阅读短文,根据文章内容回答问题。

  Name: Shen Xiang

  Age: 16

  Class: Senior 1

  Student's self-assessment: My exam results are good in all subjects and I am very pleased about this because I did a lot of revision.My best results were in my favorite subjects, physics and chemistry.I know I am good at them and I enjoy doing scientific experiments, for example, learning about how metals react to different substances.

  Teacher's comments: Shen Xiang is an intelligent, hardworking student with an excellent attitude to her schoolwork.She is quite shy and should be encouraged to join school clubs and afterschool activities.

  Name: Lu Wen

  Age: 17

  Class: Senior 2

  Student's progress report: I am happy because my exam results are a lot better than they were last term.I love computers and computer games and my best grades were in Information Technology.I would love to be a computer programmer but I don't know if I'm clever enough.But I would like to do work with computers.The other thing I'm really interested in is languages.I enjoy learning English and find translation quite easy.

  Teacher's report: Lu Wen is a lively and popular student who has made much progress this term.However, he needs to be more serious and organised if he wants to become a computer programmer.He should concentrate on getting good results in mathematics.Lu Wen's English has improved a lot.Perhaps he should consider becoming an English teacher.

1.Who did a lot of work for the exams?

2.Is Shen Xiang good at making friends? Why(not)?

3.Which subject is Lu Wen poor in?

4.What does the phrase “concentrate on” mean?

5.How should Lu Wen improve himself if he wants to work as a computer programmer?

Simmons quietly went out of his house. He wanted to “talk” to an owl settling for the night at the end of his garden. He made owl cries like a real wild owl (猫头鹰)and was happy to hear the bird “hooting (大声叫嚣)” back to him.

Last year Fred Cornes moved in next door. He heard an owl hooting and answered back. For 12 months the neighbors got into the back gardens of their homes, thinking they were talking with nature. Mr. Simmons kept a diary of all his talks with his bird friend. They would both be out again tonight if it wasn’t for a chance talk between their wives.

Mr. Simmons said. “My wife Kim was telling Fred’s wife Wendy about my owl watching and described how I got the birds to boot back. She said, ‘That’s funny — that’s just what Fred has been doing.’ Then the penny dropped, I felt such a fool when I found out. The trouble is that owl calls aren’t exactly the same and it’s easy to make a mistake.”

Mr. Cornes said, “I’m really flattered (过奖). I didn’t know I sounded so real. I love nature and I couldn’t resist hooting at the owls. I was very excited when they hooted back. I’m sorry that I was fooling my neighbor who was fooling me.”

After the talk between the wives, the two men would probably _________ .

A.stop observing owls            B.not stay up hooting again

C.not enter the back garden again   D.make no mistakes about wild owl cries

“Then the penny dropped.” most probably means “Then __________.”

A.I understood                     B.everybody knew about it

      C.I heard the noise                  D.no money was paid

Mr. Simmons felt upset about the whole thing because __________.

A.all his efforts seemed to be meaningless

B.his wife let out his secret by chance

C.garden owls hooted so differently

D.Fred had been doing the same

Doreen Sykora is now a junior at McGill University. She had a difficult time when she first began college. She said, “I was always well prepared for my examinations. But when I go into class to take the exam, I would fall apart. I could just blank out because of nervousness and fear.” Hitoshi Sakamoto, an anthropology(人类学) student at Temple University in Tokyo reports similar experiences.

These two young students were experiencing something called test anxiety. Because a student worries and is stressed(加压力于) about a test, his or her mind does not work as well as it usually does. The student cannot write or think clearly because of the severe tension and nervousness.

Now there are special university courses to help students. In these courses, advisors and psychologists try to help students by teaching them to manage test anxiety. Such a course helps students learn to live with stress and not fail because of it. First students take a practice test to measure their worry level. If the tests show that their stress level is high, the students can take a short course to manage the fear. These courses teach students how to relax their bodies. They get training to become calm in very tense situations. By controlling their nervousness, they can let their minds work more easily. Learned information then comes out without difficulty on a test.

Doreen Sykora saw immediate results after taking such a course. She now has enthusiasm about the relaxation methods. “Mostly, what I do is imagine myself in a very calm place. Then I imagine myself picking up a pencil. I move slowly and carefully. I breathe easily and let all the tension out. With each breath, more worry leaves me. It really works too. My grades have improved greatly! I’m really doing well at McGill now. This relaxation method works not only on examinations, but it has improved the rest of my life as well.”

For Hitoshi in Tokyo, the results were much the same. He is enjoying school a lot more and learning more.

1. What is the similarity between Doreen Sykora and Hitoshi Sakamoto?

A. They are students from the same university.

B. They failed in all the examinations.

C. They both had experiences of test anxiety.

D. They both had the same poor studying habits.

2. The phrase “blank out” in Paragraph 1 refers to “_______.”

A. lose interest in the exam           B. refuse to take the exam

C. get an extra paper                  D. be unable to think clearly

3. What’s the purpose of some special university student-help courses?

  A. To help students to reduce test anxiety.   

  B. To show a stress level experienced by students.

  C. To learn more knowledge about test anxiety.

  D. To have a better understanding of test anxiety.

违法和不良信息举报电话:027-86699610 举报邮箱:58377363@163.com

精英家教网