文都英语四级

2019年12月14日，大学英语四级笔试考试已经结束，各位考生对本次四级考试的做题感觉如何呢？ 文都四六级 英语老师在考后及时为大家整理2019年12月大学英语四级真题长阅读(第一套)，希望大家都能够顺利通过本次四级考试。 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. A South Korean city designed for the future takes on a life of its own A) 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: a place that offers easy access to air travel. In 2011, a University of North Carolina business professor named John Kasarda published a book called Aerotropolis: The Way We’ll Live Next. Kasarda says future cities should be built intentionally around or near airports. The idea, as he has put it, is to offer businesses “rapid, long-distance connectivity on a massive scale.” B) “The 18th century really was a waterborne (水运的) century, the 19th century a rail century. the 20th century a highway, car, truck century一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 in South Korea, is one of Kasarda’s prime examples. It has existed for just a few years.“ From the get-go, it was designed on the basis of connectivity and competitiveness,”says Kasada. “The government built the bridge directly from the airport to the Songdo International Business District. And the surface infrastructure was built in tandem with the new airport .” C) Songdo is a stone’s throw from South Korea’s Incheon Airport, its main international hub (枢纽). But it 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 (构想) this city of the future back in 1986. He considers Songdo his baby. “I am a visionary,” he says. Thirty years after he imagined the city, Park’s baby is close to 70 percent built, with 36.000 people living in the business district and 90,000 residents in greater Songdo. It’s about an hour outside Seoul, built on reclaimed tidal flats along the Yellow Sea, There’s a Coast Guard building and a tall trade tower, as well as a park, golf course and university. D) Chances are you’ve actually seen this place. Songdo appears in the most famous music video ever to come ou of South Korea. “Gangnam Style” refers to the fashionable Gangnam district in Seoul. But some of the video was filmed in Songdo.“I don’t know if you remember, there was a scene in a subway station. That was not Gangnam. That was actually Songdo,” says Jung Won Son, a professor of urban development at London’s Bartlett School of Planning, “Part of the reason to shoot there is that it’s new and nice.” E) The city was supposed to be a hub for global companies, with employees from all over the world. But hat’s not how it has turned out. Songdo’s reputation is as a futuristic ghost town. But the reality is more complicated. A bridge with big, light-blue loops leads into the business district. In the center of the main road, there’s a long line of flags of the world. On the corner, there’s a Starbucks and a 7-Eleven--all of the international brands that you see all over the world nowadays. F) The city is not empty. There are mothers pushing strollers, old women with walkers -- even in the middle of the day. when it’s 90 degrees out. Byun Young-Jin chairs the Songdo real estate association and started selling property here when the first phase of the city opened in 2005. He says demand has boomed in the past couple of years. Most of his clients are Korean. In fact, the developer says, 99 percent of the homes here are sold to Koreans. Young families move here because the schools are great. And that’s the problem: Songdo has become a popular Korean city 一more popular as a residential area than a business one. It’s not yet the futuristic international business hub that planners imagined. “It’s a great place to live. And it’s becoming a great place to work,” says Scott Summers, the vice president of Gale International, the developer of the city. The floor-to-ceiling windows of his company’s offices overlook Songdo Central Park, with a canal full of kayaks and paddle boats. Shimmering (闪烁的)glass towers line the canal’s edge. G) “What’s happened is, because we focused on creating that quality of life first, which enabled the residents to live here, what has probably missed the mark is for companies to locate here,” he says. “There needs to be strong economic incentives.” 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 exercise classes. H) But Star Trek this is not. And to some of the residents, Songdo feels hollow. “I’m, like, in prison for weekdays. That’s what we call it in the workplace,” says a woman in her 20s. She doesn’t want to use her name for fear of being fired from her job. She goes back to Seoul every weekend. “I say I’m prison-breaking on Friday nights.” But she has to make the prison break in her own car. There’s no high-speed train connecting Songdo to Seoul, just over 20 miles away. I) The man who first imagined Songdo feels frustrated. too. Park says he built South Korea a luxury vehicle, “like Mercedes or BMW. It’s a good car now. But we’re waiting for a good driver to accelerate.” But there are lots of other good cars out there, too. The world is dotted with futuristic, 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 of finished offices are now occupied. Brent Ryan, who teaches urban design at MIT, says Songdo proves a universal principle. “There have been a lot of utopian (乌托邦的) cities in history. And the reason we don’t know about a lot of them is that a lot of them have vanished entirely.” In other words, when it comes to 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 conceives 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. 41. Songdo has ended up different from the city it was supposed to be. 42. Some of the people who work in Songdo complain about boredom in the workplace. 43. A business professor says that a future city should have easy access to international transportation. 44. Acording to an urban design professor, it is difficult for city designers to foresee what happen in the future. 45. Park Yeon So. Who envisioned Songdo, feels a parental connection with the city. 以上就是文都四六级英语老师为大家整理的2019年12月大学英语四级真题长阅读(第一套)，希望大家都能够顺利通过此次的四级考试！

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2019年12月大学英语四级听力攻略

对于很多考英语四级的学生来说，成也听力，败也听力，所以听力成了决定英语四级是否能过的关键点，那么如何能突破听力呢?今天，文都四六级小编来为大家提供详细的四级听力应试技巧。

首先，对于四级听力，我们需要了解一些特点：

1.不需要都听懂。听力考试时候，不需要都听懂，我们只要能够提取考点信息就足够了。因为你需要同时兼顾读题和听力，所以此时我们需要提前划关键词。

2.四级听力要在朗读题目之前作答。尽量养成这个习惯，因为大多数四级题目属于“所听即所得”，也就是听到什么选什么，所以没必要等到题目朗读之后再作答。

2018年12月大学英语四级考试刚刚结束，相信同学们对咱们的写作话题还记忆犹新。这次的四级作文共有三个话题，且都是要求围绕着“挑战”进行书写。整体难度较去年来看，难度不大。接下来，文都四六级辅导老师将四级的三个作文给大家进行一下剖析。【四级写作话题】 四级写作话题有三个。如下： [if !supportLists]1. [endif]毕业后创业面临的挑战（the challenges of starting a career after graduation） [if !supportLists]2. [endif]出国留学面临的挑战（the challenges of studying abroad） [if !supportLists]3. [endif]在大城市生活面临的挑战（the challenges of living in a big city） 以上三个话题中的单词较简单，虽然大部分学生应该还是能读懂题目，但是还是有个别学生错把挑战（challenges）当做了改变（changes），把事业（career）看错成癌症（cancer），这样的话就跑题了。 【四级写作话题思路】 话题1： 毕业后有的学生会选择创业，在创业方面面临的挑战分为以下三点。第一，缺乏资金。第二，缺乏经验。第三，如果威胁到现有企业的利益，会遭到现有企业的阻挠。 话题2： 出国留学面临的挑战，可以从以下三方面进行阐述。首先，对于外国的文化或者风俗不了解，无法融入当地的生活或者学习群体。其次，语言障碍导致无法与人正常沟通。最后，如果有什么问题或者意外发生，就会感到孤立无援。 话题3： 在大城市生活主要面临的挑战，可以从以下三方面进行着手。首先，大城市的房价过高，大部分人负担不起，每月租房住，日常花销大。然后，大城市公司要求高，员工工作压力大。最后，在大城市生活，如果身边没有朋友，会很孤独。 【四级写作话题可用句型】 开头： 1With the rapid growth of ......, more and more people choose to .......Nowadays, it is commonly believed that ....... will provides them with many opportunities, but I wonder that people who ........ are facing more challenges. 2Against the backdrop of an era characterized with opportunities, the living pressures of people has been improved. Nowadays, every individual who....... faces various challenges. 中间: 1There are numerous challenges of ......, and I would explore only three challenges here. The first challenge is that ...... The second one is that the ...... The last one is that...... 2As far as I am concerned, there are three main challenges of....... First of all,...... In addition,...... At last but not least,...... 结尾： 1Based on the points discussed above, we may reasonably draw the conclusion that there are many challenges of......Dealing with the challenges is not different from conquering a great mountain; both of us require determination, courage, and perseverance. 2 All in all, there is no doubt that people who...... are in front of many challenges. It is the critical time that the government/the society/ we took effective actions to cope with these challenges.