【答案】As is vividly shown in the picture, a boy is happy with the fact that he can depend on the Internet to finish tasks without any difficulty. Nowadays, students can get convenient access to much information they need on the Internet.
On the one hand, students find it convenient to surf the Internet for useful information, where problems can be solved with the help of several clicks. On the other hand, turning to the Internet too much may cause students to use their heads less. As a result, it‘s likely that students will not develop their potnetials to the full, which is not beneficial to their overall development.
In my opinion, it is vital that students should be aware of the advantages and disadvantages. They should know clearly when and where to turn to the Internet. Most importantly, they should learn to be creative.
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【试源】2015届江西省上饶市高三第三次模拟考试 【结束】
10.【题文】Many people talked of the 288,000 new jobs the Labor Department reported for June ,along with the drop in the unemployment rate to 6.1 percent, as good news. And they were right. For now it appears the economy is creating jobs at a decent pace. We still have a long way to go to get back to full employment, but at least we are now finally moving forward at a faster pace. However, there is another important part of the jobs picture that was largely overlooked. There was a big jump in the number of people who repot voluntarily working part-time. This figure is now 830,000(4.4 percent)above its year ago level.
Before explaining the connection to the Obamacare(奥巴马医疗), it is worth making an important distinction. Many people who work part-time jobs actually want full-time jobs. They take part-time work because this is all they can get. An increase in involuntary part-time work is evidence of weakness in the labor market and it means that many people will be having a very hard time making ends meet.
There was an increase in involuntary part-time in June, but the general direction has been down. Involuntary part-time employment is still far higher than before the recession, but it is down by 640,000(7.9percent)from is year ago level.
We know the difference between voluntary and involuntary part-time employment because people tell us. The survey used by the Labor Department asks people is they worked less than 35 hours in the reference week. If the answer is ―yes‖, they are classified as worked less than 35hours in that week because they wanted to work less than full time or because they had no choice .They are only classified as voluntary part-time workers if they tell the survey taker they chose to work less than 35 hours a week.
The issue of voluntary part-time relates to Obamacare because one of the main purposes was to allow people to get insurance outside of employment. For many people ,especially those with
serious health conditions or family members with serious health conditions ,before Obamacare the only way to get insurance was through a job that provided health insurance.
However, Obamacare has allowed more than 12 million people to either get insurance through Medicaid or the exchanges. These are people who may previously have felt the need to get a full-time job that provided insurance in order to cover themselves and their families. With Obamacare there is no longer a link between employment and insurance. 1. Which part of the jobs picture was neglected?
A. The prospect of a thriving job market. B. The increase of voluntary part-time jobs. C. The possibility of full employment. D. The acceleration of job creation. 2. Many people work part-time because they _______________.
A. prefer part-time jobs to full-time jobs B. feel that is enough to make ends meet C. cannot get their hands on full-time jobs D. haven‘ t seen the weakness of the market 3. It can be learned that with Obamacare________________. A. it is no longer easy for part-timers to get insurance
B. employment is no longer a precondition to get insurance C. it is still challenging to get insurance for family members D. full-time employment is still essential for insurance 4. The text mainly discusses______________.
A. employment in the US B. part-timer classification C. insurance through Medicaid D. Obamacare‘s trouble
【答案】BCBB 【解析】
【试源】2015届江苏省扬州中学高三4月模拟考试 【结束】
11.【题文】Given all the heated debates about how America‘s children should be taught, it may come as a surprise to learn that students spend less than 15% of their time in school. While there‘s no doubt that school is important, a series of recent studies remind us that parents are even more so. A study, for example, finds that parental involvement—checking homework, attending school meetings and events, discussing school activities at home—has a more powerful influence on students‘ academic performance than anything about the school the students attend. Another study, reports that the effort put forth by parents has a bigger impact on their children‘s educational achievement than the effort devoted by either teachers or the students themselves. And a third study concludes that schools would have to increase their spending by more than $1,000 per pupil in order to achieve the same results that are gained with parental involvement .
So parents matter a lot—a point made clear by decades of research showing that a major part of the academic advantage held by children from wealthy families comes from the ―concerted cultivation（协作培养）of children‖ as compared to the more laissez-faire style of parenting common in working-class families. But this research also reveals something else: that parents, of all backgrounds, don't need to buy expensive educational toys or digital devices for their kids in order to give them an edge. They don't need to chauffeur their offspring to enrichment classes or test-prep courses. What they need to do with their children is much simpler: talk.
But not just any talk. Although well-known research by psychologists Betty Hart and Todd Risley
has shown that professional parents talk more to their children than less-affluent parents—a lot more, resulting in a 30 million ―word gap‖ by the time children reach age three—more recent researches are raising our sense of exactly what kinds of talks at home contributed to children's success at school. For example, a study conducted by researchers at the UCLA School of Public Health and published in the journal Pediatrics found that two-way adult-child conversations were six times as effective in promoting language development as interludes in which the adult did all the talking. Engaging in this reciprocal back-and-forth gives children a chance to try out language for themselves, and also gives them the sense that their thoughts and opinions matter. As they grow older, this feeling helps middle- and upper-class kids develop into confident supporters for their own interests, while working-class students tend to avoid asking for help or arguing their own case with teachers, according to a research presented at American Sociological Association conference earlier this year.
The content of parents' conversations with kids matters, too. Children who hear talk about counting and numbers at home start school with much more extensive mathematical knowledge, which predicts future achievement in the subject. Psychologist Susan Levine, who led the study on number words, has also found that the amount of talk young children hear about the spatial properties of the physical world—how big or small or round or sharp objects are—predicts kids‘ problem-solving abilities as they prepare to enter kindergarten.
While the conversations parents have with their children change as kids grow older, the effect of these exchanges on academic achievement remains strong. And again, the way mothers and fathers talk to their middle-school students makes a difference. Research by Nancy Hill, a professor at Harvard University's Graduate School of Education, finds that parents play an important role in what Hill calls ―academic socialization‖—setting expectations and making connections between current behavior and future goals (going to college, getting a good job). Engaging in these sorts of conversations, Hill reports, has a greater impact on educational accomplishment than volunteering at a child's school or going to PTA meetings, or even taking children to libraries and museums. When it comes to promoting students‘ success, it seems, it‘s not so much what parents do as what they say.
1. The first paragraph mainly tells us that ______________. A. Teaching methods are vital to students in the USA B. schooling is necessary for American students C. parents affect their children‘s achievement greatly
D. schools have paid more money to get the same results as parental involvement 2. How are the second and third paragraphs developed?
A. By offering explanation. B. By giving examples. C. By making comparisons. D. By providing analysis. 3. What can we infer from last paragraph?
A. It‘s necessary for children to follow the example of their parents. B. Children should be active in their educational accomplishment.
C. Parents should often communicate with the teachers of their children. D. Parents‘ influence stays with children for a long time. 4.What is the main idea of the passage?
A. Parenting is more important than schooling.
B. Conversation is the most suitable way to educate children.
C. Kids should be encouraged to think and behave independently. D. The content of the conversations matters the most to the children.
【答案】CCDA 【解析】
【试源】2015届江苏省扬州中学高三4月模拟考试 【结束】
12.【题文】Dear God,
Now that I am no longer young, I have friends whose mothers or/and fathers have passed away. I have heard these sons and daughters say they never fully appreciated their mothers or/and fathers until it was too late to tell them.
I am blessed with my dear mother and father who are still alive. I appreciate them more each day. My mother and father do not change, but I do. As I grow older and wiser, I realize what extraordinary people they are. How sad that I am unable to speak these words in their presence, but they flow easily from my pen.
How does a person begin to thank his mother or/and father for life itself? For the love, patience and just plain hard work that go into raising a child? For running after a baby, for understanding a moody teenager, for tolerating a college student who knows everything?
How does a person thank a mother or/and a father for continuing to be a mother or/and a father? For being ready with advice (when asked) or remaining silent when it is most appreciated? For not saying: \
I don't know how, dear God, except to bless her/him as richly as she/he deserves and to help me live up to the example she/he has set. I pray that I will look as good in the eyes of my children as my mother or/and father look(s) in mine. A daughter
1．以约30个词概括上文的主要内容。
2．以约120词谈谈你阅读了该故事后的感受，内容包括： （1）阅读上文之后的感想；
（2）感受父或（和）母关爱的一次难忘经历； （3）如何报答父母。 [写作要求]
1．作文中可以使用亲身经历或虚构的故事，也可以参照阅读材料的内容，但不得直接引用原文中的句子。
2．作文中不能出现真实姓名和学校名称。 [评分标准]
概括准确，语言规范，内容合适，语篇连贯。
【答案】A daughter writes to God recalling her unforgettable past about experiencing the love from her loving, thoughtful, patient and forgiving parents, deciding to follow her parents‘ perfect example.
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