2020年MBA考试《英语》考试共48题，分为英译汉和写作和完形填空和阅读理解A和阅读理解B。小编为您整理第四章 阅读理解A5道练习题，附答案解析，供您备考练习。

1、Which of the following statements best expresses the main idea of the passage?（）【阅读理解A】

A.Tipping is very popular in America

B.Better service deserves bigger tip

C.Discretionary tipping is not reasonable

D.Tipping embodies one\'s social status

正确答案:C

答案解析:A项仅仅指出了文中所论述的一个现象；B项是公众的普遍看法，并非作者的观点；D项是文章后面论述的一个次要观点，并不能概括全文的主旨。

2、From the third paragraph of the passage, we can conclude that young adults tend to believe that certain types of clothing can（）.【阅读理解A】

A.change people’s conservative attitudes towards their lifestyles

B.help young people make friends with the opposite sex

C.make them competitive in the job market

D.help them achieve success in their interpersonal relationships

正确答案:D

答案解析:此题要求做出结论。文章第三段第四句认为自己积极与人交往的大学生说他们注重自己的外表并成功扮演自己的角色。可以判断D符合文章内容及题意，正确答案是D。A与第二段最后一句相矛盾，B与第三段第二句不符，C不合题意。

3、The following sentence（）is right.【阅读理解A】

A.The author thinks that we can learn nothing new from the usual fondling, cuddling and cleaning of babies by their mothers

B.It is rather unusual for a mother to hold her baby against her body when resting

C.Eighty percent of American mothers put their babies on the left side of the cradle

D.The author does not agree that there is a predominance of right-handedness in the population

正确答案:D

答案解析:文章第一段第四句If asked to explain the significance of this preference most people reply that it is obviously the result of the predominance of right-handedness in the population. （如果问及这种偏好的原因，大多数人回答显然是因为人口中右撇子占多数的结果），但是第6句作者表明 But a detailed analysis shows that this is not the case（但是一项细致的分析表明事实并不是这样的），可见作者不同意人口中右撇子居多。

4、The decrease in world food prices was a result of（）.【阅读理解A】

A.a sharp fall in the purchasing power of the consumers

B.a sharp fall in the cost of food production

C.the overproduction of food in the food-importing countries

D.the overproduction on the part of the main food-exporting countries

正确答案:D

答案解析:只要仔细阅读，便知道本题的答案可在第2段里找到，因为该段第1句指出，由于北美洲连续两年出现了特大丰收，而第3年又是丰收在望。因此答案应该是选项D。虽然最后一段提到present production is running as 51 percent above pre-war leve1s…，但这不等于说，所有进口粮食的国家都粮食生产过剩，故选项C是错的。文中未提及选项A和B，故这两个选项是错的。

5、The money most American firms put in training mainly goes to（）.【阅读理解A】

A.workers who can operate new equipment

B.technological and managerial staff

C.workers who lack basic background skills

D.top executives

正确答案:B

答案解析:问美国公司用于培训的资金去向何处。第3段中讲：“……美国公司在培训职工技能方面的投资比日本和德国公司都要少。他们所投资的对象的确也仅是更多地集中在专业人员和管理人员身上。用于培训员工的那部分有限的资金也是更多地用于培训员工做好一份新工作所需的具体技能而不是用于培训员工的基本技能。然而正是这些基本技能使得员工能够吸收掌握新技术。”A、C两项内容与原文不符。D项“高级经理”实际上是包括在B项“技术人员和管理人员”中的，因为“高级经理”也是管理人员的一部分。而且，B项与本段第二句话意思相近，故应为正确答案。