2024年7月大学英语四级考试真题
PartⅠ Writing (30 minutes)
Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write an essay on the use of translation apps.You can start your essay with the sentence “The use of translation apps is becoming increasingly popular”. You should write at least 120 words but no more than 180 words.
Part Ⅱ Listening Comprehension ( 25 minutes)
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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.
“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.
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 (阶层) 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.
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.
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.
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 ensure women are rising through the ranks to higher grade positions and being paid 35 .
A) accessible F) effective K) promoting
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B) Accounted G) ladder L) senior C) Adaptation H) misread M) submission D) Appropriately I) nomination N) suggesting E) Considerable J) overlooked O) thankfully
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.
How to Eat Well
A) 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) It's not because fresh ingredients are hard to come by. Supermarkets offer more 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 anything, the information is overwhelming.
C) And yet we aren't 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 calories from snacks, So we’re eating out or taking in.，and we don ’t sit down— or we do, but we hurry。 D) Shouldn't preparing — and consuming - food 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, especially when outsourcing it is so harmful E) When I talk about cooking, I'm not talking about creating elaborate dinner parties or three-day science projects.I’m talking about simple, easy, everyday meals. My mission is to encourage green hands and those lacking time or money to feed themselves. That means we need modest, realistic expectations, and we need to teach people to cook food that's good enough to share with family and friends. F) Perhaps a return to real cooking needn't be far off. A recent Harris poll revealed that 79% of Americans say they enjoy cooking and 30%“love it”: 14% admit to not enjoying kitchen work and just 7% won't go near the stove at all. But this doesn’t necessarily translate to real cooking, and the result of this survey shouldn't 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 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 couldn't afford to do otherwise.
H) Although frozen dinners were in the ’40s. their popularity didn’t boom
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until televisions became popular a decade or so later Since then, packaged, pre -prepared meals have been what's for dinner, The microwave and fast- food chains were the biggest catalysts (催化剂), but the big food companies-which want to sell anything except the raw ingredients that go into cooking- made the home cook an Endangered species.
I) Still,I find it strange that only a third of young people report preparing meals at home regularly.Isn’t this the same crowd that rails against processed junk and champions craft cooking? And isn't this the generation who say they’re concerned about their health and the well-being of the planet? If these are truly the values of many young people ,then there behavior doesn’t match their beliefs. J) There have been half-hearted but well- publicized efforts by some food companies to reduce calories in their processed foods, but the Standard American Diet is still the polar opposite of the healthy, mostly plant-based diet that just about every expert says we should be eating. Considering that the government's standards are not nearly ambitious enough, the picture is clear:by not cooking at home.,we're not Eating the right things, and the consequences are hard to overstate.
K) To help 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(抵消)by the damage they cause in health problems and environmental harm. L) Cooking real food is the best defense- not to mention that any meal you’re 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 grocery store. since that's where fresh produce, meat and seafood, and dairy are. And to save money and still eat well you don't need local,organic ingredients; all you need is real food. I'm not saying local food isn't better; it is. But there is plenty of decent food in the grocery stores.
N) The other 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 you're getting real food without tons of added salt or sugar.Ask yourself, would Grandma consider this food? Does it look like something that might occur in nature? It’s pretty much common sense: you want to buy food, not unidentifiable foodlike objects.
O) You don’t have to hit the grocery store daily, nor do you need an abundance of skill. Since fewer than half of Americans say they cook at an intermediate level and only 20% describe their cooking skills as advanced,the crisis is one of confidence. And the only remedy for that is practice. There's nothing mysterious about cooking the evening meal. You just have to do a little thinking ahead and redefine what qualifies as dinner.Like any skill, cooking gets easier as you do it more; every time you cook, you advance your level of skills.Someday you won't even need recipes. My advice is that you not pay attention to the number of steps and ingredients, because they can be deceiving.
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2024年7月大学英语四级考试真题及参考答案
