1、机密*启用前大 学 英 语 四 级 考 试COLLEGE ENGLISH TESTBand Four(2020年7月)试 题 册敬 告 考 生一、在答题前，请认真完成以下内容:1. 请检查试题册背面条形码粘贴条、答题卡的印刷质量，如有问题及时向监考员反映，确认无误后完成以下两点要求。2. 请将试题册背面条形码粘贴条揭下后粘贴在答题卡1的条形码粘贴框内，并将姓名和准考证号填写在试题册背面相应位置。3. 请在答题卡1和答题卡2指定位置用黑色签字笔填写准考证号、姓名和学校名称，并用HB-2B铅笔将对应准考证号的信息点涂黑。二、在考试过程中，请注意以下内容:1. 所有题目必须在答题卡上规定位置作答，在
2、试题册上或答题卡上非规定位置的作答一律无效。2. 请在规定时间内在答题卡指定位置依次完成作文、听力、阅读、翻译各部分考试，作答作文期间不得翻阅该试题册。听力录音播放完毕后，请立即停止作答，监考员将立即收回答题卡1，得到监考员指令后方可继续作答。3. 作文题内容印在试题册背面，作文题及其他主观题必须用黑色签字笔在答题卡指定区域内作答。4. 选择题均为单选题，错选、不选或多选将不得分，作答时必须使用HB-2B铅笔在答题卡上相应位置填涂，修改时须用橡皮擦净。三、以下情况按违规处理:1. 未正确填写(涂)个人信息，错贴、不贴、毁损条形码粘贴条。2. 未按规定翻阅试题册、提前阅读试题、提前或在收答题卡期
3、间作答。3. 未用所规定的笔作答、折叠成毁损答题卡导致无法评卷。4. 考试期间在非听力考试时间佩戴耳机。全国大学英语四、六级考试委员会Part I Writing (30 minutes)Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to an essay on the use of translation apps.You can start your essay with the sentence “The use of translations apps is becoming increasingly popular.” Y
4、ou should write at least 120 words but no more than 180 words.Part II Listening Comprehension (25 minutes)Section ADirections: In this section, you will hear three news reports. At the end of each news report, you will hear two or three questions. Both the news report and the questions will be spoke
5、n 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 1 with a single line through the centre.Questions 1 and 2 are based on the news report you have just heard.1. A) Watch the weather
6、 forecast. C) Avoid travel on Wednesday.B) Evacuate the area with the orange alert. D) Prepare enough food and drink.2. A) Pay more attention to the roads. C) Bring more mobile phones.B) Stay at a safer place. D) Take a train home.Questions 3 and 4 are based on the news report you have just heard.3.
7、 A) There is only one ecosystem in Europe. B) Romanias wetlands thrive again.C) The wildlife in Romania isnt well protected. D) There are 200 species of birds in Romanias wetlands.4. A) Block the waterways. C) Use monitoring equipment.B) Restore the fishing ban. D) Prohibit fishing in the next 10 ye
8、ars.Questions 5 to 7 are based on the news report you have just heard.5. A) He had a car accident. B) He attended his graduation ceremony. C) He had a heart attack.D) He gave a performance in the auditorium.6. A) What happened to him. C) When the graduation ceremony was.B) What date it was. D) Where
9、 he was.7. A) He was really touched by his classmates. B) He didnt know what happened at all. C) He couldnt remember what to say.D) His parents wore caps and gowns.Section BDirections: In this section, you will hear two long conversations. At the end of each conversation, you will hear four question
10、s. Both the conversation 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 1 with a single line through the centre.Questions 8 to 11 are based on th
11、e conversation you have just heard.8. A) Her childrens disruption. C) A sense of isolation.B) Quiet atmosphere. D) Longer working hours.9. A) It doesnt offer coffee. C) It doesnt have free Wi-Fi.B) Its too quiet. D) It lacks the materials he needs.10. A) The sense of being out in the world. C) The c
12、offee table.B) The coffee it provides. D) The comfortable working condition.11. A) People dont order anything. B) People bring their laptops and paperwork. C) People occupy valuable table space in quiet times.D) People of two occupy a table for six.Questions 12 to 15 are based on the conversation yo
13、u have just heard.12. A) She is not satisfied with the salary. B) She is not capable of the job. C) She often works overtime. D) Shes received a job offer from another company.13. A) They may be considered as less royal. B) They wont get the promotion opportunities. D) They will be given hiring prio
14、rity.14. A) She might have to do extra work every day. B) She might not get a pay rise. C) She might not get enough vacation. D) She might not gain more experience. 15. A) Experience. B) Confidence. C) Fortune. D) Opportunity. Section CDirections: In this section, you will hear three passages. At th
15、e end of each passage, you will hear three or four 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 1 with a single lin
16、e through the centre.Questions 16 to 18 are based on the passage you have just heard.16. A) Its a horrible feeling. C) Its boring and dangerous.B) It can be a blessing. D) Its the most comfortable state.17. A) To be active. C) To travel abroad.B) To meet up with your friends. D) To seek advice from
17、others.18. A) It provides a chance for people to think deeply. B) It makes us treasure the time. C) It enables one to identify true friends.D) It helps us take care of problems more efficiently.Questions 19 to 21 are based on the passage you have just heard.19. A) He is a harsh person. C) He is very
18、 demanding in his work.B) He is mean to others. D) He usually works very late.20. A) He moved out and divorced. B) He was plagued by drugs and gang violence. C) He lived there for 20 years.D) His parents would move into his new house.21. A) He was only responsible for unloading food. B) He had to si
19、gn his name on every label. C) It was a hard and tedious job.D) He was required to work at Friday night.Questions 22 to 25 are based on the passage you have just heard.22. A) By recording the time people spend on TV. B) By tracking peoples living habits. C) By using memory and fluency tests.D) By sc
20、anning peoples brains.23. A) Watching television for hours. C) Reading books and magazines.B) Playing video games. D) Surfing the Internet.24. A) Television viewing may be a potential factor for Alzheimers disease. B) Alzheimers patients tend to watch television more than 3 hours a day. C) Some rese
21、arch has confirmed the link between them. D) Television watching is beneficial to Alzheimers patients.25. A) Watch television no more than 3 hours each day. B) Balance television viewing with other contrasting activities. C) Watch some educational TV programs.D) Take more physical exercise.Part III
22、Reading Comprehension (40 minutes)Section ADirections: 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
23、 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.Questions 26 to 35 are based on the following passage.“Science and everyday life cannot and
24、should not be separated.” Those were the words uttered by pioneering British scientist Rosalind Franklin, who firmly believed that the pursuit of science should be _26_ to all. As a woman working in the first half of the 20th century, Franklins contributions to some of the greatest scientific discov
25、eries of our time including the structure of DNA were sadly _27_ in her lifetime. More than 60 years after Franklins death, we are _28_ living in a different world, where women play an important part in every echelon (阶层) of our societynot least in science, innovation, higher education and research.
26、 UK universities are world leaders when it comes to advancing and _29_ gender equality. In the past decade, we have seen a _30_ increase in England in the number of women accepted on to full-time undergraduate degrees in science, technology, engineering and maths (Stem subjects). And in the last aca
27、demic year, women _31_ for more than half of all Stem postgraduates at UK universities.Data shows us the _32_ to success gets harder for women to climb the further up they go. Although women make up the majority of undergraduates in our universities, just under half of academic staff are female. At
28、_33_ levels, only a quarter of professors are women, and black women make up less than 2% of all female academic staff.There are also stark differences in pay across grades. The gender pay gap based on median salaries across the sector in 2016-2017 was 13. 7%, _34_ there is still some way to go to e
29、nsure women are rising through the ranks to higher grade positions and being paid _35_.A) accessibleI) nominationB) accountedJ) overlookedC) adaptationK) promotingD) appropriatelyL) seniorE) considerableM) submissionF) effectiveN) suggestingG) ladderO) thankfullyH) misreadSection BDirections: In thi
30、s section, you are going to read a passage with ten statements attached to 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 q
31、uestions by marking the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 2.How to Eat WellA) Why do so many Americans eat tons of processed food, the stuff that is correctly called junk (垃圾) and should really carry warning labels?B) Its not because fresh ingredients are hard to come by. Supermarkets offer more
32、variety than ever, and there are over four times as many farmers markets in the US as there were 20 years ago. Nor is it for lack of available information. There are plenty of recipes (食谱), how-to videos and cooking classes available to anyone who has a computer, smartphone or television. If anythin
33、g, the information is overwhelming.C) And yet we arent cooking. If you eat three meals a day and behave like most Americans, you probably get at least a third of your daily calories (卡路里) outside the home. Nearly two-thirds of us grab fast food once a week, and we get almost 25% of our daily calorie
34、s from snacks. So were eating out or taking in, and we dont sit downor we do, but we hurry.D) Shouldnt preparingand consumingfood be a source of comfort, pride, health, well-being, relaxation, sociability? Something that connects us to other humans? Why would we want to outsource（外包）this basic task,
35、 especially when outsourcing it is so harmful?E) When I talk about cooking, Im not talking about creating elaborate dinner parties or three-day science projects. Im talking about simple, easy, everyday meals. My mission is to encourage green hands and those lacking time or memory to feed themselves.
36、 That means we need modest, realistic expectations, and we need to teach people to cook food thats good enough to share with family and friends.F) Perhaps a return to real cooking neednt be far off. A recent Harris poll revealed that 79% of Americans say they enjoy cooking and 30% “love it”; 14% adm
37、it to not enjoying kitchen work and just 7% wont go near the stove at all. But this doesnt necessarily translate to real cooking, and the result of this survey shouldnt surprise anyone: 52% of those 65 or older cook at home five or more times per week; only a third of young people do.G) Back in the
38、1950s most of us grew up in households where Mom cooked virtually every night. The intention to put a home-cooked meal on the table was pretty much universal. Most people couldnt afford to do otherwise.H) Although frozen dinners were invented in the 40s, their popularity didnt boom until televisions
39、 became popular a decade or so later. Since then, packaged, pre-prepared meals have been whats for dinner. The microwave and fast-food chains were the biggest catalysts（催化剂）, but the big food companieswhich want to sell anything except the raw ingredients that go into cookingmade the home cook an en
40、dangered species.I) Still, I find it strange that only a third of young people report preparing meals at home regularly. Isnt this the same crowd that rails against processed junk and champions craft cooking? And isnt this the generation who say theyre concerned about their health and the well-being
41、 of the planet? If these are truly the values of many young people, then their behavior doesnt match their beliefs.J) There have been half-hearted but well-publicized efforts by some companies to reduce calories in their processed foods, but the Standard American Diet is still the polar opposite of
42、the healthy, mostly plant-based diet that just about every expert says we should be eating. Considering that the governments standards are not nearly ambitious enough, the picture is clear: by not cooking at home, were not eating the right things, and the consequences are hard to overstate.K) To hel
43、p quantify (量化) the costs of a poor diet, I recently tried to estimate this impact in terms of a most famous food, the burger（汉堡包）. I concluded that the profit from burgers is more than offset by the damage they cause in health problems and environmental harm.L) Cooking real food is the best defense
44、not to mention that any meal youre likely to eat at home contains about 200 fewer calories than one you would eat in a restaurant.M) To those Americans for whom money is a concern, my advice is simple: Buy what you can afford, and cook it yourself. The common prescription is to primarily shop the gr
45、ocery store, since thats where fresh produce, meat and seafood, and dairy are. And to save money and still eat well you dont need local, organic ingredients; all you need is real food. Im not saying local food isnt better; it is. But there is plenty of decent food in the grocery stores.N) The other
46、sections you should get to know are the frozen foods and the canned goods. Frozen produce is still produce; canned tomatoes are still tomatoes. Just make sure youre getting real food without tons of added salt or sugar. Ask yourself, would Grandma consider this food? Does it look like something might occur in nature? Its pretty much common sense: you want to buy food, not unidentifiable foodlike objects.O) You dont have to hit the grocery store daily,