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大学英语四级考试绝密押题试卷(
五)
Part Ⅰ Writing (30
minutes) Directions: In this task, you are to write an essay to express
your view on the phenomenon of group purchasing. You will have 30 minutes
for the task. 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) The PC market has picked up rapidly in the past
months.
B) PCs are sold at lower prices during the shopping
season.
C) PC shipments have gone down quickly around the
world.
D) PCs have longer lifecycles by upgrading their hardware.
2. A) Rising commodity prices.
B) Competition from mobile devices.
C) Stronger currencies.
D) Social tensions in Southeast Asia.
Questions 3 and 4 are based on the news report you have just heard.
3. A) Steal Amazon users’ private account
information.
B) Sell individual Amazon user names and
passwords.
C) Start an attack on some online shopping
websites.
D) Spread a virus on online shopping websites by email.
4. A) To call the Amazon Company.
B) To check the spelling and grammar.
C) To reset passwords frequently.
D) To delete the email directly.
Questions 5 to 7 are based on the news report you have just heard.
5. A) Giving severe punishments to traffic
violators.
2024年英语四级考试预测押题卷（五 第1页 淘宝：谈辰图书企业店B) Encouraging people to travel on public
buses.
C) Controlling the purchase of private cars.
D) Limiting traffic by an odd-even scheme.
2024年英语四级考试预测押题卷（五 第2页 淘宝：谈辰图书企业店6. A) To relieve its traffic congestion.
B) To lessen its environmental problem.
C) To guarantee drivers’ safety on the road.
D) To improve the public transport system.
7. A) Schools were shut during the trial.
B) The pressure of public transport was heavy.
C) Parents could send their children to school.
D) The government required to do this.
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) More than twenty minutes.
B) At least eight minutes.
C) About twelve minutes.
D) Less than twenty-eight minutes.
9. A) She runs after the taxi in a hurry.
B) She doesn’ t know when the museum closes.
C) She has no idea about how far the museum is.
D) She looks up at the tall buildings.
10. A) The one that is out of
town.
B) The one that is inexpensive.
C) The one that offers small servings.
D) The one that is near to the museum.
11. A) Talkative and humorous.
B) Talkative and mean.
C) Warm-hearted and forgetful.
D) Silent and unfriendly.
Questions 12 to 15 are based on the conversation you have just heard.
12. A) To help students prepare language for the further study in America.
B) To help students acquire skills in English tests.
C) To help students find a satisfying job after graduating from college.
D) To help students familiarize with the culture in foreign countries.
13. A) They want to know the students’ language levels.
B) They can train applicants before the semester begins.
2024年英语四级考试预测押题卷（五 第3页 淘宝：谈辰图书企业店C) They can process the application and issue the I-20.
D) They can collect the application fees for other use.
14. A) It’ s the name of a language program.
B) It’ s the name of a document.
C) It’ s a kind of visa.
D) It’ s the code name of a major at university.
15. A) The applicant’ s nationality.
B) The applicant’ s financial state.
C) The applicant’ s language proficiency.
D) The applicant’ s academic performance.
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.
Questions 16 to 19 are based on the passage you have just heard.
16. A) He was worth respecting.
B) He was a lonely man in the mountains.
C) He didn’ t deserve so much respect.
D) He liked to be played tricks on.
17. A) To examine how wise the man was.
B) To make fun of the man.
C) To catch a living bird.
D) To show how clever they were.
18. A) The bird was dead.
B) The bird was alive.
C) It’ s hard to answer the question.
D) He found out the children’ s trick.
19. A) A person should learn to be moral and respectful.
B) A wise man can’ t always be wise.
C) People around are much smarter than us.
D) Children often make stupid behavior.
Questions 20 to 22 are based on the passage you have just heard.
20. A) They are both sinking slowly.
B) They are both famous tourist resorts.
C) They are both prosperous in economy.
D) They are both full of sunshine throughout the whole year.
2024年英语四级考试预测押题卷（五 第4页 淘宝：谈辰图书企业店21. A) They’ ll make residents live in the top part of buildings.
B) They’ ll call for people to abandon their homes.
C) They’ ll reclaim land from the sea.
D) They’ ll replan the local infrastructure.
22. A) Its contamination is primarily due to climate change.
B) It has been moved far away from the west.
C) It needs lots of money to fix.
D) It is polluted by saltwater intrusion.
Questions 23 to 25 are based on the passage you have just heard.
23. A) They are indeed very crazy.
B) They consider their dogs as their babies.
C) They are, in fact, reasonable to some extent.
D) They can’ t actually communicate with their dogs
24. A) Dogs can only understand verbal directions.
B) Dogs can understand humans by interpreting their facial expressions.
C) Some dogs like to gaze at humans while some do not.
D) Dogs have the intelligence of 6-month-old babies.
25. A) They are born with the ability to interact with humans.
B) They are frequently trained by doggy parents.
C) They acquire the ability when sharing their lives with humans.
D) They will pay attention when humans talk to them in a baby-talk voice.
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 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.
“ Laugh, and the world laughs with you; weep, and weep alone. ” So wrote
the poet Ella Wheeler Wilcox. Emotions are catching, and most people
intuitively seek out the positive while 26 the negative. The
exception, however, is those who are suffering from depression. The
depressed 27 emotional facial cues, finding gloom and doom where
others see contentment.
We’ re generally pretty good at reading the emotional expressions of
others as portrayed on their faces, at least when it comes to the 2 8
emotions, like happiness, sadness and anger. We read the emotions of those
we’ re 2 9 with and regulate our own mood in response. After
all, we can’ t cooperate 30 with others if our emotions are out of sync( 不
同步的). Crying at a party will likely
2024年英语四级考试预测押题卷（五 第5页 淘宝：谈辰图书企业店get you shunned( 避开), as will laughing at a funeral. You’ ve got to
express the right emotion for a certain 3 1 .
Facial expressions of emotions are inherent, but we can 32 or
suppress them. Even though you’ re feeling down, you may decide to put
on a happy face at a party just to get along. And since others then
3 3 to your positive expression, you might start feeling better as well.
Our natural ability to read emotional expressions on the faces of others
34 down, however, as we fall into depression. The depressed can
still read obviously happy or sad faces, but a problem
35 when others display ambiguous feelings. This can occur either because the
other person is trying to suppress their emotion, or because they aren’ t sure
how they feel at the moment.
A) arises I) fake
B) avoiding J) functions
C) basic K) interacting
D) breaks L) misread
E) condition M) occasion
F) contact N) respond
G) deadly O) significant
H) effectively
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.
On Food Safety, a Long List but Little Money
A) This summer there has been a drumbeat of food-related illnesses.
Strawberries containing
E. coli( 大肠杆菌) killed one person in Oregon and sickened at least nine
others. Imported papayas( 木瓜) contaminated with salmonella( 沙门氏菌)
poisoned more than 200 people nationwide, with one dead. The landmark food
safety law passed by Congress last December is supposed to reduce the frequency
and severity of food safety problems, but the roll call of recent
cases underlines the importance of the task.
B) “ It’ s an enormous undertaking,” said Mike Taylor, the Food and
Drug Administration’ s deputy commissioner for foods, whose job is to turn the
far-reaching law into a coherent set of rules that farmers, food processors and
importers can follow and regulators can enforce. The agency is taking on
the expanded mission at a time when Washington budget-slashing ( 大幅削减预算)
means that regulators have little hope of getting additional money and may instead
have their budgets cut by Congress. Mr. Taylor said they didn’ t have resources
2024年英语四级考试预测押题卷（五 第6页 淘宝：谈辰图书企业店to implement the law. “ The choice is we either
2024年英语四级考试预测押题卷（五 第7页 淘宝：谈辰图书企业店find the resources or we give up implementing this law. You can’ t build
something brand-new without the resources to do it. ”
C) The agency is now in the process of writing the food safety
rules, with the goal of preventing outbreaks like those this summer. One of
the most complex jobs involves setting standards for farmers to grow and harvest
fruits and vegetables safely. The first draft of the farm rules is due early next
year. The agency is expected to deal with basics like hand-washing
stations for field workers, tests of irrigation water and measures to
protect fields from wild animals that can track in bacteria.
D) Yet the standards must take into account a huge variety of crops,
farming practices and farm sizes. The task is all the more delicate because
the agency has never before had a major presence on American farms.
E) For a year and a half, well before Congress passed the food safety law,
Mr. Taylor has visited farmers around the country and sought to ease their
fears that an army of food safety officials will come storming through their
fields telling them how to do their jobs. Recently, he visited Long Island,
where he traveled through the sandy fields of the 30-acre Deer Run lettuce farm
of Bob Nolan in Brookhaven with steps. Mr. Nolan said he was initially anxious
about the new law but was now eager to help the agency make it work for
farmers. Mr. Taylor was joined by several agency employees involved in writing
the farm rules, and Mr. Nolan told them that he hoped the visit would help
them better understand how a farm worked.
F) The complexity of the FDA’ s task became clear as the day went on.
At the second stop, a potato farm in Riverhead, the owner Jimmy Zilnicki
said that he knew little about what the government expected of him. “ We’ re
all just trying to find out what this food safety thing is all
about,” he said. Besides, he argued, potatoes were a safe crop and he
questioned whether it was worth including them in food safety rules. Mr.
Taylor told him the FDA’ s job was to focus most of its efforts where the food
safety risks were greatest.
G) The third stop was a 65-acre organic farm in Riverhead, run by Eve
Kaplan Walbrecht and her husband, Chris. They grow a dizzying rank of
crops, most of which they sell directly to customers through farmers’
markets and buying clubs. They, too, had made costly improvements with
an eye toward food safety, including building a large processing shed with
a concrete floor, treated water, a bathroom and refrigerated storage. The
new law remits ( 免除) small farms that average less than
＄500,000 a year in sales and sell mostly to local customers. But Ms.
Kaplan Walbrecht said that her farm brings in too much money to qualify for
the exemption. She worried that the new law could become a burden for small
farmers, either by adding paperwork or by unleashing( 不 加 管 束 )
regulators with little understanding of how a farm worked.
H) But while farmers worry that the rules will be too severe, food
safety advocates worry that budget cuts could render the law toothless. The
Congressional Budget Office has said the FDA will need hundreds of millions of
2024年英语四级考试预测押题卷（五 第8页 淘宝：谈辰图书企业店dollars in new financing to execute the law, and there appears little chance
that
2024年英语四级考试预测押题卷（五 第9页 淘宝：谈辰图书企业店Mr. Taylor will get it. The Republican-controlled House of Representatives has
passed a budget that largely eliminates new money for the FDA. The Democrat-
controlled Senate has not made its own proposal. But advocates fear that the
new Congressional super committee that is to propose cuts under the debt
ceiling deal could further decrease the agency’ s finances.
I) The budget freeze or cuts would have the greatest impact on the
ambitious increase in inspections called for under the new law, which
strengthen each year. “ Writing rules is inexpensive; enforcing them is
expensive,” said David W. Acheson, a former associate commissioner
of the FDA who is now a food safety consultant. “ There will be a public
health impact because enforcement won’ t be to the extent they want to do
it. ” The agency has already said that, without lots of new money, it
won’ t be able to conduct the thousands of foreign food inspections the law would
require after a few years. Increasing domestic inspections would be
difficult, too. The FDA has about 1, 000 inspectors trained to visit
food establishments but most of them also inspect drug and medical device
facilities. Hiring new inspectors or retraining existing ones is costly.
J) So far, Mr. Taylor has won praise for the introduction of the new
law. “ I’ ve never seen the agency go at anything with such enthusiasm,”
said Carol L. Tucker Foreman, a food policy expert at the Consumer
Federation of America. But she feared that without a higher budget,
the agency would take shortcuts. The law requires the most frequent
inspections at the riskiest facilities and Ms. Tucker Foreman questioned
whether the agency would simply classify fewer operations as high risk to make
its job easier. Mr. Taylor said that would not happen. “ We’ re not going to
game the system,” he said.
36. Ms. Kaplan worried the new law could burden small farmers,
though it gives exemption to small farms.
37. In order to reduce the frequency and severity of food safety problems,
the Congress passed the food safety law.
38. Food safety advocates concern that the budget cuts will make the law lack
the necessary force for effectiveness.
39. Since the government cuts down the budget greatly, the FDA has
no enough money to implement the food safety law.
40. The budget freeze or cuts would have the most influence on the increasing
inspections.
41. The FDA is hoped to cope with the basic food safety problems.
42. The FDA argued that the foreign food inspections won’ t be able to be
enforced due to lacking lots of new money.
43. No officials helped the farmers with the food safety problems before Mr.
Taylor visited farmers around the country.
44. The most frequent inspections demanded by the law are operated on the
riskiest facilities.
2024年英语四级考试预测押题卷（五 第10页 淘宝：谈辰图书企业45. Jimmy Zilnicki doubted whether it was necessary to include potatoes in
food safety rules.
2024年英语四级考试预测押题卷（五 第11页 淘宝：谈辰图书企业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 46 to 50 are based on the following passage.
Most of us trust our doctors even when they hand us a prescription for a drug
we can ’ t pronounce. But natural, holistic( 全面的) products are fully in
vogue nowadays, and the Internet has created a way for non-experts to become
as—or more—informed as their general practitioner when it comes to obscure
treatment methods. “ People are now more willing to take their health and wellness
into their own hands,” says Danielle Hardee, a wellness advocate for dōTERRA
International.
Oddly enough, until fairly recently, Hardee was not one of those people.
Her first experience with essential oils came in treating her pet bulldog.
After seeking suggestions for the sickly pet on Facebook, a fellow fosterer told
Hardee about certain oils she could try applying to the animal’ s skin. Pairing
her curiosity with healthy skepticism, Hardee dove deep into researching the
safety of the oils. “ I was very happy with everything I found,” she says. “ I
started not just using them on the foster dog, but also our son, who needed the
benefits of the respiratory support. ” While the dog’ s recovery was soon
apparent, the benefits for her son were almost immediate.
The oils in question are considered “ essential” not due to any
proven vitality, but because they contain the essence of the plants from
which they are extracted. Peppermint, lavender and citruses are among the
most common on the market today, but numerous essential oils have been in
use for several centuries.
After seeing how beneficial the concentrated liquids were to both the two-
legged and four-legged members of her family, Hardee soon found herself teaching
essential oil classes. “ It became something I felt so strongly about, I had
to share it,” she says. The classes quickly grew in size and geographical
span and Hardee soon became an advocate for dōTERRA International, a natural
nutrition and wellness company.
As growing popularity pushes essential oils into the broader market,
Hardee recommends curious customers proceed with caution concerning quality and
purity. Hardee believes the effects of quality oils will be the evidence
that helps them prevail. “ I ’ m not a holistic health guru ( 专
家),” she emphasizes. “ I’ m just seeing it with my own eyes. ”
46. What is people’ s attitude to their health and wellness nowadays?
A) They are ready to put their health into the doctors’ hands.
B) They are convinced that the natural methods are of no use to them.
C) They are willing to use natural methods to deal with their wellness.
D) They are reluctant to visit doctors and get some prescriptions.
2024年英语四级考试预测押题卷（五 第12页 淘宝：谈辰图书企业47. What did Hardee do with the suggestions about oils on Facebook?
A) She made detailed studies to make sure the oils were safe.
B) She tried the oils on herself to see whether they were effective.
C) She asked the professional doctors for advice.
D) She totally accepted the oils without any doubt.
48. Why are those oils considered “ essential”?
A) Because they are used to save people’ s lives.
B) Because they are taken from the essence of plants.
C) Because they are essential to patients’ recovery.
D) Because they are proven to be useful and energetic.
49. According to the passage, what is the probable effect of the oils on
humans?
A) They function as a psychological comfort to humans.
B) They provide sweet flavor for humans.
C) They stimulate humans’ spirits and make them energetic.
D) They exert beneficial healing effects on humans.
50. What is Hardee’ s suggestion for curious customers?
A) They should question the effects of the oils on any occasion.
B) They may choose any one they like since the oils are popular.
C) They should choose those oils which are good and pure.
D) They should trust the oils because they have been used for
centuries.
Passage Two
Questions 51 to 55 are based on the following passage.
A federal judge in California has dismissed a lawsuit against the Coca-Cola
company which argued that Diet Coke misled people to believe the drink would
help them lose weight.
The case was brought by Shana Becerra who said that she had bought and drank
Diet Coke because she believed it would contribute to weight loss and healthy
weight management. She alleged that Diet Coke had the opposite effect, citing
studies that she claimed showed sweeteners with no nutritional value like those
used in Diet Coke caused weight gain and increased risk of certain diseases.
Although Coca-Cola’ s arguments against the suit were not adequate, Judge
William Alsup said the prosecutor failed to show that consumers were likely to
be deceived by the advertising.
Alsup dismissed the case because Becerra had not met the requirement that
“ members of the public are likely to be deceived”. “ In supermarkets, Diet
Coke is displayed next to regular soft drinks and is not sold in the health-
food section. Reasonable consumers would understand that Diet Coke merely
deletes the calories usually present in regular Coke, and that the
caloric reduction will lead to weight loss only as part of an overall
sensible diet and exercise regimen( 养 生 法 ) dependent on individual
metabolism,” Alsup said in the decision.
2024年英语四级考试预测押题卷（五 第13页 淘宝：谈辰图书企业Alsup said the studies cited by Becerra suggest a correlation between Diet
Coke-type drinks and weight gain, but they do not suggest causation. He added
that one of the studies even says that weight gain is “ due to the behavior
of consumers, rather than the effects of nonnutritive sweeteners. ”
Alsup also rejected the idea that Diet Coke advertising would suggest to
consumers that the soft drink led to weight loss as “ reasonable consumers
understand that advertising will feature healthy and attractive consumers
enjoying the subject products and will not star the unhealthy and unfit. ”
The decision on Tuesday, said that the prosecutor has until March 22 to file
a motion to amend the complaint. A spokesperson for the Coca-Cola company said
they were content with the fact that the court dismissed prosecutor’ s baseless
complaint.
51. What was the lawsuit against?
A) One of Coca-Cola’ s drinks made people think it would make them
thinner.
B) The Coca-Cola company misled people to believe the safety of its
products.
C) The advertisements exaggerated the health effects of Diet Coke.
D) The Judge discriminated the consumers in favor of the Coco-Cola
company.
52. What are the side effects of sweeteners according
to Becerra?
A) They stimulate people’ s spirits and make them
energetic.
B) They increase people’ s weight and the potential possibility of
getting sick.
C) They provide nutritious refreshment for fat consumers.
D) They add a nice touch to the soft drinks and make them popular.
53. Why did Judge William Alsup dismiss the charge?
A) Because the prosecutor couldn’ t provide solid evidence to support her
lawsuit.
B) Because the Coca-Cola company didn’ t do anything wrong.
C) Because he was reasonable enough to know the effects of soft drinks.
D) Because the consumer made no sense in this lawsuit.
54. According to Alsup, how can people lose weight with Diet Coke?
A) They should reduce the calories they take in.
B) They should replace the regular Coke with Diet Coke.
C) They should reduce their drinking of Diet Coke.
D) They should pay attention to their diet and do exercises.
55. What was the Coca-Cola company’ s attitude towards the Judge’ s decision?
A) Angry. B) Pleased. C) Regretful. D) Shameful.
Part Ⅳ 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.
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play)。 “ 冰嬉” 包括速度滑冰、花样滑冰以及冰上杂技( acrobatic skating) 等多种项目。 滑
2024年英语四级考试预测押题卷（五 第14页 淘宝：谈辰图书企业冰运动不仅能够增强人体的平衡能力和柔韧性,同时还有很好的减肥效果。 在冰面上自由奔驰,
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