According to the report, the picture of the earth in the year 2020 is not a
Food production will
A.learning | B.project | C.notice | D.study |
A.pleased | B.pleasant | C.safe | D.blue |
A.dangerous | B.beautiful | C.crowded | D.terrible |
A.no more than | B.as many as | C.as much as | D.as large as |
A.developing | B.developed | C.big | D.mountainous |
A.none | B.each | C.all | D.neither |
A.insist | B.reduce | C.increase | D.continue |
A.so | B.but | C.or | D.however |
A.already | B.hardly | C.partly | D.never |
A.wanted | B.lacked | C.found | D.expected |
A.destroying | B.protecting | C.disturbing | D.interrupting |
A.saved | B.lost | C.discovered | D.found |
A.Air pollution | B.Water pollution | C.Some diseases | D.All farmland |
A.animals | B.plants | C.forests | D.people |
A.must be true | B.will come true | C.can't be true | D.may be wrong |
A.happens | B.develops | C.exists | D.appears |
A.settling | B.working out | C.answering | D.dealing |
A.no | B.still | C.less | D.plenty of |
A.about | B.in | C.out | D.for |
A.working | B.suggesting | C.spending | D.waiting |
2 . The practice of students endlessly copying letters and sentences from a blackboard is a thing of the past. With the coming of new technologies like computers and smartphone, writing by hand has become something of nostalgic (怀旧的)skill. However,while today’s educators are using more and more technology in their teaching, many believe basic handwriting skills are still necessary for students to be successful---both in school and in life.
Virginia Berninger, professor of educational psychology at the University of Washington, says it’s important to continue teaching handwriting and help children acquire the skill of writing by hand.
Berninger and her colleagues conducted a study that looked at the ability of students to complete various writing tasks---both on a computer and by hand. The study, published in 2009, found that when writing with a pen and paper, participants wrote longer essays and more complete sentences and had a faster word production rate.
In a more recent study, Berninger looked at what role spelling plays in a student’s writing skills and found that how well children spell is tied to know well they can write. “Spelling makes some of the thinking parts of the brain active which helps us access our vocabulary, word meaning and concepts. It is allowing our written language to connect with ideas.” Berninger said.
Spelling helps students translate ideas into words in their mind first and then to transcribe(转换)“those words in the mind written symbols on paper or keyboard and screen,” the study said. Seeing the words in the “mind’s eye” helps children not only to turn their ideas into words, says Berninger, but also to spot spelling mistakes when they write the words down and to correct then over time.
“In our computer age, some people believe that we don’t have to teach spelling because we have spell checks,” she said. “But until a child functional spelling ability of about a fifth grade level, they won't have knowledge to choose the correct spelling among the options given by the computer.”
1. What makes writing by hand a thing of the past?A.The absence of blackboard in classroom. |
B.The use of new technologies in teaching. |
C.The lack of practice in handwriting. |
D.The popular use of smartphones. |
A.focused on the difference between writing by hand and on a computer. |
B.indicated that students prefer to write with a pen and paper. |
C.found that good essays are made up of long sentences. |
D.discussed the importance of writing speed. |
A.Spelling improves one’s memory of words. |
B.Spelling ability is closely related to writing ability. |
C.Spelling benefits the translation from words into ideas. |
D.Spelling slows down finding exact words to express ideas. |
A.Window. | B.Soul |
C.Picture. | D.Imagination. |
A.Computers can help people with their choice of words. |
B.Spell checks can take the place of spelling teaching. |
C.Handwriting still has a place in today’s classrooms. |
D.Functional spelling ability develops fast in the fifth grade. |
Some eyes rolled and there were a few low groans (嘟囔声) when Ms.Yates was about to speak. Many started looking at their watches and coming up with excuses to be anywhere instead of preparing to listen to a lecture from an old woman who had few kind words for her students and made them work harder than all the other teachers combined.
Then Ms. Yates started to speak:
“I can’t tell you how pleased I am to be here. I haven’t seen many of you since your graduation, but I have followed your careers and enjoyed your victories as well as crying for your tragedies. I have a large collection of newspaper photographs of my students. Although I haven’t appeared in person, I have attended your college graduations, weddings and even the birth your children, in my imagination.”
Ms. Yates paused and started crying a bit. Then she continued:
“It was my belief that if I pushed you as hard as I could, some of you would succeed to please me and others would succeed to annoy me. Regardless of our motives, I can see that you have all been successful in you chosen path.”
“There is no greater comfort for an educator than to see the end result of his or her years of work. You have all been a great source of pleasure and pride for me and I want you to know I love you all from the bottom of my heart.”
There was a silence over the crowd for a few seconds and then someone started clapping. The clapping turned into cheering, then into a deafening roar (呼喊). Lawyers, truck drivers, bankers and models were rubbing their eyes or crying openly with no shame all because of the words from a long forgotten English teacher from their hometown.
1. What activity was organized for the school reunion?A.Sightseeing in the park. |
B.A picnic on the school playground. |
C.Telling stories about past events. |
D.Graduates’ reports in the old building. |
A.Some graduates were too busy to listen to Ms. Yates’ speech. |
B.Many graduates disliked Ms. Yates’ ways of teaching. |
C.Some people got tired from the reunion activities. |
D.Most people had little interest in the reunion. |
A.kept track of her students’ progress |
B.gave her students advice on their careers |
C.attended her students’ college graduations |
D.went to her students’ wedding ceremonies |
A.Teachers’ knowledge is the key to students’ achievements. |
B.Pressure on students from teachers should be reduced. |
C.Hard-pushed students are more likely to succeed. |
D.Students’ respect is the best reward for teachers. |
A.Reliable and devoted. | B.Tough and generous. |
C.Proud but patient. | D.Strict but caring. |
A.Everyone is different, and levels of empathy differ from person to person. |
B.That could be because so many people have replaced face time with screen time, the researchers said. |
C.“One doesn’t develop empathy by having a lot of opinions and doing a lot of talking,” Freed says. |
D.Humans learn by example—and most of the examples on it are anything but empathetic. |
E.Empathy is a matter of learning how to understand someone else—both what they think and how they feel. |
F.Good social skills—including empathy—are a kind of “emotional intelligence” that will help you succeed in many areas of life. |
G.Having relationships with other people is an important part of being human—and having empathy is decisive to those relationships. |
The interview had been going on for about 20 minutes and everything seems to be going well. Then, suddenly, the interviewer asks an unexpected question, “Which is more important, law or Dove?”
Job applicants in the West increasingly find themselves asked strange questions like this. And the signs are that this is beginning to happen in China.
Employers want people skilled, enthusiastic and devoted. So these are the qualities that any reasonably intelligent job applicants will try to show no matter what his or her actual feelings are. In response, employers are increasingly using questions which try and show the applicant’s true personality.
The question in the first paragraph comes from a test called the Keirsey Personality Sorter. It is an attempt to discover how people solve problems, rather than what they know. This is often called an aptitude test (能力倾向测验).
According to Mark Baldwin many job applicants in China are finding this type of questions difficult. When a Chinese person fills out an aptitude test he or she will think there is a right answer and they may fail because they try to guess what the examiner wants to see.
This is sometimes called the prisoner’s dilemma. Applicants are trying to act cleverly in their own interest. But they fail because they don’t understand what the interviewer is looking for. Remember that in an aptitude test, the correct answer is always the honest answer.
1. The writer wrote the passage to________.A.give you a piece of advice on a job interview | B.tell you how to meet a job interviewer |
C.describe the aptitude test | D.advice you how to find a job |
A.They want to discover what the interviewees know. |
B.They are curious about the answers. |
C.They try to discover the ability of the interviewees solving problems. |
D.They just ask questions without thinking much. |
A.not tell the truth | B.learn to tell what they really think |
C.be more enthusiastic | D.try to find out what the examiner really want to know |
A.job applicants are always asked such questions |
B.more Chinese applicants fail to find a job |
C.applicants should not act as reasonably as a prisoner |
D.the aptitude test is becoming popular worldwide |
6 . Many years ago my student asked me the question, “Mrs. Kindred, why do you teach?” Without taking time to reflect, I answered, “Because someday I might say something that might make a difference in someone’s life.” Even though I was sincere, that wasn’t a very good answer and my student didn’t let it slide.
“Let me get this straight,” he said, “You went to college for four years so you could come here every day because you have the hope that someday you might say something that will influence someone?” He shook his head as if I were crazy and walked away looking confused. I’m one of those people who look back and wish they had said something smart or witty, or swift.
Even though that particular student might no longer wonder why I teach, there are days when I wonder. On those days, I remind myself of the real reasons I teach:
It’s in my blood. My mother was my most influential teacher, and she was a 6th grade reading teacher until her death in 1990. She instilled (逐渐灌输) in me a love of reading and the knowledge that education opens doors.
Teaching is a way to make a difference. If you throw a stone in a pond the ripples go on and on until they reach the shore. You can’t have ripples without a “stone.” Good teachers throw stones that make a positive difference, and that’s what I strive to do.
I genuinely love teenagers.
I want to share with others what I know and what I have learned through the years. Life is full of ups and downs, and if I can help students avoid some potholes (坑) on the road of life, I want to do so. If they’ll allow me to celebrate their victories with them, I want to do too.
Teaching isn’t for everyone, but I know I made the right career choice.
1. Why did the student continue to ask the question about the writer’s being a teacher?A.Because he thought her answer was unbelievable. |
B.Because the writer was insincere. |
C.Because the student was naughty. |
D.Because the answer was difficult to understand. |
A.Stupid. | B.Honest. |
C.Conservative(保守的). | D.Polite. |
A.The writer’s mother has the greatest influence on her. |
B.The writer’s answer made the student confused. |
C.In the writer’s opinion, some people in the world are unfit to teach. |
D.The writer annoyed the student who asked the question. |
A.the writer was also a good teacher in school |
B.the writer often plays with her students beside a pond |
C.the writer devotes herself to teaching and her students |
D.the writer often accompanies the students on their way home |
A.A student’s silly question. |
B.A good teacher who likes students. |
C.A confused student. |
D.The reason why I teach. |
7 . Saint-Ex back from the dead
The French Government confirmed last Wednesday that pieces found at the bottom of the Mediterranean belonged to a plane piloted by Antoine de Saint-Exupery, one of France’s most beloved authors. The discovery throws some
The author of “The Little Prince” disappeared completely during World War II while
Saint-Exupery was 44 when he
Saint Exupery was a great adventurer whose life and
A.ideas | B.light | C.thought | D.views |
A.sending | B.seeing off | C.flying | D.being together with |
A.the east | B.the west | C.the north | D.the south |
A.along | B.off | C.over | D.to |
A.late | B.immediate | C.further | D.new |
A.searched | B.got | C.found out | D.recovered |
A.got | B.bore | C.made | D.put |
A.surely | B.carefully | C.completely | D.finally |
A.sent | B.flew | C.turned | D.came |
A.preparation | B.search | C.group | D.secret |
A.succeeded | B.failed | C.got | D.missed |
A.recovered | B.covered | C.unknown | D.known |
A.dives | B.France | C.authors | D.historians |
A.books | B.stories | C.plane | D.war |
A.discoveries | B.author | C.experiences | D.searches |
At school the children are taught to add up and subtract (减法) but, extraordinarily, are not routinely shown how to open a bank account — let alone how to manage their finances in an increasingly complex and demanding world.
Today the parenting website Mumsnet and the consumer campaigner Martin Lewis have joined forces to launch an online application to make financial education a compulsory element of the school curriculum in England. Children from five to 16 should be taught about everything from pocket money to pensions, they say. And that was exactly the plan preserved in the Children, Schools and Families bill that was shelved by the government in the so-called “wash-up” earlier this month — the rush to legislation before parliament was dismissed. Consumer and parent groups believe financial education has always been one of the most frustrating omissions of the curriculum.
As the Personal Finance Education Group (Pfeg) points out, the good habits of young children do not last long. Over 75% of seven- to 11-year-olds are savers but by the time they get to 17, over half of them are in debt to family and friends. By this age, 26% see a credit card or overdraft (透支) as a way of extending their spending power. Pfeg predicts that these young people will “find it much harder to avoid the serious unexpected dangers that have befallen many of their parents’ generation unless they receive good quality financial education while at school.”
The UK has been in the worst financial recession (衰退) for generations. It does seem odd that — unless parents step in — young people are left in the dark until they are cruelly introduced to the world of debt when they turn up at university. In a recent poll of over 8,000 people, 97% supported financial education in schools, while 3% said it was a job for parents.
1. The passage is mainly about _____________.
A.how to manage school lessons |
B.how to deal with the financial crisis |
C.teaching young people about money |
D.teaching students how to study effectively |
A.the author complains about the school education |
B.pupils should not be taught to add up and subtract |
C.students have been taught to manage their finances |
D.laws on financial education have been effectively carried out |
A.instruct the pupils to donate their pocket money |
B.promote the connection of schools and families |
C.ask the government to dismiss the parliament |
D.appeal for the curriculum of financial education |
A.it is easy to keep good habits long |
B.teenagers spend their money as planned |
C.parents are willing to pay the debt for their kids |
D.it will be in trouble if the teenagers are left alone |
A.stress the necessity of the curriculum reform |
B.show the seriousness of the financial recession |
C.make the readers aware of burden of the parents |
D.illustrate some people are strongly against the proposal |
9 . There are times when people are so tired that they fall asleep almost anywhere. We can see there is a lot of sleeping on the bus or train on the
A.way | B.track | C.path | D.road |
A.buying | B.folding | C.delivering | D.reading |
A.acts | B.shows | C.appears | D.sounds |
A.open | B.eat | C.find | D.finish |
A.lying | B.waiting | C.talking | D.sitting |
A.Next | B.Every | C.Another | D.One |
A.goes on | B.ends up | C.lasts | D.returns |
A.bravely | B.happily | C.loudly | D.carelessly |
A.leave | B.shake | C.keep | D.watch |
A.size | B.shape | C.weight | D.strength |
A.cushion | B.desk | C.shoulder | D.book |
A.action | B.position | C.rest | D.side |
A.memory | B.reason | C.question | D.purpose |
A.thinking | B.working | C.walking | D.driving |
A.changes | B.events | C.ideas | D.accidents |
A.up | B.off | C.along | D.down |
A.lucky | B.awake | C.calm | D.strong |
A.in time | B.at first | C.as usual | D.for example |
A.dust | B.water | C.grass | D.bush |
A.tired | B.drunk | C.lonely | D.lazy |
However, the scale and speed of this growth seem set to destroy the very things tourists want to enjoy. In those countries where there was a rush to make quick money out of seaside holidays, overcrowded beaches and the concrete jungles of endless hotels have begun to lose their appeal.
Those countries with little experience of tourism can suffer most. In recent years, Nepal set out to attract foreign visitors to fund developments in health and education. Its forests, full of wildlife and rare flowers, were offered to tourists as one more untouched paradise. In fact, the nature all too soon felt the effects of thousands of holidaymakers traveling through the forest land. Ancient tracks became major routes for the walkers, with the consequent exploitation of precious trees and plants.
Not only can the environment of a country suffer from the sudden growth of tourism. The people as well rapidly feel its effects. Farmland makes way for hotels, roads and airports; the old way of life goes. The onetime farmer is now the servant of some multinational organization; he is no longer his own master. Once it was his back that bore the pain; now it is his smile that is exploited. No doubt he wonders whether he wasn't happier in his village working his own land.
Thankfully, the tourist industry is waking up to the responsibilities it has towards those countries that receive its customers. The protection of wildlife and the creation of national parks go hand in hand with tourist development and in fact obtain financial support from tourist companies. At the same time, tourists are being encouraged to respect not only the countryside they visit but also its people.
The way tourism is handled in the next ten years will decide its fate and that of the countries we all want to visit. Their needs and problems are more important than those of the tourist companies. Increased understanding in planning worldwide tourism can preserve the market for these companies. If not, in a few years' time the very things that attract tourists now may well have been destroyed.
1. What does the author indicate in the last sentence of Paragraph 1?
A.The Pacific island is a paradise. |
B.The Pacific island is worth visiting. |
C.The advertisement is not convincing. |
D.The advertisement is not impressive. |
A.its natural resources are untouched |
B.its forests are exploited for farmland |
C.it develops well in health and education |
D.it suffers from the heavy flow of tourists |
A.They are happy to work their own lands. |
B.They have to please the tourists for a living. |
C.They have to struggle for their independence. |
D.They are proud of working in multinational organizations. |
A.The number of tourists. |
B.The improvement of services. |
C.The promotion of new products. |
D.The management of tourism. |
A.optimistic | B.doubtful |
C.objective | D.negative |