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2017全國英語等級考試pets4級試題閱讀B
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Part B
Read the following three texts. Answer the questions below each text by choosing [A], [B] ,[ C] or [D] Mark your answers on ANSWER SHEET.
Text 1
However important we may regard school life to be, there is no denying the fact that children spend more time at home than in the classroom. Therefore, the great influence of parents cannot be ignored or discounted by the teacher. They can become strong allies of the school personnel or they can consciously or unconsciously hinder and obstruct curricular objectives.
Administrators have been aware of the need to keep parents informed of the newer method used in schools. Many principals have conducted workshops explaining such matters as the reading readiness program, manuscript writing, and developmental mathematics.
Moreover, the classroom teacher, with the permission of the supervisors, can also play an important role in enlightening parents. The many interviews carried on during the year as well as new ways of reporting pupils' progress, can significantly aid in achieving a harmonious interplay between school and home.
To illustrate, suppose that a father has been drilling Junior in arithmetic processes night after night. In a friendly interview, the teacher can help the parent convert his natural paternal interest into productive channels. He might be persuaded to let Junior participate in discussing the family budget, buying the food, using a yardstick or measuring cup at home, setting the clock, calculating mileage on a trip, and engaging in scores of other activities that have a mathematical basis.
If the father follows the advice, it is reasonable to assume that he will soon realize his son is making satisfactory progress in mathematics and, at the same time, enjoying the work.
Too often, however, teachers' conferences with parents are devoted to petty accounts of children' s offences, complaints about laziness and poor work habits, and suggestions for penalties and rewards at home
What is needed is a more creative approach in which the teacher, as a professional adviser,plants ideas in parents' minds for the best utilization of the many hours that the child spends out of the classroom.
In this way, the school and the home join forces in stimulating the fullest development of youngsters' capacities.
36. A method of parent-teacher communication NOT mentioned or referred to by the author is .
A. home training
B. demonstration lesson
C. parent-teacher interviews
D. new progress report forms
37. It can be reasonably inferred that the author .
A. thinks that teachers of this generation are inferior to those of the last generation
B. is satisfied with present relationships between home and school
C. feels that the traditional program in mathematics is slightly superior to the development program
D. feels that parent-teacher interviews can be made much more constructive than they are at present
38. The author' s primary purpose in writing this passage is to .
A. improve the teaching of mathematics
B. tell parents to pay more attention to the guidance of teachers in the matter
C. help ensure that every child' s capacities are fully developed when leaving school
D. urge the use of a much underused resource-the parent
39. The phrase "an important role in enlightening parents" in the third paragraph most probably means an,important role in .
A. causing parents to understand
B. persuading parents
C. understanding parents
D. discussing with parents
40. The attitude of the author towards the role of parents is .
A. positive
B. negative
C. doubtful
D. unclear
Text 2
Often referred to as "the heart of a factoring organization", the credit department is responsible for granting credit to clients' customers and for collecting the accounts receivable purchased by the factor. When factored clients submit customer orders for credit approval, the credit department analyzes the financial condition and credit worthiness of the customer, and then makes a decision to approve or decline the order. The department must then monitor the condition of approved customers and collect all due receivables. Careful credit checking and effective collection procedures in this department can greatly reduce the risks inherent in factoring.
As the head of the credit department, the credit manager is responsible for seeing that the department operates effectively. He must develop the factor' s credit policies in consultation with senior factoring associates, and he is in overall command of everything from credit and collections to bankruptcy and liquidations. If the factor is a commercial bank division, the credit manager is a bank' s vice president, and credit policy must also be approved by top management of the bank.
Assisting the credit manager may be several supervisors who have credit responsibilities of their own and who also oversee the analysis and approval of customer orders by the credit specialists. Credit supervisors typically spend about eighty percent of their time handling large customer orders. If a customer order exceeds a supervisor' s credit authority , he is responsible for making recommendations to the credit manager. A supervisor also reviews a subordinate' s credit decision if the subordinate is unsure of the extent of the credit risk or if a client questions a particular credit decision.
In extremely large credit exposures, supervisors bear the responsibility for analyzing the credit position of the customers and deciding on credit limits. To do this, they must regularly obtain current data from various credit information sources. They must also have extensive contact with each customer to determine operational performance and progress. Frequently, supervisors are called upon to give advice on what should be done to improve a company' S financial condition. Meeting all these responsibilities requires that each supervisor continuously observe and study the industries with which he is concerned, so that he is capable of anticipating market changes which may affect his accounts.
A supervisor' s major challenge is to maintain a fine balance between the demands of clients that all their customer orders be approved and the questionable financial position of some of the customers. In reviewing any credit decision, a supervisor must be capable of weighing a variety of elements, including the possibility of losing the client, the customer' s credit position, and the extent of any possible loss.
41. What is the main idea of the passage?
A. The credit manager' s responsibility.
B. The supervisor' s responsibility.
C. The working procedures of a credit department.
D. The command and control in the credit department.
42. Which of the following is NOT true?
A. The credit policy can be a part of a commercial bank' s policy.
B. The credit policy rests only with the credit manager.
C. The supervisors are the helping hands of the credit manager.
D. A credit manager of the credit department is not necessarily a bank' s leading person.
43. By "a customer order", the customer is most probably trying to get
A. some goods from the factor
B. some money from the factor
C. some goods from the factor' s client
D. some money from the factor' s client
44. "Credit exposures ”probably means
A. uncovered risks
B. approved limits
C. expected sums
D. protected sources
45. The word " anticipating" (Para.4, Sent.5)can be safely replaced by
A. bringing
B. preventing
C. protecting
D. expecting
Text 3
Bill Gates, the billionaire Microsoft chairman without a single earned university degree, is by his success raising new doubts about the worth of the business world' s favorite academic title : the MBA ( Master of Business Administration).
The MBA, a 20th century product, always has borne the mark of lowly commerce and greed on the tree-lined campuses ruled by purer disciplines such as philosophy and literature.
But even with the recession apparently cutting into the hiring of business school graduates,about 79,000 people were expected to receive MBAs in 1993. This is nearly 16 times the number of business graduates in 1960, a testimony to the widespread assumption that the MBA is vital for young men and women who want to run companies some day.
"If you are going into the, corporate world it is still a disadvantage not to have one, " said Donald Morrison, professor of marketing and management science. "But in the last five years or so, when someone asks, ' Should I attempt to get an MBA?" The answer a lot more is: ' It depends. ' "
The success of Bill Gates and other non-MBAs, such as the late Sam Walton of Wal-Mart Stores Inc., has helped inspire self-conscious debates on business school campuses over the worth of a business degree and whether management skills can be taught.
The Harvard Business Review printed a lively, fictional exchange of letters to dramatize complaints about business degree holders. The article called MBA hires "extremely disappointing" and said "MBAs want to move up too fast, they don' t understand politics and people, and they aren' t able to function as part of a team until their third year. But by then, they' re out looking for other jobs. "
The problem, most participants in the debate acknowledge, is that the MBA has acquired an image of future riches and power far beyond its actual importance and usefulness.
Enrollment in business schools exploded in the 1970s and 1980s and created the assumption that no one who pursued a business career could do without one. The growth was fueled by a drive against the anti-business values of the 1960s and by the women' s movement.
Business people who have hired or worked with MBAs say those with the degrees often know how to analyze systems but are not so skillful at motivating people. "They don' t get a lot of grounding in the people side of the business", said James Shaffer, vice-president and principal of the Towers Pen-in Management Consulting Firm.
46. According to Paragraph 2, what is the general attitude towards business on campuses dominated by purer disciplines?
A. Scornful.
B. Appreciative.
C. Envious.
D. Realistic.
47. It seems that the controversy over the value of MBA degrees had been fueled mainly by .
A. the complaints from various employers
B. the success of many non-MBAs
C. the criticism from the scientists of purer disciplines
D. the poor performance of MBAs at work
48. What is the major weakness of MBA holders according to the Harvard Business Review?
A. They are usually self-centered.
B. They are aggressive and greedy.
C. They keep complaining about their jobs.
D. They are not good at dealing with people.
49. From the passage we know that most MBAs
A. can climb the corporate ladder fairly quickly
B. quit their jobs once they are familiar with their workmates
C. receive salaries that do not match their professional training
D. cherish unrealistic expectations about their future
50. What is the passage mainly about?
A. The reason for an enrollment in MBA programs.
B. The necessity of reforming MBA programs in business schools.
C. Doubts about the worth of holding an MBA degree.
D. A debate held recently on university campuses.
答案與解析：
Part B
Text l
閱讀賞析
本文講述了家長對孩子教育的重要性。家長的影響是不容忽視的，所以學(xué)校的校長和指導(dǎo)老師們需要將學(xué)校內(nèi)采用的新方法對家長們進(jìn)行講解，以求得配合;老師們應(yīng)更好地利用和家長的會面，多匯報(bào)學(xué)生的進(jìn)步。家長在家里采用激勵(lì)的辦法，引導(dǎo)學(xué)生熱愛學(xué)習(xí)�？傊�，學(xué)校和家長攜起手來才能最大限度地激發(fā)孩子們的潛力。
答案及解析
36.B
【命題目的】此題考查對文章信息的捕捉。
【解題要點(diǎn)】A項(xiàng)意為“家教”，在第四段中提到“父親可以在家里幫 助訓(xùn)練孩子的計(jì)算能力”，這是“家教”的一種方式;C項(xiàng)意為“老師 家長見面會”，在第四段第二句中提到過;D項(xiàng)意為“學(xué)生進(jìn)步報(bào)告”，文章第三段第二句提到“以新的方式報(bào)告學(xué)生進(jìn)步”。8項(xiàng)意為“示范課(公共課)”，全文中未提到過。
37.D
【命題目的】此題考查推理能力。
【解題要點(diǎn)】A項(xiàng)“這一代老師不如上一代老師”，作者沒有這方面的表述，此項(xiàng)是無關(guān)項(xiàng)。作者在文章中主要講述的就是如何在未來通過增進(jìn)學(xué)校和家庭的互動(dòng)來促進(jìn)學(xué)生的學(xué)習(xí)和發(fā)展，顯然是對現(xiàn)狀不滿，所以B項(xiàng)是不正確的。C項(xiàng)文中未提及。D項(xiàng)“作者認(rèn)為家長老師會面還可以做得更好”，在倒數(shù)第二段提到“老師應(yīng)用一種更有創(chuàng)造性的方式與家長溝通，使得他們知道如何有效利用課堂外的時(shí)間”，第四段中也提到“在友好的會面中提醒家長利用一種有效的方式幫助孩子學(xué)數(shù)學(xué)”。
38.D
【命題目的】此題考查考生歸納中心思想的能力。
【解題要點(diǎn)】A項(xiàng)“改進(jìn)數(shù)學(xué)教育”顯然與中心無關(guān)，在第四段中提到“在家里培養(yǎng)孩子學(xué)習(xí)數(shù)學(xué)能力”只是舉的一個(gè)例子，為了說明如何以一種更好的方式在家庭中教育孩子，所以不選A項(xiàng)。8、C兩項(xiàng)都很牽強(qiáng)附會，沒涉及文章中心。第一段和第四段都強(qiáng)調(diào)家長的重大影響，“他們是教育孩子的同盟軍”，作者目的正是“呼吁學(xué)校充分開發(fā)潛在的人力資源——家長”。
39.A
【命題目的】此題考查根據(jù)上下文猜測短語含義的能力。
【解題要點(diǎn)】在解題過程中，最有可能遇到的問題是enlighten這個(gè)生詞。即使不知道這個(gè)詞的含義，也可通過上下文，推測出來其含義。在本句后面接著就具體講了通過“和家長會面以及匯報(bào)學(xué)生進(jìn)步的新方法來促進(jìn)學(xué)校和家庭的和諧互動(dòng)”，這是進(jìn)一步闡釋老師在推動(dòng) 家長方面可以發(fā)揮的作用，因?yàn)槭?ldquo;互動(dòng)”，就不可能是單方面的“說服”，故排除8項(xiàng)。而C項(xiàng)“理解家長”和D項(xiàng)“和家長討論”，用在此處無法表示老師的積極作用，從而推斷此處意為“在啟發(fā)家長方面有重要作用”。
40.A
【命題目的】此題考查考生推斷作者觀點(diǎn)態(tài)度的能力。
【解題要點(diǎn)】通觀全文，都貫徹著一種對更多發(fā)揮家長的作用的希望，所以推斷作者對家長的作用持肯定的態(tài)度。
Text 2
閱讀賞析
本文主要講述了信用部門的職責(zé)和權(quán)力。作為代理機(jī)構(gòu)的核心，信用部門對客戶信貸活動(dòng)負(fù)責(zé)，并收集應(yīng)收款項(xiàng)。信用部門主管，即信用經(jīng)理，有責(zé)任使整個(gè)部門正常運(yùn)轉(zhuǎn)，由幾個(gè)部門監(jiān)督人員來協(xié)助其工作。在信用風(fēng)險(xiǎn)極大的情況下，監(jiān)督人員有責(zé)任分析客戶的信用情況并決定信用限制。但他們也面臨挑戰(zhàn)，要協(xié)調(diào)主管對客人訂單的需要和信用風(fēng)險(xiǎn)的平衡。
答案及解析
41.D
【命題目的】此題考查考生歸納中心思想的能力。
【解題要點(diǎn)】文章第一句，“信用部是代理機(jī)構(gòu)的核心，負(fù)責(zé)給委托人的客戶發(fā)放貸款以及收集代理商購買的應(yīng)收賬目”。全文圍繞此句展開，講解“信用部的管理和控制”。A、B、c三項(xiàng)文章都提到了，但是都只是一個(gè)方面，不夠概括。
42.B
【命題目的】此題考查對文章細(xì)節(jié)的捕捉。
【解題要點(diǎn)】文章第二段第二句提到“信用經(jīng)理要和幾個(gè)信用合作人 協(xié)商過后，才能制定信用政策”，所以，8項(xiàng)是錯(cuò)誤的。第三段第一句 “幾個(gè)有信用責(zé)任的監(jiān)督人協(xié)助信用經(jīng)理并監(jiān)督其他信用專家的工 作”，所以c項(xiàng)是正確的。第二段最后一句表明“信用經(jīng)理可以是副 行長”，即“不一定是銀行的最高領(lǐng)導(dǎo)”，故D項(xiàng)是正確的。
43.D
【命題目的】此題考查語句釋義能力。
【解題要點(diǎn)】factor意為“代理商，代理經(jīng)營，代管”，client意為“代理委托人”，customer“客戶”。a customer order意為“客戶訂單”，即“向代理委托人貸款的請求”。首先，factor即“代理商”是不會直接發(fā)給顧客任何事物或金錢的，先排除A、B兩項(xiàng)。第一段第二句詳細(xì)解釋了代理商要如何審查客戶的還款能力和信用度，由此可知是客戶希望貸款。
44.A
【命題目的】此題考查語句釋義能力。
【解題要點(diǎn)】A項(xiàng)意為“信用風(fēng)險(xiǎn)”，B項(xiàng)意為“通過的限額”，C項(xiàng)意 為“預(yù)期的數(shù)額”，D項(xiàng)意為“受保護(hù)的來源”。上文提到“the extent of the credit risk or if a client questions a particular credit decision”.此處緊承上文，作出表述，因而可推測“credit exposure”意為“信用風(fēng) 險(xiǎn)”。
45.D
【命題目的】此題考查單詞釋義能力。
【解題要點(diǎn)】A項(xiàng)意為“帶來”，8項(xiàng)意為“防止”，C項(xiàng)意為“保護(hù)”，D 項(xiàng)意為“期待”。做這類題，如果不認(rèn)識所有單詞，可以通過上下文來推測，上文提到“監(jiān)督人必須不斷地研究自己所在的領(lǐng)域才能承擔(dān)其所有的責(zé)任”，推測這樣做的目的是“了解這一領(lǐng)域的情況，避免市場’的變化帶來的沖擊”，因?yàn)?ldquo;市場的變化”是一種不利因素，是需要避免的，故排除A、C兩項(xiàng)。而僅靠“了解所在領(lǐng)域的情況”是不可能 “阻止”市場變化的，也排除B項(xiàng)。
Text 3
閱讀賞析
本文首先以比爾·蓋茨為例來對現(xiàn)在風(fēng)靡世界的MBA(工商管理學(xué)碩士)的價(jià)值表示質(zhì)疑，緊接著討論了人們對MBA的看法，指出MBA實(shí)際上只是一個(gè)擁有未來財(cái)富的形象，而其重要性和實(shí)用性卻并不大，獲得 MBA的人往往會做理論分析，而不善于利用和處理公司中的人際關(guān)系。 MBA人才欠缺的正是與人打交道和激勵(lì)人的本領(lǐng)。
答案及解析
46.A
【命題目的】此題考查考生推斷作者觀點(diǎn)態(tài)度的能力。
【解題要點(diǎn)】第二段中“lowly commerce”和“greed”有明顯的輕視意味。A項(xiàng)意為“輕蔑的”，B項(xiàng)意為“贊賞的”，c項(xiàng)意為“嫉妒的”，D 項(xiàng)意為“現(xiàn)實(shí)的”。
47.B
【命題目的】此題考查對文章信息的捕捉。
【解題要點(diǎn)】第一段提到“億萬富翁和微軟主席比爾·蓋茨，沒有任何大學(xué)學(xué)歷，通過其成功引起人們對商界所喜愛的MBA學(xué)術(shù)頭銜的價(jià)值的新的懷疑”，第五段更明確地指出“比爾·蓋茨及其他非MBA人士的成功，激起了人們對商校學(xué)位價(jià)值的自省式的爭論”，恰和B 項(xiàng)吻合。
48.D
【命題目的】此題考查對文章信息的理解。
【解題要點(diǎn)】第六段談到“MBA人想很快提升，他們不懂政治，不懂人事，他們直到3年后才能與集體協(xié)作，可那時(shí)，他們已轉(zhuǎn)向其他工作了”，即“MBA人不善于處理人際關(guān)系”。A項(xiàng)有可能是“不善于處理人際關(guān)系”的原因，但原文沒有明確提出，因而不選，而B、c兩項(xiàng)文中未提及，因而也不選。
49.D
【命題目的】此題考查對文章信息的捕捉。
【解題要點(diǎn)】此題最好用排除法，文中均未提過ABC三項(xiàng)的說法，而 D項(xiàng)則在第七段可找到相似說法。“The problem…is that the MBA has acquired an image of future riches and power far beyond its actual importance and usefulness”，即“問題在于…MBA已被套上了一圈光 環(huán)，其對未來權(quán)力及富裕的期望遠(yuǎn)遠(yuǎn)超出了它自身實(shí)際的重要性和 用途。”
50.C
【命題目的】此題考查學(xué)生綜合概括中心思想的能力。
【解題要點(diǎn)】A項(xiàng)“為什么MBA項(xiàng)目要招生”，是無關(guān)項(xiàng)。8項(xiàng)“改革 MBA項(xiàng)目的必要性”，說得過于肯定，文中意見尚未到達(dá)論證“必須 改革”的地步。D項(xiàng)“在大學(xué)校園上展開的一場辯論”，說得過于泛 泛。文章從頭至尾圍繞一個(gè)主題“doubts or debates over the worth of MBA”。
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