大学英语四级考试真题及答案三套全.docx

1、大学英语四级考试真题及答案三套全2015年12月大学英语四级考试真题（三套卷）一、在答题前，请认真完成以下内容：1. 请检查试题册背面条形码粘贴条、答题卡的印刷质量，如有问题及时向监考员反映，确认无误后完成以下两点要求。2. 请将试题册背面条形码粘贴条揭下后粘贴在答题卡1 的条形码粘贴框内，并将姓名和准考证号填写在试题册背面相应位置。3请在答题卡1和答题卡2 指定位置用黑色签字笔填写准考证号、姓名和学校名称，并用HB-2B 铅笔将对应准考证号的信息点涂黑。二、在考试过程中，请注意以下内容：1. 所有题目必须在答题卡上规定位置作答，在试题册上或答题卡上非规定位置的作答一律无效。2. 请在规定时间

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3、4. 考试期间在非听力考试时间佩戴耳机。Section A Litstening Comprehension (30 minutes) Directions: In this section, you will hear 8 short conversations and 2 long conversations. At the end of each conversation. one or more questions will be asked about what was said. Both the conversation and the questions will be spo

4、ken 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 letter on Answer Sheet 1 with a single line through the centre.注意： 此部分试题请在答题卡1 上作答1. A) They admire th

5、e courage of space explorers B) They enjoyed the movie on space exploration C) They were going to watch a wonderful movie D) They like doing scientific exploratron very much 2. A)At a gift shopB) At a graduation ceremony. C) In the office of a travel agencyD) In a school library 3. A) He used to wor

6、k in the art galleryB) He does not have a good memoryC) He declined a job offer from the art gallery D) He is not interested in any part-time jobs 4. A) Susan has been invited to give a lecture tomorrowB) He will go to the birthday party after the lectureC) The woman should have informed him earlier

7、D) He will be unable to attend the birthday party5. A) Reward those having made good progressB) Set a deadline for the staff to meetC) Assign more workers to the project. D) Encourage the staff to work in Small groups 6. A) The way to the visitors parking B) The rate for parking in Lot CC) How far a

8、way the parking lot is.D) Where she can leave her car. 7. A) He regrets missing the classes B) He plans to take the fitness classes. C) He is looking forward to a better lifeD) He has benefited from exercise8. A) How to raise work efficiency. B) How to select secretaries C) The responsibilities of s

9、ecretanesD) The secretaries in the mans company.Questions 9 to 11 are based on the conversation you have just heard.9 A) It Is more difficult to learn than English B) It is used by more people than English. C) It will be as commonly used as EnglishD) It will eventually become a world language 10. A)

10、 Its loan words from many languagesB) Its popularity with the common people.C) The influence of the British EmpireD) The effect of the Industrial Revolution11. A) It includes a lot of words from other languagesB) It has a growing number of newly coined wordsC) It can be easily picked up by overseas

11、travellersD) It is the largest among all languages in the worldQuestions 12 to 15 are based on the conversation you have just heard. 12. A) To return some goods B) To apply for a job. C) To place an order.D) To make a complaint13. A) He has become somewhat impatient with the woman B) He is not famil

12、iar with the exact details of the goodss C) He has not worked in the sales department for long. D) He works on a part-time basis for the company 14. A) it is not his responsibility B) It will be free for large orders C) It costs 15 more for express delivery D) It depends on a number of factors15. A)

13、 Report the information to her superior B) Pay a visit to the saleswoman in chargege C) Ring back when she comes to a decisionD) Make inquiries with some other companiesSection B Directions: In this section, you will hear 3 short passages. At the end of each passage, you will hear some questions. Bo

14、th the passage and the questions will be spoken only once.After you hear a queslion, you must choose the best answer from the four choices marked A), B), C) and D). Then mark the corresponding leltert on Answer Sheet 1 with a single line through the centre注意： 此部分试题请在答题卡1 上作答。Passage OneQuestions 16

15、to 18 are based on the passage you have just heard. 16. A) No one Knows exactly where they were first made B) No one knows for sure when they came into being C) No one knows for what purpose they were invented D) No one knows what they will IooK like in the future 17. A) Carry ropes across rivers B)

16、 Measure the speed of wind C) Pass on secret messages D) Give warnings of danger 18. A) To protect houses against lightning. B) To test the effects of the lightning rod.C) To find out the strength of silk for kitesD) To prove that lightning is electncity.Passage TwoQuestions 19 to 22 are based on th

17、e passage you have just heard.19. A) She enjoys teaching languages B) She can speak several languages. C) She was trained to be an interpreter.D) She was born with a talent for languages20. A) They acquire an immunity to culture shock.B) They would like to live abroad permanentlyC) They want to lear

18、n as many foreign languages as possibleD) They have an intense interest in cross-cultural interactions21. A) She became an expert in horse racingB) She got a chance to visit several European countriesC) She was able to translate for a German sports judgeD) She learned to appreciate classical music22

19、. A) Taste the beef and give her comment. B) Take part in a cooking competition.C) Teach vocabulary for food in EnglishD) Give cooking lessons on Western foodPassage ThreeQuestions 23 to 25 are based on the passage you have just heard.23. A) He had only a third-grade education. B) He once threatened

20、 to kill his teacherC) He grew up in a poor single-parent family D) He often helped his mother do houseworkK24. A) CaelesssB) StupidC) BraveD) Active 25. A) Write two book reports a week B) Keep a diary C) Help wath houseworkD) Watch educational TV programs only. Section C Directions: In this sectio

21、n, you will hear a passage three times. 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 tlme, you are required to fill in the blanks with the exact words you have just heard. Finally, when the passage Is read for

22、the third time, you should check what you have written注意： 此部分试题请在答题卡1 上作答。When you look up at the night sky, what do you see？There are other (26) bodies out there besides the moon and stars. One of the most (27) of these is a come(彗星)Comets were formed around the same time the Earth was formed. They

23、 are (28) ice and other frozen liquids and gases. (29) these “dirty snowballs begin to orbit the sun, just as the planets do.As a comet gets closer to the sun, some gases in it begin to unfreeze.They (30) dust particles from the comet to form a huge cloud. As the comet gets even nearer to the sun, a

24、 solar wind blows the cloud behind the comet, thus forming its tail. The tail and the (31) fuzzy(模糊的) atmosphere around a comet are (32) that can help identify this (33) in the night sky.In any given year, about a dozen known comets come close to the sun in their orbits. The average person cant see

25、them all, of course. Usually there is only one or two a year bright enough to be seen with the(34) eye. Comet Hale-Bopp, discovered in 1995, was an unusually bright comet. Its orbit brought it (35) close to the Earth, within 122 million miles of it. But Hale-Bopp came a long way on its eathly visit.

26、 It wont be back for another four thousandd years or so.PartIII Reading Comprehension (40 minutes)Section ADirections: In 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 pasage. Read the pa

27、ssage 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. You may not use any of the words in the bank more than onceQuestions 36 to 45 are based o

28、n the following passage.Scholars of the information society are divided over whether social inequality decreases or increases in an information-based society. However, they generally agree with the idea that inequallty in the informahon society is 36 different from that of an industrial society. AS

29、informatization progresses in society, the cause and structural nature of social inequality changes as well.It seems that the informatron society 37 the quantity of information available to the members of a societ by revolutionizing the ways of using and exchanging information. But suchh a view is a

30、 38 analysis based on the quantity of information supplied by various forms of tee mass media. A different 39 is possible when the actual amount of information 40 by the user is taken into account. In fact, the more information 41 throughout the entire society,the wider the gap becomes between “info

31、nnation haves and information have-nots, leading to digttal divide.According to recent studies, digital divide has been caused by three major 42 : class, sex, and generation. In terms of class, digital divide exists among different types of workers and between the upper and middle classes and the lo

32、wer class. With 43 to sex, digital divide exists between men and women. The greatest gap, however, is between the Net-generation. 44 with personal computers and the internet, and the older generation, 45 to an industrial society.注意：此部分试题请在答题卡2 上作答。A) accustomedB) acquiredC) assemblyD) attributeE) championsF) elementsG)