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people. Now,a global survey has brought it to the notice of the rest of the world.
The survey covering 21 countries, conducted by International Educational Progress Evaluation
Organization, showed Chinese students excelled at math, beating their peers from other countries. But when
it came to using their imagination, they were tied for the last place. And in creativity, they were fifth from
the bottom.
The survey results are not shocking, given the way our children are taught in schools and at home. But
they are a severe reminder to our educators and parents to improve their ways.
Chinese students rarely get the time or chance to use their imagination. Right from the day they enter
school they are pushed into a culture of exams and more exams.
Teachers and parents teach them that education is all about passing these exams with flying colors. And
to pass those exams, they are made to learn by fixed standard answers. Teachers dare not encourage students
to think outside the box. Teachers don"t like students questioning them, killing the curiosity of the young
minds. For children, there"s hardly any room for bright ideas either in class or at home.
Israel shares the values of education with China. But there is a world of difference between the way Israeli
parents treat their children and we do. Israeli parents do not mollycoddle their children. Instead, they
encourage them to learn how to live independently. In contrast, Chinese parents go to extremes, allowing their
children to do whatever they like to do and punishing them severely the next for committing a "mistake".
The global study should make us swing into action and help our students to throw open their young minds
to imagination and creativity. It is time our education officials and educators asked themselves what they
should do to let our children"s imagination and creativity blossom.
B. the 17th
C. the 2lst
D. the 1st
B. They are thought to be lacking in curiosity.
C. Their teachers are afraid of being questioned.
D. They are not encouraged to imagine both at home and in class.
B. motivate
C. appreciate
D. scold
B. allow their children to live in whatever way they like
C. focus more attention on developing their children"s living ability
D. encourage their children to commit mistakes in lives
B. to support and advocate Israel education
C. to illustrate the disadvantages of Chinese education
D. to criticize the wrong behavior of Chinese parents
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核心考点
试题【阅读理解。 That our students rarely get the opportunity to use their imagination 】；主要考察你对题材分类等知识点的理解。[详细]
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A new study indicates that combining aerobics (有氧运动) and weight lifting can help people with Type 2
diabetes (糖尿病) keep their blood sugar levels under control.
Most people probably think of diabetes control in terms of diet or insulin (胰岛素), but Dr. Tim Church
says exercise can play a big role.
"If you look at what diabetes is, it"s the failure of the body to manage the blood sugar, and the biggest
consumer of blood sugar in the human body is skeletal (骨骼) muscle," he says." So if you keep skeletal
muscle happy, it"s chewing up blood sugar 24 hours a day."
Church says most previous studies looked at the impact on diabetes of one kind of exercise only-typically
aerobic exercise, like walking or bicycling. So he and his colleagues recruited (招募) more than 250 patients
with diabetes and randomly assigned them to an aerobic exercise group, a weightlifting group, a group that did
both kinds of exercise, or a control group that had no organized exercise program.
After nine months, he said, the results were clear.
"And for everything we looked at, but in particu1ar related to hemoglobin (血红蛋白) A1C-that represents
blood sugar control-the group that did both the walking and the resistance training, or weight lifting, did by far
the best."
Church said he expected that the group that did both kinds of exercise would do better, but he was
surprised by how much better they did-not just on controlling blood sugar, but on other relevant measures as
well, like weight. He said different kinds of exercise affect the body differently, especially the big muscles that
are fueled by blood sugar.
"Skeletal muscle is so important for your health, and that"s particularly true in individuals with diabetes," he
explained."And aerobic exercise affects skeletal muscle through one set of mechanisms(机制), and the
weight-lifting affects skeletal muscles through a completely different set of mechanisms. So when you
combine aerobic plus the weight-lifting, you"re doubling the opportunity for benefit."
B. It can be controlled only through diet or insulin.
C. Skeletal muscles can"t consume blood sugar.
D. People with type 2 diabetes are too fat.
B. his colleagues recruited so many people in his experiment
C. the result of his experiment was far beyond his expectation
D. the group doing both kinds of exercise just controlled weight
B. walking
C. bicycling
D. weight-lifting
B. different kinds of exercise affect the body the same way
C. skeletal muscles are important only for individuals with diabetes
D. aerobics and weight-lifting affect skeletal muscles in a different way
B. science health report
C. newspaper advertisement
D. book review
is being done 1 this subject- cancer is a great threat to the health and life of mankind. We will only discuss
cancer in general 2 , so you can have an idea of what 3 in a body that has cancer.
A cancer is a continuous growth in the body which doesn"t follow the normal growth 4 . The cells 5 the
cancer spread through the body to parts which may be 6 the spot where the cancer begins. 7 it is removed
or destroyed the cancer can 8 the death of the person.
Cells in the body are growing 9 . As they wear 10 and disappear, their places are 11 by new cells of
exactly the same kind. But cancer cells look and act 12 from normal body cells.
When these cancer cells divide and increase in 13 , they don"t change into the fully grown form and then
stop reproducing. 14 they remain young cells and continue to reproduce in number until they are harmful.
As the cancer cells grow, they do not 15 in one spot, but separate and move in 16 the normal cells. They
may become so 17 that the normal cells in this part of the body cannot continue to work or even remain alive.
When the cancer 18 into the blood, it is carried to distant parts of the body. 19 it may grow to form large
masses which interfere (干扰) with the activities of the 20 cells.
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| 阅读理解。 | |||
| In the computer age, most of us take a broadband Internet connection for granted. Whether cable or mobile broadband, today"s connections are many times faster than those in the early days. Videos play smoothly, complex websites load quickly, and files download much faster than ten years ago. And the files are much bigger too. There"s a catch, of course. You have to live near enough to a major city to get broadband Internet. If you don"t, it"s slow dial-up access for you. And for those living really far out, there may be no Internet access at all. Technology experts often talk about the "last mile" problem, which refers to the difficulty of bringing Internet access to remote locations. In cities and suburbs, it"s relatively easy to provide access for everyone. It is much more difficult to deliver access to those living far from cities, especially in developing countries. Internet service providers, for their part, have been reluctant to provide access to sparsely (稀疏地) populated areas. The handful of Internet users they would reach wouldn"t cover the expense. But every year, technological advancements allow of more and more Internet users. Most broadband connections today run over existing cable TV and telephone lines although these technologies aren"t available everywhere. Some companies have delivered the Internet over standard power lines. Advancements in cheaper, more efficient fiber optics cables (光纤电缆) promise to bring extremely fast Internet connections to more users. Still, the "last mile" problem remains hard to deal with. There will always be somewhere that doesn"t have an affordable broadband connection. But someday that might not matter. If the rapid progress in cell phone technology is any indication (迹象), it may not be too long before an Internet connection simply follows you wherever you go. | |||
| 1. The underlined part " a catch" (in Paragraph 2) probably means "_____". | |||
| A. a rare challenge B. a desirable plan C. an efficient device D. a hidden problem | |||
| 2. What can we know from the third paragraph? | |||
| A. Internet connection has not been popular in most cities. B. Internet service providers care about rural customers. C. Computer is popular in developing countries. D. It is hard to bring Internet access to users in remote areas. | |||
| 3. Paragraph 4 mainly tells us that technological advancements ______. | |||
| A. make TV and telephone available everywhere B. bring great change to people"s everyday life C. make it possible for more people to use the Internet D. bring faster Internet connections to users | |||
| 4. What may eventually settle the "last mile" problem? | |||
| A. The broadband connection"s getting faster. B. More and more Internet users. C. More and more Internet connections. D. The rapid progress in cell phone technology. | |||
| 任务型阅读。 根据短文内容，从短文后的七个选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。 | |||
| A major source of teen stress is school exams, and test anxiety is not uncommon. When you recognize your teen is under stress, how can parents help your teen stay calm before an exam? Be involved. Parents need to be involved in their teen"s work. 1 What they look for is your patience- to talk, to cry, or simply to sit with them quietly. Communicate openly with your teen. Encourage your teen to express her worries and fears, but don"t let them focus on those fears. Help them get organized. 2 Together, you and your teen can work out a timetable in which she can study for what she knows will be on the test. Provide a calm setting. Help your teen set up a quiet place to study and protect her privacy. Give them a nutritious diet. It is important for your teen to eat a healthy, balanced diet during exam times to focus and do her best. 3 If this happens, encourage your teen to eat light meals or sandwiches. 4 Persuade your teenager to get some sleep and/or do something active when she needs a real break from studying. Help your teen balance her time so that she will feel comfortable taking time out from studying to spend time with friends or rest. Show a positive attitude. 5 Your panic, anxiety and blame contribute to your teen"s pressure. Make your teen feel accepted and valued for her efforts. Most importantly, reassure your teen that things will be all right, no matter what the results are. | |||
| A. A parent"s attitude will dictate their teen"s emotions. B. Exam stress can make some teens lose their appetite. C. They will only make the situation worse. D. Encourage your teen to relax. E. The best thing is simply to listen. F. Help your teen think about what she has to study and plan accordingly. G. Your teen may also make negative comments about themselves. | |||
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| Learners report two main difficulties in reading, which may be linked. There are too many unknown words and as a result reading is simply not a pleasure. For some students, even reading in their own language is a chore. Having a wide vocabulary is essential to making sense of written language. Of course, this is a circular argument, because the more you read the more vocabulary you learn and the more words you know the more easily you can read. Don"t make the mistake of reading with your dictionary beside you, looking up every single new or doubtful word. This is laborious and prevents you from practicing the skill of prediction. Sometimes in reading you find a word you know but the sense doesn"t seem to fit in. This is not surprising because words have so many meanings and degrees of meaning. What is more, part of their meaning is shaped by the words around them. Keep looking at the surrounding words and asking yourself "what sort of meaning would make sense here?" The more that people study the reading process, the better they can pass on to language learners a range of advice to choose from. People have learned to read in all kinds of ways. Here is some information that could help you plan to be a better reader in the foreign language you are studying. 1) Work out the general meaning first When people read in a new language they often feel they must take a detailed approach, focusing in every word, particularly those they don"t know. They read as if they were using a microscope, looking carefully at each of the small pieces (the individual words), but not necessarily seeing the whole picture at first. This is called the "bottom-up" approach. Other readers try to look first at the big picture(the "top-down" approach), attending to individual bricks only as necessary, a process that involves some intelligent guesswork. Generally this second approach is recommended by successful learners. 2) Interactive reading Another way of thinking about reading is to describe it as an interactive process, where the text brings something to you and you bring something to the text. Readers bring together all their knowledge of the world with what they see on the page in front of them. That is why, when reading in our own language, we don"t need to read every word. We add meaning which is not actually stated. 3) From supported reading to independent reading Language learners start by needing considerable support as they read. Textbooks supply this support in the form of introductions that summaries the contents, glossaries, pictures, explanations of new grammar points. In your reading you need to move gradually from this support to reading more the text itself. | |||
| 1. According to the author, _____. | |||
| A. looking up the dictionary is of great help for the understanding B. reading more promotes the gaining of vocabulary C. the more you read, the clearer the meaning is D. the amount of vocabulary is the key to reading | |||
| 2. Successful learners recommend _____. | |||
| A. trying to look first at the big picture B. looking carefully at each of the small pieces C. focusing on every word D. "bottom-up" approach | |||
| 3. The word "chore" in the first paragraph maybe means _____. | |||
| A. an important aspect B. a difficult and tiring thing C. an easy question D. something special | |||
| 4. You come across a new or doubtful word when you are reading, you can _____. | |||
| A. just miss it and let it be B. keep looking at the surrounding words C. look it up in the dictionary each time D. make sense of it with the help of dictionary |