Question

【題目】 Would you like to improve the culture in your classroom and your life? Try gratitude (感激).

In the past ten years, gratitude has made me teach better, thank my students, grow in my work, and enjoy life. Using gratitude, I am able to model one of the most important lessons in life, having a positive attitude (積極的態(tài)度), especially about the ways of life that used to challenge me most, which is the biggest change for me.

To get started in your classroom with gratitude, I suggest actually writing your own gratitude list for a few weeks and feeling its power. Then you can share your example and start the activity with your students.

My students use a notebook and start every day by writing five things about gratitude. Once a week, we go around the class and share our favorite gratitude. This helps build a positive culture in our classroom. I am always encouraged and surprised by what my students share.

Keeping a gratitude journal helps student achieve higher grades, higher goals and more joy with relationships, life, and school and they prefer to give back. Keeping a gratitude journal makes both students and adults be more positive, experience more social satisfaction, exercise more often, have fewer physical problems, and sleep better.

I see these positive changes in my students. One of them shared gratitude journals with her family. Her mom was in a nursing school and was very stressed. At the dinner table, they would share their gratitude for the day and grow as a family. The mom came to me and thanked me for teaching gratitude to her daughter and cheering up her family.

【1】What was the biggest change in the writer after trying gratitude?

A.She enjoyed the pressure of life.B.She was more skilled at teaching.

C.She could stay positive about life.D.She could get on well with her students.

【2】What does the underlined word“This”in Paragraph 4 refer to?

A.Listening to others’ true ideas.B.Keeping the daily gratitude in mind.

C.Students’ sharing their gratitude in class.D.The writer’s telling her life stories to students.

【3】According to Paragraph 5, keeping a gratitude journal .

A.is good for students’ study and healthB.can be difficult for some students

C.can always bring good things to peopleD.is not fit for little children

【4】Why does the writer give the example of a girl’s family?

A.To introduce a way to be more helpful.

B.To explain why she began trying gratitude.

C.To tell how her students finished perfect gratitude journals.

D.To show gratitude journals even helped a student’s family.

【5】What would be the best title for the text?

A.Gratitude — a way to become successful.B.Gratitude — a way for your family to get together.

C.Gratitude — a powerful tool for the classroom.D.Gratitude — a new way to understand others.

Answer 1

【答案】

【1】C

【2】C

【3】A

【4】D

【5】C

【解析】

本文講述了在過去的十年里，感恩讓“我”教得更好，感謝“我”的學(xué)生，在工作中成長，享受生活。利用感恩之心，“我”能夠擁有積極的生活態(tài)度，這對“我”來說是最大的改變。寫感恩日記對學(xué)生的學(xué)習(xí)和生活有好處，甚至對學(xué)生的家庭關(guān)系有幫助。

【1】推理判斷題。根據(jù)“Using gratitude, I am able to model one of the most important lessons in life, having a positive attitude , especially about the ways of life that used to challenge me most, which is the biggest change for me. ”可知感恩讓作者擁有積極的態(tài)度，積極面對生活，故選C。

【2】推理判斷題。根據(jù)“My students use a notebook and start every day by writing five things about gratitude. Once a week, we go around the class and share our favorite gratitude. ”可知每周一次，我們在課堂上分享我們最喜歡的感激之情，所以此處指的是學(xué)生在課堂上分享他們的感激之情，故選C。

【3】推理判斷題。根據(jù)“Keeping a gratitude journal helps student achieve higher grades”及“Keeping a gratitude journal makes both students and adults be more positive…and sleep better.”可知寫感恩日記可對學(xué)生的學(xué)習(xí)和生活有好處，故選A。

【4】推理判斷題。根據(jù)“One of them shared gratitude journals with her family…cheering up her family”可知家長很感謝作者，可推測出寫感恩日記甚至可以幫助學(xué)生的家庭，故選D。

【5】最佳標(biāo)題。根據(jù)文章主要寫了要有感恩的心態(tài)生活，文中的作者是一位老師，她將感恩融入課堂，很好的提高了學(xué)生的成績，幫助了學(xué)生，所以感恩是課堂上的有力工具，故選C。