英语四六级阅读训练试卷及详解 - (B-13)

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I’ve been writing for most of my life. The book Writing without Teachers introduced me to one distinction and one practice that has helped my writing processes tremendously. The distinction is between the creative mind and the critical mind. While you need to employ both to get to a finished result, they cannot work in parallel no matter how much we might like to think so?..

When the author says the creative mind and the critical mind “cannot work in parallel” in the writing process, he means _______ A. no one can be both creative and critical B. they cannot be regarded as equally important C. they are in constant conflict with each other. D. one cannot use them at the same time 正确答案：D

作者说 creative thinking和critical thinking两个阶段，可以推断they cannot work in parallel..指的是两个阶段是有先后次序的，不可能同时进行。所以选D。

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??As diners shirst for leading brands, bottlers and restaurateurs salivate over the profits. A restaurant’s typical mark-up on wine is 100 to 150 percent, whereas on bottled water it’s often 300 to 500 percent. But since water is much cheaper than wine, and many of the fancier brands aren’t available in stores, most dinner don’t notice or care??

Q: The “fancier brands” refers to____ A tap water from the Thames River.

B famous wines not sold in ordinary stores. C PepsiCo’s Aquafina and Coca-Cola’s Dasani D expensive bottled water with impressive names 选D。

第一句提到，卖leading brands瓶装水能赚取巨额利润;第二句提到了饭店里面的瓶装水价格高;第三句中又提到许多fancier bands不在商店销售，消费者较少见到。可以推知，fancier brands的价格昂贵，fancier与impressive同义，D正确。

练习：

Unfortunately, in the past, many reading improvement courses have

concentrated too much on how our eyes move across the printed page. As a result of this misleading emphasis on the purely visual aspects of reading, numerous exercises have been devised to train the eyes to see more words at one fixation. For instance, in some exercises, words are flashed on to a screen for, say, a tenth or a twentieth of a second. One of the exercises has required students to fix their eyes on some central point, taking in the words on either side. Such word patterns are often constructed in the shape of rather steep pyramids so the reader takes in more and more words at each successive fixation. All these exercises are very

..The reality that has blocked my path to become the typical successful students is that engineering and the liberal arts simply don’t mix as easily as I assumed in high school. Individually they shape a person in very different ways; together they threaten to confuse. The struggle to reconcile the two fields of study is difficult?

Q:The word “they” refers to _____. A. practicality and rationality B. engineering and the liberal arts C. reality and noble ideals D. flexibility and a value system 答案 选B

they指至少两个以上的人或事物。寻找前面句中存在的某两个或以上的人或事物。由前一句中的mix可知，句中的engineering和the liberal arts是两个不同的科目。所以they指代的就是B。

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As we heve seen, the focus of medical care in our society has been shifting frome curing desease to preventing disease — especially in terms of changing our many unhealthy behaviors, such as poor eating habits, smoking, and failure to exercise. The line of thought involved in this shift can be pursued further. Imagine a person who is about the right weight, but does not eat very nutritious foods, who feels OK but exercises only occasionally, who goes to work every day, but is not an outstanding worker, who drinks a few beers at home most nights but does not drive while drunk, and who has no chest pains or abnormal blood counts, but sleeps a lot

and often feels tired. This person is not ill. He may not even be at risk for any particular disease. But we can imagine that this person could be a lot healthier. Q: In the paragraph, people are reminded that ______. A. good health is more than not being ill

B. drinking,even if not to excess, could be harmful C. regular health checks are essential to keeping fit D. prevention is more difficult than cure 答案:

选A。本段最后一句是对倒数第2、3句的转折。这个人没病，但是还可以更健康。所以良好的健康不仅仅是生病，A正确表达了这个含义。

练习： Now let us look at how we read. When we read a printed text, our eyes move across a page in short, jerky movement. We recognize words usually when our eyes are still when they fixate. Each time they fixate, we see a group of words. This is known as the recognition span or the visual span. The length of time ofr which the eyes stop ---the duration of the fixation ----varies considerably from person to person. It also vaies within any one person according to his purpose in reading and his familiarity with the text.

?.Arthur von Wiesenberger, who carries the title Water Master, is one of the few water critics in North America. As a boy, he spent time in the larger cities of Italy, France and Switzerland where bottled water is consumed daily. Even then, he kept a water journal, noting the brands he liked best. “My dog could tell the difference between bottled and tap water,” he says??

By saying “My dog could tell the difference between bottled and tap water”, von Wiesenberger wants to convey the message that _________. A. plain tap water is certainly unfit for drinking B. bottled water is clearly superior to tap water C. bottled water often appeals more to dogs’ taste D. dogs can usually detect a fine difference in taste 选B

文章提到von Wiesenberger从小就对瓶装水很有研究，并记录下那些他最喜欢和的瓶装水牌子。连狗都能分得清，足见主人对瓶装水的喜爱程度。不喜欢不等于说“自来水不能喝”，故A错。CD是单纯的字面理解，脱离主题。

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