1、专业英语四级（阅读）模拟试卷 122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)One August afternoon, Peaches gave birth to 14
2、puppies. The kids were thrilled. But it crossed my mind once or twice that I had no idea how wed find good homes for so many adorable mutts. (2)The father was a purebred golden retriever(寻回猎犬 ). And not until now had I wondered why Roberta, who gave Peaches to us, had named her in the plural. Peache
3、s didnt resemble a peach, either. She was jet black with long retriever hair, an agreeable blend of many breeds. But she was indeed a peach, although once when her round pups were lined against her tummy, we affectionately called her “Pea Pod,“ and that name pretty much stuck. (3)The kids and I had
4、a blast with the pups, but as our cuddly friends grew, the cleanup job on the backyard lawn increased as well. I usually ended up with the chore after the kids had left for school in the morning, and after eight weeks the job was getting old. Besides, the time had come to start to get them settled i
5、nto permanent homes. (4)So one weekend the kids and I piled into the van, puppies in the rear, playfully biting each others ears and tails, and we headed for the local humane society. But in northern California at that time, shelters were full of animals, and if they werent adopted quickly they were
6、 put to sleep. I tried stifling that bit of information, but it wouldnt stay submerged; I cried the whole way. (5)When we arrived at the shelter, I dried my tears and smoothed my puffy eyes. I walked alone up to the counter and cheerfully announced I had 14 wonderful puppies for them. The woman, wit
7、hout looking up from her paperwork, roared, “We dont take puppies.“ I cried all the way home, this time with tears of relief. (6)So I placed an ad for “free puppies“ in the newspaper. I dont think we got a single phone call. In the meantime, the kids and pups grew more inseparable. Only Happy and Ca
8、llie, our two cats, were allowed to spend the nights inside, but from the giggling and the look of the blankets in the morning, some pups had been overlooked at bedtime. (7)The gate on our backyard fence opened onto the elementary schools grass field. Every afternoon, scores of kids arrived to play
9、soccer. The children loved it when their games were over, for then I would open the floodgate, releasing 14 roly-poly, tail-wagging puppies for them to play with. Surely a parent wouldnt mind taking one or two home? The parents loved the pups, too; but their disciplined ability to decline our offeri
10、ng amazed me. (8)Certainly the divine plan could not have been for us to keep all 14 puppies, even if they had been given perfect names. (9)I desperately searched the heavens for a solution. The odd idea came to put another ad in the paper, this time asking $10 for each puppy. It worked. (10)Placing
11、 a value on the mutts somehow had an effect. I made a deal with the kids: If they would prepare the puppy food and clean up the yard every day until all the puppies had homes, I would give them each, in turn, $10 for every pup sold. When he was about 11 weeks old, the last puppy Boots, with four whi
12、te socks had gone. It was a sad day; the yard was much too quiet. So Saturday morning I had the kids get their money jars out They proudly carried their savings as I drove them to their favorite place the toy store. (11)The dog pound might have seemed easier. But I liked this ending much better. 1 A
13、s it is mentioned in the passage, “Peaches“ _. （ A） was the name of a purebred golden retriever （ B） included a group of new-born puppies （ C） got her name for an unknown reason （ D） was one of the two dogs the author had 2 By saying “The kids and I had a blast with the pups“, the author means that
14、_. （ A） the pups were a burden to the family （ B） the pups kept the family occupied （ C） the family quarreled over how to deal with the pups （ D） the family was delighted with the birth of the pups 3 What happened when some pups were overlooked at bedtime? （ A） They would spend the night in the hous
15、e. （ B） They would be separated from the kids. （ C） They would fight with the two cats. （ D） They would mess up the blankets. 3 (1)The use of nitrous oxide, or laughing gas during childbirth fell out of favor in the United States decades ago, and just two hospitals one in San Francisco and one in Se
16、attle still offer it. But interest in returning the dentist office staple to the delivery room is growing: respected hospitals including Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center plan to start offering it, the federal government is reviewing it, and after a long break, the equipment needed to administer it
17、 is expected to hit the market soon. (2)Lori Rowell, due to give birth to her second child in June, is interested in the option. (3)“I would definitely think about it, and read about and talk to my doctor about it,“ said Rowell, 36, of Concord. “It is nice to know that it doesnt affect the baby.“ (4
18、)Though laughing gas is commonly used for labor pain relief in Canada, Great Britain and other countries, its been all but abandoned in the United States in favor of other options, said Judith Bishop, a certified nurse midwife at the University of California San Francisco Medical Center and leader i
19、n the effort to reintroduce laughing gas for labor. (5)“In this country, most people when they hear about laughing gas, they think it sounds pretty retro(重新流行的 ), that it sounds very old-fashioned and theyre sure theres something bad or dangerous about it and we mustve chosen to eliminate it. But I
20、think we eliminated it because we went for the more specialized, higher-tech options,“ said Bishop, who will be among the speakers Monday at a conference for New Hampshire, Vermont and Maine hospital officials. (6)She and other advocates of reintroducing laughing gas emphasize that it is no silver b
21、ullet it “takes the edge off“ pain rather than eliminates it. But they say it should be among the options offered to women, particularly those who give birth at small or rural hospitals that lack round-the-clock anesthesiologists(麻醉师 ). Laughing gas is easy for women to self-administer, takes effect
22、 quickly, and can be used late in labor. (7)“Its not right for everybody, but its something that for many women will offer a certain amount of relief,“ Bishop said. (8)Michelle Collins, a certified nurse midwife and assistant nursing professor in Tennessee, previously worked as a nurse in London and
23、 saw how widely and well nitrous oxide was used there. She has been working with an anesthesiologist to bring nitrous oxide for laboring women at Vanderbilt University Medical Center and said she expects it to become available later this year. (9)Early Wednesday morning, she delivered a baby to a wo
24、man she said would have been a perfect candidate for nitrous oxide: the mother arrived at the hospital at midnight and gave birth about three hours later. (10)“There was a period of time just before birth when she was starting to lose it. Nitrous wouldve been awesome for her: just a few puffs to get
25、 her over that hump,“ she said. (11)Vanderbilt has purchased second-hand equipment to deliver nitrous oxide, but Dartmouth-Hitchcock and others are hoping to buy new equipment that is expected to become available in April. After obstetric demand for nitrous oxide dropped, the one company that made t
26、he equipment stopped. But a new company has stepped into that gap and has begun taking orders. (12)At Dartmouth-Hitchcock, where officials plan to order two machines, nurse midwife Suzanne Serat estimated that 10-20 percent of her patients might try nitrous oxide. (13)“We have a number of people who
27、 dont want to feel the pain of labor, and nitrous oxide would not be a good option for them. They really need an epidural, and thats perfect for them,“ she said. “Then we have a number of people who are going to wait and see what happens, and when theyre in labor, decide theyd like something and the
28、n the only option for them is an epidural but they dont need something that strong. So they would choose to use something in the middle, but we just dont have anything in the middle.“ (14)The hospital hopes to begin offering nitrous oxide for labor by summer. In the meantime, the federal Agency for
29、Healthcare Research and Quality is reviewing the effectiveness and safety of nitrous oxide compared to other pain relief methods. 4 Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center is going to _. （ A） reintroduce nitrous oxide to the dentist office （ B） remove nitrous oxide from the dentist office to the delivery
30、 room （ C） apply nitrous oxide in the delivery room （ D） limit the use of nitrous oxide in the dentist office 5 According to Judith Bishop, laughing gas was abandoned in the United States mainly because other options are _. （ A） less dangerous （ B） more effective （ C） less disputable （ D） more advan
31、ced 6 By saying that “it is no silver bullet“(Para. 6), Judith Bishop means that_. （ A） laughing gas cannot eliminate pain （ B） laughing gas cannot relieve much pain （ C） laughing gas is not as dangerous as most people imagine （ D） laughing gas is not as expensive as other options 7 As it is suggest
32、ed in the passage, laughing gas can NOT be used properly _. （ A） without a professional anesthesiologist （ B） without the administering equipment （ C） by women in difficult labor （ D） by women giving birth at home 7 (1)Scottish customs and traditions cover a very wide range of topics. Everything fro
33、m kilts to golf, bagpipes to whisky, Celtic crosses to Protestant missionary work, the “second sight“ to Nessie. (2)The history of the bagpipes takes us a long way back from today and far away from Scotland. Everyone thinks about Scotland when they hear the word “bagpipe“, but this instrument is so
34、old that true age and origin are unknown. In some historical documents it is written that the pipes were first played somewhere around Asia Minor in 1000 BC. Also, it is said, by some, that “Emperor Nero played the Pipes not the fiddle, while Rome burned.“ Some “form“ of bagpipes are used in many Eu
35、ropean countries but in Scotland they have become an integral part of the countrys culture. Scotland is the ancestral home of the “Great Highland Bagpipes“ known to all as the “Great Pipes“. (3)A Pipe band is one thing that every visitor of Scotland wants to see. These are groups of men(in modern ti
36、mes it can be both men and women); each group has matching skirts, fancy jackets and strange little hats. They march around squeezing the air out of big tartan bags(known as bagpipes)and blowing it in again through a pipe attached to the bag. This results in a racket known as “the skirl o the pipes“
37、 which is almost indistinguishable from the noise made by the haggis during the mating season. These pipe bands often turn out to be Australians, not Scots at all! (4)The tartan kilt has long been the most recognizable cultural tradition of the Highland Scots, but just like the other symbols, kilts
38、have also an unknown origin. One sure fact is that the wearing of the kilt has been developed in the 19th century during the reign of Queen Victoria. It had been created for some rational reasons: men who wore it could make very quick moves, wade through rivers and shelter in huts, woods and rocks,
39、etc. (5)There is a question which will always linger next to the word “kilt“ and that is: Do people who wear kilts have underwear or not? Even though there are lots of people who consider this immoral, the tradition says that underwear should not be present if one is dressed in a kilt, the only exce
40、ption being the participation to some sportive games and the presence of women. In the 50 s, soldiers were verified if they wore underwear by their sergeants who used a long stick that had in the top a mirror. (6)Other two reasons for which Scotland is famous are its traditional food and of course,
41、whisky. No one could argue that traditional Scottish cooking has produced one of the great cuisines of the world. The quality of the ingredients has always been excellent: the worlds finest seafood including shellfish, lobster and crabs, and varieties of fish too numerous to mention; succulent lamb
42、and beef; soft fruit including raspberries, strawberries and blackberries and a host of locally produced types of cheese, including cheddar from Ayrshire and Galloway. The national dish is the haggis, a type of food that combines mutton with other ingredients and which is served with turnip and pota
43、toes. (7)Whisky has been produced in Scotland for hundreds of years. It is well known that the Irish created this alcoholic drink, but the Scots were the ones who brought it to the form that we drink today. Whisky refers to a broad category of alcoholic beverages that are distilled from grains and a
44、ged in oak casks. The name means water of life. 8 Emperor Nero was mentioned to illustrate_. （ A） the legendary origin of bagpipes （ B） the relation between bagpipes and Minor Asia （ C） the higher importance of bagpipes over fiddles （ D） the cultural significance of bagpipes 9 Which of the following
45、 descriptions is suitable for the bagpipe performance? （ A） Bagpipe bands used to consist of male Australians only. （ B） Bagpipes are played to imitate the noise of mating haggis. （ C） Bagpipe bands must dress in specific performance costumes. （ D） Bagpipes are too heavy to carry around during the p
46、erformance. 10 A lot of people consider it “immoral“ to _. （ A） ask whether people who wear kilts have underwear （ B） wear a kilt without having underwear （ C） have underwear when wearing a kilt （ D） set up such a privacy-violating rule of kilt-wearing 二、 SECTION B In this section there are five sho
47、rt answer questions based on the passages in Section A. Answer the questions with No more than TEN words in the space provided. 10 PASSAGE ONE 11 Why did the author cry on the way home to the local humane society? 12 How many times had the author failed before she was able to send away all the pups?
48、 13 PASSAGE TWO 13 What is the advantage of laughing gas over other more advanced options? 13 PASSAGE THREE 14 What are Ayrshire and Galloway most probably famous for? 15 Why did the author choose to only introduce bagpipes, kilts, food and whisky instead of other Scottish customs and traditions? 专业
49、英语四级（阅读）模拟试卷 122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. 【知识模块】 阅读 1 【正确答案】 C 【试题解析】 第 2段第 2句提到 “现在我很纳闷为什么 Roberta给狗起名要用Peach的复数形式 ”，可见作者本人也并不明白，全文都没有给出原因，因此本题应选 C。由全文首句可知 Peaches是生了 14只小狗，故 B中的 includes错误： A所述是那 14只小狗的 “父亲 ”，故排除；作者只养了 Peaches一只狗， D错误。 【知识模块】 阅读 2 【正确答案】 D 【试题解析】 第 3段第 1句中 but后的内容表明随着小狗长大，后院的清扫工作也
