大学英语四级阅读理解模拟题
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大学英语四级阅读理解模拟题
The most frightening words in the
English language are,
is down.
other day I was at the airport waiting
for a ticket to Washington and the
girl
in the ticket office said,
computer is
down.
allowed to do so.
I looked down
on the computer and every passenger .was just
standing there drinking coffee and
staring at the black screen. Then I
asked her,
tells us whether you can fly
with us or not.
for two hours. There' s no
way we can find out without asking the
computer, and since it' s down it won'
t answer us.
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After the girl
told me they had no backup computer, I said.
forget the computer. What about your
planes? They' re still flying, aren't
they?
Washington,
going to
Washington, he couldn't take you if you didn't
have a ticket.
hours?
knows. It can' t
tell me.
By
this time there were quite a few people standing
in lines. The
word soon spread to other
travelers that the computer was down. Some
people went white; some people started
to cry and still others kicked
their
luggage.
31.
The best title for the article is
A. When the Computer Is
Down
B. The
Most Frightening Words
C. The Computer of the Airport
D. Asking the
Computer
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32. What could
the girl in the ticket office do for the
passengers
without asking the computer?
A. She could
sell a ticket.
B. She could write out a ticket.
C. She could
answer the passengers' questions.
D. She could do nothing.
33. why do you
think they had not a backup computer?
A. Because it was easy
down.
B.
Because it was very expensive.
C. Because it was not
advanced enough.
D. Because it was not as big as the
main computer.
34. The last paragraph suggests that
A. a modern
computer won' t be down
B. computers can take the place of
humans
C.
sometimes a computer may bring suffering to people
D. there will
be great changes in computers
35. What did passengers do
when the computer was down?
A. They left home and went
home.
B. They
drank coffee and stared at the black screen.
C. They began
to talk to each other.
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D. None above.
答案及解析
31.A
【解析】主旨题。根据文章
句中的“
0ur computer is down
”
(
我们
的电脑宕机了
)
及后面的文章关于机场电脑宕机后的一些对话内容可知，文章主
要讲述的是机场电脑宕机后发生的一些事情，故本题选择
A
。
32.
D
【解析】细节题。根据文章中的对话“
When
it[computer]goes
go down with it.
”
(
若电脑宕机了，你们也工作不了
了。
)
可知，
机场售票员什么都不能做。故本题选择
D
。
33.B
【解析】主观题。没有备用电脑，有可能是因为设备比较贵。故本题
选择
B
。
34.C
【解析】推断题。根据文章
后一段的描述：电脑死机，旅客们感到恐
惧、忧郁、不安，故本题选择
< br>C
。
35.B
【解析】细节题。文中第四段句“
every
passenger was just
standing there
drinking coffee and staring at the black screen.
”
(
乘客们
站在那
儿，喝着咖啡，眼睛盯着那个黑掉了的屏幕
)
。故本题选择
B
。
Time is the biggest problem
of most students. It becomes
particularly difficult when you have to
do library research for a term
paper or
report. Finding information in the library can
take so much
time that many students
avoid it until the last possible minute.
Library
research does not have to be time consuming. If
you learn
to use a library efficiently,
you can save yourself a great deal of time.
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The exercises in this section are
designed to familiarize you with the
library so that
y
阿
ou can find the
information you need quickly.
The first and the most
important thing to know about a library is
that when you cannot find something,
ask a librarian for help. The
librarians are paid not just to shelve
books, but to provide information
and
assistance. The most helpful librarians are
usually those who work
in the reference
room. They will help you get started on a term
paper
and even help you find material.
There are two basic places to begin
looking for information, the card
catalog and the various periodical
indexes. The card catalog is a list of
all the books in the library. A
periodical index is a list of all the
magazine and journal articles written
on any subject.
1. According to the author, finding
information in the library needs
a lot
of time, so students should __.
A. avoid it until the last
possible minute
B. do library research
C. learn how to use it
efficiently
D.
save a great deal of time
2. It is the
librarians
’
duty
to do all the following things except__.
A. arranging
and lending books
B. helping students locate the needed
books
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