题目内容
【题目】What is a fair wage? 【1】 These are some of the questions the United Nations International Labour Organisation(ILO) has recently investigated.
With a global population of over seven billion, is it actually possible to measure an average amount?_ 【2】_ Using the total wage bill from over seventy countries, they have multiplied the amounts by the number of earners in each country. The economists then tallied up the results and divided them by the total number across the world The result was a world average wage equivalent to $1,490 a month. _【3】_
This figure might seem very high because they calculated the amount using purchasing power parity dollars, which takes into account the fact that it is cheaper to live in some countries than others. _【4】_
Calculating an average sum like this might not be a completely fair representation, but these figures do help us to understand how the world is developing, both economically, in the quality of life people are experiencing and their standard of living.
But the result shows that the average wage is still relatively low and there remains a huge difference in levels of affluence around the world. _【5】_ Is this fair? For many, pay equality still seems very far out of reach.
A. The ILO has now tried to work out the sums.
B. The ILO used statistics from over 70 different countries
C. Why aren't more people in the world offered pay equality?
D. That is approximately $75 a day for a 20-day working month.
E. Some people live on just two dollars a day, while others are earning more than a million dollars a year.
F. When someone works for themselves, what are they called?
G. The data also did not include the huge number of people who appear in poverty statistics or who are self-employed.
【答案】
【1】C
【2】A
【3】D
【4】G
【5】E
【解析】
试题分析:为追求公平收入,联合国国际劳工组织计算出全球评价收入,但计算出的数据偏高。文章就此问题展开说明。
【1】C 据横线后句“These are some of the questions....”可知横线句应该是一个问句。在根据横线前句“What is a fair wage?”可知该句应该与公平获得报酬相关。选项中只有C项“Why aren't more people in the world offered pay equality?”与前句句相呼应一致。
【2】A 据横线前句“With a global population of over seven billion, is it actually possible to measure an average amount?”提出世界人口很多,可能测试出评价工资的准确数字吗?再根据横线后句“Using the total wage bill from over seventy countries, they have multiplied the amounts by the number of earners in each country.”可知人们已经算出了这一数字。横线句应该说明哪一个组织做了这项工作,故A项“The ILO has now tried to work out the sums.”符合题意。
【3】D 根据横线前句The result was a world average wage equivalent to $1,490 a month. ILO已经计算出世界平均工资是每个月1490美元,横线句是该句的同位语,对其进行更准确的说明。D项“That is approximately $75 a day for a 20-day working month.”是其详细的解释说明。
【4】G 根据本段前句可知计算出来的这个数据偏高,本句在解释原因。G项“The data also did not include the huge number of people who appear in poverty statistics or who are self-employed.这个数据并没有包括贫穷人口的数据以及自谋职业的人的收入”,所以才会出现数据较高。G项符合本段的中心思想。
【5】E 据横线前句there remains a huge difference in levels of affluence around the world可知世界各地人们收入的差距很大。横线句应该对此进行说明,E项“Some people live on just two dollars a day, while others are earning more than a million dollars a year.”恰好是此内容。且和横线后句“Is this fair?”一致。
【题目】请认真阅读下列短文, 并根据所读内容在文章后表格中的空格里填入一个最恰当的单词。注意: 每个空格只填1个单词。请将答案写在答题纸上相应题号的横线上。
How Technology Can Help Language Learning
Intelligence, according to Howard Gardner, is of eight types—verbal-linguistic, logical-mathematical, musical-rhythmic, visual-spatial, bodily-kinesthetic, interpersonal, intrapersonal, and naturalistic. This is the first in a series of posts that explore and understand how each of the above forms of intelligence is affected by technology-mediated education.
Verbal-linguistic Intelligence involves sensitivity to spoken and written language, the ability to learn languages, and the capacity to use language to accomplish goals. Such intelligence is developed by three specific activities: reading, writing and interpersonal communication—both written and oral. The traditional tools that have been used to efficiently develop verbal/linguistic intelligence—textbook, pencil, and paper—are giving way to technology in many schools. E-books, Internet lesson plans, online assignments and word processing software, or a subset of the above, are now common in schools. Technology allows addition of multisensory (多种感觉的) elements that provide meaningful contexts to help comprehension, thus expanding the learning ground of language and linguistics.
Research into the effect of technology on the development of the language and literacy skills vis-à-vis reading activities of children has offered evidence for favorable effects of digital-form books. A study shows that digital reading materials have become common in developing countries in early childhood classrooms to support engagement in storybooks while enhancing the emergent literacy (早期读写能力) among children. E-books are also being increasingly used to teach reading among beginners and children with reading difficulties.
Technology can be used to improve reading ability in many ways. It can enhance (加强) and sustain the interest levels for children by allowing immediate feedback on performance and providing added practice when necessary. Recent research shows that students are able to improve their sight word vocabulary, fluency, and comprehension through computer-based reading.
Technology can also help in improvement of writing skills. Word processing software promotes not only composition but also editing and revising in ways that streamline the task of writing. Desktop publishing and web-based publishing allow the work to be taken beyond the classroom into a virtual world that allows more constructive interactions.
Technology enhanced oral communication is indeed useful in that it allows students from remote locations, or from all over the world to communicate orally through video and audio conferencing tools. For example, students of languages in Australian universities overcome the problem of insufficient contact with native language speakers by using online audio and video tools that allow the development of aural, vocal and visual-cognition skills that are important in verbal and linguistic education. Oral group discussions in the form of video conferencing can help non-native speakers of a language with natural language negotiation and cultural intonations in ways that have not been possible due to geographic isolation.
Computer definitely aided language learning and computer mediated communication enhance teaching and learning experiences in the areas of linguistics and language intelligence. Although there have not been comprehensive studies on the use of technologies to aid K-12 English-language learners, there have been many individual computer programs and other technologies that accelerate the acquisition of phonics, vocabulary, fluency, and reading-comprehension skills and other language building blocks.
Title: How Technology Can Help Language Learning
Paragraph outline | Detailed information |
Brief introduction to Verbal-linguistic Intelligence | ●Howard Gardner thinks that intelligence is of eight types, 【1】________ from verbal-linguistic to naturalistic intelligence. ●Verbal-linguistic Intelligence, 【2】________ of three aspects, is developed by three specific activities. ●Technology is 【3】_______ traditional tools used to develop verbal/linguistic intelligence efficiently. ●The learning ground of language and linguistics has been 【4】_______ by adding multisensory elements to language learning. |
Effects on language and literacy skills | Digital reading materials have been used to help children in developing countries get 【5】________ in storybooks, enhancing the emergent literacy among them. |
Effects on reading ability | Technology can enhance and sustain children’s interest levels by providing immediate feedback and extra practice. |
Effects on writing skills | Technology allows our work to be taken in a virtual world with moreconstructive【6】________. |
Effects on oral communication | Technology allows students to communicate orally through video and audio conferencing tools【7】________ geographic isolation. |
Conclusion | ●There is no【8】________ that technology enhances teaching and learning experiences concerning linguistics and language intelligence. ●Although there is a 【9】_______ of comprehensive studies on the use of technologies to aid K-12 English-language learners, there have been other technologies that【10】________ the acquisition of language building blocks. |
【题目】Is it fair for restaurants to ban little eaters? In Monronroeville, a local restaurant, McDain’s, recently decided to ban young children. Alice Roseman, its manager, says kids have bad manners and make too much noise. Other people, however, say the rule is hard to accept. Since it has become a hot topic in public, we caught several local people talking about it.
YES There is no law stopping restaurants from banning young children. Restaurant owners should be allowed to ban them. Kids often run around and cause problems for waiters and other customers. ----Kate Barker Kids always cause a mess, but the parents refuse to do anything about their kids’ behaviors. Although kids may be at the center of their parents’ universe, they aren’t at the center of everyone else’s. ------Mike Vuick Adults sometimes want to talk and enjoy their dinner, but they can’t if a child is crying and running all over the place. That’s why sometimes parents don’t like eating at home. They wish they could have a good meal in the restaurants without kids’ noise. ------Dale Levitsky | NO Banning kids from restaurants is a bad idea. If kids were banned, many restaurants would lose business. Even if restaurants gave customers the chance to buy take-away meals for their kids, many families would probably still not eat there. --------Nicholas Song Restaurants owners who ban kids think all children are wild and rude. But that’s not true. Most children’s eating behaviors are good enough. Even though some kids do have bad manners, banning is not a right way to teach them. I think how a society treats its children is important. After all, all kids are people, too. -------Elliott Hall |
【1】The restaurant in Monronroeville refuses ___________ to eat there.
A. women
B. pets
C. men
D. kids
【2】Dale Levit sky thinks parents sometimes don’t like eating at home because _________________.
A. they are too busy
B. kids are too noisy
C. they dislike doing the dishes
D. restaurant food is more delicious
【3】Who thinks it is wrong to ban kids?
A. Mike Vuick
B. Kate Barker
C. Nicholas Song
D. Alice Roseman
【4】Which of the following opinion is mentioned in the passage?
A. Not all kids have bad behaviors.
B. Children waste too much food.
C. Boys make more noise than girls.
D. Restaurants needn’t help parents.