Part III Reading
Section A
Questions 37 to 46 are based on the following passage.
Children do not think the way adults do. For most of the first year of life, if something is out of sight, it's out of mind. If you cover a baby's_____(37)toy with a piece of cloth, the baby thinks the toy has disappeared and stops looking for it. A 4-year-old may_____(38)that a sister has more fruit juice when it is only the shapes of the glasses that differ, not the_____(39)of juice.
Yet children are smart in their own way. Like good little scientists, children are always testing their child-sized_____(40)about how things work. When your child throws her spoon on the floor for the sixth time as you try to feed her, and you say, "That's enough! I will not pick up your spoon again!" the child will_____(41)test your claim. Are you serious? Are you angry? What will happen if she throws the spoon again? She is not doing this to drive you_____(42); rather, she is learning that her desires and yours can differ, and that sometimes those_____(43)are important and sometimes they are not.
How and why does children's thinking change? In the 1920s, Swiss psychologist Jean Piaget proposed that children's cognitive(认知的)abilities unfold_____(44), like the blooming of a flower, almost in dependent of what else is_____(45)in their lives. Although many of this specific conclusions have been_____(46)or modified over the years, his ideas inspired thousands of studies by investigators all over the world.
37.【题干】_____
A.advocate
B.amount
C.confirmed
D.crazy
E.definite
F.differences
G.favorite
H.happening
I.immediately
J.naturally
K.obtaining
L.primarily
M.protest
N.rejected
O.theories
【答案】G
38.【题干】_____
A.advocate
B.amount
C.confirmed
D.crazy
E.definite
F.differences
G.favorite
H.happening
I.immediately
J.naturally
K.obtaining
L.primarily
M.protest
N.rejected
O.theories
【答案】M
39.【题干】_____
A.advocate
B.amount
C.confirmed
D.crazy
E.definite
F.differences
G.favorite
H.happening
I.immediately
J.naturally
K.obtaining
L.primarily
M.protest
N.rejected
O.theories
【答案】B
40.【题干】_____
A.advocate
B.amount
C.confirmed
D.crazy
E.definite
F.differences
G.favorite
H.happening
I.immediately
J.naturally
K.obtaining
L.primarily
M.protest
N.rejected
O.theories
【答案】O
41.【题干】_____
A.advocate
B.amount
C.confirmed
D.crazy
E.definite
F.differences
G.favorite
H.happening
I.immediately
J.naturally
K.obtaining
L.primarily
M.protest
N.rejected
O.theories
【答案】I
42.【题干】_____
A.advocate
B.amount
C.confirmed
D.crazy
E.definite
F.differences
G.favorite
H.happening
I.immediately
J.naturally
K.obtaining
L.primarily
M.protest
N.rejected
O.theories
【答案】D
43.【题干】_____
A.advocate
B.amount
C.confirmed
D.crazy
E.definite
F.differences
G.favorite
H.happening
I.immediately
J.naturally
K.obtaining
L.primarily
M.protest
N.rejected
O.theories
【答案】F