英语通 大学英语四级考试版 Manchester Hospital in 1975. Believed to be Britains first hospital artist, Senior was so 这类文章作者通常以问句开头,自问自 much in demand that he was soon joined by a答。然后用论据来支持自己的观点。只要认真 team of six young art school graduates. 地阅读问题和回答,就能够判断出作者的写 The effect is striking. Now in the corridors作意图,也就能够准确找出文章的主题思想。 and waiting rooms the visitor experiences a full 经典例题 view of fresh colors, playful images and restful What has the telephone done to us, or for courtyards us, in the hundred years of its existence? A The quality of the environment may re- few effects suggest themselves at once. It has duce the need for expensive drugs when a pa- saved lives by getting rapid word of illness,in- tient is recovering from an illness. A study has jury, or fire from remote places. By joining shown that patients who had a view onto a gar- with the elevator to make possible the multi den needed half the number of strong story residence or office building, it has made painkillers compared with patients who had no possible for better or worse -the modern city view at all or only a brick wall to look at By bringing about a great leap in the speed The purpose of this article is and ease with which information moves from A. to change people's attitude toward hos- place to place, it has greatly accelerated the rate of scientific and technological cha inges ant B to replace the old buildings with mod- growth in industry. Beyond doubt it has seri- ern buildings ously weakened if not killed the ancient art of C. to suggest that the quality of environ- letter writing. It has made living alone possible ment in hospital plays an important for persons with normal social impulses: by so role in the recovery from illness doing. it has played a role in one of the great D. to illustrate that art is not appreciated est social changes of this century, the breakup by a large number of people in modern of the multi-generational household. It has made sociel the war chillingly more efficient than formerly. 文章在引言部分指出“ The medical world Perhaps, though not provably(可证实, It has is gradually realizing that the quality of the en- prevented wars that might have arisen out, of vironment in hospitals may play a significant international misunderstanding caused by writ- role in the recovery from illness.接着用一些 ten communication. Or perhaps-again not 例子阐明观点,在文章的结论部分,作者又指 provably--by magnifying and extending irra H"The quality of the environment may reduce tional personal conflicts based on voice con- the need for expensive drugs when a patient is lact. it has caused wars. Certainly it has ex recovering from an illness.”进一步阐述其观 tended the scope of human conflicts. since Il 点,说明环境在病人康复中所起的作用。首尾 impartially disseminates(传播) the useful 呼应,一气呵成。答案也就很快可以确定为 knowledge of scientists and the nonsense of the ignorant, the affection of the affectionate and 属于同样模式的还有2003年6月第4 the malice(恶意) of the malicious. 篇阅读理解,2002年1月第3篇阅读理解和 What is the main idea of this passage? 2001年1月第3篇阅读理解 A. The telephone has helped to save peo- ple from illness and fire 三、提问型 B. The telephone has had positive as well 200503