1、2016 年 12 月大学英语四级考试真题(第 3 套)Part Writing (30 minutes)Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write an essay. Suppose you havetwo options upon graduation: one is to work in a state -owned business and the other in a jointventure. You are to make a choice between the two. Write an ess
2、ay to explain the reasons for yourchoice. You should write at least 120 words but no more than 180 words.Part Listening Comprehension (25 minutes)说明：由于 2016 年 12 月四级考试全国共考了 2 套听力，本套真题听力与前 2 套内容完全一样，只是顺序不一样。因此在本套真题中不再重复出现。Part Reading Comprehension (40 minutes)Section ADirections: In this section, th
3、ere is a passage with ten blanks. You are required to select oneword for each blank from a list of choices given in a word bank following the passage. Read thepassage through carefully before making your choices. Each choice in the bank is identified by aletter. Please mark the corresponding letter
4、for each item on Answer Sheet 2with a single linethrough the centre. You may not use any of the words in the bank more than once.Questions 26 to 35 are based on the following passage.Many men and women have long bought into the idea that there are male and femalebrains, believing that explains just
5、about every difference between the sexes. A new study 26that belief, questioning whether brains really can be distinguished by gender.In the study, Tel Aviv University researchers 27 for sex differences throughout theentire human brain.And what did they find? Not much. Rather than offer evidence for
6、 28 brains as maleor female, research shows that brains fall into a wide range, with most people falling right in themiddle.Daphna Joel, who led the study, said her research found that while there are somegender-based 29 , many different types of brain cant always be distinguished by gender.While th
7、e average male and average female brains were 30 different, you couldnttell it by looking at individual brain scans. Only a small 31 of people had ail-male orall-female characteristics.Larry Cahill, an American neuroscientist (神经科学家), said the study is an importantaddition to a growing body of resea
8、rch questioning 32 beliefs about gender and brainfunction. But he cautioned against concluding from this study that all brains are the same, 33of gender.Theres a mountain of evidence 34 the importance of sex influences at all levels ofbrain function, he told The Seattle Times.If anything, he said, the study 35 that gender plays a very important role in the brain-
