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英语四级考试真题及答案（第一套）
Part I Writing (30 minutes)
Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a letter toa foreign friend who wants to teach English in China. Please recommend a city tohim. You should write at least 120 words but no more than 180 words.
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Part II Listening Comprehension (30 minutes)
Section A News Report
Directions： In this section, you will hear three news reports. At the endof each news report, you will hear two or three questions. Both the news reportand the questions will be spoken only once. After you hear a question, you mustchoose the best answer from the four choices marked A), B), C) and D). Then markthe corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 1 with a single line through thecentre.
Questions 1 and 2 are based on the news report you have just heard.
1. A) Many facilities were destroyed by a wandering cow.
B) A wandering cow knocked down one of its fences.
C) Some tourists were injured by a wandering cow.
D) A wandering cow was captured by the police.
2. A) It was shot to death by a police officer.
B) It found its way back to the park's zoo.
C) It became a great attraction for tourists.
D) It was sent to the animal control department.
Questions 3 and 4 are based on the news report you have just heard.
3. A) It is the largest of its kind.
B) It is going to be expanded.
C) It is displaying more fossil specimens.
D) It is staring an online exhibition.
4. A) A collection of bird fossils from Australia.
B) Photographs of certain rare fossil exhibits.
C) Some ancient wall paintings from Australia.
D) Pictures by winners of a wildlife photo contest.
Questions 5 to 7 are based on the news report you have just heard.
5. A) Pick up trash.
B) Amuse visitors.
C) Deliver messages.
D) Play with children.
6. A) They are especially intelligent.
B) They are children's favorite.
C) They are quite easy to tame.
D) They are clean and pretty.
7. A) Children may be harmed by the rooks.
B) Children may be tempted to drop litter.
C) Children may contract bird diseases.
D) Children may overfeed the rooks.
Section B Conversation
Directions： In this section, you will hear two long conversations. At theend of each conversations you will hear four questions. Both the conversationsand the question-s will be spoken only once. After you hear a question. You mustchoose the best answer from the four choices marked A), B), C)and D). Then markthe corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 1 with a single line through thecentre.
Questions 8 to 11 are based on the conversation you have just heard.
8. A) It will be produced at Harvard University.
B) It will be hosted by famous professors.
C) It will cover different areas of science.
D) It will focus on recent scientific discoveries.
9. A)It will be more futuristic.
B) It will be more systematic.
C) It will be more entertaining.
D) It will be easier to understand.
10. A) People interested in science.
B) Youngsters eager to explore.
C) Children in their early teens.
D) Students majoring in science.
11. A) Offer professional advice.
B) Provide financial support.
C) Help promote it on the Internet.
D) Make episodes for its first season.
Questions 12 to 15 are based on the conversation you have just heard.
12. A) Unsure.
B) Helpless.
C) Concerned.
D) Dissatisfied.
13. A) He is too concerned with being perfect.
B) He loses heart when faced with setbacks.
C) He is too ambitious in achieving goals.
D) He takes on projects beyond his ability.
14. A) Embarrassed.
B) Unconcerned.
C) Miserable.
D) Resentful.
15. A) Try to be optimistic whatever happens.
B) Compare his present with his past only.
C) Always learn from others' achievements.
D) Treat others the way he would be treated.
Section C Passage
Directions： In this section, you will hear three passages. At the end ofeach passage, you will hear three or four questions. Both the passage and thequestions will be spoken only once. After you hear a question, you must choosethe best answer from the four choices marked A), B), C)and D).Then mark thecorresponding letter on Answer Sheet 1 with a single line through thecentre.
Questions 16 to 18 are based on the passage you have just heard.
16. A) They have a stronger sense of social responsibility.
B) They are more likely to succeed in the humanities.
C) They are more likely to become engineers.
D) They have greater potential to be leaders.
17. A) Praise girls who like to speak up frequently.
B) Encourage girls to solve problems on their own.
c) Insist that boys and girls work together more.
D) Respond more positively to boys' comments.
18. A) Offer personalized teaching materials.
B) Provide a variety of optional courses.
C) Place great emphasis on test scores.
D) Pay extra attention to top students.
Questions 19 to 21 are based on the passage you have just heard.
19. A) It often rains cats and dogs.
B) It seldom rains in summer time.
C) It does not rain as much as people think.
D) It is one of the most rainy cities in the US.
20. A) They drive most of the time.
B) The rain is usually very light.
C) They have got used to the rain.
D) The rain comes mostly at night.
21. A) It has a lot of places for entertainment.
B) It has never seen thunder and lighting.
C) It has fewer cloudy days than any other coastal city.
D) It has mild weather both in summer and in winter.
Questions 22 to 25 are based on the passage you have just heard.
22. A) It occurs when people are doing a repetitive activity.
B) It results from exerting one's muscles continuously.
C) It happens when people engage in an uncommon activity.
D) It comes from staining one's muscles in an unusual way.
23. A) Blood flow and body heat increase in the affected area.
B) Body movements in the affected area become difficult.
C) They begin to make repairs immediately.
D) They gradually become fragmented.
24. A) About one week.
B) About two days.
C) About ten days.
D) About four weeks.
25. A) Apply muscle creams.
B) Drink plenty of water.
C) Have a hot shower.
D) Take pain-killers.
Part III Reading Comprehension (40 minutes)
Section A
Directions: In this section, there is a passage with ten blanks. You arerequired to select one word for each blank from a list of choices given in aword bank following the passage. Read the passage through carefully beforemaking your choices. Each choice in the bank is identified by a letter. Pleasemark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through thecentre. You may not use any of the words in the bank more than once.
When travelling overseas, do you buy water in plastic bottles or take yourchances with tap water? Imagine you are wandering about on a Thai island or__26__ the ruins of Angkor. It's hot so you grab a bottle of water from a localvendor. It's the safe thing to do, right? The bottle is __27__ , and the labelsays "pure water". But maybe what's inside is not so __28__ . Would you still bedrinking it if you knew that more than 90 percent of all bottled water soldaround the world __29__ microplastics?
That's the conclusion of a recently __30__ study, which analysed 259bottles from 11 brands sold in nine countries, __31__ an average of 325 plasticparticles per litre of water. These microplastics included a __32__ commonlyknown as PET and widely used in the manufacture of clothing and food and __33__containers. The study was conducted at the State University of New York onbehalf of Orb Media, a journalism organisation. About a million bottles arebought every minute, not only by thirsty tourists but also by many of the 2.1billion worldwide who live with unsafe drinking water.
Confronted with this __34__ , several bottled-water manufacturers includingNestle and Coca-Cola undertook their own studies using the same methodology.These studies showed that their water did contain microplastics, but far lessthan the Orb study suggested. Regardless, the World Health Organisation haslaunched a review into the __35__ health risks of drinking water from plasticbottles.
A) adequate
B) admiring
C) contains
D) defending
E) evidence
F) instant
G) liquid
H) modified
I) natural
J) potential
K) released
L) revealing
M) sealed
N) solves
O) substance
Section B
Directions: In this section, you are going to read a passage with tenstatements attached to it. Each statement contains information given in one ofthe paragraphs Identify the paragraph from which the information is derived. Youmay 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.
Make Stuff, Fail, And Learn While You're At It
A) We've always been a hands-on, do it-yourself kind of nation. BenFranklin, one of America's founding fathers, didn't just invent the lightningrod. His creations include glasses, innovative stoves and more.
B) Franklin, who was largely self-taught, may have been a genius, but hewasn't really an exception when it comes to American making and creativity.
C) The personal computing revolution and philosophy of disruptiveinnovation of Silicon Valley grew, in part, out of the creations of the HomebrewComputer Club, which was founded in a garage in Menlo Park, California, in themid-1970s. Members-including guys named Jobs and Wozniak-started making andinventing things they couldn't buy.
D) So it's no surprise that the Maker Movement today is thriving incommunities and some schools across America. Making is available to ordinarypeople who aren't tied to big companies, big defense labs or researchuniversities. The maker philosophy echoes old ideas advocated by John Dewey,Montessori, and even ancient Greek philosophers, as we pointed out recently.
E) These maker spaces are often outside of classrooms, and are serving animportant educational function. The Maker Movement is rediscovering learning bydoing, which is Dewey's phrase from 100 years ago. We are rediscovering Deweyand Montessori and a lot of the practices that they pioneered that have beenforgotten or at least put aside. A maker space is a place which can be in aschool, but it doesn't look like a classroom. It can be in a library. It can beout in the community. It has tools and materials. It's a place where you get tomake things based on your interest and on what you, re learning to do.
F) Ideas about learning by doing have struggled to become mainstreameducationally, despite being old concepts from Dewey and Montessori, Plato andAristotle, and in the American context, Ralph Emerson, on the value ofexperience and self-reliance. It's not necessarily an efficient way to learn. Welearn, in a sense, by trial and error. Learning from experience is somethingthat takes time and patience. It's very individualized. If your goal is to havestandardized approaches to learning, where everybody learns the same thing atthe same time in the same way, then learning by doing doesn't really fit thatmold anymore. It's not the world of textbooks. It's not the world oftesting.
G) Learning by doing may not be efficient, but it is effective.Project-based learning has grown in popularity with teachers and administrators.However, project-based learning is not making. Although there is a connection,there is also a distinction. The difference lies in whether the project is in asense defined and developed by the student or whether it's assigned by ateacher. We'll all get the kids to build a small boat. We are all going to learnabout X, Y, and Z. That tends to be one form of project- based learning.
H) I really believe the core idea of making is to have an idea within yourhead—or you just borrow it from someone—and begin to develop it, repeat it andimprove it. Then, realize that idea somehow. That thing that you make isvaluable to you and you can share it with others. I'm interested in how thesethings are expressions of that person, their ideas, and their interactions withthe world.
I) In some ways, a lot of forms of making in school trivialize (使变得无足轻重)making. The thing that you make has no value to you. Once you are donedemonstrating whatever concept was in the; textbook, you throw away the pipecleaners, the straws, the cardboard tubes.
J) Making should be student-directed and student-led, otherwise it'sboring. It doesn't have the motivation of the student. I'm not saying thatstudents should not learn concepts or not learn skills. They do. But to reallyharness their motivation is to build upon their interest. It's to let them be incontrol and to drive the car.
K) Teachers should aim to build a supportive, creative environment forstudents to do this work. A very social environment, where they are learningfrom each other. When they have a problem, it isn't the teacher necessarilycoming in to solve it. They are responsible for working through that problem. Itmight be they have to talk to other students in the class to help get ananswer.
L) The teacher's role is more of a coach or observer. Sometimes, to people,it sounds like this is a diminished role for teachers. I think it's a heightenedrole. You're creating this environment, like a maker space. You have 20 kidsdoing different things. You are watching them and really it's the humanbehaviors you're looking at. Are they engaged? Are they developing and repeatingtheir project? Are they stumbling (受挫)? Do they need something that they don'thave? Can you help them be aware of where they are?
M) My belief is that the goal of making is not to get every kid to behands-on, but it enables us to be good learners. It's not the knowledge that isvaluable; it's the practice of learning new things and understanding how thingswork. These are processes that you are developing so that you are able, overtime, to tackle more interesting problems, more challenging problems-problemsthat require many people instead of one person, and many skills instead ofone.
N) If teachers keep it form-free and student-led, it can still be tied to acurriculum and an educational plan. I think a maker space is more like a libraryin that there are multiple subjects and multiple things that you can learn. Whatseems to be missing in school is how these subjects integrate, how they fit ttogether in any meaningful way. Rather than saying, "This is science, over hereis history," I see schools taking this idea of projects and looking at: How dothey support children in higher level learning?
O) I feel like this is a shift away from a subject matter-based curriculumto a more experiential curriculum or learning. It's still in its early stages,but I think it's shifting around not what kids learn but how they learn.
36.A maker space is where people make things according to their personalinterests.
37.The teachers, role is enhanced in a maker space as they have to monitorand facilitate during the process.
38.Coming up with an idea of one's own or improving one from others is keyto the concept of making.
39.Contrary to structured learning, learning by doing is highlyindividualized.
40.America is a nation known for the idea of making things by oneself.
41.Making will be boring unless students are able to take charge.
42.Making can be related to a project, but it is created and carried out bystudents themselves.
43.The author suggests incorporating the idea of a maker space into aschool curriculum.
44.The maker concept is a modern version of some ancient philosophicalideas.
45.Making is not taken seriously in school when students are asked to makesomething meaningless to them based on textbooks.
Section C
Directions: In this section, you will hear a passage three times. When thepassage is read for the first time，you should listen carefully for its generalidea.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 isread for the third time，you should check what you have written.
Passage One
Questions 46 to 50 are based on the following passage.
Professor Ashok Goel of Georgia Tech developed an artificially intelligentteaching assistant to help handle the enormous number of student questions inthe online class, Knowledge-Based Artificial Intelligence. This online course isa core requirement of Georgia Tech's online Master of Science in ComputerScience program. Professor Goel already had eight teaching assistants, but thatwasn't enough to deal with the overwhelming number of daily questions fromstudents.
Many students drop out of online courses because of the lack of teachingsupport. When students feel isolated or confused and reach out with questionsthat go unanswered, their motivation to continue begins to fade. Professor Goeldecided to do something to remedy this situation and his solution was to createa virtual assistant named Jill Watson, which is based on the IBM Watsonplatform.
Goel and his team developed several versions of Jill Watson beforereleasing her to the online forums. At first, the virtual assistant wasn't toogreat. But Goel and his team sourced the online discussion forum to find all the40,000 questions that had ever been asked since the class was launched. Thenthey began to feed Jill with the questions and answers. After some adjustmentsand sufficient time, Jill was able to answer the students' questions correctly97% of the time. The virtual assistant became so advanced and realistic that thestudents didn't know she was a computer. The students, who were studyingartificial intelligence, were interacting with the virtual assistant andcouldn't tell it apart from a real human being. Goel didn't inform them aboutJill's true identity until April 26. The students were actually very positiveabout the experience.
The goal of Professor Goel's virtual assistant next year is to take overanswering 40% of all the questions posed by students on the online forum. Thename Jill Watson will, of course, change to something else next semester.Professor Goel has a much rosier outlook on the future of artificialintelligence than, say, Elon Musk, Stephen Hawking, Bill Gates or SteveWozniak.
46. What do we lear about Knowledge-Based Arificial Itelligence?
A) It is a robot that can answer students' questions.
B) It is a course designed for students to leamn online.
C) It is a high-tech device that revolutionizes teaching.
D) It is a computer program that aids student leaming.
47. What problem did Professor Goel meet with?
A) His students were unsatisfied with the assistants.
B) His course was too difficult for the students.
C) Students' questions were too many to handle.
D) Too many students dropped out of his course.
48. What do we lear about Jill Watson?
A) She turned out to be a great sucess.
B) She got along pretty well with students.
C) She was unwelcome to students at first.
D) She was released online as an experiment.
49. How did the students feel about Jill Watson?
A) They thought she was a bit too artificial.
B) They found her not as capable as expected.
C) They could not but admire her knowledge.
D) They could not tell her from a real person.
50. What does Professor Goel plan to do next with Jill Watson?
A) Launch different versions of her online.
B) Feed her with new questions and answers.
C) Assign her to answer more of students' questions.
D) Encourage students to interact with her more freely.
Passage Two
Questions 51 to 55 are based on the following passage.
Thinking small, being engaging, and having a sense of humor don't hurt.Those are a few of the traits of successful science crowdfunding efforts thatemerge from a recent study that examined nearly 400 campaigns. But having alarge network and some promotional skills may be more crucial.
Crowdfunding, raising money for a project through online appeals, has takenoff in recent years for everything from making movies to producing water-savinggadgets. Scientists have tried to tap Internet donors, too, with mixed success.Some raised more than twice their goals, but others have fallen short ofreaching even modest targets.
To determine what separates science crowdfunding triumphs from failures, ateam led by science communications scholar Mike Sch?fer of the University ofZurich examined the content of the webpages for 371 recent campaigns.
Four traits stood out for those that achieved their goals, the researchersreport in Public Understanding of Science. For one, they use a crowdfundingplatform that specializes in raising money for science, and not just any kind ofproject. Although sites like Kickstarter take all comers, platforms such asExperiment.com and Petridish.org only present scientific projects. For another,they present the project with a funny video because good visuals and a sense ofhumor improved success. Most of them engage with potential donors, sinceprojects that answered questions from interested donors fared better. And theytarget a small amount of money. The projects included in the study raised $4,000on average, with 30% receiving less than $1,000. The more money a projectsought, the lower the chance it reached its goal, the researchers found.
Other factors may also significantly influence a project's success, mostnotably, the size of a scientist's personal and professional networks, and howmuch a researcher promotes a project on their own. Those two factors are by farmore critical than the content on the page. Crowdfunding can be part ofresearchers' efforts to reach the public, and people give because "they feel aconnection to the person" who is doing the fundraising—not necessarily to thescience.
51. What do we learn about the scientists trying to raise money online fortheir projects?
A) They did not raise much due to modest targets.
B) They made use of mixed fundraising strategies.
C) Not all of them achieved their anticipated goals.
D) Most of them put movies online for the purpose.
52. What is the purpose of Mike Schafer' s research of recent crowdfundingcampaigns?
A) To create atractive content for science websites.
B) To identify reasons for their different outcomes.
C) To help scientists to launch innovative projects.
D) To separate science projects from general ones.
53. What trait contributes to the success of a crowdfiunding campaign?
A) The potential benefit to future generations.
B) Its interaction with prospective donors.
C) Its originality in addressing financial issues.
D) The value of the proposed project.
54. What did the researchers think of the financial targets of crowdfundingprojects?
A) They should be small to be sucessful.
B) They should be based on actual needs.
C) They should be assed with great care.
D) They should be ambitious to gain notice.
55. What motivates people to donate in a crowdfunding campaign?
A) The ease of access to the content of the webpage.
B) Their desire to contribute to the cause of science.
C) The significance and influence of the project itself.
D) Their feeling of connection to the scientists themselves.
Part Ⅳ Translation (30 minutes)
Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to translate apassage from Chinese into English. You should write your answer on Answer Sheet2.
中国家庭十分重视孩子的教育。许多父母认为应该努力工作，确保孩子受到良好教育。他们不仅非常情愿为孩子的教育投资，而且花很多时间督促他们学习。多数家长希望孩子能上名牌大学。由于改革开放，越来越多的家长能送孩子到国外学习或参与国际交流项目，以拓宽其视野。通过这些努力，他们期望孩子健康成长，为国家的发展和繁荣作出贡献。
四级真题参考答案(完整版)
Part Ⅰ Writing
Hi Mark,
I'm so glad that you have made up your mind to teach English in China.Before you make a decision about your precise destination, let me introduce myhometown, Chongqing.
Located in southwest China, Chongqing may not enjoy worldwide fame as muchas Beijing or Shanghai, but it is a thriving metropolis with lower cost ofliving. Working and living here, you can achieve your career goals withoutfeeling too much stress. The locals are known for being warm and hospitable, andyou can teach in a way that feels good for you. To be sure, teaching a foreignlanguage in a city where residents speak a dialect all the time can be verychallenging. It takes time indeed to correct pronunciation mistakes each studentmakes. But since you are always praised for your kindness and patience, itshould hardly be an obstacle for you.
Anyway, I will support and help you as much as possible, whichever city yougo to. I believe living and teaching in China will be a pleasant and memorableexperience for you.
Best wishes,
Li Ming
Part Ⅱ Listening Comprehension
1. D
2. D
3. B
4. C
5. A
6. A
7. B
8. C
9. C
10. A
11. B
12. D
13. A
14. C
15. B
16. C
17. D
18. A
19. C
20. B
21. D
22. D
23. A
24. B
25. C
Part III Reading Comprehension
26-35：BMICK LOGEJ
36-45：EICGK FBJDH
46-55：BCADC CBBAD
Part IV Translation
Chinese families attach great importance to their children's education.Many parents hold that they should work hard to ensure their children's accessto good education. Not only are they perfectly willing to invest in theirchildren's education, but they also spend much time urging them to study. Mostparents expect their children to get admitted to elite universities. Owing toChina s reform and opening-up, an increasing number of parents can send theirchildren to study abroad or participate in international exchange programs tobroaden their horizons. Through these efforts, they expect their children growup strong and healthy and make a contribution to the nation's development andprosperity.