If you want to learn anything at school, you need to listen to your teachers. Unfortunately, millions of kids can’t hear what their teachers are saying. And it’s not because these students are goofing off. Often, it’s the room’s fault. Building architecture and building design can create echo(回声)-filled classrooms that make hearing difficult.
Children with hearing impairments（损伤）suffer most from noisy classrooms. They sometimes can’t hear questions that other students ask in class. Compared with kids with healthy hearing, they have a harder time picking up new vocabulary words by hearing them in talking.
Even kids with normal hearing have a harder time in the classroom when there’s too much noise. Younger children in particular have trouble separating important sounds – like a teacher’s voice – from background noise. Kids with learning disabilities and speech impediments（障碍）and kids for whom English is a second language also have a harder time learning in noisy situations.
In recent years, scientists who study sound have been asking schools to reduce background noise, which may include loud air-conditioners and pipes. They’re also targeting outdoor noises, such as highway traffic. Noise reduction is a big deal. Why? Because quieter classrooms might make you smarter by letting you hear your lessons better.
“It’s so obvious that we should have quiet rooms that allow for access to the lesson,” says Dan Ostergren, a hearing scientist. “Sometimes it surprises me that we spend so much time discussing this topic. I just want to go. Why is this hard for anyone to grasp?”
1.The underlined part “goofing off” in the first paragraph can be replaced by “ ”.
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A．lazy |
B．intelligent |
C．sleepy |
D．foolish |
2.Who is most affected by noisy classrooms?
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A．Children with learning disabilities. |
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B．Children with speech impairments. |
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C．Children with hearing impediments. |
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D．Children with normal hearing. |
3.Why should noise be reduced in classrooms?
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A．Quiet classrooms are suitable for kids to have discussions. |
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B．Quiet classrooms help kids recover from hearig impairments. |
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C．Kids can’t separate sounds of air-conditioners and pipes. |
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D．Kids can become smarter after hearing lessons better. |
4.What would be the best title for the passage?
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A．Classroom design |
B．Noisy classrooms |
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C．The sense of hearing |
D．Disabled kids |
Neighbours play an important role in our lives. Their lifestyles, friends, and social habits can have a strong influence on our lives. It is a good idea to get to know the people next door or across the street to develop a community (社区) of support and safety. You never know when a neighbour will find a stranger walking around your house, or you may want to leave an extra key at their house in case someone in your family gets locked out.
How do you get along with your neighbours? Here are some tips for building a better relationship with your neighbours.
Point ①…Proper greetings can make your neighbours remember your name and pave (铺) the way for more meaningful future meetings. Don’t stay too long, though, or you’ll wear out your welcome!
Point②…If your neighbour is building a pool, offer a few hours of help. Besides, you never know when the favor might be returned.
Point③…If you hear that someone who live close to you has had an accident, take over a hot meal or some fruit. Your action will add a special touch during a difficult time.
Point④…Invite your neighbours over for a cup of coffee in December or an Easter egg hunt in spring. A backyard barbecue (烧烤) can be a great way to share food and fun.
Your neighbours may annoy you at times, but they are like family in many ways. Appreciate their strengths and overlook their weaknesses, and everyone will get along just fine.
1.What is Paragraph 1 mainly about?
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A．The possibility of a good community. |
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B．How to get to know your neighbours. |
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C．How to influence your neighbours. |
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D．The importance of neighbours. |
2.According to the passage, which of the following may NOT be something nice to do?
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A．Offering to help your neighbours if they need help. |
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B．Having a very long conversation with a new neighbour. |
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C．Inviting your neighbours over for a backyard barbecue. |
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D．Preparing a hot meal for a neighbour who is going through a difficult time. |
3.Match the following titles with each point.
a. Invite your neighbours over. b. Lend a helping hand.
c. Go over and introduce yourself. d. Offer support.
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A．①-c②-b③-d④-a |
B．①-c②-b③-a④-d |
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C．①-b②-c③-d④-a |
D．①-b②-c③-a④-d |
4.We infer(推断出) that the writer wrote this passage to .
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A．explain why it is good to get along well with others |
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B．give us some tips on how to support our neighbours |
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C．tell us how to get along with our neighours |
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D．advise us to be nice to our neighbours |
Paris is the capital of the European nation of France. It is also one of the most beautiful and most famous cities in the world.
Paris is called the City of Light. It is also an international fashion center. What women are wearing in Paris will be worn by women all over the world. Paris is also a famous world center of education. For example, it is where 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. The Sorbonne, a famous university, stands on the left bank of the river. There are many other famous places in Paris, such as the famous museum, the Louvre, as well as the Notre Dame. However, the most famous building in this city is Eiffel Tower.
Paris is named after a group of people called the Parisii. They built a small village on an island in the middle of the Seine River about two thousand years ago. This island, called the lie de la Cite, is where Notre Dame lies. Today around eight million people live in the Paris area.
1.This article mainly tells us about .
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A．the buildings in Paris |
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B．the general situations of Paris |
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C．the center of the world |
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D．the famous buildings along the Seine River |
2.From the passage we may conclude that .
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A．the clothes worn by women in Paris are liked by women all over the world |
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B．women in Paris sell their clothes all over the world |
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C．women from all over the world go to Paris and wear their own clothes |
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D．women from all over the world like to go to Paris to buy clothes |
3.The building of is the most famous building in Paris.
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A．UNESCO |
B．the Pont Neuf |
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C．Eiffel Tower |
D．Notre Dame |
4.Which of the following descriptions of Paris is not true according to the text?
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A．Paris is the capital of the European nation of France. |
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B．Paris is called the City of Light. |
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C．The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization is located in Paris. |
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D．The most famous building in this city is the famous museum, the Louvre. |
It doesn't matter when or how much a person sleeps, but everyone needs some rest to stay alive. That's what all doctors thought, until they heard about Al Herpin. Al Herpin, it was said, never slept. Could this be true ? The doctors decided to see this strange man themselves.
Al Herpin was 90 years old when the doctors came to his home in New Jersey. They thought for sure that he got some sleep of some kind. So they stayed with him and watched every movement he made. But they were surprised. Though they watched him hour after hour and day after day. They never saw Herpin sleeping. In fact, he did not even own a bed. He never needed one.
The only rest that Herpin sometimes got was sitting in a comfortable chair and reading newspapers. The doctors were puzzled by this strange continuous sleeplessness. They found only one answer that might explain his condition. Herpin remembered some talk about his mother having been injured several days before he was born. But that was all. Was this the real reason ? No one could be sure. Herpin died at the age of 94.
1.The main idea of this passage is that _______.
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A．a person was found who actually didn't need any sleep |
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B．large numbers of people do not need sleep |
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C．everyone needs some sleep to stay alive |
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D．people can live longer by trying not to sleep |
2. The doctors came to visit Herpin, expecting to _______.
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A．cure him of his sleeplessness |
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B．find a way to free people from the need of sleeping |
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C．find that his sleeplessness was not really true |
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D．find out why some old people didn't need any asleep |
3.After watching him closely, the doctors came to believe that Al Herpin _______.
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A．was too old to need any sleep |
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B．needed no sleep at all |
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C．often slept in a chair |
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D．needed some kind of sleep |
4.One reason that might explain Herpin's sleeplessness was _______.
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A．that he hadn't got a bed |
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B．that he had gradually got tired of the sleeping habit |
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C．his mother's injury before he was born |
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D．his magnificent physical condition |
On the first day of the new term, I met my new headmaster at the school gate. “Follow me, please!” he said. He had a quiet, kind voice. He took me into my new classroom and left. In front of me, thirty pairs of eyes looked at me. I knew he had told the students that I was blind. I could almost feel the question behind their eyes: Blind? I felt the answer too: If she’s blind, this should be good! I heard quiet voices in a corner of the classroom. For a moment, I felt afraid. I knew at once that I had to be strong.
“Class,” I said as loudly as I could. “I may be blind. But I am not foolish. Take those naughty smiles off your faces, and stop talking, please!” Of course, I could not see their faces; I just guessed that some of them were smiling. The class were quiet. They were very surprised. I knew that I had done the right thing.
As the days went by, the students had more surprises. I could smell when the children were eating sweets. I could easily hear combs going through hair, students passing messages, and so on. Once I found a girl passing a message to a friend. I took the message to the teachers’ room. A teacher read it to me. On one side it said, “Do you think she can see?” on the other it said, “I think so. She always knows what we’re doing.”
Soon the students stopped being naughty, and started to work hard. Before long, they brought in photos of their families for me to look at; I knew then they were my friends. I also knew they had forgotten that I could not see.
1.In Paragraph(段) 1 the writer said she must be strong because .
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A．she was too weak |
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B．the students laughed at her |
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C．the headmaster left her alone |
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D．she felt the students were not friendly to her |
2.The students were surprised for the first time because .
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A．the teacher seemed to know everything |
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B．the teacher caught them smiling |
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C．the teacher caught them talking |
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D．the teacher was not foolish |
3.In the new teacher’s class the students often .
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A．exchanged sweets |
B．combed their hair |
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C．wrote letters |
D．read letters |
4.The students brought their photos for the writer to look at .
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A．to interest her |
B．to cure her illness |
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C．to make friends with her |
D．to show their friendliness |
Two men, both seriously ill, were in the same hospital room. One man was allowed to _16_ up in his bed for an hour each afternoon. His bed was _17_ the room’s only window. The other man on the other side of the room had to _18_ all his time lying on his back in bed.
Every afternoon when the man by the window could sit up he _19_ pass the time by describing to his _20 all the things he could see outside the window. “The window overlooks a _21_ with a lovely lake. Ducks and swans play on the water _22_ children sail their model boats. Young lovers walk _23_ among flowers of every colour. Grand old trees grace(装扮) the landscape, and a fine _24_ of the city skyline can be seen in the distance.” As the man by the window _25_ all this in detail, the man on the other side of the room would close his eyes and _26_ the scene.
Days and weeks passed. On morning, the day nurse came only to find the man by the window had died _27_ in his sleep. When the man’s body was _28_, the other man asked if he could be moved next to the _29_. The nurse agreed and after making sure he was _30_, she left. Slowly and painfully, the man raised himself _31_ to take his first look at the _32_ world outside by himself. But to his _33_, he found it faced nothing _34_ a blank wall.
In fact, the man by the window was _35_ and could not even see the wall. He just wanted to encourage his roommate.
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