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四级模考55
四级模考
Part Ⅲ Reading Comprehension (40 minutes)
Section A
Directions:
In this section, there is a passage withten blanks. You are required to select one word foreach blank from a list of choices given in a word bank following the passage. Read the passagethrough carefully before making your choices. Each choice in the bank is identified by a letter. Please mark the corresponding letter for each item on Answer Sheet 2 with a single line throughthe centre. You may not use any of the words in the bank more than once.
An office tower on Miller Street in Manchester iscompletely covered in solar panels. They are used tocreate some of the energy used by the insurancecompany inside. When the tower was first __26__ in1962, it was covered with thin square stones. Thesesmall square stones became a problem for thebuilding and continued to fall off the face for 40 years until a major renovation was __27__. Duringthis renovation the building's owners, CIS,__28__ the solar panel company, Solarcentury. Theyagreed to cover the entire building in solar panels. In 2004, the completed CIS tower becameEurope's largest __29__ of vertical solar panels. A vertical solar project on such a large__30__ has never been repeated since.
Covering a skyscraper with solar panels had never been done before, and the CIS tower waschosen as one of the "10 best green energy projects". For a long time after this renovationproject, it was the tallest building in the United Kingdom, but it was __31__ overtaken by theMillbank Tower.
Green buildings like this aren't __32__ cost-efficient for the investor, but it does producemuch less pollution than that caused by energy __33__ through fossil fuels. As solar panelsget __34__, the world is likely to see more skyscrapers covered in solar panels, collectingenergy much like trees do. Imagine a world where building the tallest skyscraper wasn't arace of __35__, but rather one to collect the most solar energy.
A.cheaper
B.cleaner
C.collection
D.competed
E.constructed
F.consulted
G.dimension
H.discovered
I.eventually
J.height
K.necessarily
L.production
M.range
N.scale
O.undertaken
Section B
Directions:
In this section, you are going to read a passage with ten statements attached to it. Each statement contains information given in one of the paragraphs. Identify the paragraphfrom which the information is derived. You may choose a paragraph more than once. Eachparagraph is marked with a letter. Answer the questions by marking the corresponding letter onAnswer Sheet 2.
The Touch-Screen Generation
A) On a chilly day last spring, a few dozen developers of children’s apps(应用程序)for phonesand tablets(平板电脑)gathered at an old beach resort in Monterey, California, to show offtheir games. The gathering was organized by Warren Buckleitner, a longtime reviewer ofinteractive
children’s media. Buckleitner spent the breaks testing whether his own remote-
control helicopter could reach the hall's second story, while various children who had comewith their parents looked up in awe(敬畏)and delight. But mostly they looked
down, at theiPads and other tablets displayed around the hall like so many open
boxes of candy. I walkedaround and talked with developers, and several quoted
a famous saying of Maria Montessori’s,“The hands are the instruments of
man’s intelligence.”
B) What, really, would Maria Montessori have made of this scene?
The 30 or so
children herewere not down at the shore poking(戳)their fingers in the sand or
running them along stonesor picking seashells. Instead they were all inside, alone or
in groups of two or three, their facesa few inches from a screen, their hands doing
things Montessori surely did not imagine.
C) In 2011, the American Academy of Pediatrics updated its policy on very young
children andmedia. In 1999, the group had discouraged television viewing for children younger than 2, citing research on brain development that showed this age group’s
critical need for “directinteractions with parents and other significant care givers.”
The updated report began byacknowledging that things had changed significantly
since then. In 2006,90% of parents saidthat their children younger than 2
consumed some form of electronic media. Nevertheless, thegroup took largely the
same approach it did in 1999, uniformly discouraging passive mediause, on any
type of screen, for these kids.(For older children, the academy noted,“high-quality
programs” could have “educational benefits.”) The 2011 report mentioned
“smart cellphone” and “new screen” technologies, but did not address interactive
apps. Nor did it bringup the possibility that has likely occurred to those 90% of
American parents that some goodmightcome from those little swiping(在电子产品上刷)fingers.
D) I had come to the developers’ conference partly because I hoped that this
particular setof parents, enthusiastic as they were about interactive media, might
help me out of thisproblem, that they might offer some guiding principle for
American parents who are clearlynever going to meet the academy’s ideals, and at
some level do not want to. Perhaps thisgroup would be able to express clearly some
benefits of the new technology that the morecautious doctors weren’t ready to
address.
E) I fell into conversation with a woman who had helped develop Montessori Letter Sounds, an app that teaches preschoolers the Montessori methods of spelling. She was a formerMontessori teacher and a mother of four. I myself have three children who
are all fans of thetouch screen. What games did her kids like to play, I asked, hoping for suggestions I couldtake home.
“They don’t play all that much.”
Really?
Why not?
“Because I don’t allow it. We have a rule of no screen time during the week, unless it’s clearlyeducational.”No screen time?
None at all?
That seems at the outer edge of
restrictive, even by thestandards ofovercontrolling parents.
“On the weekends, they can play. I give them a limit of half an hour and then stop.
Enough.”
F) Her answer so surprised me that I decided to ask some of the other developers who werealso parents what their domestic ground rules for screen time were. One said
only onairplanes and long car rides. Another said Wednesdays and weekends, for half an hour. Themost permissive said half an hour a day, which was about my rule at
home. At one point I satwith one of the biggest developers of e-book apps for kids,
and his family. The small kid wasstarting to fuss in her high chair, so the mom stuck
an iPad in front of her and played a shortmovie so everyone else could enjoy their
lunch. When she saw me watching, she gave me theuniversal tense look of mothers
who feel they are being judged.“At home,” she assured me,“I only let her watch movies in Spanish.’’
G) By their reactions, these parents made me understand the problem of our age:
astechnology becomes almost everywhere in our lives. American parents are
becoming more, notless, distrustful of what it might be doing to their children.
Technological ability has not, forparents, translated into comfort and ease. On the one hand, parents want their children toswim expertly in the digital stream that they will have to navigate(航行)all their lives; onthe other hand, they fear that too much
digital media, too early, will sink them. Parents end uptreating tablets as precision
surgical(外科的)instruments, devices that might performmiracles for their child's
IQ and help him win some great robotics competition—but only ifthey are used just
so. Otherwise, their child could end up one of those sad, pale creatures whocan’t
make eye contact and has a girlfriend who lives only in the virtual world.
H) Norman Rockwell, a 20th-century artist, never painted Boy Swiping Finger on
Screen, andour own vision of a perfect childhood has never been adjusted to
accommodate that now-common scene. Add to that our modern fear that every
parenting decision may have lastingconsequences - that every minute of enrichment
lost or mindless entertainment indulged(放纵的)will add up to some
permanent handicap(障碍)in the future—and you have deep guiltand
confusion. To date, no body of research has proved that the iPad will make your
preschooler smarter or teach her to speak Chinese, or alternatively that it will rust her nervoussystem the device has been out for only three years, not much more than the
time it takessome academics to find funding and gather research subjects. So what is a parent to do?
注意:
此部分试题请在答题卡1上作答。
46. The author attended the conference, hoping to find some guiding principles for
parentingin the electronic age.
47. American parents are becoming more doubtful about the benefits technology is
said tobring to their children.
48. Some experts believe that human intelligence develops by the use of hands.
49. The author found a former Montessori teacher exercising strict control over her
kids, screen time.
50. Research shows interaction with people is key to babies’ brain development.
51. So far there has been no scientific proof of the educational benefits of iPads.
52. American parents worry that overuse of tablets will create problems with their kids’ interpersonal relationships.
53. The author expected developers of children's apps to specify the benefits of the
newtechnology.
54. The kids at the gathering were more fascinated by the iPads than by the helicopter.
55. The author permits her children to use the screen for at most half an hour a day.
SectionC
Directions:
Thereare2passagesinthissection.Eachpassageisfollowedbysomequestionsorunfinishedstatements.ForeachofthemtherearefourchoicesmarkedA),B),C)andD).YoushoulddecideonthebestchoiceandmarkthecorrespondingletteronSheet2withasinglelinethroughthecenter.
PassageOne
Questions57to61arebasedonthefollowingpassage.
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