1、阅读下面短文,请从短文后所给各题的4个选项(A、B、C、D)中选出1个最佳选项。 What's Wrong with Our Teaching? Testing has replaced teaching in most public schools. My own children's school week is focused on pretests, drills, tests, and retests. I believe that my daughter Erica, who gets excellent marks，has never read a chapter of any of her school textbooks all the way through. And teachers are often heard to state proudly and openly that they teach to the mandated state test. Teaching to the test is a strange phenomenon. Instead of deciding what skills students ought to learn, helping students learn them, and then using some sensible methods of assessment (评估)to discover whether students have mastered the skills, teachers are encouraged to reverse the process. First one looks at a test. Then one draws the skills needed not to master, say, reading, but to do well on the test. Finally, the test skills are taught. The ability to read or write or calculate might imply the ability to do reasonably well on standardized tests. However, neither reading nor writing develops simply through being taught to take tests. We must be careful to avoid mistaking preparation for a test of a skill with the acquisition of that skill. Too many discussions of basic skills make this fundamental confusion because people are obsessed rather than concerned with the nature and quality of what is taught. Recently many schools have faced with what could be called the crisis of comprehension or, in simple terms, the phenomenon of students with grammar skills still being unable to understand what they read. These students are good at test taking, but they have little or no experience reading or thinking, and talking about what they read. They are taught to be so concerned with grade that they have no time or ease of mind to think about meaning and reread things if necessary. 问：The author gives an account of Erica's performance in her study in order to（ ） . 单选题 2分

2、阅读下面短文,请从短文后所给各题的4个选项(A、B、C、D)中选出1个最佳选项。 What's Wrong with Our Teaching? Testing has replaced teaching in most public schools. My own children's school week is focused on pretests, drills, tests, and retests. I believe that my daughter Erica, who gets excellent marks，has never read a chapter of any of her school textbooks all the way through. And teachers are often heard to state proudly and openly that they teach to the mandated state test. Teaching to the test is a strange phenomenon. Instead of deciding what skills students ought to learn, helping students learn them, and then using some sensible methods of assessment (评估)to discover whether students have mastered the skills, teachers are encouraged to reverse the process. First one looks at a test. Then one draws the skills needed not to master, say, reading, but to do well on the test. Finally, the test skills are taught. The ability to read or write or calculate might imply the ability to do reasonably well on standardized tests. However, neither reading nor writing develops simply through being taught to take tests. We must be careful to avoid mistaking preparation for a test of a skill with the acquisition of that skill. Too many discussions of basic skills make this fundamental confusion because people are obsessed rather than concerned with the nature and quality of what is taught. Recently many schools have faced with what could be called the crisis of comprehension or, in simple terms, the phenomenon of students with grammar skills still being unable to understand what they read. These students are good at test taking, but they have little or no experience reading or thinking, and talking about what they read. They are taught to be so concerned with grade that they have no time or ease of mind to think about meaning and reread things if necessary. 问：Which of the following is true according to the passage? 单选题 2分

3、阅读下面短文,请从短文后所给各题的4个选项(A、B、C、D)中选出1个最佳选项。 What's Wrong with Our Teaching? Testing has replaced teaching in most public schools. My own children's school week is focused on pretests, drills, tests, and retests. I believe that my daughter Erica, who gets excellent marks，has never read a chapter of any of her school textbooks all the way through. And teachers are often heard to state proudly and openly that they teach to the mandated state test. Teaching to the test is a strange phenomenon. Instead of deciding what skills students ought to learn, helping students learn them, and then using some sensible methods of assessment (评估)to discover whether students have mastered the skills, teachers are encouraged to reverse the process. First one looks at a test. Then one draws the skills needed not to master, say, reading, but to do well on the test. Finally, the test skills are taught. The ability to read or write or calculate might imply the ability to do reasonably well on standardized tests. However, neither reading nor writing develops simply through being taught to take tests. We must be careful to avoid mistaking preparation for a test of a skill with the acquisition of that skill. Too many discussions of basic skills make this fundamental confusion because people are obsessed rather than concerned with the nature and quality of what is taught. Recently many schools have faced with what could be called the crisis of comprehension or, in simple terms, the phenomenon of students with grammar skills still being unable to understand what they read. These students are good at test taking, but they have little or no experience reading or thinking, and talking about what they read. They are taught to be so concerned with grade that they have no time or ease of mind to think about meaning and reread things if necessary. 问：The author insists that（ ）. 单选题 2分

4、阅读下面短文,请从短文后所给各题的4个选项(A、B、C、D)中选出1个最佳选项。 What's Wrong with Our Teaching? Testing has replaced teaching in most public schools. My own children's school week is focused on pretests, drills, tests, and retests. I believe that my daughter Erica, who gets excellent marks，has never read a chapter of any of her school textbooks all the way through. And teachers are often heard to state proudly and openly that they teach to the mandated state test. Teaching to the test is a strange phenomenon. Instead of deciding what skills students ought to learn, helping students learn them, and then using some sensible methods of assessment (评估)to discover whether students have mastered the skills, teachers are encouraged to reverse the process. First one looks at a test. Then one draws the skills needed not to master, say, reading, but to do well on the test. Finally, the test skills are taught. The ability to read or write or calculate might imply the ability to do reasonably well on standardized tests. However, neither reading nor writing develops simply through being taught to take tests. We must be careful to avoid mistaking preparation for a test of a skill with the acquisition of that skill. Too many discussions of basic skills make this fundamental confusion because people are obsessed rather than concerned with the nature and quality of what is taught. Recently many schools have faced with what could be called the crisis of comprehension or, in simple terms, the phenomenon of students with grammar skills still being unable to understand what they read. These students are good at test taking, but they have little or no experience reading or thinking, and talking about what they read. They are taught to be so concerned with grade that they have no time or ease of mind to think about meaning and reread things if necessary. 问：By "crisis of comprehension" the author means many students（ ）. 单选题 2分

5、阅读下面短文,请从短文后所给各题的4个选项(A、B、C、D)中选出1个最佳选项。 What's Wrong with Our Teaching? Testing has replaced teaching in most public schools. My own children's school week is focused on pretests, drills, tests, and retests. I believe that my daughter Erica, who gets excellent marks，has never read a chapter of any of her school textbooks all the way through. And teachers are often heard to state proudly and openly that they teach to the mandated state test. Teaching to the test is a strange phenomenon. Instead of deciding what skills students ought to learn, helping students learn them, and then using some sensible methods of assessment (评估)to discover whether students have mastered the skills, teachers are encouraged to reverse the process. First one looks at a test. Then one draws the skills needed not to master, say, reading, but to do well on the test. Finally, the test skills are taught. The ability to read or write or calculate might imply the ability to do reasonably well on standardized tests. However, neither reading nor writing develops simply through being taught to take tests. We must be careful to avoid mistaking preparation for a test of a skill with the acquisition of that skill. Too many discussions of basic skills make this fundamental confusion because people are obsessed rather than concerned with the nature and quality of what is taught. Recently many schools have faced with what could be called the crisis of comprehension or, in simple terms, the phenomenon of students with grammar skills still being unable to understand what they read. These students are good at test taking, but they have little or no experience reading or thinking, and talking about what they read. They are taught to be so concerned with grade that they have no time or ease of mind to think about meaning and reread things if necessary. 问：We can safely conclude that （ ） many cause educational problems. 单选题 2分

6、下面的短文有5处空白,短文后有6个句子,其中5个取自短文,请根据短文内容将其分别放回原有位置,以恢复文章原貌。 Heritage Home School Children are our future, and it's up to us to arm them with the tools to succeed. Sadly, today's children are being armed with more dangerous tools like weapons, drugs and gangs. （1） Home schools are available to give you choices. （2） At Heritage Home School we believe the choice should be yours. Thanks in part to modern technology home schooling information is becoming readily available across our nation. A recent study by the ITBS (Iowa Tests of Basic Skills) and TAP (Tests of Achievement and Proficiency) shows us that students of home schools do particularly well when compared with the nationwide average. （3） If you're new to home schooling, you may be asking yourself, "Will home schools really work for my children?" （4）The study found that students of home schooling are scoring, on average, at or above the80th percentile (百分位数) in all areas on standardized achievement test. The national average on standardized achievement tests is the 50th percentile. Collectively, the staff at Heritage Home School brings 65 years of experience in home schooling curriculum. （5） One study found that of the home schooled adults, 0%o were unemployed, 0%o were on welfare and 94%o said home education prepared them to be independent persons. For more home schooling information, call us today at 1(877)532-7665. A. Home schooling provides top-quality education flexibility, and freedom to create your own schedule. B. We’ve placed students in the top 2%o of the nation in math and many are successfully moving on to college. C. There is a nationwide study using a random (随机) selection of 1, 516 families. D. Once a relatively peaceful environment, many schoolyards of today are becoming unsafe for both students and teachers. E. In every subject at every grade level students of home schooling scored obviously higher than those in public and private schools. F. We are committed to offer a wide range of the highest quality home school 简答题 10分

7、下面的短文有10处空白,每处空白后的括号内有一个词,请根据短文内容将其正确的形式填入文中,以恢复文章原貌。 The Best Place to Be Born in the World Last year, the EIU (Economist Intelligence Unit), a sister company of the Economist, attempted to measure how well countries will provide the best opportunities for （1）(health), safe and prosperous life in years to come. People born in Switzerland will tend to be the （2）(happy) and have the best quality of life judged in terms of （3）(wealthy), health and trust in public institutions, according to the （4）(analyze). The index links the results of subjective life--satisfaction surveys how happy people say they are— to objective determinants of quality of life across countries. One of the most important factors is being rich, but other factors come into play起作用)-including crime, trust in public institutions and the health of family life. In total, the index takes into account 11 （5）(indicate). These include （6）( fix)factors such as geography others that change slowly over time such as demography(人口统计), social and （7）(culture)characteristics and the state of the world （8）(economic). （9）(interesting), the largest European economies -Germany France and Britain-do not （10）(good). Nigeria has the unenviable （不值得羡慕的）title of being the worst do particularly country for a baby to enter the world in 2013. 简答题 20分