2018年12月大学英语四级阅读理解练习题3篇

2018年12月大学英语四级阅读理解练习题3篇

　　第一篇

　　Trees should only be pruned when there is a good and clear reason for doing so and , fortunately,the number of such reasons is small. Pruning involves the cutting away of obergrown and unwanted branches, and the inexperienced gardener can be encouraged by the thought that more damage results from doing it unnecessarily than from leaving the tree to grow in its own way.

　　First, pruning may be done to make sure that trees have a desired shape or size. The object may be to get a tree of the right height, and at the same time to help the growth of small side branches which will thicken its appearance or give it a special shape. Secondly, pruning may be done to make the tree healthier. You may cut diseaed or dead wood, or branches that are rubbing against each other and thus cause wounds. The health of a tree may be encouraged by removing branches that are blocking up the centre and so preventing the free movement of air.

　　One result of pruning is that an open wound is left on the tree and this provides an easy entry for disease, but itis a

　　wound that will heal. Often there is a race between the healing and the desease as to whether the tree will live or die, so that there is a period when the tree is at risk. It should be the aim of every gardener to reduce which has been pruned smooth and clean, for healing will be slowed down by roughness. You should allow the cut surface to dry for a few hurs and then paint it with one of the substances available from garden shops produced especially for this purpose. Pruning is usually without interference from the leaves and also it is very unlikely that the cuts yu make will bleed. If this does happen,it is, of course,impossible to paint them properly.

　　1.Pruning should be done to ______.

　　a.make the tree grow taller

　　b.improve the shape of the tree

　　c.get rid of the small branches

　　d.make the small branches thicker

　　2.Trees become unhealthy if the gardener ______. a.allows too many branches to grow in the middle

　　b.does not protect them from wind

　　c.forces them to grow too quickly

　　d.damages some of the small side branches

　　3.Why is a special substance painted on the tree? a.To make a wound smooth

　　b.To prevent disease entering a wound

　　c.To cover a rough surface

　　d.To help a wound to dry

　　4.A good gardener prunes a tree______.

　　a.at intervals throughout the year

　　b.as quickly as possible

　　c.occasionally when necessary

　　d.regular every winter

　　5.What was the author's purpose when writing this passage? a.To give pratical instruction for pruning a tree.

　　b.To give a general description of pruning

　　c.To explain how trees develop diseases

　　d.To discuss different methods of pruning.

　　答案：babca

　　第二篇

　　On Thursday afternoon Mrs. Carke, dressed for going out, took her handbag with her money and her key in it, pulled the door behind her to lock it and went to the over 60s Club. She always went there on Thursdays. It was a nice outing for an old woman who lived alone.

　　At six o'clock she cane home, let herself in and at once smelt cigarette smoke. Cigarette smoke in her house? How? How? Had someone got in? She checked the back door and the windows. All were locked or fastened, as usual. There was no sign of forced entry.

　　Over a cup of tea she wondered whether someone might have a key that fitted her front door-"a master key"perhaps. So she stayed at home the following Thursday. Nothing happened. Was anyone watching her movements? On the Thursday after that she

　　went out at her usual time,dressed as usual, but she didn't go to the club. Instead she took a short cut home again, letting herself in through her garden and the back door. She settled down to wait.

　　It was just after four o'clock when the front door bell rang.Mrs. Clarke was making a cup of tea at the time. The bell rang again, and then she heard her letter-box being pushed open. With the kettle of boiling water in her hand, she moved quietly towards the front door. A long piece of wire appeared through the letter-box, and then a hand. The wire turned and caught around the knob on the door-lock. Mrs. Clarke raised the kettle and poured the water over the hand. There was a shout outside, and the skin seemed to drop off the fingers like a glove. The wire fell to the floor, the hand was pulled back, and Mrs. Clarke heard the sound of running feet.

　　1.Mrs. Clarke looded forward to Thursday because_______. a.she worked at a club on the day

　　b.she said visitors on Thursdays

　　c.she visited a club on Thursday

　　d.a special visitor came on Thursday

　　2.If someone had made a forced entery,_______.

　　a.Mrs.Clarke would have found a broken door or window b.he or she was still in the house

　　c.things would have been thown about

　　d.he or she would have needed a master key

　　3.On the third Thursday Mrs. Clarke went out_______. a.because she didn't want to miss the club again b.to see if the thief was hnging about outside

　　c.to the club but then changed her mind

　　d.in an attempt to trick the thief

　　4.The lock on the front door was one which_______. a.needed a piece of wire to open it

　　b.could he opened from inside without a key

　　c.could't be opened without a key

　　d.used a knob instead of a key

　　5.The wire feel to the floor_______.

　　a.because Mrs.Clarke refused to open the door

　　b.when the man's glove dropped off

　　c.because it was too hot to hold

　　d.because the man justwanted to get away

　　答案：cadbd

　　第三篇

　　Many people believe the glare from snow causes

　　snowblindnenss. Yet, dark glasses or not , they find themselves suffering from headaches and watering eyes,and even

　　snowblindness,when exposed to several hours of "snow light" . The United States Army has now determined that glare from snow does not cause snowblindness in troops in a snow-covered country.Rather, a man's eyes frequently find nothing to foucs on in a broad expanse of barren snow-covered terrain. So his gaze continually shifts and jumps back and forth over the entire landscape in search of tsomething to look at. Finding nothing,

　　hour after hour, the eyes never sotp searching and the eyeballs become sore and the eye muscles ache. Nature offsets this irritation by producing more and fluid which covers the eyeball. The fluid coversthe eyeball in increasing quantity until vision blurs, then is obsured,and the result is total, even though temporary,snowblindness.

　　Experiments led the Army to a simple method of overcoming this problem. Scouts ahead of a main body of troops are trained to shake snow from evergreen bushes, creating a dotted line as they cross completely snow-covered landscape,Even the scouts themselves throw lightweight , dark colored objects ahead on which they too can focus . The men following can then see something.Their gaze is arrested. Their eyes focus on a bush and having found something to see,stop scouring the

　　snow-blanketed lanscape. By focusing their attention on one object at a time,the men can cross the snow without becoming hopelessly snowblind or lost. In this way the problem of crossing a solid white terrain is overcome.

　　1.To prevent headaches, watering eyes and blindness caused by the glare from snow, dark glasses are_____.

　　a.indispensible

　　b.useful

　　c.ineffective

　　d.available

　　2.When the eyes are sore tears are produced to ________. a.clear the vision

　　b.remedy snowblindness

　　c.ease the irritation

　　d.loosen the muscles

　　3.Snowblindness may be avoided by_______.

　　a.concentrating to the solid white terrain

　　b.searching for something to look at in snow-covered terrain

　　c.providing the eyes with something to foucs on d.covering the eyeballs with fluid

　　4.The scouts shake snow from evergreen bushes in order to _______.

　　a.bive the men behind something to see

　　b.beautify the landscape

　　c.warm themselves in the cold

　　d.prevent the men behind from losing their way

　　5.A suitable title for this passage would be _______. a.snowblindness and how to overcome it

　　b.natrue's cure for snowblindness

　　c.soldiers in the snow

　　d.snow vision

　　答案：CCCAA