专业英语四级（阅读理解）模拟试卷4 (题后含答案及解析)
题型有：1.
B．After 1945.
C．During the depression of the 1930’s.
D．In 1966.
正确答案：B
解析：细节题。第一段The depression of the 1930’s and the war had held back marriages．and the catching—up process began after 1945．经过二十世纪三十年代的经济危机，战争使结婚率下降，1945年之后爆发了婴儿潮。
3． The author suggests that in Canada during the 1950’s______.
A．the urban population decread rapidly
B．fewer people married
C．economic conditions were poor
D．the birth rate was very high
正确答案：D
解析：推理题．第一段The baby boom continued through the decade of the 1950’s，producing a population increa of nearly fifteen percent in the five years from 1951 to 1956．50年代一直持续着婴儿潮，从1951年到1956年人口增长为15％，我们可以推断出50年代加拿大的出生率很高。
4． The author mentions all of the following as caus of declines in population growth after 1957 EXCEPT______.
A．people being better educated
B．people getting married earlier
C．better standards of living
D．couples buying hous
正确答案：B
解析：细节题。可用排除法。作者在第一段提到人口下降的原因包括人们生活水平的提高，经济条件的改善，受教育程度提高，年轻的夫妻购买汽车和住房。
5． It can be inferred from the passage that before the Industrial Revolution______.
A．families were larger
B．population statistics were unreliable
C．the population grew steadily
D．economic conditions were bad
正确答案：A
解析：推理题。It appeared that Canada was once more falling in step with the trend toward smaller families that had occurred all through the Western world since the time of the Indus—trial Revolution．工业革命之后，加拿大的家庭变化趋势是逐渐向小家庭转变，所以我们可以推断出工业革命之前，家庭规模较大。
(a) Aside from perpetuating itlf, the sole purpo of the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters is to “foster, assist and sustain an interest” in literature, music, and art. This it does by enthusiastically handing out money. Annual cash awards are given to derving artists in various categories of creativity: architecture, musical composition, theater, novels, rious poetry, light ver, painting, sculpture. One award subsidizes a promising American writer’s visit to Rome. There is even an award for a very good work of fiction that fallen commercially — once won by the young John Updike for The Poorhou Fair and, more recently, by Alice Walker for In Love and Trouble. The awards and prizes total about $750,000 a year, but most of them range in size from $5,000 to $12,500, a welcome sum to many young practitioners who work may not bring in that much in a year, (b) One of the advantages of the awards is that many go to t
he struggling artists, rather than to tho who are already successful. Members of the Academy and Institute are not eligible for any cash prizes. Another advantage is that, unlike the National Endowment for the Arts or similar institutions throughout the world, there is no government money involved. Awards are made by committee. Each of the three departments — Literature (120 members), Art(83), Music(47) — has a committee dealing with its own field, (c) Committee membership rotates every year, so that new voices and opinions are constantly heard. The most financially rewarding of all the Academy-Institute awards are the Mildred and Harold Strauss Livings. Harold Strauss, a devoted editor at Alfred A. Knopf, the New York publishing hou, and Mildred Strauss, his wife, were wealthy any childless, (d) They left the Academy-Institute a unique bequest: for five concutive years, two distinguished (and financially needy) writers would receive enough money so they could devote themlves entirely to “pro literature” (no plays, no poetry, and no paying job that might distract). In 1983, the first Strauss Livings of $35,000 a year went to short-story writer Raymond Carver and novelist-essayist Cynthia Ozick. By 1988, the fund had grown enough so that two winners,
novelists Diane Johnson and Robert Stone, each got $50,000 a year for five years.
6． What does the passage mainly discuss?
A．Award-winning works of literature
B．An organization that supports the arts
C．The life of an artist
D．Individual patrons of the arts
正确答案：B
解析：主旨题。文章介绍了美国艺术文学院奖，是为了更好的支持艺术和艺术家。
7． Which of the following can be inferred about Alice Walker’s book In Love and Trouble?
A．It sold more copies than The Poorhou Fair.
B．It described the author’s visit to Rome.
C．It was a commercial success.
D．It was published after The Poorhou Fair.
正确答案：D
解析：细节题。第一段最后一句There is even an award for a very good work of fiction that fallen commercially——once won by the young John Updike for The Poorhou Fair and，more recently, by Alice Walker for In Love and Trouble．我们可以看出，John Updike的Poorhou Fair先发表，然后Alice Walker的Love and Trouble再发表。
8． What is one of the advantages of the Academy-Institute awards mentioned in the passage?
A．They are subsidized by the government.
B．They are often given to unknown artists.
C．They are also given to Academy-Institute members.
D．They influence how the National Endowment for the Arts makes its award decisions.
正确答案：B
解析：细节题。One of the advantages of the awards is that many go to the struggling artists，rather than to tho who are already successful．这个奖项设立的好处之一是，获得该奖项的很多都是还在奋斗中的艺术家们，而不是已经成名的艺术家。
9． The word “rotates” in para. 3 is clost in meaning to______.
A．alternates
B．participates
C．decides
D．meets
正确答案：A
解析：词汇类。“rotates”是旋转，变化的意思。
10． In which underlined ntence does the author cite the goal of the Academy-Institute?
A．Sentence (a)
B．Sentence (b)
C．Sentence (c)
D．Sentence (d)
正确答案：A
解析：细节类。Aside from perpetuating itlf, the sole purpo of the American Academy
and Institute of Arts and Letters is to“foster，assist and sustain an interest”in literature，music，and art．该奖项设立的惟一目的是为了培养，协助和支持人们对文学，音乐和艺术的兴趣。
You’re busy filling out the application form for a position you really need; let’s assume you once actually completed a couple of years of college work or even that you completed your degree. Isn’t it tempting to lie just a little, to claim on the form that your diploma reprents a Harvard degree? Or that you finished an extra couple of years back at State University? More and more people are turning to utter deception like this to land their job or to move ahead in their careers, for personnel officers, like most Americans, value degrees from famous schools. A job applicant may have a good education anyway, but he or she assumes that chances of being hired are better with a diploma from a well-known university. Registrars at most well-known colleges say they deal with deceitful claims like the at the rate of about one per week. Personnel officers do check up on degrees listed on application forms, then. If it turns out that an applicants lying, most colleges are reluctant to accu the applicant directly. One Ivy Lea
gue school calls them impostors; another refers to them as special cas. One well-known West Coast school, in perhaps the most delicate phra of all, says that the claims are made by no such people. To avoid outright (彻底的) lies, some job-ekers claim that they attended or were associated with a college or university. After carefully checking, a personnel officer may discover that attending means being dismisd after one mester. It may be that being associated with a college means that the job-eker visited his younger brother for a football weekend. One school that keeps records of fal claims says that the practice dates back at least to the turn of the century — that’s when they began keeping records, anyhow. If you don’t want to lie or even stretch the truth, there are companies that will ll you a phony diploma. One company, with offices in New York and on the West Coast, will put your name on a diploma from any number of non-existent colleges. The price begins at around twenty dollars for a diploma from Smoot State University. The prices increa rapidly for a degree from the University of Purdue. As there is no Smoot State and the real school in Indiana properly called Purdue University, the prices em rather high for one sheet of paper.
