题目内容
India was once part of the British Empire, but thanks to modern technology and a booming economy, it has turned the tables on its former colonial master. Indian tutors are helping to teach math to British children over high-speed Internet connections. Early results suggest the idea is improving exam results. But not everyone is happy at this “outsourcing” of tutoring.
It’s 3:30, and pupils at Raynham Primary School in London are gathering for their after-school maths lessons.
Five time zones— thousands of kilometers away—their math tutors are also arriving for class. High-speed Internet has made it possible for Indian tutors to teach British pupils in real time. Each pupil gets a dedicated one-to-one online tutor. The students work with activities on their computer screen and wear a headset and microphone to talk to their tutor.
The class teacher, Altus Basson, says he has seen an improvement in results. “There are some children who’ve really rocketed in their results. Children who struggleto focus in class focus a lot better on the laptops. The real advantage is that each child gets a focused activity and a single tutor,” he said.
Such individualized teaching is the core idea of Brightspark Education, the company that provides the online tutoring, says founder Tom Hooper. “Children today feel very confident online; they feel very engaged; they feel very in control. And that's half the battle with education.Give them control, make them feel confident and enjoy their learning and you'll see them start to improve and embrace it," he said.
Raynham Primary School is among the first in Europe to try online tutoring. At between $20 and $25 an hour, it's about half the cost of face-to-face coaching. But some people say an Internet connection is not enough of a connection for teaching and learning. Kevin Courtney is deputy General Secretary of Britain's National Union of Teachers. "We think, there's a really important emotional connection between a teacher and a child whether it's a whole class or whether it's one-to-one. You need that immediacy of feedback and we're not convinced that that can happen across an Internet connection. In one of the wealthiest.countries in the world, we think that we can afford to have teachers with genuine emotional connection there with the children," he said.
Brightspark Education says the online tutoring is used only as an addition to supplement regular teaching. The company says its service does not represent a threat to teachers' jobs in Britain.
Parents say they're very satisfied with the results they've seen. And what about the children?Children: "I love it!"I love it!"I hate maths!" So math--or, as the British call it, maths—is still not everyone's favorite subject even with the latest technology to teach it.
【小题1】What do we know about the online tutoring?
| A．Indian tutors are helping to teach math in Britain. |
| B．Tutors and students are in different places. |
| C．An online tutor helps several students at the same time. |
| D．Tutors and students communicate by telephone. |
| A．It shows a threat to teachers’ jobs in Britain. |
| B．It can take place of the regular teaching. |
| C．It only pays attention to math teaching. |
| D．It emphasizes the individualized teaching. |
| A．online tutoring will represent a threat to teachers’ jobs in Britain |
| B．online tutoring has a great influence on British. |
| C．the emotional connection between a teacher and a child is important |
| D．immediacy of feedback can happen across an Internet connection |
| A．A New Teaching Pattern |
| B．Indian Teachers and British Students |
| C．To Learn Maths with the Latest Technology |
| D．Indian Tutors Teach British Kids Online |
【小题1】B
【小题2】D
【小题3】C
【小题4】D
解析试题分析：
【小题1】推理题，由第一段第三行tutors are helping to teach math to British children over high-speed Internet可以推出辅导者和学生不在同一个地方，所以选B
【小题2】细节题，由第五段第一句话Such individualized teaching is the core idea of Brightspark Education,可以知道答案，所以选D
【小题3】细节题，由第六段第五行here's a really important emotional connection between a teacher and a child whether it's a whole class or whether it's one-to-one.可以知道老师和学生的情感连接很重要，所以选C
【小题4】推理题，由本文的主要意思“印度的辅导员通过网络教英国的学生，所谓的在线辅导”，所以选D
考点：本文为一篇说明文。
点评：本文说明了印度的辅导员通过网络教英国的学生，所谓的在线辅导，先通读全文，然后带着问题，再读全文，找出答题所需要的依据，完成阅读。本文主要考查细节题和推理题，要求学生有很强的细节分析能力和推理分析能力。
名校课堂系列答案把下列单词填入每个句子的空白处（注意所填单词的形式变化）：
| block recognize retell identity actually subway standard government accent present native vocabulary include command apartment rule request international direction northwestern lightning rapidly |
1 ___________ is a kind of natural phenomenon.
2 Please read the __________ on the bottle before taking the medicine.
3 May and I are classamtes, but we live in different _________.
4 Mao Zedong spoke with a strong Hunan __________.
5 When we met many years later I could hardly __________ Lily at the airport.
6 Gansu is a __________ province of China.
7 If you want to learn Chinese, you may learn from her. She speaks very ________ Chinese.
8 Will you please __________ the story to the whole class?
9 Visitors are ___________ not to touch the exhibits.
10 He lived in America for five years and has a good __________ of English.
11 The population of that country is increasing ___________.
12 Our __________ must do something to stop the rising house prices.
13 The police are trying to discover the __________ of the killer.
14 Usually you will read faster if you have a bigger English _________.
15 All those _________ at the meeting are high officials.
16 _________, English is not so hard to learn if you put your heart into it.
17 _________ speakers of English are in good demand in our school.
18 Only ten boys passed the exam, _________ Peter and you.
19 My father likes me to major in __________ trade when I go to university.
20 Underground and _________ mean the same in English.
21 Englishmen say flat, while Americans say ____________.
22 India was once __________by Britain and won its independence in 1947.
Scientific Progress
Most scientific progress is the result of careful consideration of work that has already been done. The wonderful world which lies before us today has been put up by hardworking men with clear heads and inventive mind, and these who follow them along life’s road will improve on their efforts. It is sometimes necessary to question and even to disbelieve some of the statements made by experts. Action or experiment can often end an argument or achieve a breakthrough.
When men were wondering whether it was possible to reach India by sailing westwards from Europe, and whether there was any land on the other side of the Atlantic Ocean, Christopher Columbus decides to act. He gathered some men, invited them to go on board his three ships, and set out across the dangerous waters of the Atlantic Ocean. He was successful in finding land, but it was not India. The result of his action was that the arguments came to the end.
Any young man who wishes to do research must be courageous enough to question old beliefs and do some original thinking about them. Although we seem to know so much, there are many things we don’t know. Even when we pull an atom to pieces, we do not really know what the pieces are, we often do not reach the reality behind what we discover, and the more we learn, the better we realize our ignorance.
【小题1】Christopher Columbus decided to set out his trip because he wants to ________
| A．travel round the world |
| B．bring words into action |
| C．discover the truth with action |
| D．bring the argument to an end |
| A．the more ignorance we will become |
| B．the more brilliant we are |
| C．the more confident we are of ourselves |
| D．the more we know about our ignorance |
| A．men who do not believe in others but themselves |
| B．those who work hard and dare to break way from old ideas |
| C．those who can make improvements on other people’s work |
| D．men who work extremely hard in following their teachers |
| A．the Atlantic was dangerous to get across |
| B．India was to the west of the Atlantic |
| C．There was land on the other side of the Atlantic |
| D．it was possible sail to India by crossing the Atlantic |
把下列单词填入每个句子的空白处（注意所填单词的形式变化）：
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block recognize retell identity actually subway standard government accent present native vocabulary include command apartment rule request international direction northwestern lightning rapidly |
1 ___________ is a kind of natural phenomenon.
2 Please read the __________ on the bottle before taking the medicine.
3 May and I are classamtes, but we live in different _________.
4 Mao Zedong spoke with a strong Hunan __________.
5 When we met many years later I could hardly __________ Lily at the airport.
6 Gansu is a __________ province of China.
7 If you want to learn Chinese, you may learn from her. She speaks very ________ Chinese.
8 Will you please __________ the story to the whole class?
9 Visitors are ___________ not to touch the exhibits.
10 He lived in America for five years and has a good __________ of English.
11 The population of that country is increasing ___________.
12 Our __________ must do something to stop the rising house prices.
13 The police are trying to discover the __________ of the killer.
14 Usually you will read faster if you have a bigger English _________.
15 All those _________ at the meeting are high officials.
16 _________, English is not so hard to learn if you put your heart into it.
17 _________ speakers of English are in good demand in our school.
18 Only ten boys passed the exam, _________ Peter and you.
19 My father likes me to major in __________ trade when I go to university.
20 Underground and _________ mean the same in English.
21 Englishmen say flat, while Americans say ____________.
22 India was once __________by Britain and won its independence in 1947.