题目内容
—Susan didn’t get an invitation to Joe’s wedding ceremony.
— ______ She doesn’t care.
A.What for? | B.How is it? | C.So what? | D.How so? |
C
解析试题分析:交际用语辨析。A为了…?B怎么会?C那又怎么样?D怎么会这样?句意:——Susan没有被邀请参加Joe的婚礼。—那又怎么样?她也不在乎的。
考点:考查交际用语
点评:对于交际用语,要放在具体的语境中串联上下文。
Going to school means learning new skills and facts in different subjects. Teachers teach and students learn, and many scientists are interested in finding ways to improve both teaching and learning processes.
Sian Beilock and Susan Leving, two psychologists at the University of Chicago, are trying to learn about learning. In a new study about the way kids learn math in elementary school, Beilock and Levine found a surprising relationship between what female teachers think and what female students learn: If a female teacher is uncomfortable with her own math skills, then her female students are more likely to believe that boys are better than girls at math. “If these girls keep getting math-anxious female teachers in later grades, it may create a snowball effect on their math achievement,” Levine told Science News. The study suggests that if these girls grow up believing that boys are better at math than girls are, then these girls may not do as well as they would have if they were more confident.
Just as students find certain subjects to be difficult, teachers can find certain subjects to be difficult to learn—and teach. The subject of math can be particularly difficult for everyone.
The new study involved 65 girls, 52 boys and 17 first-and second-grade teachers in elementary schools in the Midwest. The students took math achievement tests at the beginning and end of the school year, and the researchers compared the scores.
The researchers also gave the students tests to tell whether the students believed a math superstar had to be a boy. Then the researchers turned to the teachers: To find out which teachers were anxious about math, the researchers asked the teachers how they felt at times when they came across math, such as when reading a sales receipt. A teacher who got nervous looking at the numbers on a sales receipt, for example, was probably anxious about math.
Boys, on average, were unaffected by a teacher’s anxiety. On average, girls with math-anxious teachers scored lower on the end-of-the-year math tests than other girls in the study did. Plus, on the test showing whether someone thought a math superstar had to be a boy, 20 girls showed feeling that boys would be better at math—and all of these girls had been taught by female teachers with math anxiety.
According to surveys done before this one, college students who want to become elementary school teachers have the highest levels of anxiety about math. Plus, nine of every 10 elementary teachers are women, Levine said.
【小题1】Sian Beilock and Susan Levine carried out the new research in order to ___________.
A.know the effects of teaching on learning |
B.study students’ ways of learning math |
C.prove women teachers are unfit to teach math |
D.find better teaching methods for teachers |
A.end up learning math anxiety from their teachers |
B.study the ways their female teachers behave |
C.have an influence on their math-anxious female teachers |
D.gain unexpected achievement in such subjects as math |
A.Prepare two math achievement tests for the students |
B.Tell their feelings about math problems |
C.Answer whether a math superstar had to be a boy |
D.Compare the students’ scores after the math tests |
A.No male students were affected by their teachers’ anxiety |
B.Almost all the girls got lower scores in the tests than the boys |
C.About 30% of the girls thought boys are better at math than girls |
D.Girls with math-anxious teachers all failed in the math tests |
A.117 students and teachers took part in the new study |
B.The researchers felt surprised at the findings of their study |
C.Beilock and Levine are interested in teaching math |
D.Men teachers are better at teaching math than women teachers |
Mandara seemed to know something big was about to happen. So she let out a yell, caught hold of her 2-year-old daughter Kibibi and climbed up into a tree. She lives at the National Zoo in Washington, D.C.
And on Tuesday, August 23rd, witnesses say she seemed to sense the big earthquake that shook much of the East Coast before any humans knew what was going on. And she’s not the only one. In the moments before the quake, an orangutan (猩猩) let out a loud call and then climbed to the top of her shelter.
“It’s very different from their normal call,” said Brandie Smith, the zookeeper. “The lemurs (monkey-like animals of Madagascar) will sound an alarm call if they see or hear something highly unusual.”
But you can’t see or hear an earthquake 15 minutes before it happens, can you? Maybe you can — if you’re an animal. “Animals can hear above and below our range of hearing,” said Brandie Smith. “That’s part of their special abilities. They’re more sensitive to the environment, which is how they survive.”
Primates weren’t the only animals that seemed to sense the quake before it happened. One of the elephants made a warning sound. And a huge lizard (蜥蜴) ran quickly for cover. The flamingoes (a kind of bird) gathered before the quake and stayed together until the shaking stopped.
So what kind of vibrations were the animals picking up in the moments before the quake? Scientist Susan Hough says earthquakes produce two types of waves — a weak “P” wave and then a much stronger “S” wave. The “P” stands for “primary”. And the “S” stands for “secondary”. She said she thinks the “P” wave might be what set the animals off.
Not all the animals behaved unusually before the quake. For example, Smith says the zoo’s giant pandas didn’t jump up until the shaking actually began. But many of the other animals seemed to know something was coming before it happened. “I’m not surprised at all,” Smith said.
【小题1】Why did Mandara act strangely one day?
A.Because it sensed something unusual would happen. |
B.Because its daughter Kibibi was injured. |
C.Because it heard an orangutan let out a loud call. |
D.Because an earthquake had happened. |
A.many animals’ hearing is sharp |
B.earthquakes produce two types of waves |
C.primates usually gather together before a quake |
D.humans can also develop the ability to sense a quake |
A.vibration | B.shelter | C.quake | D.range |
A.A giant panda. | B.A flamingo. | C.A lemur. | D.A lizard. |
A.How animals survive a quake. | B.How animals differ from humans. |
C.How animals behave before a quake. | D.How animals protect their young in a quake. |
To get an extra 14 years of life, don’t smoke, eat lots of fruits and vegetables, exercise regularly and drink alcohol in a proper amount. That is according to a study published this Monday in the Public Library of Science Medicine Journal.
After tracking more than 20,000 people aged 45-79 years in the United Kingdom from about 1993-2007, Kay-Tee, Khaw of the University of Cambridge and his colleagues found that people who adopted these four healthy habits lived an average of 14 years longer than those who didn’t.
“We’ve known for a long time that these behaviors are good things to do, but we’ve not seen this benefit before, ” said Susan Jebb, head of Nutrition and Health at Britain’s Medical Research Council. “The benefit was also seen regardless of whether or not people were fat and what social class they came from.”
Study participants(参与者)scored a point each for not smoking, regular physical activity, eating five servings of fruits and vegetables a day and moderate alcohol intake.
Public health experts said they hoped the study would inspire governments to introduce policies helping people to adopt these changes.But because the study only observed people rather than testing specific changes, it would be impossible to conclude that people who suddenly adopted these healthy behaviors would surely gain 14 years.
“We can't say that any person could gain 14 years by doing these things, ”said Dr.Tim Armstrong, a physical activity expert at the World Health Organization.“The 14 years is an average across the population of what's theoretically(理论上地)possible.”
“Most people know that things like a good diet matter and that smoking isn't good for them, ”Susan Jebb said.“We need to work on providing people with much more practical support to help them change.”
【小题1】Which of the following DOESN'T belong to the four healthy habits?
A.Eat five servings of fruits and vegetables a day. |
B.Do proper exercise in the morning every day. |
C.Drinking alcohol in the proper amount every day. |
D.Having a cigarette before going to bed every day. |
A.Susan Jebb did not take part in the study. |
B.the study observed people as well as tested specific changes. |
C.there's no need for people under 45 to adopt these good habits. |
D.only those from first class can benefit from these healthy behaviors. |
A.All the people are well aware of the harm of their bad habits. |
B.People aged 45 to 70 have bad habits in the United Kingdom. |
C.Governments should take measures to help people change their bad habits. |
D.People have adopted the four healthy habits after knowing they're good. |
A.Smoking and Drinking Cuts You 14 Years |
B.How to Live a Much Healthier Life |
C.Healthy Habits May Give Extra 14 Years |
D.How to Make Your Life Longer Than Others |