2021年MBA考試《英語》考試共48題，分為英譯漢和寫作和完形填空和閱讀理解A和閱讀理解B。小編為您整理第四章 閱讀理解A5道練習題，附答案解析，供您備考練習。

1、The word “precedents” (Line 1, Para. 4) probably refers to（）.【閱讀理解A】

A.early acts for men to follow as examples

B.particular places for men to occupy especially because of their importance

C.things that men should agree upon

D.men’s beliefs that everything in the world has already been decided

正確答案:A

答案解析:該題要求根據上下文推測precedent的詞義。分析第四段第一句可以看出precedent和role models一起是并列賓語，所以precedent意義與role models類似，另外從構詞法角度分析前綴re前面，在四個選擇項當中，符合以上二點要求的只有A項，正確答案是A。

2、According to the last paragraph, which of the following is NOT true?（）【閱讀理解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

正確答案:A

答案解析:題干要求找出不正確的選項。B、C項為事實。D項為作者觀點，從文章最后一句推知。A項推論過急，實際上，我們可看出“service people”從小費中得到了好處。

3、What field can not our descendants know?（）【閱讀理解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

正確答案:D

答案解析:推斷題。由第三段第一句話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. 就算我們的子孫知道了這些問題和那些現在仍困擾我們的問題的答案，那么仍然有一個領域是他們無從了解的，那就是將來。所以，選項D是正確的。

4、What are the functions of studying philosophies mentioned in the passage?（）【閱讀理解A】

A.It would make our own idea flexible

B.It would help prepare us for the future and guide our actions

C.It would enable us to understand how things develop as to better tackle the future

D.All of the above

正確答案:D

答案解析:推斷題。A項在第一段開頭就已提到。第四段第一句話說道，“但是我們得為將來做準備，沒有一些哲學知識，我們是無法理性地做到這一點的?！币虼耍珺項應該是符合題意的。而C項在最后一段也有談到。所以，答案應選 D。

5、What is the main idea of the passage?（）【閱讀理解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

正確答案:D

答案解析:問文章大意是什么?？v觀全文，講的主要是美國公司對人才管理的重視程度不夠，對員工基本技能培訓不足以及這種狀況對公司競爭力的影響。A、B、C三項的內容文中均提到過，但沒有展開論述。D項“美國公司的人才管理策略影響它們的競爭力”貼近全文，故為正確答案。