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1、课时跟踪练(一) Welcome to the unit & ReadingPrereading.阅读理解ASome students get so nervous before a test. They do poorly even if they know the material. Sian Beilock, a professor at the University of Chicago in Illinois, has studied these highly anxious testtakers. The students start worrying about the resu
2、lts. And when we worry, it actually uses up attention and memory resources (资源)Professor Beilock and another researcher, Gerardo Ramirez, have developed a possible solution. Just before an exam, highly anxious testtakers spend ten minutes writing about their worries about the test.The researchers te
3、sted the idea on a group of twenty anxious college students. They gave them two short math tests. After the first one, they asked the students to either sit quietly or write about their feelings about the upcoming second test.Professor Beilock says those who sat quietly scored (得分) an average of 12%
4、 worse on the second test. But the students who had written about their fears improved (提高) their performance by an average of 5%. Next, the researchers used younger students in a biology class. They told them before final exams either to write about their feelings or to think about things unrelated
5、 (不相关的) to the test. Professor Beilock says highly anxious students who did the writing got an average grade of B， compared to a Bfor those who did not.“What we showed is that for students who are highly testanxious, whod done our writing intervention (干预), all of a sudden there was no relationship
6、between test fear and performance. They were performing just as well as their classmates who dont normally get nervous in these tests.”But what if students do not have a chance to write about their fears immediately before an exam? Professor Beilock says students can try it themselves at home or in
7、the library and still improve their performance.语篇解读：有些学生考试前往往紧张，影响考试考绩。但如果考试前把自己的担忧写出来，会有助于成绩的提高。1What do the students start worrying about before an exam?AWhether they can pass the exams.BWhat other student do during the test.CWhether they have remembered the materials.DWhat kind of problems they
8、will meet on the test paper.解析：选A推理判断题。由第一段倒数第二句可知，学生往往担心考试的结果，而最直接的结果就是能否通过考试。2What is the solution developed by researchers?AMaking the students focused on the test.BAsking the students to sit quietly before the test.CHaving the students write about their worries about the test.DAsking the student
9、s to direct the attention away from the test.解析：选C细节理解题。由第二段可知，研究者发明的方法是让学生在考试前把自己的担忧写出来。3According to Professor Beilock, those who thought about things unrelated to the test _.Abecame less nervous before the testBwere better at controlling their feelingsCdid worse than those who wrote about their f
10、eelingsDdid better than those who wrote about their feelings解析：选C细节理解题。由第四段最后一句可知，把自己的担忧写出来的学生考试成绩是B，而想与考试无关的事情的学生考试成绩是B。4We can infer from the last paragraph that _.Awriting about our worries before an exam can work a bitBwe can only write about our worries right before an examCthe best place to wr
11、ite about our worries is in the test roomDit doesnt matter where we write about our worries before an exam解析：选D推理判断题。文章最后一段说明，我们可以在很多地方把自己的担忧写出来，只要是在考试之前就有帮助。B To most of us, school means classes, teachers, schedules, grades，and tests. But for the children at Sudbury Valley School in Massachusetts,
12、school is very different.Firstly, there are no lessons. All the children, aged between 4 and 19, do whatever they want. There are no teachers, only “staff members”. The idea behind this is that you do not need to make children learn, because children want to learn anyway. “You do not need to say to
13、the threeyearolds, Go explore your environment. You cant stop them！”says Daniel Greenberg, a founder of the school. “But if you make children do what you want all day, they will lose all tastes for learning.” At Sudbury Valley School, you will permit children to talk, read, paint, cook, work on comp
14、uters, study French, play the piano, climb trees, or just run around. Two boys spent three years just fishing!The other way that Sudbury Valley School is different is that the children can decide the rules. Every week, there is a school meeting where both children and staff have one vote each even t
15、he fouryearolds. They decide the school rules, how to spend the school budget，and even which staff they want and do not want any more.When the school first opened in 1968, people said it would never work. But today, the school has 200 students，and 80% of its students go on to college. Even the two b
16、oys who went fishing all the time have successful careers today. One of them is a musician and the other is a computer scientist.语篇解读：对大多数学生来说，学校意味着老师、考试、分数等。但在美国的一所学校却与众不同，学校里没有课程表，孩子们不用上课、做作业，可以随心所欲做自己想做的事，甚至可以参与学校校规的制定。5What is the main topic of the article?AAn unusual school.BChildrens hobbies.CA school without rules.DEduc
