Tre’S mom，Christina Thompson, cannot believe how much her son already learned this year in his full-day, free pre-school class in Oklahoma City. “Since he’s been in school his vocabulary has increased surprisingly,” Thompson says. “The other day he came home and said, ‘You know what ，mom? You are being ridiculous，” Thompson laughs quietly. “And then he asked, ‘Do you know what ‘ridiculous’ means, mom?’” Tre knows the entire alphabet, his numbers to 100，and he’s starting to read. And letters and numbers aside, Thompson is most struck by how fast Tre is absorbing vocabulary and language.
Of course, not all pre-school is created equal. High quality pre-schools have well-trained, well-educated teachers in the classroom (much like Tre Thompson’s teacher Mrs. Wallace, who uses play-based learning to teach both academics and social skills and can rattle off (飞快说出） a battery of data on how well her students are progressing towards their year-end goals). Texas can also offer a model for educator development: its Texas School Ready! Campaign has proven to increase the quality of participating pre-schools by providing early childhood teachers with coaching, professional development, research-based curriculum (课程)，and progress monitoring. States and districts should also combine pre-school with the K-12 system, as Oklahoma does ，so that children enter kindergarten smoothly.
Oklahoma is one of the leading states in providing students like Tre with free ，full-day pre-school. And the results are already paying off: According to a 2012 study, Oklahoma kids that went through pre-school showed vocabulary gains 28% higher than those of children without pre-school, and math gains 44% higher than non-pre-school kids. And we know that high-quality pre-school doesn’t just mean higher scores in elementary school. They were more likely to have graduated from high school and less likely to have committed a violent crime. They also earned more money and were more likely to be employed.
We know pre-school works, so let’s stop talking and start building a system where all children have access to excellent early childhood education. As any well-educated four year old could tell us, not doing so would be ridiculous.
小题1:The case of Tre in the first paragraph serves as the evidence of______.| A．children’s disrespect towards parents | | B．the bad performance of students at school | | C．the positive effect of pre-school on children | | D．Thompson’s doubt about her son’s education |
小题2:At high quality pre-schools, children may learn by______| A．playing | B．modelling | C．researching | D．monitoring |
小题3:It can be inferred that______.| A．children can not enter kindergarten without pre-school | | B．Oklahoma is the best state offering full-day pre-school | | C．all pre-schools have well-trained, well-educated teachers | | D．kids with pre-school may be better equipped for their future |
小题4:What would be the best title for the passage?| A．Not all pre-school works | | B．All pre-school is created equal | | C．We owe our kids universal pre-school | | D．Pre-school goes well with K-12 system |
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小题1:C
小题2:A
小题3:D
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试题分析：文章介绍学前教育对孩子的好处，但是学前教育的差距还是有的，作者呼吁要给孩子高质量的学前教育。
小题1:推理题：从第一段的句子：And letters and numbers aside, Thompson is most struck by how fast Tre is absorbing vocabulary and language.可知Tre的例子表明学前班对孩子的积极的影响。选C
小题2:细节题：从第二段的句子：High quality pre-schools have well-trained, well-educated teachers in the classroom (much like Tre Thompson’s teacher Mrs. Wallace, who uses play-based learning to teach both academics and social skills and can rattle off (飞快说出） a battery of data on how well her students are progressing towards their year-end goals). 可知高质量的学前班是在玩中学习，选A
小题3:推理题：从第三段的句子：And we know that high-quality pre-school doesn’t just mean higher scores in elementary school. They were more likely to have graduated from high school and less likely to have committed a violent crime. They also earned more money and were more likely to be employed.可知上学前班的孩子为将来做好准备，选D
小题4:主旨题：从文章的最后一段的句子：so let’s stop talking and start building a system where all children have access to excellent early childhood education. 可知给孩子提供优质的学前教育不要停留在讨论的层面，我们欠孩子普及的学前教育，选C |
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Every time you go to the supermarket, you come away with your purchases in plastic bags. But wouldn’t it be kinder to the environment if you asked for paper bags instead?
The answer is not the easy as it might seem. Environmentalists say there are drawbacks to using both plastic bags and paper bags.
According to the American Plastics Council 80 percent of groceries in the US are packed in plastic bags.
“The numbers are becoming huge,” said Vincent Cobb, a businessman from Chicago who set up “reusable bags. com” on the Internet. He notes that consumers use between 500 billion and 1 trillion plastic bags per year worldwide.
Some experts believe that all these bags harm the environment. Plastic takes hundreds of years to break down and, as it does so, poisonous materials are released into the water and soil.
Further damage is caused if plastic bags enter the sea. For example, endangered sea turtles cannot tell the bags from jellyfish(水母), their main source of food, and often choke on them.
Floating plastic bags have been spotted as far north as the Arctic Ocean and as far south as the southern end of South America. One expert predicts that, within ten years, plastic bags will wash up in Antarctica!
However, this kind of bag does have its advantages.
“Plastic grocery bags are some of the most reused things around the house,” explained Laurie Kusek of the American Plastics Council.
According to the Film and Bag Federation, a trade group in the US plastics industry, paper bags use more energy and create more waste than plastic bags. Plastic bags require 40 per cent less energy to produce and cause 70 per cent less air pollution, the group explained. They also release as much as 94 percent less waste into the water than paper ones.
But paper bags do break down more quickly than plastic bags. They don’t endanger wildlife, either.
So what should we do? One possible solution would be to use biodegradable(能被生物分解的)plastic bags. But until biodegradable technology improves, it might be easier to pack things you buy in reusable cloth bags.
小题1:The best title of the passage is _____.| A．Paper Causes Less Pollution | | B．Plastic Causes Less Pollution | | C．Paper and Plastics Cause Pollution | | D．Paper Bags Break Down More Quickly |
小题2:The underlined word “drawbacks” might mean “_____”.| A．Advantages | B．disadvantages | C．air pollution | D．waste |
小题3:According to the passage, which of the following in NOT true? | A．Plastic takes longer to break down than paper. | | B．Sea turtles usually mistake the plastic bags for jellyfish. | | C．Paper bags require less energy than plastic bags. | | D．You’d better pack things in reusable cloth bags. |
小题4:Which of the following shows that paper bags are better than plastic ones?| A．Paper bags take less time to rot. | | B．Paper bags cause less air pollution. | | C．Paper bags are more reusable. | | D．Paper bags cause less water pollution. |
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A successful scientist is generally a good observer. He makes full 36 of the facts he observes. He doesn’t accept ideas which are not 37 on obvious facts, and therefore refuses to accept authority as the only 38 for truth. He always 39 ideas carefully and makes experiments to prove them.
The rise of 40 science may perhaps be considered to 41 as far back as the 42 of Roger Bacon, the wonderful philosopher of Oxford, who live 43 the years 1214 and 1292. He was probably the first in the Middle 44 to suggest that we must learn science 45 observing and experimenting on the things around us, and he himself 46 many important discoveries.
Galileo, however, who lived more than 300 years later (1564-1642), was the greatest of several great men, 47 in Italy, France, Germany, or England, began by 48 to show how many important 49 could be discovered by observation. Before Galileo, learned men believed that large bodies fell more 50 towards the earth than small ones, 51 Aristotle said so. But Galileo, going to the 52 of the leaning Tower of Pisa, let fall two 53 stones and proved Aristotle was wrong. It was Galileo’s 54 of going direct to Nature, and proving our 55 and theories by experiment, that has led to all the discoveries of modern science.
| 小题1: | | A．use | B．time | C．speed | D．trust |
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| 小题2: | | A．worked | B．based | C．lived | D．written |
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| 小题3: | | A．reason | B．cause | C．advice | D．result |
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| 小题4: | | A．thinks | B．checks | C．has | D．learn |
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| 小题5: | | A．natural | B．physical | C．ancient | D．modern |
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| 小题7: | | A．study | B．time | C．year | D．birth |
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| 小题8: | | A．both | B．each | C．between | D．among |
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| 小题9: | | A．Schools | B．Ages | C．Days | D．Count |
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| 小题13: | | A．ways | B．degrees | C．levels | D．chance |
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| 小题14: | | A．truths | B．problems | C．people | D．subjects |
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| 小题15: | | A．slowly | B．rapidly | C．lightly | D．heavily |
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| 小题16: | | A．although | B．because | C．when | D．If |
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| 小题17: | | A．place | B．foot | C．top | D．ceiling |
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| 小题18: | | A．big | B．small | C．equal | D．unequal |
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| 小题19: | | A．spirit | B．skill | C．theory | D．discovery |
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| 小题20: | | A．plans | B．opinions | C．world | D．ability |
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However, research has proved this method inefficient and ineffective. The truth is, the human brain simply cannot consciously remember process and use hundreds of or thousands of grammar rules. Real speech is too fast.
Native speakers do not learn grammar in this way, but rather intuitively (凭直觉地) and unconsciously. They learn in a complete way, not by attempting to memorize individual grammar rules. As a result, native speakers use correct grammar fluently and easily.
Fortunately, it is possible for English learners to learn grammar this way. Language teacher Blaine Ray has developed a unique "intuitive" approach to teach English grammar. Her system uses "point of view" stories to teach the patterns of English grammar, allowing students unconsciously to acquire correct grammar without ever studying grammar rules.
In this system, the teacher first tells a simple story from one point of view. It may be told about the past, then repeated, but beginning with "since he was a child"; then repeated again, but this time about the future.
Listening to these stories allows students intuitively and effortlessly to learn English grammar and makes them be able to use it correctly when they speak.
Point of View Stories is a creative new way to study English grammar, and offers hope to millions of frustrated English learners.
小题1:Which of the following ways is approved by the author?| A．Remembering grammar rules | | B．Taking grammar tests. | | C．Analyzing grammatical structure | | D．Applying language to situations. |
小题2:What does the underlined part "this way" in the fourth paragraph refer to?| A．Talking to native speakers when learning. | | B．Learning English grammar in a complete way. | | C．Using correct English grammar. | | D．Learning English grammar 4from a teacher. |
小题3:From this passage we learn that ______.| A．native speakers learn English grammar by listening to stories | | B．Blaine Ray’s method gets students to grasp correct grammar unconsciously | | C．Blaine Ray teaches grammar rules by asking students to tell stories | | D．it’s hard for students to speak correct English in the new system |
小题4: This passage wants to ______. | A．criticize the traditional way of learning grammar | | B．introduce a new way to study English grammar | | C．ask students to learn English grammar by listening to stories | | D．tell us how the native speakers learn English grammar |
小题5:why shouldn’t the English learners use an analytical approach?| A．because the analytical approach can let them learn English grammar effortlessly | | B．because the analytical approach makes them be able to use English correctly when they speak. | | C．because the analytical approach can’t let them memorize and then apply a great number of rules. | | D．because Real speech is too fast. |
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Whatever question I asked, whatever activity I suggested, her reaction was pretty much the same — she was frozen with horror. She was sent to our private language school after having been the worst in English at her key school with a pretty strict ELT syllabus(教学大纲), with her peers teasing her for her mistakes in English. Moreover, her state school teacher called her name. To make things worse, she was under pressure from her family for getting bad marks in English. She was definitely expecting me to carry on the same way with her.
I have to admit that I had been staring at her with probably the same expression for a while before eventually she handed in an absolutely incredible composition which I had previously asked the class to write. It was written in perfect handwriting, was full of clever ideas and had correct paragraphing. The girl got her first excellent mark in English, and I praised her generously and from then on I started using her writing skills to support the others. Before doing an oral retelling of a story, she wrote it down. Before presenting her oral project, she was allowed to do the same thing. The day she first put up her hand to orally answer my question addressed to the class I was incredibly happy.
She taught me how to approach withdrawn students — find the skill which they can excel at, in her case writing, and help the student use it to develop other skills!
小题1:The writer is probably a teacher . | A．in a language training center | | B．in a private language school | | C．in a state school | | D．in a key public school |
小题2:The writer’s first impression of the little girl was that she was . | A．incredibly dull | B．hard to cope with | | C．far too lovely | D．pretty confident |
小题3:The girl came to the school because . | A．she had some special skills | | B．she was good at writing poems | | C．she felt very uncomfortable at her previous school | | D．she is poor at her pronunciation |
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Children, especially at young ages, are very creative. And creativity can be a glorious(极好的) thing. Look at all the amazing artists and architects that have created glorious pieces of history. Look at all the authors with the award winning books. Now I am not saying everyone is going to end up this way but creativity is an important part of growing up and becoming who you are. This should be encouraged in young children as well as the older children.
Young children grow up playing with make-believe. And so many people try to make their young child see that their invisible friend isn’t real or that talking when someone is not in the room is weird. To adults it is, but for small children it is them being creative. May it be them playing house, or chef, or playing with stuffed animals, it is their creative part coming out. Some kids can have fun playing with rocks and sticks and it’s because of their creativeness that they can do this. The invisible friend part is another part of being imaginative, and is not a bad thing since they will grow out of that phase(阶段). So encourage this and play along with them, play house, or stuffed animals or whatever they want to play. Help keep their imagination running. You can even make up games, like treasure hunts, or dinosaurs, super heroes; there is just so much you can choose from.
All this can help your children’s minds stay creative. The arts and music, even thoughts are an important part of life and important in our society. If we didn’t have and encourage creative thinking, we wouldn’t have had inventors, or philosophers, or as I said before, artists.
小题1:The underlined word “weird” is close in meaning to .| A．familiar | B．strange | C．common | D．natural |
小题2:According to the author, if a child talks alone in a room, we should .| A．let him be | | B．stop him from doing so | | C．give him some advice | | D．know that he is suffering from loneliness |
小题3:What is mainly talked about in the passage?| A．How creative artists and architects are born. | | B．How to help children grow up in a healthy way. | | C．What kind of activities children like. | | D．How to help children to be creative. |
小题4:The author of the passage would agree that .| A．every child can become creative artists or inventors | | B．creative people all show strange behaviors when young | | C．creativity brings out great artists and architects | | D．creativity is a natural ability to be born with |
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