2023年6月英语四级考试阅读精练

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【#四六级考试# 导语】2023年6月英语四级考试阅读精练是考生们备战四级考试的重要内容之一。据®文档大全网了解，英语四级考试是全国范围内的大型英语考试，是考生们证明自己英语水平的重要途径。阅读理解是英语四级考试中的一个重要部分，考生需要通过对文章的理解和分析来回答问题。

1.2023年6月英语四级考试阅读精练篇一

　　A remarkable variety of insects live in this planet More species of insects exist than all other animal species together. Insects have survived on earth for more than 300 million years, and may possess the ability to survive for millions more.

　　Insects can be found almost everywhere -- on the highest mountains and on the bottom of rushing streams, in the cold South Pole and in bubbling hot springs. They dig through the ground, jump and sing in the trees,and run and dance in the air. They come in many different colors and various shapes. Insects are extremely useful to humans, pollinating (授粉)our crops as well as flowers in meadows, forests, deserts and otherareas. But licks and some insects, such as mosquitoes and fleas, can transmit disease.

　　There are many reasons why insects are so successful at surviving. Their amazing ability to adapt permits them to live in extreme ranges of temperatures and environments. The one place they have not yet been found to any major extent is in the open oceans. Insects can survive on a wide range, of natural and artificial foods—paint, pepper, glue, books, grain, cotton，other insects, plants and animals Because they are small they can hide in tiny spaces.

　　A strong, hard but flexible shell covers their soft organs and is resistant to chemicals, water and physical impact. Their wings give them the option of flying away from dangerous situations or toward food or males. Also, insects have an enormous reproductive capacity: An African ant queen can lay as many as 43,000 eggs a day.

　　Another reason for their success is the strategy of protective color. An insect may be right before our eyes, but nearly invisible because it is cleverly disguised like a green leaf, lump of brown soil, gray lichen (青苔),a seed or some other natural object Some insects use bright, bold colors to send warning signalsthat they taste bad,sting or are poison.Others have wing patterns that look like the eyes of a huge predator, bitter-tasting insects; hungry enemies are fooled into avoiding them.

　　练习题：

　　Choose correct answers to the question:

　　1.Insects can be found in large amounts in the following places EXCEPT _____.

　　A.on the mountains with little air

　　B.in the cold polar areas

　　C.in the hot desert areas

　　D.in the open oceans

　　2.Insects protect themselves from chemicals by _______

　　A.hiding in tiny spaces

　　B.having a strong shell

　　C.flying away when necessary

　　D.changing colors or shapes

　　3.Some insects disguise like natural objects so as to ______

　　A.frighten away their enemies

　　B.avoid being discovered

　　C.send warning signals

　　D.look bitter-tasting

　　4.The passage mentions that insects ______.

　　A.can be found in any extreme environments

　　B.have survived longer than any other creatures

　　C.can be fed on any natural or man-made foods

　　D.are important for the growth of crops and flowers

　　5.The passage is mainly about ______

　　A.how insects survive in different places

　　B.why insects can survive so successfully

　　C.what insects can do to the environment

　　D.where insects can be found in quantity

2.2023年6月英语四级考试阅读精练篇二

　　Federal Express is a company that specializes in rapid overnight delivery of high-priority packages. The first company of its type, Federal Express was founded by the youthful Fred Smith in 1971, when he was only28 years old. Smith had actually developed the idea for the rapid delivery service in a term paper for an economics class when he was a student at Yale University.

　　The term paper received a less-than-stellar grade because of the infeasibility of the project that Smith had outlined. The model that Smith proposed had never been tried; it was a model that was efficient to operate but at the same time very difficult to institute.

　　Smith achieved efficiency in his model by designing a system that was separate from the passenger system and could, therefore, focus on how to deliver packages most efficiently. His strategy was to have his own planes so that he could create his own schedules and to ship all packages through the centralized hub city of Memphis, a set-up which resembles the spokes (轮辐) on the wheel of a bicycle. With this combination ofhis own planes and hub set-up, he could get packages anywhere in the United States overnight.

　　What made Smith’s idea difficult to institute was the fact that the entire system had to be created before the company could begin operations. He needed a fleet of aircraft to collect packages from airports every night and deliver them to Memphis, where they were immediately sorted and flown out to their new destinations; he needed a fleet of trucks to deliver packages to and from the various airports; he needed facilities and trained staff all in place to handle the operation. Smith had a $4 million inheritance from his father, and he managed to raise an additional 91 million dollars from venture capitalists to get the companyoperating.

　　练习题：

　　Choose correct answers to the question:

　　1. The most appropriate title for this passage is ”_____”.

　　A. The Problems and Frustrations of a Business Student

　　B. The Importance of Business Studies

　　C. The Capitalization of Federal Express

　　D. The Implementation of a Successful Business

　　2. What is stated in the passage about Smith’s term paper?

　　A. Smith submitted it through a delivery service.

　　B. It was written by a student of Smith’s.

　　C. The grade was not quite satisfactory.

　　D. The professor thought it had great potential.

　　3. What was Smith’s key idea?

　　A. That he should focus on passenger service.

　　B. That package delivery should be separate from passenger service.

　　C. That packages could be delivered on other companies’ planes.

　　D. That passenger service had to be efficient.

　　4. It can be inferred from the passage that Smith selected Memphis as his hub city because it____.

　　A. was near the middle of the country

　　B. had a large number of passenger aircraft

　　C. already had a large package delivery service

　　D. was a favorite passenger airport

3.2023年6月英语四级考试阅读精练篇三

　　The fridge is considered necessary. It has been so since the 1960s when packaged food list appeared with the label: "Store in the refrigerator."

　　In my fridgeless Fifties childhood, 1 was fed well and healthy. The milkman came every day, the grocer, the butcher (肉商), the baker, and the ice-cream man delivered two or three times each week. The Sunday meatwould last until Wednesday and surplus(剩余的) bread and milk became all kinds of cakes. Nothing was wasted, and we were never troubled by rotten food. Thirty years on food deliveries have ceased, fresh vegetables are almost unobtainable in the country.

　　The invention of the fridge contributed comparatively little to the art of food preservation. Many well-tried techniques already existed -- natural cooling, drying, smoking, salting, sugaring, bottling...

　　What refrigeration did promote was marketing --- marketing hardware and electricity, marketing soft drinks, marketing dead bodies of animals around the world in search of a good price.

　　Consequently, most of the world's fridges are to be found, not in the tropics where they might prove useful, but in the rich countries with mild temperatures where they are climatically almost unnecessary. Every winter, millions of fridges hum away continuously, and at vast expense, busily maintaining an artificially-cooled space inside an artificially-heated house -- while outside, nature provides the desired temperature free of charge.

　　The fridge's effect upon the environment has been evident, while its contribution to human happiness has been not important. If you don't believe me, try it yourself, invest in a food cabinet and mm off your fridge next winter. You may not eat the hamburgers(汉堡包), but at least you'll get rid of that terrible hum.

　　练习题：

　　Choose correct answers to the question:

　　1.The statement "In my fridgeless fifties childhood, I was fed well and healthily." suggests that______.

　　A.the author was well-fed and healthy even without a fridge in his fifties.

　　B.the author was not accustomed to fridges even in his fifties.

　　C.there was no fridge in the author's home in the 1950s.

　　D.the fridge was in its early stage of development in the 1950s.

　　2.Why does the author say that nothing was wasted before the invention of fridges?

　　A.People would not buy more food than was necessary.

　　B.Food was delivered to people two or three times a week.

　　C.Food was sold fresh and did not get rotten easily.

　　D.People had effective ways to preserve their food.