大学英语四级备考：长篇阅读样题分析

　　样题分析：

　　Section B

　　Directions: In this section, you are going to read a passage with ten statements attached to it. Each statement contains in information given in one of the paragraphs. Identify the paragraph from which the information is derived. You may choose a paragraph more than once. Each paragraph is marked with a letter. Answer the questions by marking the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 2.

　　文章大意：本文主要讲述大学在增强国家实力和促进国际化交流等方面的巨大作用。A段总括全文，指出当代大学对国家强盛和世界和平起着至关重要的作用。B-E段讲述各个大学自觉走上全球化道路。F-I段讲研究型大学促成了美国的腾飞，但仍有诸多因素制约这种大学的发展。

　　46. American universities prepare their undergraduates for global careers by giving them chances for international study or internship.

　　解析：定位到D段第3、4句：And in the United States, institutions are helping place students in summer internships abroad to prepare them for global careers. Yale and Harvard have led the way, offering every undergraduate at least one international study or internship opportunityand providing the financial resources to make it possible.

　　47. Since the mid-1970s, the enrollment of overseas students has increased at an annual rate of 3.9 percent.

　　解析：定位到C段第2句：Over the past three decades the number of students leaving home each year to study abroad has grown at an annual rate of 3.9 percent, from 800,000 in 1975 to 2.5 million in 2004.

　　48. The enrollment of international students will have a positive impact on America rather than threaten its competitiveness.

　　解析：定位到I段第1句：Most Americans recognize that universities contribute to the nations well-being through their scientific research, but many fear that foreign students threaten American competitiveness by taking their knowledge and skills back home. They fail to grasp that welcoming foreign students to the United States has two important positive effects: first, the very best of them stay in the States andlike immigrants throughout historystrengthen the nation;

　　49. The way research is carried out in universities has changed as a result of globalization.

　　解析：定位到E段：Globalization is also reshaping the way research is done.

　　50. Of the newly hired professors in science and engineering in the United States, twenty percent come from foreign countries.

　　解析：定位到C段末句：In the United States, 20 percent of the newly hired professors in science and engineering are foreign-born, and in China many newly hired faculty members at the top research universities received their graduate education abroad.

　　51. The number of foreign students applying to U.S. universities decreased sharply after September 11 due to changes in the visa process.

　　解析：定位到H段第3句：In the wake of September 11, changes in the visa process caused a dramatic decline in the number of foreign students seeking admission to U.S. universities, and a corresponding surge in enrollments in Australia, Singapore and the U.K.

　　52. The U.S. federal funding for research has been unsteady for years.

　　解析：定位到G段第2句：Most politicians recognize the link between investment in science and national economic strength, but support for research funding has been unsteady.

　　53. Around the world, governments encourage the model of linking university-based science and industrial application.

　　解析：定位到F段第2、3句：The link between university-based science and industrial application is often indirect but sometimes highly visible: . Around the world, governments have 　　encouraged copying of this model, perhaps most successfully in Cambridge, England, where Microsoft and scores of other leading software and biotechnology companies have set up shop around the university.

　　54. Present-day universities have become a powerful force for global integration.

　　解析：定位到A段第末句：But at same time, the opening of national borders to the flow of goods, services, information and especially people has made universities a powerful force for global integration, mutual understanding and geopolitical stability.

　　55. When foreign students leave America, they will bring American values back to their home countries.

　　解析：定位到I段第3句：and second, foreign students who study in the United States become ambassadors for many of its most cherished values when they return home.

　　根据四级样卷可知，全文共计9个段落，对应10题，这意味着必有一段对应两题。事实上，从答案来看，其中有两个段落分别对应了两道题，有一个段落不对应任何题。

　　原快速阅读的考试时间是15分钟，原深度阅读的考试时间是25分钟，而调整后的阅读理解考试时间是40分钟，由此可推出新题型长篇阅读的考试时间基本不变，大概15分钟。

　　从样卷来看，长篇阅读主要考查段落信息匹配题。段落信息匹配题有4个特点：

　　1.绝对乱序：如第一个题干对应的并不是原文的第一段，而是第四段。

　　2.绝对同义转换：如第49题题干中的change为E段首句中 reshape的同义转换。

　　3.通常超细节：如第47题题干中的 since the mid-1970s, 3.9 percent, 第50题题干中的 twenty percent 都是考查学生对数字这一小细节是否注意。

　　4.通常无特殊印刷体。

　　从这4大特点我们足以看出这类题的难度：绝对乱序意味着考生不能按题文同序原则逐一解题;同义转换、超细节及无特殊印刷体意味着考生要费大量脑细胞去理解所读到的每个信息，无法快速地定位!