英語四級閱讀備考材料練習(xí)題.doc

1、英語四級閱讀備考材料練習(xí)題一As she walked round the huge department store,Edith reflected how diffult it was to choose a suitable Christmas present for her father.She wish that he was as easy to please as her mother, who was always delighted with perfumeBesides,shoppong at this time of the year was a most disgree

2、able eperience :people trod on your toes,poked you with their elbows and almost knocked you overin their haste to get to a bargain ahead of you.Partly to have a rest, Edith paused in front of a counter where some attracive ties were on display.They are real silk, the assistant assured her, trying to

3、 tempt her.Worth double the pre.But edit knew from past eperience that her choe of ties hardly ever pleased her father.She moved on reluctantly and then quite by chance, sped where a small crowd of man had gathered round a counter.She found some good quality pipes on sale-and the pres were very reas

4、onable.Edith did not hesitate for long : although her father only smoked a pipe occasionally, she knew that this was a present whh was bund to please him.When she got home,with her small well-chosen present concealed in her handbag, her parents were already at the supper table.Her mother was in an e

5、specially cheerful mood, Your father has at last to decided to s smoking.She informed her daughter.1.Ediths father .a.did not like presentb.never got presentc.preferred tiesd.was diffult to choose a present for2.The assistant spoke to Edith because she erested in tiesd.in need of fort3.E

6、dith sped at the counter.4.Ediths father smoked a pipe.a.when he was obligedb.on social occasionsc.from time to timed.when he was delighted5.Shopping was very disagreeable at that time of the year because.a.coustomers trod on each others toesb.coustomers poked each other with their elbowsc.customers

7、 knocked each otherd.customers were doing their shopping in a great hurry答案：dbdcd二Perhaps it was only during the dawn of the human race that women 11 stood equal with men.At the benning, I think both sees shared equal responsibility for the 12 of the race.Men and women shared in the hunt and in wars

8、.Traces of this ancient tradition can be found, for ele, in the Achinese society in North Sumatra, where women fought alongside men against the invading Dutch colonial 13 during the Achinese wars in the 19th century.Some women even became admirals of the Achinese fleet.Other cultures in other parts

9、of the world have had the 14 tradition.Perhaps the invention of agrulture 15 the benning of a differentiation between mens and womens roles.Men continued to hunt, and women became food gatherers and tended the field.Men 16 became agrulturists as well, when the hunt no longer provided enough sustenan

10、ce for the munity.The biologal fact that women 17 children, and that each time they ve birth they are 18 , for a time, fully to play their role in the provision of sustenance and other work for the family, slowly gave rise to more distinct mens and womens roles.Men who are physally stronger 19 on su

11、ch natural roles as warriors, and in most cases men became chiefs, manders, and kings.In the 20 of history, as matriarchal systems became minorities in many cultures, the roles of men and women in many societies became increasingly gender-oriented and differentiated.三Once it was possible to define m

12、ale and female roles easily by the division of labor.Men worked outside the home and earned the ine to support their families， while women cooked the meals and took care of the home and the children.These roles were firmly fied for most people， and there was not much opportunity for women to echange

13、 their roles.But by the middle of this century， mens and womens roles were being less firmly fied.In the 1950s， econom and social success was the goal of the typal Ameran.But in the 1960s a new force developed called the counterculture.The people involved in this movement did not value the middle-cl

14、ass Ameran goals.The counterculture presented men and women with new role choes.Taking more interest in childcare， men began to share child-raising tasks with their wives.In fact， some young men and women moved to munal homes or farms where the econom and childcare responsibilities were shared equal

15、ly by both sees.In addition， many Amerans did not value the traditional male role of soldier.Some young men refused to be drafted as soldiers to fight in the war in Vietnam.In terms of numbers， the counterculture was not a very large group of people.But its influence spread to many parts of Ameran s

16、ociety.Working men of all classes began to change their econom and social patterns.Industrial workers and business eecutives alike cut down on overtime work so that they could spend more leisure time with their families.Some doctors， lawyers， and teachers turned away from high paying situations to p

17、racte their professions in poorer neighborhoods.In the 1970s， the feminist movement， or womens liberation， produced additional econom and social changes.Women of all ages and at all levels of society were entering the work force in greater numbers.Most of them still took traditional womens jobs as p

18、ubl school teaching， nursing， and secretarial work.But some women began to enter traditionally male occupations： pole work， banking， dentistry， and construction work.Women were asking for equal work， and equal opportunities for promotion.Today the eperts generally agree that important changes are ta

19、king place in the roles of men and women.Naturally， there are diffulties in adjusting to these transformations.1.Whh of the follog best epress the main idea of Paragraph 1A.Women usually worked outside the home for wages.B.Men and womens roles were easily echanged in the past.C.Mens roles at home we

20、re more firmly fied than womens.D.Men and womens roles were usually quite separated in the past.2.Whh sentence best epresses the main idea of Paragraph 2A.The first sentence.B.The second and the third sentences.C.The fourth sentence.D.The last sentence.3.In the passage the author proposes that the counterculture.A.dest