专业英语四级阅读理解分类模拟438
READING COMPREHENSION
Section A MULTIPLE-CHOICE QUESTIONS
In this ction there are veral passages followed by ten multiple-choice questions. For each multiple-choice question, there are four suggested answers marked A, B, C and D. Choo the one that you think is the best answer and mark your answers on ANSWER SHEET TWO.
Passage One
(1) Mr. Foster was left in the Decanting Room. The D. H.C. and his students stepped into the nearest lift and were carried up to the fifth floor.
(2) INFANT NURSERIES. NEO-PAVLOVIAN CONDITIONING ROOMS, announced the noticeboard.
(3) The Director opened a door. They were in a large bare room, very bright and sunny; for the whole of the southern wail was a single window. Half a dozen nurs, troured and jacketed in the regulation white visco-linen uniform, their hair aptically (无菌地；清洁地) hidden under white caps, were eng烫面葱花饼
aged in tting out bowls of ros in a long row across the floor. Big bowls, packed tight with blossom. Thousands of petals, ripe-blown and silkily smooth, like the cheeks of innumerable little cherubs, but of cherubs, in that bright light, not exclusively pink and Aryan, but also luminously Chine, also Mexican, also apoplectic with too much blowing of celestial trumpets, also pale as death, pale with the posthumous (死后的；遗腹的) whiteness of marble.
(4) The nurs stiffened to attention as the D. H. C. came in.
(5) "Set out the books," he said curtly.
求怎么组词(6) In silence the nurs obeyed his command. Between the ro bowls the books were duly t out —a row of nurry quartos opened invitingly each at some gaily colored image of beast or fish or bird.
(7) "Now bring in the children."
(8) They hurried out of the room and returned in a minute or two, each pushing a kind of tall
dumb-waiter laden, on all its four wire-netted shelves, with eight-month-old babies, all exactly alike吉化六中
(a Bokanovsky Group, it was evident) and all (since their caste was Delta) dresd in khaki.
(9) "Put them down on the floor."
(10) The infants were unloaded.
养蜂车(11) "Now turn them so that they can e the flowers and books."
薄的意思(12) Turned, the babies at once fell silent, then began to crawl towards tho clusters of sleek colors, tho shapes so gay and brilliant on the white pages. As they approached, the sun came out of a momentary eclip behind a cloud. The ros flamed up as though with a sudden passion from within;
a new and profound significance emed to suffu the shining pages of the books. From the ranks of the crawling babies came little squeals of excitement, gurgles and twitterings of pleasure.
(13) The Director rubbed his hands. "Excellent!" he said. "It might almost have been done on purpo."
(14) The swiftest crawlers were already at their goal. Small hands reached out uncertainly, touched, grasped, unpetaling the transfigured ros, crumpling the illuminated pages of the books. The Director waited until all were happily busy.
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(15) Then, "Watch carefully," he said. And, lifting his hand, he gave the signal.
(16) The Head Nur, who was standing by a switchboard at the other end of the room, presd down a little lever.
(17) There was a violent explosion. Shriller and ever shriller, a siren shrieked. Alarm bells maddeningly sounded.
(18) The children startled, screamed; their faces were distorted with terror.
(19) "And now," the Director shouted (for the noi was deafening), "now we proceed to rub in the lesson with a mild electric shock."
(20) He waved his hand again, and the Head Nur presd a cond lever. The screaming of the babies suddenly changed its tone. There was something desperate, almost insane, about the sharp spasmodic (痉挛的; 间歇性的) yelps to which they now gave utterance. Their little bodies twitched and stiffened; their limbs moved jerkily as if to the tug of unen wires.
(21) "We can electrify that whole strip of floor," bawled the Director in explanation. "But that's enough," he signaled to the nur.
(22) The explosions cead, the bells stopped ringing, the shriek of the siren died down from tone to tone into silence. The stiffly twitching bodies relaxed, and what had become the sob and yelp of infant maniacs broadened out once more into a normal howl of ordinary terror.
(23) "Offer them the flowers and the books again."
(24) The nurs obeyed; but at the approach of the ros, at the mere sight of tho gaily-colored images of pussy and cock-a-doodle-doo and baa-baa black sheep, the infants shrank away in horror,
the volume of their howling suddenly incread.
(25) "Obrve," said the Director triumphantly, "obrve."
(26) Books and loud nois, flowers and electric shocks—already in the infant mind the couples were compromisingly linked; and after two hundred repetitions of the same or a similar lesson would be wedded indissolubly. What man has joined, nature is powerless to put asunder.
(27) "They'll grow up with what the psychologists ud to call an 'instinctive' hatred of books and flowers. Reflexes unalterably conditioned. They'll be safe from books and botany all their lives." The Director turned to his nurs. "Take them away again."背部中间疼痛的原因
(28) Still yelling, the khaki babies were loaded on to their dumb-waiters and wheeled out, leaving behind them the smell of sour milk and a most welcome silence.
(本文选自Brave New World)
Passage Two
祝愿祖国的话(1) Not every lf-driving car company is a hi-tech unicorn eager to disrupt the status quo. The latest firm to invite journalists to experience its autonomous technology is the epitome of traditional car manufacturing: Ford.
(2) On its sprawling campus in Dearborn, Michigan, the century-old company is trying its hardest to look and act like a new startup. In March, Ford launched a subsidiary called Ford Smart Mobility (FSM) to develop in-car connectivity, ride-sharing and autonomous technologies. FSM is designed to compete like a startup, with the aim of translating Ford's decade of work in autonomous systems into real products. At its first public autonomous vehicle demos, young engineers and entrepreneurs were enthud about reinventing our traffic-clogged cities.
(3) "We're rethinking our entire business model," said Mark Fields, Ford's CEO. "It's no longer about
how many vehicles we can ll. It's about what rvices we can provide. We understand that the world has changed from a mindt of owning vehicles to one of owning and sharing them." That has led to some quirky (稀奇古怪的) investments, such as Ford's acquisition last week of a San Francisco-bad crowdsharing shuttle bus startup called Chariot, and a partnership to provide the city with thousands of human-powered bikes for a ride-sharing scheme.
(4) But while Ford's car sales are fairly healthy today, Fields forees a world transformed by driverless cars, Uber and climate change. "You could argue that in major cities, vehicle density will drop becau of automated vehicles and congestion charges. Some cities might even outlaw personal u of vehicles." One of Ford's strategies to cope with this is to accelerate its efforts towards a fully
