When I met him, I had a lot of anger inside of me.I’ve lived my whole life in Spanish Harlem, but in my neighborhood, there are shoot-ups all the time.I know kids who have been shot or beaten up.I have friends who ended up in prison.I could have ended up that way, too, but Mr.Clark wouldn’t let that happen.

       Mr.Clark worked long hours, making sure I did my work.My grades rose.In fact, the scores of our whole class rose.One day, he took our class to see The Phantom of the Opera, and it was the first time some kids had ever been out of Harlem.Before the show, he treated us to dinner at a restaurant and taught us not to talk with our mouths full.We did not want to let him down.

       Mr.Clark was selected as Disney’s 2000 Teacher of the Year.He said he would draw three names out of a hat; those students would go with him to Los Angeles to get the award.But when the time came to draw names, Mr.Clark said, “You’re all going.”

       On graduation day, there were a lot of tears.We didn’t want his class to end.In 2001, he moved to Atlanta, but he always kept in touch.He started giving lectures about education, and wrote a bestselling book based on his classroom rules, The Essential 55.In 2003,

       Mr.Clark took some of us on a trip to South Africa to deliver school supplies and visit the orphanages(孤儿院).It was the most amazing experience of my life.It’s now my dream to one day start a group of women’s clubs, helping people from all backgrounds.

26.Without Mr.Clark, the writer         

       A.might have been put into prison     B.might not have won the prize

       C.might have joined a women’s club  D.might not have moved to Atlanta

27.The Essential 55 is         

       A.a show            B.a speech

       C.a classroom rule      D.a book

28.How many students’ names were finally drawn out of a hat by Mr.Clark?

       A.None B.Three       C.Fifty-five.     D.All.

29.What can we learn in the short reading?

       A.It was in Harlem that we saw The Phantom of the Opera for the first time.

       B.Mr.Clark taught us not to talk with our mouths full, and we did.

       C.Mr.Clark was selected as Disney’s 2000 Teacher of the Year in Los Angeles.

       D.In 2003, Mr.Clark moved to Atlanta, and he always kept in touch with us.

30.In the passage, the writer intends to tell us that         

       A.Mr.Clark went to South Africa because he liked travelling

       B.Mr.Clark helped to set up a group of women’s clubs

       C.a good teacher can help raise his or her students’ scores

       D.a good teacher has a good influence on his or her students

Weighed down(压得喘不过气来) by study? Pushed to the limit by the fast pace of life? Frightened by the possible war? Well, you’re not alone. Men and women in France are seeking relief using the world’s best medicine─laughter.
In the past year, more than 25 laughter clubs have been set up across the country. People of all ages release their stress with an hour of group laughs. “People telephoned me and said they have forgotten what it is to laugh. They want to find a place where they can escape all their problems for a while. So they come,” said 40-year-old Jocelyn Le Moan. She usually takes a class of around 60 people through a series of laughter techniques.
Her pupils range from teenagers to 70 years old, but most are middle-aged white collars seeking 60 minutes of relaxation at the end of a busy day.
Le Moan takes them through the “Lion Laugh” and the “Laugh Contest”, where participants “speak” to each other in different ways. And instead of talking, they break into fits of laughter. At the end there are 15 minutes of “meditation”(沉思),when they lie on their backs and let the laughs burst out of their mouths.
“I love it. It’s an experience that has changed my life. Through it I rediscovered the child’s laugh inside me,” said Romain Jourffroy, 24.
Like Jourffroy, many laughter club members find themselves changed into children again, and why not? The average preschooler laughs up to 400 times a day. The average adult only a sad seven to fifteen.
The physical benefits of laughter are already well-recognized. Doctors say the act of laughing releases good chemicals into the blood-stream, while the quick breathing that accompanies it helps massage(按摩)the digestive organs and strengthens the heart.
“A full hour is like having your insides go jogging! One finishes out of breath, but feels revitalized (产生新活力). And on top of that, you’ve had a laugh,” said doctor Alexisd Estaing.
And many participants in Paris also emphasize the psychological benefits. They believe that laughter is a way of making oneself feel more confident.
“Maybe it is because we are surrounded by so many troubles that we feel the need to keep laughing,” said Anne Maurigiano, a 29-year-old filmmaker.
51.   From the passage, we can conclude the following but __________.
A. Jocelyn Le Moan is a teacher of the club.
B. the members are mostly middle-aged white collars.
C. people always need some way to relax in life.
D. laugh freely and everything goes well.
52. The writer suggested that you should __________.
A. have a good laugh after a busy day
B. talk to each other about what troubles you
C. learn series of laughter techniques
D. take the world’s best medicine
53.   Which of the following is NOT included among the benefits of laughing ?
A. It can make people rediscover their children’s laugh.
B. It can release good chemical into blood-stream.
C. It can make you feel self-confident.
D. It can cure the illness of people.
54. What does the phrase “on the top of that ” mean?
A. besides                                          B. on the top of tiredness
C. above all                                         D. on the top of your energy

A twenty-nine-year-old kindergarten teacher from Maryland was named National Teacher of the Year in 2006. On June first she would begin a year as a national and international spokeswoman for education.
Kimberly Oliver was the first National Teacher of the Year from her state. She taught five-year-old children at a public school in Maryland, near Washington, D.C. President Bush honored her and other top teachers at the White House.
Kimberly Oliver said she wanted people to understand that the first several years of a child’s life were the most important for learning. She said investing in children at a very young age would result in great gains later in school and in life. She called on parents to read to children from an early age so they would not fall behind in school. One of the activities at her school was an event called “ Books and Supprer Night ”. Families read together at the school and received free books to take home. Parents, children and teachers also ate dinner together.
Broad Acres Elementary School was in a poor area. Many of the parents were immigrants with limited English. Kimberly Oliver helped improve learning environment at her school. She received money to buy electronic learning systems, tape players and books in English and Spanish and sent them home with students. Parents said she had shown them how to help their children at home.
She was born and raised in Delaware. She held one degree in English and another in Elementary Education. Kimberly Oliver would follow in the footsteps of another teacher Jason Kamras from the Washington area as National Teacher of the Year. Jason Kamras, as honored for his work, teaching math to middle school students in the nation’s capital.
The National Teacher of the Year program began in 1952. A fourteen-member committee choose from among teachers honored as the best in their states.
【小题1】From the text we know that in the state of Maryland, __________.

A.no other teacher than Kimberly Oliver had been given the honor
B.Kimberly Oliver had been teaching in a middle school for many years
C.Kimberly opened her own school early in Washington in 1952
D.many other teachers were given the honor together with Oliver
【小题2】Oliver hoped that parents should __________.
A.spend more time playing with their children
B.read to their children at an early age
C.not give too much money to their children
D.stay at school with their children more often
【小题3】Kimberly Oliver had been named National Teacher of the Year mostly because ___________.
A.she taught five-year old children at a public school
B.the elementary school she taught in is in a poor area
C.she was helpful ahd had many special and good ideas in teaching children
D.she called on parents to read to children from an early age
【小题4】The National Teacher just before Oliver comes from __________.
A.DelawareB.MarylandC.New YorkD.Washington

It was the last day of July and the long hot summer was drawing to a close As for me1 was out of spiritsandif the truth must be told, out of money as wellDuring the past year I had not managed my finances as carefully as usualand 1 was now limited to spending the autumn economically between my mother’s cottage at Hampstead and my own in town.

? My father had been dead for some yearsand my sister and 1 were the sole survivors of a family of five children. My father was a drawing-master before me He had been highly successful in his profession and my mother and sister were left economically independent after his death.

??? The view of London below me had sunk into the black shadow of the cloudy night, when I stood before the gate of my mother’s cottage I had hardly rung the bellWhen the house door was opened violentlyMy worthy Italian friendProfessor Pescaappeared in the servant’s placeand rushed out joyously to receive me

??? I had first become acquainted(熟悉)with my Italian friend at certain great houseswhere he taught Italian and I taught drawing What I then knew of the history of his life was that he had left Italy for political reasons and that he had been respectably established for many years in London as a teacher of languages It once happened that I saved him from certain death by drowning while we

were swimming in the sea at Brighton Afterwards he overwhelmed(淹没)me with the wildest expressions of affection and exclaimed passionately, that he would hold his life at my disposal from then on, and declared that he should never be happy again until he had had the opportunity of proving his gratitudeLittle did I think that the occasion to serve me was soon to come

? Pesca dragged me in by both hands into the parlor, where my mother sat by the open window, laughing and fanning herselfPesca was one of her especial favoritesand his wildest strange acts were always pardonable in her eyes

? “Now, my good dears”began Pesca“listen to me The time has come I recite my good newsI speak at last…'Hear, hear!”said my mother, humoring the joke“I go back into my lifeand I address myself to the noblest of menwho found me dead at the bottom of the seaand who pulled me up to the top. What did I say when l got into my own life and my own clothes again? I said that my life belonged to my dear friendWalter, for the rest of my days Now,”cried the enthusiastic little mall at the top of his voice“happiness bursts out of me at every pore of my skinFor I have found a job for you”

1.The first two paragraphs of the passage serve as an introduction to——

A. the financial situation the writer then faced?

B. the season that the story was set in

C. the family members of the writer????????

D. the successful profession of the writer’s father

2.The underlined word‘‘sole’’in the second paragraph probably means‘‘?????????

Amain??? ????? B. only??? ????? C. lucky ??????? D. possible

3.It can be learned from the passage that Pesca ??????????

A. used to be a politician??? ???????

B. was a successful drawing-master

C. was quite close to the mother ????

D. wanted to give the writer some money in return

4.According to the last paragraphPesca was more than happy because ?????????? ?????

A. he went back into his life????????

B . he met his dear friend again

C. his friend ever saved his life?????

D. he had done something good for his friend

 

Anyone who cares about what schools and colleges teach and how their students learn will be interested in the memoir(回忆录)of Ralph W. Tyler, who is one of the most famous men in American education.

Born in Chicago in 1902, brought up and schooled in Nebraska, the 19-year-old college graduate Ralph Tyler became hooked on teaching while teaching as a science teacher in South Dakota and changed his major from medicine to education.

Graduate work at the University of Chicago found him connected with honorable educators Charles Judd and W. W. Charters, whose ideas of teaching and testing had an effect on his later work. In 1927, he became a teacher of Ohio State University where he further developed a new method of testing.

Tyler became well-known nationality in 1938, when he carried his work with the Eight-Year Study from Ohio State University to the University of Chicago at the invitation of Robert Hutchins.

Tyler was the first director of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford, a position he held for fourteen years. There, he firmly believed that researchers should be free to seek an independent spirit in their work.

Although Tyler officially retired in 1967, he never actually retired. He served on a long list of educational organizations in the United States and abroad. Even in his 80s he traveled across the country to advise teachers and management people on how to set objectives(目标)that develop the best teaching and learning within their schools.

1.Who are most probably interested in Ralph W. Tyler’s memoir?

A. Top managers.??????????????????? ????????????? B. Language learners.

C. Serious educators.???????????????? ????????????? D. Science organizations.

2.The words “hooked on teaching” underlined in Paragraph 2 probably mean ________.

A. attracted to teaching?????????????? ????????????? B. tired of teaching

C. satisfied with teaching????????????? ????????????? D. unhappy about teaching

3.Where did Tyler work as the leader of a research center for over 10 years?

A. The University of Chicago.???????? ????????????? B. Stanford University.

C. Ohio State University.???????????? ????????????? D. Nebraska University.

 

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