题目
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Gaul, with about 170 seventh- and eighth-graders, has its own history of lower level academic achievement. One likely reason: Education beyond the basic requirements hasn"t always been a top priority(优先) for families who"ve worked the same land for generations. Here, few adults have college degrees, and outsiders(局外人) (teachers included) are often kept at a respectful distance.
Since 2002, Gaul"s students have been divided into four classes, each of them taught almost every subject by two teachers. The goal: To find common threads across disciplines to help students create a big picture that gives fresh meaning and context to their class work -- and sparks(激发) motivation for learning.
Working within state guidelines, each team makes its individual schedules and lesson plans, incorporating non-textbook literature, hands-on lab work and field trips. If students are covering the Civil War in social studies, they"re reading The Red Badge of Courage or some other period literature in English class. In science, they study the viruses and bacteria that caused many deaths in the war.
Team teaching isn"t unusual. About 77 percent of middle schools now employ some form of it, says John Lounsbury, consulting editor for the National Middle School Association. But most schools use four- or five-person teams, which Gaul tried before considering two-person teams more effective. Gaul supports the team concept by "looping" classes (跟班) so that the same two teachers stick with the same teens through seventh and eighth grades. Combining teams and looping creates an extremely strong bond between teacher and student. It also, says teacher Beth Ahlholm, "allows us to build an excellent relationship with parents."
Ahlholm and teammate Madelon Kelly are fully aware how many glazed looks they see in the classroom, but they know 72 percent of their eighth-graders met Maine"s reading standard last year -- double the statewide average. Only 31 percent met the math standard, still better than the state average (21 percent). Their students also beat the state average in writing and science. And in2006, Gaul was one of 47 schools in the state to see testing gains of at least 20 percent in four of the previous five years, coinciding roughly with team teaching"s arrival.
A Classroom With Context | |
小题1: of the school | ◆Being a farming town, Gaul achieved little in 小题2: before. ◆Further education is considered less important there. ◆The community is relatively 小题3: rather than open to the outsiders. |
Ways of solving the problems | ●dividing the students into different classes and creating ways to make the students well 小题4: to learn. ●conducting小题5: and lesson plans for each team ●establishing a strong 小题6: between teacher and students through combining teams and looping |
小题7: of success | ■72 percent of the eighth-graders小题8: Maine"s reading standard ■the school beating the state average in 小题9: ■students’ math average being 小题10: higher than the state average ■four of the previous five years witnessing at least 20 percent test gains |
答案
小题1:Problems
小题2:education/academic achievement
小题3:closed
小题4:motivated
小题5:individual schedules
小题6:tie/connection/bond/ relationship
小题7:Signs/ Examples
小题8:reaching/meeting
小题9:writing and science
小题10:10 percent
解析
试题分析:全文叙述了在缅因州的蓝莓种植小镇上的D. R. Gaul中学里,人们不重视教育。一个很可能的原因是:在这个祖祖辈辈在土地上耕作的人们,接受基础教育以上的教育不是家庭的最好选择。在这里没有几个成年人有大学学历,而局外人(也包括老师)经常被敬而远之。后来学校改变了教学方法,把学生分成四个班,每个班有两个老师讲课以激发学生学习的动力。每个学生都要有个人计划和课程计划,老师和家长相互建立良好的关系等等。通过努力使该校学生的成绩有了很多的进步。
小题1:根据第二段讲到问题所在:Problems of the school。
小题2:根据第二段第一句话:Gaul, with about 170 seventh- and eighth-graders, has its own history of lower level academic achievement. (Gaul中学有170名其年级和八年级的学生,都有着较低的学术成就。)选择academic 或者education。
小题3:社区对外界是相对封闭而不是开放的,对老师也是敬而远之。closed
小题4:第三段讲到问题的解决:教学改革。学生被分成四个班。每个班有两个老师教课,找到不同学科共同的教学思路,来激发学生学习的动力。motivated
小题5:根据第四段的Working within state guidelines, each team makes its individual schedules and lesson plans,(在州的指导方针指引下每个人创造了个人计划和小组计划。)判断填individual schedules。
小题6:根据第五段的It also, says teacher Beth Ahlholm, "allows us to build an excellent relationship with parents."(Beth老师说,它还允许我们和家长建立很好的关系。)判断是tie/connection/bond/ relationship。
小题7:根据最后一段讲述改革的成功案例判断填:Signs/ Examples
小题8:根据最后一段第一句话后半部分:but they know 72 percent of their eighth-graders met Maine"s reading standard last year(但是他们知道72%的八年级的学生去年达到缅因州的阅读标准。)判断填reaching/meeting 。
小题9:根据最后一段:Their students also beat the state average in writing and science. (他们的学生在写作和自然学科中击败州平均分。)判断选择:writing and science
小题10: Only 31 percent met the math standard, still better than the state average (21 percent)(仅仅31%的达到数学的标准,比数学的州平均分还高。
核心考点
试题【D. R. Gaul Middle School is in Union, Maine, a blueberry-farming town where the 】;主要考察你对数词等知识点的理解。[详细]
举一反三
Scientists note that babies are strongly influenced by their environment.They say a baby will smile if her mother does something the baby likes.A baby learns to get the best care possible by smiling to please her mother or other caregiver.This is how babies learn to connect and communicate with other human beings.
One study shows that babies can learn before they are born.The researchers placed a tape recorder on the stomach of a pregnant woman.Then, they played a recording of a short story.On the day the baby was born, the researchers attempted to find if he knew the sounds of the story repeated while in his mother.They did this by placing a device in the mouth of the newborn baby.
The baby would hear the story if he moved his mouth one way.If the baby moved his mouth the other way, he would hear a different story.The researchers say the baby clearly liked the story he heard before he was born.They say the baby would move his mouth so he could hear the story again and again.
Another study shows how mothers can strongly influence social development and language skills in their children.
Researchers studied the children from the age of one month to three years.The researchers attempted to measure the sensitivity of the mothers.The women were considered sensitive if they supported their children’s activities and did not interfere unnecessarily.They tested the children for thinking and language development when they were three years old.Also, the researchers observed the women for signs of depression.
The children of depressed women did not do as well in tests as the children of women who did not suffer from depression.The children of depressed women did poorly in tests of language skills and understanding what they hear.
These children also were less cooperative and had more problems dealing with other people.The researchers noted that the sensitivity of the mothers was important to the intelligence development of their children.Children did better when their mothers were caring, even when they suffered from depression.
小题1:What does the experiment in which newborn babies heard the stories prove?
(no more than 5 words)
小题2:In the passage, what factors are mentioned that influence intelligence development in babies?
(no more than 8 words)
小题3:Which group of children did the worst in tests of language skills?
(no more than 11 words)
小题4:What is the main idea of the passage?
(no more than 8 words)
A.by means of | B.in defence of |
C.in reaction to | D.with regard to |
A.solution | B.invitation | C.block | D.access |
A.set up | B.speeded up | C.risen up | D.sprung up |
A.oppose | B.applaud | C.overlook | D.promote |
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