2017年12月英语四级阅读理考前预测试题（5）

　　A. convey B. imagine C. comprehend D. confident E. mentally

　　F. estimate G. assistance H. react I. collect J. delicate

　　K. valuable L. achievement M. disorderly N. reactions O. form

　　Art is fun; it casters to the basic creative instinct which is present in everyone. It can impart (告知, 透露) a great feeling of 1___L__ especially to children who as yet have not been able to gain much of a sense of success from their other efforts in life. It also helps backward children to develop 2__E___ and physically. Their confidence grows as they experience success in art, and a 3__D___ child learns more easily than a tense one. Physically handicapped (残废的) children benefit because their motor control improves as they attempt to make more 4___J__ movements with their hands and as they gradually impose more control upon themselves.

　　Art is particularly 5___K__ to mentally handicapped children who find it difficult to communicate their ideas and emotions and who perhaps even finds it difficult to 6___C__ them themselves. Subnormal (低于正常的) children with very limited vocabularies may find that painting is easier than talking, and through paint they are able to express ideas, emotions, and 7___N__ to situations and experiences.

　　Children need to communicate in two ways. First, they have to 8___A__ information to other people. Secondly, they have to communicate with themselves. If children do not have words to use, their minds are, inevitably, a 9___M__ mixture of responses to which they can 10___H__ only emotionally, often with frustrations. Through their paintings such children are not consciously trying to tell other people that they have certain feelings. With the paint they are able to create a concrete, permanent statement of feeling and so the emotion becomes intense and under more control.

　　1. One day, an ape named Kala was lagging behind as her family moved through the jungle.

　　2. Soon the family reached the shore of a nearby island.

　　3. Kala was very sad because she had lost her baby to the apes’ great enemy, Sabor the leopard.

　　4. One look around told her that the evil Sabor had visited this place, too.

　　5. Just then Kala heard the cry of another baby and followed the sound to the tree house.

　　6. Kala knew that the tiny creature she had found needed care.

　　7. Tarzen gently took Jane’s chin in his hand and said “Jane.”

　　8. She gently scooped him up in her hard and strong arms.

　　1. 除了伦敦的公寓，杰克还在意大利有一座别墅，在苏格兰有一座城堡。(in addition to)

　　In addition to his flat in London, he has a villa in Italy and a castle in Scotland.

　　2. 他试图和妻子开个玩笑，但得到的反应只是沉默。(attempt to, be received)

　　He attempted to make a joke with his wife, but it was received in silence.

　　3. 史密斯先生总是每天拨出些时间给孩子们读故事。(set aside)

　　Mr. Smith always sets some time aside every day to read stories to his children

　　4. 这实际上是一种朋友之间的交流，而不是吵架。(kind of, rather than)

　　It is really a kind of communication between friends, rather than a quarrel

　　5. 由于提前接受了训练，因此他在最新的影片中的特技效果极为出色。(as a result of, special effect)

　　As a result of being trained in advance, the special effects in his latest film are brilliant.