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1、重点查处在特色产业扶贫项目及资金安排上优亲厚友，在项目检查验收过程中不严格按程序和要求办事、搞吃拿卡要，在项目资金管理使用上搞侵占挪 Unit 4Pygmalion阅读理解组块专练练速度(限时：35分钟).阅读理解AI learnt about the Pygmalion effect when I was 7 years old at Riverdale School in Palmerston North and I copied Melissa Crawfords answers in a spelling test. Before that I was average at schoo
2、l but after that, because Melissa Crawford was smart, and I got all the right answers, I got put in all the smart kids groups.From then I did really well at school because it was believed by the teachers that I would and I also got grouped with the smart kids. This experience that occurred at my pri
3、mary school shows just how important the Pygmalion effect is in terms of being around mentors (导师) that expect that you re going to do well and also being around people who are smart.The Pygmalion effect is one principle you want to use if you want to make money fast. Have mentors that expect you wi
4、ll make money fast and as an extra boost hang around, copy and learn from other people who are also making money fast.Yesterday this site had over 5,000 unique visitors and the traffic to it is increasing all the time. A year ago I contacted a group of people who got lots of traffic on their sites a
5、nd I learnt from them. Truthfully I dont know if they expected me to start getting decent traffic to websites but I imagined they did so they might as well have.So there you have it the Pygmalion effect.PS. My grammar and spelling are not that great nowadays but thats actually completely irrelevant
6、(不相关的) when it comes to getting lots of visitors to your site.1When did the author learn about the Pygmalion effect? ABefore he took the spelling test.BAfter he cheated in the spelling test.CWhen he did badly in exams.DAfter he finished primary school.解析：选B细节理解题。根据第一段的“I copied Melissa Crawfords ans
7、wers in a spelling test.”判断，是在他考试作弊以后。2The author got grouped with the smart kids because _.Ahe was an average pupil at schoolBhe did better than expectedCMelissa Crawford was smartDhe did better than all the others at school解析：选B细节理解题。作者原先学习平平，由于考试作弊，成绩出色，所以老师把他列为聪明的学生之中。3What does the underlined w
8、ord “contacted” mean in the passage? ALost touch with.BMade friends with.CGot in touch with.DWas concerned about.解析：选C词义猜测题。根据画线单词后的“learnt from them”判断，该词的意思是“取得联系”。4From the passage we can infer that _.Athe author was busymeeting visitors every dayBthere was lots of traffic in his city Cthe author
9、 opened a website himselfDthe authors grammar was poor at school解析：选C推理判断题。从最后一段的“when it comes to getting lots of visitors to your site”看，作者有自己的网站。BPygmalion is a drama in which Shaw has made sentiments one of the principle themes of discussion. The Greek sculptor Pygmalion carved a statue and fell
10、 in love with it. Aphrodite (the goddess of love) turned the statue into a living woman named Galatea, who then became Pygmalions wife. The Shavian Pygmalion is Henry Higgins, a professor of phonetics, who picks up a flower girl, Eliza Doolittle, teaches her to speak as educated people do, and then
11、successfully passes_her_off_as a duchess. But she is a human being and cannot be treated as a machine. In the course of all his experiments and exhibitions, the professor only thinks of his own skill success and failure, but never stops to consider how the girl feels. When the experiment is over, he
12、 has a profound sense of relief that he has achieved triumph and has won his bet. Even now，the sentiment of the girl is of no account. The girl naturally protests against this dehumanized relationship between her and her teacher. She hurls the professors slippers at him when he wants them and then l
13、eaves his place. But evidently, she has begun to feel for the professor and wants also to be felt for. Now the question is what is the nature of Elizas feelings for the professor with whom she has lived in close association for so long? In the last act, the girl says she would not marry him even if
14、he had proposed (求婚) to her. The professor, curiously ineffectual (无效的) to sexual emotions, does not love any girl because he finds them to be rivals (对手) to his own mother. He wonders, if Eliza does not want to marry him, then what does she want from him? Old Mrs. Higgins, who knows much about a wo
15、man says that it would have been better if he had thanked her and petted her and told her how wonderful she had been. Then perhaps she would not have fought with him. Every girl loves to be loved. Eliza herself says that she loves Freddy and he also loves her. Professor Higgins, however, remains as
16、ever, an old bachelor. 语篇解读：萧伯纳的著名戏剧买花女具有经久不衰的艺术魅力，描述的是语言学教授希金斯如何把一名买花姑娘训练成英语发音被上流社会接受并认可的故事，从而抨击了当时英国腐朽保守的等级意识。5What does the underlined phrase “passes her off as” in Paragraph 2 mean? ALet her pretend to be.BDress her up as.CMake her become. DTurn into. 解析：选A词义猜测题。根据前文的“teaches her to speak as educated people do”以及下文的“In the course of all h
