Question

It’s a common school day at Southern Cross School near the famous Kruger National Park in South Africa. Teachers and pupils don’t sit in a classroom. I   1. , they go through the forest or sit under the trees.

The school teaches students all the same s   2. as the rest of the country’s schools, but the teaching methods are completely different. Southern Cross uses nature as a teaching tool. The teachers and their pupils go out into nature and work with animals and plants. These can be used to study a   3.  from maths and social sciences to languages. The school is in an area where animals live wild and can be hunted. To get to class, students travel a road through the forest that wild animals use as well.

The classroom for small preschoolers is a little different from the rest of the school. For example, the first lesson of the day is maths, but the teaching method is very s   4. .In this school you won’t hear a teacher saying “Count how many apples Jane has in her basket.”Actually, the children visit a nearby river to count the number of marks left by animals. This way they can see how many different animals come to d  5.  during the night.

The students are encouraged to take care of the injured and small animals. If they find a dead animal in the area, they study where the animal fits in the foot chain and how and why it d  6. .

The headmaster says, “We must make people understand what we are doing to the e   7.  . We need to care for our planet.”

Answer

1.Instead

2.subjects

3.anything

4.special

5.drink

6.died

7.earth / environment

【解析】

试题分析：这篇短文主要介绍了南非克鲁格国家公园南十字学校特殊的教学方式。他们利用自然作为教学工具，老师和学生走进自然和动物及植物一起合作学习。他们就是想通过这种方式让人们关爱我们的地球，我们的环境。

1.句意：老师和学生不坐在教室里，相反他们穿过森林，或坐在树下。前后句意相反，所以选择instead。故填Instead

2.这所学校教授这个国家其他学校所有相同的科目。前面有提示词“teaches”，学校里所教的应该往“内容”，“科目”方面进行联想；same这个 词是个干扰词，后面不能填单数形式，all the same…,所有相同的……，注意名词的复数变化。故填subjects

3.句意：这些能被用来学习任何事情，从数学，社会科学到语言。根据 后面的from...to... 是一个选项的提示范围，做的定语。可知是任何事情，故填anything

4.例如这一天的第一节课是数学，但是教学方法是非常特殊的。结合后文的具体描述及前面的different以及but都是关键性的提示词，就是为了突出此种教法与众不同，所以填写special

5.这样他们就能看到在夜晚有很多不同的动物来喝水。前面的提示词“river”很关键，同学们来到河边观察不同种类的动物做什么，结合实际生活中的常识，自然联想到喝与吃等相关动作。故填drink

6.If they find a dead animal in the area这个条件状语从句中有个关键的提示词dead.故填died

7.

【考点定位】环境保护类短文阅读。