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I suddenly became concerned. These payoffs might get parents through grammar school, but what about high school and beyond? What would be left after the electric guitar, the cell-phone, and the DVD player?
I saw the road ahead: As the homework load increased, my income would decrease. I saw my comfortable lifestyle disappear before my eyes---no more of those $5 bags of already-peeled organic(施有机肥料的)carrots. No more organic anything!
I started to feel surprised and nervous. Would every goal achieved by my two children fetch a reward? A high grade point average? A good class ranking? Would sports achievements be included in this reward system: soccer goals, touchdowns(橄榄球底线得分)? What about the orchestra(管弦乐队)? Would first chair pay more than second? I"d be penniless by eighth-grade graduation.
“We never paid anything for good grades,” said my neighbor across the street, whose son was recently accepted at MIT. “He just did it on his own. Maybe once in a while we went out for pizza, but that"s about it.”
Don"t you just hate that? We"re all running around looking for the MP3 player with the most updates, and she’s spending a few dollars on pizza. She gets motivation; we get negotiation. And what about the primary grades? What do these students get? “When the teacher asked if anyone got rewards for good grades, everyone in my class raised their hands and said they got ice cream cones (蛋卷),” said one third-grader.
小题1:What"s the best title for the passage?
A.Tips on Paying Kids for Good Grades |
B.New Trends in Paying Kids for Good Grades |
C.Good Grades Mean Good Rewards |
D.Don"t Pay Kids for Good Grades |
A.Taking care of my children would influence my work. |
B.I would spend less money on my children"s good grades. |
C.More rewards would be needed as my children grow up. |
D.Reducing my children"s homework load would cost me a lot. |
A.if you buy children pizza as a reward, they will work harder |
B.if you pay kids for good grades, they will take it for granted |
C.children will not ask for rewards when they enter high school |
D.good grades won"t help kids make great progress in the future |
A.pizza is the best way to motivate children |
B.it is necessary to reward children for their good grades. |
C.getting rewards for good grades is common nowadays |
D.rewards are not the only way to motivate children |
答案
小题1:D
小题2:C
小题3:B
小题4:D
解析
试题分析:本文讨论的是一种不合理的教育方式,孩子有一点点好的表现,就给孩子奖励,这让孩子感觉到自己就是为了得到父母的奖励而学习,对他们的成长有不好的影响。
小题1:D 主旨大意题。本文讨论的正是孩子在学校里得到了高分或者有很好的表现,很多父母都给孩子奖励。这样的教育方法是不正确的,会带来很多不好的影响。故D项符合上下文。
小题2:C 推理题。根据本句As the homework load increased, my income would decrease. 随着孩子的家庭作业变多了,那么我给孩子的奖励就会更多,那么我的收入就会变少。是指随着孩子的成长,需要给孩子更多的奖励。故C正确。
小题3:B 推断题。如果孩子有一点点的进步,我们就给孩子奖励。这会让孩子认为我们应该给他们适当的奖励。认为他们的学习就是为了得到奖励而学习的。故B正确。
小题4:D 推理题。根据文章倒数第二段“We never paid anything for good grades,” said my neighbor across the street, whose son was recently accepted at MIT. “He just did it on his own. Maybe once in a while we went out for pizza, but that"s about it.作者以邻居为例就是为了告诉我们不给孩子奖励,孩子也可以表现得很好。故D正确。
点评:本文讨论的是一种不合理的教育方式,孩子有一点点好的表现,就给孩子奖励,这让孩子感觉到自己就是为了得到父母的奖励而学习,对他们的成长有不好的影响。测试考生在阅读基础上的逻辑推理能力,要求考生根据文章所述事件的逻辑关系,对未说明的趋势或结局作出合理的推断;或根据作者所阐述的观点理论,对文章未涉及的现象、事例给以解释。考生首先要仔细阅读短文,完整了解信息,准确把握作者观点。
核心考点
试题【Last year, on report card day, my son and a group of his 13-year-old friends pil】;主要考察你对题材分类等知识点的理解。[详细]
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The system uses the Henry Law which states that the amount of gas that can be dissolved in a liquid is proportional (成比例的)to the pressure on the liquid. Raise the pressure ---more gas can be dissolved in the liquid. Decrease the pressure --- less gas dissolved in the liquid releases the gas. This is exactly what happens when you open a can of soda; carbon dioxide gas is dissolved in the liquid and is under pressure in the can. Open the can, releasing the pressure, and the gas fizzes(嘶撕作响)out.
Bodner"s System obviously uses a special machine to lower pressure in part of a small amount of seawater taken into the system; dissolved gas is taken out. The patent(专利)reads: A self-contained open-circuit(循环)breathing instrument for use within a body of water naturally containing dissolved air. The instrument is adapted to provide breathable(可吸入的)air. The instrument contains an inlet for taking out a quantity of water from the body of water. It further contains a separator for separating the dissolved air from the quantity of water, thus gaining the breathable air. The instrument further contains an outlet for expelling (驱逐)the separated water back into the body of water, and another outlet for removing the breathable air and supplying it for breathing. The air is supplied so as to enable it to be expelled back into the body of water after it has been breathed .
Human beings have been thinking about how to breathe underwater since they started swimming. This long-held desire plays an important part in one of the first great science fiction novels, Jules Verne"s 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea.
小题1:It can be inferred from the passage that____________ .
A.the less pressure it is, the less carbon dioxide gas is dissolved in the liquid |
B.the deeper one dives into the ocean, the less gas is dissolved in the water |
C.the greater pressure it is, the more carbon dioxide gas is dissolved in the liquid |
D.the deeper one dives into the ocean, the more gas is dissolved in the water |
A.how Bodner invented the instrument for breathing underwater |
B.why Bodner invented the instrument for breathing underwater |
C.how Bodner"s instrument for breathing underwater works |
D.how Bodner"s instrument is used by divers for breathing underwater |
A.a separator is used to expel breathable air back into the body of water |
B.a separator is used to separate the air from the water so as to make use of the water |
C.The breathable air removed from an outlet will eventually go back to the body of water. |
D.The breathable air removed from an outlet will immediately go back to the body of water. |
For centuries, people have wondered about the strange places that they seem to visit in their sleep. ___小题1:___ However, they have been valued as necessary to a person’s health and happiness.
Historically people thought dreams contained messages from God. It was only in the twentieth century that people started to study dreams scientifically believing that they tell about a person’s character. ___小题2:__ He believed that dreams allow a person to express fantasies or fears, which would be socially unacceptable in real life.
The second theory to become popular was Carl Jung’s compensation theory. Jung, a former student of Freud, said that the purpose of a dream is not to hide something, but rather to communicate it to the dreamer. ___小题3:__ Thus, people who think too highly of themselves may dream about falling; those who think too little of themselves dream of being heroes.
Using more recent research, William Domhoff from the University of California found that dreaming is a mental skill that needs time to develop in humans. ___小题4:___ Until they reach age five, they can not express very well what their dreams are about. Once people become adults, there is little or no change in their dreams. The dreams of men and women differ.
The meaning of dreams continues to be difficult to understand. ___小题5:___ If you dream that a loved one is going to die, do not panic. The dream may have meaning, but it does not mean that your loved one is going to die.
A.Dreams make up for what is lacking in waking life. |
B.However, people should not take their dreams as reality. |
C.They have been considered as meaningless nighttime journeys. |
D.It gives scientists chances to better understand human mind. |
F.They think their mind is trying to tell them something.
G.First, there was Sigmund Freud’s theory.
A team of scientists from Ohio State University did experiments on 33 volunteers who were getting better from heart disease following operation. They found that people who exercised while listening to Italian musician Antonio Vivaldi’s “The Four Seasons” did much better on language ability tests than without music.
“Facts suggest that exercise improves the learning ability of people with heart disease,” said the psychologist Charles Emery, who led the study. “And listening to music is thought to enhance understanding. We just wanted to put the two results together,” he added.
The volunteers said they felt better emotionally and physically after working out with or without the music. But their improvement on the test doubled after listening to music during exercise. Scientists have proved that music can be good for health, education and well-being. It helps reduce stress, sadness and nervousness; encourages relaxation or sleep; wakes up the body and improves memory and thoughts.
In medical fields, music is used widely for patients who have had head hurts before and after operation. “The Four Seasons” was used because of its moderate tempo(舒缓的节拍)and positive results in earlier research. “Exercise seems to cause positive changes in the nervous system(神经系统) and these changes may have a direct result on learning ability,” Emery said.
Scientists have been studying the results of music on understanding since the early 1950s. By 2000, psychologists were using Mozart’s music, especially his violin pieces, to help children with speech disorders. Mozart was chosen because his music is not overexciting and has clear structures. A study showed students who listened to Mozart went on to score higher marks in an intelligence test. With important exams drawing near, your parents will not probably allow you to listen to music. But perhaps now you have good reasons to argue with them.
小题1:
The underlined word enhance can be replaced by ______.A.impress | B.improve | C.provide | D.produce |
小题2:
The text mainly tells us that _____.A.music and exercise lead to relaxation or sleep |
B.33 volunteers work on music in medical fields |
C.exercising to music makes people healthy and bright |
D.scientists give suggestions on choosing music to exercise to |
小题3:
It can be learned from the last paragraph that ______.A.you are supposed to follow your parents’ words |
B.students should not listen to music before exams |
C.you have some good reasons to exercise to music |
D.music might help you to get higher grades in tests |
小题4:
Which of the following statements is true?A.Exercise seems to cause negative changes without music. |
B.Exercise reminds people with head hurts of what they’ve learned. |
C.Scientists often use Mozart’s music, for it is not too exciting. |
D.“The Four Seasons” is used to help children with speech disorders. |
Before babies begin to produce words, they produce sounds. Some of these sounds will remain if they occur in the language being learned, and others will disappear. This is called the “babbling stage”.
A child does not learn the language “all at once”. The child first speaks only one-word “sentences”. After a few months, the two-word stage arises. During this stage, the child puts two words together. These two-word sentences have definite patterns and express grammatical and meaningful relationships. Still later, in the telegraphic stage, the child will produce longer sentences. These longer sentences are mainly made up of content words. The child’s early grammar lacks many of the rules of the adult grammar, but gradually it will become perfect.
All normal children everywhere learn language. This ability is not dependent on race, social class, geography, or even intelligence (智力). This ability is uniquely (独特的) for human.
小题1:This passage is mainly about ___________.
A.differences between a child’s language and an adult’s |
B.ways of teaching babies to talk |
C.children’s learning of the mother language |
D.the importance of learning foreign languages |
A.raise them from the ground |
B.learn them without much effort |
C.use hands to help carry them |
D.study very hard and remember them |
A.can only produce sound |
B.learn to work without falling over |
C.can understand people’s talk |
D.begin to produce two-word sentences |
A.are simpler than those produced in the “babbling stage” |
B.are much more difficult than those produced in the telegraphic stage |
C.are strictly grammatical |
D.are meaningful and have function |
A.well-educated | B.clever enough |
C.unique | D.physical normal |
Professor Falfan worked with a group of 9 disabled children at school in Albert. Two of the children were blind. The other seven had normal sight. The scientists changed the color of the school room, then looked for changes in blood pressure, heart beat and breathing rate. The effects of color changes were the same for the blind children as for those with normal sight. Their blood pressure dropped from about 120 to 100. Similar changes were reported in heart-beat and the breathing. The children also were calmer and less excited. Then the colors of the room were returned to orange and white. Blood pressure, heart-beat and breathing rate went up and the children became excited again.
Professor Falfan said different colors produce different levels of light energy. He said the differences seem to affect chemicals in the brain that carry messages from nerve to nerve and from nerve to muscle.
小题1:Light and color can affect________.
A.only one’s feelings and emotions |
B.one’s energy |
C.one’s mental changes |
D.one’s heart-beat, brain activities, blood pressure, feelings and emotions |
A.the chemicals in the brain | B.the eyes |
C.the skin | D.the muscle |
A.calm | B.active | C.sick | D.blind |
A.orange to white | B.orange and white to dark blue |
C.orange and white to pink or some other colors | D.gray to more colors |
A.blind people can be affected by colors, too |
B.one’s heart will beat fast in a colorful room than in a white room |
C.the chemicals in the brain change with feelings and emotions |
D.if one’s blood pressure drops, his breathing will get slower and slower |
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