12月19日的大学英语四六级考试结束，新东方网四六级频道第一时间为广大考生带来四六级考试真题答案以及解析，届时新东方多位知名教师也将第一时间对此次四六级考试相关真题做出详细解析，敬请广大考生密切关注以及。 词汇理解15选10：（孩子思考方式） 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 36 toy with a piece of cloth, the baby thinks the toy has disappeared and stops looking for it. A 4-year-old may 37 that a sister has more fruit a juice when it is only the shape of the glasses that differ, not the 38 of juice. Yet children are smart in their own way. Like good little scientists, children are always testing their child-sized 39 about how things work. When your children 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 40 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 41 ; rather, she is learning that her desires and yours can differ, and that sometimes those 42 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 43, like the blooming of a flower, almost independent of what else is 44 in their lives. Although many of his specific conclusions have been 45 or modified over the years, his ideas inspired thousands of studies by investigators all over the world. 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 36 G toy为名词，前边需要填入形容词作定语，只有favorite语义相符。 37. M 缺少谓语动词，前边是情态动词may，所以要填动词原形，语义上只有protest合适，表示“抗议说... ” 。 38.B the+名词+of, amount此处表示橙汁的量。 39.O Child-sized 为形容词，后面需要名词做中心语，根据后面从句意思选择theories理论。 40.I 该空所在句不缺少成分，这时倾向填入副词做状语，根据前文中家长的话以及后面问句，选择immediately最为合适，表示立即马上。 41.D 考察固定搭配drive sb. crazy 逼疯某人 42.F those 后需要加名词复数，且后文谓语是are，同时前文说孩子和家长不同，根据语义该处填入不同的名词形式differences。 43.J Unfold 在这里为不及物动词，展开显露的意思，后面需要副词修饰动词，根据后文中花开属于自然现象，所以是naturally，表示自然地。 44.H Be +doing或者be+done，但是15个选项中没有合适语义的done形式，所以只有happening合适。 45.N Although 表示让步转折，逗号后面是正向评语，所以从句为负向评语，并且和or并列，在语义上相关，形式上相同，因此填rejected表示拒绝否定。 长篇阅读:（The Prefect Essay） The Perfect Essay A)Looking back on too many years of education, I can identify one truly impossible teacher. She cared about me, and my intellectual life, even when I didn’t. Her expectations were high impossibly so. She was an English teacher. She was also my mother. B)When good students turn in an essay, they dream of their instructor returning it to them in exactly the same condition, save for a single word added in the margin of the final page: ”Flawless.” This dream came true for me one afternoon in the ninth grade. Of course, I had heard that genius could show itself at an early age, so I was only slightly taken aback that I had achieved perfection at the tender age of 14. Obviously, I did what any professional writer would do; I hurried off to spread the good news. I didn’t get very far. The first person I told was my mother. C)My mother, who is just shy of five feet tall, is normally incredibly soft-spoken, but on the rare occasion when she got angry, she was terrifying. I am not sure if she was more upset by my hubris(得意忘形) or by the fact that my English teacher had let my ego get so out of hand. In any event, my mother and her red pen showed me how deeply flawed a flawless essay could be. At the time, I am sure she thought she was teaching me about mechanics, transitions(过渡), structure, style and voice. But what I learned, and what stuck with me through my time teaching writing at Harvard, was a deeper lesson about the nature of creative criticism. D)Fist off, it hurts. Genuine criticism, the type that leaves a lasting mark on you as a writer, also leaves an existential imprint(印记) on you as a person. I have heard people say that a writer should never take criticism personally. I say that we should never listen to these people. E)Criticism, at its best, is deeply personal, and gets to the heart of why we write the way we do. The intimate nature of genuine criticism implies something about who is able to give it, namely, someone who knows you well enough to show you how your mental life is getting in the way of good writing. Conveniently, they are also the people who care enough to see you through this painful realization. For me it took the form of my first, and I hope only, encounter with writer’s block-I was not able to produce anything for three years. F)Franz Kafka once said:” Writing is utter solitude(独处), the descent into the cold abyss(深渊) of oneself. “My mother’s criticism had shown me that Kafka is right about the cold abyss, and when you make the introspective (内省的) decent that writing requires you are out always pleased by what you find.” But, in the years that followed, her sustained tutoring suggested that Kafka might be wrong about the solitude. I was lucky enough to find a critic and teacher who was willing to make the journey of writing with me. “It is a thing of no great difficulty,” according to Plutarch, “to raise objections against another man’s speech, it is a very easy matter; but to produce a better in its place is a work extremely troublesome.” I am sure I wrote essays in the later years of high school without my mother’s guidance, but I can’t recall them. What I remember, however, is how we took up the “extremely troublesome” work of ongoing criticism. G)There are two ways to interpret Plutarch when he suggests that a critic should be able to produce “a better in its place.” In a straightforward sense, he could mean that a critic must be more talented than the artist she critiques(评论). My mother was well covered on this count. But perhaps Plutarch is suggesting something slightly different, something a bit closer to Marcus Cicero’s claim that one should “criticize by creation, not by finding fault.” Genuine criticism creates a precious opening for an author to become better on this own terms-a process that is often extremely painful, but also almost always meaningful. H)My mother said she would help me with my writing, but fist I had myself. For each assignment, I was write the best essay I could. Real criticism is not meant to find obvious mistakes, so if she found any-the type I could have found on my own-I had to start from scratch. From scratch. Once the essay was “flawless,” she would take an evening to walk me through my errors. That was when true criticism, the type that changed me as a person, began. I)She criticized me when I included little-known references and professional jargon(行话). She had no patience for brilliant but irrelevant figures of speech. “Writers can’t bluff(虚张声势) their way through ignorance.” That was news to me-I would need to find another way to structure my daily existence. J)She trimmed back my flowery language, drew lines through my exclamation marks and argued for the value of restraint in expression. “John,” she almost whispered. I learned in to hear her:”I can’t hear you when you shout at me.” So I stopped shouting and bluffing, and slowly my writing improved. K)Somewhere along the way I set aside my hopes of writing that flawless essay. But perhaps I missed something important in my mother’s lessons about creativity and perfection. Perhaps the point of writing the flawless essay was not to give up, but to never willingly finish. Whitman repeatedly reworded “Song of Myself” between 1855 and 1891. Repeatedly. We do our absolute best wiry a piece of writing, and come as close as we can to the ideal. And, for the time being, we settle. In critique, however, we are forced to depart, to give up the perfection we thought we had achieved for the chance of being even a little bit better. This is the lesson I took from my mother. If perfection were possible, it would not be motivating. 46. The author was advised against the improper use of figures of speech. 47. The author’s mother taught him a valuable lesson by pointing out lots of flaws in his seemingly perfect essay. 48. A writer should polish his writing repeatedly so as to get closer to perfection. 49. Writers may experience periods of time in their life when they just can’t produce anything. 50. The author was not much surprised when his school teacher marked his essay as “flawless”. 51. Criticizing someone’s speech is said to be easier than coming up with a better one. 52. The author looks upon his mother as his most demanding and caring instructor. 53. The criticism the author received from his mother changed him as a person. 54. The author gradually improved his writing by avoiding fancy language. 55. Constructive criticism gives an author a good start to improve his writing. 46. I 关键词是improper use，figure of speech，文中定位在I 段第二句话。irrelevant 是improper的同义替换。 47. C 定位在C段第三四句，perfect essay对应flawless essay，同时第四句she was teaching...说明妈妈给我上了一课a lesson。 48. k K段倒数第五行，不断改进以求接近理想化，ideal理想的，题干中perfection完美的意思，与其同义替换。 49. E 最后一句话 作者遇到写作瓶颈，与题干中作家会经历一段无法产出作品的时期同义。 50. B 用关键词“flawless”定位在B段，整段都表示出作者对这种作文完美毫无瑕疵的情况没有大惊小怪。 51. F 定位在“to raise objections against...”批评容易，给出好的替换方案难。 52. A 第一段中teacher，care about关心，her expectation are high妈妈的期待高，对应题干caring instructor，most demanding。 53. H 最后一句话是题干同义替换。 54. J 最后一句话作者停止写虚张声势的花言巧语，渐渐写作进步了。 55. G 最后一句，真正的批评是使得作者开始进步的珍贵开端，a precious opening for 和a good start 同义，to become better on his own terms和to improve his writing同义。
