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Apple has entered the textbook market. The tech giant（科技巨头） introduced iBooks textbooks a couple of weeks ago when it announced its iBooks 2 platform. They are digital books in many subjects taking in science, maths, history and geography.
Apple developed its iPad-based textbooks in conjunction with（连接）major textbook publishers. The company offers a collection of textbooks for high school students.
Apple says it offers a “new textbook experience” and suggests its iBooks textbooks are “the next chapter in learning”. It sounds like good news for pupils and students. Think of it. No more carrying heavy backpacks full of textbooks. Every textbook you require can be stored on your iPad. No more having to buy expensive textbooks which you will only use for a year or two and then sell or give away.
Of course there’s a catch. You need to own an iPad and as you know, it is not cheap. You also need to buy digital textbooks, mostly priced each at $14.99 (94.74 yuan) or less. Textbook publishing was worth $ 8.7 billion in the US alone last year. And the rest, as they say, is history. Will Apple revolutionize learning? Will digital books take over completely in education? That remains to be seen.
小题1:What is the best title of the text?
| A．Apple Enters New Market | B．A Different Way of Learning | C．Experience Digital Texbooks | D．Say Good-bye to Tradition |
| A．they are free to get | B．they are easy to carry |
| C．they are ipad-based | D．they are favorite gifts |
| A．an advantage | B．a surprise |
| C．a problem | D．an order |
| A．iPad-based textbooks have changed our learning. |
| B．Traditional textbooks will be replaced sooner or later. |
| C．Apple has earned a lot from the textbook market. |
| D．Digital books have disadvantages and advantages. |
答案
小题1:A
小题2:B
小题3:C
小题4:D
解析
试题分析：本文陈述了苹果发布iBooks 2成为苹果向教育领域迈出的重要一步。那么苹果究竟能否掀起这场学习革命呢？让我们拭目以待。
小题1:
小题2:从第二段No more carrying heavy backpacks. Every textbook you require can be stored on your iPad.可推断出苹果电子书便于携带。
小题3:从下文You need to own an iPad and ...it is not cheap. You also need to buy digital textbooks可知虽然苹果电子书有很多优点，但也存在问题：昂贵。所以a catch
小题4:从最后一段Will digital books take over completely in education? That remains to be seen可排除ABC，在文章第二，三段分别提到苹果电子书的优缺点，所以可知D为正确答案。
点评：本文陈述了苹果已经进入教科书市场。科普性说明文的主题比较容易把握，一般在文章开头段。在答题中，应首先略读一下短文，了解一下短文的大致意思。然后带着问题通读全文，找出答题依据，完成阅读。另外词义猜测题注意到上下文去找相关信息。
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试题【Apple has entered the textbook market. The tech giant（科技巨头） introduced iBooks te】；主要考察你对题材分类等知识点的理解。[详细]
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Yuanyuan have been a constant source of inspiration for parents over the past 16 years.
Her book, A Good Mother Exceeds Good Teachers, published by Writers Publishing House, has been a bestseller on Dangdang and Amazon"s online platforms
for the past three years. The book helped Yin make the Chinese Writers" Rich List, with 4. 48 million yuan（＄710，000).
Experts say Yin"s book provides practical guidance, which makes it popular among parents.
"When the majority of books are either full of bragging about（自吹自擂）the authors" children or outlining big theories that have no foundation in practice, I write books that are practical and easy to follow," Yin writes.
"For example, there was an occasion when Yuanyuan forgot to do her elementary school homework. In such a situation many Chinese parents show their anger and scold their kids,”says Yin, who made an agreement with her husband they would not overly criticize or push their daughter. Instead, Yin encouraged the daughter to make up the homework, which meant staying up until midnight. As a result, she learned to arrange her time better and did not have a harmful reaction to doing homework. Yin"s principle of "no parental interference（干涉），and "giving children the opportunity to learn from their mistakes" is described in a number of real-life examples.
Readers say Yin"s books improve their children"s performance at school, and encourage them to develop good personalities and habits. They believe her books are not only about being good parents but also about growing as parents and individuals.
"When I"m reading books，I keep thinking about what a better personality I would have if my parents had adopted the methods Yin suggests when I was a kid，＂one reader comments in a review on Yin"s online blog.
小题1:The book“A Good Mother Exceeds Good Teachers" has been so popular because______.
| A． it covers many inspiring thoughts about bringing up children |
| B． it outlines big theories from home and abroad |
| C． it provides practical guidance for parents |
| D． it sells at a great discount |
| A． advocates learning from mistakes |
| B． makes a good living only by writing books |
| C． holds the view that saving your stick spoils your kid |
| D． believes successful education calls for joint efforts from school and family |
| A． Yin"s readers are mostly parents |
| B． The book is only available online |
| C． Yin has a great sense of business |
| D． Yuanyuan achieved success thanks to her mother |
I was shocked when the monitor shouted, " 4 !" The entire class rose as I entered the room, and I was somewhat 5 about how to get them to sit down again, but once that awkwardness was over, I quickly 6 my calmness and began what I thought was a fact-packed lecture, sure to gain their respect—perhaps 7 their admiration. I went back to my office with the rosy glow which came from a sense of achievement.
My students 8 diaries. However, as I read them, the rosy glow was gradually 9 by a strong sense of sadness. The first diary said, "Our literature teacher didn’t teach us anything today. 10 her next lecture will be better." Greatly surprised, I read diary after diary, each expressing a 11 theme. "Didn’t I teach them anything? I described the entire philosophical framework of Western thought and laid the historical 12 for all the works we’ll study in class," I complained." How _13 they say I didn’t teach them anything?"
It was a long term, and it 14 became clear that my ideas about education were not the same as_15 of my students. I thought a teacher’s job was to raise 16 questions and provide enough background so that students could 17 their own conclusions. My students thought a teacher’s job was to provide _18_ information as directly and clearly as possible. What a difference!
_19 , I also learned a lot, and my experience with my Chinese students has made me a 20 American teacher, knowing how to teach in a different culture.
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So, what"s wrong with the traditional flush toilet? Firstly, it wastes a huge amount of potential drinking water．Secondly, they are more likely to cause pollution．This is a real problem in many areas of the developing world, where, according to United Nations estimates, unsafe sanitation causes half of all hospitalizations．Younger people are particularly at risk．Illnesses which cause diarrhea are responsible for the deaths of about 1.5 million children a year．Finally, standard lavatories simply aren’t practical in remote areas．
The challenge set by Bill Gates was to come up with a latrine which works without running water, electricity or aseptic tank(化粪池)．It also needed to operate for less than 5 cents．28 designs were displayed at the recent Reinvent the Toilet Fair in Seattle, USA．Among them was one which turned human waste into electricity using microwaves, another which converted human waste into charcoal, and yet another which used urine for flushing．
But the winner was a solar-powered design which generated hydrogen gas and electricity.The team from the California Institute of Technology（CIT）picked up a prize of $ 100,000.
But clearly Bill Gates doesn’t feel he’s flushing money down the toilet．After the Seattle event he said, “We, couldn’t be happier with the response we’ve gotten,” Gates has even pledged $370m more to the future toilet project．They hope to field test more prototypes over the next three years．
小题1:Why is Bill Gates paying people to invent new toilets?
| A．Because he wants to test people’s sense of creativity． |
| B．Because he wants to improve sanitation for many people． |
| C．Because he thinks the traditional ones are out of fashion． |
| D．Because he can’t design this kind of things himself． |
| A．They waste too much water． |
| B．They might cause diseases． |
| C．They are not always practical． |
| D．They are too complicated to use. |
| A．Loo | B．sanitation | C．diarrhea | D．prototype |
| A．can change human waste into electricity |
| B．can turn human waste into charcoal |
| C．can produce power with solar energy |
| D．can use urine for flushing |
| A．showing off their wealth |
| B．being angry with their work onditions |
| C．wasting money for nothing |
| D．expressing their great determination |
There is a charge made against some fairy tales, as they probably harm children by frightening them or leaving them sad feelings. To prove it, an experiment has been done to show that children who have heard terrible fairy stories often feel more uneasy than those who have not. As for fears, there are some cases where children get timid (胆怯的) by some fairy story. Often, however, this arises from the child having heard the story once. Familiarity with the story by repetition may weaken the pain of fear.
There are also people who object to fairy stories on the grounds that the stories are not objectively true, and that those giants, witches, two-headed dragons, magic carpets etc. do not really exist, so children should be taught to learn the reality by studying history, instead of being got fond of the strange side in fairy tales. Those, who prefer to create such stories, are so peculiar (奇怪的) that it is hard to argue with them. If their creative exaggeration (夸张) were sound, the world should be full of mad men attempting to fly from New York to Philadelphia on a stick or covering a telephone with kisses in the belief that it was their beloved girl-friend.
Not once is a fairy story ever declared to be a description of the real world, but not every child is clever enough to be aware of it. Parents should choose their children’s “bed-time” reading materials with much care. Only the fairy stories containing positive effect will make a clever and caring child with rich imagination.
小题1:The author considers that a fairy story is more effective when it is ______.
| A．repeated without any change |
| B．treated as no more than a joke |
| C．made some changes by parents |
| D．set in the present situation |
| A．he will get more interested |
| B．great fear can take place in him |
| C．he will like it to be repeated |
| D．an experiment is being done |
| A．fashionable | B．forgettable | C．available | D．believable |
| A．fairy stories are all made up |
| B．fairy tales lead to misunderstanding |
| C．children are cheated by old stories |
| D．there is more concern for children |
| A．they are made up far from the truth |
| B．they are so full of imagination |
| C．they are not interesting at all |
| D．they make history difficult to teach |
| A．formal printings | B．creative scenes | C．positive effect | D．terrible characters |
But with the development of industry(工业) , smoke from factories began to reach the trees where the moth settled. It made the trees blacker. Then something very strange took place: in industrial areas, the Peppered Moth began to change colour. It became darker as well. Though the change took several years, some scientists soon notice that newly-born moths were a little darker than usual.
A scientist with the name Kettlewell decided to make a careful study of this phenomenon(现象). He marked some of the light moths and some of the darker ones, and set them free in the woods near Bermingham, an industrial city. Later, he recaptured(重新捕获) as many as the marked moths as possible. The results were as follows.
| | light moths | darker moths |
| Moths set free | 201 | 601 |
| moths recaptured | 34(16%) | 206(34%) |
Can you imagine what would happen to the Peppered Moth as the air became cleaner again?
小题1:The Peppered Moth began to change its colour in industrial areas because .
| A．it itself liked to |
| B．it could be like the colour of its living-place |
| C．it had to keep the balance of nature |
| D．it was usually dark brown |
| A．many more of the light moths were killed or eaten |
| B．more than one-fifth of the light moths was not killed |
| C．three times as many dark moths were kept safe as light ones |
| D．more dark moths were killed in industrial areas |
| A．the number of the light moths became larger |
| B．the total number of the light moths remained unchanged |
| C．there were more of the darker moths and fewer of the light ones |
| D．the darker moths changed into the light ones suddenly |
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