2010年12月英语四级考试真题lol英雄
Part I Writing (30 minutes)
马卉Directions：For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a short essay entitled How Should Parents Help Children to Be Independent? You should write at least 150 words following the outline given below.
1. 目前不少父母为孩子包办一切
2. 为了让孩子独立,父母应该……
How Should Parents Help Children to Be Independent?
注意：此部分试题在答题卡1上
Part II Reading Comprehension（Skimming and Scanning) （15 minutes)
Directions: In this part, you will have 15 minutes to go over the passage quickly and answe
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r the questions on Answer Sheet 1. For vpn questions 1-7, choo the best answer from the four choices marked A), B), C) and D). For questions 8-10, complete the ntences with the information given in the passage.
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Most of us spend our lives eking the natural world. To this end, we walk the dog, play golf, go fishing, sit in the garden, drink outside rather than inside the pub, have a picnic, live in the suburbs, go to the aside, buy a weekend place in the country. The most popular leisure activity in Britain is going for a walk. And when joggers (慢跑者) jog, they don’t run the streets. Every one of them instinctively heads to the park or the river. It is my profound belief that not only do we all need nature, but we all ek nature, whether we know we are doing so or not.
But despite this, our children are growing up nature-deprived (丧失). I spent my boyhood climbing trees on Streatham Common, South London. The days, children are robbed of the ancient freedoms, due to problems like crime, traffic, the loss of the open spaces a
nd odd new perceptions about what is best for children, that is to say, things that can be bought, rather than things that can be found.
邓丽君经典老歌The truth is to be found elwhere. A study in the US: families had moved to better housing and the children were assd for ADHD—attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (其实我想多动症). Tho who accommodation had more natural views showed an improvement of 19%; tho who had the same improvement in material surroundings but no nice view improved just 4%.
A study in Sweden indicated that kindergarten children who could play in a natural environment had less illness and greater physical ability than children ud only to a normal playground. A US study suggested that when a school gave children access to a natural environment, academic levels were raid across the entire school.
Another study found that children play differently in a natural environment. In playgrounds, children create a hierarchy (等级) bad on physical abilities, with the tough ones taking the lead. But when a grassy area was planted with bushes, the children got
much more into fantasy play, and the social hierarchy was now bad on imagination and creativity.
Most bullying (恃强凌弱) is found in schools where there is a tarmac (柏油碎石) playground; the least bullying is in a natural area that the children are encouraged to explore. This reminds me unpleasantly of Sunnyhill School in Streatham, with its harsh tarmac, where I ud to hang about in corners fantasising about wildlife.
世界最大火山But children are frequently discouraged from involvement with natural spaces, for health and safety reasons, for fear that they might get dirty or that they might cau damage. So, instead, the damage is done to the children themlves: not to their bodies but to their souls.
One of the great problems of modern childhood is ADHD, now increasingly and expensively treated with drugs. Yet one study after another indicates that contact with nature gives huge benefits to ADHD children. However, we spend money on drugs rather than on green places.
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The life of old people is measurably better when they have access to nature. The increasing emphasis for the growing population of old people is in quality rather than quantity of years. And study after study finds that a garden is the single most important thing in finding that quality.
In wider and more difficult areas of life, there is evidence to indicate that natural surroundings improve all kinds of things. Even problems with crime and aggressive behaviour are reduced when there is contact with the natural world.
Dr William Bird, rearcher from the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, states in his study, “A natural environment can reduce violent behaviour becau its restorative process helps reduce anger and impulsive behaviour.” Wild places need encouraging for this reason, no matter how small their contribution.
We tend to look on nature conrvation as some kind of favour that human beings are granting to the natural world. The error here is far too deep: not only do humans need nature for themlves, but the very idea that humanity and the natural world are parabl
e things is profoundly damaging.
Human beings are a species of mammals (哺乳动物). For ven million years they lived on the planet as part of nature. Our ancestral lves miss the natural world and long for contact with non-human life. Anyone who has patted a dog, stroked a cat, sat under a tree with a pint of beer, given or received a bunch of flowers or chon to walk through the park on a nice day, understands that.
We need the wild world. It is esntial to our well-being, our health, our happiness. Without the wild world we are not more but less civilid. Without other living things around us we are less than human.
