20xx大学英语四级考试阅读训练题.docx

20xx高校英语四级考试阅读训练题20xx高校英语四级考试阅读训练题Part II Reading Comprehension (35 minutes)Directions: There are 4 passages in this part. Each passage is followed by some questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A),B),C) and D). You should decide on the best choice and mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the centre.Questions 21 to 25 are based on the following passage:Every year 100 million holiday-makers are drawn to the Mediterranean.With onethird of the worlds tourist trade, it is the most popular of all the holiday destinations; it is also the most polluted.It has only 1 per cent of the worlds sea surface, but carries more than half the oil and tar floating on the waters. Thousands of factories pour their poison into the Mediterranean, and almost every city, town and village on the coast sends its sewage, untreated, into the sea.The result is that the Mediterranean, which nurtured so many civilizations, is gravely ill-the first of the seas to fall victim to the abilities and attitudes that evolved around it. And the pollution does not merely keep back life of the seait threatens the people who inhabit and visit its shores.The mournful form of disease is caused by sewage. Eightyfive per centof the waste from the Mediterraneans 120 coastal cities is pushed out in to the waters where their people and visitors bathe and fish. What is more, most cities just drop it in straight off the beach; rare indeed are the places like Cannes and Tel Aviv which pipe it even half a mile offshore.Not surprisingly, vast areas of the shallows are awash with bacteria and it doesnt take long for these to reach people. Professor William Brumfitt of the Royal Free Hospital once calculated that anyone who goes for a swim in the Mediterranean has a one in seven chance of getting some sort of disease. Other scientists say this is an overestimate; but almost all of them agree that bathers are at risk.Industry adds its own poisons. Factories cluster round the coastline, and even the most modern rarely has proper wastetreatment plant. They do as much damage to the sea as sewage.But the good news is that the countries of the Mediterranean have been coming together to work out how to save their common sea.21. The causes of the Mediterraneans pollution isA) the oil and tar floating on the waterB) many factories put their poison into the seaC) untreated sewage from the factories and coastal citiesD) there are some sorts of diseases in the sea22. Which of following consequence of a pollutedsea is not true according to the passage?A)ring up so many civilizations.B) Various diseases in the sea.C) It threatens the inhabitants and travelers.D) One in seven chance of getting some sort of disease swimming in the sea.23. The word “sewage"refer toA) poisonC) liquid materialB) wasteD) solid material24. Why does industry do much damage to the sea?A) Because most factories have proper wastetreatment plants.B) Because many factories have not proper wastetreatment plants even the most modern one.C) Because just the modern factory has a waste treatment plant.D) Because neither ordinary factories nor most modern ones have proper wastetreatment plants.25. What is the passage mainly about?A) Save the world.B) How the people live in the Mediterranean sea.C) How the industry dangers the sea.D) Beware the dirty sea.Questions 26 to 30 are based on the followingpassage:THE CLASSROOM is a mans world, where boys get twothirds of the teachers attention - even when they are in a minority- taunt （辱骂）the girls without punishment, and receive praise for sloppy work that would not be tolerated from girls. They are accustomed to being teachers pets, and if girls get anything like equal treatment, they will protest eagerly and even wreck lessons.These claims are made in a book out this week, written by Dale Spender, a lecturer at the London University Institute of Education. She argues that discrimination against girls is so deeply in coeducational schools that single sex classes are the only answer.Her case is based on taperecordings of her own and other teachers lessons. Many of them, like Spender, had deliberately set out to give girls a fair chance. Sometimes/ says Spender, /zl have even thought I have gone too far and have spent more time with the girls than the boys/The tapes proved otherwise. In 10 taped lessons (in secondary school and college), Spender never gave the girls more than 42 per cent of her attention (the average was 38 percent) and never gave the boys less than 58 percent. There were similar results for other teachers, both male and female.In other words, when teachers give girls more than a third of their time, they feel that they are cheating the boys of their rightful share. And so do the boys themselves. zzShe always asks the girls all the questions/7 said one boy in a classroom where 34 per cent of the teachers time was allocated to girls. "She doesnt like boys, and just listens to the girls. said a boy in another class, where his sex got 63 per cent of teacher attention.Boys regarded twothirds of the teachers time as a fair deal - and when they got less they caused trouble in class and even complained to higher authority. /zlts important to keep their attention/ said one teacher, “Otherwise, they play you up something awful.”Spender concludes that, in mixed classes, if the girls are as boisterous and pushy as the boys, they are considered “unladylike”, if they are docile and quiet, they are ignored.26. If boys are better treated in class,would be better.A) singlesex classes and coeducational classesB) coeducational classesC) singlesex classesD) None of the above27. Dale Spender obtained the evidence for her claims by.A) her own lessons in secondary school and collegeB) the other teachers taperecordingsC) both male and female teachersD) taperecordings of her own and other teachers lessons28. What are the boys reactions when girls are given more attention?A) They will keep the teachers attention again.B) They will make some trouble and complain to the headmaster.C) They will play up the teacher something awful.D) They will feel they are cheated by teachers.29. The word “boisterous" in the last paragraphprobably means.A) rough B) braveC)troublesome D) emotional30. The best title for this passage would be.A) boys are teachers petsB) boys do better in coeducational classesC) singlesex classes are better than coeduationed classesD) girls do better than boys