在四六级考试中，阅读部分占据了相当大的比重，正所谓“得阅读者得天下”。同学们要想在四六级考试中脱颖而出，就必须提高自己四级阅读得分的得分率。但是在阅读这一部分悠悠大量的长难句阻碍着大家对文章的理解和解答。为此考8英语四六级考试网为大家整理了四级考试阅读理解练习题供大家参考学习，希望会对大家有所帮助。在此小编预祝大家能够顺利的通过这次考试。

Flying over a desert area in an airplane, two scientists looked down with trained eyes at trees and bushes. After an hour's 11 one of the scientists wrote in his book, "Look here for 12 metal. " Scientists in another airplane, flying over a mountain region, sent a 13 to other scientists on the ground, "Gold possible. " Walking across hilly ground, four scientists reported, "This ground should be searched for metals. " From an airplane over a hilly wasteland a scientist sent back by radio one word, "Uranium. "

　　None of the scientists had X-ray eyes: they had no 14 powers for looking down below the earth's surface. They were 15 putting to use one of the newest methods of 16 minerals in the ground—using trees and plants as 17 that certain minerals may lie beneath the ground on which the trees and plants are growing.

　　This newest method of searching for minerals is 18 on the fact that minerals deep in the earth may 19 the kind of bushes and trees that grow on the surface.

　　At Watson Bar Creek, a brook six thousand feet high in the mountains of British Columbia, Canada, a mineral search group gathered bags of tree seeds. Boxes were filled with small branches from the trees. Roots were dug and put into boxes. Each bag and box was 20 marked. In a scientific laboratory the parts of the forest trees were burned to ashes and tested. Each small part was examined to learn whether there were minerals in it.

A. signs B. sufficiently C. locating D. affect

E. merely F. magic G. hints H. carefully

I. finding J. message K. flight L. probable

M. revealing N. based O. information

答案：11. K 12. L 13. J 14. F 15. E 16. C 17. A 18. N 19. D 20. H


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