英语专业四级模拟试题附参考答案 第10套

PART V READING COMPREHENSION (25 MIN)
　　In this section there are four passages followed by questions or unfinished statements, each with four suggested answers marked [A], [B], [C] and [D]. Choose the one that you think is the best answer.
　　Mark your answers on your ANSWER SHEET.

TEXT A

Steve Courtney wrote historical novels.    Not, he was quick to explain, over colorful love stories of the kind that made so much money for so many women writer, but novels set, and correctly set, in historical periods.    Whatever difference he saw in his own books, his readers did not seem to notice it, and his readers were nearly all women.    He had studied at university, but he had not been a particularly good student, and he had never afterwards let any academic knowledge he had gained interfere with his writing.

Helen, his wife, who did not have a very high opinion of her husband's ability as a novelist, had been careful to say when she married him that she was not historically minded.

Above all, Helen was doubtful whether her relationship with Steve would work at all in the village of Stretton, to which they had just moved.    It was Steve who had wanted to move to the country, and she had been glad of the change, in principle, whatever doubts she was now having about Stretton as a choice.    But she wondered whether Steve would not, before very long, want to live in London again, and what she would do if he did.    The Stretton house was not a weekend cottage.    They had moved into it and given up the London flat altogether, partly at least, she suspected, because that she Steve's idea of what a successful author ought to do.    However, she thought he was not going to feel like a successful author half as much in Stretton as he had in London.    On the other had, she supposed he might just start dashing up to London for the day to see his agent or have lunch with his publisher, leaving her behind in Stretton, and she thought on the whole she would like that.

66.Which of the following is true about Steve's attitude towards women who wrote love stories?
A. He had a low opinion of the kind of books they wrote.
B. He was afraid of being compared unfavorably with them.
C. He would have liked to earn as much money as they did.
D. He did not think he could write about the same subjects.

67.Helen thought Steve might not be content in Stretton because _____.
A. his relationship with Helen was changing
B. he would not feel so important in Stretton
C. he would not be able to write so well there
D. he would not be lonely without all his friends

68.We learn from the passage that Steve's novels were _____.
A. popular but unimportant
B. serious works of literature
C. admired for their historical truth
D. written with women readers in mind