大学英语四级阅读练习题

大学英语四级阅读练习题

大学英语四级阅读练习题

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Section A

36、Questions 36-46 are bad onthe following passage.

If it were only necessary to decidewhether to teach elementary science to everyone on a mass basis or to findind thegifted few and take them as far as they can go, our task would be fairlysimple. The public school 36_________ ,however, has no suchchoice, for the job must be 37_________ on at the same time.Becau we depend so 38_________ uponscience and technology for our progress,we must produce 39_________ in many fields. Becau wc live in ademocraticnation, who citizens make the policies for the nation, largenumbers of us must be educated to understand, tosupport, and when necessary,to 40_________ the work of experts. The public school musteducate both producars andurs of scientific rvices.

In education, there should be a goodbalance among the branches of knowledge that contribute to effectivethinkingand wi judgment. Such balance is 41_________ by too much emphasison any one field. This question ofbalance involves not only the relation of thenatural sciences, the social sciences, and the arts but also relative 42_________ "among the natural sciencestbemlves.

Similarly, wc must have a balance betweencurrent and 43_________ knowledge. The attention of the public is 44_________drawn to new possibilities inscientific fields and the discovery of new knowledge; the should not beallowed toturn our attention away from the sound,45_________ materials thatform the basis of cours for beginners.

A. awarded

B . heavily

C. classical

D. display

E. established

F. system

G. involved

H.defeated

I.continually

J. specially

K.emphas

L. establishment

M. specialists

N. carded

O. judge

第(36)题__________.

37、第(37)题__________.

38、第(38)题__________.

39、第(39)题__________.

40、第(40)题__________.

41、第(41)题__________.

42、第(42)题__________.

43、第(43)题__________.

44、第(44)题__________.

45、第(45)题__________.

Section B

46、

Beauty and Body Image in theMedia

A. Images of female bodies are everywhere. Women—and their bodyparts--ll everything from food to cars.Popular film and television actressare becoming younger, taller and thinner. Some have even been known tofaint onthe t from lack of food. Women's magazines are full &articles urging thatif they can just lo tholast twentypounds, they'll have it all—the perfect marriage, loving children, great x,and a rewarding career

B. Why arc standards of beauty being impod on women, the majorityofwhom are naturally larger and moremature than any of the models? The roots,some analysts say, are economic. By prenting an ideal difficult toachieve andmaintain, the cosmetic and diet product industries arc assured of growth andprofits. And it's noaccident that youth is increasingly promoted, along withthinness, as an esntial criterion of beauty. If not allwomen need to loweight, for sure they're all aging, says the Quebec Action Network for Women'sHealth inits 2001 report. And, according to the industry, age is a disasterthat needs to be dealt with.

C. The stakes are huge. On the one hand, women who are incure about their bodies arc more likely tobuybeauty products, new clothes, and diet aids. It is estimated that the dietindustry alone is worth anywherebetween 40 to 100 billion (U.S.. a year lling temporary weight loss (90% to 95% of dieters regainthe lostweight.. On the other hand, rearch indicatesthat exposure to images of thin, young, air-brushed femalebodies is linked todepression, loss of lf-esteem and the development of unhealthy eating habitsin womenand girls.

D. The American rearch group Anorexia Nervosa & Related EatingDisorders, Inc. says that one out of everyfour college-aged women usunhealthy methods of weight control--including fasting, skippingmeals,excessive exerci, laxative (泻药. abu, andlf-induced vomiting. The pressure to be thin is also affectingyoung girls:the Canadian Women's Health Network warns that weight control measures are nowbeing takenby girls as young as 5 and 6. American statistics are similar.Several studies, such as one conducted by MarikaTiggemann and Levina Clark in2006 titled "Appearance Culture in 9- to 12-Year-Old Girls: Media andPeerInfluences on Body Dissatisfaction," indicate that nearly half of allpreadolescent girls wish to be thinner, andas a result have engaged in a dietor are aware of the concept of dieting. In 2003, Teen magazine reported that35percent of girls 6 to 12 years old have been on at least one diet, and that 50to 70 percent of normal weightgirls believe they are overweight. Overallrearch indicates that 90% of women are dissatisfied with theirappearance insome way. Media activist Jean Kilbourne concludes that, "Women are sold tothe diet industryby the magazines we read and the television programs we watch,almost all of which make us feel anxiousabout our weight."

E. Perhaps the most disturbing is the fact that media images of femalebeauty are unattainable for all but a verysmall number of women. Rearchersgenerating a computer model of a woman with Barbie-doll proportions,forexample, found that her back would be too weak to support the weight of herupper body, and her bodywould be too narrow to contain more than halfa liverand a few centimeters of bowel. A real woman built thatway would suffer fromchronic diarrhea ( 慢性腹泻. and eventually die frommalnutrition. Jill Barad,President of Mattel (which manufactures Barbie., estimated that 99% of girls aged 3 to 10 years old own atleast oneBarbie doll. Still, the number of real life women and girls who ek asimilarly underweight body ipidemic, and they can suffer equally devastatinghealth conquences. In 2006 it was estimated that up to450,000 Canadian womenwere affected by an eating disorder.

F. Rearchers report thatwomen's magazines have ten and one-half times more ads and articlespromotingweight loss than men's magazines do, and over three-quarters of thecovers of women's magazines include atleast one message about how to change awoman's bodily appearance--by diet, exerci or cosmetic surgery.Television andmovies reinforce the importance of a thin body as a measure of a woman's worth.Canadianrearcher Gregory Fouts reports that over three-quarters of the femalecharacters in TV situation comedies areunderweight, and only one in twenty areabove average in size. Heavier actress tend to receive negativecomments frommale characters about their bodies ("How about wearing a sack?" ., and 80 percent of thenegative comments are followed by cannedaudience laughter.

G. There have been efforts in the magazine industry to buck (抵制，反抗. the trend. For veral years the Quebecmagazine Coup de Pouce hasconsistently included full-sized women in their fashion pages and Chatelainehaspledged not to touch up photos and not to include models less than 25 yearsof age. In Madrid, one of theworld's biggest fashion capitals, ultra-thinmodels were banned from the runway in 2006. Furthermore Spainhas recentlyundergone a project with the aim to standardize clothing sizes through using aunique process inwhich a lar beam is ud to measure real life women's bodiesin order to find the most tree to lifemeasurement.

H. Another issue is the reprentation of ethnically diver women inthe media. A 2008 study conducted byJuanita Covert and Travis Dixon titled"A Changing View: Reprentation and Effects of the Portrayal ofWomen ofColor in Mainstream Women's Magazines" found that although there was anincrea in thereprentation of women of c01our, overall white women wereoverreprented in mainstream women'smagazines from 1999 to 2004.

I. The barrage of messagesabout thinness, dieting and beauty tells "ordinary" women that theyare always inneed of adjustment--and that the female body is an object to beperfected. Jean Kilboume argues that theoverwhelming prence of media imagesof painfully thin women means that real women's bodies have become invisible in the mass media. The real tragedy, Kilbourne concludes, is that many womeninternalizethe stereotypes, and judge themlves by the beauty industry'sstandards. Women learn to comparethemlves to other women, and to compete withthem for male attention: This focus on beauty and desirability"effectivelydestroys any awareness and action that might help to change that climate."

根据以上内容，回答46-56题。

A report in Teen magazineshowed that 50% to 70% girls with normal weight think that they need to lo weight.

47、On the whole, for 6 yearswhite women had been occupying much more space in mainstream women's magazines since 1999.

48、Some negative effects suchas depression and unhealthy eating habits in females are related to their being expod to images of thin and young femalebodies.

49、The mass media has helpedboost the cosmetic and the diet industries.

50、It is reported that thereis at least one message about the methods for women to change their bodilyappearance on more than three-quarters of the coversof women's magazines.

51、Some film and televisionactress even faint on the scene due to eating too little.

52、Too much concern withappearance makes it impossible to change such abnormal trend.

53、Rearchers found that areal woman with Barbie-doll proportions would eventually die from malnutrition.

54、The Quebec magazine Coup dePouce resists the trend by consistently including full-sized women in their fashion pages for veral years.

55、According to some analysts,the fundamental reason of imposing standards of beauty on women is economic Section C

56、Questions 56-61are bad onthe following passage.

Is it possible to persuade mankind to livewithout war? War is an ancient institution which has existed for atleast sixthousand years. It was always bad and usually foolish, but in the past thehuman race managed to live withit. Modern ingenuity (创造力. has changed this. Either Man will abolishwar, or war will abolish Man. For theprent, it is nuclear weapons that cauthe most rious danger, but bacteriological or chemical weapons, maybeforelong, offer an even greater threat. If we succeed in abolishing nuclearweapons, our work will not be done. Itwill never be done until we havesucceeded in abolishing war. To do this, we need to persuade mankind tolookupon international questions in a new way, not as contests of forec, inwhich the victory goes to the side which ismost skillful in killing people, butby arbitration (调解. in accordance with agreedprinciples of law. It is not easyto change very old mental habits, but this iswhat must be attempted.

There are tho who say that the adoptionoft_his or that ideology would prevent war. I believe this to be a bigerror.All ideologies are bad on dogmatic ( 教条式的. statements which are, at best, doubtful, and at worst,totallyfal. Their adherents believe in them fanatically (狂热地. that they are willing to go to war in support ofthem.

Themovement of world opinion during the past few years has been very largely suchas we can welcome. Ithas become a commonplace ( 老生长谈. that nuclear war must be avoided. Of cour very difficultproblemsremain in the world, but the spirit in which they are being approachedis a better one than it was some years ago. Ithas begun to be thought, even bythe powerful men who decide whether we shall live or die, that negotiations should reach agreements even if both sides donot find the agreements wholly satisfactory. It has begun to beunderstoodthat the important conflict nowadays is not between different countries, butbetween Man and the atombomb.

This passage implies thatwar now is _________

A.wor than in the past

B.as badas in the past

C.not so dangerous as in the past

D.as necessary as in the past

57、In the ntence "To dothis, we need to persuade mankind... "(Line 6, Para.1 ), "this" refers to _________

A.solving international problems

B.improving weapons

C.abolishing war

D.living a peaceful life

58、From Paragraph 2 we learnthat the author of the passage

A.is a supporter of some modem ideologies

B.does not think that the adoption of any ideology could prevent war

C.believes that the adoption of some ideologies could prevent war

D.has no doubt about the truth of any ideologies

59、The last paragraph suggeststhat_________

A.international agreements can be reached more easily now

B.man begins to realize the danger of nuclear war

C.nuclear war will definitely not take place

D.world opinion welcomes nuclear war

60、According to theauthor,_________.

A.war is the only way to solve internatioual disputes

B.war will be less dangerous becau of the improvement of weapons

C.it is impossible for man to live without war

D.war must be abolished if man wants to survive61、Questions{TSE} are bad onthe following passage.

A uful definition of an air pollutantis a compound added directly or indirectly by humans to the atmospherein suchquantities as to affect humans, animals, vegetation, or material adverly (有害地.. Air pollution requires avery flexibledefinition that permits continuous change. When the first air pollution lawswere established inEngland in the fourteenth century, air pollutants werelimited to compounds that could be en or smelled—a farcry (悬殊的差别. from the extensive list of harmful substances known today. Astechnology has developed andknowledge of the health aspects of variouschemicals has incread, the list of air pollutants has lengthened. Inthefuture, even water vapor (水蒸气. might be consideredan air pollutant under certain conditions.

Many of the more important airpollutants, such as sulfur oxides, carbon monoxide, and nitrogen oxides,arefound in nature. As the Earth developed, the concentrations ( 浓度. of the pollutants were altered byvariouschemical reactions; they became components in biogeochemical (生物地球化学的. cycles. The rve as an airpurification scheme by allowing thecompounds to move from the air to the water or soil. On a global basis,nature'soutput of the compounds dwarfs that resulting from human activities. However,human productionusually occurs in a localized area, such as a city.

In this localized region, human outputmay be dominant and may temporarily overload the natural purificationscheme ofthe cycles. The result is an incread concentration of noxious ( 有害的. chemicals in the air. Theconcentrations atwhich the adver effects appear will be greater than the concentrations thatthe pollutants wouldhave in the abnce of human activities. The actualconcentration need not be large for a substance to be apollutant; in fact thenumerical value tells us little until we know how much of an increa thisreprents over the concentration that would occur naturally in the area. Forexample, sulfur dioxide has detectable health effects at0.08 parts per million(ppm., which is about 400 times its natural level.Carbon monoxide, however, has a naturallevel of 0.1 ppm and is not usually apollutant until its level reaches about 15 ppm.

It can be inferred from thefirst paragraph that _________

A.water vapor is an air pollutant in localized areas

B.the definition of air pollution will continue to change

C.a substance becomes an air pollutant only in cities

D.most air pollutants today can be en or smelled

62、In what way can naturalpollutants play an important role in controlling air pollution?

A.They function as part of a purification process.

B.They are dwarfed by the pollutants produced by human activities.

C.They are less harmful to living beings than are other pollutants.

D.They have existed since the Earth developed.

63、According to the passage,the numerical value Of the concentration level of a substance is only uful if

A.the other substances in the area are known

B.it is a localized area

C.it can be calculated quickly

D.the naturally occurring level is also known

64、Which of the following isbest supported by the passage?

A.To effectively control pollution, local government should regularlyrevi the air pollution laws.

B.One of the most important steps in prerving natural lands is tobetter enforce air pollution laws.

C.Scientists should be consulted in order to establish uniform limitsfor all air pollutants.

D.Human activities have great impact on air pollution.

65、The passage mainlydiscuss _________

A.the economic impact on air pollution

B.how much damage air pollutants can cau

C.what constitutes an air pollutant

D.the quantity of compounds added to the atmosphere

拓展：大学英语四级阅读寒假练习题

The best known and loved of all our many Christmas songs SilentNight was written in Oberndorf, a tiny village in Bavarian mountains. On Christmas eve, 1818, Oberndorf had been 67 by a vere snowstorm, but 68 the inhabitants cheerfully prepared for the Christmas 69 Then they discovered, to their 70 , that the organ (风琴) had broken 71 .

A village schoolmasterand church 72 knew how unhappy the people in the villagewould be, for music was the 73 of all their celebration. So he went to thepriest and 74 that the priest write a75 song for the Christmas celebration that could be sung 76 any preparation. The priest promid to do his 77 Towards evening hewent 78 theschoolmaster with the lovely words of the song Silent Night. Then theschoolmaster compod a melody to 79 the words. On Christmas morning, the beautiful 80 was sung for the first time, A guitar was the 81 accompaniment (伴奏) and the words "Silent night, Holy night, all is calm, all is bright " 82 pure and clear in the Bavarian air. Thesong was not 83 to England until one hundredyears later. 84 have changed, but"Silent Night" has remained. It is still sung 85 comers of the world where people 86 thebirth of Jesus Christ.

67. A) isolated

B) covered

C) enclod

D) surrounded

68. A) later

B) still

C) yet

D) also

69. A) eve

B) ason

C) time

D) festivities

70. A) encouragement

B)amument

C) disappointment

D) surpri

71. A) in

B) off

C) away

D) down

72. A) goer

B) organist

C) pianist

D) choirmaster

73. A) center

C) heart

B) middle

D) midst

74. A) suggested

B) ordered

C) claimed

D) agreed

75. A) complicated

B) similar

C) same

D) special

76. A) for

B) without

C) along

D) except

77. A) work

B) job

C) best

D) good

78. A) home

B) to the home of

C) to home of

D) to home

79. A) fill in

B) equip

C) fit

D) prove

80. A) music

B) carol

C) words

D) melody

81. A) merely

C) once

B) solely

D) only

82. A) sounded

B) heard

C) sung

D) appeared

83. A) taken

B) sung

C) brought

D) forwarded

84. A) Days

B) Times

C) Years

D) Period

85. A) in all

B) at all

C) on all

D) all over

86. A) memorize

B) commemorate

C) recognize

D) remember

【答案解析】

67. A

68. B

69. D

70. C

71. D

72. B

73. C

74. A

75. D

76. B

77. C

78. B

79. C

80. B

81. D

82. A

83. C

84. B

85. A

86. B