大学英语四级仔细阅读专项强化真题试卷13
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1.What gives women a ray of hope to achieve work-life balance?(B)
A. More men taking an extended parental leave.
B. People’s changing attitudes towards family.
C. More women entering business management.
D. The improvement of their socioeconomic status.
解析：推理判断题。由文章第一段第一、二句可知，全职父亲的增多给女性职工在工作和家庭之间进行选择的两难境地带来了一丝希望。根据常识可知，在传统的观念里，女性更多地承担家庭责任，选项B)“人们对于家庭的态度的转变”，也就是文中所述的越来越多的男性回归家庭，故答案为B)。
2.Why does the author say the hope for more full-time fathers is misguided?(C)
A. Women are better at taking care of children.
B. Many men value work more than their family.
C. Their number is too small to make a difference.
D. Not many men have the chance to stay at home.
解析：推理判断题。文章第一段最后一句提到了misguided一词，接着第二段第一句提到，近十年里放弃工作成为全职父亲的人数翻倍的确是事实，但是这个数字仍然很小，该句是解释这种希望是被误导的原因。选项C)“这个数字太小以至于产生不了什么影响”，是原文的同义转述，故答案为C)。
3.Why do few men take a long parental leave?(A)
A. A long leave will have a negative impact on their career.
B. They just have too many responsibilities to fulfill at work.
C. The economic loss will be too much for their family to bear.
D. They are likely to get fired if absent from work for too long.
解析：推理判断题。文章第四段前四句指出，这样的选择(即长期休假)会影响到那些在组织中希望晋升的人。当你离开的时候，其他人会承担你的工作，替你完成销售，照顾你的客户。这些并不能有助于你的工作。这只能伤害你。由此可知，答案为A)。
4.What is the most likely reaction to men returning from an extended parental leave?(B)
A. Jealousy.
B. Surprise.
C. Admiration.
D. Sympathy.
解析：推理判断题。文章第四段最后一句中raise eyebrows表示“惊讶”，surprise是该词组的同义转述，故答案为B)。
5.What does the author say about high-potential women in the not-too-distant future?(D)
A. They will benefit from the trend of more fathers staying at home.
B. They will find high-paying professions a bit more family-friendly.
C. They are unlikely to break their career trajectory to raise a family.
D. They will still face the difficult choice between career and children.
解析：推理判断题。文章最后一段最后一句提到，在可以预见的未来，全职父亲可能会给个体家庭带来改变，但是他们的存在并不能减少那些在工作和家庭之间被迫做选择的很有潜力的女性的数量。选项D)“女性仍然会面临家庭和事业的两难选择”是对文章意思的合理推断，故答案为D)。
Some of the world\’s most significant problems never hit headlines. One example comes from agriculture. Food riots and hunger make news. But the trend lying behind these matters is rarely talked about. This is the decline in the growth in yields of some of the world\’s major crops. A new study by the University of Minnesota and McGill University in Montreal looks at where, and how far, this decline is occurring.
The authors take a vast number of data points for the four most important crops: rice, wheat, corn and soyabeans(大豆). They find that on between 24% and 39% of all harvested areas, the improvement in yields that took place before the 1980s slowed down in the 1990s and 2000s.
There are two worrying features of the slowdown. One is that it has been particularly sharp in the world\’s most populous(人口多的)countries, India and China. Their ability to feed themselves has been an important source of relative stability both within the countries and on world food markets. That self-sufficiency cannot be taken for granted if yields continue to slow down or reverse.
Second, yield growth has been lower in wheat and rice than in corn and soyabeans. This is problematic
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