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1、2023英语专四阅读练习及答案汇总2023英语专阅读练习及答案汇总成长与家庭危机The adolescent, with his passion for sincerity, always respects a parent who admits that he is wrong, or ignorant, or even that he has been unfair or unjust. What the child cannot forgive is the parentf s refusal to admit these charges if the child knows them

2、to be true.1. According to the passage, children would arouse parents1 disappointment forB. talking back to their parents.C. plaining home-made dishes.D. making some spiteful remark.2. When adolescents feel disillusion with their parents, it means that theyA. feel disappointed with their parents.B.

3、are developing into maturity.C. just want to hurt their parents. believed in it so deeply, otherwise. I dont mean that I would prefer to go without my eyes. I simply mean that the loss of them made me appreciate the more what I had left.Life, I believe, asks a continuous series of adjustments to rea

4、lity. The more readily a person is able to make these adjustments, the more meaningful his own private world bees. The adjustment is never easy. I was bewildered and afraid. But I was lucky. My parents and my teachers saw something in me一一a potential to live, you might call it-which I didnt see, and

5、 they made me want to fight it out with blindness.The hardest lesson I had to learn was to believe in myself. That was basic. If I hadnt been able to do that, I would have collapsed and bee a chair rocker on the front porch for the rest of my life. When I say belief in myself I am not talking about

6、simply the kind of self confidence that helps me down an unfamiliar staircase alone. That is part of it. But I mean something bigger than that： an assurance that I am, despite imperfections, a real, positive person； that somewhere in the sweeping, intricate pattern of people there is a special place

7、 where I can make myself fit.It took me years to discover and strengthen this assurance. It had to start with the most elementary things. Once a man gave me an indoor baseball. I thought he was mocking me and I was hurt. I can1t use this. I said. Take it with you,“ he urged me, “and roll it around.

8、The words stuck in my head. “Roll it around! ” By rolling the ball I could hear where it went. This gave me an idea how to achieve a goal I had thought impossible： playing baseball. At Philadelphia1s Overbrook School for the Blind I invented a successful variation of baseball. We called it ground ba

9、ll.All my life I have set ahead of me a series of goals and then tried to reach them, one at a time. I had to learn my limitations. It was no good to try for something I knew at the start was wildly out of reach because that only invited the bitterness of failure. I would fail sometimes anyway but o

10、n the average I made progress.1. We can learn from the beginning of the passage thatA. the author lost his sight because of a car crash.B. the author wouldnt love life if the disaster didnt happen.C. the disaster made the author appreciate what he had.D. the disaster strengthened the author1s desire

11、 to see.2. Whats the most difficult thing for the author?A. How to adjust himself to reality.B. Building up assurance that he can find his place in life.C. Learning to manage his life alone.D. To find a special work that suits the author.3. According to the context, “a chair rocker on the front porc

12、h in paragraph 3 means that the authorA. would sit in a rocking chair and enjoy his life.B. was paralyzed and stayed in a rocking chair.C. would lose his will to struggle against difficulties.D. would sit in a chair and stay at home.4. According to the passage, the baseball and encouragement offered

13、 by the manA. hurt the author1s feeling.B. gave the author a deep impression.C. directly led to the invention of ground ball.D. inspired the author.5. According to the passage, which of the following is CORRECT?A. The author set goals for himself but only invited failure most of the time.B. The auth

14、or suggested not trying something beyond ones ability at the beginning.C. The bitterness of failure prevented the author from trying something out of reach.D. Because of his limitations, the author tried to reach one goal at a time.答案解析:l.C细节判断题。第1段最后一句指出“所失去的让我 更懂得珍惜如今拥有的“，应选C。作者失明是因为他从一辆 货车(box ca

15、r)A摔下来，而不是因为汽车事故，故排除A；B 的推断没有原文根据;文中提到他渴望重见光明。D的表述与 原文有出入。2. B细节判断题。the most difficult thin9 是 The hardest lesson的同义改写，故可定位到第3段。该段首句 指出最困难的事情是“相信自己”，But所在的句子做了更详 细的解释即“对自己的一种坚信，我还是我，尽管不是完美 的坚信自己可以找到一个适宜自己的位置”，应选B。A太笼统；由第2段可知他的生活并不是孤单的，他还有父 母、老师等的支持，故C错误;D文中没有提到。3. C句意理解题。此题可用排除法。第3段第3句提 到，“假设我不坚信自己，

16、我会崩溃，变成一个坐在轮椅里的 废人了，在门廊前度此余生”，由此可知C正确。4. D细节判断题。根据baseball定位到倒数第2段。从 该段最后两句可知棒球和那个男人的鼓励给作者以启示和鼓舞. 从而创造了 一种叫“滚球”的运动，应选D。该段提到作者以 为那个男人是在嘲讽他，但后来在他的鼓励下有所启发，故A 错误;B ”给作者留下了深化印象”在文中没有提及;C中的 directly错误，男人的话只是给了作者启发。5. B细节判断题。最后一段第2、3句说明我们要意识到 自己的局限性，在开始时尝试那些遥不可及的东西只会徒劳无 益，故B正确；由该段第1句和最后一句可知作者为自己不断 设立目的并实现了

17、大部分的目的，故A错误：最后一句的 anyway but可知C错误;文中并没有指出他每次尝试一个目的 是因为他自己的局限，故D属干随意捏造。从才华到艺术I have known very few writers, but those I have known, and whom I respected, confess at once that they have little idea where they are going when they first set pen to paper. They have a character, perhaps two； they are in t

18、hat condition of eager disfort which passes for inspiration； all admit radical changes of destination once the journey has begun； one, to my certain knowledge, spent nine months on a novel about Kashmir, then reset the whole thing in the Scottish Highlands. I never heard of anyone making a “skeleton

19、” , as we were taught at school. In the breaking and remaking, in the timing, interweaving, beginning afresh, the writer es to discern things inhis material which were not consciously in his mind when he began.This organic process, often leading to moments of extraordinary self-discovery, is of an i

20、ndescribable fascination. A blurred image appears, he adds a brushstroke and another, and it is gone； but something was there, and he will not rest till he has captured it. Sometimes the yeast within a writer outlives a book he has written. I have heard of writers who read nothing but their own book

21、s, like adolescents they stand before the mirror, and still cannot fathom the exact outline of the vision before them. For the same reason, writers talk interminably about their own books, winkling out hidden meanings, superimposing new ones, begging response from those around them.Of course a write

22、r doing this is misunderstood： he might as well try to explain a crime or a love affair. He is also. Incidentally, an unforgivable bore. This temptation to cover the distance between himself and the reader, to study his image in the sight of thosewho do not know him, can be his undoing： he has begun

23、 to write to please.A young English writer made the pertinent observation a year or two back that the talent goes into the first draft, and the art into the drafts that follow. For this reason also the writer, like any other artist, has no resting place, no crowd or movement in which he may take for

24、t, no judgment from outside which can replace the judgment from within. A writer makes order out of the anarchy of his heart； he submits himself to a more ruthless discipline than any critic dreamed of, and when he flirts with fame, he is taking time off from living with himself, from the search for

25、 what his world contains at its i ostpoint.1. The writers that the author is familiar with confess that they wouldB. follow the writing methods learned at school.C. remodel the main character in writing.D. make changes to the stories they firstconstruct.2. According to the passage, the process of wr

26、itingB. is predictable and methodological.D. is disorderly and unsystematic.3. The word “undoing“ in the third paragraph probably suggestsA. success.B. happiness.C. failure.D. sorrow.4. According to the passage, the writer has no resting place becauseA. he is not clear about what he will write at th

27、e beginning.B. he should constantly edit his work to make it perfect.C. he has to face a lot of responses given by readers.D. he should add brushstrokes to the appearingblurred images.5. Which of the following statements about writers is TRUE according to the last paragraph?A. They have little ideas

28、 before they start writing.B. Their talent goes into all their drafts.C. It does harm to their writing when they flirt with fame.D. They try to increase munication with readers.答案解析：l.D细节判断题。根据familiar with, confess及各选 项内容定位到第1段。第1段指出，这些作家在写作前后，作 品的内容往往可能发生极大的变化，其中作者提到，有一位作 家就将小说的背景从克什米尔搬到了苏格兰高地。由此可

29、见， D的表述符合文意，为此题答案。文中指出，这些作家动笔之 前不会有整篇的构思，也不会按学校所教的那样列出提纲， A、B可排除。文中只说作者开始写作时可能心中已经设定了 一两个角色，并没有提到会否重新塑造或改变作品的主要角 色，故C应排除。2. D细节推断题。第1段明确指出，作者熟悉的那些作 家在写作过程中没有既定的思路，情节设置也往往根据需要或 更深理解素材后才做出相应的变化和调整，这就说明，写作过D. are expressing their discontentment.3. Adolescents in Victorian timesA. had shown more respect

30、 for parents than today.B. always answered back to deal with the problem.C. admired the authoritarian attitude of their parents.D. were too afraid to tell what they really thought.4. What is the tone of the passage?A. Critical.B. Humorous.C. Serious.D. Ambiguous.5. What does this passage mainly disc

31、uss?A. Children will bee more and more mature when growing up.B. Parents have to change their ways in educating their children.C. The conflicts between parents and theirchildren are inevitable.程有点“混乱”，构思也不很系统化;此外，第2段提到。假 设作家脑海中出现了朦胧的形象，他们会在此根底上做任意的 改动。由此可见，D正确。根据文中介绍，写作过程并没有完 好的构思，也无法预见，只是在写作过程中不断完善

32、，可很快 将A、B排除。此外。作家在写作的过程中会更多地理解所搜 集的素材，这也与经历无关，故C也排除。3 .C词义推断题。第3段指出作家假设试图拉近自己与 读者的间隔，企图通过别人的评论理解自己塑造的形象，就 相当于为取悦别人而写作。四个选项中，较能概括这种行为性 质的是C。此外，undoing有“消灭”之义，故C为此题答 案。4 . B因果关系题。根据题干中的no resting place定位 到第4段。第4段段首提到：作家的才华表达在初稿，而艺术 那么表达在之后不断修改的稿子中。第2句以For this reason（鉴于此）引出作家不能休息的情形。由此可见,第4段 首句的内容，即作家

33、需不断创作和修改作品：以实现由才华到 艺术的转变是作家无法休息的真正原因。故8为答案，A、C、 D不合文意。5 .C细节判断题。末段末旬指出：“当他追逐名利时， 他就脱离了自我生活，脱离了对自己内心最深处世界的探 究”，故C符合文意，为此题答案。选项A、D均来自文中，但与末段无关，可排除。B与原文表述“作家的才华表达在初 稿，而艺术那么表达在之后不断修改的稿子中“不符，可排 除。手足情深For a long time, researchers have tried to nail down just what shapes us一一or what, at least, shapes us mo

34、st. And over the years, they!ve had a lot of exclamation moments. First it was our parents, particularly our mothers. Then it was our genes. Next it was our peers, who show up last but hold great sway. And all those ideas were good ones一一but only as far as they went.Somewhere, there was a sort of te

35、mperamental dark matter exerting an invisible gravitational pull of its own. More and more, scientists are concluding that this unexplained force is our siblings.But all that s changin9. At research centers in the US. , Canada, Europe and elsewhere, investigators are launching a wealth of new studie

36、s into the sibling dynamic, looking at ways brothers and sisters steer one another intOor away fromrisky behavior how theyform a protective buffer（减震器）against family upheaval；how they educate one another about the opposite sex；how all siblings pete for family recognition and e to terms-一or blows一一ov

37、er such impossibly charged issues as parental favoritism.1. The beginning of the passage indicates thatA. researchers have found out what shapes us.B.our peer is the last factor influencing us.C. what researchers found contributes in a limitedway.D. what researchers found is good and trustworthy.2.

38、In the third paragraph, the author tries to demonstrate that our siblingsA. offer us much useful information.B. have great influences on us.C. are the ones who love us pletely.D. acpany us throughout our life.3. In scientific munity, previous research on siblingsA. mostly focused on the sibling orde

39、r.B. studied the characteristics of the kids.C. studied the matter in a broad sense.4. Which of the following is NOT sibling dynamic?A.A brother cautions his sister against getting into trouble.B. Sisters have quarrels with each other.C. Siblings pete for parental favoritism.D. Older kids in a famil

40、y try hard to achieve.5. From the last paragraph, we can conclude thatA. managers learned management skills from the family playroom.B. spouses learned negotiation skills from their siblings.C. studies on siblings are under the wayoD. studies on siblings need thorough investigation.答案解析：LC细节判断题。第1段指

41、出了研究人员研究什么塑造 我们，并获得了一些成果，最后一句“但这仅仅是就目前的研 究而言”说明目前研究的局限性，C表达了这个含义。由第1 段可知，研究者还在探究到底是什么塑造了我们，故A错误； 该段倒数第2句提到虽然我们的同龄人出现得最晚，但是影响却最深化，故B也错了； trustworthy在文中没有根据，故排 除D。2. B段落大意题。第3段讲到了兄弟姐妹在我们生活中 扮演的各种角色对我们生命的影响，应选B；A “提供给我们有 用的信息”属段落细节，不是作者在第3段想要说明的问 题;C “完完全全爱我们的人”过于绝对且在文中找不到对应 信息点;D 伴随我们一生”只是影响我们的一个方面，故D

42、也 可排除。3. A细节判断题。根据scientific munity定位到第4 段首句。由该句but转折处可知答案应为A。第2句提到年长 的、年小的、中间的孩子共有的定式，并没有对他们的个性特 征进展研究，故B排除；最后一句说这种定式很普遍，但并不 意味着从广义上来研究兄弟姐妹对我们的影响，故C排除;D 在文中没有根据。4. D细节判断题。根据sibling dynamic定位到第5 段。此题可用排除法。A、B对应steer away from risky behavior；C在该段提及,也属sibling dynamico D在第4段 有提到，但不属于sibling dynamico5.

43、C细节推断题。末段倒数第3旬提到All that isunder investigation, C与此同义，为正确答案。A、B只是该段中的个别例证；最后一句提到要进一步研究兄弟姐妹是如 何影响我们的，D项的表述与原文有出入。本文关键字：2023英语专四D. Parents have made mistakes in munication withchildren.答案解析：1. A细节判断题。根据题干中的arouse parents disappointment及各选项内容定位到第1段。第1 段指出，家长听到孩子赞扬朋友的家就会感到不安，常常误以 为孩子是在抱怨家里的板菜、清洁等。据此分析，A

44、为正确选 项;C是父母自己的推测，并不是孩子本意，所以C可排除。 文中指出，家长甚至责备孩子不忠，或是讲些孩子朋友父母的 坏话，故D应予排除。B 与父母顶嘴”找不到原文根据。2. B细节判断题。根据题干中的feel disillusion定位 到第2段。此题考察孩子对父母梦想破灭的本质。文中指出， 假设父母确实理解孩子的这一看法，就会知道这意味着孩子此 时正处在走向成熟的阶段因此B符合原文的意思。根据原文，孩子对家长梦想的破灭是孩子不断成熟的表现，A、D 都是孩子对家长梦想破灭的表象，不是问题的本质，应予以 排除;父母理解孩子这一反响的本质之后就不会感到难过，可 见孩子并不是成心伤害父母.因此

45、C也应予以排除。3. D细节判断题。根据题干中的Victorian times定位 到末段。文中明确指出，维多利亚时代的父母之所以可以镇住 孩子，倒不是因为孩子崇尚无理的权威，而是他们被这样的气 势吓得不敢说实话。据此，D的表述与原文相符，为应选答 案，同时排除B、C。维多利亚时代的孩子对于父母的尊敬还 建立在屈服的根底之上，不能因此就判断他们比方今的孩子更 多尊敬父母。据此分析，A也应排除。4. C文章基调题。本文主要表达了孩子在青春发育过程 中的变化及其本质，父母和孩子之间出现的常见问题和应对措 施，并指出处理不当可能带来的危害和不良后果。鉴于本文阐 述严谨。观点明确，所以可以判断文章的根

46、本论调是“严肃” 的，因此C为应选答案。文章虽然提到父母有错误和缺乏， 但同时也提出理解决的建议和方法，因此本文也不是批判性质 的，A也应予排除。5. B全文主旨题。本文讲述青少年成长过程中的一些变 化，分析家长应该怎样正确予以对待并提出正确教育孩子的一 些建议。由此可知，B为此题答案。孩子逐渐走向成熟以及他 们与父母发生冲突都是本文的部分内容，不能代替全文的内 容，因此A、C应排除;本文不仅提到D的内容，还提出理解决 建议，因此D也是片面的，应予以排除。差异性It s for this reason that diversity has bee such a buzz word. The b

47、uzz happens because it s all about how you handle it.It s very much like the job a poser has when creating a great musical position. If the poser understands what each unique note and dynamic mark is capable of in bination with the other parts, the result achieved is extraordinary. If, however, none

48、 of the parts is municating with the others, we re left with a cacophony（刺耳的声音）.On a personal level, it s this understanding and acceptance of “the other” which rests at the core of diversity. Whether we re talking about navigating through a multicultural urban enviro ent oruprooting and moving to a new foreign social context, it is necessary to set aside rigid assumptions about “the other“ and put oneself in the other1s shoes. So how do we make this leap? Its often as simple as asking questions and being c