5. 词汇和指代类

实考真题 2009年阅读理解 (TEXT A)

This typifies the way in which engineers work to help people and create a better quality of life. The fact that this country has the most efficient agricultural industry in the world is another good example. Mechanical engineers have worked with farmers and biologists to produce fertilizers, machinery and harvesting systems. This team effort has now produced crops uniformly waist high or less so that they are better suited to mechanical harvesting.

Similar advances with other crops have released people from hard and boring jobs for more creative work, whilst machines harvest crops more effi ciently with less waste. Providing more food for the rapidly increasing population is yet another role for the mechanical engineer.

84. According to the context, “This team effort” in Paragraph Two refers to ______

A. mechanical engineers.
B. doctors and engineers.
C. biologists, doctors and farmers.
D. farmers, biologists and engineers.

解析：答案D。指代类。“Mechanical engineers have worked with farmers and biologists to produce fertilizers, machinery and harvesting systems.”这个团队的成员包括农场主、生物学家和工程师。

实考真题 2009年阅读理解 (TEXT C)

“Of course, you’d lose all your e-mail, your documents, your photos.” It was like offering to drop a safe on my head to cure my headache. “You might be able to recover them, but it would be expensive.” He sounded delighted. “And it’s not covered by the warranty (产品保证书)!” The safe began to seem like a good idea, provided it was full.

94. “It was like offering to drop a safe on my head to cure my headache” in the last but one paragraph
means that ______.
A. the technician’s proposal would make things even worse.
B. the technician’s proposal could eventually solve the problem.
C. files stored on her computer were like a safe.
D. erasing the entire system was like curing a headache.

解析：答案A。词汇类。

实考真题 2006年阅读理解 (TEXT C)

During this time, all my knowledge of him was limited to occasional meetings about the house, when he would sometimes pass me coldly, and sometimes bow and smile. His changes of manner did not offend me, because I saw that I had nothing to do with the cause of them.

92. In “...and all my knowledge of him was limited to occasional meetings about the house,…” the word “about” means ______

A. around B. on C. outside D. concerning

解析：答案A。词汇类。我对他所有的了解就是在房子附近的几次偶遇。根据专四阅读理解题型的特点，考生平时应该掌握一定的阅读技巧，采用相应的阅读策略，了解常见的阅读理解题型，多多练习。