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1、温馨提示： 此套题为Word版，请按住Ctrl,滑动鼠标滚轴，调节合适的观看比例，答案解析附后。关闭Word文档返回原板块。随堂训练1A public primary school in New York City has stopped giving its students homework. P. S. 116 Principal Jane Hsu wrote a letter to parents last month explaining that after more than a year of analyzing studies, the school had conclude
2、d that students after-school time would be better spent on activities like reading at their own pace and playing rather than working on homework. Hsus letter says that many studies indicate that there is no connection between homework and academic success. Indeed, there are some studies that show th
3、at the link between homework and success is doubtful at the primary school level. An important 1989 study on homework by Professor Cooper found that doing homework led students to perform better in school as they grew older. In later grades, students who did homework performed increasingly better th
4、an students who did not. In 2006, Cooper published a study that analyzed 15 years worth of data on the effectiveness of homework. He found that homework had a more positive impact on students as they aged, and identified stronger relations between homework and achievement for students in grades seve
5、n through twelve than for students in kindergarten through sixth grade. A 2012 study from the Indiana University School of Education on 10th-graders found little relation between time spent on homework and better course grades, although it did find a positive relation between homework time and stand
6、ardized test performance. Some parents of P. S. 116 students are not happy with the decision to eliminate homework. “I think they should have homeworksome of it is about discipline. I want(my daughter)to have fun, but I also want her to be working towards a goal, ”Daniel Tasman, the father of a seco
7、nd-grader at the school. “They have to do homework in order to gain; they have to do homework because they may not be able to comprehend everything in school, ”Sharon Blake, a grandmother of a P. S. 116 student. 【文章大意】本文报道了纽约的一所公办小学宣布取消学生作业的事情。1. Principal Jane Hsu wrote the letter to the parents to
8、_. A. analyze the test results of the studentsB. suggest students reading at their own pace and playingC. tell them about the conclusion of the researchD. give them the reason for the decision of the school【解析】选D。推理判断题。根据文章一、二两段内容可知, 校长写信的目的在于让家长弄清楚学校取消学生作业的原因。2. The decision to stop giving students
9、 homework depends upon_. A. studies on the link between homework and academic successB. students wish to spend their time on activities or playingC. Professor Coopers research on the effectiveness of homeworkD. the ideas of both school authorities and parents【解析】选A。细节理解题。学校做出如此重大决定, 是基于大量的研究, 不仅仅是根据
10、学校内部进行的一年多的分析研究(第二段), 还包括许多别的研究成果(第三段), 证明小学的作业与学业成绩关系不大。3. Cooper found in his research that_. A. kindergarten students spent too much time doing activitiesB. doing homework made the kindergarten students clevererC. only elderly students should be given homeworkD. students benefit more from doing h
11、omework as they grow older【解析】选D。细节理解题。Cooper教授的研究成果是学校做出决定的依据之一, 即学生年龄越大, 作业对他的(学业成绩)作用就越大。反之越小。4. What does the underlined word “eliminate” in Paragraph 6 mean? A. Refuse. B. Cancel. C. Increase. D. Reduce. 【解析】选B。词义猜测题。eliminate对应的应该是第一段提到的has stopped giving, 因此应该是cancel(取消)。2Your smartphone may
12、seem like the center of your entertainment, but a new study of Kent State University shows that too much phone use is taking the fun right out of our spare time. Researchers watched a group of nearly 500 students and measured their daily smartphone use. The study team then separated these students i
13、nto three groups. Those who were considered in the “high-use” group experienced more stress and anxiety during their spare time than the other groups. A recent study found were spending almost three hours a day checking our phones. This is not good news. So what can we do in order to really make goo
14、d use of our spare time? Weve collected several activities below that also take a few hours to complete, but best part of all, youll improve your health in the process. Explore new places. Whether youre at home or on vacation, its important to disconnect from the Wi-Fi and connect with your surround
15、ings every once in a while. Walking in nature can do good to your health and improve your feeling. As a professional traveler Samantha Brown put it in a recent passage, “I put the map in my back pocket, put down the phones and take a good, long walk. Just wander. ”Go to bed earlier. What can help im
16、prove your feeling? More sleep, naturally. Getting the right amount of sleep is very important to our health and studies show that we dont get enough of it. Instead of wishing you just had one more hour of rest, get a head start with the extra time you have now. Spend some good time with your loved ones. Or at the very least, call your mom. Spending time with lov
