湖南专升本英语真题练习考卷（二）

The easiest and least complicated way to motivate somebody is quite simply to pay them attention. What you say is not particularly important, nor necessarily is how long you spend saying it, as long as it’s something.“Nice weather” or “How are you? ”will do.

People just love attention, adults and children. Children love attention so much that they will do anything to get some. In fact, if children are not getting enough attention, they would rather be naughty and get told off than be“good”and be ignores. An interesting time in most households with young children is dinnertime—it’s the end of the day, everybody is tired, the house is in a mess and Johnny doesn’t like carrots and is refusing to eat his food. Again, the easy trap to fall into is to start getting cross with Johnny and getting into a big argument about his food. Again, he’s getting the attention he desires；even if it’s not the best sort of attention, it’s better than nothing. It’s fascinating if you’re able to stand back from the situation and instead focus attention and praise on Johnny’s brother who is eating his food—after all, he’s the one that is doing what you want him to do. After five or ten minutes or so of being ignores and deprived of the attention, it’s amazing how quickly（usually）Johnny sees sense and obeys. I’ve watched my own children in this situation go from screaming from behind the sofa that they won’t eat their food, to sheepishly crawling to the table saying that maybe they’ll have a little bit, to sitting in their chair wolfing the lot and saying, “Mummy, aren’t I doing good dinner eating? ”—all without having one word spoken to them by their parents, who are busily paying attention to theirbrothers.

This fundamental need for attention, and doing whatever it takes to get it, doesn’t disappear when we turn into adults. Sure, there are people who are “real attention seekers” in a loud and extravert（外向的）way, and there are the shy, retiring types who don’t want attention in such a“sociable”way. But everybody still wants to be recognized and seen as worthwhile.

6.What will children probably do to get parents’attention？

[A]They will keep quiet for a long time.

[B]They will ignore theirparents.

[C]They will behavenaughtily.

[D]They will get crosseasily.

7.What does the phrase “the easy trap to fall into” in Paragraph 2 probablymean？

[A]A set-up situation parents are likely to gointo.

[B]The household work parents can notavoid.

[C]Some tempting food children love toeat.

[D]A bad habit children easily develop.

8.An effective way to make children behave themselves maybeto .

[A]scold them severely

[B]teach them what to do

[C]give them totalfreedom

[D]praise their sisters orbrothers

9.“Real attention seekers”in the last paragraph are probablythosewho .

[A]motivate others tolearn

[B]associate with shytypes

[C]rely on negativeattention

[D]arouse others’ attentionopenly

10.What point does the author make by relating to children’ sbehavior？

[A]Children’ s upbringing needs parents’ constantcare.

[B]Children are usually extravert while adults aresociable.

[C]Both adults and children need to be seen asworthwhile.

[D]The motivation of children differs greatly from that ofadults.

[答案及解析]

6.C 【解析】Pra.2中有…theywould ratherbenaughtyandget told off thanbe“good”andbeignores可以得知孩子们宁愿淘气或者被教训来获得大人的关注，也不会选择被忽视。

7.A 【解析】由 Pra.2 中可以得知在晚饭时间，Johnny 想要获得父母关注，就会与他的兄弟争食。而面对这种情况，Johnny 的父母一般先忽视 Johnny 而赞扬他的兄弟来达成让 Johnny 自己变得乖巧听话的意图。因此选择选项 A：父母可能会进入的设置情况更为恰当。

8.D 【解析】由 Pra.2中.. praise onJohnny’sbrother whoiseatinghisfood…可以看出选项 D的做法更合理。选项 A：严厉苛责孩子会让情况更为严重。选项 B：告诉孩子们怎么做，不是较为有效的方法，一般孩子会适得其反。选项 C；给予孩子足够的自由，也不是较为有效的方法。且选项 A、B、C本文未涉及。

9.D 【解析】“Realattentionseekers”指真正关注寻求者，主要为了引起别人的广泛的注意，选项 D符合。

10.C 【解析】文章最后一段最后一句说明每个人都希望被认可和看待是值得的，故选择选项 C 正确。