2013年12月英语四级真题第3套

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2013 年 12 月英语四级真题（第三套）

Part I Writing (30 minutes)

Directions：

For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a short essay

based on the picture below. You should start your essay with a brief

account of the impact of the Internet on the way people communicate

and then explain whether electronic communication can replace face-

to-face contact. You should write at least 120 words but no more

than, 180 words.

Part Ⅱ Listening Comprehension (30 minutes)

（说明：由于 2013 年 12 月六级考试全国共考了 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 36 to 45 are based on the following passage.

The mobile phone is a magic device widely used these days. Although it has

been nearly 30 years since the first commercial mobile-phone network was

launched, advertisers have yet to figure out how to get their 36 out to

mobile-phone users in a big way. There are 2.2 billion cell-phone users

worldwide, a 37 that is growing by about 25% each year. Yet spending on ads

carried over cell-phone networks last year 38 to just $1.5 billion worldwide,

a fraction of the $424 billion global ad market.

But as the number of eyeballs glued to 39 screens multiplies, so too does

the mobile phone’s value as a pocket

billboard

( 广告的 ). Consumers are 40

using their phones for things other than voice calls, such as text messaging,

downloading songs and games, and 41 the Internet. By 2010, 70 million Asians

are expected to be watching videos and TV programs on mobile phones. All of

these activities give advertisers 42 options for reaching audiences. During

soccer’s World Cup last summer, for example, Adidas used real-time scores and

games to 43 thousands of fans to a website set up for mobile-phone access.

“Our target audience was males aged 17 to 25,” says Marcus Spurrell, Adidas

regional manager for Asia. “Their mobiles are always on, always in their

pocket—you just can’t 44 cell phones as an advertising tool.” Mobile-phone

marketing has become as 45 a platform as TV, online or print.

A) accessing

B) amounted

C) approaching

D) attract

E) casual

F) characters

G) fresh

H) ignore

I) increasingly

J) messages

K) patiently

L) tiny

M) total

N) violated

O) vital

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.

A Mess on the Ladder of Success

[A] Throughout American history there has almost always been at least one

central economic narrative that gave the ambitious or unsatisfied reason to

pack up and seek their fortune elsewhere. For the first 300 or so years of

European settlement, the story was about moving outward: getting immigrants

to the continent and then to the frontier to clear the

prairies

(大草原),

drain the wetlands and build new cities.

[B] By the end of the 19th century, as the frontier vanished, the US had a mild

panic attack. What would this energetic, enterprising country be without new

lands to conquer? Some people, such as Teddy Roosevelt, decided to keep on

conquering (Cuba, the Philippines, etc.), but eventually, in

industrialization, the US found a new narrative of economic mobility at

home. From the 1890s to the 1960s, people moved from farm to city, first in

the North and then in the South. In fact, by the 1950s, there was enough

prosperity and white-collar work that many began to move to the suburbs. As

the population aged, there was also a shift from the cold Rust Belt to the

comforts of the Sun Belt, We think of this as an old person’s migration,

but it created many jobs for the young in construction and health care, not

to mention tourism, retail and restaurants.

[C] For the last 20 years—from the end of the cold war through two burst

bubbles in a single decade—the US has been casting about for its next

economic narrative. And now it is experiencing another period of panic,

which is bad news for much of the workforce but particularly for its

youngest members.

[D] The US has always been a remarkably mobile country, but new data from the

Census Bureau indicate that mobility has reached its lowest level in

recorded history. Sure, some people are stuck in homes valued at less than

their

mortgages

(抵押贷款), but many young people—who don’t own homes and

don’t yet have families—are staying put, too. This suggests, among other

things, that people aren’t packing up for new economic opportunities the

way they used to. Rather than dividing the country into the 1 percenters

versus

( 与 … … 相对 ) everyone else, the split in our economy is really

between two other classes: the mobile and immobile.

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