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1、英语四级12月四级考试阅读练习(8)There are two factors which determine an individuals intelligence. The first is the sort of brain he is born with. Human brains differ considerably, some being more capable than others. But no matter how good a brain he has to begin with, an individual will have a low order of inte

2、lligence unless he has opportunities to learn. So the second factor is what happens to the individualthe sort of environment in which he is reared. If an individual is handicapped envionmentally ,it is likely that his brain will fail to develop and he will never attain the level of intelligence of w

3、hich he is capable.The importance of environment in determining an individuals intellingence can be demonstrated by the case history of the identical twins, Peter and Mark X. Being identical, the twins had identical brains at birth, and their growth processes were the same. When the twins were three

4、 months old , their parents died, and they were placed in separate foster homes. Peter was reated by parents of low intelligence in an isolatedcommunity with poor educational pooprtunities.Mark was reared inthe home of well-to-do parents who had been to college. He was read to as a child , sent to g

5、ood schools, and given every opportunity to be stimulated intellectually.This enviromental difference continued until the twins were in their late teens, when they were giben tesets to measure their intelligence. Marks I.Q. was 125, twenty-five points higher than the average and fully forty points h

6、igher than his identical brother. Given equal opportunities , the twins , having identical brains,would have tested at roughly the same level. 1.This selection can best be titled_. a.Measuring Your Intelligence b.Intelligence and Environment c.The Case of Peter and Mark d.How the brain Influences In

7、telligence 2.The beststatement of the main idea of this passage is that _. a.human brains differ considerably b.the brain a person is born with is improtant in determining his intelligence c.environment is crucial in determining a persons intelligence d. persons having identical brains will have rou

8、ghly the same intelligence 3.According to the passage , the average I.Q.is _. a.85 b.100 c.110 d.125 4.The case history of the twins appears to support the conclusion that _. a.individual with identical brains seldom test at same level b.an individuals intelligence is determined only by his envirome

9、nt c.lack of opportunity blocks the growth of intelligence d.changes of enviroment produce changes in the structure of the brain 5.This passage suggests that an individual s I.Q._. a.can be predicted at birth b.stays the same throuthout his life c.can be increased by education d.is determined by his

10、 childhood 参考答案：bcbcc12月四级考试长难句翻译练习(8)71. No prudent person dared to act on the assumption that, when the continent was settled, one government could include the whole; and when the vast expense broke up, as seemed inevitable, into a collection of separate nations, only discord, antagonism, and wars

11、 could be expected.72. If they were right in thinking that the next necessity in human progress was to lift the average person upon an intellectual and social level with the most favored, they stood at least three generations nearer than Europe to that goal. 73. Somehow he knows that if our huckster

12、ing civilization did not at every moment violate the eternal fitness of things, the poets song would have been given to the world, and the poet would have been cared for by the whole human brotherhood, as any man should be who does the duty that every man owes it. 74. The instinctive sense of the di

13、shonor which money-purchase does to art is so strong that sometimes a man of letters who can pay his way otherwise refuses pay for his work, as Lord Byron did, for a while, from a noble pride, and as Count Tolstoy has tried to do, from a noble conscience. 75. Perhaps he believed that he could not cr

14、iticize American foreign policy without endangering the support for civil rights that he had won from the federal government. 76. Abraham Lincoln, who presided in his stone temple on August 28, 1963 above the children of the slaves he emancipated (解放), may have used just the right words to sum up th

15、e general reaction to the Negroes massive march on Washington. 77. In the Warren Court era, voters asked the Court to pass on issues concerning the size and shape of electoral districts, partly out of desperation because no other branch of government offered relief, and partly out of hope that the C

16、ourt would reexamine old decisions in this area as it had in others, looking at basic constitutional principles in the light of modern living conditions. 78. Some even argue plausibly that this weakness may be irremediable : in any society that, like a capitalist society, seeks to become ever wealth

17、ier in material terms disproportionate rewards are bound to flow to the people who are instrumental in producing the increase in its wealth. 79. This doctrine has broadened the application of the Fourteenth Amendment to other, nonracial forms of discrimination, for while some justices have refused t

18、o find any legislative classification other than race to be constitutionally disfavored, most have been receptive to arguments that at least some nonracial discriminations, sexual discrimination in particular, are “suspect” and deserve this heightened scrutiny by the courts. 80. But as cameras becom

19、e more sophisticated, more automated, some photographers are tempted to disarm themselves or to suggest that they are not really armed, preferring to submit themselves to the limits imposed by premodern camera technology because a cruder, less high-powered machine is thought to give more interesting

20、 or emotive results, to have more room for creative accident. 参考答案： 71、没有一个谨慎的人能按如下的假设行事：当陆地确定以后，一个政府并不能包括全部；当这种巨大的开销终于分裂为几个民族时，这看起来是不可避免的，人们就只能等待着争论，敌对和战争了。 72、如果他们认为人类进步的下一步必需是把普通人的智力水平和社会地位向着最受欢迎的方向提高的看法正确的话，他们至少要比欧洲超前三代接近那个目标。 73、他认识到如果不是我们的“小贬”文明每时每刻地破坏事实内部的和谐的话，诗人的诗歌就该已经奉献给了世界，而诗人也该被全人类关怀着，每个为

21、大家做事的人都该被如此对待。 74、金钱购买给艺术的本能耻辱感如此强烈，以致可有时文人可以获得报酬却拒绝为其作品给予的报酬，Lord Byron有时因为尊贵的自豪而这么做，而Count Tolstoy则出于贵族的良知而尽力这么做。 75、也许他认为他批评美国的外支政策就会使他从联帮政府那里获得的对人权和的支持受到威胁。 76、Abraham Lincoln在1963年8月28日在他掌管的石头寺里解放了奴隶的孩子们，使用了正确的词语来总统对待华盛顿的黑人群众游行。 77、在Warren法庭时代，选民们要求法庭通过有关选区的大小和形状的问题，一方面因为出于绝望-没有什么其他的政府部门提供缓解的办法

22、；一方面出于希望-法庭根据现代的生活条件来审视基本的宪法原则,像其他地区一样重新审查在这一地区的旧的规定。 78、有些人甚至看似事理地认为这一弱点无可补救：在任何一个在物质财富方面追求更加富裕的社会中，比如说资本主义社会，比例不均衡的回报肯定要流向那些在创造财富增长的过程中提供设备的人。 79、这一学说把十四修正案的应用扩大到了其他方面，由于一些法官拒绝用宪法来给除种族外的东西来进行法定分类予以否定，许多人觉得这一论点可以接受；至少有一些非种族的歧视，特别是性别歧视被怀疑要受法庭的仔细审查。 80、但由于照相机变得越来越精细，越来越自动化了，一些摄影师禁不住开始解除他们的装备或者说他们根本没什

23、么装备，而倾向于运用那些非现代的照相技术，因为一架未成熟，力不大的机器被认为更加有趣或者说更能有情绪结果，给人更多的创作空间。12月四级考试高分备考：改错练习(8)第八篇： Error Correction (15 minutes) Some people, in all seriousness, say that humans will be living in space within the next hundred or so years. Planet Earth will be crowded, dirty and lack of resources. A sort of exod

24、us -71. of mankind will begin. Spaceships will be assembled so that they revolve around the earth. Some may orbit around Mars. These space stations will be serviced by space buses. We saw the first space bus launch in -72. April 1981. This was Columbia, it made several -73. orbits around the earth a

25、nd then returned, landing on a huge dry lake bed in California. Columbia will be used again. Previous spaceships have been abandoned, only the nose cone being used to bring the crews back to earth. -74. Upon established, each space station will -75. generate its own atmosphere and have its own agric

26、ulture. It will need to rotation to provide -76. an artificial gravity; people will be forced inwards -77. from the center by centrifugal force. The moon and Mars could become new sources of new materials. Driving through space will no -78. longer need Earth fuel- the energy would come from the sun.

27、 This energy would be converted from -79. electricity to work magnetic rockets. That all sounds quite fantastically but, with -80. the rapid development of moderns technology, who knows about what the future holds? 参考答案： 71. lack-short 72. launch-launched 73. it-which 74. crews-crew 75. upon-once 76

28、. rotation-rotate 77. inwards-outwards 78. will-would 79. from-into 80. fantastically-fantastic12月四级考试写作提高资料汇总(7)二十三、Itpaysto+V（.是值得的。） 例句：Itpaystohelpothers. 帮助别人是值得的。 二十四、bebasedon（以.为基础） 例句：Theprogressoftheesocietyisbasedonharmony. 社会的进步是以和谐为基础的。 二十五、Sparenoeffortto+V（不遗余力的） 例句：Weshouldsparenoefforttobeautifyourenvironment. 我们应该不遗余力的美化我们的环境。 二十六、bringhometo+人+事（让.明白.事） 例句：Weshouldbringhometopeoplethevalueofworkinghard. 我们应该让人们明白努力的价值。 二十七、becloselyrelatedto（与.息息相关） 例句：Takingexerciseiscloselyrelatedtohealth. 做运动与健康息息相关。 二十八、Getintothehabitof+Ving =makei