大学英语四级阅读模拟试题

大学英语四级阅读模拟试题

导读：我根据大家的需要整理了一份关于《大学英语四级阅读模拟试题》的内容，具体内容：下面是我整理的，希望对大家有帮助。Americans always have different opinions in their 11 toward education. ...

下面是我整理的，希望对大家有帮助。

Americans always have different opinions in their 11 toward education. On the one hand, free and universal public education was seen as necessary in a democracy, for how else would citizens learn how to 12 themselves in a responsible way? On the other hand, America was always a country that offered financial opportunities for which education was not needed on the road from rags to riches, ___13 —beyond the basics of reading, writing, and arithmetic—was an 14 detour.

Even today, it is still possible for people to 15 financial success without much education, but the number of 16 in which this is possible is decreasing. In todays more complex world, the opportunities for financial success are 17 related to the need for education, especially higher education.

Our society is rapidly becoming one whose 18 product is information, and dealing with this information requires more and more 19 education. In other words, we grow up learning more and more

about fewer and fewer subjects.

In the future, this trend is likely to 20 . Tomorrows world will be even more complex than todays world, and, to manage this complexity, even more specialized education will be needed.

A. realize

B. schooling

C. chief

D. unnecessary

E. altitudes

F. closely

G. specialized

H. attitudes

I. govern

J. achieve

K. situations

L. continue

M. strictly

N. positions

O. manage

II. H 12. I 13. B 14. D 15. J 16. K 17. F 18. C 19. G 20.

The political background of the atomic scientists work was the determination to defeat the Nazis. It was held—I think rightly—that a Nazi victory would be an appalling (令人惊骇的 ) disaster. It was also held, in Western countries, that German scientists must be well advanced towards making an A-bomb, and that if they succeeded before the West did they would probably win the war. When the war was over, it was discovered, to the complete astonishment of both American and British Scientists, that the Germans were nowhere near success, and, as everybody knows, the Germans were defeated before any nuclear weapons had been made. But I do not think that nuclear scientists of the West can be blamed for thinking the work urgent and necessary. Even Einstein favored it.

When, however, the German war was finished the great majority of those scientists who had collaborated toward making the A-bomb considered that it should not be used against the Japanese, who were already on the verge of defeat and, in any case, did not constitute such a threat to the world as Hitler. Many of them made urgent representations to the American government advocating that, instead of using the bomb as a weapon of war, they should, after a public announcement, explode it in a desert, and that future control of