of college has been sold as being a golden ticket in the American economy, and to an extent that’s true.

But pushing all kids down the bachelor’s path ensures not only that some of them will lose their way but also that critical jobs that require a two-year or less—skilled trades, some kinds of nursing, computer technology, airline mechanics and more—will go unfilled.

There will never be a case to be made for a culture of academic complacency or the demolition of the meritocracy. It can be fulfilling for kids to chase a ribbon, as long as it’s a ribbon the child really wants. And the very act of making that effort can bring out the best in anyone’s work.

But we cheat ourselves, and worse, we cheat our kids, if we view life as a single straight-line race in which one one-hundredth of the competitors finish in the money and everyone else loses. We will all be better off if we recognize that there are a great many races of varying lengths and outcomes. The challenge for parents is to help their children find the one that’s right for them.

Which of the following factors deprives the kids of freedom to do what they love?

A、3.5 hours of school assignments set by their teachers every day. B、The educational reforms made by the public schools they attend. C、The growing number of peers taking part in off-campus activities. D、Their parents’ unrealistic wish for them to have a promising future.

What are parents supposed to do to alter the current educational system? A、To pay for their kids’ education. B、To take up all the household chores. C、To provide guidance to their children. D、To push their children to excel at exams.

According to the author, which of the following perceptions should parents adopt concerning their kids’ education?

A、They should be their kids’ companions on their journey to academic excellence.

B、They should realize the fact that most children would remain mediocre despite their wills.

C、They should feel relieved if they don’t have to pay for their kid’s off-school art lessons.

D、They should be their kids’ career director rather than help them find a right path to walk on.

What does the underlined word “one” in the last paragraph refer to? A、Race. B、Length. C、Challenge. D、Outcome.

试题答案：[['D'],['C'],['B'],['A']]

22、根据题目要求完成下列任务，用中文作答。

PPT是英语教师常用的一种教学辅助工具，请简述PPT在语言教学中的两个优点(6分)， 列举英语课堂教学中使用PPT常见的两个问题(6分)，并提出合理使用PPT的两条建议(8分)。

23、根据题目要求完成下列任务，用中文作答。

下面是某英语教师在日常教学中使用的《学生口语能力评价表》。该教师运用此表记录了某位学生(李华)一学期口语能力的发展情况(注：良好;

=优秀)。

学生口语能力评价表

姓名 李华 单元 第一单元 第二单元 第三单元 。。。 流利性 ? ? ?? 。。。 得体性 ? ? ? 。。。 交际策略使用 ? ?? ? 。。。 任务完成度 ? ?? ??? 。。。 =一般;=

根据所给信息从下列三个方面作答： (1)该教师所采用的评价属于什么类型?( 6分) (2)该评价表具有哪三个主要作用?(12分)

(3)该教师可以从哪三个方面对此评价表进行改进?( 12分)

24、根据提供的信息和语言素材设计教学方案，用英文作答。

设计任务:请阅读下面学生信息和语言素材，设计20分钟的阅读教学方案。教案没有固定格式，但须包含下列要点： ●teaching objectives ●teaching contents ●key and difficult points ●major steps and time allocation ●activities and justifications 教学时间:20分钟

学生概况:某城镇普通高中一年级第一学期学生，班级人数40人。多数学生已经达到《普通高中英语课程标准(实验)》五级水平。学生课堂参与积极性一般。 语言素材：

The Life of Mark Twain

Often the lives of writers resemble the lives of the characters they create. Mark Twain, who wrote The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, was no exception. To start with, the author’s name, Mark Twain, is itself an invention, or “pen name”. Twain’s real name was Samuel Clemens. “Mark Twain”，which means “watermark two”，was a call used by sailors on the Mississippi to warn shipmates that they were coming into shallow water.

Like Huck, Mark Twain led an adventurous life. He left school early, and as an adolescent, determined to make his fortune in South America, set off from his home in Hannibal, Missouri, for New Orleans. He wanted to take a boat to the

Amazon, where he thought he could get rich quickly. He arrived in New Orleans without a penny in his pocket only to find that there were no boats for South America. Forced to change his plans, he worked for several years as a pilot on a steamboat, taking passengers up and down the Mississippi, the great river which flows from the north of the US near the Canadian border, down to the Gulf of Mexico.

Later he became a journalist and began writing stories about life on the river. Twain’s vivid and often amusing descriptions of life on the river quickly became popular, and established the reputation he still enjoys today as one of America’s greatest writers.