题目内容
Carla, Philip, Tracy and Monika are four students studying at London School of Business and Finance. At the beginning of the term, they are to choose their own course(s). Read the course descriptions and match them with the needs expressed by the four students marked 57-60.
57. Carla: I feel like increasing skills in business English to find an nice job.
58. Philip: I want to improve my exam results to enter a British university next year.
59. Tracy: I’d like to gain more help from a teacher to improve my English more quickly.
60. Monika: I really need to improve my English speaking skills to communicate more freely.
| A The IELTS examination is fast becoming the leading test for English around the world, co-managed by the University of Cambridge and the British Council. It is recognised as the required English test for University admission in the United Kingdom, with some universities looking for scores as high as 8.0 in this challenging examination. The ILETS examination preparation course can be taken with a choice of 20 and 30 lessons per week. | B A number of courses are designed for people looking to increase language skills in their own field. The Business and Professional English programmes provide students with the skills to study and organize high level business information, write reports, give presentations, and develop other professional skills needed in the workplace. The courses can be taken with a choice of 25 and 30 lessons per week. |
| C These courses develop students’ confidence and ability in spoken English while improving their pronunciation. The conversation classes improve students’ speaking ability, enabling them to communicate more confidently in different English speaking environments. The pronunciation classes meet students’ personal needs by giving necessary help. The courses can be taken with a choice of 25 and 30 lessons per week. | D These courses are a opportunity to learn and practice English with one of the School’s teachers in a quiet environment. General English studies, sports English and so on can all be included in to the student’s lesson plan. One-to-one courses are taught using different learning methods, where teachers can focus on the student’s personal needs and topics of interest. The courses can be taken with a choice of 15 and 20 lessons per week |
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中考解读考点精练系列答案Three armed robbers stole two Pablo Picasso prints from an art museum in downtown Sao
Paulo on Thursday, which was the city’s second high-profile art theft in less than a year. The bandits also took two oil paintings by well-know Brazilian artists Emiliano Di Cavalcanti and Lasar Segall, said Carla Regina, a spokeswoman for the Pinacoteca do Estado museum.
The Picasso prints stolen were "The Painter and the Model" from 1963 and "Minotaur, Drinker and Women" from 1933, according to a statement from the Sao Paulo Secretary of State for Culture, which oversees the museum. The prints and paintings have a combined value of $612,000, the statement and a museum official said.
About noon, three armed men paid the $2.45 entrance fee and immediately went to the second-floor gallery where the works were being exhibited, bypassing more valuable pieces, authorities said. "This indicates to us that they probably received an order" to take those specific works, Youssef Abou Chain, head of Sao Paulo's organized crime unit, told reporters at a news conference. The assailants overpowered three unarmed museum guards and grabbed the works, officials said. The robbery took about 10 minutes and the museum was nearly empty at the time. The assailants took the pieces — frames and all — out of the museum in two bags. The institution has no metal detectors.
In December, Picasso's "Portrait of Suzanne Bloch" and "O Lavrador de Cafe" by Candido Portinari, an influential Brazilian artist, were stolen from the Sao Paulo Museum of Art by three men who used a crowbar（铁撬棍）and car jack to force open one of the museum's steel doors. The framed paintings were found Jan. 8, covered in plastic and leaning against a wall in a house on the outskirts of Sao Paulo, South America's largest city. One of the suspects in that robbery — a former TV chef — turned himself over to police in January, who already had two suspects in custody（监禁）.
【小题1】What did the armed men steal on Thursday?
| A．Two prints by Pablo Picasso |
| B．Two oil painting by Brazilian artists |
| C．Two prints by Pablo Picasso and two oil paintings by two Brazilian artists. |
| D．Two prints by two Brazilian artists and two oil paintings by Picasso Pablo. |
| A．Because they didn't know that the other pieces were worth more. |
| B．Probably because they had received an order for the prints that they took. |
| C．Because they didn't have enough time. |
| D．Because they were in such a hurry that they couldn’t get them all. |
| A．A lot. The museum was crowded. |
| B．Not too many. It was almost empty. |
| C．There were a lot of people outside the museum. |
| D．Only three of them. |
| A．In December, "Portrait of Suzanne Bloch" and "O Lavrador de Cafe" painted by Candido Portinari were stolen. |
| B．There are steel doors and no detectors in Sao Paulo Museum of Art. |
| C．Three robbers defeated three armed museum guards and took away the works on Thursday. |
| D．Three suspects in the first high-profile art theft in less than a year were arrested. |
It is difficult for parents of nearly every family to teach their children to be responsible for housework, but with one of the following suggestions, you really can get your children to help at home.
If you give your children the impression that they can never do anything quite right, then they will regard themselves as unfit or unable persons. Unless children believe they can succeed, they will never become totally independent.
My daughter Carla’s fifth - grade teacher made every child in her class feel special. When students received less than a prefect test score, she would point out what they had mastered and declared firmly they could learn what they had missed.
You can use the same technique when you evaluate （评价）your child’s work at home. Don’t always scold and give lots of praise instead. Talk about what he has done right, not about what he hasn’t done. If your child completes a difficult task（任务）, promise him a Sunday trip or a ball game with Dad.
Learning is a process（过程）of trying and failing and trying and succeeding. If you teach your children not to fear a mistake of failure, they will learn faster and achieve success at last.
【小题1】The whole passage deals with ________.
| A．social education | B．school education | C．family education | D．pre - school education |
| A．praise his success | B．promise him a trip | C．give him a punishment | D．promise him a ball game |
| A．learn from himself, for he has a good way of teaching | B．take pride in Carla’s fifth - grade teacher | C．do as what Carla’s teacher did in educating children | D．follow Carla’s example because she never fails in the test |
| A．pride goes before a fall | B．practice makes perfect | C．no pains, no gains | D．failure is the mother of success |