专四阅读长难句小测.docx

1、专四阅读长难句小测专四阅读长难句小测专四英语考试中，长难句一直都是重点加难点，想要突破这个重点加难点，大量的练习自然是必不可少的，但练习并不能盲目，下面小编就精选了一下长难句练习，希望能够帮助到大家!小测题组一1. With a team of colleagues at Tokyo National University, he setabout measuring brain volumes of a thousand people of different ages andvarying occupations.2. Computer technology enabled the res

2、earchers to obtain precisemeasurements of the volume of the front and side sections of the brain, whichrelate to intellect (智能) and emotion, and determine the human character.3. Contraction of front and side parts as cells die off was observed insome subjects in their thirties, but it was still not

3、evident in some sixty andseventy-year-olds.4. The findings show in general terms that contraction of the brainbegins sooner in people in the country than in the towns.5. White collar workers doing routine work in government offices are,however, as likely to have shrinking brains as the farm worker,

4、bus driverand shop assistant.参考答案：1.在东京国立大学的同事们的帮助下，他开始对一千来自不同职业的人群进行了大脑体积的测量。2.计算机技术帮助研究人员获得人脑前部和侧部的准确体积，这是与人的智能和情绪有关的部分，而且也决定人的性格特点。3.有的人(大脑)前部和侧部的收缩随着细胞的死亡在三十多岁时就能被观察到了，但是也有些人直到六七岁依然不明显。4.研究结果表明在农村的人大脑收缩基本上比城市里的人要早。5.在 ZF 部门从事简单重复工作的白领也像农场工人.公共汽车司机和商店职员一样大脑细胞容易收缩。小测题组二1. Wearing a seat belt saves

5、 lives; it reduces your chance of death orserious injury by more than half.2. But it will be the drivers responsibility to make sure that childrenunder 14 do not ride in the front unless they are wearing a seat belt of somekind.3. However, you do not have to wear a seat belt if you are reversingyour

6、 vehicle; or you are making a local delivery or collection using a specialvehicle; or if you have a valid medical certificate which excuses you fromwearing it.4. Remember you may be taken to court for not doing so, and youmay be fined if you cannot prove to the court that you have been excusedfrom w

7、earing it.5. Professor Taiju Matsuzawa wanted to find out why otherwisehealthy farmers in northern Japan appeared to be losing their ability to thinkand reason at a relatively early age, and how the process of ageing could heslowed down.参考答案：1.系好安全带能够挽救性命，它能将丧生和重伤的概率减少一半以上。2.但是司机有责任确保 14 岁以下的孩子不要坐在前

8、排，除非他们系好了安全带。3.当然，如果有以下情况你可以不系安全带：你在倒车时，或者你用一种特殊交通工具进行当地的货物运送.收集时，或者你有合法的医学证明你不能系安全带时。4.注意你如果不这么做(系安全带)的话，你有可能被告上法庭，而且你有可能被处以罚款除非你能证明你有不带安全带的理由。5.Taiju Matsuzawa 教授想找出为什么日本北部的健康农民在相对年轻的年龄就显得开始失去思考与推理的能力的原因以及怎样才能延缓老化过程。小测题组三1. We know that you have a high opinion of the kind of learningtaught in your

9、 colleges, and that the costs of living of our young men, whilewith you, would be very expensive to you.2. But you must know that different nations have different ways oflooking at things, and you will therefore not be offended if our ideas of thiskind of education happen not to be the same as yours

10、.3. We are, however, not the less obliged by your kind offer, thoughwe refuse to accept it; and, to show our grateful sense of it, if the gentlemenof Virginia will send us a dozen of their sons, we will take care of theireducation, teach them in all we know , and make men of them.4. In what now seem

11、s like the prehistoric times of computer history,the earths postwar era, there was quite a wide-spread concern that computerswould take over the world from man one day.5. Already today, less than forty years later, as computers arerelieving us of more and more of the routine tasks in business and in

12、 ourpersonal lives. We are faced with a less dramatic but also less foreseenproblem.参考答案：1.我们知道你们很看重你们在大学里面教育的学习方法，而且我们的年轻人与你们生活的花费即使对于你们来说也不便宜。2.但是你们也要明白不同的民族看待事物有不同的方法，所以如果刚好我们的看法与你们的不一样的话，你们也不应觉的被冒犯了。3.当然，对于你们的盛情我们没有被逼迫的感觉，尽管我们拒绝接受。而且，为了表示我们的感谢，如果维吉利亚洲的绅士们愿意派来一些他们的子弟的话，我们会尽全力教育他们，并把他们培养成为真正的男人。4.

13、在这个像是计算机史前时代的时代，地球的战后时代，人们普遍担忧有一天计算机会取代人类控制世界。5.今天或者不到五十年后，计算机将越来越多的减轻人们的工作事务和日常琐事。我们也将面对一个没有什么戏剧性和更不可预测的问题。小测题组四1. Obviously, there would be no point in investing in a computer ifyou had to check all its answers, but people should also rely on their owninternal computers and check the machine when

14、they have the feeling thatsomething has gone wrong.2. Certainly Newton considered some theoretical aspects of it in hiswritings, but he was reluctant to go to sea to further his work.3. For most people the sea was remote, and with the exception ofearly intercontinental travellers or others who earne

15、d a living from the sea,there was little reason to ask many questions about it , let alone to ask whatlay beneath the surface.4. The first time that the question What is at the bottom of theoceans? had to be answered with any commercial consequence was when thelaying of a telegraph cable from Europe to America was proposed.5. At the early attempts, the cable failed and when it was taken out forrepairs it was found to be covered in living growths, a fact