1、大学英语四级改革适用（阅读）模拟试卷 259 及答案解析(总分：100.00，做题时间：90 分钟)一、Reading Comprehensio(总题数：5，分数：100.00)1.Part III Reading Comprehension（分数：20.00）_2.Section A（分数：20.00）_Keeping a full social calendar may help protect you from dementia (痴呆症), researchers said on Monday. 1active people who were not easily stressed h
2、ad a 50 percent lower risk of developing dementia compared with men and women who were 2and prone to distress, they reported in the journal Neurology. “In the past, studies have shown that long-term distress can 3parts of the brain, possibly leading to dementia,“ Hui-Xin Wang of the Karolinska Insti
3、tute in Sweden, who led the study, said in a 4. “But our findings suggest that having a calm and 5personality in combination with a socially active lifestyle may decrease the risk of developing dementia even further.“ An estimated 24 million people worldwide have the memory loss, problems with direc
4、tion and other 6that signal Alzheimers disease and other forms of dementia Researchers believe the number of people with dementia may increase by four times by 2040, 7the importance of better understanding the condition. The Swedish study involved 506 elderly people who did not have dementia when fi
5、rst examined. The volunteers were given questionnaires about their personality traits and lifestyles and then 8for six years. Over that time, 144 people developed dementia with more socially active and less stressed men and women 50 percent less likely to be 9with the condition. “The good news is, l
6、ifestyle factors can be modified as opposed to genetic factors which cannot be controlled,“ Wang said. “But these are early results, so how exactly 10attitude influences risk for dementia is not clear.“ A. affect B. outgoing C. undergoing D. diagnosed E. effect F. Socially G. tracked H. withdrew I.
7、Vertically J. statement K. highlighting L. symptoms M. frictions N. mental O. isolated（分数：20.00）填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_Most people often dream at night. When they wake in the morning they say to themselves, “What a strange dream I had! I wonder what mad
8、e me dream that.“ Sometimes 1are frightening. Sometimes, in dreams, wishes come true. At other times we are troubled by strange dreams in which the world seems to have been 2upside-down and nothing makes sense. In dreams we do things which we would never do when were 3. We think and say things we wo
9、uld never think and say. Why are dreams so strange and 4? Where do dreams come from? No one has produced a more satisfying 5than a man called Sigmund Freud. He said that dreams come from a part of ones mind which one can neither recognize nor control. He 6this the “unconscious mind.“ The new worlds
10、Freud 7were inside man himself. For the unconscious mind is like a deep well, full of memories and feelings. These memories and feelings have been stored there from the 8of our birth. Our conscious mind has forgotten them. We do not know that they are there until some unhappy or unusual experience c
11、auses us to remember, or to dream dreams. Then 9we see the same thing and feel the same way we felt when we were little children. The unconscious forces inside us are at least as powerful as the conscious forces we know about. Sometimes we do things without knowing Why. If we dont, the reasons may l
12、ie 10in our unconscious minds. A. turned B. dreams C. deep D. unfamiliar E. urging F. moment G. suddenly H. urban I. narrowly J. weave K. explored L. answer M. obstacle N. awake O. named（分数：20.00）填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_Although each baby has an individu
13、al schedule of development, general patterns of growth have been observed Three periods of development have been identified, including early infancy, which 1from the first to the sixth month middle infancy, from the sixth to the ninth month and late infancy, from the ninth to the fifteenth month. Wh
14、ereas the newborn is 2with his or her inner world and responds 3to hunger and pain in early infancy, the baby is already aware of the surrounding world. During the second month, many infants are aware more and can raise their heads to look at things. They also begin to smile at people. By four month
15、s, the baby is 4for things but not yet grasping them in its hands. It is also beginning to be 5to strangers and may scream when a visiting 6tries to pick it up. By five months, the baby is 7objects and putting them into his mouth. Some babies are trying to 8themselves with their hands. In middle inf
16、ancy, the baby 9on practicing a great many speech sounds. It loves to imitate actions and examine interesting objects. At about seven months, it begins to crawl, a skill that it masters at the end of middle infancy. In late infancy, the baby takes an interest in games, songs and even book. 10toward
17、walking moves through standing, balancing, bounding in place, and walking with others. As soon as the baby walks well alone, it has passed from infancy into the active toddler (学步儿童) age. A. searching B. Progress C. feed D. extends E. Appeal F. concentrates G. amazingly H. grabbing I. relative J. co
18、ncerned K. indifferent L. alert M. primarily N. meanwhile O. previous（分数：20.00）填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_大学英语四级改革适用（阅读）模拟试卷 259 答案解析(总分：100.00，做题时间：90 分钟)一、Reading Comprehensio(总题数：5，分数：100.00)1.Part III Reading Comprehension（分数：20.00）_解析：2.Section A（分数：20
19、.00）_解析：Keeping a full social calendar may help protect you from dementia (痴呆症), researchers said on Monday. 1active people who were not easily stressed had a 50 percent lower risk of developing dementia compared with men and women who were 2and prone to distress, they reported in the journal Neurol
20、ogy. “In the past, studies have shown that long-term distress can 3parts of the brain, possibly leading to dementia,“ Hui-Xin Wang of the Karolinska Institute in Sweden, who led the study, said in a 4. “But our findings suggest that having a calm and 5personality in combination with a socially activ
21、e lifestyle may decrease the risk of developing dementia even further.“ An estimated 24 million people worldwide have the memory loss, problems with direction and other 6that signal Alzheimers disease and other forms of dementia Researchers believe the number of people with dementia may increase by
22、four times by 2040, 7the importance of better understanding the condition. The Swedish study involved 506 elderly people who did not have dementia when first examined. The volunteers were given questionnaires about their personality traits and lifestyles and then 8for six years. Over that time, 144
23、people developed dementia with more socially active and less stressed men and women 50 percent less likely to be 9with the condition. “The good news is, lifestyle factors can be modified as opposed to genetic factors which cannot be controlled,“ Wang said. “But these are early results, so how exactl
24、y 10attitude influences risk for dementia is not clear.“ A. affect B. outgoing C. undergoing D. diagnosed E. effect F. Socially G. tracked H. withdrew I. Vertically J. statement K. highlighting L. symptoms M. frictions N. mental O. isolated（分数：20.00）填空项 1:_ （正确答案：F）填空项 1:_ （正确答案：O）填空项 1:_ （正确答案：A）填空
25、项 1:_ （正确答案：J）填空项 1:_ （正确答案：B）填空项 1:_ （正确答案：L）填空项 1:_ （正确答案：K）填空项 1:_ （正确答案：G）填空项 1:_ （正确答案：D）填空项 1:_ （正确答案：N）解析：解析：此处应为形容词。全文讨论关于人的精神状态与痴呆症之间关系的研究，最后一段的目的是指出本文提到的研究结果还不够完善，由此可见，本题空白处选 mental 一词符合语义。Most people often dream at night. When they wake in the morning they say to themselves, “What a stran
26、ge dream I had! I wonder what made me dream that.“ Sometimes 1are frightening. Sometimes, in dreams, wishes come true. At other times we are troubled by strange dreams in which the world seems to have been 2upside-down and nothing makes sense. In dreams we do things which we would never do when were
27、 3. We think and say things we would never think and say. Why are dreams so strange and 4? Where do dreams come from? No one has produced a more satisfying 5than a man called Sigmund Freud. He said that dreams come from a part of ones mind which one can neither recognize nor control. He 6this the “u
28、nconscious mind.“ The new worlds Freud 7were inside man himself. For the unconscious mind is like a deep well, full of memories and feelings. These memories and feelings have been stored there from the 8of our birth. Our conscious mind has forgotten them. We do not know that they are there until som
29、e unhappy or unusual experience causes us to remember, or to dream dreams. Then 9we see the same thing and feel the same way we felt when we were little children. The unconscious forces inside us are at least as powerful as the conscious forces we know about. Sometimes we do things without knowing W
30、hy. If we dont, the reasons may lie 10in our unconscious minds. A. turned B. dreams C. deep D. unfamiliar E. urging F. moment G. suddenly H. urban I. narrowly J. weave K. explored L. answer M. obstacle N. awake O. named（分数：20.00）填空项 1:_ （正确答案：B）填空项 1:_ （正确答案：A）填空项 1:_ （正确答案：N）填空项 1:_ （正确答案：D）填空项 1:_
31、 （正确答案：L）填空项 1:_ （正确答案：O）填空项 1:_ （正确答案：K）填空项 1:_ （正确答案：F）填空项 1:_ （正确答案：G）填空项 1:_ （正确答案：C）解析：解析：此处应为副词，修饰动词词组 lie in our unconscious minds。结合上一句，可以推断我们有时不知道我们做某事的原因，是因为这个原因在我们的潜意识里隐藏得很深，因此此处用 deep 一词最合适。Although each baby has an individual schedule of development, general patterns of growth have been
32、 observed Three periods of development have been identified, including early infancy, which 1from the first to the sixth month middle infancy, from the sixth to the ninth month and late infancy, from the ninth to the fifteenth month. Whereas the newborn is 2with his or her inner world and responds 3
33、to hunger and pain in early infancy, the baby is already aware of the surrounding world. During the second month, many infants are aware more and can raise their heads to look at things. They also begin to smile at people. By four months, the baby is 4for things but not yet grasping them in its hand
34、s. It is also beginning to be 5to strangers and may scream when a visiting 6tries to pick it up. By five months, the baby is 7objects and putting them into his mouth. Some babies are trying to 8themselves with their hands. In middle infancy, the baby 9on practicing a great many speech sounds. It lov
35、es to imitate actions and examine interesting objects. At about seven months, it begins to crawl, a skill that it masters at the end of middle infancy. In late infancy, the baby takes an interest in games, songs and even book. 10toward walking moves through standing, balancing, bounding in place, an
36、d walking with others. As soon as the baby walks well alone, it has passed from infancy into the active toddler (学步儿童) age. A. searching B. Progress C. feed D. extends E. Appeal F. concentrates G. amazingly H. grabbing I. relative J. concerned K. indifferent L. alert M. primarily N. meanwhile O. previous（分数：20.00）填空项 1:_ （正确答案：D）填空项 1:_ （正确答案：J）填空项 1:_ （正确答案：M）填空项 1:_ （正确答案：A）填空项 1:_ （正确答案：L）填空项 1:_ （正确答案：I）填空项 1:_ （正确答案：H）填空项 1:_ （正确答案：C）填空项 1:_ （正确答案：F）填空项 1:_ （正确答案：B）解析：解析：此处需要名词作句子的主语。根据本句后半部分这些步骤及谓语动词 moves through 可判断本题答案为 Progress。
