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1、译林版必修第二册unit4培优提升练.阅读理解AA longterm American study shows the importance of early education for poor children.The study is known as the Abecedarian(初步的) Project.It involved more than one hundred young children from poor families in North Carolina.Half of the children attended an allday program at a hi
2、ghquality childcare center.The center offered educational,health and social programs.Children took part in games and activities to increase their thinking,language skills and social and emotional development.The program also included healthy foods for the children.The children attended the program f
3、rom when they were a few weeks old until the age of five years.The other group of children did not attend the childcare center.After the age of five,both groups attended public school.Researchers compared the two groups of children.When they were babies,both groups had similar results in tests for m
4、ental and physical skills.However,from the age of eighteen months,the children in the educational childcare program did much better in tests.The researchers tested the children again when they were twelve and fifteen years old.The tests found that the children who had been in the childcare center co
5、ntinued to have higher average test results.These children did much better on tests of reading and mathematics.A few years ago,organizers of the Abecedarian Project tested the students again.At the time,each student was twentyone years old.They were tested for thinking and educational ability,employ
6、ment,parenting and social skills.The researchers found that the young adults who had the early education still did better in reading and mathematics tests.They were more than two times as likely to go to college or to have completed college.In addition,the children who received early education were
7、older on average,when their first child was born.The study offers more evidence that learning during the first months and years of life is important for all later development.The researchers of the Abecedarian Project believe their study shows a need for lawmakers to spend money on public early educ
8、ation.They believe these kinds of programs could reduce the number of children who do not complete school and are unemployed.1According to the passage,the Abecedarian Project .Ainvolves children from rich familiesBdoesnt provide food for childrenCoffers foreign teachers to help improve childrens lan
9、guage skillsDstudies the importance of early education for poor children2The Abecedarian Project has lasted .Aalmost one year Babout five yearsCmore than 20 years Dno more than 15 years3What do we know about the people who had been in the childcare center,compared with those who hadnt? AThey were mo
10、re likely to go to college.BThey had children earlier.CThey had the same results in tests.DThey were less sociable.4What is NOT sure about the Abecedarian Project after reading the text? AHow important early education is for poor children.BWhat the children learned at the childcare center.CHow many
11、children are involved in the Abecedarian Project.DWhether lawmakers will spend money on public early education.答案DCADBOn March 16,2018,eightyearold Tanitoluwa “Tani” Adewumi,beat 73 young competitors to win the New York State Chess Championship in his age categorykindergarten to third grade.While th
12、e achievement is great in itself,what makes it even greater is that the youngster,who was homeless at the time,began learning the game less than a year ago.Tani and his family arrived in New York City from Nigeria in 2017,seeking religious protection.A church pastor(牧师) helped find the family of fou
13、r space in a homeless shelter and soon after,Tani entered the local elementary school.It was here that the young talent was first introduced to the basics of chess by a parttime teacher.Attracted by the game,the then sevenyearold begged his mother,Oluwatoyin,to allow him to join the schools chess cl
14、ub.Considering the family would be unable to afford the fees and expenses,which add up to thousands of dollars,Oluwatoyin emailed Russel Makofsky,who ran the club.To her surprise and delight,Makofsky agreed to waive all costs for young Tani.The rest,as they say,is history.The young boy,who has got s
15、even prizes in less than a year,currently ranks 27 in America in his age category.Though the chess club certainly helps,it is Tanis devotion to the game that is largely responsible for his great success.Not surprisingly,Tanis incredible story,first reported by The New York Times,has resulted in an o
16、utpouring of support from the American public.It has raised 200,000 in just ten days,far more than the original goal of 50,000,and the funds keep coming.Since they now have a home,the Adewumis have decided to “pay it forward” and donate the over 200,000 collected on GoFundMe.They plan to give 10 per
17、cent of the funds raised to the church that has supported them.The rest will be placed in the newlycreated Tanitoluwa Adewumi Trust and given to African immigrants to America who are struggling the way the family was.5What made Tanis achievement especially great? AHis quick learning.BHis young age.C
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