1、大学四级-200 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 an essay entitled College Students“ Booklist based on the statistics provided in the table below. Please give a brief description of the table first and then make comme
2、nts on it. You should write at least 120 words but no more than 180 words. 1992 2002 2012 Philosophy and Society 45% 23% 13% Novels 33% 17% 5% Foreign Languages 11% 31% 39% Computer Science 2% 19% 30% Others 9% 10% 13% College Students“ Booklist（分数：106.00）_二、Part Listening Com(总题数：0，分数：0.00)三、Sectio
3、n 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.Next year.B.Next week.C.In June or July.D.In March or April.A.A conference held between Britain, Israel and Palestine.B.Peace talks held between Israel and Palestine.C.The international effort to boost economy
4、 in Palestine.D.The political and economic situation in Palestine.Questions 3 and 4 will be based on the following news item. （分数：14.00）A.More than $17 billion.B.More than $17 million.C.More than $70 billion.D.More than $70 million.A.He was accused of many charges.B.He arrived on South Korea illegal
5、ly.C.He stole money on the airplane.D.He committed crimes in Vietnam.Questions 5 to 7 will be based on the following news item. （分数：21.00）A.Studied a lot of international journals.B.Estimated food consumption of undergraduate students.C.Spent a lot of time eating in front of the television.D.Surveye
6、d students“ viewing, eating and drinking habits.A.Watching TV encourages snacking.B.Most people had healthy eating habits.C.Most people watch TV while eating.D.People are distracted while eating.A.Pay full attention to the TV shows.B.Miss what happening on the screen.C.Miss the cues that we are full
7、.D.Eat less food than usually.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 heard. （分数：28.00）A.He often goes on exploring expeditions.B.He is a racing driver for many years.C.He tikes to join in extreme sports.D.He often dri
8、ves fast during the night.A.During the British Grand Prix.B.During the Mexican Grand Prix.C.On his way to the studio.D.During his last race.A.Several drivers were killed in the accident.B.There was a multiple motor vehicle collision.C.His car ran into the car in front of him.D.His car was damaged bu
9、t he wasn“t hurt.A.There were too many cars.B.He saw a traffic accident.C.He hit a car in front of him.D.His car suddenly flamed out.六、Conversation Two(总题数：1，分数：28.00)Questions 12 to 15 are based on the conversation you have just heard. （分数：28.00）A.For quiet concentration.B.For fresh air and excitem
10、ent.C.For a special course.D.For less money involved.A.Outdoor hobbies.B.Indoor hobbies.C.Money-saving hobbies.D.Time-consuming hobbies.A.She learned it when she was a small child.B.She started it when she was a student.C.She didn“t learn it until she left school.D.She started it after she was marri
11、ed.A.By attending special courses.B.With the help of her friends.C.By reading books on hobbies.D.Under the guidance of her mother.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.They travel faster near the TV station
12、.B.They can work better than ever before.C.They usually follow the curve of the earth.D.They travel in straight lines in all directions.A.Pay a monthly charge.B.Pay a yearly charge.C.Pay a daily charge.D.Pay an hourly charge.A.All classrooms use cable television.B.City people can see extra programs.
13、C.The charge of cable is much lowered.D.TV signals can be received more easily.九、Passage Two(总题数：1，分数：43.50)Questions 19 to 21 are based on the passage you have just heard. （分数：43.50）A.He had no pension.B.He had a great car.C.He was right at the age of 56.D.He owned a recipe for chicken.A.Ask his fr
14、iends to sell Fried Chicken.B.Work as a cook in a famous restaurant.C.Sell his chicken recipe to restaurant owners.D.Study hard to work out a chicken recipe.A.65.B.105.C.1008.D.1009.十、Passage Three(总题数：1，分数：58.00)Questions 22 to 25 are based on the passage you have just heard. （分数：58.00）A.Collectivi
15、sm.B.Equality.C.Social group.D.Individualism.A.Equal rights and equal freedom.B.Equal worth and equal opportunity,C.Equal opportunity and equal pay.D.Equal worth and equal status.A.Protesting their unequal treatment.B.Enduring all the hardships willingly.C.Fulfilling their dreams through hard work.D
16、.Learning how to get freedom and equality.A.People can easily fight with each other.B.Conflicts with others become inevitable.C.Americans are too concerned about their status.D.One“s freedom can conflict with others“ rights.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)Over the las
17、t two years, in the PC business Michael Dell has been beaten like a rented mule. His company continues to lose market 1 particularly in the U.S. Industry analysts would say that Dell has done a poor job of bringing out 2 and attractive products. Apple Mac sales keep rising. HP, Sony, and Lenovo have
18、 3 new product lines which have had warm 4 . Dell“s core business is being hit by three things. The first is that the company was fairly late at 5 into retail outlets (零售店) overseas. It 6 on its direct sales model for too long. The second problem is that the recession has 7 Dell“s sales. Dell“s fina
19、l problem is that it cannot find the right people to run the company. It 8 dumped most of the senior management that it hired just over a year ago. It takes time for new people to get up to speed. Word has gotten out that Dell plans to launch its own high-end smartphone. Dell does not do well what i
20、t is supposed to do well. It has become a second rate PC company. It proposes to partially offset that by entering a business which is controlled by Apple and RIM, the maker of the Blackberry. Because smartphone margins are high, Nokia, the world largest cellphone company, Samsung, and Sony Ericsson
21、 are also 9 into the market. The traffic jam is going to be 10 . So Dell can“t win in the handset business. What it ought to do is to try to improve its PC business. A. receptions E. targeting I. comprehensive M. expanding B. depended F. innovative J. recently N. consequently C. share G. launched K.
22、 rushing O. cut D. extraordinary H. declined L. expressions（分数：35.00）十三、Section B(总题数：1，分数：70.00)Why Minority Students Don“t Graduate from CollegeA. Barry Mills, the president of Bowdoin College, was justifiably proud of Bowdoin“s efforts to recruit minority students. Since 2003 the school has boost
23、ed the proportion of so-called under-represented minority students (blacks, Latinos (拉丁美洲人), and Native Americans, about 30 percent of the U.S. population) in entering freshman classes from 8 percent to 13 percent. But Bowdoin has not done quite as well when it comes to actually graduating minoritie
24、s. While nine out of 10 white students routinely get their diplomas within six years, only seven out of 10 black students made it to graduation day in several recent classes. B. The United States once had the highest graduation rate of any nation. Now it stands 10th. For the first time in American h
25、istory, there is the risk that the rising generation will be less well educated than the previous one. The graduation rate among 25-to 34-year-olds is no better than the rate for the 55-to 64-year-olds who were going to college more than 30 years ago. Studies show that more and more poor and nonwhit
26、e students are eager to graduate from collegebut their graduation rates fall far short of their dreams. The graduation rates for blacks, Latinos, and Native Americans lag far behind the graduation rates for whites and Asians. As the minority population grows in the United States, low college-graduat
27、ion rates become a threat to national prosperity. C. The problem is noticeable at public universities. In 2007, the University of Wisconsin-Madisonone of the top five or so “public Ivies“graduated 81 percent of its white students within six years, but only 56 percent of its blacks. At less-selective
28、 state schools, the numbers get worse. Community colleges have low graduation rates generallybut rock-bottom rates for minorities. A recent review of California community colleges found that while a third of the Asian students picked up their degrees, only 15 percent of African-Americans did so as w
29、ell. D. Private colleges and universities generally do better, partly because they offer smaller classes and more personal attention. But when it comes to a significant graduation gap, Bowdoin has company. Nearby Colby College logged an 18-point difference between white and black graduates in 2007 a
30、nd 25 points in 2006. “Higher education has been able to get around this issue for years, particularly the more selective schools, by saying the responsibility is on the individual student,“ says Pennington of the Gates Foundation. “If they fail, it“s their fault.“ Some critics blame affirmative act
31、ionstudents admitted with lower test scores and grades from shaky high schools often struggle at top schools. But a bigger problem may be that poor high schools often send their students to colleges for which they are “undermatched“: they could get into better, richer schools, but instead go to comm
32、unity colleges and low-rated state schools that lack the resources to help them. Some schools out for profit cynically increase tuitions and count on student loans and federal aid to foot the billknowing full well that the students won“t make it. “Colleges know that a lot of kids they take will end
33、up in remedial classes, for which they“ll get no college credit and then they“ll be dismissed,“ says Amy Wilkins of the Education Trust. “The school gets to keep the money, but the kid leaves with loads of debt and no degree and no ability to get a better job. Colleges are not holding up their end.“
34、 E. A college education is getting ever more expensive. Since 1982 tuitions have been rising at roughly twice the rate of inflation. University administrators insist that most of those hikes are matched by increased scholarship grants or loans, but the recession has decreased private endowments (捐助)
35、 and cut into state spending on higher education. In 2008 the net cost of attending a four-year public university equaled 28 percent of median family income, while a four-year private university cost 76 percent of median family income. More and more scholarships are based on scores, not need. Poorer
36、 students are not always the best-informed consumers. Often they end up deeply in debt or simply unable to pay after a year or two and must drop out. F. There once was a time when universities took an unreasonable pride in their drop-out rates. Professors would begin the year by saying, “Look to the
37、 right and look to the left. One of you is not going to be here by the end of the year.“ But such a Darwinian spirit is beginning to give way as at least a few colleges face up to the graduation gap. At the University of Wisconsin-Madison, the gap has been roughly halved over the last three years. T
38、he university has poured resources into peer counseling to help students from inner-city schools adjust to the faster pace of a university classroom, and also to help minority students overcome the stereotype that they are less qualified. G. State and federal governments could sharpen that focus eve
39、rywhere by broadly publishing minority graduation rates. For years private colleges such as Princeton and MIT have had success bringing minorities onto campus in the summer before freshman year to give them a head start on college-level courses. The newer trend is to start recruiting poor and nonwhi
40、te students as early as the seventh grade, using new tools like hip-hop competitions to identify kids with sophisticated verbal (语言的) means. Such programs can be expensive, of course, but cheap compared with the millions already invested in scholarships and grants for kids who have little chance to
41、graduate without special support. H. With effort and money, the graduation gap can be closed. Washington and Lee is a small, selective school in Virginia. Its student body is less than 5 percent black and less than 2 percent Latino. While the school usually graduated about 90 percent of its whites,
42、the graduation rate of its blacks and Latinos had dipped to 63 percent by 2007. “We went through a dramatic shift,“ says Dawn Watkins, the vice president for student affairs. The school aggressively pushed mentoring (师徒制) of minorities by other students and “partnering“ with parents at a special pre
43、-enrollment session. The school had its first-ever black homecoming. Last spring the school graduated the same proportion of minorities as it did whites. If the United States wants to keep up in the global economic race, it will have to pay systematic attention to graduating minorities, not just enr
44、olling them.（分数：70.00）(1).The recession“s in, pact on higher education is that universities receive fewer contributions from individuals.（分数：7.00）(2).More attention should be paid to increase the graduation rate of minorities in order to keep up in the global economic race.（分数：7.00）(3).Before the mi
45、norities enter university, some private colleges arrange them to take part in college-level courses.（分数：7.00）(4).Private colleges and universities have higher graduation rates for minorities partly because they pay more attention to student“s individual need.（分数：7.00）(5).Since American“s rank in gra
46、duation rate dropped dramatically, the young may be less well educated than their fathers.（分数：7.00）(6).The “undermatched“ students don“t receive enough help from corteges or schools.（分数：7.00）(7).A recent review found that a third of the Asian students managed to graduate from college, while the grad
47、uation rate of African-Americans was worse.（分数：7.00）(8).Barry Mills, the president of Bowdoin College was proud of the College“s higher enrollment rate of minority students.（分数：7.00）(9).The University of Wisconsin-Madison managed to narrow the graduation gap by organizing programs to help students a
48、dapt to the pace of class pattern.（分数：7.00）(10).Washington and Lee worked together with parents as partners to help minorities at a special pre-enrollment session.（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)Looking for a new weight loss plan? Try living on top of a mountain. Mo
49、untain air contains less oxygen than air at lower altitudes, so breathing it causes the heart to beat faster and the body to burn more energy. A handful of studies have found that athletes training at high altitudes tend to lose weight. Doctor Florian Lippl of the University Hospital of Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich wondered how the mountain air would affect overweight individuals if they weren“t doing any more physical activity than usual. Lippl and his colleagues invited 20 overweight
