大学英语四级仔细阅读专项强化真题试卷5(题后含答案及解析)
大学英语四级仔细阅读专项强化真题试卷5 (题后含答案及解析)
题型有：1.
As a person who writes about food and drink for a living, I couldn’t tell you
the first thing about Bill Perry or whether the beers he sells are that great. But I can
tell you that I like this guy. That’s because he plans to ban tipping in favor of paying
his servers an actual living wage. I hate tipping. I hate it because it’s an
obligation disguised as an option. I hate it for the post-dinner math it requires of me.
But mostly, I hate tipping because I believe I would be in a better place if pay
decisions regarding employees were simply left up to their employers, as is the
custom in virtually every other industry. Most of you probably think that you hate
tipping, too. Research suggests otherwise. You actually love tipping! You like to feel
that you have a voice in how much money your server makes. No matter how the
math works out, you persistently view restaurants with voluntary tipping systems as
being a better value, which makes it extremely difficult for restaurants and bars to do
away with the tipping system. One argument that you tend to hear a lot from the
pro-tipping crowd seems logical enough: the service is better when waiters depend on
tips, presumably because they see a benefit to successfully veiling their contempt for
you. Well, if this were true, we would all be slipping a few 100-dollar bills to our
doctors on the way out their doors, too. But as it turns out, waiters see only a tiny
bump in tips when they do an exceptional job compared to a passable one. Waiters,
keen observers of humanity that they are, are catching on to this: in one poll, a full
30% said they didn’t believe the job they did had any impact on the tips they received.
So come on, folks: get on board with ditching the outdated tip system. Pay a little
more upfront for your beer or burger. Support Bill Perry’s pub, and any other bar or
restaurant that doesn’t ask you to do drunken math.
1． What can we learn about Bill Perry from the passage?
A．He runs a pub that serves excellent beer.
B．He intends to get rid of the tipping practice.
C．He gives his staff a considerable sum for tips.
D．He lives comfortably without getting any tips.
正确答案：B
解析：作者在文章第一段第三句表示支持比尔·佩里主张摒弃小费的制度，原文中ban tipping和B)中get rid of the tipping practice意思相同，故B)为答案。
2． What is the main reason why the author hates tipping?
A．It sets a bad example for other industries.
B．It adds to the burden of ordinary customers.
C．It forces the customer to compensate the waiter.
D．It poses a great challenge for customers to do math.
正确答案：C
解析：作者在第三段最后一句中明确表示自己讨厌给小费的主要原因是希望服务员的报酬由雇主来决定，而非消费者。言外之意，小费制度逼迫消费者们给服务人员支付劳动报酬。故答案为C)。
3． Why do many people love tipping according to the author?
A．They help improve the quality of the restaurants they dine in.
B．They believe waiters deserve such rewards for good service.
C．They want to preserve a wonderful tradition of the industry.
D．They can have some say in how much their servers earn.
正确答案：D
解析：定位句中直接说明了大家喜欢小费制度的原因，人们喜欢能够决定服务员赚钱多少的感觉，故答案为D)。
4． What have some waiters come to realize according to a survey?
A．Service quality has little effect on tip size.
B．It is in human nature to try to save on tips.
C．Tips make it more difficult to please customers.
D．Tips benefit the boss rather than the employees.
正确答案：A
解析：定位句提到：在一项调查中，80％的人认为自己做的工作和收到的小费之间没有太大的关系。故答案为A)。
5． What does the author argue for in the passage?
A．Restaurants should calculate the tips for customers.
B．Customers should pay more tips to help improve service.
C．Waiters deserve better than just relying on tips for a living.
D．Waiters should be paid by employers instead of customers.
正确答案：D
解析：纵观全文，作者支持比尔·佩里主张摒弃小费制度，认为如果雇员的工资完全由雇主来决定，消费者将会处于一个更舒适的位置。言外之意，他希望餐饮行业能像其他行业一样，服务人员的报酬由雇主而非消费者来承担，故答案为D)。
In the past, falling oil prices have given a boost to the world economy, but
recent forecasts for global growth have been toned down, even as oil prices sink lower
and lower. Does that mean the link between lower oil prices and growth has weakened?
Some experts say there are still good reasons to believe cheap oil should heat up the
world economy. Consumers have more money in their pockets when they’re paying
less at the pump. They spend that money on other things, which stimulates the
economy. The biggest gains go to countries that import most of their oil like
China, Japan, and India. But doesn’t the extra money in the pockets of those
countries’ consumers mean an equal loss in oil-producing countries, cancelling out the
gains? Not necessarily, say economic researcher Sara Johnson. “ Many oil producers
built up huge reserve funds when prices were high, so when prices fall they will draw
大学英语四级仔细阅读专项强化真题试卷11(题后含答案及解析)
大学英语四级仔细阅读专项强化真题试卷11 (题后含答案及解析)
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The report says America’s urbanization will continue to be the most
significant issue affecting the industry, as cities across the country imitate the
walkability and transit-oriented development making cities like New York and San
Francisco so successful. As smaller cities copy the model of these “24-hour
cities”, more affordable versions of these places will be created. The report refers to
this as the coming of the “18-hour city”, and uses the term to refer to cities like
Houston, Austin, Charlotte, and Nashville, which are “positioning themselves as
highly competitive, in terms of livability, employment offerings, and recreational and
cultural facilities”. Another trend that looks significant in 2015 is that America’s
largest population group, Millennials (千禧一代), will continue to put off buying a
大学英语四级仔细阅读专项强化真题试卷7(题后含答案及解析)
大学英语四级仔细阅读专项强化真题试卷7 (题后含答案及解析)
题型有：1.
The wallet is heading for extinction. As a day-to-day essential, it will die off
with the generation who read print newspapers. The kind of shopping—where you
hand over notes and count out change in return—now happens only in the most minor
of our retail encounters, like buying a bar of chocolate or a pint of milk from a comer
shop. At the shops where you spend any real money, that money is increasingly
abstracted. And this is more and more true, the higher up the scale you go. At the most
cutting-edge retail stores—Victoria Beckham on Dover Street, for instance—you
don’t go and stand at any kind of cash register when you decide to pay. The staff are
equipped with iPads to take your payment while you relax on a sofa. Which is
nothing more or less than excellent service, if you have the money. But across society,
大学生英语竞赛C类阅读理解专项强化真题试卷5(题后含答案及解析)
大学生英语竞赛C类阅读理解专项强化真题试卷5 (题后含答案及解析)
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Not keen on reading? Do you have trouble finding a novel that arouses your
interest? Why not follow Ammon Shea’s example and start reading a dictionary?
Mr Shea owns over 1, 000 dictionaries and he reads them for fun. He recendy spent a
year reading all 20 volumes of the Oxford English Dictionary. The dictionary contains
more than 20, 000 pages and over 59 million words. As he read from A to Z, he
noted down interesting words in a ledger. This includes words such as “happily”,
meaning to make someone happy and “tripudiate”, which means to dance, skip or
leap for joy. Mr Shea also kept a diary about this experience, which has since become
a best-selling book. Why did he do this? He claims it was fun. “I’ve always
enjoyed reading dictionaries. They are far more interesting than people give them
英语学习资料：英语专业四级阅读理解练习及答案解析（5）
英语学习资料：英语专业四级阅读理解练习及答案解析（5）
On day one of my self-proclaimed Month of Gratitude, my
five-year-old son woke up "bored" at 5:15 a.m., I spied a speeding
ticket in my wife's purse, and our water heater spluttered to its
death as I was getting into the shower. Ordinarily, I would have
started plaining and the day would've been off to an ugly start.
But this day was different. How cute my child's dimples (酒窝) are.
How fetching my wife's taste for adventure. Only 29 days to go.
Just a week earlier, as I struggled with the feeling that I'd
been put on this earth to load and unload the dishwasher, I'd
decided it was time to end my reflexive plaining. But it wasn't
simply the little things that were annoying me. All of a sudden,
my friends were dealing with bad news--cancer diagnoses,
divorce, job loss. Shouldn't I be celebrating my relative good
大学英语四级长篇阅读专项强化真题试卷20(题后含答案及解析)
大学英语四级长篇阅读专项强化真题试卷20 (题后含答案及解析)
题型有：1.
Team Spirit[A] Teams have become the basic building blocks of
organisations. Recruitment advertisements routinely call for “team players”. Business
schools grade their students in part on their performance in group projects. Office
managers knock down walls to encourage team building. Teams are as old as
civilisation, of course; even Jesus had 12 co-workers. But a new report by Deloitte,
“Global Human Capital Trends”, based on a survey of more than 7,000 executives in
over 130 countries, suggests that the fashion for teamwork has reached a new high.
Almost half of those surveyed said their companies were either in the middle of
restructuring or about to embark on (开始) it; and for the most part, restructuring
meant putting more emphasis on teams.[B] Companies are abandoning conventional
大学英语六级仔细阅读专项强化真题试卷5(题后含答案及解析)
大学英语六级仔细阅读专项强化真题试卷5 (题后含答案及解析)
题型有：1.
What a waste of money! In return for an average of ￡44,000 of debt,
students get an average of only 14 hours of lecture and tutorial time a week in Britain.
Annual fees have risen from ￡1,000 to ￡9,000 in the last decade, but contact time
at university has barely risen at all. And graduating doesn’t even provide any
guarantee of a decent job: six in ten graduates today are in non-graduate jobs. No
wonder it has become fashionable to denounce many universities as little more than
elaborate con-tricks(骗术). There’s a lot for students to complain about: the
repayment threshold for paying back loans will be frozen for five years, meaning that
lower-paid graduates have to start repaying their loans: and maintenance grants have
been replaced by loans, meaning that students from poorer backgrounds face higher
大学英语四级听力短篇新闻专项强化真题试卷5(题后含答案及解析)
大学英语四级听力短篇新闻专项强化真题试卷5 (题后含答案及解析)
题型有：1.
听力原文：W: Just imagine! We have to finish reading 300 pages before Monday!
How can the professor expect us to do it in such a short time? M: Yeah, but what
troubles me is that I can’t find the book in the library or in the university bookstore. Q:
What does the man mean?
1．
A．He has proved to be a better reader than the woman.
B．He has difficulty understanding the book.
C．He cannot get access to the assigned book.
D．He cannot finish his assignment before the deadline.
正确答案：C
解析：对话中，女士说周一前必须读完300页的书，对教授要求在这么短的时间内完成表示不理解。男士表示同意，但困扰他的问题是他在图书馆或学校书店根本找不到那本书。由此可知，男士找不到教授要求读的书，故答案为C)。
听力原文：M: Do you think I could borrow your car to go grocery shopping?
The supermarkets outside the city are so much cheaper. I’d also be happy to pick up
anything you need. W: Well, I don’t like to let anyone else drive my car. Tell you what,
大学英语四级仔细阅读专项强化真题试卷15(题后含答案及解析)
大学英语四级仔细阅读专项强化真题试卷15 (题后含答案及解析)
题型有：1.
Children are a delight. They are our future. But sadly, hiring someone to
take care of them while you go to work is getting more expensive by the year.
Earlier this month, it was reported that the cost of enrolling an infant or small kid at a
childcare center rose 3% in 2012, faster than the overall cost of living. There are now
large strips of the country where daycare for an infant costs more than a tenth of the
average married couple’s income. This is not necessarily a new trend, but it is a
somewhat puzzling one. The price of professional childcare has been rising since the
1980s. Yet during that time, pay for professional childcare workers has stood still.
Actually caregivers make less today, in real terms, than they did in 1990. Considering
that labor costs are responsible for up to 80% of a daycare center’s expenses, one
大学英语四级听力短篇新闻专项强化真题试卷5(题后含答案及解析) 2
大学英语四级听力短篇新闻专项强化真题试卷5 (题后含答案及解析)
题型有：1.
听力原文：W: Just imagine! We have to finish reading 300 pages before Monday!
How can the professor expect us to do it in such a short time? M: Yeah, but what
troubles me is that I can’t find the book in the library or in the university bookstore. Q:
What does the man mean?
1．
A．He has proved to be a better reader than the woman.
B．He has difficulty understanding the book.
C．He cannot get access to the assigned book.
D．He cannot finish his assignment before the deadline.
正确答案：C
解析：对话中，女士说周一前必须读完300页的书，对教授要求在这么短的时间内完成表示不理解。男士表示同意，但困扰他的问题是他在图书馆或学校书店根本找不到那本书。由此可知，男士找不到教授要求读的书，故答案为C)。
听力原文：M: Do you think I could borrow your car to go grocery shopping?
The supermarkets outside the city are so much cheaper. I’d also be happy to pick up
anything you need. W: Well, I don’t like to let anyone else drive my car. Tell you what,
大学英语四级完型填空强化真题试卷5(题后含答案及解析)
大学英语四级完型填空强化真题试卷5 (题后含答案及解析)
题型有：1.
The term e-commerce refers to all commercial transactions conducted over
the Internet, including transactions by consumers and business-to-business
transactions. Conceptually, e-commerce does not【C1】 ______ from well-known
commercial offerings such as banking by phone, “mail order” catalogs, or sending a
purchase order to a supplier 【C2】 ______ fax. E-commerce follows the same model
【C3】 ______ in other business transactions; the difference 【C4】 ______ in the
details. To a consumer, the most visible form of e-commerce consists 【C5】
______ online ordering. A customer begins with a catalog of possible items, 【C6】
______ an item, arranges a form of payment, and 【C7】 ______ an order. Instead of
a physical catalog, e-commerce arranges for catalogs to be 【C8】 ______ on the