历年英语四级作文范文及翻译 第1篇

就业与失业 employment and unemployment

诚信 / 不诚实 honesty and dishonesty

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自助者天助之 God helps those who help themselves.

充分准备 full/ adequate preparation

追求 & 收获 pursuits & rewards

有志者事竟成。Where there is a will, there is a way.

适应社会发展 adapt to the social development

终身学习 life-long/ life-time study

理论与实践 theory and practice

为人师表 to be a model

学业成就 academic achievement

课外活动 extracurricular activity

课程表 curriculum schedule

必修课 compulsory course

选修课 elective/ optional/ selective courses

学生会 the Students’ Union = the Student Union

名牌大学 prestigious university

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历年英语四级作文范文及翻译 第2篇

聊聊关于数字的翻译，四六级几乎每词都会出现。因此，请转发留存，尽快学习！要搞定数字的翻译，首先你要从个位起，每隔3位加个“,”然后还得知道5个基本词

↓↓↓

百 = hundred

千 = thousand

百万 = million

十亿 = billion

万亿 = trillion

接下来是最简单的整数 ↓

100 = one hundred

第一个逗号前的数字读成thousand

1,000 = one thousand

10,000 = ten thousand（1万=10千）

100,000 = one hundred thousand（10万=100个千）

第二个逗号前的数字读成million

1,000,000 = one million

10,000,000 = ten million（1千万=10个百万）

100,000,000 = one hundred million（1亿=100个百万）

第三个逗号前的数字读成billion

1,000,000,000 = one billion

第四个逗号前的数字读成trillion

1,000,000,000,000 = one trillion

先问个简单的→200的英文？

200 = two hundred，hundred用单数，别问为啥，这是规则~~

同理，300 = three hundred，4,000 = four thousand，五百万 = five million，80亿 = eight billion。

综上可知，亿的正确英文说法是 billion，亿 ≠ billion！

记好了，当说到具体数字时，hundred/ thousand/ million/billion统统都用单数！！！

再问一下，“几百”的英文怎么说？

几百 = hundreds of，你没看错，这里hundreds用复数啦！这也是规则，不是具体数字反而用复数。

同理，几千 = thousands of，更猛的是hundreds of thousands of = 几十万、很多很多的。

天底下哪有那么多整数给咱们数啊，所以还得会数整数的零头对不？你知道222的英文吗？

222 = two hundred and twenty-two。记住一条，数数时有且只有hundred后面跟and！！！

1234 = one thousand, two hundred and thirty-four。

终极一问：123,456,789的英文？

123,456,789 = one hundred and twenty-three million, four hundred and fifty-six thousand, seven hundred and eighty-nine.

答出来且答对的童鞋给自己鼓鼓掌！

◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆

“我们每天的生活都离不开数字，下面我们再讲几种常用的数字相关口语。”

时刻

1. 表示整点用基数词加可以省略的o"clock

5:00 读作 five o"clock 或 five

2. 表示几点过几分，在分钟后加past，再加小时

7:05 five past seven

6:30 half past six

8:15 a quarter past eight

3. 表示几点差几分，在分钟后面加to，再加小时

7：50 = 差十分八点 = ten to eight

11:45 = 差一刻十二点 = a quarter to twelve

5:40 = 差二十分六点 = twenty to six

在日常生活中，常用以小时、分钟为单位分别读出数字的方法表示时间。

06:31 读作six thirty-one

10:26 读作ten twenty-six

14:03 读作fourteen o three

16:15 读作sixteen fifteen

18:35 读作eighteen thirty-five

纪年

世纪可以用定冠词加序数词加世纪century表示，也可以用定冠词加百位进数加s表示。

the eighteenth（18th）century 公元十八世纪

the 1900s 二十世纪

the 1600s 十七世纪

这里，用百位数整数表示的世纪比这一百位阿拉伯数字本身多一个世纪。

年代用定冠词及基数词表示的世纪加十位整数的复数形式构成。

in the 1930s（in the thirties of the twentieth century或in the nineteen thirties） 在二十世纪三十年代

in the 1860s（in the sixties of the 19th century或in the eighteen sixties） 在十九世纪六十年代

年份一般写为阿拉伯数字，读时可以以hundred为单位，也可以以世纪、年代为单位分别来读。

1902 读作nineteen hundred and two或nineteen o two

1949 读作nineteen hundred and forty-nine 或nineteen forty-nine

1800 读作eighteen hundred

253 读作two hundred and fifty-three或two fifty-three

分数

分数是由基数词和序数词一起来表示的。基数词作分子，序数词作分母，除了分子是“1”以外，其它情况下序数词都要用复数形式。

1/2 读作a half

1/3 读作one third或a third

1/4 读作one quarter或a quarter

3/4 读作three fourths或 three quarters

1 1/2 读作one and a half

3 1/4 读作three and one fourth或three and one quarter

小数

小数用基数词来表示，以小数点为界，小数点左首的数字为一个单位，表示整数，数字合起来读。

小数点右首的数字为一个单位，表示小数，数字分开来读；小数点读作 point，o读作 zero或o [əu]。整数部分为零时，可以省略不读。

读作zero point four或point four

读作ten point two three

读作twenty-five point six seven

读作one point o three

电话号码

1. 读电话号码通常是以三位数或是四位数为单位连着念的。

如：189-234-5670读作 one eight nine, two three four, five six seven o

2. 可一个数字一个数字的单念，也可以两个数字为一个单位。

如: 1212读作one two one two或者是twelve twelve

3. 两个相同数字相邻，可用“double+数字”代替。

如：876-5544读作eight seven six, double five, double four

而三个相邻的数字，可用“triple+数字”代替。

如：999-8765读作triple nine, eight seven six five

历年英语四级作文范文及翻译 第3篇

Learning is a daily experience and a lifetime missionRecently, what has become a heated social topic is lifelong learning. Views on that vary from person to person, while I think learning needs continuous accumulation after we have recognized the uncovered meaning of learning.

First of all, what is learning? It is revealed as a process of gaining knowledge in the dictionary; actually, this process is acknowledged as acquiring academic knowledge, practical living skills as well as life experience by me. However, in practice, we have never failed to absorb enormous knowledge everyday which, to some extent, is beyond our comprehension. That is to say, digesting those knowledge as well as making the best use of it will undoubtedly take some time. Therefore, lifelong learning consists of daily progress. Moreover, it keeps us refreshing and enrich our mind as time passes by.

From what has been mentioned above, learning is undeniably a lifetime mission which demands daily accumulation and is of great importance.

——英语四级12月作文真题 (菁选2篇)

历年英语四级作文范文及翻译 第4篇

四级翻译预测之：汉服

【汉语原文】

在过去几十年里，随着中国经济繁荣发展，中国人接受了西方的时尚和先进的未来技术，但是越来越多年轻人开始在穿着打扮上追求复古，穿起了传统的汉服。汉服这种历史服饰正迎来复兴，这在一定程度上是因为政府致力于推广传统文化。在清明节、中秋节等中国传统节日和正式场合，年轻人穿上汉服。有一次，在西安城墙上，一百多对新人穿着汉服，按照古老的诏书(edict)举行婚礼。

【参考译文】

As China"s economy boomed in recent decades, China has embraced Western fashion and futuristic technology, but a growing number of young people are looking to the past for their sartorial choices and donning traditional ^v^Hanfu^v^ or ^v^Han clothing^v^. These historic costumes of the Han ethnic majority are enjoying a renaissance in part because the government is promoting traditional culture. On traditional Chinese festivals such as Tomb Sweeping Day and Mid-autumn Festival and formal occasions, young people put on their Hanfu. Once, on top of Xi"an City Wall, more than one hundred couples got married in a ceremony according to ancient edicts wearing Hanfu.

【相关词汇】

boom v. 繁荣；兴盛

embrace v. 拥抱；欣然接受

futuristic adj.极其新潮的

look to sth 注意

sartorial adj. 衣服相关的

don v. 穿上

costume n. 服装；戏装

renaissance n.复兴

Tomb Sweeping Day 清明节

Mid-autumn Festival 中秋节

ceremony n.仪式

edict n. 诏书；法令

历年英语四级作文范文及翻译 第5篇

For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a letter to express your thanks to one of your school teachers upon entering college. You should write at least 120 words but no more than 180 words.

参考范文：

Dear sir,

I am writing to you to express my thanks for your help in learning English.

You are one of the best teachers whoI have ever met. There are many good points that I learn from you.

During these days in your class, I have acquired much knowledge from you and it really helps me a lot.

Firstly, you let me know what the west thinking pattern is - straight thinking pattern. As an English learner, it is important for me to understand the difference betweent hem.

There is no denying the fact that this can help me with my examination and interaction with foreigners. What"s more, I’m glad to be your student, and I am very happy to learn the course under your guidance. Englishis an important tool, through which we can share our experience with the world. I treasure the chance of learning English, and I enjoy the happiness from your course.

The lastnot the least, please forgive those mistakes I have made which may upset you. What I have learned from you will help me pass the coming examinations and also be useful for my further education in abroad. It is not only a progress of learning, but also acultivation of my ability.

May everything go well around you.

Your student,

Li ling

历年英语四级作文范文及翻译 第6篇

第一个，这门课的内容要写出来，比如印象最深的课是英语课，或者印象最深的课“如何做公众演说”，你得把这个课程的内容描述出来，把它的第一点、第二点、第三点，甚至上课的形式，这就是描述。

最后你要做一个论述，说这门课对我产生的影响，以及未来我怎么对待它，这些都需要写。

During the two years of college life, I have attended many special courses, among which the most impressed one is psychology. I still remembered the days when I was fed up with my major Math, which frustrated me so much. Till I fortunately select one of the most fascinating optional courses lectured by Professor Wang.

Time gone back to the first class of Mr. Wang, I found a little old man came in the classroom with a thick book of psychology. Mysteriously, I first unveiled and explored the myth within it by the vivid demonstration of Mr. Wang, and became fascinated with this course. In the following days, it enclosed an assorted of psychological phenomenon reflected in ordinary people’s daily lives by illustrating examples in reality.

To be frank, it is the psychology class that enlightens my soul of exploring the unknown world and stimulate my desire to learn. And it is no surprise to say that psychology is the most impressing course for me in college.

历年英语四级作文范文及翻译 第7篇

◆任务一：短文朗读

短文：Environment

◆任务二：简短回答问题：

1. 文章中有哪些保护环境的措施?

2. 在大学如何保护环境;

◆任务三：个人陈述

Your chief consideration about traveling overseas

◆任务四：两人互动

环保：

the purpose of recycling campaign

ways to promote the campaign

how to recruit volunteers

遇到紧急情况怎么办

历年英语四级作文范文及翻译 第8篇

Part I Writing (30 minutes)

For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write an essay commenting on the saying “Learning is a daily experience and lifetime mission.”You can cite examples to illustrate the importance of lifelong learning. You should write at least 120 words but no more than180 words.

Part II Listening Comprehension (30 minutes)

Section A

Directions: In this section, you will hear 8 short conversations and 2 long conversations. At the end of each conversation, one or more questions will be asked about what was said. Both the conversation and the questions will be spoken only once. After each question there will be a pause. During the pause, you must read the four choices marked A), B), C) and D), and decide which is the best answer. Then mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 1 with a single line through the centre.

A) They admire the courage of space explorers.

B) They enjoyed the movie on space exploration.

C) They were going to watch a wonderful movie.

D) They like doing scientific exploration very much.

2. A) At a gift shop.

B) At a graduation ceremony.

C) In the office of a travel agency.

D) In a school library.

3. A) He used to work in the art gallery.

B) He does not have a good memory.

C) He declined a job offer form the art gallery.

D) He is not interested in any part-time jobs.

) Susan has been invited to give a lecture tomorrow.

B) He will go to the birthday party after the lecture.

C) The woman should have informed him earlier.

D) He will be unable to attend the birthday party.

) Reward those having made good progress.

B) Set a deadline for the staff to meet.

C) Assign more workers to the project.

D) Encourage the staff to work in small groups.

6. A) The way to the visitor’s parking.

B) The rate for parking in Lot C.

C) How far away the parking lot is.

D) Where she can leave her car.

7. A) He regrets missing the classes.

B) He plans to take the fitness classes.

C) He is looking forward to a better life.

D) He has benefited form exercise.

) How to ? work efficiency.

B) How to select secretaries.

C)The responsibilities of secretaries.

D) The secretaries in the man’s company.

Conversation One

Questions 9 to 11 are based on the conversation you have just heard.

) It is more difficult to learn than English.

B) It is used by more people than English.

C) It will be as commonly used as English.

D) It will eventually become a world language.

) It has words words from many languages,

B) Its popularity with the common people.

C) The influence of the British Empire.

D) The effect of the Industrial Revolution.

) It includes a lot of words form other languages.

B) It has a growing number of newly coined words,

C) It can be easily picked up by overseas travelers.

D) It is the largest among all languages in the world.

Conversation 2

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

) To return some goods.

B) To ap* for a job.

C) To place an order.

D) To make a complaint.

13. A) He has become somewhat impatient with the woman.

B) He is not familiar with the exact details of goods.

C) He has not worked in the sales department for long.

D) He works on a part-time basis for the company.

14. A) It is not his responsibility.

B) It will be free for large orders.

C) It costs 15 more for express delivery.

D) It depends on a number of factors.

) Report the information to her superior.

B) Pay a visit to the saleswoman in charge.

C) Ring back when she comes to a decision.

D) Make inquiries with some other companies.

Section B

Directions:In this section, you will hear 3 short passages. At the end of each passage, you will hear some 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 I with a single line through the centre.

Passage One

Questions 16 to 18 are based on the passage you have just heard.

16. A) No one knows exactly where they were ？

B) No one knows for sure when thy came into being.

C) No one knows for what purpose they were ？

D) No one knows what they will ？

17. A) Carry ropes across rivers.

B) Measure the speed of wind.

C) Pass on secret messages.

D) Give warnings of danger.

18. A) To protect houses against lightning.

B) To test the effects of the lightning rod.

C) To find out the strength of silk for kites.

D) To prove the lightning is electricity.

Passage Two

Questions 19 to 22 are based on the passage you have just heard.

) She enjoys teaching languages.

B) She can speak several languages.

C) She was trained to be an interpreter.

D) She was born with a talent for languages.

20. A) They acquire an immunity to culture shock.

B) They would like to live abroad permanently.

C) They want to learn as many foreign languages as possible.

D) They have an intense interest in cross-cultural interactions.

) She became an expert in horse racing.

B) She got a chance to visit several European countries.

C) She was able to translate for a German sports judge.

D) She learned to appreciate classical music.

22. A) Taste the beef and give her comment.

B) Take part in a cooking competition.

C) Teach vocabulary for food in ?

D) Give cooking lessons on ？

Passage Three

Questions 23 to 25 are based on the passage you have just heard.

23. A) He had only a third-grade education.

B) He once threatened to kill his teacher.

C) He grew up in a poor ？

D) He often helped his ？

) Careless.

B) Stupid.

C) Brave.

D) Active.

) Write two book reports a week.

B) Keep a diary.

C) Help with housework.

D) Watch education??

Section C

Directions:In this section, you will hear a passage three times. When the passage is read for the first time, you should listen carefully for its general idea. When the passage is read for the second time, you are required to fill in the blanks with the exact words you have just heard. Finally, when the passage is read for the third time, you should check what you have written.

When you look up at the night sky, what do you see?There are other bodies out there besides the moon and stars. One of the most of this is a comet. Comets were formed around the same the earth was formed. They are made up of ice and other frozen liquids and gasses. these dirty snow balls begin to orbit the sun just as the planets do. As a comet gets closer to the sun, some gasses in it begin to unfreeze. They combine with dust particles from the comet to form a huge cloud. As the comet gets even nearer to the sun and solar wind blows the cloud behind the comet thus forming its tail. The tail and generally fuzzy atmosphere around the comet are that can help this phenomenon in the night sky. In any given year，about dozen known comets come close to the sun in their orbits. The average person can’t see them all of course. Usually there is only one or two a year bright enough to be seen with the _________eye. Comet Hale-Bopp discovered in 1995 was an unusually bright comet. Its orbit bought it _________to the earth within 122 million miles of it. But Hale-Bopp came a long way on its earthly visit. It won’t be back for another 4 thousand years or so.

Part Ш Reading 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 onAnswer Sheet 2 with a single line through the centre. You may not use any of the words in the bank more than once.

Questions 36 to 45 are based on the following passage.

For many Americans, 2013 ended with an unusually bitter cold spell. November and December 36 early snow and bone-chilling temperatures in much of the country, part of a year when, for the first time in two 37 , record-cold days will likely turn out to have outnumbered record-warm ones. But the . was the exception; November was the warmest ever 38 , and current data indicates that 2013 is likely to have been the fourth hottest year on record.

Enjoy the snow now, because 39 are good that 2014 will be even hotter, perhaps the hottest year since records have been kept. That’s because, scientists are predicting, 2014 will be an EI Niuo year.

EI niuo, Spanish for “the child”, 40 when surface ocean waters in the southern Pacific become abnormally warm. So large is the Pacific, covering 30% of the planet’s surface, that the 41 energy generated by its warming is enough to touch off a series of weather changes around the world. EI Ninos are 42 with abnormally dry conditions in Southeast Asia and Australia. They can lead to extreme rain in parts of North and South America, even as southern Africa 43 dry weather. Marine life may be affected too; EI Ninos can 44 the rising of the cold, nutrient-rich(营养丰富的")water that supports large fish 45 ,and the unusually warm ocean temperatures can destroy coral(珊瑚).

注意：此部分试题请在答题卡2上作答。

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 question by marking the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 2.

The Perfect Essay

A) Looking back on too many years of education, I can identify one truly impossible teacher. She cared about me, and my intellectual life, even when I didn’t. Her expectations were high—impossibly so. She was an English teacher. She was also my mother.

B) When good students turn in an essay, they dream of their instructor returning it to them in exactly the same condition, save for a single word added in the margin of the final page.“Flawless.” This dream came true for me one afternoon in the ninth grade. Of course, I had heard that genius could show itself at an early age, so I was only slightly taken aback that I had achieved perfection at the tender age of 14. Obviously, I did what and professional writer would do; I hurried off to spread the good news. I didn’t get very far. The first person I told was my mother.

C) My mother, who is just shy of five feet tall, is normally incredibly soft-spoken, but on the rare occasion when she got angry, she was terrifying. I am not sure if she was more upset by my hubris(得意忘形)or by the fact that my English teacher had let my ego get so out of hand. In and event. My mother and her red pen showed me how dee* flawed a flaw less essay could be. At the time, I am sure she thought she was teaching me about mechanics, transitions(过渡), structure, style and voice. But what I learned, and what stuck with me through my time teaching writing at Harvard, was a deeper lesson about the nature of creative criticism.

D) First off, it hurts. Genuine criticism, the type that leaves a lasting mark on you as a writer, also leaves an existential imprint(印记)on you as a person. I have heard people say that a writer should never take criticism personally. I say that we should never listen to these people.

E) Criticism, at its best, is dee* personal, and gets to the heart of why we write the way we do. The intimate nature of genuine criticism implies something about who is able to give it, namely, someone who knows you well enough to show you how your mental life is getting in the way of good writing. Conveniently, they are also the people who care enough to see you through this painful realization. For me it took the form of my first, and I hope only, encounter with writer’s block—I was not able to produce anything for three years.

F) Franz Kafka once said; “Writing is utter solitude(独处), the descent into the cold abyss(深渊)of oneself.” My mother’s criticism had shown me that Kafka is right about the cold abyss, and when you make the introspective(内省的)descent that writing requires you are not always pleased by what you find. But, in the years that followed, her sustained tutoring suggested that Kafka might be wrong about the solitude, I was lucky enough to find a critic and teacher who was willing to make the journey of writing with me. “It is a thing of no great difficulty.”according to Plutarch, “to raise objections against another man’s speech. it is a very easy matter, but to produce a better in its place is a work extremely troublesome.” I am sure I wrote essays in the later years of high school without my mother’s guidance, but I can’t recall them. What I remember, however, is how she took up the“extremely troublesome”work of ongoing criticism.

G) There are two ways to interpret Plutarch when he suggests that a critic should be able to produce“a better in its place.”In a straightforward sense, he could mean that a critic must be more talented than the artist she critiques(评论).My mother was well covered on this count. But perhaps Plutarch is suggesting something slightly different, something a bit closer to Marcus Cicero’s claim that one should“criticize by creation, not by finding fault.”Genuine criticism creates a precious opening for an author to become better on his own terms—a process that is often extremely painful, but also almost always meaningful.

H) My mother said she would help me with my writing, but first I had to help myself. For each assignment, I was to write the best essay I could. Real criticism is not meant to find obvious mistakes, so if she found any—the type I could have found on my own—I had to start from scratch. From scratch. Once the essay was“flawless,” she would take an evening to walk me through my errors. That was when true criticism, the type that changed me as a person, began.

I) She criticized me when I included little-known references and professional jargon(行话). She had no patience for brilliant but irrelevant figures of speech.“Writers can’t bluff(虚张声势)their way through ignorance.” That was news to me—I would need to find another way to structure my daily existence.

J) She trimmed back my flowery language, drew lines through my exclamation marks and argued for the value of restraint in expression.“John,” she almost whispered. I leaned in to hear her: “I can’t hear you when you shout at me.” So I stopped shouting and bluffing, and slowly my writing improved.

K) Somewhere along the way I set aside my hopes of writing that flawless essay. But perhaps I missed something important in my mother’s lessons about creativity and perfection. Perhaps the point of writhing the flawless essay was not to give up, but to never willingly finish. Whitman repeatedly reworked“song of Myself” between 1855 and 1891. Repeatedly. We do our absolute best with a piece of writing, and come as close as we can to the ideal. And, for the time being, we settle. In critique, however, we are forced to depart, to give up the perfection we thought we had achieved for the chance of being even a little bit better. This is the lesson I took from my mother: If perfection were possible, it would not be motivating.

注意：此部分试题请在答题卡2上作答。

46. The author was advised against the improper use of figures of speech.

47. The author’s mother taught him a valuable lesson by pointing out lots of flaws in his seemingly perfect essay.

48. A writer should polish his writing repeatedly so as to get closer to perfection.

49. Writers may experience periods of time in their life when they just can’t produce anything.

50. The author was not much surprised when his school teacher marked his essay as“flawless”.

51. Criticizing someone’s speech is said to be easier than coming up with a better one.

52. The author looks upon his mother as his most demanding and caring instructor.

53. The criticism the author received from his mother changed his as a person.

54. The author gradually improved his writing by avoiding fancy language.

55. Constructive criticism gives an author a good start to improve his writing.

Section C

Passage One

Questions 56 to 60 are based on the following passage.

The wallet is heading for extinction. As a day-to-day essential, it will die off with the generation who read print newspapers. The kind of shopping-where you hand over notes and count out change in return—now happens only in the most minor of our retail encounters，like buying a bar of chocolate or a pint of milk from a comer shop. At the shops where you spend any real money, that money is increasingly abstracted. And this is more and more true, the higher up the scale you go. At the most cutting-edge retail stores—Victoria Beckham on Dover Street, for instance—you don’t go and stand at any kind of cash register when you decide to pay. The staff are equipped with iPads to take your payment while you relax on a sofa.

Which is nothing more or less than excellent service, if you have the money. But across society, the abstraction of the idea of cash makes me uneasy. Maybe I’m just old-fashioned. But earning money isn’t quick or easy for most of us. Isn’t it a bit weird that spending it should happen in half a blink (眨眼) of an eye? Doesn’t a wallet—that time-honoured Friday-night feeling of pleasing, promising fatness—represent something that *?

But I’ll leave the economics to the experts. What bothers me about the death of the wallet is the change it represents in our physical environment. Everything about the look and feel of a wallet—the way the fastenings and materials wear and tear and loosen with age, the plastic and paper and gold and silver, and handwritten phone numbers and printed cinema tickets—is the very opposite of what our world is becoming. The opposite of a wallet is a smartphone of an iPad. The rounded edges, cool glass, smooth and unknowable as pebble (鹅卵石). Instead of digging through pieces of paper and peering into corners, we move our fingers left and right. No more counting out coins. Show your wallet, if you still have one. It may not be here much longer.

56. What is happening to the wallet?

A) It is disappearing.

C) it is becoming costly.

B) It is being fattened.

D) It is changing in style.

57. How are business transactions done in big modern stores?

A) Individually.

C) In the abstract.

B) Electronically.

D) Via a cash register.

58. What makes the author feel uncomfortable nowadays?

A) Saving money is becoming a thing of the past.

B) The pleasing Friday-night feeling is fading.

C) Earning money is getting more difficult.

D) Spending money is so fast and easy.

59. Why does the author choose to write about what’s happening to the wallet?

A) It represents a change in the modern world.

B) It has something to do with everybody’s life.

C) It marks the end of a time-honoured tradition.

D) It is the concern of contemporary economists.

can we infer from the passage about the author?

A)He is resistant to social changes.

B)He is against technological progress.

C)He feels reluctant to part with the traditional wallet.

D)He fells insecure in the ever-changing modern world.

Passage Two

Questions 61 to 65 are based on the following passage.

Everybody sleeps,but what people stay up late to catch—or wake up early in order not to miss—varies by data collected,it seems the things that cause us to lose the most sleep,on average,are sporting events,time changes,and holidays.

Around the world, people changed sleep patterns thanks to the start or end of daylight savings time. Russians, for example, began to wake up about a half-hour later each day after President Vladimir Putin shifted the country permanently to “winter time”starting on October 26.

Russia’s other late nights and early mornings generally correspond to public holidays. On New Year’s Eve, Russians have the world’s latest bedtime, hitting the hay at around 3:30 am.

Russians also get up an hour later on International Women’s Day, the day for treating and celebrating female relatives.

Similarly, Americans’ late nights late mornings, and longest sleeps fall on three-day weekends.

Canada got the least sleep of the year the night it beat Sweden in the Olympic hockey(冰球)final.

The World Cup is also chiefly responsible for sleep deprivation(剥夺), The worst night for sleep in the . was the night of the England-Italy match on June 14. Brits stayed up a half-hour later to watch it, and then they woke up earlier than usual the next morning thanks to summer nights, the phenomenon in which the sun barely sets in northern countries in the summertime. That was nothing, though, compared to Germans, Italians, and the French, who stayed up around an hour and a half later on various days throughout the summer to watch the Cup.

It should be made clear that not everyone has a device to record their sleep patterns, in some of these nations, it’s likely that only the richest people do. And people who elect to track their sleep may try to get more sleep than the average person. Even if that’s the case, though, the above findings are still striking, If the most health-conscious among us have such deep swings in our shut-eye levels throughout the year, how much sleep are the rest of us losing?

注意：此部分试题请在答题卡2上作答。

61. What does the author say about people’s sleeping habits?

A) They are culture-related

C)They change with the seasons.

B) They affect people’s health.

D)They vary from person to person.

do we learn about the Russians regarding sleep?

A) They don’t fall asleep until very late.

B) They don’t sleep much on weekends.

C) They get less sleep on public holidays.

D) They sleep longer than people elsewhere.

is the major cause for Europeans’ loss of sleep?

A) The daylight savings time.

B) The colorful night life.

C) The World Cup.

D) The summertime.

is the most probable reason for some rich people to use a device to record their patterns?

A) They have trouble falling asleep.

B) They want to get sufficient sleep.

C) They are involved in a sleep research.

D) They want to go to bed on regular hours.

65. What does the author im* in the last paragraph?

A) Sleeplessness does harm to people’s health.

B) Few people really know the importance of sleep.

C) It is important to study our sleep patterns.

D) Average people probably sleep less than the rich.

Part 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.

云南省的丽江古镇是*著名的旅游目的地之一。那里的生活节奏比大多数*的城市都要缓慢。丽江到处都是美丽的自然风光，众多的少数民族同胞提供了各式各样，丰富多彩的文化让游客体验。历史上，丽江还以“爱之城”而闻名。当地人中流传着许多关于人生，为爱而死的故事。如今，在中外游客眼中，这个古镇被视为爱情和浪漫的天堂。

——12月英语四级真题及参考答案完整版3篇

历年英语四级作文范文及翻译 第9篇

Nowadays it is common to encounter a scene when people want to see things happen but can"t make things happen for various kinds of reasons. Sometimes, they just refuse to be the change in the world.

As far as I am concerned, we should all have the notion of being the participant in our life. For instance, one can"t have a healthy body by merely watching others take regular exercises. He must strengthen his body through his own efforts. Another case is that when people intend to acquire new skills, such as public speaking skill, they need to catch every opportunity to speak in the public so that they can achieve success. Furthermore, there are changes we want to see in the world, like protecting the environment effectively, and the only way to make a difference is that each of us should be a contributing participant.

In conclusion, let"s go out there to make things happen, just as the saying goes: ^v^Be the change you want to see in the world.^v^

历年英语四级作文范文及翻译 第10篇

For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a letter to express your thanks to one of your friends who helped you most when you were in difficulty. You should write at least 120 words but no more than 180 words.

参考范文：

Dear brother,

I am writing to express my heart felt gratitude for the continuous assistance you offered to me these years.

On the one hand, your generous help made it possible that I can gain a splendid academic achievement in my study career. It is because of your encouragement that now I can study in one of the leading universities of our country, and serve as chairman of Student Union. On the other hand, with your help, I could get along well with my friends and have good cooperation with other members during work. I will always remember your kindness and painstaking labor. Besides, it is really an honor for me to be your sister and I will cherish the goodwill you showed to me wherever I go.

In a word, my appreciation to you is beyond words. In the years to come, I will make more effort to repay your kindness and refresh ourfamily affection.

Yours sincerely,

Li Hua

历年英语四级作文范文及翻译 第11篇

【汉语原文】

五粮液是中国历史悠久的著名白酒品牌。它于1915年被授予巴拿马国际博览会（the Panama International Exposition）金质奖章，至今已获得30多项国际一等奖。该酒由优质五谷酿造而成：高粱（sorghum）、大米、糯米（glutinous rice）、小麦、玉米。因此，该酒命名为“五粮液”，字面意思是五种粮食的酒。五粮液酒香气浓郁，无色纯净。味道醇厚爽口。五粮液产于四川宜宾，该地年温差小，昼夜温差小，湿度很大，对谷物生长非常有利，适合酿酒（wine brewing）所需微生物的生存。

【参考译文】

Wu Liang Ye is a famous Chinese liquor brand that has a very long history. It was awarded the Gold Medal of the Panama International Exposition in 1915. Since then, it has won more than 30 international first prizes. It is made of five high-quality grains: sorghums, rice, glutinous rice, wheats and corns. Thus, it was named as “Wu Liang Ye”, literally meaning five-grain liquor. Wuliangye Liquor is of strong aroma, colorless and pure. It tastes mellow and refreshing. Wu Liang Ye is made in Yibin, Sichuan Province, where the annual temperature difference and the temperature difference between day and night are small, and the humidity is very high, which are very beneficial to the growth of grains and suitable for the survival of microorganisms needed in wine brewing.

历年英语四级作文范文及翻译 第12篇

Suppose you have two options upon graduation. One is to take a job in a company and the other to go to a graduate school. You are to make a choice between the two. Write an essay to explain the reasons for your choice. You should write at least 120 words but no more than 180 words.

参考范文

Upon graduation, virtually all college students will confront the problem of the career choice，which is truly a tough choice. Students" opinions differ greatly on this issue. Some hold that priority should be given to take a job, but others take the attitude that going to a graduate school is the most critical factor influencing their future career choices.

As to myself, I prefer the latter view. A higher educational background exerts a tremendous fascination on a great number of people, with no exception to me. This phenomenon that the graduates have difficulties in finding job after their graduation can easily be found anywhere in our daily life, especially on campus. On the one hand, with the improved high education of Chinese college students which directly brought the result that there are more and more graduates every year. On the contrary, job vacancies don’t increase that fast. More people, less food, which is the exact deion of the hard condition. On the other hand, more and more people go on to pursue their master and doctor degree; more and more Chinese oversea students come back to China to hunt better working chances. It is sure that the competition is more and more fierce.

Therefore, it is high time that we took effective measures to improve our own competitiveness. That is the secret of success in the future employment market after our graduation.

历年英语四级作文范文及翻译 第13篇

There are so many enlightening mottos about the significance of science and technology, and one of them is “Science and technology is the first productive force.” Evidently, the change of our way of life is closely associated with the fast development of science and technology.

As a college student, I deem that if one aims to enjoy a comfortable and convenient life, it is rational for him or her to try new technological products. Typical examples are the New Four Great Inventions of China, including shared bikes, mobile payment, high-speed trains and online shopping. These inventions bring us great convenience, arouse our enthusiasm for China and help us enjoy an easy life. To be specific, it is shared bikes and high-speed trains that enable our transportation to be easy and efficient. In addition, an increasing number of Chinese people, old and young, find it convenient and cheap to purchase various goods from the Internet.

Thus, it is of great necessity for everyone to support the advance in science and technology, since most of us have come to realize the positive effects of this trend. (183 词 )

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