18考研英语:阅读理解模拟训练之教育学话题(三)
做题引导
①阅读并完成题目只是第一步,做完之后一定要认真评读解析,尤其要学会理解、分析错误选项错误的原因,思考今后如何避免在做错的地方再犯错。
②重点词汇、难句译注根据自己的实际情况去掌握。
③时间充足的话,还可拿原文来做翻译和长难句的练习。
原文阅读
Amy High is decked out in the traditional pink dress and golden stole of ancient Rome. She bursts into a third-grade classroom and greets her students: “Salvete, omnes!” (Hello, everyone!) The kids respond in kind, and soon they are studying derivatives. “How many people are in a duet?” High asks. All the kids know the answer, and when she asks how they know, a boy responds, “Because duo is 'two' in Latin.” High replies, “Plaudite!” and the 14 kids erupt in applause. They learn the Latin root later, or side, and construct such English words as bilateral and quadrilateral. “Latin's going to open up so many doors for you,” High says. “You're going to be able to figure out the meaning of words you've never seen before.”
High teaches at Providence Elementary School in Fairfax City, Va., which has a lot riding on the success of her efforts. As part of Virginia's high-stakes testing program, schools that don't boost their scores by the year 2007 could lose state funding. So Fairfax City, just 18 miles southwest of the White House, has upgraded its two crumbling elementary schools with new high-tech television studios, computer labs and one very old feature——mandatory Latin.
Here lies one of the more counterintuitive developments of the standardized-testing movement: Though some critics complain that teachers are forced to dumb down their lessons and “teach to the test,” some schools are offering more challenging course work as a way of engaging students. In the past three years, scores of elementary schools in high-stakes testing states such as Texas, Virginia and Massachusetts have added Latin programs. Says Allen Griffith, a member of the Fairfax City school board: “If we're trying to improve English skills, teaching Latin is an awfully effective, proved method.”
This is not your father's Latin, which was taught to elite college-bound high schoolers and drilled into them through memorization. Its tedium and perceived irrelevance almost drove Latin from public schools. Today's growth in elementary school Latin has been spurred by new, interactive oral curriculums, enlivened by lessons in Roman mythology and culture. “One thing that makes it engaging for kids is the goofy fun of investigating these guys in togas,” says Marion Polsky, author of First Latin: A Language Discovery Program, the textbook used in Fairfax City.
Latin enthusiasts believe that if young students learn word roots, they will be able to decipher unfamiliar words. (By some estimates, 65% of all English words have Latin roots.) Latin is an almost purely phonetic language. There are no silent letters, and each letter represents a single sound. That makes it useful in teaching reading. And once kids master the grammatical structure of Latin——which is simple, logical and consistent——they will more easily grasp the many grammatical exceptions in English.
注(1):本文选自Time;12/11/2000, p61;
注(2):本文习题命题模仿对象2002年真题text 4;
1. From the first Paragraph we learn that _____.
[A] the students show little interest in learning Latin
[B] the students say hello to their teacher in Latin
[C] Amy High teaches the students to read Bible in Latin
[D] learning English is unnecessary if you have perfectly mastered Latin
2. Which of the following statements is not true according to the text?
[A] The testing program is crucial to the schools.
[B] Latin is compulsory to the elementary schools students in Fairfax City.
[C] Providence Elementary School will not get state funding this year.
[D] Fairfax City government had done a lot to equip its elementary schools.
3. According to Allen Griffith, Latin _______.
[A] has little to do with English
[B] is very helpful to one‘s learning English
[C] will replace English in the near future
[D] should be taught to kids even when they are in elementary school
4. Which of the following best defines the word “plaudite”?
[A] Great.
[B] Sorry.
[C] Class is over.
[D] Sad.
5. One reason for Latin enthusiasts to support young students‘ learning Latin is _______.
[A] Latin has a longer history than English
[B] Latin has less word roots
[C] every letter in English word represent a single sound
[D] it is easier to grasp Latin grammar
参考答案
BCBAD
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