teaches something behind—the culture (文化 ) of the country.
In a country such as the United States, people with different history, culture and language join together and they pay much attention to (注意)personal ideas. Teachers try to make each student special. Students do not have to remember a lot of information, instead, they work and find answers by themselves. There
is often discussion in the classroom. At an early age students learn to have their own ideas. Their education encourages (鼓励)personal thought ( 思想 ). The importance is placed on how to arrive at an answer
and not only to get the correct answer.
In most Asian countries, people have the same language, history and culture. Perhaps for this reason,
the education there pays more attention to group goals than personal ideas. Children in China and Japan
often work together and help each other on homework. In the classroom, the ways of teaching are often
very traditional.The teacher says,and the students listen.There is not much discussion.Instead,the students
repeat rules or information that they have been taught in order to keep them in mind.
In many ways these differences come from educational ideas. In Western countries teachers are taught
to help students to learn. They make it easier for the students to learn by themselves. In some Asian( 亚洲 ) countries, however, teachers often feel that their job is pass knowledge ( 知识 ) to students.
1. Do students in the United States have to remember a lot of information?
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2. In which country there is often discussion in the classroom, America or Japan?
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3. What does the education in the United States encourage?
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4. Which does the education in some Asian countries pay more attention to, group goals or personal
ideas?
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5. Put the sentence "In some Asian countries, however, teachers often feel that their job is pass
knowledge to students." into Chinese.
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2. America
3. It encourages personal thought.
4. Group goals.
5. 然而,在一些亚洲国家,老师们通常认为他们的工作就是把知识传授给学生。
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strong wind. The sea is very big. It covers three quarters of the earth. The sea is also very deep in some
places. In one place, the sea is about 11 kilometres deep. The highest mountain(山) in the world is about
nine kilornetres high. If that mountain was put into the sea at that place, there would still be two
kilometres of water above it!
In most parts of the sea,there are plenty of f ishes and plants (植物). Some live near the top of the
sea.Others live deep down. There are also a lot of small living things, and lots of fish live by eating them.
The sea can be very cold. When people go down, the sea becomes colder and colder. Only some men
can go down into the deep sea. But, in 1970, five women scientists lived in the deep sea for fourteen
days.
B. about the sea
C. a news report
D. a poem
B. The sea is very terrible when the wind blows hard.
C. The highest mountain is in the deepest place of the sea.
D. The deeper the people go into the sea, the colder they would feel there.
B. 2/3
C. 1/4
D. 3/4
B. they live to eat apples
C. they are good food for fish
D. they are too small for fish to catch
B. women wanted to swim in the sea
C. women could go deeper into the sea than men
D. women liked living in the sea
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Hundreds of years ago, news was carried from place to place by people on foot or by horse. It took
days, weeks and sometimes months for people to receive news. Now it is possible to send words and
pictures around the world in seconds. Billions of people learn about news stories of their own country
and all over the world every day, either by watching TV or reading newspapers.
Newspapers have been an important part of everyday life since (自从) the 18th century (世纪).
Many countries have hundreds of different newspapers. How do newspaper editors decide which news
stories to print? Why do they print some stories and not others? What makes a good newspaper story?
Firstly, it is important to report new stories. TV stations can report news much faster than newspapers. Yet, newspapers give more about the same story. They may also look at the story in another way, or
they may print completely (完全地) different stories to those on TV.
Secondly, a news story has to be interesting and unusual. People don"t want to read stories about
everyday life As a result (结果), many stories are about some kind of danger and seem(似乎) to be
"bad" news. For example, newspapers never print stories about planes landing safely, instead they print
stories about plane accidents (事故).
Another factor (因素) is also very important in many news stories. Many people are interested in news
in foreign countries, but more prefer(更喜欢) to read stories about people, places and events (事件) in
their own country. So the stories on the front page in Chinese newspapers are usually very different from
the ones in British, French and American newspapers.
1. According (根据) the passage, how do people learn about news stories in the world now?
A. They carry news stories and tell others from place to place oh foot or by horse.
B. They tell each other what they have seen with their eyes.
C. They watch TV or read newspapers.
D. They listen to the radio every day.
2. The difference (区别) between newspaper stories and TV news reports is that _____.
A. people can learn more about the same news story from a newspaper
B. people can read the news story more quickly in a newspaper
C. people can read news stories in other countries
D. people can read news stories about their own country
3. To make a good newspaper story, how many factors does the passage talk about?
A. Two.
B. Three.
C. Five.
D. Six.
4. According to the passage, which of the following can you most possibly watch on TV?
A. You often play football with your friends after school.
B. Your teacher has got a cold.
C. A tiger in the city zoo has run out and hasn"t been caught.
D. The bike in the front of your house is lost.
5. Which of the following is Not True of this passage?
A. News stories on the front page of every country are always the same.
B. People like to read interesting and unusual news.
C. Not only TV but also newspapers can help people to learn what is happening around the world.
D. Newspapers have been an important part of everyday life for more than three hundred years.
What do you think of the most important inventions in the world? The TV? The printing? The
telephone? Or the computer? A report shows that they are not the only important inventions. Here are
three other important inventions.
One of the simplest inventions is the toilet. Before toilets, waste ran into rivers from people"s houses.
Illnesses were common in big cities, and it was often difficult to find clean drinking water.
Animal food is another important invention. Before the invention, most animals were killed every
autumn because there was not enough food for them in winter. After hay became a kind of common
animal food, animals could live through the long winter.
The third great invention is glasses. Glasses help people read, write and do "close work" after the age
of forty-five. Without glasses, the world would be difficult for the people above forty-five.
people on earth, and natural resources (资源) seemed to be unlimited (无限的).
Today, things are different. The world has become too crowded (拥挤的). We are using up our
natural resources too quickly, and at the same time we are polluting our environment with dangerous
chemicals. If we continue like this, human life on earth will not survive.
Everyone realizes today that if too many fish are taken from the sea, there will soon be none left. Yet,
with modern fishing methods (方法), more and more fish are caught. We know that if too many trees are
cut down, forests will disappear and nothing will grow on the land.
We realize that if rivers are polluted with waste products from factories, we will die. However, in most
countries, waste products are still put into rivers or into the sea, and there are few laws to stop this.
We know, too, that if the population (人口) of the world continues to rise at the present rate, in a few
years, there will not be enough food.
What can we do to solve these problems?
If we eat more vegetables and less meat, we will easily get more food. Land that is used to grow crops
can feed five times more people that land where animals are kept.
The world population will not rise so quickly if people use modern methods of birth control.
Finally, if we educate people to think about the problems, we shall have a better and cleaner living
place in the future.
The importance of protecting the environment | |
Problems | 1. More fish being caught. 2. More __1__ being cut down. 3. More waste products being put into rivers. 4. More __2__ being born. |
Causes | The world is becoming too __3__. Modern methods make the situation worse. |
Result | We human beings (人类) will not survive on the earth. |
Solutions | 1. Eat more vegetables and less meat so that more food will be available (可以获得的) for everyone. 2. Use modern methods of __4__ control so that the population will not grow too fast. 3. Educate people so that the __5__ will be better and cleaner. |
根据短文内容及所给首字母,填写所缺单词,每空一词。 | |
Would you like to visit Beijing? Beijing is the c__1__ of China. It is an old c__2__ and there are lots of places of i__3__ in Beijing. You know the emperors of Qing Dynasty lived in the Palace M__4_. You can walk s__5__ around the big lake and feel the b__6__ of the old park in the Summer Palace. You can also drink s__7__ Beijing tea in Laoshe Tea House. It is also a m__8__ city, you can visit the big s__9__ in Wangfujing Street and you can travel to the World Park by u__10_. 1.c______ 2. c______ 3. i______ 4. M_____ 5. s______ 6.b______ 7. s______ 8. m______ 9. s______ 10. u______ |