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专业英语四级阅读模拟题27

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TEXT A

Beauty is a curious phenomenon, one of permeable, shifting boundaries. We may think we understand it, since we sense it effortlessly. In fact, it is a bundle of mysteries researchers are still uncovering.

Consider the ancient proverb: beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Until about 30 years ago it seemed too obvious for scientists to bother with. When they finally tested it, their results startled them. On the one hand, the maxim is false. Facial beauty is the same throughout the world. In every tribe and culture, individuals will consider Marilyn Monroe, say, an attractive woman. It goes further. Males can identify good-looking men, and females charming women. Old and young, rich and poor, learned and ignorant, all agree on who is beautiful. So do people of every class and personality type.

We don't learn this response. We're born with it. In one recent study, babies just 20 hours old recognized attractive faces and preferred them. So beauty is in our DNA. The eye of the beholder doesn't matter.

On the other hand, and this is where it gets interesting, the facial shell is just the foundation of beauty. We see the self in the face, every day, all the time, and we can't distinguish the two.

This blurring means that we gift the attractive with a large number of virtues. They seem more competent, likeable, happier, blessed with better lives and personalities. In one experiment, people predicted happier marriages and better jobs for them, and rated them lower on only one aspect: their caliber as parents. Another study found people consider them more amiable, happy, flexible, pleasure-seeking, serious, candid, outspoken, perceptive, confident, assertive, curious and active. They exert more control over their destiny, subjects felt, while the homely endure the world's sudden change.

It is called the "beautiful is good" stereotype, and it grants the attractive a parade of boons. Teachers consider them smarter and give them higher grades. Bosses promote them faster. In one tale in One Thousand and One Nights, a thief steals a coin-bag, and when the victim accuses him, people protest: "No, he's such a handsome youth. He wouldn't steal anything!" In fact, attractive people can

shoplift with greater ease, since witnesses are less likely to report them. And when they do stand before the court, juries acquit them more readily and judges give them lighter penalties.1. The proverb "beauty is in the eye of the beholder" means

A.that beauty can only be admitted when most people recognize it.

B.whether somebody is beautiful depends on the person who is looking.

C.that beauty can be measured according to the attractive eyes.

D.that beauty can be judged only by grown-ups.

答案：B

语义理解题。文章第三段说这个谚语其实不对，因为人们对于谁漂亮通常会有一致意见，所以这个谚语的意思应该是指“要看的人认为什么美，那什么就是美的”，其实也就相当于汉语的“情人眼里出西施”，故答案为B。而A是作者观点，与谚语的意思正好相反；C和D也均不正确。

2. Which of the following can best substitute the word "caliber" in Para. 6?

A.Desire.

B.Curiosity.

C.Habit.

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答案：D

语义理解题。caliber所在的句子谈的是在一项实验中人们预言漂亮的人会有更幸福的生活和更好的工作，但是只在一方面把他们排得较低。将各选项的意思放入句中去理解，只有D“能力”最符合，也就

是人们认为漂亮的人做父母的能力不一定强。本题答案为D。

3. Which of the following is TRUE about the beauty?

A.The beauty is more likely to shoplift.

B.The inner beauty is more important than facial beauty.

C.The beauty may still commit the same crime as the commons.

D.The beauty usually leads an unpleasant life.

答案：C

推理判断题A对B错。文章第七段第一句表明人们对长得好看的人会有思维定式，认为他们不会

犯一些错误，事实上并不是这样。之后用《一千零一夜》中的故事做例子也是为了说明C，而不是A，因此答案为C。B“内在美比脸部美更重要”在文中未提及；根据文章，人们通常都会更善待那些漂亮的人，所以他们通常要更幸运些，D不正确。

4. The author's attitude towards "beautiful is good" is

A.objective.

B.approving.

C.questioning.

D.critical.

答案：A

观点态度题。作者在介绍人们通常持有的“美即是善”的思维定式时，只是客观地描述这一现象，并未加入自己的观点，因此，本题答案是A“客观的”。

TEXT B

It's Saturday afternoon and you would love to play a few rounds of golf, but fear that you might not get enough tee time at the closest public links. Instead, you decide to go down to the athletic club a few blocks away. There, you enter a private room, press a button, and look at the large screen on the wall in front of you. The screen flickers, blinks, and presto—you are suddenly on one of the world's great golf courses, perhaps St. Andrews in Scotland. You tee off on the plastic turf whacking your ball against the screen. A blurred copy of the ball slices or hooks down the fairway. Computers, infrared beams, and photo-optical detectors track the ball's spin, speed, and direction. You are totally immersed in the three-dimensional computer generated world.

Virtual reality is created by using display and control technology to surround its users with an artificial environment that mimics real life. Through the use of visual and sound effects, things that don't exist can be made to appear to exist. Virtual reality allows users to manipulate objects on the screen so they can become full participants in the three-dimensional setting that envelops them. Already, virtual reality systems have many practical applications. Most notably, the technology is being used to make simulations of cars or buildings during the design phase, to provide instruction in technical subjects like engineering, and to introduce new surgical techniques. But this technotogy's most advanced applications at the moment are in entertainment such as virtual reality golf and the virtual reality arcade game rooms sprouting up all over the world.

The idea of using computers to render artificial but useful environments began as early as the 1960s, but the computer power needed to generate 3-D graphics was so costly that only government agencies such as U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Adrninistration, along with a few university labs, could afford it. The field began to grow in the mid 1980s when Jaron Lanier coined the term "virtual reality" and founded VPI Research Inc., the first high-tech company dedicated to the virtual reality

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