If I had the ability to change one thing about American society, my decision would not be

第1题

Mathematical ability and musical ability may not seem on the surface to be connected, but

people who have researched the subject—and studied the brain—say that riley are. Three quarters of the bright but speech-delayed children in the group I studied had a close relative who was an-engineer, mathematician or scientist and four fifths had a close relative who played a musical instrument. The children themselves usually took readily to math and other analytical subjects and to music.

Black, white and Asian children in this group show the same patterns. However, it is clear that blacks have been greatly overrepresented in the development of American popular music and greatly underrepresented in such fields as mathematics, science and engineering.

If the abilities required in analytical fields and in music are so closely related, how can there be this great discrepancy？ One reason is that the development of mathematical and other such abilities requires years of formal schooling, while certain musical talents can be developed with little or no formal training, as has happened with a number of well-known black musicians.

It is precisely in those kinds of music where one can acquire great skill without formal training that blacks have excelled popular music rather than classical music, piano rather than violin, blues rather than opera. This is readily understandable, given that most blacks, for most of American history, have not had either the money or the leisure for long years of formal study in music.

Blacks have not merely held their own in American popular music. They have played a disproportionately large role in the development of jazz, both traditional and modern. A long string of names comes to mind—Louis Armstrong, Charlie Parker... and so on.

None of this presupposes any special innate (先天的) ability of blacks in music. On the contrary, it is perfectly consisted with blacks having no more such inborn ability than anyone else, but being limited to being able to express such ability in narrower channels than others who have had the money, the time and the formal education to spread out over a wider ranger of music, as well as into mathematics, science and engineering.

What is the main idea of the first paragraph？

A．Mathematical ability and musical ability are connected.

B．Mathematical ability has more to do with the brain than musical ability.

C．More people are good at music than math.

D．More research should be done into the relationship between mathematical ability and musical ability.

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第2题

I found my father a very hard man to understand when I was young. He was very short and th

in and had large blue eyes. I could have loved him as I did my mother, but he seemed to hold us off so that we could not approach him or sit on his knee as love to do. I believe he had a hard life as a child, and I know that he left school at the age of ten and started to work. This made him an unsociable man, unfriendly even to the people closest to him. I never knew him to have a close friend as the other men did.

Everything he did had to be precise. If he chopped the sticks for the fire, each stick would be the same length and thickness as all the others, and they would all be stacked without one out of place. His motto was “ If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing well”. In our household his word was law and nobody dared dispute it.

He worked hard when in a job and saw to it that we children learned the meaning of work. My mother did not have much pleasure but I do not remember her ever complaining ---- except on Sunday afternoons when father would take off his clothes and get into bed, leaving her to mend his working clothes while he had his rest. This she disliked very much, for the clothes were dirty from the work he had been doing and she hated handling anything that was not clean.

The writer found it difficult to understand her father because he ____.

A.looked distant

B.rejected affection

C.ill-treated the family

D.hated keeping company with children

What did the writer think made her father unsociable？A.An unhappy childhood

B.A lack of friends

C.No interest in hobbies

D.Not smoking or drinking

What was particular about the sticks for the fire chopped by her father？A.They were arranged in a patter

B.They were chopped in only one place

C.They were similar in length

D.They all weighed the same

The writer’s father believed that ____.A.you should only do things for which you have the ability

B.only important jobs are worth doing well

C.you should only attempt worthwhile jobs

D.anything you do should be done to your best ability

What did the writer’s mother dislike about Sunday afternoons？A.Working while her husband rested

B.Repairing her husband’s clothes.

C.Not being able to derive any pleasure from what she herself found delightful.

D.Touching unclean clothes.

请帮忙给出每个问题的正确答案和分析，谢谢！

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第3题

My kids take a lot of pride in being ahead of their friends in their best subjects.With

children who have learning disabilities, however, it is easy to underestimate (低估) their abilities, simply because it can be so difficult for them to show what they know.My son recently does a good job at the public school for his learning disabilities, and I was shocked to realize how excellent he was in many of his subjects.Because he couldn't give me good written answers to the questions, I hadn't realized how much he knew.I took away the sixth grade history book he and his sister were using and gave them both high school books, with the expectation that we would move up to college books next year if they did well.

Reading is their strongest subject, but I had not realized they had college reading abilities until they were tested.Both children enjoy history more, and my son likes to carry his history book to the grade school, where he attends part time.When his classmates do their grade school history, he pulls out his high school book and works independently from it.Surprisingly, this has also increased his ability to fit into his public school class.He was the youngest child in his class, has some disabilities, including speech disorders, and hadn't been in public school since first grade.He had complained that the public school class he had longed to try was boring, but after I increased his challenges at home, he seemed to adapt better at public school as well, choosing to participate more in the group activities, and making new friends.

36.According to the passage, which of the following belong to learning disability？

A.Being unable to say clearly.

B.Being unable to say anything.

C.Being unable to read anything.

D.Being unable to write anything.

37.Which statement can describe the mother's feeling when she found how excellent her son was in many of his subjects？

A.She is painful

B.She is excited

C.She is surprised

D.She is indifferent(无动于衷)

38.___is the strongest subject for the writer's son.

A .Listening

B.Speaking

C.Writing

D.Reading

39.According to the passage, which statement is NOT true？

A.My son has never been to public school.

B.My son has done well in many of his subjects.

C.It is difficult for those with learning disability to express clearly.

D.It is easy to underestimate the abilities of those with learning disability.

40.What is reason for the mother's underestimating his own son's ability？

A.Because she pays on attention to it.

B.Because the boy shows it in a wrong way.

C.Because the mother has difficulty to understand her son.

D.Because it can be so difficult for them to show what they know.

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第4题

Examinations have a longer history in China than in any other country

, yet it is today an issue around in which controversy flourishes. At each stage of their school lives children are faced with exams: exams to enter junior middle school, senior middle school, vocational school, colleges and universities. As a result of having constantly to think of these hurdles facing them children find themselves under constant pressure, unable to take time off from studying exam-oriented subjects to relax with friends or to develop other interests. Within school the concentration on exam success leads to the neglect of courses which are not central to the examinations and a method of teaching and learning which emphasizes training the ability to do well in tests but neglects developing the ability to think creatively.

Despite such criticisms the examination system still has its defenders. Without it, they argue, how can we test students' abilities and evaluate the effectiveness of teachers and schools？ They believe that they provide the only objective way of selecting students and reduce the exercise of unfair back-door practices to gain advantage for children on the basis of influence or corruption. Examinations are also felt to offer the impetus to students to master their subject in a way in which they otherwise might not. "While too much anxiety can be a bad thing, a little anxiety can stimulate students to learn better than if left without any test to pass," says Li Jie, a leading advocate of the value of testing. "I can remember things now which give me great pleasure which I doubt I would have learned at the time if I had not had to do so for the examinations."

57. Which of the following statements about examinations in China is correct？

[A] People can make money out of examinations.

[B] Only students of today have to take examinations.

[C] Students have to learn more about history than about any other subjects.

[D] People have different opinions concerning the value of examinations.

58. What is a possible result if students pay too much attention to examinations？

[A] Students neglect those exam-oriented subjects.

[B] Students are unable to relax with friends or to develop other interests.

[C] Teachers neglect the training of the students' ability to do well in tests.

[D] Students only pay attention to the development of their ability to think creatively.

59. Which of the following has NOT been mentioned as the advantage of examinations？

[A] Examinations are the only objective way of selecting students.

[B] Examinations are the only objective way to eliminate the problem of corruption.

[C] Examinations can tell us that too much anxiety can be a bad thing.

[D] Examinations can better stimulate students to study.

60. According to the passage, why are some people against exams？

[A] They are meaningless.

[B] They will make students learn something useless.

[C] They are believed to cause stress for the students.

[D] They are not related to the reality of life.

61. Which of the following is an acceptable summary of the organization of this passage？

[A] Discussing a problem in education.

[B] Refuting a long held opinion.

[C] Persuading people to believe an idea.

[D] Presenting a controversial issue and arguments from both sides.

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第5题

根据以下材料，回答题。A Success StoryAt 19， Ben Way is already a millionaire， and one of a

根据以下材料，回答题。

A Success Story

At 19， Ben Way is already a millionaire， and one of a growing number of teenagers who have（51 ） their fortune through the Internet.（52） makes Ben"s story all the more remarkable is that he is dyslexic， and was（53） by teachers at his junior school that he would never be able to read or write（54）."I wanted to prove them（55）"，says Ben， creator and director of Waysearch， a net search engine which can be used

（56） find goods in online shopping malls.

When he was eight， his local authorities provided him with a PC to help with school work.Although he was（57） to read the ，manuals， he had a natural ability with the computer，and（58） by his father， he soon began（59） people ~ 10 an hour for hisknowledge and skills. At the age of 15 he（60） up his own computer consultancy， Quad Computer， which he ran from his bedroom， and two years later he left school to（61） all his time to business.

"By this time the company had grown and ! needed to take on a（62） of employees to help me"， says Ben. "That enabled me to start doing business with（63） companies. " It was his ability to consistently.（64） difficult challenges that led him to win the Young Entrepreneur of the Year award in the same year that he formed Waysearch， and he has recently signed a deal（65） 25 million with a private investment company， which will finance his search engine.

请在第__（51）__处填上正确答案。查看材料

A.taken

B.made

C.put

D.done

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第6题

He had the ______ over other boys of having had very good preschool education。A. abil

A. ability

B. advantage

C. aggression

D. alternative

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第7题

Einstein had （genius）.选择能代替括号里的选项。（）

A.skill

B.ability

C.talent

D.capacity

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第8题

The president acknowledged that he had somehow () in his ability to communicate to the American people.

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第9题

After a long journey from Quebec，Canada in l896，1 was finally in a small office in Kingston

After a long journey from Quebec，Canada in l896，1 was finally in a small office in Kingston，Jamaica.Behind a long table piled with books and papers sat an old man，Mr.Campbell，my new employer and the owner of The Lantern. He stared at me so long，and with such an expression of amazement，that I became uneasy and embarrassed.And then at last a single sentence came from his lips, “My God!” It seems that he had expected a woman of the then approved type of bluestocking(女知识分子)，and now a baby had been dropped into his lap!

I sat alone with that old man who stared at me as if l were some person of a strange nature.After he had almost stared me down，he began to ask me questions.

“How old are you？”

“Seventeen.I mean—I’m going on eighteen.”Eighteen was，in fact，eleven months off.

‘‘Have you ever worked before？’’

“I’ve written things.’’

After a silent moment，during which he glared at me more angrily than ever, he demanded：

“What have you written？”

“Poetry, ” I said, and stopped because he said again in that lost voice，‘‘My God!”

“What else？”

“I had a story published in The Star,” I said. “I’ve got it here, if you’d like to see it.”

He made a motion of definite disagreement.

“I taught myself shorthand，’’I said，‘‘and I can take dictation as fast as you can talk.”

“Not a bad idea.” And then he added，“What do you think you are going to do here？”

“Write for your paper，”I said.

“What？”he inquired curiously.

“Why-anything-poetry-”

He waved his hand in such a dismissing manner that I got up, though it was my poetry, not I, he wished to be rid of just then. I went neaner to him and said, “I know you don’t want me an I don’t want to stay. I am dory I came.”

“What about the money I paid for you to came here？”he shouted. “I’m going to lose that？”

21.Mr.Campbell had expected_____.

A.an experienced nurse

B.all experienced journalist

C.a journalist with a baby

D.a young female secretary

22.The girl tried to impress the owner of the paper with_____.

A.her experience

B.her innocence

C.a younger age

D.an older age

23.Mr.Campbell showed some interest in the girl’s ability to_____.

A.compose poems

B.write stories

C.take dictation

D.travel alone

24.Based on the information provided in the passage，Mr.Campbell would probably _____.

A.give the girl the position

B.send the girl back to America

C.ask the girl to show him her poems

D.publish the girl’s poems and stones

25.On the whole，Mr.Campbell was_____.

A.pleased with his new employee

B.amazed by the girl’s literary talent

C.dissatisfied with the girl’s experience

D.angry with the rude manner of the girl

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第10题

After the accident it took a long time before she had the _______ to get back in a ca

A.time

B.confidence

C.opportunity

D.ability

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