大学英语四级阅读理解练习 七
2008-10-06来源:和谐英语
Questions 6-10 are based on the following passage:
Thoughts from yesterday guide us toward tomorrow.
More than 2000 years ago, Caecilius Statius, a Roman slave who became famous as a playwright, observed, "We plant trees to benefit another generation." His remark is as apt (适当的) as it was when he made it and shows how thinkers of the past can still teach us something about the future.
George Bernard Show, for instance, made an even more perceptive remark. "We are made wise, not by the recollection（回忆）of our past, but by the responsibility for our future." This responsibility begins when we recognize that we ourselves create our future that the future is not something imposed upon us by fate or other forces beyond our control. We ourselves build the future both through what we do and what we do not do. Once we recognize our power over the future, we inevitably begin to anticipate the consequences of what we do and to do those things that will improve our future; in short, we begin to act wisely.
And our own responsibility for the future bears the promise of a better future world, because, as C. P. Snow, the novelist and philosopher, once remarked: "The sense of the future is behind all good policies. Unless we have it, we can give nothing either wise or decent to the world." And our obligations must be more to the future than the past. Our greatest responsibility is to be good ancestors.
6. According to the passage, the first sentence means ________.
A) we should often think about our past, which will make us a good man
B) should forget the past and get ready for the future
C) future is always promising than the past
D) we should use what we learnt in the past to build our future
7. What can we learn from Caecilius Statius' remark?
A) We should plant more trees than our descendants.（后代）
B) Tree will be a great help to our descendants.
C) We should do something useful (including planting trees) for another generation.
D) Tree is important to the world.
8. According to George Bernard Shaw, ______can make us wise.
A) what we learn in the past.
B) what we should do for the future
C) our memory of the past
D) our respect of the future
9. What does the sentence "our own responsibility for the future bears the promise of a better future world" mean?
A) Our own responsibility will build a better future world.
B) We bear the burden of our responsibility in the past.
C) We should make a promise to the next generation.
D) We should work hard.
10. According to the writer, what can we do for our descendants?
A) Anticipate the consequences of what we do
B) Protect the environment.
C）build the future
D）recognize our power over the future
Questions 11 to 15 are based on the following passage:
Criticism of research lays a significant foundation for future investigative work, but when students begin their own projects, they are likely to find that the standards of validity（效力）in field work are considerably stricter than the standards for most library research.
When students are faced with the concrete problem of proof by field demonstration, they usually discover that many of the important relationships they may have criticized other researcher for failing to demonstrate are very difficult to understand indeed. They will find, if they submit an outline or questionnaire to their classmates for criticism, that other students make comments similar to some they themselves may have made in discussing previously published research. For example，student researchers are likely to begin with a general question but find themselves forced to narrow its focus. They may learn that questions whose meanings seem perfectly obvious to them are not clearly understood by others, or that questions which seemed entirely objective to them appear to be highly biased (有偏见的) to someone else. They usually find that the formulation（准则） of good research questions is a much more subtle and frustrating task than is generally believed by those who have not actually attempted it.
Thoughts from yesterday guide us toward tomorrow.
More than 2000 years ago, Caecilius Statius, a Roman slave who became famous as a playwright, observed, "We plant trees to benefit another generation." His remark is as apt (适当的) as it was when he made it and shows how thinkers of the past can still teach us something about the future.
George Bernard Show, for instance, made an even more perceptive remark. "We are made wise, not by the recollection（回忆）of our past, but by the responsibility for our future." This responsibility begins when we recognize that we ourselves create our future that the future is not something imposed upon us by fate or other forces beyond our control. We ourselves build the future both through what we do and what we do not do. Once we recognize our power over the future, we inevitably begin to anticipate the consequences of what we do and to do those things that will improve our future; in short, we begin to act wisely.
And our own responsibility for the future bears the promise of a better future world, because, as C. P. Snow, the novelist and philosopher, once remarked: "The sense of the future is behind all good policies. Unless we have it, we can give nothing either wise or decent to the world." And our obligations must be more to the future than the past. Our greatest responsibility is to be good ancestors.
6. According to the passage, the first sentence means ________.
A) we should often think about our past, which will make us a good man
B) should forget the past and get ready for the future
C) future is always promising than the past
D) we should use what we learnt in the past to build our future
7. What can we learn from Caecilius Statius' remark?
A) We should plant more trees than our descendants.（后代）
B) Tree will be a great help to our descendants.
C) We should do something useful (including planting trees) for another generation.
D) Tree is important to the world.
8. According to George Bernard Shaw, ______can make us wise.
A) what we learn in the past.
B) what we should do for the future
C) our memory of the past
D) our respect of the future
9. What does the sentence "our own responsibility for the future bears the promise of a better future world" mean?
A) Our own responsibility will build a better future world.
B) We bear the burden of our responsibility in the past.
C) We should make a promise to the next generation.
D) We should work hard.
10. According to the writer, what can we do for our descendants?
A) Anticipate the consequences of what we do
B) Protect the environment.
C）build the future
D）recognize our power over the future
Questions 11 to 15 are based on the following passage:
Criticism of research lays a significant foundation for future investigative work, but when students begin their own projects, they are likely to find that the standards of validity（效力）in field work are considerably stricter than the standards for most library research.
When students are faced with the concrete problem of proof by field demonstration, they usually discover that many of the important relationships they may have criticized other researcher for failing to demonstrate are very difficult to understand indeed. They will find, if they submit an outline or questionnaire to their classmates for criticism, that other students make comments similar to some they themselves may have made in discussing previously published research. For example，student researchers are likely to begin with a general question but find themselves forced to narrow its focus. They may learn that questions whose meanings seem perfectly obvious to them are not clearly understood by others, or that questions which seemed entirely objective to them appear to be highly biased (有偏见的) to someone else. They usually find that the formulation（准则） of good research questions is a much more subtle and frustrating task than is generally believed by those who have not actually attempted it.
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