Question

We find that bright children are rarely held back by mixed ability teaching. On the contrary, both their knowledge and experience are enriched. We feel that there are many disadvantages in streaming(把……按能力分班) pupils. It does not take into account the fact that children develop at different rates. It can have a bad effect on both the bright and the not-so-bright child. After all，it can be quite discouraging to be at the bottom of the top grade！

Besides, it is rather unreal to grade pupils just according to their intellectual(智力的) ability. This is only one aspect of their total personality. We are concerned to develop the abilities of all our pupils to the full, not just their academic ability. We also value personal qualities and social skills, and we find that mixed-ability teaching contributes to all these aspects of learning.

In our classrooms, we work in various ways. The pupils often work in groups: this gives them the opportunity to learn to co-operate, to share, and to develop leadership skills. They also learn how to deal with personal problems as well as learning how to think, to make decisions, to analyze and evaluate, and to communicate effectively in order to have the ability to become leaders. The pupils learn from each other as well as from the teacher.

Sometimes the pupils work in pairs；sometimes they work on individual tasks , and they can do this at their own speed. They also have some formal class teaching when this is suitable. We encourage our pupils to use the library, and we teach them the skills they need in order to do this efficiently. An advanced pupil can do advanced work：it does not matter what age the child is. We expect our pupils to do their best, not their least, and we give them every encouragement to attain this goal.

1.We can know from the passage that the author’ s attitude towards “mixed-ability teaching”  is______.

A. approving     B. disapproving         C. questioning   D. inactive

2.The underlined words “held back” in Paragraph 1 probably means “______”.  

A. drawn to their studies                          B. forced to study in the lower classes

C. made to remain in the same classes               D. prevented from advancing

3.Which of the following is NOT MENTIONED in the third paragraph?

A. Pupils also learn to develop their reasoning abilities.

B. Pupils also learn how to participate in teaching activities

C. Group work gives pupils the chance to learn to work together with others.

D. Group work supply pupils with the chance to learn to be good organizers.

4.The author’s purpose in writing this passage is to ______.

A. offer advice on the proper use of the library

B. recommend pair work and group work for classroom activities

C. argue for teaching bright and not-so-bright pupils in the same class

D. tell us the importance of proper formal classroom teaching

 

Answer 1

【答案】

 

1.A

2.D

3.B

4.C

【解析】

試題分析：分班教學(xué)好還是混班教學(xué)好呢？把學(xué)生按能力分別有很多缺點(diǎn)，如：學(xué)生的發(fā)展快慢不一。按成績分別更是不科學(xué)。考慮成績而沒有考慮學(xué)生的人格和社交能力的發(fā)展。混合編班好處多。小組合作和個(gè)人學(xué)習(xí)等多種學(xué)習(xí)方法使學(xué)生得到前面的發(fā)展。

1.細(xì)節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)從文中第一段第一句和二句話可知，聰明孩子的發(fā)展并沒有因?yàn)椤癿ixed-ability teaching”而被阻礙，相反，聰明孩子的知識和經(jīng)驗(yàn)都豐富起來了。文章第三句話說明按能力分班會有很多的不利影響，從反面論證了作者對于“mixed-ability teaching”的態(tài)度是支持的。選A。

2.詞義猜測題。hold back 本意為“隱瞞；控制；阻礙；猶豫不決”，根據(jù)文章第一句話和第二句話可以看出此處hold back 意取“阻止”，prevent from 正合此意。“mixed-ability teaching”對于聰明孩子并未阻止也就是說“mixed-ability teaching”對于聰明孩子的發(fā)展并未阻止，選 D。

3.細(xì)節(jié)理解題。本題的問題是: 第三段沒有提到什么。因此需要仔細(xì)閱讀第三段。第二句話“The pupils often work in groups: this gives them the opportunity to learn to cooperate to share, and the develop leadership skills.”指出經(jīng)常以小組學(xué)習(xí)的學(xué)生們可以有機(jī)

會學(xué)會合作、分享，以及培養(yǎng)領(lǐng)導(dǎo)能力。由此，可以分別對應(yīng)到選項(xiàng)A、C。第三句話“They also learn how to cope with personal problems as well as learning how to think,……”指出學(xué)生們以小組學(xué)習(xí)可以學(xué)到如何處理個(gè)人問題，而且還可以學(xué)會如何思考，可與選項(xiàng)B “reasoning

abilities”思考能力相對應(yīng)。所以，通過排除可以得到本題答案為D。文中只是說“The pupils learn from each other as well as from the teacher. ”而非“participate in teaching activities”。選B。

4.主旨大意題。本題的問題是: 作者寫這篇文章的目的是什么。文章第一段以“mixed-ability teaching”這一有利于學(xué)生發(fā)展的教學(xué)方法引出提升學(xué)生能力的話題；接著第二段提到學(xué)生能力的提升不僅僅是智力方面的提高，而是要全方面能力的提升；第三段便舉出課堂上提升能力的一種教學(xué)方法group work；最后一段作者提出學(xué)生學(xué)習(xí)還可以通過work in pairs、work on individual tasks and assignments 等其他formal class teaching when this is appropriate.目的就在于We expect our pupils to do their best, not their least, and we give them every encouragement to attain this goal. 通過文章脈絡(luò)整理得到本題答案為C。

考點(diǎn)：教育類閱讀。