No poem should ever be discussed or “analyzed”, until it has been read aloud by

No poem should ever be discussed or “analyzed”, until it has been read aloud by

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No poem should ever be discussed or “analyzed”, until it has been read aloud by someone, teacher or student. Better still, perhaps, is the practice of reading it twice, once at the beginning of the discussion and once at the end, so the sound of the poem is the last thing one hears of it.
All discussions of poetry are, in fact, preparations for reading it aloud, and the reading of the poem is, finally, the most telling “interpretation” of it, suggesting tone, rhythm, and meaning all at once. Hearing a poet read the work in his or her own voice, on records or on film, is obviously a special reward. But even those aids to teaching can not replace the student and teacher reading it or, best of all, reciting it.
I have come to think, in fact, that time spent reading a poem aloud is much more important than “analyzing” it, if there isn’t time for both. I think one of our goals as teachers of English is to have students love poetry. Poetry is “ a criticism of life”, and “ a heightening(提升) of life”. It is “an approach to the truth of feeling”, and it “can save your life”. It also deserves a place in the teaching of language and literature more central than it presently occupies.
I am not saying that every English teacher must teach poetry. Those who don’t like it should not be forced to put that dislike on anyone else. But those who do teach poetry must keep in mind a few things about its essential nature, about its sound as well as its sense, and they must make room in the classroom for hearing poetry as well as thinking about it.
小题1:To have a better understanding of a poem, one should________.
A.discuss it with othersB.analyze it by oneself
C.copy it down in a notebookD.practise reading it aloud
小题2:Which of the following is NOT mentioned as a function of poetry?
A.Extending your lifeB.Saving your life
C.Criticizing lifeD.Heightening life
小题3:According to the writer, one of the purposes of teaching English is to get students________.  
A.to understand life.B.to enjoy poetry.
C.to become teachers.D.to become poets
小题4:What does the last sentence in the third paragraph imply?
A.More stress should be laid on the teaching of poetry.
B.Poetry is more important than any other subject.
C.One cannot enjoy life fully without an understanding of poetry
D.Poetry is the foundation of all language and literature courses
小题5:The phrase “make room” in the last paragraph could be best replaced by
A.“build a booth”B.“provide equipment”
C.“leave a certain amount of time”D.“set aside enough space”

答案

小题1:D
小题2:A
小题3:B
小题4:A
小题5:C
解析

小题1:根据第一段内容可知答案。
小题2:B、C、 D三个选项在文章中第三段都提到了。
小题3:根据文章中第三段第二句话I think one of our goals as teachers of English is to have students love poetry.可知答案。
小题4:结合本段主题及It also deserves a place …more central than it presently occupies.可知答案。
小题5:根据第三段第一句话I have come to think, in fact, that time spent reading a poem aloud is much more important than “analyzing” it, if there isn’t time for both.及in the classroom(在课堂上)可知答案。
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A new study finds that the animal known as man’s best friend can also be a good friend to the heart. Researchers in California say they have found that even just a short visit with a dog helped ease the worries of heart patients.               
The study divided the patients into three groups. In Group A, a dog and a person visited each patient for twelve minutes. Patients in Group B received just a human visitor for twelve minutes. And members of Group C received no visitor, human or canine(犬的).
The dogs would lie on the hospital bed so the heart patients could touch them. The researchers say some patients immediately smiled and talked to the dog and the human visitor. Dogs, in her words, “make people happier, calmer and feel more loved.”
The researchers examined the patients before, during and after the visits. They measured stress levels based on blood flow and heart activity. They say they found a twenty-four percent decrease in the group visited by both a dog and a person. They reported a ten percent decrease in the group visited by a person only. There was no change in the patients without any visit. These patients, however, did have an increase in their production of the hormone epinephrine (epinephrine肾上腺素). The body produces epinephrine during times of stress.
The increase was an average of seven percent. But the study found that patients who spent time with a dog had a seventeen percent drop in their levels of epinephrine. Patients visited by a human but not a dog also had a decrease, but only two percent.
小题1:The author believes that _______.  
A.the dog can take the place of most medicines
B.the dog is the most popular pet for man
C.the findings of the research cannot be trusted
D.visits by a human work better than visits by a dog
小题2:Which of the following best shows the stress level changes in the groups of patients? BACC

小题3:From the research findings we may conclude that _______.
A.the less the body produces epinephrine, the better
B.the longer a visit lasts, the happier the patient should be
C.the patients enjoyed the dogs’ company more than the human visitors’
D.it’s impossible for heart patients to recover without dogs’ visits
小题4:Which of the following is the best title for the passage?
A.Worried Heart PatientsB.Epinephrine and Stress
C.Good Friend to the HeartD.Three Groups of Patients

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Photographs are everywhere. They decorate (装饰) the walls of homes and are used in stores for sales of different goods. The news is filled with pictures of fires, floods, and special events. Photos record the beauties of nature. They can also bring things close that are far away. Through photos, people can see wild animals, cities in foreign lands, and even the stars in outer space. Photos also tell stories.
Reporting the news through photos is called photojournalism. At times photojournalists tell their stories through a single picture. At other times, they use a group of pictures to tell a story. Each picture is like a chapter in a book, which can do more than record the facts. It can also be a strong force for social change.
Jacob Riis was among the first photojournalists. He took pictures of parts of New York City where the poor lived. Riis believed that poverty(贫穷) caused crime, and he used photos to help him prove his point. A few years later, the photos of small children working in factories by Lewis Hine shocked the public. Hine’s pictures helped bring about laws to protect such children.
Hundreds of pictures may have to be taken in order to get one or two really good photos. It takes science to have the photo come out clearly and art to make a photo that has a good design and expresses feeling. Photojournalists make an actual record of what they see. A photo, however, can be both a work of art and an actual record. It can record an important event as a beautiful or exciting picture.
As historical and artistic documents(文献) ,photos can become more important over time. Today photojournalists still have their pictures appear in newspapers and magazines. They also publish(发表) them in books and on the Internet.
小题1:The underlined word “They” in the first paragraph refers to        .
A.beautiesB.photosC.goodsD.events
小题2:The photos of the small children by Hine show us that photos           .
A.are also works of artB.are popular ways of reporting news
C.often shock the publicD.can serve as a force for social change
小题3:What can we learn from the passage?
A.News with pictures is encouraging.B.Photos help people improve
C.News photos mean history in a sense.D.People prefer reading news with pictures.
小题4:The text is mainly about      .
A.telling the story through pictureB.decorating the walls of homes
C.publishing historical papersD.expressing feeling through pictures

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This was no ordinary class. The students who came together were all science or engineering professors at Cornell University. They had interrupted their research to accept an invitation to take part in an unusual experiment: “an interesting week of poetry.” This class was part of a study to answer the questions: Why is science difficult for many nonscience students? What can teachers learn about teaching if they take a class that is not in their field?
The students in the poetry class listened to lectures and took notes. They had reading tasks and had to write three short papers. All students noticed one thing – the importance of spoken words. In science and engineering classes, the instructors put tables and drawings on the blackboard. But in this poetry class, the instructors just talked. They didn’t write anything on the board.
The scientists and engineers noticed one similarity between science and poetry. In both subjects, students need to find layers (层次) of meaning . Some layers are simple, clean, and on the surface; other layers are deeper and more difficult. This search for different levels of meaning doesn’t happen much in undergraduate(本科) science classes, but it is important later, in graduate school. And it is always important in humanities(人文科学).
Both the poetry instructors and their students learned something about teaching from this experience. One poetry instructor, for example, now sees the importance of using informative as he teaches. Most of the scientists agreed on several points. First, humanities classes might help science students to see patterns and decide which information is important. Second, the poetry class was fun. One engineer decided, “We need to change the way we teach engineering to make to make it an enjoyable experience for students.”
But perhaps the most important result of the experience was this; All of the professors began to think about how they teach and how they cam teach better.
小题1:What do we know about this unusual class?
A.The teachers did lots of writing on the board
B.The teacher were invited to attend several lectures.
C.The student were professors from a university
D.The students were studying science and humanities.
小题2:The experiment was designed to find out             
A.how to teach the students in the science class
B.whether poetry is difficult for science students
C.what to be taught in the humanities class
D.why many humanities students find science hard.
小题3:Finding levels of meaning is            .
A.important for graduate students in humanities
B.difficult for graduate students in humanities
C.common for undergraduate students in science
D.easy for undergraduate students in science.
小题4:What did the science professors learn after the experiment?
A.They should change the way they teach
B.A poem could be explained in clear definitions.
C.A poetry class could be more informative.
D.Their teaching was an enjoyable experience.

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My dream ended when I was born. Although I never knew it then, I just held on to something that would never come to pass. Dreams really do exist. But in the morning when you wake up, they are remembered just as a dream. That is what happened to me.
I always had the dream to dance like a beautiful ballerina(芭蕾舞女演员)turning around and around and hearing people applaud for me. When I was young, I would turn around and around in the fields of wildflowers that grew in my backyard. 
Reality woke me up when I heard someone saying, "I don"t know why you bother trying to dance. Ballerinas are pretty and slender(苗条) girls. Besides, you don"t have the talent to even be a ballerina." I remember how those words hurt every feeling in my body. I fell to the ground and wept for hours. 
I enjoyed hanging out by the water. I would sit there for hours and stare at my reflection(倒影). There I was, looking nothing like a pretty ballerina dancer. Reflections don"t lie. Once the waves would come, my reflection was washed away just like my dream to dance.
As I grew older, I began to realize that the reason my dream was even born was because it was something that was inside of me. The dream I had was never nurtured(培育) and cared for, so it slowly died. It"s not that I wanted it to die, but I allowed it to die the day I started listening to the words, "You can"t do it." When I finally woke up from many years of dreaming, I realized that you can"t only settle for dancing in the wildflowers, you have to move on to the platform.
小题1: Which of the following can serve as the best title for the passage?
A.Care for your dream
B.Dream and reality
C.Nothing is impossible
D.Efforts to be a ballerina will pay
小题2:The author didn’t realize her dream of being a ballerina mainly because_______.
A.she was bored of dancing and performing
B.she had lack of self-respect
C.her health conditions allowed her dream to die
D.she was deeply affected by others easily
小题3:From the passage, it can be inferred that _________.
A.the author was once a pretty and slender girl with wonderful dream.
B.we should dare to give up our dream facing much pressure and difficulty
C.if you stick to your dream and never say die, you will enjoy a bright life
D.You should necer give up.
小题4:What is the main purpose of writing the passage?
A.to complainB.to praiseC.to warnD.to criticize
小题5:The underlined expression “settle for” in the last paragraph means_________.
A.turn downB.take upC.give upD.settle down

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It is common to consider learning as something that takes place in school, but much of human learning occurs outside the classroom, even from birth and people continue to learn throughout their lives.
Even before they enter school, young children learn to walk, to talk, and to use their hands to use toys, food, and other objects. They use all of their senses to learn about the sights, sounds, tastes, and smells in their environments. They learn how to communicate with their parents, grandparents, siblings, friends, and other people important to their world. When they enter school, children learn basic academic subjects such as reading, writing, and mathematics. They also continue to learn a great deal outside the classroom. They learn which behaviors are likely to be rewarded and which are likely to be punished. They learn social skills for communicating with other children. After they finish school, people must learn to deal with the many major changes that affect their lives, such as getting married, raising children, and finding and keeping a job.
Because learning continues throughout our lives and affects almost everything we do, the study of learning is important in many different fields. Teachers need to understand the best ways to educate children. Psychologists, social workers, criminologists, and other human-service workers need to understand how certain experiences change people’s behaviors. Employers, politicians, and advertisers make use of the principles of learning to affect the behavior of workers, voters, and consumers.
Learning is closely related to memory, which is the storage of information in the brain. Psychologists who study memory are interested in how the brain stores knowledge, where this storage takes place, and how the brain later outputs knowledge when we need it. In contrast, psychologists who study learning are more interested in behavior and how behavior changes as a result of a person’s experiences.
小题1:The author thinks “Learning”in the passage most refers to_________.
A.life-long learningB.family learning
C.learning after graduationD.behavior learning
小题2:The underlined siblings in the second paragraph probably means______.
A.teachersB.classmatesC.doctorsD.brothers or sisters
小题3: Which period of children’ life does they begin to how to behave well according to the passage?
A.After they go int society
B.Before they enter school
C.When they are at school
D.Before they are born
小题4:Which of the following is WRONG according to the passage?
A.As a matter of fact, learning begins with formal school education
B.Teachers need to understand the best ways to educate their students.
C.People need to understand how certain experiences change their behaviors.
D.Employers should study the principles of learning to manage their workers well.
小题5:The author tries to tell us ______in the last paragraph
A.learning is closely related to memory and experience
B.psychologists are interested in the wat the brain stores knowledge
C.psychologists are more interested in a person’s behavior
D.the relationship between learning, brain and behavior

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