2011英语四级考试阅读简答题练习

2011 英语四级考试阅读简答题练习 Part IV Short Answer Questions(15 minutes)Directions: In this part there is a short passage with five questions or incomplete statements. Read the passage carefully. Then answer the questions or complete the statements in the fewest possible words (not exceeding 10 words.)Another thing to remember in connection with concrete is that you are not allowed very much freedom for errors in either measurements or location. Once you have a solid mass of concrete set in place, it is going to stay there. You have a difficult job ahead of you if you try to remedy a mistake. Make very sure, before you fill the form, that everything is where and how you want it.There are numerous rules regarding the proper mixing, handling, and finishing of concrete, but the essential one concerns the amount of water to use. The less water in the mix, the less the finished job will shrink. The less water used, the harder and more enduring the job after it has set.The amateur concrete worker is annoyed with two desires. One is to use enough water to have the concrete nice and soft and easy to push around. You have been warned against that. The second is to take off the wooden forms too early, to see what the job looks like. That is really fatal. If the forms are stripped off too soon, while the concrete is still “green“, two things are likely to happen you are almost sure to break off corners or edges, and you arelikely to cause a major crack or defect in the body of the work. An excellent rule is to wait until you are sure the concrete is properly hardened, and then wait another day before removing the forms.Questions: ( 注意：答题尽量简短，超过 10 个词要扣分。每条横线限写一个英语单词，标点符号不占格。)1. What would be the title for the selection?_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _2. What does the essential rule concern?_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _3. What is one of the desires the amateur must resist?_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _4. Which of the following qualities is not essential in someone who works with concrete: carefulness, diligence, patience, or self-control?_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _5. What does the author mean by saying the concrete is “green”?_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _Unit 4S1. Rules for Working with Concrete.S2. The amount of water to use.S3. To use too much water. / To take off the wooden from too early.S4. Diligence.S5. Not dried out. / Not dry enough.2011 英语四级考试阅读简答题练习Part IV Short Answer Questions(15 minutes)Directions: In this part there is a short passage with five questions or incomplete statements. Read the passage carefully. Then answer the questions or complete the statements in the fewest possible words (not exceeding 10 words.)As researchers learn more about how childrens intelligence develops, they are increasingly surprised by the power of parents. The power of the school has been replaced by the home. To begin with, all the factors which are part of intelligencethe childs understanding of language, learning patterns, curiosityare established well before the child enters school at the age of six. Study after study has shown that even after school begins, childrens achievements have been far more influenced by parents than by teachers. This is particularly true about learning that is language-related. The school rather than the home is given credit for variations in achievement in subjects such as science.In view of their power, its sad to see so many parents not making the most of their childs intelligence. Until recently parents had been warned by educators who asked them not to educate their children. Many teachers now realize that children cannot be educated only at school and parents are being asked to contribute both before and after the child enters school.Parents have been particularly afraid to teach reading at home. Of course, children shouldnt be pushed to read by their parents, but educators have discovered that reading is best taught individuallyand the easiest place to do this is at home. Many four-and five-year-olds who have been shown a few letters and taught their sounds will compose single words of their own with them even before they have been taught to read.Questions: ( 注意：答题尽量简短，超过 10 个词要扣分。每条横线限写一个英语单词，标点符号不占格)S1. What have researchers found out about the influence of parents and the school on childrens intelligence?_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _S2. What do researchers conclude about childrens learning patterns?_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _S3. In which area may school play a more important role?_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _S4. Why did many parents fail to make the most of their childrens intelligence?_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _S5. The author suggests in the last paragraph that parents should be encouraged to_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _Unit 5S1. Parents have greater influence than the school./Parents influence is greater than the schools.S2. They are established well before the age of six.S3. Science subjects.S4. They were told by educators not to educate their children.S5. teach reading at home.2011 英语四级考试阅读简答题练习 Part IV Short Answer Questions(15 minutes)Directions: In this part there is a short passage with five questions or incomplete statements. Read the passage carefully. Then answer the questions or complete the statements in the fewest possible words (not exceeding 10 words.)What personal qualities are desirable in a teacher? I think the following would be generally accepted.First, the teachers personality should be lively and attractive. This does not rule out people who are plain-looking, or even ugly, because many such people have great personal charm. But it does rule out such types as the over-excitable, sad, cold, and frustrated.Secondly, it is not merely desirable but essential for a teacher to have a genuine capacity for sympathy, a capacity to understand the minds and feelings of other people, especially, since most teachers are school teachers, the minds and feelings of children. Closely related with this is the capacity to be tolerantnot, indeed, of what is wrong, but of the weaknesses and immaturity of human nature which induce (诱导) people, and againespecially children, to make mistakes.Thirdly, I hold it essential for a teacher to be both intellectually and morally honest. This means that he will be aware of his intellectual strengths and limitations, and will have thought about and decided upon the moral principles by which his life shall be guided. There is no contradiction in my going on to say that a teacher should be a bit of an actor. That is part of the technique of teaching, which demands that every now and then a teacher should be able to put on an act to enliven (使生动) a lesson, correct a fault, or award praise. Children, especially young children, live in a world that is rather larger than life.A teacher must be capable of infinite patience. This, I may say, is largely a matter of self-discipline and self-training, for we are none of us born like that.Finally, I think a teacher should have the kind of mind which always wants to go on learning. Teaching is a job at which one will never be perfect; there is always something more to learn about it. There are three principal objects of study: the subjects which the teacher is teaching; the methods by which the subjects can best be taught to the particular pupils in the classes he is teaching; andby far the most importantthe children, young people, or adults to whom the subjects are to be taught. The two fundamental principles of British education today are that education is education of the whole person, and that it is best acquired through full and active co-operation between two persons, the teacher and the learner.S1. Plain-looking teachers can also be ad