英语四级考试长篇阅读习题及答案

英语四级考试长篇阅读习 题 快递公司问题件快递公司问题件货款处理关于圆的周长面积重点题型关于解方程组的题及答案关于南海问题 及答案 精品文档 英语四级考试长篇阅读习题及答案 长篇阅读题篇章长，阅读难度大，成为在英语四级考试 中的难点，对考生的整体阅读能力有了更高的要求。下面学 习啦小编为大家带来英语四级考试长篇阅读习题，供大家阅 读练习。 英语四级考试长篇阅读习题(一) Has a tech entrepreneur come up with a product to replace our ? December of012，three young men were living in a claustrophobic(患幽闭恐惧症的)apartment in San Francisco’s Tenderloin district，working on a technology had received a hundred and seventy thousand dollars from the incubator Y their project—a plan to make inexpensive cell-phone towers——had to their last seventy thousand resolved to keep trying out new software ideas until they ran out of how to make the funds last?Rent was a sunk they were working frantically,they already had no social they examined their budget，one big problem remained:food. had been living mostly on ramen，com dogs，and Costco frozen quesadillas——supplemented by Vitamin C tablets，to stave ofr scurvy(坏血病)——but the grocery bills were still adding Rhinehart，one of the 1 / 16 精品文档 entrepreneurs，began to resent the fact that he had to eat at all.“Food was such a large burden，”he told me recently.“It was also the time and the had a very small kitchen，and no dishwasher.”He tried out his own version of“Super Size Me.”living on McDonald’s dollar meals and pizzas from Little after a said,“I felt like l was going to die.”Kale was all the rage——and cheap ——so next he tried an that did not work，either. “I was starving，”he said. ，who is twenty-five，studied electrical engineering at Georgia Tech，and he began to consider food as an engineering problem.“You need amino acids(氨 基酸)and lipids，not milk itself,”he said.“You need carbohydrates(碳水化合物)，not bread.”Fruits and vegetables provide essential Vitamins and they’re “mostly water.”He began to think that food was an inefficient way:of geRing what he needed to survive.“It iust seemed like a system that’s too complex and too expensive and too fragile，”he told me. if he went straight to the law chemical components?He took a break from experimenting with software and studied textbooks on nutrifional 2 / 16 精品文档 biochemistry and the Web sites ofthe ,the ，and the Institute of ,Rhinehan compiled a list of thirty-five nutrients required for ，instead of heading to the grocery store，he ordered them ofr the Intemet--mostlyin powder or pill form——and poured everything into a blender'with some slurry of chemicals，looked like gooey ，he told me，“I started living on it.” called his potion Soylent，which，for most people， evokes the 197science-fiction film“Soylent Green.” starring Charlton movie is set in a dystopian future where，because ofoverpopulation and pollution，people live on mysterious wafers called Soylent film ends with the ghastly revelation that Soylent Green is made from human flesh. ’s roommates were told me，“It seemed pretty weird.”They kept shopping at a month，Rhinehart published the results of his experiment in a blog post， titled“How I Stopped Eating Food.”The post has a “Eureka!” chemical potion，Rhinehart reported，was “delicious!I felt like l’d just had the best breakfast of my life.”Drinking Soylent was saving him time and 3 / 16 精品文档 money:his food costs had dropped from four hundred and seventy dollars a month to physically,he wrote，“I feel like the six million dollar physique has noticeably improved，my skin is clearer,my teeth whiter,my hair thicker and my dandruff gone.”He concluded.“I haven’t eaten a bite of food in thirty days，and it's changed my lifc.”In a fcw weeks，his blog post was at the top of Hacker News——a water cooler for the tech were polarized.“RIP Rob，”a comment on Rhinehart’s blog other people asked for his formula，which，in the spirit of the“open source” movement，he posted online. of Silicon Valley’s cultural exports in the past ten years has been the concept of“life hacking”: devising tricks to streamline the obligations of daily freeing yourself up for whateveryou’d rather be ’s “future food”seemed a clever everywherebegan to test it out，and then to make their own commenters on Reddit were sparring about the appropriate dose of calcium-magnesium three months，Rhinehart said，he realized that his mixture had the makings of a company: “It provided more value to my life than any app.” 4 / 16 精品文档 He and his roommates put aside their software got into the business. H. To attract funding，Rhinehart and his roommates turned to the Internet:they set up a crowd-funding campaign in which people could receive a week’s supply of manufactured Soylent for sixty-five started with a goal of a hundred thousand dollars，which they hoped to raise in a when thev opened up to donations， RhinehaIt says，“we got that in two hours.”Last week， the first thirty thousand units of commercially made Soylent were shipped out to customers across addition to the money,its production was financed by Silicon Valley venture capitalists，including Y Combinator and the investment firm Andreessen Horowitz， which contributed a million dollars. I. Soylent has been heralded by the press as“the end of food，”which is a somewhat bleak conjares up visions of a world devoid of pizza parlors and taco stands——our kitchens stocked with beige powder instead of banana bread，our spaghetti nights and ice-cream socials replaced by evenings sipping sludge. ，Rhinehart says，that’s not exactly his vision. 5 / 16 精品文档 “Most of people’s meals are forgotten，”he told imagines that，in the future，“we’ll see a separation between our meals for utility and function，and our meals for experience and socialization.”Soylent isn’ t coming for our Sunday ’s coming for our frozen quesadillas. .What will be the consequence of his direct study of raw chemical components? we really need for survival is the nutritional elements of food instead of the food itself. .The concept of life hacking is to encourage people to live reasonably and to be yourself. .Soylent is not prepared for our Sunday potlucks， but an alternative options for junk food. is definitely a cost you paid without the possibility of regain. feel that I have become a man who could not be beRer than before in physical condition. .Soylent has predicted the bleak future of food， the end of food. is and .Last week，the first batch of commercial Soylent was 6 / 16 精品文档 delivered to other parts of the world. film is on the background of a visionally terrible future，in which people live by Soylent owing to the overpopulation and pollution. 英语四级考试长篇阅读习题答案 .what will be the consequence of his direct study of raw chemical components?如果他直接研究原材料的化学成分又会是什么 结果呢? we really need for survival is the nutritional elements of food instead of the food itself.人们真正 需要的不是食物本身，而是食物能带给我们的营养成分。 .The concept of life hacking is to encourage people to live reasonably and to be yourself.生活黑客的概念 鼓励人们合理生活、勇做自己。 .Soylent is not prepared for our Sunday potlucks， but an alternative options for junk 不是为我们的周末 聚餐而准备的，而是垃圾食品的备选项。 is definitely a cost you paid without the possibility ofregain.租金的确是一项支付了就没法再获 得的支出。 feel that I have become a man who could not be better than before in physical condition.我觉得我的身体状况 7 / 16 精品文档 比起以前来，好得不能再好了。 .Soylent has predicted the bleak future offood，the end 预示着食物的未来不容乐观，甚至是食物的终结 。 is and 食物很麻烦和费时。 .Last week，the first batch of commercial Soylent was delivered to other parts of the world.上周，第一批投 入商用的Soylent已经被运往国外。 film is on the background of a visionally terrible future，in which people live by Soylent owing to the overpopulation and pollution.这部电影以一个想象的悲 惨未来为背景，由于人口过多和环境污染，在未来世界里， 人们只能依靠Soylent为生。 英语四级考试长篇阅读习题(二) Being Objective on Climate Change week，Craig Rucker,a climate-change skeptic and the executive director of a nonprofit organization called the Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow(CFACT)，tweeted a quotation supposedly taken from a 192edition of the Washington Post:“Within a few years it is predicted due to ice melt the sea will rise&make most coastal cities uninhabitable.”The intent，of course，was to poke fun at current headlines 8 / 16 精品文档 about climate change. ’s organization is a member ofthe Cooler Heads Coalition，an umbrella organization operated by the Competitive Enterprise Institute，a nonprofit that prides itself on its opposition to environmental himself is part of a network of bloggers，op-cd writers， and policy-shop executives who argue that climate change is either a hoax or all example of left-wing old newspaper clips is one of their favorite also make substantive arguments about climate policy,but the sniping may be more is no stronger rhetorical tool than ridicule. this case，Ruckcr’s ridicule seems spending a few minutes poking around online，1 was able to find both the Washington Post article and the longer SourCe material that it came from—a weather report issued by the in Bergen，Norway,and sent to the State Department on october 1 0， report didn’t say anything about coasts being isn’t wete smart back then，too,and they knew that melting sea ice wouldn’t appreciably raise sea more than a melting ice cube raises the level of water in a glass. 9 / 16 精品文档 ultimately corrected his tweet once commenters pointed out the Twitter,he informed me that he had taken the line from a Washington Times op—ed by Richard Rahn，a senior fellow at the Cato I contacted Rahn’ s press representative acknowledged that Rahn had copied the quote from other bloggers and columnists;the fabricated sentence appears in articles at and fabricated line seems to have been inserted the original article has been circulating online since007. E. The statement about rising sea levels aside， 12really was a strange period in the Svalbard area described by the weather islands lie halfway between Norway and the North Pole,at a latitude that puts them several hundred miles farther north than Barrow,alaska.“The Arctic seems to be warming up.”the report August of that year,a geologist near the island of Spitsbergen sailed as far north as eighty-one minutes in ice-free was highly previous several summers had likewise been populations had moved farther north，and formerly unseen stretches of coast were now accessible. are we to take from this historical evidence?A central tenet for Rucker and his colleagues is mat 10 / 16 精品文档 today’s retreat。warming surface temperatures，and similar observations are short-lived anomalies of a kind that often happened in the past—and that overzealous scientists and gullible media are quick to drum up crises where none examples include numerous newspaper articles from the that predicted the advent of a new ice 's possible to find articles from nearly every decade of the past century that seem to imply information about the climate that turned out to be premature or wrong. 192article has been quoted repeatedly by Rucker’ s comrades-in-arms since its00rebirth in the Washington nearly that long，scientists have been Schmidt，a climate modeler and the deputy director of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies，points out that what was an anomaly in 192is now the norm: the waters near Spitsbergen are clear of ice at the end of every important，long-term temperature and sea-ice records indicate that the dramatic sea-ice retreat in the early was also occurred locally around svalbard—the unusual conditions didn’t even encompass the whole Norwegian Sea，let alone the rest of the Arctic. 11 / 16 精品文档 H. 0ver the weekend，after retracting his previous tweet，Rucker posted a link to a blog item about a different one a 193New York Times eighty-year-old headline reads，“The Next Great Deluge Forecast By Science:Melting Polar Ice Caps to Raise the Level of the Seas and Flood the Continents.”That one sounded juicy,and，indeed，this time the text was correct: that really is what the headline ,the lcad researcher cited in the piece was a German scientist named Alfred Wegener,who has sometimes been considered a hero of climate-change deniers for a completely different is known for proposing the phenomenon of continental drift starting around the First Wbrid War,The idea was ridiculed before gaining acceptance in the nineteen-sixties，once ample evidence had been ’s lifc story,then，is used to support the idea that the small number of researchers in the field who downplay the risk of anthropogenic climate change will one day prevail. reality,the potential for anthropogenic global warming was being discussed earlier than continental took even longer to gain wide versatile Professor 12 / 16 精品文档 Wegener was a geophysicist and polar researcher who spent much of his career studying meteorology in Greenland，and trying to unlock the secrets of the Earth’s elevated place in the current climate-change debate is abstracted from history. any case，it’s not clear that the bloggers linking to the 193article read much beyond the article does discuss a collapse of the ice sheets that would raise sea levels by more than a hundred feet—but it says that event lies thirty to forty thousand years in the ’s nothing wrong with examining old newspaper articles for clues about climate conditions in the climate researchers look at historical documents of all ,a good-faith effort to arrive at the truth would not rely on cherry-picking catchy would require considering the context and looking at all the the very wouldn’ t allow for deliberate prediction that the ice caps might melt by the year2，000 is hardly all example of climate alarmism. .Unlike melting ice in the glass，the melting sea ice cannot easily raise sea level. 13 / 16 精品文档 maintains that the is just a terrible fantasy of the left-wing or even a totally distrustful matter. .It is fair to search for every piece of evidence to approach the truth without distortion. .As for Rucker,the clear purpose of tweeting this quotation is to laugh at the articles about climate change. various unusual phenomena about climate change are merely non-exist alarms claimed by the scientists and media，would be short-lived. drastic sea-ice melt occurred around Svalbard was only local and limited. .It is normal for the waters at northern latitude 1 degrees，2minutes to be covered with ice. is embraced that the number of climate-change researchers will be multiplied one day. .It is ironic for the leading figure of climate-change opponents to quote this piece. reality,the universal information in articles about climate change is eventually proved to be unbelievable. 14 / 16 精品文档 英语四级考试长篇阅读习题答案 .Unlike melting ice in the glass，the melting sea ice can not easily raise sea level.与杯中的融冰不同，海中的融冰不会使海 面快速升高。 maintains that the climate change is just a terrible fantasy of the left-wing or even a totally distrustful matter.洛克认为气候变化的论点不过是左派 的糟糕的幻想，甚至根本就是一个骗局。 .Itisfairto searchfor everypiece ofevidence to approach the truth without distortion.努力寻找证据， 真实地靠近真相，这点是不可争议的 .As for Rucker,the clear purpose of tweeting this quotation is to laugh at the articles about climate change.洛克微博这条引语的用意很明显是在嘲笑有关气候 变化的文章。 various unusual phenomena about climate change are merely alarms claimed by the scientists and media， would be short-lived.各种有关气候变化的非正常现象不 过是短暂的，是科学家和媒体所宣称的，本不存在的危言耸 听。 drastic sea-ice melt occurred around Sval bard was only local and limited.发生在斯瓦尔巴特群岛周围剧烈 15 / 16 精品文档 的海冰融化现象只是局部的。 .It is normal for the waters at northern latitude1 degrees，2minutes to be covered with ice.照理说，北 纬81度29分的水域应该是结冰的。 is embraced that the number of climate-change researchers will be multiplied one day.终有一天，对 气候变化研究的人员数量会不断增加。 .It is ironic for the leading figure ofclimate-change opponents to quote this piece.作为气候变化反对者的英 雄人物，引用这篇文章是很讽刺的。 universal information in articles about climate change is eventually proved to be unbelievable.事实 上，大量关于气候变化的信息最后都被证实是不可信的。 16 / 16