1、专业英语四级（阅读）模拟试卷 129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)A small success at last in my battle to hold ba
2、ck the tide of mice flooding my kitchen for months, crapping and snacking, even though, I promise you, every surface is tidily cleaned night and day, and not the smallest crumb of food left anywhere, ever, except in the humane trap, which has been packed with chocolate cake, peanut butter and cheese
3、 for ages, but ignored until last Tuesday, when guess what? I wake up and find three mice all in it together. Three! (2)This is physically impossible. The trap is meant to snap closed after each mouse. They must have rushed together, holding paws. And they were extra small. Probably babies. Somewher
4、e, in a deserted nest in my house, a mother mouse is bereft and weeping. But I have to toughen up about this mouse business. Even if they do have little ears and noses, I cant let them play and wee(撒尿 )all over the breadboard. (3)Luckily, I had a plan in place in case the trap ever caught any mice.
5、I had a small animal travelling box ready for them, with a cotton-wool bed, sesame seed snack and water. So I tipped them into it and drove them to a distant park. I darent say where. I hoped theyd stick together for support, but they all ran away in different directions. Its just one worry after an
6、other. (4)“Dont be so serious,“ said Fielding indifferently. “Get a cat. Itll chew them up in no time.“ What a heartless pig. Unlike my friend Elisa, who rang late that night in a panic. She had just seen a little mouse in distress, racing wildly about the Jubilee line platform, all alone, unable to
7、 get down to the rails, where its friends lived, because of those silly new barriers at the platform edge. I managed to calm her by pointing out that mice usually do go out alone, and three together was almost unheard of. Until my trap. (5)So this is another cautionary tale. Never allow your child t
8、o keep pet rodents(啮齿动物 ), as Elisa and I did. It only leads to emotional confusion in later life. 1 Mice have been flooding the authors kitchen _. （ A） because the kitchen is dirty and untidy （ B） because there are crumbs of food in the kitchen （ C） because of a reason that is not discussed in the
9、passage （ D） because of the chocolate cake, peanut butter and cheese 2 The authors friend Elisa was “in a panic“ because _. （ A） she was worried about a mouse in trouble （ B） she had never seen so many mice before （ C） she was afraid of mice （ D） she lost her pet mouse 2 (1)The 21st century ushered
10、in what was supposed to be paperless living. The data of our lives was to be recorded in digital clouds. We were told to click the option for paperless statements, unsubscribe to unwanted catalogues and keep a shredder(碎纸机 )nearby at all times. (2)So how are we doing? “We have a bigger need for pape
11、r management than before because we have more access to information than ever before,“ says Chris Plantan, creative director for Russell & Hazel, maker of stylish office accessories. Plantan says there are lots of files and lots of piles out there. (3)For many, organizing papers is another chore tha
12、t inspires delay. You dont need to be a regular viewer of the A&E cable program “Hoarders“ to know that many of us hide our papers in shopping bags instead of filing cabinets. Filing doesnt make it onto the to-do lists of many over-scheduled people these days. (4)“It ranks at the bottom of the list,
13、 along with having a tooth pulled,“ says Melissa Sorensen, a professional organizer based in Woodbridge. She says paper management is one of her toughest assignments. “People are restricted by fear, worried about what will happen if they throw something out,“ Sorensen says. “Eighty-five percent of t
14、he things you file, you never retrieve again.“ (5)Those who do have files often suffer from another issue: figuring out where they put stuff. “I ask people, If you even have it, will you be able to find it?“ says Susan Kousek, a Reston-based professional organizer. (6)Holly Bohn founded See Jane Wor
15、k, an online source for creative office products, to make the task of staying organized a bit more fun. “Despite technological advances, paper management is a problem because we are exposed to paper,“ Bohn says. “Our lives are so busy and complex that we cant make decisions.“ She believes each perso
16、n has to create her own system to accommodate both boring paperwork and sentimental mementos. Her products, geared toward multi-tasking women, offer a bit of glamour. (7)Solutions dont have to start with a clumsy metal filing cabinet. Some people are stackers and save things in fabric-covered stacka
17、ble boxes. Kevin Sharkey, executive editorial director of Martha Stewart Living magazine, keeps decorating information in clear sleeves in color-coded binders. Plantan uses colorful plastic trays to compartmentalize and organize travel information, greeting cards and bills. (8)Bohns advice is to mak
18、e your system flexible. Because many people dont have a dedicated home office, files should be portable to carry from dining room table to bedroom. Will virtual living eventually mean the death of filing? “People who have cookbooks still like to pull out recipes and save them,“ says Kim Oser, a Gait
19、hersburg professional organizer, “just like people who love their GPS still like looking at a map.“ (9)Will virtual living eventually mean the death of filing? “People who have cookbooks still like to pull out recipes and save them,“ says Kim Oser, a Gaithersburg professional organizer, “just like p
20、eople who love their GPS still like looking at a map.“ (10)“In our lifetime, we will still have paper and still have filing,“ Oser adds. “One hundred years from now? Who knows.“ 3 Chris Plantan most probably agrees that _. （ A） paperless living will never be realized （ B） paperless living will be re
21、alized soon （ C） reality is running counter to paperless living （ D） reality proves the necessity of paperless living 4 The program “Hoarders“ is cited in Paragraph Three to illustrate that _. （ A） people often leave their papers disorganized （ B） paperless living is advocated by many people （ C） pe
22、ople cannot live without paper （ D） many people are good at filing papers 5 Melissa Sorensen is most likely to hold that most of the files _. （ A） should be put orderly in the cabinets （ B） should be thrown out （ C） can never be found in the future （ D） should be kept for later use 5 (1)“Earn $4,000
23、 a month at home,“ boasts the e-mail in my mailbox. Others promise a cure for heart disease, get-rich-quick investments or free travel. All these scams require consumers to send money. Scammers use commercially available software to “harvest“ thousands of e-mail addresses from information on web-sit
24、e records or from people signing up for on-line contests. Their sole purpose is to generate e-mail lists that are often sold to other scammers and immoral marketers. “Victims of these scams are most often those who can least afford it,“ says Laforge. (2)When her mother became ill, Linda Russell, 58,
25、 found it hard to make ends meet. The teacher from Tennessee was a good typist and searched Internet sites offering assistance in finding work-at-home employment. She found Friends From Home, an Ontario company. For a $40 fee, they promised her clerk work. She sent the check, which was cashed. When
26、she heard nothing further, she e-mailed the company half a dozen times without response. (3)“Work-at-home schemes are among the most common frauds we see,“ says an official of the Better Business Bureau. “Be suspicious of offers of $4 for stuffing an envelope. They just dont make sense.“ (4)Pyramid
27、schemes, chain letters and false diplomas are other classic scams that have moved from telephones and later fax machines to the Internet. (5)Travel scams are an old way of cheating now showing up on the Net. The assistant director of consumer affairs with the American Society of Travel Agents says:
28、“Avoid paying a company for travel that wont be ticketed or take place for 12 to 18 months. When it comes time to get your tickets, the dates you want are often not available, restrictions may make it more expensive or the company has disappeared.“ (6)Another costly fraud is the telephone scam. An e
29、-mail congratulates you on winning a prize, or offers urgent information about a family member and asks you to call a phone number for details. As they call the number and are put on hold, the victims are unaware that their call charges are up to $25 a minute. Often, charges of hundreds of dollars a
30、ppear on next months phone bill. (7)Beware too of on-line games of chance. “Type lotteries into a search engine if you want to see how many such scams are out on the Internet,“ says Gordon Board, corporate security investigator at the B.C. Lottery Corporation. “People buy tickets on their credit car
31、ds at these false sites, but there is no prize money.“ (8)Never call a 900 number its not a free call to collect a prize. And never send bank information for the deposit of “winnings“ into your account. (9)Rule No. 1 for avoiding scams on-line: If it sounds too good to be true, it usually is. 6 Acco
32、rding to Laforge, the victims are usually people who can NOT afford to _. （ A） send money to the scammers （ B） buy the commercially available software （ C） sign up for on-line contests （ D） generate e-mail lists 7 What is true about the work-at-home schemes? （ A） They are one of the most profitable
33、scams. （ B） They turned to Internet users only recently. （ C） They were firstly carried out through telephone. （ D） They are usually highly-paid but undemanding. 7 (1)While the mission of public schools has expanded beyond education to include social support and extra-curricular activities, the acad
34、emic schedule has changed little in more than a century. (2)Reclaiming the school day for academic instruction and escaping the time-bound traditions of education are vital steps in the school-reform process, says a report released today by the National Education Commission on Time and Learning. (3)
35、The commissions report, titled “Prisoners of Time,“ calls the fixed clock and calendar in American education a “fundamental design flaw“ in desperate need of change. “Time should serve children instead of children serving time,“ the report says. (4)The two-year commission found that holding American
36、 students to “world-class standards,“ will require more time for classroom instruction. “We have been asking the impossible of our students that they learn as much as their foreign peers while spending half as much as in core academic subjects,“ it states. (5)The Commission compared the relationship
37、s between time and learning in Japan, Germany, and the linked States and found that American students receive less than half the basic academic instruction that Japanese and German students are provided. On average, American students can earn a high school diploma if they spend only 41 percent of th
38、eir school time on academics, says the report. (6)American students spend an average of three hours a day on “core“ academics such as English, math, science, and history, the commission found. Their report recommends offering a minimum of 5.5 hours of academics every school day. (7)The nine-member c
39、ommission also recommends lengthening the school day beyond the traditional six hours. (8)“If schools want to continue offering important activities outside the academic core, as well as serving as a hub for family and community services, they should keep school doors open longer each day and each y
40、ear,“ says John Hodge Jones, superintendent of schools in Murfreesboro, Tenn., and chairman of the commission. (9)The typical school year in American public schools is 180 days. Eleven states allow school years of 175 days or less, and only one state requires more than 180 day. (10)“For over a decad
41、e, education reform advocates have been working feverishly to improve our schools,“ says Milton Goldberg, executive director of the commission. “But. if reform is to truly take hold, the six-hour, 180-day school year should be relegated to museums an exhibit from our education past.“ 8 Compared with
42、 the academic courses more than a hundred years ago, the academic courses now_. （ A） include some extra-curricular activities （ B） focus more on education of social support （ C） demand students more contribution of time （ D） remain more or less what they used to be 9 The researches by the commission
43、 mentioned in the passage are most concerned about _. （ A） the time attributed to academic learning （ B） the components of school education （ C） the changes in education in the recent century （ D） the fashion of education management 10 American students differ from those in Japan, Germany in that _.
44、 （ A） they stay at school for a shorter time every day （ B） they do not learn as much as their counterparts abroad （ C） they devote less time to academic learning （ D） they earn a high school diploma more easily 二、 SECTION B In this section there are five short answer questions based on the passages
45、 in Section A. Answer the questions with No more than TEN words in the space provided. 11 PASSAGE ONE 11 What does “bereft“(Para. 2)mean in the context? 11 PASSAGE TWO 12 Whose opinion in the passage is most similar to Kim Osers? 13 What can serve as the best title for the passage? 14 PASSAGE THREE
46、14 What does the passage mainly talk about? 15 PASSAGE FOUR 15 What should America do with the “six-hour, 180-day school year“ practice, according to what Milton Goldberg says? 专业英语四级（阅读）模拟试卷 129答案与解析 一、 SECTION A In this section there are several passages followed by ten multiple-choice questions.
47、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】 文章从头到尾都没有提到为什么作者的厨房老鼠泛滥，故应选 C。A与第 1段中的 every surface is tidily cleaned的内容相反； B与其后的 not the smallest crumb of food left anywhere相反； D提到的是作者放在老鼠夹上诱捕老鼠
48、的食物，但老鼠对这些食物视而不见，可见， D也不可能是导致厨房老鼠泛滥的原因。 【知识模块】 阅读 2 【正确答案】 A 【试题解析】 第 4段提到了作者的两个朋友： Fielding和 Elisa。其中 Fielding表示应将老鼠杀死，而 Elisa则相反，该段接下来的内容表明 Elisa为在站台上迷路的小老鼠感到担心。明白了这一段的内容，就容易选出正确答案 A 【知识模块】 阅读 【知识模块】 阅读 3 【正确答案】 C 【试题解析】 第 2段第 2句中的 need for paper management和第 2段最后一句都表明现在的生活使人必须花更多的精力对纸质 文件进行管理，可见现
49、在并不是paperless living，因此，本题应选 C。在第 2段中， ChrisPlantan并没有对未来是否可以实现 paperless living作出评价，因此 A和 B都没有依据； D与原文相悖。 【知识模块】 阅读 4 【正确答案】 A 【试题解析】 第 3段第 2句中的 “你并不需要定期观看 Hoarders这个节目，也会知道 ”(You dont need to beto know that) 表明 know that后的内容就是这个例子想要说明的问题，该句表明大多数人 并不会把文件整理好，并放在规范的档案柜里，而是随意处理， A与此同义，故为答案。该段没有再提到 paperless living这一话题， papers filing(文件归档 )是该段的重点，在三个干扰项中，只有 D提到了 filing，但该项内容与原文相反。 【知识模块】 阅读 5 【正确答案】 B 【试题解析】 第 4段最后一句中的 you never retrieve again意为 “你不会再查看 ”，上一句她说 “人们总是不愿意扔掉一些东西，担心以后还有用 ”，表明Meliss
