2017年12月英语四级真题（卷三）

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2017 年12 月大学英语四级考试真题(第3套)

Part I Writing (30 minutes)

　　Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a short essay on how to best handle the relationship

between doctors and patients. You should write at least 120 words but no more than 180 words.

Part II Listening Comprehension (25 minutes)

说明：由于 2017 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 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 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.

Questions 26 to 35 are based on the following passage.

We all know there exists a great void （空白）in the public educational system when it comes to 26 to

STEM（Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics ）courses. One educator named Dori Roberts decided to do

something to change this system. Dori taught high school engineering for 11 years. She noticed there was a real void in

quality STEM education at all 27 of the public educational system. She said, “I started Engineering For Kids (EFK)after

noticing a real lack of math, science and engineering programs to 28 my own kids in”

She decided to start an afterschool program where children 29 in STEM-based competitions. The club grew quickly

and when it reached 180 members and the kids in the program won several state 30 , she decided to devote all her time to

cultivating and 31 it. The global business EFK was born.

Dori began operating EFK out of her Virginia home, which she then expanded to 32 recreation centers. Today, the

EFK program 33 over 144 branches in 32 states within the United States and in 21 countries. Sales have doubled from $5

million in 2014 to $10 million in 2015,with 25 new branches planned for 2016. The EFK website states, “Our nation is

not 34 enough engineers. Our philosophy is to inspire kids at a young age to understand that engineering is a great 35 .”

A）attracted I）feeding

B）career J）graduating

C）championships K）interest

D）degrees L）levels

E）developing M）local

F）enroll N）operates

G）exposure O）participated

H）feasible

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 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.

Why aren't you curious about what happened?

A) “You suspended Ray Rice after our video,” a reporter from TMZ challenged National Football League Commissioner

Roger Goodell the other day. “Why didn’t you have the curiosity to go to the casino ( 赌场) yourself?” The implication of

the question is that a more curious. commissioner would have found a way to get the tape.

B) The accusation of incuriosity is one that we hear often, carrying the suggestion that there is something wrong with not

wanting to search out the truth. “I have been bothered for a long time about the curious lack of curiosity,” said a Democratic

member of the New Jersey legislature back in July, referring to an insufficiently inquiring attitude on the part of an assistant

to New Jersey Governor Chris Christie who chose not to ask hard questions about the George Washington Bridge traffic

scandal. “Isn’t the mainstream media the least bit curious about what happened?” wrote conservative writer Jennifer Rubin

earlier this year, referring to the attack on Americans in Benghazi, Libya.

C) The implication, in each case, is that curiosity is a good thing, and a lack of curiosity is a problem. Are such accusations

simply efforts to score political points for one's party? Or is there something of particular value about curiosity in and of

itself?

D) The journalist Ian Leslie, in his new and enjoyable book Curious: The Desire to Know and Why Your Fatter Depends on

It, insists that the answer to that last question is ‘Yes.’ Leslie argues that curiosity is a much-overlooked human virtue,

crucial to our success, and that we are losing it.

E)We are suffering, he writes, from a “serendipity deficit.” The word “serendipity” was coined by Horace Walpole in an

1854 letter, from a tale of three princes who “were always making discoveries, by accident, of things they were not in search

of,” Leslie worries that the rise of the Internet, among other social and technological changes, has reduced our appetite for

aimless adventures. No longer have we the inclination to let ourselves wander through fields of know ledges, ready to be

surprised. Instead, we seek only the information we want.

F) Why is this a problem? Because without curiosity we will lose the spirit of innovation and entrepreneurship. We will see

unimaginative governments and dying corporations make disastrous decisions. We will lose a vital part of what has made

humanity as a whole so successful as a species.

G) Leslie presents considerable evidence for the proposition that the society as a whole is growing less curious. In the U.S.

and Europe, for example, the rise of the Internet has led to a declining consumption of news from outside the reader’s

borders .But not everything is to be blamed on technology. The decline in interest in literary fiction is also one of the causes

identified by Leslie. Reading literary fiction, he says ,make us more curious.

H)Moreover, in order to be curious, “you have to be aware of a gap in your knowledge in the first place.” Although Leslie

perhaps paints a bit broadly in contending that most of us are unaware of how much we don’t know, he’s surely right to

point out that the problem is growing: “Google can give us the powerful illusion that all questions have definite answers.”

I）Indeed, Google, for which Leslie expresses admiration, is also his frequent whipping body( 替罪羊). He quotes Google

co-founder Larry Page to the effect that the “perfect search engine” will “understand exactly what I mean and give me back

exactly what I want.” Elsewhere in the book, Leslie writes: “Google aims to save you from the thirst of curiosity

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2017年12月大学英语四级考试真题(第3套)PartIWriting(30minutes)　　Directions:Forthispart,youareallowed30minutestowriteashortessayonhowtobesthandletherelationshipbetweendoctorsandpatients.Youshouldwriteatleast120wordsbutnomorethan180words.PartIIListeningComprehension(25minutes)说明：由于2017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...

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