2021年下半年大学英语四级阅读理解试题及重点词组.docVIP

2021 年下半年大学英语四级阅读理解试题及重点词组 一、四级阅读理解 1.Heres a familiar version of the boy-meets-girl situation. A young manhas at last plucked up courage to invite a dazzling young lady out to dinner. She has accepted his invitation and he is overjoyed. He is determined to take her to the best restaurant in town, even if it means that he will have to live on memories and hopes during the month to come. Whenthey get to the restaurant, he discovers that this ethereal creature is on a diet. She mustn ’t eat this and she must nt that. Oh, but of course, she doesnt want to spoil his enjoyment. Let him by all means eat as much fattening food as he wants: it ’s the surest way to an early grave. They spend a truly memorable evening together and never see each other again. What a miserable lot dieters are! You can always recognize them from the sour expression on their faces. They spend most of their time turning their noses up at food. They are forever consulting calorie charts; gazing at themselves in mirrors; and leaping on to weighing-machines in the bathroom. They spend a lifetime fighting a losing battle against spreading hips,protruding tummies and double chins. Somewageall-out war on FAT. Mere dieting is not enough. They exhaust themselves 1 / 49 doing exercises, sweating in sauna baths, being pummeledand massagedby weird machines. The really wealthy diet-mongers pay vast sums for ‘health cures ’. For two weeks they can enter a nature clinic and be starved to death for a hundred guineas a week. Don ’t think it ’s only the middle -aged who go in for these fads either. Many of these bright young things you see are suffering from chronic malnutrition: they are living on nothing but air, water and the goodwill of God. Dieters undertake to starve themselves of their own free will; so why are they so mis