2020年下半年英语四级阅读理解真题：选词填空

英语四级考试总共有四篇阅读理解，阅读理解部分由词汇理解（1篇）、长篇阅读（1篇）和仔细阅读（2篇）构成。词汇理解的篇章长度为200-250词；长篇阅读的篇章长度约1000词；仔细阅读的每篇长度为300-350词。阅读理解部分的分值比例为35% ，其中词汇理解占5%，长篇阅读占10%，仔细阅读占20%。考试时间40分钟。以下是希赛网英语四六级频道为大家搜集整理的2020年12月英语四级阅读理解真题及参考答案。

Part Ⅲ Reading

Section A

选词填空第一套

When my son completes atask, I can't help but praise him. I's only natural to give praise where praise is due. right? But is there such a thing as too much praise? According to psychologist Katherine Phillip, children don't benefit from 26_____ praise as much as we' d like to think "Parents often praise, bclicv ing thoy are building thcir child's sclf confidencc. Howcvcr,ovcr-praising can have a 27_____effect," says Phillip "When we use the same praise 28_____，it may become empty and no longer valued by the child. It can also become an expectation that anything they do must be 29_____ with praise. This may lead to the child avoiding taking risks due to feature of 30_____ their parents"

Does this mean we should do away with all the praiso? Phillip says no."The key to healthy praisc is to focus on thc process rather than the 31_____. it is the recognition of a child's attcmpt, or the process in which they achieved something, that is essential,"she says "Parents should encourage

their child 10 take the risks needed to learn and grow”

So how do we break the 32_____ of praise we're all so accustomed to? Phillip says it's important to. 33_____between "person praise" and "process raise". "Person praise is 34_____ saying how great someone is. IT's a form personal approval. Process praise as acknowledgment of the efforts to person has just 35_____， Childrcn who receive pcrson praisc arc more likely to feel shame aner losing," says Phillip.

A) choose

B) constant

C) disappointing

D) distinguish

E) exhausting

F) experienced

G) negative

H) outcome

1) pattern

J) plural

K) rcpcatcdly

L) rewarded

M) separately

N) simply

答案

26. B. constant

27. G. negative

28. K repeatedly

29. L rewarded

30. C disappointing

31. H outcome

32. I .patterm

33. D .distinguish

34. N. simply

35 0. undertaken

选词填空第二套

The things people make, and the way they make them, determine how cities grow and decline, and influcnce how empires rise and fall. So, any disruption to the world' s factories matters.

And that disruption is surely coming. Factories are being digitized, flled with new sensors and new computers to make them quicker, more flexible, and more efficient.

Robots are breaking free from the cages that surround them, learning new skills, and new ways of working. And 3D printers have long promised a world where you can make anything,any- where, from a computerised design. That vision is moving closer to reality. These forces will lead 10 cleaner factories, producing better goods at lower prices, personalized to our individual needs and desires. Humans will be spared many of the dirty, repetitive, and dangerous jobs that have long been a feature of factory life.

Greater efficiency inevitably mcans fewcr pcoplc can do the samc work. Yet factory bosses in many developed countries are worried about a lack of skilled human workers- and sce automation and robots as a solution.

But cconomist Hclena Lcurent says this period of rapid change in manufacturing is a fantastic opportunity to make the world a better place. "Manufacturing is the one system where you havc got the biggest source of innovation, the biggest source of cconomic growth, and the

biggest source of great jobs in the past. "Y ou can see it changing. That's an opportunity to shape that system differently, and ifwe can, it will have enormous significance."

答案

26. K) matters

27. G) flexible 

28. M) promised

29. L) moving

30. 0) spared

31. F) feature

32. H) inevitably

33. A) automation

34.D)fantastic

35.N)shape

选词填空第三套

Trust is fundamental to life. If you carmot trust in anything, life becomes intolerable-a constant battle against paranoia and looming disaster. You can't have relationships without trust, let alone good ones. Intimacy depends on it. I suspect more marriages are wrecked by lack of trust than

by actual infidelity. The partner who can 't trust the other not to betray him or her will either drive them away or force them into some real or assumed act of faithlessness.

In the workplace too, trust is essential. An organization without trust will be full of backstabbing, fcar and paranoid suspicion. If you work for a bess who doesnt trust her people to do things right, you'll have a miserable time of it. She'll be checking up on you all the time, correcting“mistakes" and“oversights" and constantly reminding you to do this or that. Colleagues who don't trust one another will need to spend more time watching their backs than doing any useful work. The office politics would make Machiavelli blush.

All this extra work-plus the work we load onto ourselves because we don t trust people either.The chocking, following through, doing things ourselves bccausc we don't bclierc othcrs will do them properly- or at all. If you took all that way, how much extra time would you suddenly find

in your day? How much of your work pressure would disappear?

答案

26-30 CMGAO 31-35 JKFIH

26. C) essential

27.M) suspicion

28. G) miserable

29. A) constamtly

30. O) watching

31. J) records

32. K) removed

33. F) load

34. I) properly

35. H) pressure