2016年6月英語四級閱讀理解及解析（05）

【摘要】大學英語四六級考試作為一項全國性的教學考試由“國家教育部高教司”主辦，每年各舉行兩次。從2005年1月起，成績滿分為710分，凡考試成績在220分以上的考生，由國家教育部高教司委托“全國大學英語六級考試委員會”發(fā)給成績單。2007年1月起，六級考試不再接受非在校生報名。每年為了滿足廣大考生的需要，方便同學們積極備考，下面請同學們跟隨小編的整理，來看2015年12月英語四級閱讀理解及解析，希望對同學們有所幫助。

Most of the people who appear most often and most gloriously in the history books are great conquerors and generals and soldiers, whereas the people who really helped civilization forward are often never mentioned at all. We do not know who first set a broken leg, or launched a seaworthy boat, or calculated the length of the year, or manured(施肥)a field; but we know all about the killers and destroyers. People think a great deal of them, so much so that on all the highest pillars in the great cities of the world you will find the figure of a conqueror or a general or a soldier. And I think most people believe that the greatest countries are those that have beaten in battle the greatest number of other countries and ruled over them as conquerors. It is just possible they are, but they are not the most civilized.

Animals fight; so do savages (野蠻人); hence to be good at fighting is to be good in the way in which an animal or a savage is good, but it is not to be civilized. Even being good at getting other people to fight for you and telling them how to do it most efficiently --- this, after all, is what conquerors and generals have done --- is not being civilized. People fight to settle quarrels. Fighting means killing, and civilized peoples ought to be able to find some way of settling their disputes other than by seeing which side can kill off the greater number of the other side, and then saying that that side which has killed most has won. And it not only has won, but, because it has won, has been in the right. For that is what going to war means; it means saying that might is right.

That is what the story of mankind has on the whole been like. Even our own age has fought the two greatest wars in history, in which millions of people were killed or disabled. And while today it is true that people do not fight and kill each other in the streets --- while, that is to say, we have got to the stage of keeping the rules and behaving properly to each other in daily life --- nations and countries have not learnt to do this yet, and still behave like savages.

57. In the opening sentence the author indicates that ________.

A) most history books were written by conquerors, generals and soldiers.

B) those who truly helped civilization forward is rarely mentioned in history books.

C) history books focus more on conquerors than on those who helped civilization forward.

D) conquerors, generals and soldiers should not be mentioned in history books.

58. In the author’s opinion, the countries that ruled over a large number of other countries are ________.

A) certainly both the greatest and the most civilized

B) neither the most influential nor the most civilized.

C) possibly the most civilized but not the most powerful.

D) likely the greatest in some sense but not the most civilized.

59. The meaning of “That is what going to war means; it means saying that might is right.”(Last sentence of Paragraph 2) is that ________.

A) those who fight believe that the winner is right and the loser wrong.

B) only those who are powerful have the right to go to war.

C) those who are right should fight against those who are wrong.

D) in a war only those who are powerful will win.

60. In the third paragraph, what the author wants to convey to us is that ________.

A) World War I and World War II are different from previous wars.

B) our age is not much better than those of the past.

C) modern time is not so civilized compared with the past.

D) we have fought fewer wars but suffered heavier casualties.

61. This passage is most likely taken from an article entitled ________.

A) War and World Peace

B) Creators of Civilization

C) Civilization and History

D) Who Should Be Remembered

參考答案：BDABC

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