2024年06月大学英语四级考试真题(第3套)

Part I

Writing

(30 minutes)

Directions: Suppose your university is seeking students’opinions on whether university canteens should be open to the public. You are now to write an essay to express your view. You will have 30 minutes for the task. You will have 30 minutes for the task. 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

Over the coming decades, millions of jobs will be threatened by robotics and artificial intelligence. Despite intensive academic26__on these developments, there has been little study on how workers27 to being replaced through technology.,To find out, business researchers at TUM and Erasmus University Rotterdam conducted 11 studies and surveys with over 2,000 persons from several countries.

The findings show: In principle, most people view it more28when workers are replaced by other people than by robots or intelligent software. This preference29，however, when it refers to people’s own jobs. When that is the case, the majority of workers find it less upsetting to see their own jobs go to robots than to other employees. In the long term, however, the same people see machines as more threatening to their future role in the workforce. These effects can also be observed among people who have recently become unemployed.

The researchers were able to identify the causes behind these30__paradoxical results, too: People tend to31themselves less with machines than with other people.

Consequently, being replaced by a robot or software32less of a threat to their feeling of self-worth. This reduced self-threat could even be observed when participants assumed that they were being replaced by other employees who relied on technological abilities such as artificial intelligence in their work.

“Even when unemployment results from the33of new technologies, people still judge it in a social context,”says Christoph Fuchs, one of the authors of the study. “It is important to understand these34effects when trying to manage the massive changes in the working world to minimize35in society.”,A) compare

I) introduction

B) contradicts

J) modifications

C) conventional

K) poses

D) debate

L) psychological

E) disruptions

M) react

F) drastically

N) reverses

G) favorably

O) seemingly

H) guarantee,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.No escape as ‘snow day’ becomes ‘e-learning day’

A)Certain institutions, such as schools, are likely to close when bad weather, such as snow,flooding or extreme heat or cold, causes travel difficulties, power outages(断供), or otherwise endangers public safety. When snowy weather arrives in the US, it means the chance of school children benefiting from the long-standing tradition of the “snow day”,when schools are forced to close and students get an unexpected day off.

B) The criterion for a snow day is primarily the inability of school buses to operate safely on their routes and danger to children who walk to school. Often, the school remains officially open even though buses do not run and classes are canceled. Severe weather that causes cancellation or delay is more likely in regions that are less able to handle the situation. Snow days are less common in more northern areas of the United States that are used to heavy winter snowfall, because municipalities are well equipped to clear roads and remove snow. In areas less accustomed to snow even small snowfalls of an inch or two may render roads unsafe.,Snow days are a familiar theme in American film and TV shows, with children getting the good news and then running outside for some seasonal snowman-building and snowball throwing, against a background of joyful pop music. But the tradition is now over for pupils in several USstates such asSouth Carolina, Nevada, Georgia and

Indiana. This academic year, manyschool boards have introduced policies which require students to work from home if the school is shut by snow or extreme weather.They are known as “e-learning days”, which certainly sounds less fun than a snow day.

D) Teachers are also losing their snow days and instead will be expected to be on hand to take a virtual register and answer students’questions online. A pilot programme in a school district in Anderson County,South Carolina, has supplied students with electronic tablets loaded with assignments to complete in the event of a school closure.

If it is successful, it could be rolled out across the state.

E) But some parents object to the new policy if the vigorous debate on the Facebook page of Anderson County school district is anything to go by. “When it snows, let the kids enjoy it,” said one commenter. Another said the decision would “ruin school even more”, and someone else called snow days “a fun part of childhood”. But supporters of the policy say it means children will miss fewer days of school. It will also bring to an end a less popular US high school tradition: the “make-up day”, which requires students in many states to make up the time lost due to weather by working during school holidays.,………………更多内容，全文完整word电子版，排版精美漂亮，可直接下载使用,[

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,Snow days are a familiar theme in American film and TV shows, with children getting the good news and then running outside for some seasonal snowman-building and snowball throwing, against a background of joyful pop music. But the tradition is now over for pupils in several USstates such asSouth Carolina, Nevada, Georgia and

Indiana. This academic year, manyschool boards have introduced policies which require students to work from home if the school is shut by snow or extreme weather.They are known as “e-learning days”, which certainly sounds less fun than a snow day.

D) Teachers are also losing their snow days and instead will be expected to be on hand to take a virtual register and answer students’questions online. A pilot programme in a school district in Anderson County,South Carolina, has supplied students with electronic tablets loaded with assignments to complete in the event of a school closure.

If it is successful, it could be rolled out across the state.

E) But some parents object to the new policy if the vigorous debate on the Facebook page of Anderson County school district is anything to go by. “When it snows, let the kids enjoy it,” said one commenter. Another said the decision would “ruin school even more”, and someone else called snow days “a fun part of childhood”. But supporters of the policy say it means children will miss fewer days of school. It will also bring to an end a less popular US high school tradition: the “make-up day”, which requires students in many states to make up the time lost due to weather by working during school holidays.