_Unit 1 Back to school 阅读训练 (含答案)牛津译林版必修第一册.docx
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1、江苏英语新教材必修一Unit 1阅读训练(含答案)Unit 1 Back to school一、阅读理解(A)In her new book, “The Smartest Kids in the World,” Amanda Ripley, an investigative journalist, tells the story of Tom, a high-school student from Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, who decides to spend his senior year in Warsaw, Poland. Poland is a surpr
2、ising educational success story: in the past decade, the country raised students test scores from significantly below average to well above it. Polish kids have now outscored(超过分数) American kids in math and science, even though Poland spends, on average, less than half as much per student as the Uni
3、ted States does. One of the most striking differences between the high school Tom attended in Gettysburg and the one he ends up at in Warsaw is that the latter has no football team, or, for that matter, teams of any kind. That American high schools waste more time and money on sports than on math is
4、 an old complaint. This is not a matter of how any given student who plays sports does in school, but of the culture and its priorities. This December, when the latest Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) results are announced, its safe to predict that American high-school students wi
5、ll once again display their limited skills in math and reading, outscored not just by students in Poland but also by students in places like South Korea, Belgium, the Netherlands, Finland, Singapore, and Japan. Meanwhile, they will have played some very exciting football games, which will have been
6、breathlessly written up in their hometown papers. Why does this situation continue? Well, for one thing, kids like it. And for another, according to Ripley, parents seem to like the arrangement, too. She describes a tour she took of a school in Washington D.C., which costs thirty thousand dollars a
7、year. The tour leadera mother with three children in the schoolwas asked about the schools flaws(瑕疵). When she said that the math program was weak, none of the parents taking the tour reacted. When she said that the football program was weak, the parents suddenly became concerned. “Really?” one of t
8、hem asked worriedly, “What do you mean?” One of the ironies(讽刺) of the situation is that sports reveal what is possible. American kids performance on the field shows just how well they can do when expectations are high. Its too bad that their test scores show the same thing. 1、According to Paragraph
9、 2, we know that _. A . little time is spent on sports in Japanese schools B . too much importance is placed on sports in America C . American high schools complain about sports time D . PISA plays a very important role in America 2、 The underlined sentence in the last paragraph means _. A . America
10、n students academic performance worries their parents a lot B . high expectations push up American students academic performance C . lacking practice contributes to American students average performance D . low expectations result in American students poor PISA performance 3、 The purpose of this art
11、icle is to _. A . compare Polish schools with those in America B . call on American schools to learn from the Polish model C . draw public attention to a weakness in American school tradition D . explain what is wrong with American schools and provide solutions(B)Its a popular belief that a fishs me
12、mory lasts for only seven seconds. It may seem sad to think that they dont remember what theyve eaten or where theyve been, and they dont recognize you or any of their friends every moment in their life would be like seeing the world for the first time. But dont be so quick to feel sorry for them. A
13、 new study has found that fish have a much better memory than we used to think. In fact, certain species of fish can even remember events from as long as 12 days ago. In the study, researchers from MacEwan University in Canada trained a kind of fish called African cichlids to go to a certain area of
14、 their tank to get food. They then waited for 12 days before putting them back in the tank again. Researchers used computer software to monitor the fishs movements. They found that after such a long break the fish still went to the same place where they first got food. This suggested that they could
15、 remember their past experiences. In fact, scientists had been thinking for a long time that African cichlids might have a good memory. An earlier study showed that they behaved aggressively(挑衅地) in front of certain fish, perhaps because they remembered their past “fights”. But until the latest find
16、ings, there was no clear evidence. Just as a good memory can make our lives easier, it also plays an important part when a fish is trying to survive in the wild. “If fish are able to remember that a certain area contains safe food, they will be able to go back to that area without putting their live
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