题目内容
Did you ever hear me ___ by the strict teacher.
A. be3ing scolded B. scolding C.scold D. to be scolded
A
Mark was walking home from school one day when he saw the boy in front of him fall over and drop all of the book
s he was carrying, along with two sweaters, a basketball and a walkman(随身听). Mark stopped and helped the boy pick up these things. Since they were going the same way, he helped to carry some of his things. As they walked, Mark knew that the boy’s name was Bill, that he loved computer games, basketball and history, and that he was having lots of troubles with his other subjects and that he had just broken up with his girlfriend.
They arrived at Bill’s home first and Mark was invited in for a Coke and to watch some television. The afternoon passed happily with a few laughs and some small talk, and then Mark went home. They often saw each other at school, had lunch together once or twice, and then they both finished middle school. They ended up in the same high school where they sometimes saw and talked with each other over the years. At last just three weeks before they finished high school, Bill asked Mark if they could talk.
Bill asked Mark if he still remembered the day years ago when they had first met. “Did you ever think why I was carrying so many things home that day?” asked Bill. “You see, I cleaned out my locker(锁柜) because I didn’t want to leave anything for anyone else. I had put away some of my mother’s sleeping pills and I was going home to kill myself. But after we spent some time together talking and laughing, I began to
understand that if I killed myself, I would have missed that time and so many others that might follow. So you see, Mark, when you picked up those books that day, you did a lot more. You saved my life.”
【小题1】When Mark met him the first time, Bill was going _______.
| A.to have a basketball game | B.to his classroom |
| C.to see Mark | D.back home |
| A.was a good student | B.liked sports and music |
| C.liked all the subjects in school | D.was a good friend |
| A.were in the same middle school and high school |
| B.were in the same middle school but not in the same high school |
| C.often had lunch together at school |
| D.had known each other before they began to study in middle school |
| A.相处很好 | B.和好如初 | C.关系破裂 | D.保持联系 |
| A.knew he could save Bill’s life |
| B.knew who Bill was and wanted to help him |
| C.didn’t know why he was going to help him |
| D.didn’t know what he was doing was very important to Bill |
We can achieve knowledge either actively or passively(被动地). We achieve it actively by direct experience, by testing and proving an idea, or by reasoning.
We achieve knowledge passively by being told by someone else. Most of the learning that takes place in the classroom and the kind that happens when we watch TV or read newspapers or magazines is passive. Conditioned as we are to passive learning, it’s not surprising that we depend on it in our everyday communication with friends and co-workers·
Unfortunately, passive learning has a serious problem. It makes us tend to accept what we are told even when it is little more than hearsay and rumor(谣言).
Did you ever play the game Rumor? It begins when one person writes down a message but doesn’t show it to anyone. Then the person whispers it, word for word, to another person. That person, in turn, whispers it to still another, and so on, through all the people playing the game. The last person writes down the message word for word as he or she hears it. Then the two written statements are compared Typically, the original message has changed.
That’s what happens in daily life. The simple fact that people repeat a story in their own words changes the story. Then, too, most people listen imperfectly. And many enjoy adding their own creative touch to a story, trying to improve on it, stamping(打上标记)it with their own personal style. Yet those who hear it think they know.
This process is also found among scholars and authors:A statement of opinion by one writer may be re-stated as fact by another, who may in turn be quoted(引用)by yet another; and this process may continue, unless it occurs to someone to question the facts on which the original writer based his opinion or to challenge the interpretation he placed upon those facts.
【小题1】According to the passage, passive learning may occur in______________.
| A.doing a medical experiment | B.solving a math problem |
| C.visiting an exhibition | D.doing scientific reasoning |
| A.active learning | B.knowledge |
| C.communication | D.passive learning |
| A.a message may be changed when being passed on |
| B.a message should be delivered in different ways |
| C.people may have problems with their sense of hearing |
| D.people tend not to believe in what they know as rumor |
| A.Active learning is less important. |
| B.Passive learning may not be reliable. |
| C.Active learning occurs more frequently. |
| D.Passive learning is not found among scholars. |