英语四级阅读试题及答案详解1.docx

英 语 四 级阅读试题及答案详解 1 Reading is thought to be a kind of conversation between the reader and the text. The reader puts questions, as it were, to the text and gets answers. In the light of these he puts 1 questions, and so on. For most of the time this “conversation” goes on below the level of consciousness. At times, however, we become 2 of it. This is usually when we are running into difficulties, when mismatch is occurring between 3 and meaning. When successful matching is being experienced, our question of the text continues at the unconscious level. Different people 4 with the text differently. Some stay very close to the words on the page, others take off imaginatively from the words, interpreting, criticizing, analyzing and examining. The former represents a kind of comprehension which is 5 in the text. The latter represents 6 levels of comprehension. The balance between these is important, especially for advanced readers. There is another conversation which from our point of view is 7 important, and that is to do not with what is read but with how it is read. We call this a “process” conversation as 8 to a “content” conversation. It is concerned not with meaning but with the 9 we employ in reading. If we are an advanced reader our ability to hold a process conversation with a text is usually pretty well 10 . Not so our ability to hold a content conversation. A)opposed B)converse C)equally D)written E)developed F)strategies G)compared H)awake I)higher J)expectations K)deal L)absolutely M)aware N)better O)further 参考答案及解析: 1. 选 O ）。 很明显此处应填形容词。可选项有higher 和 further ，原文为“根据答案反复提出。。。问题“，但 higher 一般强调的是层次上的高低，因此不能用来修饰 question ，故只有further “更进一步的”符合题意。 选 M ）。 此处应填形容词且能与 of 构成固定搭配。可选项有awake 和 aware ，由前一句中 below the level of consciousness （即unconsciousness ）和此句中 however 转折可以推出，此处应填与consciousness 意思相近的形容词，故排除 awake “警觉的”，而选aware 。 选 J ）。 由空格后的 and meaning 可知，此处应填名词，与 meaning 构成并列结构。原文为“我们会意识到沟通的存在，通常是 在我们遇到难题或 …… 与文章意思不符的时候” ， 故只有 expectation