2020年7月-英语四级答案-真题解析
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2020年7月 英语四六级答案 及真题解析
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四级第一套选词填空
“Science and everyday life cannot and 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, Franklin’s contributions to some of the greatest scientific discoveries of our time – including the structure of DNA – were sadly (27) ______ in her lifetime. One of my proudest moments in my role as universities and science
minister was being able to go some way to redress this injustice last month, by unveiling the new Mars rover named after this brilliant British scientist.
Today, on International Women’s Day, it is only right that we recognise the important work of female scientists like Franklin and seek to honour her memory by inspiring more women and girls to follow in her footsteps.
More than 60 years after Franklin’s death, we are (28) ______ living in a different world, where women play an important part in every echelon of our society – not least in science, innovation, higher education and research.
UK universities are world leaders when it comes to advancing and (29) ______ gender equality. The Athena SWAN charter, initially established to improve the representation of women in
scientific disciplines in higher education, now has 145 members. It has also expanded to promote gender equality in multiple disciplines – including the arts, social sciences, humanities, business and law.
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 academic year, women (31) ______ for more than half of all Stem postgraduates at UK universities. The government is taking further steps to improve women’s representation in science and has today awarded nine inspiring women ￡50,000 to develop inventions to tackle the challenges and seize the opportunities we face as a society. From new materials to cut down on plastics pollution to special devices to improve posture and comfort for wheelchair users, these women are at the forefront of creating the new technology for tomorrow.
This is significant progress, but access to higher education is only half of the equation. To have real equality in the sector, we need to ensure talented women are able to progress into the academic and leadership roles they desire, and get the remuneration they deserve.
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 (33) ______ levels, only a quarter of professors are women, and black women make up less than 2% of all female academic staff.
I welcome the introduction of pro-active strategies like the new initiative at the University of Leicester, which I am visiting today, to increase the number of female professors by 1.5% each year, with the overall goal of having 30% professorships held by women by 2020.
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There are also stark differences in pay across grades. The gender pay gap based on median salaries across the sector in 2016-17 was 13.7%, (34) ______ there is still some way to go to
ensure women are rising through the ranks to higher grade positions and being paid (35) ______. 四级第一套选词填空
“Science and everyday life cannot and should not be separated.\26. A) accessible 27. J) overlooked 28.0) thankfully 29. K) promoting 30. E) considerable 31. B) accounted 32. G) ladder 33. L) senior
34. N) suggesting 35. D) appropriately 【仔细阅读】
51. What is scientists'finding about dreaming?A) It involves disconnected， weird images.B) It
resembles fragments of sciencefictionC Dreaming about a learned task better sits performanceD) Dreaming about things being learned disturbs one's sleep【答案】C
【定位】..researchers are coming to recognize that dreaming is an essentiapart of understanding， organizing and retaining what we learn.
52. What happens when one enters a dream state?A) The body continues to act as if the sleeper
were awake.B The neural activity of the brain will become intensifiedpC) The brain behaves as if it were playing a virtual reality videogame.The brain once again experiences the learning activities of the day.D) 【答案】D
【定位】While we sleep， research indicates， the brain replays the patterns ofactivity it experienced during waking hours， allowing us to enter what onepsychologist calls an eur a/(神经的) virtual reality
53. What does the brain do while we are sleeping?A) It systematize s all the data collected during
the day.B) It substitute sold information with new data.C) It processes and absorbs newly acquired dataSpankD) It classifies information and places it in different files. 【答案】 C
【定位】This shows that while our bodies at rest， our brains are drawingwhat's important
from the information and events we recently encounteredthen integrating that data into the vast store of what we already know.
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2020年7月-英语四级答案-真题解析
