四级英语阅读理解训练题

　　阅读理解是英语四级考试中的重点题型，多做练习提高考生的阅读理解能力十分重要。下面学习啦小编为大家带来四级英语阅读理解训练题，供考生阅读训练。

　　四级英语阅读理解训练题原文

　　Professor Smith recently persuaded 35 people, 23 of them women, to keep a diary of alltheir absent-minded actions for a fortnight. When he came to analyse their embarrassing lapses(差错) in a scientific report, he was surprised to find that nearly all of them fell into a fewgroupings, Nor did the lapses appear to be entirely random (随机的).

　　One of the women, for instance, on leaving her house for work one morning threw her dogher earrings and tried to fix a dog biscuit on her ear. “the explanation for this is that the brainis like a computer,” explains the professor. “People programme themselves to do certainactivities regularly. It was the woman’s custom every morning to throw her dog two biscuits andthen put on her earrings. But somehow the action got reversed in the programme,” About onein twenty of the incidents the volunteers reported were these “programme assembly failures.”

　　Altogether the volunteers logged 433 unintentional actions that they found themselvesdoing—an average of twelve each, There appear to be peak periods in the day when we are atour zaniest (荒谬可笑的). These are two hours some time between eight a.m. and noon,

　　between four and six p.m. with a smaller peak between eight and ten p.m. “Among menthe peak seems to be when a changeover in brain ‘programmes’ occurs, as for instance betweengoing to and from work.” Women on average reported slightly more lapses—12.5 comparedwith 10.9 for men—probably because they were more reliable reporters.

　　A startling finding of the research is that the absent-minded activity is a hazard of doingthings in which we are skilled. Normally, you would expect that skill reduces the number oferrors we make. But trying to avoid silly slips by concentrating more could make things a lotworse—even dangerous.

　　四级英语阅读理解训练题

　　31. In his study Professor Smith asked the subjects ________.

　　A) to keep track of people who tend to forget things

　　B) to report their embarrassing lapses at random

　　C) to analyse their awkward experiences scientifically

　　D) to keep a record of what they did unintentionally

　　32. Professor Smith discovered that ________.

　　A) certain patterns can be identified in the recorded incidents

　　B) many people were too embarrassed to admit their absent-mindedness

　　C) men tend to be more absent-minded than women

　　D) absent-mindedness is an excusable human weakness

　　33. “Programme assembly failures” (Line 6, Para. 2) refers to the phenomenon that people________.

　　A) often fail to programme their routines beforehand

　　B) tend to make mistakes when they are in a hurry

　　C) unconsciously change the sequence of doing things

　　D) are likely to mess things up if they are too tired

　　34. We learn from the third paragraph that ________.

　　A) absent-mindedness tends to occur during certain hours of the day

　　B) women are very careful to perform actions during peak periods

　　C) women experience more peak periods of absent-mindedness

　　D) men’s absent-mindedness often results in funny situations

　　35. It can be concluded from the passage that ________.

　　A) people should avoid doing important things during peak periods of lapses

　　B) hazards can be avoided when people do things they are good at

　　C) people should be careful when programming their actions

　　D) lapses cannot always be attributed to lack of concentration

　　四级英语阅读理解训练题答案

　　31. D

　　32. A

　　33. C

　　34.A

　　35. D