2018下半年大學(xué)英語四級(jí)考試閱讀模擬試題2篇

　　大學(xué)英語四級(jí)考試閱讀模擬試題第一篇

　　Psychologist George Spilich and colleagues at Washington College in Chestertown, Maryland, decided to find out whether, as many smokers say, smoking helps them to “think and concentrate.” Spilich put young non-smokers, active smokers and smokers deprived (被剝奪) of cigarettes through a series of tests. In the first test, each subject (試驗(yàn)對(duì)象) sat before a computer screen and pressed a key as soon as he or she recognized a target letter among a grouping of 96. In this simple test, smokers, deprived smokers and nonsmokers performed equally well. The next test was more complex, requiring all to scan sequences of 20 identical letters and respond the instant one of the letters transformed into a different one. Non-smokers were faster， but under the stimulation of nicotine (尼古丁), active smokers were faster than deprived smokers. In the third test of short-term memory, non-smokers made the fewest errors, but deprived smokers committed fewer errors than active smokers. The fourth test required people to read a passage, then answer questions about it. Non-smokers remembered 19 percent more of the most important information than active smokers, and deprived smokers bested those who had smoked a cigarette just before testing. Active smokers tended not only to have poorer memories but al so had trouble separating important information from insignificant details. “As our tests became more complex.”Sums up Spilich,“non-smokers performed better than smokers by wider and wider margins”He predicts,“smokers might per form adequately at many jobs-until they got complicated. A smoking airline pilot could fly adequately if no problems arose, but if something went wrong, smoking might damage his mental capacity.”

　　這是一篇說明文，講的是關(guān)于測試吸煙是否有助于思考和集中精力的實(shí)驗(yàn)。

　　1. The purpose of George Spilich's experiments is _______.

　　A) to test whether smoking has a positive effect on the mental capacity of smokers

　　B) to show how smoking damages people's mental capacity

　　C) to prove that smoking affects people's regular performance

　　D) to find out whether smoking helps people's short-term memory

　　2. George Spilich's experiment was conducted in such a way as to _______.

　　A) compel the subjects to separate major information from minor details

　　B) put the subjects through increasingly complex tests

　　C) check the effectiveness of nicotine on smokers

　　D) register the prompt responses of the subjects

　　3. The word“bested”(Line 3, Para. 5) most probably means _______.

　　A) beat B) envied C) caught up with D) made the best of

　　4. Which of the following statements is true?

　　A) Active smokers in general performed better than deprived smokers.

　　B) Active smokers responded more quickly than the other subjects.

　　C) Non-smokers were not better than other subjects in performing simple tasks.

　　D) Deprived smokers gave the slowest responses to the various tasks.

　　5. We can infer from the last paragraph that _______.

　　A) smokers should not expect to become airline pilots

　　B) smoking in emergency cases causes mental illness

　　C) no airline pilots smoke during flights

　　D) smokers may prove unequal to handing emergency cases

　　參考答案及解析

　　1、[答案及分析]：[A]事實(shí)辨認(rèn)題，依據(jù)是第1段的兩句話。

　　2、[答案及分析]：[B]本題問G有S的實(shí)驗(yàn)是以下列哪 種方式進(jìn)行的。文章第2段說the first test是simple test,第3段開頭說第2個(gè)實(shí)驗(yàn)more complex，最后一段開頭說“隨著測試逐漸變得復(fù)雜，不吸煙的人越來越比吸煙者做得好”，由此可見,George Spilich進(jìn)行這種測試時(shí)以由易到難的順序進(jìn)行的。因而B項(xiàng)正確。

　　3、[答案及分析]：[A]詞義推斷題。我們可以看出該被要求推斷詞 義的詞所在的上下文意為：沒有被允許吸煙的人憂于那些在測試前片刻吸過煙的人。best在此句中是動(dòng)詞，意思應(yīng)該是“優(yōu)于、超過”。而四個(gè)選項(xiàng)的意思分別是：beat(擊敗，戰(zhàn)勝)catch up with(趕上)make the best of(充分利用)�？梢钥闯�,best和beat意思最為接近。

　　4、[答案及分析]：[C]根據(jù)第2段第2句可知C項(xiàng)正確：另外，根據(jù)倒數(shù)第2段的后兩句、第3段第2句可知A、B、D均不正確。

　　5、[答案及分析]：[D]與本題有關(guān)的信息在最后一段兩句：Spilich認(rèn)為，吸煙者能勝任并不復(fù)雜的工作，但不能勝行復(fù)雜的任務(wù)。一個(gè)吸煙的飛行員不出現(xiàn)任何問題時(shí)能稱職也駕駛飛機(jī)飛行。但是一旦出現(xiàn)問題，吸煙就會(huì)損害他的大腦工作能力。

　　大學(xué)英語四級(jí)考試閱讀模擬試題第二篇

　　There is no denying that students should learn something about how computers work, just as we expect them at least to understand that the internal combustion engine(內(nèi)燃機(jī)) has something to do with burning fuel, expanding gases and pistons (活塞) being driven. For people should have some basic idea of how the things that they use do what they do. Further, students might be helped by a course that considers the computer's impact on society. But that is not what is meant by computer literacy. For computer literacy is not a form of literacy(讀寫能力);it is a trade skill that should not be taught as a liberal art.

　　Learning how to use a computer and learning how to program one are two distinct activities, A case might be made that the competent citizens of tomorrow should free themselves from their fear of computers. But this is quite different from saying that all ought to know how to program one. Leave that to people who have c hosen programming as a career. While programming can be lots of fun, and while our society needs some people who are experts at it, the same is true of auto repair and violin making.

　　Learning how to use a computer is not that difficult, and it gets easier all the time as programs become more“user?friendly”. Let us assume that in the future everyone is going to have to know how to use a computer to be a competent citizen. What does the phrase “l(fā)earning to use a computer”mean? It sounds like “l(fā)earning to drive a car”, that is, it sounds as if there is some set of definite skills that, once acquired, enable one to use a computer.

　　In fact,“l(fā)earning to use a computer”is much more like“l(fā)earning to play a game”, but learning the rules of one game may not help you play a second game, whose rules may not be the same. There is no such a thing as teaching someone how to use a computer. One can only teach people to use this or that program and generally that is easily accomplished.

　　這是篇議論文，主要討論了掌握計(jì)算機(jī)技能的問題。

　　1. To be the competent citizens of tomorrow, people should _______.

　　A) try to lay a solid foundation in computer science

　　B) be aware of how the things that they use do what they do

　　C) learn to use a computer by acquiring a certain set of skills

　　D) understand that programming a computer is more essential than repairing a car

　　2. In the second paragraph “violin?making”is mentioned to show that _______ .

　　A) programming a computer is as interesting as making a violin

　　B) our society needs experts in different fields

　　C) violin making requires as much skill as computer programming

　　D) people who can use a computer don't necessarily have to know computer program-ming

　　3. Learning to use a computer is getting easier all the time because _______ .

　　A) programs are becoming less complicated

　　B) programs are designed to be convenient to users

　　C) programming is becoming easier and easier

　　D) programs are becoming readily available to computer users

　　4. According to the author,the phrase“l(fā)earning to use a computer”(Lines3,4,Para.3)means learning _______.

　　A) a set of rules B) the fundamentals of computer science

　　C) specific programs D) general principles of programming

　　5. The author's purpose in writing this passage is _______.

　　A) to stress the impact of the computer on society

　　B) to explain the concept of computer literacy

　　C) to illustrate the requirements for being competent citizens of tomorrow

　　D) to emphasize that computer programming is an interesting and challenging job

　　參考答案及解析

　　1、[答案及分析]：[C]是文章第2段的意思：學(xué)習(xí)使用計(jì)算機(jī)并非學(xué)習(xí)編制計(jì)算機(jī)程序。必須使得將來的合格的公民對(duì)學(xué)習(xí)計(jì)算機(jī)不再有畏懼感。這并不是要求人們都應(yīng)該懂得如何編程，那是以編制序?yàn)槁殬I(yè)的人的事。

　　2、[答案及分析]：[D]第2段的意思是：盡管編制程序可能很有趣味，盡管社會(huì)需要有人精通編程，如同需要有人精通修理汽車和制造小提琴。但是，學(xué)習(xí)計(jì)算機(jī)并非要求大家都學(xué)會(huì)編程，正如我們只需會(huì)開車就行，不必懂得修理汽車;只需會(huì)使用小提琴，而不必了解如何制作小提琴。故而D項(xiàng)正確。

　　3、[答案及分析]：[B]依據(jù)為第3段第1句話。

　　4、[答案及分析]：[C]該題具有一定難度，關(guān)鍵在于對(duì)第3段最后兩句話的正確理解：何謂“學(xué)習(xí)使用計(jì)算機(jī)”?“學(xué)習(xí)使用計(jì)算機(jī)”聽起來(sound like)跟“學(xué)習(xí)開車”一樣，似乎(as if)只要掌握了一些確定的技巧就能學(xué)會(huì)使用它。在第4段，作者又說：其實(shí)(in fact)，“學(xué)習(xí)使用計(jì)算機(jī)”更像“學(xué)習(xí)玩游戲”，掌握了一種游戲的規(guī)則并不能使你會(huì)玩另一種游戲，因?yàn)閮煞N游戲的規(guī)則不同……。只能教一個(gè)人使用這種或那種程序，而這一般都能比較容易地做到。

　　5、[答案及分析]：[B]主旨題。文章的主旨應(yīng)能恰如其分地概括文中所闡述的內(nèi)容，面不能太窄，即：不足以概括全部內(nèi)容;但是面也不能太寬，即：包含了文中沒有闡述的內(nèi)容。根據(jù)這一原則，只有B項(xiàng)才能概括全文要說明的問題。A、C、D都是作者在討論computer literacy這一問題時(shí)所涉及的幾個(gè)方面，而并非中心內(nèi)容，故可排除。