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Josie Robinson, who appeared on a so-called wall of shame at her school in south Manchester, was in tears. Her father has hit out at the "Victorian" methods.
Chorlton High School put up pictures of Year 10 pupils who teachers believed hadn’t behaved well. Children singled out for praise were placed on the wall of fame. Its head teacher said the scheme (策划) was designed to motivate pupils.
Carlo Robinson, whose daughter Josie was put on the wall after missing lessons, wants to make a complaint. The teenager had been missing school and turning up late because she was upset that her mother was ill. She said, " I thought it was embarrassing."
Mr. Robinson added, "She was in tears. She couldn't tell me at first - it took her about an hour- because she wasn't sure what I would think of it. When she told me I was really shocked. I contacted at least 20 friends and they all agreed it was wrong - it's like Victorian times."
Head teacher Andy Park said, "We've successfully used a similar scheme in the past with Year 11 students to incentivise pupils and it really did make a difference - pupils took it in the right spirit and were motivated by it to improve their performance. Obviously this latest scheme wasn't intended to cause offence to pupils. It was actually developed to praise the students moving forwards successfully and to support pupils who needed to make improvements. No parents have complained directly to the school and I'd be very happy to meet with any parents to discuss further."
Mr. Robinson told the reporter he had contacted the school for a meeting with the head teacher.
60. What does Mr. Robinson mean by saying “this is the ‘Victorian’ methods”?
A. The methods have a long history.
B. The methods ignore women’s rights.
C. The methods are totally out of time.
D. The methods worked well in the past.
61. According to her father, Josie had been missing school because __________.
A. She got up late. B. She hated the wall of shame.
C. She wasn’t on the wall of fame. D. Her mother was not well.
62. The underlined word “incentivise” in Paragraph 5 is closest in meaning to __________.
A. encourage B. exchange C. hurt D. force
63. What can we learn from the passage?
A. The school has apologized to Mr. Robinson.
B.The scheme proved quite successful before.
C. Twenty other parents have similar complaints.
D. Most students didn’t think highly of the scheme.
CDAB
鸿图图书寒假作业假期作业吉林大学出版社系列答案One day, four lawyers were riding along a country road. There had been a(n) 36 , and the ground was soft. The lawyers rode 37 , talking and laughing. As they were passing through a 38 , they heard some noises in the grass.
“What’s the matter here?” asked one man.
“Oh, it’s only some old robins (知更鸟)!” said another one, “The 39 has blown them out of the nest. They are too young to 40 .”
“What a 41 ! They’ll die,” said the third one.
“Well! They’re nothing but 42 ,” said the first lawyer.
The three men looked down and saw the mother robin 43 to her mates. Then they rode on, talking and laughing as before. In a few minutes they had 44 the birds. But the fourth lawyer, whose name was Abraham Lincoln, 45 . He got down from his 46 and gently took the little ones up. They didn’t seem 47 , but chirped (唧唧叫) softly, as if they knew they were safe.
“Never 48 , my little fellows,” said Mr. Lincoln. Then he looked up to find the nest from which they had 49 . It was much higher than he could reach. But Mr. Lincoln could 50 . He put the birds softly, one by one, into their warm home.
In a few minutes, Mr. Lincoln 51 the others. He had torn his coat on the thorny (多刺的) tree. Then all three of them 52 heartily. They thought it so 53 that a strong man should take so much trouble just for some worthless young birds.
“Gentlemen,” said Mr. Lincoln, “I couldn’t have 54 tonight if I had left those helpless robins to die in the 55 grass.”
Abraham Lincoln afterwards became President of America.
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Starving polar bears are eating one another in the Arctic. Flowers are blooming too soon and die. The ice caps are melting so fast that rising water levels will threaten coastal towns along Florida within several decades. These are just a few examples of the terrible consequences of climate change supported by a new analysis in Nature.
In the past three decades, average global temperatures have risen about 0. 6°C and are projected to jump by about 1. 7°C by the end of the century, says Cynthia Rosenzweig, who leads the Climate Impacts Group at NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies at Columbia University in New York. “We’ve already seen that a relatively low amount of warming,” she says, “can lead to a broad range of changes. ”
The unnatural warming caused by man-made greenhouse gases, especially carbon dioxide produced by cars and coal-powered plants, brings trouble for entire ecosystems. In North America alone, scientists have identified 89 species of plants, such as the American holly that have flowered earlier in the spring. In Spain, apple trees bloom 35 days ahead of schedule in response to the higher temperatures. Other wildlife, like the insects that use certain plants for food and the birds that feed on the insects, must then move forward their seasonal stirrings(萌动) and mating（交配） patterns to survive.
To try to follow this time shift, some birds such as robins, the classic symbol of winter’s thaw(解冻时期), are returning to Colorado from their migrations some two weeks earlier than in years past. All these changes can throw a food chain in disorder. Some bird species that arrive before the insects reappear may starve to death.
“Around the world, plants and animals are waking up to an earlier alarm clock than they used to,” says Terry Root, a biologist from Stanford University.
1.The underlined word “projected”(in Paragraph 2) probably means “____”.
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A．forced |
B．presented |
C．indicated |
D．predicted |
2.According to the third paragraph, as a result of climate change ____ .
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A．the warm weather wakes animals up earlier |
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B．certain trees bloom a season ahead of time |
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C．the birds need to change patterns of living |
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D．the American holly will flower in late spring |
3.What can we know about robins according to the passage?
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A．Farmers depend on them to tell the time. |
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B．They used to come back when spring came. |
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C．They used to predict the change of weather. |
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D．They usually migrate when seasons change. |
4.What would be the best title for the passage?
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A．Man is to blame for global warming |
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B．Great changes take place on Earth |
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C．Bird migration and climate change |
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D．Global warming changing nature’s clock |