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1、2014年12月英语四级阅读段落信息匹配训练(9)10800字 毕业为广大考生整理“2014年12月英语四级阅读段落信息匹配训练”，希望对大家有所帮助，祝大家备考顺利！ 段落信息匹配题是四六级改革之后的新题型，很多同学还不是很熟悉，以下是为同学们整理的英语四级长篇阅读段落信息匹配题练习，希望对各位有所帮助。 TV Linked to Lower MarksA) The effect of television on children has been debated ever since the first sets were turned on. Now three new studies
2、find that too much tube time can lower test scores, retard learning and even predict college performance. The reports appear in the July issue of the Archives of Pediatrics Ado-lescent Medicine.B) In the first report, researchers studied the effect that having a TV in a childs bedroom can have on th
3、ird graders. We looked at the household media environment in relation to academic achievementon mathematics, reading and language arts tests, said study author Dina L.G. Borzekowski, an as-sistant professor at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.C) Borzekowski and her colleague, Dr. Thom
4、as Robinson of Stanford University, collected data on386 third graders and their parents about how much TV the children watched, the number of TV sets, computers and video game consoles in the household and where they were. They also collected data on how much time the children spent using the diffe
5、rent media, as well as the time spent doing homework and reading. The researchers found that the media in the household, where it is and how it is used can have a profound effect on learning. We found that the household media environment has a very close association with performance on the different
6、 test scores, Borzekowski said.D) A child who has a TV in his or her bedroom is likely to have a score that is eight points lower on a mathematics test compared to a child who doesnt have a TV in the bedroom, she noted. These children also scored lower on the reading and language arts tests. However
7、, children who have ac-cess to a home computer are likely to have higher scores on each of the tests compared with children who dont have access to a home computer, Borzekowski noted.E) The reasons why TV has this negative effect are not clear, Borzekowski said. When theres TV in the bedroom, parent
8、s are less likely to have control over the content and the amount watched, Borzekowski said. They are also unable to know how early or how late the set is on. This seems to be associated with kids performance on academic tests. Borzekowski believes that content and the time the TV is on may be the p
9、rimary reasons for its negative effect. If the TV is in the family room, then parents can see the content of what children are watching, she said. Parents can choose to sit alongside and watch, or turn the set off. A simple and straightforward, positive parenting strategy is to keep the TV out of th
10、e childs bedroom, or remove it if its already there.F) In the second report, Dr. Robert J. Hancox from the University of Ot ago in Dunedin, New Zealand, and colleagues found, regardless of your intelligence or social background, if you watch a lot of TV during childhood, you are a lot less likely to
11、 have a college degree by your mid-20s. In their study, the researchers followed 1,037 people born in 1972 and 1973. Every two years, between the ages of5 and 15, they were asked how much television they watched. The researchers found that those who watched the most television during these years had
12、 earned fewer degrees by the time they were 26.We found that the more television the child had watched, the more likely they were to leave school without any qualifications, Hancox said in a prepared statement. Those who watched little television had the best chance of going on to university and ear
13、ning a degree.G) Hancoxs team found that watching TV at an early age had the most effect on graduating from college. An interesting finding was that although teenage viewing was strongly linked to leaving school without any qualifications, it was earlier childhood viewing that had the greatest impac
14、t on getting a degree, he said. This suggests that excessive television in younger children has a long-lasting adverse effect on educational performance.H) In the third paper, Frederick J. Zimmerman and Dr. Dimitri A. Christakis from the University of Washington report that, for very young children,
15、 watching TV can result in lower test scores in mathematics, reading recognition and reading comprehension. We looked at how much television children watched before age 3 and then at ages 3 to 5, Zimmerman said. We found that for children who watched a small amount of TV in the earlier years, there
16、was co nsider able beneficial effect compared to children who watched a lot of TV.I) For children aged 3 to 5, the effect was not as clear, Zimmerman said. There were some beneficial effects of watching TV on reading, but no beneficial effects for math or vocabulary, he noted. The worst pattern was to watch more than three hours of TV before age 3. Those k
