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For students, college is a series of disconnected experiences: the classroom, the dorm, the athletic field, and the internship(实习岗位). Yet the employers tell me what gets college students hired is the ability to translate what they learned in one place (the classroom, for example) to another that is far different from where they originally learned a concept (a project on an internship).

Educators call this “ transfer learning”—the ability to summarize key principles and apply them in many different places, which becomes more important as the skills needed to keep up in any job and occupation continue to change in the future. Our ability to drive almost any car on the market without reading its manual(手册)is an example of knowledge transfer.

The concept sounds simple enough. But today’s students, faced with the constant pressure to prepare for standardized tests, rarely have the chance to learn through problem-solving or to be involved in projects that improve skills that can be used in various settings.

In response to demands from students, parents and employers, colleges and universities are adding hands-on experiences to the undergraduate curriculum.

Arizona State University, where I’ m a professor of practice, is testing a curriculum across a dozen majors in which students learn nearly half of the subject matter through group projects. Engineering students might build a robot and learn the key principles of mechanics and electronics during the project. The hope is that students will be more involved if theories from the classroom are immediately applied in the outside world instead of years after students graduate.

What’s the problem with the hands-on learning experiences being added by colleges to the undergraduate curriculum? They’re often not accompanied by the guidance that students need to help them transfer what they learn. So students become adept skilled in job interviews at describing what they did during a project, but they have difficulty talking about what they learned and how they can apply that to where they want to work.

1. Why is the ability to drive mentioned in Paragraph 2?
A.To show that everything is changing.
B.To prove that driving ability is important.
C.To stress the importance of practical skills.
D.To explain the meaning of transfer learning.
2. What prevents students from getting the ability to transfer knowledge?
A.Various school projects.B.Too much stress from tests.
C.Their lack of theory knowledge.D.Their unwillingness to solve problems.
3. Which may arouse students’ interest in school learning according to the author?
A.Seeing what they have learned is applied.
B.Teachers changing the way lectures are given.
C.Focusing on the key principles of every subject.
D.Teachers explaining theories in an interesting way.
4. What does the author think of the hands-on learning experiences in colleges?
A.They are effective.B.They are unnecessary.
C.They should be improved.D.They cost a lot of time.

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【推荐1】While children are dogs-loyal and affectionate (情深的)— teenagers are cats. It’s so easy to be a dog owner. You feed it, train it, and boss it around. It puts its head on your knee and gazes at you as if you were a Rembrandt painting. It jumps indoors with enthusiasm when you call it.

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Since you are the one who raised it, taught it to fetch and stay and sit on command, you think that you did something wrong. Filled with guilt (内疚) and fear, you redouble your efforts to make your pet to do things in a right way.

Only now you’re dealing with a cat, so everything that worked before now has the other side of the wanted result. Call it, and it runs away. Tell it to sit, and it jumps on the counter. The more you go toward it, waving your hands, the more it moves away.

Put a dish of food near the door, and let it come to you. But remember that a cat needs your help and you love too. Sit still, and it will come, seeking that warm and comforting lap. It has not entirely forgotten. Be there to open the door for it.

One day your grown-up child will walk into the kitchen, give you a big kiss and say, “You’ve been on your feet all day. Let me get those dishes for you.”

Then you will realize your cat is a dog again.

1. When you call a dog, how will it probably react to you?
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3. What can we learn from the passage?
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C.You can’t expect children to care about their parents’ feelings.
D.Parents should consider what they do wrong to educate their kids.
4. What is the main purpose of writing this passage?
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Tseringben’s father wasn’t educated but was wise. He didn’t attend school, but taught himself to read Tibetan. His mother is illiterate (文盲的). And neither of his parents learned Chinese.

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