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2015
年
12
月大学
英语四级阅读理解练习
Now let us look
at how we read. When we read a printed text, our
eyes move across a page
in short, jerky
movement. We recognize words usually when our eyes
are still when they fixate.
Each time
they fixate, we see a group of words. This is
known as the recognition span or the
visual
span.
The
length
of
time
ofr
which
the
eyes
stop
---the
duration
of
the
fixation
----varies
considerably
from
person
to
person.
It
also
vaies
within
any
one
person
according
to
his
purpose
in reading and his familiarity with the
text. Furthermore, it can be affected by such
factors
as lighting and tiredness.
Unfortunately, in the past, many
reading improvement
courses
have concentrated too much
on
how
our
eyes
move
across
the
printed
page.
As
a
result
of
this
misleading
emphasis
on
the
purely
visual aspects of reading, numerous
exercises have been devised to train the eyes to
see more
words at one fixation. For
instance, in some exercises, words are flashed on
to a screen for,
say,
a
tenth or a twentieth of a second. One
of
the exercises has
required students
to
fix
their
eyes on some central point,
taking in the words on either side. Such word
patterns are often
constructed in the
shape of rather steep pyramids so the reader takes
in more and more words
at each
successive fixation. All these exercises are very
clever, but it's one thing to improve
a
person's ability to see words and quite another
thing to improve his ability to read a text
efficiently. Reading requires the
ability to understand the relationship between
words.
Consequently, for these reasons,
many experts have now begun to question the
usefulness of eye
training, especially
since any approach which
trains
a
person
to
read
isolated
words
and
phrases
would
seem
unlikely
to
help
him
in
reading
a continuous text.
1.
The
time
of
the
recognition
span
can
be
affected
by
the
following
facts
except
________
.
A. one's familiarity with the text
B. one's purpose in reading
C. the length of a group of words
D. lighting and tiredness
2.
The author may believe that reading ______.
A. requires a reader to take in more
words at each fixation
B. requires a
reader to see words more quickly
C.
demands an deeply-participating mind
D.
demands more mind than eyes
3 What does
the author mean by saying
“
but it's one thing to
improve a person's ability
to see words
and quite another thing to improve his ability to
read a text efficiently.
”
in
the second parapraph?
A. The
ability to see words is not needed when an
efficient reading is conducted.
B. The
reading exercises mentioned can't help to improve
both the ability to see and to
comprehend words.
C. The
reading exercises mentioned can't help to improve
an efficient reading.
D.
The
reading
exercises
mentioned
has
done
a
great
job
to
improve
one's
ability
to
see
words.
4.
Which of the following is NOT true?
A.
The visual span is a word or a group of words we
see each time.
B. Many experts began to
question the efficiency of eye training.
C. The emphasis on the purely visual
aspects is misleading.
eye training
will help readers in reading a continuous text.
5. The tune of the author in writing
this article is ________
A critical
B neutral
C prssimistic
D optimistic
【
答案及
详解
】
答案：
CCCDA
解题思路
1 C.
< br>事实细节题。第一段提到了影响视幅的因素：不同的人，不同的阅读目的，对材料的熟悉程度，
< p>光线，疲劳。
C
“一组词的长度”不是能影响视幅
的因素，是本题的答案。
2
C.<
/p>
观点态度题。作者在第二段第二句提到，眼睛训练课程只注重了阅读的视觉因素。倒数第二
句书
哦，阅读要求具备理解单词间关系的能力。因此选项
C
“阅读需要大脑的深度参与”正确。作者没有否定
阅读的视觉因素的
必要性，但是也没有说读者应该练习拓宽视幅，加快阅读速度。所以
AB
两项都不正确。
作者没有对大脑和眼睛在阅读过程中的重要性进行对比，所以不
选
D
3
C.
作者在这句话中先是肯定了那些阅读练习提高看单词的能力，然后提出了有效阅读概念。后面句
中还指出，有效阅读需要的是理解单词间的联系的能力。所以作者的意思应该是那些（训练眼睛的）阅读
练习对与有效的阅读无益。
B
与文章相
反。
D
句是蕴涵其中一个意思，却不是作者想表达的方向。
4 D.
第二段最后一句说，眼睛训练对
于帮助读者阅读连贯文章无益，所以
D
是错的，是本题答案。<
/p>
5
A.
参考
前面的结构剖析，
作者写本文的主要目的是对那些只关注阅读的视觉因素的阅读能力课程
进
行批判，所以答案应该是
A.
web search
—
-which scours
only the latest updates to services like
Twitter
—
is
currently generating quite a buzz
because it can provide a glimpse of what people
around the
world
are
thinking
or
doing
at
any
given
st
in
this
kind
of
search
is
so
great
that,
according to recent
leaks, Google is considering buying Twitter.
The
latest
research
from
the
interact
search
giant,
though,
suggests
that
real
—
time
results
could be even more
powerful
—
they may reveal the
future as well as the present.
Google
researchers Hyunyoung Choi and Hal Varian combined
data from Google Trends on the
popularity of different search terms
with models used by economists to predict trends
in areas
such
as
travel
and
home
result?Better
forecasts
in
every
works
because
searches
reveal
something
about
people's
intentions.
Google
has
demonstrated
before
that
search
data can predict flu
outbreaks, and last week World Bank economist Erik
Feyen said he could cut
errors in a
model that forecasts lending to the private sector
by 15%using Google search data.
But
real-time
results
could
have
even
more
predictive
power:
knowing
what
people
are
actually
doing,
not
just
thinking,
at
a
particular
instant
gives
a
strong
hint
of
the
future
consequences.
Johan Bollen of Los NationA.
Laboratory and Pepe of the University of
California, Los Angeles, applied a mood
rating system to the text from over 10,000 Future
Me
emails sent in 2006 to gauge
people's hopes
，
fears and
predictions for the found
that emails
directed at 2007 to 2012 were significantly more
depressed in tone than messages
aimed
at
the
subsequent
six
they
have
predicted
the
world's
current
economic
slump?
Without more data,
that is no more than an intriguing Bollen plans
to look
at
more
Future
Me
emails,
as
well
as
Twitter
messages,
to
search
for
mood
swings
that
foreshadow
other economic
he finds any such sanle sources might be used to
try and
predict future economic
fluctuations.
So will our online
footsteps become a central part of economic
forecasting?We'11 have to
wait and see
0r perhaps do a quick web search.
is
real-time web Twitter?
tells us what
people did in past days.
generates
quite a buzz in recent days.
provides
latest news about everything.
informs
what people do in the future.
is the
result of research established by Google
researchers Hyunyoung Choi and Hal
Varian?
gain nothing
special from the combination of data and models.
B. 11ley indeed reveal something about
people's intentions in such areas.
C.
They find that the future trends cannot be
predicted from the research.
totally
understand the future trends of these areas from
research.
can we infer from Para.5?
A. It is possible for researchers to
get some hints from the Future Me emails.
B. There is no relationship between the
depression and economic slump.
is a
potential relationship between depression and
economic slump.
Future Me emails may
indicate people's reaction about future
prediction.
's
the
meaning
of
“
Without
more
data,that
is
no
more
than
an
intriguing
possibility.
”
?
A. More data are necessary to turn this
possibility to be reality.
possibility
is just all intriguing possibility without data.
C. No amount of data cannot be a strong
proof for the possibility.
data are
needed to turn it out to be a pure possibility.
's the attitude of author to search?
ve.
al.
stic.
erent.
is real-time web
search
，
like Twitter?
像
Twitter
一样的实时搜索是什么？
tells us what people did in
past days.
它能告诉我们人们在过去都做什么。
generates quite a buzz in recent
days.
它是最近互联网中热门的应用领域。
provides latest news about
everything.
它能为人们提供一切最为实时的消息。
informs what people do in the
future.
它能告知我们未来人们都在做什么。
is the result of research established
by Google researchers Hyunyoung Choi and HA.
Varian?
谷歌的研究人员崔元英和哈尔?范里安的研究结果如何？
gain nothing special from the
combination of data and models.
他们并未从数据和
模型
中得到任何特殊的信息。
B.
They indeed reveal something about people's
intentions in such areas.
研究人员确实解读
到人们的一些意图。
find that
the future trends can not be predicted from the re
search.
他们发现有关未
来的预测并不能从此得出。