英语四级新题型(阅读)冲刺讲义【新东方】

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Unit 8

Questions 16 to 20 are based on the following passage:

    A good modern newspaper is an extraordinary piece of reading. It is remarkable first for what it contains: the range of news from local crime to international politics, from sport to business to fashion to science and the range of comment and special features（特写）as well, from editorial page to feature articles and interviews to criticism of books, art, theatre, and music. A newspaper is even more remarkable for the way one reads it: never completely, never straight through, but always by jumping from here to there, in and out glancing at one piece, reading another article all the way through, reading just a few paragraphs of the next. A good modern newspaper offers a variety to attract many different readers, but far more than any one reader is interested in. What brings this variety together in one place is its topicality（时事性）, its immediate relation to what is happening in your world and your locality now. But immediacy and the speed of production that goes with it mean also that much of what appears in a newspaper has no more than transient（短暂的）value. For all these reasons, no two people really read the same paper. What each person does is to put together, out of the pages or that day's paper, his own selection and sequence, his own newspaper. For all these reasons, reading newspapers efficiently, which means getting what you want from them without missing things you need but without wasting time, demands skill and self-awareness as you modify and apply the techniques of reading.

16. A modern newspaper is remarkable for all the following except its ________.
   A) wide coverage                   
   B) popularity
C) speed in reporting news                
   D) uniform style
17. According to the passage, the reason why no two people really read the "same" newspaper is that ________.
   A) people are rarely interested in the same kind of the news
   B) different people prefer different newspapers
   C) people scan for the news they are interested in
   D) people have different views about what a good newspaper is
18. It can be concluded from the passage that newspaper readers ________.
   A) apply reading techniques skillfully
   B) usually read a newspaper selectively
   C) appreciate the variety of a newspaper
   D) jump from one newspaper to another
19. A good newspaper offers "a variety" to readers because ________.
   A) readers are difficult to please
   B) it has to cover things that happen in a certain locality
   C) it tries to serve different readers
   D) readers like to read different newspapers
20. The best title for this passage would be "________."
   A) The Characteristics of a Good Newspaper
   B) The Importance of Newspaper Topicality
   C) The Variety of a Good Newspaper
   D) Some Suggestions on How to Read a Newspaper

Questions 61 to 65 are based on the following passage:

    It is, everyone agrees, a huge task that the child performs when he learns to speak, and the fact that he does so in so short a period of time challenges explanation.
    Language learning begins with listening. Individual children vary greatly in the amount of listening they do before they start speaking, and late starters are often long listeners. Most children will "obey" spoken instructions some time before they can speak, though the word obey is hardly accurate as a description of the eager and delighted cooperation usually shown by the child. Before they can speak, many children will also ask questions by gesture and by making questioning noises.
    Any attempt to trace the development from the noises babies make to their first spoken words leads to considerable difficulties. It is agreed that they enjoy making noises, and that during the first few months one or two noises sort themselves out as particularly indicative of delight, distress, sociability, and so on. But since these cannot be said to show the baby's intention to communicate, they can hardly be regarded as early forms of language. It is agreed, too, that from about three months they play with sounds for enjoyment, and that by six months they are able to add new sounds to their repertoire（能发出的全部声音）. This self-imitation leads on to deliberate（有意识的）imitation of sounds made or words spoken to them by other people. The problem then arises as to the point at which one can say that these imitations can be considered as speech.

61. By " ... challenges explanation" (Line 2, Para. 1) the author means that ________.
   A) no explanation is necessary for such an obvious phenomenon
   B) no explanation has been made up to now
   C) it's no easy job to provide an adequate explanation
   D) it's high time that an explanation was provided
62. The third paragraph is mainly about ________.
   A) the development of babies' early forms of language
   B) the difficulties of babies in learning to speak
   C) babies' strong desire to communicate
   D) babies' intention to communicate
63. The author's purpose in writing the second paragraph is to show that children ________.
   A) usually obey without asking questions
   B) are passive in the process of learning to speak
   C) are born cooperative
   D) learn to speak by listening
64. From the passage we learn that ________.
   A) early starters can learn to speak within only six months
   B) children show a strong desire to communicate by making noises
   C) imitation plays an important role in learning to speak
   D) children have various difficulties in learning to speak
65. The best title for this passage would be ________.
   A) How Babies Learn to Speak               C) A Huge Task for Children
   B) Early Forms of Language      

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