云南省昆明市2014高考英语一轮 阅读理解训练题(9).doc
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1、昆明市2014高考英语(阅读理解)一轮训练题(9)及答案阅读下列短文,从每题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中,选出最佳选项。AGoing to school means learning new skills and facts in different subjects. Teachers teach and students learn, and many scientists are interested in finding ways to improve both teaching and learning processes. Sian Beilock and Susan Lev
2、ing, two psychologists at the University of Chicago, are trying to learn about learning. In a new study about the way kids learn math in elementary school, Beilock and Levine found a surprising relationship between what female teachers think and what female students learn: If a female teacher is unc
3、omfortable with her own math skills, then her female students are more likely to believe that boys are better than girls at math. “If these girls keep getting math-anxious female teachers in later grades, it may create a snowball effect on their math achievement,” Levine told Science News. The study
4、 suggests that if these girls grow up believing that boys are better at math than girls are, then these girls may not do as well as they would have if they were more confident. Just as students find certain subjects to be difficult, teachers can find certain subjects to be difficult to learnand teac
5、h. The subject of math can be particularly difficult for everyone. The new study involved 65 girls, 52 boys and 17 first-and second-grade teachers in elementary schools in the Midwest. The students took math achievement tests at the beginning and end of the school year, and the researchers compared
6、the scores The researchers also gave the students tests to tell whether the students believed a math superstar had to be a boy. Then the researchers turned to the teachers: To find out which teachers were anxious about math, the researchers asked the teachers how they felt at times when they came ac
7、ross math, such as when reading a sales receipt. A teacher who got nervous looking at the numbers on a sales receipt, for example, was probably anxious about math. Boys, on average, were unaffected by a teachers anxiety. On average, girls with math-anxious teachers scored lower on the end-of-the-yea
8、r math tests than other girls in the study did. Plus, on the test showing whether someone thought a math superstar had to be a boy, 20 girls showed feeling that boys would be better at mathand all of these girls had been taught by female teachers with math anxiety. According to surveys done before t
9、his one, college students who want to become elementary school teachers have the highest levels of anxiety about math. Plus, nine of every 10 elementary teachers are women, Levine said.1. Sian Beilock and Susan Levine carried out the new research in order to _. A. know the effects of teaching on lea
10、rning B. study students ways of learning mathC. prove women teachers are unfit to teach math D. find better teaching methods for teachers2. The underlined part in paragraph 2 most probably means that girls may _. A. end up learning math anxiety from their teachers B. study the ways their female teac
11、hers behave C. have an influence on their math-anxious female teachers D. gain unexpected achievement in such subjects as math3. In the study, what were the teachers required to do? A. Prepare two math achievement tests for the students. B. Tell their feelings about math problems. C. Answer whether
12、a math superstar had to be a boy. D. Compare the students scores after the math tests.4. What is the finding of the new study? A. No male students were affected by their teachers anxiety. B. Almost all the girls got lower scores in the tests than the boys C. About 30% of the girls thought boys are b
13、etter at math than girls. D. Girls with math-anxious teachers all failed in the math tests.5. Which of the following is TRUE according to the text? A. 117 students and teachers took part in the new study. B. The researchers felt surprised at the findings of their study. C. Beilock and Levine are int
14、erested in teaching math. D. Men teachers are better at teaching math than women teachers.参考答案B D B C B *结束BParents, our first teachers, play a highly significant role in our livesHowever, doesnt it seem that many of us come to have conflicts with them when we start high school? Were less likely to
15、listen to them and take their suggestions-we even rebel against them.Why? It may be the so-called “generation gap”. A generation gap appears when we begin to feel our parents are ignoring us, dont understand us, and we feel we can no longer share our feelings with them.The key reason is our desire f
16、or independence. In senior high school, we start to want to take responsibility for our own lives and make our own decisions. But parents resist this. They still want to control us and try to force us to do things they think we should do. Debate and discussion often come to nothing. Gradually, we ta
17、lk with them less, and keep our feelings locked up inside.Zhang Xiaoyun, 16, of Ningbo, Zhejiang, has talked less and less with her mother since she started senior high school. “She believes studies should be my priority, not my inner world,” Zhang said. “Each day, she asks me the same old questions
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