1、大学英语四级（阅读）模拟试卷 26及答案与解析 Section B Directions: There are 2 passages in this section. Each passage is followed by some questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. You should decide on the best choice. 0 Over a hundred years ago, Charles Dickens sho
2、cked many of his readers when he described the conditions under which young children worked in British factories. The conditions Dickens described continue almost【 1】 today in many parts of the world. The only difference is that today【 2】 of children is limited to small industries and family busines
3、ses, such as hotels, restaurants and 【 3】 farms, rather than to large factories. Girls【 4】 more from child labor practices man 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】
4、, 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【 7】 . Sometimes a whole family group is employed, with the【 8】 going to a parent or older relative. The children not onl
5、y 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 of work. The【 9】 to the problem of child labor is clearly better laws to protect young children, greater supervisio
6、n 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【 10】 time of their liveschildren. A. elsewhere B. employment C. dissolved D. light E. recently F. solution G. unchanged H. suffer I. conditions J. perspective K. impat
7、ient L. valuable M. particularly N. proceed O. payment 1 【 1】 2 【 2】 3 【 3】 4 【 4】 5 【 5】 6 【 6】 7 【 7】 8 【 8】 9 【 9】 10 【 10】 10 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 an
8、d bruised but【 1】 nothing serious resulted. It turned out that she has slipped on some ice-cream which had been【 2】 on the floor. Two weeks later she wrote to the firm to【 3】 compensation (赔偿 ) to make up for the pain and【 4】 she had suffered. She asserted that they had been negligent (忽视的 ) and car
9、eless in not keeping the floor clean. The firm denied that they had been negligent and 【 5】 that 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. S
10、ince Mrs. Ward felt that she was【 6】 to 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
11、 the icecream 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【 8】 against 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
12、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. It was up to the firm, he said, to provide【 9】 , if they could, that the accident did not【 10】 from any negligence on their part. They would obvio
13、usly 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 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. i
14、nconvenience G. derive H. maintained I. entitled J. arise K. follow L. unexpectedly M. determine N. fortunately O. credited 11 【 1】 12 【 2】 13 【 3】 14 【 4】 15 【 5】 16 【 6】 17 【 7】 18 【 8】 19 【 9】 20 【 10】 20 Last years economy in the United States should have won the Oscar for best picture. Growth i
15、n gross domestic product was 4.1 percent profits【 1】 up exports flourished and inflation (通货膨胀 ) stayed around 3 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
16、) 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【 3】 higher sales and profits, corporations acted as if they were operating at a【 4】 , cutting 516,069 jobs in 1994 alone, al
17、most as many as in the bad year of 1991. Yes, unemployment went down. But over 1 million workers were so【 5】 they left the labor force. More than 6 million who wanted full time work were only partially【 6】 and another large group was sheltered behind self-employment. We lost a million good manufactu
18、ring jobs between 1990 and 1995, continuing the【 7】 that has reduced the blue-collar work force from about 30 percent in the 1950s to 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【 9】 equal to those for blue-c
19、ollar workers. Many turn to【 10】 workwith 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. performed D. temporary E. permanent F. virtually G. technical H. employed I. exposure J. originally K. so
20、ared L. significance M. secure N. discouraged O. loss 21 【 1】 22 【 2】 23 【 3】 24 【 4】 25 【 5】 26 【 6】 27 【 7】 28 【 8】 29 【 9】 30 【 10】 30 They call them the new bread earners. They are women, and they are set to take over. Women are beginning to rise【 1】 to the top in the workplace all over the deve
21、loped world. New figures show that in almost a third of American【 2】 with a working wife, the woman brings home more money than her husband and that they now occupy half the countrys “high-paying, executive, administrative and【 3】 occupations“, compared with 34 per cent 20 years ago. The trend is【 4
22、】 by two main factors, experts saya【 5】 acceptance of men as househusbands and mass unemployment of male white-collar workers from the technology, finance and media industries in the last three years. The University of Maryland has【 6】 a report that shows women to be the chief earner in 11 per cent
23、of all US marriages. Pushing a buggy (婴儿车 ) on a sunny afternoon in New Yorks Central Park last week, Jonathan Blinderman, 33, said, he was【 7】 he had been able to see every moment of his daughter Lindsays first six months of life while his wife, Sage, was out working. It is a sign of these times of
24、【 8】 that when he mentions his status at parties he is either praised as a saint or【 9】 as a slave-cum-freeloader (爱占便宜的奴隶 ). For the revolution is nowhere near complete. But Maria Cancian, an economist at the University of Wisconsin, said【 10】 women were increasingly looking for househusbands. A. caused B. proud C. carelessly D. mocked E. produced F. managerial G. greedy H. precaution I. argued J. transition K. ambitious L. tackled M. growing N. steadily O. households 31 【 1】 32 【 2】 33 【 3】 34 【 4】 35 【 5】 36 【 6】 37 【 7】 38 【 8】 39 【 9】 40 【 10】 大学英语四级（阅读）模拟试卷 26答案与解析
