雅思阅读真题(Part 2)
Part 2 · 考频:中频 · 最近考试:2013.9.7
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In 1874, long before the advent of television, the English Parliament passed a law to protect children ‘from their own lack of experience and from the wiles of pushing tradesmen and moneylenders’ (James, 1965). The act is one of the earliest governmental policies to address children’s vulnerability to commercial exploitation and was produced before major corporations earned huge profits by marketing products directly to children. Yet the issues underlying this 19th-century policy remain much the same in the 21st century.
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答案:C
原文定位:Today, the number of channels received in the average US home has escalated with the diffusion of cable television and satellite technologies. In this new multi-channel era, there are numerous national program services devoted exclusively to children
同义替换:「recent innovations」↔「cable television and satellite technologies」,「TV broadcasting」↔「channels」
答案:D
原文定位:Approximately 80% of all advertising targeted at children falls within four product categories: toys, cereals, candies, and fast-food restaurants
同义替换:「main goods and services」↔「four product categories」,「advertised to children」↔「advertising targeted at children」
答案:G
原文定位:This type of advertising makes the task of discriminating between program and commercial content particularly difficult for young children (Kunkel, 1988) and is thus restricted in the US by the Federal Communications Commission during children’s programs
同义替换:「current limitation」↔「restricted」,「aimed at children」↔「during children’s programs」
答案:D
原文定位:The other most common persuasive strategy employed in advertising to children is to associate the product with playfulness and happiness
同义替换:「techniques」↔「strategy」,「encourage children to watch TV commercials」↔「advertising to children」
答案:E
原文定位:Rather than informing young viewers about the importance of a nutritious breakfast, this common disclaimer actually leaves many children with the misimpression that cereal alone is sufficient for a meal
同义替换:「believe the opposite of what is true」↔「misimpression」,「advertisement」↔「commercial」
答案:Kunkel et al
原文定位:The other most common persuasive strategy employed in advertising to children is to associate the product with playfulness and happiness, rather than to provide any actual product-related information (Kunkel et al, 1992)
同义替换:「fun」↔「playfulness and happiness」,「telling them about what is being sold」↔「to provide any actual product-related information」,「aim to」↔「persuasive strategy」
答案:Turow
原文定位:In decades past, television programming targeted at children was limited and relegated to time slots unpopular with their parents, such as Saturday mornings of television advertising
同义替换:「Originally」↔「In decades past」,「when adults rarely watched TV」↔「time slots unpopular with their parents」
答案:McNeal
原文定位:According to another estimate, children aged 14 years and under make $24 billion in direct, purchases and influence $190 billion in family purchases, underscoring the high stakes involved
同义替换:「have a significant impact」↔「influence」,「what adults buy」↔「family purchases」
答案:Liebert et al
原文定位:In contrast, the use of child-friendly language such as 'you have to put it together' more than doubled the proportion of children who understood the qualifying message (Liebert et al, 1977)
同义替换:「Tests showed」↔「studies」,「can follow information」↔「understood the qualifying message」,「simple words」↔「child-friendly language」
答案:scene
原文定位:Most children below the age of 4 or 6 exhibit low awareness of the concept of commercials, frequently explaining them as if they were a scene in the program itself
同义替换:「mistake an advertisement for」↔「explaining them as if they were」,「from the programme」↔「in the program itself」
答案:separators
原文定位:Although most children's programs indicate that a commercial break is coming (e.g. by saying 'We’ll be right back after these messages’), research reveals that these ‘separators' generally do not help children to recognize advertising content
同义替换:「show」↔「indicate」
答案:host-selling
原文定位:When an ad includes one of the characters featured in a program, this is known as host-selling
同义替换:「person or cartoon figure from the programme」↔「characters featured in a program」
答案:funnier
原文定位:based on either affective (‘commercials are funnier than TV programs') or perceptual (‘commercials are short and programs are long’) cues