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1、机密*启用前大学英语四级考试COLLEGE ENGLISH TESTBand Four(2020年12月第3套)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,在试题册上或
2、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间作
3、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 write on the topic Changes in the Way of Communication. You should write at least 120 words but no more than 180 words.Part II Listening Comprehension(
4、25 minutes)特别说明六级考试每次仅考两套听力,第三套听力试题同第一套或第二套试题一致(40 minutes)(40 minutes)Part III Reading ComprehensionSection 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 th
5、e 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.The things people make,an
6、d the way they make them, determine how cities grow and decline,and influence how empires rise and fall. So, any disruption to the worlds factories 26 .And that disruption is surely coming. Factories are being digitised, filled with new sensors and new computers to make them quicker, more 27 , and m
7、ore efficient.Robots are breaking free from the cages that surround them, learning new skills and new ways 28 a world where you can make anything, anywhere, from a computerised design. That vision is 29 _ closer to reality. These forces will lead to cleaner factories, producing better goods at lower
8、 prices, personalised to our individual needs and desires. Humans will be 30 many of the dirty, repetitive,and dangerous jobs that have long been a 31 of factory life.Greater efficiency 32 means fewer people can do the same work. Yet factory bosses in many developed countries are worried about a lac
9、k of skilled human workers一and see 33 and robots as a solution. But economist Helena Leurent says this period of rapid change in manufacturing is a 34 opportunity to make the world a better place. “ Manufacturing is the one system where you have got the biggest source of innovation, the biggest sour
10、ce of economic growth, and the biggests an opportunity to 35 that system differently, and if we can, it will have tremendous significance.”I)interaction J)leaningK) mattersL) moving M)promised N)shapeO) sparedI)interaction J)leaningK) mattersL) moving M)promised N)shapeO) sparedA) automationconcerns
11、B) enormouslyfantasticE)fascinatedF)featureG) flexibleH) inevitablySection BDirections: 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 derive
12、d. You may choose a paragraph more than once. Each paragraph is marked with a letter. Answer the questions by making the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 2.The History of the Lunch BoxIt was made of shiny, bright pink plastic with a Little Mermaid sticker on the front, and I carried it with me n
13、early every single day. My lunch box was one of my first prized possessions, a proud statement to everyone in my kindergarten:461 love Mermaid-Ariel on my lunch box.”A) That bulky container served me well through my first and second grades, until the live-action version of 101 Dalmatians hit theater
14、s, and I needed the newest red plastic box with characters like Pongo and Perdita on the front. I know Im not alone hereI bet you loved your first lunchbox, too.B) Lunch boxes have been connecting kids to cartoons and TV shows and super-heroes for decades. But it wasnt even boxes. As schools have ch
15、anged in the past century, the midday meal container has evolved right along with them.C) Lets start back at the beginning of the 20th century-the beginning of the lunch box story, really. While there were neighborhood schools in cities and suburbs, one-room schoolhouses were common in rural areas.
16、As grandparents have been saying for generations, kids would travel miles to school in the countryside (often on foot).D) “You had kids in rural areas who couldnt go home from school for lunch, so bringing your lunch wrapped in a cloth, in oiled paper,in a little wooden box or something like that wa
17、s a very long-standing rural tradition JG),But these containers were really durable, lasting years on end. That was great for the consumer, not so much for the manufacturer. So executives at Aladdin hit on an idea that would harness the newfound popularity of television. They covered lunch boxes wit
18、h striking red paint and added a picture of TV and radio cowboy Hopalong Cassidy on the front.I) The company sold 600,000 units the first year. It was a major Ah-ha!” moment, and a wave of other manufacturers jumped on board to capitalize on new TV shows and movies. The Partridge Family, the Addams
19、Family, the Six Million Dollar Man, the Bionic Woman一everything that was on television ended up on a lunch boxjs the founder of the Lunch Box Museum in Columbus, Georgia.It was a great marketing tool because kids were taking that TV show to school with them, and then when they got home they had them
20、 captured back on TV,“ he says.J) And yes, you read that right: There is a lunch box museum, right near the Chattahoochee River. Woodall has more than 2,000 items on display. His favorite? The Green Hornet lunch box, because he used to listen to the radio show back in the 1940s.K) The new trend was
21、also a great example of planned obsolescence, that is, to design a product so that it will soon become unfashionable or impossible to use and will need replacing. Kids would beg for a new lunch box every year to keep up with the newest characters, even if their old lunchbox was perfectly usable.L) T
22、he metal lunch box craze lasted until the mid-1980s,when plastic took over. Two theories exist as to why. The first一and most likely一is that plastic had simply become cheaper. The second theory一 possibly an urban myth一is that concerned parents in several states proposed bans on metal lunch boxes,clai
23、ming kids were using them as “weapons to hit one another. Theres a lot on the internet about a state-wide ban in Florida, but a few days worth of digging by a historian at the Florida State Historical Society found no such legislation. Either way,the metal lunch box was out.M) The last few decades h
24、ave brought a new lunch box revolution, of sorts. Plastic boxes changed to lined cloth sacks, and eventually,globalism brought tiffin containers from India and bento boxes from Japan. Even the old metal lunch boxes have regained popularity. I dont think the /zeyday(鼎盛时期) has passed;”think it has evo
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