2020年12月大学英语四级考试真题（三）Part IWriting(30 minutes)Directions:For this part,you are allowed 30 minutes to write on the topic Changes in the Way ofCommunication.You should write at least 120 words but no more than 180 words.Part IListening Comprehension(25 minutes)说明：由于2020年12月四级考试全国共考了两套听力，本套真题听力与前两套内容相同，只是选项顺序不同，因此在本套真题中不再重复出现。Part亚Reading Comprehension(40 minutes)Section ADirections:In this section,there is a passage with ten blanks.You are required to select one word for eachblank from a list of choices given in a word bank following the passage.Read the passage through carefullybefore making your choices.Each choice in the bank is identified by a letter.Please mark the correspondingletter for each item on Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through the centre.You may not use any of thewords in the bank more than once.The things people make,and the way they make them,determine how cities grow and decline,andinfluence how empires rise and fall.So,any disruption to the world's factories 26.And thatdisruption is surely coming.Factories are being digitised,filled with new sensors and new computers tomake them quicker,more 27,and more efficient.Robots are breaking free from the cages that surround them,learning new skills and new ways ofworking.And 3D printers have long 28 a world where you can make anything,anywhere,from acomputerised design.That vision is 29 closer to reality.These forces will lead to cleaner factories,producing better goods at lower prices,personalised to our individual needs and desires.Humans will be30 many of the dirty,repetitive,and dangerous jobs that have long been a 31 of factorylife.Greater efficiency 32 means fewer people can do the same work.Yet factory bosses in manydeveloped countries are worried about a lack of skilled human workers-and see 33 and robots as asolution.But economist Helena Leurent says this period of rapid change in manufacturing is a 34opportunity to make the world a better place."Manufacturing is the one system where you have got thebiggest source of innovation,the biggest source of economic growth,and the biggest source of great jobs inthe past.You can see it changing.That's an opportunity to 35 that system differently,and if wecan,it will have tremendous significance.A)automationF)featureK)mattersB)concernsG)flexibleL)movingC)enormouslyH)inevitablyM)promisedD)fantasticI)interactionN)shapeE)fascinatedJ)leaningO)spared四级2020年12月47