阅读理解-----B
Lockers(储物柜)have been the symbol of American high school for decades. But walk down any hallway of the new Germantown High School in Madison County, Mississippi, and you won’t spot a single locker.
New technology such as e-books, interactive(互动的) assignments and Web-based learning is making lockers in American high school a thing of the past.
Officials from schools that have listed several benefits: less noise, less delay and an increased sense of safety.
“It’s all to create an environment that’s student-friendly”, said Ronnie McGehee, chief official of the Madison County School district.
Getting rid of lockers can also cut hundreds of thousands in construction costs. Madison County saved $200,000 by not including lockers in the new high school, Mc Gehee said.
It is also believed that removing lockers could help prevent school violence. ”Lockers give kids a place to hide things”, said Mike Nelson, founder of a safety- training group. Nelson believes that some school shootings and other incidents could have been prevented if there had been no lockers.
However, Andrew Booth, a 10th-grader at Gemantown High, said there are some disadvantages of not having a locker. “ It can make your book bag really heavy”, he said . The 16-year-old has four textbooks “plus notebooks and a binder(活页夹)” to carry to school each day.
He said some teachers have shelves at the back of the classroom on which students can leave their bags. Others provide an extra set of textbooks in the classroom, so students don’t have to carry books from home.
New York architect Pestr Lippman said schools will have to address such concerns and find ways to give studets a “sense of space” “If you are carrying books around, it does limit your flexibility in the classrooms,” he said.
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Lippman said he would like to see schools starting to use the new free space to provide less structured learning opprtunities for students, including gathering areas and learning centers. “If you think about a school with just rows of lockers-there’s nowhere for learning opportunities in that”, he said. 62. What does the text mainly talk about?
A. The history and development of lockers in US high schools. B. The influence of new technology on some US high schools. C. The trend of getting rid of lockers in US high schools. D. The advantages and disadvantages of lockers in US high schools. 【答案】C
【解析】根据文章最后一段最后一句，如果学校有成行的储物柜，就没有学习的机会。 可知去掉储物柜，在美国中学中是一种趋势。
63. A ccording to the text, lockers are being taken away from US schools .
A. due to the spread of new technology. B. in response to parents’requests C. for the students’secutity at school D. to save construction costs 【答案】A
【解析】根据第二段可知。新技术像电子图书，交互式作业，基于网络的学习等正使储物柜成为美国中学的一件过去的东西。
64. What is not the advantage of getting rid of lockers? A. Saving money. B. Making less noise.
C. Preventing school violence. D. Making book bags heavy. 【答案】D
【解析】从第6段第2句It can make your book bag really heavy可以看出答案选D。
65. What is Andrew Booth’s attitude to removing lockers?
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A. Copmlaining B. Approving. C. Ignorant. D. Favorable. 【答案】A
【解析】第6段主要说的是disadvantages.没有了储物柜书包变得沉重了。可知答案选A。
66. What does Lippman suggest schools that have removed lockers should do? A. Give students as much freedom as possible in the classroom. B. Provide studcnts with an extra sat of textbooks in the classroom. C. Moke more learning opportunities for students in the new free space. D. Put shelves at the back of the classroom for students to leave their bags. 【答案】C
【解析】根据最后一段可知答案选C。
【英语卷·2012届河南许昌市高三上学期四校联考】
根据短文内容,从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中的两项为多余选项。
There was a park near my home. But I didn’t go there very often. Many people said there was nothing special. One afternoon I went into the park and found it was really small. I walked quickly because there wasn’t much to see. I walked for some time and found myself standing in front of two paths. 71 I found that the two paths were different from each other.
The left one was wide and clean. There were lots of flowers on both sides of the path. Though the flowers weren’t very beautiful, they made me feel good. I decided to take this path. But wait! I looked at the right one. The path didn’t look nice. 72 Grass grew everywhere. For a long time I couldn’t make up my mind.
73 It wasn’t nice , but I didn’t want to give up. At last, I came to the end of the path. Ah! There was a small garden there. It was beautiful, perhaps the most beautiful garden I had ever seen. 74
Many people told me that there was nothing much to see in the park. Now I’d like to tell them that if they had followed the right way, they would have felt differently.
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But when I told them about what I had seen in the park, they just smiled at me without saying a word. I knew they didn’t believe me. They couldn’t even remember that path because it was so small.
75 Don’t be afraid to choose a different path. You may get a big surprise! A. There is nothing that I want to see.
B. It looked like it had not been cleaned for months.
C. After a while a strange feeling made me follow the dirty path.
D. “ Which way should I go?” I asked myself. I looked at one way, then the other. E. I told them what happened.
F. My trip to the park that day made me understand something about life.
G. There were trees, flowers and chairs. I thought it was the nicest part of the park.
【答案】71-75DBCGF
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