1、大学英语六级改革适用（听力）模拟试卷 337及答案与解析 Section C 0 Articles in magazines and newspapers and special reports on radio and television【 B1】 _the concern of many Americans about the increasing dropout rate in our junior and senior high schools. 【 B2】 _this fact is the warning that soon we will no longer have work
2、force to fill the many jobs that require properly-educated【 B3】_.The high student dropout rate is not a recent development. Ten years ago, many urban schools were reporting dropout rates between 35 and 50 percent. Some ad- ministrators maintain that dropouts remain the single greatest problem in the
3、ir schools.【 B4】 _, much effort has been spent on identifying students with problems【 B5】 _give them more attention before they become failures. Since the dropout problem doesnt start in senior high school, special programs in junior high school focus on students who show promise but have a record o
4、f truancy, that is, staying away from school without【 B6】 _. Under the guidance of counselors, these students are placed in classes with teachers who have had success in working with similar young people. Strategies to【 B7】 _students in high school include rewarding【 B8】_excellence by designating sc
5、holars of title month, or by issuing articles of clothing such as school letter jackets formally given only to athletes. No one working with these students【 B9】 _know how to keep all students in school. Counselors, teachers, and administrators are in the frontlines of what seems【 B10】 _to be a losin
6、g battle. Actually, this problem should be everyones concern, since uneducated, unemployed citizens affect us all. 1 【 B1】 2 【 B2】 3 【 B3】 4 【 B4】 5 【 B5】 6 【 B6】 7 【 B7】 8 【 B8】 9 【 B9】 10 【 B10】 10 More than fifty years ago, the United Nations declared that literacy is a basic human right. Its ver
7、y important for【 B1】 _the lives of individuals. However, it is【 B2】 _that 818 million adults around the world are illiterate, that is, they are unable to read or write.【 B3】 _them are women. More than 110 million school age children in the world do not【 B4】 _school. Many others complete school or【 B
8、5】 _finish their studies without learning to read or write. Many countries depend on the efforts of people who offer their time to help illiterate individuals. For example, John Mogger【 B6】 _the problem of illiteracy three years ago, so he started teaching five prisoners in Brazil. In his teaching,
9、he developed a system with this group of prisoners. He says his way of teaching can help anyone learn how to read and write with about thirty hours of study. To learn his system, people must first know how to write letters of the【 B7】 _and learn which sounds they 【 B8】 _. The system divides letters
10、into three groups. The first group of letters can be written between two lines. The second can be written between two lines but part of the letter is above the top line. The third group has letters that are partly written【 B9】 _the lower line. John Mogger taught his students to write simple words fr
11、om the letters. In this way, his students learned more than seven hundred words. Many of them can now write to family members. They also can read newspapers and【 B10】 _. 11 【 B1】 12 【 B2】 13 【 B3】 14 【 B4】 15 【 B5】 16 【 B6】 17 【 B7】 18 【 B8】 19 【 B9】 20 【 B10】 20 Adults are getting smarter about bow
12、 smart babies are. Not long ago, researchers learned that 4- day-olds could understand【 B1】 _and subtraction. Now, British research psychologist Graham Schafer has discovered that infants can learn words for uncommon things long before they can speak. He found that 9-month-old infants could be taugh
13、t, through repeated show-and-tell, to【 B2】 _the names of objects that were foreign to them, a result that challenges in some ways the received wisdom that,【 B3】 _learning to identify tilings common to their daily lives, children dont begin to build vocabulary until well into their second year. “Its
14、no【 B4】 _that children learn words, but the words they tend to know are words【 B5】 _specific situations in the home,“ explains Schafer. “This is the first demonstration that we can choose what words the children will learn and that they can respond to them with an【 B6】 _voice giving instructions in
15、an unfamiliar setting.“ Figuring out how humans acquire language may【 B7】 _why some children learn to read and write later than others, Schafer says, and could lead to better treatments for developmental problems. Whats more, the study of language【 B8】 _offers direct insight into how humans learn. “
16、Language is a test case for human【 B9】_development,“ says Schafer. But parents eager to teach their infants should take note: Even without being taught new words, a control group【 B10】 _the other infants within a few months. “This is not about advancing development,“ he says. “Its just about what ch
17、ildren can do at an earlier age than what educators have often thought.“ 21 【 B1】 22 【 B2】 23 【 B3】 24 【 B4】 25 【 B5】 26 【 B6】 27 【 B7】 28 【 B8】 29 【 B9】 30 【 B10】 大学英语六级改革适用（听力）模拟试卷 337答案与解析 Section C 【知识模块】 讲座 1 【正确答案】 reflect 【知识模块】 讲座 2 【正确答案】 Coupled with 【知识模块】 讲座 3 【正确答案】 personnel 【知识模块】 讲座
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