大学四级-225及答案解析.doc

1、大学四级-225 及答案解析(总分：710.00，做题时间：90 分钟)一、Part Writing(总题数：1，分数：106.50)1.Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a short essay based on the picture below. You should start your essay with a brief account of the impact of information age on the way people read and then explain whet

2、her microblogs can replace novels. You should write at least 120 words but no more than 180 words. （分数：106.50）_二、Part Listening Com(总题数：0，分数：0.00)三、Section A(总题数：4，分数：106.50)（分数：35.50）A.It will start to go down.B.It is going to increase.C.It is very expensive.D.It is not very surprising.A.She will p

3、lay tennis with the man.B.She does not play tennis very well.C.She has to study for exams.D.She does not like the man.A.Make a cake.B.Go to the bakery.C.Visit her mother.D.Eat at the Dutch Oven.A.He is a librarian.B.He is a professor.C.He is a reporter.D.He is an accountant.A.Here is a new foreign s

4、tudent advisor.B.The foreign student advisor is a man.C.Mr. Adams is the foreign student advisor.D.The foreign student advisor is not here.（分数：21.30）A.Take a taxi and return home.B.Ask someone else for help.C.Make a telephone call.D.Board the plane.A.He did not mean to insult the woman.B.What he sai

5、d to Susan was true.C.The woman does not have an accent.D.Susan did not report accurately.A.Mike does not have a car.B.Mike“s brother is taking a break.C.Mike is visiting his brother.D.Mike is in Florida at present.Questions 9 to 11 are based on the conversation yon have just heard. （分数：21.30）A.He i

6、s anxious about rising oil price.B.He is concerned about the future of the earth.C.He worries too much about health problems.D.He feels fearful of environmental pollution.A.It may lead to energy crisis.B.It won“t happen until 50 years later.C.It may be reduced if petrol price is raised.D.It can brin

7、g about more job opportunities.A.She is rather optimistic.B.She can live up to 100.C.She finds her job boring.D.She is healthier than the man.Questions 12 to 15 are based on the conversation you have just heard. （分数：28.40）A.To work as a teacher.B.To visit his best friend.C.To find a job in a law fir

8、m.D.To further his studies.A.Go back to finish his studies.B.Return to see his parents.C.Settle down in England.D.Fill in the job vacancy.A.In a room he rents himself.B.In a big law company.C.In the woman“s home.D.In a hotel on Wood Lane.A.Write to her parents.B.Take down her address.C.Prepare for a

9、n interview.D.Come here by train.四、Section B(总题数：0，分数：0.00)五、Passage One(总题数：1，分数：21.30)Questions 16 to 18 are based on the passage you have just heard. （分数：21.30）A.Recall their past visits to Disneyland.B.Relive their childhood memories.C.Evaluate the advertisement about Bugs Bunny.D.Help improve t

10、he advertisement of Disneyland.A.They all had been to Disneyland.B.A potential memory had taken its shape.C.They were misguided by the advertisement.D.A planted mental picture created a false memory.A.Images have a direct appeal for audience.B.People are often influenced by advertisements.C.Memories

11、 can be unreliable sometimes.D.Memories are an important part of our identity.六、Passage Two(总题数：1，分数：21.30)Questions 19 to 21 are based on the passage you have just heard. （分数：21.30）A.Bears are hostile to humans.B.Bears have a strong fear of humans.C.Most bears avoid contact with humans.D.Most bears

12、 don“t prey on humans.A.Run as quickly as possible.B.Take off your backpack.C.Move back to a safe place quickly.D.Stay calm and walk slowly backwards.A.Run away quickly.B.Call the police.C.Use a bear spray.D.Hide ourselves.七、Passage Three(总题数：1，分数：28.40)Questions 22 to 25 are based on the passage yo

13、u have just heard. （分数：28.40）A.They spend most of their time outdoors.B.They are generally more active than adults.C.They have a larger lung size compared with body weight.D.They usually breathe through mouth rather than nose.A.Improving air quality in children“s daily life.B.Prohibiting smoking in

14、public places.C.Laying down laws to stop air pollution.D.Getting factories to reduce air pollution.A.It is as dangerous outside as inside.B.It can increase the risk of lung cancer.C.It has been banned throughout America.D.It poses a greater impact on children.A.They are favored by some city official

15、s.B.They will levy a tax on all smokers.C.They intend to ban smoking totally.D.They have been carried out in all cities.八、Section C(总题数：1，分数：71.00)While of course it matters how men behave, studies show that clothes most definitely do make the man. And that there“s reason to believe attraction to an

16、other“s personal style (and, more specifically, how they choose to express that style) can actually help 1 compatibility. This shouldn“t be entirely surprising. 2 , it“s precisely because taste in clothes is such a personal choice that they can tell us so much about the person who choose to put them

17、 on. A 2012 study published in the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology 3 the phrase “embodied 4 “ to describe the idea that we think not just with our brains but also with our bodies. The researchers found that clothes influence how we view and 5 with the world: When they gave participants whi

18、te coats they said belonged to doctors, the subjects“ ability to pay attention increased. When they were told the coats belonged to painters, their ability to pay attention maintained 6 . What this means: Clothes can, and do, influence a wearer“s psychological 7 . Dressing casually, or carelessly, c

19、ould cause a workeror, for that matter, a partnerto feel less focused, less alert, and less 8 . Clothes also dictate the role the people wearing them 9 , whether we“re talking about a decent man wearing a crisp button down and good jeans to take a woman out for Sunday brunch or the no-good slouch (没

20、精打采的姿态) 10 to take her to dinner in the sweats he“s owned since college. （分数：71.00）填空项 1:_九、Part Reading Compr(总题数：0，分数：0.00)十、Section A(总题数：1，分数：35.50)Eating fried foods could raise your risk for several life-threatening diseases. But not all frying oils may pose the same health risks. The more fri

21、ed food you eat, the more likely you are to 1 from Type 2 diabetes and heart disease, reveals new research. But goodies fried in some trans-fat-free oils now offered at many restaurants since FDA cracked down on trans fatsmay not present the same health 2 . A U.S.-based study team 3 diet and disease

22、 data collected from more than 100,000 men and women. Compared to people who ate fried food less than once a week, those who gobbled (狼吞虎咽) things like fries, fried chicken, or other deep-fried snacks four to six times a week saw their risk for Type 2 diabetes and coronary heart disease jump 39% and

23、 23%, 4 . The risks rose even more for people who ate fried food on a daily 5 . Cooking oil 6 to break down during the frying processa chemical 7 that changes the oil“s fatty acid composition, explains a study co-author Leah Cahill. Foods simmering (煨) in that degraded oil 8 fatty acids and other un

24、healthy compounds. Still, there may be a light at the end of the tunnel for fried-food fans. Cahill says 9 research has hinted that trans fat-free cooking oils may not pose the same health risks. Cooking at home with fresh oils might also limit your 10 to unhealthy compounds, she adds. A. absorb I.

25、past B. analyzed J. respectively C. basis K. substitutes D. endures L. suffer E. exposure M. tends F. fraction N. transformation G. hazards O. variably H. moderate（分数：35.50）十一、Section B(总题数：1，分数：71.00)Is College Worth It?A. When LaTisha Styles graduated from Kennesaw State University in Georgia in 2

26、006 she had $35,000 of student debt. This obligation would have been easy to discharge if her Spanish degree had helped her land a well-paid job. But there is no shortage of Spanish-speakers in a nation that borders Latin America. So Ms Styles found herself working in a clothes shop and a fast-food

27、restaurant for no more than $11 an hour. B. Frustrated, she took the gutsy decision to go back to the same college and study something more pragmatic. She majored in finance, and now has a good job at an investment consulting firm. Her debt has swollen to $65,000, but she will have little trouble pa

28、ying it off. C. As Ms Styles“s story shows, there is no simple answer to the question “Is college worth it?“ Some degrees pay for themselves; others don“t. American schoolkids pondering whether to take on huge student loans are constantly told that college is the gateway to the middle class. The tru

29、th is more nuanced, as Barack Obama hinted when he said in January that “folks can make a lot more“ by learning a trade “than they might with an art history degree“. An angry art history professor forced him to apologise, but he was right. D. College graduates aged 25 to 32 who are working full time

30、 earn about $17,500 more annually than their peers who have only a high school diploma, according to the Pew Research Centre, a think-tank. But not all degrees are equally useful. And given how much they costa residential four-year degree can set you back as much as $60,000 a yearmany students end u

31、p worse off than if they had started working at 18. Hard subjects pay off E. Unsurprisingly, engineering is a good bet wherever you study it. An engineering graduate from the University of California, Berkeley can expect to be nearly $1.1m better off after 20 years than someone who never went to col

32、lege. Even the least lucrative engineering courses generated a 20-year return of almost $500,000. F. Arts and humanities courses are much more varied. All doubtless nourish the soul, but not all fatten the wallet. An arts degree from a rigorous school such as Columbia or the University of California

33、, San Diego pays off handsomely. But an arts graduate from Murray State University in Kentucky can expect to make $147,000 less over 20 years than a high school graduate, after paying for his education. Of the 153 arts degrees in the study, 46 generated a return on investment worse than plonking (随意

34、放下) the money in 20-year treasury bills. Of those, 18 offered returns worse than zero. G. Colleges that score badly will no doubt complain that PayScale“s rankings are based on relatively small numbers of graduates from each institution. Some schools are unfairly affected by the local job market Mur

35、ray State might look better if Kentucky“s economy were thriving. Universities that set out to serve everyone will struggle to compete with selective institutions. And poor colleges will look worse than rich ones that offer lots of financial aid, since reducing the cost of a degree raises its return.

36、 H. All these warnings are true. But overall, the PayScale study surely overstates the financial value of a college education. It does not compare graduates“ earnings to what they would have earned, had they skipped college. (That number is unknowable.) It compares their earnings to those of people

37、who did not go to collegemany of whom did not go because they were not clever enough to get in. Thus, some of the premium that graduates earn simply reflects the fact that they are, on average, more intelligent than non-graduates. I. What is not in doubt is that the cost of university per student ha

38、s risen by almost five times the rate of inflation since 1983, and graduate salaries have been flat for much of the past decade. Student debt has grown so large that it stops many young people from buying houses, starting businesses or having children. Those who borrowed for a bachelor“s degree gran

39、ted in 2012 owe an average of $29,400. The Project on Student Debt, non-profit, says that 15% of borrowers default within three years of entering repayment. At for-profit colleges the rate is 22%. Glenn Reynolds, a law professor and author of “The Higher Education Bubble“, writes of graduates who “m

40、ay wind up living in their parents“ basements until they are old enough to collect Social Security.“ J. The lousy national job market does not help, either. A report by McKinsey, a consultancy, found that 42% of recent graduates are in jobs that require less than a four-year college education. Some

41、41% of graduates from the nation“s top colleges could not find jobs in their chosen field; and half of all graduates said they would choose a different major or school. K. Chegg, a company that provides online help to students, collaborated the study. Dan Rosensweig, its boss, says that only half of

42、 graduates feel prepared for a job in their field, and only 39% of managers feel that students are ready for the workforce. Students often cannot write clearly or organise their time sensibly. Four million jobs are unfilled because jobseekers lack the skills employers need. Grading the graders L. Fo

43、r all their flaws, studies like PayScale“s help would-be students (and their parents) make more informed choices. As Americans start to realise how much a bad choice can hurt them, they will demand more transparency. Some colleges are providing it, prodded (督促) by the federal government. For example

44、, the University of Texas recently launched a website showing how much its graduates earn and owe after five years. M. “Opportunity,“ said Mr Obama on April 2nd, “means making college more affordable.“ In time, transparency and technology will force many colleges to cut costs and raise quality. Onli

45、ne education will accelerate the trend. In 2012, 6.7m students were taking at least one online course. Such courses allow students to listen to fine lecturers without having to pay for luxurious dormitories or armies of college bureaucrats. They will not replace traditional collegesface-to-face clas

46、ses are still valuablebut they will force them to adapt. Those that offer poor value for money will have to shape up, or disappear.（分数：71.00）(1).Salaries for graduates have not changed much in the past ten years.（分数：7.10）(2).Not all courses in arts and humanities can equally enrich our mind and life

47、.（分数：7.10）(3).Ms Styles changed her major when she went back to college and obtained a good job at a consulting firm.（分数：7.10）(4).50% of all graduates wished that they had majored in a different subject or studied in a different college.（分数：7.10）(5).Online education will speed up the coming of colle

48、ges with low costs and high quality.（分数：7.10）(6).American students who are considering the expensive student loans are usually told that university leads them to the middle class.（分数：7.10）(7).Four million jobs remain vacant as jobseekers are not qualified.（分数：7.10）(8).Engineering is a good major to

49、repay no matter at which college you study it.（分数：7.10）(9).Generally speaking, the PayScale study doubtlessly exaggerates the financial value of a university education.（分数：7.10）(10).Murray State University might rank higher if not affected by the poor economy in Kentucky.（分数：7.10）十二、Section C(总题数：0，分数：0.00)十三、Passage One(总题数：1，分数：71.00)Whatever you think of Edward Snowden and his revelations about the National Security Agency“s alleged monitoring of the Internet, one thing