新東方：2009年6月英語(yǔ)四級(jí)聽力答案詳解及點(diǎn)評(píng)

　　Questions 32 to 35 are based on the passage you’ve just heard.

　　Q32 Why is life said to be difficult for Hollywood kids?

　　C.The atmosphere they live is unreal

　　Q33 What does the speaker say about Trent Maguire, a thirteen-year-old boy?

　　C.He has too much to know the value of things

　　Q34 Why does Amender’s mother employ other people to look after her needs?

　　A.She has no time to do it herself

　　Q35 What will probably have negative effects on the lives of Hollywood kids?

　　B.The worship of money, beauty and pleasure

　　SECTION C

　　Compound Dictation

　　Around 120 years ago, Ebbinghaus began his study of memory. He concentrated on studying how quickly the human mind can remember information. One result of his research is known as the total time hypothesis, which simply mean the amount you learn depends on the time you spend trying to learn it. This can be taken as our first rule of learning. Although it is usually true that studying for 4 hours is better than studying for 1, there is still the question of how to use the 4 hours. For example, is it better to study for 4 hours straight or to study for 1 hour a day for 4 days in a row? The answer, as you may have suspected, is that it is better to spread out the study times. This phenomenon through which we can learn more efficiently by dividing our practice time is known as the distribution of practice effect. Thus, our second rule of learning is this. It’s better to study fairly briefly but often. But we are not finished yet. We haven’t considered how we should study over very short periods of time. Let’s say you are trying to learn some new and rather difficult English vocabulary using a stack of cards. Should you look at the same word in rapid succession or look at the word and then have some delay before you look at it again? The answer is it is better to space up the presentations of the word you are to learn.

　　36 concentrated

　　37 information

　　38 depends

　　39 straight

　　40 row

　　41 suspected

　　42 phenomenon

　　43 efficiently