1、 学英语 找长喜 1星期 3 WednesdaySuccess covers a multitude of blunders.成功由大量失望铸就。学习内容 题 材 词 数 建议时间 错误统计 做题备忘Text A 教育人物 487 6 分钟 /5Text B 自然现象 404 5.5 分钟 /4Text C 工业社会 394 6 分钟 /6Text D 女性人物 573 7.5 分钟 /5今日练习Text AIt is customary for adults to forget how hard and dull and long school is. The learning by mem
2、ory of all the basic things one must know is most incredible and unending effort. Learning to read is probably the most difficult and revolutionary thing that happens to the human brain and if you dont believe that, watch an illiterate adult try to do it. School is not easy and it is not for the mos
3、t part very much fun, but then, if you are very lucky, you may find a real teacher. Three real teachers in a lifetime are the very best of my luck. My first was a science and math teacher in high school, my second, a professor of creative writing at Stanford, and my third was my friend and partner,
4、Ed Rickets.I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. It might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.My three teachers had these things in common: They all loved what they were
5、 doing. They did not tell. They catalyzed(催化，刺激) a burning desire to know. Under their influence, the horizon sprung wide and fear went away and the unknown became knowable. But most important of all, the truth, that dangerous stuff, became beautiful and very precious.I shall speak only of my first
6、teacher because in addition to the other things, she brought discovery.She aroused us to shouting, book-waving discussion. She had the noisiest class in school and she didnt even seem to know it. We could never stick to the subject. Our speculation ranged the world. She breathed curiosity into us so
7、 that we brought in facts or truths shielded in our hands like captured fireflies.She was fired and perhaps rightly so, for failing to teach fundamentals. Such things must be learned. But she left a passion in us for the pure knowable world and she inflamed me with a curiosity which has never left.
8、I could not do simple arithmetic but through her I sensed that abstract mathematics was very much like music. When she was relieved, sadness came over us but the light did not go out. She left her signature on us, the literature of the teacher who writes on minds. I have had many teachers who told m
9、e soon-forgotten backs but only three who crested in me a new thing, a new attitude and a new hunger. I suppose that to a large extent I am the unsigned manuscript of the high school teacher. What deathless power lies in the hands of such a person?I can tell my son who looks forward with horror to f
10、ifteen years of drudgery (繁重而乏味的工作) that somewhere in the dusty dark a magic may happen that will light up the years if he is 学英语 找长喜 2very lucky.1. According to the first paragraph, the author assumes thatA an illiterate adult enjoy learning knowledge.B learning to read is a tough thing.C school li
11、fe is easy and enjoyable.D adults often remember their dull school life.2. According to the passage, all of the following can make a teacher EXCEPT thatA teachers are keen on their career.B teachers can enlighten students to conceive.C teachers should be also artists in other fields.D teachers inspi
12、re students to discover.3. According to the author, whats the most important feature for a real teacher?A A teacher should make fun in the class.B A teacher should breathe curiosity into students.C A teacher should school basic things. D A teacher should be knowledgeable. 4. Mentioning the first tea
13、chers influence, the author compared himself toA a captured firefly. B a musician. C light.D an unsigned manuscript.5. An appropriate title for the passage might beA What Makes a Real Teacher?B My First Real TeacherC Three teachers of Mine D A Teacher Who Inflames Me Text BOn most shores you will no
14、tice that the sea level changes throughout the day. These ups and downs of the seas are called tides.Why should tides occur? Everything on the Earths surface is attracted towards the Earth by a force called gravity. The Moon and the Sun also have a gravitational pull of their own. As the Moon passes
15、 around the Earth it attracts the waters of the oceans on the side facing it, pulling them away from the Earth, and causing them to bulge. On the opposite side from this “tidal bulge”, there is another one because on that side, the land is closer to the Moon than the waters, and the land is pulled a
16、way from the seas, leaving a bulge behind. These two bulges remain in the same position in relation to the Moon, but the rotation of the Earth means that each of them appears to move around the Earth. These bulges are called high water, and the gaps between them are called low water.There are two ot
17、her factors that help in the formation of the tides. You know that if you cause the water in your bath to rock, it may rise and fall against the side of the bath for some time. In the same way, once the tides have begun, the waters tend to continue to rock up and down and they are given an extra pus
18、h by the attraction of the Moon. The Sun also tends to attract the Earths oceans towards itself, but because it is so much further away, the attraction is less important. At 学英语 找长喜 3certain times of the year, however, the Sun, the Moon, and the Earth are all in a straight line. When this happens, t
19、he attraction of the Sun is added to the attraction of the Moon and tides are extra high.Waves are almost wholly the result of wind blowing across the surface of the water. The wind drags the water to form waves which move slowly forward, and get larger. Although the wave shape moves forward, each p
20、article of water moves round in circles and does not change its average position. The height of a wave depends on three factors: how hard the wind is blowing, how long the wind has been blowing, and the fetch. The word “fetch” means the length of the stretch of open water over which the wind is blow
21、ing.6. What is the major cause of the formation of the tides?A The gravity of the Earth.B The pull of the Sun and the Moon.C The attraction of the Moon to the oceans and land.D The gravitational pull of the Moon to the bulge.7. Each tidal bulge seems to move around the Earth because ofA the relation
22、ship between the Moon and the Earth.B the positions of the two bulges.C the rotation of the Earth.D the gravitational pull of the Moon.8. Tides reach their maximum whenA a strong wind blows on the surface of the water.B the Sun and the Moon form a right angle with the Earth.C the Sun also tends to a
23、ttract the Earths oceans.D the Sun, the Moon, and the Earth are in line.9. Which of the following is NOT true according to the passage?A When the wave moves forward, the water moves forward, too.B The height of a wave is related to wind speed.C Tides are different from waves.D Waves are usually the
24、result of wind blowing.Text CIn general, our society is becoming one of giant enterprises directed by a bureaucratic management in which man becomes a small, well-oiled cog (齿轮)in the machinery. The oiling is done with higher wages, well-ventilated factories and piped music, and by psychologists and
25、 “human relations” experts; yet all this oiling does not alter the fact that man has become powerless, that he does not whole heartedly participate in his work and that he is bored with it. In fact, the blue and white-collar workers have become economic puppets who dance to the tune of automated mac
26、hines and bureaucratic management.The workers and employees are anxious, not only because they might find themselves out of a job; they are anxious also because they are unable to acquire any real satisfaction or interest in life. They live and die without ever having confronted the fundamental real
27、ities of human existence as emotionally independent and productive human beings.Those higher up on the social ladder are no less anxious. Their lives are no less empty than those of their subordinates. They are even more insecure in some respects. They are in highly 学英语 找长喜 4competitive race. To be
28、promoted or fall behind is not a matter of salary but even more a matter of self-respect. When they apply for their first job, they are tested for intelligence as well as for the right mixture of submissiveness and independence. From that moment on they are tested again and again by the psychologist
29、s, for whom testing is a big business, and by their superiors, who judge their behavior, sociability, capacity to go along, etc. This constant need to prove that one is as good as or better than ones fellow competitor creates constant anxiety and stress, the very causes of unhappiness and illness.Am
30、 I suggesting that we should return to the pre-industrial mode of production or to nineteenth century “free enterprise” capitalism? Certainly not. Problems are never solved by returning to a stage which one has already outgrown. I suggest transforming our social system from a bureaucratically manage
31、d industrialism in which maximal production and consumption are ends in themselves into a humanist industrialism in which man and full development of his potentialities those of love and of reason are the aims of all social arrangements. Production and consumption should serve only as means to this
32、end, and should be prevented from ruling man.10. By “a well-oiled cog in the machinery” the author implies that man is A working in complete harmony with the rest of the society.B a humble component of the society, especially when working smoothly.C an unimportant part compared with the rest of soci
33、ety, though functioning smoothly. D a necessary part of the society though each individuals function is negligible.11. The real cause of the anxiety of the workers and employees is thatA they are likely to lose their jobs.B they have no genuine satisfaction or interest in life.C they are faced with
34、the fundamental realities of human existence.D they are deprived of their individuality and independence.12. Why do the higher-ups feel anxious?A Because their lives are emptier than their subordinates.B Because they are repeatedly tested by the psychologists.C Because they feel oppressed by their s
35、uperiors.D Because they need to prove theyre better than other competitors.13. According to the passage, real happiness of life probably belongs to thoseA who could keep far away from this competitive world.B who are at the bottom of the society.C who are higher up in their social status.D who prove
36、 better than their fellow competitors.14. In the last paragraph the author suggests that we shouldA resort to the production mode of our ancestors.B enable man to fully develop his potentialities.C offer higher wages to the workers and employees.D take the fundamental realities for granted.15. Whats
37、 the authors attitude towards industrialism?A Approval. B Suspicion.C Dissatisfaction. D Tolerance. Text D学英语 找长喜 5CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Feb. 11 Recalling her coming of age as the only girl in a privileged, tradition-bound family in Virginia horse country, Drew Gilpin Faust, 59, has often spoken of her
38、“continued confrontations” with her mother “about the requirements of what she usually called femininity.” Her mother, Catharine, she has said, told her repeatedly, “Its a mans world, sweetie, and the sooner you learn that the better off youll be.”Instead, Dr. Faust left home at an early age, to be
39、educated at Concord Academy, then a girls prep school in Massachusetts, and at Bryn Mawr College, a womens college known for creating future leaders, and to become a leading Civil War scholar. And Sunday, through the convergence of grand changes in higher education, her own achievements and the resi
40、gnation of Harvards previous president under pressure, she became the first woman appointed to lead the Ivy League university founded in 1636.Catharine Drew Gilpin was born on Sept. 18, 1947, and grew up in Clarke County, Va., in the Shenandoah Valley. She was always known as Drew. Her father, McGhe
41、e Tyson Gilpin, bred thoroughbred horses. Her father, her two uncles, her great-uncle, two of her three brothers (including Tyson) and numerous male cousins all went to Princeton, but since Princeton did not admit women in the mid-1960s, she went to Bryn Mawr. Majoring in history, she took classes w
42、ith Mary Maples Dunn, a professor who would become the president of Smith College, the acting dean of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study and a close friend and advocate.It was significant, Dr. Dunn said, that Dr. Faust had been educated at Concord Academy and Bryn Mawr. “I think these womens
43、 institutions in those days tended to give these young women a very good sense of themselves and encouraged them to develop their own ideas and to express themselves confidently,” she said. “It was an invaluable experience in a world in which women were second-class citizens.”Dr. Faust graduated fro
44、m Bryn Mawr in 1968, magna cum laude (以优异的成绩) with honors in history. She went on to the University of Pennsylvania, where she received a masters in 1971 and a doctorate in 1975 in American civilization.She was a professor at Penn for 25 years, including five years as the chairwoman of the Departmen
45、t of American Civilization. She was director of the Womens Studies Program for four years.In 2001, as Dr. Dunn was stepping down as acting dean of the Radcliffe Institute, the remnant of Radcliffe College, which had been absorbed into Harvard in 1999, Dr. Faust became the dean. She made major organi
46、zational changes, cut costs and laid off a quarter of the staff, transforming Radcliffe into an internationally known home for scholars from multiple disciplines.Asked Sunday whether her appointment signified the end of sex inequities at the university, Dr. Faust said: “Of course not. There is a lot
47、 of work still to be done, especially in the sciences.”What would her mother, who never went to college and died in 1966, have to say about her appointment? “Ive often thought about that,” she said. “Ive had dialogues with my dead mother over the 40 years since she died.” Then she added with a regre
48、tful smile, “I think in many ways that comment Its a mans world, sweetie was a bitter comment from a woman of a generation who didnt have the kind of choices my generation of women had.”16. At the beginning of the passage, the author indicates that A Dr. Faust tried her best to meet her mothers requ
49、irement of the femininity.学英语 找长喜 6B there is a deep conflict between Dr. Faust and her mother. C Dr. Faust didnt agree with her mothers idea about the femininity. D Dr. Fausts mother was a feminist.17. Which of the following contributes to Fausts appointment in Harvard?A Tremendous changes in the field of h
