大学英语四级-101
(总分100,考试时间90分钟)
Reading Comprehension
Section A
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Directions:In this ction, there is a passage with ten blanks. You are required to lect one word for each blank from a list of choices given in a word bank following the passage. Read the passage through carefully before making your choices. Each choice in the bank is identified by a letter. You may not u any of the words in the bank more than once.
Looking back on my childhood, I am convinced that naturalists are born and not made. Although we were all brought up in the same way, my brothers and sisters soon 1 their presd flowers and incts. Unlike them, I had no ear for music and languages. I was not an 2 reader and I could not do mental arithmetic.
芝华塔尼欧Before World War I we spent our summer holidays in Hungary. I have only the 3 memory of the hou we lived in and of my room and my toys. But I do have a crystal-clear memory of the dogs, the farm animals, the local birds, and above all, the incts.
I am a naturalist, not a scientist. I have a strong love of the natural world and my 4 had led me into varied investigations. I love discussing my 5 topics and enjoy burning the midnight oil while reading about other people"s obrvations and 6 Then something happens that brings the obrvations together in my conscious mind. Suddenly you fancy you e the answer to the riddle, becau it all ems to fit 7 together. This has resulted in my publishing 300 papers and books, which some might 8 with the title of scientific rearch.
But curiosity, a keen eye, a good memory and enjoyment of the animal and plant world do not make a scientist. A scientist requires not only 9 but hard training, determination and a goal. A scientist, up to a point, can be made. A naturalist is born. If you can 10 the two, you get the best of both worlds.
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Section B
Directions:In this ction, you are going to read a passage with ten statements attached to it. Each statement contains information given in one of the paragraphs. Identify the paragraph from which the information is derived. You may choo a paragraph more than once.
Questions on the Origins of Christmas
1. Why do we celebrate on December 25th?
A The Bible makes no mention of Jesus being born on December 25th and, as more than one historian has pointed out, why would shepherds be tending to their flock in the middle
of winter? So why is that the day we celebrate? Well, either Christian holidays miraculously fall on the same days as pagan ones or the Christians have been crafty in converting pagan populations to religion by placing important Christian holidays on the same days as pagan ones. And people had been celebrating on December 25th (and the surrounding weeks) for centuries by the time Jesus showed up.
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B The Winter Solstice, falling on or around December 21st, was and is celebrated around the world as the beginning of the end of winter. It is the shortest day and longest night and its passing signifies that spring is on the way. In Scandinavian countries, they celebrated the solstice with a holiday called Yule last from the 21st until January and burned a Yule log the whole time. In Rome, Saturnalia—a celebration of Saturn, the God of agriculture—lasted the entire end of the year and was marked by mass intoxication. In the middle of this, the Romans celebrated the birth of another God, Mithra (a child God), who holiday celebrated the children of Rome.
C When the Christianity became the official religion of Rome, there was no Christmas. It
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was not until the 4th century that Pope Julius I declared the birth of Jesus to be a holiday and picked December 25th as the celebration day. By the middle ages, most people celebrated the holiday we know as Christmas.
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2. How did **e to love the holiday?
D The American Christmas is, like most American holidays, a mishmash of Old World customs mixed with American inventions. While Christmas was celebrated in America from the time of the Jamestown ttlement, our modem idea of the holiday didn"t take root until the 19th century. The History Channel credits Washington Irving with getting the ball rolling. In 1819 he publishedThe Sketchbook of Geoffrey Crayon, gent., an account of a Christmas celebration in which a rich family invites poor folk into their hou to celebrate the holiday.
E The problem was that many of the activities described in Irving"s work, such asCrowning a Lord of Misrule, were entirely fictional. Nonetheless, Irving began to steer Christmas celebrations away from drunkendebauchery(放荡) and towards wholesome, ch
aritable fun. Throughout the rest of the 19th century, Christmas gained popularity and Americans adopted old customs or invented new ones, such as Christmas trees, greeting cards, giving gifts and eating a whole roasted pig.考研信息网
