大学英语四级综合-52
(总分：180.00，做题时间：90分钟)
一、Unit 6(总题数：4，分数：180.00)
苏州阳澄湖Passage One
Children learn almost nothing from television，and the more they watch the less they remember．They regard television purely as entertainment，rent programs that demand on them and are surprid that anybody should take the medium riously．Far from being over—excited by programs，they are mildly bored with the whole thing． The are the main conclusions from a new study of children and television．The author Cardiac Cullingford confirms that the modem child is a dedicated viewer．The studv suggests that there is liRle point in the later hours．More than a third of the children regularly watch their favorite programs after 9 p．m．All 11-year—olds have watched programs after midnight．
绿色节能Apart from the obvious waste of time involved，it ems that all this viewing has liRle effect．Children don’t pay clo attention，says Cullingford，and they can recall few detai
L7．They can remember exactly which programs they have en but they can rarely explain the elements of a particular plot．Recall was in“rever proportion to the amount they had watched". It is precily becau television, unlike a teacher, demands so little attention and respon that children like it, argues CuUingford. Programs eking to put over rious messages are strongly disliked. So are people who frequently talk on screen. What children like most, and remember best, are the advertiments. They e them as short programs in their own right and particularly enjoy humorous prentation. But again, they react strongly against high-pressure advertiments that attempt openly to influence them.
On the other hand, they are not emotionally involved in the programs. If they admire the stars, it is becau the actors lead glamorous lives and earn a lot of money, not becau of their fictional skills with fast cars and shooting villains(恶棍). They are perfectly clear about the functions of advertiments; by the age of 12, only one in 10 children believe what even favorite ads say about the produci. And says Cullingford, educational television is probably least successful of all in imparting attitudes or information.
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心经全文读诵(1).The study of children and television shows that ______（分数：9.00）
A.it is uless for television companies to delay adult viewing to the later hours √
B.it is a waste of time for children to watch adult programs on TV
C.children should not watch television programs late into the night
D.children are suppod to learn a lot from television programs
解析：细节题。从文章第一段倒数第三句可以推断出，将(孩子收看的节目的)时间往后推迟没什么意义，因为孩子是忠实的观众，接下来的两句也证明这一点，也可用排除法，后三个选项文中都未提及。
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对拷线(2)."Recall was ' in rever proportion to the amount they had watched'" in Paragraph 2 has almost the same meaning as ______（分数：9.00）
A."the more they watch the less they remember"(in Para. 1) √
B."programs eking to put over rious messages are strongly disliked" (in Para. 2)
C."they e them as short programs in their own right"(in Para. 2)
D."educational television is probably least successful of all in imparting attitudes or information"(in Para. 3)
解析：推断题。这句话是对前三句的进一步解释，意为“记忆的内容同观看的多少成反比”，即“看得越多，记住得越少”。
(3).Cullingford concludes that______（分数：9.00）
A.children are excited when they watch TV
B.watching TV has little real effect on children √
C.parents should spend less time watching TV
D.parents should be worried about the effect of TV on children
解析：细节题。第一段第一句和第二段第一句都指出了这一点，这也是文章的主旨。
(4).Which of the following is NOT true according to the new study of children and television?（分数：9.00）
A.Some children stay up late to watch the programs they like.
B.Children enjoy watching challenging programs. √
C.Children don't like rious messages and high-pressured ads.
D.Though children like watching ads, most of them don't believe what ads say about the product.
解析：细节题。此题可用排除法，第一段的最后提到儿童熬夜观看所喜爱的节目，第二段最后一部分提到儿童喜欢广告但不喜欢意在影响他们的“高压力”广告，而且文章最后两句提到儿童大都有辨别的能力，并不相信广告中所说的话。只有B项在文中并没有提到。
(5).Whom would the result of the new study upt?（分数：9.00）
A.The advertirs.
B.The children viewers.
C.The movie stars.
D.The educators. √
解析：推断题。文章最后一句说，研究表明，教育节目力图给儿童提供信息，但最为失败，因为儿童几乎从电视当中学不到任何东西，这一结果当然最让教育界人士担心。
Passage Two
Surprisingly, no one knows how many children receive education in English hospitals, still less the content or quality of that education. Proper records are just not kept. We know that more than 850,000 children go through hospital each year, and that every child of school age has a legal right to continue to receive education while in hospital. We also kn
ow there is only one hospital teacher to every 1,000 children in hospital.
Little wonder the latest survey concludes that the extent and type of hospital teaching available differ a great deal across the country. It is found that half the hospitals in England which admit children have no teacher. A further quarter have only a part-time teacher. The special children's hospitals in major cities do best; general hospitals in the country and holiday areas are worst off. From this survey, one can estimate that fewer than one in five children have some contact with a hospital teacher and that contact may be as little as two hours a day. Most children interviewed were surprid to find a teacher in hospital at all. They had not been prepared for it by parents or their own school. If there was a teacher they were much more likely to read books and do maths or number work; without a teacher they would only play games.
Reasons for hospital teaching range from preventing a child falling behind and maintaining the habit of school to keeping a child occupied, and the latter is often all the teacher can do. The position and influence of many teachers was summed up when parents referred to them as "the library lady" or just "the helper". Children tend to rely on
concerned school fi-iends to keep in touch with school work. Several parents spoke of requests for work being ignored or refud by the school. Once back at school children rarely get extra teaching, and are told to catch up as best they can.
Many short-stay child-patients catch up quickly. But schools do very little to ea the anxiety about falling behind expresd by many of the children interviewed.
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(1).The author points out at the beginning that ______（分数：9.00）
A.every child in hospital receives some teaching
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盲审是什么意思& enough is known about hospital teaching √
C.hospital teaching is of poor quality
D.the special children's hospitals are worst off
解析：细节题。文章第一段提到，没有人知道有多少孩子在医院里能接受教育，更少有人知道教育的内容和教学质量。由此可知人们对医院教学了解不够，故选B。
(2).It can be inferred from the latest survey that______（分数：9.00）
电脑买 A.hospital teaching across the country is similar
B.each hospital has at least one part-time teacher
C.all hospitals surveyed offer education to children
&ly one-fourth of the hospitals have full-time teachers √
解析：推断题。文章第二段第二、三句提到，人们发现英国一半的医院没有教师，另外1/4的医院有兼职教师，由此可以推断只有1/4的医院有全职教师，故选D。
(3).In order to catch up with their school work, children in hospital usually turn to______（分数：9.00）
A.hospital teachers
B.schoolmates √
