大学英语考试复习资料大学英语四级阅读模拟题21大学英语考试复习资料大学英语四级阅读模拟题21大学英语四级阅读模拟题21Reading ComprehensionSection ADirections: In this section, there is a passage with ten blanks. You are required to select one word for each blank from a list of choices given in a word bank following the passage. Read the passage through carefully before making your choices. Each choice in the bank is identified by a letter. You may not use any of the words in the bank more than once. Have you ever known anyone famous? If so, you may have found that they are remarkably similar to the rest of us. You may have even heard them 1 to people saying there is anything different about them. Im really just a normal guy, 2 an actor who has recently rocketed into the spotlight. There is, of course, usually a brief period when they actually start to believe they are as great as their 3 fans suggest. They start to wear 4 clothes and talk as if everyone should hear what they have to say. This period, however, does not often last long. They fall back to reality as fast as they had 5 risen above it all. What will it feel like to soar to such 6 and look down like an eagle from up high on everyone else? And what will it feel like to have flown so high only to 7 from your dream and realize you are only human? Some only see the 8 in losing something they had gained. They often make 9 attempts to regain what they lost. Often these efforts result in even greater pain. Some become 10 financially and emotionally. The only real winners are those who are happy to be back on the ground with the rest of us. Adesperate Bdisappointing Ccruelty Dbankrupt Efancy Fprotects Galtitude Hsimilarly Iwake Jcontest Kobject Lworshipping Mdignity Noriginally Oprotests 1.答案: K2.答案: O3.答案: L4.答案: E5.答案: N6.答案: G7.答案: I8.答案: C9.答案: A10.答案: D The West begun to take more notice of the East. The fifth volume of an enormous work re-assessing the Chinese contribution to science and technology is to be published next year. The first volume, which was published twenty years ago, set the 11 for the whole work. In it, 12 was given to show that many inventions which, until then, western historians had claimed for Europe, were made first in China. The 13 to rewrite the intellectual history of the world was not received without protest by some reputable historians. However, the evidence that has been 14 so far in the first four volumes has persuaded many historians who were skeptical at first. Chinas invention of paper, printing, the magnetic compass and gunpowder has never been 15 , but this new history has added advanced bridge design, mechanical clocks, paddle boats and many other inventions to the 16 . In the four volumes published so far no attempt has been made to explain 17 China has not kept up with the West in science and technology in modern times. It is 18 that the answer is to be found in the social and economic history of China, where a static society under a relatively benevolent (仁慈的) regime of scholar-gentry contrasts with the potentially revolutionary and dynamic society of the West at the end of the Middle Ages. In 19 years, the Chinese government has been making every effort to catch up with the West again, and there is little doubt that the gap is being 20 year by year. But will China avoid the Wests mistakes? Athat Bwhy Cpast Drecent Eprobable Fevidence Gtone Htext Ilist Jattempt Kdisputed Lproduced Mreduced Npresented Osaid 11.答案: G12.答案: F13.答案: J14.答案: N15.答案: K16.答案: I17.答案: B18.答案: E19.答案: D20.答案: MSection BDirections: In this section, you are going to read a passage with ten statements attached to it. Each statement contains information given in one of the paragraphs. Identify the paragraph from which the information is derived. You may choose a paragraph more than once. Each paragraph is marked with a letter. Creative Book Report Ideas AAre you at a loss for creative book report ideas for your students? If yes, then this article will help you make reading and reviewing books more creative for your class. In an age of PSPs, Xbox, anime and gaming arcades, reading has lost its foothold in the list of hobbies that children tend to cite. Most of the reading that kids do today comes in the form of compulsory books that they need to read for school and maybe that is the reason why they find r