep a secret" ( Line 5, Para.3)?
A.Modem society has finally evolved into an open society.
B.People leave traces around when using modem technology.
C.There are always people who are curious about others' affairs.
D.Many search engines profit by revealing people's identities.
64、What do most Americans do with regard to privacy protection?
A.They change behaviors that might disclose their identity.
B.They use various loyalty cards for business transactions.
C.They rely more and more On electronic devices.
D.They talk a lot but hardly do anything about it.
65、According to the passage, privacy is like health in that_______.
A.people will make every effort to keep it
B.its importance is rarely understood
C.it is something that can easily be lost
D.people don't cherish it until they lose it
Part IV Translation.(30minutes)
66、Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to translate a passage from Chinese into English. You shouldwrite your answer on Answer Sheet 2.
剪纸(papercutting)是中国最为流行的传统民间艺术形式之一。中国剪纸有一千五百多年的历史，在明朝和清朝时期(the Ming and Qing Dynasties)特别流行。人们常用剪纸美化居家环境，特别是在春节和婚庆期间，剪纸被用来装饰门窗和房间，以增加喜庆的气氛。剪纸最常用的颜色是红色，象征健康和兴旺。中国剪纸在世界各地很受欢迎，经常被用作馈赠外国友人的礼物。
【参考答案】：
1-10 ACBDD BADCD 11-20 CCADB AADBD 21-25 BBCCA
26.paying less attention to 27.standards 28.inability 29.correspondent 30.executive 31.intelligence
32.knocked out 33.discovered 34.distinguish from 35.obtained
36-45 DHOGM JBNCA 46-55 DCIEC HGFAI
56-65 DCABB ACBDD
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