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2007年12月全国大学英语四级考试 —— 答案
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【作文范文】
With the reform of Chinese higher education, more and more colleges and universities put emphasis on nurturing students’ abilities. As a result, elective courses are available not only for excellent academic performers but also for students about the average level.
Certainly, students have different reasons to choose their own electives. For some, practical skills are the essence of college education, and therefore, courses on computer science, marketing, and finance are highly preferred. On the other hand, others may hold the idea of liberal education and electives concerning literature, history, and philosophy are the most welcome. Take me as an example: being a disciple of free education, I stand for the notion that university is not a place for survival skills, but a palace of knowledge and critical reasoning. Although my major is chemistry, the electives I attend most frequently are English literature, an Introduction to Classic Music, and Different Schools of Western Painting. They really widen my horizon.
Part II Reading Comprehension (Skimming and Scanning)
1-7 CBDADBC
8. changes in the visa process
9. take their knowledge and skills back home
10. strengthen the nation
Part III Listening Comprehension
短对话部分：11-18 DBAA CDAB
11 D she was somewhat overweight
12 B at a hotel reception
13 A having confidence in her son
14 A have a short break
15 C he has been in perfect condition
16 D she still keeps some old furniture in her new home
17 A the woman forgot lending the book to the man
18 B the man doesn’t look like a sportsman
长对话部分：19-25 CBDA BCD
19 C she has packed it in one of her bags
20 B it will last one week
21 D the taxi is waiting for them
22 A at home
23 B she is tired of her present work
24 C translator
25 D education and experience
短文听力部分： 26-35 DCBA BCA DDC
26 D they care a lot about children
27 C their birth information is usually kept secret
28 B they have mixed feelings about finding their natural parents
29 A adoption has much to do with love
30 B he bought The Washington Post
31 C she was the first woman to lead a big U.S. publishing company
32 A Katharine had exerted an important influence on the world
33 D it’ll protect them from possible financial crises
34 D they can’t immediately get back the money paid for their medical cost
35 C they needn’t pay the entire medical services
复合式听写答案：
36 alarming
37 increased
38 sheer
39 disturbing
40 comparison
41 proportion
42 workforce
43 reverse
44 The percentage of people living in cities is much higher than the percentage working in industry
45 there is not enough money to build adequate houses for the people that live there, let alone the new arrivals
46 So the figure for the growth of towns and cities represent proportional growth of unemployment and underemployment
Part IV Reading Comprehension (Reading in Depth)
47-51. E. projects C. role O. acting F. offers L. cooperative
52-56. I. forward J. especially G. information A. victims K. entire.
57. B. Children do find lots of fun in many mindless activities.
58. D. Her way to success was full of pains and frustrations.
59. B. She wanted to share her stories with readers.
60. A. she wanted to help Rebecca realize her dream of becoming a writer.
61. C. Children should be allowed freedom to grow through experience.
62. B. All its courses are offered online.
63. A. a minimum or total absence of face-to-face instruction.
64. C. work on the required courses whenever and wherever.
65. A. There is no mechanism to ensure that they make the required effort.
66. D. cutting down on their expenses.
Part V Cloze
67.C as
68.B to
69.D distinguished
70.B related
71.A In
72.C much
73.A behavior
74.D but
75.B negative
76.C given【2007年12月四级】
77.D consistent
78.B consumers
79.C favorable
80.A Moreover
81.D enhancing
82.B readily
83.A volume
84.C amount
85.C intentions
86.A turn
Part VI Translation (5 minutes)
87. Thanks to a series of new inventions
88. I am more inclined to get tired than before
89. no matter what kind of sacrifice I will make
90. the former is more convenient and time-saving / it is more....
91. is measured by how much they can borrow
2007年12月四级考试真题
Part Ⅰ Writing (30 minutes) 注意：此部分试题在答题卡1上。
Part Ⅱ Rading comprehension (Skimming and scanning) (15minutes)
Directions: In this part, you will have 15 minutes to go over the passsage quickly and answer the
questions on Answer Sheet 1. For questions 1-7, choose the best answer from the four choices marked A), B),C) and D). For questions 8-10, complete the sentences with the information given in the passage.
Univeraities Branch Out
As never before in their long story, universities have become instruments of national competition as well as instruments of peace. They are the place of the scientific discoveries that move economies forward, and the primary means of educating the talent required to obtain and maintain competitive advantages. But at the same time, the opening of national borders to the flow of goods, services, information and especially people has made universities a powerful force for global integration, mutual understanding and geopolitical stability.
In response to the same forces that have driven the world economy, universities have become More self-consciousy global: seeking students from around the world who represent the entire range of cultures and values, sending their own students abroad to prepare them for global careers, offering courses of study that address the challenges of an interconnected world and collaborative （合作的）research programs to advance science for the benefit of all humanity.
Of the forces shaping higher education none is more sweeping than the movement across borders. Over the past three decades the number of students leaving home each year to study abroad has grown at an annual rate of 3.0 percent, from 8000,000 in 1975 to 2.5 million in 2994. Most travel from one developed nation to another, but the flow from developing to developed countries id growing rapidly. The reverse flow, from developed to developing countries, is on the rise, too. Today foreign students earn 30 percent of the doctoral degrees awarded in the United States and 38 percent of those in the United Kingdom. And the number crossing borders for undergraduate study is growing as well, to 8 percent of the undergraduates at America’s best institutions and 10
percent of all undergraduates in the U.K. In the United States, 20 percent of the newly hired professors in science and engineering are foreign-born, and in China many newly hired faculty hired faculty members at the top research universities received their graduate education abroad. Universities are also encouraging students to spend some of their undergraduate years in another country. In Europe, more than 140,000 students participate in the Erasmus program each year, taking courses for credit in one of 2, 2000 participating institutions across the continent. And in the United States, institutions are helping place students in summer internships（实习）abroad to prepare them for global careers. Yale and Harvard have led the way, offering every undergraduate at least one international study or internship opportunity and providing the financial resources to make it possible.
Globalization is also reshaping the way research is done. One new trend involves sourcing portions of a research program to another country. Yale professor and Howard Hughes Medical Shanghai’s Fudan University, in collaboration with faculty colleagues from both schools. The Shanghai center has 95 employees and graduate students working in a 4,300-square-meter laboratory seminars with scientists from both campuses. The arrangement benefits both countries; Xu’s Yale lab is more productive, thanks to the lower costs of conducing from a word-class scientist and his U.S. team.
As a result of its strength in science, the United States has consistently led of the world in the world in the commercialization of major new technologies, from the mainframe computer and integrated circuit of the 1960s to the internet infrastructure(基础设施)and applications software of the 1990s.The link between university-based science and industrial application is often indirect but sometimes highly visible: Silicon Valley was intentionally created by Stanford University, and Route 128 outside Boston has long housed companies spun off from MIT and Harvard. Around the world ,governments have encouraged copying of his model, perhaps most successfully in Cambridge, England, where Microsoft and scores of other leading software and biotechnology companies have set up shop around the university.
For all its success, the United States remains deeply hesitant about sustaining the research university model. Most politician recognize the link between investment in science and national Economic strength, but support for research funding has been unsteady. The budget of the National Institutes of Health doubled between 1998 and 2003,but has risen more slowly than
inflations since then. Support for the physical sciences and engineering barely kept pace with inflation during that same period. The attempt to make up lost ground is welcome, but the nation would be better served by steady, predictable increases in science funding at the rate of long-term GDP growth, which is on the order of inflation plus 3 percent per year.
American politicians have great difficulty recognizing that admitting more foreign students can greatly promote the national interest by increasing international understanding. Adjusted for inflation, public funding for international exchanges and foreign-language study is well below the levels of 40 years ago. In the wake of September 11,changes in the visa process caused a dramatic decline in the number of foreign students seeking admission to U.S. Universities, and a corresponding surge in enrollments in Australia, Singapore and the U .K. Objections from Americans university and business leaders led to improvements in the process and a reversal of the decline ,but the United States is still seen by many as unwelcoming to international students.
Most Americans recognize that universities contribute to the nation’s well-being through their scientific research, but many fear that foreign students threaten American competitiveness by taking their knowledge and skills back home. They fail to grasp that welcoming foreign students and like immigrants throughout history-strength the nation; and second, foreign students who study in the United States become ambassadors for many of its most cherished(珍视) values when they return home. Or at least they understand them better. In America as elsewhere, few Instruments of foreign policy are as effective in promoting peace and stability as welcoming international university students.
注意：此部分试题请在答题卡1上作答。
1．From the first paragraph we know that present –day universities have become A．more and more research-oriented
B．in-service training organizations
C．more popularized than ever before
D．a powerful force for global integration
2．
A．by2.5 million B．by 800,000
C．at an annual rate of 3.9 percent
D．at an annual rate of 8 percent
3．In the United States,how many of the newly hired professors in science and engineering are
foreign-born?
A．10% B．20% C．30% D．38%
4．How do Yale and Harvard prepare their undergraduates for global careers?
A．They organize a series of seminars on world economy
B．They offer them various courses in international politics
C．They arrange for them to participate in the Erasmus program
D．They give them chances for international study or internship
5．An example illustrating the general trend of universities’ globalization is A．Yale’s collaboration with Fudan University on genetic research
B．Yale’s helping Chinese universities to launch research projects
C．Yale’s student exchange program with European institutions
D．Yale’s establishing branch campuses throughout the world
6．What do we learn about Silicon Valley from the passage?
A．It houses many companies spun off from MIT and Harvard
B．It is known to be the birthplace of Microsoft Company
C．It was intentionally created by Stanford University
D．It is where the Internet infrastructure was built up
7．What is said about the U.S. federal funding for research?
A．It has increased by 3 percent
B．It has been unsteady for years
C．It has been more than sufficient
D．It doubled between 1998 and 2003
8．The dramatic decline in the enrollment of foreign students in the U.S after September 11 was
caused by
9．Many Americans fear that American competiveness may be threatened by foreign students who
will 10．The policy of welcoming foreign students can benefit the U.S. in that the very best of them
will stay and
Part Ⅲ Listening Comprehension (35 minutes)
Section A
Direction: In his section, you will hear 8 short conversations and 2 long conversations. At the end of each conversation, one or more questions will be asked about what was said. both the conversation and the questions will be spoken only once. After each question there will a pause. During the pause, you must read the four choices marked A),B),C) and D),and decide which is the best answer. Then mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet2 with a single line through the centre.
注意：此部分试题请在答题卡2上作答。
11. A) She used to be in poor health.
B) She was popular among boys.
12. A) At he airport.
C) She was somewhat overweight D) She didn’t do well at high school. C) In a booking office. D) At the hotel reception. C) Asking the teacher for extra help. D) Telling her son not to worry. C) Continue her work outdoors. D) Go on vacation with the man. C) He is worried about Rod’s health. D) He has been in perfect condition. B) In a restaurant. 13. A) Teaching her son by herself. B) Having confidence in her son. 14. A) Have a short break. B) Take two weeks off. 15. A) He is taking care of this twin brother. C) He ha been feeling ill all week.
16. A) She sold all her furniture before she moved house.
B) She still keeps some old furniture in her new house. C) She plans to put all her old furniture in the basement. D) She brought a new set of furniture from Italy last month.
17. A) The woman wondered why the man didn’t return the book.
B) The woman doesn’t seem to know what the book is about. C) The woman doesn’t find the book useful any more. D) The woman forgot lending the book to the man.
18. A) Most of the man’s friends are athletes.
B) Few people share the woman’s opinion. C) The man doesn’t look like a sportsman. D) The woman doubts the man’s athletic ability.
2007年12月英语四级答案解析
1. 各大学开设了各种各样的选修课；
2. 学生因为各种原因选择了不同的选修课；
3. 以你自己为例... ...
What Electives to Choose
Nowadays, more and more universities are opening more opportunities for their students to choose from various optional courses in their spare time. This is, in fact, not a new phenomenon, but presently, it is of different implications to the students who want to or need to improve themselves.
There can be a great many different reawsons to choose their optional courses. For example, some of them may choose some courses on practical skills so that it will be more likely for them to get a good job after graduation, because nowadays companies are placing emphasis on a candidate's working experience, an inseparable part of which is practical skills. However, some others may choose to learn some courses. like literatjre, philosophy, etc., to broaden their view and find a different way of looking at things. And still some others may choose the electives just in that they are interested in the courses.
Personally, I prefer to choose courses which can enrich my knowledge of science and society, and even of ourselves as human beings, whether the courses can be of any pratical uses does not make any big differrence to me, because I think "To learn is fun!"
点评：
此次作文属典型的阐述性议论文，即some, others,型的文章，考生可参考我们提供的作文模板中的该类作文写法。
从提纲来看，该文可以分三步走。首先，用1-2句话大体介绍当前越来越多的大学提供各种各样的选修课；然后，用5-6句话介绍学生选修课的种种理由，并对各个理由进行解释；最后，用1-2句话讲述自己选课的情况，并加以简单说明。
刚刚结束额四级考试，作文题没有任何新意。关于选修课的话题是老生常谈，历史上也曾经出现过。这从一个侧面反映了在准备考试时历年真题的重要性。而且也揭示了四级考试写作部分将来的一种可能的发展方向，即，相对固定的校园话题。这也让我们的备考相对容易一些。
1.各学校开了各种各样的选修课
2.学生选课有不同的原因
3. 就我而言
What Electives To Choose
With the reform of Chinese higher education, more and more colleges and universities put emphasis on nurturing students’ abilities. As a result, elective courses are available not only for excellent academic performers but also for students about the average level.
Certainly, students have different reasons to choose their own electives. For some, practical skills are the essence of college education, and therefore, courses on computer science, marketing, and finance are highly preferred. On the other hand, others may hold the idea of liberal education and electives concerning literature, history, and philosophy are the most welcome.
Take me as an example: being a disciple of free education, I stand for the notion that university is not a place for survival skills, but a palace of knowledge and critical reasoning. Although my major is chemistry, the electives I attend most frequently are English literature, an Introduction to Classic Music, and Different Schools of Western Painting. They really widen my horizon.
题目：What electives to choose
作文：1. 各大学开设了各种各样的选修课；
2. 学生因为各种原因选择了不同的选修课；
3. 以你自己为例.....
范文：
At present, a lot of electives are offered in the universities. The phenomenon has become a heated topic among the people around us.
The students choose different types of electives for the following reasons. Firstly, it goes without saying that the learners are interested in various courses. In the second place, these electives are taught by many teachers, they are about different topics, and they meet all kinds of demands of the university students. At last, we can see an important fact that the electives can enrich the life the learners.
Take me as an example. I choose painting as one of my electives because I dream of becoming a painter during my childhood period. Of course, this dream does not come true, so in a sense this course fulfill my dream.
2003年是四六级作文的分水岭。再此之前，一些社会设点话题是我们考试的重点，比如历年考察了虚假广告、城市绿化、交通问题、城市住房问题等，在03年以后，尤其03年在六级中考察了住房所有权改个的问题后，命题相关的人员已经注意到了如果在考试当中考察社会热点话题。不同地区的考生对同一个社会话题的信息摄入量，认知程度是大相径庭的，鉴于此，2003年之后，开始加大对学校生活题目的考察，因为这类题材不存在地域的差异，不同地域的同学都有话可说，比如，2003年之后考的校园浪费，学生会主席竞选，以学生会的名义写公开信，名校校园旅游等，所以，今年在四级中考察选修课，也是意料之中的话题。
从考试话题和考试题型我们都可以看出新四级考试中作文这部分的考察历年都是比较稳定的.
1. B. in service training organizations
2. C. at an annual rate of 3.9 percent
3. B. 20%
4. D. They give them chances for international study or internship
5. A. Yale's collaboration with Fudan University on genetic research
6. C. It is intentionally created by Stanford University.
7. B. It has been unsteady for years.
8. changes in the visa process
9. take their knowledge and skills back home
10. strengthen the nation
听力
11. C) She was somewhat overweight
12. D) At a hotel reception
13. B) Having confidence in her son
14. A) Have a short break
15. D) He has been in perfect condition
16. B) She still keeps some old furniture in her new house
17. D) The woman forgot lending the book to the man
18. C) The man doesn't look like a sportsman
19. A)She has packed it in one of her bags.
20. C) It will last one week.
21. B) The taxi is waiting for them.
22. A) At home.
23. C) She is tired of her present work.
24. A) Translator.
25. D) Education and experience.
26. A) They care a lot about children.
27. B) Their birth information is usually kept secret.
28. C) They have mixed feelings about finding their natural parents.
29. D) Adoption has much to do with love.
30. B) He bought The Washington Post.
31. A) She was the first woman to lead a big U.S publishing company.
32. D) Katharine had exerted an important influence on the world.
33. C) It'll protect them from possible financial crises.
34. A) They can't immediately get back the money paid for their medical cost.
35. B) They needn't pay the entire medical bill at once.
36. alarming.
37. increased
38. sheer
39. disturbing
40. comparison
41. proportion
42. workforce
43. reverse
44. The percentage of people living in cities is much higher than the percentage working in industry.
45. There is not enough money to build adequate houses for the people that live there, let
2007年12月大学英语四级试题及参考答案
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Part I Writing (30 minutes)
What electives to choose
1. 各大学开设了各种各样的选修课
2. 学生因为各种原因选择了不同的选修课
3. 以你自己为例……【2007年12月四级】
Part II Reading Comprehension (Skimming and Scanning ) (15 minutes)
Universities Branch Out
As never before in their long history, universities have become instruments of national competition as well as instruments of peace. They are the place of the scientific discoveries that move economies forward, and the primary means of educating the talent required to obtain and maintain competitive advantage. But at the same time, the opening of national borders to the flow of goods, services, information and especially people has made universities a powerful force for global integration, mutual understanding and geopolitical stability.
In response to the same forces that have driven the world economy, universities have become more self-consciously global: seeking students form around the world who represent the entire range of cultures and values, sending their own students abroad to prepare them for global careers, offering courses of study that address the challenges of an interconnected world and collaborative (合作的) research programs to advance science for the benefit of all humanity.
Of the forces shaping higher education none is more sweeping than the movement across borders. Over the past three decades the number of students leaving home each year to study abroad has grown at an annual rate of 3.9 percent, from 800,000 in 1975 to 2.5 million in 2004. Most travel from one developed nation to another, but the flow from developing to developed countries is growing rapidly. The reverse flow, from developed to developing countries, is on the rise, too. Today foreign students earn 30 percent of the doctoral degrees awarded in the United States and 38 percent of those in the United Kingdom. And the number crossing borders for undergraduate study is growing as well, to 8 percent of the undergraduates at America’s best institutions and 10 percent of all undergraduates in the U.K. In the United States, 20 percent of the newly hired professors in science and engineering are foreign-born, and in China many newly hired faculty members at the top research universities received their graduate education abroad.
Universities are also encouraging students to spend some of their undergraduate years in another country. In Europe, more than 140,000 students participate in the Erasmus program each year, taking courses for credit in one of 2,200 participating institutions across the continent. And in the United States, institutions are helping place students in summer internships (实习) abroad to
prepare them for global careers. Yale and Harvard have led the way, offering every undergraduate at least one international study or internship opportunity-and providing the financial resources to make it possible.
Globalization is also reshaping the way research is done. One new trend involves sourcing portions of a research program to another country. Yale professor and Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator Tian Xu directs a research center focused on the genetics of human disease at Shanghai’s Fudan University, in collaboration with faculty colleagues from both schools. The Shanghai center has 95 employees and graduate students working in a 4,300-square-meter laboratory facility. Yale faculty, postdoctors and graduate students visit regularly and attend videoconference seminars with scientists from both campuses. The arrangement benefits both countries; Xu’s Yale lab is more productive, thanks to the lower costs of conducting research in china, and Chinese graduate students, postdoctors and faculty get on-the-job training from a world-class scientist and his U.S. team.
As a result of its strength in science, the United States has consistently led the world in the commercialization of major new technologies, from the mainframe computer and the integrated circuit of the 1960s to the Internet infrastructure (基础设施) and applications software of the 1990s. The link between university-based science and industrial application is often indirect but sometimes highly visible: Silicon Valley was intentionally created by Stanford University, and Route 128 outside Boston has long housed companies spun off from MIT and Harvard. Around the world, governments have encouraged copying of this model, perhaps most successfully in Cambridge, England, where Microsoft and scores of other leading software and biotechnology companies have set up shop around the university.
For all its success, the United States remains deeply hesitant about sustaining the research-university model. Most politician recognize the link between investment in science and national economic strength, but support for research funding has been unsteady. The budget of the National Institutes of Health doubled between 1998 and 2003, but has risen more slowly than inflation since then. Support for the physical sciences and engineering barely kept pace with inflation during that same period. The attempt to make up lost ground is welcome, but the nation would be better served by steady, predictable increases in science funding at the rate of long-term GDP growth, which is on the order of inflation plus 3 percent per year.
American politicians have great difficulty recognizing that admitting more foreign students can greatly promote the national interest by increasing international understanding. Adjusted for inflation, public funding for international exchanges and foreign-language study is well below the levels of 40 years ago. In the wake of September 11, changes in the visa process caused a dramatic decline in the number of foreign students seeking admission to U.S. Universities, and a corresponding surge in enrollments in Australia, Singapore and the U.K. Objections from American university and business leaders led to improvements in the process and a reversal of the decline, but the United States is still seen by many as unwelcoming to international students.
Most Americans recognize that universities contribute to the nation’s well-being through their scientific research, but many fear that foreign students threaten American competitiveness by taking their knowledge and skills back home. They fail to grasp that welcoming foreign students to the United States has two important positive effects: first, the very best of them stay in the States and –like immigrants throughout history-strengthen the nation; and second, foreign students who study in the United States become ambassadors for many of its most cherished (珍视) values
when they return home. Or at least they understand them better. In America as elsewhere, few instruments of foreign policy are as effective in promoting peace and stability as welcoming international university students.
1. From the first paragraph we know that present-day universities have become_________.
A) more and more research-oriented B) in-service training organizations
C) more popularized than ever before D) a powerful force for global integration
2. Over the past three decades, the enrollment of overseas students has increased__________.
A) by 2.5 million B) by 800,000
C) at an annual rate of 3.9 percent D) at an annual rate of 8 percent
3. In the United States, how many of the newly hired professors in science and engineering are foreign-born?
A) 10% B) 20% C)30% D)38%
4. How do Yale and Harvard prepare their undergraduates for global careers?
A) They organize a series of seminars on world economy.
B) They offer them various courses in international politics.
C) They arrange for them to participate in the Erasmus program.
D)They give them chances for international study or internship.
5. An example illustrating the general trend of universities’ globalization is __________.
A) Yale’s collaboration with Fudan University on genetic research
B) Yale’s helping Chinese universities to launch research projects
C) Yale’s students exchange program with European institutions
D) Yale’s establishing branch campuses throughout the world
6. What do we learn about Silicon Valley from the passage?
A) It houses many companies spun off from MIT and Harvard.
B) It is known to be the birthplace of Microsoft Company.
C) It was intentionally created by Stanford University.
D) It is where the Internet infrastructure was built up.
7. What is said about the U.S. federal funding for research?
A) It has increased by 3 percent. B) It has been unsteady for years.
C) It has been more than sufficient. D) It doubled between 1998 and 2003.
8. The dramatic decline in the enrollment of foreign students in the U.S. after September 11 was caused by ____.
9. Many Americans fear that American competitiveness may be threatened by foreign students who will_____.
10. The policy of welcoming foreign students can benefit the U.S. in that the very best of them will stay and ___.
Part III Listening Comprehension (35 minutes)
Section A
11. A) She used to be in poor health. B) She was popular among boys.
C) She was some
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