从心所欲不逾矩公共英语四级-阅读理解题(三)
(总分：40.00，做题时间：90分钟)
一、Unit 1(总题数：0，分数：0.00)
二、Part A
Read the following four texts carefully. Answer the questions below each text by choosing A, B, C or D.(总题数：0，分数：0.00)
三、Text 4(总题数：1，分数：5.00)
There are two types of people in the world. Although they have equal degrees of health and wealth and the other comforts of life, one becomes happy, the other becomes mirable. This aris from the different ways in which they consider things, persons, the events, and the resulting effects upon their minds.
The people who are to be happy fix their attention on the conveniences of things, the pleasant parts of conversation, the well-prepared dishes, the goodness of the wines, and th
e fine weather. They enjoy all the cheerful things. Tho who are to be unhappy think and speak only of the contrary things. Therefore, they are continually discontented. By their remarks, they sour the pleasures of society, offend many people, and make themlves disagreeable everywhere. If this turn of mind were founded in nature, such unhappy persons would be the more to be pitied. The tendency to criticize and be disgusted is perhaps taken up originally by imitation. It grows into a habit, unknown to its posssor. The habit may be strong, but it may be cured when tho who have it are convinced of its bad effects on their interests and tastes. I hope this little warming may be of rvice to them, and help them change this habit.
Although in fact it is chiefly an act of the imagination, it has rious conquences in life, since it brings, on deep sorrow and bad luck. Tho people offend many others, nobody loves them, and no one treats them with more than the most common politeness and respect, and scarcely that. This frequently puts them in bad temper and draws them into arguments. If they aim at obtaining some advantage in rank or fortune, nobody wishes them success. Nor will anyone speak a word to favor their hopes. If they bring on theml
ves public disapproval, not one will defend or excu them. The people should change this bad habit. If they do not, it will be good for others to avoid any contact with them.（分数：5.00）
(1).This passage tells us that tho who are always dissatisfied with the situation they are in will live______.
∙ A. a happy life
∙ B. a mirable life
∙ C. a wealthier life than tho who are always satisfied
∙ D. a life full of imagination
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A.
B. √
C.
D.
解析：[解析] 文章讲述了两类生活状况相似的人，但生活观不同的人的区别。不满现状的人生活得很不幸。故选B。
(2).In the cond paragraph, the expression "sour the pleasures of society" means______.
∙ A. make the pleasures of society disappear
∙ B. do not enjoy the pleasures of society
∙ C. deny the existence of the pleasures of society
∙ D. criticize the society becau of its lack of pleasures
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A.
B. √
C.
D.
解析：[解析] 从上文可知，幸福的人“enjoy all the cheerful things”；根据推理，不幸福的人应该是不会享受愉快的生活。这道题也是根据上下文的逻辑关系进行推测，得出词义。正确答案是B。
(3).The unhappy people's bad habit of viewing things may be cured______.
∙ A. when they are aware of its adver conquences in their life
∙ B. if they can imitate the happy people
梯形的面积怎么算∙ C. if they can have more imagination
∙ D. when they can form the habit of arguing with others
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A. √
B.
C.
D.
解析：[解析] 文章第二段倒数第二句话指出，这种悲观的做事习惯可以被治愈，前提是只有他们认识到其消极作用。只有A符合题意。
(4).The author advis other people to______.
∙ A. avoid any contact with the unhappy people if they won't get rid of their bad habits
快语∙ B. keep in touch with the unhappy people even if they won't get rid of their bad habits
∙ C. be more sympathetic with the unhappy people
∙ D. be more helpful to the unhappy people
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兔子可以吃馒头吗 A. √
B.
C.
D.
解析：[解析] 文章最后一句话是本题的答案：“If they do not, it will be good for others to avoid any contact with them.”故选A。
(5).We can infer from the passage that a positive attitude towards life may bring______.
∙ A. success
∙ B. good habits
∙ C. friendship
∙ D. happiness
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A.
B.
C.
D. √
解析：[解析] 全文讲了生活背景相似但生活状况不同的两类人。悲观的人会不幸，而生活态度积极的人会幸福。可见生活的态度与一个人是否幸福息息相关。故选D。
四、Part B(总题数：1，分数：5.00)
Read the following text carefully and then translate the underlined gments into Chine.
Unlike some other arthritis treatments, there doesn't appear to be anything actually harmful about the Free Enterpri Radon Health Mine in Boulder, Mont. True, radio-active radon gas—the active ingredient in what the mine's owners adverti as "the unmedical approach to anthritis"—can cau cancer. (21){{U}}But while the radiation level in the old uranium mine is 175 times the federal standard for dwellings, patients spend only a couple of hours a day down there—not enough to be dangerous by itlf.{{/U}} The average patient's age is 72, according to Adrian Howe, chief of the state Occupational Health Bureay; since "the time it takes for lung cancer to develop in an adult is 15 to 30 years, it's likely that other potential caus of death might occur before lung cancer."
Is it odd that people would ek out a known carcinogen in their quest for relief from arthritis? Not really. Arthritis patients are particularly apt to try unproven treatments; one study found that 94 percent of a group of patients had tried at least one unconventional therapy. Conventional therapies often don't work and can have unpleasant side effects.
(22){{U}}Pain is subjective, notoriously prone to the placebo effect,{{/U}} the temporary improvement that may follow even medically uless treatments. The symptoms of arthritis can become much weaker for a time no apparent reason, and it is easy for patients to be fooled by such a phenomenon. People who take unconventional cures "get" pain relief, "not an actual decrea in swelling of the joints or changes in lab-test results," says Dr. Frederic McDuffie, director of the Arthritis Center at Atlanta's Piedmont Hospital. "Who can tell them they're not feeling better?"
(23) {{U}}Almost every substance that can be packaged has been sold as an arthritis treatment at one time or another.{{/U}} The range from the merely misnamed ("arthritis formula" painkillers, in which the formula is aspirin) to the harmless but uless (copper bracelets) to the repulsive (injections of turtle blood, becau turtles live a long time without getting arthritis) and the dangerous (unsupervid dos of steroids). Just last month a supermarket newspaper carried a front-page story on a "wonder salad dressing" for arthritis (garlic oil and cider vinegar). In one experiment, people believed that spraying joints with the houhold lubricant was beneficial.
(24) {{U}}Radon mines at least boast a distant medical antecedent{{/U}}. At one time, McDuffie says, radiation therapy was ud to treat a vere spinal arthritis. Unfortunately, he adds, "the amount of radiation they had to give to produce relief caud leukemia." Daryl Parker, president of the free Enterpri mine, claims that in radon therapy the gas "works as a powerful nerve and cell stimulant that has a profound effect on the central nervous system.., it stimulates the boy's own ability to heal itlf."
(25) {{U}}It is a powerful tribute to either nerve stimulation or the power of suggestion that people say they really do feel better after sitting in a damp, 50-degree cavern for two hours a day.{{/U}} As many as 120 people daily spend $3.50 an hour to descend 80 feet into the granite-walled tunnel and breathe the stimulating emanations. "I've been to a number of doctors. I've been to healers in the Philippines, and sitting in the mine gives me more relief than anything," says 69-year-old D.M. Langford, who drives up to the mine twice a year from the San Joaquin Valley. "I get where I can't walk if I don't come up here." As McDuffie says, who can tell him he's not feeling better?（分数：5.00）
含山的诗句填空项1:__________________ （正确答案：不过，虽然就铀矿那的放射性程度是联邦住
铃铛草宅标准的175倍，但是病人一天下铀矿的时间仅有一两个小时——其自身不足以构成危险。）
菜干焖五花肉解析：
填空项1:__________________ （正确答案：病痛是一个主观的自我感觉的东西，极其容易受安慰剂的影响。）
解析：
填空项1:__________________ （正确答案：几乎所有能够包装的东西都曾当作关节炎的药出售过。）
解析：
填空项1:__________________ （正确答案：氡矿至少在很久以前就有用于治病的先例。）
解析：
填空项1:__________________ （正确答案：人们说他们每天在潮湿的50度的矿洞里坐上两个小时后感觉真的好多了，这药归功于对神经的刺激作用，要么归功于暗示的威力。）
解析：
五、Unit 2(总题数：0，分数：0.00)
六、Part A
Read the following four texts carefully. Answer the questions below each text by choosing A, B, C or D.(总题数：0，分数：0.00)
七、Text 1(总题数：1，分数：5.00)
A newly published AIDS study could open another front in the battle against HIV infection by showing that gene therapy can be ud to stop infected cells from spreading the deadly virus, rearchers said.
In a test-tube experiment believed to be the first of its kind, rearchers bad at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia were able to block the operation of the "tat" gene that
allows HIV to spread throughout the body from infected cells.
Up to now, genetic AIDS rearch has concentrated on finding ways to help healthy cells withstand the ravages of the HIV virus that infects an estimated 16,000 new victims a day, mainly in the developing world.
But by working with human cells already infected with HIV, the team was able to reduce the tat gene's virus-replicating functions by 80 percent to 90 percent, according to findings published in the journal Gene Therapy.
That, rearchers said, rais the possibility of a new gene therapy approach capable of supplementing the current drug-bad treatment known as highly active antiretroviral therapy, or HAART, which is ud to stop HIV infection from becoming full-blown AIDS.
In recent studies, HAART has proved to be a costly drug regimen that pos rious side effects for HIV patients while delivering questionable results.
"This is proof of the concept that HIV replication could be inhibited by a genetic approach, though we're not at 100 percent yet," said Dr. Stuart Starr, a study coauthor and chief of immunologic infectious dias at Children's Hospital.
"Everyone thinks of an antiviral approach, or an immunologic approach (to HIV). This adds another option into the equation that could become more important as other options prove not to be totally successful."
Key to the study was an artificially produced "antitat" gene provided by the Washingtonbad Rearch Institute for Genetic and Human Therapy.
Children's Hospital rearchers ud a mou retrovirus to deliver the antitat gene into HIV-infected U-1 and ACH-2 cells, which were developed in the lab from the tissues of living HIV patients.
They found that when the antitat protein combined with the tat gene, it successfully inhibited the gene's operation without disturbing healthy cells or causing toxic side-effects.
The study, funded by a private foundation, also found that the introduction of the antitat gene prolonged the survival of immune-system cells called CD4+T lymphocytes.
Starr said rearchers have entered preliminary discussions with a New England-bad primate center, where animal experiments could be carried out on infected macaque mon
keys.
If animal experiments proved successful, the Children's Hospital team would hope to have a gene therapy treatment ready for human clinical trials in three to four years.（分数：5.00）
