专业英语四级（阅读）模拟试卷334
选择题
(1) I used to watch her from my kitchen window, she seemed so small as she muscled her way through the crowd of boys on the playground. The school was across the street from our home and I would often watch the kids as they played during recess. A sea of children, and yet to me, she stood out from them all.
(2) I remember the first day I saw her playing basketball. I watched in wonder as she ran circles around the other kids. She managed to shoot jump shots just over their heads and into the net. The boys always tried to stop her but no one could. I began to notice her at other times, basketball in hand, playing alone. She would practice dribbling and shooting over and over again, sometimes until dark. One day I asked her why she practiced so much. She looked directly in my eyes and without a moment of hesitation she said, \\
1.When the author watched the girl playing basketball for the first time, he was ________.(A)
A. curious
B. admiring
C. cheerful
D. encouraged
解析：根据题干的watched the girl playing basketball for the first time定位到第2段第2、7句。虽然作者没有直截了当点明他第一次看女孩练球时的感受，但从作者使用的in wonder，ask…why…等描述来看，作者当时的感受是“好奇”。故本题选A。B很具迷惑性，因为第2段有女孩跳起来投篮命中的表述，但作者在此时并没有表现出admire，而是直到最后才逐渐对女孩表达赞美之情；C、D纯属凭空想象。
2.\\(C)
A. the court
B. the basketball
C. the author’s praise
D. the author’s suggestion
解析：根据题干直接定位到第3段第2句。解题时只要将四个选项代回原文中，即可发现只有C符合文意。将A、B代入原文句子中，句意不通顺；另外，作者并没有建议女孩做什么，所以D也排除。
3.Which of the following statements about the girl is CORRECT?(D)
A. She changed her attitude toward basketball because of the coach.
B. She was convinced by her father that the coach was wrong.
C. She became totally unconfident about herself later on.
D. She was very much disappointed at the coach’s words.
解析：根据各选项内容定位到第4、5段。根据第4段可知，女孩因为听了教练的话：她太矮了，也许永远也无法为顶级的球队效力，很伤心，连作者也感觉到她的失落。由此可判断D的表述正确。听了教练的话，女孩当时虽然很伤心，但从后文可知她并没有因此改变对篮球的态度或对自己完全失去信心，排除A、C。文中虽提到女孩的爸爸对女孩说教练的话不对，但文中没有女孩是否相信的相关表述，故B可排除。
4.It can be inferred from the passage that a college recruiter is responsible for________.(B)
A. determining who should be offered a scholarship
B. finding the best basketball players for a college
C. training a college basketball team
D. granting a scholarship impartially
解析：根据题干中的college recruiter定位到第5段。根据该段倒数第3句可知，女孩因为精湛的球技被college recruiter发现之后，获得了一笔全额奖学金，并进入了NCAA其中一个女子甲组篮球队。由此可见，college recruiter的职责在于发掘最优秀的球员，故B为本题答案。
(1) Observe a child; any one will do. You will see that not a day passes in which he does not find something or other to make him happy, though he may be in tears the next moment. Then look at a man; any one of us will do. You will notice that weeks and months can pass in which every day is greeted with nothing more than resignation, and endured with polite indifference. Indeed, most men are as miserable as sinners, though they are too bored to sin—perhaps their sin is their indifference. But it is true that they so seldom smile that when they do we do not recognise their face, so distorted is it from the fixed mask we take for granted. And even then a man cannot smile like a child, for a child smiles with his eyes, whereas a man smiles with his lips alone. It is not a smile, but a grin; something to do with humour, but little to do with happiness. And then, as anyone can see, there is a point (but who
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