20xx年12月大学英语四级试题和参考答案解析[1](编辑修改稿)

20xx年12月大学英语四级试题和参考答案解析[1](编辑修改稿)内容摘要：

ducation and experience. Section B Passage One Questions 26 to 29 are based on the passage you have just heard. 26. A) They care a lot about children. B) They need looking after in their old age. C) They want to enrich their life experience. D) They want children to keep them pany. 27. A) They are usually adopted from distant places. B) Their birth information is usually kept secret. C) Their birth parents often try to conceal their birth information. D) Their adoptive parents don’t want them to know their birth parents. 28. A) They generally hold bad feelings towards their birth parents. B) They do not want to hurt the feelings of their adoptive parents. C) They have mixed feelings about finding their natural parents. D) They are fully aware of the expenses involved in the search. 29. A) Early adoption makes for closer parentchild relationship. B) Most people prefer to adopt children from overseas. C) Understanding is the key to successful adoption. D) Adoption has much to do with love. Passage Two Questions 30 to 32 are based on the passage you have just heard. 30. A) He suffered from mental illness. B) He bought The Washington Post. C) He turned a failing newspaper into a success. D) He was once a reporter for a major newspaper. 31. A) She was the first woman to lead a big . publishing pany. B) She got her first job as a teacher at the University of Chicago. C) She mitted suicide because of her mental disorder. D) She took over her father’s position when he died. 32. A) People came to see the role of women in the business world. B) Katharine played a major part in reshaping Americans’ mind. C) American media would be quite different without Katharine. D) Katharine had exerted an important influence on the world. Passage Three Questions 33 to 35 are based on the passage you have just heard. 33. A) It’ll enable them to enjoy the best medical care. B) It’ll allow them to receive free medical treatment. C) It’ll protect them from possible financial crises. D) It’ll prevent the doctors from overcharging them. 34. A) They can’t immediately get back the money paid for their medical cost. B) They have to go through very plicated application procedures. C) They can only visit doctor who speak their native languages. D) They may not be able to receive timely medical treatment. 35. A) They don’t have to pay for the medical services. B) They needn’t pay the entire medical bill at once. C) They must send the receipts to the insurance pany promptly. D) They have to pay a much higher price to get an insurance policy. Section C More and more of the world’s population are living in towns or cities. The speed at which cities are growing in the less developed countries is (36)________. Between 1920 and 1960 big cities in developed countries (37) ________ two and a half times in size, but in other parts of the world the growth was eight times their size. The (38) _________ size of growth is bad enough, but there are now also very (39) _________ signs of trouble in the (40) ___________of percentages of people living in towns and percentages of people working in industry. During the nieenth century cities grew as a result of the growth of industry . In Europe the (41) ___________of people living in cities was always smaller than that of the (42) __________working in factories. Now, however, the (43) ____________ is almost always true in the newly industrialized world : (44) ________. Without a base of people working in industry, these cities cannot pay for their growth。 (45) _____________. There has been little opportunity to build water supplies or other facilities. (46) __________________ a growth in the number of hopeless and despairing parents and starving children. Part IV Reading Comprehension (Reading in Depth ) (25 minutes) Section A Question 47 to 56 are based on the following passage. As war spreads to many corners of the globe, children sadly have been drawn into the center of conflicts. In Afghanistan, Bosnia, and Colombia, however, groups of children have been taking part in peace education 47 . The children, after learning to resolve conflicts, took on the 48 of peacemakers. The Children’ s Movement for Peace in Colombia was even nominated (提名 ) for the Nobel Peace Prize in 1998. Groups of children 49 as peacemakers studied human rights and poverty issues in Colombia, eventually forming a group with five other schools in Bogota known as The Schools of Peace. The classroom 50 opportunities for children to replace angry, violent behaviors with 51 , peaceful ones. It is in the classroomthat caring and respect for each person empowers children to take a step 52 toward being peacemakers. Fortunately, educators have access to many online resources that are 53 useful when helping children along the path to peace. The Young Peacemakers Campaign. The World Centers of Compassion for Children International call attention to children’s rights and how to help the 55 of war. Starting a Peacemakers’ Club is a praiseworthy venture for a class and one that could spread to other classrooms and ideally affect the culture of the 56 school. A) acting B) assuming C) prehensive D) cooperative E) entire F) especially G) forward H) images I) information J) offers K) projects L) respectively M) role N) technology O) victims Section B Passage One Questions 57 to 61 are based on the following passage. By almost any measure, there is a boom in Interbased instruction. In just a few years, 34 percent of American universities have begun offering some form of distance learning (DL), and among the larger schools, it’s closer to。