大学英语四级考试长篇阅读PDF电子书下载

第一部分 长篇阅读 1

Passage 1 The American Dream 1

Passage 2 Back to Basics:Learning,Teaching,Love and Wisdom—500 B.C 4

Passage 3 Agency Offers Waste Exchange 7

Passage 4 Education:Promises or Reality? 10

Passage 5 After Fukushima,Japan Beginning to See the Light in Solar Energy 13

Passage 6 Eat Green:Our Everyday Food Choices Affect Global Warming and the Environment 16

Passage 7 By 2023,a Changed World in Energy 19

Passage 8 Swimming and the Fear Factor 22

Passage 9 Equal Opportunity,Our National Myth 25

Passage 10 Teaching Old Microphones New Tricks 28

Passage 11 Reading Literature Makes Us Smarter and Nicer 31

Passage 12 The Forgotten Fuel of Our Minds 34

Passage 13 10,000 Hours May Not Make a Master After All 37

Passage 14 Good for You,Better for Them:The Truth about Retailer Guarantees 40

Passage 15 What's in That Big Mac?More Than You Think 43

Passage 16 Depressive Thinking Can Be Contagious 46

Passage 17 How Not to Be Alone 49

Passage 18 Five Essential Steps for Keeping Your Computer Safe 52

Passage 19 Biggest Floods in History—Does Mississippi Make the List? 55

Passage 20 Fear of Unemployment Is Rational,Despite Low Figures 58

Passage 21 Five Surprising Facts about Energy Poverty 61

Passage 22 With Age Comes Happiness 64

Passage 23 Bird-friendly Farms Catching On in California 67

Passage 24 The New Meaning of Retirement 70

Passage 25 How a New Species Is Named 73

Passage 26 The World's Energy Future Is Not Hopeless 76

Passage 27 Brazil's Pantanal—a Water World for Exotic Birds and Beasts 79

Passage 28 Bradley Wiggins:A Tough Act to Follow 82

Passage 29 A New Lightweight Lift Cable Will Let Buildings Soar Ever Upward 85

Passage 30 Is Divorce Bad for Children? 88

第二部分 大学英语四级模拟试题 91

大学英语四级模拟试题（1） 91

大学英语四级模拟试题（2） 107

附录一 长篇阅读参考答案与解析（1—30篇） 123

附录二 大学英语四级模拟试题录音文字、参考答案及解析 152

大学英语四级模拟试题（1） 152

大学英语四级模拟试题（2） 162