2010年12月英语四级真题答案

2010年12月大学英语四级真题答案

作文范文：

Help Children to Be Independent

Thanks to the “family plan” policy, today in China many families have one child. Loving and caring for children is an old Chinese tradition that has remained for thousands of years. But the children are spoilt so much that they have less independence. They rely on their parents in everything. That is bad for a child's growing. Therefore, parents should develop the children's independence instead of doing everything for them.

There are some ways to help children to be independent. First of all, you should believe your children can do the things well. Second, give them more chances to practise, when they don't know how to do it, just tell them the way. Third, don't be afraid to see them fail. In the beginning, they may do something bad. But don't worry, just let them try again. They can do the work as well as you if given more time.

To be independent is good for the children. A child who is independent will succeed easily in the future.

Part Ⅱ

Reading Comprehension(Skimming and Scanning)

1.A) People instinctively seek nature in different ways.

解析：第一段最后一句直接给出关键字profound belief, whether 引导的从句对应答案中的instinctively

2.D) Things that are purchased.

解析：第二段最后一句，what is best对应题目中的prefer, that is to say 作为暗示直接引出之后的things that can be bought,选择D

3.B) More access to nature makes children less likely to fall ill.

解析：题干中有关瑞典研究，定位到第四段第一句，结合语义，不难得出B的正确答案

4.D) are less likely to be involved in bullying

解析：A选项具有干扰性，第三段结尾给出自然熏陶能够提高学生学科水平的线索，但考虑到快速阅读题的传统，即题目顺序对应文章顺序，所以应该定位到第四段之后的内容，即大段有关bullying的段落，得出答案D。

5.B) Provide more green spaces for them.

解析：对应第八段内容，作者通过否定患儿对药物的依赖性来给出自己的建议，结合全文主旨自然环境的重要性，得出B答案

6.B) They enjoy a life of better quality.

解析：第九段第二句点出老龄人口增长的侧重点是在高质量的生活水平上，紧接着又指出绿色的生活方式是达到该种高质量生活水平的最重要因素。

7.C) access to nature contributes to the reduction of violence

解析：十一段引文中can reduce violent behavior，直接对应C选项

8.separated

解析：题干是有关人们错误观念的问题，找到倒数第三段的关键段error引导的内容，再对应到humanity and the natural world，得出separated(照抄原文separable与can重复，separable本身词义即能够分离的)

9.the wild world

解析：最后一段第二句直接命中题干，照抄the wild world即可。

10. harmony

解析：最后几段内容的小标题直接给出harmony

Part Ⅲ

Listening Comprehension

Section A

短对话(11~18)

答案及解析：

11. A) The man should visit the museums. B) She can’t stand the hot weather.

C) The beach resort is a good choice. D) She enjoys staying in Washington.

答案：D

解析：Woman最后说到I’ll be happy here no matter what the temperature. 这表明了她待在这里很愉快，很享受待在华盛顿，故选D。

12. A) Her new responsibilities in the company.

B) What her job prospects are.

C) What the customers’ feedback is.

D) The director’s opinion of her work.

答案：D

解析：Woman说到but I wish the director would give me some feedback. 这表明了她希望得到director的意见(即反馈)，故选D。

13. A) Combine her training with dieting.

B) Repeat the training every three days.

C) Avoid excessive physical training.

D) Include weightlifting in the program.

答案：C

解析：Man以自己上次因运动(举重)过量而受伤为例，建议女士应该量力而行，避免过量运动，故选C。

14. A) When she will return home. B) Whether she can go by herself.

C) Whether she can travel by air. D) Whether she will completely recover.

答案：C

解析：Man开头就说到I’m worried about her going on a plane. 从中可知，他担心的是年老的母亲能不能乘飞机，故选C。

15. A) The woman knows how to deal with the police.

B) The woman had been fined many times before.

C) The woman had violated traffic regulations.

D) The woman is good at finding excuses.

答案：C

解析：警察开头问到 Why didn’t you stop when we first signaled you at the crossroads? 通过这句话就可以知道女士没有遵守交通规则，故选C。

16. A) Switch off the refrigerator for a while.

B) Have someone repair the refrigerator.

C) Ask the man to fix the refrigerator.

D) Buy a refrigerator of better quality.

答案：B

解析：Man说到 Maybe you should have it fixed，女士回答到You’re right.

这说明女士也同意男士的看法，但并未提到让这个男士来修，故选B。

17. A) He owns a piece of land in the downtown area.

B) He has got enough money to buy a house.

C) He can finally do what he has dreamed of.

D) He is moving into a bigger apartment.

答案：C

解析：Man第二句话说到Now, I have enough money to buy that piece of land I’ve had my eye on and build a house on it. 表明他能实现买地建房的理想了，故选C。

18. A) She is black and blue all over.

B) She has to go to see a doctor.

C) She stayed away from work for a few days.

D) She got hurt in an accident yesterday.

答案：D

解析：Woman说的第一句话是My hands still hurts from the fall on the ice yesterday.从中可知这位女士昨天在冰上滑倒受伤了，但是男士认为伤势并不严重，

只建议她休养几天就可以了，不必去看医生。C是较强的干扰项，应该是女士现在

需要休息而不是过去已经休息了几天，故选D。

第一个短对话：

谈论天气the heat is unbearable，强调有了华盛顿的museums and restaurants，天气再热也无所谓I’ll be happy here no matter what the temperature.

第二个短对话：

谈论新工作，I’m learning a lot of new things, but I wish the director would give me some feedback.我学了很多新东西呢，但是我希望上司能给我点反

馈!!!feedback是反馈也是答案的题眼。这位女士想知道什么呢，想知道上司对她

的看法嘛!

第三个短对话：

关于锻炼身体的，还是关于制定锻炼身体的计划的!Can you help me work out a physical training program, John?你能帮我制定个锻炼的项目吗?Sure, but whatever you do be careful not to overdo it. 当然啦，不过不管你做什么，得小心点别过头啊!接下来的句子是举例子Last time I had two weeks’ worth of weight-lifting in three days and I hurt myself.上次我三天就完成了两个星期的举重的训练，结果我就受伤了。

问题是这个男人要建议这个女人什么?

第四个短对话：

这个对话好!弘扬爱护老人的美德的!

儿子说，我妈妈年纪大啦，I have an elderly mother 然后表达他对妈妈乘飞机的担心 I’m worried about her going on a plane. Is there any risk?有没

有危险啊?

接下来，医生的回答，再次体现四六级客观而乐观的精神，Not if her heart is all right. If she has a heart condition, I’d recommend against it.她心脏没问题就没事啊，如果她心脏有问题的话，那我就不建议她去(乘飞机啦)

第五个短对话：

交通违规怎么做?!四六级听力教你谦恭有礼做回答。首先，第一句的男士质问，Why didn’t you stop when we first signaled you at the crossroads?我们第

一次示意让你在交叉口停车，你干嘛不停呢?(潜台词是，瞧，还不是被我给逮回来

训话了么?!在这种情况之下，这位女士态度是诚恳的，Sorry, I was just a bit absent-minded. Anyway, do I have to pay a fine? 对不起啊，我有点心不在焉。但不管怎么说，我需要罚款吗?

第六个短对话：

家庭琐事。

第一个人说，I’m no expert我不是专家but that noise in your refrigerator doesn’t sound right. Maybe you should have it fixed.但是你冰箱里面的噪音听起来不大对啊，也许你应该去修理了吧。 have it fixed这个结构是考官们发誓要考生学会的have sth done的结构。

第二个人开腔了，You’re right.对话基调钉牢，我同意你，就是冰箱确实坏了。And I suppose I’ve put it off long enough.我恐怕我已经拖得够久了，put off,另一个考官立誓要教会全中国考生的内容，拖延，put off,核心之核心。

问题，这女的可能会怎么做呢?

她学会了核心单词听懂了整个对话以后，一定会去修冰箱!!并且，这里强调是找人修冰箱， have it fixed而不是她自己修! she will fix it herself.

第七个短对话：

买房问题。全国热议啊，考试考到的角度那是真叫一个艺术!

我市区的公寓卖得不错!I did extremely well on the sale of my downtown apartment.也就是说卖了一个好价钱啦! Now, I have enough money to buy that piece of land I’ve had my eye on and build a house on it.现在，我可有钱买一块我早就看中的地啦，我能建一所房子啦!

偷偷感叹下，这说明了城乡的房价是多么滴有茶具啊!不过考官还是仁慈的，不考那么隐晦的，来个简单的，听到这句话的人呢说Congratulations! Does that mean you’ll be moving soon?

恭喜你啊，那这是不是说明你很快要搬家了啊?!

问题问我们知道第一个陈述的那个男人什么情况?!简单，字面意思就够你用来解答了，卖公寓了有了钱买地建房子了!

第八个短对话：

还是运动，不过这里面涉及了一点点西方的固定搭配，black and blue又黑又蓝，这实际上说的是咱中文里面的，身上摔得又青又紫。

第一个人是在说她昨天在冰上摔了一跤，手到现在还疼呢，My hand still hurts from the fall on the ice yesterday. I wonder if I broke something.我想知道我是不是摔坏哪儿了啊

(I wonder if这个句型好，走过路过不要错过，I wonder if I could get married with Sister Phoenix我真想知道我能不能娶凤姐啊?!)

下面这位男士的回答是， I’m no doctor, but it’s not black and blue or anything. Maybe you just need to rest it for a few days. 我不是医生，但是如果没有什么又青又紫也没其他问题的话，也许你只是需要休息几天罢了。

问题，此女发生了什么问题?

答案，手摔了，焦虑，问了一男的，这男的很冷静，告诉她没啥事。

长对话(19~25)

答案及解析：

19. What do we learn about the woman?

答案：D) She was a witness to the crime.

解析：文中男士需要女士描述一下抢劫银行的人(describe the man who robbed the bank)。选项中B提到了robbery，但是对话中没有说明女士是受害者(victim);D 选项提到了她目击了某个犯罪经过，robbery显然是crime的一种。

20. What did the suspect look like?

答案：A) A tall man with dark hair and a moustache.

解析：原文中提到The man was tall, six foot, and he had dark hair, and he had moustache.，对应选项A。

21. What did the man finally asked the woman to do?

答案：A) Identify the suspect from pictures.

解析：对话结尾处，男士要求女士look at some photographs，很显然，他的目的是让女士通过照片来辨别嫌疑人。因此选择A。

22. How did the woman get to know about the job vacancy?

答案：A) By reading a newspaper ad.

解析： job vacancy指空缺的职位。在对话一开始，女士就说到她的目的：I’m calling about the job that was in the paper last night.从这句话中可以看出她得知职位信息的来源是the paper last night，对应A选项。

23. Why did the woman find the job appealing?

答案：B) She could work close to her family.

解析：本题关键词是appealing，意为引起兴趣的。女士提到她喜欢这份工作的原因是be near to the family.，close是near的同义替换词，因此选择B选项。

24. What had the woman been doing in Geneva?

答案：C) Working as a secretary.

解析：女士提到她在日内瓦做了一些secretarial work，也就是选项C中的secretary。虽然她也提到之前在大学学习，但是她取得的学位是a degree in English，而非选项D中的a degree in French.

25. What was the woman asked to do in the end?

答案：C) Send in a written application as soon as possible.

解析：对话中女士希望得到面试机会，但是男士要求先要递交书面申请(reply a writing to the advertisement)，并不是所有人都能得到面试机会，因此选择答案C。

题材考点分析：

长对话第二篇围绕女士求职面试展开，男士问了很多关于女士个人信息的问题，女士做出回答。做题时需要考生把握住对话大意、抓住细节信息以及两人的态度。

对话中的考点主要集中在细节、重点一些词组含义，以及同意词组替换。对话中关键信息包括：been working in Geneva, secretarial work, degree in English, be near to the family, applications in writing等。考题也正是针对这些关键信息出的，在听的时候考察考生对于细节的把握，尤其是叙述相同类型的事情时，更需要记下其中的区别，从而在做题时能够准确的选出选项。如对话中提到女士会French和English，区别是会说French，拿到了degree in English.

其中有几题考察同义词组替换。比如23题中用close替换了near，24题中用secretary替换了secretarial work。选项中频频出现同义词组替换，由此可见考生平时应该注意积累同一个意思不同的表达法。

另外，从说话的语气和表达情绪的词，也可以听出说话人的态度。比如女士在问到能否安排面试时，男士的回答“Well, I’m afraid…”由此看出男士否定了女士的想法。因此在做题中，很容易地排除了安排面试的选项。

总体来说，这篇听力难度中等，关键是要抓住细节。

Section B

Passage One

答案及解析：

26. D) They mistake the firefighters for monsters.

解析：细节题，从开始when children catch a glimpse of the masked fire fighter but hide because they think they have seen a monster一句中便可得出因为不熟悉消防人员戴面具的形象，孩子们以为来救援的消防人员是怪兽，所以躲起来。所以选D。其他选项文中都没有涉及到。

27. B) He often teaches children what to do during a fire.

解析：本篇文章大篇幅讲的是Eric Velez给社区里的孩子讲解消防知识，让他们熟悉消防人员及消防工具的过程。选项A，put out fire虽然是Eric Velez的工作，但是本文重点不是在其消防员救活这个工作上，C、D选项很容易就可以排除。所以选B。

28. A) He saved the life of his brother choking on food.

解析：细节题，从Pete Gentry in North Carolina rescued his brother who is choking on food一句便可得出答案，文章中关于Pete Gentry的主要信息就是他救了噎着食物的弟弟。所以选A。做题时一定要把人名及其所做的事准确对应起来。

29. D) Informative speeches can save lives.

解析：主旨题，本文举了一个大例子，一下小例子来证明教育性的演说有救人性命的好处。虽然在文章最后也列举了下其他好处，但是主旨还是拯救生命。所以选D。其他几个选项都主要讲细节处，很容易就可以排除。

Passage Two

答案及解析：

30. C) To make money for early retirement.

解析：本题考察原因，问为什么人们喜欢比较苛求但收入较高的工作，其实听力一开始就用in order to 给出了原因，即：retire early，所以选C项。

31. A) They may have to continue to work in old age.

解析：本题考察后果，问只为当下而活的人面临着什么危险，从“The earlier neglect of saving, however, makes it difficult not to work when you are older.”中可以看出A是正确选项，及在年老时有可能不得不继续工作。

32. B) Enjoying yourself while you can.

解析：本课考察文章作者的态度，从“Postponing doing what you love and being with people you love until retirement can be a mistake.”中可以看出，作者认为想等到退休后再做自己想做的事情以及和自己喜欢的人在一起可能是一种错误，所以选B，即趁着自己还可以的时候要懂得享受生活。

Passage Three

答案及解析：

33.C) Innocent people being suspected groundlessly。

文章第一段中，由”How fair will that be”的前一句和后一句均可推出此答案。前一句即“一个邻居犯了法，所有的邻居们都成了怀疑对象”。后一句即“因为有些学生小偷小摸，所有的学生就都被当成小偷来看待……”，二者表明一个意思，即“无辜者被毫无理由的怀疑属实不公平”。

34.D) Allowing only two students to enter at a time。

第一个小故事中的一个关键句后面紧跟答案。该关键句为，”A new sign in the window told the story.”

而这个sign的内容就是紧随其后的“No more than two students at a time”.

35.B) He was closely watched.

此题需要自己稍作总结，最后一个小故事说到文中的“我”去药店，却一直被盯着;此事让“我”很是不满。

Section C

36. preserve 37. appreciate 38. households 39. chat

40. convenient 41. rates 42. receive 43. submit

44. They are also sharing information about concerts and sports events, as well as jokes and their philosophies of life.

45. A hand-written note to a friend or a family member is the best way to communicate important thoughts.

46. This writing practice brings rewards that can’t be seen in bank accounts

Part Ⅳ

Reading Comprehension(Reading in Depth)

Section A

47. M) raised 48. L) psychological 49. E) contributions

50. A) abilities 51. B) achieve 52. N) smart 53. I) extent

54. J) indicates 55. G) essentially 56. H) eventually

47. raise在这里的意思是“养育”，the environment in which you were raised 意思是“你成长的环境”。

48. "psychological activity"意思是“心理活动”，全句意思是“研究基因和外部环境如何相互作用影响人心理活动的学科被称为行为遗传学”。

49. “make contributions to”为固定搭配，意为“为……做贡献”。

50. “ability to …”意思是“做某事的能力”，在此处，全句意思是“任何一篇宣称人类做出某种行为的能力是基于生物学的研究都是有争议的”。

51. "limitations to what you can achieve"意思是“对你所能达到的水平的限制”。

52. 此处需填一个形容词，而且用来形容人，根据题意，smart符合题意，表示“机灵，可爱”。

53. 此处填extent，主要是因为后面有to，“to the extent …”译为“……的程度”。

54. indicate 意思是“表明，显示”。全句意为“越来越多的科学(现象)表明基因对人类很多特征有基础作用”。

55. essentially 的意思是“实际上，本质上”。全句意为“从这个角度来讲，人一出生，本质上就像是还没洗出来的照片：相已经照了，但是最终会呈现多少就在于显影的过程了”。

56. eventually 副词，意思是“最终，最后”。

Section B

Passage One

57. C) few industrial scientists would quit to work in a university

推理题。“one-way street”字面意思是“单行道”，含有只能从一个方向前进却很难往相反方向前进的意思，用了比喻用法。文章第二句就解释说明了这个“one-way street”在文中的含义。大学里的学者去商界创业的现象不算稀奇，但是反过来就不怎么常见。所以选择C选项。

58. A) keeps someone from taking action

推理题。“deterrent”有妨碍物的意思。在文中需要通过上下文来理解。单词前的意思是“薪水永远是最大的…因为很多人觉得到大学里工作就会减少工资，从而无法养家糊口。”从后面半句，我们可以推断出deterrent的意思，所以选A选项。

59. B) Her research interests.

细节题。答案在Para3Line3可以找到。“Her main reason for… to take advantage of the great freedom to choose research questions.”表明Helen Lee 换行主要考虑到的是自己可以比较自由地选择研究领域，即个人的研究兴趣。所以选择B选项。

60. D) exploit better intellectual opportunities

细节题。本题比较简单，在Para3最后一句“felt it worthwhile for the great intellectual opportunities”就可以找到答案。

61. A) Increase its graduates’ competitiveness in job market.

推理题。本着一题对应一段的一般原则，我们应该在最后一段里找答案。“the demand for scientists with a wealth of experience in industry in…“that will help students get a job when they graduate”段落主要是在讲industrial scientists 到大学教学后的主要贡献。所以选择A项。

Passage Two

62. D) marriage contributes to a great deal of longevity

解析：第一段提到“but the biggest longevity boost seems to come from marriage or an equivalent relationship.”紧接着就说到“The effect was first noted in 1958 by William Farr,…”。句中的boost和选项D中的contribute

有相近的意思，故选择D。

63. B) marriage can help make up for ill heath

解析：Linda Waite举例子说到一个有心脏病的已婚男人可以比未婚但是健康的男人多活4年。因此，婚姻可以弥补身体不健康带来的不利因素，故选B。

64. A) the disadvantages of being married

解析：flip side的愿意是唱片的另一面，在这里前面已经分析过婚姻的好处，这里指的就是婚姻的反面，故选A。

65. A) They have effects similar to those a marriage.

解析：第二段最后一句…how all kinds of social networks have similar effects. 故选择A。

66. B) To stay healthy, one should have a proper social network.

解析：最后一段提到如果想生活的更长久到100岁，就要发展自己的社交网络，故选B。

Part Ⅴ

Cloze

67. D came out 68. C less 69. D by 70. A almost 71. B developed

72. C growth 73. B lead 74. A pressure 75. B services 76.

B into

77. C driven 78. C wealth 79. C unless 80. D expand 81. C at

82. C common 83. A major 84. D trend 85. C but 86. B possibilities

解析：

67. D came out 表示出版，公布，这里表示报告的公布。

68. C less 根据上下文可知这里说的是都市人口的增长，强调之前的少和现在的多，所以用少于更合适。less than：少于，不到。

69. D by 在这里表示截止到某时间为止。

70. A almost 几乎，将近，对前面的解释，说明人口有多少。

71. B developed 根据上下文意思，以及后文相对的developing world可知应该是发达国家，即：developed countries。

72. C growth 仔细阅读的话可以发现下文就有答案，这里讲的是都市人口的增长，所以用growth。

73. B lead to表示导致，通向，本段末也有出现过，在这里是说都市化有助

于社会和经济的进步。

74. A pressure 从下文的描述可以看出过快的都市化也给城市带来了巨大压力，所以选pressure。

75. B services 服务，城市为人们提供住房和服务。

76. B into 介词选择，move into 移入，迁入;固定搭配。

77. C driven 表示推动，驱动，driven by 由…驱动，由什么原因引起的。

78. C wealth 财富;social division and differences in wealth 社会分化和财富上的差距。

79. C unless 除非，这里说的是除非城市规划更好，否则各部分财富分配不均的局面将可能导致犯罪问题。

80. D expand 指扩张， expand into rural areas 扩张到农村地区。

81. C at a much faster rate 以更快的速度，固定搭配

82. C common 表示某事件很普遍，平常。从下文的across America可知这种情况很普遍很常见。

83. A major cities，大城市，与后文中的smaller cities形成对比

84. D trend 趋势，这里是对前面情况的概括，a trend toward de-urbanization 表示一种逆城市化的发展趋势。

85. C but 表示转折，说城市还是有自身优点的，与前面的“逆城市化”形成转折关系。

86. B possibilities 可能性，这里表示城市依然能够提供农村所不能提供的机会和可能性。

翻译：

87.In order to ensure him to attend the meeting

88.was said to be founded

89.without the special environment on earth

90.what the tourists were impressed by

91.the books that I borrowed be returned to the library

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