英语四级考试阅读习题及答案解析(1)

　　Reading is thought to be a kind of conversation between the reader and the text. The reader puts questions, as it were, to the text and gets answers. In the light of these he puts __1__ questions, and so on.

　　For most of the time this conversation goes on below the level of consciousness. At times, however, we become __2__ of it. This is usually when we are running into difficulties, when mismatch is occurring between __3__ and meaning. When successful matching is being experienced, our question of the text continues at the unconscious level.

　　Different people __4__ with the text differently. Some stay very close to the words on the page, others take off imaginatively from the words, interpreting, criticizing, analyzing and examining. The former represents a kind of comprehension which is __5__ in the text. The latter represents __6__ levels of comprehension. The balance between these is important, especially for advanced readers.

　　There is another conversation which from our point of view is __7__ important, and that is to do not with what is read but with how it is read. We call this a process conversation as __8__ to a content conversation. It is concerned not with meaning but with the __9__ we employ in reading. If we are an advanced reader our ability to hold a process conversation with a text is usually pretty well __10__. Not so our ability to hold a content conversation.

　　A)opposed B)converse C)equally D)written

　　E)developed F)strategies G)compared H)awake

　　I)higher J)expectations K)deal L)absolutely

　　M)aware N)better O)further

　　参考答案及解析:

　　1. 选 O )。 很明显此处应填形容词。可选项有 higher 和 further ，原文为根据答案反复提出。。。问题，但 higher 一般强调的是层次上的高低，因此不能用来修饰 question ，故只有 further 更进一步的符合题意。

　　2. 选 M )。 此处应填形容词且能与 of 构成固定搭配。可选项有 awake 和 aware ，由前一句中 below the level of consciousness 和此句中 however 转折可以推出，此处应填与 consciousness 意思相近的形容词，故排除 awake 警觉的，而选 aware 。

　　3. 选 J )。 由空格后的 and meaning 可知，此处应填名词，与 meaning 构成并列结构。原文为我们会意识到沟通的存在，通常是在我们遇到难题或 与文章意思不符的时候，故只有 expectations 所猜测的意思符合题意。

　　4. 选 B )。 很明显此处应填动词且能与 with 搭配。可选项有 converse 和 deal ，从句意来理解，不同的人 文章不同，但由于文章主要说明的是读者与文章之间的沟通方式，故排除 deal 处理而选 converse 谈话。

　　5. 选 D )。 因关系代词 which 指代的是 comprehension ，可知此处应填动词的被动形式。但由 The former 和 the words on he page 可推出前一种人是从文中的字词去理解文章，而字词只能是被写在文中，因此只有 written 符合题意。

　　6. 选 I )。 此处应填形容词。由 The former 和 The latter 可知，此处是将两种人的对话方式进行比较，故可选项有 higher 和 better ，但由前面提到的后一种人对文章所做的 interpreting ， criticizing ， analyzing and examining 可知，这些都属于对文章更高层次的理解，因此选 higher 。

　　7. 选 C )。 显然此处应填副词。可选项有 equally 和 absolutely ，但由 another 可推出，文章是在分别说明两种对话方式，而没有突出哪个更重要，故排除 absolutely 而选 equally 。

　　8. 选 A ) 。此处是将 process conversation 与 content conversation 形成对比，故可选项有 opposed 和 compared ，但 as opposed to 是固定搭配，因此排除 compared 。

　　9. 选 F )。 从句子结构来看，此处缺的是 employ 的宾语，再从选项中看，能与 employ 形成动宾搭配且符合题意的只有 strategies ，故选 strategies 。

　　10. 选 E )。 此处应填动词的被动形式。选项中有 developed 提高，加强和 compared 比较能与 ability 构成动宾搭配，但从句意理解，通常高级读者与文章进行程序对话的能力 ，故只有 developed 符合题意。