[外语类试卷]专业英语四级(阅读)模拟试卷19及答案与解析.doc
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1、专业英语四级(阅读)模拟试卷 19及答案与解析 0 Last week, for the first time in many years, I had a big, shouty, stand-up row with a colleague at work. It started off quite small, as these things often do. But then he accused me of being sloppy. I accused him of trying to cover something up. The two of us stood in the m
2、iddle of a large, open-plan office. The conventional view is that rage at work is bad, as well as being mad and dangerous. A Gallup poll in the US showed that one in five office workers has been so furious with a colleague in the past six months that they would have liked to hit the other person. Bu
3、t the true picture is more complicated than that. There is good rage and bad rage. Someone who gets angry all the time is impossible to work with. But for the rest of us, occasional bursts of anger, have much to be said for them. My rage attack had two advantages. First, it was a gift to everyone el
4、se. Boring office life was briefly interrupted with a little drama. Eyes popped, and suddenly there was something to whisper about at the coffee machine. It was also good for me as it got my blood coursing agreeably through my veins. Companies have got themselves into a puzzledom over anger. On one
5、hand they tell us to feel passionate about our work. On the other they expect us to be professional at all times which means keeping our negative emotions under lock and key. Passionate and professional strike me as odd bedfellows. However, if what passion means is minding about work, Im all for it.
6、 The trouble is that minding means sometimes feeling furious when things dont go according to plan. Indeed, for me work is one long rage opportunity starting with the fact that the machine that dispenses hot water for tea is on the blink. Clearly some management of rage is in order, and here is what
7、 the experts usually suggest. Their first tip is to breathe. Ive never been able to see what the big deal about breathing is. It keeps me alive, but thats as far as it goes. Their second is“positive self-talk“ to squash your negative feedings and give the other person the benefit of the doubt. But w
8、hy should I give my arrogant colleague the benefit of the doubt when he was so clearly in the wrong? The very thought makes me much crosser than I was before. The third tip is forgiveness. Again, no dice:I dont forgive the water machine and I dont forgive my colleague. The reason this advice is so h
9、opeless is that it is trying to eliminate anger. Instead, what we all need advice on is how to do anger better. My outburst last week could have been improved on. The first problem is that I dont get angry at work often enough, so last weeks row was too shocking to my system. Once every 10 years is
10、too little. Once every 10 minutes is too much. The ideal might be about once every couple of months. The next problem was that I didnt end it properly. Apologies all round are a good way of ending it. There are other principles for good anger. It is almost never good to shout at a subordinate. Secon
11、d, however angry you are dont let it spill out of control. Throwing the computer keyboard is not advisable as it makes you look an idiot and then your computer doesnt work, making you crosser still. 1 Why did the writer get angry with his colleague? ( A) He was arguing some issues of the work with h
12、im. ( B) He was irritated by his colleagues shout at him. ( C) He felt intolerant of him without special reasons. ( D) He felt that his colleague concealed something from him. 2 As described in the passage, passion_. ( A) has nothing to do with work ( B) is one way to control emotions ( C) is one ki
13、nd of negative emotions ( D) sometimes may transform into fury 3 Which of the following statements is INCORRECT? ( A) Generally speaking, almost all of the clerks get along well with their colleagues. ( B) Its impossible to oppress ones bad temper while being passionate on ones work. ( C) People ten
14、d to get angry at work in many situations. ( D) People in companies welcome rage. 4 Whats the attitude of the writer towards the advice experts give? ( A) Indifferent. ( B) Sarcastic. ( C) Skeptical. ( D) Supportive. 5 Which of the following is the best title for the passage? ( A) Never Become Furio
15、us at Work ( B) Learn How to Get Rid of Rage ( C) Rage Is Inevitable for Us ( D) Improve Your Bad Temper 5 Rock music has been accused of having a beat that is at once too strong and too simplistic. Lets look at these issues individually, and see how they in fact contribute to the power of the music
16、. If you look at the classic instrumentation of a rock group drums, bass, electric guitar and piano one inescapable fact is that they are all percussive instruments. There are no horns or strings, no instruments that are bowed or blown, whose notes smoothly move to the desired volume and then stay t
17、here. The musicians play all of these instruments by striking them with a stick, pick, finger or hammer. As a result, their characteristic sounds all exhibit sharply rising and descending volumes. The overall effect is to emphasize the rhythmic value of each note, to give the placement of the peak v
18、olume of each note, each chord, at least equal weight with its melodic or harmonic element. In earlier musical forms, the drums, bass, piano and guitar had sometimes collectively been referred to as the “rhythm section. “ With rock instrumentation, effectively the entire group became part of the rhy
19、thm section. Part of the reason for increasing the strength of the rhythm in rock for creating what became known as “the big beat“ was to increase the propulsive force of the music. This is essentially the same reason that regular meter is used in traditional poetry. In this sense, rock is to tradit
20、ional pop music as poetry is to prose. The effect in both rock and metered poetry is to create regular rhythmic patterns that drive the listener along and amplify the energy of the words. This is why Phil Spector told David Susskind, when he was reading the lyrics of one of his songs on TV, that wha
21、t he was missing was the beat. One effect of the strong rhythm is to increase the intensity and power of the communication. Listening to rock lyrics without the beat would be akin to paraphrasing Yeats as saying, “Going round in larger circles, the damned bird gets lost. “ The meaning of the words i
22、s roughly the same, but my phrasing has none of the power of Yeats: “ Turning and turning in the widening gyre, the falcon cannot hear the falconer. “ Another reason for increasing the strength of the rock rhythm was simply to make the beat an equal player in the resulting music. As suggested above
23、by Robert Palmer, traditional pop forms had made the beat a poor second cousin to melody and harmony. Rock liberated the rhythmic component of the music, allowing it an equal footing with the other elements. The perception has sometimes been that the beat in rock music is so strong as to overpower t
24、he melody and lyrics, making the words unintelligible, for example. While this has no doubt happened at times, it is not an essential part of the music. On the other hand, ears that are used to rhythm being consistently relegated to the background sometimes perceive the beat as overpowering simply b
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