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1、英语四级真题第三套2019年12月英语四级真题第三套Part III Reading Comprehension (40 minutes) Section A Directions : /几this section, there is a passage with ten blanks. You are required to select one word for each blank from a list of choices given in a word bank following the passage. Read the passage through carefully be

2、fore 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 words in the bank more than once. Millions of people travel by plane every single day. I

3、f youre planning on being one of them soon, you might not be looking forward to the 26 feeling air travel of t en leaves you with. Besides the airport crowds and stress, travelling at a high altitude has real ef f ects on the body. Although the pressure of the cabin is 27 to prevent altitude sicknes

4、s, you could still 28 sleepiness or a headache. The lower oxygen pressure found in an aircraf t cabin is 29 to that at 6,000-8,000 fe et of altitude. A drop in oxygen pressure can cause headaches in certain 30 . To help prevent headaches, drink plenty of water, and avoid alcohol and cof f ee. Airpla

5、ne food might not really be as tasteless as you 31 thought. The air you breathe in a plane如es out your mouth and nose, which can af f ect your sense of taste. Perception of sweet and salty foods dropped by almost 30 percent in a simulation of air travel. However, you can make your taste buds active

6、again by drinking water. A dry mouth may 32 taste sensitivity, but taste is restored by drinking fluids. Although in-flight inf e ctions 33 in dry environments like airplanes, your risk of getting sick fr om an airplane is actually low because of the air 34 used. Unless youre sitting next to someone

7、 who is coughing or sneezing, you shouldnt worry too much about getting sick. However, bacteria have been shown to live on cabin surfaces, so wash your hands 35 . 4 1A) adjusted I) particularB) channels J) primarilyC) equivalent K) reduceD) expenenceL)renovatedE ) f i lters M) smoothF) frequently N)

8、 thriveG) individuals 0) unpleasantH) originallySection B Directions : 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 fr om which the inf o rmation is derived. You may ch

9、oose 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 South Korean city designed fo r the future takes on a life of its own A Getting around a city is one thing and then theres the matter of getting fr o

10、m one city toanother. One vision of the perf e ct city of the fu ture is a place that of f ers easy access to air travel.In 2011, a University of North Carolina business professor named John Kasarda published a bookcalled Aerotropol区: The Way Well Live Next. Kasarda says fu ture cities should be bui

11、ltintentionally around or near airports. The idea, as he has put it, is to offer businesses rapid,long-distance connectivity on a massive scale.BJ The 18th century really was a waterborne (水运的) century, the 19th century a rail century, the 20th century a highway, car, truck century and the 21st cent

12、ury will increasingly be an aviation century, as the globe becomes increasinly connected by air, Kasarda says. Songdo, a city built fr om scratch in South Korea, is one of Kasardas prime examples. It has existed fo r just a few years. From the outset, it was designed on the basis of connectivity and

13、 competitiveness, says Kasarda. The gover n ment built the bridge d 订 ectly from the airport to the Songdo Inter n ational Business District. And the surface inf r astructure was built at the same time as the new airport. C Songdo is a stones throw from South Koreas Incheon A卯ort, its main inter n a

14、tional hub (枢纽) .But it takes a lot more than a nearby airport to be a city of the fu ture. Just building a place as aninter n ational business district doesnt mean it will become one. Park Yeon Soo co戊祝ved s city of the fu ture back in 1986. He considers Songdo his baby. Park sees himself as a visi

15、onary. Thirty years af t er he imagined the city, Parks baby is close to 70 percent built, with 36, 000 people living in the business district and 90,000 residents in greater Songdo. Its about an hour outside Seoul, built on fo rmer tidal flats along the Yellow Sea. Theres a Coast Guard building and

16、 a tall trade tower, as well as a park, golf course and university. DJ Chances are youve actually seen this place. Songdo appears in the most fa mous music video ever to come out of South Korea. Gangnam Style ref e rs to the fashionable Gangnam district in Seoul. But some of the video was fi lmed in

17、 Songdo. I dont know if you remember, there was a scene in a subway station. That was not Gangnam. That was actually Songdo, says Jung Won Son, a professor of urban development at Londons Bartlett School of Planning. Part of the reason to shoot there is that its new and nice. E The city was supposed

18、 to be a hub for global companies, with employees from all over the worldBut thats not how it has turn ed out. Songdos reputation is as a fu turistic ghost town. But thereality is more complicated. A bridge with big, light-blue loops leads into the business district. Inthe center of the main road, t

19、heres a long血e of fl ags of the world. On the comer, theres aStarbucks and a 7-Eleven-all of the inter n ational brands that you see all over the worldnowadays.F The city is not empty. There are mothers pushing baby carriages, old women with walkers evenin the middle of the day, when its 90 degrees

20、out. Byun Young-Jin chairs the Songdo real estateassociation and started selling property here when the fi 订 st phase of the city opened in 2005. Hesays demand has boomed in the past couple of years. Most of his clients are Korean. In fact, thedeveloper says, 99 percent of the homes here are sold to

21、 Koreans. Young families move herebecause the schools are great. And thats the problem: Songdo has become a popular Koreancity more popular as a residential area than a business one. Its not yet the fu turisticinter n ational business hub that planners皿agined. Its a great place to live. And its beco

22、ming agreat place to work, says Scott Summers, vice president of Gale Inter n ational, the developer ofthe city. The floor-to-ceiling windows of his companys of f i ces overlook Songdo Central Park,with a canal fu ll of small boats and people fishing. Shimmering (闪烁的) glass towers line thecanals edg

23、e.G Whats happened is that our focus on creating that quality of life fi 订 st has enabled the residentsto live here, Summers says. But there needs to be strong economic incentives for companies tolocate here. The city is still unfinished, and it feels a bit like a theme park. It doesnt feel all that

24、f u turistic. Theres a high-tech underground trash disposal system. Buildings are environmentally4 endly. Everybodys television set is connected to a system that streams personalized language or exercise classes. HJ But this is not Star Trek. And to some of the residents, Songdo fe els hollow. Im, l

25、ike, in prison fo r weekdays. Thats what we call it in the workplace, says a woman in her 20s. She doesnt want to use her name for fear of being fi 订 ed f r om her job. She goes back to Seoul every weekend. I say Im prison-breaking on Friday nights. But she has to make the prison break in her own ca

26、r. Theres no high-speed train connecting Songdo to Seoul, just over 20 miles away I Park Yeon Soo, the man who fr rst imagined Songdo, fe els fr ustrated, too. He says he built SouthKorea a luxury vehicle, like Mercedes or BMW. Its a good car now. But were waiting for agood driver to accelerate. But

27、 there are lots of other good cars out there, too. The world is dottedwith fu turistic, high-tech cities trying to attract the biggest inter n ational companies.J Songdos backers contend that its still early, and business space is fi lling up-about 70 percent off i nished of f i ces are now occupied

28、. Brent Ryan, who teaches urban design at MIT, says Songdoproves a universal principle. There have been a lot of utopian (乌托邦的) cities in history. Andthe reason we dont know about a lot of them is that they have vanished entirely. In other words,when it comes to cities or anything else it is hard to

29、 predict the fu ture.36. Songdos popularity lies more in its quality of life than its business attraction.37. The man who conceived Songdo feels disappointed because it has fa llen short of his expectations.38. A scene in a popular South Korean music video was shot in Songdo.39. Songdo still lacks t

30、he fmancial stimulus for businesses to set up shop there.40. A叩lanes will increasingly become the chief means of transportation, according to a prof e ssor.41. Songdo has ended up dif f erent fr om the city it was supposed to be.42. Some of the people who work in Songdo complain about boredom in the

31、 workplace.43. A business prof e ssor says that a fu ture city should have easy access to inter n ational transportation. 44. According to an urban design prof e ssor, it is dif f i cult for city designers to foresee what willhappen in the fu ture.45. Park Yeon Soo, who envisioned Songdo, fe els a p

32、arental connection with the city.Section CDirections : There are 2 passages in this section. Each passage is followed by some questions or 畔吨ed staten 记 nts. For each of them there are four cho比es marked A) , B) , C) and D) . You should decide on the best choice and mark the corresponding letter on AnswerSheet 2 with a single line through the centre.Passage One Questions 46 to 50 are based on the fo llowing passage. The fif t h largest city in the US passed a significant soda tax proposal that will l e v y (征税) 1.5 cents per liquid ounce on distributors. Philadelphias new measure was a