英语四级阅读理解模拟试题及答案详解
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英语四级阅读理解模拟试题及答案详解19
【阅读练习】
Americans are proud of their variety and
individualty, yet they love and respect
few
things more than a uniform. Why are uniforms so
__1__ in the United States?
Among the
arguments for uniforms, one of the first is that
in the eyes of most
people they look more
__2__ than civilian(百姓的) clothes. People have
become
conditioned to __3__ superior quality
from a man who wears a uniform. The
television
repairman who wears a uniform tends to __4__ more
trust than one who
appears in civilian
clothes. Faith in the __5__ of a garage mechanic
is increased by a
uniform. What an easier way
is there for a nurse, a policeman, a barber, or a
waiter to
__6__ professional identity(身份) than
to step out of uniform? Uniforms also have
many __7__ benefits. They save on other
clothes. They save on laundry bills. They
are
often more comfortable and more durable than
civilian clothes.
Primary among the
arguments against uniforms is their lack of
variety and the
consequent loss of __8__
experienced by people who must wear them. Though
there
are many types of uniforms, the wearer
of any particular type is generally stuck with it,
without __9__, until retirement. When people
look alike, they tend to think, speak,
and act
__10__, on the job at least.
[A]skill
[B]popular
[C]get
[D]change
[E]similarly
[F]professional
[G]character
[H]individuality
[I]inspire
[J]differently
[K]expect
[L]practical
[M]recall
[N]lose
[O]ordinary
ANSWERS:
1.选B)。从文章的第一句they love and respect few thins more
than a uniform
“他们又无比热爱和崇尚制服”,说明了制服在美国很受欢迎。因此选项
B)popular符合原文意思。选项中的professional“职业的”、practica
l“实用的”
和ordinary“普通的,平常的”都不符合第一段的意思。
2.选F)。此处应填形容词。从more...than civilian clothes可知,此处要填
的
形容词意思与civilian相对,说明制服的特点。选项中的形容词中只有profession
al
“职业的”和civilian相对的,故F)正确。而pratical“实用的”和ordin
ary“平
常的”意思都不能和civilian对应,故排除。
3.选K)。由be
conditioned to do
sth.“习惯于”可知,此处应填动词原形。
从前面的look
more“看起来更...”和后面的tend to“倾向于”可知,这段要说明
的是人们的主观印象
,应填入表示“期望(得到)”的单词,只有K)expect符合原
文语气。选项中get“得到”与
上下文的语气不符合。
4.选I)。此处应填动词原形。从原文中“人们习惯...从穿制服的人
那儿得到
优质服务。”可知,人们更信任穿制服的人,即制服能使人产生信任感。选项中
的动词
原形中只有inspire“使产生”符合文章。
5.选A)。此处应填名词。前面两句表达了人们对穿制服的人更加信任的意思,
那么对于garage
mechanic“汽车修理工”来说,人们信任的是它的技术,而不是
人品,故选项中只有A)ski
ll符合原文意思。
6.选N)。此处应填动词。...step out of unifor
m“脱掉制服”是对护士、警察
等来说是......职业身份的很简单的方式。脱下制服就是失去了职
业身份,由此可
以推知此处应填N)lose。
7.选L)。此处应填形容词,说明制服
的其他有点。从下文“...节省购买其他
衣服的开销,节省洗衣费用,比便服更舒适也更耐穿”可知,
制服除了增加信任
感还有实际的优点。选项中的pratical“实用的”和ordinary“平常
的”,很明显
L)pratical符合原文意思。
8.选H)。此处应填名词。文章手
段就说“美国人为自己的多元化和个性化感
到高傲无比,然而他们又无比热爱和崇尚制服”,其中包含制
服使他们失去自己
的个性的意思,那么联系第一段,此处指出的制服的缺点即为失去个性,故选项
H)individuality正确。individuality强调与他人特点的区别,而charac
ter指的是个
人特定的内在本质。
9.选D)。此处应填名词。前面说制服让人失去了
个性,虽然有很多种制服,
但穿上制服的人直至退休都是那件制服,所有是没有变化的,故此处应填ch
ange,
故D)正确。
10.选E)。此处应填副词,修饰动词act。前面指出...look alike,they tend
to...,
说明此处填的词和alike意思相近。选项种副词有similarly和differ
ently,很明显,
E)similarly与alike意思相近,故选E)。
英语四级阅读理解模拟试题及答案详解17
It’s never easy to
admit you are in the wrong. Being human, we all
need to know the
art of apologizing. Look back
with honesty and think how often you’ve judged
roughly, said __1__ things, pushed yourself
ahead at the expense of a friend. Then
count
the occasions when you indicated clearly and __2__
that you were sorry. A bit
frightening, isn’t
it? Frightening because some deePwisdom in us
knows that when
even a small wrong has been
committed, some mysterious moral feeling is __3__,
and
it stays out of balance until fault is
acknowledged and __4__ is expressed.I remember
a doctor friend, telling me about a man who
came to him with a variety of signs:
headaches, insomnia and stomach trouble. No
__5__ cause could be found. Finally
my friend
said to the man, you tell me what’s worrying you,
I can’t
helPyou.’s will,
he had been
cheating his brother, who lived abroad, of his
__7__. Then and there the
wise old doctor made
the man write to his brother asking __8__ and
enclosing a
cheque as the first stePin
restoring their good relation. He then went with
him to mail
box in the corridor. As the letter
disappeared, the man burst into tears.
He said, ’m __9__.
damaged
relationshiPbut also make it stronger. If you can
think of someone who
deserves an apology from
you, someone you have wronged, or just neglected,
do
something about it right now.A)heal
B)mental C)unkind D)regretE)accurately
F)confessed G)inheritance H)physicalI)cured
J)treat K)truly
L)unfaithfulM)forgiveness
N)disturbed O)excuse
Answers:1.选C)。此处应填形容词。从后面的pushed yourself ahead at
the
expense of a friend可知,说的是不好的话,可选项有unkind和u
nfaithful,但由
前面的judged roughly“粗鲁的评判”可知这里表示说话时不
考虑他人的感受,
因此unkind“刻薄的”更加符合上下文语气。
2.选K)。由clearly and一词可知,此处应填副词,与closely一起修饰道歉
时的
情形。选项有accurately和truly,由“回想一下你曾明确地并......地表示自己
歉意的场合”,能使句意通顺的是truly“真诚地”,而accurately一般表示“(数
据计
算得)精确地”,故排除。
3.选N)。it stays out of balance
until...,其中it=some mysterious moral feeling
可推出
,出于道义上的原因,人会感到不安,故选disturbed“不安的”。而confessed
“公
开承认的”不符合句意。
4.选D)。此处应填名词。从“知道承认错误,表达......之后
,才能觉得安心,”
选项中只有regret“歉意”符合题意。
5.选H)。此处应填形容词。由headaches,insomnia(失眠)and stomach
trouble
可推出,可选项有mental和physical,由朋友的话“Unless...
Worrying you, I can’
t
helPyou.可知这个人是由于心理上的原因,而不是生理上的,故选physical即
No
physical cause...。
6.选F)。此处应填动词。选项中的动词有confe
ssed,cured和disturbed,但
由After some
hesitation可推出,此人是在向医生坦白情况,故选择confessed“坦
白”。
7.选G)。此处应填名词。由as executor of his father’s wi
ll可推知,此处说
明的是,在遗产继承方面,他一直在欺骗他居住在国外的兄弟,故只有选项
inheritance符合题意。
8.选M)。此处应填名词。由restoring
their good relation可推知,他是写信给
他兄弟请求原谅,故选项中只有forg
iveness符合题意。选项中excuse用作名词
时,一般解释为“理由,借口”而没有“原谅”
的意思,故排除。
9.选I)。由第二段最后一句waht’s worrying
you和这个人的感情Thank
you
可推出,此处说明的是医生治好了他的心病,选项中只有cured符合题意。
10.选A)。此处应填动词的圆形。But also make it
stronger“使人际关系更加
稳固”,it指代a damaged relationship
,由此可知,空格处应填表示“修复”的词,
选项中的heal则有“治愈,修复”的意思,符合原文意
思。treat一般专指医学
上的治疗,用在此处不合适。
导读:It’s never
easy to admit you are in the wrong. Being human,
we all need to
know the art of apologizing.
Look back with honesty and think how often you’ve
judged roughly, said C)unkind things, pushed
yourself ahead at the expense of a
friend.
Then count the occasions when you indicated
clearly and K)truly that you
were sorry. A bit
frightening, isn’t it? Frightening because some
deePwisdom in us
knows that when even a small
wrong has been committed, some mysterious moral
feeling is N)disturbed, and it stays
out of balance until fault is acknowledged and
D)regret is expressed. (Frightening... and it
stays...。这个句子实际是省略了it
is的
一个带有复杂原因状语从句的句子。原因从句中包含了一个由and 引导的并列
宾语从
句,在第一个宾语从句中又有一个由when引导的时间状语从句,而在第
二个宾语从句中包含一个由u
ntil引导的时间状语从句。)
I remember a doctor friend,
telling me about a man who came to him with a
variety of signs: headaches, insomnia and
stomach trouble. No H)physical cause
could be
found. Finally my friend said to the man, you tell
me what’s
worrying you, I can’t
helPyou.
executor of his faher’s will, he had
been cheating his brother, who lived abroad, of
his
G)inheritance. Then and there the wise old
doctor made the man write to his brother
asking M)forgiveness and enclosing a cheque as
the first stePin restoring their good
relation. He then went with him to mail box in
the corridor. As the letter disappeared,
the
man burst into tears. ’m I)cured.
heartfelt
apology can not only A)heal a damaged
relationshiPbut also make it stronger.
If you
can think of someone who deserves an apology from
you, someone you have
weonged, or just
neglected, do something about it right now.(If you
can think... or just
neglected...。这是一个复合句,If引导
条件状语从句,条件从句中包含两个宾语
从句,一个是由who引导的定语从句,另一个是省略了关系代
词的定语从句,
即you have wronged, or just neglected。)
阅读文章的结构了解文章的结构,能够让我们在阅读时更迅速地把握文章的脉
络和文章主旨,
对于提高做题效率更有重要意义。 文章的结构模式大体上分为
四类。这四类文章在一篇文章中并不是独
立存在的,有时往往是几种段落结构模
式交织在一起。总分型 这类文章遵循从观点到材料,从抽象到具
体的逻辑法则,
其基本框架是先总论后分论,中心论点出现在分论之前。问题解决型 首先说明
情况和背景,然后提出问题,接着作出反应,也就是解决问题,当然问题也可能
没有解决或没有完全解决
,最后给予适当的评价或者分析。总体布局上有时会舍
去背景部分或评价部分。匹配型
段落的发展主线为两种事物之间的类比:两种
论点概论----一种论点----
另一种论点;或者是现象----一种事物----
另一种事物----
得出结论。作者一般不发表态度和结论。假设真实型
文章结构模式是:假设观
点----进行反驳----作者观点。作者往往在文中开头即提出一种观点或
主张,然后
从赞同与反对两个方面进行反驳或澄清,经过论证之后才提出作者本人的观点。
英语四级阅读理解模拟试题及答案详解18
Many a young person
tells me he wants to be a writer. I always __1__
such people,
but I also explain that there’sa
big difference between
most cases these
individuals are dreaming of __2__ and fame, notthe
long hours alone
at a typewriter. ’ve got to
want to write,I say to them, want to be a
writer.
writer kissed by fortune there
arethousands more whose longing is never __4__.
When I left a 20-year career in the US. Coast
Guard to become a freelancewriter(自由
撰稿人), I
had no __5__ at all. What I did have was a friend
who found me my room
in a New York apartment
building. It didn’t even matter that it was
__6__and had no
bathroom. I immediately bought
a used manual typewriter and feltlike a __7__
a year or so, however, I still hadn’t
gotten a break and began to __8__
myself. It
was so hard to sell a storythat __9__ made enough
to eat. But I knew I
wanted to write. I had
dreamed about it for years. I wasn’t going to be
one ofthose
people who die wondering, what if?
I would keeo putting my dream to the test----even
though it meant living with __10__and fear of
failure. This is the Shadow land of
hope, and
anyone with a dream learn to live there.A) barely
B) genuine C) rewarded
D) doubtE) lonely F)
poverty G) persuade H) prospectsI) uncertainty
J)impossibly K)
encourage L)awardedM) alone
N)wealth O)cold
Answers:1.选K)。
此处应填动词的原形。可选项有doubt, persuade, encourage,
但由al
ways推知,作者是在鼓励那些想要成为作家的人,而不是怀疑也不是说
服,故排除doubt和pe
rsuade而选encourage。
2.选N)。由空格后的fame可知,此处应填名词。
可选项有prospects和wealth,
但由dreaming of 与第二段中The
reality is... poor-paying可推知,那些想当作家
的人梦想的是金钱和名誉
,而不是前途,故排除prospects而选wealth。
3.选E)。此处应填形容词,private, poor-paying一起修饰affair。选项中有l
onely
和alone,能修饰affair的只有lonely,alone表示“孤独的”时,通
常作表语,故排
除alone而选lonely。
4.选C)。此处应填动词的被动形式
。可选项有rewarded和awarded,前者可表
示“(为所希望的举动得到的)回报”,后者
作动词时表示“颁发,授予”,故只
有rewarded符合题意而排除awarded。
5.选H)。此处应填名词。“当我辞别了我在美国海岸警卫队20年工作成为一
个自由撰稿人时,没有
任何......可言”,可选项有prospects和wealth,但wealth
一般指抽象意
义上的“金钱”,因此排除wealth而选prospects“前途”。
6.选O)。it指代的是apartment building,从had no bathroom可知这
个公寓条
件很差,选项中只有cold能说明公寓的条件差,故选择O)cold。
7.
选B)。“我马上买了一台旧的手动打字机,感觉自己就好像是一个......的作
家”,由前面提到
的to become a freelance writer可推知,此处作者是想成为一个
真正的
作家,故选项中只有genuine“真正的”符合题意。
8.选D)。由空格前的to可知,此
处应填动词的原形。可选项有
doubt,persuade,encourage,但由still
hadn’t gotten a break在写作上还没有任何进
展”,所以此处应理解为他开始怀
疑自己的选择是否正确,故doubt符合文意。
9.选A)。that从句结构完整,后面有m
ade,故此处应填副词。可选项有barely
和impossibly,因that引导的从句是对
story的解释,再由hard一词可推知,此
处应填的副词应表达肯定的意思,故排除imposs
ibly而选barely“仅仅,刚刚”。
10.选I)。由空格后的and可知,此处应填名词。由fear of failure可知,所填
词应表示不好的境遇,可选项有poverty和uncertainty;又由fear可推知,此处强
调的是生活的变化无常,而不是生活的贫困,故选uncertainty。
导读:Many
a young person tells me he wants to be a writer. I
always
K)encourage such people, but I also
explain that there’s a big difference between
a writerand writing. In most cases these
individuals are dreaming of
N)wealth and fame,
not the long hours alone at a typewriter.(these
individuals指代的
是Many a young people。) ’ve got
to want to write,
be a writer.
every writer
kissed by fortune there are thousands more whose
longing is never
C)rewarded.(kissed by
fortune意为“受到命运之神的亲睐”,由此可推出第4题应
填的词。)
When I left a 20-year career in the US. Coast
Guard to become a freelance
writer(自由撰稿人), I
had no H)prospects at all. What I did have was a
friend who
found me my room in a New York
apartment building. (What I did... my room
in...。这
是一个复合句,What引导的是主语从句,who引导的定语从句修饰a
friend,由此
可看出,作者刚开始从事写作时的艰难。)
It didn’t
even matter that it was O)cold and had no
bathroom. I immediately
bought a used manual
typewriter and felt like a B)genuine a year or
so,
however, I still hadn’t gotten a break and
began to D)doubt myself. It was so hard to
sell a story that A)barely made enough to eat.
But I knew I wanted to write. I had
dreamed
about it for years. I wasn’t going to be one of
those people who die
wondering, what if? I
would keePputting my dream to the test----even
though it meant
living with I)uncertainty and
fear of failture.(put... to the test意为“使.....经受考验”
,
此处表明了作者态度,即要成为作家必须忍受很多困难。)This is the Shadow
land
of hope, and anyone with a dream learn to
live there.
英语四级阅读理解模拟试题及答案详解20
【阅读练习】
What is it about Americans
and food? We love to eat, but we feel 1 about it
afterward. We say we want only the best, but
we strangely enjoy junk food. We’re 2
with
health and weight loss but face an unprecedented
epidemic of obesity(肥胖).
Perhaps the 3 to this
ambivalence(矛盾情结) lies in our history. The first
Europeans
came to this continent searching for
new spices but went in vain. The first cash
crop(经济作物) wasn’t eaten but smoked. Then there
was Prohibition, intended to
prohibit drinking
but actually encouraging more 4 ways of doing it.
The immigrant experience, too, has been one
of inharmony. Do as Romans do
means eating
what “real Americans” eat, but our nation’s food
has come to be 5 by
imports—pizza, say, or hot
dogs. And some of the country’s most treasured
cooking
comes from people who arrived here in
shackles.
Perhaps it should come as no
surprise then that food has been a medium for the
nation’s defining struggles, whether at the
Boston Tea Party or the sitins at
southern
lunch counters. It is integral to our concepts of
health and even morality
whether one refrains
from alcohol for religious reasons or evades meat
for political.
But strong opinions have not
brought 7 . Americans are ambivalent about what
they put in their mouths. We have become 8 of
our foods, especially as we learn more
about
what they contain.
The 9 in food is still
prosperous in the American consciousness. It’s no
coincidence, then, that the first Thanksgiving
holds the American imagination in such
bondage(束缚). It’s what we eat—and how we 10 it
with friends, family, and
strangers—that help
define America as a community today.
A.
answer I. creative
B. result J. belief
C. share K. suspicious
D.
guilty L. certainty
E. constant M. obsessed
F. defined N. identify
G. vanish O.
ideals
H. adapted
【答案及详解】
1. D
feel是一个系动词,可以判断此处应填入一个形容词,通过上下文意思,
以及后面介词about,
可以确定选项为D项guilty, 短语feel guilty about sth.
“对„„感到有愧”。全句的意思为“我们很爱吃,但是往往在吃完之后又有负
罪感”。
2.M be obsessed with 为固定搭配,原意为“被„„附上缠住迷住心窍”,
放在本句表示“十分重视”。全句的意思为“我们很关心健康和减肥,但肥胖却
又空前地在蔓延
”。
3. A
本句缺一个名词作主语,并且根据和介词to的搭配,可以推断出正确
选项answer.
4. I本句根据more和ways可以判断出需要填入一个形容词构成比较级,根
据上下文,表示“
旨在禁止酗酒的禁酒令,却激发了更多新奇的方法来酗酒”,
可以确定I为正确选项。
5. F 本题较难。根据be 和by
确定应填入一个过去分词。再根据上下文,
上文表示“应该吃典型的美国人吃的食物”,下文通过
but 转折,表示实际上“美
国的食物已经被诸如比萨和热狗这样的舶来品所诠释了”,因此可以确定
F为正
确选项。
6.B政治结果,可根据宗教原因religious
reasons来推断此处填政治结果。
7. L由于横线后面没有宾语,可以确定不是形成br
ing的短语,这样本句所
缺的为一名词,做bring的宾语。根据下文解释,“美国人对他们所吃的
食物的
态度是矛盾的”,可以推出本句意义为“坚定的观点也不是确定不变的”。因此可
以确定
L为正确选项。
8.
K系动词become后应填入一个形容词,和后面介词of形成短语bebecome
suspicious of “对„„感到怀疑”。
9. J本句缺一个名词作主语,
并且根据和介词in的搭配,可以推断出正确选
项belief,(have)belief in
sth.“ 相信„„”。
10. C本句是一般现在时,缺一个动词,且和with
搭配,确定选项为share,
share sth. with sb., “与某人分享某事”。
英语四级阅读理解模拟试题及答案详解22
【阅读练习】
Now
let us look at how we read. When we read a printed
text, our eyes move
across a page in short,
jerky movement. We recognize words usually when
our eyes
are still when they fixate. Each time
they fixate, we see a group of words. This is
known as the recognition span or the visual
span. The length of time ofr which the
eyes
stop ---the duration of the fixation ----varies
considerably from person to person.
It also
vaies within any one person according to his
purpose in reading and his
familiarity with
the text. Furthermore, it can be affected by such
factors as lighting
and tiredness.
Unfortunately, in the past, many reading
improvement courses have concentrated
too much
on how our eyes move across the printed page. As a
result of this
misleading emphasis on the
purely visual aspects of reading, numerous
exercises have
been devised to train the eyes
to see more words at one fixation. For instance,
in some
exercises, words are flashed on to a
screen for, say, a tenth or a twentieth of a
second.
One of the exercises has required
students to fix their eyes on some central point,
taking in the words on either side. Such word
patterns are often constructed in the
shape of
rather steep pyramids so the reader takes in more
and more words at each
successive fixation.
All these exercises are very clever, but it’s one
thing to improve a
person’s ability to see
words and quite another thing to improve his
ability to read a
text efficiently. Reading
requires the ability to understand the
relationship between
words. Consequently, for
these reasons, many experts have now begun to
question the
usefulness of eye training,
especially since any approach which
trains a
person to read isolated words and phrases would
seem unlikely to help
him in reading a
continuous text.
Q:
1. The time of the
recognition span can be affected by the following
facts
except ________ .
A. one’s
familiarity with the text
B. one’s purpose
in reading
C. the length of a group of words
D. lighting and tiredness
2. The
author may believe that reading ______.
A.
requires a reader to take in more words at each
fixation
B. requires a reader to see words
more quickly
C. demands an deeply-
participating mind
D. demands more mind than
eyes
3 What does the author mean by saying
“but it’s one thing to improve a
person’s
ability to see words and quite another thing to
improve his ability to
read a text
efficiently.” in the second parapraph?
A.
The ability to see words is not needed when an
efficient reading is conducted.
B. The
reading exercises mentioned can’t help to improve
both the ability to see
and to comprehend
words.
C. The reading exercises mentioned
can’t help to improve an efficient reading.
D. The reading exercises mentioned has done a
great job to improve one’s
ability to see
words.
4. Which of the following is NOT
true?
A. The visual span is a word or a
group of words we see each time.
B. Many
experts began to question the efficiency of eye
training.
C. The emphasis on the purely
visual aspects is misleading.
eye training
will help readers in reading a continuous text.
5. The tune of the author in writing this
article is ________
A critical
B neutral
C prssimistic
D optimistic
【答案及详解】
答案:CCCDA
解题思路
1 C。
事实细节题。第一段提到了影响视幅的因素:不同的人,不同的阅读
目的,对材料的熟悉程度,光线,疲
劳。C“一组词的长度”不是能影响视幅的
因素,是本题的答案。
2 C。观点态度题。
作者在第二段第二句提到,眼睛训练课程只注重了阅读
的视觉因素。倒数第二句书哦,阅读要求具备理解
单词间关系的能力。因此选项
C“阅读需要大脑的深度参与”正确。作者没有否定阅读的视觉因素的必要
性,
但是也没有说读者应该练习拓宽视幅,加快阅读速度。所以AB两项都不正确。
作者没有对
大脑和眼睛在阅读过程中的重要性进行对比,所以不选D
3 C。 作者在这句话中先是肯定了那
些阅读练习提高看单词的能力,然后提
出了有效阅读概念。后面句中还指出,有效阅读需要的是理解单词
间的联系的能
力。所以作者的意思应该是那些(训练眼睛的)阅读练习对与有效的阅读无益。B
与文章相反。D句是蕴涵其中一个意思,却不是作者想表达的方向。
4 D。
第二段最后一句说,眼睛训练对于帮助读者阅读连贯文章无益,所以
D是错的,是本题答案。
5 A。 参考前面的结构剖析,作者写本文的主要目的是对那些只关注阅读的
视觉因素的阅读能力课程
进行批判,所以答案应该是A。
英语四级阅读理解模拟试题及答案详解23
【阅读练习】
As is known to all, the organization
and management of wages and salaries are
very
complex. Generally speaking, the Accounts
Department is __1__ for calculations
of pay,
while the Personnel Department is interested in
discussions with the
employees about pay.
If a firm wants to __2__ a new wage and salary
structure, it is essential that the
firm
should decide on a __3__ of job evaluation and
ways of measuring the
performance of its
employees. In order to be __4__, that new pay
structure will need
agreement between Trade
Unions and employers. In job evaluation, all of
the
requirements of each job are defined in a
detailed job description. Each of thsoe
requirements is given a value, usually in
total value for the job. For middle and higher
management, a special method is used
to
evaluate managers on their knowledge of the job,
their responsibility, and their
__6__ to solve
problems. Because of the difficulty in measuring
management work,
however, job grades for
managers are often decided without __7__ to an
evaluation
system based on points.
In
attempting to design a pay system, the Personnel
Department should __8__
the value of each job
with these in the job market. __9__, payment for a
job should
vary with any differences in the
way that the job is performed. Where it is simple
to
measure the work done, as in the works done
with hands, monetary encouragement
schemes are often chosen, for __10__
workers, where measurement is difficult,
methods of additional payments are employed.
[A]compare
[B]responsible
[C]useful
[D]added
[E]find
[F]reference
[G]indirect
[H]method
[I]successful
[J]combined
[K]Necessarily
[L]capacity
[M]ability
[N]Basically
[O]adopt
【答案及详解】
Answers:
1.选B)。此处应填形容词。原文意思为“会计部门...计算
报酬”,选项中的
形容词responsible“负责任的”,useful“有用的”,indir
ect“间接的”,successful
“成功的”,其中indirect不能与for连用,排除
;剩余几项中只有B)responsible
意义符合原句,其他均不符合,故排除。
2.选O)。此处应填动词原形。本文主题就是采用一种新的工资和薪水制度时
需要注意的问题,选项中
的动词原形有compare“比较”,find“找到”,adopt“采
纳”,分别带入原文,只有
adopt最符合原文意思,故选O).
3.选H)。此处应填名词。从原文看,and连接并列
结构,所以要填的词应与
and后面的ways意思一致,选项中的名词只有mathod =
ways,故选H)method。
4.选I)。此处应填形容词。上文说新的工资制度需要一套
决定工作评估和衡
量雇员表现的方法,说的是制度“是否有用”的问题。这句说的时新的工资制度
执行过程中的问题,劳资双方先期达成一致是薪酬制度成功的必要条件。形容词
useful和suc
cessful,I)seccessful更符合原文意思。
5.选D)。此处应填动词。这个动词的宾语是point“分值”,把分值...起来to
give
a total value 得出总分值,选项中有added和combined,前者指“把...相加”
,
后者意为“把...结合在一起”,原文指将分值相加得出总分,故D)added最符合
文
意。
6.选M)。此处应填名词。首先solve problem“解决问题”是经理们应具备
的能力,选项中的capacity与ability都可以表示“能力”;前者强调的是理解的
能力和接受事物的能力,而后者强调实际应用的能力,故不难判断解决问题的能
力应该用M)abil
ity。
7.选F)。此处应填名词。前半句指出“因为管理工作很难评估,经理的工作
得分不需要参照基于分值的评估系统决定。”without reference
to为固定搭配,意
思是“与...无关”。故选F)reference。
8.选A)。此处应填动词原形。原句中出现了the value of each
job“每种工作
的价值”和these in the job market“工作
市场上的(工作价值)”,说明人事部门通
过比较两种价值来计算工资制度。选项中只有compare
表示“比较”,所以A)正
确。
9.选K)。此处应填副词,修饰整句话。“报酬要随工
作表现各方面的不同而
有所改变”,选项中Necessarily“必须地”与Basically“
基本地”为副词,分别
带入原文,“报酬...的变化是必须的”更符合上下文意思,故排除N),选K
)。
10.选G)。此处应填形容词。前文中提到一种情况即simple to
measure the work
done
易于评估的工作,通常用现金奖励办法;而...measurement is difficult“难于<
br>评估的”,说明这些工作人员的工作不像手工工作那么直接,因而是间接的,故
选项中只有G)i
ndirect符合原句的意思。
英语四级阅读理解模拟试题及答案详解19
【阅读练习】
Americans are proud of their variety and
individualty, yet they love and respect
few
things more than a uniform. Why are uniforms so
__1__ in the United States?
Among the
arguments for uniforms, one of the first is that
in the eyes of most
people they look more
__2__ than civilian(百姓的) clothes. People have
become
conditioned to __3__ superior quality
from a man who wears a uniform. The
television
repairman who wears a uniform tends to __4__ more
trust than one who
appears in civilian
clothes. Faith in the __5__ of a garage mechanic
is increased by a
uniform. What an easier way
is there for a nurse, a policeman, a barber, or a
waiter to
__6__ professional identity(身份) than
to step out of uniform? Uniforms also have
many __7__ benefits. They save on other
clothes. They save on laundry bills. They
are
often more comfortable and more durable than
civilian clothes.
Primary among the
arguments against uniforms is their lack of
variety and the
consequent loss of __8__
experienced by people who must wear them. Though
there
are many types of uniforms, the wearer
of any particular type is generally stuck with it,
without __9__, until retirement. When people
look alike, they tend to think, speak,
and act
__10__, on the job at least.
[A]skill
[B]popular
[C]get
[D]change
[E]similarly
[F]professional
[G]character
[H]individuality
[I]inspire
[J]differently
[K]expect
[L]practical
[M]recall
[N]lose
[O]ordinary
ANSWERS:
1.选B)。从文章的第一句they love and respect few thins more
than a uniform
“他们又无比热爱和崇尚制服”,说明了制服在美国很受欢迎。因此选项
B)popular符合原文意思。选项中的professional“职业的”、practica
l“实用的”
和ordinary“普通的,平常的”都不符合第一段的意思。
2.选F)。此处应填形容词。从more...than civilian clothes可知,此处要填
的
形容词意思与civilian相对,说明制服的特点。选项中的形容词中只有profession
al
“职业的”和civilian相对的,故F)正确。而pratical“实用的”和ordin
ary“平
常的”意思都不能和civilian对应,故排除。
3.选K)。由be
conditioned to do
sth.“习惯于”可知,此处应填动词原形。
从前面的look
more“看起来更...”和后面的tend to“倾向于”可知,这段要说明
的是人们的主观印象
,应填入表示“期望(得到)”的单词,只有K)expect符合原
文语气。选项中get“得到”与
上下文的语气不符合。
4.选I)。此处应填动词原形。从原文中“人们习惯...从穿制服的人
那儿得到
优质服务。”可知,人们更信任穿制服的人,即制服能使人产生信任感。选项中
的动词
原形中只有inspire“使产生”符合文章。
5.选A)。此处应填名词。前面两句表达了人们对穿制服的人更加信任的意思,
那么对于garage
mechanic“汽车修理工”来说,人们信任的是它的技术,而不是
人品,故选项中只有A)ski
ll符合原文意思。
6.选N)。此处应填动词。...step out of unifor
m“脱掉制服”是对护士、警察
等来说是......职业身份的很简单的方式。脱下制服就是失去了职
业身份,由此可
以推知此处应填N)lose。
7.选L)。此处应填形容词,说明制服
的其他有点。从下文“...节省购买其他
衣服的开销,节省洗衣费用,比便服更舒适也更耐穿”可知,
制服除了增加信任
感还有实际的优点。选项中的pratical“实用的”和ordinary“平常
的”,很明显
L)pratical符合原文意思。
8.选H)。此处应填名词。文章手
段就说“美国人为自己的多元化和个性化感
到高傲无比,然而他们又无比热爱和崇尚制服”,其中包含制
服使他们失去自己
的个性的意思,那么联系第一段,此处指出的制服的缺点即为失去个性,故选项
H)individuality正确。individuality强调与他人特点的区别,而charac
ter指的是个
人特定的内在本质。
9.选D)。此处应填名词。前面说制服让人失去了
个性,虽然有很多种制服,
但穿上制服的人直至退休都是那件制服,所有是没有变化的,故此处应填ch
ange,
故D)正确。
10.选E)。此处应填副词,修饰动词act。前面指出...look alike,they tend
to...,
说明此处填的词和alike意思相近。选项种副词有similarly和differ
ently,很明显,
E)similarly与alike意思相近,故选E)。
英语四级阅读理解模拟试题及答案详解17
It’s never easy to
admit you are in the wrong. Being human, we all
need to know the
art of apologizing. Look back
with honesty and think how often you’ve judged
roughly, said __1__ things, pushed yourself
ahead at the expense of a friend. Then
count
the occasions when you indicated clearly and __2__
that you were sorry. A bit
frightening, isn’t
it? Frightening because some deePwisdom in us
knows that when
even a small wrong has been
committed, some mysterious moral feeling is __3__,
and
it stays out of balance until fault is
acknowledged and __4__ is expressed.I remember
a doctor friend, telling me about a man who
came to him with a variety of signs:
headaches, insomnia and stomach trouble. No
__5__ cause could be found. Finally
my friend
said to the man, you tell me what’s worrying you,
I can’t
helPyou.’s will,
he had been
cheating his brother, who lived abroad, of his
__7__. Then and there the
wise old doctor made
the man write to his brother asking __8__ and
enclosing a
cheque as the first stePin
restoring their good relation. He then went with
him to mail
box in the corridor. As the letter
disappeared, the man burst into tears.
He said, ’m __9__.
damaged
relationshiPbut also make it stronger. If you can
think of someone who
deserves an apology from
you, someone you have wronged, or just neglected,
do
something about it right now.A)heal
B)mental C)unkind D)regretE)accurately
F)confessed G)inheritance H)physicalI)cured
J)treat K)truly
L)unfaithfulM)forgiveness
N)disturbed O)excuse
Answers:1.选C)。此处应填形容词。从后面的pushed yourself ahead at
the
expense of a friend可知,说的是不好的话,可选项有unkind和u
nfaithful,但由
前面的judged roughly“粗鲁的评判”可知这里表示说话时不
考虑他人的感受,
因此unkind“刻薄的”更加符合上下文语气。
2.选K)。由clearly and一词可知,此处应填副词,与closely一起修饰道歉
时的
情形。选项有accurately和truly,由“回想一下你曾明确地并......地表示自己
歉意的场合”,能使句意通顺的是truly“真诚地”,而accurately一般表示“(数
据计
算得)精确地”,故排除。
3.选N)。it stays out of balance
until...,其中it=some mysterious moral feeling
可推出
,出于道义上的原因,人会感到不安,故选disturbed“不安的”。而confessed
“公
开承认的”不符合句意。
4.选D)。此处应填名词。从“知道承认错误,表达......之后
,才能觉得安心,”
选项中只有regret“歉意”符合题意。
5.选H)。此处应填形容词。由headaches,insomnia(失眠)and stomach
trouble
可推出,可选项有mental和physical,由朋友的话“Unless...
Worrying you, I can’
t
helPyou.可知这个人是由于心理上的原因,而不是生理上的,故选physical即
No
physical cause...。
6.选F)。此处应填动词。选项中的动词有confe
ssed,cured和disturbed,但
由After some
hesitation可推出,此人是在向医生坦白情况,故选择confessed“坦
白”。
7.选G)。此处应填名词。由as executor of his father’s wi
ll可推知,此处说
明的是,在遗产继承方面,他一直在欺骗他居住在国外的兄弟,故只有选项
inheritance符合题意。
8.选M)。此处应填名词。由restoring
their good relation可推知,他是写信给
他兄弟请求原谅,故选项中只有forg
iveness符合题意。选项中excuse用作名词
时,一般解释为“理由,借口”而没有“原谅”
的意思,故排除。
9.选I)。由第二段最后一句waht’s worrying
you和这个人的感情Thank
you
可推出,此处说明的是医生治好了他的心病,选项中只有cured符合题意。
10.选A)。此处应填动词的圆形。But also make it
stronger“使人际关系更加
稳固”,it指代a damaged relationship
,由此可知,空格处应填表示“修复”的词,
选项中的heal则有“治愈,修复”的意思,符合原文意
思。treat一般专指医学
上的治疗,用在此处不合适。
导读:It’s never
easy to admit you are in the wrong. Being human,
we all need to
know the art of apologizing.
Look back with honesty and think how often you’ve
judged roughly, said C)unkind things, pushed
yourself ahead at the expense of a
friend.
Then count the occasions when you indicated
clearly and K)truly that you
were sorry. A bit
frightening, isn’t it? Frightening because some
deePwisdom in us
knows that when even a small
wrong has been committed, some mysterious moral
feeling is N)disturbed, and it stays
out of balance until fault is acknowledged and
D)regret is expressed. (Frightening... and it
stays...。这个句子实际是省略了it
is的
一个带有复杂原因状语从句的句子。原因从句中包含了一个由and 引导的并列
宾语从
句,在第一个宾语从句中又有一个由when引导的时间状语从句,而在第
二个宾语从句中包含一个由u
ntil引导的时间状语从句。)
I remember a doctor friend,
telling me about a man who came to him with a
variety of signs: headaches, insomnia and
stomach trouble. No H)physical cause
could be
found. Finally my friend said to the man, you tell
me what’s
worrying you, I can’t
helPyou.
executor of his faher’s will, he had
been cheating his brother, who lived abroad, of
his
G)inheritance. Then and there the wise old
doctor made the man write to his brother
asking M)forgiveness and enclosing a cheque as
the first stePin restoring their good
relation. He then went with him to mail box in
the corridor. As the letter disappeared,
the
man burst into tears. ’m I)cured.
heartfelt
apology can not only A)heal a damaged
relationshiPbut also make it stronger.
If you
can think of someone who deserves an apology from
you, someone you have
weonged, or just
neglected, do something about it right now.(If you
can think... or just
neglected...。这是一个复合句,If引导
条件状语从句,条件从句中包含两个宾语
从句,一个是由who引导的定语从句,另一个是省略了关系代
词的定语从句,
即you have wronged, or just neglected。)
阅读文章的结构了解文章的结构,能够让我们在阅读时更迅速地把握文章的脉
络和文章主旨,
对于提高做题效率更有重要意义。 文章的结构模式大体上分为
四类。这四类文章在一篇文章中并不是独
立存在的,有时往往是几种段落结构模
式交织在一起。总分型 这类文章遵循从观点到材料,从抽象到具
体的逻辑法则,
其基本框架是先总论后分论,中心论点出现在分论之前。问题解决型 首先说明
情况和背景,然后提出问题,接着作出反应,也就是解决问题,当然问题也可能
没有解决或没有完全解决
,最后给予适当的评价或者分析。总体布局上有时会舍
去背景部分或评价部分。匹配型
段落的发展主线为两种事物之间的类比:两种
论点概论----一种论点----
另一种论点;或者是现象----一种事物----
另一种事物----
得出结论。作者一般不发表态度和结论。假设真实型
文章结构模式是:假设观
点----进行反驳----作者观点。作者往往在文中开头即提出一种观点或
主张,然后
从赞同与反对两个方面进行反驳或澄清,经过论证之后才提出作者本人的观点。
英语四级阅读理解模拟试题及答案详解18
Many a young person
tells me he wants to be a writer. I always __1__
such people,
but I also explain that there’sa
big difference between
most cases these
individuals are dreaming of __2__ and fame, notthe
long hours alone
at a typewriter. ’ve got to
want to write,I say to them, want to be a
writer.
writer kissed by fortune there
arethousands more whose longing is never __4__.
When I left a 20-year career in the US. Coast
Guard to become a freelancewriter(自由
撰稿人), I
had no __5__ at all. What I did have was a friend
who found me my room
in a New York apartment
building. It didn’t even matter that it was
__6__and had no
bathroom. I immediately bought
a used manual typewriter and feltlike a __7__
a year or so, however, I still hadn’t
gotten a break and began to __8__
myself. It
was so hard to sell a storythat __9__ made enough
to eat. But I knew I
wanted to write. I had
dreamed about it for years. I wasn’t going to be
one ofthose
people who die wondering, what if?
I would keeo putting my dream to the test----even
though it meant living with __10__and fear of
failure. This is the Shadow land of
hope, and
anyone with a dream learn to live there.A) barely
B) genuine C) rewarded
D) doubtE) lonely F)
poverty G) persuade H) prospectsI) uncertainty
J)impossibly K)
encourage L)awardedM) alone
N)wealth O)cold
Answers:1.选K)。
此处应填动词的原形。可选项有doubt, persuade, encourage,
但由al
ways推知,作者是在鼓励那些想要成为作家的人,而不是怀疑也不是说
服,故排除doubt和pe
rsuade而选encourage。
2.选N)。由空格后的fame可知,此处应填名词。
可选项有prospects和wealth,
但由dreaming of 与第二段中The
reality is... poor-paying可推知,那些想当作家
的人梦想的是金钱和名誉
,而不是前途,故排除prospects而选wealth。
3.选E)。此处应填形容词,private, poor-paying一起修饰affair。选项中有l
onely
和alone,能修饰affair的只有lonely,alone表示“孤独的”时,通
常作表语,故排
除alone而选lonely。
4.选C)。此处应填动词的被动形式
。可选项有rewarded和awarded,前者可表
示“(为所希望的举动得到的)回报”,后者
作动词时表示“颁发,授予”,故只
有rewarded符合题意而排除awarded。
5.选H)。此处应填名词。“当我辞别了我在美国海岸警卫队20年工作成为一
个自由撰稿人时,没有
任何......可言”,可选项有prospects和wealth,但wealth
一般指抽象意
义上的“金钱”,因此排除wealth而选prospects“前途”。
6.选O)。it指代的是apartment building,从had no bathroom可知这
个公寓条
件很差,选项中只有cold能说明公寓的条件差,故选择O)cold。
7.
选B)。“我马上买了一台旧的手动打字机,感觉自己就好像是一个......的作
家”,由前面提到
的to become a freelance writer可推知,此处作者是想成为一个
真正的
作家,故选项中只有genuine“真正的”符合题意。
8.选D)。由空格前的to可知,此
处应填动词的原形。可选项有
doubt,persuade,encourage,但由still
hadn’t gotten a break在写作上还没有任何进
展”,所以此处应理解为他开始怀
疑自己的选择是否正确,故doubt符合文意。
9.选A)。that从句结构完整,后面有m
ade,故此处应填副词。可选项有barely
和impossibly,因that引导的从句是对
story的解释,再由hard一词可推知,此
处应填的副词应表达肯定的意思,故排除imposs
ibly而选barely“仅仅,刚刚”。
10.选I)。由空格后的and可知,此处应填名词。由fear of failure可知,所填
词应表示不好的境遇,可选项有poverty和uncertainty;又由fear可推知,此处强
调的是生活的变化无常,而不是生活的贫困,故选uncertainty。
导读:Many
a young person tells me he wants to be a writer. I
always
K)encourage such people, but I also
explain that there’s a big difference between
a writerand writing. In most cases these
individuals are dreaming of
N)wealth and fame,
not the long hours alone at a typewriter.(these
individuals指代的
是Many a young people。) ’ve got
to want to write,
be a writer.
every writer
kissed by fortune there are thousands more whose
longing is never
C)rewarded.(kissed by
fortune意为“受到命运之神的亲睐”,由此可推出第4题应
填的词。)
When I left a 20-year career in the US. Coast
Guard to become a freelance
writer(自由撰稿人), I
had no H)prospects at all. What I did have was a
friend who
found me my room in a New York
apartment building. (What I did... my room
in...。这
是一个复合句,What引导的是主语从句,who引导的定语从句修饰a
friend,由此
可看出,作者刚开始从事写作时的艰难。)
It didn’t
even matter that it was O)cold and had no
bathroom. I immediately
bought a used manual
typewriter and felt like a B)genuine a year or
so,
however, I still hadn’t gotten a break and
began to D)doubt myself. It was so hard to
sell a story that A)barely made enough to eat.
But I knew I wanted to write. I had
dreamed
about it for years. I wasn’t going to be one of
those people who die
wondering, what if? I
would keePputting my dream to the test----even
though it meant
living with I)uncertainty and
fear of failture.(put... to the test意为“使.....经受考验”
,
此处表明了作者态度,即要成为作家必须忍受很多困难。)This is the Shadow
land
of hope, and anyone with a dream learn to
live there.
英语四级阅读理解模拟试题及答案详解20
【阅读练习】
What is it about Americans
and food? We love to eat, but we feel 1 about it
afterward. We say we want only the best, but
we strangely enjoy junk food. We’re 2
with
health and weight loss but face an unprecedented
epidemic of obesity(肥胖).
Perhaps the 3 to this
ambivalence(矛盾情结) lies in our history. The first
Europeans
came to this continent searching for
new spices but went in vain. The first cash
crop(经济作物) wasn’t eaten but smoked. Then there
was Prohibition, intended to
prohibit drinking
but actually encouraging more 4 ways of doing it.
The immigrant experience, too, has been one
of inharmony. Do as Romans do
means eating
what “real Americans” eat, but our nation’s food
has come to be 5 by
imports—pizza, say, or hot
dogs. And some of the country’s most treasured
cooking
comes from people who arrived here in
shackles.
Perhaps it should come as no
surprise then that food has been a medium for the
nation’s defining struggles, whether at the
Boston Tea Party or the sitins at
southern
lunch counters. It is integral to our concepts of
health and even morality
whether one refrains
from alcohol for religious reasons or evades meat
for political.
But strong opinions have not
brought 7 . Americans are ambivalent about what
they put in their mouths. We have become 8 of
our foods, especially as we learn more
about
what they contain.
The 9 in food is still
prosperous in the American consciousness. It’s no
coincidence, then, that the first Thanksgiving
holds the American imagination in such
bondage(束缚). It’s what we eat—and how we 10 it
with friends, family, and
strangers—that help
define America as a community today.
A.
answer I. creative
B. result J. belief
C. share K. suspicious
D.
guilty L. certainty
E. constant M. obsessed
F. defined N. identify
G. vanish O.
ideals
H. adapted
【答案及详解】
1. D
feel是一个系动词,可以判断此处应填入一个形容词,通过上下文意思,
以及后面介词about,
可以确定选项为D项guilty, 短语feel guilty about sth.
“对„„感到有愧”。全句的意思为“我们很爱吃,但是往往在吃完之后又有负
罪感”。
2.M be obsessed with 为固定搭配,原意为“被„„附上缠住迷住心窍”,
放在本句表示“十分重视”。全句的意思为“我们很关心健康和减肥,但肥胖却
又空前地在蔓延
”。
3. A
本句缺一个名词作主语,并且根据和介词to的搭配,可以推断出正确
选项answer.
4. I本句根据more和ways可以判断出需要填入一个形容词构成比较级,根
据上下文,表示“
旨在禁止酗酒的禁酒令,却激发了更多新奇的方法来酗酒”,
可以确定I为正确选项。
5. F 本题较难。根据be 和by
确定应填入一个过去分词。再根据上下文,
上文表示“应该吃典型的美国人吃的食物”,下文通过
but 转折,表示实际上“美
国的食物已经被诸如比萨和热狗这样的舶来品所诠释了”,因此可以确定
F为正
确选项。
6.B政治结果,可根据宗教原因religious
reasons来推断此处填政治结果。
7. L由于横线后面没有宾语,可以确定不是形成br
ing的短语,这样本句所
缺的为一名词,做bring的宾语。根据下文解释,“美国人对他们所吃的
食物的
态度是矛盾的”,可以推出本句意义为“坚定的观点也不是确定不变的”。因此可
以确定
L为正确选项。
8.
K系动词become后应填入一个形容词,和后面介词of形成短语bebecome
suspicious of “对„„感到怀疑”。
9. J本句缺一个名词作主语,
并且根据和介词in的搭配,可以推断出正确选
项belief,(have)belief in
sth.“ 相信„„”。
10. C本句是一般现在时,缺一个动词,且和with
搭配,确定选项为share,
share sth. with sb., “与某人分享某事”。
英语四级阅读理解模拟试题及答案详解22
【阅读练习】
Now
let us look at how we read. When we read a printed
text, our eyes move
across a page in short,
jerky movement. We recognize words usually when
our eyes
are still when they fixate. Each time
they fixate, we see a group of words. This is
known as the recognition span or the visual
span. The length of time ofr which the
eyes
stop ---the duration of the fixation ----varies
considerably from person to person.
It also
vaies within any one person according to his
purpose in reading and his
familiarity with
the text. Furthermore, it can be affected by such
factors as lighting
and tiredness.
Unfortunately, in the past, many reading
improvement courses have concentrated
too much
on how our eyes move across the printed page. As a
result of this
misleading emphasis on the
purely visual aspects of reading, numerous
exercises have
been devised to train the eyes
to see more words at one fixation. For instance,
in some
exercises, words are flashed on to a
screen for, say, a tenth or a twentieth of a
second.
One of the exercises has required
students to fix their eyes on some central point,
taking in the words on either side. Such word
patterns are often constructed in the
shape of
rather steep pyramids so the reader takes in more
and more words at each
successive fixation.
All these exercises are very clever, but it’s one
thing to improve a
person’s ability to see
words and quite another thing to improve his
ability to read a
text efficiently. Reading
requires the ability to understand the
relationship between
words. Consequently, for
these reasons, many experts have now begun to
question the
usefulness of eye training,
especially since any approach which
trains a
person to read isolated words and phrases would
seem unlikely to help
him in reading a
continuous text.
Q:
1. The time of the
recognition span can be affected by the following
facts
except ________ .
A. one’s
familiarity with the text
B. one’s purpose
in reading
C. the length of a group of words
D. lighting and tiredness
2. The
author may believe that reading ______.
A.
requires a reader to take in more words at each
fixation
B. requires a reader to see words
more quickly
C. demands an deeply-
participating mind
D. demands more mind than
eyes
3 What does the author mean by saying
“but it’s one thing to improve a
person’s
ability to see words and quite another thing to
improve his ability to
read a text
efficiently.” in the second parapraph?
A.
The ability to see words is not needed when an
efficient reading is conducted.
B. The
reading exercises mentioned can’t help to improve
both the ability to see
and to comprehend
words.
C. The reading exercises mentioned
can’t help to improve an efficient reading.
D. The reading exercises mentioned has done a
great job to improve one’s
ability to see
words.
4. Which of the following is NOT
true?
A. The visual span is a word or a
group of words we see each time.
B. Many
experts began to question the efficiency of eye
training.
C. The emphasis on the purely
visual aspects is misleading.
eye training
will help readers in reading a continuous text.
5. The tune of the author in writing this
article is ________
A critical
B neutral
C prssimistic
D optimistic
【答案及详解】
答案:CCCDA
解题思路
1 C。
事实细节题。第一段提到了影响视幅的因素:不同的人,不同的阅读
目的,对材料的熟悉程度,光线,疲
劳。C“一组词的长度”不是能影响视幅的
因素,是本题的答案。
2 C。观点态度题。
作者在第二段第二句提到,眼睛训练课程只注重了阅读
的视觉因素。倒数第二句书哦,阅读要求具备理解
单词间关系的能力。因此选项
C“阅读需要大脑的深度参与”正确。作者没有否定阅读的视觉因素的必要
性,
但是也没有说读者应该练习拓宽视幅,加快阅读速度。所以AB两项都不正确。
作者没有对
大脑和眼睛在阅读过程中的重要性进行对比,所以不选D
3 C。 作者在这句话中先是肯定了那
些阅读练习提高看单词的能力,然后提
出了有效阅读概念。后面句中还指出,有效阅读需要的是理解单词
间的联系的能
力。所以作者的意思应该是那些(训练眼睛的)阅读练习对与有效的阅读无益。B
与文章相反。D句是蕴涵其中一个意思,却不是作者想表达的方向。
4 D。
第二段最后一句说,眼睛训练对于帮助读者阅读连贯文章无益,所以
D是错的,是本题答案。
5 A。 参考前面的结构剖析,作者写本文的主要目的是对那些只关注阅读的
视觉因素的阅读能力课程
进行批判,所以答案应该是A。
英语四级阅读理解模拟试题及答案详解23
【阅读练习】
As is known to all, the organization
and management of wages and salaries are
very
complex. Generally speaking, the Accounts
Department is __1__ for calculations
of pay,
while the Personnel Department is interested in
discussions with the
employees about pay.
If a firm wants to __2__ a new wage and salary
structure, it is essential that the
firm
should decide on a __3__ of job evaluation and
ways of measuring the
performance of its
employees. In order to be __4__, that new pay
structure will need
agreement between Trade
Unions and employers. In job evaluation, all of
the
requirements of each job are defined in a
detailed job description. Each of thsoe
requirements is given a value, usually in
total value for the job. For middle and higher
management, a special method is used
to
evaluate managers on their knowledge of the job,
their responsibility, and their
__6__ to solve
problems. Because of the difficulty in measuring
management work,
however, job grades for
managers are often decided without __7__ to an
evaluation
system based on points.
In
attempting to design a pay system, the Personnel
Department should __8__
the value of each job
with these in the job market. __9__, payment for a
job should
vary with any differences in the
way that the job is performed. Where it is simple
to
measure the work done, as in the works done
with hands, monetary encouragement
schemes are often chosen, for __10__
workers, where measurement is difficult,
methods of additional payments are employed.
[A]compare
[B]responsible
[C]useful
[D]added
[E]find
[F]reference
[G]indirect
[H]method
[I]successful
[J]combined
[K]Necessarily
[L]capacity
[M]ability
[N]Basically
[O]adopt
【答案及详解】
Answers:
1.选B)。此处应填形容词。原文意思为“会计部门...计算
报酬”,选项中的
形容词responsible“负责任的”,useful“有用的”,indir
ect“间接的”,successful
“成功的”,其中indirect不能与for连用,排除
;剩余几项中只有B)responsible
意义符合原句,其他均不符合,故排除。
2.选O)。此处应填动词原形。本文主题就是采用一种新的工资和薪水制度时
需要注意的问题,选项中
的动词原形有compare“比较”,find“找到”,adopt“采
纳”,分别带入原文,只有
adopt最符合原文意思,故选O).
3.选H)。此处应填名词。从原文看,and连接并列
结构,所以要填的词应与
and后面的ways意思一致,选项中的名词只有mathod =
ways,故选H)method。
4.选I)。此处应填形容词。上文说新的工资制度需要一套
决定工作评估和衡
量雇员表现的方法,说的是制度“是否有用”的问题。这句说的时新的工资制度
执行过程中的问题,劳资双方先期达成一致是薪酬制度成功的必要条件。形容词
useful和suc
cessful,I)seccessful更符合原文意思。
5.选D)。此处应填动词。这个动词的宾语是point“分值”,把分值...起来to
give
a total value 得出总分值,选项中有added和combined,前者指“把...相加”
,
后者意为“把...结合在一起”,原文指将分值相加得出总分,故D)added最符合
文
意。
6.选M)。此处应填名词。首先solve problem“解决问题”是经理们应具备
的能力,选项中的capacity与ability都可以表示“能力”;前者强调的是理解的
能力和接受事物的能力,而后者强调实际应用的能力,故不难判断解决问题的能
力应该用M)abil
ity。
7.选F)。此处应填名词。前半句指出“因为管理工作很难评估,经理的工作
得分不需要参照基于分值的评估系统决定。”without reference
to为固定搭配,意
思是“与...无关”。故选F)reference。
8.选A)。此处应填动词原形。原句中出现了the value of each
job“每种工作
的价值”和these in the job market“工作
市场上的(工作价值)”,说明人事部门通
过比较两种价值来计算工资制度。选项中只有compare
表示“比较”,所以A)正
确。
9.选K)。此处应填副词,修饰整句话。“报酬要随工
作表现各方面的不同而
有所改变”,选项中Necessarily“必须地”与Basically“
基本地”为副词,分别
带入原文,“报酬...的变化是必须的”更符合上下文意思,故排除N),选K
)。
10.选G)。此处应填形容词。前文中提到一种情况即simple to
measure the work
done
易于评估的工作,通常用现金奖励办法;而...measurement is difficult“难于<
br>评估的”,说明这些工作人员的工作不像手工工作那么直接,因而是间接的,故
选项中只有G)i
ndirect符合原句的意思。