2021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 is the main idea of the passage?（）【阅读理解A】

A.American firms are different from Japanese and German firms in human-resource management

B.Extensive retraining is indispensable to effective human-resource management

C.The head of human-resource management must be in the central position in a firm\'s hierarchy

D.The human-resource management strategies of American firms affect their competitive capacity

正确答案:D

答案解析:问文章大意是什么。纵观全文，讲的主要是美国公司对人才管理的重视程度不够，对员工基本技能培训不足以及这种状况对公司竞争力的影响。A、B、C三项的内容文中均提到过，但没有展开论述。D项“美国公司的人才管理策略影响它们的竞争力”贴近全文，故为正确答案。

2、According to the last paragraph, which of the following is NOT true?（）【阅读理解A】

A.Nobody benefits from tipping in the case of restaurant

B.Waiters are not motivated from tipping

C.Tipping does not benefit management of the restaurant

D.Tips should go into the decent wages of service people

正确答案:A

答案解析:题干要求找出不正确的选项。B、C项为事实。D项为作者观点，从文章最后一句推知。A项推论过急，实际上，我们可看出“service people”从小费中得到了好处。

3、The main reason for the rise in food prices is that（）.【阅读理解A】

A.people are buying less food

B.the government is providing less financial support for agriculture

C.domestic food production has decreased

D.imported food is driving prices higher

正确答案:B

答案解析:本题问的问题是，英国食品价格上涨的主要原因是什么？仔细阅读文章，便知本题的答案可在第3段第1句里找到，即……due chiefly  to the gradual cutting down of government support for food。因此，选项B是答案。文中虽提到people are buying less food（第3段最后一句），但这是因为粮食价格高，与选项“使粮食价格上涨的主要原因”，无关，因此选项A是错的。文章未提及选项C和D，因此这两个选项是错的。

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、We can infer from the passage that in the past an employee（）.【阅读理解A】

A.had job security and opportunity of promotion

B.had to compete with each other to keep his job

C.had to undergo training all the time

D.had no difficulty climbing the corporate ladder

正确答案:A

答案解析:从第一段的句子“it is much harder than it used to be to offer good employee job security and an opportunity to climb the corporate ladder.”可以看出，过去一个好的职员很容易获得事业保险（job security）和晋升的机会（opportunity to climb the corporate ladder），工作上的竞争并不残酷，所以 B“必须和别人竞争”不对， C“必须总是接受培训”过去没有，D故意曲解了句子的意思。因此答案应该是 A。