I was in my third year of teaching writing at Ralph High School in New York, when one of my students, 15-year-old Mikey, gave me a note from his mother. It explained his absence from class the day before:
"Dear Mr. McCort, Mikey"s grandmother, who is eighty years of age, fell down the stairs from too much coffee and I kept Mikey at home to take care of her and his baby sister so I could go to my job. Please excuse Mikey and he"ll do his best in the future. P.S. His grandmother is OK."
I had seen Mikey writing the note at his desk. l said nothing. Most parental-excuse notes I received were penned by my students. The writers of those notes didn"t realize that honest excuse notes were usually boring: "Peter was late because the alarm clock didn"t go off."
The students always said it was hard putting 200 words together on any subject, but when they produced excuse notes, they were excellent. So I decided to give the first class to study the art of the excuse note.
“Today I"d like you to write "An Excuse Note from Adam to God" or "An Excuse Note from Eve to God". "Heads went down. Pens raced across paper. They had to be asked to go to lunch by their friends.
The next day everyone had excuse notes. Heated discussions followed. But suddenly I saw the headmaster at the door. He entered the classroom and walked up and down, looking at papers, and then said. "I"d like you to see me in my office." My heart sank,
When I stepped into his office, he came to shake my hand and said, "I just want to tell you that lesson, that task, was great. Those kids were writing on the college level. Thank you."
小题1:What did the writer do when he found the students dishonest?| A．He reported them to the headmaster. | | B．He lectured them hard on honesty. | | C．He had them take notes-n class. | | D．He helped improve their writing skills. |
小题2:We can learn that when Mikey was absent from the class, he was____.| A．somewhere enjoying himself | | B．taking care of his baby sister | | C．looking after his grandmother | | D．studying the art of the excuse note |
小题3:How did the writer usually find out his students" parental excuse notes were dishonest?| A．They were written in boring words. | | B．He called their parents and found out the truth. | | C．They were more like stories than facts. | | D．The handwriting clearly looked like children"s. |
小题4:Which of the following is true?| A．The writer has many years of teaching experience. | | B．The students are good at writing excuse notes. | | C．The headmaster was angry with the writer. | | D．Most of the excuse notes were written by the parents. |
小题5:Which of the following best describes the writer as a teacher?| A．Honest. | B．Strict. | C．Hardworking. | D．Wise. |
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小题1:D
小题2:A
小题3:C
小题4:B
小题5:D |
试题分析：这篇文章里，作文老师发现很多孩子不擅长写作，但自己编的假条却写得很精彩。他利用这件事情帮助孩子提高写作能力，其效果还得到了校长的认可。
小题1:判断推理题。根据文章描述，老师发现学生假的请假条时，他不是告诉校长，而是So I decided to give the first class to study the art of the excuse note决定第一堂课教他们如何写请假条，故选D提高他们的写作技能。
小题2:判断推理题。根据文中第三段描述I had seen Mikey writing the note at his desk. l said nothing. Most parental-excuse notes I received were penned by my students.我看到Mikey自己写请假条。我收到的许多父母写的请假条其实都是学生自己写的。从而判断Mikey的请假条内容是假的，他并不是照顾奶奶，而是做他自己喜欢的事情去了，故选A。
小题3:判断推理题。根据文中第三段The writers of those notes didn"t realize that honest excuse notes were usually boring这些写假条的学生都没意识到真实的假条往往很无趣，而when they produced excuse notes, they were excellent他们编的假条很精彩，从而判断C正确。
小题4:判断推理题。根据文中描述The students always said it was hard putting 200 words together on any subject, but when they produced excuse notes, they were excellent.学生们总说写200字的作文很难，但当他们编假条时都写得很好，从而判断B正确。
小题5:判断推理题。从文章中老师利用学生写假请假条这件事来太高孩子写作技能，可以看出老师很聪明，故选D。 |
核心考点
试题【 I was in my third year of teaching writing at Ralph High School in New York, w】；主要考察你对
人物故事类等知识点的理解。
[详细]举一反三
阅读下面短文，掌握大意，然后从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中选出最佳选项。
Look! __ is my friend. Her _ is Meimei. Well, can you _ it? Yeah! M-e-i,m-e-i. She is thirteen _ old. She studies in No.1 Middle School. She is _ new student here. There _ eighteen boys and fifteen girls in her class. Her mother a teacher. She is an teacher. Her father, Mr Wang is a teacher, . Their students all love them because they love their students. They have(有)a dog. The dog and Meimei are ___ friends.
| 小题1: | | A．These | B．Those | C．This | D．They |
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| 小题2: | | A．name | B．shop | C．school | D．friend |
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| 小题4: | | A．bags | B．years | C．books | D．chairs |
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| 小题8: | | A．English | B．Chinese | C．French(法国的) | D．England |
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| 小题10: | | A．right | B．fine | C．nice | D．good |
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This is a happy family. There are three members (成员) in it.
Hi! My name is Da Tou. I have a big head and two small hands. I have two big eyes. I am wearing(穿) a yellow T-shirt. I have no brothers or sisters. My parents love me very much.
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This is my father. He is also my good friend. He has a small head and two big hands. He wears a pair of glasses. He is a reporter(记者), so he knows a lot. He often plays games with me.
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This is my mother. She is a little fat. She often wears an apron(围裙). She is good at cooking. She works in a shop near our house. My mother is a kind woman.
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小题1:Da Tou has______.| A．a small head | B．two big hands | | C．a green T-shirt. | D．two big eyes |
小题2:What is Da Tou’s father’s job?| A．He is a teacher. | B．He is a doctor. | | C．He is a reporter. | D．He is a worker. |
小题3:Da Tou’s mother is good at . | A．reading | B．cooking | | C．writing | D．playing games |
小题4:Which is NOT TRUE(不正确的) according to the passage?| A．Da Tou has a brother and a sister. | | B．His father wears a pair of glasses. | | C．His mother is a kind woman. | | D．His mother works in a shop near their house. |
小题5:What’s the best title（最好的标题）of the passage?| A．A good reporter | B．Da Tou and his friends | | C．A happy boy | D．A happy family |
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阅读下面短文，掌握大意，然后从A、B、C、D四个选项中选出最佳选项。
There was a woman in Detroit, who had two sons. She was worried about them, especially the younger one, Ben, he was not doing well in school. Boys in his class made jokes about him because he seemed so .The mother that she herself would have to get her sons to do better in school. She told them to go to the Detroit Public Library to read a a week and do a report about it for her. One day, in Ben’s , the teacher held up a rock and asked if anyone knew it. Ben put up his hand and the teacher let him . “Why did Ben put up his hand?” his classmates wondered. He said anything. What would he possibly want to say?Ben not only the rock, but also said a lot about the rock. He named many other rocks in the same group and even knew the teacher had found it. The teacher and the students were . Ben had learned all this from doing one of his book .Later Ben went on to the of his class. When he finished high school, he went to Yale University (耶鲁大学)and at last became one of the best doctors in the USA. After Ben grew up, he something about his mother that he did not know as a . She, herself, had never learned how to .
| 小题1: | | A．because | B．so | C．but | D．though |
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| 小题2: | | A．clever | B．hard | C．slow | D．quick |
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| 小题3: | | A．asked | B．decided | C．forgot | D．heard |
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| 小题4: | | A．notice | B．message | C．book | D．question |
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| 小题5: | | A．class | B．room | C．office | D．lab |
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| 小题6: | | A．think | B．leave | C．stand up | D．sit down |
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| 小题7: | | A．always | B．even | C．quickly | D．never |
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| 小题8: | | A．found | B．played | C．knew | D．threw |
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| 小题9: | | A．whether | B．when | C．where | D．why |
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| 小题10: | | A．afraid | B．surprised | C．worried | D．unhappy |
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| 小题11: | | A．pictures | B．exercises | C．shops | D．reports |
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| 小题13: | | A．learnt | B．remembered | C．forgot | D．guessed |
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| 小题14: | | A．doctor | B．child | C．children | D．teacher |
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| 小题15: | | A．read | B．work | C．teach | D．show |
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A man was travelling abroad in a small red car. One day he left the car and went shopping. When he came back, its roof was badly damaged.
Some boys told him that an elephant had damaged（毁坏） it. The man did not believe them, but they took him to a circus which was near there. The owner of the elephant said, "I am very sorry! My elephant has a big, round, red chair. He thought that your car was his chair, and he sat on it!"
Then he gave the man a letter, in which he said that he was sorry and that he would pay for all the damage.
When the man got back to his own country, the customs officers wouldn’t believe his story. They said, "You sold your new car while you were abroad and bought this old one!" After the man showed them the letter from the circus man（马戏团主人）, then they believed him.
小题1:A man was travelling abroad_______. | A．in a big bus | B．in a green jeep | C．in a red car | D．in a red taxi |
小题2:The car was damaged because________. | A．there was a traffic accident | B．the circus man broke it | | C．it rushed into a shop | D．the elephant sat on it |
小题3:The circus man said that_______. | A．he would pay for part of the damage | | B．he would pay for all of the damage | | C．he wouldn"t pay for the damage | | D．he would buy a new car |
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An old man died and left his son a lot of money. But the son was a foolish young man, and he quickly spent all the money so that soon he had nothing left. Of course , when that happened, all his friends left him. When he was quite poor and alone, he went to see John, who was a kind, clever old man and often helped people when they had troubles. "My money has finished and my friends have gone," said the young man, "What will happen to me now?" "Don"t worry , young man," answered John, "Everything will soon be all right again. Wait, and you will soon feel much happier." The young man was very glad. "Am I going to get rich again then? "he asked John. "No, I didn"t mean that," said the old man." I meant that you would soon get used to being poor and to having no friends."
小题1:An old man died and left his son_______. | A．nothing | B．some gold | C．much money | D．only a house |
小题2:When the son was________, he went to see John. | A．short of money | B．quite poor and sick | | C．in trouble | D．quite poor and alone |
小题3:John meant the young man______. | A．would get rich again | | B．would get used to having nothing | | C．would get used to being in trouble | | D．would get out of poorness |
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