2015英语六级口语考试练习(1)：儿童的数学能力

　　children’s numerical skills

　　people appear to born to compute. The numerical skills of children develop so early and so inexorably that it is easy to imagine an internal clock of mathematical maturity guiding their growth. Not long after learning to walk and talk, they can set the table with impress accuracy---one knife, one spoon, one fork, for each of the five chairs. Soon they are capable of nothing that they have placed five knives, spoons and forks on the table and, a bit later, that this amounts to fifteen pieces of silverware. Having thus mastered addition, they move on to subtraction. It seems almost reasonable to expect that if a child were secluded on a desert island at birth and retrieved seven years later, he or she could enter a second enter a second-grade mathematics class without any serious problems of intellectual adjustment.

　　Of course, the truth is not so simple. This century, the work of cognitive psychologists has illuminated the subtle forms of daily learning on which intellectual progress depends. Children were observed as they slowly grasped-----or, as the case might be, bumped into-----concepts that adults take for quantity is unchanged as water pours from a short glass into a tall thin one. Psychologists have since demonstrated that young children, asked to count the pencils in a pile, readily report the number of blue or red pencils, but must be coaxed into finding the total. Such studies have suggested that the rudiments of mathematics are mastered gradually, and with effort. They have also suggested that the very concept of abstract numbers------the idea of a oneness,a twoness , a threeness that applies to any class of objects and is a prerequisite for doing anything more mathematically demanding than setting a table-----is itself far from innate

　　从分值的划分可以看出，在复习过程中的重点是听力与阅读。建议大家在复习听力时，找一些历年的真题来练习，通过不断的练习使自己熟悉语速与和把读音与单词对上号反应出句子的含义，其中要注意提前阅读选项、加减运算、人物地点时间以及复合听写时前后联系、来不及先记词头等。英语听力的提高是需要不断的练习，建议大家可以每天听1个小时(尤其是考前1个月)，还可以看一些英语与中文双字幕的外国影片，让自己处于英语环境中，有助于听力的提高。

　　除了听力，阅读理解也是复习的重点。阅读理解现在分为选词填空、长篇阅读(信息匹配)以及仔细阅读。这个部分考查的是阅读量与单词的积累，在复习时要注意不要碰到生词就翻找字典，容易浪费时间，而且一个词在不同的句子中含义可能不同，建议大家通过上下文猜测词语的含义，在做阅读理解时猜词能力很重要。在做阅读理解时还要注意文章的类型，做到联系上下文，划出关键句以及对做题速度的控制，可以记下每次完成阅读理解所需的时间，有效控制速度。

　　写作与翻译两个部分占分不高，取得高分的难度较大。写作部分首先要注意读题，正确理解题目的含义，可以在写作时可以列下写作的大纲以确保不写偏，同时可以完成作文整体结构的划分。其次要注意语法的运用要规范正确并尽可能多用高级词汇(确保正确)，可以提高作文的整体水平，最后，可以通过背诵一些范文，句式结构来提高写作水平。

　　翻译部分难度较大，在平时练习时要注重对中国文化、历史、发展规划等领域词汇的积累，在翻译遇到困难时可以用自己的理解来翻译(注意正确)，可以翻译一些短文来锻炼自己的翻译能力。在翻译时注意不要采用中文的顺序逐字翻译，容易出错。在翻译过程中做到语法运用、单词拼写不出错，语句流畅，就能得高分。

　　英语六级的复习主要这四个部分，可以针对不同的占分值与自己的掌握程度来合理安排时间，做到心中有数，一定能够成功!