四六级阅读理解(10)

___________. A) competitive B ) absurd C) disgraced D) mimic Passage 2 Dear Editor, We are wasting our time and good money by asking scientists to solve the problem of air pollution. They are blaming cars and motorists. It is the smoke from factories that is ruining our air. I sincerely believe that these so-called scientists should try working in a factory from midnight to 8 a.m, and maybe they would discover something that would surprise them. If the scientists could use their knowledge to direct the winds in such a way as to send this factory smoke Joseph Award The overall tone of this letter is. A) instructive and serious B) informative and clever C) argumentative and rash D) humorous and sincere

参考答案：passage 1: A, B; passage 2: C

在阅读理解测试中, 要求确定作者观点和态度的问题, 通常有以下几种形式： 1. The author gives the impression that ________. 2. The author's view is __________. 3. The author thinks that ____________. 4. The author suggests that ______________. 5. Which of the following can best describe the attitude of the author towards... 6. What is the tone of the passage? 7. The tone of the passage can be best described as ___________. 8. According to the author _____________.

练习 Passage five Lincoln was a strong executive who saved the government, saved the United States. He was a President who understood people, and, when time came to make decisions, he was willing to take the responsibility and make those decisions, no matter how difficult they were. He knew how to treat people and how to make a decision stick, and that's why he is regarded as such a great Administration. Carl Sandburg and a lot of others have tried to make something out of Lincoln that he wasn't. He was a decent man, a good politician, and a great President, and they've tried to build up things that he never even thought about. I'll bet a dollar and a half that if you read Sandburg's biography of Lincoln, you'll find things put into Lincoln's mouth and mind that never even occurred to him. He was a good man who was in the place where he ought to have been at the time important events were taking place, but when they write about him as though he belongs in the pantheon（众神庙）of the gods, that's not the man he really was. He was the best kind of ordinary man, and when I say that he was an ordinary man, I mean that as high praise, not deprecation. That's the highest praise you can give a man. He's one of the people and becomes distinguished in the service that he gives other people. He was one of the people, and he wanted to stay that way. And he was that way until the day he died. One of the reasons he was assassinated was because he didn't feel important enough to have the proper guards around him at Ford's Theatre. 21.According to the passage, Lincoln was ________. A) a man belonging in the pantheon of the gods B) defied（藐视）by all the people C) as ordinary as all the other people. D) a responsible person 22.What's the author's comment on Carl Sandburg's biography of Lincoln? A) It's objective. B) It's unfair to Lincoln. C) It sang high praise of Lincoln D) It's widely read. 23.What's the author's attitude toward Lincoln?

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A) admiring B) indifferent C) critical D) affectionate 24.Which of the following titles suits the passage best? A) Lincoln--an Ordinary Man B) Lincoln--a Great Politician C) Lincoln's Biography by Carl Sandburg D) How was Lincoln Assassinated? 25.In the author's opinion, an ordinary man _________. A) is a mediocre（平庸的）person B) can never become distinguished C) indicates deprecation D) can be used to praise a person

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21.参见第二段第四句话，可知A）正是作者所批驳的观点。B）项明显不对。至于C）选项，虽然作者认为林肯是个普通人，但他是“the best kind of ordinary man”所以C）也是错误的。应该选择D）是因为第一段第二句中说“…he was willing to take the tesponsibility…” 22.根据文章第二段，可知Sandburg的林肯传记过分褒扬了林肯，所以它不可能是客观的，也不会对林肯有所不公。C）则是正确选项。至于D），文中并没有提及。 23.在文章中，作者批评了一些将林肯神化的观点，提出林肯是一个普通人，他将这一称法作为\，仅根据这一点，即可判断A）是正确选项，而且第一段本身也充满对林肯的赞誉之辞。 24. A.文章主体是第二段，而第二段的主旨就在论述林肯是个最优秀的普通人，而不是象有些人塑造的那个神一般的林肯，所以选A）。 25.作者在文章第二段中明确提出“I mean that (an ordinary man) as high praise, not deprecation”，所以A）、C）可被排除。B）与林肯本身显然矛盾。所以选D）.

第八章 如何猜测词义（一） 在阅读中, 我们往往会遇到一些不认识的单词或短语, 或者认识的单词在文章中有了新的意义、如果这些词或短语不影响对文章主要内容的理解, 我们便可以将它们略过, 继续阅读。如果了解这些词语的意思对正确理解文意很重要, 这时, 我们就必须根据上下文的联系, 对它们的意义进行猜测, 使之不影响对整篇文章的阅读理解。需要注意的是, 一个单词通常有好几个意思, 我们要解决的是这些词在文中所表达的意思。因此, 不可脱离上下文, 只根据自己以前了解的词义来确定其意义。通常, 猜测词义可采用以下几种方法： 一、利用所出现生词的上下文与其意义上的联系或下文进一步的叙述, 猜测词义。 1.The female mosquito is a vampire and lives on blood. 如不知道vampire的词义, 从上文1ives on blood(靠吸血而生存)则可得知其词义为吸血昆虫。 2.The old man put on his spectacles and began to read. 如不知道spectacles的词义, 从下文\戴上'spectacles'后开始阅读\可猜得其词义为\眼镜\。 3.I'm sorry I've been monopolizing you. Your other dinner companion should have the chance to talk to you, too. 根据第二个句子的意思, 可猜出monopolize之意为\独占\。 4.If I were a boy again, I would practise perseverance oftener, and never give up a thing because it was hard or inconvenient. 根据and never give up a thing ...可猜测perseverance之意为\坚韧不拔\ 5.Pigeons have a natural instinct t …… 此处隐藏：7709字，全部文档内容请下载后查看。喜欢就下载吧 ……