翻译二级笔译综合能力分类模拟题18
(总分100,考试时间90分钟)
Reading Comprehension
Anyone who doubts that children are born with a healthy amount of ambition need spend only a few minutes with a baby eagerly learning to walk or a headstrong toddler starting to talk. No matter how many times the little ones stumble in their initial efforts, most keep on trying, determined to master their amazing new skill. It is only several years later, around the start of middle or junior high school, many psychologists and teachers agree, that a good number of kids seem to lose their natural drive to succeed and end up joining the ranks of underachievers. For the parents of such kids, whose own ambition is often inseparately tied to their children"s success, it can be abewildering, painful experience. So it is no wonder some parents find themselves hoping that ambition can be taught like any other subject at school.
It"s not quite that simple. "Kids can be given the opportunities, but they can"t be forced," says Jacquelynne Eccles, a psychology professor at the University of Michigan who led a study examining what motivated first- and seventh-graders in three school districts. Even so, a growing number of educators and psychologists do believe it is possible tounearthambition in students who don"t seem to have much. They say that by instilling confidence, encouraging some risk taking, being accepting of failure and expanding the areas in which children may be successful, both parents and teachers canreignitethat innate desire to achieve.
Dubbed Brainology, the unorthodox approach uses basic neuroscience to teach kids how the brain works and how it can continue to develop throughout life. The message is that everything is within the kids" control, that their intelligence ismalleable.
Some experts say our education system, with its strong emphasis on testing and rigid separation of students into different levels of ability, also bears blame for the disappearance of drive in some kids. Some educators say it"s important to expose kids to a
world beyond homework and tests, through volunteer work, sports, hobbies and other extracurricular activities. "The crux of the issue is that many students experience education as irrelevant to their life goals and ambitions," says Michael Nakkula, a Harvard education professor who runs a Boston-area mentoring program called Project IF (Inventing the Future), which works to get low-income underachievers in touch with theiraspirations. The key to getting kids to aim higher at school is to tell them the notion that classwork is irrelevant is not true, to show them how doing well at school can actually help them fulfill their dreams beyond it. Like any ambitious toddler, they need to understand that they have to learn to walk before they can run.
1. The word "bewildering" underlined in Paragraph 1 is closest in meaning to ______.
A. puzzling        B. unbelievable
C. unpleasant        D. awkward
2. The passage is mainly about ______.
A. when in one"s life ambition is most needed
B. what to do to reform the education system
C. why parents of underachievers are ambitious
D. how to help school children develop their ambition
3. The word "unearth" underlined in Paragraph 2 is closest in meaning to ______.
A. discover        B. seek
C. pursuit        D. analyze
4. According to the passage, most educators believe that many kids ______.
A. show a lack of academic ambition at birth
B. amaze their parents by acting like adults
C. become less ambitious as they grow up
D. get increasingly afraid of failing in school
5. The word "reignite" underlined in Paragraph 2 is closest in meaning to ______.
A. rekindle        B. confirm
C. find out        D. strike
6. Paragraph 1 mentions some parents who would see their kids" failure as ______.
A. natural        B. trivial
C. intolerable        D. understandable
7. The word "malleable" in Paragraph 3 most probably means ______.
A. justifiable        B. flexible
C. uncountable        D. desirable
8. Some experts suggest that many kids lose ambition in school because they are ______.
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A. cut off from the outside world
B. exposed to school work only
C. kept away from **petition
D. labeled as inferior to others
9. The word "aspirations" underlined in Paragraph 4 refers to ______.
A. ambition        B. caree
C. goal        D. project
10. The last paragraph implies ______.
A. the effectiveness of Project IF
B. the significance of classwork
C. the importance of walking to running
D. the attainment of different life goals
Jan Hendrik Schon"s success seemed too good to be true, and it was. In only four years as a physicist at Bell Laboratories, Schon, 32, had co-authored 90 scientific papers—one every 16 days—detailing new discoveries in superconductivity, lasers, nanotechnology and quantum physics. This output astonished his colleagues, and made themsuspicious. When one co-worker noticed that the same table of data appeared in two separate papers—which also happened to appear in the two most prestigious scientific journals in the world, Science andNature—the jig was up. In October 2002, a Bell Labs investigation found that Schon had falsified andfabricateddata. His career as a scientist was finished. Scientific scandals, which are as old as science itself, tend to follow similar patterns of presumption and due reward.

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