1 . Organizations design courses to help you learn new skills or improve your current skill set. Here’re the best course providers of 2024.
Codecademy
It provides information technology (IT) and other technical users with courses in coding and other software engineering areas. You can choose from several subscription plans or choose a free option to explore the website’s course collection.
Memrise
It’s a website and an application created to help you learn another language. It’s free to use and offers up to 23 languages to pursue. It aims to work on developing your long-term memory to support your learning journey and make it more effective. Additionally, it provides video examples of individuals using the language’s terms and phrases in everyday life.
Pluralsight
It’s a paid subscription site but offers a free trial, so you can try a few classes to determine if it fits your needs. You can take a Skill IQ assessment to know your skill levels and help you determine a plan to improve your abilities. It employs certified experts as the course instructors, which benefits you as a learner.
Alison
It’s a free learning platform offering classes, including fields such as personal development, health, language, finance and science. It offers learners the flexibility of taking the courses anywhere and anytime, so users can fit it into their schedule. And the platform is for individuals with various skill levels, from beginner to expert. Additionally, the site has two types of courses, allowing you to choose between earning a certificate or getting a diploma.
1. Which is most likely to be the course provided on Codecademy?| A．Computer Science. | B．Drawing for Beginners. |
| C．Advanced Parenting Skills. | D．Civil Engineering. |
| A．Codecademy. | B．Pluralsight. | C．Alison. | D．Memrise. |
| A．They are designed for adults. | B．They require learners to pay. |
| C．They offer no certificates. | D．They are self-paced. |
1．推荐课程；
2．推荐理由。
注意：
1．写作词数应为80左右；
2．请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答。
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Li Hua
1. 你对选修课的建议及理由；
2. 你的祝愿。
注意：
1. 写作词数应为 80 左右；
2. 请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答。
Dear Peter,
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Yours,
Li Hua
4 . Mathcamp
Mathcamp is an intensive 5-week-long summer program for mathematically talented teenagers, designed by the Mathematics Foundation of America to expose them to the beauty of advanced mathematical ideas and to new ways of thinking. Attendees can expect a comprehensive curriculum comprising lectures, workshops, and collaborative math projects, with an extensive range of subjects.
At Mathcamp, students can explore undergraduate and even graduate-level topics while building problem-solving skills that will help them in any field they choose to study. They can also study with mathematicians who are passionate about their subject, from internationally known researchers to graduate students at the start of their careers.
Eligibility:
We invite applications from high-school and middle-school students from around the world who are passionate about mathematics. Students between ages 13 and 18 are eligible (有资格的).
Cost: $5,000 (Financial Aid is available on a case-by-case basis)
Location: University of Puget Sound, Tacoma, WA
About the application:
Application materials for our 2024 summer program will be available on January 10, 2024 and all applications received by the deadline (March 6, 2024) will receive equal consideration.
An application to Mathcamp includes the following:
•Some information about your Math Background: where you are now in learning the material that's traditionally covered in high school. We do not require school transcripts (成绩单); instead, we ask for self-reporting of your content knowledge.
•A short piece of writing About You, where you can tell us a little more about yourself, your interest in math, and why you want to come to Mathcamp!
•Your solutions to the Mathcamp 2024 Qualifying Quiz.
•(Optional) A scholarship application, if you require financial assistance to attend Mathcamp. Each applicant's final admissions decision will be determined no later than May 31, 2024.
Program Dates: June 30 — August 4, 2024
1. What can attendees do in the program?| A．Volunteer as a math teacher. | B．Apply for college admission. |
| C．Meet famous mathematicians. | D．Gain scholarship for high school study. |
| A．An essay about the future career. | B．The answers to the Qualifying Quiz. |
| C．A recommendation letter for schloarship. | D．An official school report on mathematics. |
| A．On January 10, 2024. | B．On March 6, 2024. |
| C．On May 31, 2024. | D．On June 30, 2024. |
5 . ABOUT SMART
SMART runs both study tours for groups in England throughout the year and a holiday English course for foreign students during the summer in the centre of London. Our courses combine English language learning with cultural studies in different centres around England. Our students have plenty of holiday fun, make new friends and learn a lot of English!
The holiday course
We provide lessons and afternoon activities to help you speak, write, listen and read in English, as well as understand the English people and their culture. We will help you learn through topics which are interesting to you.
The school
The Elite School is in central London, just 5 minutes from Paddington Station and 10 minutes from Hyde Park. It has 15 classrooms including an IT room, a science lab, a music room, and an art room as well as a large cafeteria.
Travelling time from Heathrow Airport: 45 minutes
Trips
There are three trips every week. You can have fun either in London or outside London. In London we visit places such as the Tower of London, Buckingham Palace and the Tate Modern. Outside London we visit places such us Oxford, Cambridge and Brighton.
Terms
Age: 11-17
Minimum stay: 2 weeks
Maximum number of students in class: 15
Cost￡550 per week, including:
— registration fee (C60)
— tuition package: 15 hours of English; 1 half day of creative arts; 1 full-day trip on Saturday; all course materials; 1 half day of sport; 2 “Discover London” tours; lunch; welcome pack
— host family accommodation
1. Which of the following is provided by the holiday course?| A．A culture-based language study. | B．Free access to 15 classrooms. |
| C．Pick-up service from the airport. | D．Learning experiences in famous colleges. |
| A．￡550. | B．￡610. | C．￡1100. | D．￡1160. |
| A．A tour guide. | B．An advertisement. |
| C．A journal entry. | D．A study report. |
假设现在学校要为高二学生多设置一节必修课，该课放在每周周五进行，现在向全校学生征询建议。作为一名即将高中毕业的学生，你会向学校提出怎样的课程建议呢？你的作文需包括以下内容：
1.你建议多设置怎样的一节必修课；
2.设置该课程的2-3个原因。
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7 . The lights go down, music plays, and a young woman on a bike at the front of the class encourages students to spin faster and harder. When the lights go back on, the students on the bikes pullout their notebooks, and it’s clear that this is not Soul Cycle. Instead, it’s a first-of-its-kind business school course at Fordham University that is taught on spin bikes in a university.
“It’s the first class that I mention to anybody when anybody asks me what classes I’m taking,” said Amanda Vopat, 22, a business administration major. “I think people are really excited about it.”
The 75-minute, twice-weekly course is the brainchild of Jul it a Haber, a business school professor at Fordham. “I have been introducing movement and fitness in my classes for the past seven years,” she said. “I found the spin class would really allow students to exercise while a professor lectures at the same time.”
The course the students are taking while cycling is no joke. Managing Professional Relationships is an upper-level business school course taken primarily by juniors and seniors. The students are fully instrumental in each class, selecting the music, leading stretches before and after class and leading the intervals during the class.
Haber stops her lecture every 20 minutes throughout the class. While one student turns off the lights, another student turns up the music and a third student goes to a bike in the front of the class to lead their classmates in high-intensity interval that lasts two to three minutes, just enough to re-energize the students.
“It’s a fantastic way of engaging students and as a professor, as a teacher, that’s really gratifying.” she said. “They don’t have their smartphones, and they don’t have laptops so they are physically engaged and also mentally engaged in what is being said.”
The course is the first of its kind at Fordham, and Haber believes it is also a first across the United States. She has authored research on the unique classroom approach, which she calls fitness integrated learning.
Donna Rapaccioli, the head of Fordham’s Gabelli School of Business, described how students were “energized” by the class and said Fordham was open to expanding it to other courses. “Definitely,” Rapaccioli answered when asked if Haber’s course represents the future of learning.
1. Why are the lights adjusted now and then during the session?| A．To create a tense atmosphere. |
| B．To warn the students to work harder. |
| C．To remind the students of their activity. |
| D．To call the students’ attention on notebooks. |
| A．Ambitious and smart. | B．Hardworking and cheerful. |
| C．Creative and open-minded. | D．Confident and humorous. |
| A．Arousing the students’ interest. |
| B．Grabbing the student’s full attention. |
| C．Conducting a national research. |
| D．Creating a new future of learning. |
| A．To tell the future of Haber’s course. |
| B．To show the success of Haber’s course. |
| C．To compare Haber’s course with others’. |
| D．To promote the popularity of Haber’s course. |
Students looking forward to
The program will begin holding courses in September 2024. As the UK’s first postgraduate program in magic,
Emily Selove, the leader of the program, said that as yet there
The goal of the program is to help students develop skills such as creative and
“This course will allow people to re-examine the
1. Why is the Ocean Awareness Contest probably held?
| A．To encourage creative communication. |
| B．To draw attention to ocean protection. |
| C．To select outstanding artistic talents. |
| A．Being at least 18 years old. |
| B．Taking part in it as individuals. |
| C．Expressing the need to protect oceans. |
| A．Cash awards of $50 or more. |
| B．Opportunities to go abroad. |
| C．Hundreds of small gifts. |
| A．A host. | B．An artist. | C．A teacher. |
1. 写信目的；2. 推荐的课程及理由；3. 你的祝愿。
注意：1. 词数80左右；
2. 可适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。
Dear Steven,
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Yours sincerely,
Li Hua
