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洛基英语，免费体验全部在线一对一课程：/wenkxd.htm（报名网址）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 givenin a word bank following the passage. Read the passage through carefully beforemaking your choices. Each choice in the bank is identified by a letter. Pleasemark the corresponding letter for each item on Answer Sheet 2 with a singleline through the centre. You may not use any of the words in the bank more thanonce.

Questions 47 to 56 are based on the following passage.

Nearly a third of women are the main breadwinners in theirhousehold in Britain, according to a major survey.Researchers said that in manyrelationships it was no longer assumed that the man would bring in the bigger income，47 in a time of widespreadredundancies(裁员)．

In a 48 shift in attitudes, four out of ten women saidthat the career of whichever partner had the highest income would take 49 in the relationship.

In one in ten families, a house husband looks after the childrenand does the 50 while their female partner works full time.

Ten percent of women admitted this role 51 had put strains on their relationship andsome said it had even led to them 52 company．

The Women and Work Survey 2010，commissioned(受……委托)by Grazia magazine，found that almost halfof full-time mothers 53 not earning their own money.

And two thirds of the mothers among the 2,000 women in the surveysaid they wanted to keep working in some way after having children.

A 54 higher number of those with childrenunder three said they would prefer to work--preferably part-time----rather thanstay at home.

Victoria Harper of Grazia said,"Women are getting good jobswhen they graduate, and working up the career 55 faster than they have ever done."

This means that there has to be more 56 between the roles of men and women in arelationship and when they have children.

A) precedence I) especially

B) connection J) parting

C) prospect K) opposite

D) slightly L) chores

E) ladder M) disliked

F) favored N) fluidity

G) plan Ｏ) significant

H) reversal

Section B

Directions: There are 2 passages in this section. Each passage isfollowed by some questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are fourchoices marked A), B), C) and D). You should decide on the best choice and mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 2 with asingle line through the centre.

Passage One

Questions 57 to 61 are based on the following passage.

Let children learn to judge their own work. A child learning totalk does not learn by being corrected all the time: if corrected too much, he will stoptalking. He notices a thousand times a day the difference between the languagehe uses and the language those around him use. Bit by bit, he makes thenecessary changes to make his language like other people's. In the same way,when children learn to do all the other things they learn to do without beingtaught to walk, run, climb; whistle, ride a bicycle--compare those performanceswith those of more skilled people, and slowly make the needed changes. But inschool we never give a child a chance to find out his own mistakes for himself,let alone correct them. We do it all for him. We act as if we thought that hewould never notice a mistake unless it was pointed out to him, or correct itunless he was made to. Soon he becomes dependent on the teacher. Let him do ithimself. Let him work out; with the help of other children if he wants it, whatthis word says, what answer is to that problem, whether this is a good way ofsaying or doing this or not.

If it is a matter of right answers, as it may be in mathematics orscience, give him the answer book. Let him correct his own papers. Why shouldwe teachers waste time on such routine work? Our job should be to help the childwhen he tells us that he can't find the way to get the right answer. Let's end thisnonsense of grades, exams,marks. Let us throw them all out. and let thechildren learn what all educated persons must someday learn, how to measuretheir own understanding, how to know what they know or do not know.

Let them get on with this job in the way that seems most sensibleto them with our help as school teachers if they ask for it. The idea thatthere is a body of knowledge to be learnt at school and used for the rest ofone's life is nonsense in a world as complicated and rapidly changing as ours.Anxious parents and teachers say, "But suppose they fail to learnsomething essential, something they will need to get in the world?" Don't worry!If it is essential,they will go out into the world and learn it.

57. What does the author think is the best way for children tolearn things?

A) By imitating what other people do.

B) By making mistakes and having them corrected.

C) By listening to explanations from skilled people.

D) By asking a great many questions.

58. The passage suggests that learning to speak and learning toride a bicycle are

A) not really important skills

B) mort important than other skills

C) basically different from learning adult skills

D) basically the same as learning other skills

59. According to the passage, the author thinks teachers in schoolshould

A) allow children to learn by himself or herself