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Teachers of elementary schools are giving more weight to nurturing a student’s talent in China.
A

exaggerating

B

confining

C

probing

D

developing


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句意:中国的小学老师开始重视培养孩子的能力。nurture的意思是“养育;鼓励;培植”。exaggerate夸张,夸大。confine限制。probe调查;探测。
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考题 Questions 16 to 20 are based on the following passage. In a time of low academic achievement by children in the United States, many Americans are turning to Japan, a country of high academic achievement and economic success, for possible answers. However, the answers provided by Japanese preschools are not the ones Americans expected to find. In most Japanese preschools, surprisingly little emphasis is put on academic instruction. In one investigation, 300 Japanese and 210 American preschool teachers, child development specialists, and parents were asked about various aspects of early childhood education. Only 2 percent of the Japanese respondents (答问卷者) listed “to give children a good start academically” as one of their top three reasons for a society to have preschools. In contrast, over half the American respondents chose this as one of their top three choices. To prepare children for successful careers in first grade and beyond, Japanese schools do not teach reading, writing, and mathematics, but rather skills such as persistence, concentration, and the ability to function as a member of a group. The vast majority of young Japanese children are taught to read at home by their parents. In the recent comparison of Japanese and American preschool education, 91 percent of Japanese respondents chose providing children with a group experience as one of their top three reasons for a society to have preschools. Sixty-two percent of the more individually oriented (强调个性发展的) Americans listed group experience as one of their top three choices. An emphasis on the importance of the group seen in Japanese early childhood education continues into elementary school education. Like in America, there is diversity in Japanese early childhood education. Some Japanese kindergartens have specific aims, such as early musical training or potential development. In large cities, some kindergartens are attached to universities that have elementary and secondary schools. Some Japanese parents believe that if their young children attend a university-based program, it will increase the children’s chances of eventually being admitted to top-rated schools and universities. Several more progressive programs have introduced free play as a way out for the heavy intellectualizing in some Japanese kindergartens. In Japan’s preschool education, the focus is on ()A、preparing children academicallyB、developing children’s artistic interestsC、tapping children’s potentialD、shaping children’s character

考题 单选题The beginning sentence “Good teachers matter.” can mainly be explained as which of the following?A Good teachers help students establish confidence.B Good teachers determine the personality of students.C Good teachers promote student achievement.D Good teachers treat students as their own children.

考题 问答题It’s hard to get more white-fenced than Naperville. In the western Chicago suburb, crime is an annoyance, not a problem. The streets are clean and the schools are some of the most impressive in the state, producing some of the brightest students who attend the nation’s best colleges. (1)____________.  The rankings will be phased out over the next year, with 2007’s upperclassmen deciding whether to include such a rank in their official transcripts. By no longer ranking students, the Naperville School District 203 is squarely in line with a trend that is fast sweeping the nation, as more and more private and public schools are dropping the practice. The goal, proponents say, is to cut down on the hyper-competition and lessen the stress at such a critical learning point and maturation curve in kids’ lives.  “It’s a high bar we set, and it should be,” said Naperville Superintendent Alan Leis. “But there needs to be more than wrestling over who’s better than who.” (2)______________.  Some 80% or more public schools still report rankings to inquiring universities and colleges, but a growing number of high schools in the Chicago area and around the country—in mostly affluent districts from California to Miami to New Jersey—have already adopted the practice. (3)_______________. Even in Naperville, a valedictorian is still expected to address the class, but that honor is not chosen until the last weeks of a school year and is not forwarded on to schools in official transcripts.  (4)_______________. According to Dr. Scott Hunter, a clinical psychologist and school consultant at the University of Chicago Hospitals who specializes in pediatric neuropsychology. “The reality is that we have made in the last 10 years more of rank than it deserves because some kids don’t really shine until they enter into adulthood, and they risk being ignored by the very places and people where they could greatly succeed,” adds Hunter, “ This is an artificial number in terms of where a person really falls.”  (5)___________________.  “It makes it a little more opaque for us on the admissions side, but we fully understand it,” said Jim Miller, director of admissions at Brown University. “It’s conceivable a student could get a B in gym and get knocked down 40 places in rank. So we’re getting more used to it, and probably half our applicants now come from schools that don’t have rank. “  [A] Class rankings, a tradition at many schools, have long helped universities and colleges—especially the Harvards and Princetons of the world—weed out the weak students from the strong, the ones with not only promise but the ambition to excel and meet the difficulties of higher education.  [B] But it’s vicious at the top—so much so that Naperville’s school officials recently voted to stop using a class ranking system.  [C] A much higher number of private schools do not share their rankings, including some independent schools in Chicago that, for example, have societies that recognize the top 10% of a class but choose to allow the students themselves dictate who speaks at graduation.  [D] Competitions among students for the title of honored graduates are very tight and are on the rise in a great number of private schools.  [E] Schools just have to make certain, through student profiles and other means, the strength of a schedule and student performance relative to other students.  [F] Not surprisingly, there is still lots of disagreement about the new policy; some parents are worried that it hurts high-achieving students’ chances of getting over the bar, while forcing colleges and universities to rely on perhaps less reliable or easier measures or on standardized tests like the ACT or SAT.  [G] Students and their parents increasingly fight over who gets to be number one, and the damage that can be done—both academically and psychologically—to those who lose out far wins the benefits of the glory attached to such titles.(此文选自Time 2006年刊)

考题 单选题According to the passage one of the problems for pupils entering secondary schools is that ______.A they are taught by many different teachersB they do not attend lessons in every subjectC the teachers do not want to be friendlyD the teachers give most attention to the more academic pupils

考题 单选题Virtual reality can help future teachers learn how to _____.A assess students’ skill levelsB respond to individual student’s needsC deal with students who misbehaveD run an orderly classroom

考题 单选题According to the author, teachers in school should _____.A allow children to learn from each otherB point out children's mistakes whenever foundC correct children's mistakes as soon as possibleD give children more book knowledge

考题 单选题Now little has been done to ______.A decide a student’s jobB test a student’s abilityC test a student’s knowledgeD test a student’s memory

考题 单选题Lucy is a (n) ______ student. She answers the teachers’ questions ______ in her class.A more active; more activelyB active; more activelyC more active; the most activelyD active ; the most actively