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various methods to demonstrate (证明) their intelligence and ability. Although experts have many ideas and
categories of learning, it is evident that people learn in three basic styles.
When learning something new, if you prefer to read the information, you are probably a student who
learns through seeing. These learners like to see teacher"s facial expressions and body language clearly and
rend to sit at the front of the classroom. They take detailed notes, think in pictures and can most easily absorb
information from textbooks with diagrams, graphs, photographs and drawings.
Students who find it easiest to learn a new concept by hearing a teacher explain it are learning through
listening. Reading aloud, using a tape recorder, hearing anecdotes (趣闻) and talking things through are the
best methods for these learners to acquire new information. They give close attention to both the content of
the discussion and the way that things are said, such as how the sound of the voice and speed of speech
show the mood of the speaker.
Learning through doing means being active in exploring the environment and finding out about things by
moving and touching. Students who have this learning style take a hands-on approach to education and enjoy
experiments or surveys. They do not like to sit still for long periods of time and sometimes find it hard to
concentrate when reading or listening.
Teachers study people"s various ways of learning as part of their training. They select a variety of
activities to suit their students" different learning styles. However, restrictions of time, space and resources
often make it impossible for teachers to provide the best exercises for all learners. If you are aware of you
own learning style, there is a lot you can do personally to improve your study skills and find the most
appropriate ways to approach your study tasks. As a result, you will be able to manage your own learning
and study more effectively.
| 1.______ | Features of students" learning |
| Learning through seeing | *watch a teacher"s facial expressions and body language *sit 2.______ the platform *take detailed notes *think in pictures |
| 3.______ | *enjoy reading aloud *prefer to listen to recorded materials *fond of hearing something and 4.______ *pay special attention to the content of the discussion *focus on people"s 5.______ |
| Learning through doing | *6.______ and know better about things by moving and touching. *know the world 7.______ *carry out experiments or surveys *dislike sitting still for long *8.______ concentrating when reading or listening |
| 9.______ | *A teacher 10.______ all his students with a certain teaching method *A student should improve his learning skills to learn more effectively. |
| 1. Basic learning styles 2. close 3. Learning through listening 4. talking things through 5. ways of talking 6. explore the environment 7. through personal experience 8. having difficulty/trouble in 9. Conclusions 10. can hardly satisfy | |
| Directions: Read the following passage. Answer the questions according to the information given in the passage and the required words limit. | |
| Even plant can run a fever, especially when they"re under attack by insects or disease. But unlike human, plants can have their temperature taken from 3,000 feet away straight up. A decade ago, adopting the infrared (红外线) scanning technology developed for military purposes and other satellites, physicist Stephen Paley came up with a quick way to take the temperature of crops to determine which ones are under stress. The goal was to let farmers precisely target pesticide (***虫剂) spraying rather than rain poison on a whole field, which invariably includes plants that don"t have pest (害虫) problems. Even better, Paley"s Remote Scanning Services Company could detect crop problems before they became visible to the eye. Mounted on a plane flown at 3,000 feet at night, an infrared scanner measured the heat sent out by crops. The data were transformed into a color-coded map showing where plants were running "fevers". Farmers could then spot-spray, using 50 to 70 percent less pesticide that they otherwise would. The bad news is that Paley"s company closed down in 1984, after only three years. Farmers resisted the new technology and long-term backers were hard to find. But with the renewed concern about pesticides on produce, and refinements (改进) ininfrared scanning, Paley hopes to get back into operation. Agriculture experts have no doubt the technology works."This technique can be used on 75 percent of agricultural land in the United States," says George Oerther of Texas A& M, who recently retired from the Department of Agriculture, thinks remote infrared crop scanning could be adopted by the end of the decade. But only if Paley finds the financial backing which he failed to obtain 10 years ago. | |
| 1. In what situation will plants have a fever? (No more than 8 words) ________________________________________________________________________________________ 2. How can we apply pesticide spraying precisely? (No more than 10 words) ________________________________________________________________________________________ 3. Why may infrared scanning technology by brought back into operation? (No more than 13 words) ________________________________________________________________________________________ 4. What is the biggest problem that might prevent bringing infrared scanning technology back? (No more than 7 words) ________________________________________________________________________________________ | |
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| It could not have been easy to see the tiny swimmer, but a group of scientists claimed to have discovered the world"s tiniest fish. The little creature was found recently in an Indonesian swamp (沼泽). For now, the fish is known as Paedocypris progenetica. It has a transparent, or see-through, body. Its head doesn"t have a skeleton (骨架), leaving its brain vulnerable (脆弱的) to its surroundings. The fish, which is female (雌性的), can grow to be only 7.9 millimeters or (0.31 inches) long, about the size of a large mosquito (蚊子). Maurice Kottelat, a fish expert from Sweden, led the team of researchers that made the discovery. Kottelat and his team reported their discovery in the Proceedings of the Royal Society, a British scientific journal. "You don"t wake up in the morning and think today we will find the smallest fish in the world," said Kottelat in an interview. He and his team were most excited by the possibility of having discovered the world"s smallest vertebrate. "What"s important is finding a complete backbone in a body so small," said Kottelat. All fish, reptiles (爬行动物), birds, and mammals (including humans) are vertebrates. It wasn"t long after Kottelat"s announcement that another researcher challenged the claim with a discovery of his own. Fish expert Ted Pietsch, a researcher at the University of Washington, says that he has discovered a fish that is smaller than Kottelat"s discovery. According to Pietsch, the male Photocorynus spiniceps is a tiny ocean fish measuring only about a quarter inch. That would actually make Pietsch"s fish the world"s smallest vertebrate. Kottelat"s would come in at a close second. When Pietsch got in touch with Kottelat to mention the fish, four of which he keeps in his office- Kottelat did not argue. He kindly gave the title of "world"s smallest vertebrate" over to Pietsch"s unique fish. "So our little fish is only the smallest freshwater vertebrate," Kottelat wrote. "Now I wait until the next smallest fish is discovered." | |
| 1. Pietsch"s fish is shorter than Kottlelat"s by about _____. | |
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| A. 0.01 inches B. 0.06 inches C. 0.1 inches D. 0.31 inches | |
| 2. The underlined word "vertebrate" probably means "_____". | |
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| A. a creature in an ocean B. a fish in fresh water C. an animal that can swim D. an animal with a backbone | |
| 3. Which statement is TRUE according to the text? | |
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| A. Kottlelat"s fish still keeps the record of the smallest fresh water vertebrate so far. B. Pietsch"s record of discovery of the world"s smallest fish was soon broken by others. C. Kettlelat didn"t admit that Pietsch"s fish was even smaller than his. D. All fish, reptiles, amphibians, birds and humans share the same ancestor. | |
| 4. Which question doesn"t seem to be answered so far according to the text? | |
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| A. Is fish a vertebrate animal? B. What"s the world"s smallest fish indeed? C. What is the smallest freshwater vertebrate? D. What size is Pietsch"s fish? | |
| Thomson中学学生Mike, Joseph, Anna, Ian 和Susan 正在计划各自下学期的选修课程。 阅读第1至第5题 中的个人情况说明和A到F六门课程介绍，选出符合个人个性特长的最佳选项。选项中有一项是多余选 项。 | |
| ( )1. Mike spent his childhood mostly in his father"s study, where he read novels by British and American writers. Next term he will become a senior student. He thinks it"s time that he read more of their works and learned to write about them. ( )2. Joseph is good at the language arts, and in his spare time he likes to write short stories. It is his wish that his stories would be printed in local newspapers. So he is thinking of taking a course to develop his writing skills such as wording and paragraph organization. ( )3. A lively and caring girl, Anna takes an active part in social activities. She is trying to write reports for newspapers about what she sees and hears. But few of them are accepted because of poor organization of information. She feels the need to improve her writing and communication skills next term. ( )4. Jan traveled worldwide with his parents when he was very young. Under their influence, he becomes greatly interested in stories of travel and adventure. He hopes to write his own stories in the future. So next term, he will choose a course to study the best writing of this type. ( )5. Susan comes from China. As a junior back home, she wrote quite a lot of short stories, some of which were published in newspapers. Her parents hoped she read some classics by Asian and Western writers. She thinks it helpful in her writing. So she is going to take a course of this kind next term. | |
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| In bringing up children, every parent watches eagerly the child"s acquisition (学会) of each new skill in the first spoken words, the first independent steps, or the beginning of reading and writing. It is often tempting to hurry the child beyond his natural learning rate, but this can set up dangerous feelings of failure and states of worry in the child. This might happen at any stage. A baby might be forced to use a toilet too early, a young child might be encouraged to learn to read before he knows the meaning of the words he reads. On the other hand, though, if a child is left alone too much, or without any learning opportunities, he loses his natural enthusiasm for life and his desire to find out new things for himself. Parents vary greatly in their degree of strictness towards their children. Some may be especially strict in money matters. Others are severe (严格的) over time of coming home at night or punctuality for meals. In general, the controls represent the needs of the parents and the values of the community as much as the child"s own happiness. As regards the development of moral standards in the growing child, consistency (一致性) is very important in parental teaching. To forbid a thing one day and excuse it the next is no foundation for morality (道德). Also, parents should realize that "example is better than precept". If they are not sincere and do not practice what they preach (说教), their children may grow confused when they grow old enough to think for themselves, and realize they have been to some extent fooled. A sudden awareness of a marked difference between their parents" principles (原则) and their morals can be a dangerous disappointment. | |
| 1. Eagerly watching the child"s acquisition of new skills _____. | |
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| A. should be avoided B. is universal among parents C. sets up dangerous states of worry in the child D. will make the child lose interest in learning new things | |
| 2. In the process of children"s learning new skills, parents _____. | |
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| A. should encourage them to read before they know the meaning of the words they read B. should expect a lot of the children C. should achieve a balance between pushing them too hard and leaving them on their own. D. should create as many learning opportunities as possible | |
| 3. The second paragraph mainly tells us that _____. | |
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| A. parents should be strict with their children B. parental controls reflect only the values of the community C. parental restrictions vary, and are not always for the benefit of the children alone D. it"s parents" and society"s duty to control the children | |
| 4. The word "precept" in Paragraph 3 probably means "_____". | |
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| A. opinion B. punishment C. behavior D. instruction | |
| 5. In terms of moral matters, parents should _____. | |
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| A. follow the rules themselves B. be aware of the huge difference between adults and children C. forbid their children to do anything D. always ensure the security of their children | |
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| You have been badly injured in a car accident. It is necessary to give you a blood transfusion because you lost a great deal of blood in the accident. However, special care must be taken in selecting new blood for you. If the blood is too different from your own, the transfusion could kill you. There are four basic types of blood; A, B, AB, and O. A simple test can make sure of a person"s blood type. Everybody is born with one of these four types of blood. Blood type, like hair color and height, is received from parents. The four groups must be transfused carefully. A and B cannot be mixed. A and B cannot receive AB, but AB may receive A or B. O can give to any other group; therefore, it is often called the universal donor (万能捐 赠者). For the opposite reason, AB is sometimes called the universal recipient (接受者). However, because so many reactions (反应) can happen in transfusions (输血), patients usually receive only salt of plasma (liquid part of blood) until their blood can be matched as exactly as possible in the blood bank of a hospital. In this way, it is possible to prevent the transfusion from any bad reactions. | |
| 1. People with type A blood can receive type _____. | |
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| A. AB B. B C. O D. all of the three | |
| 2. If you need a blood transfusion, the best and safest blood for you is _____. | |
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| A. a mixture of type A and type B B. a mixture of salt, plasma and type O C. type AB D. exactly the same type as your own | |
| 3. The phrase "universal recipient" means a person who _____. | |
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| A. can receive blood of type A or B B. can receive blood of any other type C. can give blood to anybody D. cannot give blood to others | |
| 4. A good title for this article is _____. | |
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| A. Getting Enough Blood B. Differences Between Blood Types C. Man"s Four Types of Blood D. How to Give Blood Transfusion | |
| 5. Which of the following statement is NOT true? | |
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| A. Carelessness in a blood transfusion may lead to death. B. AB is the mixture of A and B. C. AB is called the universal recipient because it can receive any other group. D. In transfusions, patients usually receive only salt of plasma at first. |