It is true that people with better education are usually able to get better paying jobs. In other words, they have more chances to choose a good job while people with little or no education don’t. It seems that the purpose of education is to make people get jobs. But this isn’t accepted by all people.
Some people may think that a person should spend the best years of his life to get education only for a way of living. This was probably one of the earliest reasons of education. In fact, if education is just a way of making a living, people don’t need to spend so much time in school. People can get education for a living in a short time. Subjects like history and geography need not be taught to everyone. Even language and mathematics need not be taught in detail(详细地), either. Here it is clear that education is much more than teaching a man to get a way of living.
Education is well-rounded and it is mainly for improving a man. It is not only to teach him to speak, read and write, but also to develop his creative thinking and other abilities. After that, it is to make him a wise man and thankfully enjoy the achievements of human. Education is to make a man lead a better life. Educated people are expected to be able to listen to good music, read good books, watch plays and most of them take an interest in the world.
I would agree that making a good living is an important reason for education, but certainly not the most important or the main reason.
小题1:People with little education usually ____.| A．spend a long time in school | | B．have a good chance to get a job | | C．spend the best years to choose jobs | | D．have fewer chances to get a good job |
小题2:The earliest education was probably to ______.| A．make a man lead a better life | | B．teach a man to write and think | | C．make people get a way of living | | D．teach people to read good books |
小题3:It is expected that educated people will be able to _____.| A．accept education as a way of living | | B．take an interest in the whole world | | C．develop their abilities to make plays | | D．learn subjects like language and math |
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小题1:D
小题2:C
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试题分析：好的教育为的是什么？过去人们单纯地理解为找好的工作，为了一种固定的生活方式。但这并不完全。教育面面俱到，为的是让人得到进步和提高。工作所需要的教育时间很短，但塑造一个人就要很长时间。所以有好的生活是接受教育的重要理由，但绝不是主要的理由。
小题1:细节理解题。由第一段的In other words, they have more chances to choose a good job while people with little or no education don’t. （换言之，他们更有可能选择好工作而接受教育程度几乎为零的就不行。）可知选D。
小题2:细节理解题。第二段的开头说，一些人可能认为一个人应该用一生最最好的时间来接受教育以作为谋生的手段。这可能是教育的最早的理由之一。由此判断选C。
小题3: 细节理解题。倒数第二段的结尾处Educated people are expected to be able to listen to good music, read good books, watch plays and most of them take an interest in the world.意为：人们希望受过教育的人能听好的音乐、读好书、看剧，而且大多数人对这个世界很关心。由此判断选B。 |
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试题【It is true that people with better education are usually able to get better payi】；主要考察你对
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Scientists around the world have been studying the warming of waters in the Pacific Ocean known as El Nino （厄尔尼诺）. The appearance of El Nino is known to affect the weather around the world. Scientists still do not completely understand it. Yet they now find they can use it to tell about the future in different areas of the world.
One example is the work of two scientists at Columbia University in New York, Mark Cane and Gordon Eshel. A scientist of Zimbabwe（津巴布韦）, Roger Buckland worked with them. They have found that when El Nino appears, Zimbabwe has little or no rain. This means corn crops in Zimbabwe are poor. The last El Nino was in 1991 to 1993. That was when southeastern Africa suffered a serious lack of rain.
The scientists wrote about their recent work in the publication（出版物）Nature. Their computer program can tell when an El Nino will develop up to a year before it does. They suggest that this could provide an effective early warning system for southern Africa, and could prevent many people from starving.
小题1:El Nino is known as ___.| A．the changing of the weather in southern Africa | | B．the warming of waters in the Pacific Ocean | | C．the weather which brings drought（旱灾）to Africa | | D．the weather phenomenon（现象）that brings heavy rains to Africa |
小题2:Scientists study El Nino in order that ___.| A．they can provide a kind of early warning to the place that will suffer from drought | | B．they can tell why Zimbabwe has little or no rain | | C．they can do some research work in this field. | | D．they can put all this information into their computers. |
小题3:Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?| A．Scientists come to understand how El Nino appears. | | B．Three scientists from the USA work on this subject. | | C．Southern Africa suffered a serious drought and many people died from hunger. | | D．El Nino has something to do with Zimbabwe’s poor crops. |
小题4:Which of the following is NOT true according to the article?| A．The computer is used in this research work. | | B．Scientists know when an El Nino appears by means of the computer program. | | C．The scientists published their results of the research work. | | D．Nature is the name of the article written recently by the scientists. |
小题5:What’s the best title for this passage?| A．Appearance of El Nino is Predictable（可预测的） | | B．Drought in Zimbabwe | | C．Early Warning System | | D．Weather in Africa |
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Three years ago I listened to a lecture on cognition that changed the way I think about intelligence. There are two types of cognition, and the first is normal cognition the ability to regain knowledge from memory. The second type of cognition is metacognition(元认知) the ability to know whether or not you know.
Does this affect intelligence? In traditional education, intelligence is measured by cognitive ability. Some people can easily produce everything they know on a test. But others are awarded with poor grades and considered inferior (not as good as). But does this inability make them any less intelligent? If the question came up on a task, they could refer to a book or a quick Google search. In reality they’re just as effective as the people that ace a test. They just can’t prove it as easily.
Metacognition is more important to success than cognition. A person with poor cognitive ability, but great metacognitive ability might do poorly in school, but when faced with a challenge, they understand their abilities and take the best course of action. For example, when faced with a question, a person with strong metacognitive ability will deal with it like this. If he knows the answer, but can’t come up with it, he can always do a bit of research. If he knows for sure that he doesn’t know, then he can start educating himself. Because he’s aware of his ignorance, he doesn’t act with foolish confidence. These people might not seem intelligent at first glance, but because they know what they know, they make better decisions and learn the most important things.
However, people with great cognitive ability but poor metacognitive ability may be considered excellent at a young age for acing every test and getting great SAT scores. Unfortunately, they’ve been ruined by poor metacognition they think they know everything but they really don’t. They are arrogant (overconfident), fail to learn from mistakes, and don’t understand the slight differences of personal relationships, showing disregard for persons with lower cognitive ability. They may make the worst decisions.
The most important mental power is the ability to know what you don’t know .The recognition of a fault is the first step to improvement. Don’t try to hide a lack of knowledge. For intelligent people this is the toughest lesson to learn.
小题1:People with great cognitive ability tend to ______________. | A．do well in tests | | B．be considered inferior | | C．be more effective than others | | D．do research when faced with a task |
小题2:The underlined phrase “take the best course of action,” probably means______. | A．starting educating himself | | B．taking action during the course | | C．making the right decision | | D．coming up with many ideas |
小题3:People with poor metacognition may not succeed because they ________.| A．lack basic moral values | | B．have improper self evaluation | | C．fail to communicate with others | | D．show little respect for others |
小题4:The author probably supports the idea that ___________.| A．intelligence is measured by cognitive ability | | B．cognition is the most important mental power | | C．the toughest lesson is to distinguish the two types of cognition | | D．the awareness of one’s ignorance contributes to one’s improvement |
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To master a language one must be able to speak and understand the spoken language as well as to read and write．Lenin and his wife Krupskaya translated a long English book into Russian．But when they went to England in 1980, English people couldn’t understand what was said to them．These days more foreigners are coming to China and more and more Chinese are going out to foreign countries to work or study．So the spoken language is becoming more and more important．Speaking, of course, can’t go without listening．If you want to pronounce a word correctly, first you must hear it correctly．The sounds of the Chinese and English language are not exactly the same．If you don’t listen carefully, you’ll find it difficult or even impossible to understand the native speakers．
Well, what about writing? Like speaking, it’s to exchange ideas．People generally use shorter words and shorter sentences in their writing．The important thing is to make your idea in your head and then to write it in clear lively language
Chinese students read far too slowly．If you read fast, you understand better．If you read too slowly, by the time you have reached the end of a page you have forgotten what the beginning is about．When you meet with new words, don’t look them up in the dictionary．Guess the meaning from the context．You may not guess quite correctly the first time, but as new words come up again and again in different contexts, their meaning will become clearer and clearer．If you look up every word, you’ll never finish a book．
Students of a foreign language need a particular knowledge, the knowledge of the life, history and geography of the people whose language they’re studying．They should study these subjects in the foreign language, not only in translation．In this way one can kill two birds with one stone: learn a foreign language and get some knowledge of the foreign country at the same time．
小题1:How many points are there in the passage?小题2:In his first point the writer told us| A．how to speak English | | B．how to read and write | | C．why spoken English is important | | D．why English people couldn’t understand Lenin |
小题3:In his last point the writer advised us| A．to kill two birds with one stone | | B．to learn two languages at a time | | C．to study all the subjects in a foreign language | | D．to get some knowledge of the foreign country whose language you are studying． |
小题4:“To kill two birds with one stone” means| A．to get some particular knowledge | | B．to get more than what one pays | | C．the stone is too big | | D．the birds are blind enough |
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阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的四个选项（A，B，C，D）中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
For centuries, magicians have used various ways to shock the audience. We all have seen how a 36 performer carefully steps 37 a bed of burning coals -- barefoot. Then he walks across 38 a single burn on his feet. Is it mind over matter, or is it just physics? As it turns __39 , walking on burning coals isn’t that hot as 40 . “The coals are hot enough to 41__ you, but if you walk quickly across them you 42 being burned.” says Jonathan Hall, a physician at Penn State University in Eric Pennsylvania.
That’s because some coals are made 43 burning wood chips. Wood has two 44__ properties（特性）for fire-walking, explains Hall. First, wood is an insulator（绝缘体）--it doesn’t __45 heat very well. “It 46 _ time for heat to travel 47 the wood to your feet.” Hall says. If the performer walked across red-hot metal 48 , that would truly be 49 , because metal conducts, or transmits, heat very well. The metal would 50 burn a performer’s feet.
Second, wood has a low specific heat-- it doesn’t take much heat to 51 its temperature. Heat is a form of 52 . Temperature is a 53 of heat, in units of degrees. So 54 the coals are hot, the value（数值）of heat energy they contain is low. Thus, a well-trained performer can 55 such an amazing result.
Still, you don’t want to walk on burning coals, do you?
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| 小题3: | | A．with | B．within | C．without | D．over |
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| 小题5: | | A．imagine | B．imagined | C．imagining | D．to imagine |
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| 小题6: | | A．fire | B．burn | C．light | D．flame |
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| 小题7: | | A．prevent | B．keep | C．ignore | D．avoid |
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| 小题9: | | A．ideal | B．classic | C．favorite | D．standard |
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| 小题10: | | A．transmit | B．communicate | C．bring | D．send |
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| 小题11: | | A．gathers | B．takes | C．gains | D．stands |
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| 小题12: | | A．through | B．into | C．over | D．pass |
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| 小题13: | | A．unhappy | B．unharmed | C．unhealthy | D．unprepared |
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| 小题14: | | A．charming | B．magical | C．tricky | D．fashionable |
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| 小题15: | | A．instantly | B．constantly | C．frequently | D．lately |
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| 小题16: | | A．produce | B．raise | C．construct | D．create |
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| 小题17: | | A．power | B．source | C．energy | D．strength |
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| 小题18: | | A．measure | B．rank | C．estimate | D．rate |
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| 小题19: | | A．what if | B．however | C．as if | D．even though |
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| 小题20: | | A．achieve | B．arrive | C．draw | D．take |
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Shadow Ridge Summer Camps offer so many exciting things for campers to do. Unlike other camp programs that include horses as a small part of their program, at Shadow Ridge horses ARE the program ! We are 100% horse from stable（马厩）management, nature walks, and track rides to bedroom furnishings.
Horses help us achieve many of our aims. Girls can learn to develop responsibility, self-confidence and personal connections in their lives while having fun. Using horses as a wonderful tool for education, our camps offer an interesting place for growth and learning:
Imagine each girl having her very own horse to spend time with and a best friend to love and take care of. Each camper is responsible for a horse for the week. Our riding program provides a lot of riding and lesson time. Campers will learn how to take care of the horse and the tack（马具）, as well as how to ride. Days are filled with horse-related activities to strengthen the connection between each girl and horse, as the girls learn to work safely around the horses.
At Shadow Ridge we try to create a loving, caring family atmosphere for our campers. We have “The Bunkhouse”（4 girls）, the “Wranglers Roost”（4 girls）, and “The Hideout”（2 girls）in our comfortable 177-year-old farm house. All meals are home cooked, offering delicious and healthy food for the hungry rider.
Our excellent activities create personalized memories of your child’s vacation. Each child will receive a camp T-shirt and a photo album （usually 300-500 pictures） of their stay at camp.
Our camps are offered during June, July and August 2013, for small groups of girls aged13-16 years, not only from Canada but also other parts of the world.
We will send you full program descriptions at your request.
小题1:What is the main purpose of the passage?| A．To attract people to the camps. | | B．To talk about camping experiences. | | C．To describe the programs of the camps. | | D．To explain the aims of the camps. |
小题2:What do we know about the camp programs at Shadow Ridge?| A．Campers are required to wear camp T-shirts. | | B．Horses play a central role in the activities. | | C．Campers learn to cook food for themselves. | | D．Horse lessons are offered all the year round. |
小题3:The programs at Shadow Ridge mainly aim to help people ________.| A．understand horses better | B．enjoy a family atmosphere | | C．have fun above other things | D．achieve an educational purpose |
小题4:The passage is written mainly for ________.| A．horse riders | B．teenage girls | | C．Canadian parents | D．international travelers |
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