2010年12月英语四六级考试阅读专项练习10.doc

2010年12月英语四六级考试阅读专项练习(10)Many people often enjoy eating out either before or after a visit to the theatre. However, most of us would rather keep the two _11_ separate. One man who thinks that they can be successfully combined has not only expressed his ideas in a recent book, but also set up an establishment where the theory is put very _12_ into practice. The man is Paul Thornton, and the place is the Hollics, an old farmhouse.Whenever I visit a new restaurant, I feel the same excitement that keen theatre-goers must experience on opening night. I had this feeling last Friday evening at dusk, as my wife and I were taking a walk in the beautiful gardens of the restaurant _13_ after we had arrived. Dinner was as excellent as we had been _14_ . There is no menu, for Mr. Thornton creates his meals rather as a director produces a play. Nevertheless, the various combinations of _15_ at each course are always _16_ as if they were done by magic. He and his team of highly skilled helpers serve, cut and cook the food, moving about the stage as confidently as _17_ actors. The meal is as different from what one finds in ordinary restaurants as a _18_ performance of A Midsummer Nights Dream would be from a second-rate television production.May I offer a few words of advice in case you are thinking of paying him a visit. Try not to arrive just after noon, as Mr. Thornton does not serve a normal lunch. His brunch which _19 _ the best _ 20_ of a traditional English breakfast, is served around eleven oclock and is so plentiful that lunch is unnecessary.来源：A. features B. shortly C. potential D. definitelyE. perfect F. promoted G. live H. professional I. charactersJ. promised K. choices L. includes M. pleasures N. vigorously O. substitutions 40 years ago the idea of disabled people doing sport was never heard of. But when the annual games for the disabled were started at Stoke Mandeville, England in 1948 by Sir Ludwig Guttmann, the situation began to change.Sir Ludwig Guttmann, who had been driven to England in 1939 from Nazi Germany, had been asked by the British government to set up an injuries center at Stoke Mandeville Hospital near London. His ideas about treating injuries included sport for the disabled.In the first games just two teams of injured soldiers took part. The next year, 1949, five teams took part. From those beginnings, things have developed fast. Teams now come from abroad to Stoke Mandeville every year. In 1960 the first Olympics for the Disabled were held in Rome, in the same place as the normal Olympic Games. Now, every four years the Olympic Games for the Disabled are held, if possible, in the same place as the normal Olympic Games, although they are organized separately. In other years Games for the Disabled are still held at Stoke Mandeville. In the 1984 wheelchair Olympic Games, 1064 wheelchair athletes from about 40 countries took part. Unfortunately, they were held at Stoke Mandeville and not in Los Angeles, along with the other Olympics.The Games have been a great success in promoting international friendship and understanding, and in proving that being disabled does not mean you cant enjoy sport. One small source of disappointment for those who organize and take part in the games, however, has been the unwillingness of the International Olympic Committee to include disabled events at Olympic Games for the able-bodied. Perhaps a few more years are still needed to convince those fortunate enough not to be disabled that their disabled fellow athletes should not be excluded.21. The first games for the disabled were held_after Sir Ludwig Guttmann arrivedin England.A. 40 years B. 21 yearsC. 10 years D. 9 years22. Besides Stoke Mandeville, surely the games for the disabled were once held in_.A. New York B. LondonC. Rome D. Los Angeles23. In Paragraph 3, the word athletes means_.A. people who support the games B. people who watch the gamesC. people who organize the games D. people who compete in the games24. Which of the following statements is NOT true?A. Sir Ludwig Guttmann is an early organizer of the games for the disabled.B. Sir Ludwig Guttmann is an injured soldier.C. Sir Ludwig Guttmann is from Germany.D. Sir Ludwig Guttmann is welcomed by the British government.25. From the passage, we may conclude that the writer is _.A. one of the organizers of the game for the disabledB. a disabled person who once took part in the gamesC. against holding the games for the disabledD. in favor of holding the games for the disabled It is well known that when an individual joins a group he tends to accept the groups standards of behavior and thinking. Many illustrations (例证) could be given of this from everyday life, but what is of particular interest to psychologists is the extent to which peoples judgments and opinions can be changed as a result of group pressure. Asch and others noticed that people in a group will agree to statements that are contrary to the evidence of their senses. It would be a mistake to think that only particular changeable people are chosen to take part in experiments of this type. Usually highly intelligent and independent people are used.In a typical experiment, this is what may happen. The experimenter asks for volunteers to join a group which is investigating visual perception. The victims are not, therefore, aware of the real purpose of the experiment. Each volunteer is taken to a room where he finds a group of about seven people who are collaborating(合作) with the experimenter. The group is shown a standard card which contains a single line. They are then asked to look at a second card. This has three lines on it. One is obviously longer than the line on the first card, one is shorter and one the same length. They have to say which line on the second card is the same length as the line on the standard card. The other members of the group answer first but what the volunteer does not know is that they have been told to pick one of the wrong lines. When his turn comes he is faced with the unanimous (一致的 ) opinion of the rest of the groupall the others have chosen line A but he quite clearly sees line B as correct. What will he do? According to Asch, more than half of the victims chosen will change their opinion. What is equally surprising is that, when interviewed about their answers, most explained that they know the group choice was incorrect but that they yield to the pressure of the group because they thought they must be suffering from an optical illusion, or because they were afraid of being different.26. The psychologists are particularly interested in_.A. the changes in the attitudes of the peopleB. the degree of changes of peoples opinionsC. the result of the experimentD. the difference in peoples characters27. People who are usually chosen to take part in the experiments are_.A. stubborn and independent B. intelligentC. ignorant and docile D. capable of reasoning28. Which of the following statements is TRUE?A. The experimenter and all the members of the group except the victim know the purpose of the experiment.B. All of them know the purpose of the experiment.C. Only the experimenter knows the purpose of the experiment.D. Only the victim knows the purpose of the experiment.29. More than half of the victims changed their opinion because_.A. someone in the group changed their opinionB. they thought their eyes must be deceivedC. they thought the group choice was correct.D. they had been told about the answer本文来源:考试大网30. The purpose of the author in writing this passage is to_.A. illustrate the influence of the groups pressure on individuals behaviorB. invite more volunteers to join in Aschs experimentC. tell the audience how to perform psychological experimentD. encourage people to act against the groups opinionII. M 12. D 13. B 14. J 15. K 16. E 17. H 18. G 19. L 20. A 21. D 22. C 23. D 24. B 25. D 26. B 27. D 28. C 29. B 30. A2010年12月英语四六级考试阅读专项练习(12)Student expeditions do a great deal of good work on the Arctic islands but from time to time cause trouble in the huts, probably because students are not familiar with the _11_ of the little wooden huts dotted all over the islands of the Spizbergen group.Each hut _12_ has an inner and an outer door, shutters over the windows, a store of wood _13_ up outside, dry chopped wood inside, utensils and cutlery, and above all, a small store of food. All these things must be completely in _14_ whenever the hut is left.It makes no _15_ if it is only the middle of July. That_ 16_ hut may not be visited again before the winter. A door left open can lead either to snow filling up the hut to the ceiling, or _17_ still, wind blowing the roof off. Unfastened shutters leave the windows an easy prey for polar bears _18 _for food and the result is again snow in the hut. The ready-chopped wood is also very important.A traveler visiting the hut in the middle of the dark time and perhaps in bad weather, his feet, hands and face bitten by the frost, will have his difficulties doubled if the wood he left has been used up by others and he had nothing with which to _19 _a fire.Ten or more years ago there were enough hunters to look after most of the huts, but now many buildings have become useless because there is no one to repair them and because of _20_。A. worse B. peculiar C. laid D. lightwww.xamda.CoM考试就到考试大E. generally F. order G. particular H. conventionsI. carelessness J. difference K. built L. fashionsM. searching N. ordinarily O. result I have had just about enough of being treated like a second-class citizen, simply because I happen to be that put-upon member of societya customer. The more I go into shops and hotels, banks and post offices, railway stations, airports and the like, the more Im convinced that things are being run solely to suit the firm, the system, or the union. There seems to be a harmful new motto (格言) for so-called service organizationsStaff Before Service.How often, for example, have you queued for what seems like hours at the Post Office or the supermarket because there werent enough staff on duty to man all the service grilles (栅门) of checkout counters? Surely in these days of high unemployment it must be possible to recruit cashiers and counter staff. Yet supermarkets, hinting darkly at higher prices, claim that enshrouding all their cash registers at any one time would increase overheads. And the Post Office says we cannot expect all their service grilles to be occupied at times when demand is low. Its the same with hotels. Because waiters and kitchen staff must finish when it suits them, dining rooms close earlier or menu choice is curtailed. As for us guests, we just have to put up with it. Theres also the nonsense of so many so friendly hotel night porters having been dismissed in the interests of efficiency (i. e. profits) and replaced by coin guzzling machines. Not to mention the coldness of the tea-making kit in your room: a kettle with an assortment of teabags, plastic milk cartons and lump sugar. Who wants to wake up to a raw teabag? I dont, especially when I am paying for service.21. The writer feels that nowadays a customer is_.A. one who is well served B. unworthy of proper considerationC. classified by society as inferior D. the victim of modern service22. In the writers opinion, the quality of service is changing because_.A. the customers demands have changed采集者退散B. the organizations receive more consideration than the customersC. the customers needs have increasedD. the staff are less considerate than their employers23. According to the writer, long queues at counters are caused by _.A. difficulties in recruiting staff B. inadequate staffing arrangementsC. staff being made lazy D. lack of co-operation between the staff24. Service organizations claim that keeping the checkout counters manned would result inA. a rise in the price for providing servicesB. demands by cashiers for more moneyC. insignificant benefits for the customersD. the need to purchase expensive equipment25. The disappearance of old-style hotel porters can be attributed to the fact that_.A. few people are willing to do this type of workB. machines are more reliable than human beingsC. the personal touch is less appreciated nowadaysD. automation has provided cheaper alternativesBack in the old days, when I was a child, we sat around the family roundtable at dinnertime and exchanged our daily experiences. It wasnt very organized, but everyone was recognized and all the news that had to be told was told by each family member.We listened to each other and the interest was not put-on; it was real. Our family was a unit and we supported each other, and nurtured each other, and liked each other, andwe were even willing to admitwe loved each other.Today, the family roundtable has moved to the local fast-food restaurant and talk is not easy, much less encouraged. Grandma, who used to live upstairs, is now. the voice on long distance, and the working parent is far too beaten down each day to spend evening relaxation time listening to the sandbox experience of an eager four-year-old.So family conversation is as extinct as my old toys and parental questions such as What have you been doing, Bobby? have been replaced by Im busy, go watch television. And watch TV they do; count them by the millions.But its usually not childrens television that children watch. Saturday morning, the childrens hour, amounts to only about 8 percent of their weekly viewing.Where are they to be found? Watching adult television, of course, from the Match Game in the morning, to the afternoon at General Hospital, from the muggings and battles on the evening news right through the family hour and past into Starsky and Hutch. Thats where you find our kids, over five million of them, at 10 p. m. , not fewer than a million until after midnight! All of this is done with parental permission.Television, used well, can provide enriching experiences for our young people, but we must use it with some sense. When the carpet is clean, we turn off the vacuum cleaner. When the dishes are clean, the dishwasher turns itself off.Not so the television, which is on from the sun in the morning to the moon at night and beyond!Parents must exercise some control and show some concern about the cultural influence on the child when a program not intended for that child is viewed. Parents need to intervene (干涉). Nonintervention may be a wise policy in international affairs, but the results of parental nonintervention will not be wise at all.26. From the first two paragraphs one may infer that the writers a attitude towards the old days is_.A. preferring B. hatingC. being tired of D. disappointing27. The working parent is not willing to listen to her (his) four-year-old child talking about his sandbox games because she (he) is_.A. boring B. very tiredC. busy D. angry28. According to the writer, the responsibility for the kids watching adult television and watching it for a long time should be undertaken by_.A. the television stations B. the societyC. TV programs D. their parents29. If we use television with some _television can provide our young people withmuch knowledge.A. instruction of experts B. judgment of our ownC. direction of engineers D. indication of teachers30. What is the main idea of the last paragraph?A. Parental nonintervention will not be praised.本文来源:考试大网B. Nonintervention may be a good policy in international affairs.C. Parents must exercise some control and show some concern about the cultural influence on the children.D. Parents need to intervene.11. H 12. E 13. C 14. F 15. J 16. G 17. A 18. M 19. D 20. I21. D 22. B 23. B 24. A 25. D 26. A 27. B 28. D 29. B 30. C2010年12月英语四六级考试阅读专项练习(14)Most of us trade money for entertainment. Movies, concerts and shows are enjoyable but _11_ .If you think that you cant have a good time without spending a lot of money, read on. A little resourcefulness and a few minutes of newspaper-scanning should give you some pleasant surprises.People may be the most interesting show in a large city. _12_ through busy streets and see what everybody else is doing. You will probably see people from all over the world; you will _13_ see people of every age, size, and shape, and youll get a free fashion show, too. Window-shopping is also a _14_ sport if the stores are closed.考试大论坛Check the listings in your neighborhood paper. Local colleges or schools often_ 15_ the public to hear an interesting speaker or a good _16 _. The film or concert series at the local public library probably wont cost you a penny. Be sure to check commercial advertisements too. A flea market can provide hours of pleasant looking round. Perhaps you can find a free cooking or crafts _17_ in a department store.Plan ahead for some activities. It is always more pleasant not to have people in front of you in a museum or at a zoo. You may save some money, too, since these places often _18 _aside one or two free _19_ days at slow times during the week. Make sure that you are including the indispensable _20_ that people travel miles to see. If you feel like taking an interesting walk, find a free walking tour, or plan one yourself.A. expensive B. Wonder C.debate D. admissionE. set F. Wander G.safe H. additionI. valuable J. dispute K.welcome L. confidentlyM. sights N. demonst