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2010年6月大学英语四级考试阅读真题
PartIVReadingComprehension(Reading inDepth) (25 minutes)
SectionA
Directions: In this section, thereisapassagewith ten blanks. You arerequired to select one
wordfor each blankfromalistof choices given in awordbank following thepassage. Read the
passagethrough carefullybeforemaking your choices. Each choice in thebankis identified bya
letter.Please markthe correspondingletter for each itemonAnswer Sheet 2withasingleline
through thecentre. Youmay not useanyof thewords in thebankmorethan once.
Questions47to 56arebased onthefollowing passage.
Whenwe thinkof green buildings, we tend to thinkofnew ones –thekind of high-tech,
solar-paneled masterpieces that makethecovers ofarchitecture magazines. But theU.S. has more
than 100millionexisting homes, and itwould be __47__wasteful to tear them all down and __48__
themwith greener versions.An enormous amount of energy and resources went into the
construction ofthosehouses.And it would takean average of 65years forthe __49__carbon
emissionsfrom a newenergy-efficient hometo makeupfor theresources lostbydestroying an old
one. So inthebroadest __50__,thegreenest homeis the onethat has already been built.But at the
same time, nearly half of U. S. carbon emissions come from heating, cooling and __51__ our homes,
offices and other buildings. "You can't deal with climatechange without dealing with existing
buildings," says Richard Moe, thepresident of theNationalTrust.
Withsome__52__,the oldest homestend tobe theleast energy-efficient. Houses builtbefore
1939 useabout 50%more energy per square foot thanthosebuiltafter 2000,mainly dueto thetiny
cracks and gaps that __53__overtimeand let in moreoutsideair.
Fortunately,there are a__54__number ofrelatively simplechanges that can greenolder
homes,from __55__ones likeLincoln's Cottage to your own postwar home.Andefficiency
upgrades (升级)can save morethan just theearth; they can help __56__property owners from
risingpower costs.
注意：此部分试题请在答题卡2上作答。
A)accommodations
B) clumsy
C)doubtful
D)exceptions
E)expand
F)historic
G)incredibly
H)powering
I) protect
J)reduced
K)replace
L) sense
M)shifted
N)supplying
O)vast
SectionB
Directions:There are 2passages in thissection. Each passageis followed bysome questions or
unfinished statements. For each ofthem there are four choices markedA), B), C)and D).You
shoulddecide onthebest choice and mark thecorresponding letter onAnswer Sheet 2with asingle
linethrough the centre.
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Questions 57to61are based onthefollowing passage.
You never seehim, but they're withyou every timeyou fly.They record where you are
going,how fast you're traveling and whether everything onyour airplane is functioning normally.
Theirabilityto withstand almost any disaster makes them seem likesomething out ofa comic
book.They'reknown as theblack box.
Whenplanes fall from thesky,as aYemeniairliner did onits way to ComorosIslands in the
India ocean June30,2009,theblack boxis thebest bet for identifying what went wrong. So whena
French submarine(潜水艇)detected thedevice's homing signal five days later,thediscovery
marked a huge step toward determining thecause of atragedy in which 152passengers were killed.
In 1958,Australian scientistDavidWarren developed aflight-memory recorder that would
track basic information likealtitudeanddirection.That was thefirst modefora black box,which
became arequirement onall U.S. commercial flights by1960.Early models often failed to
withstandcrashes, however,so in 1965thedevice was completely redesigned and moved to therear
oftheplane–the area least subject toimpact –from itsoriginal position inthe landingwells (起落
架舱).Thesame year,theFederalAviationAuthority required that the boxes,which were never
actually black, bepainted orange or yellow to aid visibility.
Modern airplanes have two black boxes: a voicerecorder,which tracks pilots'
conversations,and aflight-data recorder,which monitorsfuel levels, engine noises and other
operating functions that helpinvestigators reconstruct theaircraft's final moments.Placed inan
insulated (隔绝的) case and surrounded by aquarter-inch-thick panels ofstainless steel, theboxes
can withstand massiveforce and temperatures upto 2,000℉.When submerged, they're also able to
emitsignals from depths of 20,000ft. Experts believe theboxes fromAir France Flight 447,which
crashed near BrazilonJune 1,2009,are inwater nearly that deep, but statisticssay they're stilllikely
toturn up.In theapproximately20deep-sea crashes over thepast 30years, only one plane's black
boxes were never recovered.
注意：此部分试题请在答题卡2上作答。
57.What does theauthorsay about the black box?
A)It ensures thenormal functioning ofan airplane.
B)Theidea forits design comes from acomicbook.
C)Its abilityto ward offdisasters isincredible.
D)It is an indispensabledevice onan airplane.
58.What information could be foundfrom the black boxontheYemeni airliner?
A)Data foranalyzing thecause of thecrash.
B)Thetotal numberof passengers onboard.
C)Thescene ofthecrash andextentof thedamage.
D)Homing signals sent bythepilotbefore thecrash.
59.Why was theblack boxredesigned in 1965?
A)New materials becameavailable bythat time.
B)Too much space was needed forits installation.
C)Theearly models often got damaged in thecrash.
D)The early models didn't providetheneeded data.
60.Why did theFederalAviationAuthority require the black boxes bepainted orange or
yellow?
A)Todistinguish them from the colourofthe plane.
B)Tocaution people tohandle them with care.
C)Tomakethem easily identifiable.
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61.What dowe knowabout theblack boxes fromAirFrance Flight 447?
A)There is stilla good chance oftheir being recovered.
B)There is an urgent need for them to bereconstructed.
C)They have stopped sending homing signals.
D)They were destroyed somewhere near Brazil.
PassageTwo
Questions 62to66are based onthefollowing passage.
The$11billionself-help industry is builtontheidea that you shouldturn negative thoughts
like"I never doanything right" into positiveones like"I can succeed." But was positivethinking
advocate NormanVincent Peale right? Is there power inpositivethinking?
Researchers inCanada just publisheda study inthe journal Psychological Science that says
trying toget people to thinkmore positivelycan actually have theoppositeeffect: itcan simply
highlighthow unhappy they are.
Thestudy's authors, JoanneWoodand JohnLee of theUniversity ofWaterlooand Elaine
PerunovicoftheUniversity ofNew Brunswick, begin byciting olderresearch showing that when
peopleget feedback which they believe is overly positive, they actually feel worse, not better.If you
tellyour dim friend that hehas thepotential ofan Einstein, you'rejust underlining his faults. In one
1990sexperiment, a team including psychologist Joel Cooperof Princeton asked participants to
writeessays opposing funding for thedisabled.When theessayists were laterpraised for their
sympathy,they felt even worse about what they had written.
In thisexperiment,Wood, Leeand Perunovicmeasured 68students'self-esteem.The
participants were then asked to writedown their thoughts and feelings for four minutes. Every 15
seconds, onegroup ofstudents heard abell.When it rang,they were supposed to tellthemselves, "I
am lovable."
Thosewith lowself-esteem didn't feel better after theforced self-affirmation.In fact, their
moodsturned significantlydarker than thoseofmembers ofthecontrol group, who weren't urged to
thinkpositivethoughts.
Thepaper provides support for newer forms of psychotherapy (心理治疗) thaturge peopleto
accept theirnegative thoughts and feelings rather than fight them. In thefighting, we not onlyoften
fail butcan make things worse. Meditation (静思) techniques, in contrast, can teach people toput
theirshortcomings intoalarger,morerealisticperspective. Call itthepower of negative thinking.
注意：此部分试题请在答题卡2 上作答。
62.What dowe learn from thefirst paragraph about the self-help industry?
A)It is ahighly profitableindustry.
B) It is based ontheconcept ofpositivethinking.
C)It was established byNormanVincent Peale.
D)It has yielded positiveresults.
63.What is thefinding ofthe Canadian researchers?
A)Encouraging positivethinking many domoreharm thangood.
B)There can benosimpletherapy for psychological problems.
C)Unhappypeople cannot think positively.
D)The powerof positivethinking islimited.
64.What does theauthormean by"…you're just underlining hisfaults" (Line 4,Para. 3)?
A)Youare not taking his mistakes seriously enough.
B)Youare pointingout theerrors he has committed.
C)Youare emphasizingthe fact that heisnot intelligent.
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65.What dowe learn from theexperiment ofWood, Lee and Perunovic?
A)It is important forpeople to continually boosttheirself-esteem.
B) Self-affirmation can bring apositivechange to one's mood.
C)Forcing a person to think positivethoughts may lower theirself-esteem.
D)Peoplewith lowself-esteem seldom write down theirtruefeelings.
66.What dowe learn from thelast paragraph?
A)The effects of positivethinking vary from person to person.
B) Meditationmay prove tobea good form ofpsychotherapy.
C)Different peopletend tohave different ways ofthinking.
D)Peoplecan avoid making mistakes through meditation.
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