Question

听下面一段独白，回答以下小题。

1.What’s the purpose of providing the school students with yoga exercises?

A.To enable students to reject violence.

B.To help students face struggles more properly.

C.To eliminate(消除) poverty more effectively.

2.What can students learn in the Mindful Moment Room?

A.How to calm down by talking to teachers.

B.How to clear their mind at night.

C.How to respond to situations better.

3.What change have yoga exercises brought to school?

A.More students dropped out of school last year.

B.There is less bad behavior on campus.

C.More students are willing to be sent to the office.

4.What does the speaker think of yoga?

A.Its effect on students remains to be seen.

B.Everyone can benefit from it.

C.There is enough evidence for its importance

Answer

1.B

2.C

3.B

4.A

【解析】

【原文】

Along with the subjects, like reading and mathematics, school children at Robert W. Coleman Elementary School are learning yoga exercises. The aim is to provide them with better tools to deal with the daily struggles they face . Principle Thompson brought the programme to Coleman in 2010. A few of her students are homeless but others live in homes with no electricity. Some have little or no food to eat, others are related to victims of gun violence. The Mindful Moment Room is a place where students do deep breathing exercises and clear their minds. They come to learn how they can better react to situations and how to calm themselves. They can also speak with Mindful Moment specialists about what caused their teachers to send them there. Principle Thompson believes that yoga is responsible for the drop in leaving school at her school. Over the past year, there was no dropping out of school at Coleman compared to four during the 2013-14 school year. And students are almost never sent to her offices for bad behavior any more . For the past half century, yoga has been studied as a possible treatment for anxiety and depression. As for students, there’s some scientific evidence that yoga can help people but more is needed . However education expert Patricia Jennings told New York Times that these practices don’t eliminate poverty and may not work for everybody .