英语专业四级考试全真模拟试卷一(2)

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PART Ⅵ READING COMPREHENSION［30 MIN.］

SECTION A READING COMPREHENSION

In this section there are five passages followed by questions or unfinished statements, each with four suggested answers marked A, B, C and D. Choose the one that you think is the correct answer. Mark your choices on your ANSWER SHEET.

TEXT A

Nobody’s Watching Me

I am a foot taller than Napoleon and twice the weight of Twiggy. on my only visit to a beautician, the woman said she found my face a challenge. Yet despite these social disadvantages I feel cheerful, happy, confident and secure.I work for a daily newspaper and so get to a lot of places I would otherwise never see. This year I went to Ascot to write about the people there. I saw something there that made me realize the stupidity of trying to conform,of trying to be better than anyone else. There was a small, plump woman, all dressed up—— huge hat, dress with pink butterflies, long white gloves. She also had a shooting stick. But because she was so plump, when she sat on the stick it went deep into the ground and she couldn’t pull it out. She tugged and tugged, tears of rage in her eyes. When the final tug brought it out, she crashed with it to the ground.”
I saw her walk away. Her day had been ruined. She had made a fool of herself in public— she had impressed nobody. In her own sad, red eyes she was a failure.
I remember well when I was like that, in the days before I learned that nobody really cared what you do . . .I remember the pain of my first dance, something that is always meant to be a wonderful occasion for a girl . . . There was a fashion then for diamante (人造钻石) ear-rings, and I wore them so often practicing for the big night that I got two great sores on my ears and had to put sticking-plaster on them. Perhaps it was this that made nobody want to dance with me. Whatever it was, there I sat for four hours and 43 minutes. When I came home, I told my parents that I had a marvelous time and that my feet were sore from dancing. They were pleased at my success and they went to bed happily, but l went to my room and tore the bits of sticking-plaster off my ears and felt forlorn and disconsolate.

66. The beautician found the writer’s face a `challenge’, which means____.

A. she thought it was a challenge to have such a face repaired

B. she thought it was a challenge to deal with such a face

C. the writer’s face challenged the beautician’s

D. it was a challenge to find the writer’s face

67. In the second paragraph, the word `plump’ can be replaced by which word?

A. Heavy.B. Slim.C. Ugly.D. Stout.

68. According to the writer, what was the main reason for the failure of her first dance?

A. She was too shy and kept quiet.

B. She was not attractive.

C. She wore diamante earring.

D. She was not in fashion.

TEXT B

The Virus Hunters

The mouth of the Amazon River has long been a starting place for hunters going to the jungles of Brazil. In recent years it has been, too, the headquarters for a middle-aged American couple who hunt the smallest living things and perhaps the most deadly——viruses. Dr Causey and his wife have discovered more new types and more old ones in new places than all of the other search teams. Dr. Causey insists that the couple’s success is due more to the number of viruses in the forests of the Amazon than to the skill he and his wife have developed during their eighteen years of work in Brazil.
“We have found the loveliest diseases right in our backyard,” he told me one day as we walked through a light rain along a jungle trail.
“Oh, these viruses are here all right. There is in the jungle a great pool of disease which is carried in the blood of animals and birds. Some of the diseases can be caught by people. It may be that we shall find that the jungle is a great center of virus disease and that it overflows from here to other parts of the world. It may be that birds carry the viruses to far countries. It may be that some viruses which presently reproduce in man without making him ill, may change and become deadly to him.‘Viruses waiting for a disease,’ they are sometimes called. This is just an idea, you understand. We do not know, but it is important that we find out, and the first step in finding out is to learn what viruses there are in the jungles.”
There is a Brazilian story about the beginning of the world which goes: “When God was making the world he tried to keep everything in balance. When he made a desert, he provided it with some green places. When he made a land that was beautiful, he gave it storms and other terrible things caused by the weather. Where the earth was rich below the surface, it was also made hard to live on, where the land could be farmed, the weather was made too hot or too cold or too dry. Where there was enough water, God made it so that there should sometimes be too much water.
“But in one place God made a land that was rich, where everything grew easily. Where it was not too hot and certainly not too cold, where animals were plentiful and fruit hung from the trees all the year round.”
“The angels looked at this loveliness and were jealous of man. They asked God if this was not too beautiful, too much like heaven, this valley of the Amazon.”And God said, “True, this land looks like heaven, but wait until you see what happens to man when he tries to live in it.”

69. When Dr. Causey said, “We have found the loveliest diseases right in our backyard,” he meant____.

A. new viruses have just been discovered

B. his discovery was a bit frightening

C. he and his wife were surrounded by harmful viruses

D. his job was exciting

70. “Viruses waiting for a disease” refers to____.

A. those viruses carried in the blood of animals

B. some viruses which are at present harmless to man

C. the viruses that reproduce in man without making him ill

D. the still-not-yet-discovered viruses in the jungle

71. When the author cited the Brazilian legend he was____.

A. trying to add a little humor

B. trying to illustrate his earlier point

C. simply joking

D. being religious