2020年7月四級真題匯總

1、Part I WritingDirections: 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 hut no more than 180 words.參考范文The use of

2、 translation apps is becoming increasingly popular. They play a critical role in removing the language barrier in this globalized era.These technology tools are especially helpful for both leisure and business travelers. They allow independent tourists to navigate through every thing from communicat

3、ing with taxi drivers to buying souvenirs at market stalls. Some even provide phrase books and encourage users to learn common expressions before their trips so that, for example, they know how to ask a flight attendant for help or understand what a customs officer says. In addition, app developers

4、are striving to introduce their products into the commercial world. In terms of accuracy, admittedly, translation apps are so far no match for professional interpreters, who are indispensable to an international business conference. But they are more than adequate to meet the demand for casual conve

5、rsations between business partners.With ever-increasing databases of written and spoken texts, there is a bright prospect that such software programs will be applied into broader fields. A growing number of people, in turn, will enjoy the fruits of this technological advance.Part II Listening Compre

6、hension（暫缺選項和答案）Section ANews Report OneGood morning! In todays headlines, Scotlands transport minister has warned of potentially extreme weather conditions as heavy snow is forecast across the country later this week.Orange warnings are in force for many areas for Wednesday and Thursday. The transp

7、ort minister advised people in parts of Scotland covered by the orange alert to avoid travel on Wednesday. This is what he said to us: The orange warning may be raised to red in some areas. That is a warning for snow that has never been seen since the modern system came into place in Scotland.”The o

8、range warning has been extended until 6 p.m. on Thursday. Trains, planes and ferries are also likely to be affected, with a wind chill that could see parts of Britain feeling as cold as-15.The head of road policing said, “I would urge drivers to take extra care on the roads fbr their journeys. Drive

9、rs should make sure they are prepared for their journey with warm clothing, food and drink, sufficient fuel and a charged mobile phone. There could be significant traffic delays, so please start to plan your journey now and consider if you really need to （ravel when conditions are this poor.”QI: Wha

10、t were people in parts of Scotland advised to do?Q2: What did the head of road policing urge drivers to do?News Report TwoRomanias wetlands are coming back to life thanks to help from local communities, the World Wildlife Fund, and funding from the European Union.Roughly 2,224 acres of (he picturesq

11、ue Danube Delta - home to 300 species of birds - have filled with wildlife. The land has been connected to the network of lakes and streams in the area.“A lot of birds have migrated to the area, and one doesnt need to travel long hours anymore or go to other lakes to watch the birds,“ says Ion Meuta

12、, Deputy Mayor of Mahmudia.The area around Mahmudia, which is a UNESCO World Heritage site, is the third-most biodiverse in the world, after Australias Great Barrier Reef and the Galapagos Islands.Groups used earth-moving equipment to restore the waterways. Government officials proposed to protect t

13、he areas endangered wild fish by issuing a fishing ban over the next decade.Q3: What is the news report mainly about?Q4: What did governments officials propose to do to protect the endangered fish?News Report ThreeScott Dunn, recently awoke from the medically-induced sleep hed been in after a car ac

14、cident. He was heartbroken after realizing hed missed his high school graduation, so his classmates decided to give him another chance. It was just a month ago that East Juniata High School seniors met in the schools auditorium for graduation. And last week, they did it again.Scotts car accident was

15、 on May 22, just 3 days before the ceremony. I remember waking up in the hospital and asking mom, what date it was, she told me it was the 28th, he said. looked at her and said, i missed my graduation.”The schools principal, Mr. Fausey, called Scott,s mom Karen and said that everybody “wanted to do

16、something special fbr him”. Students wore their caps and gowns and sat in the front of the auditorium. Scotts parents, Karen and Scott Senior, sat front and center. After brief speeches, Scotts name was called, only Scotfs name. He walked across (he stage as (he audience cheered. A graduation fbr on

17、e.Tm speechless,“ Scott said. I dont know how to even explain it. Im speechless to know that so many people are behind me.”Q5: What happened to Scott a month ago?Q6: What did Scott ask about when he regained consciousness?Q7: Why was Scott speechless at (he graduation ceremony?SectionBConversation O

18、neM: How do you like your new flexible working arrangement? Do you enjoy working from home?W: Yes and no. I find the isolation challenging at times. Apart from my mother, not too many people I know have time for phone chats during working hours. I tried the library but found I wasnt really keen on w

19、orking (here.M: No, neither would 1.1 find the library a bit too quiet. Td lack inspiration or stimulation, which would be counter-productive to getting a lot of work done.W: I found the same thing. So, lately, Ive been going out to caf6s occasionally. I love the noise, the people, the busyness of a

20、 ca泡 the sense of being out in the world.M: Coffee shops seem to have effectively become office spaces for so many people in this digital age. Though Im not sure how cafe owners feel about it - having so many people who go to their places to work rather than drink and eat.W: Yes, some people seem to

21、 spend a lot of time there and not order much. The most annoying ones for cafe owners must truly be those, usually only two of them, who occupy a table for six with their laptops and paperwork.M: They should sit at a table for two, not at a table for six. Some obviously stay so long, they need to pl

22、ug their laptops into a power outlet. I nearly tripped over someones computer electrical lead the other day in my local cafe.W: Its a double-edged sword, no doubt about that, for a cafe owner. While remote workers help to keep the cafe full in quiet times, they can take up valuable table space in bu

23、sy periods.Q8: What does (he woman say is the disadvantage of working from home?Q9: What docs the man say is counter-productive to getting work done in the library?QIO: What does the woman like about doing ones work in a cafe?QI 1: What is most annoying for cafe owners according to the woman?Convers

24、ation TwoW: Im going to start looking fbr another job. I cant see myself getting an opportunity to progress at my company anytime in ihe near future. And I really think my skills and abilities deserve a higher salary.M: You are not going to quit, are you?W: Im thinking I might as well. Then I can de

25、vote more time and energy to finding a better position at another company.M: But youve been in your present company less (han (wo years, havent you? This would be the third time youve left your job in the last five years. If you do several jobs in a relatively short span of time, prospective employe

26、rs might perceive that you lack loyalty. That could make them worry and reluctant to employ you.W: Unfortunately, loyalty doesnt pay. Even if I get a promotion at my company, its likely to be less sizeable than if I were to get a job elsewhere. And even if I get a promotion, Im not guaranteed to get

27、 a raise. I had that experience at another company I worked at.M: They wanted you to take on more work and responsibility but for the same amount of money?W: More or less, yes. The way I see it, through having different jobs, Tve gathered a lot of experience in different jobs and in different indust

28、ries.M: But potential employers might worry ihat that experience is not deep, or thorough enough.W: Perhaps, but I feel pretty confident that I can sell myself. You know what they say, fortune favors the brave.Q12: What makes the woman think about changing her job?Q13: What does the man say about pe

29、ople who keep changing their jobs?Q14: What docs the woman say would happen even if she got promoted in her current company?Q15: What benefit has the woman gained from changing her jobs frequently?Section CPassage OneThere is a saying that goes something along the lines of You must love yourself fir

30、st before you can love someone else/ Similarly, I personally believe that you must be comfortable and happy in your own company before you can truly be yourself in the company of others.There is a massive difference between being lonely and being alone. Loneliness is a horrible feeling. However, you

31、 dont have to actually be alone to feel that way. Many times, Tve felt lonely when surrounded by a big group of people. In contrast, being alone can actually be a blessing, particularly, when youve actively chosen it.In my experience, being bored and alone is dangerous and can easily lead to the fee

32、ling of loneliness. The trick is to be active. Get outside, stretch your legs, do something cultural, buy yourself something tasty to eat or something pretty to wear. You dont have to take anyone else into consideration and can do whatever you please.Spending time alone also allows you to more effic

33、iently take care of problems. And then, when its time to be social and meet up with your friends, you will be fully there, because you wont have too much other stuff floating around in your mind. Having been alone for a bit, you will also appreciate your friends company more and chances are your tim

34、e spent together will be more worthwhile.Q16: What does the speaker say about being alone?Q17: What docs the speaker say helps reduce ones feeling of loneliness?Q18: What is an advantage of spending ones time alone?Passage TwoWhen I turned twelve, I worked summers at my fathers small brick-cleaning

35、business. I remember the harsh acid smell of the cleaning solution, and the scraping sound of stiff iron brushes against rough brick. It was templing to hurry your job just to finish. But anybody who worked fbr Thomas Cahoon had to meet his standards, and that included me. If I messed up, he made me

36、 stay late until I got it right. My father wasnt being mean. He demanded the same of himself. Every brick he cleaned on the house stood out like a red jewel in a while setting. It was his signature.In 1970, when I was twenty, I got married, and moved out my parents modest place into a housing projec

37、t. Drugs and gang violence were just beginning to plague (he projects. Some of my friends went to jail. Some were killed. My wife, Valen, was eighteen, and nobody gave our marriage a chance. But wc believed in each other. And our faith made us strong.When we married, I worked as a stock clerk at Sou

38、thwest Superfoods. It was hard, tedious work. Each Friday night a truck came, with cases of food that had to be unloaded, priced and placed on shelves. Most of stock clerks tried to get Friday night off. But I was always ready to work. By Saturday morning, all the cans and jars in my aisle would be

39、placed with labels facing smartly out, like a line of soldiers on review. That was my signature. 1 took pride in a job nobody wanted.Q19: What do wc learn about the speakers father?Q20: What does the speaker say about ihe housing project?Q21: What do we learn about the speaker as a stock clerk?Passa

40、ge ThreeWatching more than 3 hours of television a day doubles memory loss in older people, a new study of more than 3,00() adults suggests. Scientists at University College London used memory and fluency tests on the same group of people 6 years apart. They found (hat those who watched on average l

41、ess than 3 hours television a day showed a decline of around 4 to 5 percent, while those who tended to watch more than 3 hours a day declined by an average of 8 to 1() percent. The research team say they believe “alert-bul-passive nature of television watching may be creating stress on the mind, whi

42、ch contributes to memory decline.Older people who watch more television are also less likely to undertake activities known to presen e mental functioning such as reading, or interactive screen-based pursuits such as using the internet or playing video games. The researchers say that television viewi

43、ng may be a risk factor for Alzheimers disease, but more research was needed to establish a link.While watching television may have educational benefits and relaxation benefits, the researchers advise that adults over the age of 50 should (ry and ensure that television viewing is balanced with other

44、 contrasting activities. If youre concerned that the amount of television youre watching could have a negative impact on your health, you should limit the amount of TV watch each day and undertake some healthy hobbies.Q22. By what means does scientist at University College London measure memory loss

45、?Q23. What contributed to memory decline in the participants?Q24. What did the researchers say about their finding concerning the link between TV viewing and Alzheimers disease?Q25. What do the researchers suggest older people do?Part III Reading ComprehensionSection A(暫缺干擾項)“Science and everyday li

46、fe 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 centuiy, Franklins contributions to some of the greatest scienti

47、fic 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

48、 scientist.More than 60 years after Frankliif s death, we are 28 living in a different world, where women play an important part in every echelon of our societynot least in science, innovation, higher education and research.UK universities are world leaders when it conies to advancing and 29 gender

49、equality. The Athena SWAN charter, initially established (o 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 disciplinesincluding the arts, social sciences, humanities, business and law

50、.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

51、 government is taking further steps to improve womens representation in science and has today awarded nine inspiring women 50,00() 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

52、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

53、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 (he majority of undergraduates in our universities, just under half of academic staff ar

54、e 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 2016-17 was 13.7%, 34 there is still some way to g

55、o to ensure women are rising through the ranks (o higher grade positions and being paid 35 .A) accessibleI) .B) accountedJ) overlookedC).K) promotingD) appropriatelyL)seniorE) considerableM).F).N) suggestingG) ladderO) thankfullyH).參考答案：AJOKE BGLNDSection BSection CPassage One(暫缺)Passage Two(暫缺54、55

56、題)Its late in the evening: time to close the book and turn off the computer. Youre done for the day. What you may not realize, however, is (hat the learning process actually conlinuesin your dreams.It might sound like science fiction, but researchers arc increasingly focusing on the relationship bet

57、ween the knowledge and skills our brains absorb during the day and the fragmented, often bizarre imaginings they generate at night. Scientists have found that dreaming about a task weve learned is associated with improved performance in that activity (suggesting that theres some truth to the popular

58、 notion that were getting a foreign language once we begin dreaming in it). Whats more, researchers are coming to recognize that dreaming is an essential part of understanding, organizing and retaining what we learnand that dreams may even hold out the possibility of directing our learning as we doz

59、e.While we sleep, research indicates, the brain replays the patterns of activity it experienced during waking hours, allowing us to enter what one psychologist calls a neural (神經(jīng)的) virtual reality. A vivid example of such reenactment can be seen in this video, made as part of a 2011 study by researc

60、hers in the Sleep Disorders Unit at Pitie-Salpetriere Hospital in Paris. They taught a series of dance moves to a group of patients with conditions like sleepwalking, in which the sleeper engages in the kind of physical movement that is normally inhibited during slumber. They then videotaped the sub