2015年12月英语四级仔细阅读答案解析（第一套）
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2015年12月英语四级仔细阅读答案解析（第一套）
下面是店铺整理的2015年12月英语四级仔细阅读答案解析，希望对大家有帮助。
本篇原文是美国著名程序员、风险投资家Paul Graham(保罗·格雷厄姆)于06年在自己的博客所写的一篇由硅谷发展引起的对如何投资和发展信息技术公司的思考的文章的节选。
Could you reproduce Silicon Valley elsewhere， or is there
something unique about it?
It wouldn't be surprising if it were hard to reproduce in other
countries， because you couldn'treproduce it in most of the US
either. What does it take to make a silicon valley?
It is the right people. If you could get the right ten thousand
people to move from Silicon Valley toBuffalo， Buffalo would
become Silicon Valley.
You only need two kinds of people to create a technology
hub： rich people and nerds.
Observation bears this out： within the US， towns have
become startup hubs if and only if theyhave both rich people and
nerds. Few startups happen in Miami， for example， because
althoughit's full of rich people， it has few nerds. It's not the kind
of place nerds like.
Whereas Pittsburgh has the opposite problem： plenty of
nerds， but no rich people. The top USComputer Science
departments are said to be MIT， Stanford， Berkeley， and
Carnegie-Mellon.MIT yielded Route 128. Stanford and Berkeley
yielded Silicon Valley. But Carnegie-Mellon? Therecord skips at
that point. Lower down the list， the University of Washington
yielded a high-techcommunity in Seattle， and the University of
Texas at Austin yielded one in Austin. But whathappened in Pittsburgh? And in Ithaca， home of Cornell， which is also high
on the list?
I grew up in Pittsburgh and went to college at Cornell， so I
can answer for both. The weather isterrible， particularly in
winter， and there's no interesting old city to make up for it， as
there is inBoston. Rich people don't want to live in Pittsburgh or
Ithaca. So while there are plenty of hackerswho could start
startups， there's no one to invest in them.
Do you really need the rich people? Wouldn't it work to have
the government invest in the nerds?No， it would not. Startup
investors are a distinct type of rich people. They tend to have a
lot ofexperience themselves in the technology business. This
helps them pick the right startups， andmeans they can supply
advice and connections as well as money. And the fact that they
have apersonal stake in the outcome makes them really pay
attention.
56.原文第一段第一句反问句“Could you reproduce Silicon
Valley elsewhere， or is there somethingunique about it?”可得知答案选A——Its success is hard to copy anywhere else. 选项copy同义改写原文的reproduce.
57.由题干大写字母Miami定位到原文第五段“Few startups
happen in Miami， for example， becausealthough it's full of rich
people， it has few nerds. It's not the kind of place nerds like.”由因果关系词because找到原因——这里既是有很多富裕的人，却几乎没有nerds(痴迷科研的人).所以答案选B——Lack ofthe right kind
of talents.
58，由题干大写字母Carnegie-Mellon， MIT， Stanford，
Berkeley等定位到第六段，问CM和其他的是哪里有不同.“The top
US Computer Science departments are said to be MIT， Stanford，
Berkeley， andCarnegie-Mellon. MIT yielded Route 128. Stanford and Berkeley yielded Silicon Valley. But Carnegie-Mellon? The
record skips at that point.”原文讲到了MIT， Stanford， Berkeley都yielded产生了很有名的science department，而Carnegie-Mellon呢?这个记录可以直接跳过忽略.言下之意就是CM没有出名的science department，所以答案选D——It does not pay much
attention to business startups.
59题，由题干大写字母Boston定位到倒数第二段.定位句“The
weather is terrible， particularly in winter，and there's no
interesting old city to make up for it， as there is in Boston”说到了Boston是一个无聊的老城市，而定位句的下一句“So while
there are plenty of hackers who could start startups， there's
noone to invest in them”说到了这样的城市无法吸引投资.所以答案选C——It is not likely to attract lots ofinvestors and nerds.
60题，由startup investors定位到最后一段.Startup investors不仅富有，他们一般都经验丰富，而且能给提供一些建议，所以答案选C——They can do more than providing money.
61. C——It may prevent your business and career from
advancing.
62. B——Encourage people to disagree and argue.
63. C——To remove misunderstanding.
64. D——They take care not to hurt each other's feelings.
65. D——Acknowledge their contribution.
