The London Interdisciplinary School (LIS), scheduled to open in 2021 with a target of admitting 100 students, will abandon traditional academic subjects and offer a three year bachelor of arts and sciences degree designed to deal with real-world issues. The curriculum is built around interdisciplinary problems—knife crime, childhood obesity, plastic pollution, among others—as well as quantitative and qualitative research skills. Employers like the Met Police and Virgin will provide project ideas and offer five -week work experience for students.
“We’re going to try and create a really transformational educational experience where all the people in the institution are waking up every morning and saying, ‘How can we take these brilliant young people and give them an amazing learning experience?” says Ed Fidoe, a co-founder of the LIS. The idea is similar to a U.S. liberal arts (通识教育) degree but also more specifically focused on multiple subjects— economics, psychology, sociology, statistic, etc. — to solve complex problems like childhood obesity. In other words, the problem, not the subject, sits at the center of the curriculum. The skills students develop, the founders hope, will more closely come into agreement with what an Al-infused, automated world demands: collaboration(协作) between people and machines, critical thinking, speaking and writing skill, and data management, to name just a few things.
The challenges of building a new university from scratch are daunting(令人生畏的): students have to sign up for, and pay for, something untested; all the teachers will have to teach in a totally new and different way; and there’s a risk that an interdisciplinary curriculum will be interesting but thin. Fidoe says it’s a tall order. “Are any 17-year-olds going to be crazy enough to come to something that doesn’t exist yet against something that’s been around for 150 years?” he says.
In the U.K, students apply through an admissions service center, and exam results are more important than anything else. On the contrary, at the LIS, students will instead apply directly during a pre-determined “selection day” where everyone is invited to participate. This day will include a face-to-face interview so that the college can better understand a student’s background, motivations, and passions.
1.What is the aim of the LIS?
A.To provide more and more project ideas for students.
B.To take a real-world approach to higher education.
C.To help employers to develop the students’ skills.
D.To conduct qualitative and quantitative research.
2.What’s special about the curriculum the LIS sets up?
A.It is subject-centered. B.It is based on AI technology.
C.It centers around social concerns. D.It covers every aspect of society.
3.What does the sentence “it’s a tall order” underlined in Para.3 mean?
A.It’s interesting to teach in a new approach.
B.It’s bound to put the curriculum in order.
C.It’s exciting to take on new challenges.
D.It’s hard to build the new university.
4.What can we learn about the LIS from the last paragraph?
A.It pays more attention to exam results.
B.It focuses more on the face-to-face interview.
C.It emphasizes students’ personal experiences and qualities .
D.It stresses the importance of is pre-determined “selection day”.
When Millet was a boy he worked on his needy father's farm. At the rest hour in the fields the other workers would all take naps, but young Millet would spend time drawing. Finally, the village where he lived gave him a little money to Paris to study art.
When Millet reached Paris, he had a tough time. Fortunately, when he was almost starving, someone bought one of his peasant paintings, which enabled his family to leave for Barbizon.
Millet's pictures of peasants at work were painted in a unique way. The painter would go out on the farms and watch them carefully—digging, hoeing, spreading manure, sawing wood, or sowing grain. Then he would come home and paint what he had seen. So astonishingly accurate was his memory that he could paint at home without models and get all the movements of his figures right. When he did need a figure to go by, he would ask his wife to pose for him.
One of his noted artworks is called “The Sower”, which shows a man seeding. He reaches into his bag for seed and then swings backward to scatter the seed, and with each swing of his hand the sower strides forward. In Millet's picture the sower has been working hard, but his swinging step and arm still move smoothly, like a machine. Only the man's head reveals his great tiredness.
Another masterpiece is called “The Gleaners”. A gleaner is someone picking up the leftover in the field after the wheat harvest. When farmers near Barbizon are extremely badly-off, even the little the gleaners can find is a help. You can see from Millet's picture what back-breaking work gleaning must be.
1.What do we know about Millet?
A.His wife supported him to be a painter. B.He was keen on painting as a kid.
C.He spent his whole life in Barbizon. D.He was brought up in Paris.
2.How did he paint the laboring farmers?
A.Asking models for help. B.Imagining figures in the field.
C.Remembering what he had observed. D.Recalling the days on his father's farm.
3.What do Millet's works convey?
A.The farmers' hardships. B.The scene of farming.
C.His love for the village. D.His anxiety about the farmers.
4.What painting style of Millet can be inferred from the text?
A.Impressionistic. B.Abstract.
C.Romantic. D.Realistic.
Want to be more successful? If so, then you need to read a few self-help books. Here are four popular ones to get you going.
59 Seconds ( 2009) by Richard Wiseman
This is a self-help book with a difference. Wiseman, a scientist, uses science to prove many self-help myths(神话) are false. For example, self-help books say that if you want to achieve a goal, you should visualize it. But Wiseman says that's the worst thing to do. Studies show that you need to visualize the steps required to achieve the goal.
How to Win Friends& Influence People ( 1936) —by Dale Carnegie
This is the book that launched the self-help type. Carnegie says financial success is 15% professional knowledge and 85% the ability to express ideas, assume leadership, and motivate people. The book is full of practical advice on how to influence people by making them like you.
The Millionaire Next Door (1996) by Thomas Stanley & Wlliam Danko
The authors of this book spent years interviewing American millionaires to figure out the secrets of their success. And they discovered that a majority of millionaires don't live luxury lifestyles. They're rich because they live below their means and reinvest what they earn.
Who Moved My Cheese? (1998)-by Spencer Johnson
Who Moved My Cheese? An Amazing Way to Deal with Change in Your Work and in Your Life, published on September 8, 1998, is a motivational business fable. The text describes change in one's work and life, and four typical reactions to those changes by two mice and two “little people”，during their hunt for cheese.
1.What is the key to achieving success in 59 Seconds?
A.To employ science. B.To follow examples.
C.To picture procedures. D.To visualize the goal.
2.What is Dale Carnegie's book mainly about?
A.How to master occupational knowledge. B.How to apply practical techniques.
C.How to gain strong management. D.How to become popular persons.
3.Which book can help you adapt to change in your life?
A.59 Seconds B.Who Moved My Cheese?
C.The Millionaire Next Door D.How to Win Friends& Influence People
美国孔子学院( Confucius Institute)准备筹办“中国文化周"活动，正在征求活动策划方案。假定你是新华中学的学生李华，打算应征。请你通过邮件给主办负责人Mr. Smith写一封信：
内容包括:
1.写信目的;
2.活动方案;
3.表达期待。
注意:1.词数100左右;
2.可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。
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假定英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文,请你修改你同桌写的以下作文。文中共有10处语言错误,每句中最多有两处。每处错误仅涉及-一个单词的增加、删除或修改。
增加:在缺词处加一个漏字符号( ˆ) ,并在其下面写出该加的词。
删除:把多余的词用斜线( \)划掉。
修改:在错的词下划一横线,并在该词下面写出修改后的词。
注意:1.每处错误及其修改均仅限一词;
2.只允许修改10处,多者(从第11处起)不计分。
When I was a little boy, the dinner in the eve of Spring Festival is what I looked forward to most. It was not only for the delicious food, and for the opportunity for our whole families to get together. I would run around the house, listened to the adults chatting about their year. I'd get under my mother's feet in the kitchen, watching her to make dumplings. In the evening, all of them would sit around the table , enjoying the food and being together again. We toasted each other and laughed easy. The simple, homemade dishes tasted delicious than anything cook by a top chef.
阅读下面材料,在空白处填入适当的内容(1个单词)或括号内单词的正确形式。将答案填写在答题卡的相应位置。
As schools close and millions of people across the United States work from home, the promise of companionship is prompting(促使) some to take in animals. The1.(decide) to adopt pets flies in the face of some conventional wisdom that discourages adding a new animal 2.a household during a stressful or busy time of the year, such as the holidays. But so far the novel coronavirus3.( create) an almost parental leave-like situation for many people.
"There's no doubt4.animals provide incredible comfort and companionship, especially during times of crisis- and they5.(certain) appreciate the attention- so we encourage people 6.(continue) to adopt animals in need," said Malt Bershadker, president and chief executive of the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.
People are bringing home all kinds of living creatures for companionship during an unprecedented(空前的) time of social isolation(隔离), and they're sharing7.(photo) or social media to provide a break from darker news.
Pets can also entertain younger family members at home- -Kenneth Lynch and Lauren Wakefield bought a blue-and-silver betta fish for their two young children to help develop8.strong sense of responsibility with feeding it and9.( clean) the tank. This will help them "occupy some of their time in a more10. ( health) manner" while they are home from school, Lynch said.
