[外语类试卷]专业英语四级（阅读）模拟试卷130及答案与解析.doc

1、专业英语四级（阅读）模拟试卷 130及答案与解析 一、 SECTION A In this section there are several passages followed by ten multiple-choice questions. For each question, there are four suggested answers marked A, B, C and D. Choose the one that you think is the best answer. 0 (1)Sky-high gasoline prices arent just raising the

2、 cost of Eugene Marinos 120-mile(193-kilometer)round-trip to his job in the Washington area. Theyre reducing his wealth, too. (2)House prices in his rural subdivision beyond the Blue Ridge Mountains in Charles Town, West Virginia, have plunged as commuting expenses have soared. A four-bedroom home d

3、own the street from his is listed for $239,000, after selling new for $360,000 five years ago. (3)Homeowners in the exurbs arent the only ones whose assets have taken a hit because of the surge in energy costs. Companies such as General Motors Corp. are writing off billions of dollars in plants and

4、equipment that are no longer viable in an age of dearer oil. The destruction of wealth and capital will weigh on U.S. growth for years to come. (4)“Our whole economy reflects the relative costs of energy: the cars we drive, the houses we occupy, the kinds of factories we have and the equipment in th

5、em,“ says Dana Johnson, chief economist at Comerica Bank in Dallas. “Im expecting relatively large changes in all of these things.“ (5)The loss of wealth could be a double whammy for the U.S. economy. In the short run, it depresses demand as homeowners save more and spend less, and companies fire wo

6、rkers. Longer run, it curbs productivity growth, as firms shift their focus from increasing worker efficiency to reducing energy costs. (6)“At $4 per gallon gas, $125 per barrel oil and $10 per million Btu natural gas, a lot of activity becomes uneconomical,“ says Mark Zandi, chief economist at Mood

7、ys E in West Chester, Pennsylvania. (7)The lifestyle of the exurban commuter may be one casualty. (8)Emerging suburbs and exurbs commuter towns that lie beyond cities and their traditional suburbs grew about 15 percent from 2000 to 2006, nearly three times as fast as the U.S. population, as American

8、s moved further out in search of more affordable houses or the bigger ones that are sometimes derided as McMansions. (9)“It was drive until you qualify for a mortgage,“ says Robert Lang, director of the Metropolitan Institute at Virginia Tech in Alexandria, Virginia. “You cant do that anymore. Your

9、cost of transportation will spike too much.“ 1 Compared with the present, the loss of wealth will bring about _. （ A） a shrinking market （ B） shortage of labor force （ C） weakening productivity （ D） a lower working efficiency 2 “Exurbs“ most probably refers to _. （ A） regions situated farther away f

10、rom city than suburbs （ B） rural areas where residents have to commute to work （ C） suburbs with high-end facilities （ D） intelligent residential districts 2 (1)Throughout the years, music has been a common thread that unites generations and had provided social commentary, individual expression, and

11、 a soundtrack for life. Music has evolved and changed as time has moved forward, and become, in some cases more of an art, and in other cases, less than one. (2)Today music has nearly universal appeal though there are more styles and types of music than ever before, there are also wider gaps in ever

12、 between groups who listen to certain types of music. This said, however there are still millions of Americans who consider themselves to have “global musical tastes“ meaning that they listen to numerous genres of music on a regular basis instead of focusing their time and attention on only rap, cou

13、ntry, or rock and roll. (3)In Utah, as in most other parts of the country, there are many people who listen to a broad range of music: from Oldies to Emo and from Blues to Hip Hop. These varying tastes in music are reflected by the concerts in Utah during any given year. (4)Utahs concerts range from

14、 the biggest names in Hip Hop and Country music to Rock and Roll acts that you might have thought had been dissolved in the 80s. There seems to be just as much excitement for a Cyndi Lauper or Pretenders reunion tour, as for a tour from Snoop Dog or The Foo Fighters. The sheer dynamism of Utah conce

15、rt goers in age and musical taste makes Utah a “must stop“ for most any musical act. (5)Utahs concert scene consists of many small venues such as bars and private clubs that host touring acts year round, as well as a few large venues, both indoor and outdoor that host only the larger acts and are on

16、ly open during certain times of the year as dictated by sports team schedules and weather. (6)The varying degrees of concert venues in Utah makes for an additional plus for great musical acts to stop in Utah. There are obviously some acts, while very well received in bars and small venues, that just

17、 would not be able to fill a 20,000 seat amphitheater. Thus, the various small venues are perfect for lesser known or up-and-coming rock and country acts that are not quite able to fill the bigger venues. (7)A11 things considered, Utah has a lot going for it in terms of creating a solid environment

18、for musical acts as well as fans of music from a myriad of genres. As the state continues to grow and become a more mainstream culture, concerts in Utah will continue to be growing attractions. 3 Compared with music in the past, music at present becomes more _. （ A） sensuous （ B） artistic （ C） dispu

19、table （ D） diverse 4 The author tends to agree that the Americans _. （ A） are restrained to rap, country and rock and roll （ B） are restrained to the same genre of music （ C） have developed global musical tastes （ D） have developed their local music 5 The best title for the passage may be “_“. （ A）

20、Americans Global Musical Taste （ B） Diverse Tastes for Music in Utah （ C） Various Concert Venues in Utah （ D） Mainstream Culture of America 5 (1)If our solar system has a Hell, its Venus. The air is choked with foul and corrosive sulfur, heaved from ancient volcanoes and feeding acid clouds above. A

21、lthough the second planet is a step farther from the sun than Mercury, a runaway greenhouse effect makes it hotter indeed. Its the hottest of the nine plants, a toasty 900 degrees Fahrenheit of baking rocky flats from equator to poles. All this under a crushing atmospheric pressure 90 times that of

22、where youre sitting now. From the earthly perspective, a dead end. It must be lifeless. (2)“Venus has nothing,“ is the blunt word from planetologist Kevin Zahnle of NASA Ames Research Center in Californias Silicon Valley. “Weve written it off.“ (3)Yet a small group of advanced life-forms on Earth be

23、gs to differ, and theorizes that bizarre microbial ecosystems might have once populated Venus and, in fact, may be there still. Members of this loose band of researchers suggest that their colleagues have water too much on the brain, and are, in a sense, H2O chauvinists. (4)“Astrobiologists are negl

24、ecting Venus due more to narrow thinking than actual knowledge of the environment, or environments, where life can thrive,“ says Dirk Schulze-Makuch, a geobiologist at the University of Texas at El Paso who recently co-authored a Venus-boosting paper in Astrobiology with colleague Louis Irwin. (5)Th

25、e bias against life on Venus is partly rooted in our own biology. Human experience instructs that liquid water, preferably lot of it, is essential for life. In search for extraterrestrial life, we obsess over small rivers in Mars surface apparently carved by ancient gushes of water, and delight in h

26、ints of permafrost just underneath its surface.(By comparison, Venus isnt even that interesting to look at: A boring cue ball for backyard astronomers, its clouds reflects 75% of visible light.)Attention and then funding follow the water: Three more landers will depart for Mars this spring, and seri

27、ous plans for sample-return missions hover in the midterm future. (6)“If you have limited resources, you base exploration on what you know,“ says Arizona State University planetary geologist Ronal Greeley. Its like losing your keys on the way home at night: The first place you look is under the stre

28、etlights not because theyre more likely to be there, but because if they are, youll spot them. For astrobiologists, the streetlights are the spectral lines for water, and theyve spotted that potential on Mars, Jupiters moon Europa, even Neptunes moon Triton. Not on the baking rocky flats of Venus. 6

29、 Some planetologists believed there had never been lives on Venus because _. （ A） they couldnt find any trace of water on it （ B） they found Venus is too hot for any lives （ C） Venus is covered by dirty and poisonous cloud （ D） the atmospheric pressure on Venus is too much 7 What do we learn from th

30、e passage about Venus and Mars? （ A） The atmospheric pressure of Venus is stronger than Mars. （ B） Venus attracts more attention and funding than Mars. （ C） Venus is closer to the Sun than Mars. （ D） Venus looks more beautiful than Mars. 7 (1)It took me a decade to realize that the world has no shor

31、tage of fashion designers who are capable of making trendy, elegant, sexy and sophisticated garments, but that it is badly in need of, simply, clothes designers. My own definitions would set fashion and clothing greatly apart. It is a fact that, in the world of metropolitan shopping malls and high-e

32、nd boutiques, there are plenty of beautiful garments whose very unpredictability make our life colorful, and compel a multitude of desires. You are almost convinced: you can buy whatever you dare to think. (2)As experience grew with age, my attraction to art became ever stronger. The world of art re

33、vealed new spiritual prospects, a food for the heart and the sense of happiness that comes from catching sight of a friend from a past life. My journeys into the remote countryside, far away from urban life, carry me to deeper thoughts and explorations of the values of life. I am no longer satisfied

34、 by the practical and ornamental functions of clothing that are changing in modality, nor breakthroughs in form, much less does the drive for reputation or profit enter into my work. I yearn strongly for clothing to stand as does paint to the painter, as does stone to the sculptor, as a simple and p

35、articular language of an individual creation, which draws the audience from an appreciation of the surface to deeper thoughts and conversations with the world of the soul. I have a strong desire to explore the mental life and spiritual world of human beings. And through the works of hand that have t

36、ouched me deeply, I believe that the most sublime and most meaningful creative motives should arise through caring for other people, the ultimate care of humanity a concern for human feeling and spirituality. This includes love, but it is bigger than love, and it is unconditional. I believe the grea

37、test works of art can touch the deepest and strongest parts of human feeling and the world of the spirit, and only these works can be the memories of history, preserving the most valuable feelings that have ever existed, and inspiring a greater awareness of ourselves. (3)I am not satisfied if people

38、 only appreciate clothing if it makes them happy, or visually appealing, or merely serves their needs. I believe clothing could be a specific creative language, and has infinite possibilities for communicating ideas and transmitting thoughts, for inspiring you and shaping your behavior. The spiritua

39、l qualities which I pursue stand in complete opposition to the trends of modern fashion. What I find profoundly engaging are the primitive eras of human history, when people held nature in the deepest reverence and made objects of the utmost simplicity. Those crafts fashioned out of necessity, and n

40、ot by the hands of celebrated masters, possess a power that can endure across the ages. These designs may still resonate through the millennia and arrest the values of contemporary fashion. This is what I have pursued, for clothing to return to its original simplicity. For our sensibilities which ha

41、ve been over-stimulated by fashion, we must regain a natural sense of clothing. Genuine fashion today should not follow the glamor of trends. It should instead uncover the extraordinary in the ordinary, for I believe that the ultimate luxury is not the price of the clothing, but its spirit. 8 Accord

42、ing to the author, the fundamental factor a fashion designer needs to consider is_. （ A） the unpredictability of the clothing （ B） the desires of the consumers （ C） the creation of the clothing itself （ D） the shifting trend in fashion 9 Which of the following is of least interest to the author in h

43、is designing work? （ A） The functions of clothing. （ B） The spirit implied in clothing. （ C） The appreciation of the consumers. （ D） The prospect of reputation and profit. 10 By saying “This includes love“(Para.2), the author regards love as _. （ A） that can be achieved through the works of hand （ B

44、） a form of concern for human feeling and spirituality （ C） the most important component of the spiritual world （ D） one of the most sublime and meaningful creative motives 二、 SECTION B In this section there are five short answer questions based on the passages in Section A. Answer the questions wit

45、h No more than TEN words in the space provided. 11 PASSAGE ONE 11 What does “spike“(the last paragraph)mean in the context? 12 PASSAGE TWO 12 What makes Utah a “must stop“? 12 PASSAGE THREE 13 What makes Venus the hottest of all the nine planets in the solar system? 14 What has been regarded as the

46、indicator of potential life on other planets? 15 PASSAGE FOUR 15 What is the factor that results in the primitive crafts, according to the author? 专业英语四级（阅读）模拟试卷 130答案与解析 一、 SECTION A In this section there are several passages followed by ten multiple-choice questions. For each question, there are f

47、our suggested answers marked A, B, C and D. Choose the one that you think is the best answer. 【知识模块】 阅读 1 【正确答案】 A 【试题解析】 第 5段第 2句中的 depresses demand， spend less等表明需求减少，购买力降低，这些都暗示市场萎缩，由此可见，本题应选 A。 C、 D很具干扰性， C中的 productivity和 D中的 efficiency在第 5段第 3句提及，要注意的是，it curbs productivity growth表明生产力的发展速度会减缓

48、，这并不意味着生产力会下降，因此 C是不正确的：同样道理，即使 “公司关注的焦点不再是如何提高员工工作效率 ”，也不意味着 工作效率会降低， D也不正确。 【知识模块】 阅读 2 【正确答案】 A 【试题解析】 原文倒数第 2段中的破折号内的内容是 exurbs的定义， A是这个内容的近义改写，为本题答案。 B最具干扰性，其中的 rural一词在第 2段第 1句提及，关于 commute(通勤 )的内容在第 2段、倒数第 2段都有提及，但根据倒数第2段对 exurbs的定义可以知道 rural和 commute都不是 exurbs的重点特征。 【知识模块】 阅读 【知识模块】 阅读 3 【正确

49、答案】 D 【试题解析】 第 2段第 1句中的 more styles and types表明现在的音乐比以往任何时候都多样化，因此本题应选 D。 A“具有美感的 ”无原文依据，文章没有讨论这一内容； B与第 1段最后一句的 art有关，但根据原文，作者对音乐是否属于艺术的范畴仍然不能确定，因此 B不能选；第 2段第 1句中的 wider gaps表明听音乐的人之间的区别很大，但这并不意味着他们对音乐有争议，这种 wider gaps也可能表现为他们的 “性格相差很远 ”，因此 C不正确。 【知识模块】 阅读 4 【正确答案】 C 【试题解析】 第 3段首 句中的 a broad range of music表明作者认为美国人听音乐的兴趣很广泛，这一点就是上一段第 2句提到的 global musical tastes，因此本题应选 C。第 2段第 2句中的 still似乎表示作者认为美国人不愿承认他们只喜欢听 rap， country， and Rock and Roll，但下一段的内容就可以推翻这一点，也就可以将 A排除。其他两个选项更没有原文依据。 【知识模块】 阅读 5