2007年6月英语四级模拟试卷热点题型

Passage 3

Time spent in a bookshop can be most enjoyable, whether you are a book-lover or merely go there to buy a book as a present. You may even have entered the shop just to find shelter from a sudden shower. Whatever the reason, you can soon become totally unaware of your surroundings. The desire to pick up a book with an attractive dust jacket is irresistible, although this method of selection ought not to be followed, as you might end up with a rather dull book. You soon become engrossed in some book or other, and usually it is only much later that you realize you have spent far too much time there and must dash off to keep some forgotten appointment---without buying a book, of course.

This opportunity to escape the realities of everyday life is, I think, the main attraction of a bookshop. There are not many places where it is possible to do this. A music shop is very much like a bookshop. You can wander round such places to your heart's content. If it is a good shop, no assistant will approach you with the inevitable greeting: “Can I help you, sir?” You needn't buy anything you don't want. In a bookshop an assistant should remain in the background until you have finished browsing. Then, and only then, are his services necessary. Of course, you may want to find out where a particular section is, but when he has led you there, the assistant should retire discreetly （谨慎地） and look as if he is not interested in selling a single book.

You have to be careful not to be attracted by the variety of books in a bookshop. It is very easy to enter the shop looking for a book on, say ancient coins and to come out carrying a copy of the latest best-selling novel and perhaps a book about brass-rubbing-something which had only vaguely interested you up till then. This volume on the subject, however, happened to be so well illustrated and the part of the text you read proved so interesting that you just had to buy it. This sort of thing can be very dangerous. Apart from running up a hug account, you can waste a great deal of time wandering from section to section. Booksellers must be both long-suffering and indulgent（纵容地）.

1. You may spend too much time in a bookshop because________

A. the dust jackets are very attractive
B. you start reading one of the books
C. it is raining outside
D. you have to make sure you can't buy a dull book as a present

2. In a good bookshop_______.

A. nobody takes any notice of you
B. the assistant greets you in a friendly way
C. your heart is contented
D. you feel that you are in a music shop

3. An assistant should help you_______.

as soon as you have entered a shop
just before you finish browsing
only when you have finished browsing
when he leads you to a particular section.
4. It's very easy to enter a bookshop and buy_______.

a book on ancient coins
a best-selling novel on brass-rubbing
a book that only vaguely interests you
a book that unexpectedly interests you
5. This passage is mainly concerned with _______.

some advice on entering a bookshop
how to sel ect books in a bookshop
assistant’ service in a bookshop
attractions of books in a bookshop
答案与详解

1本题是一个细节题，由文章第一段 You soon become engrossed in some book or other, and usually it is only much later … 中词组become engrossed in 全神贯注于,可以得出，正确答案是Ｂ。

2.C 本题是一个主旨大意题，在文章第二段第三行，可以得出好的书店能让人心满意足，其余三个选择都不准确。

3.C 本题是一个细节题，在文章第二段中间 In a bookshop an assistant should remain in the background until you have finished browsing 这一句中可以得出正确答案。

4.D 在文章第三段It is very easy to enter the shop looking for a book on, say ancient coins and to come out carrying a copy of the latest best-selling novel …just to buy it.去书店想找一本有关古钱币的书,碰巧看到最新的畅销小说和有关给铜抛光的书,并be被所读的部分所吸引,结果买下.根据这句话可以得知正确答案是D。
 
5.A 本题考察的是对文章中心的把握，只有A 这个选项可以贯穿全篇，因而是正确答案。