四级阅读练习
Paage 1.
Though some people have suggested that women should return to housework in order to leave more jobs for men, the idea has been rejected by both women and men in public opinion polls .Lately some union officials have suggested that too many women are employed in type of work more suitable for men and that women should step aside to make way for unemployed young men.They argue that women — especially women in their childbearing years actually delay economic development and result in lower productivity, poor quality and inefficiency.
To solve the problem, they have suggested that the working women stay at home while their husbands or brothers were given double wages.They argue that under these circumstances, families would retain their same level of income, and women could run the house and raise children much better.
The suggestion has been rejected by 9 out of 10 people polled.A hundred persons in a big city were questioned last summer.Out of 50 women, 46 said they were unwilling to leave their jobs, no matter what the situation was.The other 4 said they would like to return home if their jobs could be taken by their sons or daughters.Of 50 men polled, only 6 said they would like to see their wives give up their jobs, if it meant higher wages for themselves.
Some other people have suggested another way called “phased employment theory”.The theory suggests that a woman worker take leave from her job when she is seven months pregnant and stay off the job until her baby reaches the age of 3.It suggests that women on leave receive 75 percent of their normal salary and be allowed to return to work after the 3-year period.This will benefit children, women, their families and the society.Some of those polled, both women and men, felt the idea is a good one.It definitely seems to be more acceptable than the suggestion that women return to home forever.
1.Some union officials have suggested that women should return home because _____.
A.all of them are employed in unsuitable types of work
B.most skilled male workers are now unemployed
C.their participation in work has a had influence on the economic development
D.nowadays no one can take care of children except women
2.Some union officials have suggested that if women resign their jobs, _____.
A.they should be allowed to attend school to be trained
B.their jobs should be taken over by the male members of their families
C.the male employees in their families should receive double wages
D.their children should also leave their kindergartens
3.According to the paage, the suggestion that women should return to housework was ____.
A.opposed by most men and womenB.welcomed by men only
C.welcomed by women onlyD.welcomed by men and women
4.From the paage we can see\" phased employment\" means _____.
A.two or more women share the same job
B.women stay at home on weekdays and go to work on weekends or holidays
C.a woman should resign her job forever if she has a child
D.women are allowed to take leave from their jobs during their childbearing years
5.According to the\" phased employment\" theory, during a woman\'s leave from her job ___.
A.her work should be done by her husband or brothers
B.either her husband or her brothers will be given double wages
C.her family can still keep the same level of income
D.her family\'s income level will be a little lower than it normally is
Paage2
Is teaching important? Well, of course it is.There was a time when the neceary knowledge could be taught to the young by family members.But as societies became more complex and division of labor more common, it was impoible for family members to teach the information and skills young people needed to become useful members of the society.As the need for specialists appeared, the job of teaching came into being in our county, and teaching as a job has been of increasing importance over the past hundred years.Today, we have strict rules for teachers.We hope all children can attend schools.Many things tell us that teaching is indeed an \" important\" job.
In recent years, there has been an increasing need for teachers to be \"responsible\".This means that the public expects teachers to succeed in teaching important information to the young.Teachers‟ salaries today, while not much, certainly are much higher than they were in past year.These increases have come about because people have realized that without enough salaries, people who have abilities will not become teachers.Today almost no one says that \" anybody will do \" for a teacher.The public expects\" quality people \"to teach the young, and progre is being made to give salaries that will make people who have abilities become teachers.
1.Before the job of teaching came into being, _____.
A.family members had been responsible for the education of the young
B.specialists had been in charge of teaching young people
C.young people had had to be self--educated
D.the society had played an important role in educating young people
2.The job of teaching came into being mainly because of _____.
A.the development of the society
B.the explosion of information
C.the need for specialists
D.the civilization of human beings
3.Teachers‟ salaries are raised today in order to _____.
A.show the importance of teaching as a job
B.attract more qualified people to become teachers
C.make teachers \" responsible\" in their teaching
D.improve the quality of public teaching
4.\"Anybody will do\" for a teacher means that _____.
A.almost all people want to become a teacher
B.a teacher is so highly respected that people all want to help him
C.a teacher will do whatever he can for his students
D.the job of teaching is so easy that everybody can do it
5.We know from the paage that _____.
A.it is important to be succeful in teaching the young
B.enough salaries are neceary in making quality people become teachers
C.greater progre has to be made in teaching
D.teaching is a product of the society‟s division of labor
Paage3
In order to learn a foreign language well, it is neceary to overcome the fear of making mistakes.If the primary goal of language use is communication ,then mistakes are secondary considerations that may be dealt with gradually as awarene of those mistakes increases.On the other hand, students should not ignore their mistakes.The language learner may observe how native speakers expre themselves, and how native expreions differ from the way the learner might say them.For example, a Spanish speaker who has been saying \"I do it\" to expre willingne to do something in the immediate future ,could, by communicating with native speakers of English, observe that native speakers actually say \"I\'ll do it\".This difference can serve as a basis for the student to change his way of using the present tense in English.But a student who is unwilling to communicate in the first place would lose this opportunity to learn by trial and error.
1.According to the paage, the present tense in English is _____.
A.not used to expre a desire to do something in the immediate future
B.used with some verbs but not with others to expre future intention
C.basically the same in English as it is in Spanish
D.not the most difficult problem for foreign students
2.According to the paage,language learners can reduce the number of their mistakes by __.
A.asking native speakers for explanations
B.reading good books in the foreign language
C.comparing their speech with that of native speakers
D.speaking without regard to native speakers
3.According to the paage, foreign language students who do not communicate with native speakers will NOT _____.
A.learn very much about the foreign society
B.learn about the history of the foreign language
C.have to worry about making mistakes
D.take advantage of available language
4.According to the paage, foreign language students should not worry too much about making mistakes because _____.
A.native speakers like foreign students who try to learn their language
B.communication is the primary goal of language learning
C.native speakers will ignore their mistakes
D.everyone makes mistakes when trying to communicate in a strange language
5.The author\'s major conclusion about the function of mistakes in foreign language learning is that _____.
A.mistakes are not important in the proce of learning a language
B.learners are often very afraid of making mistakes
C.making mistakes can help the learner discover the rules of the language
D.native speakers often do not tell foreign language learners about their mistakes
Paage4
In the debates about how a particular piece of land is to be used, the priorities often conflict.What should you do, for example, if you find out that under the fertile fields of a farming community there is a thick bed of coal which can be strip mined? Strip mining rips up top soil and vegetation.But mining may create jobs, bring money to the towns businees.Those who approve of strip mining say that the coal is needed, and they point out that it is quicker and cheaper to get coal from the surface than to go deep into the earth to get it by standard mining techniques.On the other hand, it takes nature 500 years to create an inch of top soil.As the countryside fills up, people are becoming more aware of the need for open space.Nearly every proposal for a new power plant, highway, or airport draws fierce opposition.Everyone wants the big, land eating
“uglies” to be in someone else‟s backyard.Minneapolis and St.Paul, Minnesota, for example, have been debating about the site of a future airport for years.Yet if a new airport is needed, it will have to go somewhere.
How do we find our way out of the land-used problem? One way might be to reexamine our values, to think in new directions.Does everyone have to have a car with its need for highways and parking lots? What about developing ma transit systems that use le land? Do suburbs have to sprawl? Can they be designed so they use le space? Do we have to have more energy? If we do, do we really have to strip-mine coal to provide it?
However difficult they may be to arrive at, choices will have to be made if we want to preserve the beauty and usefulne of the land.For there is at least one point on which all of us can agree: The land does have its limits.
1.The word “priorities” in the sentence means ____.
A) the various needs
B) the most important goal
C) the number one neceity
D) the first thing to be considered
2.\"… , people are becoming more aware of the need for open space.\"tells us that____.
A) people are thinking to develop their living space into the sky
B) people noticed the need for unoccupied land
C) people are struggling to get more land from the space
D) people are becoming more active on the space iue
3.How do we find our way out of the land use problems?
A) One way might be to reexamine our values, to think in new directions.
B) Everyone has to have a car with its need for highways and parking lots.
C) We have to have more energy.We need strip mine coal to provide it.
D) We may develop ma transit systems which use le land.
4.“ Everyone wants the big, land-eating „ uglies to be in someone else s backyard.”shows that ____.
A) people don t want more big projects
B) people don t want to live in the neighborhood of the big projects
C) people regard the large construction projects are “ uglies ”
D) people don t like the undesirable building projects
5.The main idea of this article is ____.
A) The Limits of Land
B) Land
C) Land and Our Life Styles
D) Land and Space
Paage 5
Television, or TV, the modern wonder of electronics, brings the world into your own home in sight and sound.The name television comes from the Greek word tele, meaning “far”,and the Latin word videre, meaning “to see”.Thus, television means “seeing far”.
Sometimes television is referred to as video, from a Latin word meaning “I see”.In Great Britain, the popular word for television is “telly”.
Television works in much the same way as radio.In radio, sound is changed in to electromagnetic waves which are sent through the air.In TV, both sound and light are changed into
electromagnetic waves.Experiments leading to modern television took place more than a hundred years ago.By the 1920s, inventors and researchers had turned the early theories into working models.Yet it took another thirty years for TV to become an industry.
As an industry, TV provides jobs for hundreds of thousands who make TV sets and broadcasting equipment.It also provides work for actors, technicians, and others who put on programs.
Many large schools and universities have “closed—circuit” television equipment that will telecast lectures and demonstrations to hundreds of students in different clarooms; and the lecture can be video taped to be kept for later use.Some hospitals use TV to allow medical students to get close-up view of operations.
In 1946, after World War II, TV began to burst upon the American scene with a speed unforeseen even by the most optimistic leaders of the industry.The novelty of seeing TV pictures in the home caught the publics fancy and began a revolution in the world of entertainment.By 1950, television had grown into a major part of show busine.Many film and stage stars began to perform on TV as television audiences increased.Stations that once telecast for only a few hours a day sometimes telecast around the clock in the 1960s.
1.“… others who put on programs.”means that ____.
A)people get on their clothes with programs printed on
B)people prepare and present the programs on TV
C)people like the programs
D)people acted in the TV programs
2.“… to allow medical students to get close up view of operations ” suggests ____.
A)the students can have view of operations with enlarged details
B)the students can operate through TV
C)the students were allowed to learn operations
D)TV is being used by students
3.“… TV began to burst upon the American, …” indicates that ____.
A)in 1946 TV sets exploded in American families
B)TV may injure people
C)TV suddenly became available to many American families
D)TV was very popular in 1946
4.“ TV pictures in the home caught the public s fancy, …” tells us ____.
A)TV pictures are better than movies
B)TV pictures can be seen at home
C)TV pictures can hurt people s eyes
D)TV pictures had aroused people s interests
5.“… sometimes telecast around the clock in the 1960s.” means ____.
A)TV telecast used to have a round clock
B)people watch TV with around clock nearby
C)TV telecast 24 hours a day in the 1960s
D)TV was on show everyday
keys：
paage 1
1.C2.C3.A4.D5.D
Paage 2
1.A2.C3.B4.D5.B
Paage3
1.A2.C3.D4.B5.C
Paage4
1.D2.B3.A4.B5.A
Paage 5
1.B2.A3.C4.D5.C
