2018年12月大学英语四级阅读理解试题：选词填空专项（十五）

　　第三十二篇

　　Psychologists take opposing views of how external rewards, from warm praise to cold cash, affect motivation and creativity. Behaviorists, who study the relation between actions and their consequences, argue that rewards can __1__ performance at work and school. Cognitive(认识派的) researchers, who study various aspects of mental life, maintain that rewards often destroy creativity by encouraging dependence on __2__ and gifts from others.

　　The latter view has gained many supporters, __3__ among educators. But the careful use of small __4__ rewards speaks creativity in grade school children, suggesting that properly presented inducements(刺激) indeed __5__inventiveness, according to a study in the June Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.

　　“If kids know they’re working for a reward and can focus on a relatively __6__ task, they show the most creativity,” says Robert Eisenberger of the University of Delaware in Newark. “But it’s easy to __7__ creativity by giving rewards for poor performance or creating too much anticipation for rewards.

　　A teacher who continually draws attention to rewards or who hands our high grades for __8__ achievement ends uPwith uninspired students, Eisenberger holds. As an example of the latter point, he notes growing efforts at major universities to tighten grading standards and __9__ failing grades.

　　In early grades, the use of so-called token economies, in which students handle challenging problems and receive performance-based points to ward valued rewards, shows __10__ in raising efforts and creativity, the Delaware psychologist claims.

　　[A]mental

　　[B]promise

　　[C]kill

　　[D]avoid

　　[E]hope

　　[F]especially

　　[G]aid

　　[H]ordinary

　　[I]approval

　　[J]monetary

　　[K]generally

　　[L]improve

　　[M]challenging

　　[N]restore

　　[O]excellent

　　参考答案：

　　1.L

　　2.I

　　3.F

　　4.J

　　5.G

　　6.M

　　7.C

　　8.H

　　9.N

　　10.B

　　第三十三篇

　　Reading is thought to be a kind of conversation between the reader and the text. The reader puts questions, as it were, to the text and gets answers. In the light of these he puts __1__ questions, and so on.

　　For most of the time this “conversation” goes on below the level of consciousness. At times, however, we become __2__ of it. This is usually when we are running into difficulties, when mismatch is occurring between __3__ and meaning. When successful matching is being experienced, our question of the text continues at the unconscious level.

　　Different people __4__ with the text differently. Some stay very close to the words on the page, others take off imaginatively from the words, interpreting, criticizing, analyzing and examining. The former represents a kind of comprehension which is __5__ in the text. The latter represents __6__ levels of comprehension. The balance between these is important, especially for advanced readers.

　　There is another conversation which from our point of view is __7__ important, and that is to do not with what is read but with how it is read. We call this a “process” conversation as __8__ to a “content” conversation. It is concerned not with meaning but with the __9__ we employ in reading. If we are an advanced reader our ability to hold a process conversation with a text is usually pretty well __10__. Not so our ability to hold a content conversation.

　　[A]opposed

　　[B]converse

　　[C]equally

　　[D]written

　　[E]developed

　　[F]strategies

　　[G]compared

　　[H]awake

　　[I]higher

　　[J]expectations

　　[K]deal

　　[L]absolutely

　　[M]aware

　　[N]better

　　[O]further

　　参考答案：

　　1.O

　　2.M

　　3.J

　　4.B

　　5.D

　　6.I

　　7.C

　　8.A

　　9.F

　　10.E