2012年12月英语四级考试案(阅读部分)2012年12月英语四级考试答案(阅读部分).docVIP

Part II ?Reading Comprehension (Skimming and Scanning) 1. B ?showmanship 细节题。这道题的答案对应原文第一句话，从putting on a show 可以推出showmanship。 when it came to putting on a show, nobody else in the computer industry, or any other industry for that matter, could match Steve Jobs.题干与原文的匹配度比较高，仔细阅读不难得出选择是B 2. A ?He invented lots of functional gadgets. 细节题。原文第2段第2句话提到了乔布斯突出的三个方面，第三句话明确指出最后一个方面，也就是他在functional gadgets 上的贡献对人们的生活影响最大，对比第二题的选项，应选A He stood out in three ways—as a technologist, as a corporate leader and as somebody who was able to make people love what had previously been impersonal, functional gadgets. Strangely, it is this last quality that may have the deepest effect on the way people live. 3. B ?His keen interest in designing elegant and user-friendly gadgets. 细节题。答案在第三段第二句，“obsessed with product design and aesthetics, and with making advanced technology simple to use”。讲到乔布斯痴迷于产品的设计和美学上，以及使高科技简单易用。所以选B As a technologist, Mr Jobs was different because he was not an engineer—and that was his great strength. Instead he was obsessed with product design and aesthetics, and with making advanced technology simple to use. 4. A ?One of the greatest chief executives of his time. 细节题。答案在第4段第一句话的后半句“many of those corporate giants as one of the greatest chief executives of his time.”所以选A，其他的选项均不正确。 Within the wider business world, a man who liked to see himself as a hippy, permanently in revolt against big companies, ended up being hailed by many of those corporate giants as one of the greatest chief executives of his time. 5. D ?an inspiration 细节题。答案在第四段第三句话。“is an inspiration to any businessperson”。所以选D His fall from grace in the 1980s, followed by his return to Apple in 1996 after a period in the wilderness, is an inspiration to any businessperson whose career has taken a turn for the worse.‘ 6. C ?He commanded absolute loyalty from Apple users. 细节题。由关键词fanatical loyalty 定位到低段第一句话。所以乔布斯成功最令人震惊的地方在于它获得了苹果用户的绝对忠诚。选C But what was perhaps most astonishing about Mr Jobs was the fan