1 . It is widely acknowledged that it is by no means an easy task to bring up a child well. And our ancestors already understood it well. As an old proverb says, “It takes an entire village to raise a child.” That is being quoted more and more often these days. And I’m pleased about that.
Parents need to be involved in their children’s education in many ways. Helping children with homework and studying, going on a field trip, teaching a craft or coaching a child’s sports team are all great ways to be involved with your child’s education. And don’t forget to communicate with teachers—they need and respect your input. Studies show that children learn more and schools function better when parents and schools work together.
Communities can help children create and achieve new goals. There are other ways such as helping with homework. reading to a child, coaching a children’s team, providing emotional support, helping solve problems and building self-esteem（自尊）. Kids need role models and advisers can be role models by sharing their experiences and wisdom.
Businesses can also help shape our children’s future—invite a class from your local school to visit your workplace. You may be providing a glimpse that opens a new world of possibilities. Show students what goes on during a typical day. Give a mini course for students: how products are made; how machinery works. You may have a developing electrician, a teacher, a nurse, or even a newspaper reporter on your hands.
It really does lake an entire village to raise a child. So share the responsibility－and the joy—of bringing a child to his or her full potential.
1. What does the underlined sentence in Paragraph 1 mean?| A．Raising a child well needs various efforts. |
| B．Communities play an important part in raising a child. |
| C．Our ancestors raised a child by using the whole village’s food. |
| D．People in the same village should take care of a child together. |
| A．Family education. | B．School education. |
| C．Life-long education. | D．Karly childhood education. |
| A．talent | B．health |
| C．grades | D．occupations |
| A．To show his research on education. |
| B．To call for more attention to children. |
| C．To make examples of education reform. |
| D．To introduce some ways to teach children well. |
2 . The setting was a packed gymnasium just before the start of a game against another school. There were five girls who were members of the Danville High School basketball team-all of them starters. They were not in uniform to play that night and would not be on the team for the rest of this season. They were there to admit their breaking of team rules. They were there to support their coach’s decision to take them off the team. They were there to let the town know there was a problem in their little community that needed to be addressed. And they did it with sincere regret rather than defensiveness.
While the school had been out for the New Year’s holiday, the five girls had gone to the party with several of their friends. There was alcohol there. And they all drank some.
Coach Rainville has a zero tolerance rule on drugs and alcohol for her members though it was a hard decision to make. When classes resumed and accounts of holiday parties were shared, rumors about the five girls began closing in on them. The coach said she couldn’t back down on her rules. And the players-two junior students and senior students-agreed. That night in the gym was part of their public support of the coach’s decision.
“We hope you will understand that we are not bad kids. What we did was definitely not worth it. We hope this event will make everyone realize that there is a big drug and alcohol problem in our community,” one of the senior students said, “And if you work with us to try to solve this problem, you will help us feel that we have not been thrown off our basketball team for nothing.” The five left the floor to deafening applause.
The team may not win another game this year. But they’ve learnt something about personal responsibility, the effect of one’s action on others, and honesty that will serve them well throughout life.
1. It can be inferred from the passage that five girls who were kicked off the team were_.| A．very good players on the team |
| B．addicted to alcohol and drugs |
| C．three junior students and two senior students |
| D．scolded by their parents for drinking alcohol |
| A．They didn’t fight for Danville High School any more. |
| B．They all gave speeches to apologize in the local press. |
| C．They admitted their mistake in public in the gymnasium. |
| D．They would never drink any alcohol throughout their life. |
| A．Indifferent. | B．Strict. |
| C．Stubborn. | D．Cruel. |
| A．Growing up with pain | B．A bad mistake |
| C．Team rules are everything | D．Basketball girls in high school |
3 . They had a dozen children, six boys and six girls, in seventeen years. One reason Dad had so many children was that he was confident anything he and Mother teamed upon was sure to be a success.
Our house at Montclair, New Jersey, was a sort of school for scientific management and the removal of wasted motions — or “motion study,” as Dad and Mother named it.
Dad took moving pictures of us children washing dishes, so that he could determine how we could reduce our motions and thus hurry through the task. Each child who wanted extra pocket money put forward an offer saying what he would do the job for. The lowest bidder got the contract(合约).
Dad put process and work charts in the bathrooms. Every child old enough to write — and Dad expected his children to start writing at a young age — was required to sign their names on the charts in the morning after he had brushed his teeth, taken a bath, combed his hair, and made his bed. At night, each child had to weigh himself, mark the figure on a graph, and sign the process charts again after he had done his homework, washed his hands and face, and brushed his teeth. Mother wanted to have a place on the charts for saying prayers, but Dad said as far as he was concerned prayers were voluntary.
It was strict management, all right. Yes, at home or on the job, Dad was always the efficiency expert. He buttoned his vest from the bottom up, instead of from the top down, because the bottom-to-top process took him only three seconds, while the top-to-bottom took seven. He even used two shaving brushes to make his face smooth enough, because he found that by so doing he could cut seventeen seconds off his shaving time. For a while he tried shaving with two razors, but he finally gave that up.
“I can save forty-four seconds,” he complained, “but I wasted two minutes this morning putting this bandage on my throat.” It wasn’t the injured throat that really bothered him. It was the two minutes.
1. Why was the author’s house considered a sort of school?| A．It had a team of twelve children there. |
| B．The children were taught how to work well in it. |
| C．The parents could teach their children better at home. |
| D．The parents could have the children’s daily activities recorded. |
| A．To help to do things efficiently. | B．To manage the big family effectively. |
| C．To look after the children better. | D．To remind the children to obey the rules. |
| A．He should have given up shaving. | B．His bleeding throat bothered him. |
| C．He couldn’t shave with two razors. | D．He failed to cut short his shaving time. |
| A．The kids had to bid for everything they wanted. |
| B．The author took pride in his father’s management. |
| C．The couple were always troubled by their children. |
| D．The father’s work was to teach the children at home. |
4 . The other day, BBC broadcast its documentary(纪录片) ＂Are Our Kids Tough Enough? — Chinese School＂， in which the British and Chinese teaching styles competed against each other, with both sides tested after four weeks to see who comes out on top.
In this unique experiment, five Chinese teachers took over a British classroom with 50 teenagers aged 13 and 14 in a British school for one month and taught them in a typical Chinese way: no talking, no questions and experiencing the severe classroom discipline within an extended school－hour from 7 a．m. to 7 p．m. In the meantime, another group of students were guided in the British teaching style: free talking, free questioning, thinking for themselves and relaxing learning atmosphere.
At the end of the documentary, all the pupils took part in the same exams in a few subjects. Next is the result.
Mathematics | Chinese | Science | |
Chinese style | 67.74 | 46.88 | 58.33 |
British style | 54.84 | 36.46 | 50 |
Faced with the result, many netizens in Britain made a strong suggestion to their Education Minister that Britain should learn from China and adopt China’s educational style.
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假设英国教育部长正在向中国学生征询对上述建议的看法，请你给他写封信表达你的看法。
1. 用约30个单词完成上文的概要。
2. 用约120个单词发表你的观点，你应该
(1) 阐述你对＂英国教育该不该采用中国方式＂的看法；
(2) 用2～3个理由或论据支撑你的观点。
【写作要求】
1. 写作时不能直接引用原文语句。
2. 作文中不能出现真实姓名和学校名称。
【评分标准】
内容完整，语言规范，语篇连贯，词数适当。
Dear Minister，
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Your sincerely，
A Chinese senior student
5 . 假如你是光明中学的李华，你的美国网友Tom在中国的一家网站上看到一幅漫画，有些不明白它想表达的意思，希望你能解释这张漫画的寓义。请根据以下内容给他写一封邮件：
1. 简要地描述漫画的内容；
2. 阐述这幅漫画的意义。
注意：
1. 字数100左右；
2. 邮件的开头和结尾已经给出，不计入总词数。
参考词汇：electric light bulb 电灯泡
on a lamp post 在路灯杆上 public property 公物
Dear Tom,
I am glad to hear from you.
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Yours sincerely,
Li Hua
增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号（∧），并在其下面写出该加的词。
删除：把多余的词用斜线（\）划掉。
修改：在错的词下划一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。
I’m proud to tell you the news you heard from is true. As is proved, some UK primary schools will use 36 math textbook, exercise books, and teachers’ guides publishing by the Shanghai Century Publishing (SCP). The textbooks will be used in both Shanghai or the UK at the same time. It is the first time that a developed country has been adopted Chinese textbooks in such systematic and large-scale way. The textbooks had been listed as a sample by the National Centre for Excellence in the Teaching of Mathematics of the UK. British publisher Harper Collins, the UK publisher of the textbooks, will be responsibly for the promotion of the schoolbooks, it has been permitted by SCP. We should, without doubt, take pride in yourselves.
7 . 每个人都是社会一员，每个人与他人都紧密相连， 建立和谐社会需要每个人的努力，因此拥有一定的社会责任感至关重要，但每个人对此的理解却各不相同，请依据下面一项针对中学生社会责任感体现的调查图表写一篇150词左右的短文，要求如下：
[写作内容]
1. 用约30词概括你对社会责任的理解；
2. 依据你的理解阐述社会责任感的重要性；
3. 结合实际谈谈如何有效培养中学生的社会责任感。
[写作要求]
1. 作文中不能出现真实姓名和学校名称；
2. 不必写标题。
[评分标准]
内容完整，语言规范，语篇连贯，词数适当。
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8 . The story told to all American children about honesty is about the cherry tree that President George Washington cut when he was a boy. In China, every child knows the story of Lei Feng, the young soldier who helped others and was very honest. The stories of George Washington and Lei Feng help us understand the importance of being honest.
Every teacher wants his or her students to be honest. If every student can be honest in their childhood, they will be honest when they become adults. The country will then be known as an honest country and it will be respected by everyone.
Usually, it is the father and the mother who give the first lessons of honesty. George Washington learned honesty from his father.
A favorite Chinese story is about a young man who went to the market to buy food for his mother. There was a very young girl there who was selling flowers. The young man stole one flower when the girl served her customer.
When he went home, he began to think what he had done. He went back to the market to find the girl. He told her that he was sorry and that he wanted to pay her for the flower. The little girl refused and said, "You do not need to pay for the flower, elder brother. Since you took it, I thought you had a reason to take it so I did not worry about receiving money for it."The young man was ashamed that he stole the flower. He could never forget about the importance of being honest.
1. What do we know from the stories of George Washington and Lei Feng?| A．George Washington was the president of America. |
| B．Lei Feng was a young soldier who helped others. |
| C．We had heard the stories when we were only children. |
| D．They help us understand the importance of being honest. |
| A．George Washington. | B．Lei Feng. | C．Parents. | D．Teacher. |
| A．Because the young man had realized his mistake. |
| B．Because her flowers were free. |
| C．Because she knew the young man well. |
| D．Because the flowers were very cheap, and she sent one to the young man. |
| A．Because it is one of the lessons required for study in every country. |
| B．Because if a child is honest in his/her childhood, he/she will be honest when growing up. |
| C．Because honest people are becoming less and less in most countries. |
| D．Because teachers are afraid of students’ stealing things when they are still in school. |
9 . One day, I received a call from a colleague. He was about to give a student a zero for his answer to a physical problem, while the student claimed a perfect score. I was elected as their arbiter (仲裁人). I read the examination problem: “Show how it is possible to determine the height of a tall building with the aid of a barometer (气压计).” The student had answered, “Take the barometer to the top of the building, attach a long rope to it, lower it to the street, and then bring it up, measuring the length of the rope. The length of it is the height of the building.”
The student had really answered the question completely, but the answer didn’t confirm his competence in physics. I suggested the student try again. I gave him six minutes to answer the question, warning that the answer should show some knowledge of physics. Five minutes later, he said he had many answers and dashed off one, which read “Take the barometer to the top of the building and lean over the edge of the roof. Drop the barometer, timing its fall with a stopwatch. Then, use the physical formula (公式) to calculate the height of the building.”
At this point, my colleague had to accept it, and then the student made almost full marks. I couldn’t help asking the student what the other answers were. He listed many others and then added, “Probably the best is to take the barometer to the administrator and said to him, ‘Sir, here is a fine barometer. If you tell me the height of the building, 1 will give it to you.”‘
Then, I asked the student if he really did not know the conventional answer to this question. He admitted that he did, but said that he was fed up with high school and college instructors trying to teach him how to think.
The name of the student was Bohr who later was famous all over the world. He won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1922.
1. The student got a zero at the beginning because .| A．the teacher wasn’t satisfied with him. |
| B．his answer wasn’t complete or correct |
| C．his answer didn’t show his knowledge of physics |
| D．the teacher didn’t fully understand his answer |
| A．the administrator told Bohr the height |
| B．the student knew the expected answer |
| C．the author preferred Bohr’s last answer |
| D．the teacher was a very stubborn person |
| A．instructors can teach students how to think |
| B．arbiters can help students to get high scores |
| C．teachers should make students use physical formulas |
| D．students should be given more freedom in thinking |
| A．Critical | B．Optimistic |
| C．Objective | D．Ambiguous |
10 . A long-term American study shows the importance of early education for poor children. The study is known as the Abecedarian Project. It involved more than one-hundred young children from poor families in North Carolina.
Half of the children attended an all-day program at a high-quality child-care center. The center offered educational, health and social programs. Children took part in games and activities to increase their thinking and language skills and social and emotional development. The program also included health foods for the children.
The children attended the program from when they were a few weeks old until the age of five years. The other group of children did not attend the child-care center. After the age of five, both groups attended public school.
Researchers compared the two groups of children. When they were babies, both groups had similar results in tests for mental and physical skills. However, from the age of eighteen months, the children in the educational child-care program did much better in tests.
The researchers tested the children again when they were twelve and fifteen years old. The tests found that the children who had been in the child-care center continued to have higher average test results. These children did much better on tests of reading and mathematics.
A few years ago, organizers of the Abecedarian Project tested the students again. At the time, each student was twenty-one years old. They were tested for thinking and educational ability, employment, parenting and social skills. The researchers found that the young adults who had the early education still did better in reading and mathematics tests. They were more than two times as likely to be attending college or to have completed college. In addition, the children who received early education were older on average, when their first child was born.
The study offers more evidence that learning during the first months and years of life is important for all later development.
The researchers of the Abecedarian Project believe their study shows a need for lawmakers to spend money on public early education. They believe these kinds of programs could reduce the number of children who do not complete school and are unemployed.
1. The Abecedarian Project has lasted _____.| A．almost one year |
| B．about five years |
| C．more than 20 years |
| D．no more than 15 years |
| A．have their children at later ages |
| B．get more help from other people |
| C．have no parenting or social skills |
| D．are poorer at reading and mathematics |
| A．What the children learned at the child-care center. |
| B．How important early education is for poor children. |
| C．How many children are involved in the Abecedarian Project. |
| D．Whether lawmakers will spend money on public early education. |
