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大学英语四级分类模拟题
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Reading
Comprehension
The Technology That's Transforming
Gardening
With the holiday weekend
coming up and the weather (hopefully) taking a
turn for the better, many of us may
1
feeling a bit green-fingered
(
精通
园艺的
) and turn
our
2
to gardening.
The New
York-based
tech
Bitponics
is
hoping that worrying
about seasons
will be a thing of the
past when it comes to
3
your own plants, fruit and
vegetables.
Bitponics
claims
to
be
4
gardening
assistant
The
system
it
sells
is a cloud-based hydroponics
(
水栽培
) gardening manager.
Many
people
may
only
have
heard
of
hydroponics
in
terms
of
growing
cannabis
(
大麻
), but
actually it is
5
used in farming.
Hydroponics basically
6
growing
plants without soil, instead using a
reservoir (
蓄水池
)
of nutrient solutions in water.
What Bitponics strives to do is automate
hydroponic systems.
The
technology
it
has
developed
is
an
electronic
box
that
has
7
attached.
These sensors, or probes, go into the
reservoir of your hydroponic system
and
monitor
things
like
pH
levels,
8
,
humidity
(
湿度
),
and
the
data
is
then
sent
9
to the cloud.
Two outlets let you
plug in lights or pumps, which can be set on
timers
to aid growing. A web app gives
you a grow plan, which
10
you by text or
e-mail when you need to add nutrients
or change the water reservoir.
A.
absently E. investment I. personal M.
temperature
B. attention F.
involves J. plentiful N. widely
C. explicit G. merely K.
sensors O. wirelessly
D.
growing H. notifies L. start
The Dangers of Reading
One of the biggest reasons I depart from my
minimalist (
极简主义的
)
philosophy is reading,
11
, reading
about what others are doing. I read a
blog post, or a magazine article about
someone doing something
12
:
travelling,
using a new productivity system, making bread,
etc. And then I
want to do that too.
And I think we all do this. We all read
inspirational
things, or hear
about
them
from
a friend,
and
13
ourselves
doing the
same
thing.
This is often a good
thing
—
inspiration is good,
isn't it? Learning from
others
is
14
good.
But
this
inspiration
can
often
15
me
to
forget
about
what
I've
learned,
and
soon
I'm
heading
down
a
new
path,
buying
a
lot
of
things
to
support
my
new
interest,
only
to
16
this
interest
when
I've
read
something
else.
This has happened to me dozens of times. I want to
learn Spanish,
programming,
bread
making,
17
writing,
guitar;
each
of
these
is
wonderful.
But
when
I
become
especially
interested
in
the
next
new
thing
to
learn
about,
the
other
things
suffer.
I
can't
learn
about
them
all
at
once.
Such
18
pulls
away my
focus and keeps me from doing well at any one
thing.
What's the antidote
(
解
)? Focus, namely,
19
to one thing long enough
to
learn
it.
Don't
be
distracted
by
every
new
thing
you
read.
The
answer
isn't
to
stop reading, but to pay more
20
attention
to your impulses when you
do read.
A. abandon E. definitely
I. fiction M. satisfaction
B.
careful F. distraction J. imagine
N. specifically
C. cause
G. facilitating K. plentiful O. stick
D. concentration H. fascinating
L. presumably
Caffeine May Improve
Memory
A cup of coffee in the
morning may improve long-term memory, according
to a new study.
The
study, published in the journal Nature
Neuroscience, found that
participants
who had been given caffeine
(
咖啡因
) pills had better
memory
21
Scientists studied 160
participants aged 18 to 30, and showed
them
22
photos
of
items
at
the
beginning,
asking
study
subjects
to
classify
the
items
as
or
Half
the
participants
were
given
a
caffeine
pill after that
23
, the other half a
placebo (
安慰剂
). One day
later, all
the participants were shown
the same pictures, as well as some they hadn't
seen before. They were asked whether
each photo was new, old or
24
to the
originals.
While both
groups were able to
25
between old and new
pictures, the
researchers
26
discovered
that
the
participants
who
took
the
caffeine
pills
were better at
determining which pictures were similar to the
first round.
The
researchers
remain
27
about
how
caffeine
may
influence
memory,
but
they
speculate
that
it
could
interfere
with
hormones
(
荷尔蒙，激素
)
related
to
memory
making.
The
study
needs
to
be
repeated
before
any
proven
conclusions
can
be
made,
but it's
not the first to find benefits in caffeine intake
(
摄取
). In fact,
similar
findings
were
made
in
a
population
of
bees,
which
leads
researchers
to believe that
the caffeine played a
28
in improving recall.
Still,
highly
caffeinated
products
have
been
linked
to
29
events
like
poor sleep. In
2012,
the
U.S.
Food
and
Drug Administration
announced it
was
looking into the safety of energy
drinks after
30
several reports of
illnesses and even deaths after taking
energy drinks.
A. classification
E. negative I. role M. temporarily
B. conceiving F. recall
I. significance N. uncertain
C.
disguise G. receiving K. similar
O. various
D. distinguish H.
remind L. surprisingly
Do You Use
Your Cell Phone a Lot?
Too
much
time
spent
on
your
cell
phone
doesn't
mean
you're
more
connected
and happier.
A
new
research
from
scientists
at
Kent
State
University
in
Kent,
Ohio
shows
that the more time college students
spend on their ceil phones, the
more
31
they are and the more their academic performance
will
32
.
Jacob Barkley, Aryn
Karpinski and Andrew Lepp studied 500 Kent State
University students, each of whom
reported their daily cell phone use for
the year as well as their level of
anxiety and
33
with their life.
At
the
end
of
the
year,
the
students
also
34
the
researchers
to
see
their
official
school
records
for
their
cumulative
(
累积的
)
grade
point
average
(GPA..
Not
only
was
greater
cell
phone
use
35
correlated
(
相关的
)
with
satisfaction
and
happiness,
it
was
also
associated
with
lower
GPAs
—
presumably
because
the
students were more anxious and unable
to
36
on their studies.
While
37
researches found that cell phones can improve
social
interaction and reduce feelings
of isolation, the latest findings suggest
that constant
38
to information and
people may be a double-edged-sword.
The
researchers speculate, for example, that students
may feel anxious if
they
feel
obligated
(
有义务的
)
to
be
in
constant
39
with
their
friends.
Some
may
have difficulty disconnecting, which only feeds
into the stress linked
to
their
phones.
Occasional
episodes
of
solitude
can
be
40
for
well-being,
but students who are tied to their
phones aren't getting these respites
(
暂
缓
).
A. access E. intense I. preferred
M. suffer
B. anxious F.
negatively J. previous N. touch
C. concentrate G. objectively
K. relation O. vital
D.
depend H. permitted L. satisfaction
答案
:
Reading Comprehension
1
、
[
解析
]
动
词辨义题。根据空格前的情态动词
may
和空格后的
feeling a bit gree-fingered
可
以判断，此处需要填入一个动词原形。
feeling
在该句中为动词
feel
的动名词形式，而非名词
“
感
觉
”
。备选词汇中只有
start“
开始
”
符合此处语境，故选
L
。<
/p>
2
、
[
解析
]
名
词辨义题。根据空格前的
our
和空格后的
to gardening
可以判断，此处需要填入一个名
词。再结合前文中提到的
feeling
可知，备选词汇中
attention“
注意，留心
”
最符合此处语境，故
选
B
。
3
、
[
解析
]
动词辨义题。
when it comes to
为习惯用法，意为
“
当提到
……”
，其后接名词或动名词。
再由空格后的
< br>your own plants...
可以判断，此处需要填入一个动名词。备
选词汇中只有
growing“
生长
”
符合此处语境，故选
D
。
4
、
[
解析
]
形
容词辨义题。根据空格前的
your
和空格后的
gardening assistant
可以判断，此处需
< br>要填入一个形容词修饰
assistant“
助理
”
。
备选词汇中
pe
rsonal“
私人的
”
符合此处语境
，
故选
I
。
5
、
[
解析
]
副
词辨义题。空格所在的分句结构完整，并不缺少任何成分，根据空格前的
it is
和空格后
的
used
可以判断，此处需要填入一个副词修饰
used“
应用
”
。备选词汇中
widely“
广泛地
”
符合此处
语境，故
选
N
。
be widely used
in
意为
“
广泛应用于
……”
。
6
、
[
解析
]
动
词辨义题。根据空格前的
basically
和空格后的动名词
growing
可以判断，此处需要填
入一个动词，且其后可以接动名词。备选词汇中
involves“
包括
”
符合此处语境，故选
F
。
7
、
[
解析
]
名词辨义题。
that
has...attached
在句中作
an
electronic box
的定语，其中
attached
意为
“
将某物系在、缚在或附在
(
另一物
)
上
”
。
have sth. attached
意为
“
附有
…
…”
，
由此可知此处需要填入一个名词。后文中紧接着提到了<
/p>
These sensors
，故不难推知备选词汇中
sensors“
传感器
”
符合此处语境，故选
K
。
8
、
[
解析
]
名
词辨义题。此处空格位于几个并列的名词之间，由此可以判断，此处需要填入一个能够与
pH
levels
和
humidit
y
并列使用的名词。
备选词汇中
tem
perature“
温度
”
符合此处语
境，
故选
M
。
investment“
投资
”
显然不
能被
“
这些传感器
”(These s
ensors)
所
“
监控
”(monito
r)
，故排除。
< br>
9
、
[
解析
]
副
词辨义题。空格所在的分句结构完整，再由空格前的
sent
和
空格后的
to the cloud
可
以判断，此处需要填入一个副词修饰
sent“
发送
”
。显然，备选词汇中
wirelessly“<
/p>
无线地
”
最符合
此处语境，故选
O
。
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