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2020年 07月大学英语四级考试真题（全 1 套）
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Part I 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)
Section A
Directions: 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 spoken only
once. After you hear a question, you must choose the best answer from the four choices marked
A), B), C) and DJ.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 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. A) There is only one ecosystem in Europe.
B) Romania's wetlands thrive again.
C) The wildlife in Romania isn't well protected.
D) There are 200 species of birds in Romania's wetlands.
4. A) Block the waterways. C) Use monitoring equipment.
B) Restore the fishing ban. D) Prohibit fishing in the next 10 years.
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 he was.
7. A) He was really touched by his classmates. C) He couldn't remember what to say.
B) He didn't know what happened at all. D) His parents wore caps and gowns.
2020年7月英语四级真题全1套第 1 页 共 9 页 by:光速考研Section B
Directions: In this section, you will hear two long conversations. At the end of each
conversation, you will hear four questions. 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 the conversation you have just heard.
8. A) Her children's disruption. C) A sense of isolation.
B) Quiet atmosphere. D) Longer working hours.
9. A) It doesn't offer coffee. C) It doesn,t have free Wi-Fi.
B) Ifs too quiet. D) It lacks the material he needs.
10. A) The sense of being out in the world. C) The coffee table.
B) The coffee it provides. D) The comfortable working condition.
11. A) People don't 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 you 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) She's received a job offer from another company.
13. A) They may be considered as less loyal.
B) They won't get the promotion opportunities.
C) They should take more responsibility at work.
D) They will be given hiring priority.
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 C
Directions: In this section, you will hear three passages. At the 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 line through
the centre.
2020年7月英语四级真题全1套 第 2 页 共 9 页 by:光速考研Questions 16 to 18 are based on the passage you have just heard.
16. A) Ifs a horrible feeling. C) Ifs boring and dangerous.
B) It can be a blessing. D) Ifs 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 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 demanding in his work.
B) He is mean to others. D) He usually works very late.
20. A) He moved out and divorced.
B) It 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 sign his name on every label.
C) It was a hard and tedious job.
D) He was required to work on 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 people's living habits.
C) By using memory and fluency tests.
D) By scanning people's 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 fbr Alzheimer's disease.
B) Alzheimer's patients tend to watch television more than 3 hours a day.
C) Some research has confirmed the link between them.
D) Television watching is beneficial to Alzheimer's 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.
2020年7月英语四级真题全1套 第 3 页 共 9 页 by:光速考研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 I) nomination
B) accounted J) overlooked
C) adaptation K) promoting
D) appropriately L) senior
E) considerable M) submission
F) effective N) suggesting
G) ladder O) thankfully
H) misread
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.
2020年7月英语四级真题全1套 第 4 页 共 9 页 by:光速考研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) Ifs not because fresh ingredients are hard to come by. Supermarkets offer more variety
than ever, and there are over four times as many fanners5 markets in the U.S. 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 (夕卜包)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
that5s 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 invented in the '40s, their popularity didn't boom until
televisions became popular a decade or so later. Since then, packaged, pre-prepared meals
have been whafs for dinner. The microwave and fast-food chains were the biggest
catalysts (催化齐!]), 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 they5re concerned about their
health and the well-being of the planet? If these are truly the values of many young
people, then their behavior doesn't match their beliefs.
J) There have been hali-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
2020年7月英语四级真题全1套 第 5 页 共 9 页 by:光速考研we should be eating. Considering that the government5s standards are not nearly
ambitious enough, the picture is clea亡 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 temis 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 thafs 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 you5re
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? Ifs pretty
much common sense: you want to buy food, not unidentifiable food like 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. There5s 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.
P) Time, I realize, is the biggest obstacle to cooking fbr most people. You must adjust your
priorities to find time to cook. For instance, you can move a TV to the kitchen and watch
your favorite shows while you're standing at the sink. No one is asking you to give up
activities you like, but if you're watching food shows on TV try cooking instead.
36. Cooking benefits people in many ways and enables them to connect with one another.
37. Abundant information about cooking is available either online or on TV.
38. Young people do less cooking at home than the elderly these days.
39. Cooking skills can be improved with practice.
40. In the mid-2Oth century, most families ate dinner at home instead of eating out.
41. Even those short of time or money should be encouraged to cook for themselves and
their family.
42. Eating food not cooked by ourselves can cause serious consequences.
43. To eat well and still save money, people should buy fresh food and cook it themselves.
2020年7月英语四级真题全1套 第 6 页 共 9 页 by:光速考研44. We get a fairly large portion of calories from fast food and snacks.
45. The popularity of TV led to the popularity of frozen food.
Section C
Directions: There are 2 passages in this section. Each passage is followed by some questions
or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A), B), C) and D).
You should decide on the best choice and mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 2
with a single line through the centre.
Passage One
Questions 46 to 50 are based on the following passage.
The wallet is heading for extinction. As a day-to-day essential, it will die off with the
generation who read print newspapers. The kind of shopping- where you hand over notes
and count out change in return- now happens only in the most minor of our retail
encounters, like buying a bar of chocolate or a pint of milk, from a comer shop. At the
shops where you spend any real money, that money is increasingly abstracted. And this is
more and more true, the higher up the scale you go. At the most cutting-edge retail stores
Victoria Beckham on Dover Street, for instance- you don't go and stand at any kind of
cash register, when you decide to pay. The staff are equipped with iPads to take your
payment while you relax on a sofa.
Which is nothing more or less than excellent service, if you have the money. But
across society, the abstraction of the idea of cash makes me uneasy. Maybe I'm just
old-fashioned. But earning money isn't quick or easy fbr most of us. Isn't it a bit weird that
spending it should happen in half a blink (眨 眼 )of an eye? Doesn,t a wallet- that
time-honoured Friday-night feeling of pleasing, promising fatness- represent something
that matters?
But Fil leave the economics to the experts. What bothers me about the death of the
wallet is the change it represents in our physical environment. Everything about the look
and feel of a wallet_the way the fastenings and materials wear and tear and loosen with
age, the plastic and paper and gold and silver, and handwritten phone numbers and printed
cinema tickets- is the very opposite of what our world is becoming. The opposite of a
wallet is a smartphone or an iPad. The rounded edges, cool glass, smooth and unknowable
as a pebble (鹅卵石).Instead of digging through pieces of paper and peering into comers,
we move our fingers left and right. No more counting out coins. Show your wallet, if you
still have one. It may not be here much longer.
46. What is happening to the wallet?
A) It is disappearing. C) It is becoming costly.
B) It is being fattened. D) It is changing in style.
47. How are business transactions done in big modem stores?
A) Individually. C) In the abstract.
B) Electronically. D) Via a cash register.
48. What makes the author feel uncomfortable nowadays?
A) Saving money is becoming a thing of the past.
B) The pleasing Friday-night feeling is fading.
2020年7月英语四级真题全1套 第 7 页 共 9 页 by:光速考研C) Earning money is getting more difficult.
D) Spending money is so fast and easy.
49. Why does the author choose to write about whafs happening to the wallet?
A) It represents a change in the modem world.
B) It has something to do with everybody's life.
C) It marks the end of a time-honoured tradition.
D) It is the concern of contemporary economists.
50. What can we infer from the passage about the author?
A) He is resistant to social changes.
B) He is against technological progress.
C) He feels reluctant to part with the traditional wallet.
D) He feels insecure in the ever-changing modem world.
Passage Two
Questions 51 to 55 are based on the following passage.
Ifs late in the evening: time to close the book and turn off the computer. You're done
fbr the day. What you may not realize, however, is that the learning process actually
continues- in your dreams.
It might sound like science fiction, but researchers are increasingly focusing on the
relationship between 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 we've learned is associated with improved performance in that
activity (suggesting that there's some truth to the popular notion that we're "getting” a
foreign language once we begin dreaming in it). Whafs more, researchers are coming to
recognize that dreaming is an essential part of understanding, organizing and retaining
what we learn.
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
(神经的)virtual reality. A vivid example of such replay can be seen in a video researchers
made recently about sleep disorders. 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 does not normally occur during sleep. They then videotaped the
subjects as they slept. Lying in bed, eyes closed, one female patient on the tape performs
the dance moves she learned earlier.
This shows that while our bodies are at rest, our brains are drawing whafs important
from the information and events we've recently encountered, then integrating that data into
the vast store of what we already know. In a 2010 study, researchers at Harvard Medical
School reported that college students who dreamed about a computer maze (迷宫)task they
had learned showed a 10-fbld improvement in their ability to find their way through the
maze compared with participants who did not dream about the task.
Robert Stickgold, one of the Harvard researchers, suggests that studying right before
bedtime or taking a nap following a study session in the afternoon might increase the odds
of dreaming about the material. Think about that as your head hits the pillow tonight.
2020年7月英语四级真题全1套 第 8 页 共 9 页 by:光速考研51. What is scientists? finding about dreaming?
A) It involves disconnected, weird images.
B) It resembles fragments of science fiction.
C) Dreaming about a learned task betters its performance.
D) Dreaming about things being learned disturbs one's sleep.
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 intensified.
C) The brain behaves as if it were playing a virtual reality video game.
D) The brain once again experiences the learning activities of the day.
53. What does the brain do while we are sleeping?
A) It systematizes all the data collected during the day.
B) It substitutes old information with new data.
C) It processes and absorbs newly acquired data.
D) It classifies information and places it in different files.
54. What does Robert Stickgold suggest about enhancing learning?
A) Having a little sleep after studying in the day.
B) Staying up late before going to bed.
C) Having a dream about anything.
D) Thinking about the odds of dreaming about the material.
55. What can be inferred about dreaming from the passage?
A) We may enhance our learning through dreaming.
B) Dreaming improves your language ability.
C) All sleepwalkers perform dance moves when they are sleeping.
D) Taking a nap after learning can help you find the way through the maze.
Part IV Translation (30 minutes)
Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to translate a passage from Chinese into
English. You should write your answer on Answer Sheet 2.
在中国，火锅已有2,000多年的历史，最早流行于最寒冷的地区，然后在很多地区盛行，出现
了具有地方特色的种类。吃火锅时，家人和朋友围坐在桌边，桌子中间放着热腾腾的火锅。吃火
锅时，人们可以根据自己的口味放肉、海鲜、蔬菜和其他配料，自己烹饪。人们可以一边尽情地聊
天，一边享受美餐。
2020年7月英语四级真题全1套 第 9 页 共 9 页 by:光速考研
