英语四六级考试阅读专项练习10.docx

1、英语四六级考试阅读专项练习102010年12月英语四六级考试阅读专项练习(10)Many people often enjoy eating out either before or after a visit to the theatre. However, most of us would rather keep the two _11_ separate. One man who thinks that they can be successfully combined has not only expressed his ideas in a recent book, but also

2、 set up an establishment where the theory is put very _12_ into practice. The man is Paul Thornton, and the place is the Hollics, an old farmhouse.Whenever I visit a new restaurant, I feel the same excitement that keen theatre-goers must experience on opening night. I had this feeling last Friday ev

3、ening at dusk, as my wife and I were taking a walk in the beautiful gardens of the restaurant _13_ after we had arrived. Dinner was as excellent as we had been _14_ . There is no menu, for Mr. Thornton creates his meals rather as a director produces a play. Nevertheless, the various combinations of

4、_15_ at each course are always _16_ as if they were done by magic. He and his team of highly skilled helpers serve, cut and cook the food, moving about the stage as confidently as _17_ actors. The meal is as different from what one finds in ordinary restaurants as a _18_ performance of A Midsummer N

5、ights Dream would be from a second-rate television production.May I offer a few words of advice in case you are thinking of paying him a visit. Try not to arrive just after noon, as Mr. Thornton does not serve a normal lunch. His brunch which _19 _ the best _ 20_ of a traditional English breakfast,

6、is served around eleven oclock and is so plentiful that lunch is unnecessary.来源：A. features B. shortly C. potential D. definitelyE. perfect F. promoted G. live H. professional I. charactersJ. promised K. choices L. includes M. pleasures N. vigorously O. substitutions 40 years ago the idea of disable

7、d people doing sport was never heard of. But when the annual games for the disabled were started at Stoke Mandeville, England in 1948 by Sir Ludwig Guttmann, the situation began to change.Sir Ludwig Guttmann, who had been driven to England in 1939 from Nazi Germany, had been asked by the British gov

8、ernment to set up an injuries center at Stoke Mandeville Hospital near London. His ideas about treating injuries included sport for the disabled.In the first games just two teams of injured soldiers took part. The next year, 1949, five teams took part. From those beginnings, things have developed fa

9、st. Teams now come from abroad to Stoke Mandeville every year. In 1960 the first Olympics for the Disabled were held in Rome, in the same place as the normal Olympic Games. Now, every four years the Olympic Games for the Disabled are held, if possible, in the same place as the normal Olympic Games,

10、although they are organized separately. In other years Games for the Disabled are still held at Stoke Mandeville. In the 1984 wheelchair Olympic Games, 1064 wheelchair athletes from about 40 countries took part. Unfortunately, they were held at Stoke Mandeville and not in Los Angeles, along with the

11、 other Olympics.The Games have been a great success in promoting international friendship and understanding, and in proving that being disabled does not mean you cant enjoy sport. One small source of disappointment for those who organize and take part in the games, however, has been the unwillingnes

12、s of the International Olympic Committee to include disabled events at Olympic Games for the able-bodied. Perhaps a few more years are still needed to convince those fortunate enough not to be disabled that their disabled fellow athletes should not be excluded.21. The first games for the disabled we

13、re held_after Sir Ludwig Guttmann arrivedin England.A. 40 years B. 21 yearsC. 10 years D. 9 years22. Besides Stoke Mandeville, surely the games for the disabled were once held in_.A. New York B. LondonC. Rome D. Los Angeles23. In Paragraph 3, the word athletes means_.A. people who support the games

14、B. people who watch the gamesC. people who organize the games D. people who compete in the games24. Which of the following statements is NOT true?A. Sir Ludwig Guttmann is an early organizer of the games for the disabled.B. Sir Ludwig Guttmann is an injured soldier.C. Sir Ludwig Guttmann is from Ger

15、many.D. Sir Ludwig Guttmann is welcomed by the British government.25. From the passage, we may conclude that the writer is _.A. one of the organizers of the game for the disabledB. a disabled person who once took part in the gamesC. against holding the games for the disabledD. in favor of holding th

16、e games for the disabled It is well known that when an individual joins a group he tends to accept the groups standards of behavior and thinking. Many illustrations (例证) could be given of this from everyday life, but what is of particular interest to psychologists is the extent to which peoples judg

17、ments and opinions can be changed as a result of group pressure. Asch and others noticed that people in a group will agree to statements that are contrary to the evidence of their senses. It would be a mistake to think that only particular changeable people are chosen to take part in experiments of

18、this type. Usually highly intelligent and independent people are used.In a typical experiment, this is what may happen. The experimenter asks for volunteers to join a group which is investigating visual perception. The victims are not, therefore, aware of the real purpose of the experiment. Each vol

19、unteer is taken to a room where he finds a group of about seven people who are collaborating(合作) with the experimenter. The group is shown a standard card which contains a single line. They are then asked to look at a second card. This has three lines on it. One is obviously longer than the line on

20、the first card, one is shorter and one the same length. They have to say which line on the second card is the same length as the line on the standard card. The other members of the group answer first but what the volunteer does not know is that they have been told to pick one of the wrong lines. Whe

21、n his turn comes he is faced with the unanimous (一致的 ) opinion of the rest of the groupall the others have chosen line A but he quite clearly sees line B as correct. What will he do? According to Asch, more than half of the victims chosen will change their opinion. What is equally surprising is that

22、, when interviewed about their answers, most explained that they know the group choice was incorrect but that they yield to the pressure of the group because they thought they must be suffering from an optical illusion, or because they were afraid of being different.26. The psychologists are particu

23、larly interested in_.A. the changes in the attitudes of the peopleB. the degree of changes of peoples opinionsC. the result of the experimentD. the difference in peoples characters27. People who are usually chosen to take part in the experiments are_.A. stubborn and independent B. intelligentC. igno

24、rant and docile D. capable of reasoning28. Which of the following statements is TRUE?A. The experimenter and all the members of the group except the victim know the purpose of the experiment.B. All of them know the purpose of the experiment.C. Only the experimenter knows the purpose of the experimen

25、t.D. Only the victim knows the purpose of the experiment.29. More than half of the victims changed their opinion because_.A. someone in the group changed their opinionB. they thought their eyes must be deceivedC. they thought the group choice was correct.D. they had been told about the answer本文来源:考试

26、大网30. The purpose of the author in writing this passage is to_.A. illustrate the influence of the groups pressure on individuals behaviorB. invite more volunteers to join in Aschs experimentC. tell the audience how to perform psychological experimentD. encourage people to act against the groups opin

27、ionII. M 12. D 13. B 14. J 15. K 16. E 17. H 18. G 19. L 20. A 21. D 22. C 23. D 24. B 25. D 26. B 27. D 28. C 29. B 30. A2010年12月英语四六级考试阅读专项练习(12)Student expeditions do a great deal of good work on the Arctic islands but from time to time cause trouble in the huts, probably because students are not

28、 familiar with the _11_ of the little wooden huts dotted all over the islands of the Spizbergen group.Each hut _12_ has an inner and an outer door, shutters over the windows, a store of wood _13_ up outside, dry chopped wood inside, utensils and cutlery, and above all, a small store of food. All the

29、se things must be completely in _14_ whenever the hut is left.It makes no _15_ if it is only the middle of July. That_ 16_ hut may not be visited again before the winter. A door left open can lead either to snow filling up the hut to the ceiling, or _17_ still, wind blowing the roof off. Unfastened

30、shutters leave the windows an easy prey for polar bears _18 _for food and the result is again snow in the hut. The ready-chopped wood is also very important.A traveler visiting the hut in the middle of the dark time and perhaps in bad weather, his feet, hands and face bitten by the frost, will have

31、his difficulties doubled if the wood he left has been used up by others and he had nothing with which to _19 _a fire.Ten or more years ago there were enough hunters to look after most of the huts, but now many buildings have become useless because there is no one to repair them and because of _20_。A

32、. worse B. peculiar C. laid D. lightwww.xamda.CoM考试就到考试大E. generally F. order G. particular H. conventionsI. carelessness J. difference K. built L. fashionsM. searching N. ordinarily O. result I have had just about enough of being treated like a second-class citizen, simply because I happen to be that put-upon membe