四级英语专项阅读习题及答案
四级英语专项阅读习题(一)
Never place a child under age 12 in the front seat with a working passenger-side air bag. These devices are discharged at 320 km/h and can be triggered by low-speed fender benders. They have killed 77 kids in the U.S. since 1993. If you must place a child in front, make sure the passenger-side bag is switched off.
Children over age one should ride in forward-facing safety seats with a five-point harness system. A child who weighs at least 18 kg or at least lm high can graduate to a booster seat that elevates her so that the standard shoulder and lap belt fits properly.
62. What does the author mainly discuss in this passage?
[A] How to avoid car crash.
[B] How to design safer baby equipment.
[C] How to educate children properly.
[D] How to properly secure children in the ear.
63. Which of the following is NOT among the "improper ways" mentioned in the passage?
[A] They don’t know where best to place the child.
[B] They don’t have the safety equipment for the child.
[C] They don’t use the proper restraint for the kid’s age and weight.
[D] They don’t install the safety seats properly.
64. Which of the following is the best seat for the children under 12?
[A] Forward-facing seats.
[B] Rear-facing seats.
[C] Front seats.
[D] Back seats.
65. The author indicates that a passenger-side air bag __
[A] might not be dangerous if switched off
[B] is designed for the safety of children
[C] is discharged at 320 km/h and will not triggered by other factors
[D] is not working ifa child sits in the seat
66. What does the word "graduate" (Line 2, Para. 4) mean?
[A] Finish schooling.
[B] Change to something else.
[C] Collapse.
[D] Stand.
四级英语专项阅读习题答案
62.D主旨题。文章指出，造成儿童车祸死亡的一大原因是他们没有受到适当的保护，文章还介绍了如何根据儿童的年龄、体重、身高等正确使用安全座椅或安全带以保护他们在车中的安全，所以D正确。
63.B信息明示题。文章第二段第二句指出，家长通常不知道让孩子坐哪里最好，或是他们没有用适合孩子的安全带，或是安全座椅安装得不正确，即A、C、D都是不恰当的行为，但并没有提及B项，故选B。
64.D信息明示题。文章第二段最后指出，the safest place in the car for any child up to the age of 12 is still the back seat，即12岁以下的孩子应该坐车后座，所以D正确。
65.A综合推断题。文章第三段最后一句指出，如果你不得不让孩子坐车前座，你就必须关掉前座旁的安全气囊，由此推断，关掉后的安全气囊对孩子应该没有危险，所以A正确。
66.B语义题。文章最后一段指出，“体重超过18公斤或高于1米的孩子可以_______儿童增高座椅。”选项中A意为“毕业”，B意为“改换”，C意为“倒塌”，D意为“站立”，只有B符合句意，为答案。
四级英语专项阅读习题(二)
Newspapers often tell us of floods in some parts of the United States.
Nearly every year on the great central drainages heavy rains and melting snow cause the waters to pour out the mountains and plains, to turn brooks into torrents, and to swell quiet streams into wild uncontrolled rivers. From Cairo to New Orleans, and from Pittsburgh to Paducah, the cry "River rising!" is a familiar yet fearful voice. . . When the rivers sometimes become too high or too swift to be controlled communities are flooded, families flee from their homes, croplands are washed out, and transportation comes to a halt. Hunger, disease, and death follow the wild waters.
Although given less publicity, the agricultural damage done by the many smaller, more frequent floods usually far exceeds the losses caused by the very grand ones. In the Central States, ditches and drains cause the flows from spring rains and melting snow to run far more rapidly than in the days before white men settled on the land. Once, excess spring flood waters emptied into lakes and swampy lands, there to be detained for slow release into stream and rivers. Now, systematic drainage has actually eliminated these natural reservoirs.
In the more rolling sections of the East, spring runoff was formerly absorbed and held temporarily in the porous soils beneath the unbroken expanse of forest. When large areas were converted to farm use, removal of the forest and the practice of up-and-down hill plowing deprived the soils of much of their ability to catch and store water.
The effects of eliminating the natural forest cover are shown in the gullied farm lands and widened stream channels found in some densely settled areas. Partly because the stream channels are more or less filled with material washed down from the uplands, and partly because storm runoff has increased, the channels are today no longer able to carry all the flow from heavy rains. This explains why the streams overtop banks far more often than in the days before settlement.
26. The best title for the selection would be______.
A. River Rising! River Rising! B. Forests and Floods
C. Flooding in the U. S. D. The Results of Flooding
27. All of the following cause floods EXCEPT______.
A. heavy rain B. melting snow
C. increasing storm runoff D. porous soil
28. The author states that______.
A. lakes and swamps once acted like natural reservoirs
B. up-and-down hill plowing catches and stores water
C. stream channels are the best carriers of water
D. floods are easily prevented and controlled
29. According to the selection, streams overtop their banks partly because______.
A. material from higher land is washed into them
B. ditches and drains lead into them
C. rivers become too swift
D. snow melts more rapidly nowadays
30. The floods which are given most publicity______.
A. cause no damage
B. cause the most damage
C. cause less agricultural damage than the many smaller, more frequent floods
D. far exceed the smaller, more frequent floods in agricultural loss
四级英语专项阅读习题答案
26. C 27. D 28. A 29. A 30. C
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