成都理工大学大学英语四阅读材料精简答案
Passage 1
Exchange a glance with someone, then look away. Do you realize that you have made a statement?
This type of stareoften produces hostile feelings.
1. It can be inferred from the first paragraph that___.
A) every glance has its significance
2. If you want to be left alone on an elevator, the best thing to do is___.
B) to avoid eye contact with other passengers
3. By "a dimming of the lights" (Line 13,Para.1 )Erving Goffman means___.
C) ceasing to glance at others
4. If one is looked at by a stranger for too long, he tends to feel___.
B) uneasy
5. The passage mainly discusses___.
D) the role of eye contact in interpersonal communication. Passage 2
Geraldo Rivera is well known for his compassionate investigative reports on WABC-TV Eyewitness News.
But I’m not just in the business of making people cry. I’m in the business of chan g e.”
6. Geraldo Rivera is working as a(n)______.
B. investigative reporter for a special TV program
7. How many awards did Rivera receive for his work?
D. Five
8. Rivera’s invest igation and expose on the conditions
at WillowbrookStateSchool led to _____.
D. all of the above
9. The term “One-to-One” in the 3rd paragraph refers to ______.
A. an organization in the community that helps take
better care of thementally disabled
10. The author suggests in this passage that_____.
B. Rivera never tries to conceal his own compassion
in his reporting
Passage 3
In the old days, children were familiar with birth and death as part of life. This is perhaps the first generation of American youngsters (年轻人) who have never been close by during the birth of a baby and have never experienced the death of a family member.
11. The elders of contemporary Americans___.
C) usually witnessed the birth or death of a family member
12. Children in America today are denied the chance___.
A) to learn how to face death
13. Five hundred critically ill patients were investigated with the main purpose of___.
D) learning how to best help them and their families
14. The need of a dying patient for company shows___.
A) his desire for communication with other people
15. It may be concluded from the passage that___.
C) dying patients should be truthfully informed of their condition
Passage4
The oldest and simplest method, then, of describing differences in personality was to classify people according to types. Such a system is called a Typology.
A famous example of this method was set forth in Greece about the year 400 B.C. A physician named Hippocrates theorized that there were four fluids, or humors, in the body. Corresponding to each humor, he believed, there existed a definite type of personality.
16. This passage focuses on________.
C. personality theory and classification
17. According to Hippocrates’ fluid theory, a person with
a perfect balance of all the four humors in him_________.
B. had a pleasant and agreeable temperament
18. Which of the following is NOT true?
C. people with an oversupply of blood would easily
get excited
19. Modern personality theories and
classifications______.
A. are often very different because personality
itself is rathercomplicated
20. In the forth-coming paragraphs, the author is most probably going to talk about____.
B. different opinions of psychologists about the
factors in determiningpersonality
Passage 5
Space is a dangerous place, not only because of meteors (流星) but also because of rays from the sun and other stars.
21. According to the first paragraph, the atmosphere is essential to man in that___.
A) it protects him against the harmful rays from space
22. We know from the passage that___.
B) the effect of exposure to radiation is slow in coming
23. The harm radiation has done to the Apollo crew members___.
D) remains unknown
24. It can be inferred from the passage that___.
B) protection from space radiation is no easy job
25. The best title for this passage would be___.
C) Effects of Space Radiation
Passage 6
Although the United Kingdom covers only a small area of the earth’s surface, it represents people of many different origins and cultures.
26. In this passage the author intends to tell the origin
of ____.
A. the British
27. From the passage we know that_______.
D. almost every British citizen had his or her family
origin fromsomewhere else
28. According to the passage, the earliest inhabitants in Britain were______.
C. Stone Age hunters and gatherers
29. Thanks to ______ we can learn about the earliest inhabitants in Britain.
D. The Romans occupying the Celtic Kingdoms in Britain
30. According to the passage which of the following is NOT true?
D. There were blacksmiths in Britain before 700 BC. Passage 7
The concept of "environment" is certainly difficult and may even be misunderstood; but we have no handy substitute.
versa (反之亦然).
31. Which of the following words can best describe the popular understanding of "environment" as the author sees it?
D) Oversimplified.
32. According to the author the concept of "environment" is difficult to explain because___.
C) the organism and the environment influence each other
33. In analyzing the environmental forces acting on man the authorsuggests that___.
C) man is modified by the cultural environment as well as by thenaturalenvironment
34. As for culture, the author points out that___.
B) it is also affected by environmental factors
35. In this passage, the author is primarily concerned with___.
A) the interpretation of the term "environment" Passage 8
Together with earthquakes, volcanoes are phenomena which both delight and terrify the human mind at the same time.
36. Volcanoes______.
D. delight people and, on the other hand, terrify them
37. The first paragraph implies that in classical times____.
A. there were a lot of volcanic eruptions on the islandof
Vulcano
38. The word vent(Para. 2, Line 1)means_______.
A. something like a chimney in the volcano
39. According to this passage, most of the world’s volcanic eruptions_____.
C. are neither extremely destructive nor extremely
nondestructive
40. According to _____, the Pelean type is the most explosive
type of Volcano.
B. the nature of the explosion
Passage 9
If you want to stay young, sit down and have a good think. This is the research finding of a team of Japanese doctors, who say that most of our brains are not getting enough exercise--and as a result, we are ageing unnecessarily soon.
41. The team of doctors wanted to find out___.
A) why certain people age sooner than others
42. On what are their research findings based?
C) The study of brain volumes of different people.
43. The doctor's tests show that___.
D) some people's brains have contracted more than other
44. The word "subjects" in Paragraph 5 means___.
C) persons chosen to be studied in an experiment
45. According to the passage, which people seem to age slower thanthe others?
A) Lawyers
Passage 10
It is difficult to imagine what life would be like without memory. The meanings of thousands of everyday perceptions, the bases for the decisions we make, and the roots of our habits and skills are to be found in our past experiences, which are brought into the present by memory.