大学英语四级模拟试题

A. without realizing criticism may destroy their self-confidence

B. in order to make them remember life's lessons

C. believing that criticism is beneficial for their early development

D. so as to put more pressure on them

67.

According to the passage parents and coaches should ___________.

A. help children to win every game

B. pay more attention to letting children enjoy sports

C. enable children to understand the positive aspect of sports

D. train children to cope with stress

68.

The author's purpose in writing the passage is ___________.

A. to persuade young children not to worry about criticism

B. to stress the importance of positive reinforcement to children

C. to discuss the skill of combining criticism with encouragement

D. to teach young athletes how to avoid burnout

Questions 69 to 73 are based on the same passage or dialog.

If it was once the case that there were no second acts in American lives, there are now not only second acts but third, fourth, and fifth ones. This is not entirely unhealthy: The belief that one shouldn't be judged by one's worst mistakes revives (恢复) careers that might otherwise have

ended. Thus, Sergio Zyman rebounded from the failure of New Coke to lead the company to great success and landed on the cover of Fortune in a story headlined, "So You Fail. Now Bounce Back!" That story put a new spin on screwing up: "If you haven't failed yet, you probably will. And for the benefit of your career, you probably should."

Sometime in the 1990s, though, the notion of failure as the necessary preface to success reached its falling phase. In this, Hollywood led the way. When the movie Showgirls was not successful in theaters, its distributor, MGM, decided to actively sell it as a bad movie, arranging midnight shows stocked with drag queens (男扮女装的男同性恋者) shouting the film's lines back at the screen. The notion of shame in failure came to be seen as old-fashioned, and the "redemption" (补救) phase of a comeback grew shorter and shorter until it disappeared entirely. As Hugh Grant taught us, no matter how bad one's misconduct, one can earn forgiveness through a modest chat on a