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、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。

2、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。

3、According to the passage, the way we dress（）.【阅读理解A】

A.provides clues for people who are critical of us

B.indicates our likes and dislikes in choosing a career

C.has a direct influence on the way people regard us

D.is of particular importance when we get on in age

正确答案:C

答案解析:此题考核综合概括能力。文章第一句就概括了全文中心：人的衣着在判断一个人时起关键作用（Clothes play a critical part in the conclusions we reach by providing clues to），文章第二段和第三段已反复阐明这一中心思想。由此判断C与文章内容一致，正确答案是C。A不符合文章第二段及第三段内容。B、D二项内容没有被提及。

4、In the third paragraph, several data are quoted in order to（）.【阅读理解A】

A.show the different tipping level between different jobs

B.compare cultural difference between America and Europe

C.show the tipping custom has become institutionalized

D.tell us the Standardized tipping level in several cases

正确答案:C

答案解析:从第3段第2句“In America, the custom has become institutionalized”可推知，后面引用的数据都是说明作者的这个观点。

5、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。