2018英语专四阅读练习及答案汇总
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成长与家庭危机
Parents are often upset when their children praise the homes of their friends and regard it as a slur (诋毁) 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]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饭菜、清洁等。据此分析，A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”找不到原文依据。
2.[B]细节判断题。根据题干中的feel disillusion定位到第2段。本题考查孩子对父母幻想破灭的本质。文中指出，如果父母确实了解孩子的这一看法，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，孩子对家长幻想的破灭是孩子不断成熟的表现，A、D都是孩子对家长幻想破灭的表象，不是问题的实质， 应予以排除;父母了解孩子这一反应的实质之后就不会感到难过，可见孩子并不是故意伤害父母.因而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基础之上，不能因此就判断他们比现在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。本文主要叙述了孩子在青春发育过程中的变化及其实质，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。鉴于本文论述严谨。观点明确，所以可以判断文章的基本论调是“严肃”的，因此C为应选答案。文章 虽然提到父母有错误和不足，但同时也提出了解决的建议和方法，因而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看待并提出正确教育孩子的一些建议。由此可知，B为本题答案。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，还提出了解决建议，因而D也是片面的，应予以排除。
差异性
What comes to mind when you hear the word--diversity? Issues of race or gender may spring to mind.Equal 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 territory.Issues 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 unique.Diversity affects everyone.
It’s for this reason that diversity has become such a buzz word.The buzz happens because it’s all about how you handle it.It’s very much like the job a composer has when creating a great musical composition.If the composer understands what each unique note and dynamic mark is capable of in combination with the other parts，the result achieved is extraordinary.If, however，none of the parts is communicating 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 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]细节判断题。第2段有对该词的定义，从any form，every person，not only…but als0等这些词可推断“差异性”具有普遍性，故选D。C为强干扰项，common偏指普通的，常见的，注意这里更强调的是“差异性”的普遍性。
2.[C]代词指代题。考查It所指代的对象。查找到It所在的句子，前句指出“差异性之所以时髦是因为它取决于你如何对待它”，然后就指出“这就好 像作曲家在创作一首伟大的乐曲一样”，故It在此指代的就是如何对待差异性的问题，故选C。D有一定的干扰性，但差异性的形成并没有在It前面提到，故排除。
3.[A]观点态度题。由第4段倒数第3句可知A正确，该段还提到搬迁到一个陌生的社会环境必须抛弃对他人的固执想法，B与原文表述不符;第2段首句就有对”差异性“的定义。故C错误;第2段提到“差异性问题不仅体现于你的文化背景，还体现于……”，D表述过于片面，故排除。
4.[C]例证细节题。根据magic lesson定位到第5段。该例子表明观众从“不会”到“会”魔术这门技艺，说明是他们原先的臆想阻碍了他们对这种技艺的掌握，进而说明是什么阻碍了人们正确对待文化差异，故选C。A“每个人都能玩魔术”和B“魔术只不过是一门技艺”不是例证要说明的问题，故排除。
5.[D]细节判断题。 根据diversi awareness定位到最后一段。该段最后一句表明，差异性意识的提升就应从我们如何观察世界这个大问题着眼，理解我们为什么那样看待差异，并切实保证我们能真正重视事物的差异，故选D。由该段第2句可知B错误;到了不熟悉的环境中，会碰到“差异性”的问题，但它不是提升差异意识的途径，故A错。C文中没有提到。
黑暗中的坚持
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.