We find that bright children are rarely held back by mix-ability teaching. On the contrary, both their knowledge and experience are enriched. We feel that there are many disadvantages in streaming pupils. It does not take into account the fact that children develop at different rates. It can have a bad effect on both the bright and the not-so-bright child. After all, it can be quite discouraging to be at the bottom of the top grade!
Besides, it is rather unusual to grade pupils just according to their intellectual ability. This is only one aspect of their total personality. We are concerned to develop the abilities of all our pupils to the full, not just their academic ability. We also value personal qualities and social skills, and we find that mixed ability teaching contributes to all these aspects of learning.
In our classrooms, we work in various ways. The pupils often work in groups: this gives them the opportunity to learn to co-operate, to share, and to develop leadership skills. They also learn how to deal with personal problems as well as learning how to think, to make decisions, to analyze and evaluate, and to communicate effectively. The pupils learn from each other as well as from the teacher.
Sometimes the pupils work in pairs; sometimes they work on individual tasks and assignments, and they can do this at their own speed. They also have some formal class teaching when this is proper. We encourage our pupils to use the library, and we teach them the skills they need in order to do this efficiently. And advanced pupil can do advanced work. It doesn’t matter what age the child is. We expect our pupils to do their best, not their least, and we give them every encouragement to obtain this goal.
1.By “held back” (the underlined part of the first sentence) the author means “______”.
A．drawn to their studies B．prevented from advancing
C．made to remain in the same class D．forced to study in the lower class
2.The author argues that a teacher’s chief concern should be the development of the pupil’s ______.
A．total personality B．intellectual ability
C．personal qualities D．communicative skills
3.Which of the following is NOT mentioned in the third paragraph?
A．Pupils also learn to develop their reasoning abilities.
B．Pupils also learn how to participate in teaching activities.
C．Group work gives pupils the opportunity to learn to work together with others.
D．Group work provides pupils with the opportunity to learn to be good organizers.
Twenty-six years after a terrible bicycle accident left her comatose（昏迷） for two months and with permanent brain injuries, Barbara Buchan, performs many actions more slowly than others. But on September 10 in Beijing, Buchan, at 52, the oldest member of the United States Paralympic team, broke the record and won the gold medal for her disability class in the individual 3,000-meter cycling pursuit.
“You can be very upset at the world and have everyone take care of you,” Buchan said by telephone from Beijing, “or get back on your feet again.”
Buchan first dreamed of Olympic gold at age 15 while watching the 1972 Munich Games. She became a top American cyclist by July 1982, when a terrible road-race crash injured her brain and left doctors doubtful about whether she would survive. She was wearing only a soft leather helmet at the time; her accident made the rule put into practice that cyclists wear the hard-shell helmets that are now common.
Buchan recovered enough of her athletic ability to run track in the 1988 Paralympics in Seoul, where she won a silver medal in the 800 meters. Women’s cycling was not included in the Paralympics yet, so Buchan trained to the point where she raced against men in the 2000 Paralympics in Sydney, Australia — she finished 9th and 10th in two races — and then successfully fought for a separate women’s cycling program beginning in 2004 in Athens, where she did not get a medal.
Even though she was approaching her 50s, Buchan kept racing and again made the United States Paralympic team for Beijing — where she is twice the age of most of her teammates and competitors.
“Barbara’s almost the leader of our team — she’s been through it all,” said Craig Griffin, the United States cycling coach. “She’s never retired. She’s never let her body go and then come back. I don’t think age is as big of a deal as people make it out to be.”
1.According to the passage, after the accident, ____________.
A．Buchan asked her friends to take care of her
B．cyclists started to wear helmets in competition
C．Buchan could not answer questions correctly
D．doctors doubted whether Buchan could come back to life
2.What’s the right order of the events related to Buchan?
a. She won a gold medal in Beijing.
b. She became a top American cyclist.
c. She won a silver medal in the 800 meters.
d. She suffered a terrible bicycle accident.
e. She took part in a cycling program in Athens.
A．c-d-b-a-e B．b-c-d-a-e C．b-d-c-e-a D．c-b-d-e-a
3.What does the underlined phrase “get back on your feet” in the second paragraph mean?
A．rise to your feet B．walk on your way
C．go beyond yourself D．depend on yourself
4.Which of the following can be the best title for this passage?
A．The Making of a Hero B．From a Loser to a Winner
C．All Roads Lead to Rome D．Health is Better than Wealth
现在越来越多的人喜欢去乡村度假。请根据一下信息，简单地说一下人们喜欢去乡村度假的原因：
乡村空气清新；
可以听到鸟儿歌唱，可以钓鱼、游泳；
安静，人少；
乡村吃住便宜。
注意：
可以适当增加情节，不能逐句翻译；
词数80~100个
参考词汇：accommodations 吃住
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单句改错（共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分）
He is so a great man that we all show our respect to him. 1.______ ___
What a touching story ! I was moving to tears. 2.____ _____
I'll let you know more about the trip as soon as I will work out the plan.3.__ _____
I think it is wrong for you to stare at others. 4. ______
Although he failed again, but he would not give up. 5.____ __
As the result, they saved 90% of the trees in the forest. 6.___ ___
It is necessary of us to do sports now and then. 7.__ ___
In a rainy night, he came back home alone. 8.___ ____
John went fishing with one of his friend the other day. 9.___ ____
Beside English, he can also speak German, French and Spanish. 10.__ ______
根据下列各句句意及所给单词或短语的汉语提示，写出该单词或短语的正确形式。
（每空1分，满分10分）
1.I have a large __________（收藏）of books on chess. Maybe we can exchange some books to read.
2.As soon as you send us your plan, we'll send you a reply __________.（立刻）
3.What are the __________（优势）of having a mobile phone?
4.__________（判断）from his accent, he must come from the north.
5.I'm just __________（好奇的）about what is happening over there.
6.There will be a talk about __________（文化的）differences this evening.
7.__________（诚实）is the best policy.
8.It will be a __________（浪费）of time to cook food every day.
9.The temple over there __________（属于）to the local government.
10.They all went to the __________（电影院）last Friday night.
Photos that you might have found down the back of your sofa are now big business!
In 2005, the American artist Richard Prince’s photograph of a photograph, Untitled (Cowboy）, was sold for $ 1, 248, 000.
Prince is certainly not the only contemporary artist to have worked with so-called “found photographs”—a loose term given to everything from discarded(丢弃的） prints discovered in a junk shop to old advertisements or amateur photographs from a stranger’s family album. The German artist Joachim Schmid, who believes “basically everything is worth looking at”, has gathered discarded photographs, postcards and newspaper images since 1982. In his on-going project, Archiv, he groups photographs of family life according to themes: people with dogs; teams; new cars; dinner with the family; and so on.
Like Schmid, the editors of several self-published art magazines also champion (捍卫) found photographs. One of them, called simply Found, was born one snowy night in Chicago, when Davy Rothbard returned to his car to find under his wiper(雨刷） an angry note intended for some else: “Why’s your car HERE at HER place?” The note became the starting point for Rothbard’s addictive publication, which features found photographs sent in by readers, such a poster discovered in our drawer.
The whole found-photograph phenomenon has raised some questions. Perhaps one of the most difficult is: can these images really be considered as art? And if so, whose art? Yet found photographs produced by artists, such Richard Prince, may riding his horse hurriedly to meet someone? Or how did Prince create this photograph? It's anyone's guess. In addition, as we imagine the back-story to the people in the found photographs artists, like Schmid, have collated (整理）, we also turn toward our own photographic albums. Why is memory so important to us? Why do we all seek to freeze in time the faces of our children, our parents, our lovers, and ourselves? Will they mean anything to anyone after we've gone?
In the absence of established facts, the vast collections of found photographs give our minds an opportunity to wander freely. That, above all, is why they are so fascinating.
1.The first paragraph of the passage is used to _________.
A．remind readers of found photographs
B．advise reader to start a new kind of business
C．ask readers to find photographs behind sofa
D．show readers the value of found photographs
2.According to the passage, Joachim Schmid _________.
A．is fond of collecting family life photographs
B．found a complaining not under his car wiper
C．is working for several self-published magazines
D．wondered at the artistic nature of found photographs
3.The underlined word "them" in Para 4 refers to __________.
A．the readers B．the editors
C．the found photographs D．the self-published magazines
4.By asking a series of questions in Para 5, the author mainly intends to indicate that ________.
A．memory of the past is very important to people
B．found photographs allow people to think freely
C．the back-story of found photographs is puzzling
D．the real value of found photographs is questionable
5.The author’s attitude towards found photographs can be described as _________.
A．critical B．doubtful C．optimistic D．satisfied
