Most students hate their endless homework. The students from Class 2, Senior 2 o
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Most students hate their endless homework. The students from Class 2, Senior 2 of the High School Affiliated to Peking University certainly did before they published their own collection of English novels at home.
Their small book contains stories about a holy (神圣的) war, the happy life of a self-taught artist and the story of a laid-off worker who devoted his last breath to playing his beloved accordion (手风琴). The book becomes an instant hit on campus. About 3,000 copies have been sold and the class is already working on the second volume.
"We’re up to our ears in homework. Exercises and exams make us out of breath. But to do something creative and full of imagination is such a great achievement," said Yu Xiaoxiao, 16.
"I took the writing as an ordinary homework at the beginning, but after I finished the first part of my story, I could not help but let it flow," said Wang An, who wrote "Accordion".
Inspired by "Lord of the Rings", Jiang Lu wrote his story about magic wars between angels from the light and the dark side. "The main message of the story was to look at the balance of the world. Both dark and light angels fight with love as their weapons. I want to tell people that selfish love might bring hate," Jiang said.
"I was shocked by their work and felt so proud to be the editor of my students’ book," said Nathaniel Timmermann, the oral English teacher at the school. Liu Xiuqin, an English teacher, started the project by asking students to write whatever was in their mind every week. "They have performed beyond expectation," Liu said. "They wrote interesting stories and their English has improved after they started to express their real minds."
"We never imagined that our homework would be so popular and profitable (盈利的). We sell the novels at five yuan, but many teachers pay more to encourage us," said Yuan Mengyao.
小题1: After Wang An finished the first part of his story, he _________.| A．couldn’t go on | B．had to put it aside | | C．just wanted to express it freely | D．lost it |
小题2:What was not the outcome of the students’ homework of writing whatever was in their mind?| A．Being popular. | B．Being profitable. | | C．Improving their English. | D．Winning prize. |
小题3:What is the reason for the students’ liking to write interesting stories?| A．It is creative and imaginative. | | B．It is profitable. | | C．Interesting stories are sure to be popular. | | D．Interesting stories can be well sold. |
小题4:What is the best title of this passage?| A．Creative homework leads to a popular book | | B．Writing interesting stories | | C．Students’ new book | | D．A popular book |
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答案
小题1:C
小题2:D
小题3:A
小题4:A |
解析
小题1:推理题：从文章的第三段but after I finished the first part of my story, I could not help but let it flow,这里的let it flow应该理解成想自由的表达。选C。
小题2:排除题：从第二段的：The book becomes an instant hit on campus. About 3,000 copies have been sold and the class is already working on the second volume.看出这本书让他们受欢迎，也给他们带来经济收益，还有倒数第二段的：They wrote interesting stories and their English has improved after they started to express their real minds.说明写这本书让他们的英语得到了提高。就是没有提到D。
小题3:细节题：从文章里第三段的：But to do something creative and full of imagination is such a great achievement,说明他们喜欢做有创造力和想象力的事，选A。
小题4:主旨题：从文章的第一段和最后一段都可以总结出答案是A。 |
举一反三
Every summer, no matter how urgent work schedule is, I take off one day exclusively for my
son. We call it dad-son day. This year our third stop was the amusement panic, where we discovered
that he was tall enough to ride one of the fastest roller coasters (过山车)in the world. We experienced through face-stretching turns and circles for ninety seconds. Then, as we stepped off the ride, in a calm voice, he remarked that it was not as exciting as other rides he’d been on. As I listened, I began to sense something seriously out of balance.
Throughout the season, I noticed similar events all around me. Parents found it hard to find new stimulations for cold kids. Surrounded by ever-greater stimulation, their young feces were looking disappointed and bored
Facing their children’s complaints of "nothing to do", parents were spending large numbers of dollars for various forms of entertainment In many cases the money seemed to do little more than buy relief from the terrible complaint of their bored children. This set me thinking the obvious question: "How can it be so hard for kids to find something to do when there’s been such a range of stimulating entertainment available to them?"
What really worries me is the strength of the stimulation. I watch my little daughter’s &ce as she absorbs bloody special effects in movies.
Why do children facing such excitement seem starved for more? Thai was, I realized, the point I discovered during my own adolescence that what creates excitement is not going fast, but going faster. Excitement has less to do with speed than changes in speed.
I am concerned about the increasing effect of years at these levels of feverish activity. It is no mystery to me why many teenagers appear uninterested and burned out, with a "been there, done that" air of indifference toward much of life. As increasing numbers of friends’ children are advised to take medicine to deal with inattentiveness at school or anti-depressants (抗抑郁药)to help with the loss of interest and joy in their lives—I question the role of kids’ boredom in some of the diagnoses (处方).
My own work is focused on the chemical imbalances and biological factors related to behavioral and emotional disorders. These are complex problems. Yet I’ve been reflecting more and more on how lie pace of life and the strength of stimulation may be contributing to the rising rates of psychological problems among children and adolescents in our society.
小题1:The reason why the author felt surprised in the amusement park was that ________.| A．his son was not as excited by the roller coasters ride as expected | | B．his songs enjoyed turns and circles with his face stretched | | C．his son appeared upset but calm while riding the roller coasters | | D．his son could keep his balance so well on the fast moving roller coasters |
小题2:According to the author, children will probably feel excited ________.| A．if their parents allow them to ride roller coasters very often | | B．since parents spend money on the same form of entertainment | | C．after they take anti-depressants according to the diagnoses | | D．if they are often exposed to more stimulating entertainment |
小题3:From his own experience, the author came to the conclusion that children seem to expect _______.| A．a much wider variety of sports facilities | | B．activities that require complicated skills | | C．the change of the forms of recreation | | D．more challenging physical exercise |
小题4:. In order to relieve children’s boredom, the author would probably suggest ________.| A．adjusting the pace of life and strength of stimulation | | B．promoting the practice of dad-son days | | C．consulting a specialist in child psychology | | D．balancing school work with after school activities |
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A student was one day taking a walk with his teacher. As they went along, they saw a pair of old shoes lying in the path. They were a poor farmer’s, who was working in the nearby field.
The student turned to the teacher, saying:“we will hide his shoes, and hide ourselves behind those trees, and wait to see what he will do”
“My young friend,” answered the teacher, “we should never make fun of the poor. Why not put a coin in each shoe, and then we will hide ourselves and watch?” The student did so and they both hid themselves behind the trees. The poor man soon finished his work, and came across the field to the path where he had left his coat and shoes.
After putting on his coat, he put his foot into one of his shoes, and felt something hard. Then he bent down to feel what it was, and found the coin. Surprised, he looked at the coin, turned it around and looked at it again. He then looked around, but no person was seen. He put the money into his pocket, and continued to put on the other shoe. His surprise was doubled on finding the other coin.
He couldn’t control his feelings and fell to his knees, looked up to the sky and expressed his thanks. Then he spoke of his wife, sick and helpless, and his children without food. He said the help would save them from dying.
The student there deeply moved, and his eyes filled tears.“ Now,” said the teacher, “are you not much happier than if you had hidden the shoes?”
小题1:When the student saw the shoes, he wanted to____.| A．steal them | B．find their owner | | C．play a joke on the owner | D．give the owner some money |
小题2:According to the passage, the teacher is______.| A．quiet and honest | B．kind and friendly | | C．patient and clever | D．strict and careful |
小题3:When the farmer saw the second coin, he___.| A．was very excited and grateful | | B．was worried and looked up at the sky | | C．was surprised and decided to find the owner | | D．spoke of his difficulties and asked for more help |
小题4:At the end of the story, the student____.| A．was very proud of himself | B．was very pleased with his life | | C．felt very sorry about his first idea | D．felt sad for not taking his teacher’s advice |
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Learners report two main difficulties in reading, which may be linked. There are too many unknown words and as a result reading is simply not a pleasure. For some students, even reading in their own language is a chore.
Having a wide vocabulary is essential to making sense of written language. Of course, this is a circular argument, because the more you read the more vocabulary you learn and the more words you know the more easily you can read. Don’t make the mistake of reading with your dictionary beside you, looking up every single new or doubtful word. This is laborious and prevents you from practicing the skill of prediction.
Sometimes in reading you find a word you know but the sense doesn’t seem to fit in. This is not surprising because words have so many meanings and degrees of meaning. What is more, part of their meaning is shaped by the words around them. Keep looking at the surrounding words and asking yourself “what sort of meaning would make sense here?”
The more that people study the reading process, the better they can pass on to language learners a range of advice to choose from. People have learned to read in all kinds of ways. Here is some information that could help you plan to be a better reader in the foreign language you are studying.
1）Work out the general meaning first
When people read in a new language they often feel they must take a detailed approach, focusing on every word, particularly those they don’t know. They read as if they were using a microscope, looking carefully at each of the small pieces（the individual words）, but not necessarily seeing the whole picture at first. This is called the “bottom-up” approach. Other readers try to look first at the big picture（the “top-down” approach）, attending to individual bricks only as necessary, a process that involves some intelligent guesswork. Generally this second approach is recommended by successful learners.
2）Interactive reading
Another way of thinking about reading is to describe it as an interactive process, where the text brings something to you and you bring something to the text. Readers bring together all their knowledge of the world with what they see on the page in front of them. That is why, when reading in our own language, we don’t need to read every word. We add meaning which is not actually stated.
3）From supported reading to independent reading
Language learners start by needing considerable support as they read. Textbooks supply this support in the form of introductions that summaries the contents, glossaries, pictures, explanations of new grammar points. In your reading you need to move gradually from this support to reading more the text itself.
小题1:. According to the author, ______.| A．looking up the dictionary is of great help for the understanding | | B．reading more promotes the gaining of vocabulary | | C．the more you read, the less useful the dictionary will be | | D．the amount of vocabulary is the key to reading |
小题2:. Successful learners recommend ______.| A．trying to look first at the big picture | | B．looking carefully at each of the small pieces | | C．focusing on every word | | D．“bottom-up” approach |
小题3:. The word “chore” in the first paragraph maybe means ______.| A．an important aspect | B．a difficult and tiring thing | | C．an easy question | D．something special |
小题4:. You come across a new or doubtful word when you are reading, you can ______.| A．just miss it and let it be | | B．keep looking at the surrounding words | | C．look it up in the dictionary each time | | D．make sense of it with the help of dictionary |
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Balzac was good at buying things at its lowest price. One day he wanted to buy a vase in a shop window that was much more expensive than he could offer. Not being able to make the shopkeeper cut down its price very much, he left without further talking. Collecting a half dozen of his friends, he explained his wish to them and they worked a plan. The first would enter the shop and make an offer, lower than the marked price. Not getting the vase at his price, he would walk out. Shortly after another would enter and ask for a price lower than the first. In this way, each of the others would offer a price lower than the one before, and the last of his friends made a great effort to attempt to get it at the lowest price. Before long Balzac himself would return, offer more than the last two or three persons made and trust to luck. The plan worked--- Balzac got the vase at his price!
小题1:Which of the following is true according to the passage?| A．vase in the window was placed much higher than Balzac could reach. | | B．At first the price of the vase was much higher than Balzac could offer. | | C．Balzac always wanted to buy a vase that was much more expensive than he could pay. | | D．Balzac was very poor. He couldn’t buy the vase at a high price. |
小题2:How many friends did Balzac gather?小题3:Who asked for the lowest price?| A．The first one. | B．The second one. | | C．The last of his friends. | D．Balzac. |
小题4:What kind of person does the writer try to tell us about Balzac and his friends?| A．Unkind | B．Dishonest | C．Selfish | D．Clever |
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Mr. West intended to buy his wife a Christmas present, but he was always very busy, so he was never 1 to find time to go to the shops. At last, when it was the week 2 Christmas, and the shops were very crowded, he 3 that he could not wait any longer. He worked in an office, and 4 had lunch in a restaurant, but one day he bought some sandwiches, ate them quickly and went out to a big shop near his office during his lunch 5 .The shop was full of women, who were also buying presents during their lunch hour.
Mr. West stood politely at the edge(边)of a crowd of women who were 6 forward to try to get to the people who were 7 necklaces and earrings. He tried to move forward slowly, taking his turn with the others, but more and more women were 8 into the shop the whole time and pushing selfishly past him.
After half an hour, he was just as far from the people who were selling the necklaces as he had been 9 he came in, and his lunch hour was coming to an end, so he decided to change his 10 of doing things: he put his head down, 11 a sudden loud shout and started to push his way towards the 12 of the crowd as hard as he could.
The women around him became very 13 when they saw what he was doing, and began to scold him.” Why can’t you behave like a gentleman?” they shouted.
“Ladies,” he 14 them,” I have been behaving like a gentleman for the past half hour, and it has done me no 15 ,so now I am starting to behave like a lady!”
| 小题1: | | A．sure | B．certain | C．able | D．possible |
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| 小题2: | | A．before | B．after | C．till | D．within |
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| 小题3: | | A．promised | B．decided | C．agreed | D．insisted |
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| 小题4: | | A．never | B．sometimes | C．seldom | D．usually |
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| 小题5: | | A．hour | B．moment | C．minute | D．second |
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| 小题6: | | A．pulling | B．pushing | C．gathering | D．managing |
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| 小题7: | | A．selling | B．buying | C．choosing | D．seizing |
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| 小题8: | | A．going | B．entering | C．fetching | D．coming |
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| 小题9: | | A．where | B．until | C．when | D．even if |
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| 小题10: | | A．habit | B．way | C．action | D．sign |
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| 小题11: | | A．caught | B．made | C．blew | D．gave |
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| 小题12: | | A．center | B．end | C．front | D．back |
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| 小题13: | | A．patient | B．angry | C．surprised | D．nervous |
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| 小题14: | | A．hated | B．waved | C．explained | D．answered |
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| 小题15: | | A．treasure | B．good | C．respect | D．present |
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