1993年01月英语四级试题(阅读)(3)

1993年01月英语四级试题(阅读)

arts degree.

Most Asian-American students owe their success to the influence of parents who are determined that their children take full advantage of what the American educational system has to offer. An effective measure of parental attention is homework. Asian parents spend more time with their children than American parents do, and it helps. Many researchers also believe there is something in Asian Culture that breeds success, such ideals that stress family values and emphasize education.

Both explanations for academic success worry Asian Americans because of fears that they feed a typical racial(种族的image. Many can remember when Chinese, Japanese and Filipino immigrants (移民) were the victims of social isolation.

Indeed, it was not until 1952 that laws were laid down giving all Asian immigrants the right to citizenship.

31. While making tremendous achievements at college, Asian-American students ______.

(A) feel they are mistreated because of limited knowledge of English

(B) are afraid that their academic successes bear a strong Asian character

(C) still worry about unfair treatment in society

(D) generally feel it a shame to have to depend on their parents

Passage Four

Questions 36 to 40 are based on the following passage.

Like fine food, good writing is something we approach with pleasure and enjoy from the first taste to the last. And good

writers, good cooks, do not suddenly appear full-blown. Quite the contrary, just as the cook has to undergo an intensive

training, mastering the skills of his trade, the writer must sit at his desk and devote long hours to achieving a style in

his writing, whatever its purpose-schoolwork, matters of business, or purely social communication. You may be sure that the more painstaking the effort, the more effective the writing, and the more rewarding.

There are still some remote places in the world where you might find a public scribe to do your business or social writing for you, for a fee. There are a few managers who are lucky enough to have the service of that rate kind of secretary who can take care of all sorts of letter writing with no more than a quick note to work from. But for most of us, if there is any writing to be done, we have to do it ourselves. We have to write school papers, business papers or home papers. We are constantly called on to put words to paper. It would be difficult to count the number of such words, messages, letters, and reports put into the mails or delivered by hand, but the daily figure must be enormous. What is more, everyone who writes expects, or at least hopes. We want whatever we write to be read, from first word to last, not just thrown into some "letters-to-be-read" file (档案) or into a wastepaper basket. This is the reason we bend our efforts toward learning and practicing the skill of interesting, effective writing.

6. In this passage, good writing is compared to fine food because _____.