1、cet4阅读理解word范文模板 22页本文部分内容来自网络整理,本司不为其真实性负责,如有异议或侵权请及时联系,本司将立即删除!= 本文为word格式,下载后可方便编辑和修改! = cet4阅读理解篇一:201X年 英语 四级阅读附答案 Section ADirections:In this section, there is a passage with ten blanks. You are required to select one wordfor each blank from a list of choices given in a word bank following the
2、 passage. Read the passagethrough 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 throughthe centre. You may not use any of the words in the bank more than once.For decades
3、, Americans have taken for granted the XXXX development of new technologies.The innovations(创新)XXXX opment during World War II and afterwards were(36)_ to theprosperity of the nation in the second half of the 20th century. Those innovations, upon whichvirtually all aspects of(37)_ society now depend
4、, were possible because the United Statesthen(38)_ the world in mathematics and science education. Today, however, despiteincreasing demand for workers with strong skills in mathematics and science, the(39)_ ofdegrees awarded in science, math, and engineering are decreasing.The deeling in degreeprod
5、uction in what are called the STEM disciplines(science, technology, engineering, andmath.)seems to be(40)_related to the comparatively weak performance by U.S.schoolchildren on international assessments of math and science. Many students entering collegehave weak skills in mathematics. According to
6、the 201X report of the Business Higher EducationForum, 22 percent of college freshmen must take remediat(补习的)math(41)_, and less thanhalf of the students who plan to major in science or engineering(42)_complete a major inthose fields.The result has been a decrease in the number of American college g
7、raduates who have the skills,(43)_ in mathematics, to power a workforce that can keep the country at the forefront(前言)of innovation and maintain its standard of living. With the(44)_ performance of Americanstudents in math and science has come increased competition from students from other countries
8、that have strongly supported education in these areas. Many more students earn(45)_ in theSTEM disciplines in developing countries than in the United States.A.acceleratingB.actually C.closely D.contemporary E.courses F.critical G.decliningH.degrees I.especially J.future K.led L.met M.procedursN.prop
9、ortions O.sphetesSection 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 fromwhich the information is derived. You may choose a paragraph more than once. Each par
10、agraph ismarked with a letter. Answer the questions by marking the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 2.Ban sugary drinks that will add fuel to the obesity warA On a train last Thursday, I sat opposite a man who was so fat he filled more than one seat.He was pale and disfigured and looked sick to
11、death, which he probably was: obesity(肥胖的)leads to many nasty ways of dying. Looking around the carriage, I saw quite a few people likehim, including a couple of fatty children with swollen checks pressing against their eyes. Thesepeople are part of what is without exaggeration an epidemic(流行病)of ob
12、esity.B But it is quite unnecessary: there is a simple idea- far from new- that could spare millions ofsuch people a lifetime of chronic(长期的)ill health, and at the same time save the National HealthService(NHS)at least 14 billion a year in England and Wales. There would, you might think, beconsidera
13、ble public interest in it. This simple idea is that sugar is as good- or as bad- as poison andshould be avoided. It is pure, white and deadly, as Professor John Yudkin described it 40 years agoin a revolutionary book of that name. The subtitle was How Sugar Is Killing Us.C In its countless hidden fo
14、rms, in ready meals, junk food and sweet drinks, sugar leads toaddiction(瘾), to hormonal upsets to the appetite, to metabolic(新陈代谢的)malfunctions andobesity and from there to type 2 diabetes(糖尿病)and its many horrible complication. If peoplereally grasped that, they would try to kick the habit, partic
15、ularly as Britain is the fat man ofEurope . They might even feel driven to support government measures to prevent people fromconsuming this deadly stuff. Yet so far this idea has met little but resistance.D It is not difficult to imagine the vested interests(既得利益集团)lined up against any sugarcontrol-
16、 all the food and drink manufacturers, processors, promoters and retailers who make sucheasy pickings out of the magic powers of sugar. Then there are the liberals, with whom I wouldnormally side, who protest that government regulation would be yet another instance ofinterference in our lives.EThat is true, but people
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