1 . Oklahoma School Testing Program for English Language Arts
Purpose
This testing assessment system utilizes different types of assessment to gather multiple pieces of evidence to provide timely, relevant, actionable, and reliable information about what students know and can do relative to a set of standards.
Test Structure, Format, and Scoring
The English Language Arts operational test is meant to be administered in two sessions within one day with a break between sessions or on two instructional days in a row. Each section of the test consists of 25 operational items and 5 field-test items.
Short constructed-response items provide students with the opportunity to respond to items in their own words. A typical response is 1-3 sentences. Each multiple-choice item is scored as correct or incorrect. Technology-enhanced items are worth one point and are scored as correct or incorrect.
Test Administration Details
Paper/pencil testing is administrated in this test. Due to the nature of a paper test booklet, students may have to flip pages to read passages and to read the associated test items.
Students will be able to use scratch paper and/or unmarked grid (方格) paper for the paper. The scratch paper must be collected and destroyed by the test administrator immediately following the test.
1. How many test items are there in total?A.25. | B.30. | C.50. | D.60. |
A.Taking away scratch paper. | B.Using a Pencil. |
C.Using unmarked grid paper. | D.Flipping pages. |
A.A textbook. | B.A course plan. | C.An exam paper. | D.An exam guideline. |
2 . “Tie an Italian’s hands behind his back,” runs an old joke, “and he’ll be speechless.” This rests on a national stereotype: Italians are talkative and emotional, and all that arm-waggling supposedly goes to prove it.
Susan Goldin-Meadow of the University of Chicago has a rather different view. Emotions come out in lots of ways: facial expressions, posture, tone of voice and so on. But people are doing something different when they use gestures with speech, which she sums up in the title of her new book, “Thinking with Your Hands”. It is a masterly tour through a lifetime’s research.
Virtually everyone gestures, not just Italians. Experimental subjects, told after a research session that they were being watched for gestures, apologize for not having made any — but were doing so the entire time. People born blind gesture when they speak, including to each other. A woman born without arms but with “phantom limb syndrome (幻肢综合征)” describes how she uses her phantom arms when she talks — but not when she walks. All this suggests that cognition is, to some extent, “embodied”; thinking is not all done in your head.
In fact, gestures that accompany speech are a second channel of information. Subjects watch a film in which a cat runs but are told to lie and say it jumped. They do so in words — while their hands make a running motion. People who say they believe in sexual equality but gesture with their hands lower when talking about women are not indicating women’s height; they can be shown to have biases of which they may be unaware.
In “The Crown”, a historical drama series, Lady Diana is warned that her hands may betray her real emotions, which could be dangerous; they are tied together so she can learn to speak without gesticulating. No one who reads Susan’s book could ever again think that gesturing shows only a lack of control. It is about thinking and communication, and is a sophisticated aid to both.
1. Why does the author mention the old joke in Paragraph 1?A.To present an argument. | B.To describe a scene. |
C.To lead in the topic. | D.To clarify a doubt. |
A.The disabled seldom use gestures. | B.Gestures literally embody cognition. |
C.Thinking only occurs inside the brain. | D.Gestures are improper in communication. |
A.Gestures may express what the speaker really thinks. |
B.People are unaware of the meanings of their gestures. |
C.Gesturing during speech shows only a lack of control. |
D.Speakers can lie more easily with the help of gestures. |
A.Speech: A Direct Channel of Information | B.Gestures: A Vital Form of Communication |
C.Italian’s Body Language: A National Stereotype | D.Thinking with Your Hands: A Lifetime’s Research |
3 . 阅读下面短文,在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。
When I think of a “mad genius”, no one deserves the title more than Nikola Tesla. Born in Austria in 1856, this scientist is not just an engineer, but an inventor and
To begin with, Tesla possessed an
As an inventor, his experiments at that time
4 . 听下面一段独白,回答以下小题。
1. What does the speaker probably do?A.She’s a medical doctor. | B.She’s a fitness instructor. | C.She’s a swimming coach. |
A.Focusing only on building muscles. |
B.Taking too many types of exercises. |
C.Doing the same routine all the time. |
A.Once a week. | B.Twice a week. | C.Three times a week. |
5 . What problem do the speakers have?
A.They are late for work. | B.They get stuck in traffic. | C.They have lost their way. |
6 . Who is Andy Clarks?
A.A public librarian. | B.A TV actor. | C.A famous lawyer. |
7 . 假定你是李华,外教Brian要求同学们在课上推荐一款兼顾趣味与英语学习的app,请你写一篇发言稿。内容包括:
1. 介绍这款app;
2. 分享使用体验。
注意:
1. 写作词数应为80左右;
2. 请按如下格式在答题纸的相应位置作答。
Hi, everyone.
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That’s all. Thanks for listening.
8 . 阅读下面材料,在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式.
For thousands of years, Chinese people
It is a time when people think highly of individual freedom
Therefore, there is every reason to believe that this trend of families in reduced size is
9 . It is October again. It has been a year since my mother was diagnosed with lung cancer; a year since she started her good, brave fight. It has been a year marked with so many milestones, so many shared smiles and secret fears.
Usually, children, with eyes that see all and minds that are still free to wonder, are extraordinarily accepting the changes in routine, the shift in seasons. This week, however, when I took my two younger boys with me for a visit to Mom’s without telling her in advance, Sean ran into her bedroom to greet her, then quickly returned to the living room to talk to me. “Mom,” my four-year-old whispered, careful not to be overheard or offending, “Grandma has no hair.”
Mom came through her surgery that removed the tumor (肿瘤) in her lung with faith and grace. She also came through thin and tired. And the side effect was total hair loss. It should grow back eventually, but my mother decided to have a wig (假发) to cover her head. She wears it mostly for the comfort of others. When she is alone, she usually leaves her head uncovered, finding the wig uncomfortable when unnecessary.
“Grandma has no hair,” Sean said, because we had caught her by surprise.
“I know, Sean. Isn’t it funny?” I asked him as my mom joined us in the living room. We explained to him that Grandma had to take medicine that made her hair go away, but it would come back.
“Would you like to touch my head, Sean?” my mother asked as my son stared at her, his blue eyes filled with questions and curiosity. It is surprising to see your mother—or anyone you love—without hair, but surprisingly it’s something that you can get used to quickly. We are, after all, not really these bodies—these are just the shells that transport who we are, and no matter what the physical changes, those connected by love seem to be able to recognize their own.
1. What has happened to Grandma over the year?A.She has refused others’ visits. | B.She has pulled through the cancer. |
C.She has lost her fight with the tumor. | D.She has recovered without side effects. |
A.Because he found Grandma tired and thin. |
B.Because just overheard Grandma’s cancer. |
C.Because he couldn’t accept Grandma’s appearance. |
D.Because he had never seen Grandma hairless before. |
A.Loving and optimistic. | B.Loyal and honest. |
C.Humble and committed. | D.Generous and humorous. |
A.Every cloud has a silver lining. | B.Never judge a book by its cover. |
C.Love goes beyond physical changes. | D.What doesn’t kill us makes us stronger. |
1. What can we learn from the talk?
A.Janet Gordon has written her own book. |
B.Jessica Watson broke a record in 2010. |
C.Jesse Martin lost fingers while climbing a mountain. |
A.A book. | B.Her parents. | C.A painting. |
A.In 1993. | B.In1996. | C.In2010. |
A.Supportive. | B.Opposed. | C.Optimistic. |