1、专业英语四级（阅读）模拟试卷 11及答案与解析 0 The communications explosion is on the scale of the rail, automobile or telephone revolution. Very soon youll be able to record your entire life electronically anything a microphone or a camera can sense youll be able to store. In particular, the number of images a person c
2、aptures in a lifetime is set to rise exponentially. The thousand images a year I take of my children on a digital camera are all precious to me. In a generations time, my childrens children will have total image documentation of their entire lives a visual log of tremendous personal value. By then w
3、ell be wrestling with another question; how we control all the electronic devices connected to the Internet: trillions of PCs, laptops, palmpilots, cell phones and other gadgets. In Cambridge, were already working on millimeter-square computing and sensing devices that can be linked to the Internet
4、through the radio net work. This sort of connectivity will expand dramatically as microscopic communications devices become dirt-cheap and multiply. Just imagine what the paint on the wall could do if it had this sort of communications dust in it; change color, play music, show movies or even speak
5、to you. Falling costs raise other possibilities too. Because launching space vehicles is about to become very much cheaper, the number of satellites is likely to go up exponentially. Theres lots of space up there so we could have millions of them. And if you have millions of low-orbit satellites you
6、 can establish a global communications network that completely does away with towers and masts. If the satellites worked on the cellular principle so you got spatial reuse of frequencies, system capacity would be amazing. Speech is so flexible that I expect voice communication to become almost free
7、eventually: youll pay just a monthly fixed charge and be able to make as many calls as you want. By then people will also have fixed links with business contacts, friends and relatives. One day I anticipate being able to keep in touch with my family in Poland on a fibreoptic audio-video link; well b
8、e able to have a little ceremony at supper-time, open the curtains and sit down “together“ to eat. Cars are an interesting IT-platform because they have big batteries and lots of so far unconnected digital devices. Soon each one will be an entity on the Internet so your children can play interactive
9、 games while youre traveling and your partner can deal with their email. And every lamppost could be on the Internet too each one with sensors to monitor light, pollution, air quality and traffic flow. 1 Whats the central topic of the passage? （ A） IT-platform. （ B） Visual log. （ C） Voice communicat
10、ion. （ D） Telecoms. 2 Which of the following is NOT among the functions of the communication dust according to the passage? （ A） To monitor light. （ B） To change color. （ C） To show movies. （ D） To play music. 3 The future global communications network will be completely free of_. （ A） any breakdown
11、 （ B） costs （ C） towers and masts （ D） manual operation 4 Whats “cell phone “which is in American English in British English? （ A） Cellular phone. （ B） Mobile phone. （ C） Radiophone. （ D） Telephone. 5 Which of the following is INCORRECT according to the passage? （ A） Voice communication becomes almo
12、st free eventually. （ B） Your children can play interactive games in the car. （ C） Spatial reuse of frequencies will be in trouble. （ D） Lamppost could monitor pollution and air flow. 5 It may be one of the worlds great shopping destinations, but Londons Regent Street is failing the fashion test, ac
13、cording to the Crown Estate, which holds the lease on shops in the famous thoroughfare. And for some of its most venerable tenants that means one thing; eviction. A retail renaissance is needed in the capital, the owners believe, and are looking to top US brands and the hip labels of European fashio
14、n to stem a tide of shoppers flooding towards the super-malls dotted around the M25. That means the end of the road for Regent Street legends such as Dickens “Generation by generation. people are being cheated of something thats really good to know. “ Hytner, who is best known for his direction of A
15、drian fester in Henry V, made his comments yesterday during a discussion with the writer Alan Bennett about his play The History Boys. He told an audience of history and English teachers at the fourth annual Prince of Wales education summer school in Dartington, Devon, that history should be studied
16、 until at least age 16. He said people had been lamenting the demise of classical education since he had been a schoolboy. But he added that as a director he had also noted the impact of the decline of basic British historical knowledge among audiences. “I knew that Henry IV usurped Richard II and w
17、as then murdered. It was something I had been taught and simply knew. But theres very little you can rely on now even with National Theatre audiences. We have a very metropolitan audience but theres very little you can rely on an audience knowing. Fifty years ago you could put on classics and it wou
18、ld have a different resonance for people. But now, except for people who have had a classical education, you get no frisson when Agamemnon behaves like a pig. You get around it but generation by generation the feeling I get is that people are being cheated of something thats really good to know. Cer
19、tainly it makes life harder, if you produce work 50 percent of which is from a classical repertoire, if people do not have an overview of English literature and English history. “ Students are currently required only to study history until the age of 14. Some English lite-rature must be studied unti
20、l 16 but pupils are not required to sit a full GCSE in the subject. Asked whether history should be made compulsory until 16, Bennett said, “l tend to think that it didnt do me any harm. I did history because I liked doing it so it was never a burden. I certainly think English should be compulsory a
21、nd 1 think history should be too. Bennetts play The History Boys, which recently finished a run at the National, considers what constitutes a good education as it follows the fortunes of a class of A-level historians who are being prepared for Oxbridge entrance exams by teachers with very different
22、philosophies towards learning and passing exams. Hytner said he originally thought the text would not have widespread appeal. “I was wrong. It turned out to have the widest appeal of any play at the National. “ 11 The central idea of the passage is that_. （ A） history should be made compulsory for 1
23、6-year-olds （ B） history should be made compulsory for 14-year-olds （ C） people are being cheated of something thats really good to know （ D） audiences lack education to understand classical plays 12 Which of the following is INCORRECT according to the passage? （ A） Bennetts play The History Boys ha
24、s widespread appeal. （ B） Bennett is the director of the National Theatre. （ C） Hytner is best known for his direction of Adrian Lester in Henry V. （ D） Pupils are not required to sit a full GCSE in some English literature. 13 We can infer from the passage that_. （ A） history is not a compulsory cou
25、rse to children of 14 to 16 （ B） children of 14 dont study history （ C） pupils of 16 are required to sit a full GCSE in the literature （ D） pupils of 14 are required to sit a full GCSE in the literature 14 Whats Bennetts attitude towards history? （ A） He is not interested in it. （ B） It is not menti
26、oned. （ C） He likes it. （ D） It is a burden. 15 Hytner repeatedly complains that people are cheated, then who cheated them according to the passage? （ A） The play. （ B） The modern education. （ C） The directors. （ D） The history. 15 I live in a street of enormous late-Victorian houses. Most have been
27、 converted into flats, but quite a number are now private prep schools. The result is traffic mayhem. At 8: 30 every term time morning, and at 3:30 every afternoon, our otherwise moderately busy road becomes a hooting, shouting nose-to-tail hell of jostling SUVs desperate to take possession of one o
28、f the few parking slots, deposit or retrieve their child, and escape before one of the many hovering par-king wardens can get them. 11 years ago my daughter started school in Bedford, a town whose main industry is education, with four large private schools, five state upper schools, two sixth-form c
29、olleges, three universities, and countless junior, middle and first schools. We lived 12 miles away, and during term time the traffic jams often began 10 miles out. Timing was hair-trigger; if the school bus left at 7:40, the children got to school at 8:20; if it left at 7:50, they wouldnt arrive un
30、til after 9. Every morning, the town was within an ace of gridlock. One disastrous day the local train company decided to discontinue the schoolkids trains on a local branch line. It was the last straw; the resulting extra cars meant that the whole place seized up, and no one got anywhere until mid-
31、morning. A perfect demonstration of the virtues of rail travel. Its hard to pinpoint the moment when driving your child to school became the norm. Personally, I either cycled or walked, calling for a friend en route. Only one of the children in my class came by car, an event so exceptional that I st
32、ill remember the registration number. But now no sane parent would let a city kid cycle; and if you want to let a first-schooler walk unsupervised, even in the most tranquil community, you must run the gauntlet of other parents. My daughter knew her way to school from the age of five; it was a 10-mi
33、nute walk, I crossed her over the biggest road and let her go. “Arent you frightened?“ one outraged mum demanded. What of? Paedophiles behind the hedge? Drivers on the pavement? She didnt, probably couldnt, specify. But her bogey-ridden world is todays norm. So everyone feels they must accompany you
34、ng children to school. And how else to do that but by car? “ I cant get to school on time without the car, “ said one mother picking up her child near our house. What she means, of course, is its easier. She could get up earlier, and walk or take the bus. But cars change our perception of what is po
35、ssible, and of what we are entitled to. And it is this mindset that makes the reduction of transport emissions, vital if we are to stop global warming, so problematic. Meanwhile, heres an idea. Why not make the provision of school buses mandatory for all schools, state or private, that accept childr
36、en outside a walkable catchment area? That would be safe, reliable, environmentally better than hundreds of individual cars, and less nerve-racking for all. In the private sector, it would be cheaper and less wearing than a daily par-king fine. And it might even begin to make local state schools tru
37、ly local. 16 Whats the main industry of Bedford? （ A） Coal. （ B） Iron and steel. （ C） Car. （ D） Education. 17 The phrase “en route“ in Paragraph 3 can be replaced by_. （ A） on the way （ B） by the way （ C） in the family way （ D） over the way 18 Whats the suggestion of the mother at last? （ A） To make
38、 the provision of school buses mandatory for all schools. （ B） To let children go to school by bus themselves. （ C） To have more branch lines. （ D） To build more local schools. 19 It can be inferred from the passage that the author had to_. （ A） send her daughter to school by car every day （ B） send
39、 her daughter to school by bus every day （ C） send her daughter to school by train every day （ D） send her daughter to school on foot every day 20 Which of the following is INCORRECT according to the passage? （ A） The author lived 12 miles away from her daughters school. （ B） The author lives in a q
40、uiet town without traffic jam. （ C） Cars change their perception of what is possible, and of what they are entitled to. （ D） Its hard to know the moment when driving their child to school became the norm. 专业英语四级（阅读）模拟试卷 11答案与解析 【知识模块】 阅读 1 【正确答案】 D 【试题解析】 主旨题。本文第一段第一句 “The communications explosion i
41、s on the scale of the rail， automobile or telephone revolution ”就指出了关键词组 “The communications explosion”，下文主要讲述了在未来高度发达的电讯业可能 引发的人们生活和工作中的巨大变化，因此 D”电讯业 ”为正确答案。 A”IT平台 ”在文中最后一段出现，是指汽车； B“可视记录 ”出现在第一段末，说的是 “相片，影像 ”； C“有声通讯 ”是 D的一部分，因此 A、 B和 C均不合适。 【知识模块】 阅读 2 【正确答案】 A 【试题解析】 细节题按照文章最后一段末句 “And every la
42、mppost could be on the Internet too一 each one with sensors to monitor light， pollution， air quality and traffic flow”，即未来电线杆的功能之一是检测公路上的照明，所以 A不是通讯粉末的功能，故为正确答案。第二段最后一句提到了通讯粉末的功能： Change color(B)， play music(D)， show movies(C)or even speak to you。 【知识模块】 阅读 3 【正确答案】 C 【试题解析】 细节题、从文章第三段 “And if you ha
43、ve millions of loworbit satellites you can establish a global communications network that completely does away with towers and masts ”可知，未来的全球通讯网络将彻底淘汰那些转播塔和转播天线，因此 C为正确答案。 【知识模块】 阅读 4 【正确答案】 B 【试题解析】 语义题。 cell phone(蜂窝电话 )是美式英语，英式英语中是 mobile phone(移动电话 )，所以 B为正确答案。 A指 “便携式电话 ”，美式英语； C是 “光线电话 ”； D是
44、“电话 ”。 【知识模块】 阅读 5 【正确答案】 C 【试题解析】 推理题。文章第三段指出 “If the satellites worked on the cellular principle so you got spatial reuse of frequencies， system capacity would be amazing”，所以 C与原文内容不符，故为答案。 A、 B和 D均可在文中第四、五段找到原句。 【知识模块】 阅读 【知识模块】 阅读 6 【正确答案】 A 【试题解析】 细节题。从第一段第一句 “according to the Crown Estate ， wh
45、ich holds the lease on shops in the famous thoroughfare ”可知，王室地产是摄政街的出租方，故 A正确。 B在文中未出现； C是倒数第二段提到的需要重新发展的地区； D是第二段提到的品牌商店名。 【知识模块】 阅读 7 【正确答案】 D 【试题解析】 细节题。从第二段中 “while the arrival of Apple computers and US surfwear giant Quiksilver signals the areas new image ”可以得出正确答案为D。 【知识模块】 阅读 8 【正确答案】 A 【试题解
46、析】 推理题。文章主要论述了摄政街为了改变自己在时代发展中日渐落伍的状况，采取一系列措施以求恢复昔日的辉煌，如引进美国一些著名品牌等，所以 A为正确答案。 【知识模块】 阅读 9 【正确答案】 C 【试题解析】 细节题从最后一段中 “Income from the Crown Estate goes to the Treasury， under the terms of a deal struck in the 18th century ”一句可知答案为C。 【知识模块】 阅读 10 【正确答案】 D 【试题解析】 推理题。摄政街的所有变化都是王室地产公司为了恢复该地区的繁荣而做出决策所引起的
47、，与政府的政策调整无关，所以 D与原文不符，为正确答案 。 【知识模块】 阅读 【知识模块】 阅读 11 【正确答案】 D 【试题解析】 主旨题、根据第一段的描述可知，由于越来越多的观众不理解经典历史剧，本文呼吁人们加强青少年的历史教育等方式加以关注，所以正确答案是D。 A“历史课应该在十六岁被定为必修课 ”、 B”历史课应该在十四岁被定为必修课 ”和 C”人们被一些真正应该知道的东西所欺骗了 ”，都与主旨不符。 【知识模块】 阅读 12 【正确答案】 B 【试题解析】 细节题、从第一段中 “Nicholas Hytne r， director of the National Theatre，
48、 ”可知， Hytner才是国家剧院的导演，而不是 Bennett，所以 B与原文不符，故为答案。 【知识模块】 阅读 13 【正确答案】 A 【试题解析】 推理题。从文章中可以看出在英国学生从 14岁开始就学习历史，但是对于 14岁到 16岁的学生来说，历史不是必修课，这也正是文中 Hytner导演极力要求改变的事实，所以 A是正确答案。 B”十四岁的孩子不学历史 ”、 C”十六岁的学生被要求全面学习 GCSE文学课程 ”、 D”十四岁的学生被要求全面学习 GCSE文学课程 ”均可排除。 【知识模块】 阅读 14 【正确答案】 C 【试题解析】 态度题。从文章倒数第二段第二句 “I did
49、history because I liked doing it so it was never a burden ”可知，他喜欢学习历史，故 C正确。 A”他对此不感兴趣 ”、 B“没有提及 ”和 D”是一种负担 ”都与原文不符。 【知识模块】 阅读 15 【正确答案】 B 【试题解析】 推理题。 Hytner反复抱怨人们受到了欺骗，忽视了许多很值得了解的东西，接着就提出了学校中进行历史教育的问题，因此他认为教育不当使人们忽视了历史，从而使人们无法真正领悟历史剧的魅力，故 B正确。 A、 C和D均不正确。 【知识模块】 阅读 【知识模块】 阅读 16 【正确答案】 D 【试题解析】 细节题。从文章第二段中 “11 years ago my daughter started school in Bedford， a town whose main industry is education” 可知答案为 D。 【知识模块】
