全国英语四级阅读考试过关训练题及答案

1、第 第 页全国英语四级阅读考试过关训练题及答案It happens to every medical student sooner or later. You get a cough that persists for a while. Ordinarily,you would just ignore it-but now, armed with your rapidly growing medical knowledge, you cant help worrying. The cough could mean just a cold, but it could also be a sign

2、 of lung cancer.For doctors in training, nurses and medical journalists, hypochondria is an occupational danger. The feeling usually passes after a while, leaving only a funny story to tell at a dinner party. But for the tens ofthousands who suffer from true hypochondria they live in constant terror

3、 that they are dying of some awfuldisease, or even several awful diseases at once. Doctors can assure them that theres nothing wrong, but since the cough is real, the assurances fall on deaf ears. And because no physician or test can offer a 100% guarantee that one doesnt have cancer, a hypochondria

4、c always has fuel to feed Iris .or her worst fears.Hypochondriacs dont harm just themselves; they block the whole healthcare system. Although they account for only about 6% of the patients who visit doctors every year, they tend to burden their physicians with frequent visits that take up e*cessive

5、amounts of time. And the problem may be worse, thanks to the popularity of medical information on the Internet. They go on the Web and learn about new diseases and new presentations of old diseases that they never even knew about before. Doctors have taken to calling this phenomenon cyberchondria (网

6、络疑病症).英语四级阅读模拟题：Choose correct answers to the question:1.According to the passage, if you suffer from hypochondria, _.A.you must be a medical student, or a medical workerB.you are haunted by a possibly ine*istent diseaseC.you will never get rid of this diseaseD.you always tell funny stories at dinne

7、r parties2.Which of the following best summarizes the main idea of the passage?A.Hypochondria happens to everybody sooner or later.B.We neednt worry about hypochondria since it is not dangerous at all.C.Hypochondria originates from too much knowledge of medicine.D.Not only individuals but also the h

8、ealthcare system might be disturbed by unnecessary terrors.3.Why cant doctors convince the suffers that there is nothing wrong?A.Because the doctors cant cure the minor diseasesB.Because the doctors dont assure them of thatC.Because the sufferers are deaf and cannot hear what the doctors sayD.Becaus

9、e lack of absolute guarantee makes the patients doubtful4.The problem becomes worse due to _A.the increasing number of patientsB.the widespread medical knowledge on the InternetC.the patients,regular visits to doctors that occupy too much timeD.new diseases and symptoms emerge constantly5.What does

10、the author most probably think about hypochondria?A.The author considers that hypochondria is an incurable diseaseB.The author thinks that the consequences of hypochondria might be disastrousC.The author suggests that the patients who have hypochondria should set their hearts at restD.The author sym

11、pathizes with the patients who suffer from hypochondria英语四级阅读参考答案1.B 事实环节题。认真读完第2段后半部分,不难发觉hypochondria只是瞎猜疑，应选项B正确。时常怀疑自己生病是医务人员的职业病，但为此困扰的并不仅仅是他们，由于第2段第3句说：But. who suffer from true hypochondria.，说明医务人员不是真正的疑病症患者,应选项A不正确。选项C过于极端。选项D是对原文断章取义。2.D 主旨大意题。第1段以举例方式引入主题，第2段对hypochondria下定义，第3段那么论述其对医疗保健体

12、系造成的干扰，选项D正确全面地概括了文章大意，为正确答案。全文的中心词是hypochondria,在四个选项中，干扰项(选项A、B、C)都涌现了该词，只有正确选项(选项D)没有径直运用该词。3.D 事实环节题。依据文中的because no physician or test can offer a 100% guarantee that one doesnt have cancer.即可得出选项D正确。原文虽有表示咳嗽的确存在，但这并不意味着医生不能治好类似的小毛病，因此选项A不正确。误选C是没有正确理解短语fall on deaf ears,该固定表达的意思是充耳不闻。4.B 推理判断题。句中thanks to是讽刺的用法，引出缘由，应选项B正确。此题考查因果关系，要辨别明显的因果关系，只要关注文中