北语17春《阅读IV》作业1.docx

1、北语17春阅读IV作业1北语17春阅读（IV）作业1一、单选题1、D2、A3、A4、B5、A一、单选题（共 25 道试题，共 100 分。）V 1. Lets address the question of whether speed reading is even a desirable goal. I am an avid fiction reader. Consciously or unconsciously, readers of fiction appreciate the beauty in good writing. Occasionally I will read a pass

2、age or sentence over to be impressed by the opening sentences of Ernest Hemingways The Old Man and the Sea, The Dark, and Herman. If I was a determined speed reader, I would never have the time to appreciate these beautiful passages. And Id never have the time to savor the development of a character

3、 like Rhett Butler, the Great Gatsby or Captain Ahab. Good writers must be read carefully and thoughtfully to be fully appreciated. To carry the question of the need for rapid reading a bit further, lets consider the technical or educational material most of us must read for our jobs. If you work in

4、 a technical fieldand most business and professional people doyoud better read slowly and carefully. Almost all businesses today are subject to federal regulations to some degree. If you must read the Federal Register, the Code of Federal Regulations, the OSHA Handbook or other technical materials r

5、elated directly to your job, Id urge you to take your time. A misreading could be costly or damaging to your firm. On the other hand, newspapers, news magazines and other publications should be read with some degree of speed. Heres where a general knowledge of speed reading techniques might be usefu

6、l. Especially since that is the most common type of reading we do. Anyone can improve their reading efficiently. To do so, you must learn some basic techniques and then consciously apply them. Perhaps an expensive course would help you, but an inexpensive paperback and concentrated practice might pr

7、ovide as much long-term benefit. In any case, you lose nothing by trying the self-help approach. Question:Technical materials should be read carefully because _.A. they are usually difficult to understandB. they are related to federal regulationsC. they are an uncommon type of readingD. a misreading

8、 may do harm to your work正确答案：D 2. Young people should have the right to control and direct their own learning, that is, to decide what they want to learn, and when, where, how, how much, how fast, and with what help they want to learn it. To be still more specific, I want them to have the right to

9、decide if, when, how much, and by whom they want to be taught and the right to decide whether they want to learn in a school and if so which one and for how much of the time. No human right, except the right to life itself, is more fundamental than this. A persons freedom of learning is part of his

10、freedom of thought, even more basic than his freedom of speech. If we take from someone his right to decide what he will be curious about, we destroy his freedom of thought. We say, in effect, you must think not about what interests and concerns you, but about what interests and concerns us. This ri

11、ght of each of us to control our own learning is now in danger. When we put into our laws the highly authoritarian notion that someone should and could decide what all young people were to learn and beyond that, could do whatever might seem necessary (which now includes dosing them with drugs) to co

12、mpel them to learn it, we took a long step down a very steep and dangerous path. The requirement that a child go to school, for about six hours a day, 180 days a year, for about ten years, whether or not he learns anything there, whether or not he already knows it or could learn it faster or better

13、somewhere else, is such a gross violation of civil liberties that few adults would stand for it. But the child who resists is treated as a criminal. With this requirement we created an industry, an army of people whose whole work was to tell young people what they had to learn and to try to make the

14、m learn it. Some of these people, wanting to exercise even more power over others, or to be even more helpful, are now beginning to say, If compulsory education is good for children, why wouldnt it be good for everyone? If it is a good thing, how can there be too much of it? They are beginning to ta

15、lk, as one man did on a nationwide TV show, about womb-to-tomb schooling. If hours of homework every night are good for the young, why wouldnt they be good for us allthey would keep us away from the TV set and other frivolous pursuits. Some group of experts, somewhere, would be glad to decide what w

16、e all ought to know and then very so often check up on us to make sure we knew itwith, of course, appropriate penalties if we did not. Question:The phrase womb-to-tomb schooling probably means that _.A. learning is from young to oldB. learning is disastrousC. learning is unnecessaryD. learning is no

17、t always helpful正确答案：A 3. Lets address the question of whether speed reading is even a desirable goal. I am an avid fiction reader. Consciously or unconsciously, readers of fiction appreciate the beauty in good writing. Occasionally I will read a passage or sentence over to be impressed by the openi

18、ng sentences of Ernest Hemingways The Old Man and the Sea, The Dark, and Herman. If I was a determined speed reader, I would never have the time to appreciate these beautiful passages. And Id never have the time to savor the development of a character like Rhett Butler, the Great Gatsby or Captain A

19、hab. Good writers must be read carefully and thoughtfully to be fully appreciated. To carry the question of the need for rapid reading a bit further, lets consider the technical or educational material most of us must read for our jobs. If you work in a technical fieldand most business and professio

20、nal people doyoud better read slowly and carefully. Almost all businesses today are subject to federal regulations to some degree. If you must read the Federal Register, the Code of Federal Regulations, the OSHA Handbook or other technical materials related directly to your job, Id urge you to take

21、your time. A misreading could be costly or damaging to your firm. On the other hand, newspapers, news magazines and other publications should be read with some degree of speed. Heres where a general knowledge of speed reading techniques might be useful. Especially since that is the most common type

22、of reading we do. Anyone can improve their reading efficiently. To do so, you must learn some basic techniques and then consciously apply them. Perhaps an expensive course would help you, but an inexpensive paperback and concentrated practice might provide as much long-term benefit. In any case, you

23、 lose nothing by trying the self-help approach. Question:Hemingways writing is mentioned in the passage to show that _.A. some writing should be read carefullyB. some writing should be read quicklyC. one has to understand the full meaning of a written pieceD. one doesnt have to understand the full m

24、eaning of a written piece正确答案：A 4. Yhudi Menuhin, who died in Berlin on March 12, 1999, at the age of 82, was a child prodigy who fulfilled his promise to become one of the worlds foremost violinists before extending his range to teaching and conducting. The gently spoken U.S.-born virtuoso became a

25、s renowned for his devotion to humane causes as for his mastery of the violin. The spotlight has been on him since his debut at seven in 1924. By the time he was 13, he had performed in Paris, London and New York. In Berlin, his performance prompted physicist Albert Einstein to exclaim, Now I know t

26、here is a God in Heaven. Reportedly the worlds highest paid musician in the 1930s, his striving for perfection made him a legend. Menuhin said the violin made its own demands, Almost like a pagan goddess, exacting a certain tribute. When he was 38, one New York newspaper wrote, The freshness and uni

27、que purity of his playing is exhilarating. No other violinist has such speaking eloquence in the tone alone. He gave up public violin performances in his 70s. His hearing was a little impaired by then and he had taken on many more interests. But his conducting was still full of energy and his travel

28、 schedule grueling. I feel that what Ive learned in music I can apply to a wide repertoire, which is fun because I am exploring new terrain, he said in an interview at the time of his 80th birthday. But I feel no desire now to spend hours working away again at something which I myself in the past an

29、d other people can play far better than I can now. I dont see the point. A British citizen since 1985 and a life peer since 1993Baron Menuhin of Stoke dAbernon in the County of Surreyhe had a school in England and an academy in Switzerland for young musicians, whom he often conducts. He has also hel

30、ped found various musical festivals, held the Nehru Peace Prize and was a goodwill ambassador for UNESCO. While pursuing interests such as the environment, organic farming, alternative medicine, education and the plight of gypsies, he sticks to a long-standing healthy diet and yoga. I dont squander

31、my energies. Keep myself in fairly good trim. I stand on my head every morning. Conducting is a wonderful exercise because it uses every faculty, he says. Question:In his 70s, Menuhin _.A. continued to give violin performances in publicB. was still busy travelling aroundC. concentrated on conducting

32、D. had impaired his hearing正确答案：B 5. Lets address the question of whether speed reading is even a desirable goal. I am an avid fiction reader. Consciously or unconsciously, readers of fiction appreciate the beauty in good writing. Occasionally I will read a passage or sentence over to be impressed by the opening sentences of Ernest Hemingways The Old Man and the Sea, The Dark, and Herman. If I was a determined speed reader, I would never have the time to appreciate these beautiful passages. And Id never have the time to savor the development