中国名校英语六级考试冲刺（二）

Part Ⅱ Reading Comprehension(35 minutes)
Directions: There are four passages in this part. Each passage is followed by some questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A), B), C) and D). You should decide on the best choice and mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the center. ?
Passage One?
Questions 21 to 25 are based on the following passage:?
    Let children learn to judge their own work. A child learning to talk does not learn by being corrected all the time. If corrected too much, he will stop talking. He notices a thousand times a day the difference between the language he uses and the language those around him use. Bit by bit, he makes the necessary changes to make his language like what other people say. In the same way, when children learn to do all the other things they learn to do without being taught—to work, run, climb, whistle, or ride a bicycle. They compare those performances with those of more skilled people, and slowly make the needed changes. But in school we never give a child a chance to find out his own mistakes for himself, let alone correct them. We do it all for him. We act as if we thought that he would never notice a mistake unless it was pointed out to him, or correct it unless he was made to. soon he becomes dependent on the teacher. Let him do it himself. Let him work out, with the help of other children if he wants it, what this word says, what answer is to that problem, whether this is a good way of saying or doing this or not. If it is a matter of right answers, as it may be in mathematics or science, give him the answer book. Let him correct his own papers. Why should we teachers waste time on such routine work? Our job should be to help the child when he tells us that he can’t find a way to get the right answer. Let’s end this nonsense of grades, exams and marks. Let us throw them all out, and let the children learn what all educated persons must some day learn, that is, how to measure their own understanding and how to know what they know or do not know. Let them get on with this job in the way that seems most sensible to them, with our help as school teachers if they ask for it. The idea that there is a body of knowledge to be learnt at school and used for the rest of one’s life is nonsense in a world as complicated and rapidly changing as ours. Anxious parents and teachers say, “But suppose they fail to learn something essential, something they will need to get in the world? Don’t worry ! if it is essential, they will go out into the world and learn it.”?
21.What does the author think is the best way for children to learn things??
A) By making mistakes and having them pointed out by others.?
B) By having their mistakes corrected.?
C) By noticing their problems and making changes.?
D) By listening to explanations from skilled people.?
22.According to the passage, a teacher’s duty is to____.?
A) providing students with help when necessary?
B) finding out students’ mistakes and correcting them?
C) teaching students the essential knowledge that they will need in their future life?
D) telling students the correct answers?
23.The passage suggests that learning to speak and learning to ride a bicycle are____.?
A) not really important skills?
B) more important than other skills?
C) basically the same in that we learn by practising and making changes?
D) quite different in terms of the way of learning?
24.Exams, grades, and marks should be abolished because children’s progress should only be assessed by ____.?
A) educated persons?
B) the children themselves?
C) teachers?
D) parents?
25.The author fears that if adults always correct mistakes for children, children will grow up to be____.?
A) fearful of making mistakes?
B) too critical of themselves?
C) unable to think for themselves?
D) unable to use basic skills?Passage Two?
Questions 26 to 30 are based on the following passage:?
    One of the most authoritative voices speaking to us today is, of course, the voice of the advertisers. Its shrilling clamour（喧闹声）dominates our lives. It shouts at us from the television screens and the radio loudspeakers; waves to us from every page of the newspaper; plucks at our sleeves on the escalator; signals to us from the road-side billboards all day and flashes messages to us in coloured lights at night.?
    Advertising has been among England’s biggest growth industries since the war, in terms of the ratio of money earnings to demonstrate achievement. Why all this fantastic expenditure??
    Perhaps the answer is that advertising saves the manufacturers from having to think about the customer. At the stage of designing and developing a product, there is quite enough to think about without worrying over whether anybody will want to buy it. 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 finish it, by pretending that it gives status, or attracts love, or signifies manliness. If the advertising agency can do this authoritatively enough, the manufacturer is in clover(养尊处优).?
    Other manufacturers find advertising saves them from changing their product. And manufacturers hate change. The ideal product is or another, some alteration seems called for how much better to change the image, the packet or the pitch made by the product, rather than go to all the inconvenience of changing the product itself.?
26.According to the passage modern advertising becomes one of the most prosperous industries because____.?
A) people are more concerned with the image of a product rather than the product itself?
B) it saves manufacturers from considering how the products can appeal to customers?
C) there are all kinds of media available?
D) there are many excellent advertisers who can make their voices authoritative?
27.The forms of advertising mentioned in paragraph 1 would have least impact ____.?
A) in the rush hours?
B) during working hours?
C) before working hours?
D) after working hours?
28．According to the passage, a designer of products is preoccupied with the following problems EXCEPT ____.?
A) customer appeal B) man-hour?
C) machine tolerance D) stress factors?
29.Advertisers are appreciated by manufacturers because they ____.?
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?
30．According to the last paragraph, if changes are called for, some manufactures are more willing to change ____.?
A) the image of a product?
B) the function of a product?
C) the quality of a product?
D) the price of a product?Passage Three?
Questions 31 to 35 are based on the following passage:?
    Telecommuting—substituting the computer for the trip to the job—has been hailed as a solution to all kinds of problems related to office work.?
    For workers it promises freedom from the office, less time wasted in traffic, and help with child-care conflicts. For management, telecommuting helps keep high performers on board, minimizes tardiness and absenteeism by eliminating commutes, allows periods of solitude for high concentration tasks, and provides scheduling flexibility. In some areas, such as Southern California and Seattle, local governments are encouraging companies to start telecommuting programs in order to reduce rush-hour congestion and improve air quality.?
    But these benefits do not come easily. Making a telecommuting program work requires careful planning and an understanding of the differences between telecommuting realities and popular images.?
Many workers are seduced by rosy illusions of life as a telecommuter. A computer programmer from New York City moves to the tranquil Adirondack Mountains and stays in contact with her office via computer. A manager comes in to his office three days a week and works at home the other two. An accountant stays home to care for her sick child: she hooks up her telephone modern connections and does office work between calls to the doctor.?
These are powerful images, but they are a limited reflection of reality. Telecommuting workers soon learn that it is almost impossible to concentrate on work and care for a young child at the same time. Before a certain age, young children cannot recognize, much less respect, the necessary boundaries between work and family. Additional child support is necessary if the parent is to get any work done.?Management, too, must separate the myth from reality. Although the media has paid a great deal of attention to telecommuting, in most cases it is the employees’ situation, not the availability of technology, that precipitates a telecommuting arrangement. ?
    That is partly why, despite the widespread press coverage, the number of companies with work-at-home programs or policy guidelines remains small.?
31．Which of the following is not mentioned as a problem related to office work??
A) Wasting time in traffic.?
B) The conflict between child-care and work.?
C) The inflexible schedule.?
D) The high expense on office equipment.?
32．According to the passage, how does telecommuting benefit management??
A) It enables workers to work intensively without being disturbed by colleagues.?
B) It can reduce the rush-hour congestion.?
C) It can free workers from office.?
D) It can stabilize the staff since they can better take care of the family.?
33．What subject does the passage mainly talk about??
A) Business management strategies.?
B) The use of computer.?
C) The life style of telecommuters.?
D) Extending the workplace by means of computers.?
34．According to the passage, the idea of telecommuting is not very realistic because____.?
A) it’s difficult to take care of small children and concentrate on work at the same time?
B) computer technology is not advanced enough ?
C) electrical malfunctions can destroy a project?
D) the workers do not always have all the needed resources at home?
35. Which of the following is an example of telecommuting as described in the passage??
A) A scientist in a laboratory developing plans for a space station.?
B) A technical writer sending via computer documents created at home.?
C) A computer technician repairing an office computer network.?
D) A teacher directing computer assisted learning in a private school.?Passage Four?