2019年12月大學(xué)英語(yǔ)四級(jí)考試真題+參考答案完整版

1、2019年12月大學(xué)英語(yǔ)四級(jí)考試真題及參考答案完整版Part IWriting(30 minutes)2019年12月14日，大學(xué)英語(yǔ)四級(jí)筆試考試已經(jīng)結(jié)束，各位考生對(duì)本次四級(jí) 考試的做題感覺(jué)如何呢？文都教育英語(yǔ)老師在第一時(shí)間為大家解讀2019年12 月大學(xué)英語(yǔ)四級(jí)考試真題參考答案，希望大家都能夠順利通過(guò)本次四級(jí)考試。Directions:For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a letterto a foreign friend who wants to study. Please recommend a university t

2、o him. You should write at least 120 words but no more than 180 words.【參考范文】Dear Lucy,I am delighted to hear that you are going to study in a Chinese university. Since you have asked for my advice about choosing which university, I will try to give you some useful suggestions here.It is well known t

3、hat Peking University is a great place to learn.There are several factors accounting for this choice and the followingare the most typical ones. First and foremost, Peking University is one of the top universities in China and the birthplace of many great minds.Therefore, it can provide high-quality

4、 teaching resources, which is essential for a foreign learner.In addition, Beijing is the capital of China and there are various historic buildings. They provide foreign students a good chance to know Chinese culture and history.I hope you will find these suggestions helpful and wish you all the bes

5、t.Yours,LiMing【參考譯文】親愛(ài)的露絲：得知你要來(lái)中國(guó)的大學(xué)學(xué)習(xí)，我很高興。既然你針對(duì)大學(xué)的選擇問(wèn)題詢問(wèn)了 我的看法，我將在這里給你提供一些有用的建議。眾所周知，北京大學(xué)是學(xué)習(xí)的好地方。做出這種選擇有多種原因，但 以下是 最典型的。首先，北京大學(xué)是中國(guó)最頂尖的大學(xué)之一，這里也培養(yǎng)出了許多棟梁 之才。因此，它可以提供高質(zhì)量的教學(xué)資源，這對(duì)于外國(guó)學(xué)習(xí)者來(lái)說(shuō)是最根本的。 此外，北京是中國(guó)的首都，這里有各種各樣的歷史建筑。這些建筑能為外國(guó)學(xué)生 提供了了解中國(guó)文化和歷史的好機(jī)會(huì)。希望以上建議對(duì)你有幫助，祝一切順利。誠(chéng)摯的，李明Part nListening Comprehension(25

6、minutes)Section ADirections : In this section, you will hear three news reports. At the end of each news report, you will hear two or three questions. Both the news report and the questions will be spoken >) , B ) , C ) and D ) . Thenmark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 1 with a single l

7、ine through the centre.Questions l 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 w

8、as 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 b

9、e 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

10、 are based on the news report youhave 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

11、rooks.B) Children may be tempted to drop litter.C) Children may contract bird diseases.D) Children may overfeed the rooks.Section BDirections:In this section, you will hear two long conversations. Atthe end of each conversation, you will hear four questions. Both the conversation and the questions w

12、ill be spoken >) , B) , C)and D) . Then mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 1 with a single line through the centre.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 co

13、ver 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 ea

14、rly 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

15、.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 prese

16、nt with his past only.C) Always learn from others' achievements.D) Treat others the way he would be treated.Section CDirections : In this section, you will hear three passages. At the end of each passage, you will hear three or four questions. Both the passage and the questions will be spoken &g

17、t;) , B ) , C ) and D ) . Then mark thecorresponding letter on Answer Sheet 1 with a single line through the centre.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

18、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 person

19、alized 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 a

20、s 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)

21、 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 hap

22、pens 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 frag

23、mented.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.Part inD) Take pain-killers.Reading Comprehension(40 minutes)Section A Directions:In this section, there is a passage with ten blanks. You are

24、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 before making your choices. Each choice in the bank is identified by a letter. Please mark the corresponding letter for each item onAnswerSheet 2 with a si

25、ngle line through the centre. You may not use any of the words in the bank more than once.Questions 26 to 35 are based on the following passage.Finally, some good news about airplane travel. If you are on a plane with a sick passenger, you are unlikely to get sick. That is the 26 of a new study that

26、 looked at how respiratory (呼 吸道)viruses27 onairplanes. Researchers found that only people who were seated in individual - had a high risk of catching the illness. All other passengers had only a very 28 chance of getting sick according to the findings. Media reports have not necessarily presented.2

27、9 information aboutthe risk of getting infected on an airplane in the past. Therefore , these new findings should help airplane passengers to feel less30 tocatching respiratory infections while traveling by air.Prior to the new study. litter was known about the risks of getting 31 infected by common

28、 respiratory viruses, such as the flu or common cold, on an airplane, the researchers said. So, to32 therisks of infection, the study team flew on 10 different33 in theUS. 34 side of a person infected with flu, as well as those sitting one roe in font of or behind this individual, had about an 80 pe

29、rson chance of getting sick. But other passengers were35 safe from infection.They had a less than 3 percent chance of catching the flu.A) accurateB) conclusionC) directlyD) eitherE) evaluateF) explorationsG) flightsH) largelyI) nearbyJ) respondK) slimL) spreadM) summit N) vividlyO) vulnerable【參考答案】2

30、6-30 BLKAO31-35 CEGDHSection BDirections:In this section, you are going to read a passage withten statements attached to it. Each statement contains information given in one of the paragraphs. Identify the paragraph from which the information is derived. You may choose a paragraph more than once. Ea

31、chparagraph is marked with a letter. Answer the questions by marking the corresponding letter onAnswer Sheet 2A South Korean city designed for the future takes on a life of its ownA) Getting around a city is one thing and then there ' s the matterof getting from one city to another. Onevision of

32、 the perfect city ofthe future: a place that offers easy access to air travel.In 2011, a University of North Carolina business professor named John Kasarda published a book called Aerotropolis : The Way Wd ll Live Next . Kasarda says future cities should be built intentionally around ornearairports.

33、 The idea, as he has put it, is to offer businesses“ rapid,long-distance connectivity on amassive scale. ”B) “The 18th century really was a waterborne (水 運(yùn)的) century, the 19th century a rail century. the 20thcentury a highway, car, truckcentury - and the 21st century will increasingly be an aviation

34、 century, as the globe becomes increasingly connected by air,“ Kasarda says.Songdo, a city built from scratch inSouth Korea, is one of Kasarda's prime examples. It has existed for justa few years. " From the get-go,it was designed on the basis of connectivity and competitiveness, “ says Kas

35、ada. " The government builtthe bridge directly from the airport tothe Songdo International Business District. And the surface infrastructure was built in tandem with the new airport.”C) Songdo is a stone ' s throw from South Korea ' s Incheon Airport, its main international hub (樞 紐).Bu

36、t it takes a lot more than a nearbyairport to be a city of the future. Just building a place as an a international business district " doesn ' t mean it will become >構(gòu)想)this city of thefuture back in 1986. He considers Songdo his baby.“I am a visionary, " he says. Thirty years after

37、 heimagined the city,Park ' s baby is close to 70 percent built, with 36.000 people living in the business district and 90,000 residents in greaterSongdo. It ' s aboutan hour outside Seoul, built on reclaimed tidalflats along the YellowSea, There ' s a Coast Guard building and a tall tra

38、de tower, as well as a park, golf course and university.D) Chances are you ' ve actually seen this place. Songdo appears in the most famous music video ever tocome ou of South Korea." GangnamStyle " refers to the fashionable Gangnam district in Seoul. Butsomeof the video was filmed in

39、Songdo."I don ' t know if you remember, therewas a scene in a subway station. That was not Gangnam. That was actually Songdo, “ says Jung Won Son, a professor of urban development at London ' s Bartlett School of Planning, “ Part of the reason to shoot there is that it ' s new and n

40、ice. ”E) The city was supposed to be a hub for global companies, with employees from all over the world. But hat' s not how it has turned out.Songdo ' s reputation is as a futuristic ghost town. But the reality ismore complicated. A bridge with big,light-blue loops leads into the business di

41、strict. In the center of the main road, there' s a long lineof flags of the world. On the corner, there' s a Starbucks and a7-Eleven-all of the international brands that you see all over the world nowadays.F) The city is not empty. There are mothers pushing strollers, old women with walkers

42、- even in the middle of the day. when it ' s 90 degrees out. Byun Young-Jin chairsthe Songdo real estate association and startedselling property here when the first phase of the city opened in 2005. He says demand has boomed in the past couple of years. Most of his clients are Korean. In fact, t

43、he developer says, 99 percent of the homes here are sold to Koreans. Young families move here because the schools are great. And that ' s the problem: Songdo has become a popular Korean city一more popular as a residential area than a business one. It' s not yet thefuturistic international bus

44、iness hub that planners imagined."It ' s agreat place tolive. And it ' s becoming a great place to work, “ says ScottSummers, the vice president of Gale International, the developer of thecity. The floor-to-ceiling windows of his companySongdo Central Park, with a canal full of kayaks a

45、nd paddle boats.Shimmering ( 閃 爍的) glass towers line the canal's offices overlookG) of life"What' s happened is, because we focusedmissedfirst, which enabled thethe mark is for companiesresidents to liveto locate here,'s edge.on creatinghere, whathe says.that quality has probably “T

46、here needsto be strong economic incentives.feels a bit like a theme park. ItThe city is still unfinished, and itdoesn ' t feel all that futuristic.Theres a high-tech underground trash disposal system. Buildings areenvironmentally friendly. Everybodys television set is connected to asystem that s

47、treams personalized language or exercise classes.H) But Star Trek this is not. And to some of the residents, Songdofeels hollow.it in the workplace, her name for fearI ' m, like, in prison for weekdays. That" says a woman in her 20s. She doesns what we callt want to useof being fired from h

48、er job. She goes back to Seoul everyweekend.“ 1_ II say I' m prison-breaking on Friday nights.But she hasto make the prison break in her own car. There connecting Songdo to Seoul, just over 20 miles away.'s no high-speed trainI) The man who first imagined Songdo feels frustrated. too. Park s

49、ayshe built South Korea a luxury vehicle,"like Mercedes or BMW. Itgood car now. But we're waiting for a good driver to accelerate.Butthere are lots futuristic, companiesof otherhigh-techgood cars out cities tryingthere, too. to attractThe worldis dottedwiththe biggestinternationalJ) Songdo

50、' s backerscontend thatit ' s stillearly, andbusiness spaceis filling up-about 70 percent of finished offices are now occupied.Brent Ryan, who teaches urban design at MIT, says Songdo proves a universalprinciple. " There have been a lot of utopian (烏托 邦的)citiesin history.And the reason

51、we don ' t know about a lot of them is that a lot of themhave vanished entirely." In other words, when it comes to citiesoranything else - it is hard to predict the future.36. Songdo ' s popularity lies more in its quality of life than its business attraction.37. The man who conceives S

52、ongdo feels disappointed because it has fallen short of his expectations.38. A scene in a popular South Korean music video was shot in Songdo.39. Songdo still lacks the financial stimulus for businesses to set up shop there.40. Airplanes will increasingly become the chief means of transportation, ac

53、cording to a professor.41. Songdo has ended up different from the city it was supposed to be.42. Some of the people who work in Songdo complain about boredom in the workplace.43. A business professor says that a future city should have easy access to international transportation.44. Acording to an u

54、rban design professor, it is difficult for city designers to foresee what happen in the future.45. Park Yeon So. Who envisioned Songdo, feels a parental connection with the city.【參考答案】36-40 FIDGB41-45 EHAJCSection CDirections : There are 2 passages in this section. Each passage is followed by some q

55、uestions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A) , B ) , C ) and D ) . You should decideon the best choice and mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through the centre.Passage OneQuestions 46 to 50 are based on the following passage.Th

56、e fifth largest city in the US passed a significant soda tax proposal that will levy (征稅)1.5 cents per liquid ounce on distributors.Philadelphia ' s new measure was approved by a 13 to 4 city council vote. It sets a new bar for similar initiatives across the county. It is proof that taxes on sug

57、ary drinks can win substantial support outside super-liberal areas. Until now, the only city to successfully pass and implement a soda tax was Berkeley, California, in 2014.The tax will apply to regular and diet sodas, as well as other drinks with added sugar, such as Gatorade and iced teas. It'

58、 s expected to raise$410 million over the next five years, most of which will go toward funding a universal pre-kindergarten program for the city.While the city council vote was met with applause inside the councilroom, opponents to the measure, including soda lobbyists made sharp criticisms and a promise to challenge the tax in court.“The tax passed today unfairly singles out beverages including low- and no-calorie choices, " said Lauren Kane, spokeswoman for th