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1、2023年12月英语四级考试真且试卷(1)Questions 36 to一，are based an the following passage. As an Alaskan fisherman, Tbne句June,认used m think that比was safe fromindustrial pollutants饰央物)at his home in“一.town with.population of之绷Pea内.心4,000 eagles, with 8 million acne of protected wild land nearby. But inearly 2023, Jun
2、e agreed to take part in a 36_ of 35 Americans from seven states. It wasabiomonitoring project, in which peoples blood and urine俘J were tested far 37_ ofchemicals一in this case, three potentially dangerous classes of compounds found incommon household 38_ like face cream, tin cans, and shower curtain
3、s The results一r39_ in November in a report called Is It in Us?妙an environmental group一wererather worrying. Every am of the participants, 40_ from an Illinois state senator to aMassachusetts minister, tested positive for all three classes of pollutants And while the41_ presence of these chemicals doe
4、s not 42_ indicate a health ri式the fact thattypical Americans carry these chemicals at all 43_ June and油fellow件血ipants Cearty, there are chemicals in our bodies that don t 44_ there. A large, ongoingstudy conducted妙the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has found 14,6chemicals in Americans o
5、f all ages And in 2WS, the Environmental Working Groupfound an 45_ of 270 chemicals in the blood of 10 new-bores Our babies are beingborn pre-polluted, says Sharyle Patton of Commonweal, which cosponsored Is It inUs? This is going to be the next big environmental issue after climate change.A注意:此部分试题
6、请在答题卡z上作答。A) analysesB) averageC) belongD) demonstratedE) excessF) extendingG) habituallyH) necessarily乃productsJ) rangingK) releasedL)shockedM) simpleN) survey0) tracesIn Ilard Economy for All Ages. Older Isnt Better.二Its BrutalA Young graduates are in debt, out of work and on their parents couches
7、. People in their 30s and 40s cant afford to buy homes or have children. Retirees are earning near-zero interest on their savings.B In the current listless缺乏活力旳)economy, every generation has a claim to having been most injured. But the Labor Departments latest jobs reports and other recent data pres
8、ent a strong case for crowning baby boomers(二战后生育高峰期出生旳人)A) as the greatest victims of the recession and its dreadful consequences.C These Americans in their 50s and early 60s一those near retirement age who do not yet have access to Medicare and Social Security一have lost the most earnings power of an
9、y age group, with their household incomes 10 percent below what they made when the recovery began three years ago, according to Sentier Research, a data analysis company. Their retirement savings and home values fell sharply at the worst possible time: just before they needed to cash out. They are s
10、upporting both aged parents and unemployed young-adult children, earning them the unlucky nickname Generation Squeeze.D New research suggests that they may die sooner, because their health, incomeAsecurity and mental well-being were battered(重创)by recession at a crucial time intheir lives. A recent
11、study by economists at Wellesley College found that people wholost their jobs in the few years before becoming qualified for Social Security lost upto three years from their life expectancy(预期寿命)， largely because they no longerhad access to affordable health care.E Unemployment rates for Americans n
12、earing retirement are far lower than those for young people, who are recently out of school, with fewer skills and a shorter work history. But once out of a job, older workers have a much harder time finding another one. Over the last year, the average duration of unemployment for older people was 5
13、3 weeks, compared with 19 weeks for teenagers, according to the Labor Departments jobs report released on Friday.F The lengthy process is partly because older workers are more likely to have been laid off from industries that are downsizing, like manufacturing. Compared with the rest of the populati
14、on, older people are also more likely to own their own homes and be less mobile than renters, who can move to new job markets.G Older workers are more likely to have a disability of some sort, perhaps limiting therange of jobs that offer realistic choices. They may also be less inclined, at leastini
15、tially, to take jobs that pay far less than their old positions.H Displaced boomers also believe they are victims of age discrimination, because employers can easily find a young, energetic worker who will accept lower pay andIJwho can potentially stick around for decades rather than a few years.In a survey by the center of older workers who were laid off during the recession,just one in six had found another job, and half of that group had accepted pay cuts.14% of the re-employed said the pay in their new job was less than half what
