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大学英语四级考试绝密押题试卷( 五)
Part Writing 30 minutes
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Directions In this task you are to write an essay to express your view on the phenomenon of group
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purchasing. You will have 30 minutes for the task. You should write at least 120 words but no more
than 180 words.
Part Listening Comprehension 25 minutes
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Section A
Directions In this section you will hear three news reports. At the end of each news report you
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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
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B C and D . Then mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 1 with a single line through
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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.
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1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
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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
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D . Then mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 1 with a single line through the centre.
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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2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
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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
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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3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 Reading Comprehension 40 minutes
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Section A
Directions In this section there is a passage with ten blanks. You are required to select one word
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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 28 emotions, like happiness, sadness and anger. We read the
emotions of those we’re 29 with and regulate our own mood in response. After all, we can’t
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cooperate 30 with others if our emotions are out of sync( ). Crying at a party will likely
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get you shunned( ), as will laughing at a funeral. You’ve got to express the right emotion for a
certain 31 .
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 33 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
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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
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A) This summer there has been a drumbeat of food-related illnesses. Strawberries containing
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E.coli( ) killed one person in Oregon and sickened at least nine others. Imported papayas(
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) contaminated with salmonella( ) 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
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the expanded mission at a time when Washington budget-slashing( ) 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 to implement the law. “The choice is we either
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
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bathroom and refrigerated storage. The new law remits( ) small farms that average less than
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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
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a burden for small farmers, either by adding paperwork or by unleashing( ) 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 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6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.
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7页 淘宝：谈辰图书企业店Section C
Directions There are 2 passages in this section. Each passage is followed by some questions or
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unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A B C and D . You
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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
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pronounce. But natural, holistic( ) 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
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will be the evidence that helps them prevail. “I’ m not a holistic health guru ( ),” 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8页 淘宝：谈辰图书企业店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
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loss only as part of an overall sensible diet and exercise regimen( ) dependent on individual
metabolism,” Alsup said in the decision.
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 Translation 30 minutes
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Directions For this part you are allowed 30 minutes to translate a passage from Chinese into
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English. You should write your answer on Answer Sheet 2.
早在宋代 我国就已经有了滑冰运动 不过 那时不叫滑冰 而称之为 冰嬉 冰
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嬉 包括速度滑冰 花样滑冰以及冰上杂技 等多种项目 滑冰运动不仅能够增
” 、 (acrobatic skating) 。
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 既能放松心情 又
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能获得融入自然的乐趣
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