新東方：大學(xué)英語四級(jí)考試閱讀講義(八)

　　26. The most important advances made by mankind come from .��

　　A) technical applications C) the natural sciences��

　　B) apparently useless information D) philosophy

　　27. What may we expect the author to discuss in the paragraph that follows this passage? ��

　　A) The value of technical research. C) Philosophy.��

　　B) The value of pure research. D) Unforeseen discoveries.

　　28. The author points out that the Greeks who studied conic sections .��

　　A) were mathematicians��

　　B) were interested in navigation��

　　C) were unaware of the value of their studies��

　　D) worked with electricity

　　29. What might be the best title for this passage?��

　　A) A Little Learning Is a Dangerous Thing��

　　B) Man's Distinguishing Characteristics��

　　C) Learning for Its Own Sake��

　　D) The Difference between Science and Philosophy

　　30. The author does NOT include among the sciences the study of .��

　　A) astronomy C) anthropology��

　　B) physics D) literature��

　　Questions 31 to 35 are based on the following passage. ��

　　Women do not put money aside for a variety of reasons. They come and go in the work force, taking time off early to raise children and later, to tend to elderly relatives. When they do work, they earn less, regardless of age, industry or education. But societal patterns cannot be blamed for everything. Sometimes the problem is vanity, a refusal by an individual to think about white hair and wrinkles. Other times, saving money gets lost in the crush of family and career. Adele Morrissette, the 40-year-old head of media and entertainment investment banking at Cowen & Company, believes that “sometimes women who work hard don't pay enough attention to saving. We are too busy thinking about making money.”��

　　Whatever the cause, the effect can be devastating. As an American woman, you have an almost nine-out-of-ten chance of ending up alone. Either your marriage is one of the four in ten that will be broken up by divorce, or you will outlive your male partner by four to six years—even longer if you are younger than he (and you probably are). And don't deceive yourself. Widows aren't all blue-haired ladies playing mahjong (麻將) in Miami. They're also your fiftyish big sisters from college. Whether by death or divorce, you will likely someday be solely responsible for your financial security and well-being. If you aren't preparing for that, you are at high risk of outliving your assets. Three out of four older poor Americans are female.��

　　One woman gets to the core when she complains,“Our mothers didn't have to do this.”Daddy did. So girls often grew up not knowing the language, thinking that financial matters were for somebody else to worry about. The result shows up in surveys: most women don't know that common stocks historically outperform bonds, don't understand that when interest rates go up, the price of a bond goes down, agree somewhat or strongly with the statement“I'm not really sure how a mutual fund works.”��

　　31. This passage is mainly about .��

　　A) the cause and effect of women's not saving money��

　　B) women's low position in the society��

　　C) why women earn less than men��

　　D) the reason why women do not save money