1、大学英语四级真题 2015（3）12014 年 12 月英语四级考试真题试卷（第三套）Part I Writing (30 minutes)Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a short essay about a campus activity that has benefited you most. You should state the reasons and write at least 120 words but no more than 180 words.注意：此部分试题在答题卡 1
2、上_1. A) She will go purchase the gift herself. B) The gift should not be too expensive.C) The man is not good at balancing his budget. D) They are going to Janes house-warming party.大学英语四级真题 2015（3）22. A) It takes patience to go through the statistics. B) He has prepared the statistics for the woman
3、.C) The woman should take a course in statistics. D) He is quite willing to give the woman a hand.3. A) The man wants to make some change in the scripts.B) The woman does not take the recording seriously.C) They cannot begin their recording right away.D) Page 55 is missing from the womans scripts.4.
4、 A) A significant event in July. B) Preparations for a wedding.C) The date of Carls wedding. D) The birthday of Carls bride.5. A) The man was in charge of scheduling meetings. B) The man was absent from the weekly meeting.C) They woman was annoyed at the mans excuse. D) The woman forgot to tell the
5、man in advance.6. A) The woman is a marvelous cook. B) The man cannot wait for his meal.C) The woman has just bought an oven. D) The man has to leave in half an hour.7. A) Whether the man can keep his job. B) Where the man got the bad news.C) What items sell well in the store. D) How she can best he
6、lp the man.8. A) The woman can sign up for a swimming class. B) He works in the physical education department.C) The woman has the potential to swim like a fish. D) He would like to teach the woman how to swim.Questions 9 to 11 are based on the conversation you have just heard. 9.A) He teaches in a
7、law school. B) He loves classical music.C) He is a diplomat. D) He is a wonderful lecturer.10.A) Went to see a play. B) Watched a soccer game.C) Took some photos. D) Attended a dance.11. A) She decided to get married in three years. B) Her mother objected to Erics flying lessons.C) She insisted that
8、 Eric pursue graduate studies.D) Her father said she could marry Eric right away.Questions 12 to 15 are based on the conversation you have just heard. 大学英语四级真题 2015（3）312. A) Editor. B) Teacher. C) Journalist. D) Typist.13. A) The beautiful Amazon rainforests. B) A new railway under construction.C)
9、Big changes in the Amazon valley. D) Some newly discovered scenic spot.14. A) In news weeklies. B) In newspapers Sunday editions.C) In a local evening paper. D) In overseas editions of U.S. magazines.15. A) To be employed by a newspaper. B) To become a professional writer.C) To sell her articles to
10、news service. D) To get her life story published soon.Passage One Questions 16 to 18 are based on the conversation you have just heard. 16. A) Nodding ones head. B) Waving ones hand.C) Holding up the forefinger. D) Turning the right thumb down.17. A) Looking away from them. B) Forming a circle with
11、fingers.C) Bowing ones head to them. D) Waving or pointing to them.18. A) Looking ones superior in the eye. B) Keeping ones arms folded while talking.C) Showing the sole of ones foot to a guest. D) Using a lot of gestures during a conversation.Passage Two Questions 19 to 21 are based on the passage
12、you have just heard.19. A) They had to beg for food after the harvest. B) They grew wheat and corn on a small farm.C) They shared a small flat with their relatives. D) The children walked to school on dirt roads.20. A) Tour Ecuadors Andes Mountains. B) Earn an animal income of $2,800.C) Purchase a p
13、lot to build a home on. D) Send their children to school.21. A) The achievements of the Trickle Up Program. B) A new worldwide economic revolution.C) Different forms of assistance to the needy. D) The life of poor people in developing countries.Passage Three Questions 22 to 25 are based on the passa
14、ge you have just heard.22. A) They are highly sensitive to cold. B) They are vitally important to our life.大学英语四级真题 2015（3）4C) They are a living part of our body. D) They are a chief source of our pain.23. A) It has to be removed in time by a dentist. B) It is a rare oral disease among old people.C)
15、 It contains many nerves and blood vessels. D) It is a sticky and colorless film on the teeth.24. A) It can change into acids causing damage to their outer covering.B) It greatly reduces their resistance to the attacks of bacteria.C) It makes their nerves and blood vessels more sensitive to acid foo
16、d.D) It combines with food particles to form a film on their surface.25. A) Food particles. B) Gum disease. C) Unhealthy living habits. D) Chemical erosion.Stunt people (替身演员) are not movie stars, but they are the hidden heroes of many movies.They were around long before films. Even Shakespeare may
17、have used them in fight scenes. To be good, a fight scene has to look real. Punches must _26_ enemiesjaws. Sword fights must be fought with _27_ swords. Several actors arc usually in a fight scene. Their moves must be set up so that no one gets hurt. It is almost like planning a dance performance.If
18、 a movie scene is dangerous, stunt people usually _28_ the stars. You may think you see Tom Cruise running along the top of a train. But it is _29_ his stunt double. Stunt people must _30_ the stars they stand in for. Their height and build should be about the same. But when close-ups are needed, th
19、e film _31_ the star. Some stunt people _32_ in certain kinds of scenes. For instance, a stunt woman named Jan Davis does all kinds of jumps. She has leapt from planes and even off the top of a waterfall. Each jump required careful planning and expert _33_.Yakima Canutt was a famous cowboy stunt man
20、. Among other stunts, he could jump from a second story window onto a horses back. He _34_ the famous trick of sliding under a moving stagecoach. Canutt also _35_ a new way to make a punch look real. He was the only stunt man ever to get an Oscar.大学英语四级真题 2015（3）5Questions 36 to 45 are based on the
21、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 who often goes to the movies
22、 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 some states, _40_ from the g
23、asoline 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 should pay higher taxes than po
24、orer 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 principle, the wealthy should
25、 _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) expensesE) fair F) justified G) maintaining H) privateI) provided J) reve
26、nues K) similarly L) simplyM) theft N) total O) wealthGrowing Up ColoredA You wouldnt know Piedmont anymoremy Piedmont, I meanthe town in West Virginia where I learned to be a colored boy.大学英语四级真题 2015（3）6B The 1950s in Piedmont was a time to remember, or at least to me. People were always proud to
27、be from Piedmontlying at the foot of a mountain, on the banks of the 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
28、could outhunt, outshoot, and outswim the white boys in the valley.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
29、“ neighborhoods of working-class people everywhere else, colored 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
30、 beautiful buildings stand empty, evidencing a bygone time of spirit and pride. The big houses on East Hampshire Street are no longer proud, as they were when I 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 mil
31、l, which opened in 1888. All the colored men at the paper 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
32、 in three neighborhoods that were clearly separated. 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
33、, the warmth of those you love.G Of course, the colored 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 impa
34、cted on when some white man or woman showed up where 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 w
35、ould leave early.H Before 1955, most white people 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. M
36、r. Mail Man, Mr. Insurance Man, Mr. White-and-Chocolate 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.
37、I “Its no disgrace to be colored,“ the black entertainer 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 tha
38、t we dress up when we went to shop. She was carefully 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 大学英语四级真题 2015（3）7precisely and properly. “We
39、 dont buy clothes we cant try on,“ shed say when they declined, and 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
40、 exception: my father. I dont know for certain why Carl Dadisman, 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. C
41、olored people were supposed to stand at the counter, get their food 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 sa
42、t down in comfortable chairs and drank out of glasses.K I couldnt 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,
43、 George.“L I was genuinely puzzled. Mr. Wilson must have confused 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 lon
44、g pause. “He calls all colored people George.“M I knew we 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 th
45、e world as the painful obligation to explain the racial facts 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.注意：此部分试题请在答题卡 2 上作答。46. The author felt as a boy that his life in a separated neighbo
46、rhood was casual and cozy.47. There is every sign of decline at the paper mill now.48. One reason the authors father could sit and eat at the drug store was that he didnt look that dark.49. Piedmont was a town of immigrants from different parts of the world.50. In spite of the awful inconveniences caused by racial prejudice, the authors family managed to
