2022年下半年英语四级阅读练习题

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1.2022年下半年英语四级阅读练习题

　　Engineering students are supposed to be examples of practicality and rationality， but when it comes to mycollege education I am an idealist and a fool. In high school I wanted to be an electrical engineer and, of course,any sensible student with my aims would have chosen a college with a large engineering department，famous reputation and lots of good labs and research equipment. But that‘s not what I did.

　　I chose to study engineering at a small liberal-arts(文科)university that doesn‘t even offer a major in electrical engineering. Obviously, this was not a practical choice; I came here for more noble reasons. I wanted a broad education that would provide me with flexibility and a value system to guide me in my career.I wanted to open my eyes and expand my vision by interacting with people who weren’t studying science orengineering. My parents, teachers and other adults praised me for such a sensible choice. They told me I was wise and mature beyond my 18 years,and I believed them.

　　I headed off to college sure I was going to have an advantage over those students who went to big engineering “factories” where they didn‘t care if you have values or were flexible. I was going to be a complete engineer: technical genius and sensitive humanist(人文学者)all in one.

　　Now I‘m not so sure. Somewhere along the way my noble ideals crashed into reality, as all noble ideals eventually do. After three years of struggling to balance math, physics and engineering courses with liberal-arts courses,I have learned there are reasons why few engineering students try to reconcile(协调) engineering with liberal-arts courses in college.

　　The reality that has blocked my path to become the typical successful student is that engineering and the liberal arts simply don’t mix as easily as I assumed in high school. Individually they shape a person in very different ways; together they threaten to confuse. The struggle to reconcile the two fields of study is difficult.

　　练习题：

　　Choose correct answers to the question:

　　1. The author chose to study engineering at a small liberal-arts university because he ________.

　　A. intended to be a combination of engineer and humanist

　　B. wanted to be an example of practicality and rationality

　　C. intended to be a sensible student with noble ideals

　　D. wanted to coordinate engineering with liberal-arts courses in college

　　2. According to the author，by interacting with people who study liberal arts， engineering students can ________.

　　A. broaden their horizons

　　B. become noble idealists

　　C. receive guidance in their careers

　　D. balance engineering and the liberal arts

　　3. In the eyes of the author，a successful engineering student is expected ________.

　　A. to be imaginative with a value system to guide him

　　B. to be a technical genius with a wide vision

　　C. to have an excellent academic record

　　D. to be wise and mature

　　4. The author‘s experience shows that he was ________.

　　A. creative

　　B. irrational

　　C. ambitious

　　D. Unrealistic

　　5. The word“they”in“together they threaten to confuse.”(Line 3，Para. 5) refers to ________.

　　A. practicality and rationality

　　B. engineering and the liberal arts

　　C. reality and noble ideals

　　D. flexibility and a value system

2.2022年下半年英语四级阅读练习题

　　The National Trust in Britain plays an increasingly important part in the preservation for public enjoyment of the best that is left unspoiled of the British countryside. Although the Trust has received practicaland moral support from the Government, it is not rich Government department. It is a charity which dependsfor its existence on voluntary support from members of the public.

　　The attention of the public was first drawn to the dangers threatening the great old houses and castles ofBritain by the death of Lord Lothian, who left his great seventeenth-century house to the Trust together with the 4, 500-acre park and estate surrounding it. This gift attracted wide publicity and started the Trust's "Country House Scheme". Under this scheme, with the help of the Government and the general public, the Trust has been able to save and open to the public about one hundred and fifty of these old houses. Lastyear about one and three quarters of a million people paid to visit these historic houses, usually at a very small charge.

　　In addition to country houses and open spaces the Trust now owns some examples of ancient wind and water mills, nature reserves, five hundred and forty farms and nearly two thousand five hundred cottages or smallvillage houses, as well as some complete villages. In these villages no one is allowed to build, develop or disturb the old village environment in any way and all the houses are maintained in their original sixteenth-century style. Over four hundred thousand acres of coastline, woodland, and hill country are protected by the Trust and no development or disturbance of any kind are permitted. The public has free access to these areas and is only asked to respect the peace, beauty and wildlife.

　　So it is that over the past eighty years the Trust has become a big important organization and an essential and respected part of national life, preserving all that is of great natural beauty and of historical significance not only for future generations of Britons but also for the millions of tourists who each year invade Britain in search of a great historical and cultural heritage.

　　练习题：

　　Choose correct answers to the question:

　　1.The National Trust is ______.

　　A.a rich government department

　　B.a charity supported mainly by the public

　　C.a group of areas of great natural beauty

　　D.an organization supported by public taxes

　　2. The "Country House Scheme" was started _______________.

　　A. with the founding of the National Trust

　　B. as the first project of the National Trust

　　C. after Lord Lothian's donation

　　D. to protect Lord Lothian's house

　　3. Land protected by the National Trust ______________.

　　A. can be developed and modernized

　　B. includes naturally and historically valuable sites

　　C. consists of country houses and nature reserves

　　D. is primarily for tourists to Britain

　　4. The word "invade" in the last paragraph is used to emphasize that _____________.

　　A. the British do not like tourists

　　B. tourists to Britain are unfriendly

　　C. tourists come to Britain in large numbers

　　D. Britain is attacked by masses of tourists

　　5. The main purpose of this passage is to ______________.

　　A. inform the readers about the National Trust

　　B. promote the National Trust's membership

　　C. make people aware of the natural beauty of Britain

　　D. let the general public share the views of the National Trust

3.2022年下半年英语四级阅读练习题

　　Sign has become a scientific hot button. Only in the past 20 years have specialists in language study realized that signed languages are unique—a speech of the hand. They offer a new way to probe how the brain generates and understands language, and throw new light on an old scientific controversy: whether language,complete with grammar, is something that we are born With, or whether it is a learned behavior. The current interest in sign language has roots in the pioneering work of one rebel teacher at Gallaudet University in Washington, D. C., the world’s only liberal arts university for deaf people.

　　When Bill Stokoe went to Gallaudet to teach English, the school enrolled him in a course in signing. But Stokoe noticed something odd: among themselves, students signed differently from his classroom teacher.

　　Stokoe had been taught a sort of gestural code, each movement of the hands representing a word in English.At the time, American Sign Language (ASL) was thought to be no more than a form of pidgin English (混杂英语). But Stokoe believed the “hand talk”his students used looked richer. He wondered: Might deaf people actually: have a genuine language? And could that language be unlike any other on Earth? It was 1955, wheneven deaf people dismissed their signing as“substandard”. Stokoe’s idea was academic heresy (异端邪说).

　　It is 37 years later. Stokoe—now devoting his time to writing and editing books and journals and to producing video materials on ASL and the deaf culture—is having lunch at a cafe near the Gallaudet campus and explaining how he started a revolution. For decades educators fought his idea that signed languages are natural languages like English, French and Japanese. They assumed language must be based on speech, the modulation (调节) of sound. But sign language is based on the movement of hands, the modulation of space. “What I said,” Stokoe explains, “is that language is not mouth stuff—it’s brain stuff.”

　　练习题：

　　Choose correct answers to the question:

　　1. The study of sign language is thought to be ________.

　　A. a new way to look at the learning of language

　　B. a challenge to traditional, views on the nature of language

　　C. an approach: to simplifying the grammatical structure of a language

　　D. an attempt to clarify misunderstanding about the origin of language

　　2. The present growing interest in sign language was stimulated by _______.

　　A. a famous scholar in the study of the human brain

　　B. a leading specialist in the study of liberal arts

　　C. an English teacher in a university for the deaf

　　D. some senior experts in American Sign Language