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1、【2011 年英语四级阅读理解模拟题及解析 a】Nowadays, is it possible to tell a persons class just by looking at him? Physical details _1_ tell us about health, diet and type of work done. A hundred years ago the working class very often lookd unhealthy, small and were either too thin or too fat. The upper classes were
2、often _2_, sporting types who were used to a good diet and looked healthy. Today living and working conditions have improved, and such _3_ would no longer be so true.The clothes people choose to wear, however, do provide information about their _4_. The most obvious way in which is for the amount of
3、 money spent on them. Expensive clothes look expensive and show their wearer had money. Clothes can provide other _5_ as well. The upper classes _6_ to be less interested in fashion and wear good quality clothes in non-bright colours, made of natural material like wool, leather or cotton. Lower work
4、ing class people often choose clothes in bright colours, made of man-made material. A sociological explanation for this would be that color and interest are mssing from their lives, and therefore any opportunity to introduce this is _7_.Clothes are _8_ at a price within most peoples reach. New cloth
5、es make the wearer feel good, and show some _9_ of wealth to the outside world. Today some new fashions are started by the lower working class people who want to look _10_ and feel important. They want people to look at them.A) available 来源：上考试大网校，考试轻松过关B) backgroundC) differentD) 考试就上考试大E) totally
6、F) takenG) descriptionsH) degreeI) cluesJ) aloneK) appearL) considerM) fullN) hobbyO) fetched【答案】1.选 J)。此处应填副词。可选项有 totally 和 alone，由前一句中 just 可推出，外表上的细节仅仅能告诉我们这个人的健康状况，平时的营养状况以及他所从事的工作而不能看出他所处的阶级，故排除 totally 而选 alone“惟一”。2.选 D)。此处应填形容词。因此此句和前一句是在将以前的工人阶级和上层阶级的身体状况进行对比，故此处应填与 small“矮的”意思相反的词，选项中只有 t
7、all 符合题意。而 full“丰满的”不能用来修饰 sporting types,故排除。3.选 G)。此处应填名词。现在的生活和工作条件改善了，情况已经不同了。而 such 指代的是上文中对一百年以前工人阶级和上层阶级的身体状况的身体状况的描述，故 descriptions“描述”符合题意。4.选 B)。此处应填名词。根据句意“衣服可以提供.方面的信息”，选项中有 background 和 hobby，选background“人的背景，社会阶层”，符合文章主题。5.选 I)。由 as well 可知，此处应填名词且与本段首句中的 informaiton 的意思相近，选项中只有clues“线
8、索”符合题意。6.选 K)。此处应填动词的原形。选项中有 appear 和 consider,appear 可直接接不定式;而 consider 带不定式的复合结构，用于主动语态时，consider 后面得接宾语，故选 appear。7 选 F)。这句中 this 指代 bright colour，句子主干是 any opportunity is.。可选项有 taken 和fetched,take“抓住” 则可以与 opportunity 搭配，但 fetch“拿来” 不能与 opportunity 构成动宾搭配，故排除fetched 而选 taken。 您看到来自 的新闻8.选 A)。此处
9、应填形容词。句子意思是 “衣服的价钱.，大多数人都买得起。 ”选项中只有available“可以接受的”符合题意。9.选 H)。此处应填名词。由 a price within most peoples reach 可推出，此处新衣服向外界显示的是穿衣者的富裕程度，故选择 degree“程度”。10.选 C)。此处应填形容词。由 new fashions 和 feel important 可推出工人阶级想通过穿衣来改变他们，而选项中只有 different“与众不同的”符合此意，故选择 C)。【2011 年英语四级阅读理解模拟题及解析 b】Many a young person tells me
10、 he wants to be a writer. I always _1_ such people, but I also explain that theresa big difference between being a writer and writing. In most cases these individuals are dreaming of _2_ and fame, notthe long hours alone at a typewriter. Youve got to want to write, I say to them, not want to be a wr
11、iter.The reality is that writing is a _3_, private and poor-paying affair. For every writer kissed by fortune there arethousands more whose longing is never _4_. When I left a 20-year career in the US. Coast Guard to become a freelancewriter(自由撰稿人), I had no _5_ at all. What I did have was a friend
12、who found me my room in a New York apartment building. It didnt even matter that it was _6_and had no bathroom. I immediately bought a used manual typewriter and feltlike a _7_ writer.After a year or so, however, I still hadnt gotten a break and began to _8_ myself. It was so hard to sell a storytha
13、t _9_ made enough to eat. But I knew I wanted to write. I had dreamed about it for years. I wasnt going to be one ofthose people who die wondering, what if? I would keeo putting my dream to the test-even though it meant living with _10_and fear of failure. This is the Shadow land of hope, and anyone
14、 with a dream learn to live there.A) barelyB) genuineC) rewardedD) doubtE) lonelyF) povertyG) persuadeH) prospectsI) uncertaintyJ)impossiblyK) encourageL)awarded 来源：考试大考试大成就你的梦想M) aloneN)wealth 请访问考试大网站 http:/O)cold【答案】1.选 K)。 此处应填动词的原形。可选项有 doubt, persuade, encourage, 但由 always 推知，作者是在鼓励那些想要成为作家的人，
15、而不是怀疑也不是说服，故排除 doubt 和 persuade 而选 encourage。2.选 N)。由空格后的 fame 可知，此处应填名词。可选项有 prospects 和 wealth，但由 dreaming of 与第二段中 The reality is. poor-paying 可推知，那些想当作家的人梦想的是金钱和名誉，而不是前途，故排除 prospects 而选 wealth。3.选 E)。此处应填形容词， private, poor-paying 一起修饰 affair。选项中有 lonely 和 alone,能修饰 affair的只有 lonely,alone 表示“孤独的
16、”时，通常作表语，故排除 alone 而选 lonely。4.选 C)。此处应填动词的被动形式。可选项有 rewarded 和 awarded,前者可表示“(为所希望的举动得到的)回报”，后者作动词时表示 “颁发，授予”，故只有 rewarded 符合题意而排除 awarded。5.选 H)。此处应填名词。 “当我辞别了我在美国海岸警卫队 20 年工作成为一个自由撰稿人时，没有任何.可言”，可选项有 prospects 和 wealth，但 wealth 一般指抽象意义上的 “金钱”，因此排除 wealth 而选prospects“前途”。6.选 O)。it 指代的是 apartment building，从 had no bathroom 可知这个公寓条件很差，选项中只有 cold能说明公寓的条件差，故选择 O)cold。7.选 B
