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Schools should ask students to evaluate their teachers. Do you agree or disagree? Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer.
Amazingly,though so many people regret the rising dropout rate,our schools continue to lack formal plans—or any plans—about students’ motivation.Most schools have no game plans to ensure that students understand that school will be completely necessary.Schools expect the children to act as the school is important,but they never teach them to believe that.
Years ago,families ensured that the offspring recognized the value of school.But in many modern families,the children may fail to recognize the importance of school life just because these families may actually tell the children that school is not important.Since many families are not motivating their children to be interested students,young professionals,like teachers,may need to provide this training.Otherwise,it is likely that the dropout rate will continue to not drop,but only worsen.
Here are some strategies to convince even the most apathetic students that they must stay in school.
Ask students if they will ever need to work:The world has changed.100 years ago,factory work was the booming job,and it required no education.Today,factories are increasingly automated.Most computerrelated jobs require education and at least a high school diploma.
Ask students which century they will be prepared for:In 1900,the most common jobs were farm laborer and domestic servant—education not needed.Now,the most common jobs are office and sales worker—education and diploma usually needed.6 out of 10 people today work in a store or an office.
Ask students to devise a way that the employee could be replaced.For example,the coming trend in fast food is to use computers rather than people to run the restaurant.A prototype is apparently already being tested.The students should discover that most jobs that lack education and diploma requirements will be ripe for automation.
1.By saying “the dropout rate isn’t dropping”,the author means to say that ________.
A、most of the 9th graders can afford to go to school
B、quite a few of the 9th graders can graduate
C、the majority of the 9th graders cannot graduate
D、the minority of the 9th graders can’t graduate
2.The author’s attitude towards the schools is ________.
A、Criticism
B、Praise
C、Ignoring
D、Support
3.With the help of some professionals,________.
A、fewer students may stay in schools
B、some parents will be more convinced of their children’s future
C、the dropout rate in schools may drop
D、all the kids problems should be solved
4.What does the underlined word “offspring” probably mean?
A、friends
B、Students
C、Children
D、Parents
5.According to the passage,________ doesn’t need education.
A、an automation job of today
B、a computerrelated job now
C、an office job at present
D、a domestic servant’s job in 1900
The School of Continuing and Professional Studies of New York University in Manhattan began online classes in 1992. Its Virtual School has taught more than 10,000 students from across the United States and other countries.
Last year,the school launched NYU Online. It offers NYU's first online programs for a bachelor's degree. Programs are offered in three areas:leadership and management,information systems management and social sciences. The classes are highly interactive,where students communicate with each other and their teachers. Some classes require students to log in at the same time 80 they can attend live lectures by a professor. Students can also ask questions and work together on team projects.
The cost to attend NYU Online depends on how many classes a student is to take. It costs as much as fifteen thousand dollars a year. NYU offers no financial aid for international students in this program. If you are interested in the program,you can get more details at the website:www. nyu. edu.
Many other schools,too,offer online education. Students should be especially careful of programs that offer a degree in return for little or no work. These are known as diploma mills,and are illegal in the United States.
Educational advisers also say that before you enter any program,make sure the work will be recognized in your country. You should also make sure the schools you are considering are officially approved.
The third paragraph is mainly about the______of the programs of the School.
A.academic goal and system
B.courses and learning mode
C.learning methods and classes
D.courses and requirements
TEXT D
Sending a child to school in England is a step which many parents do not find easy to take. In theory, at least, the problem is that there are very many choices to make. Let us try to list some of the alternatives between which parents are forced to decide. To begin with, they may ask themselves whether they would like their child to go to a single-sex school or a co-educational school. They may also consider whether he should go to a school which is connected to a particular church or religious group, or whether the school should have no such connections. Another decision is Whether the school should be one of the vast majority financed by the State or one of the very small but influential minority of private schools, though this choice is, of course, only available to the small number of those who can pay. Also connected with the question of money is whether the child should go to a boarding school or live at home. Then there is the question of what the child should do at school. Should it be a school whose curriculum lays emphasis, for instance, on necessary skills, such as reading, writing and mathematics, or one which pays more attention to developing the child’s personality, morally, emotionally and socially. Finally, with dissatisfaction with conventional education as great as it is in some circles in England and certainly in the USA, the question might even arise in the parents’ minds as to whether the child should be compelled to go to school at all. Although in practice, some parents may not think twice about any of these choices and send their child to the only school available in the immediate neighbourhood, any parent who is interested enough can insist that as many choices as possible be made open to him, and the system is theoretically supposed to provide them.
78. Parents find choosing a school hard because___.
A. there is a limited number of choices
B. some schools are very expensive
C. some schools are government schools
D. they are faced with a variety of offers
Now those 【21】______ seem hopelessly old-fashioned: this Christmas, there were a lot of 【22】______ computers under the tree. 【23】______ that computers are their key to success, parents are also frantically insisting that children 【24】______ taught to use them on school—as early as possible. The problem for schools is that when it 【25】______ computers, parents don’t always know best. Many schools are 【26】______ parental impatience and are purchasing hardware without 【27】______ educational planning, so they can say, OK, we've moved into the computer age. Teachers 【28】______ themselves caught in the middle of the problem — between parent pressure and 【29】______ educational decisions.
Educators do not even agree 【30】______ how computers should be used. A lot of money is going for computerized educational materials 【31】______ research has shown can be taught 【32】______ with pencil and paper. Even those who believe that all children should 【33】______ to computer warn of potential 【34】______ to the very young.
The temptation remains strong largely because young children 【35】______ so well to computers. First graders have been 【36】______ willing to work for two hours on math skills. Some have an attention span of 20 minutes.
【37】______ school, however, can afford to go into computing, and that creates 【38】______ another problem: a division between the have’s and havenot’s. Very few parents ask 【39】______ computer instruction in poor school districts, 【40】______ there may be barely enough money to pay the reading teacher.
【21】
A.items
B.toys
C.sets
D.series
So why, reading experts ask, do schools expect children to read — and love to read — when they are given material that is frequently too hard for them?
Science and social studies textbooks arc at least a grade above the reading levels of many students, experts say, and in some suburban and urban school systems, reading lists can include books hard for some adults to tackle.
Toni Morrison's award-winning novel "Beloved," about a former slave' s decision to kill her child rather than see her enslaved, is on some middle schools' lists for kids to read unassisted. And elementary schools sometimes ask students to read books such as "The Bridge to Terabithia," with themes about death and gender roles that librarians say are better suited for older children.
To be sure, pushing some students to challenge themselves is important, educators say. But there are points where kids read books before they can truly comprehend them and then lose the beauty of the work.
"Teachers studied ' The Great Gatsby' in college and then want to teach that book because they have smart things to say about it, and they teach it in high school," Catkins said. "Then schools want to get their middle school kids ready for high school so they teach them ' The Catcher in the Rye.' It' s a whole cultural thing."
In large part, he Richard Allington, a leading researcher on reading instruction and a professor of reading education at the University of Tennessee, blames inappropriately chosen books for students' reading woes, especially in school systems where large percentages of children read below grade level. The average fifth-grade student in Detroit and Baltimore, for example, reads at a third-grade level, he said, but schools still give them fifth-grade core reading and social studies texts.
That, he said, crushes a child' s motivation.
"If you made me education magician and I had one thing that l could pull off, it would be that every kid in this country had a desk full of books that they could actually read accurately, fluently, with comprehension," he said.
Soft Sinozich, a seventh-grader in the Humanities and Communications Magnet Program at Eastern Middle School in Montgomery County, said she would like to be assigned books that speak to her.
In sixth-grade English, "graphic novels [were] excluded, which annoyed many of us," said Sofi, who is partial to Japanese comics called manga because she finds the style. beautiful and the stories well done.
Many teachers exclude graphic novels and comics from reading lists, even though a graphic novel was nominated for the National Book Award this year. And Archbishop Desmond Tutu, a Nobel Peace Prize winner, has said he learned to read through comics after his schoolmaster father disregarded others who said they would lead to no good.
So should kids read Shakespeare or the comics? Graphic novels or "To Kill a Mockingbird"? Reading experts say they should read everything — when they are ready to understand what they are reading.
The novel "Beloved" of Toni Morrison is cited as an example to show that this book is —. for children to read.
A.easy
B.difficult
C.suitable
D.bad
Passage Two
Questions 26 to 30 are based on the following passage.
Online learning is also called distance education, which helps students who take classes by computer over the Internet to learn certain courses and earn a degree. And it has become more and more popular with both young people and educational institutions.
The School of Continuing and Professional Studies of New York University in Manhattan began online classes in 1992. Its Virtual School has taught more than 10,000 students from across the United States and other countries.
Last year,the school launched NYU Online. It offers NYU's first online Programs for a bachelor's degree. Programs are offered in three areas; leadership And management, information systems management and social sciences. The classes are highly interactive where students communicate with each other and their teachers. Some classes require students to log in at the same time so they can attend live lectures by a professor Students can also ask questions and work together on team projects.
The cost to attend NYU Online depends on how many classes a student is to take It costs as much as fifteen thousand dollars a year. NYU offers no financial aid for international students in this program. If you are interested in the program, you can gel more details at the website: www..nyu.edu. Many other schools, too, offer online education. Students should be especially careful of programs that offer a degree in return for little or no work. These are known as diploma mills, and are illegal in the United States.
Educational advisers also say that before you enter any program, make sure the work will be recognized in your country. You should also make sure the schools you are considering are officially approved.
26. The third paragraph is mainly about the __ of the programs of the School.
A. academic goal and system
B. courses and learning mode
C. learning methods and classes
D. courses and requirements
A.Stricter discipline should be maintained in schools and families.
B.More good examples should be set for people to follow.
C.More restrictions should be imposed on people' s behavior.
D.More people should accept the value of responsibility.
听力原文: When my son Ryan saw a T-shirt on sale for 5 dollars marked down from 8, he told me, "We'll save 3 dollars if we buy it now." He looked at me in surprise when I answered, "We'll save 5 dollars if we don't buy it at all,"
Today's children get lots of messages and values from television and from friends. They are encouraged to buy things they don't need. What they need is an understanding of the value of the dollar. How do children learn the important facts of life? Most schools do not teach them. It is up to parents to help their children.
To learn about money children need to have some, Early on, parents often handed out money on an as-needed basis. But experts say paying certain amount of money each week is the best way to teach children the meaning of money, how to use it and how to plan.
But how much should the parents give? Some experts suggest giving one dollar for each year of age, but Dr. Olivia Mellan disagrees: "I think 5 dollars a week is too much for a 5-year-old, and 15 dollars is probably not enough for a 15-year-old." What's right depends on three things: the child's level of development, how much yon can give, and what you expect him to pay for.
However much you give them, children will soon feel they need more. But Sharon M. Danes, a professor at the University of Minnesota, insists that children don't need a raise each year; "There's no lesson to be learned when children expect an increase just because they are a year older," she says. "What they should learn is how to be good money earners, savers and spenders."
(33)
A.To save 3 dollars.
B.To buy it at once.
C.To ask 3 dollars from the parent.
D.To save 5 dollars.
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