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Then, last year, the school experimented with extending the school day. Teachers got paid at a higher hourly rate.
Students weren"t thrilled at first with leaving school at 4:15 p.m. instead of at 2:20 p.m. But the added hours gave them more time for physical education and let them select special interest classes. By the end of the year, student scores had risen by enough to enable Kuss to make the progress required under the federal No Child Left Behind law.
The only surprise is that more districts haven"t lengthened school schedules set decades ago to accommodate (适应) a farm economy rather the information economy of today.
School days The USA ranks 36th of 40 industrialized nations in average weekly instructional time. Selected countries: 1) Thailand--30.5 hours 2) Korea--30.3 hours 7) China--26.5 hours 14) France--24.6 hours 15 ) UK--24.6 hours 16) Mexico--24.2 hours 23 ) Japan--23.8 hours 26)Canada--23.6 hours 36)USA--22.2 hours 40)Brazil--19 hours |
Matched against 39 other developed countries, the United States is near the bottom in the rankings of average weekly instructional time in school. Measured over 12 years, students in the top-scoring countries spend the equivalent of a full extra year in school.
US students perform poorly on math and science tests compared to their international peers, according to a US Education Department comparison released earlier this month. In math, American 15-year-old scored near the bottom among the study"s 30 developed countries.
Most countries that boost the number of minutes spent on math instruction find pay offs in improved math scores, according to a study released this month by the Brookings Institution. Small in creases in the school day are more effective than a longer school year, the report concluded.
The most encouraging news about the benefits of extending the school day comes from Massachusetts, where an experiment with 10 schools, including Kuss, appears to be working. Those 10 schools lengthened their instructional days by 25% and boosted their state scores in math, English and science at all grades.
Perhaps the concept won"t work everywhere. Certainly, it won"t instantly be popular. But it"s obvious that a problem exists or that adding class time seems to help.
小题1:What is the main idea of the above passage?
A.Experiments with extended school hours produce academic gains. |
B.Kuss Middle School sets a good example for US education. |
C.Academic progress has achieved under the No Child Left Behind law. |
D.Information age calls for more instructional lime at all schools. |
A.students from many developed countries spend more time at school |
B.American students do a bad job at science subjects |
C.teachers are paid at a higher rate with time added |
D.a longer school day works better than a longer school year |
A.Kuss Middle School lies in where a farm economy is changing to an information one. |
B.Kuss Middle school has joined the federal "No Child Left Behind" progrann |
C.Neither teachers nor students are happy with the longer school day. |
D.Adding class time functions at Kuss Middle School. |
A.a positive attitude towards adding school time |
B.a negative attitude towards adding school time |
C.a changing attitude towards adding school time |
D.a right attitude towards adding school time |
答案
小题1:A
小题2:C
小题3:D
小题4:A
解析
小题1:细节题。根据第三段student scores had risen by enough to enable Kuss to make the progress required under the federal No Child Left Behind law.可知延长了学习的时间让学生的成绩有了很大的提高。
小题2:细节题。根据文章中的表格可知美国的学生花费的时间比较少,故A正确。文章倒数第四段可知美国学生成绩较差,故B正确。根据文章倒数第二段可知D正确。C项中老师待遇的提高并非是真正的原因。
小题3:细节题。根据文章第三段student scores had risen by enough to enable Kuss to make the progress required under the federal No Child Left Behind law.
可知增加学习时间起作用了。
小题4:推理题。通读全文可知作者对于增加学习时间持支持的态度。
核心考点
试题【Kuss Middle School serves students in Fall River, Mass. , a former mill town tha】;主要考察你对题材分类等知识点的理解。[详细]
举一反三
1)Lazy parents?
37%of parents pay teenagers to clean the living room,66%of parents pay teenagers to take the rubbish out.
2)Lazy teens?
51%of teenagers don’t make their beds before they leave home.
Only 1 3%of teenagers wash the car for money.
Some parents even pay their teenagers to do their homework.
3)Equality?Not Yet!
Boys get more money than girls for most odd jobs.
For washing the dishes,boys get about£4 and girls get about£1.
4)And if you need some more money?
Teens get an extra£250 a year out of their parents on top of pocket money!
About 50%of teens get gifts or money from their grandparents.
Go to Mum if you need extra money! She gives more than Dad.
5)Where you live makes a difference!
Parents in Scotland and the North of England give more pocket money.
6)Spending
51%of teenagers spend their money on clothes.
39%of teenagers buy cosmetics(装饰品),jewellery and toiletries(洗漱用品).
Less than 30%of teenagers save any money.
7)Earnings
Here are some children who tell us about their pocket money:
Emma:I get£30 a month.I have to take the rubbish out and tidy my room.
James:I get£10 a week.But I have to clean the car,hoover(用真空洗尘器清洗)the house and load and unload the dishwasher.I usually save the money.
Lain:I get£7.50 a week.I have to be“good”but I don’t have to do any jobs for the money.
Richard;I get£5 a week.But our neighbors go away a lot and they give me£25 a week for looking after their cats.
小题1:This passage is mainly about .
A.teenagers everywhere get pocket money |
B.how to spend pocket money |
C.some bits about pocket money in Britain |
D.how to get pocket money |
A.Parents are lazy so they let children do housework. |
B.Teens are too lazy to do housework unless they are given pocket money. |
C.The pocket money boys and girls get is not equal. |
D.It is not right for children to ask for pocket money. |
A.boys earn more money at home than girls |
B.girls earn more money at home than boys |
C.only rich parents give children pocket money |
D.most children spend their pocket money |
A.Emma | B.J ames | C.Lain | D.Richard |
Billy Elliot is a movie that protests against this traditional view of men. Billy Elliot is an eleven-year-old boy that has a natural talent for ballet dancing, but his father will not allow it. Billy’s father wants him to take up boxing and become stronger, but Billy goes against his father’s wishes and takes up ballet dancing. This difference of opinion makes Billy sad. What’s more, his friends also laugh at him.
After saving enough money, his father sends Billy to a weekly boxing course; however, Billy doesn’t enjoy boxing because he always loses in matches and is often hurt. His ballet teacher, Mrs. Wilkinson thinks that men or women should not be judged by the activities they like to do, so she tells Billy’s father that although he wants his son to make a good living, he should let his son do what he loves to do because he has a talent for it. When his father finally realizes the truth, Billy is surprised. In the end, with the help of his father, brother and all the people around him, Billy goes to the Royal Ballet Academy in London and becomes a very successful ballet dancer.
小题1:The underlined word “feminine” in the first paragraph most probably means ______
A.of men | B.of children | C.of women | D.of students |
A.He always loses in boxing matches. | B.He isn’t strong. |
C.He looks like a girl. | D.He loves ballet. |
A.His teacher encourages him to take up ballet dancing. |
B.He does well in ballet dancing and boxing. |
C.He does what his father wants him to do. |
D.He has never taken up any men’s sports. |
A.children should accept their parents’ opinions |
B.we should try to fight against traditional opinions |
C.men and women play different sports |
D.parents should let their children do what they are interested in |
Much family quarrelling ends when husbands and wives realize what this energy cycle means and which cycle each member of the family has.
You cannot change your cycle, but you can learn to make your life fit it better. “Habits can help,” Dr. Cleiman believes. If your energy cycle is low in the morning but you have an important job early in the day, rise before your usual hour, and then you will work better at your low point.
Get off to a slow start which saves your energy. Get up with a lazy yawn(哈欠) and stretch(伸展). Sit on the edge of bed before putting your feet on the floor. Avoid the troublesome searching for clean clothes by laying them out the night before.
小题1:Dr. Cleiman did not explain in the passage ___________.
A.how people can make their life fit their cycle |
B.whether everyone has a daily cycle or not |
C.why people have their energy cycle at different times |
D.what will happen in the family if the couple fail to realize which cycle each member has |
A.Either of them gets up late in the morning. |
B.Husbands and wives have different cycles of energy. |
C.Either of them wants to change the cycle of the other’s. |
D.They do not know which cycle they themselves have. |
A.one works better at one’s peak energy point |
B.if you know your cycle you can change it to fit your life. |
C.whenever you feel hot, your energy cycle reaches the highest |
D.your energy cycle must be in the morning if you can get up early |
A.Getting up late. |
B.Jumping out of bed as quickly as possible. |
C.Looking for clean clothes. |
D.Sitting for a while before getting out of bed. |
Not long ago, experiments showed that birds rely on the sun to guide them during daylight hours. But what about birds that fly mainly by night? Tests with artificial stars have proved conclusively that certain night-flying birds are able to follow the stars in their long-distance flights.
One such bird, a warbler(鸣禽) , had spent its lifetime in a cage and had never flown under a natural sky. Yet it showed an inborn ability to use the stars for guidance. The bird’s cage was placed under an artificial star-filled sky at migration time. The bird tried to fly in the same direction as that taken by his outdoor cousins. Any change in the direction of the make-be-live stars caused a change in the direction of his flight. Scientists think that warblers, when flying in daylight, use the sun for guidance. But the stars are apparently their main means of navigation (导航). What do they do when the stars are hidden by clouds? Apparently, they find their way by such landmarks as mountain ranges, coast lines, and river courses. But when it’s too dark to see these, the warblers circle helplessly, unable to get their direction.
小题1:The reasons why birds don’t get lost on migratory flights__________.
A.have been known to scientists for many years |
B.are known by everyone |
C.have only recently been discovered |
D.will probably remain a mystery |
A.from North America to South America |
B.using what is apparently an inborn navigational ability |
C.only once during their lifetime |
D.when they are freed from their cages |
A.an artificial star | B.some landmarks |
C.their inborn ability | D.A and B |
A.discover workable answers to universal questions by studying particular cases(特别案例) |
B.jump to conclusions |
C.find a law and then investigate(调查) |
D.are disappointed by the habits of animals |
For the last few years, the genetic advances in the fast developing field of biotechnology have provided material for all kinds of work, but the developments of modern science in unlocking the secrets of human genetic code have opened a world of possibilities for human health, as well as for the population imagination.
While European and Japanese researchers are making rapid progress in decoding human DNA, the leading organization for genetic research in the Untied States, which began in 1990, is “unlocking the code” of the human body to learn how to defeat fatal diseases. Already, the Human Genome Project has become widely known and praised for finding the genes connected with as yet terrible diseases, and making progress toward separating the genes that show a sign of breast cancer(乳腺癌)or AIDS.
Once these genes are found and studied, researchers can develop new ways to attack infections, and genetic diseases. Medical companies are very interested in mapping the human genome, as they expect to develop a lot of new drugs for these illnesses.
小题1:Why did the scientists work so hard at mapping the human genome?
A.Because the human genome can destroy many illnesses. |
B.Because the human genome’s completion can help to get rid of many diseases. |
C.Because they wanted to be better known than others. |
D.Because the Human Genome Project can provided a lot of chances of work. |
A.Japan | B.Germany |
C.The United States | D.China |
A.If the genes can be found, scientists can study many new ways to cure illnesses. |
B.The United States began genetic research early in the 19th century. |
C.Many medical companies show great interest in drawing the human genome map. |
D.The scientists have made great progress in connecting some genes with the cancers. |
A.The great human genome. | B.The discovery of genes. |
C.Unlocking the genetic code. | D.Genes and scientists. |
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