大学英语四级考试真题详细解析第三套Word格式文档下载.docx

1、than 180 words.Part IIListening Comprehension说明：由于 2017 年 12 月四级考试全国共考了 2 套听力，本套真题听力与前 2 套内容完全一样，只是顺序不一样，因此在本套真题中不再重复出现。Part IIIReading Comprehension（40 minutes）Section ADirections: In this section, there is a passage with ten blanks. You are required to select one wordfor each blank from a list of

2、choices given in a word bank following the passage. Read the passagethrough 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 throughthe centre. You may not use any of the wo

3、rds in the bank more than once.Questions 26 to 35 are based on the following passage.We all know there exists a great void （空白）in the public educational system when it comes to26 to STEM （Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics） courses. One educator namedDori Roberts decided to do somethin

4、g to change this system. Dori taught high school engineeringfor 11 years. She noticed there was a real void in quality STEM education at all 27 of the publiceducational system. She said, “I started Engineering For Kids （EFK） after noticing a real lack ofmath, science and engineering programs to 28 m

5、y own kids in.”She decided to start an afterschool program where children 29 in STEM-based competitions. Theclub grew quickly and when it reached 180 members and the kids in the program won several state30, she decided to devote all her time to cultivating and 31 it. The global business EFK wasborn.

6、Dori began operating EFK out of her Virginia home, which she then expanded to 3263recreationcenters. Today, the EFK program 33over 144 branches in 32 states within the United Statesand in 21 countries. Sales have doubled from $5 million in 2014 to $10 million in 2015, with 25new branches planned for

7、 2016. The EFK website states, “Our nation is not 34 enough engineers.Our philosophy is to inspire kids at a young age to understand that engineering is a great 35.”A） attractedB） careerC） championshipsD） degreesE） developingF） enrollG） exposureH） feasibleI） feedingJ） graduatingK） interestL） levelsM

8、） localN） operatesO） participatedSection B In this section, you are going to read a passage with ten statements attached to it.Each statement contains information given in one of the paragraphs. Identify the paragraph fromwhich the information is derived. You may choose a paragraph more than once. E

9、ach paragraphis marked with a letter. Answer the questions by marking the corresponding letter on AnswerSheet 2.Why arent you curious about what happened?A） “You suspended Ray Rice after our video, a reporter from TMZ challenged National FootballLeague Commissioner Roger Goodell the other day. “Why

10、didnt you have the curiosity to go tothe casino （赌场 ）yourself?” The implication of the question is that a more curious commissionerwould have found a way to get the tape.B）The accusation of incuriosity is one that we hear often, carrying the suggestion that there issomething wrong with not wanting t

11、o search out the truth. I have been bothered for a long timeabout the curious lack of curiosity said a Democratic member of the New Jersey legislature backin July, referring to an insufficiently inquiring attitude on the part of an assistant to New JerseyGovernor Chris Christie who chose not to ask

12、hard questions about the George Washington Bridgetraffic scandal. “Isnt the mainstream media the least bit curious about what happened?” wroteconservative writer Jennifer Rubin earlier this year, referring to the attack on Americans inBenghazi, Libya.C）The implication, in each case, is that curiosit

13、y is a good thing, and a lack of curiosity is a64problem. Are such accusations simply efforts to score political points for ones party? Or is theresomething of particular value about curiosity in and of itself?D） The journalist Ian Leslie, in his new and enjoyable book Curious：The Desire to Know and

14、Why Your Future Depends on It, insists that the answer to that last question is Yes. Leslie arguesthat curiosity is a much-overlooked human virtue, crucial to our success，and that we are losing it.E）We are suffering，he writes，from a “serendipity deficit.” The word “serendipity” was coinedby Horace Walpole in an 1854 letter, from a tale of three princes who “were always makingdiscoveries, by accident, of things they were not in search of.” Leslie worries that the rise of