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1、 (0179)大学英语四复习思考题 Part I Reading Comprehension Directions: There are 15 reading passages in this part. Each passage is followed by some questions. For each question there are four suggested answers marked a, b, c, and d. You should choose the ONE best answer. Then Mark the corresponding letter on th
2、e Answer Sheet with a single line through the center. Questions 1 to 5 are based on the following passage：In the United States the way people spend their leisure time is an important part of their identity. Perhaps everybody does nearly the same thing all day in the office or the factory, but leisur
3、e time is what makes people distinct and reveals who they are. Some people like rock music, for example, and others may like jazz or classical music. Some people are runners or swimmers, and others are “couch(睡椅) potatoes” who “surf” the television channels with a remote control. Some go to museums
4、while others spend long hours at a shopping center. These kinds of choices are ways that people define themselves.It hasnt always been this way. “Leisure time” was almost unknown in the United States in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. When most people worked on farms, the workday was from s
5、unrise to sunset every day except Sunday, which was devoted to church. Later, with the rise of factories and city populations, people worked equally long hours and had only Sunday for rest. Some people did many of the things then that they do now attend concerts, have parties, go to restaurants, rea
6、d novels, or play sports but to a much lesser extent.Slowly, throughout the twentieth century, leisure time grew. Technology made farm work less burdensome, and changes in laws shortened the factory work day and week. New inventions such as the phonograph and the radio gave people access to music an
7、d mass entertainment on a scale unknown before. People gradually became consumers of entertainment, and businesses competed fiercely for their dollars.For many people leisure time means going somewhere to a museum, to a concert, to a restaurant, or to a baseball game, for example. Or it means doing
8、something such as playing volleyball, backpacking, swimming, biking, or playing in a park with their children. For other people free time means staying home with wonderful sources of entertainment, such as a VCR, stereo(立体声系统), or cable TV with dozens of channels. Others pursue creative activities s
9、uch as cooking, gardening, and home improvement. The latest stay-at-home activity is “Surfing the net” that is, looking for information and entertainment on the Internet.People in the United States are basically not much different from others in what they do in their leisure time. The real differenc
10、e may lie in the energy, time, money, and sheer enthusiasm that they devote to it.1. “The way people spend their leisure time is an important part of their identity” means _.a. the way people spend their leisure time sometimes exposes their identity card numbersb. its very important to show their id
11、entity when people are at a place of entertainmentc. how people spend their leisure time shows who they ared. they are different from the others at the same place of entertainment by showing their identity card2. “Couch potatoes” in paragraph 1 refers to those who _.a. control their viewing of TV pr
12、ogramsb. are happy watching situation comediesc. watch TV while eating potato chipsd. are crazy about watching TV programs3. According to the passage, in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, some Americans _.a. worked from sunrise to sunset seven days a week.b. preferred working in factories to
13、working on farmsc. had many of the leisure time activities that people now haved. fought for shorter working hours and more leisure time4. Apart from technology, the growing leisure time throughout the twentieth century is also due to _.a. changes in lawsb. mass entertainmentc. new types of consumpt
14、iond. competitive businesses5. In terms of leisure time activities, people in the United States _.a. enjoy a larger variety than people in other countriesb. are not much different from people in other countriesc. enjoy more stay-at-home activities such as “surfing the net”d. are less energetic and e
15、nthusiastic than othersQuestions 6 to 10 are based on the following passage：Until recently most historians tended to speak very critically of the Industrial Revolution. They admitted that in the long run industrialization greatly raised the standard of living for the common man. But they insisted po
16、verty that its immediate results during the period from 1750 to 1850 were widespread poverty and emissary for the bulk of the English population. By contrast, they saw in the preceding hundred years from 1650 to 1750, when England was still a completely agricultural country, a period of great abundance and prosperity. This view, however, is generally thought to be wrong. Specialists in history and economics and experts in the new scien
