2014职称英语阅读理解翻译

第二十九篇I’ll Be Bach

练习：

1．The music composed by David cope is about ______.

A Classical music

B pop music

C drama

D country music

2．By developing a computer software，David cope aimed ______.

A to be like Bach

B to study Bach

C to write an opera

D to create a musical database

3．What did cope realize about a great composer’s brain?

A It forms new musical patterns all by itself

B It writes a computer program

C It can recognize any music patterns

D It creates an accurate database

4．Who is Emmy?

A a database

B a computer software

C a composer who helped David

D an opera

5．We can infer from the passage that ______.

A David Cope is a computer programmer.

B David Cope loves music.

C Bach’s music helped him a lot.

D Emmy did much more work than a composer.

第40篇（2012新增）

Teaching Math, Teaching Anxiety

教数学，教焦虑

在最新一项关于小学生学数学的研究中，芝加哥大学的心理学家Sian Beilock和Susan Levine 发现，女教师的想法和女学生的学习之间有着惊人的联系：如果女教师对自己的数学能力感到焦虑，她的

女学生很可能认为男孩子数学比女孩学得更好。

"如果一直由对数学有焦虑的女教师教授数学，就会对她们的数学成绩产生雪球效应"，Levine说。换言之，女孩子们最后从老师那里获得的是对数学的焦虑。该研究表明，如果女孩子们在一个认为男孩比女孩数学好的环境中成长，那么她们的数学可能会不如在更自信的状态下学得好。

如同学生，教师也会觉得某些学科难学和难教，这就是研究者所言的"焦虑"：不自在或担心。

此研究发现，教师对数学的焦虑能够传染给她的女学生们。该研究的研究对象包括65个女孩，52个男孩和17位在中西部教一二年级的教师。学生们在学年的开始和结束时都进行数学测试，研究者们比较得分。

研究者们测试学生是否认为数学明星一定会是男孩。然后研究者们测试教师，试图找出哪些教师对数学感到焦虑，研究者们问教师们当碰到数学问题诸如阅读销售清单时的感受，如果一位教师一看到销售清单的数字就感到紧张，那么她很可能对数学存在焦虑。

平均来说，教师的焦虑不会影响到男孩子。但是，一般说来，如果教女孩子的教师有数学焦虑症，那么女孩子们在学年结束时测试得分比其他的女孩要低。另外，在关于是否认为数学明星应该是男孩的测试中，有20个女孩认为男孩数学比女孩好，这20个女孩的老师都是女性，且都患有数学焦虑症。

来自密苏里大学的心理学家David Geary说"这是一个有趣的研究，但是这只是初步结果，需要用更大的调查样本进行重复验证"。

1. What is the result of the research at the University of Chicago,according to the first paragraph?

A Girls comfortable with their own math skills are better than boys at math.

B Girls uncomfortable with their own math skills are not as good as boys at math.

C Female teachers' math skills have influence over girl students' math skills.

D Female teachers' confidence in their math skills is related to girl's math skills.

2. What is implied in the third paragraph?

A Math teachers,like math learners,do not like the subject due to its difficulty.

B A difficult subject like math may affect teachers' confidence in teaching the subject.

C Teachers are more anxious teaching math than their students learning math.

D Math is so difficult that no teachers like to teach it.

3. According to the experiment,those teachers were probably anxious about math when they felt

A nervous memorizing the numbers of a sales receipt.

B helpless saving the numbers of a sales receipt.

C uneasy reading the numbers of a sales receipt.

D hopeless filling in the numbers of a sales report.

4. The sixth paragraph tells us that the research findings

A prove a strong link between female teachers' math anxiety and their female students' math