专业英语四级（阅读）模拟试卷301
选择题
(1) Mr. Foster was left in the Decanting Room. The D.H.C. and his students stepped into the nearest lift and were carried up to the fifth floor.
(2) INFANT NURSERIES. NEO-PAVLOVIAN CONDITIONING ROOMS, announced the noticeboard.
(3) The Director opened a door. They were in a large bare room, very bright and sunny; for the whole of the southern wall was a single window. Half a dozen nurses, trousered and jacketed in the regulation white viscose-linen uniform, their hair aseptically (无菌地) hidden under white caps, were engaged in setting out bowls of roses in a long row across the floor. Big bowls, packed tight with blossom. Thousands of petals, ripe-blown and silkily smooth, like the cheeks of innumerable little cherubs, but of cherubs, in that bright light, not exclusively pink and Aryan, but also luminously Chinese, also Mexican, also apoplectic with too much blowing of celestial trumpets, also pale as death, pale with the posthumous (死后发生的) whiteness of marble.
(4) The nurses stiffened to attention as the D.H.C. came in.
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1.The nurses prepared flowers and books in order to________.(B)
A. delight the Director
B. prepare for the training
C. decorate the nursery
D. frighten the disobedient babies
解析：细节题。由题干定位到原文第十一段至第二十六段。作者在第十一段中提到了要给婴儿们看书和花，在接下来的段落中描述了婴儿对这两样东西的好奇和喜爱，而随后通过在婴儿接触这两样东西时鸣响警报和进行电击，让婴儿们感到恐惧，进而将他们对书和花的感觉由喜爱转为害怕，并强化这种恐惧。可见，在育婴室放置花和书是为训练婴儿做准备，而不是为了装饰育婴室，故B为答案，同时排除C。文中没有描述主任与花和书籍的关系，可见，A“取悦主任”与文义不符，可排除；D“吓唬不听话的婴儿”是对原文的曲解，书和花本身并不会吓到孩子，因此排除。
2.The description in Para. 12 indicates that the babies brought in________to the nursery.(A)
A. vigor and vitality
B. turmoil and disorder
C. freshness and purity
D. anxiety and fear
解析：推断题。由题干提示定位到原文第十二段。该段描写了孩子们被带进屋中的时候，太阳光透出了云层，花朵焕发着激情，显得更加灿烂，而书籍也似乎有了新意。由此可见，孩子们的到来给这里带来了生机和活力，故A为答案。婴儿们拉扯掉花瓣和弄皱书页的描写出现在第十四段，因此排除B“骚动和混乱”；第十二段中没有关于室内是否变得整洁的描述，故排除C；而室内充满焦虑和恐惧情绪也是在婴儿们受到警报和电击惊吓之后出现的，并没有出现在第十二段，故排除D。
3.In Para. 19, the phrase \\(A)
A. reinforce
B. continue
C. suspend
D. establish
解析：语义题。由题干提示定位至原文第十九段。该段中只有主任所说的一句话，在此句之前，婴儿们已经受到了突如其来的警报声的惊吓，而在该段之后。他们受到了轻微的电击，恐惧的情绪更显著了。电击与警报相比是程度更重，因此rub in的意思应该最接近于A“强化”。B“继续”不足以说明前后程度的加强，故排除；主任在说这句话之前和之后都进行了对婴儿们的训练，可见C“中止”和D“建立”都不符合文义，均可排除。
(1) When Kelly Dilworth applied for a Discover card in July, she was happy to learn that her spending limit was $ 13,000—a level most card companies don\’t offer unless a customer is in the highest credit tier. Then she found out the card\’s annual percentage rate (APR) was 21. 24 percent, a level that used to be reserved for people with shabby credit.
(2) Like most credit card companies, Discover didn\’t reveal to Dilworth what her APR would be until after it had issued her card. Dilworth notes she could just cancel the card, but that would likely temporarily hurt her credit score, which is well above 700. Instead, she says, she\’s keeping the card for its travel rewards. \\
4.What perplexed Dilworth most after she got her new credit card?(C)
A. The possible consequence of cancelling the card.
B. The exact measures to get her travel rewards.
C. The contradiction between her APR and credit score.
D. The appropriate standard of her card’s APR.
解析：细节题。根据题干关键词perplexed和Dilworth定位至原文第二段最后一句
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