1 . 听下面一段独白，回答以下小题。材料和问题读两遍。
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2 . 阅读下列文本，在空白处填入1个适当的单词(部分空有首字母或中文提示)。

For me, education has three main o    1    . Firstly, it is to gain knowledge. Obviously, certain kinds of knowledge are necessary not only to     2     (追求) certain careers but also to contribute to the world.

3 . 听下面一段独白，回答以下小题。

American Education

Things about American high school students	American high school students are very different from Chinese high school students. American students care more about their    1     activities outside school while Chinese students care more about their schoolwork and exams.
	American students are very    2    . They drive their own cars, have     3    and often have their own phones, televisions, stereos and video games, purchased with their own money.
	They are often    4    in relationships with boyfriends or girlfriends.
	They must learn how to schedule their time between work, school, friends sports and, of course, fun! This type of responsibility is    5     for young people and often their educational suffers.

4 . When Lenore Skenazy let her 9-year-old son take the New York subway home by himself 10 years ago, you would have thought that she’d carried out a crime. Now Skenazy started the movement Free Range (放养的) Kids to bring up safe and independent children. Just this month, Utah became a free range state, changing its law to protect parents from being charged with neglect (疏忽)for letting their kids walk alone, or wait in a car for an adult.

Skenazy argues that the risks of giving children some freedom are exaggerated (夸大). Skenazy’s mother used to send her outside at 5 to walk to school. That was just normal back then. And suddenly we hear stories about parents getting punished for letting their 10-year-old son play outside.

We get so used to not knowing our neighbors, not letting our kids walk to school, or play outside, that nowadays, the kids are either in a car or in the backyard, and they don’t get to know the neighborhood. In fact, the world has become safer. We have the technologies to keep track of almost everything our kids do. And so you think you must control them, and you think your child is something that has to be tracked like a package.

The famous case for many parents was the Etan Patz case in New York in 1979. Patz’s parents gave him permission for the first time to walk to the bus stop nearby. He was killed. The story is so terrible that we remember it two generations later. And we don’t allow our kids to walk alone because of one terrible thing that happened 39 years ago. But we don’t say, “I want to drive you to the dentist, but what if we get in a car accident? Think of those people who died in a car accident 39 years ago. I don’t want to be like them. No, we’re not going.” And we recognize that it would be funny to think that way.

1. What do we know about Lenore Skenazy?

A．She used to have full control of her son.

B．She was in favor of Utah’s previous law.

C．She suggests kids be allowed more freedom.

D．She was once punished for neglecting her son.

2. Which of the following is a reason why kids are kept at home nowadays?

A．People remain distant.

B．Kids dislike outdoor activities.

C．Parents know little about accidents.

D．The crime rate is slightly increasing.

3. What’s the author’s attitude towards parents’ act of keeping track of their kids?

A．Unclear

B．Supportive.

C．Indifferent.

D．Unfavorable.

4. What is the main purpose of the last paragraph?

A．To prove accidents are like crimes.

B．To warn parents of a terrible crime.

C．To argue against some parents’ worry.

D．To point out the real danger to children.

7 . Many significant international projects have considered how schooling might change to better match the changes that have taken place in the 21st century.     1     One is a shift in the meaning of knowledge, and the other is the need to build education systems based around what we now know about learning.

The term “knowledge age” or “knowledge economy” refers to a reorganization away from an Industrial Age economy, where exploitation (开采) of natural resources, primary production and mass production were the standard models for economic development.     2     This is achieved through the rapid creation of new knowledge and has become the basis for economic development. It is argued that education for the knowledge age must focus on the development of learners’ competences to deal with new situations and environments.

    3     Nor does it deny the need for obvious goals for students’ knowledge development. Rather, the future-focused education literature suggests we need to adopt a much more complex view of knowledge, one that incorporates knowing, doing and being. Alongside this we need to rethink our ideas about how our learning systems are organized, resourced and supported. Research clearly shows that people do not learn well as passive recipients (接受者) of pre-packaged, bite-sized pieces of knowledge.     4    

Although some of these principles are understood by many teachers, our education systems and practices are often set up in ways that do not support these principles to operate in practice. Teachers and school leaders are attempting paradigm (范式) shifts.     5    

A．There needs to be wider public support for them.

B．There are two important ideas that support this work.

C．This does not mean that knowledge no longer matters.

D．Good learning requires active engagement in the “whole game”.

E．We are required to prepare young people for the knowledge age.

F．This is possible only when active learning approaches are applied.

G．In the knowledge age, the ability to generate value is put in the first place.

8 . I went to Yuanhe Middle School in Xihaigu, Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, a place that used to be one of the poorest regions in China, to participate in an English class with village children.

Most kids in the school come from poor village homes and are “left behind” children — kids whose parents work in the cities to make a better living. After class, we chatted a lot, and they wondered about everything, using “outside world” as a term to describe the wider globe for many times.

Taking care of rural children is essential. The school offers boarding services and free breakfast and lunch to the students, who can also video chat with their parents daily. To better care for the village children, the school provides outdoor hiking, technology, art, and foreign language programs to help them understand the outside world. After all, high-quality education to disadvantaged village children is the key to poverty-alleviation (扶贫) efforts.

During my trip in Xihaigu, I also visited Ningxia Normal University, where over 70% of its students major in education.

In 2013, local and central governments launched public-funded programs to recruit students interested in becoming teachers in Ningxia’s rural villages and districts. By 2023, 3,500 students were enrolled in the program, many of whom came from disadvantaged village households in Xihaigu.

I had the opportunity to speak with Yang, a public-funded student from the once-poor Xihaigu region. After finishing school, he planned to stay in the Xihaigu area as a teacher to teach the kids knowledge.

Yang told me that knowledge is the key to leading a better life as well as understanding the world. A lack of knowledge is one of the main factors of being poor. Money could help the poor for a while but not once for all. He hopes that by sharing knowledge with the kids in his hometown, he can help them broaden their horizons and develop an objective perspective on the world. He envisions a future where these children can use their knowledge to make a better life, stop people’s stereotypes (固有印象) about China and share Xihaigu’s stories with the rest of the world.

1. Why did the kids repeatedly mention “outside world”?

A．Out of curiosity about the unknown world.

B．With the hope of changing the world outside.

C．To show their experiences about the wider globe.

D．For lack of confidence towards their inner world.

2. What is paragraph 3 mainly about?

A．The key to poverty-alleviation efforts.

B．The aid to the kids on life and education.

C．The teaching conditions of the school.

D．The high-quality education of the school.

3. What can we infer from the author’s trip in Ningxia Normal University?

A．Students in this university can be free of charge.

B．The authorities support Ningxia’s rural areas by stressing education.

C．The public-funded programs target at the students from poor regions.

D．Money is less important than knowledge for the people in Xihaigu’s villages.

4. Which of the following may agree with Yang’s opinion?

A．Learn and live.	B．Sharp tools make good work.
C．Hang on to your dreams.	D．Poverty-alleviation starts with education.

9 . Two and a half millennia ago, Socrates complained that writing would harm students. With a way to store ideas permanently and externally, they would no longer need to memorize. However, studies today have found that writing on paper can improve everything from recalling a random series of words to better understanding complex concepts.

For learning material by repetition, the benefits of using a pen or pencil lie in how the motor and sensory memory of putting words on paper reinforces that material. The scribbling (涂鸦) on a page feeds into visual memory: people might remember a word they wrote down in French class as being at the bottom-left on a page.

One of the best-demonstrated advantages of writing by hand seems to be in note-taking. Students typing on computers wrote down almost twice as many words directly from lectures, suggesting they were not understanding so much as rapidly copying the material. However, handwriting forces note-takers to process and organize ideas into their own words. This aids conceptual understanding at the moment of writing, resulting in better performance on tests.

Many studies have confirmed handwriting’s benefits, and policymakers have taken note. Though America’s curriculum from 2010 does not require handwriting instruction past first grade (roughly age six), about half the states since then have required more teaching of it. In Sweden there is a push for more handwriting and printed books and fewer devices. England’s national curriculum already includes the teaching of basic cursive writing (连写体) skills by age seven.

However, several school systems in America have gone so far as to ban most laptops. This is too extreme. Some students have disabilities that make handwriting especially hard. Nearly all will eventually need typing skills. Virginia Berninger, professor of psychology at the University of Washington, is a longtime advocate of handwriting. But she is not a purist; she says there are research tested benefits for “manuscript” print-style writing but also for typing.

Socrates may or may not have had a point about the downsides of writing. But no one would remember, much less care, if his student Plato had not noted it down for the benefit of future generations.

1. According to the text, why does writing on paper have benefits for learning?

A．It provides visual enjoyment in class.

B．It improves the effect of memorization.

C．It promotes the motor and sensory ability.

D．It helps to remember the information forever.

2. How does the author show the emphasis on handwriting instruction at school?

A．By giving examples.	B．By providing statistics.
C．By making comparisons.	D．By making classification.

3. What is paragraph 5 mainly about?

A．Difficulties faced by the disabled.

B．Unreasonableness of forbidding typing.

C．The research-tested benefits of typing.

D．The longtime advocacy for handwriting.

4. Why does the writer mention Socrates and Plato in the last paragraph?

A．To thank Plato for his efforts.

B．To defend Socrates’ point of view.

C．To show people’s indifference to typing.

D．To confirm the importance of handwriting.

10 . Seventy miles inland from the Bering Sea, the villages of Akiachak, Akiak and Tuluksak formed the Yupiit School District. This year, this district was allowed to operate on an academic calendar according to seasonal harvests.

It starts a week later than other districts, and classes finish 10 days earlier. They make up the difference with an extra half hour of instruction each day. Students can now take part in the fall moose (驼鹿) hunt and the spring migratory bird harvest. The strategy is to pass along traditional knowledge that cannot be gained in the classroom.

On a cloudy day this June, teachers met students at a large cutting table near teacher housing near the river. Originally, the morning catch of salmon (鲑鱼) was supposed to be processed at a nearby community fish camp, but those plans were scrapped because a black bear was hanging around.

Evelyn Esmailka explained the differences between salmon and other fishes to the children. After this lesson, they boarded boats to go fishing for salmon on the river. The order of the day was making sure that every student got a chance to take part in the harvest.

Barron Sample was in charge of it. “For some of them, it’s the first time actually out here on the river doing this, and the first time they’re actually pulling a net,” Sample said. The boat was one of three owned by the school district. “There’re three schools in our school district: Akiak, Tuluksak, and us, Akiachak. So, in a little competition, like, how many did you catch today?” Sample said.

While the first drift only yielded two fish, the second brought in around a dozen of various fish. The students screamed in delight as the struggling salmons were picked from the net, landing with a bang in a plastic box.

During the narrow window when fishing was allowed, the village of Akiachak felt like a deserted town. But along the river, the fish camps buzzed with activities as families processed the day’s harvest in a way that has changed little over the centuries.

1. What are students of the Yupiit School District expected to do?

A．Embrace traditional native knowledge fully.

B．Attend an extra class for half an hour.

C．Harvest their academic achievements.

D．Learn about the migration of birds.

2. What docs the underlined word “scrapped” in Paragraph 3 probably mean?

A．Discussed.

B．Abandoned.

C．Approved.

D．Introduced.

3. What does Barron think of the students’ fishing for salmon?

A．Exhausting.

B．Dangerous.

C．Competitive.

D．Knowledgeable.

4. What remains unchanged at Akiachak village?

A．The local quiet lifestyle.	B．The education of surviving skills.
C．The summer camp activities.	D．The way of processing fish.