2009年12月英語四級考試教育題材文章的閱讀攻略

　　例如:2005年1月的試題。

　　Some Japanese parents believe that if their young children attend a university-based program, it will in-crease the children’s chances of eventually being admitted to top-rated schools and universities. Several more progressive programs have introduced free play as a way out for the heavy intellectualizing in some Japanese kindergartens.

　　Q: Why do some Japanese parents send their children to university-based kindergartens?

　　A) They can do better in their future studies.

　　B) They can accumulate more group experience there.

　　C) They can be individually oriented when they grow up.

　　D) They can have better chances of getting a first-rate education.

　　此段選自一篇學(xué)校教育題材的文章,主要是對比美日兩國的兒童教

　　育。此題是典型的細節(jié)題,根據(jù)題設(shè)中的university-based,答案可定位在第一句。if 引導(dǎo)的條件從句可看作結(jié)果,而其后的主句就是原因,只要將選項和主句進行對比,就可以選出D)。

　　綜上所述,如果考生平時對以上的教育問題有一定的了解,那么再閱讀此類文章時就易于把握整體大意,從而更好地解答題目。因此,考生平常在學(xué)習英語時,應(yīng)該注重英美文化,尤其要關(guān)注教育方面的背景知識,從文化的角度入手輕松地學(xué)習英語以提高做題的準確性

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　　If you want to teach your children how to say sorry, you must be good at saying it yourself, especially to your own children. But how you say it can be quite tricky. If you say to your children"I’m sorry I got angry with you, but ...", what follows that"but"can render the apology ineffective:"I had a bad day"or"your noise was giving me a headache"leaves the person who has been injured feeling that he should be apologizing for his bad behavior in expecting an apology. Another method by which people appear to apologize without actually doing so is to say "I’m sorry you’re upset"; this suggests that you are somehow at fault for allowing your-self to get upset by what the other person has done. Then there is the general, all-covering apology, which avoids the necessity of identifying a specific act that was particularly hurtful or insulting, and which the person who is apologizing should promise never to do again. Saying "I’m useless as a parent" does not commit a person to any specific improvement. These pseudo-apologies are used by people who believe saying sorry shows weakness. Parents who wish to teach their children to apologize should see it as a sign of strength, and therefore not resort to these pseudo-apologies. But even when presented with ex-amples of genuine contrition, children still need help to become aware of the complexities of saying sorry. A three-year-old might need help in understanding that other children feel pain just as he does, and that hitting a playmate over the head with a heavy toy requires an apology. A six-year-old might need reminding that spoiling other children’s expectations can require an apology. A 12-year-old might need to be shown that raiding the biscuit tin without asking permission is acceptable, but that borrowing his/her parents’ clothes without permission is not. (CET-4, 2005年12月)

　　1. If a mother adds "but" to an apology, ______.

　　A) she doesn’t feel that she should have apologized

　　B) she does not realize that the child has been hurt

　　C) the child may find the apology easier to accept

　　D) the child may feel that he owes her an apology