英語四級閱讀理解練習(xí)題(一)

　　練習(xí)題：

　　Choose correct answers to the question:

　　1.The main purpose of this passage is to ______.

　　A. describe that animals can make different sounds

　　B. prove that animals' voices can play practical roles

　　C. inspire the readers to make more inventions

　　D. startle the readers with some shocking facts

　　2. The discovery of echolocation may help with all of the following EXCEPT

　　A. measuring the depth of the sea

　　B. distinguishing different kinds of fish

　　C. improving the functions of radar

　　D. varying the size and nature of an object

　　3. By saying "A shoal of fish will do this"(Lines 6-7, Para. 2), the author means________.

　　A. only one special kind of fish can reflect sounds

　　B. only one special kind of fish can be used to help locate a ship

　　C. a large group of fish can reflect sounds

　　D. a large group of fish can be used to help locate a ship

　　4. As it is discussed in the passage, the squeaks of bats can be functionally comparedwith ________.

　　A. human languages

　　B. a mountainside

　　C. a shoal of fish

　　D. taps on a ship

　　5. Which of the following statements can be inferred from the passage?

　　A. Animals are more intelligent than humans.

　　B. Humans are more intelligent than animals.

　　C. Animals are often compared with human inventions.

　　D. Humans are often inspired by animals.

　　英語四級閱讀理解練習(xí)題答案

　　1.[B] 主旨大意題。文章第1段就點明主題，明確指出以蝙蝠為例，動物發(fā)出的聲音有實際作用，只有B可以概括文章的這個寫作目的。

　　2.[C] 事實細節(jié)題。本題考査列舉處，可用排除法解答。A、B、C在文中都有相關(guān)提及。D利用第2段中的varying制造干擾。在原文中，指的是回聲因障礙物的不同而不同，而D偷換概念、曲解文意，D中的varying為及物動詞，意為“改變”,顯然不可能是回聲定位的發(fā)現(xiàn)帶來的功效。

　　3.[C] 詞義推斷題。本題考查對shoal的詞義推測及代詞this的理解。依據(jù)第2段最后幾句話,可推測出a shoal of fish指的是“海里的一群魚”;this則是指上一句提到的“任何固體都可以反射聲音”，因此這句話表明一大群魚就能像一個固體一樣反射聲音。

　　4.[D] 推理判斷題。根據(jù)最后一段可知，蝙蝠發(fā)出吱吱聲可以探測障礙物的距離，而第2段也指出輕敲船體可測知海底的距離，因此在功能上,D與蝙蝠的吱吱聲相同。A中的human languages在文中未提到;B和C在文中各自的例子中充當(dāng)?shù)亩际钦系K物的角色，因此都不正確。

　　5.[D] 推理判斷題。文章先說動物的回聲定位功能,再說到回聲定位探測儀的發(fā)明,由此可見，是動物的某些能力啟發(fā)了人類的創(chuàng)造，因此只有D可從文中推測。文章并沒有從智力方面比較人類和動物，因此可以排除A 和B;盡管文章說到了蝙蝠和雷達的原理相似，但是C中的often一詞無據(jù)可循，且C的說法浮于表面，沒有說到重點，故排除。

　　英語四級閱讀理解練習(xí)題(二)

　　Sleep is very ancient. In the electroencephalographic(腦電圖的)sense we share it with all theprimates(靈長類動物)and almost all the other mammals and birds: it may extend back as far asthe reptiles(爬行動物).

　　There is some evidence that the two types of sleep, dreaming and dreamless, depend on thelife style. of the animal, and that predators(食肉動物)are statistically much more likely to dreamthan prey, which are inturn much more likely to experience dreamless sleep. In dream sleep,the animal is powerfully immobilized(使固定不動)and remarkably unresponsive to externalstimuli. Dreamless sleep is much shallower, and we haveall witnessed cats or dogs cocking theirears to a sound when apparently fast asleep. The fact that deep dream sleep is rare amongprey today seems clearly to be a product of natural selection, and it makes sensethat today,when sleep is highly evolved, the stupid animals are less frequently immobilized by deepsleepthan the smart ones. But why should they sleep deeply at all? Why should a state of suchdeep immobilization ever have evolved?

　　Perhaps one useful hint about the original function of sleep is to be found in the fact thatdolphins and whales and aquatic mammals in general seem to sleep very little. There is, byand large, no place to hide in the ocean. Could it be that, rather than increasing an animal'svulnerability, Ray Meddis of London University has suggested this to be the case. It isconceivable that animals that are too stupid to be quite on their own initiative are, duringperiods of high risk, immobilized by the implacable arm of sleep. The point seems particularlyclear for the young of predatory animals. This is an interesting notion and probably at leastpartly true.

　　練習(xí)題：

　　Choose correct answers to the question:

　　1.Which of the following might be the best title for this passage?

　　A.Evolution of Sleep.

　　B.Two Types of Sleep.

　　C.The Original Function of Sleep.

　　D.Animals and Sleep.

　　2.Predators are ___________.

　　A.able to prey even when they are in deep dream sleep

　　B.more likely to experience dream sleep

　　C.incapable of preying when immobilized by dreamless sleep

　　D.good at preying on stupid animals

　　3.The example of dogs and cats in the second paragraph is intended to _•

　　A. explain which animals are mammals

　　B. show the differences between mammals

　　C. illustrate how shallow dreamless sleep is

　　D. reveal how smart they are

　　4.Compare with dreamless sleep, deep dream sleep is _______.

　　A. not the result of natural selection

　　B. less likely to appear to primates

　　C. more protective to the animals

　　D. at a higher stage of evolution

　　5.According to some scientists’ research findings, dolphins seldom sleep because __.

　　A.of their stupidity

　　B.of their vulnerability

　　C.there are possible dangers in the ocean

　　D.aquatic mammals do not need sleep

　　英語四級閱讀理解練習(xí)題答案

　　1.[A] 本文三段雖然討論的內(nèi)容各有側(cè)重，但是都談到了睡眠在各種動物中的差異以及發(fā)展的歷史，具體用詞如下:第1段第1句中的ancient,最后一句中的extend back;第2段最后一句中的evolved;第3段第1句中的original function。A比較準確地歸納了本文大意。B只是概括了第2段的內(nèi)容;C只提及第3段的論述內(nèi)容;D 似乎涵蓋了三段內(nèi)容,但是過于寬泛,不夠具體。

　　2.[B] 根據(jù)第2段第1句第4個分句可知應(yīng)選B。A的內(nèi)容與該段第2句相悖;C中dreamless sleep應(yīng)為dream sleep。D的內(nèi)容文中沒有涉及。

　　3.[C] 這個例子是為了證明無夢睡眠比較淺，即第2第3句的前半句，所以選C比較合適。所有例子都是為之前或之后的話提供例證，因此,作者使用例子的目的可以從該例子之前或之后的一句話找到。本題中，貓和狗的例 子是為了說明其前面的一句話,其他選項與此無關(guān),均可排除。

　　4.[D] 根據(jù)第2段倒數(shù)第3句及末句，可以推斷與無夢睡眠相比，深睡不動處于更髙的進化階段。文中雖有提及無夢睡眠對于被捕食動物來說是一種自然選擇，但并不意味著深睡不動不是自然選擇，因此A不正確;該句也 提到“笨拙的動物與敏捷的動物相比，更少有深睡不動的時候”，primates屬于smart ones,因此更有可能深睡不動,B與此相悖;文中暗示無夢睡眠使低級動物更警覺，從而起到一定的保護作用,C正好與這種理解相反，因此也不正確。

　　5. [C]最后一段第2句解釋了第1句中所說的“海豚等睡眠少”的原因，C比較確切地反映了文章內(nèi)容。A、B、D三項都與最后一段開頭兩句表達的意思無關(guān)。

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