2015.12.1大学英语四级.docx

Section B 　　Directions: In this section, you are going to read a passage with ten statements attached to it.Eachstatement contains information given in one of the paragraphs.Identify the paragraphfrom which the information is derived.You may choose a paragraph more than once. 　　Joy: A Subject Schools Lack Becoming educated should not require giving up pleasure. 　　A.When Jonathan Swift proposed, in 1729, that the people of Ireland eat their children, he insisted itwould solve three problems at once : feed the hungry masses, reduce the population during a severedepression, and stimulate the restaurant business.Even as a satire (讽刺), it seems disgusting andshocking in America with its child-centered culture.But actually, the country is closer to hisproposal than you might think. 　　B.If you spend much time with educators and policy makers, youll hear a lot of the following words :standards,results,skills,self-control,accountability, and so on.I have visited someof the newer supposedly effective schools, where children shout slogans in order to learn self-control or must stand behind their desk when they cant sit still. 　　C.A look at what goes on in most classrooms these days makes it abundantly clear that when peoplethink about education, they are not thinking about what it feels like to be a child, or what makeschildhood an important and valuable stage of life in its own right. 　　D.Im a mother of three, a teacher, and a developmental psychologist.So Ive watched a lot ofchildren-talking, playing, arguing, eating, studying, and being young.Heres what Ive come tounderstand.The thing that sets children apart from adults is not their ignorance, nor their lack ofskills.Its their enormous capacity for joy.Think of a 3-year-old lost in the pleasures of finding outwhat he can and cannot sink in the bathtub, a 5-year-old beside herself with the thrill of putting together strings of nonsensical words with her best friends, or an 11-year-old completely absorbedin a fascinating c