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、Advertising are appreciated by manufacturers because they（）.【阅读理解A】

A.advise them on ways of giving a product customer appeal

B.accept responsibility for giving a product customer appeal

C.advise them on the best time to go ahead with production

D.consult them during the design and development stages

正确答案:B

答案解析:第二段The designer is busy enough without adding customer-appeal to all his other problems of man-hours and machine tolerances and stress factors. So they just go ahead and make the thing and leave it to the advertiser to find eleven ways of making it appeal to purchasers after they have finished it, by pretending that it confers status, or attracts love, or signifies manliness. If the advertising agency can do this authoritatively enough, the manufacturer is in clover.在产品设计和研发阶段，厂家可以有足够的时间来考虑而不必担心是否每个人都会买它。设计人员在忙于考虑诸如劳动力时间、机器强度以及压力因素时可以不考虑消费者喜好的因素。所以他们可以只管生产出产品然后让广告商通过声称此商品象征身份、地位，能够吸引爱情或是彰显男人魅力等，去寻找足够的理由来吸引消费者购买。倘若广告代理果真能做到足够令人信服，厂家则可高枕无忧了。因此选B。

2、This passage seems to be a(n)（）. 【阅读理解A】

A.book review

B.advertisement

C.news report

D.research paper

正确答案:A

答案解析:是一篇书评，从最后一段，“The author offers a few examples of companies…but they offer little useful guidance…”可知。

3、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。

4、What did the future look like for Britain\'s food production at the time this article was written？（）【阅读理解A】

A.The fall in world food prices would benefit British food producers

B.An expansion of food production was at hand

C.British food producers would receive more government financial support

D.It looks depressing despite government guarantees.

正确答案:D

答案解析:仔细阅读本文，便知本题的答案可由第5段第2和第3句引出，因此答案应该是选D。由于文章第3段第1句的government support说的是the gradual cutting down of government support for food，不是说英国政府对粮食生产者提供财政上的支持，因此选项C是错的。文中内容并未涉及选项A和B，因此A项和B项也是错的。

5、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。