At a primary school in a small town in the east of South Carolina, second-grade teachers Garneau and Lynne are convinced that separating elementary-age boys and girls produces immediate academic improve?ment in both genders (性别).

David Chadwell, South Carolina's expert of single gender education says, "Boys and girls learn, hear and respond to their surroundings differently. We can teach boys and girls based on what we now know.,,

Male and female eyes are not organized in the same way, he explains. The organization of the male eye makes it sensitive to motion and direction. "Boys under?stand the world as objects moving through space, " he says.

The male eye is also drawn to cooler colours like silver and black. It's no accident that boys tend to create pictures of moving objects instead of drawing the happy-colourful family, like girls do in their classes.

The female eye, on the other hand, is drawn to warmer colours like red, yellow and orange. To attract girls, Chadwell says, the teacher doesn't need to move as much as in boy's class. Using descriptive phrases and lots of colours in presentations or on the blackboard gets their attention.

Boys and girls also hear differently. "When some?one speaks in a loud tone, girls understand it as yelling, ,,Chadwell says. "They think you're mad and can shut down. " Girls are more sensitive to sounds. He advises girls' teachers to watch the tone of their voices. Boys' teachers should sound more forceful, even excited.

A boy's nervous system causes him to be more cau?tious when he is standing, moving, and the room tem?perature is around 69 degrees Fahrenheit. Stress in boys, he says, tends to increase blood flow to their brains , a process that helps them stay focused. Girls are more focused when seated in a warmer room around 75 degrees Fahrenheit. Girls also respond to stress differ?ently. When exposed to threat and conflict, blood goes to their guts (肠道),leaving them feeling nervous or anxious.

These differences can be applied in the classroom, Chadwell adds.  " Single gender programmes are about making the best use of the learning." 1. What is David Chadwell's attitude towards separating

elementary-age boys and girls while learning?

A. Supportive.       B. Worried.

C. Concerned. D. Uninterested.

2.    To attract boys in a class, the teacher .

A.    must have a moving object in this hand

B.    needs to wear clothes in a warm colour

C.    has to speak politely

D.    had better move constantly while teaching

3.    Which of the following shows the organization of the passage?

(1 = Paragraph 1 2=Paragraph 2 3 = Paragraph 3 …8=Paragraph 8)

 

4.    Which of the following students is most likely to be focused?

A.    A boy sitting in a warm room.

B.    A standing boy who is faced with stress.

C.    A girl standing in a cold room.

D.    A girl who is facing a lot of pressure.

The number of speakers of English in Shakespeare's time is estimated to have been about five million. Today it is estimated that some 260 million people speak it as a native language, mainly in the United States, Canada, Great Britain, Ireland, South Africa, Australia and New Zealand. In addition to the standard varieties of English found in these areas, there are a great many regional and social varieties of the language as well as various levels of usage that are employed both in its spoken and written forms.

In fact, it is impossible to estimate the number of people in the world who have acquired an adequate working knowledge of English in addition to their own languages. The purpose for English learning and the sit?uations in which such learning takes place are so varied that it is difficult to explain and still more difficult to judge what forms an adequate working knowledge for each situation.

The main reason for the widespread demand for English is its present-day importance as a world lan?guage. Besides serving the indefinite needs of its native speakers, English is a language in which some of the im?portant works in science? technology, and other fields are being produced, and not always by native speakers. It is widely used for such purposes as meteorological and airport communications, international conferences and the spread of information over the radio and television networks of many nations. It is a language of wider communication for a number of developing countries, especially former British colonies. Many of these coun?tries have multilingual populations and need a language for internal communication in such matters as govern?ment, commerce, industry, law and education as well as for international communication and for entrance to the scientific and technological developments in the West.

1.  Which of the following statements is NOT true?

A.    Some 260 million people in the world have an ad?equate working knowledge of English.

B.    There are some 260 million native speakers of English in the world.

C.    It is almost impossible to estimate the number of people with an adequate working knowledge of Eng?lish.

D.    People learn English for a variety of reasons.

2.    According to the passage, what is the main reason for the widespread use of English?

A.    It was popular during Shakespeare's time.

B.    It is used in former British colonies.

C.    It serves the needs of its native speakers.

D.    It is a world language that is used for interna?tional communication.

3.    What forms an adequate working knowledge of Eng?lish?

A.    The ability to read a newspaper.

B.    It is difficult to judge because it differs for each situation.

C.    Being a multilingual. .

D.    Being a native speaker.

4.    What type of developing countries would be most likely to use English?

A.    Those geographically close to the United States.

B.    Those interested in the culture of the United States.

C.    Former colonies of Great Britain.

D.    Countries where international conferences are held.

For most seventh graders, life doesn't get much harder than a history test. But for Grant Reed of Beliville, Ohio, it's his own current events that are so painful. "Honestly, I don't want to die,"Grant says. Last year, doctors at Nationwide Children's Hospital in Columbus found a tumour(肿瘤)in Grant's brain. They cut it out, but the surgery left him with stroke-like symptoms. Plus, he had to go through months of radia?tion and chemotherapy to try to stop the spread of the disease.

Yet, through it all, Grant has shown remarkable determination, which he owes, partly, to Ohio State Football. His parents, Troy and Denise, were both in the OSU marching band and fell in love during half-time of the Michigan game. His cat is named after the team Buckeyes. His wardrobe is painted scarlet (the colour of the team's sportswear). The point is, almost nothing mattered more to Grant than Ohio State Football―until he got sick, of course.

"I didn't like the word cancer," Grant says. So he decided not to use the word. Instead, the kid named his cancer Michigan and insisted everyone in his life refer to it as such, because Ohio State always beats Michigan. That was something he could understand and make into a competition. He was going to beat this disease.

It's now been more than a year since Grant issued that announcement. "And if you look at his scans," Dr Randal Olshefski at Nationwide Children's Hospital says, "there's nothing there. There's a big space, but there's no tumour. w

"Grant is beating Michigan. And although much of it has to go to science, don't discount the semantics(语义学),You have to do something to make it a disease you can fight. And for Grant, that was naming it Michi?gan ,"his parents say.

This weekend, Ohio State and Michigan will be battling like their lives depend on it. But in this house * the Reed family will be watching with a calm insight: it's just a game.

1.  What's the main idea of the first paragraph?

A.    The seventh grade is a hard time.

B.    Grant suffered a serious disease.

C.    The operation was successful.

D.    The tumour has spread all over.

2.    From the second paragraph, we can infer that .

A.    Grant was a born football fan

B.    football makes a true man

C.    interest is the best teacher

D.    God helps those who help themselves

3.    Why did Grant name his cancer Michigan?

A.    Because he dared not face the disease.

B.    Because he didn't want to die so young.

C.    Because Michigan was his favourite team.

D.    Because Michigan was always beaten by his favourite team.

4.    By saying that it's just a game, we can infer that the Reed family .

A.    have lost interest in the match between Ohio State and Michigan

B.    believe Michigan will surely beat Ohio State this weekend

C.    have had a clearer and better understanding of life

D.    view the match as a matter of life and death

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Geena Davis knew she wanted to be a movie star when she was very young. She was not sure what gave her the idea, but she wanted to look like a movie star. "I have a lot of pictures from my childhood of me wearing sun?glasses," she says. "I used to wear them to watch TV."

Early movie actors started wearing sunglasses not because they looked good , but because their eyes hurt. The lights used on movie sets were extremely bright and could cause a painful problem known as "Klieg eyes". It was named after the Klieg brothers who invented the lights. Actors wore sunglasses to give their eyes a rest. But when movie stars began wearing their sunglasses in public, they quickly became a must.

Eventually actors started wearing sunglasses in their movies as well as on the street. Audrey Hepburn wore ultra-cool Ray-Ban sunglasses in the 1961 movie, Break fast at Tiffany's. As a result, Ray-Ban sunglasses started to appear more and more in the movies. In 1979? Ray-Ban "Wayfarers" were worn by Jake and Elwood in The Blues Brothers. Tom Cruise wore Ray-Ban "Aviator" sunglasses in the 1986 hit, Top Gun. Then in 1997, Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones made Ray-Ban "Predator" sunglasses famous in Men in Black.

Of course sunglasses aren't 〗ust a fashion statement. The main reason to wear sunglasses is to protect our eyes against UV radiation. UV radiation can damage our eyes, so people now choose their sunglasses carefully. But you don't have to give up style for safety. The choice of frames and lenses availa?ble these days is huge. So you can protect your eyes and still be the coolest person on the beach.

1. What is mainly discussed in this passage?

  A.    Some movie stars.

B.     How to protect eyes.

C.    The sunglasses wearing.

D.    How to be a movie star.

2. Why did Geena Davis like to wear sunglasses?

  A.    She was a movie star.

B.    She wanted to follow a movie star.

C.    Wearing sunglasses was good for her eyes.

D.    It was good to wear sunglasses when watching TV.

3. Early actors' eyes hurt because____ •

  A.    they wore sunglasses

B.    they went out in the sun too much

C.    the lights on movie sets were too bright

D.    their scripts were written in very small writing

4. We may know from this passage that_____ •

A. Audrey Hepburn was a famous film star

B, Ray-Ban is the name of sunglasses maker

C. sunglasses made Top Gun the hit in 1986

D. Men in Black must be an advertisement of sunglasses

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