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For the person keeping a journal, whatever he experiences and wants to hold he can write down. But to get it down on paper begins another adventure. For he has to focus on what he has experienced, and to be able to say what, in fact, the experience is. What of it is new? What of it is remarkable because of associations in the memory it stirs up? It is a good or bad thing to have happened? And why, specifically? The questions multiply (增多) themselves quickly. As one tries to find the words that best represent this discovery, the experience becomes even clearer in its shape and meaning.

Beyond the value of the journal as record, there is the value of the discipline it teaches. The journalist begins to pay closer attention to what happened to and around himself. He develops and sharpens his skills of observation. He learns the usefulness of languages as a means of representing what he sees, and gains skill and certainty in the expression of his experiences. To have given up one’s experience to words is to have begun marking out the limits and potential of its meaning. In the journal that meaning is developed and clarified (澄清、阐明) to oneself. When the intention of the development of that meaning is the consideration of another reader, the method of the journal redirects itself and it becomes the essay.

1.According to the author, keeping a journal is good for ________.

A. observation and expression

B. certainty and discipline

C. experience and adventure

D. consideration and development

2. By keeping a journal, one can ________.

A. develop the usefulness of language

B. develop his memory

C. clarify the consideration to everyone

D. have a thorough understanding of his experience

3. Which of the following statements is NOT correct?

A. The journalist can express what has happened.

B. A journal can serve as a record of the past happening.

C. The journalist must be able to observe closely.

D. Writing helps develop the consideration of others.

4. The passage is mainly about ________.

A. how to write a journal

B. the expressions of a journal

C. the values of keeping a journal

D. how to solve the problems in a journal

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科目： 来源：2010-2011学年江苏省南京市白下区高三二模模拟考试英语卷 题型：其他题

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D. R. Gaul Middle School is in Union, Maine, a blueberry-farming town where the summer fair finds kids competing in pig scrambles and pie-eating contests.

Gaul, with about 170 seventh- and eighth-graders, has its own history of lower level academic achievement. One likely reason: Education beyond the basic requirements hasn't always been a top priority for families who've worked the same land for generations. Here, few adults have college degrees, and outsiders (teachers included) are often kept at a respectful distance.

Since 2002, Gaul's students have been divided into four classes, each of them taught almost every subject by two teachers. The goal: To find common threads across disciplines to help students create a big picture that gives fresh meaning and context to their classwork -- and sparks motivation for learning.

Working within state guidelines, each team makes its individual schedules and lesson plans, incorporating non-textbook literature, hands-on lab work and field trips. If students are covering the Civil War in social studies, they're reading The Red Badge of Courage or some other period literature in English class. In science, they study the viruses and bacteria that caused many deaths in the war.

Team teaching isn't unusual. About 77 percent of middle schools now employ some form of it, says John Lounsbury, consulting editor for the National Middle School Association. But most schools use four- or five-person teams, which Gaul tried before considering two-person teams more effective. Gaul supports the team concept by "looping" classes (跟班) so that the same two teachers stick with the same teens through seventh and eighth grades. Combining teams and looping creates an extremely strong bond between teacher and student. It also, says teacher Beth Ahlholm, "allows us to build an excellent relationship with parents."

Ahlholm and teammate Madelon Kelly are fully aware how many glazed looks they see in the classroom, but they know 72 percent of their eighth-graders met Maine's reading standard last year -- double the statewide average. Only 31 percent met the math standard, still better than the state average (21 percent). Their students also beat the state average in writing and science. And in2006, Gaul was one of 47 schools in the state to see testing gains of at least 20 percent in four of the previous five years, coinciding roughly with team teaching's arrival.

A Classroom With Context
Problems of the school	Being a farming town, it (1) little in education before.
(2) education is considered less important.
The community is relatively （3) ____ rather than open to the outsiders.
Ways of solving the problems	The division of classes is made and students are well (4) ____.
Individual schedules and lesson plans are (5) ____ by each team.
A strong (6) ____ between teacher and student is established through combining teams and looping.
Signs of (7) ____	72 percent of the eighth-graders (8) ____ Maine's reading standard
(9)________ percent higher than the state average in maths
the school beating the state average in writing and science
four of the previous five years (10) ____ at least 20 percent test gains