英语专业四级真题及答案(阅读理解)_大学英语专业四级真题
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After breakfast the boys wandered out into the play-ground.Here the day-boys were gradually aembling.They were sons of the local clergy, of the
officers at the Depot, and of such manufacturers or men of busine as the old town poeed.Presently a bell rang, and they all trooped into school.This consisted of a large, long room at opposite ends of which two under-masters conducted the second and third forms, and of a smaller one, leading out of it, used by Mr.Watson, who taught the first form.To attach the preparatory to the senior school these three claes were known officially, on speech days and in reports, as upper, middle, and lower second.Philip was put in the last.The master, a red-faced man with a pleasant voice, was called Rice;he had a jolly manner with boys, and the time paed quickly.Philip was surprised when it was a quarter to eleven and they were let out for ten minutes' rest.The whole school rushed noisily into the play-ground.The new boys were told to go into the middle, while the others stationed themselves along opposite walls.They began to play Pig in the Middle.The old boys ran from wall to wall while the new boys tried to catch them: when one was seized and the mystic words saidhe became a prisoner and, turning sides, helped to catch those who were still free.Philip saw a boy running past and tried to catch him, but his limp gave him no chance;and the runners, taking their opportunity, made straight for the ground he covered.Then one of them had the brilliant idea of imitating Philip's clumsy run.Other boys saw it and began to laugh;then they all copied the first;and they ran round Philip, limping
grotesquely, screaming in their treble voices with shrill laughter.They lost their heads with the delight of their new amusement, and choked with helple merriment.One of them tripped Philip up and he fell, heavily as he always fell, and cut his knee.They laughed all the louder when he got up.A boy pushed him from behind, and he would have fallen again if another had not caught him.The game was forgotten in the entertainment of Philip's deformity.One of them invented an odd, rolling limp that struck the rest as supremely ridiculous, and several of the boys lay down on the ground and rolled about in laughter: Philip
was completely scared.He could not make out why they were laughing at him.His heart beat so that he could hardly breathe, and he was more frightened than he had ever been in his life.He stood still stupidly while the boys ran round him, mimicking and laughing;they shouted to him to try and catch them;but he did not move.He did not want them to see him run any more.He was using all his strength to prevent himself from crying.TEXT B
For parents who send their kids off to college saying, “These will be the best years of your life,” it would be very appropriate to add, “If you can handle the stre of college life.”
Freshmen are showing up already streed out, according to the latest CIRP Freshman Survey that reported students' emotional health levels at their lowest since the survey started in 1985.While in school, more students are working part-time and near-full-time jobs.At graduation, only 29 percent of seniors have jobs lined up.Preure to excel often creates stre, and many students are not learning how to effectively handle this stre.1)Stre can make smart people do stupid things: Stre causes what brain researchers call “cortical inhibition.” In simple terms, stre inhibits a part of the brain responsible for decision-making and reaction time and can adversely affect other mental abilities as well.2)The human body doesn't discriminate between a big streful event and a little one: Any streful experience will create a cascade of 1,400 biochemical events in your body.If any amount of stre is left unchecked, many things can occur within the body, including premature aging, impaired cognitive function and energy drain.3)Stre can become your new norm: When you regularly experience
negative feelings and high amounts of stre, your brain recognizes this as your
normal state.This then becomes the new norm, or baseline for your emotional state.4)Stre can be controlled: Countle studies demonstrate that people can restructure their emotional stateusing emotion-refocusing techniques.These techniques help you recognize how you are feeling and shift to a more positive emotional, mental and physical state.5)Stre le by loving what you study: Barbara Frederickson, a leading international authority on the importance of positive emotions, says humans are genetically programmed to seek positive emotions such as love and joy.It's suggested to choose a major or career path you love and enjoy.Otherwise, you could end up fighting against your own biology.TEXT C
For anyone who doubts that the texting revolution is upon us, consider this: The average 13-to 17-year-old sends and receives 3,339 texts a month—more than 100 per day, according to the Nielsen Co., the media research firm.Adults are catching up.People from ages 45 to 54 sent and received 323 texts a month in the second quarter of 2010, up 75% from a year ago, Nielsen says.Behind the texting explosion is a fundamental shift in how we view our mobile devices.That they are phones is increasingly beside the point.Part of what's driving the texting surge among adults is the popularity of social media.Sites like Twitter, with postings of no more than 140 characters, are creating and reinforcing the habit of communicating in micro-bursts.And these sites also are pumping up sheer volume.Many Twitter and Facebook devotees create settings that alert them, via text meage, every time a tweet or meage is earmarked for them.In October 2009, 400 million texts alerted social-media users to such new meages acro AT&T's wirele network, says Mark Collins, AT&T senior vice president for data and voice products;by
September 2010, the number had more than doubled to one billion.(Twitter reports more than two billion tweets are sent each month.)
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