Unit15Lesson 2 Different Schools
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Lesson 2 Different Schools
一、交际目标
1. To master more words about schooling and try to talk about it in class.
2. To practise intensive and extensive listening skills.
3. To show disagreement and contradict politely.
二、词汇
1. pride v.
pride oneself on / upon 以……为豪；对……感到满意；
e.g. She prided herself on her ability to speak eight languages / on knowing eight languages. 她对自己会说八种语言感到得意。
2. due to = because of = caused by 由于；因为
e.g. His success is entirely due to hard work. 他的成功完全是努力工作的结果。
Their increase in profits is due in part to / due partly to their innovative market strategy. 他们的利润增长部分原因是采用了有创新精神的市场策略。
3. make way 让开；让路；让位
e.g. The old houses were knocked down to make way for a new office development. 老房子被拆除了，好腾出地方来建造新办公室。
4. contribute 捐献；捐助
contribute to / towards
e.g. Most people contributed something to / towards the new church building. 大部分任都为教堂的新建筑捐献了点钱。
The volunteers contribute huge amounts of their time to the project. 志愿者把自己大量的时间花在这个计划上。
contribution n. make a contribution to / towards
e.g. Day canters for the elderly make a contribution to the overall service. 照顾老人的日托中心为整个服务事业作出了可贵的贡献。
5. engage sb. to do sth. 雇佣；聘请
sth.
e.g. His father engaged a private tutor to improve his maths. 他爸爸请了一位家庭教师给他补习数学。
engage in 参与；参加
e.g. Politicians often engage in various business activities. 政治家经常参加各种商业活动。
6. excuse [C] excuse for ……
e.g. What’s your excuse for being late this time? 你迟到了，这次是什么理由？
There is no excuse for such rudeness. 这种无礼行为怎么说都不对。
make an excuse 制造借口
for sth. / to do sth.
have an excuse 有……借口
三、句型
1. I’m sorry to disagree, but ……
2. To a certain extent, you’re right.
目 标 检 测
第一部分：听力
第一节：听下面5段对话或独白。每段对话或独白后有几个小题，从题中所给的A、B、C三个选项中选出最佳选项，并标在试卷的相应位置。
听第1段材料，回答第1至3题。
1. Which shirt is made of cotton?
A. The blue one. B. The green one. C. The white one.
2. How does the green one cost?
A. $78. B. $87. C. $80.
3. Why does the man decide to buy the shirt?
A. Because it is very cheap.
B. Because it is soft and cool in summer.
C. Because the colour and the style are good.
听第2段材料，回答第4至5题。
4. Who likes collecting stamps?
A. Frank’s daughter. B Frank’s wife. C. Joan.
5. What does Joan like best ?
A. Collecting stamps. B. Reading. C. Collecting coins.
听第3段材料，回答第6至9题。
6. What was the man doing when the story happened ?
A. Sleeping. B. Swimming. C. Listening to the radio.
7. What was the problem?
A. The boy was hurt in the arm.
B. Water got into the boy’s eyes.
C. The boy was in danger in the sea.
8. What did the man do?
A. He took off his shoes. B. He watched carefully. C. He jumped into the sea.
9. Who saw him doing this?
A. No one. B. The woman. C. The boy’s parents.
听第4段材料，回答第10至12题。
10. What is the boy’s full name ?
A. James Green Allan. B. James Allan. C. James Allan Green.
11. What can we call the boy for short ?
A. Jim. B. Green. C. Mr. Green.
12. Where do you guess the girl comes from ?
A. China. B. England. C. America.
听第5段材料，回答第13至15题。
13. What was Mr. Exact doing when the stranger came up to him ?
A. Looking for some words in the text.
B. Waiting for the stranger to ask the way.
C. Reading a book.
14. What did the stranger want to know ?
A. How long the bridge was.
B. Where to find the department store.
C. The direction to the bridge.
15. What had happened to Mr. Exact two years before ?
A. He asked a man the same way and he gave him help.
B. He didn’t turn right after he walked half of the bridge.
C. He fell into the water because he had turned before he walked over the bridge.
第二节：听取信息
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The professor wanted to know _______16_______________. |
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He watched the monkey ________17_______________ |
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A few minutes after leaving the room, the professor ____18_____ on his knees and _______19______________ |
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To his surprise, he found himself ______20________________ |
第二部分：语言知识运用
一、单词拼写
21. Learning poetry is a good ________(训练、锻炼) for the memory.
22. All _________(通路，入口) to the town were blocked because of the heavy snow storm.
23. The new toy didn’t ________(吸引，引起) the children’s attention for long.
24. Our English course lays great _________(重点、重要性) on conversation skills.
25. This restaurant has gained a _______(名誉、名声) for good food.
一、单项选择
26. The councilor _____ explain where the supermarket would be.
A. went on with B. went on to C. went into D. continued
27. The runners _____ their position on the starting line.
A.occupied B. took over C. took up D. placed
28. There were 500 people ______ the Western Civilization class.
A.enrolled in B. enrolling in C. being enrolled D. enrolls in
29. Tim always _____ his wife for advice on clothes.
A.depending on B. believes in C. trusts D. relies on
30. The computer course includes plenty of ____ training.
A. hand on B. handed-in C. practice D. hands-on
31. The police have ___ the apartment with a fine-tooth comb.
A. gone together B. gone through C. gone over D. gone with
32. If my children are rude, that _____ me as a parent.
A. focuses on B. relies on C. reflects on D. works on
33. Have you _____ the date for your wedding?
A. decided B. worked out C. been D. assessed
34. At a (an) ______estimate, the holiday will cost about $1,500.
A.approximately B. about C. conservative D. real
35. The children get far more _____ attention in these small classes.
A. person B. individual C. private D. own
三、完型填空
Most young people enjoy some forms of physical activity. It may be walking, bicycling, or swimming, or in winter, skating or skiing. It may be a game of some kind —football, hockey, golf or tennis. It may be mountaineering.
Those who have a passion for climbing high and difficult mountains are often 36 with astonishment. Why are men and women willing to37 cold and hardship, and to take risks on high mountains? This astonishment is caused, probably by the difference between mountaineering and other forms of activity to 38 men give their leisure. Mountaineering is a sport and not a game. There are no man-made rules, as there are for such games as golf and football. There are, of course rules of a different kind which it would be dangerous to 39, but it is this freedom from man-made rules that makes mountaineering 40 to many people. Those who climb mountains are free to use their own methods.
If we compare mountaineering and other more familiar sports, we might think that one big difference is that mountaineering is not a "team game". We should be mistaken 41 this. There are, it is true, no "matches" between 'team" of climbers, but when climbers are on a rock face 42 by a rope on which their lives may depend, there is 43 teamwork.
The mountain climber knows that he may 44 fight forces that are stronger and more powerful than man. He has to fight the forces of wind .His sport requires high mental and physical 45.
36.A.dealt B. considered C. looked upon D. treating
37.A. catch B. suffer C. catch D. overcome
38.A. that B. which C. how D. why
39.A.behave B. ignore C. mean D. list
40.A. rich B. attractive C. painful D. noticeable
41.A. by B. from C. in D. against
42.A. admitted B. disappeared C. tied D. linked
43.A. obviously B. already C. basically D. certain
44.A. would B. due to C. have to D. be to
45.A. limitation B. goodness C. division D. qualities
四、阅读理解
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People appear to be born to compute. The numerical skills of children develop so early and so inexorably that it is easy to imagine an internal clock of mathematical maturity guiding their growth. Not long after learning to walk and talk, they can set the table with impressive accuracy —one plate, one knife, one spoon, one fork, for each of the five chairs. Soon they are capable of nothing that they have placed five knives, spoons and forks on the table and, a bit later, that this amounts to fifteen pieces of silverware. Having thus mastered addition, they move on to subtraction. It seems almost reasonable to expect that if a child were secluded on a desert island at birth and received seven years later, he or she could enter a second grade mathematics class without any serious problems of intellectual adjustment.
Of course, the truth is not so simple. This century, the work of cognitive psychologists has illuminated the subtle forms of daily learning on which intellectual progress depends. Children were observed as they slowly grasped or, as the case might be bumped into—concepts that adults take for granted, as they refused, for instance, to concede that quantity is unchanged as water pours from a short stout glass into a tall thin one.
Psychologists have since demonstrated that young children, asked to count the pencils in a pile readily report the number of blue or red pencils, but must be coaxed into finding the total. Such studies have suggested that the rudiments of mathematics are mastered gradually, and with effort. They have also suggested that the very concept of abstract numbers—the idea of aloneness, a prerequisite for doing anything more mathematically demanding than setting a table—is itself far from innate.
46．What's the main idea about this passage?
A. The use of mathematics in child psychology.
B. Trends in teaching mathematics to children.
C. The development of mathematical ability in children.
D. The fundamental concepts of mathematics that children must learn.
47．The author implies that most small children believe that the quantity of water changes when it is transferred to a container of a different______.
A. quality B. weight C. color D. shape
48．It can be inferred from the passage that children normally learn simple counting .
A. soon after they learn to talk B. after they reach second grade in school
C. by looking at the clock D. when they begin to be mathematically mature
49．According to the passage, when small children were asked to count a pile of red and blue pencils they____.
A. counted the number of pencils of each color
B. counted only the pencils of their favorite color
C. guessed at the total number of pencils
D. subtracted the number of red pencils from the number of blue pencils
B
The following notice is posted in the bus station
Time table:
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● Buses leave the Railway Station, New York City, from 7:00 a.m. and the every half-hour thereafter, until 11:30 p.m. (7 days a week) ● Buses leave Brennan Station 20 minutes before and after every hour from 6:20 a.m. to 11:40 p.m. (7 days a week) ● Evening rush hours (5:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m.): Buses leave the Railway Station, New York City, every 15 minutes. (Monday-Friday) ● Holidays: Buses leave every hour on the hour, each direction. (Trip time: 30 minutes each way) ● All tickets must be bought at Window 12, the Railway Station, New York City, or at the Brennan Station Window BEFORE boarding buses. |
50. I f you want to take a bus in the evening rush hour, you should take the ____ in the Railway Station, New York City on Monday.
A. 6:20 p.m. B. 5:45 p.m. C. 8:00 p.m. D. 7:15 p.m.
51. If you get to the Railway Station. New York City at 11:35 p.m. on a Sunday, how long will you
have to wait before you take a bus?
A. 5 minutes B. 15 minutes C. 25 minutes D. No bus can be taken
52. You’ll get back home from work in Brennan, Which of the following bus will you take?
A. 7:30 p.m. B. 6:00 a.m. C. 5:45 p.m. D. 6:20 p.m.
C
A Chinese farmer has developed an effective rat poison with a strong sweet smell that can make rats come out of their holes from 500 meters away to eat it even in daylight.
Rats can not resist the temptation of the good smell of the poison. They will appear and taste the poisonous food, which makes them blind and causes death within two hours.
In recent years, the rat population has increased in China to no less than 3 billion, an average of three per person. They eat about 15 million tons of grain each year and also cause the spread of some diseases.
53. The point of this passage is that the rat poison _____.
A. is harmful B. smells sweet C. kills rats quickly D. is tempting rat food
54. The population of China is _____.
A. one third of that of the rats
B. three times that of the rats
C. as many as that of the rats
D. four times that of the rats
55. In the third paragraph, the reporter wants to tell us _____.
A. about the rat population in China now
B. that rats have done great harm to the Chinese people
C. how much grain do rats eat each year in China
D. that the rat poison is of great value in China
五、篇章结构（请将标有A—F的句子插入文章标号56-60、的合适位置，使这篇文章意义完整，结构连贯，其中有一句是多余的）
Paris is the capital of the European nations of France. __56___
Paris is called the city of Light. It is also an international dressing center. What the women are wearing in Paris will be worn by women all over the world. ____57__ For example, it is the headquarters of UNESCO, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization
The Seine River divides the city into two parts. Thirty-two bridges cross this beautiful river. The oldest and perhaps most well known is the Pont Neuf, which was built in the sixteenth century. ___58__
There are many other famous places in Paris, such as the famous museum the Louvre as well as Notre Dame. __59___
Paris is named after a group of people called the Parisil. They built a small village on an island in the middle of the Seine River about two thousand years ago. ___60__ Today around eight million people live in the Parisil area.
A. However, the most famous building in this city must be the Eiffel Tower.
B. This island, called the He de la Cite, is where Notre Dame is located.
C. I love Paris so much.
D. The Sorbonne , a famous university, is located on the left bank of the river.
E. It is also one of the most beautiful and most famous cities in the world.
F. Paris is also a famous world center of education.
第三部分：读写综合
Australia’s future depends on a high quality and dynamic school education system to provide students with foundation skills, values, knowledge and understanding necessary for lifelong learning, employment and full participation in society.
To improve the quality of schooling nationally, the Australian Government works with state and territory governments, non-government school authorities, parents, educators and other organizations to seek the best possible outcomes for young Australians. Strategic policy development and delivery of programmes and services at the national level are coordinated through the Ministerial Council on Education, Employment, Training and Youth Affairs.
This is an extract from the Internet about school development. After reading it, please write an essay, expressing your voice on what should an ideal school be.