1、大学英语四级考试2021年12月真题（第一套）Part I Writing (30 minutes) Directions: Suppose your university student union is planning to hold a speech contest. You are now to writea proposal for organizing the contest. The proposal may include the topic, aim, procedure and selection ofcontestants. You will have 30 minut
2、es to write the proposal. You should write at least 120 words but no more than180 words.Part II Listening Comprehension (25 minutes) Section ADirections: In this section, you will hear three news reports. At the end of each news report, you will hear two orthree questions. Both the news report and t
3、he questions will be spoken only once. After you hear a question, youmust choose the best answer from the four choices marked A), B), C) and D). Then mark the corresponding letteron Answer Sheet 1 with a single line through the centre.Questions 1 and 2 are based on the news report you have just hear
4、d.1. A) It found a pet dog on board a plane to a city in Texas.B) It has one of its cargo planes landing at a wrong airport.C) It sent two dogs to the wrong destinations.D) It had two of its domestic ights mixed up.2. A) Correct their mistake as soon as possible. C) Hire a charter jet to bring the p
5、ets back.B) Give two pets a physical checkup. D) Send another plane to continue the ight.Questions 3 and 4 are based on the news report you have just heard.3. A) She weighs 130 kilograms. C) She was brought from Africa.B) She has had babies before. D) She has a big family of six.4. A) It took 22 hou
6、rs. C) It was smooth.B) It had some complications. D) It was monitored by Dr. Sue Tygielski.Questions 5 to 7 are based on the news report you have just heard.5. A) It enjoyed great popularity. C) It was frequented by newly-weds.B) It started business three years ago. D) It was built above the sea wa
7、ter.6. A) Expand his business on the beach. C) Post a picture of his restaurant online.B) Replace the restaurants wooden deck. D) Celebrate his silver wedding anniversary.7. A) She sold it for two thousand dollars. C) She posted its picture on Facebook.B) She took it to the restaurant manager. D) Sh
8、e returned it to its owner right away.Section BDirections: In this section, you will hear two long conversations. At the end of each conversation, you will hearfour questions. Both the conversation and the questions will be spoken only once. After you hear a question, youmust choose the best answer
9、from the four choices marked A), B), C) and D). Then mark the corresponding letteron 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) The number of ducks has declined sharply in recent years.B) Climate change has little ee
10、ct on the lives of wild ducks.C) Duck meat is not eaten in Australia, Canada and the U.S.D) Duck hunting remains legal in many parts of the world.9. A) Droughts. C) Farming.B) Bushres. D) Hunting.10. A) They are not easy to domesticate. C) It is not environmentally friendly.B) Their meat is not that
11、 popular. D) It is not considered cost-eective.11. A) They hunted ducks as a traditional sport. C) They raised ducks and geese for their eggs.B) They killed wild ducks and geese for food. D) They poisoned wild ducks in large numbers.Questions 12 to 15 are based on the conversation you have just hear
12、d.12. A) Have her house repainted. C) Move into a newly-painted house.B) Replace some of her old furniture. D) Calculate the cost of the paint job.13. A) How long the work will take. C) How the paint job is to be done.B) How much the work will cost. D) How many workers are needed.14. A) Cover up her
13、 furniture. C) Stay somewhere else.B) Ask some friends for help. D) Oversee the work herself.15. A) She could have asked a friend for help with the paint job.B) Painting a house involves more trouble than she thought.C) She should have repainted her house much earlier.D) Moving her furniture is hard
14、er than the paint job.Section CDirections: In this section, you will hear three passages. At the end of each passage, you will hear three or fourquestions. Both the passage and the questions will be spoken only once. After you hear a question, you mustchoose the best answer from the four choices mar
15、ked A), B), C) and D). Then mark the corresponding letter onAnswer Sheet 1 with a single line through the centre.Questions 16 to 18 are based on the passage you have just heard.16. A) To cultivate good habits. C) To review what is learned in class.B) To prepare for secondary school. D) To stimulate
16、interest in learning.17. A) Discuss their academic achievements with them. C) Allow them to learn independently.B) Create an ideal study environment for them. D) Check their homework promptly.18. A) Finish them before they get tired. C) Start with something they enjoy.B) Tackle the most dicult task
17、rst. D) Focus on the most important ones.Questions 19 to 21 are based on the passage you have just heard.19. A) Workers who meet its body weight standards. C) Workers who try the hardest to lose weight.B) Workers who can lose 30 pounds in a year. D) Workers who are in the top 10% of the slimmest.20.
18、 A) Impractical. C) Unmanageable.B) Inconsistent. D) Unfair.21. A) Oer them much fatter bonuses. C) Encourage healthy behaviors.B) Improve working environment. D) Provide free lunch and snacks.Questions 22 to 25 are based on the passage you have just heard.22. A) It has not done enough to help left-
19、handed children.B) It has treated left-handed children as being disabled.C) It has not built facilities specially for the left-handed.D) It has ignored campaigns on behalf of the left-handed.23. A) They are as intelligent as other children. C) They sometimes have psychological problems.B) They have
20、a distinctive style of handwriting. D) They tend to have more diculties in learning.24. A) Punish teachers discriminating against left-handed students.B) Lay more emphasis on improving childrens mental health.C) Encourage students to develop various professional skills.D) Keep track of left-handed c
21、hildrens school performance.25. A) How they can be reduced in number. C) What percentage they account for.B) Why their numbers are so high. D) If their percentage keeps increasing.Part III Reading Comprehension (40 minutes) Section ADirections: In this section, there is a passage with ten blanks. Yo
22、u are required to select one word for each blankfrom a list of choices given in a word bank following the passage. Read the passage through carefully beforemaking your choices. Each choice in the bank is identied by a letter. Please mark the corresponding letter foreach item on Answer Sheet 2 with a
23、 single line through the centre. You may not use any of the words in the bankmore than once.Many people believe that passion and commitment are the foundations of strong romantic relationships. Buta relationship is made of two 26 individuals. And the personality traits ( 特性 ) these individuals 27 or
24、lack can often make a relationship moreor lesslikely to 28 . Recent research has found that one trait inparticularhumility ( 谦逊 )is an important indicator of successful relationships.Humility can sometimes be 29 with a lack of condence. But researchers have come to realize that beinghumble generally
25、 indicates the 30 of deeply admirable personal qualities. Being humble means you havethe ability to accurately 31 your deciencies without denying your skills and strengths. For example, youmight recognize that you are intelligent, but realize that you are not a 32 . Thus, humility leads to an honest
26、view of ones own advantages and shortcomings. Humble people do not ignore, avoid, or try to deny their limitsor deciencies. They can 33 mistakes, see value in things that are far from perfect and identify areas forimprovement.Perhaps it is not 34 , then, that humility appears to be a huge asset to r
27、elationships. One study found thatpeople tend to rate this quality 35 in their spouse. The study also found that someone who is humble is morelikely to initiate a romantic relationship, perhaps because they are less likely to see themselves as “too good” forsomeone else. Thus, a humble partner might
28、 be your ideal partner.A) acknowledge I) possessB) assess J) presenceC) confused K) puzzledD) endure L) statusE) extremely M) surprisingF) genius N) thoroughlyG) highly O) uniqueH) permanentSection BDirections: In this section, you are going to read a passage with ten statements attached to it. Each
29、 statementcontains information given in one of the paragraphs. Identify the paragraph from which the information isderived. You may choose a paragraph more than once. Each paragraph is marked with a letter. Answer thequestions by marking the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 2.Theres a stress gap
30、 between men and womenA) “I used to work very hard. I love to create things, grow them and solve problems,” said Meng Li, a successfulapp developer in San Francisco. “I didnt really care about my mind and my body until they decided to go onstrike.”B) Ms. Li said her stress led to sleeplessness. When
31、 she did sleep, she experienced “problem-solving dreams,”which left her feeling unrested when she woke up. “After I became a rst-time mother, I quickly realized Iwas so busy caring for other people and work that I felt like Id lost myself,” she said.C) Its a common storyone we frequently ridicule an
32、d readily dismiss, for example, by claiming that womentend to complain more than men, despite the growing sum of research that underlines the problem. Womenare twice as likely to suer from severe stress and anxiety as men, according to a 2016 study published in TheJournal of Brain & Behavior. The Am
33、erican Psychological Association reports a gender gap year after yearshowing that women consistently report higher stress levels. Clearly, a stress gap exists.D) “The dierence is not really news to me, as a clinical psychologist,” said Erin Joyce, a women and couplestherapist in Los Angeles. “Its be
34、en well documented in extensive research over the years that prevalencerates for the majority of the anxiety disorders are higher in women than men.” Some people may argue thatthis is merely reported data, and they say many men feel the same pressures as women in terms of fulllingresponsibilities at
35、 work and home. In other words, were all really, really stressed.E) “The difference, however, is in the nature and scope of these responsibilities in the home environment inparticular,” Dr. Joyce said. For example, the United Nations reported that women do nearly three times asmuch unpaid domestic w
36、ork as men. The problem is, housework is often overlooked as work, even though itis often as laborious (or in some cases, more so) as any paid job. As the scholar Silvia Federici put it in 1975,the unpaid nature of domestic work reinforces the assumption that “housework is not work, thus preventingw
37、omen from struggling against it.”F) Its not just inside the home, though. Research from Nova Southeastern University found that femalemanagers were more likely than male managers to display “surface acting,” or forcing emotions that are notwholly felt. “They expressed optimism, calmness and sympathy
38、 even when these were not the emotions thatthey were actually feeling,” the study said.G) Surface acting is a prime example of “emotional labor,” a concept that the writer Jess Zimmerman madefamiliar in a 2015 essay. The essay sparked a massive thread on the internet community blog MetaFilter.Hundre
39、ds of women spoke up about their own experience with emotional labor: the duties that are expectedof them, but go unnoticed. These invisible duties become apparent only when you dont do them. Likedomestic labor, emotional labor is generally dismissed and not labeled work. But research shows it canbe
40、 just as exhausting as paid work. Emotional labor can lead to diculty in sleeping and family conict.Sure, circumstantial stress, like losing a job, may lead to these same issues. But emotional labor is notcircumstantial. Its an enduring responsibility based on the socialized gender role of women.H)
41、Like Ms. Li, many women try to manage the added stress to reach what Dr. Joyce said was an unattainableideal. “Some professional women aim to do it all. They want to reach the top of the corporate ladder and ylike supermom,” she said. When women dont reach this ideal, they feel guilty; and even more
42、 stressed. Afterher own struggle with this, Ms. Li took a step back and used her experience to build Sanity & Self, a self-careapp and platform for overworked women. “The realizations I had in that process helped me gain insights andultimately got me ready to integrate self-care into my daily life,”
43、 she said.I) The stress problem extends beyond mental health when you consider the link between stress, anxiety andheart health. Worse, most of what we know about heart disease comes from studies involving men. However,“there are many reasons to think that its dierent in women,” Harvard Medical Scho
44、ol reported. For example,women are more likely to experience disturbed sleep, anxiety and unusual fatigue before a heart attack. Stressis so normalized that it is easy for women to shrug o those symptoms as simply the consequences of stress.Many women also do not experience chest pain before a heart
45、 attack the way men do, which leads to fewerwomen discovering problematic heart issues. Harvard reports that women are “much more likely than mento die within a year of having a heart attack” and “many women say their physicians sometimes dont evenrecognize the symptoms.”J) The good news is, women a
46、re more likely than men to take charge of their stress and manage it, the AmericanPsychological Association reports. The concept of self-care, at its core, is quite simple. “The basics ofadequate sleep, healthy diet and exercise are a good place to start,” Dr. Joyce said. “Support from trustedrelati
47、onship is vital. This includes professional support from various health and wellness providers if stress isbecoming increasingly overwhelming.”K) Disconnecting from work and home responsibilities is also obviously important. But its much easier said thandone. It is important to understand what cause
48、s your stress in the rst place. “Get really specic with whatsstressing you out,” Ms. Li said. “We often chalk up our stress to broad experiences like work. But work stresscan take many dierent forms. Is a colleague being disrespectful of your time? Is a boss undermining yourday-to-day control over decision making? These are dierent causes of stress and can benet from dierentkinds of self-care.”L) Ideally, your spouse or partner will be supportive, rather than dismissive, of your stress
