[外语类试卷]专业英语四级(阅读)模拟试卷104及答案与解析.doc
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1、专业英语四级(阅读)模拟试卷 104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 I was addressing a small gathering in a suburban Virg
2、inia living room a womens group that had invited men to join them. Throughout the evening, one man had been particularly talkative, frequently offering ideas and anecdotes, while his wife sat silently beside him on the couch. Toward the end of the evening, I commented that women frequently complain
3、that their husbands dont talk to them. This man quickly nodded in agreement. He gestured toward his wife and said, “Shes the talker in our family.“ The room burst into laughter; the man looked puzzled and hurt. “Its true,“ he explained. “When I come home from work, I have nothing to say. If she didn
4、t keep the conversation going, wed spend the whole evening in silence.“ This episode crystallizes the irony that although American men tend to talk more than women in public situations, they often talk less at home. And this pattern is wreaking havoc with marriage. The pattern was observed by politi
5、cal scientist Andrew Hacker in the late 1970s. Sociologist Catherine Kohler Riessman reports in her new book Divorce Talk that most of the women she interviewed but only a few of the men gave lack of communication as the reason for their divorces. Given the current divorce rate of nearly 50 percent,
6、 that amounts to millions of cases in the United States every year a virtual epidemic of failed conversation. In my own research, complaints from women about their husbands most often focused not on tangible inequities such as having given up the chance for a career to accompany a husband to his, or
7、 doing far more than their share of daily life-support work like cleaning, cooking and social arrangements. Instead, they focused on communication: “He doesnt listen to me.“ “He doesnt talk to me.“ I found, as Hacker observed years before, that most wives want their husbands to be, first and foremos
8、t, conversational partners, but few husbands share this expectation of their wives. In short, the image that best represents the current crisis is the stereotypical cartoon scene of a man sitting at the breakfast table with a newspaper held up in front of his face, while a woman glares at the back o
9、f it, wanting to talk. 1 What is most wives main expectation of their husbands? ( A) Talking to them. ( B) Trusting them. ( C) Supporting their careers. ( D) Sharing housework. 2 Judging from the context, the phrase “wreaking havoc“ in Paragraph 2 most probably means ( A) generating motivation. ( B)
10、 exerting influence. ( C) causing damage. ( D) creating pressure. 3 All of the following are true EXCEPT ( A) men tend to talk more in public than women. ( B) nearly 50 percent of recent divorces are caused by failed conversation. ( C) women attach much importance to communication between couples. (
11、 D) a female tends to be more talkative at home than her spouse. 4 Which of the following can best summarize the main idea of this text? ( A) The moral decaying deserves more research by sociologists. ( B) Marriage break-up stems from sex inequalities. ( C) Husband and wife have different expectatio
12、ns from their marriage. ( D) Conversational patterns between man and wife are different. 5 In the following part immediately after this text, the author will most probably focus on ( A) a vivid account of the new book Divorce Talk. ( B) a detailed description of the stereotypical cartoon. ( C) other
13、 possible reasons for a high divorce rate in the U.S. ( D) a brief introduction to the political scientist Andrew Hacker. 5 It looked just like another aircraft from the outside. The pilot told his young passengers that it was built in 1964. But appearances were deceptive, and the 13 students from E
14、urope and the USA who boarded the aircraft, were in for the flight of their lives. Inside, the area that normally had seats had become a long white tunnel. Heavily padded (填满 ) from floor to ceiling, it looked a bit strange. There were almost no windows, but lights along the padded walls illuminated
15、 it. Most of the seats had been taken out, apart from a few at the back where the young scientists quickly took their places with a look of fear. For 12 months, science students from across the continents had competed to win a place on the flight at the invitation of the European Space Agency. The c
16、hallenge had been to suggest imaginative experiments to be conducted in weightless conditions. For the next two hours, the flight resembled that of an enormous bird which had lost its reason, shooting upwards towards the heavens before rushing towards Earth. The invention was to achieve weightlessne
17、ss for a few seconds. The aircraft took off smoothly enough. But any feelings that I and the young scientists had that we were on anything like a scheduled passenger service were quickly dismissed when the pilot put the plane into a 45-degree climb which lasted around 20 seconds. Then the engines cu
18、t out and we became weightless. Everything became confused and left or right, up or down no longer had any meaning. After ten seconds of free-fall descent (下降 ) the pilot pulled the aircraft out of its nosedive. The return of gravity was less immediate than its loss, but was still sudden enough to e
19、nsure that some students came down with a bump. Each time the pilot cut the engines and we became weightless, a new team conducted its experiment. First it was the Dutch who wanted to discover how it is that cats always land on their feet. Then the German team who conducted a successful experiment o
20、n a traditional building method to see if it could be used for building a further space station. The Americans had an idea to create solar sails that could be used by satellites. After two hours of going up and down in the lane doing their experiments, the predominant feeling was one of excitement r
21、ather than sickness. Most of the students thought it was an unforgettable experience and one they would be keen to repeat. 6 What did the writer say about the plane? ( A) It had no seats. ( B) It was painted white. ( C) It had no windows. ( D) The outside was misleading. 7 According to the writer, h
22、ow did the young scientists feel before the flight? ( A) Sick. ( B) Keen. ( C) Nervous. ( D) Impatient. 8 What did the pilot do with the plane after it took off? ( A) He quickly climbed and then stopped the engines. ( B) He climbed and then made the plane fall slowly. ( C) He took off normally and t
23、hen cut the engines for 20 seconds. ( D) He climbed and then made the plane turn over. 9 According to the passage, the purpose of being weightless was to ( A) see what conditions are like in space. ( B) prepare the young scientists for future work in space. ( C) show the judges of the competition wh
24、at they could do. ( D) make the teams try out their ideas. 10 This passage was written to ( A) encourage young people to take up science. ( B) describe the process of a scientific competition. ( C) show scientists what young people can do. ( D) report on a new scientific technique. 10 It is not unus
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