2019年12月四级真题（第3套）Part IWriting(30 minutes)Directions:For this part,you are allowed 30 minutes to write a letter to a foreign friend whowants to study in China.Please recommend a university to him.You should writeat least 120 words but no more than 180 words.Listening Comprehension(25 minutes)说明：由于2019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，因此在本在真题中不再重复出现。PartⅢReading Comprehension(40 minutes)Section ADirections:In this section,there is a passage with ten blanks.You are required to select one word foreach blank from a list of choices given in a word bank following the passage.Read thepassage through carefully before making your choices.Each choice in the bank isidentified by a letter.Please mark the corresponding letter for each item on AnsuerSheet 2 with a single line through the centre.You may not use any of the words in thebank more than once.Millions of people travel by plane every single day.If you're planning on being one of them soon,you might not be looking forward to the 26 feeling air travel often leaves you with.Besides the airport crowds and stress,traveling at a high altitude has real effects on the body.Although the pressure of the cabin is 27 to prevent altitude sickness,you could still 28sleepiness or a headache.The lower oxygen pressure found in an aircraft cabin is 29 to that at6,000-8,000 feet of altitude.A drop in oxygen pressure can cause headaches in certain 30.Tohelp prevent headaches,drink plenty of water,and avoid alcohol and coffee.Airplane food might not really be as tasteless as you 31 thought.The air you breathe in a planedries out your mouth and nose,which can affect your sense of taste.Perception of sweet and saltyfoods dropped by almost 30 percent in a simulation of air travel.However,you can make your tastebuds active again by drinking water.A dry mouth may 32 taste sensitivity,.but taste is restored bydrinking fluids.Although in-flight infections 33 in dry environments like airplanes,your risk of getting sickfrom an airplane is actually low because of the air 34 used.Unless you're sitting next to someonewho is coughing or sneezing,you shouldn't worry too much about getting sick.However,bacteria havebeen shown to live on cabin surfaces,so wash your hands 35.A)adjustedI)particularB)channelsJ)primarilyC)equivalentK)reduceD)experienceL)renovatedE)filtersM)smoothF).frequentlyN)thriveG)individualsO)unpleasantH)originallySection BDirections:I this section,you are going to read a passage with ten statements attached to it.Eachstatement contains information given in one of the paragraphs.Identify the paragraphfrom 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 theA South Korean city designed for the future takes on a life of its ownA)Getting around a city is one thing-and then there's the matter of getting from one city to another.One vision of the perfect city of the future is a place that offers easy access to air travel.In 2011,aUniversity of North Carolina business professor named John Kasarda published a book calledAerotropolis:The Way We'll Live Next.Kasarda says future cities should be built intentionallyaround or near airports.The idea,as he has put it,is to offer businesses "rapid,long-distanceconnectivity on a massive scale."B)“Thel8 th century really was a waterborne(水运的)century,thel9 th century a rail century,the20th century a highway,car,truck century-and the 21st century will increasingly be an aviationcentury,as the globe becomes increasingly connected by air,"Kasarda says.Songdo,a city builtfrom scratch in South Korea,is one of Kasarda's prime examples.It has existed for just a few years."From the outset,it was designed on the basis of connectivity and competitiveness,"says Kasarda.District.And the surface infrastructure was built at the same time as the new airport."C)Songdo is a stone's throw from South Korea's Incheon Airport,its main international hub ()But it takes a lot more than a nearby airport to be a city of the future.Just building a place as an“international business district'”doesn't mean it will become one.Park Yeon Soo conceived(构想)this city of the future back in 1986.He considers Songdo his baby.Park sees himself as a visionary.Thirty years after he imagined the city,Park's baby is close to 70 percent built,with 36,000 peopleliving in the business district and 90,000 residents in greater Songdo.It's about an hour outside2019.12L2(第3套)Seoul,built on former tidal flats along the Yellow Sea.There's a Coast Guard building and a talltrade tower,as well as a park,golf course and university.D)Chances are you've actually seen this place.Songdo appears in the most famous music video ever tocome out of South Korea."Gangnam Style"refers to the fashionable Gangnam district in Seoul.Butsome of the video was filmed in Songdo."I don't know if you remember,there was a scene in asubway station.That was not Gangnam.That was actually Songdo,"says Jung Won Son,aprofessor of urban development at London's Bartlett School of Planning."Part of the reason to shootthere is that it's new and nice.E)The city was supposed to be a hub for global companies,with employees from all over the world.But that's not how it has turned out.Songdo's reputation is as a futuristic ghost town.But the realityis more complicated.A bridge with big,light-blue loops leads into the business district.In thecenter of the main road,there's a long line of flags of the world.On the comer,there's a Starbucksand a 7-Eleven-all of the international brands that you see all over the world nowadays.F)The city is not empty.There are mothers pushing baby carriages,old women with walkers-even inthe middle of the day,when it's 90 degrees out.Byun Young-Jin chairs the Songdo real estateassociation and started selling property here when the first phase of the city opened in 2005.He saysdemand has boomed in the past couple of years.Most of his clients are Korean.In fact,thedeveloper says,99 percent of the homes here are sold to Koreans.Young families move herebecause the schools are great.And that's the problem:Songdo has become a popular Korean city-more popular as a residential area than a business one.It's not yet the futuristic internationalbusiness hub that planners imagined."It's a great place to live.And it's becoming a great place tofloor-to-ceiling windows of his company's offices overlook Songdo Central Park,with a canal full ofsmall boats and people fishing.Shimmering (glass towers line the canal's edge.G)"What's happened is that our focus on creating that quality of life first has enabled the residents tolive here,"Summers says.But there needs to be strong economic incentives for companies to locatehere.The city is still unfinished,and it feels a bit like a theme park.It doesn't feel all thatfuturistic.There's a high-tech underground trash disposal system.Buildings are environmentallyfriendly.Everybody's television set is connected to a system that streams personalized language orexercise classes.H)But this is not Star Trek.And to some of the residents,Songdo feels hollow."I'm,like,in prisonfor weekdays.That's what we call it in the workplace,"says a woman in her 20s.She doesn't wantto use her name for fear of being fired from her job.She goes back to Seoul every weekend."I sayI'm prison-breaking on Friday nights.But she has to make the prison break in her own car.There'sno high-speed train connecting Songdo to Seoul,just over 20 miles away.I)Park Yeon Soo,the man who first imagined Songdo,feels frustrated,too.He says he built SouthKorea a luxury vehicle,"like Mercedes or BMW.It's a good car now.But we're waiting for a gooddriver to accelerate.But there are lots of other good cars out there,too.The world is dotted with2019.12L3(第3套)