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1．98年1月四级真题改编 Part IV Reading Comprehension (Reading in Depth) (25 minutes) Section A Directions: In this section, there is a passage with ten blanks. You are required to select one word for each blank from a list of choices given in a word bank following the passage. Read the passage through carefully before making your choices. Each choice in the bank is identified by a letter. Please mark the corresponding letter for each item on Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through the centre. You may not use any of the words in the bank more than once. Questions 47 to 56 are based on the following passage. In bringing up children, every parent watches eagerly the child’s acquisition of each new skill—the first spoken words, the first __47__ steps, or the beginning of reading and writing. It is often __48__ to hurry the child beyond his natural learning rate, but this can set up dangerous feelings of failure and states of worry in the child. This might happen at any stage. A baby might be forced to use a toilet too early, a young child might be __49__ to learn to read before he knows the meaning of the words he reads. On the other hand, though, if a child is left alone too much, or without any learning opportunities, he loses his natural __50__ for life and his desire to find out new things for himself. Parents __51__ greatly in their degree of strictness towards their children. Some may be especially strict in money matters, others are saver over times of coming home at night or punctuality for meals. In general, the controls __52__ represent the needs of the parents and the values of the community as much as the child’s own happiness. As regards the development of moral standards in the growing child, __53__ is very important in parental teaching. To forbid a thing one day and excuse it the next is no foundation for morality. Also, parents should realize that “example is better than precept”. If they are not sincere and do not __54__ what they preach, their child