高职升本科《英语综合》辅导 Reading Comprehension 阅读理解
旅游学院英语系
Some educators think standardized tests are the most reliable way. Others argue that paper-pencil tests don't catch all the gifted students.
Some say students with English-language difficulties are particularly at risk of being left out with typical exams.
The St. Paul and Minneapolis school districts have adopted testing methods using outside observations to help find gifted students.
While Minneapolis still considers test scores and other factors, St. Paul is relying almost exclusively on the modified Charlotte/Discover model to determine who's eligible for gifted services. Using a $218,000 state grant, the district tested all kindergartners and second-graders.
So far, about 545 of the nearly 3,400 students assessed have turned out to be gifted -- 16 percent. The gifted population mirrors the district's student population in terms of racial breakdown, a fact that has evoked both celebration from officials and suspicion from critics who charge that the district manipulated the process to get the results it wanted.
Warner questioned whether school officials' desire to diversify (使多样化) the talent pool led them to design a test that would do just that.
\had concerns that this new Charlotte/Discover model, in its eagerness to identify children that would otherwise be overlooked, might overlook children who would do well on the written test,\
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1. When Warner learns that her ―gifted‖ son didn’t do well in the new test, she A. feels sorry that he is not as clever as before. B. worries about his future. C. is puzzled by his failure. D. is angry about his fall from grace. 2. It can be learnt from the passage that
A. standardized tests are the most popular way to identify gifted children.
B. typical exams designed to find gifted children often neglect language proficiency.
C. in some way non-standardized tests are more scientific than the standardized ones.
D. so far no tests have been regarded by all as the best way to discover talent children.
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高职升本科《英语综合》辅导 Reading Comprehension 阅读理解
旅游学院英语系
3. According to some critics, the St. Paul school officials controlled the test process so that
A. the result wouldn’t turn out to be against any race. B. children of particular races couldn’t enjoy gifted services. C. white children could prove to be more intelligent. D. children of the minorities could prove to be more gifted.
4. ―Children that would otherwise be overlooked‖ (Line 2, Para.10) most probably refer to children
A. who failed in the entrance exam for Capitol Hill.
B. who don’t know the nature of the Charlotte/Discover model. C. who belong to some particular races. D. who come from poor families.
5. Which of the following statements can be inferred from the text? A. Many St. Paul children have fallen from grace just like Warner’s son. B. St. Paul has gained financial aid from the state while conducting the new test. C. Schools in Minneapolis and St. Paul use same methods to choose gifted children.
D. The modified Charlotte/Discover model is less scientific than the entrance exam For Capitol Hill.
Passage 18
Geniuses look at problems in many different ways. Genius often comes from finding a new perspective that no one else has taken. Leonardo da Vinci believed that, to gain knowledge about the form of a problem, you begin by learning how to restructure it in many different ways. He felt that the first way he looked at a problem was too biased toward his usual way of seeing things. He would restructure his problem by looking at it from one perspective and move to another perspective and still another. With each move, his understanding would deepen and he would begin to understand the essence of the problem.
Geniuses make their thought visible. The explosion of creativity in the Renaissance was intimately tied to the recording and conveying of vast knowledge in drawings, graphs, and diagrams, as in the renowned(著名的) diagrams of da Vinci and Galileo. Galileo revolutionized science by making his thought graphically visible while his contemporaries used only conventional mathematical and verbal
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高职升本科《英语综合》辅导 Reading Comprehension 阅读理解
旅游学院英语系
approaches.
Geniuses produce. A distinguishing characteristic of genius is immense productivity. Thomas Edison held 1,093 patents, still the record. He guaranteed productivity by giving himself and his assistants idea quotas. His own personal quota was one minor invention every 10 days and a major invention every six months. Bach wrote a cantata (清唱剧) every week, even when he was sick or exhausted. Mozart produced more than 600 pieces of music. Einstein is best known for his paper on relativity, but he published 248 other papers. T.S. Eliot's numerous drafts of The Waste Land constitute a jumble (杂乱的一团) of good and bad passages that eventually was turned into a masterpiece.
Geniuses make novel combinations. Like the highly playful child with a bucket of building blocks, a genius is constantly combining and recombining ideas, images, and thoughts into different combinations in their conscious and subconscious minds. Consider Einstein's equation, E=mc2. Einstein did not invent the concepts of energy, mass, or speed of light. Rather, by combining these concepts in a novel way, he was able to look at the same world as everyone else and see something different.
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1. In order to understand a problem thoroughly, da Vinci A. referred to numerous books.
B. compared it with many other problems. C. made use of drawings and graphs. D. approached it from different angles.
2. During the Renaissance, graphs and diagrams A. were often used to aid scientific researches. B. served as sources of fresh ideas for some scientists.
C. could provide scientists with an immense quantity of knowledge. D. were necessary for the expression of creative ideas. 3. What is the main idea of the third paragraph?
A. Geniuses make creations or discoveries in large quantities. B. Geniuses can make many achievements without much effort. C. Geniuses inevitably experience failures before making a success. D. Geniuses may just produce something common and ordinary.
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高职升本科《英语综合》辅导 Reading Comprehension 阅读理解
旅游学院英语系
4. In the last paragraph, the author mentions the playful child in order to show A. that geniuses are fond of playing games, too.
B. that geniuses are as creative as most children with a set of interesting toys. C. how geniuses turn ideas into reality in different ways. D. why making different combinations can work wonders. 5. According to the passage, which of the following statements is true? A. Einstein invented the concept of speed of light. B. The Waste Land is a great work of literature. C. Edison made one major invention every 10 days.
D. Mozart composed something every day even when he was sick.
Passage 19
Emotions are an essential part of our nature and may be either helpful or destructive depending on how we deal with them.
Daniel Goleman, author of Emotional Intelligence, contends that emotional intelligence, or EQ, is more important than IQ in a person's ability to be successful and happy.
It's widely known that emotions can empower people or drive them up a wall. When you can't get through to that special someone, your emotions tie you up in knots and you feel powerless. Getting a handle on those feelings, then being able to use alternative behaviors, is the beginning of EQ.
We all have emotions — even your partner, who appears stone-faced and unruffled (镇定的) by crisis. Identifying a specific emotion at the time you're having it is the basis of EQ.
Take jealousy, for example. Remember that time your partner spent so much extra time with that tall blonde at your best friend's party? When you mentioned it, he got angry and yelled: \He made you feel so foolish — like an insecure little girl — and you vowed you would never be jealous again.
It doesn't work that way. Jealousy is only a symptom, and trust isn't the issue. Fear is. Until you figure out what you're afraid of, you'll find yourself on that merry-go-round again and again. So sit down and analyze why you feel so fearful about the attentions your significant someone shines on sultry (性感的) sisters.
Some fears are obvious. Will he find someone else more attractive? If he finds
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