2009年12月英语四级真题精讲：选词填空

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Part Ⅳ Reading Comprehension (Reading in Depth) (25 minutes)
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.
Questions 47 to 56 are based on the following
passage.
In families with two working parents, fathers may have more impact
on a child's language development than mothers, a new study suggests.
Researchers 47 92 families form 11 child care centers before
their children were a year old, interviewing each to establish income, level of
education and child care arrangements. Overall, it was a group of well-class
families, with married parents both living in the home.
When the children were 2, researchers videotaped them at home in
free-play sessions with both parents, 48 all of their speech. The study will appear in
the November issue of The Journal of
Applied Developmental Psychology.
The scientists measured the 49 number of utterance
(话语) of the
parents, the number of different words they used, the complexity of their
sentences and other 50 of their speech. On average, fathers spoke
less than mothers did, but they did not differ in the length of utterances or
proportion of questions asked.
Finally, the researchers 51 the children's speech at age 3, using a
standardized language test. The only predictors of high scores on the test were
the mother's level of education, the 52 of child care and the number of different
words the father used.
The researchers are 53 why
the father's speech, and not the mother's, had an effect.
"It's well 54 that the mother's language does have an
impact," said Nadya Pancsofar, the lead author of the study. It could be that
the high-functioning mothers in the study had 55 had
a strong influence on their children's speech development, Ms. Pancsofar said,
"or it may be that mothers are 56 in a way we didn't measure in
the study."
注意：此部分试题在答题卡1上。
A)
already  B)
analyzed  C) aspects  D) characters  E) contributing  F)
describing
G) established  H)
quality  I)
quoted  J)
recording K) recruited  L)
total
M)
unconscious  N) unsure  O) yet

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