1、大学四级-196 及答案解析(总分：710.00，做题时间：90 分钟)一、Part Writing(总题数：1，分数：106.00)1.Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write an essay. You should start your essay with a brief description of the picture and then express your views on the importance of finance management. You should write at l
2、east 120 words but no more than 180 words. （分数：106.00）_二、Part Listening Com(总题数：0，分数：0.00)三、Section A(总题数：3，分数：49.00)Questions 1 and 2 will be based on the following news item, （分数：14.00）A.The election is not so just as expected.B.American president asked them to drop out from it.C.They are not conf
3、ident in themselves.D.They are afraid of being cheated and attacked.A.The presidential election.B.Election rescue.C.Boycott of election.D.Political transition.Questions 3 and 4 will be based on the following news item. （分数：14.00）A.20%.B.70%.C.80%.D.17%.A.Decreasing the stock for food.B.Adjusting the
4、 food production scale.C.Cultivating more lands to grow.D.Encouraging speculation in the food market.Questions 5 to 7 will be based on the following news item. （分数：21.00）A.About five months.B.More than half a year.C.Half a month.D.15 to 26 months.A.Spectators.B.Athletes.C.Fans.D.Cheerleaders.A.Olymp
5、ic cheerleaders are the same as other games“.B.Three groups of cheerleaders work at speed skating.C.The all-girl team ranges in age from 15 to 26.D.They are dressed in attractive clothes.四、Section B(总题数：0，分数：0.00)五、Conversation One(总题数：1，分数：28.00)Questions 8 to 11 are based on the conversation you h
6、ave just heard. （分数：28.00）A.She likes to do some extreme sports.B.She gets much pleasure from skiing.C.She was influenced by her parents.D.She can show off her skiing skills.A.They went skiing.B.They learned how to ski.C.They went hiking.D.They gave lessons on hiking.A.Spend the whole vacation with
7、her.B.Head back home for Christmas.C.Stay in California and learn to ski.D.Try to become a professional skier.A.Ski in California.B.Teach the man to ski.C.Visit her friends in Europe.D.Stay with the man“s family.六、Conversation Two(总题数：1，分数：28.00)Questions 12 to 15 are based on the conversation you h
8、ave just heard. （分数：28.00）A.She is too busy to spare time.B.She has lost her voice.C.She doesn“t have the man“s member.D.She doesn“t want to talk to the man.A.Cancel the class.B.Teach the class.C.Hand out exam papers.D.Collect students“ homework.A.He will use a master key to open the door.B.He will
9、get Ashley“s key from the woman.C.He will ask the department“s secretary for help.D.He will force the lock with a hammer.A.She teaches in math department.B.She will not recover until Friday.C.She often misses classes for being sick.D.She has a class to teach on Friday.七、Section C(总题数：0，分数：0.00)八、Pas
10、sage One(总题数：1，分数：57.00)Questions 16 to 19 are based on the passage you have just heard. （分数：57.00）A.It started out as a soft drink.B.It was first a cure for headaches.C.It tasted bitter and no one liked it.D.It was sold to patients only.A.Heat it.B.Add oil to it.C.Shake it gently.D.Mix it with wate
11、r.A.It tasted bitter.B.It tasted good.C.It was strange.D.It was sweet.A.It tastes the same as the past.B.It is not refreshing now.C.It can“t cure headaches.D.It is much cheaper than before.九、Passage Two(总题数：1，分数：43.50)Questions 20 to 22 are based on the passage you have just heard. （分数：43.50）A.Conve
12、nient.B.Clean.C.Crowded.D.Lovely.A.There are too many people.B.People are impolite.C.The streets are not wide enough.D.Every one is in a rush.A.People tend to be asleep on the trains.B.People usually read newspapers there.C.They always leave and arrive on time.D.There are always not enough trains.十、
13、Passage Three(总题数：1，分数：43.50)Questions 23 to 25 are based on the passage you have just heard. （分数：43.50）A.Enjoyed the wine and delicious foods.B.Listened to the stories of friends.C.Sat alone and waited someone to come up.D.Talked to the interesting looking people.A.It“s a good way to know each othe
14、r.B.People care nobody except themselves.C.People are not interested in public affairs.D.People care more about themselves.A.We need to learn the skills of talking.B.Listening is easier than talking.C.Being a listener is more important than a talker.D.We need interesting topics in a party.十一、Part Re
15、ading Compr(总题数：0，分数：0.00)十二、Section A(总题数：1，分数：35.00)Could the reason for the world“s economic misfortunes all come down to finger length? Although certainly an oversimplification of our 1 troubles, scientists have shown that financial traders who lose the biggest dollars are more 2 to have shorter
16、 ring fingers than index fingers. Former Wall Street trader and scientist John Coates of the University of Cambridge wondered whether finger ratio really correlated with trader success. His team 3 that traders with the lowest index-to-ring-finger ratios made the most money over a 20-month period, ev
17、en when the researchers controlled for years of experience. They averaged the 4 of $1,232,590, nearly six times more than that of men with 5 ratios. “I almost fell off my chair,“ says Coates. “I could not believe what I was seeing.“ Tim Harford, a columnist for the Financial Times and author of The
18、Logic of Life: The Rational Economies of an Irrational World , calls the study “fascinating.“ He says he“s glad to see that economists have 6 looking at financial markets in terms of natural 7 instead of looking at them in terms of rational people making rational decisions. Coates, 8 , says it is im
19、portant to note that this study 9 on only one type of trading, and increased confidence and quick reactions may in fact be an obstacle to those trading over long periods of time, like investors at hedge funds and investment banks. “Each 10 of trading may require a different set of traits,“ he says.
20、A. focuses E. strengthens I. high M. moreover B. started F. likely J. conventional N. selection C. however G. equivalent K. found O. current D. figure H. style L. studied（分数：35.00）十三、Section B(总题数：1，分数：70.00)Having Kids Makes You Happy?A. When I was growing up, our former neighbors, whom we“ll call
21、the Sloans, were the only couple on the block without kids. It wasn“t that they couldn“t have children; according to Mr. Sloan, they just chose not to. All the other parents, including mine, thought it was oddeven tragic. So any bad luck that happened to the Sloansthe egging of their house one Hallo
22、ween; the landslide (山崩) that sent their pool careering to the street belowwas somehow attributed to that fateful decision they“d made so many years before. “Well,“ the other adults would say, “you know they never did have kids.“ Each time I visited the Sloans, I“d search for signs of insanity, mise
23、ry or even regret in their super clean home, yet I never seemed to find any. From what I could tell, the Sloans were happy, maybe even happier than my parents, despite the fact that they were childless. B. My impressions may have been swayed by the fact that their candy dish was always full, but sev
24、eral studies now show that the Sloans could well have been more satisfied than most of the traditional families around them. In Daniel Gilbert“s 2006 book Stumbling on Happiness , the Harvard professor of psychology looks at several studies and concludes that marital satisfaction decreases dramatica
25、lly after the birth of the first childand increases only when the last child has left home. He also finds out that parents are happier grocery shopping and even sleeping than spending time with their kids. Other data cited by 2008“s Gross National Happiness author, Arthur C. Brooks, finds that paren
26、ts are about 7 percentage points less likely to report being happy than the childless. C. The most recent comprehensive study on the emotional state of those with kids shows us that the term “bundle of joy“ may not be the most accurate way to describe our offspring. “Parents experience lower levels
27、of emotional well-being, less frequent positive emotions and more frequent negative emotions than their childless peers,“ says Florida State University“s Robin Simon. “In fact, no group of parentsmarried, single, step or even empty nestreported significantly greater emotional well-being than people
28、who never had children. It“s such an unexpected finding because we have these cultural beliefs that children are the key to happiness and a healthy life, and they“re not.“ D. Simon received plenty of hate mail in response to her research, which isn“t surprising. Her findings shake the very foundatio
29、n of what we“ve been raised to believe is true. In a recent Newsweek Poll, 50 percent of Americans said that adding new children to the family tends to increase happiness levels. Only one in six (16 percent) said that adding new children had a negative effect on the parents“ happiness. But which par
30、ent is willing to admit that the greatest gift life has to offer has in fact made his or her life less enjoyable? E. Parents may openly complain their lack of sleep, busy schedules and difficulty in dealing with their bad-tempered teens, but rarely will they cop to feeling depressed due to the every
31、day rigors of child rearing. “If you admit that kids and parenthood aren“t making you happy, it“s basically blasphemy (亵渎),“ says Jen Singer, a stay-at-home mother of two from New Jersey who runs the popular parenting blog MommaS. “From baby-cream commercials that make motherhood look happy and well
32、 rested, to commercials for Disney World where you“re supposed to feel like a kid because you“re there with your kids, we“ve made parenthood out to be one extremely happy moment after another, and it“s disappointing when you find out it“s not.“ F. Is it possible that American parents have always bee
33、n this disillusioned? Anecdotal (轶事的) evidence says no. In pre-industrial America, parents certainly loved their children, but their offspring also served a purposeto work the farm, contribute to the household. Children were a necessity. Today, we have kids more for emotional reasons, but an increas
34、ingly complicated work and social environment has made finding satisfaction far more difficult. A key study by University of Wisconsin-Madison“s Sara McLanahan and Julia Adams, conducted some 20 years ago, found that parenthood was perceived as significantly more stressful in the 1970s than in the 1
35、950s; the researchers attribute part of that change to major shifts in employment patterns. The majority of American parents now work outside the home, have less support from extended family and face a worsening education and health-care system, so raising children has not only become more complicat
36、edit has become more expensive. Today the U.S. Department of Agriculture estimates that it costs anywhere from $134,370 to $237,520 to raise a child from birth to the age of 17and that“s not counting school or college tuition. No wonder parents are feeling a little blue. G. Societal ills aside, perh
37、aps we also expect too much from the promise of parenting. The National Marriage Project“s 2006 “State of Our Unions“ report says that parents have significantly lower marital satisfaction than nonparents because they experienced more single and child-free years than previous generations. Twenty-fiv
38、e years ago, women married around the age of 20, and men at 23. Today both sexes are marrying four to five years later. This means the experience of raising kids is now competing with highs in a parent“s past, like career wins or a carefree social life. Sending bad-tempered kids to school or dashing
39、 to work with spit-up on your favorite sweater doesn“t turn out to be romantic. H. For the childless, all this research must certainly feel redeeming (弥补的). As for those of us with kids, well, the news isn“t all bad. Parents still report feeling a greater sense of purpose and meaning in their lives
40、than those who“ve never had kids. And there are other rewarding aspects of parenting that are impossible to quantify. For example, I never thought it possible to love someone as deeply as I love my son. As for the Sloans, it“s hard to say whether they had a less meaningful existence than my parents,
41、 or if my parents were 7 percent less happy than the Sloans. Perhaps it just comes down to how you see the candy dishhalf empty or half rifle Or at least as a parent, that“s what I“ll keep telling myself.（分数：70.00）(1).Now highs in a parent“s past are being fought by the experience of raising kids.（分
42、数：7.00）(2).Because of insufficient sleep, busy schedules and difficulty in rearing their bad-tempered teens, parents may complain publicly.（分数：7.00）(3).Besides societal ills that lower parents“ satisfaction, the promise of parenting is also too much expected.（分数：7.00）(4).Our cultural beliefs are tha
43、t having kids makes parents happy.（分数：7.00）(5).The Sloans were childless because they decided not to have a child.（分数：7.00）(6).A professor believes that after the last child has left home, parents tend to be happier.（分数：7.00）(7).Despite the low happiness level, compared with the childless, parents f
44、eel a greater sense of purpose and meaning in their lives.（分数：7.00）(8).Parenthood became more stressful in the 1970s partly due to changes in employment patterns.（分数：7.00）(9).The author expects to fend signs showing the Sloans were miserable in their home.（分数：7.00）(10).According to the Newsweek Poll
45、, half Americans agreed adding a child has a positive effect on happiness levels.（分数：7.00）十四、Section C(总题数：0，分数：0.00)十五、Passage One(总题数：1，分数：71.50)Here“s some good news for parents of tweens and teens: You rule. That may be hard to believe sometimes. And it“s true kids won“t always follow your healt
46、h and safety rules. But studies show parents who keep setting boundaries make a huge difference. The latest example is a survey on media use by the Kaiser Family Foundation. It found that typical kids aged from 8 to 18 spend an astonishing 7 hours and 38 minutes a day consuming entertainment media,
47、indulging deeply in TV, computers, games, cellphones, music players and other devices while occasionally glancing at books and other non-electronic media. Many experts, including the pediatrics (小儿科) academy, consider that much screen time bad for mental and physical health. But the study also found
48、 that kids whose parents set any time or content limits were plugged in for three hours less each day. “Parents can have a big influence,“ says Kaiser researcher Vicky Rideout. “The reality is that teenagers care deeply what their parents think,“ says Kenneth Ginsburg, a specialist of the Children“s
49、 Hospital of Philadelphia. “The challenge for parents is to get across rules and boundaries in a way that doesn“t feel controlling.“ Research shows that parents who set firm rules but explain and enforce in a warm supportive way work better than those who set no rules, fail to enforce them or rule with a “because I said so“ iron grip. Ideally, “kids understand the rifles are about their well-being and safety,“ Ginsburg says. Still, achieving just-right parenting is “challenging“, say
