1、大学英语四级阅读-26 及答案解析(总分：100.00，做题时间：90 分钟)一、BReading Compreh(总题数：0，分数：0.00)二、BSection A/B(总题数：2，分数：20.00)Directions: In this section, there is a passage with ten blanks. You are required to select one word for each blank from a list of choices given in a word bank following the passage. Read the passag
2、e through carefully before making your choices. Each choice in the bank is identified by a letter. You may not use any of the words in the bank more than once.Have you ever known anyone famous? If so, you may have found that they are remarkably similar to the rest of us. You may have even heard them
3、 U U 1 /U /Uto people saying there is anything different about them. “Im really just a normal guy,“ U U 2 /U /Uan actor who has recently rocketed into the spotlight. There is, of course, usually a brief period when they actually start to believe they are as great as their U U 3 /U /Ufans suggest. Th
4、ey start to wear U U 4 /U /Uclothes and talk as if everyone should hear what they have to say. This period, however, does not often last long. They fall back to reality as fast as they had U U 5 /U /Urisen above it all. What will it feel like to soar to such U U 6 /U /Uand look down like an eagle fr
5、om up high on everyone else? And what will it feel like to have flown so high only to U U 7 /U /Ufrom your dream and realize you are only human? Some only see the U U 8 /U /Uin losing something they had gained. They often make U U 9 /U /Uattempts to regain what they lost. Often these efforts result
6、in even greater pain. Some become U U 10 /U /Ufinancially and emotionally. The only real winners are those who are happy to be back on the ground with the rest of us.Adesperate Bdisappointing Ccruelty DbankruptEfancy Fprotects Galtitude HsimilarlyIwake Jcontest Kobject LworshippingMdignity Noriginal
7、ly Oprotests（分数：10.00）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:_The West begun to take more notice of the East. The fifth volume of an enormous work re-assessing the Chinese contribution to science and technology is to be published next year. The first volume, which was p
8、ublished twenty years ago, set the U U 11 /U /Ufor the whole work. In it, U U 12 /U /Uwas given to show that many inventions which, until then, western historians had claimed for Europe, were made first in China. The U U 13 /U /Uto rewrite the intellectual history of the world was not received witho
9、ut protest by some reputable historians. However, the evidence that has been U U 14 /U /Uso far in the first four volumes has persuaded many historians who were skeptical at first. Chinas invention of paper, printing, the magnetic compass and gunpowder has never been U U 15 /U /U, but this new histo
10、ry has added advanced bridge design, mechanical clocks, paddle boats and many other inventions to the U U 16 /U /U.In the four volumes published so far no attempt has been made to explain U U 17 /U /UChina has not kept up with the West in science and technology in modern times. It is U U 18 /U /Utha
11、t the answer is to be found in the social and economic history of China, where a static society under a relatively benevolent (仁慈的) regime of scholar-gentry contrasts with the potentially revolutionary and dynamic society of the West at the end of the Middle Ages. In U U 19 /U /Uyears, the Chinese g
12、overnment has been making every effort to catch up with the West again, and there is little doubt that the gap is being U U 20 /U /Uyear by year. But will China avoid the Wests mistakes?Athat Bwhy Cpast DrecentEprobable Fevidence Gtone HtextIlist Jattempt Kdisputed LproducedMreduced Npresented Osaid
13、（分数：10.00）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:_三、BSection B/B(总题数：2，分数：40.00)Directions: In this section, you are going to read a passage with ten statements attached to it. Each statement contains information given in one of the paragraphs. Identify the paragraph fr
14、om which the information is derived. You may choose a paragraph more than once. Each paragraph is marked with a letter.Creative Book Report IdeasAAre you at a loss for creative book report ideas for your students? If yes, then this article will help you make reading and reviewing books more creative
15、 for your class. In an age of PSPs, Xbox, anime and gaming arcades, reading has lost its foothold in the list of hobbies that children tend to cite. Most of the reading that kids do today comes in the form of compulsory books that they need to read for school and maybe that is the reason why they fi
16、nd reading to be an insurmountable and boring task. If you want to inculcate the love for languages and literary masterpieces in your students and want them to devour books everyone should read, then a good way of going about the same would be to get them to start working on creative book report ide
17、as. While working on creative ideas for book reports, your students will have to understand the book in a way that allows them to come up with new ways to present to the class the essence of the book.BAs a teacher, while egging your students to activate their creative gray cells, you will have to he
18、lp them out with basic ideas that they can work on. Depending on the age bracket that your students belong to, the creative book report ideas will vary. This is so, not just because of the varying attention spans that children of various age groups possess but also because of the amount of work that
19、 kids can put into the report. While a middle school student will be comfortable handling a handy cam, a student from elementary school will be more fascinated if he is working with paints and puppets. So do you want to know how to write a book report creatively? In this article, we will list out fo
20、r you a couple of good creative book report ideas for elementary students and for middle school students.CA book report sandwich is a good creative idea for book reports. As a teacher you can get drawings of a sandwich on sheets of paper that are of the color of the ingredients of your sandwich, for
21、 example, a cream sheet of paper to resemble mayonnaise, red to represent tomato and likewise. Obviously, each ingredient should be cut in a way that when assembled together, it looks like a sandwich. Now give each of your students one of these book sandwiches to create their book report. It can sta
22、rt with the name of the book and the authors name on the top slice of the sandwich. The second ingredient can have the summary of the book on it. Each subsequent ingredient can have a description of the main characters, the setting of the book, the plot, and then his or her views about the book. Onc
23、e they are done with their book reports, they can staple the book sandwich together and then, you can create a class bulletin board with all the book report sandwiches on display.DOne of the good techniques is to retell a story, and it is also one of the favorite creative book report ideas among stu
24、dents. The job that the student will have is to read the book and then pick a few objects at his/her home which will allow him/her to retell the story in a way that makes it interesting for his/her audience. Every time he/she picks out an object from the bag to report the book he/she has read, there
25、 has to be a valid connection between the book and the object, which the student can first ask the audience to guess and then go ahead and explain it. This idea is spin-off on the normal show and tells and allows for an interactive book report session.EThis is one of the creative ideas for book repo
26、rts in which, as the teacher, you will have to divide your class into groups and give them one book each. The students can then read the book and get together and write a play and act it out for the class. To give a deeper insight into the book, one of the students can play the role of the author an
27、d as a group, the students can try and recreate the thought process of the author. The student playing the role of the author can then interrupt the play at important junctures and talk about the reasons for these twists in the play and how he/she came up with these plot lines.FAs a young adult, you
28、r students fascination may go beyond the immediate concerns of the book. He/she may want to understand the circumstances in which the book was written, the times then, the events happening in the world and get the authors perspective about the book. Encourage your students to think beyond those line
29、s. Divide the class into pairs and give each pair one book to read. Let them then do the roles of the author and a journalist. You can have an interview session in front of the class, enabling them to dissect the book and get a peek into the authors world.GIn a technology-obsessed world, it may be a
30、 very tiny minority of your class that does not get excited with the prospect of shooting a film. One of the best creative book report ideas for middle school is that you will need to divide the class into groups and give them at least two months to adapt the book that they have been assigned into a
31、 film. The movie should have a well-adapted screenplay, and all other prerequisites, like a lighting engineer, sound engineer, costume designer etc. At the end of the given time, the film can be screened in front of the class and then discussed.HIf you are on the lookout for good individual creative
32、 book report ideas, then this one could be for you. Assign every student a book and then ask them to start maintaining a diary, from the authors point of view. Ask them to come up with imaginary incidents from the authors life and use historical events to explain why the author wrote the book in a c
33、ertain manner. Alternately, you can also ask your students to give a surrogate ending to the story.IThese are just few of the options that you could use to inspire your students to come up with creative book report ideas. As kids, we tend to be more imaginative and creative. Encourage your students
34、to think out of the box and appreciate them for their efforts. This will help you have a class that is not only lively and inquisitive by nature but also a class that will cultivate a love for words.（分数：20.00）(1).Teachers can create a class bulletin board to display all the book report sandwiches af
35、ter their students finish their reports.（分数：2.00）填空项 1:_(2).Adopting the method of knowing your author, teachers can encourage students to think beyond the immediate concerns of the book.（分数：2.00）填空项 1:_(3).Asking the students to write from their own point of view is suitable for teachers who are on
36、 the lookout for good individual creative book report ideas.（分数：2.00）填空项 1:_(4).Retelling a story is one of the favorite creative book report ideas among students and it tells and allows for an interactive book report session.（分数：2.00）填空项 1:_(5).Nowadays, most of books children read are those they n
37、eed to read for school.（分数：2.00）填空项 1:_(6).People tend to be more imaginative and creative as kids.（分数：2.00）填空项 1:_(7).While working on creative ideas for book reports, students will have to understand the book.（分数：2.00）填空项 1:_(8).The creative book report ideas vary according to ages because childre
38、n in different age groups have different attention span.（分数：2.00）填空项 1:_(9).If teachers ask their students to shoot a film about a book, they should give them no fewer than two months.（分数：2.00）填空项 1:_(10).Teachers can ask students in the groups to write a play out of the book theyve given and act it
39、 out.（分数：2.00）填空项 1:_The Power Of KnowledgeAMary Fasano gave the Commencement address at Harvard Universitys 1997 degree awarding ceremony. On that day she became the oldest person ever to receive an undergraduate degree from Harvard.BI remember one night a few years ago when my daughter was frantic
40、 with worry. After my Harvard Extension School classes, I usually arrived at the bus station near my home by 11 P.M., but on that night I was nowhere to be found. My daughter was nervous. It wasnt safe for a single woman to walk alone on the streets at night, especially one as defenseless as I am.CT
41、hat night my daughter checked the bus station, drove around the streets, and contacted some friends. But she couldnt find me, until she called my astronomy professor who told her that I was on top of the Science Center using the telescope to gaze at the stars. Unaware of the time, I had gotten lost
42、in the heavens and was only thinking about the new things I had learned that night in class.DThis story illustrates a habit I have developed over the yearsI lose track of time when it comes to learning. How else do you explain a woman who began high school at age 71 and who is graduating with a bach
43、elors degree at 89? I may have started late, but I will continue to learn as long as I am able because there is no greater feeling, in my opinion, than traveling to a far away country as I have and being able to identify by sight the painting of a famous artist and the statue of an obscure sculptor.
44、 I have found that the world is a final exam that you can never be prepared enough for. So I will continue to take classes and tell my story.ELately it seems that everyone is asking me, “Mary, what advice do you have for other students?“ So, while I have you all here, Im going to ease my burden of a
45、nswering you each individually. If the saying is true that wisdom comes with age, you may safely assume that I am one of the wisest people in this hall and possibly at this University today. So listen to me when I tell you thisknowledge is power.FMy studies were interrupted when I was in the 7th gra
46、de, back sometime around World War I. I loved school but I was forced to leave it to care for my family. I was consigned to work in a Rhode Island cotton mill where I labored for many years. I eventually married and raised 5 children, 20 grandchildren, and 18 great-grandchildren. But all the while I felt inferior to those around me. I knew I was as smart as a college graduate. I knew I was capable of doing a job well; I had proved it by running a successful family business for decades that still exists. But I wanted more. I wanted to feel confident when I spoke and I wanted people
