2020年12月四级考试中，第一套46-50题阅读理解内容比较抽象，而且词汇难度较大，考生做题时不光要精准定位，而且还要在有单词不熟悉的情况下做出选择，对考生的词汇知识要求较高。下面是小编整理的这次四级考试中关于2020年12月四级阅读分析第一套之46-50的资料，希望大家能通过这次考试正视自己的缺点和不足，日后取得更大的进步。
题目
Passage One
Questions 46 to 50 are based on the following passage.
Boredom has, paradoxically, become quite interesting to academics lately. In early May, London’s Boring Conference celebrated seven years of delighting in dullness. At this event, people flocked to talks about weather, traffic jams and vending-machine sounds, among other sleep-inducing topics. What, exactly, is everybody studying? One widely accepted definition of boredom is "the distasteful experience of wanting, but being unable. to engage in satisfying activity.” But how can you quantify a person's boredom level and compare it with someone else’s? In 1986, psychologists introduced the Boredom Proneness Scale, designed to measure an individual’s overall tendency to feel bored. By contrast, the Multidimensional State Boredom scale, developed in 2008, measures a person's felings of boredom in a given situation. Boredom has been linked to behavior issues including inattentive driving, mindless snacking, excessive drinking, and addictive gambling. In fact, many of us would choose pain over boredom. One team of psychologists discovered that two-thirds of men and a quarter of women would rather self-administer electric shocks than sit alone with their thoughts for 15 minutes. Researching this phenomenon, another team asked volunteers to watch boring, sad, or neutar films, during which they could self-administer elecric shocks. The bored volunteers shocked themselves more and harder than the sad or neutral ones did. But boredom isn't all bad. By encouraging self-reflection and daydreaming, it can spur activity. An early study gave participants abundant time to complete problem-solving and word-association exercises. Once all the obvious answers were exhausted, participants gave more and more incentive answers to combat boredom. A British study took these findings one step further, asking subjects to complete a creative challenge (coming up with a list of alternative uses for a household item). One group of subjects did a boring activity first, while the others went straight to the creative task. Those whose boredom pumps had been primed were more productive.
In our always-connected world, boredom may be a hard-to-define state, but it is a fertile one. Watch paint dry or water boil, or at least put away your smartphone for a while, and you might unlock your next big idea.
46. When are people likely to experience boredom, according to an accepted psychological definition?
A) When they don’t have the chance to do what they want.
B) When they don’t enjoy the materials they are studying.
C) When they experience something unpleasant.
D) When they engage in some routine activities.
47. What does the author say boredom can lead to?
A) Determination
B) Mental deterioration
C) Concentration
D) Harmful conduct
48. What is the findings of one team of psychologists in their experiment?
A) Volunteers prefer watching a boring movie to sitting alone deliberating.
B) Many volunteers choose to hurt themselves rather than endure boredom.
C) Male volunteers are more immune to the effects of boredom than females.
D) Many volunteers are unable to resist boredom longer than fifteen minutes.
49. Why does the author say boredom isn’t all bad?
A) It stimulates memorization.
B) It may promote creative thinking.
C) It allows time for relaxation.
D) It may facilitate independent learning.
50. What does the author suggests one do when faced with a challenging problem?
A) Stop idling and think big.
B) Unlock one’s smartphone.
C) Look around oneself for stimulation.
D) Allow oneself some time to be bored.
答案解析
A正确。根据题干an accepted psychological definition定位到第二段第二句，boredom is "the distasteful experience of wanting, but being unable。A项When they don’t have the chance to do what they want.是对定位句的同义替换。BCD的描述与原文给出的定义不符合。
D正确。根据boredom can lead to可知，要找boredom的结果，定位到原文第三段第一句 Boredom has been linked to behavior issues including inattentive driving, mindless snacking, excessive drinking, and addictive gambling.这些内容都是不太好的行为，故可以排除A和C两个正面的选项，B智力退化过于严重，D有害的行为这一概括符合原文表述。
B正确。根据one team of psychologists in their experiment定位到第三段第三句，要找findings,该句提到了 two-thirds of men and a quarter of women would rather self-administer electric shocks than sit alone with their thoughts for 15 minutes. B符合表述;A中prefer后面的内容和原文表述不同;C向male和female位置颠倒了，和原文不同.D的不能抵抗超过15分钟是对原文的曲解。
B正确。根据题干定位到第四段第一句。该段234句都在解释boredom的好处，也就是能激发创造力。只有B项It may promote creative thinking符合原文意思。D容易误选，需要认真和原文比对。
D正确。根据题干要找作者的建议，该段最后一句是作者的建议，建议我们利用boredom的时刻来激发创造性思维，获得灵感。D 项Allow oneself some time to be bored符合原文，A未提及，B和建议相反，C的stimulation未提及。
