四級閱讀提升練習原文

　　We may, if we like, speak of consequence, as certain mystics love to do, of the different levels or orders of truth. We may adopt what is essentially a Platonistic (布拉圖式的) trick of thought and insist upon postulating the existence of external realities which correspond to the needs and modes of human feeling and which, so we may insist, have their being in some part of the universe unreachable by science. But to do so is to make an unwarrantable assumption and to be guilty of the metaphysical fallacy of failing to distinguish between a truth of feeling and that other sort of truth which is described as “truth of correspondence” and it is better perhaps, at least for those of us who have grown up in thought, to steer clear of such confusions and to rest content with the admission that, though the universe with which science deals is the real universe, yet we do not and cannot have any but fleeting and imperfect contacts with it; that the most important part of our lives-our sensations, emotions, desires and aspirations-take place in a universe of illusions which science can attenuate or destroy, but which it is powerless to enrich.

　　四級閱讀提升練習題目

　　1. The author suggests that in order to bridge the puzzling difference between scientific truth and the world of illusion, the reader should____.

　　A) try to rid himself of his world of illusion

　　B) accept his words as being one of illusion

　　C) apply the scientific method

　　D) learn to acknowledge both

　　2. Judging from the ideas and tone of the selection, one may reasonably guess that the author is ____.

　　A) a humanist B) a pantheist C) a nuclear physicist D) a doctor of medicine

　　3. According to this passage, a scientist would conceive of a “table” as being ____.

　　A) a solid motionless object

　　B) certain characteristic vibrations in “ether”

　　C) a form fixed in space and time

　　D) a mass of atoms in motion

　　4. The topic of this selection is____.

　　A) the distortion of reality by science

　　B) the confusion caused by emotions

　　C) Platonic and contemporary views of truth

　　D) the place of scientific truth in our lives

　　5. By “objective reality” (Last line, Para. 1) the author means____.

　　A) scientific reality

　　B) a symbolic existence

　　C) the viewer's experience

　　D) reality colored by emotion

　　四級閱讀提升練習答案解析

　　1. B

　　作者暗示為了聯系起科學世界和虛幻世界的不同點，把他的話當作一種假相。間接題型段尾結論題。根據第二段最后一句話，我們可推出B是正確答案。

　　2. A

　　由文章的觀點及語氣可推知作者是人文主義者。暗示推斷題。文中第一段第一句后半句提到“...but a solid and motionless object that we live”由此我們可以推出該作者是一位人文主義者。

　　3. D

　　根據文章，科學家相信“table”就是一群運動的原子。直接題型語義指代題。根據第一段第一 句的前半句“...but it does not reveal itself to us as anything of the kind, and it is not with dancing atoms ...”我們可推出D是正確答案。