英语四级 2020年7月·第1套 Part III Section A 完形填空(选词填空)试卷排版

英语四级2020年7月·第1套 Part III Section A 完形填空(选词填空):共 10 题、占整卷 5%(710 分制折算约 36 分)、卷面选文共 276 个英文单词。本页按真题原卷版式还原该模块卷面(不含解析);逐题解析在「题目解析」页,全文逐句精读在「原文精读」页;本模块真题可免费下载 PDF/Word,入口见上方本题行。

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真题卷第1套(2020-07) • 四级
Part III 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
B)accounted
C)adaptation
D)appropriately
E)considerable
F)effective
G)ladder
H)misread
I)nomination
J)overlooked
K)promoting
L)senior
M)submission
N)suggesting
O)thankfully

选文出处:本文选自 2019年3月8日发表在 www.theguardian.com 上的一篇标题为“Universities need to promote more women to professor”(《大学需要提拔更多女性成为教授》)的文章。

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