大学英语四级模拟试卷第06组（阅读2）

Passage 2
Questions 26 to 30 are based on the following passage.
Each for its own reason,the study of residential mobility has been a concern of three disciplines:sociology,economics,and
geography.For the economist,residential shifts provide a means for studying the housing and land markets.Geographers study mobility to understand the spatial distributions of population types.___For the sociologist,interest in residential mobility has two sources:one stemming from the study of human ecology and the other,from a concern with the peculiar qualities of urban life.“Of course,there are clearly overlapping concerns and it is often difficult to discern the disciplinary origins of a researcher by solely examining the kinds of questions he or she raises about mobility,although it is usually easier to identify a researcher’s discipline by noting the methods used and the concepts employed.
Urban mobility first appears in the sociological literature as a term expressing rather generalized qualities of urban,as
opposed the non-urban life.Some sociologists refer to the mobility of the city as the considerable sum of myriad and
incessant sources of stimulation impinging upon the urban dweller,a sort of sensory overload which produces sophistication,indifference and a lowered level of affection in urban dwellers.There is simply so much to experience that the urban dweller’s capacity is reduced to react in a “spontaneous”and “natural”way to urban existence.It is mobility in this sense that produces some of the special qualities of urban life ,which ,on the other hand, appeal to migrants as an escape from the dullness and oppression of rural existence with its lack of change and stimulation,and on the other hand,produces anomie and alienation in a society where men see each other primarily as means to ends rather than as ends in themselves.Of course,mobility in this larger sense of sensory overload is not a concept which lends itself easily to measurement,especially since it is a macro-system property.
26.Geographers who study mobility are most probably interested in ____ .
A)the fact that people of different nationalities or ethnical groups reside in different places
B)why people of one type prefer to isolate themselves from those of another type
C)peculiar characteristics of people from different countries in choosing living places
D)what types of people like to move frequently and why they keep changing their living places

27.根据这篇文章，检查研究提出的关于移动性的各种问题是____。
A)不是确定他或她的学科来源的理想方法
B)比注意所使用的方法和概念更容易
C)辨别他或她所应用的学科的唯一方法
D)太难用于确定他或她的学科来源

28.一些社会学家认为“感官超负荷”(第2段)____。
A)造成了乡村生活的沉闷和压抑，B)造成了城市居民的某些邪恶特征，C)是城市流动性的结果，D)吸引了非城市居民，

29。根据文章，在一个有失范和异化的社会里，人们____。
A)能辨别出别人的缺点而不是自己的缺点
B)对别人持敌对观点
C)利用别人来达到自己的目的
D)愿意互相帮助

30.The words“spontaneous”and “natural”(Para.2) indicate that ____ .
A)urban people lack creativity and originality
B)urban people are clever than rural people
C)urban life is colorful and interesting
D)urban existence is full of change and stimulation 位律师回复