2022年6月英语四级考试真题试卷附答案 第1套(2) Part III Reading Comprehension (40 minutes) Section A Directions: In this section, there is a passage with ten blanks. You are required to select oneword for each blank from a list of choices given in a word bank following the passage. Read thepassage through carefully before making your choices. Each choice in the bank is identified bya letter. Please mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through thecentre. You may not use any of the words in the bank more than once. Questions 36 to 45 are based on the following passage. Many Brazilians cannot read. In 2000, a quarter of those aged 15 and older were functionallyilliterate (文盲). Many 36 do not want to. Only one literate adult in three reads books. The 37Brazilian reads 1.8 non-academic books a year, less than half the figure in Europe and theUnited States. In a recent survey .of reading habits, Brazilians came 27th out of 30 countries.Argentines, their neighbors, 38 18th. The government and businesses are all struggling in different ways to change this. On March 13the government 39 a National Plan for Books and Reading. This seeks to boost reading, byfounding libraries and financing publishers among other things. One discouragement to reading is that books are 40 . Most books have small print-runs,pushing up their price. But Brazilians' indifference to books has deeper roots. Centuries of slavery meant thecounties leaders long 41 education. Primary schooling became universal only in the 1990s. All this me Brazil’s book market has the biggest growth 42 in the western world. But reading is a difficult habit to form. Brazilians bought fewer books in 2004, 89 million,including textbooks 43 by the government, than they did in 1991. Last year the director ofBrazil's national library 44 . He complained that he had half the librarians he needed andtermites (白蚁) had eaten much of the 45 . That ought to be a cause for national shame. 留意：此部分试题请在答题卡2上作答。
A)average B)collection C)distributed D)exhibition E)expensive F)launched G)named H)neglected I) normal J) particularly K) potential L) quit M) ranked N) simply O) treasured Section B Directions: In this section, you are going to read a passage with ten statements attached to it.Each statement contains information given in one of the paragraphs Identify the paragraphfrom which the information is derived. You may choose a paragraph more than once. Eachparagraph is marked with a letter. Answer the questions by marking the corresponding letter onAnswer Sheet 2. The Touch-Screen Generation A) On a chilly day last spring, a few dozen developers of children’s apps(应用程序)for phonesand tablets(平板电脑)gathered at an old beach resort in Monterey, California, to show off theirgames. The gathering was organized by Warren Buckleitner, a longtime reviewer of interactivechildren’s media. Buckleitner spent the breaks testing whether his own remote-controlhelicopter could reach the hall's second story, while various children who had come with theirparents looked up in awe(敬畏)and delight. But mostly they looked down, at the iPads andother tablets displayed around the hall like so many open boxes of candy. I walked around andtalked with developers, and several quoted a famous saying of Maria Montessori’s, ;The handsare the instruments of man’s intelligence.; B) What, really, would Maria Montessori have made of this scene? The 30 or so children herewere not down at the shore poking(戳)their fingers in the sand or running them along stonesor picking seashells. Instead they were all inside, alone or in groups of two or three, their facesa few inches from a screen, their hands doing things Montessori surely did not imagine. C) In 2022, the American Academy of Pediatrics updated its policy on very young children andmedia. In 1999, the group had discouraged television viewing for children younger than 2, citingresearch on brain development that showed this age group’s critical need for ;directinteractions with parents and other significant care givers.; The updated report began byacknowledging that things had changed significantly since then. In 2006, 90% of parents saidthat their children younger than 2 consumed some form of electronic media. Nevertheless, thegroup took largely the same approach it did in 1999, uniformly discouraging passive mediause, on any type of screen, for these kids. (For older children, the academy noted, ;high-quality programs; could have ;educational benefits.;) The 2022 report mentioned ;smart cellphone; and ;new screen; technologies, but did not address interactive apps. Nor did it bringup the possibility that has likely occurred to those 90% of American parents 。