Few people doubt the value of developing stud...

Few people doubt the value of developing students' thinking skills. A focus on critical thinking is common in education. In the Australian Curriculum, critical thinking and creative thinking are known as “general capabilities”. The US has a similar focus through their “common core".

Many approaches to developing critical thinking are based on Philosophy for Children. One strategy that has a large impact on students' ability to analyse and evaluate arguments is argument mapping, in which a student's reasoning can be visually displayed by capturing the inferential pathway from assumption to conclusion. This type of argument-based intellectual engagement can show high outcomes in terms of the quality of thinking in any classroom. Research also shows deliberate attention to the practice of reasoning in the context of our everyday lives can be significantly improved through targeted teaching.

Teachers at one high school in Australia, who have much training in critical thinking teaching methods, developed a task that asked students to determine Australia's greatest sports person. Students needed to construct their own criteria for greatness. To do so, they had to analyze the Australian sporting context, create possible evaluative standards, explain and justify why some standards would be more acceptable than others and apply these to their candidates. They then needed to argue their case with their classmates to develop criteria that were solid, defensible, widely applicable and produced a choice that seized significant and relevant aspects of Australian sport.

Researchers looking at the gains made in a single term of teaching critical thinking with argument mapping said the critical thinking gains measured are close to those that could be expected to result from three years of undergraduate education. Students who are taught to think well also do better on subject-based exams and standardized tests than those who do not.

In terms of developing 21st century skills, which includes setting up students for lifelong learning, teaching critical thinking should be core business.

1.Which of the following can explain the underlined word “capturing" in Paragraph 2?

A.Describing. B.Attracting. C.Designing. D.Blocking.

2.What’s the purpose of Paragraph 3?

A.To construct the criteria for being great.

B.To acknowledge the teachers' outcomes.

C.To present how to teach critical thinking.

D.To emphasize the importance of reasoning.

3.What is the author's attitude toward teaching critical thinking?

A.Objective. B.Supportive. C.Doubtful. D.Cautious.

4.What does this text imply?

A.Teaching methods should vary among schools.

B.Research on education deserves more attention.

C.Critical thinking should be valued in education.

D.Concepts of critical thinking aren't well received.

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a certain doubt among the people as to the practical value of the project.

A. It has                    B. They have

C. It remains                D. There remains

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______ a certain doubt among the people as to the practical value of the project.

A. It has　　　　　　　　 B. They have　　　　 C. It remains　　　　　　 D. There remains

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________a certain doubt among the people as to the practical value of the project.

A．It has　                 B．They have

C．It remains　             D．There remains

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________ a certain doubt among the people as to the practical value of the project.

A．It has　 B．They have

C．It remains　 D．There remains

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If spending is a measure of what matters, then the people of the developing world place a high value on brains. While private spending on education has not changed much in the rich world in the past ten years, in China and India it has more than doubled. Since brainpower is the primary generator of progress, this burst of enthusiasm for investing in private education is excellent news for the world. But not everybody is delighted. Because private education increases inequality, some governments are trying to stop its advance. That’s wrong: they should welcome it, and spread its benefits more widely.

① Education used to be provided by religious institutions or entrepreneurs. But when governments, starting in Prussia in the 18th century, got into the business of nation-building, they realized they could use education to shape young minds. As state systems grew, private schooling was left to the elite and the pious(虔诚的). Now it is enjoying popularity again, for several reasons. Incomes are rising, especially among the better off, at the same time as birth rates are falling. In China the former one-child policy means that six people---two parents and four grandparents---can pour money into educating a single child.

② All over the developing world, people want more or better education than governments provide. Where cities are growing at unmanageable speed, the private education is taking up the slack. In India the private education now educates nearly half of all children, in Pakistan more than a third, and in both countries the state education is shrinking. Even where the state does pretty well, as in East Asia, richer people still want better schooling for their children than the masses get. Thus, Vietnam, which has an outstanding state-school system for a poor country, measured by its performance in the OECD’s PISA test, also has the fastest-growing private education.

③ In most ways, this is an excellent thing, because the world is getting more and better schooling.

In rich countries, once the background and ability of the children who attend private schools are taken into account, their exams results are about the same as those in the state education. But in developing countries private schools are better---and much more efficient. A study of eight Indian states found that, in terms of learning outcomes per rupee, private schools were between 1.5 times and 29 times more cost-effective than state schools.

④ They tend to sort children by income, herding richer ones towards better schools that will enhance their already superior life chances. That is one reason why many governments are troubled by their rise.

Governments are right to worry about private education’s contribution to inequality, but they are wrong to discourage its growth. Governments should instead focus on improving the public education by mimicking(模仿) the private education’s virtues. Freedom from independent management is at the root of its superior performance and greater efficiency. Governments should therefore do their best to give school principals more freedom to innovate and to fire underperforming teachers.

To spread the benefit of private schools more widely, governments should work with them, paying for education through vouchers(代金券) which children can spend in private schools. And vouchers should be limited to students in non-selective schools that do not charge top-up fees; otherwise governments will find themselves helping the better off and increasing inequality.

The world faces plenty of problems. Governments should stop behaving as though private education were one of them. It will, rather, increase the chances of finding solutions.

1.What do we know about private education?

A. More developed countries enjoy it.

B. It attracts more and more investment.

C. Public education will replace it in the future.

D. It has helped governments to remove inequality

2.What does the underlined phrase“taking up the slack” in Paragraph 3 probably mean?

A. Filling the gap. B. Setting the place.

C. Breaking the balance. D. Avoiding the risk.

3.Why has private education been developing rapidly in Vietnam?

A. The population in Vietnam is shrinking dramatically.

B. Its state education is worse than other developing countries.

C. Some people want better education for their children than others.

D. The government intends private education to shape young minds.

4.The sentence “But private schools also increase inequality.” can be put in　　 .

A. ① B. ② C. ③ D. ④

5.What does the author advise governments to do?

A. Train school principals. B. Sell vouchers to children.

C. learn from private education. D. Fire underperforming teachers.

6.What’s the author’s opinion about private education?

A. Private education should be based on state education.

B. Private education should be targeted at well-off families.

C. Governments should prevent the spread of private education.

D. Governments should celebrate the popularity of private education.

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Nowadays, few people develop the habit of keeping a supply of oil-lamps in the house in case of power ____.

A. lack       B. absence   C. failure     D. drop

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There are a great number of people in the world while few people are great.I think there is probably only one great person out of 10，000 at best，and most probably much less than that.

The reason why there are only few of them is that most people do not pay the price of greatness.There are so many people who want to be great，why only very few of them actually pay the price? The answer to the question explains the difference between the almost 100% people who want to be great and the much less than 0.01% who actually be so.The reason is that the road to greatness is full of pains.

Greatness requires sacrifices and there is no sacrifice without pain.The kind of sacrifices required for greatness is the ones that make the process continuously painful for long time.If you only want to be good it may be painful just every now and then，and many people can still handle it.But being great is a total difference.The pain is much deeper and it is continuous，so very few people can endure this kind of pain.Most people naturally choose things that bring pleasures to them.It's unnatural to choose pain over pleasure，let alone doing it continuously for long time.But that's what I believe is the secret to greatness: The secret to greatness is choosing pain over pleasures continuously for long time.

1.What is the purpose of Paragraph 1?

A．To compare.　　　　　　    B．To list statistics.

C．To lead up to the topic.　             D．To give information.

2.If one person only wants to be good，what will he/she face?

A．Occasional pains.　         B．Continual work.

C．Constant pains.　             D．Various difficulties.

3.What is the main idea of the passage?

A．Pleasures mean greatness.

B．Greatness equals sacrifices.

C．What's greatness.

D．Greatness lies in continuous pains.

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Few people would ever think of beginning a career at the age of 76, but one American most famous artist did just that. Anna Mary Robertson, better known as “Grandma Moses”, turned to painting because she could no longer take an active part in the funning of her farm. As she searched for something to do, she discovered painting--- an activity she had loved as a child.

Grandma Moses painted in primitive style, and her works are simple and basic — almost childlike in their composition. She first painted only for her own pleasure, and then began to sell her works for small sums of money.

In 1939, an art collector named Louis Caldor chanced to see several of Granma Moses’ works hanging in a store. He liked them, bought them at once, and set out to look for more. Caldor held a show to introduce the works of Grandma Moses to the art world.

Grandma Moses passed away on December 13,1961, at the age of 101, who had enjoyed a second career that lasted a quarter of a century.

1.Before becoming an artist, Grandma Moses _______ .

2. Grandma Moses’ art career lasted ______ .

3.Even if no one had bought her paintings, Grandma Moses probably would have ________.

4. The story is mainly about­­­_______ .

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Few people would even think of beginning a new job at the age of 76, 1. one of America's most famous artists did just that.Anna Mary Robertson, better known as “Grandma Moses”， turned to painting 2. she was too old to work on her farm.

Grandma Moses was crazy about painting soon after she picked it up and worked hard at it.She painted 3. (care) and her works were nice.She first painted only to please 4.， and then began to sell her works 5. a little money.In 1993, a collector, Louis Caldor happened to see several of Grandma Moses' works 6. (hang) in a shop.He liked them, 7. (buy) them at once, and set out to look for 8.．Caldor held 9.show to introduce the works of Grandma Moses to other artists.Grandma Moses, 10. was world­famous, died on December 13, 1961, at the age of 101.

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