四级考试阅读理解第一题为选词填空,15个单词选10个。 第一步:判断每一空所需要填的单词词性,形容词修饰副词,副词修饰形容词和动词,情态动词后跟动词原型,动词时态过去现在将来要保持一致,动词语态第三人称的单数形式等。 第二步:判断15个单词的词性,-ion为名词;-ly为副词;-al,-ive,-ful等为形容词,等等。 第三步:看空格处的整一个句子,根据判断好的词性,将答题范围缩小,然后根据单词意思和句子意思判断出所应该填的单词为哪一个。做题时牢牢记住要使用排除法 Task: Read the following passage carefully. You are required to decide what kind of words should be added for every blank. Write n for Noun, v for Verb, a for adjective, ad for adverb. (判断每个空所需单词的词性,名词填n.,动词v.,形容词a.,副词ad., 过去分词v-ed., 现在分词v-ing.) 注意每个缩写后面不要忘记加点。 Poor people have I.Q.'s significantly lower than those of rich people, and the awarkward conventional wisom has been that this is in large part a (1) of genetics. After all, a series of studies seemed to indicate that I.Q. is largely inherited. Industrial twins raised apart, for example, have I.Q.'s that are remarkably (2) . If intelligence were deeply connected with our genes, that would lead to the depressing conclusion that neither schooling nor antipoverty programs can (3) much. Yet while this view of I.Q. has been widely held, new evidence shows that it is (4) wrong. Richard Nisbett, a professor of psychology at the University of Michigan, has just proved it completely wrong in a new book, Intelligence and How to Get It. Professor Nisbett strongly advocates intensive early childhood education because of its proven ability to (5) I.Q. The Milwaukee Project, for example, took African-American children considered at risk for mental retardation(迟钝) and assigned them (6) either to a control group that received no help or to a group that enjoyed intensive day care and education from 6 months of age until first grade. By age 5, the children in the program (7) an I.Q. of 110, compared with 83 for children in the control group. Another proven (8) is to tell junior-high-school students that I.Q. is expandable, and that their intelligence is something they can help shape. Students exposed to that idea work (9) and get better grades. The implication of this new research on intelligence is that if we were to (10) early childhood education and support schooling, we might be able to raise America's collective I.Q. significantly.