1 . If you survey American parents about what they want for their kids, more than 90 percent say one of their top priorities is that their children be caring. This makes sense: Kindness and concern for others are held as
Kids learn what’s important to adults not by listening to what we say, but by
Perhaps we shouldn’t be surprised, then, that kindness appears to be
It’s not just that people care less; they seem to be
If we truly care less about one another, some of the blame lies with the values parents have
Other parents unconsciously
| A．miracles | B．aspects | C．virtues | D．schedules |
| A．want | B．make | C．change | D．buy |
| A．answering | B．wondering | C．challenging | D．noticing |
| A．praise | B．research | C．forget | D．link |
| A．of significance | B．out of order | C．on exhibit | D．in decline |
| A．studies | B．perspectives | C．careers | D．backgrounds |
| A．thinking | B．doing | C．helping | D．learning |
| A．left off | B．taken over | C．set aside | D．picked up |
| A．doubt | B．recall | C．object | D．believe |
| A．In addition | B．By contrast | C．For example | D．To date |
| A．criticized | B．elevated | C．assessed | D．impacted |
| A．accurate | B．admiring | C．mental | D．negative |
| A．promote | B．understand | C．distinguish | D．discourage |
| A．creative | B．initiative | C．generous | D．idealistic |
| A．consider | B．treat | C．hear | D．observe |
2 . It’s important for you teenagers to know how to save money. You know that the money you save can be for rainy days and be used to pay through your college education. If you think it’s a difficult task and don’t know how to do it, please do as the followings.
My dad always tells me that if one doesn’t respect money, it will never respect you. Hence, it’s important that you keep a record of your daily expenses. Make it a habit to write down all that you have spent. And when you find out the total expenses at the end of the month, you will realize what you have spent more money in doing.
Open a savings account
Opening a savings account is a better way to save money. You can set a goal; say (for example), the money is for a new notebook or for college, and then save, until you have enough money to buy a notebook or until you go to college.
Do not carry much cash
Do you have the habit of not leaving a store without buying anything? The only way to stop that is carrying less money around with you. Go to the store with the minimum amount of money, which will not even help you buy a drink.
Save the changes
Save the changes that you get back. If you have gone to a shop to buy something and get back some changes, then do not spend them.
Follow these tips above, and thus you can save a lot of money. And surely, they’ll help you to be more responsible in your life.
| A．Keep a record of your daily expenses |
| B．In a few days, you’ll get rid of this habit |
| C．Instead, you can save them in your piggy bank |
| D．By that time, you will realize the importance of saving money |
| E．Saving money builds your financial power and personal freedom |
| F．Next month, you will automatically try and save more in that part |
| G．Nowadays in the developed and developing countries, people are all working for the sake of earning money |
1. 简述图画内容;
2. 介绍你对图画主题的理解;
3. 结合生活实际谈谈你的感想。
要求：1. 100字左右;
2. 可适当增加细节，使行文连贯。
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1. 你对美育的理解;
2. 你校美育开展情况;
3. 欢迎他来你校实地考察。
注意：
1. 词数100左右;
2. 短文的开头已为你写好。
3. 参考词汇：美育：aesthetic education 实地考察：on-site inspection
Dear Jack,
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Yours,
Li Hua
The personal development of man is possible only through education. Because
Education works to make man self- reliant and helps in
In the whole development of education, we develop at the physical, mental, spiritual, and emotional
Education is not only obtained from school-college
By taking good education, a person becomes a good citizen and becomes successful in personal and professional life. A good education enables us to decide right and wrong. So the
6 . Art and science may seem like opposite things. One means the creative flow of ideas, and the other means cold, hard data — some people believe. In fact, the two have much in common. Now, a study finds art can help students remember better what they learned in science class.
Mariale Hardiman, an education specialist, noticed that students who used art in the class listened more carefully. They might ask more questions. They might volunteer more ideas. What’s more, students seemed to remember more of what they had been taught when their science lessons had involved art. To prove that, Hardiman teamed up with some researchers and six local schools.
In the experiment, the researchers worked with teachers in 16 fifth-grade classrooms. They provided traditional science lessons and art-focused ones. In a traditional science class, for example, students might read the information from a book aloud. In the art-focused one, they might sing the information instead.
The team randomly assigned(分配) each of the 350 students to either a traditional science class or an art-focused one. Students then learned science using that way for the whole unit — about three weeks. When they changed to a new topic, they also changed to the other type of class. This way, each student had both an art-focused class and a traditional one. Every unit was taught in both ways, to different groups of students. This enabled the researchers to see how students did in both types of classes.
The team found that students who started off in traditional classes performed better after they moved into an art-focused class. But those who started in an art-focused class did well even when they went back to a traditional science class. These students appeared to use some of the art techniques after going back to a traditional class. Classroom teachers reported that many students continued to sketch(画速写) or sing to help remember the information. “It suggests that the arts may help students apply creative ways of learning on their own,” Hardiman said.
1. How does the first paragraph develop?| A．By giving examples. | B．By analyzing cause and effect. |
| C．By following space order. | D．By making comparisons. |
| A．Students take an active part when their class involves art. |
| B．Students are more creative in art class than in science class. |
| C．Students’ learning ability depends greatly on class involvement. |
| D．Students remember things for a longer time if using art in class. |
| A．Learn three units in total. |
| B．Take two types of classes. |
| C．Learn two topics for three weeks. |
| D．Choose between a traditional class and an art-focused one. |
| A．It is not easy to use art in science class. |
| B．Science plays an important role in creative thinking. |
| C．Art contributes to science learning. |
| D．Art-focused classes encourage teamwork. |
1. 介绍雷锋精神；
2. 如何践行雷锋精神；
3. 倡议作“新时代雷锋”
注意: 1. 写作词数应为100左右；
2. 请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答。
参考词汇：雷锋精神 Lei Feng Spirit 用英语讲中国故事“Tell Chinese Stories in English”
Good afternoon, honorable judges and dear fellow students!
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8 . Working out exactly what students and taxpayers get for the money they spend on universities is a tricky business. Now the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development(OECD), a Paris-based think-tank for rich countries, is planning to make the task a bit easier, by producing the first international comparison of how successfully universities teach.
“Rather than assuming that because a university spends more it must be better, or using other proxy measures for quality, we will look at learning outcomes,” explains Andreas Schleicher, the OECD’s head of education research. Just as the OECD assesses primary and secondary education by testing randomly chosen groups of youngsters from each country in reading and mathematics, it will sample university students to see what they have learned. Once enough universities are taking part, it may publish league tables showing where each country stands, just as it now does for compulsory education. That may produce a fairer assessment than the two established rankings, though the British one does try to broaden its inquiry by taking opinions from academics and employers.
There is much to be said for the OECD’s approach. Of course a Nobel laureate’s view on where to study may be worth hearing, but those professors may be so busy writing and researching that they spend little or no time teaching—a big weakness at America’s famous universities. And changes in methodology can bring surprising shifts. The high-flying London School of Economics, for example, tumbled(暴跌)from 17th to 59th in the British rankings published last week, primarily because it got less credit than in previous years for the impressive number of foreign students it had managed to attract.
The OECD plan awaits approval from an education ministers’ meeting in January. The first rankings are planned by 2021. They will be of interest not just as a guide for shoppers in the global market, but also as indicators of performance in domestic markets. They will help academics wondering whether to stay put or switch jobs, students choosing where to spend their time and money, and ambitious university bosses who want a sharper competitive edge for their institution.
The task the OECD has set itself is formidable. In many subjects, such as literature and history, the syllabus varies hugely from one country, and even one campus, to another. But OECD researchers think that problem can be overcome by concentrating on the transferable skills that employers value, such as critical thinking and analysis, and testing subject knowledge only in fields like economics and engineering, with a big common core.
Moreover, says Mr Schleicher, it is a job worth doing. Today’s rankings, he believes, do not help governments assess whether they get a return on the money they give universities to teach their undergraduates. Students overlook second-rank institutions in favour of big names, even though the less grand may be better at teaching. Worst of all, ranking by reputation allows famous places to coast along, while making life hard for feisty upstarts. “We will not be reflecting a university’s history,” says Mr Schleicher, “but asking: what is a global employer looking for?” A fair question, even if not every single student’s destiny is to work for a multinational firm.
1. The project by OECD is aimed to__________.| A．assess primary and secondary education of each school that subscribe to the service |
| B．appraise the learning outcomes of university students as part of their academic performance |
| C．establish a new evaluation system for universities |
| D．set up a new ranking for compulsory education |
| A．that its inquiry is broader as to include all the students and staff |
| B．that its samples are chosen randomly based on statistical analysis of method |
| C．that it attaches more importance to the learning efficiency |
| D．that it takes opinions from the students to see what they have learnt |
| A．the OECD’s approach is very fair |
| B．the Nobel laureate’s opinion is not worth hearing |
| C．the British rankings pay more attention to the foreign students |
| D．different assessment methods may lead to different ranking results |
| A．parents who pay for the children’s secondary education |
| B．the famous colleges |
| C．those ambitious second-rank institutions |
| D．shoppers in the global market |
In the 1970s, when I was a new teacher at a school in Detroit, I was arranged to teach a particularly talented class. The students included a little girl named Mary Kay, who had spent only one year at our school — the year that I had her in my third-grade class.
Her father was Billy Kim, a quite famous man. He was from South Korea. His daughter Mary Kay could speak beautiful English, and loved smiling. She had great respect for learning and never made trouble in class.
In one class, I asked Mary Kay to read an article in our book out loud. To my surprise, although Mary Kay could speak beautiful, flowing English, she was poor in reading. She even mispronounced many words. Immediately, the kids in the class laughed at her.
Then I said to Mary Kay, “Why don’t you go and write some words in your native language on the blackboard for everyone?” Mary Kay’s eyes suddenly brightened, and she walked with a smile to the board, full of new-found confidence.
The other children watched as she wrote word after word along with her name in her native language. The whole class immediately watched with a bit of respect and amazement, not pity. Then one of the students said, “Write my name Mary Kay.” And she did. Then more students asked. Soon, the whole class had their names on the board, and Mary Kay became a heroine. She could do something the others could not. She went from feeling inadequate (能力不足的) to feeling proud. In the following days, I still often encouraged Mary Kay.
After Mary Kay finished her third grade, I had never met her and lost contact with her. About 30 years later, I happened to meet with her father in a local church. And I decided to ask him about Mary Kay, so I introduced myself first.
Paragraph 1: I said, “Hello, Mr. Kim. I’m Sophia brown.”
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Paragraph 2: She told me how much my class had influenced her life.
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In bringing up children, every parent watches eagerly the child’s acquisition of each new skill-the first spoken words, the first independent steps, or the beginning of reading and writing.It is often tempting to hurry the child
Parents vary greatly in their degree of strictness towards their children. Some may be especially strict in money matters,
As regards the development of moral standards in the growing child, consistency is very important in parental teaching. To forbid a thing one day and excuse it
A sudden awareness of a marked difference between their parents’ principles and their morals can be a dangerous disappointment.
