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The aim is to help teenagers keep their mind on their work by keeping males and females apart. Rebecca Brown chooses the students for what Boonsboro High School calls the Academy. “What we really want to do is take that top group of kids and take them to the very highest level they can achieve here,so that they’re prepared for college,” she said. They need high marks and test scores and strong teacher recommendations. They also need to be involved in activities.
Michael Bair has been at Boonsboro High School for twenty years and directs the Academy. His ninth-grade English class for boys centers on books that he believes boys find interesting. “The novels they’re reading now,are very manly novels. They’re novels that deal with the arrogance(傲慢)of man and the pride of man.” One of those books,for example,is “The Call of the Wild” by Jack London. This classic story tells of a dog stolen from his home and sold to work as a sled dog in Canada’s Klondike Gold Rush.
On this day,the students are working in small groups. Vincent and Logan explain why they’re drawing pictures that relate to the story. Vincent said,“The main character,Buck,gets abducted(绑架), and they send him off to the Yukon in a train. So I’m drawing part of the story where he’s in the train. It gets you to visualize the setting of the story and gets you to think more about what’s going on in the story,the important events of the story.”“ Instead of just doing work sheets about it,this is a lot more fun,” Logan added happily.
Morgan Van Fleet likes being in the Academy. She says boys and girls act differently when they are together in a classroom. “To me,it almost seems like it’s hindering(妨碍) your chances at developing yourself because you’re more focused on ‘Oh,I wish they’d shut up. Oh,what do they think of me?’ instead of focusing on what’s the homework or what’s going on in this class,what’s the lesson.”
小题1:What is the purpose of the text?
A.To educate. | B.To persuade. | C.To instruct. | D.To introduce. |
A.any student in Boonsboro High School can take part in the program |
B.students in the program are expected to get well prepared for college |
C.students can all achieve their highest levels in the program |
D.students don’t have to join in the activities. |
A.form a picture of | B.pay a visit to |
C.take a look at | D.have a gift for |
A.Michael Bair considers it unsuitable for boys to read the book “The Call of the Wild”. |
B.Vincent thinks that his drawings can help understand the novel better. |
C.Jack London is a main character in the book “The Call of the Wild”. |
D.Morgan Van Fleet thinks the program does no good to her. |
A.a school’s introduction | B.a teacher’s diary |
C.a headmaster’s speech | D.a news report |
答案
小题1:D
小题2:B
小题3:A
小题4:B
小题5:D
解析
试题分析:文章向我们介绍了一个旨在帮助学生更好地准备大学生活的教育项目。
小题1:考查目的推断。纵观全文可以看出,文章介绍了一个新的教育项目,把成绩优异的学生按性别编班,以使他们更好为大学生活做好准备。 选D
小题2:考查事实细节。在第二段中,Rebecca Brown 表达了自己的观点,根据 so that they’re preparedfor college 可以得出在这个项目中学生可以为大学做好准备,答案是B
小题3:考查词义猜测。由前文的 drawing pictures 以及 Im drawing part of the story 可以推出该词的意思是形成图像。选 A
小题4:考查推理判断。倒数第二段的 It gets you to visualize the setting of the story and gets you to thinkmore about whats going on in the story the important events of the story.告诉我们,他认为通过用图画描绘故事的方式,可以使学生更好地理解故事。 选B
小题5:考查文章出处。纵观全文可以看出,文章是对新出现的一个教育项目的介绍,包括发起人、操作方式、目的、意义等等,符合新闻报道的形式,故选 D。
核心考点
试题【A public high school in the rural town of Boonsboro,Maryland,offers a special pr】;主要考察你对题材分类等知识点的理解。[详细]
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The successful launch, powered by a Long March 2F rocket, was shown live on state television Saturday from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in the Gobi Desert in western China.
The Chinese astronauts will complete the country’s first manned space docking mission(载入太空对接任务), an important step in Beijing’s ambitious plan to build a permanent space station by 2020. Possible future missions could include sending a man to the moon.
The crew is expected to spend more than 10 days in space and dock with the Tiangong-1 space lab module, which China launched in September 2011. Two of them will live and work inside the module to test its life-support systems, while the third will remain in the capsule to deal with any unexpected emergencies.
China first launched a man into space in 2003, followed by a two-man mission in 2005 and a three-man trip in 2008 that featured the country’s first spacewalk. In November 2011, the unmanned Shenzhou-8 successfully docked twice with Tiangong-1 by remote control. The manned docking would be considered a milestone for China’s space program.
China is hoping to join the United States and Russia as the only countries to send independently maintained space stations into orbit(轨道). It is already one of just three nations to have launched manned spacecraft on their own.
The program is a source of enormous national pride for China, reflecting its rapid economic and technological progress and ambition to rank among the world’s leading nations.
小题1:From the passage, we know that .
A.China plans to build a permanent space station on the moon in the near future |
B.the Shenzhou-9 will dock with Tiangong-1 for the third time |
C.the success launch of Shenzhou-9 is a milestone for China’s space program |
D.plenty of people had the opportunity to watch the live broadcast o the launch on TV |
A.handling some emergencies | B.testing the life-support system |
C.walking in space | D.docking with a space lab module |
A.More and more manned space stations will be sent into space from China. |
B.The docking of Shenzhou-9 will be more successful than that of Shenzhou-8. |
C.There are only three countries which sent space station into space. |
D.The rapid development of China’s economy and technology has contributed a lot to the success of Shenzhou-9 program. |
A.China sent its first woman into outer space. |
B.Shenzhou-9 sent three astronauts, including a female, into space. |
C.China’s advanced space technology amazed the world. |
D.Three Chinese astronauts began their space voyage. |
A few years ago, Justin uploaded(上传) videos of himself on YouTube, showing covers of his favorite songs at home. He just saw it as a bit of fun for friends and family, but when music manager Scooter Braun saw one of the videos, he flew to Justin’s hometown of Ontario, Canada to sign him up. Justin was just 13.
Shortly after, Justin was flown to the US. He eventually started working with R&B superstar Usher. Justin’s first album My world was released in 2009. But all the time, Justin continued to build his fan base on his YouTube account, where some of his original home videos can still be found, and where he continues to post music. “I wasn’t sending mixtapes or anything like that to record labels,” he told us when we met him on his promotional tour for his latest film Justin Bieber: Never Say Never. “I was just doing regular stuff at home and I just posted videos online without purpose. I would never be here if it wasn’t for the Internet and YouTube.”
But it isn’t just YouTube that helps Justin’s popularity. He also updates his Twitter account (@Justin-Bieber) regularly and has about 8.8 million followers. In fact, he’s so popular that Justin was responsible for 3% of the site’s activity at one time and so popular that entire racks of servers on Twitter were devoted to him.
In light of his story, many young, aspiring artists are now taking advantage of Twitter and YouTube. Both these sites can help artists build fan bases in the hope that they’ll become the next big thing. Justin added, “I think my story brings hope to people and I think that’s very important. The only thing holding you back is yourself. Never say never.”
小题1:What is the best title for the passage?
A.A famous young man | B.YouTube---A popular website |
C.Justin’s way to success | D.Social media is the most important |
A.The cover of a book. |
B.The shelter from attack. |
C.The sheet on the bed. |
D.Another version of a pop song by a different artist. |
A.Justin posted videos online in order to succeed. |
B.Justin becomes a celebrity partly owing to social media. |
C.Justin has the same way to succeed as others. |
D.Justin has built many websites. |
A.Many young, aspiring artists are objection to Justin’s way. |
B.Many celebrities like Justin must appear in the future. |
C.Justin tells others never to depend on social media. |
D.Justin has set an example to many young, aspiring artists. |
It is believed that James McCormick got about $77.8 million from the sales of his detectors ---which were based on a kind of golf ball finder---to countries including Iraq, Belgium and Saudi Arabia. McCormick, 57, was convicted (判罪) of cheats last month and sentenced Thursday at the Old Bailey court in London.
"Your cheating conduct in selling a great amount of useless equipment simply for huge profit promoted a false sense of security and in all probability materially contributed to causing death and injury to innocent people," Judge Richard Hone told McCormick. "You have neither regret, nor shame, nor any sense of guilt."
The detectors, sold for up to $42,000 each, were said to be able to find such dangerous objects as bombs under water and from the air. But in fact they "lacked any grounding in science" and were of no use. McCormick had told the court that he sold his detectors to the police in Kenya, the prison service in Hong Kong, the army in Egypt and the border control in Thailand.
"I never had any bad results from customers," he said.
小题1: Why was McCormick sentenced to prison?
A.He sold bombs. | B.He caused death of people. |
C.He made detectors. | D.He cheated in business. |
A.increased the cost of safeguarding |
B.lowered people"s guard against danger |
C.changed people"s idea of social security |
D.caused innocent people to commit crimes |
A.They have not been sold to Africa. |
B.They have caused many serious problems. |
C.They can find dangerous objects in water. |
D.They don"t function on the basis of science. |
A.sold the equipment at a low price |
B.was well-known in most countries |
C.did not think he had committed the crime |
D.had not got such huge profit as mentioned in the text |
“We were very discouraged, ” said Chapman, a forward(前锋)for her high school team of Des Moines.
Nearly 50 years later, Chapman is back on the playground. She’s 62 and plays for “Hot Pink Grannies”, joining about 10 other women on a team whose uniforms are black trousers and hot pink socks. They play in the Iowa Granny Basketball League.
It’s one of dozens of basketball leagues for women over 50 that have arisen across the country. For some, it’s a chance to exercise and meet people; for others, it’s a once – refused chance to make up.
“You see more and more elderly women’s teams taking part in state and national competitions,” said Michael Rogers, a professor in sports studies at Wichita State University. “In the future it will be something common to have leagues like this.”
Yearly surveys by the National Sporting Goods Association show the number of women aged 55 and older who play basketball at least 50 times a year has grown from 16,000 in 1995 to nearly 131,000 ten years later.
The women on the Hot Pink Grannies are good – natured but competitive when game time comes.
“I think I’m tough” says Colleen Pulliam, 69, showing off her strong arms at her challengers in a game against “Strutters”, known for their bright yellow socks.
Granny Basketball Leagues and similar groups spread quickly through much of the country, including California, Louisiana, New Mexico, Pennsylvania and Washington, D.C.
小题1:Which is right about Chapman?
A.She thinks playing basketball isn’t ladylike. |
B.She is now 62 years old and feels discouraged. |
C.She plays basketball again about 50 years later. |
D.She is a forward in the Hot Pink Grannies. |
A.it is chance to realize their old dream |
B.it is chance to take part in sports |
C.it is chance to earn a reputation |
D.it is chance to compete for medals |
A.Des Moines. | B.Colleen Pulliam. | C.Michael Rogers. | D.Strutters. |
A.Some elderly women play basketball with the purpose of getting wealthy.
B.Granny Basketball Leagues have spread all over the USA.
C.The women on the Hot Pink Grannies are good – natured and less competitive.
D.The number of women aged 55 and older who play basketball has greatly increased.
小题5:From the passage we can infer .
A.in the 1960s, playing basketball wasn’t considered as a girls’ sport |
B.the color of the socks is of great importance to granny players |
C.more and more granny players are confident about getting higher scores |
D.Jewell Chapman’s high school headmaster has already changed his attitude |
Tiny though it is, it has got all the comforts. Peter Baynes, Chan’s architect (建筑师),has achieved a clever piece of design, according to architectural experts.
The Chan mini-house was built on what was once a path down the side of a big Victarian house. Not an inch of space is wasted.
When you step in through the front door, you"re standing in the shower, on Britain" s only self-cleansing doormat (自动清洁门垫). A door opens on to an equally tiny toilet with washbasin. Two steps further in comes the kitchen, complete with full-sized cooker and fridge, and washer/ drier. A worktop folds down from the wall.
Another step and you"re into the dining/ office area. Four people can sit here for dinner, says Chan as he sets the table-top into place. He even has a fold-down drawing-board for when he"s working at home. The bed is hidden under a cover board right at the back. "I don"t even have to make the bed," Chan says." I just put the cover down. "
Chan"s business suits hang neatly on the wall over the bed. Daylight comes in through the skylight. The house feels like a very small boat and Chan admits he toyed with the idea of naming it the "boat-house".
"It cost around £4,700 to build last year. Now it"s been valued at £30,000. It proves that good design doesn"t need to cost more. It just needs a lot of care." says Chan.
小题1:By saying "It"s not much" (line 1, para. 1), the author means that Chan"s flat______.
A.is cheap | B.has cheap furniture | C.has a simple design | D.is fairly small |
A.Next to a big house | B.Under an old building |
C.In a busy London street | D.By the side of a country road |
A.Shower, kitchen, toilet, dining table and bed |
B.Shower, toilet, dining table, kitchen and bed |
C.Shower, toilet, kitchen, dining table and bed |
D.Shower, kitchen, toilet, bed and dining table |
A.To sell Chan"s flat for more money |
B.To tell people how to take care of small flat |
C.To introduce to readers a cleverly-designed flat |
D.To call on engineers to design their own home |
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