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1、09 C As the 1800s ended, ballet (芭蕾) was fairly popular. Ballet is a type of very skilled and artistic dancing with carefully planned movements. If people went to a dance performance, they probably went to a ballet. People enjoyed ballet, and it was widely accepted. However, at around that time a yo
2、ung woman from San Francisco entered the scene. She would change dance forever. Her name was Isadora Duncan. Duncan was born into an artistic family. Even as a child she loved dancing and taught dance classes for younger children. She quickly developed some very strong ideas of what dance should be.
3、 Duncan took her inspiration (灵感) from nature. She loved the Pacific Ocean and the towering pine trees of her native California. She wanted to represent these feelings in her dances. She also looked at peoples natural movements, especially the movements of children. Running, skipping, jumping, kneel
4、ingthese were things done by children all over the world. Duncan applied them to her dances. She believed that older dances were rather lifeless; hers, she felt, should express emotion. When Duncan performed her dances in places like Chicago and New York, she caused a sensation. People were not prep
5、ared to see a young woman in a thin, flowing dress running and jumping across the stage barefoot. She had to go to Europe for acceptance. Received more favorably in London, she gradually opened dance schools in many cities. Soon she was touring and performing everywhere. Her ideas laid the foundatio
6、n for what we know as modern dance today. Duncans death was as astonishing as her life. As she rode in an open sports car in France, the long scarf (围巾) around her neck got caught in the cars wheels and she was killed. 54. This passage is mostly about Isadora Duncans _.A. contributions to danceB. as
7、tonishing deathC. dance schoolsD. early life55. Duncan got her best early acceptance in _. A. Chicago B. London C. New York D. San Francisco56. What can we learn from the passage? A. Duncan opened up a path for ballet. B. Duncan was killed in a sports car race. C. Duncans dances showed natural beaut
8、y and human feelings. D. Early audiences enjoyed Duncans performances very much.DTired of telling students to ask questions and to think about what they were doing, Damien Hynes, a high school geography teacher in Australia, decided to do an experiment to test what he had long been thinking. He wrot
9、e some well-organized nonsense (something untrue) on the blackboard. The students simply copied it but very few asked any questions. This shows that students are willing to believe anything given by teachers. The story is repeated in support of the Project for Enhancing Effective Learning (PEEL).PEE
10、L was carried out by some teachers and researchers in Melbourne who had concluded that normal teaching methods seldom achieve their intended goals; what the teachers think they are teaching is one thing and what the students actually learn is something else. Students lack of an over-all view of lear
11、ning goals and their concentration on test scores make them see each lesson as a separate activity.Researchers realized that many students do not come into class empty-headed but have their own explanations of how the world works. Their own ideas can remain important to them even when they conflict
12、with scientific explanations that are learned later. In fact such ideas are hardly affected by traditional teaching. Students accept the teachers scientific explanation, but do not drop their own. They simply keep both and use them practically: in a class test, they copy the teachers idea, but in re
13、al life they use their own.Clearly what was needed was to make students aware of their learning process, and this is what the PEEL teachers set out to deal with. On the surface, a class being taught by PEEL methods only differs from an ordinary class in being a little noisier, because more people ar
14、e talking. But there are some meaningful changes. Students are given much more time to express their views, and teachers dont make immediate judgment. The students are allowed to guide what is done in class and their own ideas are always respected. This draws their attention to the actual learning p
15、rocess, and they become responsible for their own progress.The PEEL researchers rejected the idea of numerical (数字的) comparisons between PEEL and non-PEEL classes. They decided that their experiment would be proved valuable if the experiences of children and teachers in different classes using PEEL
16、methods were similar. So far, all teachers and students who have worked with PEEL methods agree that their approach to teaching and learning has really changed. The students are far more ready to question what is presented to them, while the teachers are convinced that the traditional methods are not good enough. 57. The aim of Hynes experiment was to _. A.
