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1、2018 年年 12 月大学英语四级考试真题月大学英语四级考试真题 (第三套第三套) Part Writing (30 minutes) Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a short essay on the challenges of starting a career after graduation. You should write at least 120 words but no more than 180 words. Part II Listening Comprehension （
2、25 minutes） 说明：由于 2018 年 12 月四级考试全国共考了两套听力，本套真题听力与前 两套内容相同，只是选项顺序不同，因此在本套真题中不再重复出现。 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 fo
3、llowing 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 center. You may not use any of the words in the bank more than on
4、ce. A few months ago, I was down with a terrible cold which ended in a persistent bad cough. No matter how many different 26 I tried, I still couldnt get rid of the cough. Not only did it 27 my teaching but also my life as a whole. Then one day after class, a student came up to me and 28 traditional
5、 Chinese medicine. From her description, Chinese medicine sounded as if it had magic power that worked wonders. I was 29 because I knew so little about it and have never tried it before. Eventually, my cough got so much 30 that I couldnt sleep at night, so I decided to give it a try. The Chinese doc
6、tor took my pulse and asked to see my tongue, both of which were new 31 to me because they are both non-existent in Western medicine. Then the doctor gave me a scraping (刮) treatment known as Gua Sha. I was a little 32 at first because he used a smooth edged tool to scrape the skin on my neck and sh
7、oulders. A few minutes later, the 33 strokes started to produce a relieving effect and my body and mind began to 34 deeper into relaxation. I didnt feel any improvement in my condition in the first couple of days, but after a few more regular visits to the doctor, my cough started to 35. Then, withi
8、n a matter of weeks, it was completely gone! 注意：此部分试题请在答题卡 2 上作答。 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 derive
9、d. You may choose a paragraph more than once. Each paragraph is marked with a letter. Answer the question by marking the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 2. Is it really OK to eat food thats fallen on the floor? A When you drop a piece of food on the floor, is it really OK to eat if you pick it
10、up within five A) deepen B) experiences C) hesitant D) inconvenience E) lessen F) licenses G) pressured H) recommended I) remedies J) scared K) sensitive L) sink M) temporary N) tremble O) worse seconds? An urban food myth contends that if food spends just a few seconds on the floor, dirt and germs
11、wont have much of a chance to contaminate it. Research in my lab has focused on how food becomes contaminated, and weve done some work on this particular piece of wisdom. B While the five-second rule might not seem like the most pressing issue for food scientists to get to the bottom of, its still w
12、orth investigating food myths like this one because they shape our beliefs about when food is safe to eat. C So is five seconds on the floor the critical threshold (门槛) that separates a piece of eatable food from a case of food poisoning? Its a bit more complicated than that. It depends on just how
13、many bacteria can make it from floor to food in a few seconds and just how dirty the floor is. D Wondering if food is still OK to eat after its dropped on the floor is a pretty common experience. And its probably not a new one either. A well-known, but inaccurate, story about Julia Child may have co
14、ntributed to this food myth. Some viewers of her cooking show, The French Chef, insist they saw Child drop lamb on the floor and pick it up, with the advice that if they were alone in the kitchen, their guests would never know. E In fact it was a potato pancake, and it fell on the stovetop, not on t
15、he floor. Child put it back in the pan, saying, “But you can always pick it up and if youre alone in the kitchen, whos going to see it?” But the misremembered story persists. Its harder to pin down the origins of the oft- quoted five-second rule, but a 2003 study reported that 70% of women and 56% o
16、f men surveyed were familiar with the five-second rule and that women were more likely than men to eat food that had dropped on the floor. F So what does science tell us about what a few moments on the floor means for the safety of your food? The earliest research report on the five-second rule is attributed to Jillian Clarke, a high school student participating in a research project at the University of Illinois. Clarke and he
