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“Who is Gogo?” Almost every pupil in Hong Kong, Japan, Taiwan and Thailand will tell you: “Gogo is from outer space and is teaching children to speak and read English.”![]()
Gogo has visited Hong Kong, Taiwan, Japan, Thailand and Korea. Now he is in China’s mainland—“Gogo has Adventure with English” has been published by Addison Wesley Longman China Ltd (AWL).
The six level English course, full of exciting stories, educates and delights children at the same time. Gogo learns English from his friends, Tony and Jenny. The children will learn along with Gogo, enjoying all the fun he produces. Gogo has a warm place in every young learner’s heart wherever he goes.
A presentation (介绍) about Gogo was given by Beijing AWL Information Centre last November. All the pupils in Huijia School attended the presentation. A foreign teacher at Huijia later said, “The children were attracted by Gogo after only a 45-minute presentation. They remember a song taught by Gogo seven weeks later. Parents often ask me how they can help their children learn Engli
sh and now there’s a programme I can direct them to.”
Clive Sawkins, Paul Price-Smiths and Gregg Schroeder worked closely at AWL to make sure that Gogo will become an easily recognized symbol (标志) of learning English wherever English is studied. “Gogo is our baby,” said Gregg. “It is very easy to get children going with Gogo.”
【小题1】 What is the passage mainly about?
| A.Gogo visits Asian countries. | B.Gogo receives high praise. |
| C.Children love to learn with Gogo. | D.AWL introduces Gogo. |
| A.an English teacher | B.an English boy |
| C.an English textbook? | D.a character in an English textbook |
| A.He teaches them English through songs. |
| B.He teaches them English through adventure stories. |
| C.He helps them to remember English words. |
| D.He makes English lessons full of fun. |
We are all interested in equality, but while some people try to protect the school and examination system in the name of equality, others, still in the name of equality, want only to destroy it.
Any society which is interested in equality of opportunity and standards of achievement must regularly test its pupils. The standards may be changed—no examination is perfect — but to have no tests or examinations would mean the end of equality and of standards. There are groups of people who oppose this view and who do not believe either in examinations or in any controls in school or on teachers. This would mean that everything would depend on luck since every pupil would depend on the efficiency, the values and the purpose of each teacher.
Without examinations, employers will look for employees from the highly respected schools and from families known to them — a form of favouritism will replace equality. At the moment, the bright child from an ill-respected school can show certificates to prove he or she is suitable for a job, while the lack of certificate indicates the unsuitability of a dull child attending a well-respected school. This defence of excellence and opportunity would disappear if examinations were taken away, and the bright child form a poor family would be a prisoner of his or her school’s reputation, unable to compete for employment with the child from the favoured school.
The opponents of the examination system suggest that examinations are an evil force because they show differences between pupils. According to these people, there must be no special, different, academic class. They have even suggested that there should be no form of difference in sport or any other area: all jobs or posts should be filled by unsystematic selection. The selection would be made by people who themselves are probably selected by some computer.
【小题1】What is the similarity between supporters and opponents?
A. They both like exams. B. They both dislike exams.
B. They value standards. D. They value equality.
【小题2】The word “favouritism” in paragraph 3 is used to describe the phenomenon that ________.
| A.bright children also need certificates to get satisfying jobs |
| B.children from well-respected schools tend to have good jobs |
| C.poor children with certificates are favoured in job markets |
| D.children attending ordinary schools achieve great success |
| A.Schools for bright children would lose their reputation. |
| B.There would be more opportunities and excellence. |
| C.Children from poor families would be able to change their schools. |
| D.Children’s job opportunity would be affected by their school’s reputation. |
| A.jobs should not be assigned by systematic selection |
| B.computers should be selected to take over many jobs |
| C.special classes are necessary to keep the school standards |
| D.schools with academic subjects should be done away with |
| A.schools and certificates | B.examination and equality |
| C.opportunity and employment | D.standards and reputation |
Every pupil is ______to be in the classroom at 7.am.
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A.supposed |
B.being supposed |
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C.supposing |
D.to suppose |