大学英语四级分类模拟题258
Reading Comprehension
Why Women Are Judged for Not Having Children?
The role of women, even constitutionally, has been to be in the home, caregiving, produce children and so on. For centuries women who produce many children have been 1 and considered good, productive, "valuable". Women who do not have children, 2 , for whatever reason, generally been 3 to be of lesr value. When we consider the historical context, from 4 to land labourers, we e that it has long been thus. The 5 of continuing the bloodline is an old one that is still with us. And the end of a bloodline is still perceived by some as somehow tragic.
The fact that there are more options available to women now is, ironically, causing 6 mainmenu difficulties for many. On the one hand we are encouraged to have careers, apply to 7 in tho careers, but also be sure to have a family before it's "too late". We are now encouraged to d
o both, not 8 to choo. Ideally, we do both. And so there are a lot of very tired and stretched and dissatisfied women out there who cannot understand why they feel so 9 and unsupported. This "doing-of-both" is not supported very well. There is not a n of 10 for many women out there as a result of the "choices". For many it's merely a source of anxiety, at its root is merely n of "more to do".
A. awful E. equation I. notion M. richness
B. considerable F. excel J. parcel N. royalty
C. converly G. fruitful K. perceived O. unlikely
D. equality H. necessarily L. respected
The First Computer Programmer
Augusta Ada Lovelace is known as the first computer programmer, and, since 2009, she has been recognized 11 on October 15th to highlight the often overlooked contributi
ons of women to math and science. "I started to think that one of the biggest parts of the problem was that women in tech are often 简体转换繁体 12 ," Charman Anderson, the founder of Ada Lovelace Day, said. After reading a study in 2006 by the psychologist Penelope Lockwood, who 13 the scarcity of female role models in the sciences, Charman Anderson thought that a celebration for Lovelace could rai 14 of her successors. In 2014, dozens of celebrations will be thrown around the world.
skywards Looming (隐现) in the background of the celebrations are findings, announced by the Census Bureau, that the 15 of women working in STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) has decread over the past couple of decades; this is due 16 to the fact that women account for a smaller proportion of tho employed in computing. In 1990, women held thirty-four percent of STEM jobs; in 2011, it was twenty-ven percent. Valerie Aurora, the executive director of a nonprofit organization that arranges conferences and training programs to elevate (提升) women working in math and science, is 17 in the first ever Ada Lovelace conference later. "Lovelace is an 18 example of a woman for her time becau she was not only allowed to learn mathematics
but 19 to learn mathematics," Aurora said. "She shows what women can do when given an 20 ."
A. annually E. encouraged I. opportunity M. timely
B. attending F. invisible J. participating N. unusuallily英语
C. awareness G. largely K. rearched O. visual
D. chance H. neglect L. share
t p什么意思 Making Light Work of City Dining
While eco-minded chefs dishing up 21 mushrooms, the average American meal travels around 1,500 miles from farm to table. In the US, processing, packaging, transporting, storing and preparing fruit and vegetables requires about four times as much 22 as growing them in the first place. And around the world, up to a third of fresh food spoils in transit.
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The problem is that while the countryside is a great place to grow plants, with 23 water, flee sunlight and fertilizer from livestock (家畜，畜生), fewer and fewer people are living there. Over half the world now lives in cities, a proportion that will ri to 70% by 2050. If tomorrow's bingle 24 香港留学申请 centres are not to go hungry, they will 25 need to produce much more of the food their dwellers (居民) consume.
At MIT in Cambridge, Massachutts, two groups are 26 the problem from different directions. However, both MIT technologies are focusing on crops that are expensive in 27 , small and easy to grow. And although LEDs and digital nsors are becoming more 28 , neither system can compete on cost with traditional agriculture.
"If you're really going to try to ll tomatoes, you have to compete with the guys with hectares (公顷) under cultivation in Mexico and California," says Mr. Haper, CityFarm's founder. "That's where we're all 29 and no one can do it yet. The technology to compete with 30 methods is still five or ten years away."
A. abundant E. claiming I. hopefully M. supermarkets
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B. affordable F. conventional J. infinitely N. tackling
C. aiming G. definitely K. local O. urban
