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David teaches his three children at home. He 43 that his children learn very differently from children in school. Learning starts with the children’s 44 and questions. For example, when there is snowfall on a winter day, it may 45 a discussion about climate, snow removal 46 , Alaska, etc. Or a spring evening when the family is out 47 the stars is a good time to ask questions about the sky. If the Brazilian rain forests are on TV, it 48 be a perfect time to talk about how rain forests influence the climate, how deserts are 49 and how the polar ice caps 50 ocean levels.
Home schooling is often more interesting than 51 schools, but critics (批评家) say home-schoolers might be uncomfortable 52 with other people in adult life. Critics also say that most parents are not 53 to teach their children. However, most parents don’t have the time or the 54 to teach their children at home, so schools will continue to be 55 most children get their formal education.
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小题1:句意理解,选择不去学校教育的家长是更愿意不送他们的孩子去学校。
小题2:没有被送去学校教育的孩子就是人们所熟知的:home-schooler".
小题3:句意理解,一些家长更喜欢在家里教他们的孩子,因为他们不相信学校教授正确的宗教价值观。
小题4:同上
小题5:句意理解,根据educational可知,此处指的是教育体验。其他选项不合符句意。
小题6:上下文,根据后面的results可知,此处指的是实际上,结果表明家庭教育的孩子经常在阅读和数学的测验中表现比平均水平要好。
小题7:同上, normal 正常 ordinary 普通的 common常见的average平均的
小题8:句意理解,后面的是他表达的内容,所以是他说他的孩子的学习和学校中的学习是不一样的。
小题9:上下文,根据后文可知,David教育孩子学习的方式是由兴趣和问题开始的。
小题10:句意理解,当冬天下雪的时候,他们就可以开始关于气候等方面的讨论。
小题11:常用搭配,snow removal equipment 意为,除雪设备
小题12:常用搭配,看星星,用的是watch。
小题13:情态动词。句意为,如果巴西雨林出现在电视中,这肯那个就是一个讨论雨林对气候影响的最完美的时候。
小题14:句意理解,关于沙漠是如何形成的
小题15:句意理解,极地冰川是如何影响海平面的。
小题16:常用搭配,日常生活中的学校教育成为,regular school即普通学校或者正规学校
小题17:句意理解,mix with other people 意为与他人交往
小题18:句意理解,批评家说,大部分家长不适合教他们的孩子。
小题19:然而,大部分家长都没有时间在家里教孩子或者没有在家里教孩子的要求
小题20:句意理解,所以学校还是大部分孩子接受正规教育的地方。
核心考点
试题【All children in the United States have to receive an education, but not all chil】;主要考察你对题材分类等知识点的理解。[详细]
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His grandson Caden would be taken off life support in a matter of hours in Denver, Colorado, with or without his grandfather"s presence, according to CNN affiliate KABC.
“I was kind of panicking because I was running late, and I really thought I wasn"t going to make the flight,” Dickinson told KABC.
That"s when a pilot from Southwest Airlines stepped up and held the flight at the gate until Dickinson arrived. The pilot was standing by the air bridge waiting for him when Dickinson arrived in socks, so rushed that he just grabbed his shoes at security and ran through the terminal.
“I told him, ‘Thank you so much. I can"t tell you how much I appreciated that.’ And he said, ‘No problem. They can"t leave without me anyway,’”Dickinson told KABC.
Authorities say Dickinson"s grandson, Caden Rodgers, suffered a head injury after his mother"s boyfriend threw him across the room. The boyfriend reportedly told police he was drunk and high on marijuana(大麻) at the time. The child later died and the boyfriend has been charged with first-degree murder, according to the Aurora Sentinel.
Thanks to the pilot, Dickinson made it to Colorado in time to say goodbye to his grandson. Most airlines would punish any staff member who holds up a flight, according to consumer advocate Christopher Elliott, who broke the story of the sympathetic pilot on his blog. However, a Southwest spokeswoman said the pilot"s actions were praiseworthy.
“You can"t hold a plane for every late customer, but I think we would all agree that these were extenuating(可以原谅的) circumstances and the pilot absolutely made the right decision,” Southwest spokeswoman Marilee McInnis said. “I don"t think you could ask for a better example of great service for our customers.”
小题1:According to the passage, which is the correct order of the following events?
a. The pilot held the plane for Dickinson.
b. People read the story of the pilot on the Internet.
c. Caden suffered a head injury.
d. Dickinson was waiting in line at the security checking point.
d. Marilee McInnis praised the pilot"s actions.
A.d,c,a,b,e | B.c,a,d,b,e | C.c,d,a,b,e | D.d,a,b,c,e |
A.The security staff prohibited Dickinson from getting to his gate on time. |
B.The plane couldn"t leave without Dickinson according to the regulations. |
C.Dickinson made it to see his grandson one last time. |
D.Christopher Elliott holds the view that all the airlines should advocate similar actions. |
A.The boyfriend of Caden"s mother hates him very much. |
B.The boyfriend has been accused of first-degree murder. |
C.Many pilots enjoy writing blog. |
D.Dickinson had to take off his shoes at the security cheekpoint. |
A.an unlucky man from Los Angeles making his flight |
B.a poor boy being killed by his mother"s boyfriend |
C.Southwest Airlines" decision not to punish a pilot who held up the flight |
D.a pilot holding the flight for a man going to see his dying grandson |
Southern California itself, however, has not so far been a big user of its own technology. This is surprising, given that the whole American south-west faces a water problem. But now as the climate gets warmer and the population increases, there is more agreement that the existing infrastructure, consisting of vast pipes that carry water from the Sacramento Delta in the north and the Colorado River in the east, will not be enough. In places such as San Diego, which has inadequate and salty groundwater and currently imports 90% or its water, the answers must be greater conservation, reusing as much water as possible, and getting most of the rest from the sea.
The first part, conservation, has been widely accepted by the public. San Diego today uses less water with a larger population than it did in 1989, the year water consumption peaked. The second part, water recycling has been a hard sell, because of an unpleasant factor. Americans still use the term “toilet-to-tap” for recycling, even though properly treated waste-water is nowadays completely clean. Singapore made its programme acceptable in part by renaming it as NEWater.
This is where desalination comes in, which means taking the salt out of salt water. A firm called Poseidon Resources is now close to building the biggest desalination plant in America behind a power station by the beach in Carlsbad. The power plant sucks in 304m gallons of seawater a day for cooling, so Poseidon plans to change 104m gallons a day by using the RO spiral module.
Lots of people like the idea. Once fully running in 2015, the plant could produce 10% of the region"s water. And there are plans for more desalination plants. Many places would need to take much less water from the endangered Colorado River. But a few people hate it a lot. Joe Geever, an expert in biology, says desalination uses too much energy and that Poseidon plant would kill too much sea life. He understands that there is a role for desalination, he says, but would rather not have it right there, right now, and on this scale.
小题1:Which of the following is WRONG about the RO spiral module according to the passage?
A.This technology is not widely used in its birthplace. |
B.Today there are about 13,000 RO plants in the Persian Gulf, Israel, Australia and China. |
C.This technology can be used in desalination plants to make sea water drinkable. |
D.It is a promising water treatment technology welcomed by a lot of people. |
A.2. | B.3. | C.4. | D.5. |
A.The Colorado River is the main water source for California. |
B.Americans still use the term “toilet-to-tap” for recycling water. |
C.NEWater serves as a brand for recycled clean water in Singapore. |
D.Poseidon Resources stands for the power station by the beach in Carlsbad. |
A.Supportive. | B.Negative. | C.Optimistic. | D.Vague. |
The regular use of text messages and e-mails can lower the IQ more than twice as much as smoking marijuana (大麻). That is the statement of researchers who have found that tapping away on a mobile phone or computer keypad or checking for electronic messages temporarily knocks up to 10 points off the user’s IQ. This rate of decline in intelligence compares unfavorably with the four-point drop in IQ associated with smoking marijuana, according to British researchers, who have described the phenomenon of improved stupidity as “infomania”. The research conducted by Hewlett Packard, the technology company, has concluded that it is mainly a problem for adult workers, especially men.
It is concluded that too much use of modern technology can damage a person’s mind. It can cause a constant distraction of “always on” technology when employees should be concentrating on what they are paid to do. Infomania means that they lose concentration as their minds remain fixed in an almost permanent state of readiness to react to technology instead of focusing on the task in hand. The report also added that, in a long term, the brain will be considerably shaped by what we do to it and by the experience of daily life. At a microcellular level, the complex networks of nerve cells that make up parts of the brain actually change in response to certain experiences.
Too much use of modern technology can be damaging not only to a person’s mind, but to their social relationship. 1100 adults were interviewed during the research. More than 62 per cent of them admitted that they were addicted to checking their e-mails and text messages so often that they scrutinized work-related ones even when at home or on holiday. Half said that they always responded immediately to an email and will even interrupt a meeting to do so. It is concluded that infomania is increasing stress and anxiety and affecting one’s characteristics. Nine out of ten thought that colleagues who answered e-mails or messages during a face-to-face meeting were extremely rude.
The effects on IQ were studied by Dr Glenn Wilson, a psychologist at University of London. “This is a very real and widespread phenomenon,” he said. “We have found that infomania will damage a worker’s performance by reducing their mental sharpness and changing their social life. Companies should encourage a more balanced and appropriate way of working.”
小题1:We can learn from the passage that “infomania” ______.
A.has a positive influence on one’s IQ |
B.results in the change of part of the brain |
C.lies in the problem of lack of concentration |
D.is caused by too much use of modern technology |
A.the important function of advanced technology |
B.the damage to one’s brain done by unhealthy habits |
C.the relevance between IQ and use of modern technology |
D.the relationship between intelligence and working effectiveness |
A.examined carefully | B.copied patiently |
C.corrected quickly | D.admitted freely |
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小题1:“Stay up late at night” here means .
A.sleeping in bed |
B.just sitting up without doing anything |
C.walking about in the room |
D.working far into the night |
A.start to answer questions |
B.work the difficult problems |
C.have a look at the titles |
D.read it very carefully |
A.You must not hand in the examination paper before you check your answers. |
B.You must wait till others point out mistakes in your paper. |
C.You must first hand in your paper then correct the mistakes. |
D.You must be the last to hand in your paper. |
The world already is having trouble feeding itself. Half the people on Earth live in cities, and nearly half of those – about 3 billion – are hungry or ill–fed. Food prices, currently increasing, are badly affected by dryness, floods and the cost of energy required to plant, harvest and transport it. And prices will only get more unstable. Climate change makes long-term crop planning uncertain. Farmers in many parts of the world already are using water available to the last drop. And the world is getting more crowded: by mid-century, the global population will grow from 6.8 billion to 9 billion.
To feed so many people may require expanding farmland at the expense of forests and wilderness, or finding ways to greatly increase crop output.
Gertjan Meeuws and three other Dutch bioengineers grow vegetables and house plants in closed and regulated environments. In their research station, water flows into the pans when needed, and the temperature is kept constant. Lights go on and off, creating “day” and “night”, but according to the rhythm of the plant.
Meeuws says a building of 100 square meters and layers of plants could provide a daily diet of 200 grams of fresh fruit and vegetables for the entire population of Ken Bosch, about 140,000 people. Their idea isn’t to grow foods that require much space, like corn or potatoes.
Sunlight is not only unnecessary but can be harmful. Plants need only specific wavelengths of light to grow. Their growth rate is three times faster than under greenhouse conditions. They use about 90 percent less water than outdoor agriculture. And city farming means producing food near the consumer, so there’s on need to transport it long distances.
小题1:According to the text, Gertjan Meeuws’ farming _______.
A.can be used for corn production |
B.is much like greenhouse farming |
C.is adaptable to any environment |
D.uses more water than outdoor farming |
A.The effect of climate | B.The hungry people in cities. |
C.The world’s food problem. | D.The world’s increasing population. |
A.To compare traditional and indoor farming. |
B.To discuss the influence of climate change. |
C.To explain the world’s food problem. |
D.To introduce a new model of farming. |
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