2018下半年大学英语四级考试阅读模拟试题2篇

2018下半年大学英语四级考试阅读模拟试题2篇

　　大学英语四级考试阅读模拟试题第一篇

　　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 (被剥夺) of cigarettes through a series of tests. In the first test, each subject (试验对象) 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.”

　　这是一篇说明文，讲的是关于测试吸烟是否有助于思考和集中精力的实验。

　　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

　　参考答案及解析

　　1、[答案及分析]：[A]事实辨认题，依据是第1段的两句话。

　　2、[答案及分析]：[B]本题问G有S的实验是以下列哪 种方式进行的。文章第2段说the first test是simple test,第3段开头说第2个实验more complex，最后一段开头说“随着测试逐渐变得复杂，不吸烟的人越来越比吸烟者做得好”，由此可见,George Spilich进行这种测试时以由易到难的顺序进行的。因而B项正确。

　　3、[答案及分析]：[A]词义推断题。我们可以看出该被要求推断词 义的词所在的上下文意为：没有被允许吸烟的人忧于那些在测试前片刻吸过烟的人。best在此句中是动词，意思应该是“优于、超过”。而四个选项的意思分别是：beat(击败，战胜)catch up with(赶上)make the best of(充分利用)。可以看出,best和beat意思最为接近。

　　4、[答案及分析]：[C]根据第2段第2句可知C项正确：另外，根据倒数第2段的后两句、第3段第2句可知A、B、D均不正确。

　　5、[答案及分析]：[D]与本题有关的信息在最后一段两句：Spilich认为，吸烟者能胜任并不复杂的工作，但不能胜行复杂的任务。一个吸烟的飞行员不出现任何问题时能称职也驾驶飞机飞行。但是一旦出现问题，吸烟就会损害他的大脑工作能力。

　　大学英语四级考试阅读模拟试题第二篇

　　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(内燃机) 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(读写能力);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 “learning to use a computer”mean? It sounds like “learning 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,“learning to use a computer”is much more like“learning 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.

　　这是篇议论文，主要讨论了掌握计算机技能的问题。

　　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“learning 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

　　参考答案及解析

　　1、[答案及分析]：[C]是文章第2段的意思：学习使用计算机并非学习编制计算机程序。必须使得将来的合格的公民对学习计算机不再有畏惧感。这并不是要求人们都应该懂得如何编程，那是以编制序为职业的人的事。

　　2、[答案及分析]：[D]第2段的意思是：尽管编制程序可能很有趣味，尽管社会需要有人精通编程，如同需要有人精通修理汽车和制造小提琴。但是，学习计算机并非要求大家都学会编程，正如我们只需会开车就行，不必懂得修理汽车;只需会使用小提琴，而不必了解如何制作小提琴。故而D项正确。

　　3、[答案及分析]：[B]依据为第3段第1句话。

　　4、[答案及分析]：[C]该题具有一定难度，关键在于对第3段最后两句话的正确理解：何谓“学习使用计算机”?“学习使用计算机”听起来(sound like)跟“学习开车”一样，似乎(as if)只要掌握了一些确定的技巧就能学会使用它。在第4段，作者又说：其实(in fact)，“学习使用计算机”更像“学习玩游戏”，掌握了一种游戏的规则并不能使你会玩另一种游戏，因为两种游戏的规则不同……。只能教一个人使用这种或那种程序，而这一般都能比较容易地做到。

　　5、[答案及分析]：[B]主旨题。文章的主旨应能恰如其分地概括文中所阐述的内容，面不能太窄，即：不足以概括全部内容;但是面也不能太宽，即：包含了文中没有阐述的内容。根据这一原则，只有B项才能概括全文要说明的问题。A、C、D都是作者在讨论computer literacy这一问题时所涉及的几个方面，而并非中心内容，故可排除。