1、大学英语四级卷三真题 2014 年 12 月及答案解析(总分：710.00，做题时间：130 分钟)一、Part I Writing (30 m(总题数：1，分数：106.50)1.Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a short essay about a course that has impressed you most in college. You should state the reasons and write at least 120 words but no more than 18
2、0 words. （分数：106.50）_二、Part II Listening Co(总题数：1，分数：56.80)A.He was ordered to clear the apartment by his mother last time.B.He has not cleared the apartment since his mothers visit.C.He has cleared the apartment several times since his mothers visiting.D.He asked his mother to clear the apartment l
3、ast time.A.They might as well catch the coming bus.B.They will also miss the next bus.C.They might as well take the next bus.D.They hurry up to catch the coming bus.A.She asked for a sick leave because of neck pain.B.Mrs. Smith will take over her work for several days.C.She has to do extra work for
4、a few days.D.Mrs. Smith was too busy to take over her work.A.Change her job.B.Sell her cafeteria.C.Plant flowers.D.Wash dishes.A.He remembered to take the package to the post office.B.He was told to have something wrong with his mind.C.He is a deliver man working in the post office.D.He failed to do
5、 what he promised to do.A.The woman has a rule to select horror films.B.The woman does not like horror films.C.The woman cares much for horror films.D.The woman like the film the man mentioned.A.The speakers disagree with each other about love.B.Love in the womans eye is happy and sweet.C.The speake
6、rs share a common view on love.D.Love hurts the man from time to time.A.Preparations for a forum.B.Preparations for an interview.C.Preparations for a banquet.D.Preparations for making chairs.Questions 9 to 11 are based on the conversation you have just heard. （分数：21.30）A.England.B.ScandinaviaC.South
7、 AmericaD.ScotlandA.More women will stay at home.B.More women will run for higher posts.C.Marriages will be abolished.D.More women will work outside the family.A.Spending more time improving womens income.B.Spending more time changing mens attitudes.C.Spending more time improving marriage quality.D.
8、Spend more time changing womens attitudes.Questions 12 to 15 are based on the conversation you have just heard. （分数：28.40）A.In a restaurant.B.In a meeting room.C.In an office.D.In a factoryA.He is a salesman of J.R. Motors.B.He is the boss of the restaurant.C.He is the Managing Director of J.R. Moto
9、rs.D.He is the managing director of the big factoryA.To get a good export agent.B.To expand the factory.C.To get a good import agent.D.To design a new product.A.His family background.B.His reputation.C.His designing talent.D.His determination四、Section B(总题数：3，分数：71.00)Passage One Questions 16 to 18
10、are based on the conversation you have just heard.（分数：21.30）A.How being an identical twin influences ones identity.B.How twins are born and have the same identity.C.Why many identical twins make different choices.D.Why many identical twins dont live near each otherA.They didnt meet each other for 4
11、months.B.They grew up in different surroundings.C.They were separated when they are 39 years old.D.They all have two wives and two daughtersA.They want to find out the relationship between environment and biology.B.They want to find out the connection between hobby and personalities.C.They want to f
12、ind out the connection between surroundings and personality characteristics.D.They want to find out the connection between communication and talentsPassage Two Questions 19 to 21 are based on the passage you have just heard. （分数：21.30）A.It isnt one of the cheapest ways of having a holiday.B.It is th
13、e most comfortable ways of spending a holiday.C.It is the most popular ways of having a holiday.D.It is an inexpensive way of spending a holiday.A.It is the frame tent for two people.B.It consists of an inner and an outer tent.C.It is the kind of the outer tent with a ground sheet.D.It is comfortabl
14、e with windows, kitchens and sitting rooms.A.A ground sheet.B.A bedroom extension.C.A kitchen extension.D.A water-proof sheet.Passage Three Questions 22 to 25 are based on the passage you have just heard. （分数：28.40）A.It covers 179 square miles.B.It is larger than New York City.C.It is located betwee
15、n France and Italy.D.It only covers 197 square milesA.Travelers were easy to reach the country.B.The living way of the people changed quickly.C.It has a small number of farmer population.D.It was cut off from the rest of the world.A.The investment of tourism from its neighboring countries.B.The lowe
16、st import fees for tourists cheapest shopping.C.The building of roads connecting it with neighboring countries.D.The permission to visit so many ancient buildings.A.They work in foreign business.B.They work in the tourist industry.C.They farm and raise sheep.D.They work in transportation industry.五、
17、Section C(总题数：1，分数：71.00)Dont take many English courses, they wont help you get a decent job. Sign up for management classes, so you will be ready to join the family business when you graduate. Sound _26_? Many of us have heard suggestions like these _27_ by parents or others close to us. Such comme
18、nts often seem quite reasonable. Why then? Should suggestions like these be taken with _28_? The reason is they relate to the decisions you should make. You are the one who must 29 their consequences. One of the worst reasons to follow a particular path in life is that other people want you to. Deci
19、sions that affect your life should be your decisions. Decisions you make after youve considered various _30_ and chosen the path that suits you best. Making your own decisions does not mean that you should _31_ the suggestions of others. For instance, your parents do have their own unique experience
20、s that may make their advice helpful and having _32_ in a great deal of your personal history. They may have a clear view of your strength and weaknesses. Still, their views are not necessarily accurate. They may still see you as a child _33_ caring and protection. Or they may see only your strength
21、, or in some unfortunate cases they may _34_ only your flaws and shortcomings. People will always be giving your advice, ultimately though, you have to make your own _35_. （分数：71.00）填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_六、Part III Reading Com(总题数：1，分数：35.50)Questions
22、36 to 45 are based on the following passage. One principle of taxation, called the benefit principle, states that people should pay taxes based on the benefits they receive from government services. This principle tries to make public goods similar to _36_ goods. It seems reasonable that a person wh
23、o often goes to the movies pays more in _37_ for movie tickets than a person who rarely goes. And _38_ a person who gets great benefit from a public good should pay more for it than a person who gets little benefit. The gasoline tax, for instance, is sometimes _39_ using the benefits principle. In s
24、ome states, _40_ from the gasoline tax are used to build and maintain roads. Because those who buy gasoline are the same people who use the roads, the gasoline tax might be viewed as a _41_ way to pay this government service. The benefits principle can also be used to argue that wealthy citizens sho
25、uld pay higher taxes than poorer ones, _42_ because the wealthy benefit more from public services. Consider, for example, the benefits of police protection from _43_. Citizens with much to protect get greater benefit from police than those with less to protect. Therefore, according to the benefits p
26、rinciple, the wealthy should _44_ more than the poor to the cost of _45_ the police force. The same argument can be used for many other public services, such as fire protection, national defense, and the court system. A) adapt B) contribute C) exerting D) expenses E) fair F) justified G) maintaining
27、 H) private I) provided J) revenues K) similarly L) simply M) theft N) total O) wealth（分数：35.50）A.B.C.D.E.F.G.H.A.B.C.D.E.F.G.H.I.J.K.L.M.N.A.B.C.D.E.F.G.H.I.J.K.A.B.C.D.E.F.A.B.C.D.E.F.G.H.I.J.A.B.C.D.E.A.B.C.D.E.F.G.H.I.J.K.L.A.B.C.D.E.F.G.H.I.J.K.L.M.A.B.C.D.A.B.C.D.E.F.G.七、Section B(总题数：1，分数：71.
28、00)Growing Up Colored A You wouldnt know Piedmont anymoremy Piedmont, I meanthe town in West Virginia where I learned to be a colored boy. B The 1950s in Piedmont was a time to remember, or at least to me. People were always proud to be from Piedmontlying at the foot of a mountain, on the banks of t
29、he mighty Potomac. We knew God gave America no more beautiful location. I never knew colored people anywhere who were crazier about mountains and water, flowers and trees, fishing and hunting. For as long as anyone could remember, we could outhunt, outshoot, and outswim the white boys in the valley.
30、 C The social structure of Piedmont was something we knew like the back of our hands. It was an immigrant town; white Piedmont was Italian and Irish, with a handful of wealthy WASPs (盎格鲁撒克逊裔的白人新教徒) on East Hampshire Street, and “ethnic“ neighborhoods of working-class people everywhere else, colored
31、and white. D For as long as anyone can remember, Piedmonts character has been completely bound up with the Westvaco paper mill: its prosperous past and doubtful future. At first glance, the town is a typical dying mill center. Many once beautiful buildings stand empty, evidencing a bygone time of sp
32、irit and pride. The big houses on East Hampshire Street are no longer proud, as they were when I was a kid. E Like the Italians and the Irish, most of the colored people migrated to Piedmont at the turn of the 20th century to work at the paper mill, which opened in 1888. All the colored men at the p
33、aper mill worked on “the platform“loading paper into trucks until the craft unions were finally integrated in 1968. Loading is what Daddy did every working day of his life. Thats what almost every colored grown-up I knew did. F Colored people lived in three neighborhoods that were clearly separated.
34、 Welcome to the Colored Zone, a large stretched banner could have said. And it felt good in there, like walking around your house in bare feet and underwear, or snoring right out loud on the couch in front of the TVenveloped by the comforts of home, the warmth of those you love. G Of course, the col
35、ored world was not so much a neighborhood as a condition of existence. And though our own world was seemingly self-contained, it impacted on the white world of Piedmont in almost every direction. Certainly, the borders of our world seemed to be impacted on when some white man or woman showed up wher
36、e he or she did not belong, such as at the black Legion Hall. Our space was violated when one of them showed up at a dance or a party. The rhythms would be off. The music would sound not quite right: attempts to pat the beat off just so. Everybody would leave early. H Before 1955, most white people
37、were just shadowy presences in our world, vague figures of power like remote bosses at the mill or tellers at the bank. There were exceptions, of course, the white people who would come into our world in ritualized, everyday ways we all understood. Mr. Mail Man, Mr. Insurance Man, Mr. White-and-Choc
38、olate Milk Man, Mr. Landlord Man, Mr. Police Man: we called white people by their trade, like characters in a mystery play. Mr. Insurance Man would come by every other week to collect premiums on college or death policies, sometimes 50 cents or less. I “Its no disgrace to be colored,“ the black ente
39、rtainer Bert Williams famously observed early in the century, “but it is awfully inconvenient.“ For most of my childhood, we couldnt cat in restaurants or sleep in hotels, we couldnt use certain bathrooms or try on clothes in stores. Mama insisted that we dress up when we went to shop. She was caref
40、ully dressed when she went to clothing stores, and wore white pads called shields under her arms so her dress or blouse would show no sweat. “Wed like to try this on,“ shed say carefully, uttering her words precisely and properly. “We dont buy clothes we cant try on,“ shed say when they declined, an
41、d wed walk out in Mamas dignified (有尊严的) manner. She preferred to shop where we had an account and where everyone knew who she was. J At the Cut-Rate Drug Store, no one colored was allowed to sit down at the counter or tables, with one exception: my father. I dont know for certain why Carl Dadisman,
42、 the owner, wouldnt stop Daddy from sitting down. But I believe it was in part because Daddy was so light-colored, and in part because, during his shift at the phone company, he picked up orders for food and coffee for the operators. Colored people were supposed to stand at the counter, get their fo
43、od to go, and leave. Even when Young Doc Bess would set up the basketball team with free Cokes after one of many victories, the colored players had to stand around and drink out of paper cups while the white players and cheerleaders sat down in comfortable chairs and drank out of glasses. K I couldn
44、t have been much older than five or six as I sat with my father at the Cut-Rate one afternoon, enjoying two scoops of caramel ice cream. Mr. Wilson, a stony-faced, brooding Irishman, walked by. “Hello, Mr. Wilson,“ my father said. “Hello, George.“ L I was genuinely puzzled. Mr. Wilson must have conf
45、used my father with somebody else, but who? There werent any Georges among the colored people in Piedmont. “Why dont you tell him your name, Daddy?“ I asked loudly. “Your name isnt George.“ “He knows my name, boy,“ my father said after a long pause. “He calls all colored people George.“ M I knew we
46、wouldnt talk about it again; even at that age, 1 was given to understand that there were some subjects it didnt do to worry to death about. Now that I have children, I realize that what distressed my father wasnt so much the Mr. Wilsons of the world as the painful obligation to explain the racial fa
47、cts of life to someone who hadnt quite learned them yet. Maybe Mr. Wilson couldnt hurt my father by calling him George; but I hurt him by asking to know why. （分数：71.00）(1).The author felt as a boy that his life in a separated neighborhood was casual and cozy. （分数：7.10）A.B.C.D.E.F.(2).There is every
48、sign of decline at the paper mill now. （分数：7.10）A.B.C.D.(3).One reason the authors father could sit and eat at the drug store was that he didnt look that dark. （分数：7.10）A.B.C.D.E.F.G.H.I.J.(4).Piedmont was a town of immigrants from different parts of the world. （分数：7.10）A.B.C.D.(5).In spite of the awful inconveniences caused by racial prejudice, the authors family managed to live a life of dignity. （分数：7.10）A.B.C.D.E.F.G.H.I.(6).The author later realized he had caused great distress to his father by asking why he was wrongly a
