科目:高中英語 來源: 題型:閱讀理解
In 1974, after filling out fifty applications, going through four interviews, and winning one offer, I look what I could get — a teaching job at what I considered a distant wild area: western New Jersey. My characteristic optimism was alive only when I reminded myself that I would be doing what I had wanted to do since I was fourteen 一 teaching English.
School started, but I felt more and more as if I were in a foreign country. Waa this rural area really New Jersey? My students a week off when hunting season began. I was told they were also frequently absent in late October to help their fathers make hay on the farms. I was a young woman from New York City, who thought that “Make hay while the sun shines” just meant to have a good time.
But, still, I was teaching English. I worked hard, taking lime off only to eat and sleep. And then there was my sixth-grade class 一 seventeen boys and five girls who were only six yean younger than me. I had a problem long before I knew it. I was struggling in my work as a young idealistic teacher. I wanted to make literature come alive and lo promote a love of the written word. The students wanted to throw spitballs and whisper dirty words in the back of the room.
In college I had been taught that a successful educator should ignore bad behavior. So I did, confident that, as the textbook had said, the bad behavior would disappear as I gave ray students positive attention. It sounds reasonable, but the text evidently ignored the fact that humans, particularly teenagers, rarely seem reasonable. By the time ray boss, who was also ray taskmaster known to be the strictest, most demanding, most quick to fire inexperienced teachers, came into the classroom to observe me, the students exhibited very little good behavior to praise.
My boss sat in the back of the room. The boys in the class were making animal noises, hitting each other while the girls filed their nails or read magazines. I just pretended it all wasn’t happening, and went on lecturing and tried to ask some inspiring questions. My boss, sitting in the back of the room, seemed to be growing bigger and bigger. After twenty minutes he left, silently. Visions of unemployment marched before my eyes.
I felt mildly victorious that I got through the rest of class without crying, but at my next free period I had to face him. I wondered if he would let me finish out the day. I walked to his office, took a deep breath, and opened the door.
He was sitting in his chair, and he looked at me long and hard. I said nothing. All I could think of was that I was not an English teacher; I had been lying to myself, pretending that everything was fine.
When he spoke, he said simply, without accusation, “You had nothing to say to them.”
“You had nothing to say to them," he repeated. “No wonder they’re bored. Why not get to the meal of the literature and stop talking about symbolism. Talk with them, not at them. And more important, why do you ignore their bad behavior?” We talked. He named ray problems and offered solutions. We role-played. He was the bad student, and I was the forceful, yet, warm, teacher.
As the year progressed, we spent many hours discussing literature and ideas about human beings and their motivations. He helped me identify my weaknesses and my strengths. In short, he made a teacher of me by teaching me the reality of Emerson's words: “The secret to education lies in respecting the pupil.”
Fifteen years later I still drive that same winding road to the same school. Thanks to the help I received that difficult first year, the school is my home now.
55. It can be inferred from the story that in 1974 ______.
A. the writer became an optimistic person
B. the writer was very happy about her new job
C. it was rather difficult to get a job in the USA
D. it was easy to get a teaching job in New Jersey
56. According to the passage, which of the following is most probably the writer’s problem as a new teacher?
A. She had blind trust in what she learnt at college.
B. She didn’t ask experienced teachers for advice.
C. She took too much time off to eat and sleep.
D. She didn’t like teaching English literature.
57. What is the writer’s biggest worry after her taskmaster's observation of her class?
A. She might lose her teaching job.
B. She might lose her students’ respect.
C. She couldn’t teach the same class any more.
D. She couldn’t ignore her students’ bad behavior any more.
58. Which of the following gives the writer a sense of mild victory?
A. Her talk about symbolism sounded convincing.
B. Her students behaved a little better than usual.
C. She managed to finish the class without crying.
D. She was invited for a talk by her boss after class.
59. The students behaved badly in the writer's classes because ______.
A. they were eager to embarrass her
B. she didn't really understand them
C. they didn't regard her as a good teacher
D. she didn’t have a good command of English
60. The taskmaster’s attitude towards the writer after his observation of her class can be best described as ______.
A. cruel but encouraging B. fierce but forgiving
C. sincere and supportive D. angry and aggressive
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科目:高中英語 來源:2011-2012學年廣東省韶關(guān)市始興中學高一下學期期末考試英語試卷(帶解析) 題型:閱讀理解
My boss’s daughter was studying in the Philippines. He asked me if my husband and I could take care of her. He thought his daughter would be able to improve her English communication skills in this way.
After days of thinking, we agreed. He then brought her here and left after 3 days. I thought that my boss’s daughter was well-mannered, but that was wrong.
After a month of staying in the Philippines, she started to show her true colors. When my husband asked her what she wanted for breakfast, she answered him in a rude way. From then on, we experienced fights at home. There was a time when we didn’t talk to her for a week as a punishment of not being good to us. What I hated most was that she didn’t care about other people’s feelings. She ate ahead of us when we were still working and didn’t leave anything for us. So we had to separate her food from ours to avoid such a problem.
The worst thing about her was that she shouted at us. I was wondering if she did this to her parents. We told this to her parents, but unfortunately I didn’t think that solved the problem. This situation lasted for almost 8 months. Our patience was tested during that time.
We tried to teach her everything we could to make her a better person, but I guess 8 months may not to be enough. We even tried to understand her and adjust for her, but it didn’t work. I just hope that she learned something from us and from other Filipinos.
【小題1】This passage is mainly about the writer’s experience of .
| A.trying to please her boss |
| B.changing a girl’s bad behavior |
| C.improving her communication skills |
| D.dealing with a teenage girl staying in her house |
| A.Because he was too busy to take care of his daughter |
| B.Because he wanted his daughter to take a holiday there |
| C.Because he wanted his daughter to improve her English in this way |
| D.Because he wanted the writer to teach his daughter good manners . |
| A.The daughter wasn’t behaving well. |
| B.The writer and her husband were careless. |
| C.The writer and her husband hated children. |
| D.The daughter tried her best to make others happy. |
| A.being patient with her |
| B.her parents punishing her |
| C.a(chǎn)sking her parents about her |
| D.telling her parents about her behavior |
| A.the writer had known the daughter was hard to deal with |
| B.the daughter learnt to behave well in the end |
| C.the writer didn’t enjoy the daughter’s stay |
| D.the daughter hated dealing with others |
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科目:高中英語 來源:2013屆上海市金山區(qū)高三上學期期末考試(高考一摸)英語試卷(帶解析) 題型:閱讀理解
Do you know how it is when you see someone yawn and you start yawning too? Or how hard it is to be among people laughing and not laugh yourself? Well, apparently it's because we have mirror neurons (神經(jīng)元)in our brains.
Put simply, the existence of mirror neurons suggests that every time we see someone else do something, our brains imitate (模仿)it, whether or not we actually perform the same action. This explains a great deal about how we learn to smile, talk, walk, dance or play sports. But the idea goes further: mirror neurons not only appear to explain physical actions, they also tell us that there is a biological basis for the way we understand other people.
Mirror neurons can undoubtedly be found all over our brains, but especially in the areas which relate to our ability to use languages, and to understand how other people feel. Researchers have found that mirror neurons relate strongly to language. A group of researchers discovered that if they gave people sentences to listen to (for example: "The hand took hold of the ball"), the same mirror neurons were triggered as when the action was actually performed (in this example, actually taking hold of a ball).
Any problems with mirror neurons may well result in problems with behavior. Much research suggests that people with social and behavioral problems have mirror neurons which are not fully functioning. However, it is not yet known exactly how these discoveries might help find treatments for social disorders.
Research into mirror neurons seems to provide us with even more information concerning how humans behave and interact (互動). Indeed, it may turn out to be the equivalent (相等物)for neuroscience of what Einstein's theory of relativity was for physics. And the next time you feel the urge to cough in the cinema when someone else does—well, perhaps you'll understand why.
【小題1】Mirror neurons can explain _________.
| A.why we cry when we are hurt |
| B.why we cough when we suffer from a cold |
| C.why we smile when we see someone else smile |
| D.why we yawn when we see someone else stay up late |
| A.set off | B.cut off | C.built up | D.broken up |
| A.relate to human behavior and interaction |
| B.control human physical actions and feelings |
| C.result in bad behavior and social disorders |
| D.determine our knowledge and language abilities |
| A.Ways to find mirror neurons. | B.Problems of mirror neurons. |
| C.Existence of mirror neurons. | D.Functions of mirror neurons. |
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科目:高中英語 來源:2012-2013學年廣東省佛山一中高二上學期期中考試英語試卷(帶解析) 題型:填空題
閱讀下列新聞及相關(guān)信息,并按照要求匹配信息。請在答題卡上作答。若答案是E,則涂AB;若答案是F,則涂CD。![]()
A.FIFA agrees on heavy punishments to stamp out racism
ZURICH: Soccer’s world governing body FIFA agreed on Thursday to punish acts of racism with heavy punishments including taking away points and disqualification from competitions.
B.England face uphill task in the third test
MUMBAI: England will fight against all the probabilities to prevent a second straight series defeat when they face India in the third and final test starting on Saturday.
C.Disease-free chickens hit the market
GUANGZHOU: The first group of 200,000 live, quality-assured chickens, which wear colored plastic rings around their feet, hit Guangzhou’s markets on Friday, at a time when the threat of bird flu has kept chickens off many menus.
D.Football bosses deny Schweinsteiger betting report
BERLIN: German football chiefs on Thursday made a strong statement of the wrong saying that a newspaper says that Bayern Munich star Bastian Schweinsteiger was the international footballer involved in a betting.
E.Zhangs to lead Chinese team at the world championships
Figure skaters Zhang Dan and Zhang Hao, whose heroic silver was a high point of last month’s Turin Winter Olympics, are ready to make China into pairs more noticeable at the world championships next week in Calgary.
F.Ministry looks to prevent soil from ruin
The two square meters of land covered with black soil that were once the pride of farmer Lei Guangsheng are now a problem without an easy solution.
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【小題1】Tony is very interested in agriculture, so he wants to know about something that is happening in the countryside.
【小題2】Collins focuses his attention on people’s health, so he would like to know what has happened in this field.
【小題3】Jesse likes sports very much. Next week the winter holidays will begin and he wants to see some great events happening in the following week.
【小題4】Jack takes great interest in collecting sportsmen’s personal information, especially about their bad behavior.
【小題5】Harry is a football fan. He often watches football games invented in old England. Now he needs to know some decision made by the organization.
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科目:高中英語 來源:2011年內(nèi)蒙古高二上學期期中考試(II)英語卷 題型:閱讀理解
Annie had just begun school. Her parents were tired of the methods they were using to correct her behavior, including scolding (訓斥), and taking away privileges (特權(quán)). Annie still needed to be scolded for her bad behavior, but her parents felt the good things she did needed to be recognized. So, they began to spend more time recognizing the improvements (改進) in Annie’s behavior and the good things she did every day rather than like before when they only noticed her bad behavior. Within a few weeks Annie began to change her attitude and her behavior improved.
Praise is one of the most powerful tools parents can use to teach their children good skills and help them grow. Praise works well when it is given and when you remember to use it frequently. It is important to praise all good behavior. Look for the good things your child does. Praise will have a lot of effects on your child. Use the 4 to 1 rule. For every bad behavior you notice, find four good behaviors or reasons to praise. It is a good way to remember to look for good behavior.
Remember to praise the things your child has already done well, or improvements in his behavior and new skills. Show your agreement by smiling and touching his shoulder or back. Be sure to say what your child did well in detail. Tell your child how good behavior helps and that it is liked by others.
1.What was the result of recognizing Annie’s good behavior?
A. She started to correct her bad behavior.
B. She was tired of her parents’ scolding.
C. She was not scolded for her bad behavior.
D. She spent more time praising her good behavior.
2.When praising children’s good behavior, parents should do the following EXCEPT __________.
A. praising their children for what they did in detail
B. encouraging their children to go on doing good things
C. telling their children more about their bad behavior
D. praising their children in a good way with smiles
3.What can we learn from the passage?
A. Praising is a better way than scolding.
B. Annie was a middle school student.
C. Annie’s parents are education experts.
D. Parents should not often show agreement.
4.The best title for this passage would be ____________.
A. How to Praise a Good Child
B. A Good Method of Praising Children
C. Praise More and Scold Less
D. The Importance of Good Behavior
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