大學英語四級真題試卷及答案
對於腳踏實地學習英語的同學來說，順利通過四級考試是沒有問題的。尤其是在備考的時候，要注意多做真題。今天我們爲大家整理了大學英語四級真題試卷及答案，希望能夠對大家有所幫助。
Part I Writing(30 minutes)
Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write an essay commenting on the saying"Learning is a daily experience and a lifetime mission. " You can cite examples to illustrate the importance of lifelong learning. You should write at least 120 words but no more than 180 words.
Part II Listening Comprehension ( 30 minutes )
Section A
Directions: In this 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 bea 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 Sheet I with a single line through the centre.
1. A. The agenda for the board of directors' meeting.
B. The details of the meeting to be held next week.
C. The reason for the man's absence from the meeting.
D. The time for the man's visit to the woman's company.
2. A. At a travel agency.
B. At a department store.
C. In a library.
D. In a post office.
3. A. He cannot hear the woman's call.
B. He cannot get through to New York.
C. He cannot recall the phone number.
D. He cannot find a public phone nearby.
4. A. Watch a movie with the woman.
B. Revise his thesis in the office.
C. Do some shopping with Jane.
D. Discuss his thesis with Prof. Hudson.
5. A. He just cannot work properly without a watch.
B. He has no idea where he can buy a gold watch.
C. He still does not know where he left his watch.
D. He is not sure what went wrong with his watch.
6. A. He forgot all about what he said.
B. He slipped and hurt his head.
C. He was sorry for being off sick last week.
D. He thought the woman's car had been sold.
7. A. She should try to catch an earlier bus.
B. She is absent from his class too often.
C. She is always making excuses for being late.
D. She should come up with a better excuse.
8. A. He is going to help the woman out.
B. He has to move out of the building soon.
C. He is on his way to see a real estate agent.
D. He will stay with the woman's brother.
Questions 9 to 11 are based on the conversation you have just heard.
9. A. From the wanted cohunn.
B. From some of her friends.
C. From a telephone directory.
D. From a television commercial.
10. A. She received full-time education abroad.
B. She graduated from an open university.
C. She fmished her secondary school.
D. She studied in a vocational college.
11. A. She is a shorthand-typist.
B. She works as a tour guide.
C. She is a policewoman.
D. She teaches an evening class.
Questions 12 to 15 are based on the conversation you have just heard.
12. A. It provides him with career opportunities.
B. It helps enlarge his customer network.
C. It has been off and on for ten years.
D. It was interrupted for four years.
13. A. Individualized service.
B. Traditional setting.
C. Home-made beer.
D. Social games.
14. A. The quality of beer.
B. The atmosphere.
C. The owner's attitude.
D. The right location.
15. A. It is a rather tough job.
B. It is a profitable business.
C. It helps old people kill time.
D. It makes retirees feel useful.
Section B
Directions: In this section, you will hear 3 short passages. At the end of each passage, you will hear some questions. Both the passage and the questions will be spoken only once. After youhear a question, you must choose the best answer from the four choices marked A , B ,C. and D. Then mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 1 with a single line through the centre.
Passage One
Questions 16 to 18 are based on the passage you have just heard.
16. A. It is becoming increasingly popular.
B. It helps the user to escape reality.
C. It gives rise to serious social instability.
D. It hurts a person and those around them.
17. A. They use drugs just for fun.
B. They take drugs to get high.
C. They use drugs as medicine.
D. They keep drug use a secret.
18. A. It is quite common in entertainment circles.
B. It is the cause of various social problems.
C. It is hard to get rid of.
D. It is fatal to the user.
Passage Two
Questions 19 to 22 are based on the passage you have just heard.
19. A. Taking up exercises after recovery.
B. Producing tasty healthy frozen food.
C. Finding new ways to cure heart disease.
D. Going on a diet upon leaving the hospital.
20. A. Itwas carefully tested with consumers.
B. It was promoted by health organizations.
C. It was disapproved by many diet experts.
D. It was highly expected by the general public.
21. A. Competitive price.
B. Low expectations.
C. Vigorous promotion.
D. Unique ingredients.
22. A. It was suggested by the firm's vice-president.
B. It matches the food's dark green packaging.
C. It has a positive implication for consumers.
D. It tricks the elders into impulse purchasing.
Passage Three
Questions 23 to 25 are based on the passage you have just heard.
23. A. It is practiced in most of the states.
B. It will be abolished sooner or later.
C. It has drawn a lot of criticism from overseas.
D. It has to be approved by the Supreme Court.
24. A. Whether the practice should be allowed to continue in future.
B. Whether there should be a minimum age limit for execution.
C. What type of criminals should receive it.
D. What effect it might have on youngsters.
25. A. The court sentenced him to life in prison for killing two friends.
B. The governor changed his death sentence to life in prison.
C. He was the first minor to be executed in South Carolina.
D. He was sentenced to death for a crime he committed as a minor.
Section C
Directions: In this section, you will hear a passage three times. When the passage is read for the first time, you should listen carefully for its general idea. When the passage is read for the second time, you are required to fill in the blanks with, the exact words you have just heard. Finally, when the passage is read for the third time, you should check what you have written.Some people borrow money and "forget" to pay it back.
Large loans are seldom the issue; they are usually treated as business26, with the terms spelled out on paper. But many women suffer27over problems like Carol's "My friend Ginny is always28cash," she says. "I hate to recall how often I've ' loaned' her a dollar or two for a drink or a movie. Each loan is so small I'd feel really cheap making a big deal out of it; still, I do29the fact that she never pays me back. "Carol admits to being "too30or something" to demand repayment, but she has resolved tostop lending money to Ginny. "The last time she asked for five dollars to pay for her dry cleaning, I just told her I couldn't31it. "Another woman suggests a bolder32. "When somebody refuses to repay a loan, I33byrequesting one myself," she says. "'I left home without my wallet,' I'll say. 'Can you lend meenough to cover lunch?' Then, when the money is safely in hand, I am struck by a sudden34Why, this is exactly the amount I loaned you last week ! How35! Now you won't have to repay me'" She says it works like a charm.
Part III Reading Comprehension(40 minutes)
Section A
Directions: 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 isidentified by a letter. Please mark the corresponding letter for each item on Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through the centre. You may not use any of the words in the bank more than once. Questions 36 to 45 are based on the following passage.
For many Americans,2013 ended with an unusually bitter cold spell.Late November and December36early snow and bone-chilling temperatures in much of the country, part of a year when, for the first time in two37, record-cold days will likely turn out to have oumumbered record-warm ones. But the U. S. was the exception: November was the warmest ever38, and current data indicates that 2013 is likely to have been the fourth hottest year on record. Enjoy the snow now, because39are good that 2014 will be even hotter, perhaps the hottest year since records have been kept. That's because, scientists are predicting,2014 will be an El Nifio Year. El Nino, Spanish for "the child",40when surface ocean waters in the southern Pacific become abnormally warm. So large is the Pacific, covering 30% of the planet's surface, that the41energy generated by its warming is enough to touch off a series of weather changes around the world. El Ninos are42with abnormally dry conditions in Southeast Asia and Australia. They can lead to extreme rain in parts of North and South America, even as southern Africa43dry weather. Marine life may be affected too: E1 Ninos can44the rising of the cold, nutrient-rich ( 營養豐富的) water that supports large fish45, and the unusually warm ocean temperatures can destroy coral ( 珊瑚).
A. Additional I. logically
B. Associated J. occurs
C. bore K. populations
D. Chances L. realize
E. Communicated M. reduce
F. Decades N. Saw
G. experiences O. Specific
H. globally
Section B
Directions: In this section, you are going to read a passage with ten statements attached to it. Eachstatement contains information given in one of the paragraphs. Identify the paragraphfrom 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 on Answer Sheet 2. How to Eat Well
A. Why do so many Americans eat tons of processed food, the stuff that is correctly called junk (垃圾. and should really carry warning labels?
B. It's not because fresh ingredients are hard to come by. Supermarkets offer more variety than ever, and there are over four times as many farmers' markets in the U. S. as there were 20 years ago. nor is it for lack of available information. There are plenty of recipes (食譜), how-to videos and cooking classes available to anyone who has a computer, smartphone or television. If anything, the information is overwhelming.
C. And yet we aren't cooking. If you eat three meals a day and behave like most Americans, you probably get at least a third of your dally calories (卡路里. outside the home. Nearly two-thirds of us grab fast food once a week, and we get almost 25% of our dally calories from snacks. So we're eating out or taking in, and we don't sit down-or we do, but we hurry.
D. Shouldn't preparing-and consuming-food be a source of comfort, pride, health, weli-being, relaxation, sociability? Something that connects us to other humans? Why would we want to outsource(外包. this basic task, especially when outsourcing it is so harmful?
E. When I talk about cooking, I'm not talking about creating elaborate dinner parties or three-day science projects. I'm talking about simple, easy, everyday meals. My mission is to encourage green hands and those lacking time or money to feed themselves. That means we need modest, realistic expectations, and we need to teach people to cook food that's good enough to share with family and friends.
F. Perhaps a return to real cooking needn't be far off. A recent Harris poll revealed that 79% of Americans say they enjoy cooking and 30% "love it" ; 14% admit to not enjoying kitchen work and just 7% won't go near the stove at all. But this doesn't necessarily translate to real cooking, and the result of this survey shouldn't surprise anyone: 52% of those 65 or older cook at home five or more times per week; only a third of young people do.
G. Back in the 1950s most of us grew up in households where Morn cooked virtually every night. The intention to put a home-cooked meal on the table was pretty much universal. Most people couldn't afford to do otherwise.
H. Although frozen dinners were invented in the '40s, their popularity didn't boom until televisions became popular a decade or so later. Since then, packaged, pre-prepared meals have been what's for dinner. The microwave and fast-food chains were the biggest catalysts ( 催化劑), but the big food companies--which want to sell anything except the raw ingredients that go into cooking-made the home cook an endangered species.
I. Still, I fmd it strange that only a third of young people report preparing meals at home regularly. Isn't this the same crowd that rails against processed junk and champions craft cooking? And isn't this the generation who say they're concerned about their health and the well-being of the planet? If these are truly the values of many young people, then their behavior doesn't match their beliefs.
J. There have been haft-hearted but well-publicized efforts by some food companies to reduce calories in their processed foods, but the Standard American Diet is still the polar opposite of the healthy,mostly plant-based diet that just about every expert says we should be eating. Considering that the government's standards are not nearly ambitious enough, the picture is clear: bynot cooking athome, we're not eating the right things, and the consequences are hard to overstate.
K. To help quantify (量化). the costs of a poor diet, I recently tried to estimate this impact in terms of a most famous food, the burger (漢堡包). I concluded that the profit from burgers is more than offset (抵消) by the damage they cause in health problems and environmental harm.
L. Cooldng real food is the best defense-not to mention that any meal you're likely to eat at home contains about 200 fewer calories than one you would eat in a restaurant.
M. To those Americans for whom money is a concern, my advice is simple: Buy what you can afford,and cook it yourself. The common prescription is to primarily shop the grocery store, since that's where fresh produce, meat and seafood, and dairy are. And to save money and still eat well you don't need local, organic ingredients; all you need is real food. I'm not saying local food isn't better; it is. But there is plenty of decent food in the grocery stores.
N. The other sections you should get to know are the frozen foods and the canned goods. Frozen produce is still produce; canned tomatoes are still tomatoes. Just make sure you're getting real food without tons of added salt or sugar. Ask yourself, would Grandma consider this food? Does it look like something that might occur in nature? It's pretty much common sense: you want to buy food,not unidentifiable foodlike objects.
O. You don't have to hit the grocery store daily, nor do you need an abundance of skill. Since fewer than haft of Americans say they cook at an intermediate level and only 20% describe their cooldng skills as advanced, the crisis is one of confidence. And the only remedy for that is practice. There's nothing mysterious about cooking the evening meal. You just have to do a little thinking ahead and redefine what qualifies as dinner. Like any skill, cooking gets easier as you do it more; every time you cook, you advance your level of skills. Someday you won't even need recipes. My advice is that you not pay attention to the number of steps and ingredients, because they can be deceiving.
P. Time, I realize, is the biggest obstacle to cooking for most people. You must adjust your priorities
to find time to cook. For instance, you can move a TV to the kitchen and watch your favorite shows while you're standing at the sink. No one is asking you to give up activities you like, but if you're watching food shows on TV, try cooking instead.
46. Cooking benefits people in many ways and enables them to connect with one another.
47. Abundant information about cooking is available either online or on TV.
48. Young people do less cooking at home than the elderly these days.
49. Cooking skills can be improved with practice.
50. In the mid-20th century, most families ate dinner at home instead of eating out.
51. Even those short of time or money should be encouraged to cook for themselves and their family.
52. Eating food not cooked by ourselves can cause serious consequences.
53. To eat well and still save money, people should buy fresh food and cook it themselves.
54. We get a fairly large portion of calories from fast food and snacks.
55. The popularity of TV led to the popularity of frozen food.
Section C
Directions: 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 on Answer
Sheet 2 with a single line through the centre.
Passage One Questions 56 to 60 are based on the following passage.
The wallet is heading for extinction. As a day-to-day essential, it will die off with the generation who read print newspapers. The kind of shopping-where you hand over notes and count out change in return-now happens only in the most minor of our retail encounters, like buying a bar of chocolate or a pint of milk from a comer shop. At the shops where you spend any real money, that money is increasingly abstracted. And this is more and more true, the higher up the scale you go. At the most cutting-edge retail stores-Victoria Beckham on Dover Street, for instance-you don't go and stand at any kind of cash register when you decide to pay. The staff are equipped with iPads to take your payment while you relax on a sofa.
Which is nothing more or less than excellent service, if you have the money. But across society, the abstraction of the idea of cash makes me uneasy. Maybe I'm just old-fashioned. But earning money isn't quick or easy for most of us. Isn't it a bit weird that spending it should happen in haft a blink (眨眼). of an eye? Doesn't a wallet-that time-honoured Friday-night feeling of pleasing, promisingfatness-represent something that matters?
But I'll leave the economics to the experts. What bothers me about the death of the wallet is thechange it represents in our physical environment. Everything about the look and feel of a wallet-theway the fastenings and materials wear and tear and loosen with age, the plastic and paper and gold andsilver, and handwritten phone numbers and printed cinema tickets-is the very opposite of what ourworld is becoming. The opposite of a wallet is a smartphone or an iPad..The rounded edges, coolglass, smooth and unknowable as a pebble (鵝卵石). Instead of digging through pieces of paper andpeering into corners, we move our fingers left and right. No more counting out coins. Show yourwallet, if you still have one. It may not be here much longer.
56. What is happening to the wallet?
A. It is disappearing.
B. It is being fattened.
C. It is becoming costly.
D. It is changing in style.
57. How are business transactions done in big modern stores?
A. Individually.
B. Electronically.
C. In the abstract.
D. Via a cash register.
58. What makes the author feel uncomfortable nowadays?
A. Saving money is becoming a thing of the past.
B. The pleasing Friday-night feeling is fading.
C. Earning money is getting more difficult.
D. Spending money is so fast and easy.
59. Why does the author choose to write about what's happening to the wallet?
A. It represents a change in the modern world.
B. It has something to do with everybody's life.
C. It marks the end of a time-honoured tradition.
D. It is the concern of contemporary economists.
60. What can we infer from the passage about the author?
A. He is resistant to social changes.
B. He is against technological progress.
C. He feels reluctant to part with the traditional wallet.
D. He feels insecure in the ever-changing modern world.
Passage Two
Questions 61 to 65 are based on the following passage.
Everybody sleeps, but what people stay up late to catch-or wake up early in order not to miss-varies by culture. From data collected, it seems the things that cause us to lose the most sleep, on average, are sporting events, time changes, and holidays.
Around the world, people changed sleep patterns thanks to the start or end of daylight savings time. Russians, for example, began to wake up about a half-hour later each day after President Vladimir Putin shifted the country permanently to "winter time" starting on October 26.Russia's other late nights and early mornings generally correspond to public holidays. On New Year's Eve, Russians have the world's latest bedtime, hitting the hay at around 3:30 am. Russians also get up an hour later on International Women's Day, the day for treating and celebrating female relatives. Similarly, Americans' late nights, late mornings, and longest sleeps fall on three-day weekends. Canada got the least sleep of the year the night it beat Sweden in the Olympic hockey (冰球. final.The World Cup is also chiefly responsible for sleep deprivation (剝奪). The worst night for sleep in the U. K. was the night of the England-Italy match on June 14. Brits stayed up a half-hour later to watch it, and then they woke up earlier than usual the next morning thanks to summer nights, the phenomenon in which the sun barely sets in northern countries in the summertime. That was nothing, though, compared to Germans, Italians, and the French, who stayed up around an hour and a haft later on various days throughout the summer to watch the Cup.
It should be made clear that not everyone has a device to record their sleep patterns; in some of these nations, it's likely that only the richest people do. And people who elect to track their sleep may try to get more sleep than the average person. Even if that's the case, though, the above findings are still striking. If the most health-conscious among us have such deep swings in our shut-eye levels throughout the year, how much sleeg are the rest of us losing?
61. What does the author say about people's sleeping habits?
A. They are culture-related.
B. They affect people's health.
C. They change with the seasons.
D. They vary from person to person.
62, What do we learn about the Russians regarding sleep?
A) They don't fall asleep until very late.
B. They don't sleep much on weekends.
C. They get less sleep on public holidays.
D. They sleep longer than people elsewhere.
63. what is the major cause for Europeans' loss of sleep?
A. The daylight savings time.
B. The colorful night life.
C. The World Cup.
D. The summertime.
64. what is the most probable reason for some rich people to use a device to record their sleeppatterns?
A) They have trouble falling asleep.
B. They want to get sufficient sleep.
C. They are involved in a sleep research.
D. They want to go to bed on regular hours.
65. what does the author imply in the last paragraph?
A. Sleeplessness does harm to people's health.
B. Few people really know the importance of sleep.
C. It is important to study our sleep patterns.
D. Average people probably sleep less than the rich.
Part TV Translation( 30 minutes )
Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to translate a passage from Chinese into English. You should write your answer on Answer Sheet 2.
雲南省的麗江古鎮是中國著名的旅遊目的地之一。那裏的生活節奏比大多數中國城市都要緩慢。麗江到處都是美麗的自然風光，衆多的少數民族同胞提供了各式各樣、豐富多彩的文化讓遊客體驗。歷史上，麗江還以“愛之城”而聞名。當地人中流傳着許多關於因愛而生、爲愛而死的故事。如今，在中外遊客眼中，這個古鎮被視爲愛情和浪漫的天堂。
參考答案
參考範文：
It is quite important to be a good listener.Effective listening is more than simply avoiding the bad habit of interrupting others while they are speaking.It’s being content to listen to the entire thought of someone rather than waiting impatiently for your chance to respond.
Slowing down your responses and becoming a better listener aids you in becoming a more amiable person.As you wait for the person you are communicating with to finish,as you simply listen more intently to what is being said,you will feel more relaxed,and so will the people you are talking to.Not only will being a better listener make you a more patient person,but it will also improve your relationship with others because everyone loves to talk to someone who truly listens to what they are saying.
It is quite easy for you to be a better listener.As long as you for get yourself and imagine yourself in the speaker’s experience to understand the emotion behind the words,and then give your appropriate responses slowly,you will be an endeared listener.
選詞填空：
36. N. saw 第一空顯然缺少謂語，優先考慮動詞，結合語義並根據Late November and December可以推出應選擇過去式動詞，故答案鎖定saw.
37. F. decades 根據two，首選複數名詞，結合語義，“ for the first time in the two decades”, 二十年來頭一次。
38. H. globally 句子爲主系表結構，不缺主要成分，所以首選副詞和形容詞，根據語義，ever表示“一直以來地、向來地”，“十一月向來是全球範圍內最溫暖的一個月。”
39. D. chances 缺少主語，並且謂語是are，所以首選複數形式的名詞，結合前文Enjoy the snow now, “享受現在的雪吧”，因爲“時機是好的”。
40. J. occurs 空格前方有主語，且是單數形式，而後面由when引導的時間狀語從句的時態是一般現在時，所以主句謂語鎖定第三人稱單數形式的動詞，只能選擇occurs.
41. A. specific空格左爲定冠詞the，空格右爲名詞，中間只能選形容詞，選擇“特定的”符合語義。
42. B. associated 空格左爲be動詞，右邊爲介詞with，中間只能是形容詞或動詞的過去分詞形式，be associated with表示“與…有聯繫”，符合原意。
43. G. experiences 空格左爲主語southern Africa，空格內應該爲動詞的第三人稱單詞形式，結合語義，選G，“南非經歷着乾燥的天氣。
44. M. reduce 空格左爲情態動詞，空格內必須爲動詞原形，填reduce“減少”符合原題。
45. K. populations 空格與左邊的large fish 共同構成動詞support的賓語，只能選一個名詞來作爲名詞詞組，故選K，“大量的魚羣”。
長篇閱讀
46.D.Cooking benefits people in many ways and enables them to connect with one another.
47.B.Abundant information about cooking is available either online or on TV.
48.F.Young people do less cooking at home than the elderly these days.
49.O.Cooking skills can be improved with practice.
50.G.In the mid-20th century, most families ate dinner at home instead of eating out.
51.E.Even those short of time or money should be encouraged to cook for themselves and their family
52.J.Eating food not cooked by ourselves can cause serious consequences.
53.M.To eat well and still save money, people should buy fresh food and cook it themselves.
54.C.We get a fairly large portion of calories from fast food and snacks.
55.H.The popularity of TV led to the popularity of frozen food.
仔細閱讀
56-65：ABDAC ACCBB
61題，定位到第一段最後一句“varies by culture”，所以答案選A——They are culture-related。
62題，由題乾的大寫名詞Russian定位到第二段和第三段。第二段的“Russian， for example， began to wake up about a half-hour later each day”這一句是干擾句，起得晚不一定睡得早，所以答案推不出“他們比其他地方的人睡得更久”。然後看到第三段“Russia’s other late nights and early mornings generally coincided with public holidays”，所以答案爲C——They don’t sleep much on holidays。
63題，題幹問的是歐洲人缺乏睡眠的major cause主要原因是什麼，由題乾的大寫名詞Europeans’ loss定位到倒數第二段的“compared to Germans， Italians， and the French， who stayed up around an hour and a half later on various days throughout the summer to watch the Cup”，原文的.Germans， Italians， and the French就是題幹中“Europeans”的同義改寫，而他們stayed up就是爲了to watch the Cup，所以說他們缺乏睡眠的原因便是C選項——The World Cup。
64題，問的是富有的人使用設備來記錄他們的睡眠模式的原因。由rich people以及device定位到最後一段第一句，定位句只說到了記錄的事實，而非其原因。按照四級閱讀金三句原則看到定位句的下一句“And people who elect to track their sleep may try to get more sleep than the average person”，記錄睡眠的人是想要得到比普通人更多的睡眠，所以答案是B——They want to get sufficient sleep。
65題，問的是作者在最後一段所表達的觀點，定位到最後一句If the most healthconscious among us have such deep swings in our shuteye levels throughout the year， how much sleep are the rest of us losing? 作者提到了health-conscious，人們對健康的意識是缺乏的，對健康是視而不見的，所以答案選B——Few people really know the importance of sleep。
參考譯文：
The annual Chinese language speech competition was held in Changsha this year. This contest has been proved to be a good way to promote cultural communication between China and the rest of the world. It provided a better chance to understand China for young people around the world. A total of 126 contestants from 87 countries gathered in the capital of Hunan Province and participated in the semi-final and final from July 6th to August 5th. The competition was not the only activity. Contestants also had the opportunity to visit well-known scenic spots and historical sites in other parts of China.
以上就是爲大家整理的大學英語四級真題試卷及答案，希望能夠對大家有所幫助。真題是很好的備考資料，做真題的時候要注意細節，掌握裏面的備考點，相信通過努力一定可以取得不錯的成績。
