全国英语等级考试(pets)四级样题

全国英语等级考试全国英语等级考试(pets)(pets)四级样题四级样题Section IListening Comprehension,Part AYou willhear a recording of a conversation between Mary and Johnabout the Hilton Hotel and the Hotel Rossiya.Listen to itand fill out the table with the information youve heardfor questions 1-5.Some of the information has been pletedfor you.Write not more than 3 words in each numbered box.You will hear the recording twice.You now have 25 secondsto read the table below.Information about the Hilton Hotel and the Hotel RossiyaThe Hilton HotelThe Hotel RossiyaNumber of Bedrooms13,200Number of Employees23,000Number of Restaurants123Number of Elevators4Country of LocationU.S.5M:Hi,Mary.Hows everything?W:Fine.You know,John,Implanning to go to Las Vegas for a holiday and would like tostay in a large hotel.Anything to remend?M:Er?the HiltonHotel there is quite a large one.It has?er?3,174bedrooms.It also has 12 restaurants and about 125,000square feet of convention space.Therere a 10-acrerecreation deck and a stage show dining hall.Over 3,600people now work for it.W:Oh,great!Is it the largesthotel in the U.S.?M:Yes,it is.But it may not be thelargest in the world.Er?as far as I know,the HotelRossiya in Moscow is larger than Hilton.It is a 12-storybuilding that has 3,200 rooms.It can provide aommodationfor 6,000 guests.It takes nearly 8 years and a half tospend one night in each room.Besides,theres a 21-storyPresidential tower in the central courtyard.It has 15restaurants and 93 elevators.And it employs about 3,000people.The ballroom is known as the worlds largest.Russians are not allowed to live in that hotel.Andforeigners are charged 16 times more than the very low ratecharged Russian officials.W:Its unbelievable?fade outNow you will hear the recording again.(The recording isrepeated.)That is the end of Part A.Part BYou will hear a radio weather forecast.Answerquestions 6-10 while listening.Use not more than 5 wordsfor each answer.You will hear the recording twice.You nowhave 40 seconds to read the questions.When will showers reach south-west England and the southerncoast of Wales?6What will the minimum temperature be in the south duringthe night?7 On what day of the week do you think this weatherforecast was given?8 What will be the general feeling about the weekend in theNetherlands?9 What part of England will be cloudy and dry over theweekend?10 TapescriptW:Hello.Its been another warm and fine day for mostof us.Temperatures in south-east England reached twenty-six degrees Centigrade by mid-afternoon,and Brighton hadfifteen hours of lovely sunshine.But already the weatheris beginning to change,Im afraid,and during the nightshowers will slowly move in from the Atlantic to reachsouth-west England and the southern coast of Wales by earlymorning.The rest of the country will have a very mild,drynight with minimum temperatures no lower than fifteendegrees in the south,a little cooler?eleven degrees orso?in the north.Any remaining showers in northwestScotland will pass quickly,to leave a mild,dry nightthere too.And now,the outlook for Friday and the weekend.Well,southern Europe will once again get the best of theweekend weather,and if your holiday starts this weekend,then southern Spain is the place to go,with temperaturesof thirty-four degrees along the Mediterranean coast.Atthe eastern end of the Med,too,you can expectuninterrupted sunshine and temperatures of up to thirty-twodegrees Centigrade in Greece and south-east Italy,butfurther north the weathers not so settled.Much of France,Belgium and the Netherlands will be cloudy with oasionalrain and maximum temperatures will be around twenty-twodegrees?very disappointing for this time of theyear.Scotland and Northern Ireland will have heavy rain formuch of the weekend and temperatures will drop to a coolseventeen degrees.Across most of England the weather willbe cloudy but mainly dry with sunny periods.And when thesun does e out temperatures could rise to a maximum oftwenty-three degrees.Now you will hear the recording again.(The recording isrepeated.)That is the end of Part B.Part CYou will hear three dialogues or monologues.Before listening to each one,you will have time to readthe questions related to it.While listening,answer eachquestion by choosing A,B,C or D.After listening,youwill have time to check your answer.You will hear eachpiece once only.Questions 11-13 are based on the followingtalk introducing Emily Dickinson,a well-known Americanpoet.You now have 30 seconds to read questions 11-13.11.How long did Emily Dickinson live in the house whereshe was born?A almost all her lifeB less than half herlifeC until 1830D before 187212.Which of the following is true of Emily Dickinson?AShe was not a productive poet.B She saw many of her poemspublished.C She was not a sociable person.D She hadcontact only with a few poets.13.When was Emily Dickinson widely recognized?A afterHenry James referred highly to herB after seven of herpoems were publishedC after her poems became known toothersD after she was dead for many yearsTapescript:M:Emily Dickinson is one of the greatest Americanpoets.She was born in a typical New England village inMassachusetts on December 10,1830.She was the secondchild of the family.She died in the same house fifty-sixyears later.During her life time she never left her nativeland.She left her home state only once.She left hervillage very few times.And after 1872 she rarely left herhouse and yard.In the last years of her life she retreatedto a smaller and smaller circle of family and friends.Inthose later years she dressed in white,avoided strangers,and municated chiefly through notes and poems even withintimates.The doctor who attended her illness was allowedto examine her in another room,seeing her walk by anopened door.She was thought of as a strange figure inher home village.When she died on May 15,1886,she wasunknown to the rest of the world.Only seven of her poemshad appeared in print.But to think Emily Dickinson only asa strange figure is a serious mistake.She lived simply anddeliberately.She faced the essential facts of life.Aording to Henry James,a famous American novelist,she wasone of those on whom nothing was lost.Only by thus livingcould Dickinson manage both to fulfill her obligations as adaughter,a sister,and a housekeeper and to write on theaverage one poem a day.She read only a few books but knewthem deeply.Her poems are simple but remarkably rich.Notuntil 1950s was she recognized as one of the greatestAmerican poets.Section IIUse of EnglishRead the following text.Choosethe best word for each numbered blank and mark A,B,C or Don ANSWER SHEET（1）.During the 1980s,unemployment and underemployment insome countries was as high as 90 per cent.Some countriesdid not 1 enough food;basic needs in housing and clothingwere not（2）.Many of these countries looked to the industrialprocesses of the developed nations（3）solutions.（4）,problems cannot always be solved by copying theindustrialized nations.Industry in the developed nationsis highly automated and very（5）.It provides fewer jobs than labor-intensiveindustrial processes,and highly（6）workers are needed to（7）and repair the equipment.These workers must betrained,（8）many nations do not have the necessary traininginstitutions.Thus,the（9）of importing industry bees higher.Students must besent abroad to（10）vocational and professional training.（11）,just to begin training,the students must（12）learn English,French,German,or Japanese.Thestudents then spend many years abroad,and（13）do not return home.All nations agree that scienceand technology（14）be shared.The point is:countries（15）the industrial processes of the developed nationsneed to look carefully（16）the costs,because many of these costs are（17）.Students from these nations should（18）the problems of the industrialized countries closely.（19）care,they will take home not the problems ofscience and technology,（20）the benefits.1.Agenerate Braise Cproduce Dmanufacture2.Aanswered Bmet Ccalculated Dremembered3.Afor Bwithout Cas Dabout4.AMoreover BTherefore CAnyway DHowever5.Aexpensive Bmechanical Cflourishing Dplicated6.Agifted Bskilled Ctrained Dversatile7.Akeep Bmaintain Cretain D protect8.Asince Bso Cand Dyet9.Acharge Bprice Ccost Dvalue10.Aaept Bgain Creceive Dabsorb11.AFrequently BIncidentally CDeliberatelyDEventually12.Asoon Bquickly Cimmediately Dfirst13.Asome Bothers Cseveral Dfew14.Amight Bshould Cwould Dwill15.Aadopting Bconducting Creceiving Dadjusting16.Ato Bat Con Dabout17.Aopaque Bsecret Csealed Dhidden18.Atackle Blearn Cstudy Dmanipulate19.AIn BThrough CWith DUnder20.Aexcept Bnor Cor DbutSection III Reading ComprehensionPart ARead the followingfour texts.Answer the questions below each text bychoosing A,B,C or D.Mark your answers on ANSWER SHEET 1.Text 1It was 3:45 in the morning when the vote was finallytaken.After six months of arguing and a final 16 hours ofhot parliamentary debates,Australias Northern Territorybecame the first legal authority in the world to allowdoctors to take the lives of incurably ill patients whowish to die.The measure was passed by the convincing voteof 15 to 10.Almost immediately word flashed on the Interand was picked up,half a world away,by John Hofsess,executive director of the Right to Die Society of Canada.He sent it on via the groups on-line service,Death NET.Says Hofsess:We posted bulletins all day long,because ofcourse this isnt just something that happened in Australia.Its world history.The full import may take a while tosink in.The NT Rights of the Terminally Ill law has leftphysicians and citizens alike trying to deal with its moraland practical implications.Some have breathed sighs ofrelief;others,including churches,right-to-life groupsand the Australian Medical Association,bitterly attackedthe bill and the haste of its passage.But the tide isunlikely to turn back.In Australia?where an agingpopulation,life-extending technology and changing munityattitudes have all played their part?other states aregoing to consider making a similar law to deal witheuthanasia.In the U.S.and Canada,where the right-to-diemovement is gathering strength,observers are waiting forthe dominoes to start falling.Under the new NorthernTerritory law,an adult patient can request death?probably by a deadly injection or pill?to put an end tosuffering.The patient must be diagnosed as terminally illby two doctors.After a cooling off period of seven days,the patient can sign a certificate of request.After 48hours the wish for death can be met.For Lloyd Nickson,a54-year-old Darwin resident suffering from lung cancer,theNT Rights of Terminally Ill law means he can get on withliving without the haunting fear of his suffering:aterrifying death from his breathing condition.Im notafraid of dying from a spiritual point of view,but what Iwas afraid of was how Id go,because Ive watched peopledie in the hospital fighting for oxygen and clawing attheir masks,he says.1.From the second paragraph we learn thatA the objectionto euthanasia is diminishing in some countries.Bphysicians and citizens have the same view on euthanasia.Ctechnological changes are chiefly responsible for the newlaw.D it takes time to appreciate the significance oflaws passed.2.By saying that observers are waiting for the dominoesto start falling,the authormeans thatA observers aretaking a wait-and-see attitude towards the future ofeuthanasia.B there is a possibility of similar billsbeing passed in the U.S.and Canada.C observers arewaiting to see the movement end up in failure.D theprocess of the bill taking effect may finally e to a stop.3.When Lloyd Nickson is close to death,he willA undergoa cooling off period of seven days.B experience thesuffering of a lung cancer patient.C have an intense fearof terrible suffering.D face his death with the calmcharacteristic of euthanasia.4.What is the authorsattitude towards euthanasia?A Hostile.B Suspicious.CApproving.D Indifferent.5.We can infer from the textthat the author believes the suess of the right-to-diemovement isA only a matter of time.B far fromcertain.C just an illusion.D a shattered hope.Part BRead the following text carefully and thentranslate the underlined segments into Chinese.Yourtranslation should be written clearly on ANSWER SHEET 2.Do animals have rights?This is how the question is usuallyput.It sounds like a useful,ground-clearing way to start.61)Actually,it isnt,because it assumes that there is anagreed aount of human rights,which is something the worlddoes not have.On one view of rights,to be sure,itnecessarily follows that animals have none.62)Some philosophers argue that rights exist only within asocial contract,as part of an exchange of duties andentitlements.Therefore,animals cannot have rights.Theidea of punishing a tiger that kills somebody is absurd;for exactly the same reason,so is the idea that tigershave rights.However,this is only one aount,and by nomeans an uncontested one.It denies rights not only toanimals but also to some people?for instance,to infants,the mentally incapable and future generations.In addition,it is unclear what force a contract can have for people whonever consented to it:how do you reply to somebody whosays I dont like this contract?The point is this:without agreement on the rights of people,arguing aboutthe rights of animals is fruitless.63)It leads the discussion to extremes at the outset:itinvites you to think that animals should be treated eitherwith the consideration humans extend to other humans,orwith no consideration at all.This is a false choice.Better to start with another,more fundamental,question:is the way we treat animals a moral issue at all?Many denyit.64)Arguing from the view that humans are different fromanimals in every relevant respect,extremists of this kindthink that animals lie outside the area of moral choice.Any regard for the suffering of animals is seen as amistake?a sentimental displacement of feeling that shouldproperly be directed to other humans.This view,which holdsthat torturing a monkey is morally equivalent to choppingwood,may seem bravely logical.In fact it is simplyshallow:the confused center is right to reject it.Themost elementary form of moral reasoning?the ethicalequivalent of learning to crawl?is to weigh othersinterests against ones own.This in turn requires sympathyand imagination:without which there is no capacity formoral thought.To see an animal in pain is enough,for most,to engage sympathy.65)When that happens,it is not a mistake:it is mankindsinstinct for moral reasoning in action,an instinct thatshould be encouraged rather than laughed at.Section IV Writing Widespread tobao consumption hasled to grave consequences,yet the tobao panies are stillclaiming that they make a valuable contribution to theworld economy.Write an essay1)criticizing their view and2)justifying your stand.In your essay,make full use ofthe information provided in the pictures printed below.Youshould write approximately 160?200 words on ANSWER SHEET2.ORAL TESTPart AInterlocutor:1，Good morning/afternoon.Could I have your mark sheets,please?Thank you.(Hand overthe mark sheets to the Assessor)2，My name is.and thisis my colleague.He/she is just going to be listening tous.So,you are.and.?Thank you.3，First of all wedlike to know something about you,so Im going to ask somequestions about yourselves.(Select one or more questionsfrom each of the following categories as appropriate.)Hometown1，Where are you from?2，How long have you livedthere?3，Whats it like living there?Family What can you tell me about your family?Work/Study Can you tell me something about your work or studies?(Toa student)What do you specialize in?What do you enjoy most about your studies?What subject(s)do you like best?Have you ever worked during the vacation?What kind of job did you do?How did you like it?(To an adult who already has a job)What job do you do?Do you like it?And why?What qualifications did you need in order to get yourjob?Leisure Do you have any hobbies?How did you bee interested in(whatever hobby thecandidate enjoys)?Which do you prefer,watching TV or going to the cinema?What sort ofprogram/film do you like to watch?What kinds of sports are you interested in?Why?What kinds of music do you enjoy most?Why?How do you usually spend your holidays?Is there anywhere you would particularly like to visit?Why?Future Plans What do you hope to do in your professional life in thenext few years?How important is English for your future plans?Andplease give reasons tosupport your view.Part BInterlocutor:Now Id like you to talk about something betweenyourselves but speak so thatwe can hear you.You shouldtake care to share the opportunity of speaking.(Put thepicture in front of both candidates and give instructionswith reference tothe picture.)You have a very close friend whose birthday is ing.Discuss each of thechoices shown in the picture and decidewhich youd like to choose forcelebrating his birthday.Give reasons for your decision.This picture is for your reference.You have three minutes for this.Would you like to begin now,please?PicturePart CInterlocutor:Im going to give each of you a picture and Id like youto first briefly describeand then give your ment on whatyou see in the picture.(Put Picture 1 in front of bothcandidates)Candidate A,this is your picture.You have threeminutes to talk about it.Candidate B,listen carefully while Candidate A isspeaking.When he/shehas finished,Id like you to askhim/her a question about what he/she has said.Candidate A,would you like to begin now,please?Candidate A:(three minutes)Interlocutor:Thank you.Now,Candidate B,could you please ask yourpartner a question?(Half a minute for asking and answering the question)(Take back Picture 1 and put Picture 2 in front of bothcandidates)Ok,Candidate B,here is your picture.You also havethree minutes to talk aboutyour picture.Candidate A,listen carefully while Candidate B isspeaking.When he/she isfinished,Id like you to askhim/her a question about what he/she has said.Candidate B,would you like to begin now,please?Candidate B:(Three minutes)Interlocutor:Thank you.Now,Candidate A,could you please ask yourpartner a question?(Half a minute for asking and answeringthe question)Thank you.That is the end of the test.Picture 1Picture 2 Distance