1、大学英语四级改革适用（阅读）模拟试卷 264 及答案解析(总分：100.00，做题时间：90 分钟)一、Reading Comprehensio(总题数：5，分数：100.00)1.Part III Reading Comprehension（分数：20.00）_2.Section A（分数：20.00）_Over a hundred years ago, Charles Dickens shocked many of his readers when he described the conditions under which young children worked in Britis
2、h factories. The conditions Dickens described continue almost 1today in many parts of the world. The only difference is that today 2of children is limited to small industries and family businesses, such as hotels, restaurants and 3farms, rather than to large factories. Girls 4more from child labor p
3、ractices than boys. Many of them are forced to start work when they are only ten years old. Although the work they are given to do is often 5, it is often harmful to their health. 6, children as young as six years were found to be working in Asian factories, and the children were working from eight
4、to fourteen hours a day in overcrowded and unhealthy working 7. Sometimes a whole family group is employed, with the 8going to a parent or older relative. The children not only receive nothing or very little for their long hours of work, but also they are prevented from attending school. Therefore,
5、when they become older they are unable to do any other kind of work. The 9to the problem of child labor is clearly better laws to protect young children, greater supervision of industry and heavier fines for those who break the laws. Only in this way can young boys and girls be allowed to enjoy the
6、most 10time of their liveschildren. A. elsewhere B. employment C. dissolved D. light E. recently F. solution G. unchanged H. suffer I. conditions J. perspective K. impatient L. valuable M. particularly N. proceed O. payment（分数：20.00）填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项
7、1:_One lunchtime, May Ward was going round the local supermarket in Parkside Road, Liverpool, doing her shopping, when she suddenly slipped and fell. She was badly shaken and bruised but 1nothing serious resulted. It turned out that she has slipped on some ice-cream which had been 2on the floor. Two
8、 weeks later she wrote to the firm to 3compensation (赔偿) to make up for the pain and 4she had suffered. She asserted that they had been negligent (忽视的) and careless in not keeping the floor clean. The firm denied that they had been negligent and 5that they had a proper system for keeping the floor c
9、lean. They had given instructions that when a member of staff found a spillage, he or she was to stand by it, and call someone else to clear up the mess. Since Mrs. Ward felt that she was 6to compensation, she sued (起诉) the firm in the Law Courts. Here the firm claimed that it did not 7, just becaus
10、e someone has slipped on the floor, that they must have been negligent carrying out their duties. They said that unless the customer could prove how the ice-cream came to be on the floor, and how long it had been left there before the accident happened, she had not made out a proper 8against them. B
11、ut the judge took a different view. He said that, on the face of it, the accident would not have happened at all if the firm had taken reasonable care. It was something that in the ordinary course of events does not happen if floors are kept clean and spillages are dealt with as soon as they occur.
12、It was up to the firm, he said, to provide 9. if they could, that the accident did not 10from any negligence on their part. They would obviously be in a better position than the customer to establish how long the ice-cream had been spilt and explain the circumstances to the Courts. The final result
13、was that Mrs. Ward won her case and received 137 and 10 pence as payment for damages. A. claim B. spilt C. evidence D. case E. innocent F. inconvenience G. derive H. maintained I. entitled J. arise K. follow L. unexpectedly M. determine N. fortunately O. credited（分数：20.00）填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:
14、_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_Last years economy in the United States should have won the Oscar for best picture. Growth in gross domestic product was 4.1 percent profits 1up exports flourished and inflation (通货膨胀) stayed around 3 percent for the third year. So why did so many Americans
15、 give the picture only a B rating? The answer is jobs. The macroeconomic (宏观经济的) situation was good, but the microeconomic (微观经济的) numbers were not Yes, 3 million new jobs were there, but not enough of them were 2, good jobs paying enough to support a family. Job insecurity was serious. Even as they
16、 3higher sales and profits, corporations acted as if they were operating at a 4, cutting 516,069 jobs in 1994 alone, almost as many as in the bad year of 1991. Yes, unemployment went down. But over 1 million workers were so 5they left the labor force. More than 6 million who wanted full time work we
17、re only partially 6and another large group was sheltered behind self-employment. We lost a million good manufacturing jobs between 1990 and 1995, continuing the 7that has reduced the blue-collar work force from about 30 percent in the 1950s to about half that today. White-collar workers found out th
18、ey were no longer 8. In 1995, for the first time, they were let go in numbers 9equal to those for blue-collar workers. Many turn to 10workwith lower pay, fewer benefits and less status. All this is a country where people meeting for the first time say, “What do you do?“ A. announced B. trend C. perf
19、ormed D. temporary E. permanent F. virtually G. technical H. employed I. exposure J. originally K. soared L. significance M. secure N. discouraged O. loss（分数：20.00）填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_大学英语四级改革适用（阅读）模拟试卷 264 答案解析(总分：100.00，做题时间：90 分钟)一、Reading Compreh
20、ensio(总题数：5，分数：100.00)1.Part III Reading Comprehension（分数：20.00）_解析：2.Section A（分数：20.00）_解析：Over a hundred years ago, Charles Dickens shocked many of his readers when he described the conditions under which young children worked in British factories. The conditions Dickens described continue almost
21、 1today in many parts of the world. The only difference is that today 2of children is limited to small industries and family businesses, such as hotels, restaurants and 3farms, rather than to large factories. Girls 4more from child labor practices than boys. Many of them are forced to start work whe
22、n they are only ten years old. Although the work they are given to do is often 5, it is often harmful to their health. 6, children as young as six years were found to be working in Asian factories, and the children were working from eight to fourteen hours a day in overcrowded and unhealthy working
23、7. Sometimes a whole family group is employed, with the 8going to a parent or older relative. The children not only receive nothing or very little for their long hours of work, but also they are prevented from attending school. Therefore, when they become older they are unable to do any other kind o
24、f work. The 9to the problem of child labor is clearly better laws to protect young children, greater supervision of industry and heavier fines for those who break the laws. Only in this way can young boys and girls be allowed to enjoy the most 10time of their liveschildren. A. elsewhere B. employmen
25、t C. dissolved D. light E. recently F. solution G. unchanged H. suffer I. conditions J. perspective K. impatient L. valuable M. particularly N. proceed O. payment（分数：20.00）填空项 1:_ （正确答案：G）填空项 1:_ （正确答案：B）填空项 1:_ （正确答案：M）填空项 1:_ （正确答案：H）填空项 1:_ （正确答案：D）填空项 1:_ （正确答案：E）填空项 1:_ （正确答案：I）填空项 1:_ （正确答案：O）
26、填空项 1:_ （正确答案：F）填空项 1:_ （正确答案：L）解析：解析：此处应为形容词，修饰 time 一词。本句表明解决了童工问题，儿童就能重获美好的时光，因此空白处应是一个积极意义的形容词，词库中只有 valuable 符合词性、词义与色彩的要求。One lunchtime, May Ward was going round the local supermarket in Parkside Road, Liverpool, doing her shopping, when she suddenly slipped and fell. She was badly shaken and
27、bruised but 1nothing serious resulted. It turned out that she has slipped on some ice-cream which had been 2on the floor. Two weeks later she wrote to the firm to 3compensation (赔偿) to make up for the pain and 4she had suffered. She asserted that they had been negligent (忽视的) and careless in not kee
28、ping the floor clean. The firm denied that they had been negligent and 5that they had a proper system for keeping the floor clean. They had given instructions that when a member of staff found a spillage, he or she was to stand by it, and call someone else to clear up the mess. Since Mrs. Ward felt
29、that she was 6to compensation, she sued (起诉) the firm in the Law Courts. Here the firm claimed that it did not 7, just because someone has slipped on the floor, that they must have been negligent carrying out their duties. They said that unless the customer could prove how the ice-cream came to be o
30、n the floor, and how long it had been left there before the accident happened, she had not made out a proper 8against them. But the judge took a different view. He said that, on the face of it, the accident would not have happened at all if the firm had taken reasonable care. It was something that i
31、n the ordinary course of events does not happen if floors are kept clean and spillages are dealt with as soon as they occur. It was up to the firm, he said, to provide 9. if they could, that the accident did not 10from any negligence on their part. They would obviously be in a better position than t
32、he customer to establish how long the ice-cream had been spilt and explain the circumstances to the Courts. The final result was that Mrs. Ward won her case and received 137 and 10 pence as payment for damages. A. claim B. spilt C. evidence D. case E. innocent F. inconvenience G. derive H. maintaine
33、d I. entitled J. arise K. follow L. unexpectedly M. determine N. fortunately O. credited（分数：20.00）填空项 1:_ （正确答案：N）填空项 1:_ （正确答案：B）填空项 1:_ （正确答案：A）填空项 1:_ （正确答案：F）填空项 1:_ （正确答案：H）填空项 1:_ （正确答案：I）填空项 1:_ （正确答案：K）填空项 1:_ （正确答案：D）填空项 1:_ （正确答案：C）填空项 1:_ （正确答案：J）解析：解析：根据 did not 和 from，可知此处需要不及物动词原形。符合条件
34、的动词原形有 arise 和derive，且都可以和 from 搭配。arise from 意为“由引起”，而 derive from 意为“从起源”。根据上下文，不难发现 arise 一词比较合适。Last years economy in the United States should have won the Oscar for best picture. Growth in gross domestic product was 4.1 percent profits 1up exports flourished and inflation (通货膨胀) stayed around 3
35、 percent for the third year. So why did so many Americans give the picture only a B rating? The answer is jobs. The macroeconomic (宏观经济的) situation was good, but the microeconomic (微观经济的) numbers were not Yes, 3 million new jobs were there, but not enough of them were 2, good jobs paying enough to s
36、upport a family. Job insecurity was serious. Even as they 3higher sales and profits, corporations acted as if they were operating at a 4, cutting 516,069 jobs in 1994 alone, almost as many as in the bad year of 1991. Yes, unemployment went down. But over 1 million workers were so 5they left the labo
37、r force. More than 6 million who wanted full time work were only partially 6and another large group was sheltered behind self-employment. We lost a million good manufacturing jobs between 1990 and 1995, continuing the 7that has reduced the blue-collar work force from about 30 percent in the 1950s to
38、 about half that today. White-collar workers found out they were no longer 8. In 1995, for the first time, they were let go in numbers 9equal to those for blue-collar workers. Many turn to 10workwith lower pay, fewer benefits and less status. All this is a country where people meeting for the first
39、time say, “What do you do?“ A. announced B. trend C. performed D. temporary E. permanent F. virtually G. technical H. employed I. exposure J. originally K. soared L. significance M. secure N. discouraged O. loss（分数：20.00）填空项 1:_ （正确答案：K）填空项 1:_ （正确答案：E）填空项 1:_ （正确答案：A）填空项 1:_ （正确答案：O）填空项 1:_ （正确答案：N）填空项 1:_ （正确答案：H）填空项 1:_ （正确答案：B）填空项 1:_ （正确答案：M）填空项 1:_ （正确答案：F）填空项 1:_ （正确答案：D）解析：解析：此处需要填入形容词。根据破折号后面对 work 的解释，可知该词表消极意义。上下文都在说工作不稳定，被裁员，所以可确定答案为 temporary(临时的)。
