新東方：英語四級考試閱讀30天學(xué)習(xí)筆記

　　注：committe=do (壞事) commite a crime

　　The fourth test required people to read a passage,

　　then answer questions about it. Nonsmokers remembered 19 percent more of the most important information than active smokers, and deprived smokers bested those who had smoked a cigarette just before testing. Active smokers tended not only to have poorer memories but also had trouble separating important information from insignificant details.

　　注：1.首句為實驗過程

　　2.第二句為實驗結(jié)果，作比較，可簡寫為 Nonsmoker remembered more than active smoker

　　3.劃線的部分指的是active smoker. 即deprived smoker bested active smoker

　　4.best v. 勝過

　　23. The word "bested" (Line 3, Para. 5) most probably means ________.

　　A) beat B) envied

　　C) caught up with D) made the best of

　　注：詞匯題，根據(jù)第5段末句的意思可推斷為A選項。

　　"As our tests became more complex." Sums up Spilich, "non-smokers performed better than smokers by wider and wider margins," He predicts, "smokers might perform adequately at many jobs - until they got complicated. A smoking airline pilot could fly adequately if no problems arose, but if something went wrong, smoking might damage his mental capacity."

　　注：1.by wide margin 差距大 margine 差距;頁邊空白處，利潤

　　2.perform 執(zhí)行，表演

　　3.末句為重要句：

　　尤其是末句出現(xiàn)轉(zhuǎn)折時或者末句為結(jié)論時。本句出現(xiàn)了but

　　4.mental 思維的，精神的 mental capacity 思維能力

　　25. We can infer from the last paragraph that _________.

　　A) smokers should not expect to become airline pilots

　　B) smoking in emergency cases causes mental illness

　　C) no airline pilots smoke during flights

　　D) smokers may prove unequal to handling emergency cases

　　注：1.此題為推理題，選項的特點為文章相應(yīng)內(nèi)容的同義改寫

　　2.根據(jù)選項定位最后一段末句，重點在but后面

　　3.prove unequal to 無法勝任，D項為but后的同義改寫

　　4.C選項首先是過度推理，其次no+n.為絕對語氣詞，通常為干擾，帶有可能性語氣詞的選項通常為優(yōu)選(不但適用于推理題，而且適用于所有題型)

　　"As our tests became more complex." Sums up Spilich, "non-smokers performed better than smokers by wider and wider margins," He predicts, "smokers might perform adequately at many jobs - until they got complicated. A smoking airline pilot could fly adequately if no problems arose, but if something went wrong, smoking might damage his mental capacity."

　　21. The purpose of George Spilich' s experiments is _________.

　　A) to test whether smoking has a positive effect on the mental capacity of smokers

　　B) to show how smoking damages people's mental capacity

　　C) to prove that smoking affects people's regular performance

　　D) to find out whether smoking helps people's short-term memory