12月大学英语四级考试真题详细解析第三套.docx

精品名师归纳总结资料word 精心总结归纳 - - - - - - - - - - - -2021 年 12 月高校英语四级考试真题 第三套）Part IWriting25 minutes Directions ： For this part ， you are allowed 30 minutes to write a short essay on how to best handle the relationship between parents and children. You should write at least120 words but no morethan 180 words.Part IIListening Comprehension25 minutes说明：由于2021 年 12 月四级考试全国共考了2 套听力，本套真题听力与前2套内容完全一样，只是次序不一样，因此在本套真题中不再重复显现。Part IIIReading Comprehension40 minutes Section ADirections: In this section, there is a passage with ten blanks. You are required to select one word for each blank from a list of choices given in a word bank following the passage. Read the passage through carefully before making your choices. Each choice in the bank is identified by a letter.Please mark the corresponding letter for each item onAnswer Sheet 2 with a single line through the centre. You may not use any of the words in the bank more than once.Questions 26 to 35 are based on the following passage.We all know there exists a great void 空白 in the public educational system when it comes to 26 to STEM Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics courses. One educator namedDori Roberts decided to do something to change this system. Dori taught high school engineering for 11 years. She noticed there was a real void in quality STEM education at all 27 of the public educational system. She said, “I started Engineering For Kids EFK after noticing a real lack ofmath, science and engineering programs to 28 my own kids in.”She decided to start an afterschool program where children 29 in STEM-based competitions. The club grew quickly and when it reached 180 members and the kids in the program won several state30, she decided to devote all her time to cultivating and 31 it. The global business EFK was born.Dori began operating EFK out of her Virginia home, which she then expanded to 32recreation63可编辑资料 - - - 欢迎下载精品名师归纳总结学习资料 名师精选 - - - - - - - - - -第 1 页，共 20 页 - - - - - - - - - -可编辑资料 - - - 欢迎下载精品名师归纳总结资料word 精心总结归纳 - - - - - - - - - - - -2021 年 12 月高校英语四级考试真题第三套）centers. Today, the EFK program 33over 144 branches in 32 states within the United States and in 21 countries. Sales have doubled from $5 million in 2021 to $10 million in 2021, with 25new branches planned for 2021. The EFK websitestates,“ Our nation is3n4oet nough engineers. Our philosophy is to inspire kids at a young age to understand that engineering is a great 35.”可编辑资料 - - - 欢迎下载精品名师归纳总结A) attractedB) careerC) championshipsD) degreesE) developingF) enrollG) exposureH) feasibleI) feedingJ) graduatingK) interestL) levelsM) localN) operatesO) participated可编辑资料 - - - 欢迎下载精品名师归纳总结Section BDirections: In this section, you are going to read a passage with ten statements attached to it. Each statement contains information given in one of the paragraphs. Identify the paragraph from which the information is derived. You may choose a paragraph more than once. Each paragraph is marked with a letter. Answer the questions by marking the corresponding letter onAnswer Sheet 2.Why aren t you curious about what happened.A) “ You suspended Ray Rice after our video, a reporter from TMZ challenged National FootballLeague Commissioner Roger Goodell the other day.“ Why didn t you have the curiosity to go to the casino 赌场yourself.” The implication of the question is that a more curious commissionerwould have found a way to get the tape.B) The accusation of incuriosity is one that we hear often, carrying the suggestion that there is something wrong with not wanting to search out the truth. I have been bothered for a long time about the curious lack of curiosity said a Democratic member of the New Jersey legislature back in July, referring to an insufficiently inquiring attitude on the part of an assistant to New JerseyGovernor Chris Christie who chose not to ask hard questions about the George Washington Bridgetraffic scandal.“ Isn t the mainstream media the least bit curious about what happened.” wrot conservative writer Jennifer Rubin earlier this year, referring to the attack on Americans inBenghazi, Libya.C) The implication, in each case, is that curiosity is a good thing, and a lack of curiosity is a64可编辑资料 - - - 欢迎下载精品名师归纳总结学习资料 名师精选 - - - - - - - - - -第 2 页，共 20 页 - - - - - - - - - -可编辑资料 - - - 欢迎下载精品名师归纳总结2021 年 12 月高校英语四级考试真题第三套）problem. Are such accusations simply efforts to score political points for one s party. Or is there something of particular value about curiosity in and of itself.D) The journalist Ian Leslie, in his new and enjoyable book Curious： The Desire to Know andWhy Your Future Depends on It, insists that the answer to that last question is Yes . Leslie argthat curiosity is a much-overlooked human virtue, crucial to our success， and that we are losing it.E) We are suffering ， he writes ， from a“ serendipity deficit.” The word“ serendipity” was coined by Horace Wal pole in an 1854 letter, from a tale of three princes who“ were always making discoveries, by accident, of things they were not in search of.” Leslie worries that the rise of theInternet, among other social and technological changes, has reduced our appetite for aimless adventures. No longer have we the inclination to let ourselves wander through fields of knowledge, ready to be surprised. Instead, we seek only the information we want.F) Why is this a problem. Because without curiosity we will lose the spirit of innovation and entrepreneurship. We will see unimaginative governments and dying corporations make disastrous decisions. We will lose a vital part of what has made humanity as a whole so successful as a species.G) Leslie presents considerable evidence for the proposition that the society as a whole is growing less curious. In the U.S. and Europe, for example, the rise of the Internet has led to adeclining consumption of news from outside thereader s borders. But not everything is to beblamed on technology. The decline in interest in literary fiction is also one of the causes identified by Leslie. Reading literary fiction, he says, makes us more curious.H) Moreover, in order to be curious,you have to“be aware of a gap in your knowledge in thefirst place.” Although Leslie perhaps paints a bit broadly in contending that most of us areunaware of how much we don t know, he s surely right to point out that the problem is growing:“ Google can give us the powerful illusion that all questions have definite answers.”I) Indeed, Google ，for which Leslie expresses admiration, is also his frequentwhipping boy 替罪羊） . He quotes Google co- founder Larry Page to the effect that the“ perfect search engine” will“ understand exactly what I mean and give me back exactly what I want.” Elsewhere in the book, Leslie writes:“ Google aims to save you from the thirst of curioaslittoygether.”J) Somewhat nostalgically 怀旧的），he quotes John Maynard Keynes s justly famous words of praise to the bookstore ： "One should enter it vaguely, almost in a dream, and allow what is there65可编辑资料 - - - 欢迎下载精品名师归纳总结学习资料 名师精选 - - - - - - - - - -第 3 页，共 20 页 - - - - - - - - - -可编辑资料 - - - 欢迎下载精品名师归纳总结2021 年 12 月高校英语四级考试真题第三套）freely to attract and influence the eye. To walk the rounds of the bookshops, dipping in as curiosity dictates, should be an afternoon s entertainment.” If only.K) Citing the work of psychologists andcognitive 认知 的 ） scientists ， Leslie criticizes the received wisdom that academic success is the result of a combination of intellectual talent andhard work. Curiosity, he argues, is the third key factor and a difficult one to preserve. If not cultivated, it will not survive： “ Childhood curiosity is a collaboration between child and adult. The surest way to kill it is to leave it alone.”L) School education, he warns, is often conducted in a way that makes children incurious.Children of educated and upper-middle-class parents turn out to be far more curious, even at early ages, than children of working class and lower class families. That lack of curiosity produces a relative lack of knowledge, and the lack of knowledge is difficult if not impossible to compensate for later on.M) Although Leslie s book isn t about politics, he doesn t entirely shy away from the problem.Political leaders, like leaders of other organizations, should be curious. They should ask questions at crucial moments. There are serious consequences, he warns, in not wanting to know.N) He presents as an example the failure of the George W. Bush administration to prepare properly for the after-effects of the invasion of Iraq. According to Leslie, those who ridiculed former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld for his 2002 remark that we have to be wary of the“ unknown unknowns” were mistaken. Rumsfeld s idea, Leslie writes,it w“aswasn t absurdsmart. He adds,“ The tragedy is that he didn t follow his own advice.”O) All of which brings us back to Goodell and the Christie case and Benghazi. Each critic in those examples is charging, in a different way, that someone in authority is intentionally being incurious.I leave it to the reader s political preference to dec，idief awnhyic，h charges should stick. But letsbe careful about demanding curiosity about the other side s weaknesses and remaining determinedly incurious about our own. We should be delighted to pursue knowledge for its ownsake even when what we find out is something we didn t particularly want to know.36. To be curious, we need to realize first of all that there are many things we don't know.37. According to Leslie， curiosity is essential to o ne s success.38. We should feel happy when we pursue knowledge for knowledge s sake.39. Political leaders lack of curiosity will result in bad consequences.66可编辑资料 - - - 欢迎下载精品名师归纳总结学习资料 名师精选 - - - - - - - - - -第 4 页，共 20 页 - - - - - - - - - -可编辑资料 - - - 欢迎下载精品名师归纳总结2021 年 12 月高校英语四级考试真题第三套）40. There are often accusations about politicians and the media s lack of curiosity to find out the truth.41. The less curious a child is, the less knowledge the child may turn out to have.42. It is widely accepted that academic accomplishment lies in both intelligence and diligence.43. Visiting a bookshop as curiosity leads us can be a good way to entertain ourselves.44. Both the rise of the Internet and reduced appetite for literary fiction contribute to people declining curiosity.45. Mankind wouldn t be so innovative withoutricousity.Section CDirections: There are 2 passages in this section. Each passage is followed by some questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. You should decide on the best choice and mark the corresponding letter onAnswer Sheet 2 with a single line through the centre.Passage OneQuestions 46 to 50 are based on the following passage.Aging happens to all of us, and is generally thought of as a natural part of life. It would seem silly to callsuch a thing a“ disease.”On the other hand, scientists are increasingly learning that aging and biological age are two different things, and that the former is a key risk factor for conditions such as heart disease, cancer and many more. In that light, aging itself might be seen as something treatable, the way you would treat high blood pressure or a vitamin deficiency.Biophysicist Alex Zhavoronkov believes that aging should be considered a disease. He said that describing aging as a disease creates incentives to develop treatments.“ It unties the hands of thepharmaceutical 制药的industry so that they can begin treatingthe disease and not just the side effects,” he said.可编辑资料 - - - 欢迎下载精品名师归纳总结“ Right now, people think of aging as natural and something you can， ” he said.t con“troIln可编辑资料 - - - 欢迎下载精品名师归纳总结academic circles, people take aging research as just an interest area where they can try to developinterventions. The medical community also takes aging for granted, and can do nothing about it except keep people within a certain health range.”But if aging were recognized as a disease, he said,“ It would attract funding and change the67可编辑资料 - - - 欢迎下载精品名师归纳总结学习资料 名师精选 - - - - - - - - - -第 5 页，共 20 页 - - - - - - - - - -可编辑资料 - - - 欢迎下载精品名师归纳总结2021 年 12 月高校英语四级考试真题第三套）way we do health care. What matters is understanding that aging is curable.” “ It was always known that the body accumulates damage ， ” he added.“ The only way to cureaging is to find ways to repair that damage. I think of it as preventive medicine for age-related conditions.”Leonard Hayflick, a professor at the University of California， San Francisco， said the idea that aging can be cured implies the human lifespan can be increased, which some researchers suggest is possible. Hayflick is not among them.“ There re many people who recover from cancer, stro，keor heart disease. But they continueto age， because aging is separate from their disease,” Hayflick said.“ Even if those causes of death were eliminated, life expectancy would still not go much beyond 92 years.”46. What do people generally believe about aging.A) It should cause no alarm whatsoever.B) They just cannot do anything about it.C) It should be regarded as a kind of disease.D) They can delay it with advances in science.47. How do many scientists view aging now.A) It might be prevented and treated.C It results from a vitamin deficiency.B) It can be as risky as heart disease. D It is an irreversible biological process.48. What does Alex Zhavoronkov think of“ describing aging as a disease”.A) It will prompt people to take aging more seriously.B) It will greatly help reduce the side effects of aging.C) It will free pharmacists from the conventional beliefs about aging.D) It will motivate doctors and pharmacists to find ways to treat aging.49. What do we learn about the medical community.A) They now have a strong interest in research on aging.B) They differ from the academic circles in their view on aging.C) They can contribute to people s health only to a limited extent.D) They have ways to intervene in peopled aging process.50. What does Professor Leonard Ha