专业英语四级阅读理解分类模拟442.docx

1、专业英语四级阅读理解分类模拟442专业英语四级阅读理解分类模拟442READING COMPREHENSION Section A MULTIPLE-CHOICE QUESTIONS In this section there are several passages followed by ten multiple-choice questions. For each multiple-choice question, there are four suggested answers marked A, B, C and D. Choose the one that you think is

2、 the best answer and mark your answers on ANSWER SHEET TWO. Passage One (1) The reader may rest satisfied that Toms and Hucks windfall (意外之财) made a mighty stir in the poor little village of St. Petersburg. So vast a sum, all in actual cash, seemed next to incredible. It was talked about, gloated ov

3、er, glorified, until the reason of many of the citizens tottered under the strain of the unhealthy excitement. Every haunted house in St. Petersburg and the neighboring villages was dissected, plank by plank, and its foundations dug up and ransacked (搜遍) for hidden treasureand not by boys, but menpr

4、etty grave, unromantic men, too, some of them. Wherever Tom and Huck appeared they were courted, admired, stared at. The boys were not able to remember that their remarks had possessed weight before; but now their sayings were treasured and repeated; everything they did seemed somehow to be regarded

5、 as remarkable; they had evidently lost the power of doing and saying commonplace things; moreover, their past history was raked up and discovered to bear marks of conspicuous originality. The village paper published biographical sketches (传略) of the boys. (2) The Widow Douglas put Hucks money out a

6、t six per cent, and Judge Thatcher did the same with Toms at Aunt Pollys request. Each lad (男孩) had an income, now, that was simply prodigiousa dollar for every week-day in the year and half of the Sundays. It was just what the minister gotno, it was what he was promisedhe generally couldnt collect

7、it. A dollar and a quarter a week would board, lodge, and school a boy in those old simple daysand clothe him and wash him, too, for that matter. (3) Judge Thatcher had conceived a great opinion of Tom. He said that no commonplace boy would ever have got his daughter out of the cave. When Becky told

8、 her father, in strict confidence, how Tom had taken her whipping at school, the Judge was visibly moved; and when she pleaded grace for the mighty lie which Tom had told in order to shift that whipping from her shoulders to his own, the Judge said with a fine outburst that it was a noble, a generou

9、s, a magnanimous liea lie that was worthy to hold up its head and march down through history breast to breast with George Washingtons lauded Truth about the hatchet (短柄小斧)! Becky thought her father had never looked so tall and so superb as when he walked the floor and stamped his foot and said that.

10、 She went straight off and told Tom about it. (4) Judge Thatcher hoped to see Tom a great lawyer or a great soldier some day. He said he meant to look to it that Tom should be admitted to the National Military Academy and afterward trained in the best law school in the country, in order that he migh

11、t be ready for either career or both. (5) Huck Finns wealth and the fact that he was now under the Widow Douglas protection introduced him into societyno, dragged him into it, hurled him into itand his sufferings were almost more than he could bear. The widows servants kept him clean and neat, combe

12、d and brushed, and they bedded him nightly in unsympathetic sheets that had not one little spot or stain which he could press to his heart and know for a friend. He had to eat with a knife and fork; he had to use napkin, cup, and plate; he had to learn his book, he had to go to church; he had to tal

13、k so properly that speech was become insipid (枯燥乏味的) in his mouth; whithersoever he turned, the bars and shackles (镣铐) of civilization shut him in and bound him hand and foot. (6) He bravely bore his miseries three weeks, and then one day turned up missing. For forty-eight hours the widow hunted for

14、 him everywhere in great distress. The public were profoundly concerned; they searched high and low, they dragged the river for his body. Early the third morning Tom Sawyer wisely went poking among some old empty hogsheads (大桶) down behind the abandoned slaughter-house, and in one of them he found t

15、he refugee. Huck had slept there; he had just breakfasted upon some stolen odds and ends of food, and was lying off, now, in comfort, with his pipe. He was unkempt (蓬乱的), uncombed, and clad in the same old ruin of rags that had made him picturesque in the days when he was free and happy. (本文选自The Ad

16、ventures of Tom Sawyer) Passage Two (1) Youngsters have long crossed borders in search of an education. More than 2,000 years ago the Roman poet Horace went to Athens to join Platos Academy. Oxford University admitted its first known international student, Emo of Friesland, in 1190. Today more than

17、4.5m students are enrolled in colleges and universities outside their own countries. Their fees subsidise local students. Their ideas broaden and enliven classroom debate. Most go home with happy memories and valuable contacts, making them more likely in later life to do business with the country wh

18、ere they studied. Those who stay on use what they have learned to make themselves and their hosts wealthier, by finding work as doctors, engineers or in some other skilled career. (2) Immigration policy is hard: Europe is tying itself in knots over how many Syrian refugees to admit. But the question

19、 of whether to welcome foreign students ought to be much easier. They more than pay their way. They add to the host countrys collective brainpower. And they are easy to assimilate (同化). Indeed, for ageing rich countries seeking to import young workers to plug skills gaps and prop up wobbly pension s

20、ystems, they are ideal. A foreign graduate from a local university is likely to be well-qualified, fluent in the local lingo (语言) and at ease with local customs. Countries should be vying to attract such people. (3) Places with the good fortune to speak English have a gigantic head start (领先优势). Aus

21、tralia is the leader: a quarter of its tertiary students come from abroad, a bigger share than in any other country. Education is now its biggest export, after natural resources. For a while the influx of brainy foreigners was slowed by an overvalued currency and the reputational damage from the col

22、lapse of some badly run private colleges. But recently the Australian dollar has weakened, degree mills (野鸡大学) have been shut down, visa rules have been relaxedand foreign students have flooded back. Last year their numbers rose by 10%. (4) Canada, until recently an also-ran, now emulates Oz. In 201

23、4 it set a goal of almost doubling the number of foreign students by 2022. It has streamlined visa applications and given international students the right to stay and work for up to three years after graduating. Those who want to make Canada their home have a good chance of being granted permanent r

24、esidence. Its share of the market for footloose students is growing, and numbers have more than doubled in a decade. (5) America, by contrast, is horribly complacent. In absolute terms, it attracts the most foreign students, thanks to its size, its outstanding universities and the lure of Silicon Va

25、lley and other brainworking hotspots. But it punches far below its weight: only 5% of the students on its campuses are foreign. Its visa rules are needlessly strict and stress keeping out terrorists rather than wooing (招揽) talent. It is hard for students to work, either part-time while studying or f

26、or a year or two after graduation. The government wants to extend a scheme that allows those with science and technology qualifications to stay for up to 29 months after graduating. But unions oppose it, claiming that foreign students undercut their members wages. One that represents high-tech worke

27、rs in Washington state has filed a court challenge, seeking to have the scheme axed. The self-harming state (6) Britain is even more reckless. It, too, has the huge advantages of famous universities and the English language. But its government has pledged to reduce net immigration to 100,000 people

28、a year, and to this end it is squeezing students. Applying for a student visa has grown slower and costlier. Working part-time to pay fees is harder. And foreign students no longer have the right to stay and work for two years after graduation. Britains universities are losing market share: their fo

29、reign enrolments are fiat even as their main rivals are growing strongly. (7) Sajid Javid, Britains business secretary, says the aim is to break the link between studying and immigration. This is precisely the wrong approach. For a country that wants to recruit talented, productive immigrants, it is

30、 hard to think of a better sifting process than a university education. Welcoming foreign students is a policy that costs less than nothing in the short term and brings huge rewards in the long term. Hence the bafflement of James Dyson, a billionaire inventor, who summed up Britains policy thus: Tra

31、inem up. Kickem out. Its a bit shortsighted, isnt it? (本文选自The Economist) Passage Three (1) Every leader Ive ever met sees accountability (问责) as a foundational ingredient in a healthy and sustainable culture. The problem is, as is often the case with leadership and management ideas, we use the word

32、 without really understanding what it means. (2) Usually, we make the mistake of holding on to one or both of these hidden beliefs: We have a deeply held association between accountability and punishmentinstead of considering it a tool to help people unlock their highest self. We have a deeply held assumption that accountability is a one-off eventrather than thinking its a long-term personal conversation between manager and employee. (3) I suggest thinking of accountability as a dial with five steps. You start at the low end, and then turn up the dial if necessary. (4) I