CET4阅读理解试题共四篇附案

1、CET4 Reading PracticeUnit 29Passage 1These days it s tough to find a vacation spot that doesn t in some way resemble a shopping mall, agarbage dump or a traffic jam. International tourism has grown into a booming industry, generating annual receipts of about $230 billion. About 400 million people wi

2、ll travel abroad this year, compared with only 25 million in 1950. Widespread affluence ( 富裕 ) among the world s middle class has combined with faster, cheaper transportation to enable people to visit places their grandparents could only see on a map. Fast-food stands have sprung up in the middle of

3、 pristine( 原始的 ) forests; ancient monuments have been converted into souvenir shops; running water and electricity have been piped into remote jungles. And in many places, the environment and local people are suffering. What s gone wrong with tourism is that thage-old balance between host and guest

4、has tipped too far in favor of the guest. A lot of tourism seeks to provide a similar life to what city-dwellers would expect at home. In providing those things, it damages or puts an enormous strain on the places it develops.There is no tourism without damage. Walking and breathing alone account fo

5、r a great deal of the damage. In London s Westerminster Abbey, the elaborately designethdc1e3ntury Cosmati pavement is badly worn by the visiting crowds. At King Tut s tiny tomb in Upper Egyptc, rtuhsehreinlecrnetlaesesdthe temperature and humidity inside the tomb so much that a slimy fungus ( 真菌 )

6、began to disfigure the ancient paintings. Comprehension Questions:s vacation spots.B) provide excellent shopping facilitiesD) provide good transportation services1. According to the passage, todayA) are hard to find*C) are crowded and dirty2. Over the past forty years, tourists traveling overseas ea

7、ch year increased approximately.*A) 16 times B) 20 timesC) 8 timesD) 40 percent3. Which of the following is not mentioned in the passage as a factor contributing to the increasing number of tourists ?A) The world s middle class have become richer.*B) More and more tourist attractions have been devel

8、oped.C) Transportation is much cheaper.D) Transportation is much faster.s tomb is due to4. The damage to the ancient paintings in King TutA) being touched by too many visitors*B) heat and moistureC) being scratched by touristsD) some strange chemical reactions5. The author of this passage seems to b

9、e.A) happy to see the increase of revenues from tourismB) very much pleased by the growth of the tourist industryC) happy to see the improvement of tourist facilities*D) very much concerned about the damages done by tourism1. C 2.A 3.B 4.B 5.DPassage 2It is my privilege to introduce again an annual

10、report of the work of Our Lady s Hospice.Our Lady s Hospice, the first of its kind in these western islands, has entered the second century of caring for those with terminal illness. It was first opened in Milltown and its opening was the realization of a long cherished ( 心中怀着 ) dream. For years the

11、 Sisters ( 修女 ) had longed for a place where poor, lonely, friendless dying persons no longer fit subjects for hospital wards ( 病房) -could find care, comfort and peacefulness in their last days of life. In December 1879 these hopes were fulfilled when Our Lady s formally welcomed the first patients-

12、35 in number.So great were the applications for admission that six years later the foundation stone of the present Hospice was laid on 18 th July, 1886 and completed in August 1888.Much has been written about the spirit of the Hospice and much will continue to be written with present increasing inte

13、rest in the Hospice movement. Y et it is difficult to capture a spirit in words. Over a hundred years ago Our Lady s Hospice weads ionpaenspirit that regarded neither race, nor belief, nor class but looked simply to the need of the person for help and for peace in the last days of life. We hope the

14、same spirit born out of love, care and respect for the dignity and worth of each human person, will comfort all, both patients and their loved ones, who seek our help in the Hospice today. Comprehension Questions1. This report is given by.A) a reporter who is interested in Hospice work*B) a patient

15、representativeC) a leading figure of the HospiceD) one of the founders of the Hospice2. Who can be admitted to the Hospice ?A) The poor. B) Lonely and friendless people.*C) Dying patients. D) People badly in need of care and comfort.3. Our Lady s Hospice was first opened in .A) 1897 B) 1888 C)1886 *

16、D) 18794. “ their loved ones ” in the last sentence refers to.A) dying patients B) patients and doctors *C) those whom patients love D) human persons5. Which of the following is in agreement with the Hospice spirit ?A) Taking care of those seriously-ill people who believe in God.B) Showing love for

17、those who live in these western islands.C) Freeing white patients from pain and comforting their fears, and supporting their loved ones. *D) Loving and helping those of the terminally ill.Passage 3A well-established distinction in memory theory is that between short-term and long-term memory. The fo

18、rmer refers to our ability to do such things as remember telephone numbers long enough to dial them; the latter concerns the wide range of ways in which experiences can affect behavior many years later. Given the two different kinds of ability, it is reasonable to hypothesize that each is represente

19、d differently in the brain. An experiment was designed to test the hypothesis( 假设 ) that long-term memory implies a chemical change in the brain cells while short-term memory involves patterns of impulses in circuits of nerve cells.One group of rats were taught to run through a maze (迷宫).Five minute

20、s after learning the task, they were cooled to 5 C.,the temperature at which all electrical activity in the brain ceases. They were then kept at this temperature for 15 minutes before being allowed to return to their normal temperature. They were then run through the maze again.A second group of rat

21、s were taught to run the same maze, and then immediately cooled to 5 C for 15 minutes. After being allowed to return to their normal temperature, an attempt was made to run the second group through the maze again. It was found that rats in the first group had no difficulty with the maze the second t

22、ime, suggesting that they did not have to relearn the task. Rats in the group which was cooled immediately after learning the maze, on the other hand, could not negotiate the maze successfully,i.e., theyapparently could not remember what they had learned.Comprehension Questions:1. The author believe

23、s that between short-term and long-term memory there is .A) a slight differenceB) an unbelievable differenceC) no difference *D) a clear difference2. Long-term memory refers to the ability to .A) remember telephone numbers to dial them laterB) remember successful behaviorsC) remember how to run thro

24、ugh a maze the second time*D) remember things which affect you for a long time3. The experiment with rats was conducted to .*A) see if short-term and long-term memory are represented differently in the brainB) test the chemical change in the brain cellsC) test the electrical activity in the brain ce

25、llsD) teach rats how to go through a maze4. At the temperature of 5 C. _.A) chemical change in the brain startsB) chemical change in the brain stopsC) electrical activity in the brain starts*D) electrical activity in the brain stops5. The difference between the two experiment is that .A) rats were c

26、ooled at different temperatures*B) rats were cooled at different timesC) rats were kept cooled for different lengths of timeD) rats were taught to run in different ways Passage 4The Indian cliff dwellings (住地) of the southwestern United States are a source of interest and mystery for archeologists (

27、考古学家) . Located in the Four Corners area of the U.S. , where Colorado, Utah, Arazona, and New Mexico meet, the cliff dwellings were constructed during the Great Pueblo period, from approximately 1050 to 1300. The cliff dwellings are whole series of rooms built in layers into the sides of cliffs. The

28、 sleeping rooms of the cliff dwellings were very tiny, often only one to two meters wide and little more than one meter high, and they were built in complexes of up to several hundred rooms together. The front rooms of the complexes were considerably larger. These larger rooms were apparently the ro

29、oms where daily life took place.When the cliff dwellings were first found by explorers, they had been abandoned. Archeologists today are uncertain as to when or why they were abandoned and where the inhabitants went. There is some evidence, however, that the inhabitants left the cliff dwellings near

30、 the end of the thirteenth century because of a serious drought that is known to have occurred in the area from 1276 to 1299. Archeologists believe that the inhabitants could have left the cliff dwellings to move southwest and southeast. Today the descendants of the cliff dwellers are probably members of the Indian tribes of that area. Comprehension Questions:1. Which of the following is the main topic for this passage?A) the Great Pueblo period.B) A description of the Indian cliff dwellings.*C) What is known and unknown abo