If you are a TV addict, you can't have missed the popular sitcom(情景喜剧) Home With Kids. The lead characters, 17-year-old Xiao Xue and 14-year-old Liu Xing can remind us of our own behavior or our classmates. We love the two teenagers, but are they good students? And what makes a good student?
“Being a student is a kind of occupation, so a good student should have good grades. Based on their school reports, clever and diligent, Xiao Xue is a much better student than her brother, Liu Xing,” says Wu Hao, 16, Chifeng in Inner Mongolia. “The boy should work harder at studying since our duty as students is to study well.”
It is generally accepted that getting good scores is crucial for a student. So to some, being a good student means ranking high in your class or even your school. However, Wu also admits that a student's personality is more important in being a role model student.
“Honesty and kindness make you admirable. But Xiao Xue can be selfish, dishonest and arrogant, which make others feel uncomfortable to be around her. So she has a lot yet to improve on,” Wu said.
Many teenagers do not think it is fair to judge students by their grades. Take Liu Xing for example. He is bright, good at computers and does everything else well like any other 14-year-old student except studying.
“He is smart, humorous and always has fancy ideas which makes him popular. I guess he could be an excellent student if he attended school in the United States, where high grades are not so important and creativity is hailed,” says Jia Xiaoxu, 17, Hefei, Anhui.
From the US hit movie High School Musical, Jia discovers her role model.
“Gabriella in the movie is an ideal student. She is ranked top but is not seen as a bookworm. She is sweet and sociable. Most importantly, Gabriella is always 'hungry' to try new things and actively participates in different kinds of activities,” she said.
1. What is the passage mainly about?| A．A discussion about what makes a good student. |
| B．Two lovely middle school students. |
| C．How to get high rank in study. |
| D．Study and personality. |
| A．A student's personality is more important for a role model student. |
| B．A good grade is the most important for a good student. |
| C．Xiao Xue still has some shortcomings which need to be improved. |
| D．Xiao Xue is much better in study than her brother Liu Xing. |
| A．He is smart and humorous. |
| B．He does everything well except study. |
| C．He gets on well with Xiao Xue. |
| D．He is good at computer and creative. |
| A．To be good students, we should be eager to learn and take part in different activities. |
| B．To be good students, we should work hard. |
| C．To be good students, we should not be addicted to books. |
| D．To be good students, we should only concern about social issues. |
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“Compared with the late 70s,” she says, “now college students have many doors.” I was shocked when she first told me how she had had no choice in her major. Look at us today! So many doors are open to us! I believe there have never been such abundant opportunities for self-development as we have today. And my aunt told me that we should reach our goals by grasping all these opportunities.
The first door is the opportunity to study different subjects that interest us. My aunt was happy to study management, but she could also attend lectures on ancient Chinese poetry and on Shakespearean drama. As for myself, I am an English major, but I may also go to lectures on history.
The second door is the door to the outside world. Learning goes beyond classrooms and national boundaries. I have many fellow international classmates, and I am applying to an exchange program with a university abroad. As for my aunt, she is planning to get an MBA degree in the U.K.
The third door is the door to life-long learning. Many of my aunt’s contemporaries say she’s amazingly up-to-date for a middle-aged woman. She simply responds, “Age doesn’t matter. What matters is your attitude. I don’t think I’m too old to learn.” Yes, she is right. Since the government removed the age limit for college admissions, there are already some untraditional students, sitting with us in the same classrooms. Like them, my aunt is old but young in spirit with incredible energy and determination.
The doors open to us also pose challenges. For instance, we are faced with the challenge of a balanced learning, the challenge of preserving our fine tradition while learning from the West, and the challenge of learning continuously while carrying heavy responsibilities to our work and family. So, each door is a test of our courage, ability and judgment, but with the support of my teachers, parents, friends and my aunt, I believe I can meet the challenge head on.
1. Which of the following words can best replace the “door” in the passage?
| A．challenge | B．knowledge | C．learning | D．opportunity |
| A．Having a chance to visit the writer |
| B．Having lots of choices in subjects |
| C．Getting the highest score in her exam |
| D．Getting admission to a university |
| A．No pains, no gains. |
| B．Failure is the mother of success. |
| C．One is never too old to learn. |
| D．Rome isn’t built in a day. |
| A．fashionable | B．traditional | C．energetic | D．determined |
A． | B． |
C． | D． |
【推荐2】To learn new things, we must sometimes fail. But what's the right amount of failure? New research led by the University of Arizona proposes a mathematical answer to that question.
Educators have long recognized that there is something of a "sweet spot" when it comes to learning. That is, we learn best when we are challenged to grasp something just outside of our existing knowledge. When a challenge is too simple, we don't learn anything new; likewise, we don't expand our knowledge when a challenge is so difficult that we fail entirely or give up.
So where does the sweet spot lie? According to the new study, it's when failure occurs 15% of the time. Put another way, it's when the right answer is given 85%of the time.
Researchers at the University of Arizona came up with the so-called "85% Rule" after conducting a series of machine-learning experiments in which they taught computers simple tasks, such as classifying different patterns into one of two categories.
The computers learned fastest in situations in which the difficulty was such that they responded with 85% accuracy.
"If you have an error rate of 15% or accuracy of 85%, you are always maximizing your rate of learning in these two-choice tasks," said Professor Robert Wilson.
When we think about how humans learn, the 85%Rule would mostly likely apply to perceptual(感知的)learning, in which we gradually learn through experience and examples, Wilson said. Imagine, for instance, a radiologist(放射科医生)learning to tell the difference between images of tumors(肿瘤)and non-tumors.
"You need examples to get better at figuring out there's a tumor in an image, "Wilson said. "If I give really easy examples, you get 100% right all the time and there's nothing left to learn. You're not going to be taking as much from that as a situation where you are struggling a little hit. If I give really hard examples, you'll he 50% correct and still not learning anything new, while if I give you something in between, you can he at this sweet spot where you are getting the most information from each particular example."
1. Which of the following is linked with the sweet spot?| A．15 percent accuracy. | B．50 percent accuracy. |
| C．85 percent accuracy. | D．100 percent right. |
| A．To find out where the sweet spot lies. | B．To see how well computers carry out tasks. |
| C．To compare the results of their experiments. | D．To conduct some research on machine learning. |
| A．To teach what to do in the treatment of tumors. | B．To teach how to determine there is a tumor. |
| C．To help to remember what is learned. | D．To help to learn how a tumor develops. |
| A．Not taking failure too seriously. | B．Learning through experience and examples. |
| C．Struggling a little bit, but not too much. | D．Learning things that are completely new. |
【推荐3】We all know that studying is boring. Every time you have to read a textbook or review for a test, you may start thinking of a million things you’d rather be doing like watching TV.
Let’s go through them, shall we?
Get interested in the topic. To be able to dive into different aspects of any topic, you can’t jump straight into the details.
Change your environment. Having an environment that’s helpful to focus can make you enjoy your work. One tip is to add in things that you enjoy. For example, I have carefully selected some music that can help me focus. Another thing you can try is to go to your favorite coffee shop or your own secret spot in the library when you need to study.
Get a study partner. Studying with a partner is great for making the act of studying less boring.
| A．Instead, you have to be excited about it first. |
| B．Provide rewards for those who do jobs well. |
| C．Create mini-rewards for studying in advance. |
| D．The key to finding study partners is to get those who focus on learning. |
| E．Personally, I’ve also found that having a good drink next to me helps a lot. |
| F．Today, we’ll be covering some tricks you can use to make studying more fun. |
| G．However, there are two main points of failure that you have to watch out for. |
【推荐1】Research shows that some orchestral(管弦乐的)instruments are in a danger of dying out .YouGov research, asked by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra (RPO) to find the most popular instruments among schoolchildren, has revealed the increasing popularity of the ukulele(克里里)， with one in eight expressing a desire to learn， making it the highest ranked instrument behind the typical rock band grouping of the guitar, piano, keyboards, drums and bass guitar.
But younger generations interest in "more complex instruments “is decreasing, with the three least popular being the French horn. the double bass and the trombone.
James Williams, managing director of the RPO, believed the changes reflect the increasing pressure schools are under to provide music education, and went on to say that more needs to be done to interest secondary school students in the wider range of instruments. His concern was for the composition(构成)of future orchestras if the trend towards instruments like rock- band grouping were allowed to continue. But there may be yet another death, one that few would be quick to sorrow over: the recorder(竖笛)
Cheap, convenient, easy to learn, and suitable for individual and group performances, the recorder was once the go-to instrument for children’s early musical education. But in many schools it has been replaced by the ukulele, which, for teachers, offers many of the same benefits with none of the lasting damage to bearing. Plus, from a student’s viewpoint you can play Metallica on one.
Not all hope is lost for the cream-colored,10-pound Yatnaha recorder with a long history, however. About 13% of girls and 4% boys surveyed by YouGov said they wanted to learn the reorder. Surprisingly high! Unlikely as it may be. these children’s interest in the recorder must be encouraged.
1. What does YouGov research suggest?
| A．Schoolchildren determine the popularity of music |
| B．The ukulele is the least popular with students in |
| C．Students generally prefer rock-band instruments. |
| D．Orchestral instruments will disappear in the future. |
| A．Encourage children to play rock and roll. |
| B．Find means to inspire students' interest in them. |
| C．Spend much more school on music education |
| D．Offer high-quality orchestral instruments to the public |
| A．Because users can enjoy more advantages from it |
| B．Because the music played on it is more appealing. |
| C．Because it is much cheaper and easier to learn |
| D．Because it stands for the world's music tendency |
| A．Many children choose recorders as expected |
| B．It's time for younger learners to save music |
| C．We should respect children’s choices for instruments |
| D．Recorders still have the potential for a bright future. |
【推荐2】School is, waking up early in the morning, whether it is hot or cold, putting on the school uniform and rushing to the bus stop to catch the school bus and getting used to the words “Hurry up! You will be late!” You reach school and again the same words “Hurry up!” Do not let you relax.
Throughout the day, it is a mad rush. One period gets over, the other starts and you are ready for the second subject. When you forget to do your homework, you try to sit at the back and pretend to be looking for something on the floor or in your bag. You are lucky if you are not seen and it is bad luck if you get caught. If you are not lucky, be ready for a good scolding during break or after school. If you are lucky and your teacher is in a good mood, you may be left with a warning.
However, school is not so dull all the time. The games, library periods and breaks are a welcome time, when you can relax, joke and have fun with your friends. There are some teachers, too, who can make school very exciting. For example, Mr. Taneja, has a typical style of talking, making us always hooked on the playground.
School can be fun, real fun, when picnics and field trips are organized. We wait for them eagerly and keep on requesting our class teacher to organize one for us. Debates, quizzes, cultural programs also add luster(光泽) to an otherwise dull school life. Fun increases after really hard work and you tend to enjoy more than those who have been lazy and have wasted their time. I think this period of your life is the most wonderful period—full of dreams and hope.
1. How is the school life described by the author in the passage?| A．Dull and stressful. | B．Stressful but interesting. |
| C．Strict and fearful. | D．Annoying but funny. |
| A．Some students hope to get away with their fault. |
| B．Teachers should be more patient with their students. |
| C．Some students dislike finishing their homework. |
| D．Teachers should reduce the amount of homework. |
| A．Physics. | B．Language. | C．Chemistry. | D．Physical Education. |
| A．Favorable. | B．Indifferent. | C．Tired. | D．Troublesome. |
【推荐3】A proton (质子) is an infinitesimal (无穷小的) part of an atom.
Now imagine if you can (and of course you can’t) make smaller one of those protons down to a billionth of its normal size into a space so small that it would make a proton look huge. Now pack into that tiny, tiny space some matter. Excellent. You are ready to start a standard Big Bang universe.
In fact, you will need to gather up everything there is, every last mote (尘埃) of matter, between here and the edge of creation and press it into a spot so infinitesimally compact (紧密的) that it has no dimensions at all. It is known as a singularity.
It is natural but wrong to visualize the singularity as a kind of packed spot hanging in a dark, boundless void (虚空). There is no space, no darkness. The singularity has no “around” around it. We can’t even ask how long it has been there — whether it has just lately exploded into being, like a good idea, or whether it has been there forever, quietly awaiting the right moment. Time doesn’t exist. There is no past for it to emerge from.
And so, from nothing, our universe begins with a big “bang”. In a single blinding pulse, a moment of glory “explosion” much too rapid and expansive for any form of words, the singularity assumes (显露出) heavenly dimensions, space beyond conception. Within a second gravity is produced and then the other forces that govern physics. In less than a minute the universe is a million billion miles across and growing fast. There is a lot of heat now, ten billion degrees of it, enough to begin the nuclear reactions that create the lighter elements — principally hydrogen, helium and a little lithium (锂). In three minutes, 98 percent of all the matter there is or will ever be has been produced. We have a universe. It is a place of the most wondrous and gratifying possibility, and beautiful, too. And it was all done in about the time it takes to make a sandwich.
1. What is the characteristic of singularity?| A．Empty. | B．Mysterious. | C．Fixed. | D．Predictable. |
| A．Gravity. | B．Expansion. | C．Nuclear reactions. | D．Elements. |
| A．the existence of the universe |
| B．the environment in which the universe is made |
| C．the speed at which the universe comes into existence |
| D．the beauty of the universe |
| A．Protons in the Universe. | B．Why Build a Universe. |
| C．The Size of the Universe. | D．How to Build a Universe. |
