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大学英语四级考试2024年12月真题（第二套）
Part I Writing (30 minutes)
Directions: Suppose the university newspaper is inviting submissions from the students for its coming edition on
how to enrich students' knowledge of traditional Chinese culture. You are now to write an essay for submission.
You will have 30 minutes to write the essay. You should write at least 120 words but no more than 180 words.
Part II Listening Comprehension (25 minutes)
Section A
Directions: In this section, you will hear three news reports. At the end of each news report, you will hear two or
three questions. Both the news report and the questions will be spoken only once. After you hear 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.
Questions 1 and 2 are based on the news report you have just heard.
1. A) They will see a 27% higher price to buy natural gas.
B) They will have insufficient heating oil to keep warm.
C) They will have a costly bill to pay to heat their homes.
D) They will experience the coldest winter in four decades.
2. A) Provided additional funding to Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program.
B) Assured U.S. citizens of an increase in energy supplies by the end of this year.
C) Predicted a 10% jump in heating bills for most U.S. households this winter.
D) Decided on this year's energy assistance package of $8 billion in total.
Questions 3 and 4 are based on the news report you have just heard.
3. A) They care less about their diet now than before.
B) They may lack adequate knowledge of healthy food.
C) They may hold too optimistic a view about their diet.
D) They pay insufficient attention to their choice of food.
4. A) Those who finished 24-hour food questionnaires. C) Those who cared about food quality.
B) Those who fully understood the rating scale. D) Those who rated their diet as poor.
Questions 5 to 7 are based on the news report you have just heard.
5. A) They experienced a heartbreaking moment. C) They heard a noise from the bottom of a well.
B) They gathered together to rescue an elephant. D) They found an elephant wandering around a well.
6. A) To borrow their crane. C) To report the strange noise.
B) To ask them for help. D) To get food fbr the elephant.
7. A) The elephant was able to return to the jungle.
B) The army officers were examined fbr injuries.
・2024年12月四级真题（第二套）• 10G) The army officers were rewarded fbr their rescue efforts.
D) The elephant was given medical treatment fbr many days.
Section B
Directions: In this section, you will hear two long conversations. At the end of each conversation, you will hear
four questions. Both the conversation and the questions will be spoken only once. After you hear 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.
Questions 8 to 11 are based on the conversation you have just heard.
8. A) He found it had caused him much inconvenience.
B) It led him to spend more money than necessary.
C) It was much less secure than paying with cash.
D) He wanted to be less dependent on his phone.
9. A) Living beyond her means. C) Fashion addiction.
B) Lack of budgeting strategies. D) Impulse purchasing.
10. A) Eat healthier food with less money. C) Avoid getting addicted to junk food
B) Order food like burgers and chips. D) Pay either in cash or with his phone.
11. A) Making a shopping list. C) Withdrawing cash only once a month.
B) Sticking to his budget. D) Thinking twice before buying something.
Questions 12 to 15 are based on the conversation you have just heard.
12. A) He does not enjoy any ball games. C) He has breathing problems.
B) He has to prepare fbr the future. D) He is not up to anything challenging.
13. A) Soccer. C) Volleyball.
B) Badminton. D) Basketball.
14. A) The possibilities of joining the school sports team.
B) The opportunities of winning some championships.
C) The chances of getting an athletic scholarship later on.
D) The odds of becoming a professional sportsman someday.
15. A) It differs entirely from indoor volleyball. C) It is less popular than indoor sports in the country.
B) It appeals to both schoolgirls and schoolboys. D) It is completely different from other outdoor games.
Section C
Directions: In this section, you will hear three passages. At the end of each passage, you will hear three or four
questions. Both the passage and the questions will be spoken only once. After you hear 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.
11 ・2024年12月四级真题（第二套）・Questions 16 to 18 are based on the passage you have just heard.
16. A) It usually requires years of preparations.
B) It does a lot of harm to the environment.
C) It often bums over three hundred tonnes of refined fuel.
D) It proves to be the most complicated stage of space missions.
17. A) They are burnt up in outer space. C) They are reused up to 100 times.
B) They are guided back to Earth. D) They are treated as expendable.
18. A) New technologies fbr bringing back space vehicles fbr recycling.
B) The technology fbr meeting the needs of commercial space travel.
C) Many of the technologies to limit the impact of space travel on Earth.
D) The technology fbr effectively protecting ozone from being destroyed.
Questions 19 to 21 are based on the passage you have just heard.
19. A) It can help unskilled readers feel more secure.
B) It can encourage reluctant readers to read aloud.
C) It can strengthen children's confidence in others.
D) It can boost children's interest in communication.
20. A) By motivating children to find out about their favourite pets.
B) By taking children to the library to borrow books on animals.
C) By allowing children to surf the internet about pets by themselves.
D) By showing children how to acquire knowledge about healthy pets.
21. A) By learning that raising pets can do much good. C) By hearing about their peers' passion for pets.
B) By watching how healthy pets are brought up. D) By visiting friends who have household pets.
Questions 22 to 25 are based on the passage you have just heard.
22. A) Send would-be students a packet of information.
B) Update regularly all information on their websites.
C) Inform prospective students of their yearly enrollment.
D) Answer questions raised by applicants and their parents.
23. A) Oversee private institutions directly. C) Supervise all schools consistently.
B) Follow other states' example. D) Regulate public institutions by law.
24. A) They are resourceful.
B) They are competitive.
C) They provide the best opportunity to realize one's dream.
D) They appeal most to students from other states in the U.S.
25. A) Some students waste much time surfing the net. C) Students have to search for the information.
B) Students may need to visit too many websites. D) Some students may lack adequate access.
・2024年12月四级真题（第二套）• 12Part in 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 is identified 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.
Scientists have known that depriving adult mice of vision can increase the sensitivity of individual neurons
(神经元)in the part of the brain devoted to hearing. New research from biologists at the University of Maryland
26 that sight deprivation also changes the way brain cells 27 with one another, shifting the mice's
sensitivity to different frequencies.
“This study 28 what we are learning about how manipulating vision can have a 29 effect on the
ability of an animal to hear long after the window for auditory (听觉的)learning was thought to have 30 J
said Patrick Kanold, senior author of the study.
It was once thought that the sensory regions of the brain were not 31 after a critical period in childhood.
This is why children learn languages much more 32 than adults. Kanold's earlier research disproved this idea
by showing that depriving adult mice of vision for a short period increased the sensitivity of individual neurons
in the auditory cortex (皮质),which is devoted to hearing.
Young brains wire themselves according to the sounds they hear frequently, assigning areas of the auditory
cortex to 33 frequencies based on what they are used to hearing. The researchers found that, in adult mice, a
week in the dark also changed the 34 of space to different frequencies.
“We don't know why we are seeing these patterns,“ Kanold said. "We 35 that it may have to do with
what the mice are paying attention to while they are in the dark.”
A) adaptable I) readily
B) closed J) registered
C) distribution K) reinforces
D) interact L) revealed
E) narration M) significant
F) neutral N) specific
G) permanently 0) speculate
H) prescribes
Section B
Directions: 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 on Answer Sheet 2.
13 • 2024年12月四级真题（第二套）・If we care about plastic waste, why won't we stop drinking bottled water?
We have all seen the damage plastic waste is doing around the world, but sales of bottled water have
continued to grow.
A) For all the innovation and choice that define the food and drink industries, if you want to make money, you
could do a lot worse than fill a bottle with water and sell it. A litre of tap water, the stuff we have cleverly
piped into our homes, costs less than half a penny. A litre of bottled water can cost well over a pound,
especially for something fancy that has been sucked through a mountain.
B) Yet the bottled water market is livelier than ever. It defies our increasing awareness of the harm plastics do
to the environment and a broader, growing sense that something has to change. Sales in the UK were worth
a record £558.4 million this past year, an increase of 7%, according to the latest figures from the market
analyst Kantar. Separate data from other analysts show that last year the British consumed more than 2.2
billion litres of bottled water, including “take-home" and “on-the-go" products. Thafs an annual rise in
volume of 8.5%.
C) Environmental campaigners are struggling to understand why nations blessed with clean tap water grow only
fonder of the bottle. "It's very surprising to me,“ says Sam Chetan-Walsh, a political adviser at Greenpeace
and campaigner against ocean plastic.
