【正文】 fects their parents, says Sandra Hofferth, who headed the recent study of children39。s lecture notes were too plicated. C) The professor spoke with a strong accent. D) The professor spoke too fast. 4. A) The furnished apartment was inexpensive. B) The apartment was provided with some old furniture. C) The furniture in the market was on sale every Sunday. D) The furniture he bought was very cheap. 5. A) The man is thinking about taking a new job. B) The man likes a job that enables him to travel. C) The man is sure that he will gain more by taking the job. D) The man doesn39。t want to stay home and take care of their child. 6. A) Take the GRE test again in 8 weeks. B) Call to check his scores. C) Be patient and wait. D) Inquire when the test scores are released. 7. A) She read it selectively. B) She went over it chapter by chapter. C) She read it slowly. D) She finished it at a stretch. 8. A) He was kept in hospital for a long time. B) He was slightly injured in a traffic accident. C) He was seriously wounded in a mine explosion. D) He was fined for speeding. 9. A) Wait for a taxi. B) Buy some food. C) Go on a trip. D) Book train tickets. 10. A) It39。s timetable. A chief reason, she says, is that more mothers are working outside the home. (Nevertheless, children in both doubleine and male breadwinner households spent parable amounts of time interacting with their hours and 22 hours respectively. In contrast, children spent only 9 hours with their single mothers.) All work and no play could make for some very messedup kids. Play is the most powerful way a child explores the world and learns about himself, says T. Berry Brazelton, professor at Harvard Medical School Unstructured play encourages independent thinking and allows the young to negotiate their relationships with their peers, but kids ages 3 to 12 spent only 12 hours a week engaged in it. The children sampled spent a quarter of their rapidly decreasing free time watching television. But that, believe it or not, was one of the findings parents might regard as good news. If they39。s statement, however, can be seen when the word business is taken to mean big business. And the term big business referring to the biggest panies, is seen in opposition to labor. Throughout . history working people have had to fight hard for higher wages, better working conditions, and the fight to form unions. Today, many of the old labor disputes are over, but there is still some employee anxiety. Downsizing the laying off of thousands of workers to keep expenses low and profits high creates feelings of insecurity for many. 26. The United States is a typical country A) which encourages free trade at home and abroad B) where people39。s absentmindedness often results in funny situations 35. It can be concluded from the passage that A) people should avoid doing important things during peak periods of lapses B) hazards can be avoided when people do things they are good at C) people should be careful when programming their actions D) lapses cannot always be attributed to lack of concentration Passage Four Questions 36 to 40 are based on the following passage. It39。s long overdue. Shortly after birth in December 1978, Kimberly Mays and another infant were mistakenly switched and sent home with the wrong parents. Kimberly39。t claim custody rights after their child is adopted 38. The Twiggs claimed custody rights to Kimberly because A) they found her unhappy in Mr. Mays39。s personality should be lively and attractive. This does not rule out people who are plainlooking, or even ugly, because many such people have great personal charm. But it does rule out such types as the overexcitable, sad, cold, and frustrated. Secondly, it is not merely desirable but essential for a teacher to have a genuine capacity for sympathy, a capacity to understand the minds and feelings of other people, especially, since most teachers are school teachers, the minds and feelings of children. Closely related with this is the capacity to be tolerant not, indeed, of what is wrong, but of the weaknesses and immaturity of human nature which induce ( i)~ ) people, and again especially children, to make mistakes. Thirdly, I hold it essential for a teacher to be both intellectually and morally honest. This means that he will be aware of his intellectual strengths and limitations, and will have thought about and decided upon the moral principles by which his life shall be guided. There is no contradiction in my going on to say that a teacher should be a bit of an actor. That is part of the technique of teaching, which demands that every now and then a teacher should be able to put on an act to enliven (使生動(dòng) ) a lesson, correct a fault, or award praise. Children, especially young children, live in a world that is rather larger than life. A teacher must be capable of infinite patience. This, I may say, is largely a matter of selfdiscipline and selftraining, for we are none of us born like that. Finally, I think a teacher should have the kind of mind which always wants to go on learning. Teaching is a job at which one will never be perfect。 the methods by which the subjects can best be taught to the particular pupils in the classes he is teaching。s attitude towards the judge39。t the Twiggs39。s especially true of children who remain in abusive homes because the law blindly favors biological parents. It39。s statement can be taken negatively because A) working people are discouraged to fight for their fights B) there are many industries controlled by a few big capitalists C) there is a conflicting relationship between big corporations and labor D) public services are not run by the federal government 30. A pany39。t replacing it with rea