题目内容
All students have to take history and it seems to be the hardest part of all subjects. But when I first took it, I didn’t find it too difficult. All we had to do was to read textbooks, write summaries (总结)and take part in class discussions. So by the time the teacher set the first homework, I thought I could get an “A” without doing much work.As a result, my first homework was a real disaster (灾难). My face turned red as I read the teacher’s comments (评语). She wrote, “Teresa, it seems to me that you need to learn how to structure (构思)your writing. ”
I knew she was right. I had been writing stories for too long and didn’t have well-structured writing. When I wrote a story, I could start a new paragraph (段)every line. But this was not how history writing worked.
I rewrote the homework four or five times, and asked my classmates for help before I finally handed it in. With continued rewriting, my homework changed a lot. My second paper received a high grade.
These are my happiness and sadness. Each one makes me try harder next time.
1. At first the writer thought it was ________ to learn history.
A. difficult B. easy
C. boring D. interesting
2. The writer’s face turned red _______.
A. after he talked to the teacher
B. when he had his homework back
C. after he got an “A” for his work
D. when he did his history homework
3. What was the writer’s problem?
A. He spent too much time writing stories
B. He wrote stories in his history homework.
C. He did his homework the way he wrote stories.
D. He made his homework too long to be read.
4. What do the last two sentences tell us?
A. The writer will try to learn better and better.
B. History learning needs hard working.
C. When we are sad, we want to work harder.
D. The happier we are; the better we will work.
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2. 答案在文章第二段; 3. 答案在第三段,选项C与第三段意思相符; 4. 这是推断题。
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When students and parents are asked to grade subjects according to their importance, the arts are usually at the bottom of the list. Music is nice, people seem to say, but not important. Too often it is only viewed as entertainment, but certainly not an education priority(优先). This view is shortsighted. In fact, music education is very important for all students.
Music tells us who we are. Because music is an expression of the beings who create it, it shows their thinking and values, as well as the social environment it came from. Rock music represents a lifestyle just as surely as does a Schubert song. The jazz influence that George Gershwin and other musicians introduced into their music is obviously American because it came from American musical traditions. Music expresses our character and values. It gives us identity(身份,特性)as a society.
Music provides a kind of perception(感知)that cannot be acquired any other way. Science can explain how the sun rises and sets. The arts can express the emotive(情感的)meaning of the same thing. We need every possible way to discover and respond to our world for one simple but powerful reason: No one way can get it all.
The arts are forms of thought as powerful in what they communicate as mathematical and scientific symbols. They are ways we human beings “talk” to each other. They are the language through which we express our fears, our hungers, our discoveries, our hopes. The arts are ways we give form to our ideas and imagination so that they can be shared with others. When we do not give children an important way of expressing themselves such as music, we take away from them the meanings that music expresses.
Science and technology do not tell us what it means to be human. The arts do. Music is an important way we express human suffering, celebration, the value of peace and love.
So music education is far more necessary than people seem to realize.
1.What can we learn from Paragraph 1?
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A.Students regard music as a way of entertainment. |
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B.Students disagree with their parents on education. |
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C.Students take music as an important subject. |
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D.Students prefer the arts to science. |
2.In Paragraph 2, the writer uses jazz as an example to____________.
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A.compare it with rock music |
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B.show music identifies a society |
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C.introduce American musical traditions |
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D.prove music influences people’s lifestyles |
3.According to the passage, the arts and science____________. .
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A.explain the world in different ways |
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B.explain different facts of the world |
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C.express people’s feelings in different ways |
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D.explain what it means to be human differently |
4.What is the main idea of the passage?
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A.Music education is worth more attention. |
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B.Music should be of top education priority. |
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C.Music is really a good communication tool. |
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D.Music education makes students more imaginative. |
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Dear Wang Hong,
I am an American school girl. My name is Alice Green. I am twelve. There are five people in my family-my brothers, my parents and I. My brothers and I are all students at the same school. We go to school from Monday to Friday. We don't have any classes on Sundays or Saturdays. My father and mother are teachers. They say, China is great, and Chinese people are friendly, I want to travel in China. I think it is very interesting, isn't it? I like reading. Now I am reading a book of Chinese stories. They are very interesting. My brothers and I like playing soccer and basketball. What do you like?
Let's be friends. Please write soon.
Yours,
Alice Green
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