1、难题串讲,为什么一再强调功能？,CET 经典难题 1 一团乱麻,The public agencies for adult education will be little better off because _. A) the unemployed are too poor to continue their education B) a new leisure class has developed C) they are still suffering from the depression D) an increase in taxes could be a problem,Take
2、 the case of public education alone. The principal difficulty faced by the schools has been the tremendous increase in the number of pupils. This has been caused by the advance of the legal age for going into industry and the impossibility of finding a job even when the legal age has been reached. I
3、n view of the technological improvements in the last few years, business will require in the future proportionately fewer workers than ever before. The result will be still further raising of he legal age for going into employment, and still further difficulty in finding employment when hat age has
4、been attained. If we cannot put our children to work, we must put them in school. We may also be quite confident that the present trend toward a shorter day and a shorter week will be maintained. We have developed and shall continue to have a new leisure class. Already the public agencies for adult
5、education are swamped by the tide that has swept over them since depression began. They will be little better off when it is over. Their support must come from the taxpayer.,Take the case of public education alone. The principal difficulty faced by the schools has been the tremendous increase in the
6、 number of pupils. We may also be quite confident that the present trend toward a shorter day and a shorter week will be maintained. We have developed and shall continue to have a new leisure class. Already the public agencies for adult education are swamped by the tide that has swept over them sinc
7、e depression began. They will be little better off when it is over. Their support must come from the taxpayer.,/,正面解题 生不如死,人多,a shorter day and a shorter week,Leisure class,Already,This will be,We may also be quite confident that the present trend toward a shorter day and a shorter week will be main
8、tained. We have developed and shall continue to have a new leisure class. Already the public agencies for adult education are swamped by the tide that has swept over them since depression began. They will be little better off when it is over. Their support must come from the taxpayer.,经典难题2 偷天换日,Wha
9、t is worth noting from the example of Athens County is that _. A) greater efforts should be made to improve peoples living standards B) 70 percent of the people there have been employed for two years C) 50 percent of the population no longer relies on welfare D) the living standards of most people a
10、re going down,In the past four years, welfare rolls in Athens Country have been cut in half. But 70 percent of the people who left in the past two years took jobs that paid less than $6 an hour. The result: The Athens County poverty rate still remains at more than 30 percenttwice the national averag
11、e. For advocates (代言人) for the poor, thats an indication much more needs to be done.,经典难题3 是真是假？,We learn from the first paragraph that many Americans believe _. A) Japanese parents are more involved in preschool education than American parents B) Japans economic success is a result of its scientifi
12、c achievements C) Japanese preschool education emphasizes academic instruction D) Japans higher education is superior to theirs,In a time of low academic achievement by children in the United States, many Americans are turning to Japan, a country of high academic achievement and economic success, fo
13、r possible answers. However, the answers provided by Japanese preschools are not the ones Americans expected to find. In most Japanese preschools, surprisingly little emphasis is put on academic instruction. In one investigation, 300 Japanese and 210 American preschool teachers, child development sp
14、ecialists, and parents were asked about various aspects of early childhood education. Only 2 percent of the Japanese respondents (答问卷者) listed “to give children a good start academically” as one of their top three reasons for a society to have preschools. In contrast, over half the American responde
15、nts chose this as one of their top three choices. To prepare children for successful careers in first grade and beyond, Japanese schools do not teach reading, writing, and mathematics, but rather skills such as persistence, concentration,简化,In a time of low academic achievement by children in the Un
16、ited States, many Americans are turning to Japan, a country of high academic achievement and economic success, for possible answers. However, the answers provided by Japanese preschools are not the ones Americans expected to find. In most Japanese preschools, surprisingly little emphasis is put on a
17、cademic instruction. Japanese schools teach skills such as persistence, concentration,We learn from the first paragraph that many Americans believe _. A) Japanese parents are more involved in preschool education than American parents B) Japans economic success is a result of its scientific achieveme
18、nts C) Japanese preschool education emphasizes academic instruction D) Japans higher education is superior to theirs,简化,In a time of low academic achievement by children in the United States, many Americans are turning to Japan, a country of high academic achievement and economic success, for possib
19、le answers. However, the answers provided by Japanese preschools are not the ones Americans expected to find. In most Japanese preschools, surprisingly little emphasis is put on academic instruction. Japanese schools teach skills such as persistence, concentration,We learn from the first paragraph t
20、hat many Americans believe _. A) Japanese parents are more involved in preschool education than American parents B) Japans economic success is a result of its scientific achievements C) Japanese preschool education emphasizes academic instruction D) Japans higher education is superior to theirs,经典难题
21、4 难词惊魂,According to the passage, heroes are compared to high-voltage transformers in that _. A) they have a vision from the mountaintop B) they have warm feelings and emotions C) they can serve as concrete examples of noble principles D) they can make people feel stronger and more confident,A hero d
22、oes something worth talking about. A hero has a story of adventure to tell and a community who will listen. But a hero goes beyond mere fame. Heroes serve powers or principles larger than themselves. Like high-voltage transformers, heroes take the energy of higher powers and step it down so that it
23、can be used by ordinary people.,经典难题5 举棋不定,Why doesnt the author want to talk about being a woman scientist again? A) She feels unhappy working in male-dominated fields. B) She is fed up with the issue of gender discrimination. C) She is not good at telling stories of the kind. D) She finds space re
24、search more important.,I dont ever want to talk about being a woman scientist again. There was a time in my life when people asked constantly for stories about what its like to work in a field dominated by men. I was never very good at telling those stories because truthfully I never found them inte
25、resting. What I do find interesting is the origin of the universe, the shape of space-time and the nature of black holes.,经典难题 6 层峦叠嶂,According to the author, the reason given by Sandra Hofferth for the time crunch is _. A) quite convincing B) partially true C) totally groundless D) rather confusing
26、,“Children are affected by the same time crunch (危机) that affects their parents,” says Sandra Hofferth, who headed the recent study of childrens timetable. A chief reason, she says, is that more mothers are working outside the home. (Nevertheless, children in both double-income and “male breadwinner
27、” households spent comparable amounts of time interacting with their parents 19 hours and 22 hours respectively. In contrast, children spent only 9 hours with their single mothers.),“Children are affected by the same time crunch (危机) that affects their parents,” says Sandra Hofferth, A chief reason
28、is that more mothers are working outside the home. (Nevertheless, children in both double-income and “male breadwinner” households spent comparable amounts of time interacting with their parents 19 hours and 22 hours respectively. In contrast, children spent only 9 hours with their single mothers.),
29、more mothers are working outside the home,Children are affected by the same time crunch,则：母亲工作越繁重则小孩的时间会多？ 少？ Both double-income Male bread winner 的区别？Single mother？,经典难题 7 终极大找茬,What is the essence of the American Dream according to Crevecoeur? A) People are free to develop their power of imaginati
30、on. B) People who are honest and work hard can succeed. C) People are free from exploitation and oppression. D) People can fully enjoy individual freedom.,The dream of individual opportunity has been home in American since Europeans discovered a “new world” in the Western Hemisphere. Early immigrant
31、s like Hector St. Jean de Crevecoeur praised highly the freedom and opportunity to be found in this new land. His glowing descriptions of a classless society where anyone could attain success through honesty and hard work fired the imaginations of many European readers: in Letters from an American F
32、armer (1782) he wrote. “We are all excited at the spirit of an industry which is unfettered (无拘无束的) and unrestrained, because each person works for himself . We have no princes, for whom we toil (干苦力活)，starve, and bleed: we are the most perfect society now existing in the world.”,经典难题 8 化难为易,Very fe
33、w TT practitioners responded to the $1 million offer because _. A) they didnt take the offer seriously B) they didnt want to risk their career C) they were unwilling to reveal their secret D) they thought it was not in line with their practice,经典难题 8 化难为易,Yet Rosa could not find any evidence that it
34、 works. To provide such proof, TT therapists would have to sit down for independent testingsomething they havent been eager to do, even though James Randi has offered more than $1 million to anyone who can demonstrate the existence of a human energy field. (Hes had one taker so far. She failed.) A s
35、keptic might conclude that TT practitioners are afraid to lay their beliefs on the line. But who could turn down an innocent fourth grader? Says Emily: “I think they didnt take me very seriously because Im a kid.”,两大简易原则,区分主体与支撑,不确定的意思不要联系实际， 先找并列结构,常见抽转具的提示,1.数字（数据与年份等） 2.观点后出现引言（无转折） 3.总体样本化,举例与实验
36、,经典模型1 ： But most fared poorly in school not because they lacked ability but because they found school unchallenging and consequently lost interest. Yeats described the lack of fit between his mind and school: “Because I had found it difficult to attend to anything less interesting than my own thoug
37、hts, I was difficult to teach.”,When highly gifted students in any domain talk about what was important to the development of their abilities, they are far more likely to mention their families than their schools or teachers. A writing prodigy (神童) studied by David Feldman and Lynn Goldsmith was tau
38、ght far more about writing by his journalist father than his English teacher. High-IQ children, in Australia studied by Miraca Gross had much more positive feelings about their families than their schools. About half of the mathematicians studied by Benjamin Bloom had little good to say about school. They all did well in school and took honors classes when available, and some skipped grades.,为什么要练结构图？,为什么要练预判？,
