1、The power of role-playing video games resides in the ways in which they meld learning and identity. A players taking on the identity of a character in a game constitutes Line a form of identification with the virtual characters world, story, and perspectives. The player projects his or her own hopes
2、, values, and fears onto the character that he or she is co-creating with the video games designers. Doing so allows the player to imagine a new identity born at the intersection of the players real-world identities and the identity of the character. This new identity speaks to, and possibly transfo
3、rms, the players values. Passage 2 Role-playing video games offer us many different contexts for presenting ourselves. Those possibilities are particularly important for adolescents because they offer what psychologist Erik Erikson describes as a moratorium - a safe space for the personal experiment
4、ation that is so crucial in adolescent development. But some people who gain fluency in expressing multiple aspects of self may find it harder to develop authentic selves. Children who write narratives for the characters they play may grow up with too little experience in how to share their real fee
5、lings with other people. Role-playing video games have made it possible to have the illusion of companionship without the demands of friendship.1. Both passages suggest that video games(A) are underutilized as educational tools(B) negatively influence psychological development(C) rely on a common se
6、t of characters and situations(D) allow players to experience alternative identities(E) mirror experiences players are likely to have in real life2. In line 4, “form” most nearly means (A) structure(B) figure(C) pattern(D) type(E) custom3. Which best describes the relationship between the two passag
7、es?(A) Passage 1 offers an analysis of an activity that Passage 2 suggests may be harmful.(B) Passage 1 mounts an ardent defense of a hobby that Passage 2 portrays as frivolous. Passage 1 concedes that a position endorsed by Passage 2 has some validity.(D) Passage 1 provides a social explanation for
8、 a phenomenon that Passage 2 argues is best understood psychologically.(E) Passage 1 gives a simplified account of an experience that Passage 2 claims is extremely complex.4. Both authors make the point that players of video games are(A) most often children and teens(B) sometimes changed by the game
9、s they play(C) typically dedicated to principles of fair play(D) generally representative of society as a whole(E) usually good at separating their real and virtual lives1105长单-黑人音乐会After segregationist practices barred Black American singer Marian Anderson from a scheduled Washington D. C., perform
10、ance in 1939, the federal government sponsored her in a public concert on Easter Sunday. In this adaptation from a 2003 novel. Delia, a Black American voice student, arrives for that concert.She steps off the train into a capital huddling under blustery April. She half-expects the cherry trees to gr
11、eet her right inside Union Station. The coffered barrel vault arches over her, a fading neoclassical cathedral to transportation that she steps through, making herself small, invisible. She moves through the crowd with light, effacing steps, waiting for someone to challenge her right to be here. Was
12、hington: every fortunate Philadelphia schoolgirls field trip, but it has taken Delia until twenty to see the point of visiting. She heads out of the station and bears southwest. She nods toward Howard University, her fathers school, where he suggested she go make something of herself. The Capitol ri
13、ses up on her left, more unreal in life than in the thousands of silver images she grew up suspecting. The building that now stands open to Black people again.1 after a generation, bends the very air around it. She cant stop looking. She walks into the waking spring, the river of moving bodies, gigg
14、ling even as she hushes herself up. The whole city is a postcard panorama. Like being inside a grade-school civics text. Today, at least, the monument-flanked boulevards How with people of all races. The group from Union Baptist Church told her to look for them up front on the left, near the steps o
15、f the Lincoln Memorial. She has only to hook right, on Constitution Avenue, to see how naive those plans were. Therell be no rendezvous today. To the west, a crowd gathers, too dense and ecstatic to penetrate. Delia Daley looks out over the carpet of people, more people than she knew existed. Her st
16、eps slow as she slips in behind the mile-long crowd. All in front of her, the decades-long Great Migration2 comes home. She feels the danger, right down her spine. A crowd this size could trample her without anyone noticing. But the prize lies at the other end of this gliding crush. She breathes in, forcing her diaphragm down - support, appoggio! - and plunges in. Something
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