2016年12月英语四级真题(第三套)(介绍文档)2016 年 12 月大学英语四级考试真题(第 3 套)Part IWriting(30 minutes)Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write an essay. Suppose you have twooptions upongraduation: one is to work in a state-owned business and the other in ajoint venture. You are to make a choice between the two. Write an essay to explain thereasons for your choice.You should write at least 120 words but no more than 180words.Part IIListening Comprehension(25 minutes）说明：因为2016 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 套内容完整相同，不过次序不相同，所以在本套真题中不再重复出现。Part Reading Comprehension(40 minutes）Section ADirections: In this section, there is a passage with ten blanks. You are required to select one wordfor each 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 AnswerSheet 2 with a single line through the centre. You may not use any of the words in thebank more than once.Questions 26 to 35 are based on the following passage.Many men and women have long bought into the idea that there are male and female brains,believing that explains just about every difference between the sexes. A new study26that belief,questioning whether brains really can be distinguished by gender.In the study, Tel Aviv University researchers27for sex differences throughout the entirehuman brain.And what did they find? Not much. Rather than offer evidence for28brains as male orfemale, research shows that brains fall into a wide range, with most people falling right in themiddle.Daphna Joel, who led the study, said her research found that while there are some gender-based29, many different types of brain cant always be distinguished by gender.While the average male and average female brains were30different, you couldnt tell itby looking at individual brain scans. Only a small31of people had all-male or all-femalecharacteristics.Larry Cahill, an American neuroscientist ( 神经科学家 ), said the study is an important addition toa growing body of research questioning32beliefs about gender and brain function. But hecautioned against concluding from this study that all brains are the same,33of gender.Theres a mountain of evidence34the importance of sex influences at all levels of brainfunction, he told The Seattle Times.If anything, he said, the study35that gender plays a very important role in the brain- evenwhen we are not clearexactly how. A.abnormalB.appliedC.brieflyD.categorizingE.challengesF.figureG.percentageH.provingI.regardlessJ.searchedK.similaritiesL.slightlyM.suggestsN. tastes0.traditionalSection BDirections： In thissection， you are going to read a passage with ten statements attached to it. Eachstatementcontains informationgiven in one ofthe paragraphs Identify the paragraphfrom which the informationisderived You may choose a paragraph more than onceEach paragraph is marked with a letter Answer thequestions by marking thecorresponding letter on Answer Sheet 2Can Burglars Jam Your Wireless Security System?A.Any product that promises to protect your home deserves careful examinationSo it isn t surprising thatyou 11find plenty of strong opinions about the potential vulnerabilities of popular homesecurity systemsB.The mostlikely type of burglary( 人室偷窃 )by far is the unsophisticated crime of opportunity， usuallyinvolving a brokenwindow or some forced entry According to the FB1 crimes like these accounted forroughly two thirds of allhousehold burglaries in the US in 2013 The wide majority of the rest were illegal unforced entries that resultedfrom something like a window being left open The odds of a criminal usingtechnical means to bypass a securitysystem are so small that the FBI doesn t even track those statisticsC.One of the maintheoretical homesecurity concerns is whether or nota given system is vulnerabletobeingblocked from working altogether With wired setups ，the fear is that a burglar(人室响马 )might be ableto shutyour system down simply by cutting the right cable With a wireless setup you stick battery powered sensors up around your home that keep an eye on windows。doors，motion ，and moreIf theydetect something wrong while the system is armedthey ll transmit a wireless aleft signal to a base station that will then raise the alarm That approach will eliminate most cord cutting concerns-but what abouttheir wireless equivalent ，jamming?with the fight device tuned to the fight frequency ， what s to stop athief from jamming your setup and blocking tha