大学英语阅读理解A foreigner’s firest
Part III Reading Comprehension
Section A
Directions: In this section, there is a passage with ten blanks. You are required to select one word for each blank from a list of choices given in a word bank following the passage. Read the passage through carefully before making your choices. Each choice in the bank is identified by a letter. Please mark the corresponding letter for each item on Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through the centre. You may not use any of the words in the bank more than once.
When my son completes atask, I can't help but praise him. I's only natural to give praise where praise is due. right? But is there such a thing as too much praise? According to psychologist Katherine Phillip, children don't benefit from 26_____praise as much as we' d like to think \"Parents often praise, bclicv ing thoy are building thcir child's sclf confidencc. Howcvcr,ovcr-praising can have a 27_____effect,\" says Phillip \"When we use the same praise 28_____，it may become empty and no longer valued by the child. It can also become an expectation that anything they do must be 29_____ with praise. This may lead to the child avoiding taking risks due to fearof 30_____ their parents\"
Does this mean we should do away with all the praiso? Phillip says no.\"The key to healthy praisc is to focus on thc process rather than the 31_____. it is the recognition of a child's attcmpt, or the process in which they achieved something, that is essential,\"she
says \"Parents should encourage
their child 10 take the risks needed to learn and grow”
So how do we break the 32_____ of praise we're all so accustomed to? Phillip says it's important to. 33_____between \"person praise\" and \"process raise\". \"Person praise is 34_____ saying how great someone is. IT's a form personal approval. Process praise as acknowledgment of the efforts to person has just 35_____， Childrcn who receive pcrson praisc arc more likely to feel shame aner losing,\" says Phillip.
A) choose
B) constant
C) disappointing
D) distinguish
E) exhausting
F) experienced
G) negative
H) outcome
1) pattern
J) plural
K) rcpcatcdly
L) rewarded
M) separately
N) simply
答案
26. B. constant
27. G. negative
28. K repeatedly
29. L rewarded
30. C disappointing
31. H outcome
32. I .patterm
33. D .distinguish
34. N. simply
35 0. undertaken
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 paragraph from which the information is derived. You may choose a paragraph more than once. Each paragraph is marked with a letter. Answer the questions by marking the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 2.
Poverty is a story about us, not them
[A] Too often still, we think we know what poverty looks like. It’s the way we’ve been taught, the images we’ve been force-fed for decades. The chronically homeless. The undocumented immigrant. The urban poor, usually personified as a woman of color, the “welfare queen” politicians still too often reference.
[B] But as income inequality rises to record levels in the United States, even in the midst of a record economic expansion, those familiar images are outdated, hurtful, and counterproductive to focusing attention on solutions and building ladders of
opportunity.
