for the purpose of educating them. Our purpose is to fit them for life.
In some modern countries it has for some time been fashionable to think that by free education for
all - one can solve all the problems of society and build a perfect nation. But we can already see that
free education for all is not enough; we find in such countries a far larger number of people with
university degree; they refuse to do what they think "low" work; and, in fact, work with hands is thought
to be dirty and shameful in such countries. But we have only to think a moment to understand that the
work of a completely uneducated farmer is far more important than that of a professor; we can live
without education, but we die if we have no food. If no one cleaned our streets and took the rubbish
away from our houses, we should get terrible diseases in our towns…
In fact, when we say that all of us must be educated to fit us for life, it means that we must be
educated in such a way that, firstly, each of us can do whatever work suited to his brains and ability
and, secondly, that we can realize that all jobs are necessary to society, and that is very bad to be
ashamed of one"s work. Only such a type of education can be considered valuable to society.
1. The writer of the passage thinks that _______.
A. education can settle most of the world"s problems
B. free education for all probably leads to a perfect world
C. free education won"t help to solve problems
D. all the social problems can"t be solved by education
2. The writer wants to prove that _______.
A. our society needs all kinds of jobs
B. our society needs free education for all
C. a farmer is more important than a professor
D. work with hands is the most important
3. The purpose of education is _______.
A. to choose officials for the country
B. to prepare children mainly for their future work
C. to let everyone receive education fit for him
D. to build a perfect world
4. The passage tells us about _______ of the education.
A. the means
B. the system
C. the value
D. the type
students feel less tired. And most primary schools will begin the first classes at about9o"clock in the
morning.
The students are happy about the change.
Liu Ming told us that his class were excited by the news on the first day of the school. "Great! From
now on we students at Hope Primary School don"t have to get up so early!" Liu said that he used to get
up at 6:40 am. Now he can get up at 7:50 am because class doesn"t start until 8:50 am.
Wu Hong feels the same. She said the new timetable(时间表) was good for her health. "I used to get
up at 6:30 am. I had to drink coffee every night, or I would feel too sleepy to finish my homework," said Wu. "Now I can finish it without coffee. Because I can sleep a little longer."
Many teachers say the change will help students learn better. "Students used to doze(瞌睡) for the
first two classes in the morning," said Huang Shan, an English teacher at No. 1 Primary School. "But now
they are active and learn much better than before."
But some parents are worried that more sleep will mean less learning. There used to be five classes in
the morning. Now there are only four.
In fact, every coin has two sides. So does the change in the school timetable.
1 This year, most Chongqing primary schools started the first class at about ________.
A. 8:30 am
B. 6:40 am
C. 7:50 am
D. 9:00 am
2. Hearing the news, the students at Hope Primary School felt _______.
A. worried
B. sad
C. excited
D. angry
3. How many classes are there in the morning in Chongqing primary schools now?
A. Five.
B. Four.
C. Three.
D. Two.
4. Which is RIGHT according to the text?
A. The students in No. 1 Primary School used to doze for the first two classes in the morning.
B. All the parents say the change will help students learn better.
C. The students will have to get up one hour earlier than before.
D. Many teachers are worried that more sleep will mean less learning.
Let children learn to judge their own work. A child learning to talk does not learn by being
corrected all the time; if corrected too much, he will stop talking. He notices a thousand times
a day the difference between the language he uses and the language those around him use. Bit
by bit, he makes the necessary changes to make his language like other people"s. In the same
way, children learn to do all the other things without being taught to walk, run, climb, whistle,
ride a bicycle…They compare their own performances with those of more skilled people, and
slowly make the needed changes. But in school we never give a child a chance to find out his
mistakes and correct them for himself. We do it all for him. We act as if we thought that he
would never notice a mistake. If it is a matter in mathematics or science, give him the answer book.
Let him correct his own papers. Why should we teachers waste time in such routine(日常的)work?
Our job should be to help the child when he tells us that he can"t find the way to get the right answer.
Let the children learn what all educated persons must some day learn, how to measure their own
understanding, how to know what he does not know.
1. According to the passage, the best way for children to learn things is by_____.
A. listening to skilled people"s advice.
B. asking older people many questions
C. making mistakes and having them corrected
D. doing what other people do
2. Which of the following does the writer think teachers should NOT do?
A. Give children correct answers
B. Allow children to mark mistakes.
C. Point out children"s mistakes to them.
D. Let children mark their own work
3. According to the writer, teachers in school should _____
A. allow children to learn from each other
B. point out children"s mistakes whenever found
C. correct children"s mistakes as soon as possible
D. give children more book knowledge
4. The passage suggests that learning to speak and learning to ride a bicycle are____
A. different from learning other skills
B. the same as learning skills
C. more important than other skills
D. not really important skills
but their time is measured by a pendulum (钟摆) and is not psychological time, which leaps with little
regard to the clock or calendar. As some-one who understood the distinction observed, "When you sit
with a nice girl for two hours it seems like a minute, but when you sit on a hot stove, a minute seems like
two hours. "
Psychologists have long noticed that larger units of time, such as months and years, fly on swifter
wings as we age. They also note that the more time is structured with schedules and appointments, the
more rapidly it seems to pass. For example, a day at the office flies compared with a day at the beach.
Since most of us spend fewer days at the beach and more at the office as we age, an increase in
structured tune could well be to blame for why time seems to speed up as we grow older.
Expectation and familiarity also make time seem to flow more rapidly. Almost all of us have had the
experience of driving somewhere we"ve never been before. Surrounded by unfamiliar scenery, with no
real idea of when we"ll arrive, we experience the trip as lasting a long time. But the return trip, although
exactly as long, seems to take far less time. The novelty of the outward journey has become routine.
Thus taking a different route on occasions can often help slow the clock.
When was become as identical as identical as beads(小珠子)on a string, they mix together, and even
months become a single day. To counter this, try to find ways to interrupt the structure of your day-to
stop time, so to speak.
Learning something new is one of the ways to slow the passage of time. One of the reasons the days
of our youth seems so full and long is that these are the days of learning and discovery. For many of us,
learning ends when we leave school, but this doesn"t have to be.
1. The underlined sentence in Paragraph 1 is used to show .
A. psychological time is quite puzzling
B. time should not be measured by a pendulum
C. physical time is different from psychological time
D. physical theory has nothing to do with the true sense of time
2. Why do units of time fly faster as we grow older?
A. Our sense of time changes.
B. We spend less time at the beach.
C. More time is structured and scheduled.
D. Time is structured with too many appointments.
3. In Paragraph 3 "novelty" probably means .
A. excitement
B. unfamiliarity
C. imagination
D. amusement
4. The purpose of the passage is to .
A. give various explanations about time
B. describe how we experience time psychologically
C. show the different ideas of physicists and psychologists on time
D. explain why time flies and how to slow it down psychologically
Let children learn to judge their own work. A child learning to talk does not learn by being corrected
all the time; if corrected too much, he will stop talking. He notices a thousand times a day the difference
between the language he uses and the language those around him use. Bit by bit, he makes the necessary
changes to make his language like other people"s. In the same way, children learn to do all the other things without being taught to walk, run, climb, whistle, ride a bicycle…They compare their own performances
with those of more skilled people, and slowly make the needed changes. But in school we never give a |
child a chance to find out his mistakes and correct them for himself. We do it all for him. We act as if we
thought that he would never notice a mistake. If it is a matter in mathematics or science, give him the
answer book. Let him correct his own papers. Why should we teachers waste time in such routine(日常的)work? Our job should be to help the child when he tells us that he can"t find the way to get the right
answer. Let the children learn what all educated persons must some day learn, how to measure their own
understanding, how to know what he does not know.
1. According to the passage, the best way for children to learn things is by_____.
A. listening to skilled people"s advice.
B. asking older people many questions
C. making mistakes and having them corrected
D. doing what other people do
2. Which of the following does the writer think teachers should NOT do?
A. Give children correct answers
B. Allow children to mark mistakes.
C. Point out children"s mistakes to them.
D. Let children mark their own work
3. According to the writer, teachers in school should _____
A. allow children to learn from each other
B. point out children"s mistakes whenever found
C. correct children"s mistakes as soon as possible
D. give children more book knowledge
4. The passage suggests that learning to speak and learning to ride a bicycle are____
A. different from learning other skills
B. the same as learning skills
C. more important than other skills
D. not really important skills
That is when two American astronomers reported on their study of all the light in the universe. They said
that the universe would appear to the human eyes to be a light greenish color.
Karl Glazebrook and Ivan Baldry of Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, reported their
finding in January. They presented the research at a meeting of the American Astronomical Society. They
said that finding the color of the universe was not part of their more serious scientific research. They did it
for fun.
However, earlier this month, the scientists admitted making a mistake. They said their finding was
much more colorful than it should have been. They now say the light from our universe is closer to white.
It is more like a milky or creamy white color.
Their study attempted to show what people might see if they could observe the universe from far
away. The scientists found the average color by combining light from about two-hundred-thousand star
systems. Their information came from an observatory in New South Wales, Australia.
The scientists gave a number value to the colors of the different star systems. Then they added the
numbers together and found the average measurement. The scientists used this average to identify the
color of the universe. They said it was a very pretty light green. Many newspapers and television stations
reported their finding.
Other scientists and color engineers attempted to reproduce the result. Mark Fairchild of the
Rochester Institute discovered a mistake in the computer software program used by the Johns Hopkins
scientists.
When the mistake was corrected, the results changed. The new color of the universe is much less
colorful. It is very close to white.
1.The color of the universe is _______.
A. close to white
B. black
C. blue
D. light greenish
2.The two scientists found the color of the universe by _____.
A. combining light from about 200,000 star systems
B. observing at an observatory in India
C. making long-term scientific research
D. using computer software programs
3.Who found the true color of the universe?
A. Karl Glazebrook.
B. Ivan Baldry.
C. Mark Fairchild
D. Johns Hopkins.
4.This passage mainly tells us _______.
A. what the color of the universe is
B. the light from our universe is a light greenish color
C. the new color of the universe is much more colorful
D. the finding of the color of the universe is difficult
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