大学英语四级阅读理解经典模拟试题二.docx

Word文档下载后（可任意编辑） 大学英语四级阅读理解经典模拟试题二It happens to every medical student sooneror later. You get a cough that persists for a while. Ordinarily,you would justignore it--but now, armed with your rapidly growing medical knowledge, you can’t help worrying. The cough could mean just a cold, but it could alsobe a sign of lung cancer. For doctors intraining, nurses and medical journalists, hypochondria is an occupationaldanger. The feeling usually passes after a while, leaving only a funny story totell at a dinner party. But for the tens ofthousands who suffer from truehypochondria they live in constant terror that they are dying of someawfuldisease, or even several awful diseases at once. Doctors can assure themthat there’s nothing wrong, butsince the cough is real, the assurances fall on deaf ears. And because nophysician or test can offer a 100% guarantee that one doesn’t have cancer, a hypochondriac always has fuel to feed Iris .or herworst fears. Hypochondriacs don’t harm just themselves; they block the whole healthcare system.Although they account for only about 6% of the patients who visit doctors everyyear, they tend to burden their physicians with frequent visits that take upexcessive amounts of time. And the problem may be worse, thanks to thepopularity of medical information on the Internet. They go on the Web and learnabout new diseases and new presentations of old diseases that they never evenknew about before. Doctors have taken to calling this phenomenon cyberchondria(网络疑病症). 英语四级阅读模拟题： Choose correct answersto the question: ◆1.According to thepassage, if you suffer from hypochondria, ______. A.you must be amedical student, or a medical worker B.you are haunted by apossibly inexistent disease C.you will never getrid of this disease D.you always tellfunny stories at dinner parties ◆2.Which of thefollowing best summarizes the main idea of the passage? A.Hypochondria happensto everybody sooner or later. B.We needn’t worry about hypochondria since it is not dangerous at all. C.Hypochondriaoriginates from too much knowledge of medicine. D.Not only individualsbut also the healthcare system might be disturbed by unnecessary terrors. ◆3.Why can’t doctors convince the suffers that there is nothing wrong? A.Because the doctorscan’t cure the minor diseases B.Because the doctorsdon’t assure them of that C.Because thesufferers are deaf and cannot hear what the doctors say D.Because lack ofabsolute guarantee makes the patients doubtful ◆4.The problem becomesworse due to _____ A.the increasingnumber of patients B.the widespreadmedical knowledge on the Internet C.the patients,regularvisits to doctors that occupy too much time D.new diseases andsymptoms emerge constantly ◆5.What does theauthor most probably think about hypochondria? A.The author considersthat hypochondria is an incurable disease B.The author thinksthat the consequences of hypochondria might be disastrous C.The author suggeststhat the patients who have hypochondria should set their hearts at rest D.The authorsympathizes with the patients who suffer from hypochondria 第 3 页 共 3 页。