2018英語專四閲讀練習及答案彙總

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　　成長與家庭危機

Parents are often upset when their children praise the homes of their friends and regard it as a slur (詆譭) on their own cooking, or cleaning, or furniture, and often are foolish enough to let the adolescents see that they are annoyed. They may even accuse them of disloyalty, or make some spiteful remark about the friends' parents. Such a loss of dignity and descent into childish behavior on the part of the adults deeply shocks the adolescents, and makes them resolve that in future they will not talk to their parents about the place or people they visit. Before very long the parents will be complaining that the child is so secretive and never tells them anything, but they seldom realize that they have brought this on themselves.

Disillusionment with the parents, however good and adequate they may be both as parents and as individuals, is to some degree inevitable. Most children have such a high ideal of their parents, unless the parents themselves have been unsatisfactory, that it can, hardly hope to stand up to a realistic evaluation. Parents would be greatly surprised and deeply touched if they realized how much belief their children usually have in their character and infallibility, and how much this faith means to a child. If parents were prepared for this adolescent reaction, and realized that it was a sign that the child was growing up and developing valuable powers of observation and independent judgment they would not be so hurt, and therefore would not drive the child into opposition by resenting and resisting it.

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 parent's refusal to admit these charges if the child knows them to be true.

Victorian parents believed that they kept their dignity by retreating behind an unreasoning authoritarian attitude; in fact they did nothing of the kind, but children were then too cowed to let them know how they really felt. Today we tend to go to the other extreme, but on the whole this is a healthier attitude both for the child and the parent. It is always wiser and safer to face up to reality, however painful it may be at the moment.

1. According to the passage, children would arouse parents' disappointment for

A. admiring their friends' homes.

B. talking back to their parents.

C. complaining home-made dishes.

D. making some spiteful remark.

2. When adolescents feel disillusion with their parents, it means that they

A. feel disappointed with their parents.

B. are developing into maturity.

C. just want to hurt their parents.

D. are expressing their discontentment.

3. Adolescents in Victorian times

A. had shown more respect 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 discuss?

A. Children will become more and more mature when growing up.

B. Parents have to change their ways in educating their children.

C. The conflicts between parents and their children are inevitable.

D. Parents have made mistakes in communication with children.

答案解析：

1.[A]細節判斷題。根據題幹中的arouse parents’disappointment及各選項內容定位到第1段。第1段指出，家長聽到孩子讚揚朋友的家就會感到不安，常常誤以為孩子是在抱怨家裏的飯菜、清潔等。據此分析，A為正確選項;C是父母自己的推測，並不是孩子本意，所以C可排除。文中指出，家長甚至責備孩子不忠，或是講些孩子朋友父母的壞話，故D應予排除。B“與父母頂嘴”找不到原文依據。

2.[B]細節判斷題。根據題幹中的feel disillusion定位到第2段。本題考查孩子對父母幻想破滅的本質。文中指出，如果父母確實瞭解孩子的這一看法，就會知道這意味着孩子此時正處在走向成熟的階段……因此B符合原文的意思。根據原文，孩子對家長幻想的破滅是孩子不斷成熟的表現，A、D都是孩子對家長幻想破滅的表象，不是問題的實質， 應予以排除;父母瞭解孩子這一反應的實質之後就不會感到難過，可見孩子並不是故意傷害父母.因而C也應予以排除。

3.[D]細節判斷題。 根據題幹中的Victorian times定位到末段。文中明確指出，維多利亞時代的父母之所以可以鎮住孩子，倒不是因為孩子崇尚無理的權威，而是他們被這樣的氣勢嚇得不敢説實話。據此，D的表述與原文相符，為應選答案，同時排除B、C。維多利亞時代的孩子對於父母的尊敬還建立在屈服的基礎之上，不能因此就判斷他們比現在的孩子更多尊敬父母。據此分析，A也應排除。

4.[C]文章基調題。本文主要敍述了孩子在青春發育過程中的變化及其實質，父母和孩子之間出現的常見問題和應對措施，並指出處理不當可能帶來的危害和不良後果。鑑於本文論述嚴謹。觀點明確，所以可以判斷文章的基本論調是“嚴肅”的，因此C為應選答案。文章 雖然提到父母有錯誤和不足，但同時也提出瞭解決的建議和方法，因而本文也不是批判性質的，A也應予排除。

5.[B]全文主旨題。本文講述青少年成長過程中的一些變化，分析家長應該怎樣正確予以看待並提出正確教育孩子的一些建議。由此可知，B為本題答案。孩子逐漸走向成熟以及他們與父母發生衝突都是本文的部分內容，不能代替全文的內容，因此A、C應排除;本文不僅提到D的內容，還提出瞭解決建議，因而D也是片面的，應予以排除。

　　差異性

What comes to mind when you hear the word--diversity? Issues of race or gender may spring to l rights? Or minority issues?

I encourage people to look at a much wider definition of the word.1 would tend to say diversity is “differentness” in any form.A good example of this kind of diversity has been experienced by every person who ever left behind the comforts of home and moved into uncharted es of diversity are informed not only by your cultural background and context，but also by your religion，age，field of work，family situation， personality，and countless other factors that make us rsity affects everyone.

It’s for this reason that diversity has become such a buzz buzz happens because it’s all about how you handle ’s very much like the job a composer has when creating a great musical the composer understands what each unique note and dynamic mark is capable of in combination with the other parts，the result achieved is , however，none of the parts is communicating with the others，we’re left with a cacophony(刺耳的聲音).

On a personal ’s this understanding and acceptance of “the other” which rests at the core of her we’re talking about navigating through a multicultural urban environment or uprooting and moving to a new foreign social context，it is necessary to set aside rigid assumptions about “the other” and put oneself in the other's shoes. So how do we make this leap? It's often as simple as asking questions and being careful not to assume that what you see is necessarily what the other side sees.

Often in my workshops I give a magic lesson to the audience to illustrate this principle. I first present the magic and accomplish the "impossible". The participants receive the same props but simply can't manage. We look more carefully at the situation and realize that the assumptions they made about it actually blocked them from achieving this feat; a feat they suddenly are empowered to do which, moments ago, was impossible.

The goal in being sensitive to diversity is to cultivate a culture of respect for people's differences and understand that such an environment is beneficial to everyone involved.

Diversity awareness is an evolution. We can't get there by snapping our fingers, and it isn't a matter of training people to have textbook politically correct attitudes. Instead it's a case of looking at the big picture of how we see the world, understanding why we see it that way, and then making sure we do our part to genuinely value difference and benefit from it.

1. According to the author, diversity is

A. confusing.

B. extraordinary.

C. quite common.

D. universal.

2. "It" in Paragraph Three refers to

A. diversity.

B. the buzz.

C. how to handle diversity.

D. the formation of diversity.

3. The author believes that

A. to handle diversity one should put himself in others' shoes.

B. when you are in a foreign environment, do as the Romans do.

C. diversity can hardly be defined.

D. diversity derives from cultural difference.

4. The example of a magic lesson is to show

A. everyone can do magic.

B. magic is nothing but a feat.

C. what blocks people from handling diversity.

D. it is possible to achieve anything.

5. How to raise diversity awareness according to the author?

A. By living in an unfamiliar environment.

B. By having politically correct attitudes.

C. By being sensitive to everything one experiences.

D. By understanding people's differences.

答案解析：

1.[D]細節判斷題。第2段有對該詞的定義，從any form，every person，not only…but als0等這些詞可推斷“差異性”具有普遍性，故選D。C為強幹擾項，common偏指普通的，常見的，注意這裏更強調的是“差異性”的普遍性。

2.[C]代詞指代題。考查It所指代的對象。查找到It所在的句子，前句指出“差異性之所以時髦是因為它取決於你如何對待它”，然後就指出“這就好 像作曲家在創作一首偉大的樂曲一樣”，故It在此指代的就是如何對待差異性的問題，故選C。D有一定的干擾性，但差異性的形成並沒有在It前面提到，故排除。

3.[A]觀點態度題。由第4段倒數第3句可知A正確，該段還提到搬遷到一個陌生的社會環境必須拋棄對他人的固執想法，B與原文表述不符;第2段首句就有對”差異性“的定義。故C錯誤;第2段提到“差異性問題不僅體現於你的文化背景，還體現於……”，D表述過於片面，故排除。

4.[C]例證細節題。根據magic lesson定位到第5段。該例子表明觀眾從“不會”到“會”魔術這門技藝，説明是他們原先的臆想阻礙了他們對這種技藝的掌握，進而説明是什麼阻礙了人們正確對待文化差異，故選C。A“每個人都能玩魔術”和B“魔術只不過是一門技藝”不是例證要説明的問題，故排除。

5.[D]細節判斷題。 根據diversi awareness定位到最後一段。該段最後一句表明，差異性意識的提升就應從我們如何觀察世界這個大問題着眼，理解我們為什麼那樣看待差異，並切實保證我們能真正重視事物的差異，故選D。由該段第2句可知B錯誤;到了不熟悉的環境中，會碰到“差異性”的問題，但它不是提升差異意識的途徑，故A錯。C文中沒有提到。

　　黑暗中的堅持

I lost my sight when I was four years old by falling off a box car in a freight yard in Atlantic City and landing on my head. Now I am thirty two. I can vaguely remember the brightness of sunshine and what color red is. It would be wonderful to see again, but a calamity can do strange things to people. It occurred to me the other day that I might not have come to love life as I do if I hadn't been blind. I believe in life now. I am not so sure that I would have believed in it so deeply, otherwise. I don't 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 reality. The more readily a person is able to make these adjustments, the more meaningful his own private world becomes. The adjustment is never easy. I was bewildered and afraid. But I was lucky. My parents and my teachers saw something in me--a potential to live, you might call it--which I didn't see, and 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 hadn't been able to do that, I would have collapsed and become a chair rocker on the front porch for the rest of my life. When I say belief in myself I am not talking about 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 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 can't use this." I said. "Take it with you," he urged me, "and roll it around." 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 Philadelphia's Overbrook School for the Blind I invented a successful variation of baseball. We called it ground ball.

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 on the average I made progress.