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Directions: In this part, you will read four passages. Each passage is followed by some questions or incomplete statements. For each of them there are four choices marked by a), b), c) and d). You should decide on the best choice.

Questions 1 to 5 are based on the following passage:

It is only seventy years since British women got the right to vote. Some people think this is the main reason women are so under-represented in politics, trade unions and big businesses. Other feel it is simply that they are much too busy doing other things, The old saying “a woman’s place is in the home” may seem out of date to most people, but the old, fixed image of a woman as a supporting wife and caring mother is certainly still usual—one only has to watch a few television ads.

In 1975 the law did not allow women to be paid less than men doing the same work. Certainly it is usually the case nowadays that women doing the same jobs as men get the same money for doing it; but generally women do not do the same jobs: they do different ones that offer lower salaries. The areas women work in are almost all those of “service’’: teaching, nursing, catering, and cleaning, jobs that can be seen as an extension(延伸) of the mothering role.

Apart from looking after people during the day at work, women often have to take care of a family at home too, which may mean they have less energy to compete in the race for professional development. In almost every field, top positions are more likely to be filed by men. While most teachers are women, for example, most headmasters are not. School cooks are women, head cooks are men and even cleaners tend to be watched over and directed by male caretakers（看管人）。

1. Which of the following is true according to the passage?

a) Many women’s places are still in the home.

b) Women’s places are no longer in the home.

c) Many women’s jobs have something to do with TV.

d) Women’s jobs are less important than before.

2. Now women are .

a) doing the same jobs as men.

b) in need of more new services.

c) not doing the same jobs as men.

d) paid more attention to than before.

3. In Para. 2, Line 5, the word “catering” may mean .

a) preparing meals b) writing articles

c) running a school d) watching TV programs

4. From the passage, we can see that .

a) it’s better for a woman to stay at home

b) women need much more education to deal successfully with professional tasks

c) there is still a long way for women to go to get equal opportunities

d) women should be at the top positions in their working places.

5. The writer tells us that .

a) women are kept busy all day long

b) women usually learn things faster than men

c) some women teachers cook better than men

d) some women have to do cleaning at night

Questions 6 to10 are based on the following passage:

In most European countries, unemployment (失业) was low for many years after the Second War, and the bitter memories of parents and grandparents who had been out of work for long periods in the 1930s gradually disappeared from people’s minds. But in recent years it has once again become a serious problem.

Newspapers usually take the number of people “unemployed” as a percentage of the registered working population. On the basis of these figures alone, they make comparisons with past experience and also between different countries. Such simplified calculations do not take into account technological developments that have made a large number of unskilled jobs unnecessary.

When we compare our unemployment figures with those of the 1930s, we must remember that far more women work nowadays, and therefore register as unemployed if they lose their jobs, so governments have a greater task and responsibility.

Comparisons between countries are also unreliable because of the percentage of people who are not registered . For example, in West Germany, most young people stay at school until they are18.

But, after all, the question a government must always face is: “Many people in this country at this point in time want to work but cannot find jobs”.

6. According to the passage, the figures of unemployment given in newspapers are .

a) false b) miscalculated c) unfair d) precise

7. It is obvious that in the past, many women .

a) did not try to find a job

b) did only unskilled jobs

c) were less paid

d) were not likely to lose their job

8. The unemployment figure of West Germany is .

a) higher than that of many other countries

b) lower than that of many other countries

c) about average among European countries

d) more accurate than that of the other countries

9. In the writer’s opinion, the problem of unemployment

a) nothing can be done to solve

b) the development of science and technology can solve

c) the liberation of women is the center of

d) more efforts should be made to solve

10. Which of the following statements is NOT TRUE ?

a) The unemployment rate in most European countries in recent years is high.

b) Unemployment did not represent a serious problem in Europe in the 1950s.

c) The standard of being registered as “unemployed” is not the same in different countries.

d) The unemployment rate is the percentage of a certain country’s population that does not have

a job.

Questions 11 to 15 are based on the following passage:

I was 10 years old that Saturday in 1963. There was a knock at the door, and after I opened it

I was surprised to see a group of five strange men standing there. I quickly shut the door and ran to get father. I had been told many times before not to answer the door unless one of my parents had told me to, and now I understood why: These five men were without a doubt the first fifth of that famous “25 robbers at my door” from the old hide-and-seek rhyme(童谣), and I had almost let them in !

In a semi-panic I said something to my father about a gang (一帮歹徒等) of burglars at the door, and he said ,”Good. They are right on time.” Much to my shock, Dad not only let them in but also shook all of their hands.

The men all worked at Fisher Body Plant No. 1 in Flint, Mich, with my father, and they sat where he told them to at our dining room table. Dad then passed out pencils and scrap paper and, from a box he had bought home earlier that day, handed each of them a sheet of paper with a series of math questions on it. “We’ll start with…,” Dad said.

The men came for three hours every Saturday, Sunday, Wednesday and Friday for the next two months. Dad explained that they had taken a test at the factory to be promoted to skilled trades and none had passed the math portion. This test was said to be the reason why there was a very small percentage of African-Americans in any skilled trade at Fisher Body. Dad said he knew they could do the job if they were given a chance. I understood what my father was doing, but it wasn’t until many years later that I appreciated it.

I remember the absolute joy on my father’s face when he came home and told my mother, “They all passed! They even want John to take the test again. They think he cheated somehow. He scored perfect on the math!”

11. The 10-year-old boy shut the door in front of the strangers because .

a) his mother told him to do so

b) he recognized them as robbers

c) he was playing a trick on them

d) he thought they must be burglars

12. The five strange men turned out be .

a) the first fifth of a famous gang

b) his father’s students at college

c) his father’s fellow workers at the factory

d) some immigrants from Africa

13. Which of the following statements is true ?

a) The boy’s father helped the five men to prepare for a test .

b) The boy’s father was taking the test together with five men.

c) The five men were given a chance to go to college.

d) The author did not know what his father was doing until many years later.

14. Why did the five men take the math lessons?

a) Because they needed to pass a math test to get a job at the factory.

b) Because math was part of a test that workers took to get promoted.

c) Because their present job involved knowledge of math.

d) Because they were required by the factory to take the lessons.

15. We may infer from the story that .

a) the boy’s father passed the test too

b) the boy’s father helped John to cheat in the test

c) John got all the correct answers in the math test

d) John must have cheated in the test

Questions 16 to20 are based on the following passage:

A tunnel is being built through a mountain. If it is dug through weak, soft rock, the tunnel may fall in. If the diggers strike water, the tunnel will be flooded . If the rock is too hard, man will not be able to dig through it. Before a tunnel can be built, men must know what they will find. They call in a geologist. He helps plan a tunnel so it can go through rock that is dry and hard, but not too hard.

A steel and concrete skyscraper is going up. A skyscraper cannot be built over sand or mud. Sand and mud cannot hold up a building. Before a skyscraper can be built, men must know what lies under the surface of the earth. They call in a geologist.

Geologists find the best places to build dams and bridges. They look for the best places to dig wells for water. Geologists help us make wise use of the land.

16. Geologists find the best place to build .

a) weak, soft rock b) sand and mud c) land d) dams and bridges

17. The story implies that .

a) tunnels should not go through mountains

b) men can only guess where to build dams and bridges

c) planning is needed before a tunnel is built

d) geologists have little role in building

18. Where can a skyscraper not be built?

a) Over solid ground b) Over very hard rock

c) Over concrete ground d) Over weak soft land

19. Which of the following does the story lead you to believe?

a) Digging a tunnel can be very dangerous.

b) Skyscrapers are one-story buildings.

c) Geologists are not important for dam building.

d) Tunnel is dangerous.

20. The main idea of the passage is that .

a) tunnel can be built through any kind of soil

b) geologists help us make wise use of the land

c) a skyscraper is built on very hard rock

d) geologists can build skyscraper

答案：1. d) 参见第三段。 2. a) 参见第四、五段。

3. d) 参见第二段和第五段。

4. b) 参见第六段。

5. c) 参见第八段。

6. c) 参见第一段第一句。

7. d) 参见第二段最后一句。8. d) 参见第二段第三句。

9. a) 参见第三段中第一、四句。10. b) 参见第三段第二句。

11. c) 参见第一段第二句。12. d) 参见第二段。

13. b) 参见第二段第四句。14. b) 参见全文最后一句。

15. d) 参见全文。

16. c) 参见第一句中“there had been no room for a piano.”

17. d) 参见第一段中第三、四句。18. b) 参见第三段第一句。

19. b) it指代前句中的“to clean everything”.

20. b) 参见最后一段。

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3 大学英语四级阅读理解试题及答案（四） 十六 Trees should only be pruned when there is a good and clear reason for doing so and , fortunately,the number of such reasons is small. Pruning involves the cutting away of obergrown and unwanted branches, and the inexperienced gardener can be encouraged by the thought that more damage results from doing it unnecessarily than from leaving the tree to grow in its own way. First, pruning may be done to make sure that trees have a desired shape or size. The object may be to get a tree of the right height, and at the same time to help the growth of small side branches which will thicken its appearance or give it a special shape. Secondly, pruning may be done to make the tree healthier. You may cut diseaed or dead wood, or branches that are rubbing against each other and thus cause wounds. The health of a tree may be encouraged by removing branches that are blocking up the centre and so preventing the free movement of air. One result of pruning is that an open wound is left on the tree and this provides an easy entry for disease, but itis a wound that will heal. Often there is a race between the healing and the desease as to whether the tree will live or die, so that there is a period when the tree is at risk. It should be the aim of every gardener to reduce which has been pruned smooth and clean, for healing will be slowed down by roughness. You should allow the cut surface to dry for a few hurs and then paint it with one of the substances available from garden shops produced especially for this purpose. Pruning is usually without interference from the leaves and also it is very unlikely that the cuts yu make will bleed. If this does happen,it is, of course,impossible to paint them properly. 1.Pruning should be done to ______. a.make the tree grow taller

2020年英语四级阅读理解练习题及解析(14)

2020年英语四级阅读理解练习题及解析(14) Among the more colorful characters of Leadville’s golden age were H.A.W.Tabor and his second wife, Elizabeth McCourt, better known as “Baby Doe”. Their history is fast becoming one of the legends of the Old West. Horace Austin Warner Tabor was a school teacher in Vermont. With his first wife and two children he left Vermont by covered wagon in 1855 to homestead in Kansas. Perhaps he did not find farming to his liking, or perhaps he was lured by rumors of fortunes to be made in Colorado mines. At any rate, a few years later he moved west to the small Colorado mining camp known as California Gulch, which he later renamed Leadville when he became its leading citizen. “Great deposits of lead are sure to be found here.” he said. As it turned out, it was silver, not lead, that was to make Leadville’s fortune and wealth. Tabor knew little about mining himself, so he opened a general store, which sold everything from boots to salt, flour, and tobacco.『It was his custom to “grubstake” prospective miners, in other words, to supply them with food and supplies, or“grub”, while they looked for ore, in return for which he would get a share in the mine if one was discovered.』①He did this for a number of years, but no one that he aided ever found anything of value. Finally one day in the year 1878, so the story goes, two miners came in and asked for “grub”. Tabor had decided to quit supplying it because he had lost too much money that way. These were persistent, however, and Tabor was too busy to argue with them. “Oh help yourself. One more time won’t