1、大学四级-197 及答案解析(总分：710.01，做题时间：90 分钟)一、Part Writing(总题数：1，分数：106.00)1.Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a short essay entitled There Is No End to Learning by commenting on the famous saying, “Education is not complete with graduation.“ You should write at least I20 words
2、but no more than 180 words. There Is No End to Learning（分数：106.00）_二、Part Listening Com(总题数：0，分数：0.00)三、Section A(总题数：3，分数：49.00)Questions 1 and 2 will be based on the following news item. （分数：14.00）A.A newly open casino nearby.B.A mobile phone with Internet access.C.A registered account on special
3、sites.D.Knowledge of mobile Internet system.A.Europe.B.Asia.C.South Korea.D.Japan.Questions 3 and 4 will be based on the following news item. （分数：14.00）A.The story of a survivor.B.The power of the tsunami.C.The rescue of a survivor.D.The struggle between man and nature.A.A month.B.Three weeks.C.Thre
4、e days.D.Two days.Questions 5 to 7 will be based on the following news item. （分数：21.00）A.Impose penalties to Iran.B.Stop the meeting of IAEA.C.Call for a close-door meeting in London.D.Restart Iran“s nuclear program.A.Reaching agreement.B.Still being undecided.C.Breaking down.D.Being controversial.A
5、.To convince Russia to give more pressure on Iran.B.To refer Iran to the U.N. Security Council.C.To impose tough sanctions on Iran.D.To adopt a diplomatic settlement with Iran.四、Section B(总题数：0，分数：0.00)五、Conversation One(总题数：1，分数：28.00)Questions 8 to 11 are based on the conversation you have just he
6、ard. （分数：28.00）A.At a bookstore.B.At a library.C.On the telephone.D.At the student center.A.By applying from the department.B.By lending journals and magazines.C.By applying at the loan office.D.By using his student I.D. card.A.Return it as quickly as possible.B.Pay a fine because of the delayed ret
7、urn.C.Return it within 7 days of the recall notice.D.Return it within 7 days before the due date.A.Send an email to him.B.Impose an overdue fine on him.C.Ask his roommates to give him a message.D.Give the notice to his teacher of his department.六、Conversation Two(总题数：1，分数：28.00)Questions 12 to 15 ar
8、e based on the conversation you have just heard. （分数：28.00）A.Poetry is popular among the general public.B.People there have no interest in poetry.C.Poetry is the most popular literature.D.People have no passion for writing poems.A.Flowery words are the most shining point of poetry.B.Flowery words ar
9、en“t an absolute necessity for poetry.C.One can write poems easily after he has read much.D.He prefers a long novel to a short poem.A.He has more readers than other poets.B.He uses refined words in his poems.C.His poems express deep thoughts.D.His poems are interesting and excellent.A.Finding out a
10、rhymed word with panda.B.Bringing the poem about panda to an end.C.Adding the name “Amanda“ into a poem.D.Replacing panda with another word.七、Section C(总题数：0，分数：0.00)八、Passage One(总题数：1，分数：42.50)Questions 16 to 18 are based on the passage you have just heard. （分数：42.51）A.To find the similarity of so
11、ybeans in the world.B.To protect soybeans against dry condition.C.To collect materials for their papers.D.To study the impact of global warming.A.China is the only country to grow soybeans.B.China is the ancestral home of soybeans.C.China has a long history of growing soybeans.D.China has different
12、kinds of soybeans.A.They produce the same yield in different locations.B.They are suitable to grow only in the United States.C.They produce better quality soybeans under dry weather.D.They have better production under drought conditions.九、Passage Two(总题数：1，分数：58.00)Questions 19 to 22 are based on th
13、e passage you have just heard. （分数：58.00）A.They like mass produced things.B.They design things themselves and sell them.C.They make clothes and tools for themselves.D.They use crafts to decorate their homes.A.In shopping centers or churches.B.In community or parking lots.C.On playgrounds or country
14、grounds.D.In public parks or on county grounds.A.Candies and toys.B.Clothes and gifts.C.Rides and shows.D.Rides and foods.A.Things in craft fairs have better quality than in stores.B.They want to buy things that are different and original.C.It is more convenient to buy things in craft fairs.D.They c
15、an buy everything they want in craft fairs.十、Passage Three(总题数：1，分数：43.50)Questions 23 to 25 are based on the passage you have just heard. （分数：43.50）A.It is the largest supplier of valuable minerals.B.It will disappear in about thirty years.C.It is beginning to grow smaller and smaller.D.It offers m
16、any resources to help mankind survive.A.Iron and copper.B.Gold and copper.C.Nickel and bronze.D.Iron and bronze.A.The sea level will be 20 centimeters higher than it is now.B.The sea will be empty if we continue fishing at this pace.C.The problems to explore the sea will have been largely solved.D.P
17、eople will depend largely on sea foods and minerals.十一、Part Reading Compr(总题数：0，分数：0.00)十二、Section A(总题数：1，分数：35.00)Barack and Michelle Obama understand the heavy burden of student loan debt. The Obamas did not pay off their student loans until Obama“s best-selling books earned them millions of doll
18、ars. With the cost of a college education 1 , more than 60% of students take out loans to fund their undergraduate education. On average, students who borrow graduate with debts of $22,700a 2 of more than 18% from 2000. But some of those with a newly acquired bachelor“s degree are restrained with de
19、bts of $40,000 or more. You think this economy“s tough? Try finding a job with the 3 of repaying tens of thousands of dollars in debt. Now, a new federal programIncome-Based Repaymentis making it 4 to pay back these loans. If a student chooses to repay her or his loan with this plan, payments are th
20、en readjustedbased on their income to something they can 5 afford. All debt will be forgiven after 25 years. A graduate who earns less than 150% of the 6 line won“t have to make any payments. This is in addition to the year-old Public Service Loan Forgiveness program for those 7 in jobs such as law
21、enforcement, public health and social work. Their loans will be forgiven after 10 years. This 8 isn“t perfect; the loans have to be federal loans, not 9 . But students with more than one federal student loan can combine them under the program. In some cases, borrowers with large debt and low-to-mode
22、rate incomes may benefit at the end of 25 years, with the 10 of their debt forgiven. Others with higher incomes, though, will pay more. A. earning E. pressure I. balance M. easier B. state F. initiative J. raising N. working C. rising G. poverty K. private O. reasonably D. jump H. public L. barely（分
23、数：35.00）十三、Section B(总题数：1，分数：70.00)There“s No Place Like HomeA. On almost any night of the week, Churchill“s Restaurant is hopping. The 10-year-old hot spot in Rockville Centre, Long Island, is packed with locals drinking beer and eating burgers, with some customers spilling over onto the street. “
24、We have lots of regularspeople who are recognized when they come in,“ says co-owner Kevin Culhane. In fact, regulars make up more than 80 percent of the restaurant“s customers. “People feel comfortable and safe here,“ Culhane says, “This is their place.“ B. Thriving neighborhood restaurants are one
25、small data point in a larger trend I call the new localism. The basic idea: the longer people stay in their homes and communities, the more they identify with those places, and the greater their commitment to helping local businesses and institutions thrive, even in a downturn. Several factors are d
26、riving this process, including an aging population, suburbanization, the Internet, and an increased focus on family life. And even as the recession has begun to yield to recovery, our commitment to our local roots is only going to grow deeper. Evident before the recession, the new localism will shap
27、e how we live and work in the coming decades, and may even influence the course of our future politics. C. Perhaps nothing will be as surprising about 21st-century America as its settledness. For more than a generation Americans have believed that “spatial mobility“ would increase, and, as it did, f
28、eed a trend toward rootlessness and anomie (社会道德沦丧). In 2000, Harvard“s Robert Putnam made a point in Bowling Alone , in which he wrote about the “civic malaise“ he saw gripping the country. In Putnam“s view, society was being undermined, largely due to suburbanization and what he called “the growth
29、 of mobility.“ D. Yet in reality Americans actually are becoming less nomadic (游牧的). As recently as the 1970s as many as one in five people moved annually; by 2006, long before the current recession took hold, that number was 14 percent, the lowest rate since the census (人口普查) starting following mov
30、ement in 1940. Since then tougher times have accelerated these trends, in large part because opportunities to sell houses and find new employment have dried up. In 2008, the total number of people changing residences was less than those who did so in 1962, when the country had 120 million fewer peop
31、le. The stay-at-home trend appears particularly strong among aging boomers, who stay tied to their suburban homesclose to family, friends, clubs, churches, and familiar surroundings. E. The trend will not bring back the corner grocery stores and the declining organizationsbowling leagues, Boy Scouts
32、, and suchcited by Putnam and others as the traditional glue of American communities. Nor will our car-oriented suburbs copy the close neighborhood feel so celebrated by romantic urbanism. Instead, we“re evolving in ways fit for a postindustrial society. It will not spell the decline of Wal-Mart or
33、Costco, but will express itself in scores of alternative institutions, such as thriving local weekly newspapers that have withstood the shift to the Internet far better than big-city dailies. F. Our less mobile nature is already reshaping the corporate world. The kind of corporate mobility described
34、 in Peter Kilborn“s recent book, Next Stop , Reloville: Life Inside America“s Rootless Professional Class , in which families relocate every couple of years so the breadwinner can reach a higher step on the managerial ladder, will become less common in years ahead. A smaller group of corporate execu
35、tives may still move from place to place, but surveys reveal many executives are now unwilling to move even for a good promotion. Why? Family and technology are two key factors working against mobility, in the workplace and elsewhere. G. Family, as one Pew researcher notes, “matters more than money
36、when people make decisions about where to live.“ Interdependence is replacing independence. More parents are helping their children financially well into their 30s and 40s; the numbers of “boomerang kids“ moving back home with their parents, has also been growing as job options and the ability to bu
37、y houses has decreased for the young. Recent surveys of the emerging generation suggest this family-centric focus will last well into the coming decades. H. Nothing allows for geographic choice more than the ability to work at home. Demographer (人口学家) Wendell Cox suggests there will be more people w
38、orking electronically at home full time than taking mass transportation, making it the largest potential source of energy savings on transportation. In the San Francisco Bay Area and Los Angeles, almost one in 10 workers is a part-time telecommuter. Some studies indicate that more than one quarter o
39、f the U.S. workforce could eventually participate in this new work pattern. Even IBM, whose initials were once jokingly said to stand for “I“ve Been Moved,“ has changed its approach. About 40 percent of the company“s workers now labor at home or remotely from a client“s location. I. These home-based
40、 workers become critical to the local economy. They will eat in local restaurants, attend fairs and festivals, take their kids to soccer practices, ballet lessons, or religious youth-group meetings. This is not merely a suburban phenomenon; localism also means a stronger sense of identity for urban
41、neighborhoods as well as smaller towns. J. Could the new localism also affect our future politics? Throughout our history, we have always preferred our politics more on the home-cooked side. On his visit to America in the early 1830s, Alexis de Tocqueville was struck by the decentralized nature of t
42、he country. “The intelligence and the power are spread abroad,“ he wrote, “and instead of radiating from a point, they cross each other in every direction.“ K. This is much the same today. The majority of Americans still live in a combination of smaller towns and cities, including many suburban town
43、s within large metropolitan regions. After decades of hurried mobility, we are seeing a return to placeness, along with more choices for individuals, families, and communities. For entrepreneurs like Kevin Culhane and his workers at Churchill“s, it“s a phenomenon that may also offer a lease on years
44、 of new profits. “We“re holding our own in these times because we appeal to the people around here,“ Culhane says. And as places like Long Island become less bedroom community and more round-the-clock location for work and play, he“s likely to have plenty of hungry customers.（分数：70.00）(1).When visit
45、ing the US in the early 1830s, Alexis de Tocqueville found that the country had the nature of decentralization.（分数：7.00）(2).The stay-at-home trends have accelerated since 2006 mainly because it was harder to sell houses and find jobs.（分数：7.00）(3).Putnam believed that suburbanization and growing mobi
46、lity were undermining the society.（分数：7.00）(4).Most customers of Churchill“s Restaurant are old customers.（分数：7.00）(5).The tendency of settledness will result in prosperity of local newspapers.（分数：7.00）(6).A demographer predicates that more people will take full-time jobs at home.（分数：7.00）(7).With t
47、he economic recovery, new localism tends to become stronger.（分数：7.00）(8).The changes from bedroom community to round-the-clock location in some places make profits for local economy.（分数：7.00）(9).With the fading of hurried mobility, placeness is returning, providing more choices for individuals, fami
48、lies and communities.（分数：7.00）(10).As is described in a recent book, people relocate constantly to get a promotion.（分数：7.00）十四、Section C(总题数：0，分数：0.00)十五、Passage One(总题数：1，分数：71.50)If you“re like most people, you“re way too smart for advertising. You skip right past newspaper ads, never click on ads
49、 online and leave the room during TV commercials. That, at least, is what we tell ourselves. But what we tell ourselves is wrong. Advertising works, which is why, even in hard economic times, Madison Avenue is a $34 billion-a-year business. And if Martin Lindstromauthor of the best seller Buyology and a marketing consultant for Fortune 500 companies, including PepsiCo and Disneyis correct, trying to tune this stuff out is about to get a whole lot harder. Lindstrom is a practitioner of neuro
