Ted, my little brother, is in Grade One. Last Friday he came back from school wi

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Ted, my little brother, is in Grade One. Last Friday he came back from school with a letter. The letter was from his teacher. "I got a red flower today. Could you please sign签字 this note?" he said to Mum. The note showed that he had been talking in class.
Ted hardly gets top scores in his school work. The best he gets is "OK", but often he gets "You can do better than this." Mum knows what it means. She tells me "You can do better than this" means "Extremely bad" in China.
In the USA, teachers never say anything too bad about their students, even if the students are making trouble in class or not working hard enough. The worst they might say is "Please be nicer tomorrow". Many parents are satisfied with对---满意 a B-grade for each subject.
But things in Chinese schools are quite different. Parents have high expectations for their children. I sometimes felt that my second-grade cousin spent more time on homework than I did when I was a 6^th grader in the USA! Yet his parents and teachers didn"t think he worked hard enough.
Is it too strict in China? Or is it not strict enough in the USA? Maybe both are true.
小题1:Why did Ted come home with .a letter last Friday ?

A．Because the teacher wanted to visit his mother.

B．Because he did something wrong.

C．Because the teacher was happy with his progress.

D．Because the teacher thought he was too lazy.

小题2:If a student in the USA gets "OK" in his school work, it means .

A．he gets top scores

B．he gets medium scores

C．he gets extremely bad scores

D．he gets the worst scores

小题3:American parents will be when their children get a B-grade in their school.

A．excited

B．sad

C．angry

D．happy

小题4:The underlined words "high expectations" in this passage means .

A．很高的待遇

B．很多的自由

C．很高的期望

D．很多的关爱

小题5:The writer mainly wants to tell us .

A．the differences between Chinese education and American education

B．Chinese students are better than American students

C．American parents are not strict enough with their children

D．what the best way to educate children is

答案

小题1:B
小题2:B
小题3:D
小题4:C
小题5:A

解析

试题分析：短文介绍了美国的教育依靠学生的自觉性与自主性。同时又介绍了中国的教育特点，家长对孩子的要求严格，并且学校给学生的作业量上也是较大的。
小题1:细节理解题。问题：上周五，为什么泰德带着一封信回家？分析原句：The note showed that he had been talking in class.句意：信笺上写着，他已经在课堂上说话了。结合上文得知，他在学校做了错事，那就是在课堂乱说话。故选B
小题2:细节理解题。问题：如果一名美国的学生在学校评语中得到了一个“OK”，它的意思是什么？分析原句：Ted hardly gets top scores in his school work. The best he gets is "OK".句意：泰德几乎得不了很高的成绩在他的学校学习。他得到最好的评语是“OK”。联系下文，因为他的表现不好，所以他经常得到的是“你能做的比这次好。”因此体现当学生在学校成绩中等的时候，评语为OK.故选 B
小题3:细节理解题。问题：当美国的学生在学校得到一个B的成绩，他们的父母将会感受如何？分析原句：Many parents are satisfied with a B-grade for each subject.句意：孩子在学校得了B成绩，许多家长是满意的。与满意相近的词汇为happy.故选D
小题4:细节理解题。问题：划线部分在短文中的意思? 分析原文：But things in Chinese schools are quite different. Parents have high expectations for their children.句意：但是，事情在中国的学校有很大的不同。父母对孩子有很高的期望。同时结合实际情况，中国的父母对孩子的期望很高。因此划线部分为很高有期望。故选C
小题5:细节理解题。问题：作者主要想告诉我们什么？分析文章的中心句：Is it too strict in China? Or is it not strict enough in the USA? Maybe both are true.句意：中国的教育太严吗？还是美国的教育不严？可能两者都是真的。从中心句中得出结论，重点在介绍中国与美国的教育上有所不同。故选A

举一反三

Time flies. Your time in junior high school will come to an end in a few months. Let’s look back over the last three years. What were the highs and lows?
For Zhang Xiaomeng, a senior high school girl from Jiangsu, meeting her best friend Hua Xuan was the best part of her time at junior high school. They went to class together, had lunch together, and even went to the washroom together. Having one or two best friends is important, said Xu Zheng, a teacher from Jiangsu. “Students have secrets. They don’t want to tell their parents,”Xu added. However, being too rebellious (叛逆的) in junior high is the biggest regret for Liu Anqing, a senior high school student from Fujian. “I didn’t listen to my parents. I quarreled with my mother every week,” said Liu. “I wish I could go back to that time and get on well with them.” Time also needs to be taken care of. Zhang Zihua, 15, from Shanxi, thought he had plenty of time to prepare for the big exam at the end of Junior 3. Then one day, he was told: “The exam is in 100 days.” “We need a strong knowledge base to pass the exam. But I didn’t care about it,” said Zhang. Gu Xiaoli, a teacher from Jiangsu, said that it’s never too late to catch up. “No matter your regrets about wasted time, you can always pick things up from now,” said Gu.
小题1:How many students shared their ideas in the passage?

A．Three.

B．Four.

C．Five.

D．Six.

小题2:The underlined word “regret” in Paragraph 2 most probably means a feeling of __________.

A．happiness

B．surprise

C．anger

D．sadness

小题3:Which of the following is true about Liu Anqing?

A．She quarreled with her parents every day when she was a little girl.

B．Her parents didn’t like her at all.

C．She didn’t do well in her study at junior high school.

D．She didn’t get on well with her parents when she was in junior high school.

小题4:What’s wrong with Zhang Zihua?

A．He didn’t pass the exam.

B．He had no good friends.

C．He didn’t get ready for the exam.

D．He didn’t get on well with his parents and teachers.

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Do you remember the name of your kindergarten(幼儿园) teacher? I do. Her name was Mrs White.
I don’t remember much about     we learned in her class, but my mother once told me that we    write a lot. And I would bring back what I wrote and she could see there were so many mistakes.    no red corrections. And always a star. Sometimes even a Good! It worried my mother, so one day she went to    Mrs White and asked her why she     corrected my mistakes.
And my mother says Mrs White said “The children are just     to get excited about using words, about forming sentences. I don’t want to lose the interests with red ink(墨水).     and grammar can wait. The wonder of     won’t... ”.Maybe she didn’t say it exactly like that at that moment. And what my mother gave me was the main idea of what she could remember.
I     now and think Mrs White must have been a rather    teacher. She encouraged joy, wonder and excitement — even if our expression of it was     . Because she believed a bud(花蕾)once nipped(掐断) never opens.
I used to misspell “beautiful” a lot. Never could quite remember that the e went    the a. It annoyed my teacher in high school very much. If I was going to use the word so often, she considered the    I could do was spell it right. Finally the e’s and a’s were in their right places. Am glad I didn’t wait on them though. Pretty is    to spell but it doesn’t hold as much as you mean sometimes.
And    Mrs White I had no worries about writing what I meant. Because Life isn’t Pretty. It’s Baeutiful.

小题1:

A．where

B．what

C．why

D．when

小题2:

A．liked to

B．supposed to

C．used to

D．happened to

小题3:

A．But

B．So

C．And

D．Because

小题4:

A．chat

B．criticize

C．show

D．meet

小题5:

A．often

B．always

C．never

D．sometimes

小题6:

A．beginning

B．staring

C．thinking

D．opening

小题7:

A．Speaking

B．Reading

C．Listening

D．Spelling

小题8:

A．exams

B．words

C．exercises

D．homework

小题9:

A．look forward

B．look after

C．look for

D．look back

小题10:

A． excellent

B．strict

C．hardworking

D．careless

小题11:

A． right

B．wrong

C．good

D．bad

小题12:

A．behind

B．after

C．before

D．below

小题13:

A．best

B．worst

C．most

D．least

小题14:

A．easy

B．easier

C．funny

D．funnier

小题15:

A． think of

B．come up with

C．thanks to

D．remind of

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Having friends, and finding new friendships is an important developmental task for preteens and teens. While they have learned to play well with others during their childhood, developing independent friendships is a different thing. Preteens and teens will be allowed to use their own resources to decide whether to be someone’s friend or not, instead of being taught by their parents. Parents must give their teenagers some freedom in choosing who they want to hang out with.
You can help your teens to choose their friends, although it’s your teenagers who make the final decision. You can use teachable moments to talk about what makes a good friend. Here are some points to remember when you talk about friendships with your teenagers:
1) You are allowed to have many friends;
2) Honesty is important in a friendship;
3) Friends sometimes hurt each other, but they can say sorry and forgive(原谅);
4) Friends can influence each other, sometimes they will help you but sometimes they will hurt you, too.
5) Who you choose to be your friend is important, so choose wisely;
6) It takes many learned skills to make and keep a friendship, and it also takes many skills to end a friendship;
7) It is okay and even helpful to make friends with the opposite gender(异性);
8) It takes time to make a good friend, but it is worth the effort;
9) Spending time together will help you get to know your friends well and you will feel comfortable sharing feelings;
10) A good friendship will make you feel good about yourself.
小题1:What should their parents do when teenagers make friends?

A．Do nothing but give them all the freedom.

B．Talk with them and give some help.

C．Decide and choose friends for them.

D．Stop them from making friends with opposite gender.

小题2:Which point is about how to end a friendship?

A．Point 3.

B．Point 4.

C．Point 5.

D．Point 6.

小题3:Which of the following is NOT needed in making friends?

A．Honesty.

B．Effort.

C．Lies.

D．Skills.

小题4:Who is the passage mainly written for?

A．Teachers.

B．Parents.

C．Preteens.

D．Teens.

小题5:Which of the following statement is true?

A．Friends never hurt each other.

B．There is no need to forgive friends.

C．Teenagers are allowed to have many friends.

D．Girls should never make friends with boys.

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Can you imagine surfing the Internet without lifting your finger? Do you want to know what it feels like to fly like a bird? Let’s have a look at some of the “Best inventions of the Year 2012”.
Wing Suits

The suit can make your dream of flying like a bird come true. Well, not exactly flying, but gliding（滑翔）through the air. Fliers wearing wing suits can glide one kilometer in about 30 seconds. But they need a parachute（降落伞）to make a safe landing because the suit does not allow you to slow down.
Talk Gloves

Do you often feel confused（困惑的）by the sign language used by disabled people? Here is the “helping hand” you need. Four students in Ukrainian college have invented a pair of gloves that helps people who has hearing and speech problems to communicate with others. The gloves are set with sensors（传感器）that receive sign language and translate it into text on a smart phone. Then the smart phone changes the text to spoken.
Google Glasses

In short, Google Glasses are like a computer which is built into a pair of glasses. The glasses allow you to surf the Internet and make phone calls without even lifting a finger. All you have to do is to let your head move the mouse on the screen. The glasses also have a camera and GPS mapping system. Users can take and share photos, video-chat, check maps and surf the Internet just by looking up, down, left and right. But now they are on sale only in two countries, German and America.
小题1:Through the Talk Gloves, the sign words are translated for__________.

A．trained people

B．disabled people

C．normal people

D．old people

小题2:How can users of Google Glasses surf the Internet?

A．By lifting the hands.	B．By using the keyboard.
C．By using the mouse.	D．By moving the eyeballs.

小题3:Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?

A．Now people can buy Google Glasses in China.

B．People need a parachute to fly besides a wing suit.

C．Wing Suits can make you fly one kilometer in 30 minutes.

D．Talk Gloves include sensors, a smart phone and glasses.

小题4:What’s the writer’s purpose of writing this article?

A．To draw people’s attention to the Year 2012.

B．To bring some pleasure to readers.

C．To introduce some interesting inventions.

D．To ask people to buy these products.

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Grown-ups are often surprised by how well they remember something they learned as children but have never practiced still swim as well as ever ever since. A man when he gets back who has not had a chance to go swimming for years can in the water. He can get on a bicycle after many years and still ride away. He can play catch and hit a ball as well as his son. A mother who has not thought about the words for years can teach her daughter the poem that begins "Twinkle, twinkle, little star"。remember the story of Cinderella or Goldilocks and the Three Bears.
One explanation is the law of over learning , which can be stated as follows: Once we have learned something, additional learning trials(尝试)increase the length of time we will remember it.
In childhood we usually continue to practice such skills as swimming, bicycle riding, and playing baseball long after we have learned them. We continue to listen to and remind ourselves of words such as "Twinkle, twinkle, little star" and childhood tales such as Cinderella and Goldilocks. We not only learn but overleam.
The multinlicatinn tables(乘法口诀表)are an excention to the general rule that we forget rather quickly the things that we learn in school, because they are another of the things we overlearn in childhood.
The law of overleaming explains why cramming(突击学习)for an examination. though it may result in a passing grade, is not a satisfactory way to learn a college course. By cramming, a student may learn the subject well enough to get by on the examination, but he is likely soon to forget almost everything he learned.A little overlearning. on the other hand, is really necessary for one"s future development.
小题1:What is the main idea of paragraph I?

A．People remember well what they learned in childhood.

B．Children have a better memory than grown-ups.

C．Poem reading is a good way to learn words.

D．Stories for children arc easy to remember.

小题2:The author explains the law of overleaming by_________.

A．presenting research findings

B．selling down general rules

C．making a comparison

D．using examples

小题3:According to the author, being able to use multiplication tables is_______.

A．a result of overlearning

B．a special case of cramming

C．a skill to deal with math problems

D．a basic step towards advanced studies

小题4:What is the author"s opinion on cramming?

A．It leads to failure in college exams.

B．It"s helpful only in a limited way.

C．It"s possible to result in poor memory.

D．It increases students" learning interest.

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