精英家教网 > 高中英语 > 题目详情

Thousands of teenagers will be able to transfer to a new wave of “studio schools” at the age of 14 to improve their chances of finding a job in UK. A dozen new-style schools are designed to act as a bridge to the workplace and cut the number of NEETs--young people not in education, employment or training.
Under plans, schools will operate longer days and work outside standard academic terms.
Each pupil will be expected to spend between four hours and two days a week on work placements with businesses linked to the school and teenagers will be assigned a personal coach to act as an academic “line manager”.
The reforms are put forward due to the fears that too many teenagers are now finishing full-time education lacking the skills needed to succeed in the workplace. According to a recent report, more than two-thirds of employers believe school and college leavers lack important “employability skills” such as customer awareness, while 55 per cent say they are unable to manage their time or daily tasks. And the number of NEETs has hit a record high, with almost one-in-five young people being left without a job or training place.
The Department for Education will announce the establishment of 12 studio schools -- meeting the need of around 3,600 teenagers -- in areas such as Liverpool, Stevenage, Stoke-on-Trent and Fulham, west London. Each one, opening in 2012, will be linked to a series of local employers. Under plans, pupils will be able to transfer out of ordinary schools to attend them between the age of 14 and 19.
The Government said all subjects would be taught “through projects, often designed with employers” -- with disciplines such as science being linked directly to local engineering firms or hospitals. Schools will operate a longer day to give pupils a better understanding of the demands of the workplace. Along with their studies, pupils will carry out work placements for four hours a week, rising to two days a week of paid work for those aged 16 to 19. They will also get the chance to take professional qualifications linked directly to the needs of local employers


1.According to the passage, the NEETs are referred to those who ________


  1. A.
    often miss classes from school
  2. B.
    refuse to take any kind of part-time jobs after school
  3. C.
    depend on their parents to find jobs after they graduate
  4. D.
    have no jobs without accepting education and work training

2.Compared to ordinary schools, studio schools will offer the young more ________


  1. A.
    interesting and lovely cartoons to make study easier
  2. B.
    chances to get future jobs with expert job training
  3. C.
    possibilities to make friends without going outside
  4. D.
    lessons helping them to be admitted to universities

3.What makes the government decide to found studio schools?


  1. A.
    The determination to solve the problem of lacking workers
  2. B.
    The doubt about whether full-time education is perfect
  3. C.
    The worry about educated people lacking working skills
  4. D.
    The increasing number of teens who drop out early

4.What may most probably attract senior high school students at studio school?


  1. A.
    They can find suitable jobs earlier with good qualification
  2. B.
    They will be admitted to top companies with received training
  3. C.
    They needn’t go to university thanks to received training here
  4. D.
    They may have more free time to find part-time jobs after school
1. D
2. B
3. C
4. A
试题分析:文章介绍为了通过专业的职能培训能让青少年将来获得更多的工作机会,英国建立“学徒学校”,接受过培训的青少年在此期间或许就能得到工作,而走出校门后会因为在“学徒学校”接受过的“学徒教育”而获得的专业资格会让他们更容易找到称心的工作
1.细节题:第1段最后一句的“young people not in education, employment or training”说明NEETs是指那些不接受教育培训也没有工作的人,故选D项。
2.细节题:第1段第一句的“their chances of finding a job in UK”点明英国建立“学徒学校”的原因,第二句话的“act as a bridge to the workplace and cut the number of NEETs”说明此举的方式和目的,“学徒学校”通过专业的职能培训能让青少年将来获得更多的工作机会。故选B项。
3.细节题:第4段第一句的“The reforms are put forward due to the fears that too many teenagers are at present finishing full-time education lacking the skills needed”说明英国政府基于对接受过全职教育的青少年在工作后还感觉无所适从,意识到实践教育在英国的缺失,由此可知选项C正确。
4.细节题:最后一段第3句话的“paid work for those aged 16 to 19”说明接受过培训的青少年在此期间或许就能得到工作,而走出校门后会因为在“学徒学校”接受过的“学徒教育”而获得的专业资格会让他们更容易找到称心的工作,由此可知选项A正确。
考点:考查教育类短文
练习册系列答案
相关习题

科目:高中英语 来源:2011-2012学年安徽省蚌埠铁路中学高一下学期期中考试英语试卷(带解析) 题型:阅读理解


You might think that “global warming” means nothing more than a rise in the world’s temperature But rising sea levels caused by it have resulted in the first evacuation(撤离)of an island nation—the citizens of Tuvalu will have to leave their homeland.
During the 20th century , sea level rose 8—12 inches. As a result ,Tuvalu has experienced lowland flooding of salt water which has polluted the country’s drinking water.
Paani Laupepa , a Tuvaluan government official ,reported to the Earth Policy Institute that the nation suffered an unusually high number of fierce storms in the past ten years .Many scientists connect higher surface water temperatures resulting from global warming to greater and more damaging storms.
Laupepa expressed dissatisfaction with the United States for refusing to sign the Kyoto Protocol, an international agreement calling for industrialized nations to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions(导致温室效应的气体排放),which are a main cause of global warming . “By refusing to sign the agreement ,the US has effectively taken away the freedom of future generations of Tuvaluans to live where their forefathers have lived for thousands of years,” Laupepa told the BBC.
Tuvalu has asked Australia and New Zealand to allow the gradual move of its people to both countries .
Tuvalu is not the only country that is vulnerable (易受影响的)to rising sea levels .Maumoon Gayoon ,president of the Maldives ,told the United Nations that global warming has made his country of 311,000 an “endangered nation”.
【小题1】The text is mainly about           .

A.rapid changes in earth’s temperature
B.bad effects of global warming
C.moving of a country to a new place
D.reasons for lowland flooding
【小题2】According to scientists ,the direct cause of more and fiercer storms is           .
A.greenhouse gas emissions in industrialized nations
B.higher surface water temperatures of the sea
C.continuous global warming
D.rising sea levels
【小题3】Laupepa was not satisfied with the United States because it did not        .
A.agree to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions
B.sign an agreement with Tuvalu
C.allow Tuvaluans to move to the US
D.believe the problems facing Tuvalu were real
【小题4】The country whose situation is similar to that of Tuvalu is          .
A.Australia B.New ZealandC.the MaldivesD.the United States

查看答案和解析>>

科目:高中英语 来源:2011届湖北省武汉市武昌区高三上学期元月调研测试英语卷 题型:阅读理解

Scientists who try to predict earthquakes have gotten some new helpers recently—animals.
  That’s right, animals. Scientists have begun to understand what farmers have known for thousands of years. Animals often seem to know in advance that an earthquake is coming, and they show their fear by acting in strange ways. Before a Chinese quake in 1975, snakes awoke from their winter sleep early only to freeze to death in the cold air. Cows broke their halters (缰绳) and tried to escape. Chickens refused to enter their cage. All of this unusual behavior, as well as physical changes in the earth, warned Chinese scientists of the coming quake. They moved people away from the danger zone and saved thousands of lives.
  One task for scientists today is to learn exactly which types of animal behavior predict quakes. It’s not an easy job. First of all not every animal reacts to the danger of an earthquake. Just before a California quake in 1977, for example, an Arabian horse became very nervous and tried to break out of his enclosure. The Australian horse next to him, however, remained perfectly calm. It’s also difficult at times to tell the difference between normal animal restlessness and “earthquake nerves”. A zoo keeper once called earthquake researchers to say that his cougar had been acting strangely. It turned out that the cat had an upset stomach.
  A second task for scientists is to find out exactly what kind of warnings the animals receive. They know that animals sense far more of the world than humans do. Many animals can see, hear, and smell things that people do not even notice. Some can sense tiny changes in air pressure, gravity, or the magnetism of Earth. This extra sense probably helps animals predict quakes.
  A good example of this occurred with a group of dogs. They were shut in an area that was being shaken by a series of tiny earthquakes. (Several small quakes often come before or after a large one.) Before each quake a low booming sound was heard. Each boom caused the dogs to bark wildly. Then the dogs began to bark during a silent period. A scientist who was recording quakes looked at his machine. It was acting as though there were a loud noise too. The scientist realized that the dogs had reacted to a booming noise. They also sensed the tiny quake that followed it. The machine recorded both, though humans felt and heard nothing.
In this case there was a machine to monitor what the dogs were sensing. Many times, however, our machines record nothing extraordinary, even though animals know a quake is coming. The animals might be sensing something we measure but do not recognize as a warning. Discovering what animals sense, and learning how they know it is a danger signal, is a job for future scientists.
【小题1】Through the passage the writer hopes to explore __________.

A.why animals send a danger signal before an earthquake
B.how animals know when an earthquake is coming
C.why animals not men have good sense of danger
D.how much animals know about an earthquake
【小题2】 During an earthquake in China in 1975, _________.
A.chickens refused to go out of their cage
B.snakes were frozen to death in their caves
C.snakes awoke from their winter sleep earlier
D.cows broke their halters and escaped from their sheds
【小题3】Which of the following is one of earthquake nerves according to the passage?
A.An Arabian horse tried to escape from his enclosure.
B.A cougar had an upset stomach unexpectedly.
C.An Australian horse was perfectly calm.
D.A cat acted very strangely in a zoo.
【小题4】The scientists did an experiment with a group of dogs to _________.
A.find out that the machine could record unusual happenings
B.compare the reactions of animals and those of humans
C.prove that animals could sense more than humans
D.find out what exact warnings animals sent

查看答案和解析>>

科目:高中英语 来源:2011届江苏省姜堰市第二中学高三上学期学情调查(三)英语卷 题型:阅读理解

In the decade(十年)of the 1970s, the United Nations organized several important meetings on the human environment to study a very serious problem.We humans are destroying the world around us.We must learn to protect them, or life will be very bad for our children and grandchildren.
There are several major aspects to this problem.
Population
Most problems of the environment come from population growth.In 1700 there were 635 million people in the world; in 1900 there were 1.6 billion; in 1950, 2.5 billion; and in 1980, 4.4 billion.In the year 2010 there will be 7.3 billion.More people need more water, more food, more wood, and more petroleum.
Distribution
Scientists say there is enough water in the world for everyone, but some countries have a lot of water and some have only a little.Some areas get all rain during one season.The rest of the year is dry.
Petroleum
We are using up the world’s petroleum.We use it in our cars and to heat our buildings in winter.Farmers use petrochemicals to make the soil rich.They use them to kill insects on those plants.These chemicals go into rivers and lakes and kill the fish there.Thousands of people also die from these chemicals every year.Chemicals also go into the air and pollute it.Winds carry this polluted air to other countries and other countries.
Poverty
Poor farmers use the same land over and over.The land needs a rest so it will be better next year.However, the farmer must have food every year.Poor people cut down trees for firewood.In some areas when the trees are gone, the land becomes desert.However, people need wood to cook their food now.Poor people cannot save the environment for the future.
We now have the information and the ability to solve these huge problems.However, this is not a problem for one country or one area of the world.It is a problem for all humans.The people and the nation of the world must work together to protect the world’s resources.No one controls the future, but we all help make it.
【小题1】According to the passage, our world is being destroyed mainly because ______.

A.pollution is getting worse and worse
B.population are increasing greatly
C.we humans are using up all of our natural resources
D.distribution is not reasonable.
【小题2】Good distribution means ________.
A.having things in the right place at the right time.
B.cutting down forests and selling them to other countries.
C.building water systems to carry water to farms.
D.conserving our natural resources
【小题3】The best title of the passage should be ________
A.The World Being Destroyed
B.A Serious Problem We Should Pay Attention to
C.Aspects That Destroyed Our World
D.Conserving the World’s Natural Resources

查看答案和解析>>

科目:高中英语 来源:全国通用2010年高三备考英语“好题速递”系列(13) 题型:阅读理解


二、阅读理解
阅读下列短文,从每题所给的A、B、C和D项中,选出最佳选项,并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
Not many years ago, a wealthy and rather strange old man named Johnson lived alone in a village in the south of England. He had made a lot of money in trading with foreign countries. When he was 75, he gave £12,000 to the village school to buy land and equipment for a children’s playground.
As a result of his kindness, many people came to visit him. Among them was a newspaperman. During their talk, Johnson remarked that he was 75 and expected to live to be 100, and the newspaperman asked him how he managed to be healthy at 75. Johnson had a sense of humor. He liked whisky and drank some each day. “I have an injection(注射)in my neck each evening”, he told the newspaperman, thinking of his evening glass of whisky.
The newspaperman did not understand what Johnson meant. In his newspaper he reported that Johnson was 75 and had a daily injection in his neck. Within a week Johnson received thousands of letters from all over Britain, asking him for the secret of his daily injection.
11.Johnson became a rich man through _____.
A.doing business     B.making whisky    C.cheating        D.buying and selling land
12.The gift of money to the school suggests that Johnson ____.
A.had no children         B.was a strange man 
C.was very warm-hearted and fond of children D.wanted people to know how rich he was
13.Many people wrote to Johnson probably to find out ____.
A.what kind of whisky he drank
B.how to live alone
C.how to become wealthy
D.in which part of the neck he had an injection each day
14.When Johnson said he had an injection in his neck each evening, he really meant that ____
A.he liked drinking a glass of whisky in the evening
B.he needed an injection in the neck
C.a daily injecting in the evening would make him sleep well
D.there was something wrong with his neck
15.From the passage we can infer that Johnson would be very ____ after he read those people’s letters.
A.miserable     B.glad           C.surprised     D.said

查看答案和解析>>

科目:高中英语 来源:2010年山东聊城三中高一下学期期末考试英语卷 题型:阅读理解

Attending a university is an important part of a person’s life. Today, many people go to a university to study and train for a future job in subjects like law, medicine, or education. But the university is not a modern invention. It has a history that is over a thousand years old.
The world’s oldest university, Al-Azhar, is in Cairo, Egypt. It was first built as a mosque in A.D. 972. A few years later, learners and teachers began meeting in the mosque in “tutoring circles”. They read and talked about the subject of law. Around 988, leaders in the city of Cairo decided to create a school for higher learning and the University of Al-Azhar was founded.
At Al-Azhar, there were many university ‘firsts.’ Courses were created. The earliest ones taught at Al-Azhar were in law and religion. In a course, students read and studied with the teacher, but there was also free discussion. Often, students and teachers talked about a topic, and there was no ‘right’ answer. Finally, scholars from around the world came to Al-Azhar to teach and do research. At the university, people studied the past, but it was also a place for sharing new ideas.
Over a thousand years later, Al-Azhar is still an important university in the world. Its library contains more than 250,000 of the world’s oldest and most valuable books. Today, many of the world’s most important universities such as Oxford and Harvard still follow the traditions started at Al-Azhar.
【小题1】What’s this passage mainly about?

A.The history of the world’s oldest university.
B.The importance of attending a university.
C.The relationship between university and future job.
D.The invention of a modern university.
【小题2】 The first university was founded over _____ years ago.
A.a hundrendB.hundreds ofC.a thousandD.thousands of
【小题3】The oldest university in the world is _____.
A.OxfordB.CambridgeC.HarvardD.Al-Azhar
【小题4】 What does the underlined word “course” mean in this passage?
A. A series of lessons.                                    C. A period of time.
C. A series of actions.                                    D. A group of professors.
【小题5】What’s the main idea of the last paragraph?
A.How many books are in the Al-Azhar’s library.
B.How valuable the Al-Azhar’s books are.
C.Why Oxford and Harvard still follow Al-Azhar’s pattern.
D.How Al-Azhar still holds an important role in the world.

查看答案和解析>>

同步练习册答案