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2018年大学英语四级阅读理解模拟试题2
幸福
The way people hold to the belief that a fun-filled, painfree life equals happiness actually reduces their chances of ever attaining real happiness, If fun and pleasure are equal to happiness then pain must be equal to unhappiness. But in fact, the opposite is true: more often than not things that lead to happiness involve some pain.
As a result, many people avoid the very attempts that are the source of true hap piness. They fear the pain inevitably brought by such things as marriage, raising children,professional achievement, religious commitment (承担的义务), self improvement. Ask a bachelor(单身汉) why he resists marriage even though he finds dating to be less and less satisfying. If he is honest he will tell you that he is afraid of making a commitment. For commitment is in fact quite painful. The single life i s filled with fun, adventure, excitement. Marriage has such moments, but they are not its most distinguishing features.
Couples with infant children are lucky to get a whole night's sleep or a three day vacation. I don't know any parent who would choose the word fun to describe raising children. But couple who decide not to have children never know the joys of watching a child grow up or of playing with a grandchild.
Understanding and accepting that true happiness has nothing to do with fun is one of the most liberating realizations. It liberates time: now we can devote more hours to activities that can genuinely increase our happiness. It liberates money: buying that new car or those fancy clothes that will do nothing to increase our happiness now seems pointless. And it liberates us from envy: we now understand that all those who are always having so much fun actually may not be happy at all.
这是一篇议论文,阐述了幸福的获得这一严肃主题,试图澄清人们在幸福问题上的一些误解。
1. According to the author, a bachelor resists marriage chiefly because _______ .
A) he is reluctant to take on family responsibilities
B) he believes that life will be more cheerful if he remains single
C) he finds more fun in dating than in marriage
D) he fears it will put an end to all his fun adventure and excitement
2. Raising children, in the author's opinion, is _______.
A) a moral duty B) a thankless job
C) a rewarding task D) a source of inevitable pain
3. From the last paragraph, we learn that envy sometimes stems from _______.
A) hatred B) misunderstanding
C) prejudice D) ignorance
4. To understand what true happiness is one must _______.
A) have as much run as possible during one's lifetime
B) make every effort to liberate oneself from pain
C) put up with pain under all circumstances
D) be able to distinguish happiness from fun
5. What is the author trying to tell us?
A) Happiness often goes hand in hand with pain.
B) One must know how to attain happiness.
C) It is important to make commitments.
D) It is pain that leads to happiness.
参考答案及解析
1、[答案及分析]:[A]根据第3段第1句话,不难得知A项正确。
2、[答案及分析]:[C]依据为第4段的意义:“有婴儿的父母若能睡一夜整觉或度上一个三天的假期,那真是太幸运了。我认识的为人父母的人中,没有谁认为抚养小孩子fun(好玩)。但是,决定不要孩子的夫妻永远也不会体会到看着孩子成长以及孙儿玩耍的那种快乐。”据此可排除A、B、D项而选C。
3、[答案及分析]:[B]最后一段的意思是:“真正的幸福与fun无关,这样一种观念使得我们不得envy,因为我们已经理解到那些总是充满fun的人实际上可能并不幸福。”也就是说,我们原先所以有envy,是存在误解(misunderstand)。
4、[答案及分析]:[D]第1段和第2段的第1句话及第3、4段所举的论据及第5段的意思都表明D项正确。
5、[答案及分析]:[A]作者在第1段就否定了好玩、无痛苦就等于幸福这一观点,明确提出自己的看法:实际上,导致幸福的事情多半伴随着痛苦。随后几段都在论证这一观点。很明显,A项正确。
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When Nathan Winograd announced that he was leaving his job as a lawyer in California to run an animal shelter in Tompkins County, New York, his father looked at him for a long minute and then asked, “What do dogs and cats need a lawyer for?”
The move meant giving up eight weeks’ vacation, an office with a view of the San Francisco Bay and a big house among the redwoods, and moving to a rural area know for its harsh winters. But Winograd’s wife, Jennifer, also an animal lover, was all for it. So they packed everything they owned, and with two young children, plus two dogs, and a bunch of cats Winograd had rescued, drove cross—country.
On the second day, they had no room for six more puppies they received. They found an old horse trough, filled it with hay and nestled the animals inside. They placed it next to the front desk, and within a day or two, all six had homes, adopted by people who walked into the shelter and couldn’t resist.
Blind dogs, cats with missing limbs—all find homes. “There is no dog or cat too old, too
ugly or too undesirable not to be adopted by someone,” says Winograd.
Today, Tompkins County is considered the only no-kill county in the United States. Nine out of ten dogs cats that come through the shelter doors are saved. Only animals with incurable injuries or illnesses, and the truly evil, are put down. The national average is half of all dogs and 70 percent of cats, totaling more than four million animals last year alone.
Even though he drives an old car that leaks when it rains, and his family lives on a tight budget while his classmates from Stanford Law earn six-figure salaries, Winograd says he’s doing what he’d always wanted to do when he grew up; run an animal shelter and save all the animals.
As a young district lawyer, he kept his goal in mind, starting when he raised his first animal cruelty case. A man was accused of intentionally setting his brown cat on fire. Winograd made his case, and the abusive owner was sentenced to prison.
It was the first of many such cases, and he raised each with vigor. But the senseless violence, neglect and ignorance never failed to shock him. He decided simply, “I need to get to the other side and start saving these animals.”
Now, Winograd is helping to save thousands, even millions, “I’m convinced that a no kill nation is possible, I’m just here trying to shorten the time until it arrives.”
1.What was his father’s response when Nathan Winograd left his job as a lawyer in California?
A.He was all for it. B.He was strongly against it.
C.He was greatly puzzled. D.He was very angry.
2.How did Winograd successfully save so many animals?
A.He kept all the rejected animals in a large shelter.
B.He let the animals adopted by people who visited the shelter.
C.He sold some of the animals and get some money.
D.He delivered the animals to the local government.
3.Which could be the right order of the following events according to the passage?
a.Winograd and Jennifer set up an animal shelter.
b.Winograd and Jennifer lead a comfortable life.
c.Winograd and Jennifer got married and had two children.
d.Winograd and his family lived on a tight bugget.
e.Winograd worked against animal cruelty as a lawyer.
f.Winograd worked as a lawyer in California
g.Winograd and Jennifer moved to Tompkins County.
A.f-c-b-g-a-e-d B.f-e-d-e-a-g-b C.g-a-c-b-f-e-d D.e-d-g-a-f-c-d
4.Which could be the best title of the passage?
A.Being Rich is Important B.Animals, Our Best Friends
C.No Pet Left behind D.The Winograd Family
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Fewer and fewer people these days read short stories. This is unfortunate-so few will ever experience the joy that reading such fine work can give. The goal of this site is to give a nice cross section of short stories in the hope that these short stories will excite these people into rediscovering this excellent source of entertainment.
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1.The passage is mainly about .
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B.how to email short stories to the website
C.why fewer and fewer people enjoy reading
D.how to find short stories on this websites
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A.It contained many classical works with analyses
B.It was written by the author and advertised here.
C.there are many biographies in this book.
D.It’s a collection of short stories of this website.
3.How is the website kept free on line?
A.The website receives much donation from society.
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C.The website earns money by selling books which collect stories of the website.
D.Every reader pays for what they read before reading it.
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A.advertise his or her website and books
B.explain how this website is kept
C.explain who this website is for
D.discuss whether we should read on line
2018年大学英语四级阅读理解模拟试题4
测试吸烟
Psychologist George Spilich and colleagues at Washington College in Chestertown, Maryland, decided to find out whether, as many smokers say, smoking helps them to “think and concentrate.” Spilich put young non-smokers, active smokers and smokers deprived (被剥夺) of cigarettes through a series of tests. In the first test, each subject (试验对象) sat before a computer screen and pressed a key as soon as he or she recognized a target letter among a grouping of 96. In this simple test, smokers, deprived smokers and nonsmokers performed equally well. The next test was more complex, requiring all to scan sequences of 20 identical letters and respond the instant one of the letters transformed into a different one. Non-smokers were faster, but under the stimulation of nicotine (尼古丁), active smokers were faster than deprived smokers. In the third test of short-term memory, non-smokers made the fewest errors, but deprived smokers committed fewer errors than active smokers. The fourth test required people to read a passage, then answer questions about it. Non-smokers remembered 19 percent more of the most important information than active smokers, and deprived smokers bested those who had smoked a cigarette just before testing. Active smokers tended not only to have poorer memories but al so had trouble separating important information from insignificant details. “As our tests became more complex.”Sums up Spilich,“non-smokers performed better than smokers by wider and wider margins”He predicts,“smokers might per form adequately at many jobs-until they got complicated. A smoking airline pilot could fly adequately if no problems arose, but if something went wrong, smoking might damage his mental capacity.”
这是一篇说明文,讲的是关于测试吸烟是否有助于思考和集中精力的实验。
1. The purpose of George Spilich's experiments is _______.
A) to test whether smoking has a positive effect on the mental capacity of smokers
B) to show how smoking damages people's mental capacity
C) to prove that smoking affects people's regular performance
D) to find out whether smoking helps people's short-term memory
2. George Spilich's experiment was conducted in such a way as to _______. 蜕变培训网
A) compel the subjects to separate major information from minor details
B) put the subjects through increasingly complex tests
C) check the effectiveness of nicotine on smokers
D) register the prompt responses of the subjects
3. The word“bested”(Line 3, Para. 5) most probably means _______.
A) beat B) envied C) caught up with D) made the best of
4. Which of the following statements is true?
A) Active smokers in general performed better than deprived smokers.
B) Active smokers responded more quickly than the other subjects.
C) Non-smokers were not better than other subjects in performing simple tasks.
D) Deprived smokers gave the slowest responses to the various tasks.
5. We can infer from the last paragraph that _______.
A) smokers should not expect to become airline pilots
B) smoking in emergency cases causes mental illness
C) no airline pilots smoke during flights
D) smokers may prove unequal to handing emergency cases
参考答案及解析
1、[答案及分析]:[A]事实辨认题,依据是第1段的两句话。
2、[答案及分析]:[B]本题问G有S的实验是以下列哪 种方式进行的。文章第2段说the first test是simple test,第3段开头说第2个实验more complex,最后一段开头说“随着测试逐渐变得复杂,不吸烟的人越来越比吸烟者做得好”,由此可见,George Spilich进行这种测试时以由易到难的顺序进行的。因而B项正确。
3、[答案及分析]:[A]词义推断题。我们可以看出该被要求推断词 义的词所在的上下文意为:没有被允许吸烟的人忧于那些在测试前片刻吸过烟的人。best在此句中是动词,意思应该是“优于、超过”。而四个选项的意思分别是:beat(击败,战胜)catch up with(赶上)make the best of(充分利用)。可以看出,best和beat意思最为接近。
4、[答案及分析]:[C]根据第2段第2句可知C项正确:另外,根据倒数第2段的后两句、第3段第2句可知A、B、D均不正确。
5、[答案及分析]:[D]与本题有关的信息在最后一段两句:Spilich认为,吸烟者能胜任并不复杂的工作,但不能胜行复杂的任务。一个吸烟的飞行员不出现任何问题时能称职也驾驶飞机飞行。但是一旦出现问题,吸烟就会损害他的大脑工作能力。
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