专业英语四级（阅读）模拟试卷315
选择题
(1) Among the more colorful characters of Leadvilie\’s golden age were Horace Austin Warner Tabor and his second wife, Elizabeth McCourt, better known as \\
1.Leadville got its name when the following happened EXCEPT________.(C)
A. Tabor became its leading citizen
B. great deposits of lead are expected to be found there
C. it could bring good fortune to Tabor
D. it was renamed
解析：细节理解题。本题为反向选择题。由题干定位到第一段“…a few years later he moved west to the small Colorado mining camp known as California Gulch, which he later renamed Leadville when he became its leading citizen. ‘Great deposits of lead are sure to be found here，’”，由此得知，H. A. W. Tabor搬到了科罗拉多州一个叫作加利福尼亚峡谷的小矿场，后来成为那里的重要人物时，把这个矿场改名为利德维尔，因为他认为这里肯定会发现大量的铅矿。选项A“塔伯成了重要人物”、选项B“这里可能会发现大量铅矿”和选项D“它被改名了”都在上述原文中提到了，即都是利德维尔名字的由来，故排除。第二段首句提到“…it was silver…that was to make Leadville’s fortune and wealth.”，由此得知，给利德维尔带来了运气和财富的是银矿。选项C“它给塔伯带来了财富”，并不是这个名字的由来，故C为正确答案。
2.The success of Tabor’s career is________.(B)
A. purely accidental
B. based on his forward-looking support for poor miners who discovered profitable mining sites
C. through the help from his second wife
D. due to that he planned well and accomplished targets step by step
解析：推理判断题。由题干定位到第二段和第三段。第二段提到“Tabor knew little about mining himself…It was his custom to ‘grubstake’ prospective miners…He did this for a number of years，but no one that he aided ever found anything of value.”，由此得知，他采取了“grubstake”措施，即为有潜力的矿工提供食物和给养，作为回报，如果他们发现矿藏，他将从中分得一份。但几年过去了，一无所获。第三段提到“The two miners…struck a rich vein of silver. Tabor bought the shares of the other two men，and so the mine belonged to him alone. This mine…made$1,300,000 for Tabor in return for his $17 investment.”，由此得知，后来他资助的两个矿工发现了大量银矿，塔伯买下他们的股份，成为矿场的主人。这个矿场给他带来130万美元的回报。由上述经历推断，塔伯的成功主要依赖于他的前瞻性眼光即资助矿工挖矿，故B为正确选项。选项A“纯属偶然”显然与文中提到的花了几年时间实施grubstake 措施不符，故排除。第一段提到了他妻子，但并没有提及她与找矿的相关性，故排除选项C“他妻子帮助他”。选项D“他制订计划，并一步步实现目标”极具干扰性，但仔细推敲会发现，文中并没有体现塔伯一步步的计划，他唯一的措施就是grubstake，故排除D。
(1) Less than a year ago, a new generation of diet pills seemed to offer the long-sought answer to our chronic weight problems. Hundreds of thousands of pound-conscious Americans had discovered that a drug known as \\
3.What does the phrase \\(D)
A. Pill distributors.
B. Pill manufacturers.
C. Pill promoters.
D. Pill takers and abusers.
解析：语义猜测题。本段提到“…a drug known as ‘fen-phen’ could shut off huge appetites like magic, and…a new drug, Redux, that did the same with fewer side effects. Redux would attract hundreds of thousands of new pill poppers within a few months.”，由此得知，fen-phen可以神奇地消除食欲，新药 Redux能起相同作用，而且副作用更少，因此，Redux将会在几个月内吸引成千上万的“pill poppers”。根据语境和常识可知，这种药有如此神奇的减肥作用，吸引的肯定是想减肥的消费者，选项D“药丸消费者”与其最接近，故D为正确答案。选项A“药丸经销商”、B“药丸生产商”和C“药丸促销者”与选项D相比，都不是终端消费者，故排除。
4.The statement \\(A)
A. Shelton Levine, a New Jersey doctor, touted one of the pills on TV and in his book
B. some states have limited or forbidden the prescriptions of the pills
C. in Florida, patients are told to turn away from the use of fen-phen within a month
D. diet chains and some of the organizations have removed their support for the pills
解析：细节理解题。本题为反向选择题。题干是本段的主题句，后面提到了支撑证据“Diet chains like Jenny Craig are backing away from them too. Several states have restricted the use of fen-phen…the Florida legislature ban
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