2019下半年英语四级考试阅读练习5

坦途网英语四级考试频道为大家持续更新英语四级考试时间、考试技巧以及备考资料等内容。在阅读这一项中，需要我们勤加练习。很多同学会参考他人总结的一些笔记，其实这样的方式是不可取的，应该自己去针对错题进行归纳总结，这样才会记忆深刻。

手机成了儿童玩具

When the Kids Favorite Toy Is Daddy s iPhone

Yesterday, my toddler broke another toy. But this wasn t an inexpensive, plastic doo-dad. It was my husband s iPhone.

Like many parents these days, my husband and I sometimes band over our smartphones to our son to soothe him or keep him entertained. It s partly laziness on our party---no other toy, it seems, can captivate him like the iPhone or BlackBerry. He s fascinated by the buttons and touchscreen, the sounds and lights. He hold it up to his ear and pretends he s making an important business call (or arranging a playdate with his best friend.) He somehow even managed to reprogram my BlackBerry to autotype in the Catalan language.

When we take away the BlackBerry or iPhone he wails; no other plaything even a pretty realistic toy cellphone satisfies him as much. (The marketing copy for the toy phone says This authentic looking play phone will surely distract your child from getting a hold of your cell phone! Ha! I wish.)

We often hide our phones-we don t want him to ruin them or grow too dependent on them but be almost always tracks them down once he hears the ring or the buzz of an incoming message. (Hiding a phone is tough, however, for those parents who need to have phones handy in case they re on call or the office beckons.) And when we pick up the phone or check messages, that only makes our son want the phone more, since he always wants whatever is in our hands.

Invariably, my son sticks the phone in his mouth and it ends up slobbery and pocked with bitemarks. Or when be eventually tires of the phone, he ll toss it aside, which is how my husband s iPhone met its recent doom.

We re not alone in using our cellphones as high-tech rattles. The AP recently ran a story on how more parents are downloading kid-friendly apps, such as white noise and rattle sounds and easy video games, to their cellphones. And according to a recent NPR report, one parent to encourage his 11-month-old baby to crawl, waves his Blackberry so the baby will crawl toward the gadget.

Readers, do you ever resort to handing over your smartphones to your kids? Any horror stories? Any good kid-friendly apps to recommend?

英语四级考试需要我们提前准备，千万不要临考抱佛脚。在做阅读题的时候，要注意方式方法，提高做题效率。要注意找文章关键词，篇幅比较长的阅读题可以先看问题，带着问题去在文中找答案。虽然考试的形式和内容在不断变化，但是就阅读题来说，难度和解题思路并没有很大变化，是有规律可循的。