[外语类试卷]专业英语四级（阅读）模拟试卷155及答案与解析.doc

1、专业英语四级（阅读）模拟试卷 155及答案与解析 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 Nearly 60 million visitors flock to the 384 national

2、parks across America every year. And you wont have to wander far from home to enjoy one of these national treasures, with Michigans Isle Royale National Park nearby. Located 56 miles from Houghton and Copper Harbor on Michigans Upper Peninsula or 22 miles from Grand Portage, Minnesota, the park rema

3、ins a wilderness haven that can only be reached by tour boat. With the exception of the Rock Harbor Lodge, which offers both rooms with private baths and more modest accommodations in the form of small cottages, the 572, 000 acres that make up the 45-mile-long park are rough and untamed, threaded wi

4、th hiking trails that lead to tents-only campsites. In other words, its wilderness the way it used to be. Youre likely to see a moose wading through mist-covered ponds at dawn in search of breakfast, gaze open-mouthed as bald eagles and osprey snag fish from Lake Superior, hear the sharp clap of a b

5、eaver slapping its tail on the water, or the lulling conversation of loons at sunset. If youre especially lucky, you might even glimpse one of Isle Royales gray wolves, hunted nearly to extinction on the mainland. Theyre very shy, however, so its more likely that youll only hear their eerie howl. Pl

6、enty of hiking trails open the area to exploration. At the parks information center, you can find out about ranger-led interpretative hikes and walks that explain the delicate history of the island. Kids especially love learning how to examine an animals droppings to figure out its most recent meal.

7、 The Stoll Trail, a four-mile loop, winds through spruce and birch trees and offers a tour of the islands history, including prehistoric Indian copper mines. It leads to scenic Scoville Point a perfect picnic spot surrounded on three sides by the sparkling waters of Lake Superior. You can also rent

8、a canoe at the Rock Island Marina and paddle down the shore to the Rock Harbor Lighthouse, an 1855 jewel, and the Edisen Fishery. Once a thriving business, the fishery today is manned by park service employees who use nets to demonstrate how lake trout, whitefish, and herring used to be caught from

9、island waters. Their catch ends up on the dinner menu at the Rock Harbor Lodge. You can explore farther afield on ranger-guided day cruises aboard the parks MV Sandy, or hop on and off the Voyageur II on its daily circumnavigation of the island. Reservations are essential and can be made at the info

10、rmation center. Another essential for any visit to Isle Royale is insect repellent. All those boreal bogs, beaver ponds and streams, generously replenished by heavy spring rains, create ideal conditions for breeding bugs. Mosquitoes and black flies one ranger described them as “little but all teeth“

11、 are at their worst in June and early July. As the weather warms up and the island dries out, horse flies and deer flies the delta-winged B-1 bomber of the insect world replace them. Come prepared to protect yourself: Usually a combination of head nets, bite-proof clothing and plenty of bug spray do

12、es the trick, which are available at the information center. The park is open from mid-April through October; Rock Harbor Lodge is open from Memorial Day weekend until just after Labor Day. 1 What can we infer from the second paragraph? （ A） The park is totally uncivilized by humans. （ B） We can dri

13、ve personal boats to the park. （ C） The wolves nearly die out in this park. （ D） The number of wolves is smaller than that of mooses. 2 Which of the following can NOT be done at the information center? （ A） Making yourselves free from being bitten by insects. （ B） Booking your hotels for travelling.

14、 （ C） Learning some knowledge of this park. （ D） Enabling yourselves to explore farther with ranger. 3 About the park, which of the following is INCORRECT? （ A） It rains a lot during spring. （ B） Cars can not be used in it. （ C） Some Indians lived there in the past. （ D） It is open all around the ye

15、ar. 3 Yousuf Karsh, the Canadian portrait artist who photographed many of the most influential figures of the 20th century, died in a Boston hospital on July 13, 2002, after complications following surgery. He was 93. Working from a studio in Ottawa, Karsh produced famous portraits of such subjects

16、as Winston Churchill, John F. Kennedy, Nikita Khrushchev, Fidel Castro, Ernest Hemingway and Albert Einstein. Actually he has become almost as famous as his legendary subjects. In the latest edition of Whos Who, which listed the most notable people of the last century, Karsh was the only Canadian of

17、 the 100 famous people listed 51 of whom Karsh had photographed. Karsh was praised as a master portraitist, often working in black and white, influenced by great painters of the past. He was famous for talking to his subjects as he was getting the shots composition just right, asking them questions

18、and putting them at ease. He confesses that he continues to feel more challenged when “portraying true greatness adequately with my camera. “ In preparation, he reads as much as he can about the person before the sitting, but avoids having a preconceived idea of how he would photograph the subject.

19、Rather he seeks, as he wrote in Karsh Portfolio in 1967, to capture the “essential element which has made them great, “ explaining, “All I know is that within every man and woman a secret is hidden, and as a photographer it is my task to reveal it if I can. In that fleeting interval of opportunity t

20、he photographer must act or lose his prize. “ Yousuf Karsh was born in Armenia in 1908 and grew up under the horrors of the Armenian massacres. His photographer uncle, George Nakash, brought him to Canada in 1924 and sent him to Boston in 1928 to apprentice with John Garo, an outstanding photographe

21、r. He not only taught Karsh the technical processes used by photographic artists of the period but also prepared him to think for himself and evolve his own distinctive interpretations. Four years later, he set up his studio in Ottawa. In December of 1941 , his memorable portrait of a glowering, def

22、iant Winston Churchill, which symbolized Britains indomitable wartime courage, brought Karsh into international prominence. Canadas Prime Minister Mackenzie King arranged for Karsh to photograph Churchill following Churchills speech in the House of Commons. Not forewarned, Churchill lit up a cigar a

23、nd growled, “Why was I not told of this?“ but consented to a brief session. Karsh asked him to remove the cigar and, when he didnt, stepped forward and gently removed it with the comment, “Forgive me, Sir.“ Churchill glowered as the shot was taken, then permitted Karsh to take still another, jokingl

24、y commenting, “You can even make a roaring lion stand still to be photographed. “ The Churchill portrait has since appeared in publications and on commemorative stamps all over the world. Karsh traveled to London in 1943 with his portable studio an 8x10 view camera and many studio lamps to photograp

25、h such notables as George E3ernard Shaw, the Archbi-shop of Canterbury, and the royal family. All these portraits illustrate Karshs ability to capture the essence of his sitter. 4 According to the passage, Yousuf Karsh is a(n)_ （ A） American （ B） Canadian （ C） British （ D） Armenian 5 What did Karsh

26、pursue most in working? （ A） To capture the essence and greatness of the character. （ B） To capture the fleeting expression of the sitter. （ C） To make the picture colorful and expressive. （ D） To reveal the defects of the sitter. 6 All of the following about Karsh are mentioned in the passage EXCEP

27、T that_. （ A） he was born in Armenia and died in Boston （ B） his uncle, George Nakash, was also a famous photographer （ C） he took photographs for the British royal family in 1940s （ D） he was listed among the most notable people of the last century in Whos Who 6 Late last year, Airbnb announced tha

28、t its going after the major hotel chains which at first sounded kind of cute, like a precocious Little League pitcher(投手 )saying hes going to strike out Miguel Cabrera. But when CEO Brian Chesky laid out his thinking for me in Airbnbs new, funky headquarters in San Francisco, I thought the investors

29、 who have pumped $326 million into the company might not be too dim. Airbnb is becoming much more than a way to spend $26 a night to sleep in London with five other people at The Imperial Fleapit. In fact, Airbnb is looking like a proof point of a trend that has been getting a lot of attention latel

30、y. Some refer to it as the DIY for do it yourself movement. Chesky uses the term “decentralized production(分散式生产 ).“ Marc Andreessen hit on the concept in a manifesto entitled “Why Software Is Eating the World?“ It all points to the same idea: Information technology is eroding the power of large-sca

31、le mass production. Were instead moving toward a world of massive numbers of small producers offering unique stuff and of consumers who reject mass-produced stuff. The Internet, software, 3D printing, social networks, cloud computing and other technologies are making this economically feasible in fa

32、ct, desirable. The hotel industry and the way Airbnb thinks about it is an example of how that is playing out. There is a fundamental truth about big hotel chains that is only now being exposed in the Internet age: Hotel chains grew out of a lack of information. In the middle of last century, cars a

33、nd highways made the world far more mobile. Many more people traveled to towns they didnt know, and they needed places to sleep. They had no way to know which hotel or boarding house might be nice or offer amenities they wanted. Travel guides, like Mobils, popped up in the 1950s, but for the most pa

34、rt information remained scarce. Chains took advantage of that data deficit. If you knew a Holiday Inn in one town, you knew the Holiday Inn in the next town would be roughly the same. The brands motto played off this: “The best surprise is no surprise. “ The uniformity and comfort of a chain trumped

35、 the risk of an unknown, independent place. As chains got bigger, they could afford to widely advertise a way to spread more information about the consistency of their hotels. Independents couldnt keep up They had limited ways to get information to travelers. As long as this big information gap exis

36、ted, chains grew and independents struggled. The gap drove chains to offer uniform accommodations at scale and we got todays hospitality industry, dominated by the likes of Hilton, Marriott and Starwood. Chesky got to thinking about this when his iate grandfather told him Airbnb reminded him of his

37、childhood, when his family would arrive in towns and stay at boarding houses. Chesky thought: If the Internet was around back then, would hotel chains as we know them have been created? “And the answer is absolutely not, “ Chesky says. “Im not saying there wouldnt be hotels, but they wouldnt look li

38、ke they do today. “ 7 What is the relationship between the example of Airbnb and that of Little League pitcher? （ A） Analogy. （ B） Comparison. （ C） Supplement. （ D） Contradiction. 8 According to the passage, Chesky believes that_. （ A） hotel chains will no longer exist in the near future （ B） there

39、would be no hotels if Internet was around then （ C） hotel chains would be different if Internet existed then （ D） the development of hotel industry is not certain 8 How did your friend get you to babysit her kids for the weekend, or your sister talk you into hosting the next book club meeting? They

40、probably asked when you were anxious about a work project or stressed about making an impending mortgage payment. Stress, however, isnt traditionally associated with altruism. When self-discipline wanes, such as when you are hurried, hungry or distracted, you are less likely to be helpful to strange

41、rs(if youre late for an appointment, youre probably not stopping to help the person who just dropped the contents of his briefcase). That makes intuitive sense: helping someone you are unlikely to ever see again when you feel least in control of your own life isnt likely to be productive. Yet such s

42、elfishness seems at odds with the need for cooperation in a social species that relies on support from others for survival. So researchers have suspected that this pattern may only hold true for strangers and that stress and periods when you feel your life is out of your control might actually incre

43、ase sacrifice toward loved ones since collaboration with those upon whom you regularly rely is essential for survival. “In communal(公共的 )relationships, the habitual behavior is to take care of each others needs, “ says Francesca Righetti, assistant professor of psychology at VU University in Amsterd

44、am. The study, which was published in Psychological Science, involved several experiments in which some participants were intentionally distracted by subtitles(字幕 )on a silent video, while others were not. The volunteers were then asked about sacrifices they would make for either a long-term signifi

45、cant other, or a best friend. Those who had to cope with the distraction a task known to reduce self-controlwere more likely to say they would sacrifice for their friends or partners by going out with people they did not like(but whom their partners or friends liked)or by performing an embarrassing

46、task for their loved one. Righetti says that couples often face situations where their interests diverge and one must give up something for the other like choosing whether to see one partners friends or deciding on a beach or mountain vacation. “In these situations people need to choose between purs

47、uing their own wishes and sacrificing to promote the well-being of their partner or relationship, “ she says. “We found that when people are in a loving relationship, their impulsive response to these types of circumstances is to be nice and benefit their partner even if this is costly for them. “ T

48、he results confirm what most young children know intuitively that if you want something from mom or dad, you should hit them when theyre distracted by something else. They also resolve what seemed to be a paradox: that good self control is associated with happiness and success, but could be poison f

49、or relationships by leading to selfish behavior. It seems theres a balance between what were ready to give and what we take from our different interactions with people. Self-centeredness, these findings suggest, may apply primarily to strangers. When it comes to people we love, were willing to suffer. 9 Francesca Righetti believes that_. （ A） people tend to be more considerate for others in communal relationships （ B） selfishness makes people reluctant to help others in communal relationship