英語四級仔細閱讀強化題(一)

　　The decision to leave Kimberly with Mr. Mays rendered her suit debated. But the judge madeclear that Kimberly did have standing to sue ( 起訴) on her own behalf. Thus he made clear thatshe was more than just property to be handled as adults saw fit.

　　Certainly, the biological link between parent and child is fundamental. But biological parentsaren’t always preferable to adoptive ones, and biological parentage does not convey anabsolute ownership that cancels all the rights of children.

　　練習題：

　　Choose correct answers to the question:

　　1. What was the primary consideration in the Florida judge’s ruling?

　　A. The biological link.

　　B. The child’s benefits.

　　C.The traditional practice.

　　D. The parents’ feelings.

　　2. We can learn from the Kimberly case that

　　A. children are more than just personal possessions of their parents

　　B. the biological link between parent and child should be emphasized

　　C. foster homes bring children more pain and suffering than care

　　D. biological parents shouldn’t claim custody rights after their child is adopted

　　3. The Twiggs claimed custody rights to Kimberly because

　　A. they found her unhappy in Mr. Mays’ custody

　　B. they regarded her as their property

　　C. they were her biological parents

　　D. they felt guilty about their past mistake

　　4. Kimberly had been given to Mr. Mays

　　A. by sheer accident

　　B. out of charity

　　C. at his request

　　D. for better care

　　5. The author’s attitude towards the judge’s ruling could be described as

　　A. doubtful

　　B. Critical

　　C. cautious

　　D. supportive

　　英語四級仔細閱讀強化題答案

　　1.[B] 推理判斷題。根據第2段最后一句“女孩被判給她認識的父親，即養父，而非生父”以及全文的最后一句中all the rights of children,可以推斷,該判決是從孩子本身的利益出發的，故選B而排除A。

　　2.[A] 事實細節題。根據倒數第2段最后一句“金伯莉不僅僅是大人們覺得合適就可以隨意處置的“財產”可知a與該句相符，其中的personal possessions為原文中property的同義表達。

　　3.[C] 事實細節題。第4段第2、3句指出“金伯莉的親生父母，歐內斯特和里賈納·特維格，......醫學測試顯示……金伯莉才是他們的孩子，從而引發了特維格夫婦與羅伯特·梅斯之間的監護權爭訟案”，由此可知，C與之相符。

　　4.[A] 事實細節題。第4段第1句提到，金伯莉·梅斯與另一名嬰兒被陰差陽錯地調換了，她們跟著不是自己親生父母的人一起回了家，由此可知A正確。

　　5.[D] 觀點態度題。在最后一段作者用But轉折句說明自己的觀點，即“但生身父母并不總是比養父母更合適”,可見作者是支持法官將金伯莉判給其養父的。

　　英語四級仔細閱讀強化題(二)

　　Professor Smith recently persuaded 35 people, 23 of them women, to keep a diary of all theirabsent-mindedactions for a fortnight. When he came to analyse their embarrassing lapses(差錯)in a scientific report, hewas surprised to find that nearly all of them fell into a few groupings,Nordid the lapses appear to be entirely random(隨機的).

　　One of the women, for instance, on leaving her house for work one morning threw her dog herearrings and tried to fix a dog biscuit on her ear. "the explanation for this is that the brain islike a computer," explains the professor. "People programme themselves to do certain activitiesregularly. It was the woman’s custom every morning to throw her dog two biscuits and then puton her earrings. But somehow the action got reversed in the programme," About one in twentyof the incidents the volunteers reported were these "programme assembly failures,"

　　Altogether the volunteers logged 433 unintentional actions that they found themselves doing---an average of twelve each, There appear to be peak periods in the day when we are at ourzaniest(荒謬可笑的).These aretwo hours some time between eight a.m. and noon, between fourand six p.m. with a smaller peak between eight and ten p.m."Among men the peak seems to bewhen a changeover in brain’ programmes’ occurs, as for instance between going to and fromwork." Women on average reported slightly more lapses----- 12.5 compared with 10.9 for menm probably because they were more reliable reporters.

　　A startling finding of the research is that the absent-minded activity is a hazard of doingthings in which we are skilled. Normally, you would expect that skill reduces the number oferrors we make. But trying to avoid silly slips by concentrating more could make things a lotworse m even dangerous.

　　練習題：

　　Choose correct answers to the question:

　　1. In his study Professor Smith asked the subjects ________

　　A. to keep track of people who tend too forget things

　　B. to report their embarrassing lapses at random

　　C. to analyse their awkward experiences scientifically

　　D. to keep a record of what they did unintentionally

　　2. Professor Smith discovered that ________

　　A. certain patterns can be identified in the recorded incidents

　　B. many people were too embarrassed to admit their absent-mindedness

　　C. men tend to be more absent-minded than women

　　D. absent-mindedness is an excusable human weakness

　　3. "Programme assembly failures" (Line 6, Para. 2) refers to the phenomenon thatpeople ______

　　A. often fail to programme their routines beforehand

　　B. tend to make mistakes when they are in a hurry

　　C. unconsciously change the sequence of doing things

　　D. are likely to mess things up if they are too tired

　　4. We learn from the third paragraph that _______

　　A. absent-mindedness tends to occur during certain hours of the day

　　B. women are very careful to perform actions during peak periods

　　C. women experience more peak periods of absent-mindedness

　　D. men’s absent-mindedness often results in funny situations

　　5.It can be concluded from the passage that _____

　　A. people should avoid doing important things during peak periods of lapses

　　B. hazards can be avoided when people do things they are good at

　　C. people should be careful when programming their actions

　　D. lapses cannot always be attributed to lack of concentration

　　英語四級仔細閱讀強化題答案

　　1.[D] 事實細節題。本文第1句中的to keep a diary of all their absent-minded actions就是指to keep a record of what they did unintentionally,題目中的subjects指實驗對象，被測試者。

　　2.[A] 事實細節題。根據第2句中nearly all of them fell into a few groupings可以找到本題答案，題目中的discover是該句中find的同義詞,A的patterns與原文中的groupings意義相同。

　　3.[C] 語義題。根據第2段最后兩句提到,但是不知怎么的這種行為在程序中顛倒了。這些被測試者報告的事件中二十個中有一個屬于這種“流水線程序錯誤”。C的unconsciously與somehow對應,change the sequence of doing things與the action got reversed對應，故本題選C。

　　4.[A] 事實細節題。根據第3段的第2、3句“一天之中似乎存在一些人們易犯荒謬可笑錯誤的高峰時段”,之后到舉了幾個高峰時間，可知A與之相符。

　　5.[D] 推理判斷題。根據文章最后兩句“一般來說，我們會以為技術嫻熟可以減少錯誤。但是為了避免出現愚蠢的失誤而更加專注，只會把事情弄得更糟糕，甚至會導致危險。”可知D“差錯并不總是注意力不集中導致的” 正確。

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