2019年12月大学英语六级仔细阅读练习题（4） Passage One
Questions 56 to 60 are bad on the following passage.
They're still kids, and although there's a lot that the experts don't yet know about them, one thing they do agree on is that what kids u and expect from their world has changed rapidly. And it's all becau of technology.
To the psychologists, sociologists, and generational and media experts who study them, their digital gear ts this new group apart, even from their tech-savvy (懂技术的) Millennial elders. They want to be constantly connected and available in a way even their older siblings don't quite get. The differences may appear slight, but they signal an all-encompassing nsibility that some say marks the dawning of a new generation.
The contrast between Millennials and this younger group was so evident to psychologist Larry Ron of California State University that he has declared the birth of a new generation in a new book, Rewired： Understanding the ingeneration and the Way They Learn, out next month. Ron says the tech-dominated life experience of tho born since the early 1990s is so different from the Millennials he wrote about in his 2007 book, Me, MySpace and I： Parenting the Net Generation, that they warran
t the distinction of a new generation, which he has dubbed the "ingeneration".
"The technology is the easiest way to e it, but it's also a mind-t, and the mind-t goes with the little ‘i',
which I'm talking to stand for 'individualized'," Ron says. "Everything is defined and individualized to ‘me'. My music choices are defined to ' me'. What I watch on TV any instant is defi ned to ‘me'. " He says the iGeneration includes
today's teens and middle-school ers, but it's too soon to
tell about elementary-school ages and younger.
Ron says the iGeneration believes anything is possible. "If they can think of it, somebody probably has or will invent it," he says. "They expect innovation."
They have high expectations that whatever they want or can u "will be able to be tailored to their own needs and wishes and desires."
Ron says portability is key. They are inparable from
their wireless devices, which allow them to text as well as talk, so they can be constantly connected-even in class, where cell phones are suppodly banned.
Many rearchers are trying t6 determine whether technology somehow caus the brains of young people to be wired differently. "They should be distracted and should perform more poorly than they do," Ron says. "But findings show teens survive distractions much better than we would predict by their age and their brain development. "
Becau the kids are more immerd and at younger ages, Ron says, the educational system has to change significantly.
"The growth curve on the u of technology with children is exponential(指数的), and we run the risk of being out of step
with this generation as far as how they learn and how they think," Ron says.
"We have to give them options becau they want their world individualized. "
56. Compared with their Millennial elders, the iGeneration kids
A．communicate with others by high-tech methods continually
B．prefer to live a virtual life than a real one
C．are equipped with more modem digital techniques
D．know more on technology than their elders
57. Why did Larry Ron name the new generation as iGeneration?
A．Becau this generation is featured by the u of personal high-tech devices.
B．Becau this generation stress on an individualized
style of life.
C．Becau it is the author himlf who has discovered the new generation.
D．Becau it's a mind-t generation instead of an age-t one.
58. Which of the following is true about the iGeneration according to Ron?
A．This generation is crazy about inventing and creating new things.
B．Everything must be adapted to the peculiar need of the generation.
C．This generation catches up with the development of technology.
D．High-tech such as wireless devices goes with the generation.
59. Ron's findings suggest that technology
A．has an obvious effect on the function of iGeneration's brain development
B．has greatly affected the iGeneration's behaviors and academic performance
C．has no significantly negative effect on iGeneration's mental and intellectual development
D．has caud distraction problems on iGeneration which affect their daily performance
60. According to the passage, education has to __
A．adapt its system to the need of the new generation
B．u more technologies to cater for the iGeneration
C．risk its system to certain extent for the iGeneration
D．be conducted online for iGeneration's individualized need
