2019年12月大学英语四级考试真题（三）Part IWriting(30 minutes)Directions:For this part,you are allowed 30 minutes to write a letter to a foreign friend who wants tostudy in China.Please recommend a university to him.You should write at least 120 words but no more than180 words.Part IListening Comprehension(25 minutes)说明：由于2019年12月四级考试全国共考了两套听力，本套真题听力与前两套内容相同，只是选项顺序不同，因此在本套真题中不再重复出现。Reading Comprehension(40 minutes)Section ADirections:In this section,there is a passage with ten blanks.You are required to select one word for eachblank from a list of choices given in a word bank following the passage.Read the passage through carefullybefore making your choices.Each choice in the bank is identified by a letter.Please mark the correspondingletter for each item on Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through the centre.You may not use any of thewords in the bank more than once.Millions of people travel by plane every single day.If you're planning on being one of them soon,youmight 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 salty foodsdropped by almost 30 percent in a simulation of air travel.However,you can make your taste buds activeagain by drinking water.A dry mouth may 32 taste sensitivity,but taste is restored by drinkingfluids.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 35.四级2019年12月47A)adjustedF)frequentlyK)reduceB)channelsG)individualsL)renovatedC)equivalentH)originallyM)smoothD)experienceI)particularN)thriveE)filtersJ)primarilyO)unpleasantSection BDirections:In 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 paragraph from which theinformation is derived.You may choose a paragraph more than once.Each paragraph is marked with aletter.Answer the questions by marking the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 2.A 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 intentionally aroundor near airports.The idea,as he has put it,is to offer businesses "rapid,long-distance connectivity ona massive scale.”B)"The 18th century really was a waterborne (century,the 19th century a rail century,the 20thcentury a highway,car,truck century-and the 21st century will increasingly be an aviation century,as the globe becomes increasingly connected by air,"Kasarda says.Songdo,a city built from scratch inSouth Korea,is one of Kasarda's prime examples.It has existed for just a few years."From theoutset,it was designed on the basis of connectivity and competitiveness,"says Kasarda."Thegovernment built the bridge directly from the airport to the Songdo International Business 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 ()Butit 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 (thiscity of the future back in 1986.He considers Songdo his baby.Park sees himself as a visionary.Thirtyyears after he imagined the city,Park's baby is close to 70 percent built,with 36,000 people living inthe business district and 90,000 residents in greater Songdo.It's about an hour outside Seoul,built onformer tidal flats along the Yellow Sea.There's a Coast Guard building and a tall trade tower,as wellas 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 a subwaystation.That was not Gangnam.That was actually Songdo,"says Jung Won Son,a professor of urbandevelopment at London's Bartlett School of Planning."Part of the reason to shoot there is that it's newand nice.”E)The city was supposed to be a hub for global companies,with employees from all over the world.But四级2019年12月48that's not how it has turned out.Songdo's reputation is as a futuristic ghost town.But the reality ismore complicated.A bridge with big,light-blue loops leads into the business district.In the center ofthe main road,there's a long line of flags of the world.On the corner,there's a Starbucks and a7-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,the developersays,99 percent of the homes here are sold to Koreans.Young families move here because the schoolsare great.And that's the problem:Songdo has become a popular Korean city-more popular as aresidential area than a business one.It's not yet the futuristic international business hub that plannersimagined."It's a great place to live.And it's becoming a great place to work,"says Scott Summers,vice-president of Gale International,the developer of the city.The floor-to-ceiling windows of hiscompany's offices overlook Songdo Central Park,with a canal full of small boats and people fishing.Shimmering(闪烁的)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 to livehere,"Summers says.But there needs to be strong economic incentives for companies to locate here.The city is still unfinished,and it feels a bit like a theme park.It doesn't feel all that futuristic.There's a high-tech underground trash disposal system.Buildings are environmentally friendly.Everybody's television set is connected to a system that streams personalized language or exerciseclasses.H)But this is not Star Trek.And to some of the residents,Songdo feels hollow."I'm,like,in prison forweekdays.That's what we call it in the workplace,"says a woman in her 20s.She doesn't want to useher name for fear of being fired from her job.She goes back to Seoul every weekend."I say I'mprison-breaking on Friday nights."But she has to make the prison break in her own car.There's nohigh-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 withfuturistic,high-tech cities trying to attract the biggest international companies.J)Songdo's backers contend that it's still early,and business space is filling up-about 70 percent offinished offices are now occupied.Brent Ryan,who teaches urban design at MIT,says Songdo provesa universal principle.“There have been a lot of utopian(鸟托邦的)cities in history.And the reasonwe don't know about a lot of them is that they have vanished entirely.In other words,when it comesto cities-or anything else-it is hard to predict the future.36.Songdo's popularity lies more in its quality of life than its business attraction.37.The man who conceived Songdo feels disappointed because it has fallen short of his expectations.38.A scene in a popular South Korean music video was shot in Songdo.39.Songdo still lacks the financial stimulus for businesses to set up shop there.40.Airplanes will increasingly become the chief means of transportation,according to a professor.四级2019年12月49