英语四级真题2016年12月(第三套)试卷及答案解析.docxVIP

— — PAGE # — 2016年12月四级考试真题（第三套） Writing(30 minutes) Writing (30 minutes) Directions: For this part，you are allowed 30 minutes to write an essay. Suppose you have two options upon graduation: one is to find a job somewhere and the other to start a business of your own. You are to make a decision. Write an essay to explain, the reasons for your decision. You should write at least 120 words but no more than 180 words. Part II Listening Comprehension 说明:2016年12月四级真题全国共考了两套听力。本套的听力内容与第二套的完全一样，只是选项的顺序不 一样而巳 Part DI Reading Comprehension (40 minutes) Section A Directions ：/n this section, there is a passage wilh 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. When someone commits a criminal act, we always hope the punishment will match the offense. But when it comes to one of the crudest crimes—animal fighting—things 26 work out that way. Dog-fighting victims are 27 and killed for profit and “ sport, ” yet their criminal abusers often receive a 28 sentence for causing a lifetime of pain. Roughly half of all federally-convicted animal fighters only get probation (缓刑). Some progress has been made in the prosecution (起诉)of animal fighters. But federal judges often rely heavily on the U. S. Sentencing Guidelines when they 29 penalties, and in the case of animal fighting, those guidelines are outdated and extremely 30 . The U. S. Sentencing Commission, which 31 these sentencing guidelines, is revisiting them, proposing to raise the minimum sentence from 6-12 to 21-27 months. This is a step in the right 32 but we’d like to see the U. S. Sentencing Commission make further changes to the guidelines. Along with this effor