题目内容
This is a doubtful age, but although our faith in many of the things has weakened, our confidence in the curative (治疗，药物) properties of the bottle medicine remains the same. This modern faith in medicine is proved by the fact that the annual drug bill of the Health Services is increasing to huge figures and shows no signs at present of stopping to rise. The majority of the patients attending the medical out-patients(门诊病人) departments of our hospitals feel that they have not received enough treatment unless they are able to carry home with them some tangible(有形的) curative in the shape of a bottle of medicine, a box of pills, or a small jar of ointment(软膏), and the doctor in charge of the department is only too ready to provide them with these requirements. There is no quicker method of treating of patients than by giving them what they are asking for, and since most doctors in the Health Services are overworked and have little time for offering time-consuming and little-appreciated advice on such subjects as diet, right living, and the need for abandoning bad habits etc.
Nor is it only the ignorant and ill-educated person who has such faith in the bottle of medicine. It is said that Thomas Carlyle (a famous Scottish writer), when he heard of the illness of his friend, went off immediately to visit him carrying with him in his pocket what remained of a bottle of medicine formerly used for a slight illness of Mrs. Carlyle’s. Carlyle was entirely ignorant of what the bottle in his pocket contained or the nature of the illness from which his friend was suffering, but a medicine that had worked so well in one form of illness would surely be of equal benefit in another, and comforted by the thought of the help he was bringing to his friend, he rushed to Henry Taylor’s house. History does not relate whether his friend accepted his medical help, but probably he did.
45. According to the author, patients feel that they have been properly treated only if they _____.
A. can take home some medicine doctors give them
B. have confidence in the curative properties of a bottle of medicine
C. are given careful check-ups by doctor
D. are offered advice on diet and living by the doctor
46. It can be learned from the passage that most doctors ________.
A. feel morally bound(有义务的) to give patients advice about diet and right living
B. are reluctant to provide patients with their requirements
C. are confident in the curative properties of the bottle of medicine
D. tend to satisfy patients’ demand for tangible medicine
47. The story about Thomas Carlyle is used to illustrate that _________.
A. a medicine that will cure one illness is not necessarily good for another
B. Thomas Carlyle was ignorant
C. Even educated people can be misled into believing that one can’t be cured by medicine
D. Educated people may also have confidence in the bottle of medicine
48. The passage mainly tells us that _________.
A. we are in a skeptical age
B. people’s faith in the bottle of medicine has not weakened in the modern age
C. there are some problems in modern medical service
D. patients have a tendency to put their own will on doctors
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Let children learn to judge their own. A child who learns 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. Little by little, 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, ride a bicycle—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 if we thought that he would never notice a mistake unless it was pointed out to him, or correct it unless he was made to. Let him work out, with the help of other children if he wants it, what this word says, what the answer is to that problem, whether this is a good way of saying or doing this or not. If it is a matter of right answers, as it may be in mathematics or science, give him the answer book. Let him correct his own papers. Why should we teachers waste time in doing such work? Our job should be to help the child when he tells us that he can’t find the way to get their own understanding, how to know what they know or do not know.
1.According to the passage, the best way for children to learn things is ___
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A．to listen to skilled people’s advice |
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B．to ask older people many questions |
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C．to make mistakes and have them corrected |
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D．to do what other people do |
2.According to the writer, teachers in school should ___
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A．allow children to learn from each other |
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B．point out children’s mistakes whenever they are found |
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C．correct children’s mistakes as possible as they can |
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D．give children more book knowledge |
3.Which of the following does the writer think teachers should not do?
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A．Give children correct answers |
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B．allow children to make mistakes |
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C．Point out children’s mistakes |
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D．Let children judge their own work |
4.The passage suggests that learning to speak and learning to ride a bicycle are ___.
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A．different from learning other skills |
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B．the same as learning other skills |
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C．more important than other skills |
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D．not really important skills |
It was Monday. Mrs. Smith's dog was hungry , but there was not any meat in the house.
Considering that there was no better way. Mrs. Smith took a piece of paper, and wrote the following words on it：“Give my dog half a pound of meat.”Then she gave the paper to her dog and said gently：“Take this to the butcher（* person whose job is selling meat）and he's going to give you your lunch today.”
Holding the piece of paper in its mouth, the dog ran to the butcher's. It gave the paper to the butcher. The butcher read it carefully, recognized that it was really the lady's handwriting and soon did it as he was asked to. The dog was very happy, and ate the meat up at once.
At noon, the dog came to the shop again. It gave the butcher a piece of paper again. After reading it, he gave it half a pound of meat once more.
The next day, the dog came again exactly at noon. And as usual, it brought a piece of paper in the mouth. This time, the butcher did not take a look at paper, and gave the dog its meat, for he had regarded the dog as one of his customers.
But, the dog came again at four o'clock. And the same thing happened once again. To the butcher's more surprise, it came for the third time at six o'clock, and brought with it a third piece of paper. The butcher felt a bit puzzled . He said to himeself,“This is a small dog. Why does Mrs. Smith give it so much meat to eat today？”
Looking at the piece of paper, he found that there were not any words on it！
1.Mrs. Smith treated her little dog quite .
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A．cruelly |
B．fairly |
C．kindly |
D．friendly |
2.It seemed that the dog knew well that the paper Mrs. Smith gave it .
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A．might do it much harm |
B．could do it much good |
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C．would help the butcher |
D．was worth many pounds |
3.The butcher did not give any meat to the dog .
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A．before he felt sure that the words were really written by Mrs. Smith |
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B．when he found that the words on the paper were not clear |
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C．because he had sold out all the meat in his shop |
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D．until he was paid enough by Mrs. Smith |
4.From its experience, the dog found that .
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A．only the paper with Mrs. Smith's words in it could bring it meat |
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B．the butcher would give the meat to it whenever he saw it |
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C．Mrs. Smith would pay for the meat it got from the butcher |
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D．a piece of paper could bring it half a pound of meat |
5.At the end of the story, you'll find that .
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A．the dog was clever enough to write on the paper |
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B．the dog dared not go to the butcher's any more |
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C．the butcher was told not to give any meat to the dog |
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D．the butcher found himself cheated by the clever animal |