As teenagers grow up, they become more independent and start making their own decisions. However, during this period, it can be easy for some of them
I offer to pay you $200 in one year if you give me $190 today. Good deal or bad deal? It’s the kind of math problem you might encounter in real life,
A survey in 2022 funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation found that 61 percent of parents of students said math education should be “relevant to the real world”
Harvard has a personal finance course in the
In most high schools, personal finance classes are light on math, and math classes are
There is a
In conclusion, the integration of math and personal finance in education is not just an academic pursuit, but a
| A．similar to | B．as opposed to | C．compared with | D．coupled with |
| A．lifting | B．lowering | C．forgetting | D．struggling |
| A．awful | B．forced | C．perfect | D．temporary |
| A．apply to | B．pass down | C．identify with | D．kick off |
| A．for | B．but | C．and | D．so |
| A．breathing | B．rolling | C．quoting | D．introducing |
| A．politics | B．economics | C．mathematics | D．physics |
| A．Traditionally | B．Constantly | C．Frequently | D．Thankfully |
| A．restore | B．recover | C．reconsider | D．retell |
| A．lacking | B．sufficient | C．absent | D．present |
| A．depressing | B．amazing | C．challenging | D．motivating |
| A．combination | B．separation | C．application | D．publication |
| A．regional | B．local | C．national | D．individual |
| A．learn | B．increase | C．examine | D．manage |
| A．practical | B．regrettable | C．miserable | D．relaxing |
3 . In a crowded migrant (移民) camp in Tijuana, Mexico, a three-year-old girl wandered
It was December 2018, a time when the US-Mexico border was seeing migrants from Central America
Back at home, Rebellón gathered a group of volunteer
Rebellón has received numerous
| A．leisurely | B．alone | C．freely | D．abroad |
| A．tended | B．recognized | C．invited | D．noticed |
| A．relief | B．health | C．business | D．education |
| A．fighting | B．preventing | C．escaping | D．worsening |
| A．side | B．place | C．hand | D．heart |
| A．determined | B．annoyed | C．disappointed | D．panicked |
| A．line up | B．make up | C．stand up | D．look up |
| A．soldiers | B．doctors | C．writers | D．teachers |
| A．expenses | B．savings | C．bills | D．charges |
| A．integrated | B．forced | C．transformed | D．translated |
| A．Limited | B．Funded | C．Motivated | D．Influenced |
| A．create | B．adjust | C．reject | D．follow |
| A．special | B．strange | C．common | D．major |
| A．opportunities | B．honours | C．blessings | D．messages |
| A．display | B．possess | C．maintain | D．expand |
4 . Marva Collins’ journey as a teacher began in the 1960s, when she was assigned to teach at a public school in Chicago. At the time, the school was plagued (困扰) by violence, low academic standards, and a
Despite these
Collins also
Collins’ impact on education was recognized by educators across the world, and she was
| A．variety | B．lack | C．combination | D．network |
| A．acknowledged | B．employed | C．recommended | D．labeled |
| A．challenges | B．prejudices | C．differences | D．doubts |
| A．stood up | B．ran away | C．set out | D．went on |
| A．learning | B．joking | C．listening | D．singing |
| A．unusual | B．mysterious | C．convenient | D．effective |
| A．expressed | B．graduated | C．weighed | D．scored |
| A．attend | B．apply | C．pursue | D．witness |
| A．admitted | B．emphasized | C．assumed | D．indicated |
| A．allowed | B．commanded | C．encouraged | D．warned |
| A．accordingly | B．generously | C．literally | D．randomly |
| A．advised | B．permitted | C．invited | D．persuaded |
| A．honesty | B．discipline | C．motivation | D．success |
| A．wisdom | B．training | C．delight | D．belief |
| A．demands | B．struggles | C．continues | D．promises |
5 . The University of Birmingham is the first excellent UK Russell Group university to announce that it will accept the “Gaokao” exam for high-flying Chinese students wishing to join its undergraduate courses in 2019. High school students who complete the “National Higher Education Entrance Examination”, or Gaokao, with top grades will be able to apply for direct entry onto Birmingham degree programmes without first completing a foundation year which is a routine for the freshman.
University of Birmingham Vice-Chancellor Professor Sir David Eastwood said: “The University of Birmingham has been challenging and developing great minds for more than a century. We welcome people from around the globe to study at Birmingham and Chinese students form an integral part of our education and research community. We are further opening access to Birmingham’s wealth of education opportunities for the brightest and most dedicated Chinese students by accepting this strict and important qualification. I look forward to welcoming these high-flying students to the University of Birmingham.”
Gaokao is increasingly accepted by universities in Australia, the USA, Canada and mainland Europe. Birmingham will only be considering high quality students who achieve a minimum 80% Gaokao score and meet additional academic and English language requirements.
Professor J on Frampton, Director of the University of Birmingham’s China Institute said: “The University of Birmingham has a long history of educating students from China and one of our most famous graduates is Li Siguang — the founding father of Chinese geology. I am delighted that the University is now accepting the Gaokao. This gives the brightest and best Chinese students an opportunity to move straight into the first year of our undergraduate programmes and experience the benefits of studying at a global Top 100 university, such as Birmingham.”
1. What do Chinese students have to do to enter the University of Birmingham before 2019?| A．Go through a foundation year. |
| B．Prepare Birmingham degree programmers. |
| C．Get the right to permanent residency. |
| D．Score over 800% of the university’s qualification examination. |
| A．The foreign students in China. | B．All people living in the UK. |
| C．The students of the UK. | D．Chinese students. |
| A．Negative. | B．Supportive. | C．Indifferent. | D．Neutral. |
| A．The introduction to the “Gaokao” of China. |
| B．The history of the University of Birmingham. |
| C．The high-quality students accepted by top universities. |
| D．The University of Birmingham’s acceptance of Gaokao. |
6 . This year, the Music Educator Award, presented by the Recording Academy and Grammy Museum, went to Annie Ray, the performing arts department chair and orchestra director at Annandale High School in Fairfax County, Virginia. She attended the awards ceremony in Los Angeles and brought home both a $10,000 prize and matching grant （资助） for her school’s music program.
Ray created the Crescendo Orchestra for students with severe intellectual and developmental disabilities, as well as a parent orchestra that teaches nearly 200 caregivers a year to play the same instrument as their children. She got the idea mostly from the Annandale community, which she says represents over 60 countries, including many refugees and immigrants. “There’re many cultures that might typically clash, but they come together in this very beautiful harmony,” Ray explained. “And that’s really uniquely expressed in the orchestra classroom, where we’re just all music-ing together.”
Ray says the Crescendo Orchestra is focused on teaching students how to play an instrument, through one-on-one instruction tailored to their needs. The orchestra is about much more than just making music, however. “I really push my students to be brave and go outside of their comfort zone. We have to learn how to work together with others,” she says.
Ray, who comes from a family of musicians and has played the harp （竖琴） since the age of five, knows firsthand the impact that a great teacher can make on their students. “Why I am where I am is because a teacher changed my life and made me want to be a music educator,” she says.
Ray says her warm reception on the awards ceremony is especially meaningful because not many people understand what exactly music educators do in the classroom or how much their work matters. She says that lack of understanding is one of the biggest challenges facing the profession in general. Moreover, she says her school desperately needs new instruments, and adds that she’ll use some of her grant money to buy more.
1. What mainly inspired Ray to create the Crescendo Orchestra?| A．The effect of some caregivers. | B．The diversity of a community. |
| C．The harmony of the disabled. | D．The rich culture of her school. |
| A．Who are influenced by music. | B．How the Crescendo Orchestra develops. |
| C．What students can learn. | D．Why students need special instruction. |
| A．She funded some students. | B．She fought against her family. |
| C．She began learning the harp. | D．She chose to be a music educator. |
| A．Music education needs to be appreciated. | B．She badly wants donations for instruments. |
| C．The administration offers no support. | D．She is often challenged by musicians. |
7 . Many American education experts say tutoring (辅导) is the best way to help students make up for learning loss during the pandemic. Although many schools have received a lot of government aid, only a small number of students have been getting tutored.
Chalkbeat and the Associated Press surveyed 12 of the nation’s school systems. The schools reported that fewer than 10 percent of students received any kind of tutoring in the fall of last year. A new tutoring group in Chicago served about three percent of students. But less than one percent of students in three big school systems received tutoring.
The low tutoring numbers suggest several problems. Some parents said they did not know tutoring was available or did not think their child needed it. Some school systems have struggled to hire tutors. Other school systems said their small tutoring programs were part of their efforts to meet students’ needs.
Whatever the reason, the result is clear: at an important time for students’ recovery, millions of children have not received the extra help.
“It works, it’s effective, it gets students to improve in their learning and catch up,” said Amie Rapaport, a researcher studying why so many students are not getting intensive tutoring.
Schools trying to increase tutoring face problems, including hiring and planning. Experts say tutoring is most effective when provided three times a week for at least 30 minutes during school hours. Offering after-school or weekend tutoring is simpler, but attendance is often low.
Low family interest has been another problem. Although test scores sharply dropped during the pandemic, many parents do not believe their children experienced learning loss.
In Wake County, North Carolina, the school district began planning a reading tutoring program in November. District officials last month said volunteers are tutoring fewer than 140 students. That is far fewer than the 1,000 students the program was designed to help. Many worry that not enough students are getting the help they need even as programs continue to grow.
1. What is known from the first two paragraphs?| A．Fewer students than expected received tutoring. |
| B．Learning loss is the biggest concern for students. |
| C．The survey covered 12 school systems all over the world. |
| D．Big school systems did a better job in tutoring than small ones. |
| A．The ways to increase tutoring. |
| B．The challenges facing some school systems. |
| C．The responses to the low tutoring numbers. |
| D．The causes of the situation of tutoring. |
| A．Opposed. | B．Supportive. | C．Tolerant. | D．Unclear. |
| A．After-school tutoring programs are not enough. |
| B．Students are busy with their schoolwork. |
| C．Families attach little importance to tutoring. |
| D．There is a lack of volunteers. |
8 . The ranking of universities and colleges at the national global level is a well-known doubtful practice. Imperfect approaches generate inaccurate results of these institutions. Nowadays, prestigious (有威望的) law and medical schools have started to walk away from this “evaluation”.
There are two obvious methodological problems with all of this. One is that the numerical rankings suffer from false precision. Is there really a difference between No.10 and No.11 in the undergraduate (本科生) school rankings? Johns Hopkins University famously had a plan called“10 by 20”with the goal of getting to No.10 by 2020. Hopkins is a great undergraduate institution — whether it’s No.10 or No.11 is meaningless, but it did indeed make it into the top 10 ahead of schedule, which no doubt delighted its trustees and students.
The other methodological problem is that rankings reward those schools that promote measurements by admitting students who have had the advantages of better pre-college education and test preparation coaching, and whose wealth will make them likely future donors. Equally worthy applicants without such resources will fail to enter the schools.
The good news is that in recent months, a reckoning (清算) has begun. Last September, Columbia University chose not to participate in the undergraduate rankings after an enterprising professor discovered that the school was fudging its own numbers. If Columbia’s data were corrected, it would drop from No. 2 to No. 18. Two months later, law schools began pushing back. Yale and Harvard Law Schools announced that they would refuse to provide data to U. S. News, and several outstanding law schools followed suit.
This resistance to rankings has now begun in the world of science. This is a great sign. In announcing its decision, the dean of Washington University’s medical school said, “…it is time to stop participating in a system that does not serve our students or their future patients.”
1. Why does the author mention Johns Hopkins University?| A．To share an experience. | B．To give specific example. |
| C．To make a detailed comparison. | D．To illustrate a complicated concept. |
| A．Its data was not based on facts. |
| B．It was left behind by other universities. |
| C．It didn’t think the system served their students. |
| D．Other universities chose to refuse to participate in the rankings. |
| A．Objective. | B．Indifferent. | C．Supportive. | D．Opposed. |
| A．Resistance to Educational Rankings |
| B．The Ranking of Universities and Colleges |
| C．Educational Rankings: Scientific or Imperfect |
| D．Reasons for Universities’ Refusal of Rankings |
9 . My daughter will turn 17 in three months! As a parent, I feel the urgency (紧迫) to teach her important skills before she goes off to college.
Start the savings habit. Start to set aside money for the future now, while you are young.
Be careful with credit cards. When you go to college, you may find credit card companies often attract you to sign up for their credit cards. They will try to convince you that a credit card is like having free money for you to spend while you only pay the smallest amount each month.
Be a smart shopper. Plan ahead weekly by making a shopping list and stick to the list. Consider using recipes (食谱) that use low-cost, healthy materials.
| A．Write down your needs and wants |
| B．This idea of money can be very dangerous |
| C．Get a part-time job when you're old enough |
| D．Now put aside some money when you have any income |
| E．Eat before you shop to avoid a sudden wish to buy something |
| F．Few people ever become wealthy based entirely on their earnings |
| G．Money management skills are extremely important for her success and happiness |
When I was a child, I was particular about food. It was Aunt Nelda that changed my habit of being a picky eater.
As far as I could remember, on a Friday night, when Dad and I arrived at Aunt Nelda’s house at dinner time, she prepared a big meal for us. Though the dishes smelled delicious, I didn’t feel like eating some of them. I took several bites of the sandwich and then laid it aside. Dad wanted to kick me under the table to remind me to finish all the food, but drawers (抽屉) between us protected me.
Looking at those drawers, I had a good idea. When Dad got up to refill his soup bowl, I pulled the bottom drawer open. It was full of cloth napkins (布餐巾). I put my sandwich under them and shut the drawer quickly. A plan for my rest food at Aunt Nelda’s emerged.
The next morning, I did the same to the food which I hated to eat. When Aunt Nelda saw my empty bowl, she gave me some sweets and said, “Good job, Jodi. You like my cooking just as much as your father.”
On Sunday, the food under the napkins continued growing, but somehow more slowly. Aunt Nelda was actually a pretty good cook. At noon, her children were coming for lunch. I offered to help set the table.
“Jodi, get the cloth napkins out of the bottom drawer,” she said. My heart began to beat fast. It was not because of the bottom drawer or the cloth napkins, but because of the left food.
“No, let’s use these!” I said, grabbing a handful of paper napkins. Aunt Nelda reached for the drawer. “My children prefer cloth napkins!” she said. I held my breath, waiting for the horrible scene. However, I couldn’t believe that she handed me some neat napkins.
“I’ve already cleaned them up,” she said. “It was so strange that there was much food under the napkins. I hadn’t seen mice for years! Guess what? They were back again. A long time ago, they made a nest and carried the food all over the house.”
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Aunt Nelda’s words made me feel relieved but ashamed.
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