阅读理解. So long as teachers fail to distinguish between teaching and learning, they will continue ——青夏教育精英家教网—

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     So long as teachers fail to distinguish between teaching and learning, they will continue to
undertake to do for children that which only children can do for themselves. Teaching children
to read is not passing reading on to them. It is certainly not endless hours spent in activities
about reading. Douglas insists that "reading cannot be taught directly and schools should stop
trying to do the impossible."
     Teaching and learning are two entirely different processes. They differ in kind and function.
The function of teaching is to create the conditions and the climate that will make it possible for
children to devise the most efficient system for teaching themselves to read. Teaching is also a
public activity: It can be seen and observed.
     Learning to read involves all that each individual does to make sense of the world of printed
language. Almost all of it is private, for learning is an occupation of the mind, and that process
is not open to public scrutiny.
     If teacher and learner roles are not interchangeable, what then can be done through teaching
that will aid the child in the quest (探索) for knowledge? Smith has one principal rule for all
teaching instructions. "Make learning to read easy, which means making reading a meaningful,
enjoyable and frequent experience for children."
     When the roles of teacher and learner are seen for what they are, and when both teacher and
learner fulfill them appropriately, then much of the pressure and feeling of failure for both is
eliminated. Learning to read is made easier when teachers create an environment where children
are given the opportunity to solve the problem of leaning to read by reading.

1. The problem with the reading course as mentioned in the first paragraph is that _______.

A. it is one of the most difficult school courses
B. students spend endless hours in reading
C. reading tasks are assigned with little guidance
D. too much time is spent in teaching about reading

2. The teaching of reading will be successful if ________.

A. teachers can improve conditions at school for the students
B. teachers can enable students to develop their own way of reading
C. teachers can devise the most efficient system for reading
D. teachers can make their teaching activities observable

3. The word "scrutiny" in Para.3 most probably means " ________"

A. inquiry
B. observation
C. control
D. suspicion

4. According to the passage, learning to read will no longer be a difficult task when _______.

A. children become highly motivated
B. teacher and learner roles are interchangeable
C. teaching helps children in the search for knowledge
D. reading enriches children's experience

5. The main idea of the passage is that .______

A. teachers should do as little as possible in helping students learn to read
B. teachers should encourage students to read as widely as possible
C. reading ability is something acquired rather than taught
D. reading is more complicated than generally believed

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The organization, Keep Time for Children, was started in 2002 to make people realize the importance of family time on weekends, particularly for families with school age children. __1__ We will try to help
parents take one day off on weekends to be with their family. __2__ What children want and need most
is to spend time with their parents, not with toys or taking part in activities. But with more and more people working on weekends, many children of school age don't see their parents anywhere near as often as they should. __3__ The movement is designed for families of all types and sizes under increasing pressure to
work on weekends. Because weekends are the very time when school age children are at home and in
need of their parents. We are going to put forward a Family Day Bill (议案) to the government. __4__ It
is aimed to solve the problems of increasing "shift (换班的) parenting" and of young children being left
"home alone" on weekends. __5__ If parents have a day off, they can spend a lot of time and energy with their children to share their happiness.

A. Keep Time for Children is now starting a movement.
B. The law is likely to make sure that parents take good care of their children.
C. Our aim is mainly to encourage parents to spend time with their children.
D. An American set up the organization.
E. It would give every parent of children under the age of 16 the right in law to a weekend day off each
week.
F. Our time is the most important thing that we can give our children.
G. Parents who do not share enough time with their children are to blame.

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                                             Pumpkin pie(南瓜馅饼) is a taste of home
     To the average American, pumpkin pie is a tasty and wonderful dish(一道菜). You couldn't have
Thanksgiving without it.
     For me, however, the smell of pumpkin pie baking in the oven brings other special feelings. My father was
in the army, so I moved house constantly as a child. I had no hometown. Before I could go to school or make
friends in one town, I'd be setting in another.
     There were so few things around me to give a feeling of home. When you're young, you don't know the
difference-you think moving is normal. It's only a long time later when you learn that most people have a
hometown they can return to and friends they've always known, but you don't. pumpkin pie was the one thing
that was always there and that's why it's special to me.
     Another reason I like it is that I was born on Halloween, October 31. Every time my birthday came around, we made a giant pumpkin lantern. And why give a kid a cake when there was all that pumpkin to use in a pie?
My mom put on her apron (围裙), and before long, pumpkin pie was the centerpiece of the party.
     Now, I can't help but feel good about life whenever I eat pumpkin pie. To me pumpkin pie is home.

1.The story mainly talks about _____.

A. why people celebrate Thanksgiving every year
B. why pumpkin pie is a popular dish on Thanksgiving
C. why the writer likes pumpkin pie so much
D. why people can't have Thanksgiving without pumpkin pie

2. Pumpkin pie is"home" to the writer because _____.

A. his father was in the army, so he moved house constantly as a child
B. he likes pumpkin pie so much that he eats it every Thanksgiving
C. he didn't have a settled home but he always ate Pumpkin pie wherever he went
D. he eats pumpkin pie on his birthday every year

3. Which of the following is NOT the reason why the writer likes pumpkin pie?

A. Pumpkin pie is the traditional food of Thanksgiving.
B. Pumpkin pie is a tasty and wonderful dish.
C. The writer always eats pumpkin pie on his birthday.
D. Pumpkin pie reminds the writer of home.

4. Which is the correct meaning about the underlined word "centerpiece" in paragraph 4?

A. A kind of decoration for the center of a table.
B. The most important item in dishes.
C. A works with great skills.
D. A common dish.

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     Habits are a funny thing. We reach for them mindlessly, setting our brains on autopilot and
relaxing into the unconscious comfort of familiar routine. "Not choice, but habit rules the
unreflecting creatures." William Wordsworth said in the 19th century. In the everchanging 21st
century, even the word "habit" carries a negative meaning.
    So it seems contradictory to talk about habits in the same context as innovation (创新). But
brain researchers have discovered that when we consciously develop new habits, we create
parallel paths, and even entirely new brain cells, that can jump our trains of thought onto new,
innovative tracks.
     Rather than dismissing ourselves as unchangeable creatures of habit, we can instead direct
our own change by consciously developing new habits. In fact, the more new things we try, the
more creative we become.
    But don't bother trying to kill off old habits; once those ruts of procedure are worn into the
brain, they're there to stay. Instead, the new habits we deliberately press into ourselves create
parallel pathways that can bypass those old roads.
     "The first thing needed for innovation is attraction to wonder," says Dawna Markova, author
of The Open Mind. "But we are taught instead to 'decide', just as our president calls himself 'the
Decider'. " She adds, "however  to decide is to kill off all possibilities but one. A good innovational
thinker is always exploring the many other possibilities."
     "All of us work through problems in ways of which we're unaware," she says. Researchers in
the late 1960s discovered that humans are born with the ability to approach challenges in four
primary ways : analytically, procedurally, collaboratively (合作地) and innovatively. At the end
of adolescence, however, the brain shuts down half of that ability, preserving only those ways of
thought that have seemed most valuable during the first decade or so of life.
     The current emphasis on standardized testing highlights analysis and procedure, meaning that
few of us use our innovative and collaborative ways of thought. "This breaks the major rule in the
American belief system that anyone can do anything," explains M. J. Ryan, author of the 2006
book This Year I Will... and Ms Markova's business partner. "That's a lie that we have preserved,
and it fosters commonness. Knowing what you're good at and doing even more of it create
excellence." This is where developing new habits comes in.