最新大学英语四级考试阅读习题训练

1、最新大学英语四级考试阅读习题训练task 1San Juan & Jamba Juice1. San JuanSan Juan, capital, largest city, chief port, and commercial and cultural center of Puerto Rico. The city is named after Saint John the Baptist (Spanish: San Juan Bautista). The latest census estimates place the city's population at 433,7

2、33, making it the 42nd-largest city under the jurisdiction of the United States. It is also the oldest European settlement in United States territory.Coffee, tobacco, sugar, and fruit are exported from the busy port, mainly to the United States. San Juan's industries include tourism, brewing, di

3、stilling, and publishing; manufactures include metal products, cement, and clothing. The city is Puerto Rico's financial center and has many international banks and business corporations. San Juan also has an international airport. The city's old section, situated on two rocky islets guardin

4、g one of the best harbors in the Caribbean, is linked by bridges with the mainland.The bay was named Puerto Rico (rich port) by Ponce de León, who in 1508 founded a settlement at nearby Caparra. In 1521 the settlement was moved across the bay to San Juan's present site. Strongly fortified,

5、it withstood attacks by English buccaneers in 1595 but succumbed for a few months in 1598 to George Clifford, earl of Cumberland, and was sacked by the Dutch in 1625. San Juan's port gained increasing importance during the 18th and 19th cent. U.S. troops occupied the city during the Spanish-Amer

6、ican War in 1898.In the old city, whose narrow streets, small shops, and houses with overhanging balconies recall a colonial atmosphere, there are impressive historic buildings: El Morro castle (begun 1539), which commands the harbor entrance and is a national monument; San Cristóbal castle (be

7、gun 1631), originally a Spanish fort; and La Fortaleza (begun 1529), a former fort now used as the governor's official residence. Other San Juan landmarks include San José Church (founded c.1523), the oldest church in continuous use in the Western Hemisphere; Casa Blanca (1523); and the Cat

8、hedral of San Juan Bautista, which contains the tomb of Ponce de León. Also in the city are the Univ. of Puerto Rico and its School of Tropical Medicine, the College of the Sacred Heart, a campus of the InterAmerican Univ. of Puerto Rico, and the Museum of Art of Puerto Rico. Nearby are several

9、 resort beaches (notably the Condado and Isla Verde), which attract tourists from North America.Jamba Juice is a chain of smoothie restaurants headquartered in San Francisco, California with 533 locations operating in 26 states, the District of Columbia and the Bahamas. 324 locations are company-own

10、ed and 209 locations are franchised. For the 12 months ending January 10, 2006, system wide sales were $345 million, which included sales of $230 million from company locations. The company has achieved a compound annual growth rate of 20% per year over the last three fiscal years.Jamba Juice was fo

11、unded by Kirk Perron, Joe Vergara, Kevin Peters, and Linda Olds in 1990 as California Juice Club in San Luis Obispo, California. In 1995 Juice Club changed its name to Jamba Juice. It is known as one of the top smoothie stores worldwide. The company's website claims that "Jamba" derive

12、s from the "African" word "Jama," which means "to celebrate, taking care of body, mind and soul is a way of celebrating life."Jamba has an operating agreement with Whole Foods to sell only "natural" products inside some of their locations, which includes their

13、 smoothies' ingredients. For this reason, offerings at Whole Foods sites may differ from those at stand-alone sites.task 2阅读理解原文及其译文Communications technologies are far from equal when it comes to conveying the truth.通讯技术在传递真相的时候并不是简单地和真相本身一致。The first study to compare honesty across a range of c

14、ommunication media has found that people are twice as likely to tell lies in phone conversations as they are in emails.从第一项对使用不同通讯媒介时的诚实程度的比较重可以看出，人们在使用电话时的说谎几率是使用电子邮件时的两倍。The fact that emails are automatically recorded-and can come back to haunt (困扰) you-appears to be the key to the finding.因为电子邮件内

15、容会被自动记录下来-并可能对你造成困扰-这就是这项研究的关键所在。Jeff Hancock of Cor'nell University in Ithaca 'ik , New York, asked 30 students to keep a communications diary for a week.Jeff Hancock在位于纽约州伊萨卡的康奈尔大学执教，他曾要求30个学生记录一周中每天的.通讯情况。In it they noted the number of conversations or email exchanges they had lasting mor

16、e than 10 minutes, and confessed to how many lies they told.参与其中的人需要记录超过10分钟的对话或者电子邮件通讯的数量，并且要坦诚自己说了多少谎话。Hancock then worked out the number of lies per conversation for each medium. He found that lies made up 14 per cent of emails, 21 per cent of instant messages, 27 percent of face-to-face interact

17、ions and an astonishing 37 percent of phone calls.Hancock据此推算出使用各种通讯媒介在每次交流过程中说谎的次数。他得出结论：谎言在电子邮件通讯中占了14%，在当面沟通中占了27%，而在电话交流中占了37%His results, to be presented at the conference on human computer interaction in Viennavien, Austria':stri, in April, have surprised psychologists.这项研究结果于4月份再奥地利维也纳的“人

18、与电脑互动国际会议”上被宣读，并且令心理学家们感到惊讶。Some expected e-mailers to be the biggest liars, reasoning that because deception makes people uncomfortable, the detachment (非直接接触) of e-mailing would make it easier to lie.有人认为电子邮件是最主要的谎言媒介，因为欺骗会让人不适，而电子邮件非直接接触的特性使其更容易成为谎言发生的渠道。Others expected people to lie more in face

19、-to-face exchanges because we are most practiced at that form of communication.还有人认为在当面交流的过程中更容易说谎，因为当面交流史最常见的沟通方式。(因为人们更擅长当面交流，所以撒谎技术更娴熟)。But Hancock says it is also crucial whether a conversation is being recorded and could be reread, and whether occurs in real time.但是Hancock认为同样重要的是对话过程是否会被记录下来并能

20、够被重新阅读，以及对话是否是即时发生的。People appear to be afraid to lie when they know the communication could later be used to hold them to account, he says. This is why fewer lies appear in email than on the phone.当人们觉得时候要对交流过程负责时，就会对说谎存有恐惧感。这就是为什么电子邮件中的谎言要少于电话中的。People are also more likely to lie in real time-in an instant message to phone call, say