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To most of us, school means classes, teachers, schedules, grades and tests. But for the children at Sudbury Valley School in Massachusetts, school is very different.

Firstly, there are no lessons. All the children, aged between 4 and 19, do whatever they want. There are no teachers, only “staff members”. The idea behind this is that you do not need to make children learn, because children want to learn anyway. “You do not need to say to a three-year-old, ‘Go explore your environment.’ You can’t stop them!”says Daniel Greenberg, a founder of the school. “But if you make children do what you want all day… they will lose all taste of learning.” At Sudbury Valley School, you will find children talking, reading, painting, cooking, working on computers, studying French, playing the piano, climbing trees, or just running around. Two boys spent three years just fishing!
The other way that Sudbury Valley School is different is that the children can decide the rules. Every week, there is a school meeting where both children and staff have one vote (投票)each—even the four-year-olds. They decide the school rules, how to spend the school money, and even which staff they want and do not want anymore.
When the school first opened in 1968, people said it would never work. But today, the school has 200 students, and 80% of its students go on to college. Even the two boys who went fishing all the time have successful careers today. One of them is a musician and the other is a computer scientist.
小题1:What"s special about the school?
A.There is nobody but students there.
B.All the students are of the same age.
C.There are no classes for the students.
D.There are no rules in the school.
小题2:What do the students do in the school?
A.They learn everything there from the staff members.
B.They grow up there without learning anything.
C.They spend all the time with their parents.
D.They do whatever they are interested in.
小题3:The school seems to believe that children________.
A.learn best when they are doing what they want
B.are too young to learn anything by themselves
C.can look after themselves without any help
D.can"t go to college without any hard work
小题4:The last paragraph wants to tell us that_         .
A.the writer doesn"t like the idea of the school
B.the school is quite successful in its work
C.most of the parents don"t believe in the school
D.younger students learn better there than older ones
小题5:The underlined word career in the last paragraph most probably means_.
A. family   B. money    C. lifestyle   d. job
答案

小题1:C
小题1:D
小题1:A
小题1:B
小题1:D
解析
【主旨大意】本文主要讲述了美国第一家提倡“自主学习”的学校,此类型学校基本理念为民主式管理和自由式教育,教学特点为弱化班级概念,混合年龄,以及学生、教员完全平等的民主式管理。学校认为学生学习无需定式,学习完全可以在任何的日常活动中进行,学生应自主决定学习方式和人生方向。
小题1:主旨理解题。由于瑟谷学校教学特点为弱化班级概念,混合年龄,以及学生、教员完全平等的民主式管理。故选C。
小题1:细节理解题。由第二段第一句“Firstly, there are no lessons. All the children, aged between 4 and 19, do whatever they want”可知学生在学校做他们感兴趣的事情。
小题1:细节理解题。由第二段最后一句可知,学校倡导学生“自主学习”。故选A。
小题1:细节推理题。由最后一段可知,80%的学生能上大学,甚至每天钓鱼的两个学生,一个成了音乐家,另一个科学家。说明了瑟谷学校的“自主学习”模式是成功的。故选B。
小题1:细节理解题。由第四段最后一句“一个成了音乐家,另一个科学家”可知,career表示“职业”,在四外选项中,只有job具有职业的意思,故选D。
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试题【To most of us, school means classes, teachers, schedules, grades and tests. But 】;主要考察你对科普环保类等知识点的理解。[详细]
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Who do you admire(崇拜)?Different people may have different ideas.
If you’re a sports fan, perhaps the person you admire most is a great basketball player, and Yao Ming is probably the one in your mind. If you study music or play an instrument, perhaps the person you admire most is gifted musician like Mozart, who began to write beautiful music at a very young age. Or maybe you admire great scientists, for example, Yuan Longping.
We have many reasons to admire famous people and we often give much of our respect to them. However, we shouldn’t neglect those who are common, such as nurses, train drivers, firemen, cleaners and so on. They may be working in a corner of the world without being noticed, but all these people spend their working days serving the public. They show great dedication(奉献).However, what they do is often unnoticed by us. Have you ever thought of what our life will be like if they stop working?
So next time when you appreciate famous people, don’t forget those who are common around you.
根据短文内容,选择正确的答案。(5小题,每小题2分,共10分)
小题1:Yao Ming is a great ______.
A. pop singer                B. actor                C. basketball player
小题2:Mozart began to write ______ when he was very young.
A. music                 B. letters              C. books
小题3:The underlined word“neglect”in Paragraph 3 means______.
A. give comments on         B. make fun of          C. care little about
小题4:In Paragraph 3,the writer mainly points out ______.
A. the reasons why we admire famous people
B. the importance of common people’s work
C. the places where common people are working
小题5:What’s the main idea of this passage?
A. Famous people are admired by most of us in our life.
B. Common people should also be given respect as the famous ones.
C. Common people should be given the most respect in our society.
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The high school years are a key period. The things we learn during this time really shape our lives. Liu Changming, principal of Beijing No. 4 High School made 18 suggestions for students just starting high school on how to get the best out of high school. Here are ten of them.
1) Read 50 books. But choose them from ten different fields.
2) Help a person. Look for a classmate, an elderly person, in fact anyone who could benefit(获益)from your help. You’ll find you benefit too!
3) Research. Research a particular area, such as science, history or art.
4) Make a foreign friend. Try to befriend someone from a foreign country. It’s an ideal way to learn about a foreign country.
5) Publish(出版)an article. Whether it appears in a newspaper, your school magazine or in your own blog, an article will be something to look back on in pride in later years.
6) Take up a new sport. Choose one you’ve never played before. If you find you like it, you’ll have a hobby for life
7) Join a club. Working hard in a club or other activities will give you a life outside of your studies.
8) Find a part-time job. Try and do the job for at least a month.
9) Find a person to learn from. Choose someone with unusual experience or special talent. Try to learn all you can from him or her.
10) Learn to cook four Chinese dishes. Learning how to cook is not only a practical skill but a way of building a bridge to other people.
小题1: According to the passage, by making a foreign friend you can ______.
A.learn about another cultureB.practice spoken English
C.discuss the international situationD.share your happiness and sadness
小题2:Beside learning a practical skill, another purpose of learning to cook is ______.
A.to help your parents with houseworkB.to kill time
C.to have communication with othersD.to make friends
小题3:Which of the following statements is True according to the passage?
A.You should read fifty books of the same field.
B.Do a part-time job for less than a month.
C.Try to publish an article to make you famous.
D.You can benefit a lot by helping others.
小题4:The principal made the suggestions in order for the students to ______.
A.make contributions to societyB.achieve greet progress in high school
C.love high school lifeD.finish high school

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After spending years searching for a planet with life, scientists may have found one. In September 2010, a team of US scientists discovered an Earth-sized planet called Gliese 581g. It has a surface temperature neither too hot nor too cold for liquid(液态)water. Scientists think there is a chance that the planet could have life.
The planet Gliese 581g goes around a star called Gliese 581, which is about 20 light-years from Earth. That is about 194 trillion(万亿)kilometres -500 million times farther away from us than the moon.
A spacecraft traveling at a one-tenth of the speed of light would reach Gliese 581g within about 220 years. A human can’t live that long, but robotic explorers could make the job easier. However, our fastest spacecraft don’t come anywhere near that one-tenth light-speed mark.
At present, scientists don’t know what the surface might be like on Gliese 581g. What they know is that the planet is at the sight distance from its star to have liquid water. It’s also at the right distance to have an atmosphere that could protect the water if it is on the surface.
Although spacecraft won’t be getting there anytime soon, one way to look for life on Gliese 581g is to turn our radio telescopes(望远镜)towards the planet and search for radiation(放射). By studying the radiation, scientists would find out about the chemicals(化学物质)around the planet and discover it Gliese 581g has an atmosphere. If it has one, studying the atmosphere would give us a good idea if the planet has life or not. But it’ll probably be many years before we can do this properly.
People have been arguing about whether there is alien life on Gliese 581g. Any discussion about alien life is just guessing at this point, according to its discoverers.
小题1: What did scientists find in September 2010?
A.A planet with water. B.A planet similar to the earth.
C.A planet without life.D.A planet near the earth.
小题2:According to the article, Gliese 581g ________.
A.is at the right distance from its starB.moves around the earth
C.is as far away from us as the moonD.can be reached in about 220 years
小题3: Paragraph 5 is mainly about ______.
A.the possibility of living on Gliese 581g
B.the kinds of chemicals around Gliese 581g
C.the way of looking for life on Gliese 581g
D.the aim of studying the radiation on Gliese 581g
小题4:Which of the following is the best title for the passage above?
A.Gliese 581g, a Likely Living PlanetB.Gliese 581, a Likely Living Planet
C.Gliese 581g and Its StarD.Gliese 581g and Radiation

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In learning English,one should first pay attention to listening and speaking.It is the groundwork of reading and writing.You’d better  31  your best to speak while you do much listening.Don’t be  32  of making mistakes.But be careful not to let them stop you from improving your  33 .While you are doing this,a good  34  is to write-keep a diary,write notes or letters.Then if you can,ask some others to go through  35  you have written and tell you where it is wrong.Many mistakes in your speaking will be  36  found when you write.Through correcting mistakes,you can do better in learning English.
If you are slow in speaking,don’t  37  about it.One of the helpful ways is reading,either aloud or to yourself.The important thing is to choose  38  interesting to read. It mustn’t be too difficult for you.When you are reading  39  this way,don’t stop to  40  the new words if you can guess their meanings when they have nothing to do with the sentences.You can do that some other time.
小题1:
A.haveB.sendC.makeD.try
小题2:
A.sureB.afraidC.proudD.tired
小题3:
A.EnglishB.ChineseC.JapaneseD.French
小题4:
A.startB.ideaC.wayD.manner
小题5:
A.howB.whenC.whyD.what
小题6:
A.happilyB.easilyC.reallyD.slowly
小题7:
A.talkB.fearC.worryD.hurry
小题8:
A.somethingB.everythingC.anythingD.nothing
小题9:
A.byB.onC.atD.in
小题10:
A.look atB.look forC.look upD.look over

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A mother planted many kinds of vegetables in her garden. One day, she said to her 31________, “Betty, come here. Look at all these little yellow marks on the 32________ of the cabbages. They are eggs of a kind of insect(虫子). They are very beautiful but very bad for cabbages. This afternoon you must 33________ all the eggs on the leaves and kill them. In this way, you will help us have 34________, greener and bigger cabbages.”
Betty didn’t think she could do it 35________ and in the end she forgot all about it. The mother fell ill for a few days and 36________ work in her garden. When she was well, she took Betty with her to the garden to see the cabbages. To 37________ surprise, the insects had eaten every leaf. When Betty saw this, she began to 38________. Then her mother said to her, “We should never put off what we have to do today till 39________. And you must learn to deal with the bad things while they are small, 40________ it will turn into a big problem.
小题1: A son  B. mother   C daughter 
小题2:A tress   B. leaves   C. grass
小题3: A find   B. eat   C. fly
小题4: A worse   B better   C thinner
小题5:A at most   B at last   C at once
小题6:A must   B couldn’t   C need
小题7:A my   B their   C his
小题8: A cry   B wait   C run
小题9:A yesterday   B today   C tomorrow
小题10:A. but      B. or     C. and
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