四六级

　　阅读部分向来是考生的传统强项，也是争夺高分之地，很多同学们在复习期间选择的是题海战术，以此来提高答题正确率，但是如果你提前了解了各类英语四级阅读题解题技巧，那么就可以轻松应对它了。下面是小编为大家准备的英语四级阅读冲刺训练。

　　Though England was on the whole prosperous and hopeful, though by comparison with her neighbors she enjoyed internal peace, she could not evade the fact that the world of which she formed a part was torn by hatred and strife as fierce as any in human history. Men were still for from recognizing that two religions could exist side by side in the same society; they believed that the toleration of another religion different from their own. And hence necessarily false, must inevitably destroy such a society and bring the souls of all its members into danger of hell. So the struggle went on with increasing fury within each nation to impose a single creed upon every subject, and within the general society of Christendom to impose it upon every nation. In England the Reformers, or Protestants, aided by the power of the Crown, had at this stage triumphed, but over Europe as a whole Rome was beginning to recover some of the ground it had lost after Martin Luther’s revolt in the earlier part of the century. It did this in two ways, by the activities of its missionaries, as in parts of Germany, or by the military might of the Catholic Powers, as in the Low Countries, where the Dutch provinces were sometimes near their last extremity under the pressure of Spanish arms. Against England, the most important of all the Protestant nations to reconquer, military might was not yet possible because the Catholic Powers were too occupied and divided: and so, in the 1570’s Rome bent her efforts, as she had done a thousand years before in the days of Saint Augustine, to win England back by means of her missionaries.

　　These were young Englishmen who had either never given up the old faith, or having done so, had returned to it and felt called to become priests. There being, of course, no Catholic seminaries left in England, they went abroad, at first quite easily, later with difficulty and danger, to study in the English colleges at Douai or Rome: the former established for the training of ordinary or secular clergy, the other for the member of the Society of Jesus, commonly known as Jesuits, a new Order established by St, Ignatius Loyola same thirty years before. The seculars came first; they achieved a success which even the most eager could hardly have expected. Cool-minded and well-informed men, like Cecil, had long surmised that the conversion of the English people to Protestantism was for from complete; many—Cecil thought even the majority—had conformed out of fear, self-interest or—possibly the commonest reason of all—sheer bewilderment at the rapid changes in doctrine and forms of worship imposed on them in so short a time. Thus it happened that the missionaries found a welcome, not only with the families who had secretly offered them hospitality if they came, but with many others whom their first hosts invited to meet them or passed them on to. They would land at the ports in disguise, as merchants, courtiers or what not, professing some plausible business in the country, and make by devious may for their first house of refuge. There they would administer the Sacraments and preach to the house holds and to such of the neighbors as their hosts trusted and presently go on to some other locality to which they were directed or from which they received a call.

　　1. The main idea of this passage is

　　[A]. The continuity of the religious struggle in Britain in new ways.

　　[B]. The conversion of religion in Britain.

　　[C]. The victory of the New religion in Britain.

　　[D]. England became prosperous.

　　2. What was Martin Luther’s religions?

　　[A]. Buddhism. [B]. Protestantism. [C]. Catholicism. [D]. Orthodox.

　　3. Through what way did the Rome recover some of the lost land?

　　[A]. Civil and military ways. [B]. Propaganda and attack.

　　[C]. Persuasion and criticism. [D]. Religious and military ways.

　　4. What did the second paragraph mainly describe?

　　[A]. The activities of missionaries in Britain.

　　[B]. The conversion of English people to Protestantism was far from complete.

　　[C]. The young in Britain began to convert to Catholicism

　　[D]. Most families offered hospitality to missionaries.

　　参考答案：

　　1. A. 这篇文章的中心思想是“英国宗教斗争以新的方式继续进行。”

　　2. B. 新教，基督教。因为罗马教皇推行的是天主教。这在第一段第四句明确点明：“在英国，宗教改革者，或者说基督教，在英国皇权的协助下，此时已取得胜利;而作为整个欧洲来说，罗马教皇已经开始恢复世纪初马丁•路德反叛后所失去的一些地盘。”马丁•路德是改革者，也就是基督教。

　　3. D. 宗教和武力。第一段第五句说明：“教皇用两种办法进行恢复，一种就像在部分德国地区进行的那样通过传教士的活动，另一种象在低地国里进行的，通过天主教国家的军事力量。那里荷兰的几个省份在西班牙的军事压力下，常常是被逼迫得几乎走投无路了。

　　4. A. 传教士活动在英国。第二段的开始就讲到，“这些英国青年或者根本没有放弃老的信仰，或者放弃以后又重新归反旧教，应召成为牧师。英国当然没有剩下天主教神学院，他们就出国，开始很容易，后来，有困难甚至有危险，到杜埃或罗马英文学院就读。前者专为培养一般或修道院外的牧师而建。后者是培养耶酥会教士，通称天主耶酥会会士，是约三十年前圣•罗耀拉创建的一种神职。”在杜埃学习的牧师先回来，他们取得了令人意想不到的成功。下面就是他们(这样指第一类修道士在英国活动情况)。“头脑冷静，信息灵通人士，像西塞尔这种政治家，长期以来，一直猜度，英国人归反基督教新教的过程远远没有完成。许多人——因他们被在那么短的时期内强加到他们身上的信仰形式，飞快变更的教义搞糊涂了。”

　　词汇点拨：

　　1. evade 避开，回避

　　2. creed 教义，信条，主义

　　3. the Crown 原义皇冠，在英国代表王权，王室/君主

　　4. low Countries 低地国，指荷兰，卢森堡，比利时

　　5. last extremity 最后阶段，绝境，临终。这里指那里人民临近 无可选择只能信奉天主教。

　　6. bend one’s effort 竭尽全力

　　7. seminary 高等中学，神学院/校

　　8. surmise 猜度，臆测

　　9. doctrine 教义

　　10. plausible 貌似合理/公平的

　　11. courtier 朝臣

　　12. devious 绕来绕去的，迂回曲折的

　　13. Sacrament 圣礼，圣事/餐

　　14. secular 修道院外的，世俗的

　　15. the society of Jesus 天主教的耶酥会

　　16. Douai 杜埃(法国地名)

　　17. Jesuit 天主耶酥会会士