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、What field can not our descendants know?（）【阅读理解A】

A.The origin of human beings

B.Some questions that perplex us today

C.Many philosophical problems which Marx and Engels wrote rather little

D.The future

正确答案:D

答案解析:推断题。由第三段第一句话But if our descendants know the answers to these questions and others that perplex us today, there will still be one field of which they do not know, namely the future. However exact our science; we cannot know it as we know the past. 就算我们的子孙知道了这些问题和那些现在仍困扰我们的问题的答案，那么仍然有一个领域是他们无从了解的，那就是将来。所以，选项D是正确的。

2、The example of what Plato thought in the passage shows that（）.【阅读理解A】

A.science development can solve many problems for philosophers

B.Plato knew nothing about Physics at his time

C.the scientists have achieved a lot in terms of light theory

D.different people have different ways of perception

正确答案:A

答案解析:细节题。第二段第一句指出，“科学家都倾向于认为，所有有关哲学的问题最终会由科学来解决。我认为对于许多哲学家仍争论不休的问题，这一点是千真万确的。”因此，A项正确，而B项显然错误。C，D项虽说法正确，但不符合题意。

3、Seventy-eight percent of left-handed mothers hold their babies on the left side. This fact contradict the theory（）.【阅读理解A】

A.that the holding of the babies on the left is the result of the heart-beating on the left

B.that the holding of the babies on the left is the result of the predominance of right-handedness in the population

C.that the holding of the babies on the left is the result of the predominance of left-handedness in the population

D.that the holding of the babies on the left is the result of the heart-beating on the right

正确答案:B

答案解析:推断题。78%的以左手为主的母亲也是左手兜住自己的孩子，与…it is obviously the result of the predominance of right-handedness in the population. By holding the babies in their left arms, the mothers keep their dominant arm free for manipulations. “人们以右手为主的这种优势造成的结果。母亲用自己的左手抱住婴儿，从而就能腾出自己主要的手臂来从事各种操作。”相悖。因此选B。

4、Most people think that mothers hold their babies in their left arms（）.【阅读理解A】

A.because of the fact that the heart is on the left side of the mother\'s body

B.because of the fact that the heart is on the left side of the baby\'s body

C.in order to keep their left arms free for other work

D.in order to keep their right arms free for other work

正确答案:D

答案解析:细节题。这道题关键要注意到题目中的Most people think…，多数人认为… 文中说“…most people reply that it is obviously the result of the predominance of right-handedness in the population”。“大多数人会回答说，显然这是人们以右手为主的这种优势造成的结果。” 因此选D。

5、Why is there "wide-spread uneasiness and confusion about the food situation in Britain？"（）【阅读理解A】

A.The abundant food supply is not expected to last

B.Britain is importing less food

C.Despite the abundance, food prices keep rising

D.Britain will cut back on its production of food

正确答案:C

答案解析:只要考生仔细阅读，便可看出本文的第1段第5句Why do food prices keep on rising，when there seems to be so much food about？回答了这个问题。因此选项C是答案。文中未提及A项、B项和D项，因此这3个选项都不合适。