2017年12月英语四级真题及答案第三套
Part I    Writing    (30 minutes)
Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a short essay on how to best handle the relationship between doctors and patients. You should write at least 120 words but no more than 180 words.
Part Ⅱ    Listening Comprehension    (25 minutes)
特别说明：由于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，故不再重复给出。
Part Ⅲ    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 on Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through the centre. You may not use any of the words in the bank more than once.
We all know there exists a great void (空白) in the public educational system when it comes to
26    to STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) courses. One educator named Dori Roberts decided to do something to change this system. Dori taught high school engineering for11 years. She noticed there was a real void in quality STEM education at all    27    of the public educational system. She said, “I started Engineering For Kids (EFK) after noticing a real lack of math,science and engineering programs to28    my own kids in.”She  decided  to  start  an  afterschool    program  where  children    29    in  STEM-based competitions. The club grew quickly and when it reached 180 members and the kids in the program won several state    30  , she decided to devote all her time to
cultivating and    31it. The global business EFK was born.Dori  began  operating  EFK  out  of  her    Virginia  home,  which  she  thenexpanded  to    32 recreation centers. Today, the EFK program        33over 144 branches in 32 states within the United States and in 21 countries. Sales have doubled from $5 million in 2014 to $10 million in 2015, with 25 new  branches  planned  for  2016.  The  EFK  website  states,  “Our  nation  is  not    34    enoughvaguely engineers. Our philosophy is to inspire kids at a young age to understand that engineering is a great 35 .”
A) attracted
I) feeding
B) career
J) graduating
C) championships
K) interest
D) degrees
L) levels
E) developing
M) local
F) enroll
N) operates
G) exposure
O) participated
H) feasible
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 questions by marking the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 2.
Why aren’t you curious about what happened?
A)    “You suspended Ray Rice after our video,” a reporter from TMZ challenged National Football League Commissioner Roger Goodell the other day. “Why didn’t you have the curiosity to go to the casino () yourself?” The implication of the question is that a more curious commissioner would have found a way to get the tape.
B)    The accusation of incuriosity is one that we hear often, carrying the suggestion that there is something wrong with not wanting to search out the truth. “I have been bothered f
or a long time about the curious lack of curiosity,” said a Democratic member of the New Jersey legislature back in July, referring to an insufficiently inquiring attitude on the part of an assistant to New Jersey Governor Chris Christie who chose not to ask hard questions about the George Washington Bridge traffic scandal. “Isn’t the mainstream media the least bit curious about what happened?” wrote conservative writer Jennifer Rubin earlier this year, referring to the attack on Americans in Benghazi, Libya.
C)    The implication, in each case, is that curiosity is a good thing, and a lack of curiosity is a problem. Are such accusations simply efforts to score political points for one’s party? Or is there something of particular value about curiosity in and of itself?
D)    The journalist Ian Leslie, in his new and enjoyable book Curious: The Desire to Know and Why Your Future Depends on It, insists that the answer to that last question is ‘Yes’. Leslie argues that curiosity is a much-overlooked human virtue, crucial to our success, and that we are losing it.
E)    We are suffering, he writes, from a “serendipity deficit.” The word “serendipity” was c
oined by Horace Walpole in an 1854 letter, from a tale of three princes who “were always making discoveries, by accident, of things they were not in search of.” Leslie worries that the rise of the Internet, among other social and technological changes, has reduced our appetite for aimless adventures. No longer have we the inclination to let ourselves wander through fields of knowledge, ready to be surprised. Instead, we seek only the information we want.