2015年6月大学英语六级阅读练习题(5)

　　It being not only possible but even easy to predict which ten-year-old boys are at greatest risk of growing up to be persistent offenders, what are we doing with the information? Just about the last thing that we should do is to wait until their troubles have escalated in adolescence and then attack them with the provisions of the new Criminal Justice Bill.

　　If this bill becomes law, magistrates will have the power to impose residential care orders. More young people will be drawn into institutional life when all the evidence shows that this worsens rather than improves their prospects. The introduction of short sharp shocks in detention centers will simply give more young people a taste of something else they don’t need; the whole regime of detention centers is one of toughening delinquents, and if you want to train someone to be anti-establishment, “I can’t think of a better way to do it,” says the writer of this report.

　　The Cambridge Institute of Criminology comes up with five key factors that are likely to make for delinquency: a low income family a large family, parents deemed by social workers to be bad at raising children, parents who themselves have a criminal record, and low intelligence in the child. Not surprisingly, the factors tend to overlap. Of the 63 boys in the sample who had at least three of them when they were ten, half became juvenile delinquents—compared with only a fifth of the sample as a whole.

　　Three more factors make the prediction more accurate: being judged troublesome by teachers at the age of ten, having a father with at least two criminal convictions and having another member of the family with a criminal record. Of the 35 men who had at least two of these factors in their background 18 became persistent delinquents and 8 more were in trouble with the law.

　　Among those key factors, far and away the most important was having a parent with a criminal record, even if that had been acquired in the distant past, even though very few parents did other than condemn delinquent behavior in their children.

　　The role of the schools emerges as extremely important. The most reliable prediction of all on the futures of boys came from teachers’ ratings of how troublesome they were at the age of ten. If the information is there in the classroom there must be a response that brings more attention to those troublesome children: a search for things to give them credit for other than academic achievement, a refusal to allow them to go on playing truant, and a fostering of ambition and opportunity which should start early in their school careers.

　　1. According to the author, delinquency should be tackled ___.

　　A. before adolescence

　　B. during institutional treatment

　　C. during adolescence

　　D. when the problem becomes acute

　　2. The number of young offenders could be reduced by the way of ___.

　　A. new legal measures

　　B. better residential care

　　C. brief periods of harsh punishment

　　D. examination of their backgrounds

　　3. What is the outcome result of putting young offenders into detention centers?

　　A. They become more violent

　　B. They receive useful training

　　C. They become used to institutions

　　D. They turn against society

　　4. Ten-year-old children likely to become offenders are usually ___.

　　A. spoilt children from small families.

　　B. bright children in a poor family.

　　C. dull children with many brothers and sisters.

　　D. children whose parents have acquired wealth dishonestly.

　　5. The writer concludes that potential offenders could be helped by ___.

　　A. spending more time at school

　　B. more encouragement at school

　　C. more activities outside school

　　D. stricter treatment from teachers

　　参考答案：

　　ADDCB

　　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!