Gary is teaching his students to play a game called “Word House” in the English class. Here is the way to play the game:
1. Get some pieces of paper that are cut into squares. Each Square is for writing one letter only.
2. Write a letter on one square. For example, write “i.”
3. Next, take another two squares. Make a two-letter word which contains the letter you have written, for example, “in” or “hi.” Put the new word (written on the two squares) below the first square.
4. Then make a three-letter word which contains the two letters you have written.Again, put the new word on the next line.
5. Keep making new words in the same way to build a “word house.” The person who builds the highest word house in twenty minutes wins the game.
小题1: What does a “word house” look like?
小题2:Which is true about the game?| A．It is about spelling. | | B．It is a computer game. | | C．There have to be five people in the game. | | D．Students have to write four words in twenty minutes. |
小题3:Which of the following is the right order of playing the game?
a. cut the paper into squares
b. make a three-letter word which contains the two letters you’ve written
c. write a letter on one square
d. keep making new words in the same way
e. make a two-letter word and put it below the first square| A．a-b-c-d-e | B．a-c-e-b-d | C．d -c-e-b-a | D．e-b-c-d-a |
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小题1:B
小题2:A
小题3:B |
试题分析：本文介绍了Gary老师在英语课堂教给学生做的一个“Word house”的文字游戏及玩该游戏的步骤，过程。
小题1:根据文章中第二，第三个步骤可以得知是金字塔递增型，而且每下一排应该包括上一排的所有字母，所以应该选择B
小题2:综合全文，该文字游戏是有关单词拼写的，故选择答案A
小题3:观察选项，分别是以a,d,e开始，只要判断a,d,e这三项哪项先开始，即可排除一些选项，根据步骤1应该是a排在最前面，故排除CD答案，然后比较AB项的第二步骤分别是b,c，根据原文中步骤2可以得知c排第二，故选择答案B
点评：本文介绍了Gary老师在英语课堂教给学生做的一个“Word house”的文字游戏及玩该游戏的步骤。该类文章层次结构清晰，内容比较简单，可以快速捕捉文章内容。文章集中考查细节较多，在阅读时注意关键的细节内容，做好标志，以提高阅读的效率。 |
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Apple has entered the textbook market. The tech giant（科技巨头） introduced iBooks textbooks a couple of weeks ago when it announced its iBooks 2 platform. They are digital books in many subjects taking in science, maths, history and geography.
Apple developed its iPad-based textbooks in conjunction with（连接）major textbook publishers. The company offers a collection of textbooks for high school students.
Apple says it offers a “new textbook experience” and suggests its iBooks textbooks are “the next chapter in learning”. It sounds like good news for pupils and students. Think of it. No more carrying heavy backpacks full of textbooks. Every textbook you require can be stored on your iPad. No more having to buy expensive textbooks which you will only use for a year or two and then sell or give away.
Of course there’s a catch. You need to own an iPad and as you know, it is not cheap. You also need to buy digital textbooks, mostly priced each at $14.99 (94.74 yuan) or less. Textbook publishing was worth $ 8.7 billion in the US alone last year. And the rest, as they say, is history. Will Apple revolutionize learning? Will digital books take over completely in education? That remains to be seen.
小题1:What is the best title of the text?| A．Apple Enters New Market | B．A Different Way of Learning | C．Experience Digital Texbooks | D．Say Good-bye to Tradition |
小题2:iBooks textbooks will do good to pupils and students because ________.| A．they are free to get | B．they are easy to carry | | C．they are ipad-based | D．they are favorite gifts |
小题3:The underlined words “a catch” in Paragraph 4 are closest in meaning to “________.”| A．an advantage | B．a surprise | | C．a problem | D．an order |
小题4:What can we know from that last paragraph?| A．iPad-based textbooks have changed our learning. | | B．Traditional textbooks will be replaced sooner or later. | | C．Apple has earned a lot from the textbook market. | | D．Digital books have disadvantages and advantages. |
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Writer and teacher Yin Jianli"s stories and thoughts about bringing up her daughter
Yuanyuan have been a constant source of inspiration for parents over the past 16 years.
Her book, A Good Mother Exceeds Good Teachers, published by Writers Publishing House, has been a bestseller on Dangdang and Amazon"s online platforms
for the past three years. The book helped Yin make the Chinese Writers" Rich List, with 4. 48 million yuan（＄710，000).
Experts say Yin"s book provides practical guidance, which makes it popular among parents.
"When the majority of books are either full of bragging about（自吹自擂）the authors" children or outlining big theories that have no foundation in practice, I write books that are practical and easy to follow," Yin writes.
"For example, there was an occasion when Yuanyuan forgot to do her elementary school homework. In such a situation many Chinese parents show their anger and scold their kids,”says Yin, who made an agreement with her husband they would not overly criticize or push their daughter. Instead, Yin encouraged the daughter to make up the homework, which meant staying up until midnight. As a result, she learned to arrange her time better and did not have a harmful reaction to doing homework. Yin"s principle of "no parental interference（干涉），and "giving children the opportunity to learn from their mistakes" is described in a number of real-life examples.
Readers say Yin"s books improve their children"s performance at school, and encourage them to develop good personalities and habits. They believe her books are not only about being good parents but also about growing as parents and individuals.
"When I"m reading books，I keep thinking about what a better personality I would have if my parents had adopted the methods Yin suggests when I was a kid，＂one reader comments in a review on Yin"s online blog.
小题1:The book“A Good Mother Exceeds Good Teachers" has been so popular because______.| A． it covers many inspiring thoughts about bringing up children | | B． it outlines big theories from home and abroad | | C． it provides practical guidance for parents | | D． it sells at a great discount |
小题2:We can learn from the text that Yin Jianli_______．| A． advocates learning from mistakes | | B． makes a good living only by writing books | | C． holds the view that saving your stick spoils your kid | | D． believes successful education calls for joint efforts from school and family |
小题3:It can be implied from the text that________.| A． Yin"s readers are mostly parents | | B． The book is only available online | | C． Yin has a great sense of business | | D． Yuanyuan achieved success thanks to her mother |
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That morning, I stepped into the classroom, ready to share my knowledge and experience with seventy-five students who would be my English Literature class. Having taught in 1 for seventeen years, I had no 2 about my ability to hold their attention and to 3 on them my admiration for the literature of my mother tongue.
I was shocked when the monitor shouted, " 4 !" The entire class rose as I entered the room, and I was somewhat 5 about how to get them to sit down again, but once that awkwardness was over, I quickly 6 my calmness and began what I thought was a fact-packed lecture, sure to gain their respect—perhaps 7 their admiration. I went back to my office with the rosy glow which came from a sense of achievement.
My students 8 diaries. However, as I read them, the rosy glow was gradually 9 by a strong sense of sadness. The first diary said, "Our literature teacher didn’t teach us anything today. 10 her next lecture will be better." Greatly surprised, I read diary after diary, each expressing a 11 theme. "Didn’t I teach them anything? I described the entire philosophical framework of Western thought and laid the historical 12 for all the works we’ll study in class," I complained." How _13 they say I didn’t teach them anything?"
It was a long term, and it 14 became clear that my ideas about education were not the same as_15 of my students. I thought a teacher’s job was to raise 16 questions and provide enough background so that students could 17 their own conclusions. My students thought a teacher’s job was to provide _18_ information as directly and clearly as possible. What a difference!
_19 , I also learned a lot, and my experience with my Chinese students has made me a 20 American teacher, knowing how to teach in a different culture.
| 小题1: | | A．the UK | B．the US | C．China | D．Australia |
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| 小题2: | | A．worry | B．idea | C．doubt | D．experience |
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| 小题3: | | A．impress | B．put | C．leave | D．fix |
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| 小题4: | | A．Attention | B．Look out | C．At ease | D．Stand up |
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| 小题5: | | A．puzzled | B．sure | C．curious | D．worried |
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| 小题6: | | A．found | B．returned | C．regained | D．followed |
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| 小题7: | | A．more | B．even | C．yet | D．still |
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| 小题8: | | A．passed | B．borrowed | C．read | D．kept |
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| 小题9: | | A．replaced | B．taken | C．caught | D．moved |
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| 小题10: | | A．Naturally | B．Perhaps | C．Fortunately | D．Reasonably |
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| 小题11: | | A．different | B．strong | C．similar | D．usual |
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| 小题12: | | A．happenings | B．characters | C．development | D．background |
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| 小题13: | | A．should | B．need | C．will | D．must |
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| 小题14: | | A．immediately | B．certainly | C．simply | D．gradually |
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| 小题15: | | A．that | B．what | C．those | D．ones |
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| 小题16: | | A．difficult | B．interesting | C．ordinary | D．unusual |
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| 小题17: | | A．draw | B．look | C．search | D．offer |
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| 小题18: | | A．strange | B．standard | C．exact | D．serious |
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| 小题19: | | A．Therefore | B．However | C．Besides | D．Though |
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| 小题20: | | A．normal | B．happy | C．good | D．better |
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One of the world"s richest men has taken a close interest in one of man’s most basic functions: visiting the toilet．Bill Gates’s charitable organization, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, is looking for inventors to design the loo of the future, which, they hope, would improve sanitation for millions of people around the world．
So, what"s wrong with the traditional flush toilet? Firstly, it wastes a huge amount of potential drinking water．Secondly, they are more likely to cause pollution．This is a real problem in many areas of the developing world, where, according to United Nations estimates, unsafe sanitation causes half of all hospitalizations．Younger people are particularly at risk．Illnesses which cause diarrhea are responsible for the deaths of about 1.5 million children a year．Finally, standard lavatories simply aren’t practical in remote areas．
The challenge set by Bill Gates was to come up with a latrine which works without running water, electricity or aseptic tank(化粪池)．It also needed to operate for less than 5 cents．28 designs were displayed at the recent Reinvent the Toilet Fair in Seattle, USA．Among them was one which turned human waste into electricity using microwaves, another which converted human waste into charcoal, and yet another which used urine for flushing．
But the winner was a solar-powered design which generated hydrogen gas and electricity.The team from the California Institute of Technology（CIT）picked up a prize of $ 100,000.
But clearly Bill Gates doesn’t feel he’s flushing money down the toilet．After the Seattle event he said, “We, couldn’t be happier with the response we’ve gotten,” Gates has even pledged $370m more to the future toilet project．They hope to field test more prototypes over the next three years．
小题1:Why is Bill Gates paying people to invent new toilets?| A．Because he wants to test people’s sense of creativity． | | B．Because he wants to improve sanitation for many people． | | C．Because he thinks the traditional ones are out of fashion． | | D．Because he can’t design this kind of things himself． |
小题2:Which of the following is NOT a problem with the traditional flush toilet?| A．They waste too much water． | | B．They might cause diseases． | | C．They are not always practical． | | D．They are too complicated to use. |
小题3:The underlined word “latrine” in the third paragraph might have similar meanings to the word “__ ”n the text．| A．Loo | B．sanitation | C．diarrhea | D．prototype |
小题4:The team from CIT won the prize because their design .| A．can change human waste into electricity | | B．can turn human waste into charcoal | | C．can produce power with solar energy | | D．can use urine for flushing |
小题5:If someone “flush money down the toilet”, they are .| A．showing off their wealth | | B．being angry with their work onditions | | C．wasting money for nothing | | D．expressing their great determination |
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A child, who has once got interested in a tale, likes, as a rule, to have it retold in almost the same words, but this should not lead parents to treat printed fairy stories as formal texts. It is always much better to “tell” a story than just “read” it out of a book, and, if a parent can produce his own as an improvement on the printed text, according to his child’s actual situation, so much the better.
There is a charge made against some fairy tales, as they probably harm children by frightening them or leaving them sad feelings. To prove it, an experiment has been done to show that children who have heard terrible fairy stories often feel more uneasy than those who have not. As for fears, there are some cases where children get timid (胆怯的) by some fairy story. Often, however, this arises from the child having heard the story once. Familiarity with the story by repetition may weaken the pain of fear.
There are also people who object to fairy stories on the grounds that the stories are not objectively true, and that those giants, witches, two-headed dragons, magic carpets etc. do not really exist, so children should be taught to learn the reality by studying history, instead of being got fond of the strange side in fairy tales. Those, who prefer to create such stories, are so peculiar (奇怪的) that it is hard to argue with them. If their creative exaggeration (夸张) were sound, the world should be full of mad men attempting to fly from New York to Philadelphia on a stick or covering a telephone with kisses in the belief that it was their beloved girl-friend.
Not once is a fairy story ever declared to be a description of the real world, but not every child is clever enough to be aware of it. Parents should choose their children’s “bed-time” reading materials with much care. Only the fairy stories containing positive effect will make a clever and caring child with rich imagination.
小题1:The author considers that a fairy story is more effective when it is ______.| A．repeated without any change | | B．treated as no more than a joke | | C．made some changes by parents | | D．set in the present situation |
小题2:According to the passage, when a child hears a terrible fairy story, ______.| A．he will get more interested | | B．great fear can take place in him | | C．he will like it to be repeated | | D．an experiment is being done |
小题3:The word “sound” in Para.3 can be understood as ______.| A．fashionable | B．forgettable | C．available | D．believable |
小题4:The author mentions “sticks” and “telephones” to prove that ______.| A．fairy stories are all made up | | B．fairy tales lead to misunderstanding | | C．children are cheated by old stories | | D．there is more concern for children |
小题5:One of the reasons why some people are not in favor of fairy tales is that ______.| A．they are made up far from the truth | | B．they are so full of imagination | | C．they are not interesting at all | | D．they make history difficult to teach |
小题6:It makes sense that parents choose fairy stories with ______ as “bed-time” reading materials..| A．formal printings | B．creative scenes | C．positive effect | D．terrible characters |
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