1、专业英语四级（阅读）模拟试卷 197及答案与解析 SECTION A In this section there are several passages followed by ten multiple-choice questions. For each question, there are four suggested answers marked A, B, C and D. Choose the one that you think is the best answer. 0 (1) The communications explosion is on the scale of t
2、he rail, automobile or telephone revolution. Very soon youll be able to record your entire life electronically anything a microphone or a camera can sense youll be able to store. In particular, the number of images a person captures in a lifetime is set to rise exponentially. The thousand images a y
3、ear I take of my children on a digital camera are all precious to me. In a generations time, my childrens children will have total image documentation of their entire lives a visual log of tremendous personal value. (2) By then well be wrestling with another question; how we control all the electron
4、ic devices connected to the Internet: trillions of PCs, laptops, palmpilots, cell phones and other gadgets. In Cambridge, were already working on millimeter-square computing and sensing devices that can be linked to the Internet through the radio net work. This sort of connectivity will expand drama
5、tically as microscopic communications devices become dirt-cheap and multiply. Just imagine what the paint on the wall could do if it had this sort of communications dust in it: change color, play music, show movies or even speak to you. (3) Falling costs raise other possibilities too. Because launch
6、ing space vehicles is about to become very much cheaper, the number of satellites is likely to go up exponentially. Theres lots of space up there so we could have millions of them. And if you have millions of low-orbit satellites you can establish a global commumcations network that completely does
7、away with towers and masts. If the satellites worked on the cellular principle so you got spatial reuse of frequencies, system capacity would be amazing. (4) Speech is so flexible that I expect voice communication to become almost free eventually: youll pay just a monthly fixed charge and be able to
8、 make as many calls as you want. By then people will also have fixed links with business contacts, friends and relatives. One day I anticipate being able to keep in touch with my family in Poland on a fibreoptic audio-video link; well be able to have a little ceremony at supper-time, open the curtai
9、ns and sit down “together“ to eat. (5) Cars are an interesting IT-platform because they have big batteries and lots of so far unconnected digital devices. Soon each one will be an entity on the Internet so your children can play interactive games while youre traveling and your partner can deal with
10、their e-mail. And every lamppost could be on the Internet too each one with sensors to monitor light, pollution, air quality and traffic flow. 1 Which of the following is NOT among the functions of the communications dust according to the passage? （ A） To monitor light. （ B） To change color. （ C） To
11、 show movies. （ D） To play music. 2 The future global communications network will be completely free of_. （ A） any breakdown （ B） costs （ C） towers and masts （ D） manual operation 3 Which of the following is INCORRECT according to the passage? （ A） Voice communication would become almost free eventu
12、ally. （ B） Your children can play interactive games in the car in the future. （ C） Spatial reuse of frequencies will be in trouble in the future. （ D） Lamppost would be able to monitor pollution and air flow. 3 (1) It may be one of the worlds great shopping destinations, but Londons Regent Street is
13、 failing the fashion test, according to the Crown Estate, which holds the lease on shops in the famous thoroughfare. And for some of its most venerable tenants that means one thing: eviction. (2) A retail renaissance is needed in the capital, the owners believe, and are looking to top U. S. brands a
14、nd the hip labels of European fashion to stem a tide of shoppers flooding towards the super-malls dotted around the M25. That means the end of the road for Regent Street legends such as Dickens “Generation by generation. people are being cheated of something thats really good to know. “ Hytner, who
15、is best known for his direction of Adrian Lester in Henry V, made his comments yesterday during a discussion with the writer Alan Bennett about his play The History Boys. He told an audience of history and English teachers at the fourth annual Prince of Wales education summer school in Dartington, D
16、evon, that history should be studied until at least age 16. (3) He said people had been lamenting the demise of classical education since he had been a schoolboy. But he added that as a director he had also noted the impact of the decline of basic British historical knowledge among audiences. (4) “I
17、 knew that Henry IV usurped Richard II and was then murdered. It was something I had been taught and simply knew. But theres very little you can rely on now even with National Theatre audiences. We have a very metropolitan audience but theres very little you can rely on an audience knowing. Fifty ye
18、ars ago you could put on classics and it would have a different resonance for people. But now, except for people who have had a classical education, you get no frisson when Agamemnon behaves like a pig. (5) You get around it but generation by generation the feeling I get is that people are being che
19、ated of something thats really good to know. Certainly it makes life harder, if you produce work 50 percent of which is from a classical repertoire, if people do not have an overview of English literature and English history. “ (6) Students are currently required only to study history until the age
20、of 14. Some English literature must be studied until 16 but pupils are not required to sit a full GCSE in the subject. (7) Asked whether history should be made compulsory until 16, Bennett said,“I tend to think that it didnt do me any harm. I did history because I liked doing it so it was never a bu
21、rden. I certainly think English should be compulsory and I think history should be too. “ (8) Bennetts play The History Boys, which recently finished a run at the National, considers what constitutes a good education as it follows the fortunes of a class of A-level historians who are being prepared
22、for Oxbridge entrance exams by teachers with very different philosophies towards learning and passing exams. Hytner said he originally thought the text would not have widespread appeal. “I was wrong. It turned out to have the widest appeal of any play at the National. “ 7 The central idea of the pas
23、sage is that_. （ A） history should be made compulsory for the 16-year-olds （ B） history should be made compulsory for the 14-year-olds （ C） people are being cheated of something thats really good to know （ D） audiences lack education to understand classical plays 8 Which of the following is INCORREC
24、T according to the passage? （ A） Bennetts play The History Boys has widespread appeal. （ B） Bennett is the director of the National Theatre. （ C） Hytner is best known for his direction of Adrian Lester in Henry V. （ D） Pupils are not required to sit a full GCSE in some English literature. 8 (1)I liv
25、e in a street of enormous late-Victorian houses. Most have been converted into flats, but quite a number are now private prep schools. The result is traffic mayhem. At 8:30 every term time morning, and at 3:30 every afternoon, our otherwise moderately busy road becomes a hooting, shouting nose-to-ta
26、il hell of jostling SUVs desperate to take possession of one of the few parking slots, deposit or retrieve their child, and escape before one of the many hovering parking wardens can get them. (2) 11 years ago my daughter started school in Bedford, a town whose main industry is education, with four
27、large private schools, five state upper schools, two sixth-form colleges, three universities, and countless junior, middle and first schools. We lived 12 miles away, and during term time the traffic jams often began 10 miles out. Timing was hair-trigger: if the school bus left at 7:40, the children
28、got to school at 8:20; if it left at 7:50, they wouldnt arrive until after 9:00. Every morning, the town was within an ace of gridlock. One disastrous day the local train company decided to discontinue the schoolkids trains on a local branch line. It was the last straw: the resulting extra cars mean
29、t that the whole place seized up, and no one got anywhere until mid-morning. A perfect demonstration of the virtues of rail travel. (3) Its hard to pinpoint the moment when driving your child to school became the norm. Personally, I either cycled or walked, calling for a friend en route. Only one of
30、 the children in my class came by car, an event so exceptional that I still remember the registration number. But now no sane parent would let a city kid cycle; and if you want to let a first-schooler walk unsupervised, even in the most tranquil community, you must run the gauntlet of other parents.
31、 My daughter knew her way to school from the age of five: it was a 10-minute walk, I crossed her over the biggest road and let her go. “Arent you frightened?“ one outraged mum demanded. What of? Paedophiles behind the hedge? Drivers on the pavement? She didnt, probably couldnt, specify. But her boge
32、y-ridden world is todays norm. (4) So everyone feels they must accompany young children to school. And how else to do that but by car? “I cant get to school on time without the car,“ said one mother picking up her child near our house. What she means, of course, is its easier. She could get up earli
33、er, and walk or take the bus. But cars change our perception of what is possible, and of what we are entitled to. And it is this mindset that makes the reduction of transport emissions, vital if we are to stop global warming, so problematic. (5) Meanwhile, heres an idea. Why not make the provision o
34、f school buses mandatory for all schools, state or private, that accept children outside a walkable catchment area? That would be safe, reliable, environmentally better than hundreds of individual cars, and less nerve-racking for all. In the private sector, it would be cheaper and less wearing than
35、a daily parking fine. And it might even begin to make local state schools truly local. 9 Whats the suggestion of the mother at last? （ A） To make the provision of school buses mandatory for all schools. （ B） To let children go to school by bus themselves. （ C） To have more branch lines. （ D） To buil
36、d more local schools. 10 It can be inferred from the passage that the author had to_. （ A） send her daughter to school by car every day （ B） send her daughter to school by bus every day （ C） send her daughter to school by train every day （ D） send her daughter to school on foot every day SECTION B I
37、n this section there are five short answer questions based on the passages in Section A. Answer the questions with No more than TEN words in the space provided. 11 PASSAGE ONE Why did the girl play basketball over and over again? 11 Whats the central topic of the passage? 12 PASSAGE TWO 12 Who is th
38、e leaser of the Regent Street? 12 PASSAGE THREE 13 What was Bennetts attitude towards history? 14 According to Hytner, who cheated people? 15 PASSAGE FOUR 15 What does the phrase “en route“ in Para. 3 mean? 专业英语四级（阅读）模拟试卷 197答案与解析 SECTION A In this section there are several passages followed by ten
39、multiple-choice questions. For each question, there are four suggested answers marked A, B, C and D. Choose the one that you think is the best answer. 【知识模块】 阅读 1 【正确答案】 A 【 试题解析】 细节题。文章最后一段末句提到 “And every lamppost could be on the Internet tooeach one with sensors to monitor light， pollution， air qu
40、ality and traffic flow ”，即未来电线杆的功能之一是监测公路上的照明，所以 A不是通讯粉末的功能，故为正确答案。第二段最后一句提到了通讯粉末的功能：change color(B)， play music(D)， show movies(C)or even speak to you。 【知识模块】 阅读 2 【正确答案】 C 【试题解析】 细节题。从文章第三段第四句 “And if you have millions of loworbit satellites you can establish a global communications network that c
41、ompletely does away with towers and masts ”可知，未来的全球通讯网络将彻底淘汰那些转播塔和转播天线，因此 C为正确答案。 【知识模块】 阅读 3 【正确答案】 C 【试题解析】 推断题。文章第三段第五句指出 “If the satellites worked on the cellular principle so you got spatial reuse of frequencies， system capacity would be amazing ”，所以 C与原文内容不符，故为答案。 A、 B和 D均可在文中第四、五段找到原句，故排除。 【知
42、识模块】 阅读 【知识模块】 阅读 4 【正确答案】 D 【试题解析】 细节题。从文章第二段第二句中 “while the arrival of Apple computers and U S surfwear giant Quiksilver signals the areas new image ”可以得出正确答案为 D。 【知识模块】 阅读 5 【正确答案】 A 【试题解析】 推断题。文章主要论述了摄政街为了改变自己在时代发展中日渐落伍的状况所采取的一系列措施，以求恢复其昔日的辉煌，如引进美国一些著 名品牌等，所以 A为正确答案。 【知识模块】 阅读 6 【正确答案】 D 【试题解析】
43、推断题。由文章可知，摄政街的所有变化都是王室地产公司为了恢复该地区的繁荣而做出决策所引起的，与政府的政策调整无关，所以 D与原文不符，故为正确答案。 【知识模块】 阅读 【知识模块】 阅读 7 【正确答案】 D 【试题解析】 主旨题。根据文章第一段的描述可知，由于越来越多的观众不理解经典历史剧，本文呼吁人们加强对青少年的历史教育，所以正确答案是 D。A“历史课应该在十六岁时 被定为必修课 ”、 B“历史课应该在十四岁时被定为必修课 ”和 C“人们被一些真正应该知道的东西所欺骗了 ”，都不是文章主旨，故排除。 【知识模块】 阅读 8 【正确答案】 B 【试题解析】 细节题。从文章第一段第一句 “
44、Nicholas Hytner ， director of the National Theatre” 可知，海特纳才是国家剧院的导演，而不是班尼特，所以 B与原文不符，故为答案。 【知识模块】 阅读 【知识模块】 阅读 9 【正确答案】 A 【试题解析】 细节题。从文章最后一段第二句 “Why not make the provision of school buses mandatory for all schools， state or private， that accept children outside a walkable catchment area?”可知，答案为 A。 【
45、知识模块】 阅读 10 【正确答案】 D 【试题解析】 推断题。从文章第三段的第五句 “My daughter knew her way to school from the age of five： it was a 10 minute walk， I crossed her over the biggest road and let her go ”可以看出，作者带女儿穿过一条最大的路后就让她自己走，因此 D为正确答案。 【知识模块】 阅读 SECTION B In this section there are five short answer questions based on th
46、e passages in Section A. Answer the questions with No more than TEN words in the space provided. 11 【正确答案】 The fast-developed Telecoms will change peoples lifestyle 【试题解析】 文章第一段第一句 “The communications explosion is on the scale of the rail， automobile or telephone revolution ”就提到了关 键词组 The communicat
47、ions explosion，下文主要讲述了在未来，高度发达的电讯业可能引发的人们生活和工作中的巨大变化，因此 “The fastdeveloped Telecoms will change peoples lifestyle ”为正确答案。 【知识模块】 阅读 12 【正确答案】 The Crown Estate 【试题解析】 从文章第一段第一句 “according to the Crown Estate ， which holds the lease on shops in the famous thoroughfare ”可知，王室地产是摄政街的出租方，故 “The Crown Est
48、ate ”为正确答案。 【知识模块】 阅读 【知识模块】 阅读 13 【正确答案】 He likes it 【试题解析】 从文章倒数第二段第二句 “I did history because I liked doing it so it was never a burden ”可知，他喜欢学习历史，故 “He likes it ”为正确答案。 【知 识模块】 阅读 14 【正确答案】 The modern education 【试题解析】 海特纳反复抱怨人们受到了欺骗，忽视了很多值得了解的东西，接着就提出了学校中进行历史教育的问题，因此他认为教育不当使人们忽视了历史，从而使人们无法真正地领悟历史剧的魅力，故 “The modern education ”为正确答案。 【知识模块】 阅读 15 【正确答案】 On the way 【试题解析】 En route是法语，结合所在句子可知，其意思是 “在途中 ”，所以“On the way ”为正确答案。 【知识模块】 阅读
