2024年5月11日发(作者：定升)
专业英语四级（阅读）-试卷153
(总分：30.00，做题时间：90分钟)
一、 READING COMPREHENSION(总题数：11，分数：30.00)
V READING COMPREHENSION
__________________________________________________________________________________________
解析：
N AIn this section there are several passages followed by ten multiple-choice questions.
For each question, there are four suggested answers marked [A], [B], [C] and [D]. Choose the
one that you think is the best answer.
__________________________________________________________________________________________
解析：
Google has an ambitious vision for spectacles. On June 27th Sergey Brin, one of the company's
co-founders, revealed the next stage of Project Glass, its effort to create wireless-connected
glasses that allow their wearers to do a host of things, including receiving and responding to
messages, and taking and sharing photos and videos. The goal is to get prototypes in the hands
of software developers early next year and then to sell a more polished set of specs to consumers
in late 2013 or early the following year. A product of Google's secretive X Lab, whose mission
is to push the boundaries of computing, the glasses were on show at the company's developer
conference in San Francisco along with several other gadgets, including a cheap tablet computer
and a new wireless media player for the home. These gadgets attracted plenty of attention, but
the longest queues at the event were at booths where folk were trying on Google's spectacles.
That is hardly surprising because the glasses seem like something out of a science-fiction novel.
A tiny transparent display towards the top of one lens allows wearers to see text and images by
glancing upwards. And the spectacles can be controlled using either voice commands or a somewhat
bulky touchpad integrated into one of the arms. Mr. Brin says the goal is to " get technology
out of the way" so people can, say, take videos without having to pull out a camera or smartphone
each time they do so. Google's glasses reflect a growing interest in wearable computing, which
many experts think could be the next big thing in personal technology after smartphones and tablets.
But some tech veterans give warning that designing novel devices people feel comfortable wearing
is an especially tricky task. "In general, the first attempt at producing new computing paradigms
rarely sticks, " notes Sumeet Jain of CMEA Capital, a venture-capital firm. If Google's glasses
are to prove an exception to that rule, the firm will have to meet several challenges. One is
to refine their design so that wearers don't look like nerds from a laboratory. Another is to
relieve inevitable concerns around privacy that the glasses will raise. The firm will also need
to reassure people their eyeballs won't be blitzed with advertising, which is Google's preferred
way to mint money. Mr. Brin stresses the aim is to make a profit on the glasses themselves, whose
mass-market price will be well below the $1, 500 developers are paying for a pair. That should
make them worth a close look.（分数：6.00）
(1).The most popular product(s)at Google's developer conference in San Francisco was/were______.
（分数：2.00）
A.a tablet computer
B.a wireless media player
spectacles √
hones
解析：解析：推理题。 文章第二段最后一句提到，这些小发明吸引了广泛的关注，但此次活动中排队最长
的是谷歌眼镜试戴展位，由排队最长可推断出，在旧金山公司的开发者会议上最受欢迎的产品是谷歌眼镜，
所以选[C]。[A]“平板电脑”和[B]“无线媒体播放器”是上一句中提到的小发明，均可排除；[D]“智能
手机”在第四段第一句有所提及，但并未指出其参与了此次展出，故排除。
(2).Some experts believe it is a difficult task to______.（分数：2.00）
new and comfortable devices √
se customers' interests in the spectacles
the boundaries of wearable computing
new wearable computing devices
解析：解析：细节题. 文章第四段第二句提到，一些资深技术人员警告称设计使人们佩戴舒适的新颖装置
是一件非常棘手的任务，所以[A]“设计新的和佩戴舒适的装置”为正确答案。[B]“增加客户对这款眼镜
的兴趣”在文中并未提及，故排除；[C]“拓宽可佩戴的计算领域”在第二段第一句有所提及，但这是谷歌
X实验室的使命，故排除；[D]“发明新的可佩戴的计算设备”在第四段最后一句有所提及，但这是风险投
资公司CMEA Capital的萨米特·杰恩所说的话，故排除。
(3).Which of the following is NOT among the challenges to be met by Google?（分数：2.00）
improve the design of the glasses.
ease people's concerns about privacy.
make people stop worrying about advertising.
earn a profit by increasing the mass-market price. √
解析：解析：细节题. 第五段第五句提到了赢利和眼镜的大众市场版价格，指出谷歌的目标是要通过眼镜
本身来赢利，眼镜的大众市场版价格将远低于1500美元一副的开发者购买价格，而不是提高大众市场版价
格，故[D]为正确答案。由第五段第二至四句可知，谷歌要应对的三个挑战分别是改良设计、困扰用户的隐
私问题、确保用户远离广告的狂轰滥炸，所以[A]、[B]和[C]均可排除。
Because I married a photographer, once we had children, our holiday cards of course became vehicles
for their cuteness and his creativity. In 2000, baby number one's chubby smiling face in a Santa
hat was the cover image. In 2004, our now-four faces were ornaments on a tree. By 2006, we wore
stocking caps and lay down in bed together with a thought bubble over our sleeping heads filled
with cherries. Our best card was our last, in 2010. We dressed in extravagant holiday finery,
gowns, jackets and bow-ties. We titled it:"Don We Now Our Gay Apparel. " That was two years ago.
We mailed it out in envelopes, signed, sealed and delivered by the U.S. Postal Service and its
analogues in distant lands. Good cheer and laughs in mailboxes all around! It's been downhill
ever since. By last year, we'd let our mailing list go to seed. We communicated with most of our
friends online and no longer had street addresses for them. I didn't know it then but my world,
my social world, was changing. Today, my 1, 500 Facebook friends—1, 300 of whom I have never
actually met—have already seen the best of the year's haul of pictures of my kids. They also
know where I've gone on vacation and sometimes, what I cooked for dinner or what I thought of
a movie on a Saturday night in May. There's little point to writing a Christmas update now, with
boasts about grades and athletic skill, hospitalizations and holidays, and the dog's accidents,
when we have already posted these events and so much more of our trifles all year long. The urge
to share has already been well satisfied. Likewise, as receivers, we already have real-time windows
into the lives of people thousands of miles away. We already know exactly how they've fared in
the past year, much more than could possibly be conveyed by any single Christmas card. If a child
or grandchild has been born to a former colleague or high school friend living across the continent,
not only did I see it within hours on Shutterfly or Instagram or Facebook, I might have seen him
or her take his or her first steps on YouTube. Still, the demise of the Christmas photo card saddens
me. It predicts the end of the U.S. Postal Service. It signals the day is near when writing on
paper is non-existent. Finally, it is part of a decline of a certain quality of communication,
one that involved delay and anticipation, forethought and reflection. Opening these cards, the
satisfaction wasn't just in the Peace on Earth greeting, but in the recognition that a distant
friend or relative you hadn't heard from in a year was still thinking about you, and maybe sharing
news about major events of the past 12 months. We know each other so well now, perhaps too well.
And yet, all the time logged into our computers has also taken us away from our nearest and dearest.
Who can say they spent as much time looking into the eyes of family, friends and neighbors as
into the colorful phone or laptop screen last year? This season, instead of sending cards, my
winter holiday greeting at the end of 2012 will be this: after posting the obligatory seasonal
wishes online on Christmas Eve, I will be clicking off the electronic messaging services, and
trying to connect in person with my friends, neighbors and family members for a change.（分数：
6.00）
(1).What is NOT mentioned as the things my Facebook friends know about me?（分数：2.00）
friends in real life. √
place where I spent my holiday.
dishes I cooked.
idea about a movie.
解析：解析：细节题。文章第三段第二、三句提到，我在脸谱网上的1500位好友——其中有1300位实际
上我从未见过——都已看过我家孩子们这一年一堆照片中最好的那张。他们还知道我曾去过哪里度假，以
及有时我晚餐做了什么菜或者我对五月的某个周六晚上的电影有何观感，[A]“我在现实生活中的朋友”在
文中并未提及，所以为正确答案。[B]“我度假的地方”、[C]“我做的菜”和[D]“我的电影观后感”均有
所提及，故排除。
(2).It can be inferred from Paragraphs 4 and 5 that______.（分数：2.00）
can see other people's life through windows
's easy to learn about distant friends over the network √
g on paper doesn't exist any longer
g photo cards gives us the satisfaction of peace
解析：解析：推理题。文章第四段最后一句提到，如果以前的同事或者高中朋友家里有小孩或孙子出生，
而他／她又住在美国的另一边，我不仅能在数小时之内从快门网、照片分享或脸谱网看到这一消息，而且
还可能已经在YouTube网上看过他或她带着孩子蹒跚学步了，由此推知，通过网络可以很容易地得知远方
朋友的信息，所以[B]为正确答案。[A]“我们可以通过窗户看到别人的生活”与第四段第一句提到的“我
们已经有一个实时的窗口可以看到远在千里之外的人们的生活”语义不符，故排除；第五段第三句提到，
这表明在纸上写字不复存在的那一天快要来临了，[C]“在纸上写字不再存在”夸大了文章原意，因此排除；
[D]“打开这些照片卡片给我们带来对和平的满足感”与第五段最后一句提到的“打开这些卡片，这种满足
感不仅仅是来自对世界和平的祝福”不符，故排除。
(3).Which of the following is the best title for the passage?（分数：2.00）
Did I Make the Holiday Photo Cards?
Is the Best Way to Connect with Friends?
Did I Stop Sending Holiday Photo Cards? √
Is the Disadvantage of Online Contact?
解析：解析：主旨题。文章开篇讲述作者家从2000年到2010年都在自己制作节日照片贺卡，如今作者已
不再寄送贺卡，而是和朋友在网上联系。接着提到由于网上信息共享，大家都了解彼此的近况，但作者对
圣诞节相片贺卡的消亡感到很难过。最后提到网络让我们能迅速掌握关于对方的消息，但其反而让我们远
离了自己的亲朋挚友，为了避免这一问题，在2012年的圣诞节作者会亲自联系亲朋挚友，[C]“我为什么
不再寄送节日照片贺卡?”作为主题更贴切，故为正确答案。[A]“我如何制作节日照片贺卡?”仅在第一段
中有所提及，故排除；[B]“联系朋友的最好方法是什么?”在本文并未提及，故排除；[D]“在线联络的坏
处有哪些?”在最后一段有所提及，但不是全文主题，故排除。
In The Art of Choosing, Sheena Iyengar, a business professor at Columbia University and a leading
expert on decision making, tells us that making sounc choices is even more difficult than we think.
To learn how to make better decisions, we first need to become aware of the pitfalls(陷阱)we
typically encounter. Iyengar reveals, for example, that having many options to choose from does
not lead to better outcomes, despite popular assumptions to the contrary. For instance, she found
that consumers were far more likely to buy jam when given fewer flavor choices, not more. "We
frequently pay a mental and emotional tax for freedom of choice, " she writes. To become better
2024年5月11日发(作者：定升)
专业英语四级（阅读）-试卷153
(总分：30.00，做题时间：90分钟)
一、 READING COMPREHENSION(总题数：11，分数：30.00)
V READING COMPREHENSION
__________________________________________________________________________________________
解析：
N AIn this section there are several passages followed by ten multiple-choice questions.
For each question, there are four suggested answers marked [A], [B], [C] and [D]. Choose the
one that you think is the best answer.
__________________________________________________________________________________________
解析：
Google has an ambitious vision for spectacles. On June 27th Sergey Brin, one of the company's
co-founders, revealed the next stage of Project Glass, its effort to create wireless-connected
glasses that allow their wearers to do a host of things, including receiving and responding to
messages, and taking and sharing photos and videos. The goal is to get prototypes in the hands
of software developers early next year and then to sell a more polished set of specs to consumers
in late 2013 or early the following year. A product of Google's secretive X Lab, whose mission
is to push the boundaries of computing, the glasses were on show at the company's developer
conference in San Francisco along with several other gadgets, including a cheap tablet computer
and a new wireless media player for the home. These gadgets attracted plenty of attention, but
the longest queues at the event were at booths where folk were trying on Google's spectacles.
That is hardly surprising because the glasses seem like something out of a science-fiction novel.
A tiny transparent display towards the top of one lens allows wearers to see text and images by
glancing upwards. And the spectacles can be controlled using either voice commands or a somewhat
bulky touchpad integrated into one of the arms. Mr. Brin says the goal is to " get technology
out of the way" so people can, say, take videos without having to pull out a camera or smartphone
each time they do so. Google's glasses reflect a growing interest in wearable computing, which
many experts think could be the next big thing in personal technology after smartphones and tablets.
But some tech veterans give warning that designing novel devices people feel comfortable wearing
is an especially tricky task. "In general, the first attempt at producing new computing paradigms
rarely sticks, " notes Sumeet Jain of CMEA Capital, a venture-capital firm. If Google's glasses
are to prove an exception to that rule, the firm will have to meet several challenges. One is
to refine their design so that wearers don't look like nerds from a laboratory. Another is to
relieve inevitable concerns around privacy that the glasses will raise. The firm will also need
to reassure people their eyeballs won't be blitzed with advertising, which is Google's preferred
way to mint money. Mr. Brin stresses the aim is to make a profit on the glasses themselves, whose
mass-market price will be well below the $1, 500 developers are paying for a pair. That should
make them worth a close look.（分数：6.00）
(1).The most popular product(s)at Google's developer conference in San Francisco was/were______.
（分数：2.00）
A.a tablet computer
B.a wireless media player
spectacles √
hones
解析：解析：推理题。 文章第二段最后一句提到，这些小发明吸引了广泛的关注，但此次活动中排队最长
的是谷歌眼镜试戴展位，由排队最长可推断出，在旧金山公司的开发者会议上最受欢迎的产品是谷歌眼镜，
所以选[C]。[A]“平板电脑”和[B]“无线媒体播放器”是上一句中提到的小发明，均可排除；[D]“智能
手机”在第四段第一句有所提及，但并未指出其参与了此次展出，故排除。
(2).Some experts believe it is a difficult task to______.（分数：2.00）
new and comfortable devices √
se customers' interests in the spectacles
the boundaries of wearable computing
new wearable computing devices
解析：解析：细节题. 文章第四段第二句提到，一些资深技术人员警告称设计使人们佩戴舒适的新颖装置
是一件非常棘手的任务，所以[A]“设计新的和佩戴舒适的装置”为正确答案。[B]“增加客户对这款眼镜
的兴趣”在文中并未提及，故排除；[C]“拓宽可佩戴的计算领域”在第二段第一句有所提及，但这是谷歌
X实验室的使命，故排除；[D]“发明新的可佩戴的计算设备”在第四段最后一句有所提及，但这是风险投
资公司CMEA Capital的萨米特·杰恩所说的话，故排除。
(3).Which of the following is NOT among the challenges to be met by Google?（分数：2.00）
improve the design of the glasses.
ease people's concerns about privacy.
make people stop worrying about advertising.
earn a profit by increasing the mass-market price. √
解析：解析：细节题. 第五段第五句提到了赢利和眼镜的大众市场版价格，指出谷歌的目标是要通过眼镜
本身来赢利，眼镜的大众市场版价格将远低于1500美元一副的开发者购买价格，而不是提高大众市场版价
格，故[D]为正确答案。由第五段第二至四句可知，谷歌要应对的三个挑战分别是改良设计、困扰用户的隐
私问题、确保用户远离广告的狂轰滥炸，所以[A]、[B]和[C]均可排除。
Because I married a photographer, once we had children, our holiday cards of course became vehicles
for their cuteness and his creativity. In 2000, baby number one's chubby smiling face in a Santa
hat was the cover image. In 2004, our now-four faces were ornaments on a tree. By 2006, we wore
stocking caps and lay down in bed together with a thought bubble over our sleeping heads filled
with cherries. Our best card was our last, in 2010. We dressed in extravagant holiday finery,
gowns, jackets and bow-ties. We titled it:"Don We Now Our Gay Apparel. " That was two years ago.
We mailed it out in envelopes, signed, sealed and delivered by the U.S. Postal Service and its
analogues in distant lands. Good cheer and laughs in mailboxes all around! It's been downhill
ever since. By last year, we'd let our mailing list go to seed. We communicated with most of our
friends online and no longer had street addresses for them. I didn't know it then but my world,
my social world, was changing. Today, my 1, 500 Facebook friends—1, 300 of whom I have never
actually met—have already seen the best of the year's haul of pictures of my kids. They also
know where I've gone on vacation and sometimes, what I cooked for dinner or what I thought of
a movie on a Saturday night in May. There's little point to writing a Christmas update now, with
boasts about grades and athletic skill, hospitalizations and holidays, and the dog's accidents,
when we have already posted these events and so much more of our trifles all year long. The urge
to share has already been well satisfied. Likewise, as receivers, we already have real-time windows
into the lives of people thousands of miles away. We already know exactly how they've fared in
the past year, much more than could possibly be conveyed by any single Christmas card. If a child
or grandchild has been born to a former colleague or high school friend living across the continent,
not only did I see it within hours on Shutterfly or Instagram or Facebook, I might have seen him
or her take his or her first steps on YouTube. Still, the demise of the Christmas photo card saddens
me. It predicts the end of the U.S. Postal Service. It signals the day is near when writing on
paper is non-existent. Finally, it is part of a decline of a certain quality of communication,
one that involved delay and anticipation, forethought and reflection. Opening these cards, the
satisfaction wasn't just in the Peace on Earth greeting, but in the recognition that a distant
friend or relative you hadn't heard from in a year was still thinking about you, and maybe sharing
news about major events of the past 12 months. We know each other so well now, perhaps too well.
And yet, all the time logged into our computers has also taken us away from our nearest and dearest.
Who can say they spent as much time looking into the eyes of family, friends and neighbors as
into the colorful phone or laptop screen last year? This season, instead of sending cards, my
winter holiday greeting at the end of 2012 will be this: after posting the obligatory seasonal
wishes online on Christmas Eve, I will be clicking off the electronic messaging services, and
trying to connect in person with my friends, neighbors and family members for a change.（分数：
6.00）
(1).What is NOT mentioned as the things my Facebook friends know about me?（分数：2.00）
friends in real life. √
place where I spent my holiday.
dishes I cooked.
idea about a movie.
解析：解析：细节题。文章第三段第二、三句提到，我在脸谱网上的1500位好友——其中有1300位实际
上我从未见过——都已看过我家孩子们这一年一堆照片中最好的那张。他们还知道我曾去过哪里度假，以
及有时我晚餐做了什么菜或者我对五月的某个周六晚上的电影有何观感，[A]“我在现实生活中的朋友”在
文中并未提及，所以为正确答案。[B]“我度假的地方”、[C]“我做的菜”和[D]“我的电影观后感”均有
所提及，故排除。
(2).It can be inferred from Paragraphs 4 and 5 that______.（分数：2.00）
can see other people's life through windows
's easy to learn about distant friends over the network √
g on paper doesn't exist any longer
g photo cards gives us the satisfaction of peace
解析：解析：推理题。文章第四段最后一句提到，如果以前的同事或者高中朋友家里有小孩或孙子出生，
而他／她又住在美国的另一边，我不仅能在数小时之内从快门网、照片分享或脸谱网看到这一消息，而且
还可能已经在YouTube网上看过他或她带着孩子蹒跚学步了，由此推知，通过网络可以很容易地得知远方
朋友的信息，所以[B]为正确答案。[A]“我们可以通过窗户看到别人的生活”与第四段第一句提到的“我
们已经有一个实时的窗口可以看到远在千里之外的人们的生活”语义不符，故排除；第五段第三句提到，
这表明在纸上写字不复存在的那一天快要来临了，[C]“在纸上写字不再存在”夸大了文章原意，因此排除；
[D]“打开这些照片卡片给我们带来对和平的满足感”与第五段最后一句提到的“打开这些卡片，这种满足
感不仅仅是来自对世界和平的祝福”不符，故排除。
(3).Which of the following is the best title for the passage?（分数：2.00）
Did I Make the Holiday Photo Cards?
Is the Best Way to Connect with Friends?
Did I Stop Sending Holiday Photo Cards? √
Is the Disadvantage of Online Contact?
解析：解析：主旨题。文章开篇讲述作者家从2000年到2010年都在自己制作节日照片贺卡，如今作者已
不再寄送贺卡，而是和朋友在网上联系。接着提到由于网上信息共享，大家都了解彼此的近况，但作者对
圣诞节相片贺卡的消亡感到很难过。最后提到网络让我们能迅速掌握关于对方的消息，但其反而让我们远
离了自己的亲朋挚友，为了避免这一问题，在2012年的圣诞节作者会亲自联系亲朋挚友，[C]“我为什么
不再寄送节日照片贺卡?”作为主题更贴切，故为正确答案。[A]“我如何制作节日照片贺卡?”仅在第一段
中有所提及，故排除；[B]“联系朋友的最好方法是什么?”在本文并未提及，故排除；[D]“在线联络的坏
处有哪些?”在最后一段有所提及，但不是全文主题，故排除。
In The Art of Choosing, Sheena Iyengar, a business professor at Columbia University and a leading
expert on decision making, tells us that making sounc choices is even more difficult than we think.
To learn how to make better decisions, we first need to become aware of the pitfalls(陷阱)we
typically encounter. Iyengar reveals, for example, that having many options to choose from does
not lead to better outcomes, despite popular assumptions to the contrary. For instance, she found
that consumers were far more likely to buy jam when given fewer flavor choices, not more. "We
frequently pay a mental and emotional tax for freedom of choice, " she writes. To become better