2021年全国英语等级考试(PETS)四级样题VIP

1、全国英语等级考试(pets)四级样题 Section I Listening Comprehension, Part A You will hear a recording of a conversation between Mary and John about the Hilton Hotel and the Hotel Rossiya. Listen to it and fill out the table with the infor _tion youve heard for questions 1-5. Some of the infor _tion has been pleted

2、 for you. Write not more than 3 words in each numbered box. You will hear the recording twi _. You now have 25 seconds to read the table below. Infor _tion about the Hilton Hotel and the Hotel Rossiya The Hilton Hotel The Hotel Rossiya Number of Bedrooms 1 3,200 Number of Employees 2 3,000 Number of

3、 Restaurants 12 3 Number of Elevators 4 Country of Location U.S. 5 M: Hi, Mary. Hows everything?W: Fine. You know, John, Im planning to go to Las Vegas for a holiday and would like to stay in a large hotel. Anything to remend?M: Er? the Hilton Hotel there is quite a large one. It has ? er ? 3,174 be

4、drooms. It also has 12 restaurants and about 125,000 square feet of convention spa _. Therere a 10-acre recreation deck and a stage show dining hall. Over 3,600 people now work for it.W: Oh, great! Is it the largest hotel in the U.S.?M: Yes, it is. But it _y not be the largest in the world. Er ? as

5、far as I know, the Hotel Rossiya in Moscow is larger than Hilton. It is a 12-story building that has 3,200 rooms. It can provide aommodation for 6,000 guests. It takes nearly 8 years and a half to spend one night in each room. Besides, theres a 21-story Presidential tower in the _ntral courtyard. It

6、 has 15 restaurants and 93 elevators. And it employs about 3,000 people. The ballroom is known as the worlds largest. Russians are not allowed to live in that hotel. And foreigners are charged 16 times more than the very low rate charged Russian officials.W: Its unbelievable ?fade out Now you will h

7、ear the recording again. (The recording is repeated.) That is the end of Part A. Part B You will hear a radio weather forecast. Answer questions 6-10 while listening. Use not more than 5 words for each answer. You will hear the recording twi _. You now have 40 seconds to read the questions. When wil

8、l showers reach south-west England and the southern coast of Wales? 6 What will the minimum temperature be in the south during the night? 7 On what day of the week do you think this weather forecast was given? 8 What will be the general feeling about the weekend in the Netherlands? 9 What part of En

9、gland will be cloudy and dry over the weekend? 10 Tapescript W: Hello. Its been another warm and fine day for most of us. Temperatures in south-east England reached twenty-six degrees Centigrade by mid-afternoon, and Brighton had fifteen hours of lovely sunshine. But already the weather is beginning

10、 to change, Im afraid, and during the night showers will slowly move in from the Atlantic to reach south-west England and the southern coast of Wales by early morning.The rest of the country will have a very mild, dry night with minimum temperatures no lower than fifteen degrees in the south, a litt

11、le cooler ? eleven degrees or so ? in the north. Any re _ining showers in northwest Scotland will pass quickly, to leave a mild, dry night there too.And now, the outlook for Friday and the weekend. Well, southern Europe will on _ again get the best of the weekend weather, and if your holiday starts

12、this weekend, then southern Spain is the pla _ to go, with temperatures of thirty-four degrees along the Mediterranean coast. At the eastern end of the Med, too, you can expect uninterrupted sunshine and temperatures of up to thirty-two degrees Centigrade in Gree _ and south-east Italy, but further

13、north the weathers not so settled. Much of Fran _, Belgium and the Netherlands will be cloudy with oasional rain and _ximum temperatures will be around twenty-two degrees ? very disappointing for this time of the year.Scotland and Northern Ireland will have heavy rain for much of the weekend and tem

14、peratures will drop to a cool seventeen degrees. Across most of England the weather will be cloudy but _inly dry with sunny periods. And when the sun does e out temperatures could rise to a _ximum of twenty-three degrees. Now you will hear the recording again. (The recording is repeated.) That is th

15、e end of Part B. Part C You will hear three dialogues or monologues. Before listening to each one, you will have time to read the questions related to it. While listening, answer each question by choosing A, B, C or D. After listening, you will have time to check your answer. You will hear each pie

16、_ on _ only.Questions 11-13 are based on the following talk introducing Emily _inson, a well-known American poet. You now have 30 seconds to read questions 11-13. 11. How long did Emily _inson live in the house where she was born?A almost all her lifeB less than half her lifeC until 1830D before 187

17、2 12. Which of the following is true of Emily _inson?A She was not a productive poet.B She saw _ny of her poems published.C She was not a sociable person.D She had contact only with a few poets. 13. When was Emily _inson widely recognized?A after Henry James referred highly to herB after seven of he

18、r poems were publishedC after her poems became known to othersD after she was dead for _ny years Tapescript: M: Emily _inson is one of the greatest American poets. She was born in a typical New England village in Massachusetts on De _mber 10, 1830. She was the second child of the family. She _d in t

19、he same house fifty-six years later. During her life time she never left her native land. She left her home state only on _. She left her village very few times. And after 1872 she rarely left her house and yard. In the last years of her life she retreated to a s _ller and s _ller circle of family a

20、nd friends. In those later years she dressed in white, avoided strangers, and municated chiefly through notes and poems even with inti _tes. The doctor who attended her illness was allowed to examine her in another room, seeing her walk by an opened door. She was thought of as a strange figure in he

21、r home village. When she _d on May 15, 1886, she was unknown to the rest of the world. Only seven of her poems had appeared in print.But to think Emily _inson only as a strange figure is a serious mistake. She lived simply and deliberately. She fa _d the essential facts of life. Aording to Henry Jam

22、es, a famous American novelist, she was one of those on whom nothing was lost. Only by thus living could _inson _nage both to fulfill her obligations as a daughter, a sister, and a housekeeper and to write on the average one poem a day.She read only a few books but knew them deeply. Her poems are _

23、but re _rkably rich. Not until 1950s was she recognized as one of the greatest American poets. Section II Use of EnglishRead the following text. Choose the best word for each numbered blank and _rk A, B, C or D on ANSWER SHEET （1）.During the 1980s, unemployment and underemployment in some countries

24、was as high as 90 per _nt. Some countries did not 1 enough food; basic needs in housing and clothing were not （2） . Many of these countries looked to the industrial pro _sses of the developed nations （3） solutions. （4） , problems cannot always be solved by copying the industrialized nations. Industr

25、y in the developed nations is highly auto _ted and very （5） . It provides fewer jobs than labor-intensive industrial pro _sses, and highly （6） workers are needed to （7）and repair the equipment. These workers must be trained, （8） _ny nations do not have the ne _ssary training institutions. Thus, the

26、（9） of importing industry bees higher. Students must be sent abroad to （10） vocational and professional training. （11） , just to begin training, the students must （12） learn English, French, Ger _n, or Japanese. The students then spend _ny years abroad, and （13） do not return home.All nations agree

27、that scien _ and technology （14） be shared. The point is: countries （15） the industrial pro _sses of the developed nations need to look carefully （16） the costs, because _ny of these costs are （17） . Students from these nations should （18） the problems of the industrialized countries closely. （19） c

28、are, they will take home not the problems of scien _ and technology, （20） the benefits. 1. Agenerate Braise Cprodu _ D _nufacture 2. Aanswered Bmet Ccalculated Dremembered 3. Afor Bwithout Cas Dabout 4. AMoreover BTherefore CAnyway DHowever 5. Aexpensive Bmechanical Cflourishing Dplicated 6. Agifted

29、 Bskilled Ctrained Dversatile 7. Akeep B _intain Cretain D protect 8. Asin _ Bso Cand Dyet 9. Acharge Bpri _ Ccost Dvalue 10. Aaept Bgain Cre _ive Dabsorb 11. AFrequently BIncidentally CDeliberately DEventually 12. Asoon Bquickly Cimmediately Dfirst 13. Asome Bothers Cseveral Dfew 14. Amight Bshould

30、 Cwould Dwill 15. Aadopting Bconducting Cre _iving Dadjusting 16. Ato Bat Con Dabout 17. Aopaque Bsecret Csealed Dhidden 18. Atackle Blearn Cstudy D _nipulate 19. AIn BThrough CWith DUnder 20. Aex _pt Bnor Cor Dbut Section III Reading ComprehensionPart A Read the following four texts. Answer the que

31、stions below each text by choosing A, B, C or D. Mark your answers on ANSWER SHEET 1. Text 1 It was 3:45 in the morning when the vote was finally taken. After six months of arguing and a final 16 hours of hot parliamentary debates, Australias Northern Territory became the first legal authority in th

32、e world to allow doctors to take the lives of incurably ill patients who wish to _. The measure was passed by the convincing vote of 15 to 10. Almost immediately word flashed on the Inter and was picked up, half a world away, by John Hofsess, executive director of the Right to Die Society of Canada.

33、 He sent it on via the groups on-line servi _, Death NET. Says Hofsess: We posted bulletins all day long, because of course this isnt just something that happened in Australia. Its world history.The full import _y take a while to sink in. The NT Rights of the Terminally Ill law has left physicians a

34、nd citizens alike trying to deal with its moral and practical implications. Some have breathed sighs of relief; others, including churches, right-to-life groups and the Australian Medical Association, bitterly attacked the bill and the haste of its passage. But the tide is unlikely to turn back. In

35、Australia ? where an aging population, life-extending technology and changing munity attitudes have all played their part ? other states are going to consider _ a similar law to deal with euthanasia. In the U.S. and Canada, where the right-to- _ movement is gathering strength, observers are waiting

36、for the dominoes to start falling.Under the new Northern Territory law, an _ patient can request death ? probably by a deadly injection or pill ? to put an end to suffering. The patient must be diagnosed as terminally ill by two doctors. After a cooling off period of seven days, the patient can sign

37、 a _rtificate of request. After 48 hours the wish for death can be met. For Lloyd Nickson, a 54-year-old Darwin resident suffering from lung can _r, the NT Rights of Terminally Ill law means he can get on with living without the haunting fear of his suffering: a terrifying death from his breathing c

38、ondition. Im not afraid of dying from a spiritual point of view, but what I was afraid of was how Id go, because Ive watched people _ in the hospital fighting for oxygen and clawing at their _sks, he says. 1. From the second paragraph we learn thatA the objection to euthanasia is diminishing in some

39、 countries.B physicians and citizens have the same view on euthanasia.C technological changes are chiefly responsible for the new law.D it takes time to appreciate the significan _ of laws passed. 2. By saying that observers are waiting for the dominoes to start falling, the authormeans thatA observ

40、ers are taking a wait-and-see attitude towards the future of euthanasia.B there is a possibility of similar bills being passed in the U.S. and Canada.C observers are waiting to see the movement end up in failure.D the pro _ss of the bill taking effect _y finally e to a stop. 3. When Lloyd Nickson is

41、 close to death, he willA undergo a cooling off period of seven days.B experien _ the suffering of a lung can _r patient.C have an intense fear of terrible suffering.D fa _ his death with the calm characteristic of euthanasia.4. What is the authors attitude towards euthanasia?A Hostile.B Suspicious.

42、C Approving.D Indifferent.5. We can infer from the text that the author believes the suess of the right-to- _movement isA only a _tter of time.B far from _rtain.C just an illusion.D a shattered hope. Part B Read the following text carefully and then translate the underlined segments into Chinese. Yo

43、ur translation should be written clearly on ANSWER SHEET 2. Do ani _ls have rights? This is how the question is usually put. It sounds like a useful, ground-clearing way to start. 61) Actually, it isnt, because it assumes that there is an agreed aount of hu _n rights, which is something the world do

44、es not have.On one view of rights, to be sure, it ne _ssarily follows that ani _ls have none. 62) Some philosophers argue that rights exist only within a social contract, as part of an exchange of duties and entitlements. Therefore, ani _ls cannot have rights. The idea of punishing a tiger that kill

45、s somebody is absurd; for exactly the same reason, so is the idea that tigers have rights. However, this is only one aount, and by no means an uncontested one. It denies rights not only to ani _ls but also to some people ? for instan _, to infants, the mentally incapable and future generations. In a

46、ddition, it is unclear what for _ a contract can have for people who never consented to it: how do you reply to somebody who says I dont like this contract?The point is this: without agreement on the rights of people, arguing about the rights of ani _ls is fruitless. 63) It leads the discussion to e

47、xtremes at the outset: it invites you to think that ani _ls should be treated either with the consideration hu _ns extend to other hu _ns, or with no consideration at all. This is a false choi _. Better to start with another, more fundamental, question: is the way we treat ani _ls a moral issue at a

48、ll?Many deny it. 64) Arguing from the view that hu _ns are different from ani _ls in every relevant respect, extremists of this kind think that ani _ls lie outside the area of moral choi _. Any regard for the suffering of ani _ls is seen as a mistake ? a sentimental displa _ment of feeling that shou

49、ld properly be directed to other hu _ns.This view, which holds that torturing a monkey is morally equivalent to chopping wood, _y seem bravely logical. In fact it is simply shallow: the confused _nter is right to reject it. The most elementary form of moral reasoning ? the ethical equivalent of lear

50、ning to crawl ? is to weigh others interests against ones own. This in turn requires sympathy and i _gination: without which there is no capacity for moral thought. To see an ani _l in pain is enough, for most, to engage sympathy. 65) When that happens, it is not a mistake: it is _nkinds instinct fo

51、r moral reasoning in action, an instinct that should be encouraged rather than laughed at. Section IV Writing Widespread tobao consumption has led to grave consequen _s, yet the tobao panies are still claiming that they _ke a valuable contribution to the world economy.Write an essay 1) criticizing t

52、heir view and 2) justifying your stand.In your essay, _ke full use of the infor _tion provided in the pictures printed below.You should write approxi _tely 160 ? 200 words on ANSWER SHEET 2. ORAL TESTPart AInterlocutor:1，Good morning/afternoon. Could I have your _rk sheets, please? Thank you.(Hand o

53、ver the _rk sheets to the Assessor)2，My name is .and this is my colleague . He/she is just going to be listening to us. So, you are . and .? Thank you.3，First of all wed like to know something about you, so Im going to ask some questions about yourselves.(Select one or more questions from each of th

54、e following categories as appropriate.) Hometown1，Where are you from?2，How long have you lived there?3，Whats it like living there? Family What can you _ me about your family?Work / Study Can you _ me something about your work or stu _s?(To a student) What do you specialize in? What do you enjoy most

55、 about your stu _s? 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 _ 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 your job?Leisure Do you have

56、any hobbies? How did you bee interested in (whatever hobby the candidate enjoys)? Which do you prefer, watching TV or going to the cine _? 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 particul