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2017 年12 月大学英语四级真题试题一(完整版) Part I Writing (25 minutes)

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Directions:For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write an a short easy on how to besthandle the relationship between doctors and patients. You should write at least 120words but no more than 180 words.

Part II Listening Comprehension (30 minutes)

Section A

Directions:In this section, you will hear three news reports. At the end of each news report, you will hear two or three questions. Both the news report and questions will be spoken only once. After you hear questions, you must choose the best answer from the four choices marked A), B), C) and D). Then mark the corresponding letter onAnswer Sheet 1 with a single line through the centre.

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Questions 1 to 2 are based on the new reportyou have just heard.

1.A)Her grandfather.

B)Her grandfather.

C) Her friend Erika.

D)Her little brother.

2.A) By taking pictures for passers-by.

B)By selling lemonade and pictures.

C)By working part time at a hospital.

D)By asking for help on social media.

Questions 3 to 4 are based on the new report you have just heard.

3.A) Testing the efficiency of the new solar panel.

B)Providing clean energy to five million people.

C)Generating electric power for passing vehicles.

D)Finding cheaper ways of highway construction.

4.A) They are made from cheap materials.

B)They are only about half an inch thick.

C)They can be laid right on top of existing highways.

D)A) They can stand the wear and tear of natural elements. Questions 5 to 7 are based on the new report you have just heard.

5.A) The lack of clues about the species.

B)Endless fighting in the region.

C)Inadequate funding for research.

D)The hazards from the desert.

6.A) To observe the wildlife in the two national parks.

B)To study the habitat of lions in Sudan and Ethiopia.

C)To identify the reasons for the lions? disappearance.

D)To find evidence of the existence of the “lost lions”.

7.A) Lions? tracks.

B)Lions walking.

C)Some camping facilities.

D)Traps set by local hunters.

Section B

Directions:In this section, you will hear two long conversations. At the end of each conversation, you will hear four questions. Both the conversation and the questions will be spoken only once. After you hear a question, you must choose the best answer from the four choices marked A), B), C) and D). Then mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 1 with a single line through the centre.

Questions 8 to 11 are based on the conversation you have just heard.

8.A) A special gift from the man.

B)A call from her dad.

C)Her wedding anniversary.

D)Her ?lucky birthday?.

9.A) Threw her a surprise party.

B)Bought her a good necklace.

C)With a traveler?s check

D)With his smart phone

10.A) What her husband and the man are up to.

B)What has been troubling her husband.

C)The trip her husband has planned.

D)The gift her husband has bought.

11 . A) He wants to find out about the couple?s holiday plan.

B)He is eager to learn how the couple?s holiday turns out.

C)He will tell the women the secret if her husband agrees.

D)He will be glad to be a guide for the couple?s holiday trip.

Questions 12 to 15 are based on the conversation you have just heard.

12.A) They take the rival?s attitude into a ccount.

B)They know when to adopt a tough attitude.

C)They are sensitive to the dynamics of a negotiation.

D)They see the importance of making compromises.

13.A) They know when to stop.

B)They know how to adapt.

C)They know when to make compromises.

D)They know how to control their emotion.

14.A) They are patient.

B)They learn quickly.

C)They are good at expression.

D)They uphold their principles.

15.A) Clarify items of negotiation.

B)Make clear one's intentions.

C)Get to know the other side.

D)Formulate one's strategy.

Section C

Directions:In this section, you will hear three passages. At the end of each passage, you will hear four questions. Both the passage and the questions will be spoken only once. After you hear a question, you must choose the best answer from the four choices marked A), B), C) and D). Then mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 1 with a single line through the centre.

Questions 16 to18 are based on the passage you have just heard.

16.A) How space research benefits people on Earth.

B)When the International Space Station was built.

C)How many space shuttle missions there will be.

D)When America's earliest space program s tarted.

17.A) They tried to make best use of the latest technology.

B)They tried to meet astronauts' specific requirements.

C)They developed objects for astronauts to use in outer space.

D)They accurately calculated the speed of the orbiting shuttles.

18.A) They are expensive to make.

B)They are extremely accurate.

C)They were first made in space.

D)They were invented in the 1970s.

Questions 19 to 21 are based on the passage you have just heard.

19.A) Everything was natural and genuine then.

B)People had plenty of land to cultivate then.

C)It marked the beginning of something new.

D)It was when her ancestors came to America.

20.A) They were known to be creative.

B)They enjoyed living a living a life of ease.

C)They had all kinds of entertainment.

D)They believed in working for goals.

21.A) Chatting with her ancestors.

B)Doing needlework by the fire.

C)Furnishing her country house.

D)Polishing all the silver work.

Questions 22 to 25 are based on the passage you have just heard.

22.A) Sit down and try to calm yourself.

B)Call your family or friends for help.

C)Use a map to identify your location.

D)Try to follow your footprints back.

23.A) You may end up entering a w onderland.

B)You may get drowned in a sudden flood.

C)You may expose yourself to unexpected dangers.

D)You may find a way out without your knowing it.

24.A) Walk uphill.

B)Look for food.

C)Start a fire.

D)Wait patiently.

25.A) Check the local weather.

B)Find a map and a compass.

C)Prepare enough food and drink.

D)Inform somebody of your plan.

Part ⅢReading 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 2with 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 great void（空白）in the public educational system when it comes to(26) to STEM（Science,Technology,Engineering Mathematics）,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 after school 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 U nited 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) .”

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A) attracted B) career C) championships D) degrees

E) developing F) enroll G) exposure H) feasible

I) feeding J) graduating K) interest L) levels

M) local N) operates O) participated

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 issomething wrong with not wanting to search out the truth,” 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 traffi c 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 Future 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 knowledge, 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, makes 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 boy (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 altogether.”

[J]Somewhat nostalgically (怀旧地)，he quotes John Maynard Keynes's justly famous words of praise to the bookstore: “One should enter it vaguely, almost in a dream, and allow what is there freely to attract and influence the eye. To walk the rounds of the bookshops, dipping in as curiosity dictates, should be an afternoon’s entertainment.”If only!

[K]Citing the work of psychologists and cognitive (认知的）scientists，Leslie criticizes the received wisdom that academic success is the result of a combination of intellectual talent and hard work. Curiosity, he argues, is the third key factor—and a difficult one to preserve. If not cultivated, it will not survive: “Childhood curiosity is a collaboration between child and adult. The surest way to kill it is to leave it alone.”

[L]School education, he warns, is often conducted in a way that makes children incurious. Children of educated and upper-middle-class parents turn out to be far more curious, even at early ages, than

children of working class and lower class families. That lack of curiosity produces a relative lack of knowledge, and the lack of knowledge is difficult if not impossible to compensate for later on.

[M] Although Leslie?s book isn't about politics, he doesn't entirely shy away from the problem. Political leaders, like leaders of other organizations, should be curious. They should ask questions at crucial moments. There are serious consequences, he warns, in not wanting to know.

[N]He presents as an example the failure of the George W. Bush administration to prepare properly for the after-effects of the invasion of Iraq. According to Leslie, those who ridiculed former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld for his 2002 remark that we have to be wary of the “unknown unknowns” were mistaken. Rumsfeld?s idea, Leslie writes, “wasn?t absurd一it was smart.” He adds, “The tragedy is that he didn?t follow his own advice.”

[O]All of which brings us back to Goodell and the Christie case and Benghazi. Each critic in those examples is charging, in a different way, that someone in authority is intentionally being incurious. I leave it to the reader?s political preference to decide which, if any, charges should stick. But let?s be careful about demanding curiosity about the other side?s weaknesses and remaining determinedly incurious about our own. We should be delighted to pursue knowledge for its own sake—even when what we find out is something we didn't particularly want to know.

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36.To be curious, we need to realize first of all that there are many things we don?t know.

37.According to Leslie, curiosity is essential to one?s success.

38.We should feel happy when we pursue knowledge for knowledge's sake.

39.Political leaders' lack of curiosity will result in bad consequences.

40.There are often accusations about politicians? and the media?s lack of curiosity to find out the truth.

41.The less curious a child is, the less knowledge the child may turn out to have.

42.It is widely accepted that academic accomplishment lies in both intelligence and diligence.

43.Visiting a bookshop as curiosity leads us can be a good way to entertain ourselves.

44.Both the rise of the Internet and reduced appetite for literary fiction contribute to people?s declining

curiosity.

45.Mankind wouldn't be so innovative without curiosity.

Section C

Directions: There are 2 passages in this section. Each passage is followed by some questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A), B), C) and D). You should decide on the best choice and mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 2with a single line through the centre.

Passage One

Questions 46 to 50 are based on the following passage.

Aging happens to all of us, and is generally thought of as a natural part of life. It would seem silly to call such a thing a “disease.”

On the other hand, scientists are increasingly learning that aging and biological age are two different things, and that the former is a key risk factor for conditions such as heart disease, cancer and many more. In that light, aging itself might be seen as something treatable, the way you would treat high blood pressure or a vitamin deficiency.

Biophysicist Alex Zhavoronkov believes that aging should be considered a disease. He said that describing aging as a disease creates incentives to develop treatments.

“It unties the hands of the pharmaceutical (制药的）industry so that they can begin treating the disease and not just the side effects,” he said.

??Right now, people think of aging as natural and something you can?t control:? he said. “In academic circles, people take aging research as just an interest area where they can try to develop interventions. The medical community also takes aging for granted, and can do nothing about it except keep people within a certain health range.”

But if aging were recognized as a disease, he said, “It would attract funding and change the way we do health care. Wh at matters is understanding that aging is curable.”

“It was always known that the body accumulates damage,” he added. “The only way to cure aging is to find ways to repair that damage. I think of it as preventive medicine for age-related conditions.'' Leonard Hayflick, a professor at the University of California, San Francisco, said the idea that aging can be cured implies the human lifespan can be increased, which some researchers suggest is possible. Hay flick is not among them.

“There?re many people who recover from cancer, stroke, or heart disease. But they continue to age,

because aging is separate from their disease,” Hayflick said. “Even if those causes of death were eliminated, life expectancy would still not go much beyond 92 ye ars.”

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46.What do people generally believe about aging

A)It should cause no alarm whatsoever.

B)They just cannot do anything about it.

C)It should be regarded as a kind of disease.

D)They can delay it with advances in science.

47.How do many scientists view aging now

A)It might be prevented and treated.

B)It can be as risky as heart disease.

C)It results from a vitamin deficiency.

D)It is an irreversible biological process.

48.What does Alex Zhavoronkov think of“describing aging as a d isease”

A)It will prompt people to take aging more seriously.

B)It will greatly help reduce the side effects of aging.

C)It will free pharmacists from the conventional beliefs about aging.

D)It will motivate doctors and pharmacists to find ways to treat aging.

49.What do we learn about the medical community

A)They now have a strong interest in research on aging.

B)They differ from the academic circles in their view on aging.

C)They can contribute to people?s health only to a limited extent.

D)They have ways to intervene in people's aging process.

50.What does Professor Leonard Hay flick believe

A)The human lifespan cannot be prolonged.

B)Aging is hardly separable from disease.

C)Few people can live up to the age of 92.

D)Heart disease is the major cause of aging.

Passage Two

Questions 51 to 55 are based on the following passage.

Female applicants to postdoctoral positions in geosciences were nearly half as likely to receive excellent letters of recommendation，compared with their male counterparts. Christopher Intagliata reports.

As in many other fields, gender bias is widespread in the sciences. Men score higher starting salaries, have more mentoring (指导），and have better odds of being hired. Studies show they?re also perceived as more competent than women in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) fields. And new research reveals that men are more likely to receive excellent letters of recommendation, too.

“Say，you know, this is the best student I?ve ever had,” says Kuheli Dutt, a social scientist and diversity offic er at Columbia University?s Lamont campus. “Compare those excellent letters with a merely good letter: 'The candidate was productive, or intelligent, or a solid scientist or something that?s clearly solid praise，? but nothing that singles out the candidate as exceptional or one of a kind.”

Dutt and her colleagues studied more than 1,200 letters of recommendation for postdoctoral positions in geoscience. They were all edited for gender and other identifying information, so Dutt and her team could assign them a score without knowing the gender of the student. They found that female applicants were only half as likely to get outstanding letters, compared with their male counterparts. That includes letters of recommendation from all over the world, and written by, yes, men and women. The findings are in the journal Nature Geoscience.

Dutt says they were not able to evaluate the actual scientific qualifications of the applicants using the data in the files. But she says the results still suggest women in geoscience are at a potential disadvantage from the very beginning of their careers starting with those less than outstanding letters of recommendation.

“We?re not trying to assign blame or criticize anyone or call anyone co nsciously sexist. Rather, the point is to use the results of this study to open up meaningful dialogues on implicit gender bias, be it at a departmental level or an institutional level or even a discipline level.” Which may lead to some recommendations for the letter writers themselves.

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51.What do we learn about applicants to postdoctoral positions in geosciences

A)There are many more men applying than women.

B)Chances for women to get the positions are scarce.

C)More males than females are likely to get outstanding letters of recommendation.

D)Male applicants have more interest in these positions than their female counterparts.

52.What do studies about men and women in scientific research show

A)Women engaged in postdoctoral work are quickly catching up.

B)Fewer women are applying for postdoctoral positions due to gender bias.

C)Men are believed to be better able to excel in STEM disciplines.

D)Women who are keenly interested in STEM fields are often exceptional.

53.What do the studies find about the recommendation letters for women applicants

A)They are hardly ever supported by concrete examples.

B)They contain nothing that distinguishes the applicants.

C)They provide objective information without exaggeration.

D)They are often filled with praise for exceptional applicants.

54.What did Dutt and her colleagues do with the more than 1,200 letters of recommendation

A)They asked unbiased scholars to evaluate them.

B)They invited women professionals to edit them.

C)They assigned them randomly to reviewers.

D)They deleted all information about gender.

55.What does Dutt aim to do with her study

A)Raise recommendation writers? awareness of gender bias in their letters.

B)Open up fresh avenues for women post-doctors to join in research work.

C)Alert women researchers to all types of gender bias in the STEM disciplines.

D)Start a public discussion on how to raise women's status in academic circles.

P art IV Translation (30 minutes) Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to translate a passage from Chinese into English. You should write your answer on Answer Sheet 2.

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2017 年12 月大学英语四级真题试题二(完整版)

Part I Writing (25 minutes)

(请于正式开考后半小时内完成该部分，之后将进行听力考试)?

Directions:For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write an a short easy on how to best handle the relationship parents and children.You should write at least 120 words but no more than 180 words. Part II Listening Comprehension (30 minutes)

说明：2017 年12 月大学英语四级考试全国共考了两套听力.本套的听力内容与第二套相同，因此本套听力部分不再重复给出。

Part ⅢReading Comprehension (40 minutes)

Section A

Questions 26 to 35 are based on the following passage.

A rat or pigeon might not be the obvious choice to tend to someone who is sick, but these creatures have some (26) skills that could help the treatment of human diseases.

Pigeons are often seen as dirty birds and an urban(27) , but they are just the latest in a long line of animals that have been found to have abilities to help humans. Despite having a brain no bigger than the (28) of your index finger, pigeons have a very impressive (29) memory. Recently it was shown that they could be trained to be as accurate as humans at detecting breast cancer in images.

Rats are often (30)_______ with spreading disease rather than (31)_______ it, but this long-tailed animal is highly (32) . Inside a rat's nose are up to 1.000 different types of olfactory receptors (嗅

觉感受器），whereas humans only have 100 to 200 types. This gives rats the ability to detect (33) smells. As a result, some rats are being put to work to detect TB (肺结核).When the ratsdetect the smell, they stop and rub their legs to (34) a sample is infected.

Traditionally, a hundred samples would take lab technicians more than two days to (35)_______ , but for a rat it takes less than 20 minutes. This rat detection method doesn?t rely on specialist equipment. It is also more accurate —the rats are able to find more TB infections and, therefore, save more lives.

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A) associated B) examine C) indicate D) nuisance

E) peak F) preventing G) prohibiting H) sensitive

I) slight J) specify K) superior L) suspicious

M) tip N) treated O) visual

Section B

Do In-Class Exams Make Students Study Harder

[A]I have always been a poor test-taker. So it may seem rather strange that I have returned to college to

finish the degree I left undone some four decades ago. I am making my way through Columbia University, surrounded by students who quickly supply the verbal answer while I am still processing the question.

[B]Since there is no way for me to avoid exams, I am currently questioning what kind are the most taxing

and ultimately beneficial. I have already sweated through numerous in-class midterms and finals, and now I have a professor who issues take-home ones. I was excited when I learned this, figuring I had a full week to do the research, read the texts, and write it all up. In fact. 1 was still rewriting my

midterm the morning it was due. To say I had lost the thread is putting it mildly.

[C]As I was suffering through my week of anxiety, overthinking the material and guessing my grasp of it,

I did some of my own polling among students and professors. David Eisenbach, who teaches a

popular class on U.S. presidents at Columbia, prefers the in-class variety. He believes students ultimately learn more and encourages them to form study groups. “That way they socialize over history outside the class，which wouldn't happen without the pressure of an in-class exam,” he explained. “Furthermore，in-class exams force students to learn how to perform under pressure, an essential work skill.”

[D]He also says there is less chance of cheating with the in-class variety. In 2012, 125 students at Harvard

were caught up in a scandal when it was discovered they had cheated on a take-home exam for a class entitled “Introduction To Congress ” Some colleges have what they call an '?honor code/' though if you are smart enough to get into these schools, you are either smart enough to get around any codes or hopefully, too ethical to consider doing so. As I sat blockedand clueless for two solid days. I momentarily wondered if I couldn?t just call an expert on the subject matter which I was tackling，or someone who took the class previously, to get me going.

[E]Following the Harvard scandal，Mary Miller, the former dean of students at Yale, made an

impassioned appeal to her school?s professors to refrain from take-home exams. “Students risk health and well being, as well as performance in other end-of-term work, when faculty offers take-home exams without clear, time-limited boundaries,” she told me. “Research now shows that regular quizzes，short essays, and other assignments over the course of a term better enhance learning and retention.”

[F]Most college professors agree the kind of exam they choose largely depends on the subject. A

quantitative-based one, for example, is unlikely to be sent home, where one could ask their older brothers and sisters to help. Vocational-type classes，such as computer science or journalism, on the other hand, are often more research-oriented and lend themselves to take-home testing. Chris Koch, who teaches “History of Broadcast Journalism” at Montgomery Community College in Rockville,

Maryland, points out that reporting is about investigation rather than the memorization of minute details. “In my field, it?s not what you know 一it?s what you know how to find out，?? says Koch.

“There is way too much information, and more comingall the time, for anyone to remember. I want my s by using all the resources a vailable to them.”

[G]Students’test-form preferences vary, too, often depending on the subject and course difficulty. “I

prefer lake-home essays because it is then really about the writing, so you have time to edit and do more research,'' says Elizabeth Dresser, a junior at Barnard. Then there is the stress factor. Francesca Haass, a senior at Middlebury, says, “1 find the in-class ones are more stressful in the short term, but there is immediate relief as you swallow information like mad，and then you get to forget it all.

Take-homes require thoughtful engagement which can lead to longer term stress as there is never a moment when the time is up.”Meanwhile, Olivia Rubin, a sophomore at Emory, says she hardly even considers take-homes true exams. “If you understand the material and have the ability to articulate (说出）your thoughts, they should be a breeze.”

[H]How students ultimately handle tests may depend on their personal test-taking abilities. There are

people who always wait until the last minute, and make it much harder than it needs to be. And then there are those who, not knowing what questions are coming at them, and having no resources to refer to, can freeze. And then there are we rare folks who fit both those descriptions.

[I]Y es, my advanced age must factor into the equation (等式)，in part because of my inability to access

the information as quickly. As another returning student at Columbia, K ate Marber, told me, “We are learning not only all this information, but essentially how to learn again. Our fellow students have just come out of high school. A lot has changed since we were last in school.”

[J]I f nothing else, the situation has given my college son and me something to share. When I asked his opinion on this matter, he responded, “1 like in-class exams because the time is already reserved, as opposed to using my free time at home to work on a test,'' lie responded. It seems to me that a compromise would be receiving the exam questions a day or two in advance, and then doing the actual test in class with the ticking clock overhead.

[K]Better yet，how about what one Hunter College professor reportedly did recently for her final exam: She encouraged the class not to stress or even study, promising that. “It is going to be a piece of cake.”

When the students came in, sharpened pencils in hand, there was not a blue book in sight. Rather, they saw a large chocolate cake and they each were given a slice.

注意：此部分试题请在答题卡2 上作答。

36.Elderly students find it hard to keep up with the rapid changes in education.

37.Some believe take-home exams may affect students' performance in other courses.

38.Certain professors believe in-class exams are ultimately more helpful to students.

39.In-class exams are believed to discourage cheating in exams.

40.The author was happy to learn she could do some exams at home.

41.Students who put off their work until the last moment often find the exams more difficult than they

actually are.

42.The author dropped out of college some forty years ago.

43.Some students think take-home exams will eat up their free time.

44.The author dropped out of college some forty years ago.

45.Some students think take-home exams will cat up their free time.

Section C

Passage One

Questions 46 to 50 are based on the following passage.

That people often experience trouble sleeping in a different bed in unfamiliar surroundings is a phenomenon known as t he “first-night” effect. If a person stays in the same room the following night they tend to sleep more soundly. Yuka Sasaki and her colleagues at Brown University set out to investigate the origins of this effect.

Dr. Sasaki knew the first-night effect probably has something to do with how humans evolved. The puzzle was what benefit would be gained from it when performance might be affected the following day.

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