What’s the writer’s purpose in writing the text? A. To give us advice on spending money. B. To advise us to strengthen the bond with our family. C. To show the importance of traveling around. D. To tell us about the travel trusts given to children. Part Ⅲ Writing Section A Directions: Read the following passage. Fill in the numbered blanks by using the information from the passage. Write NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS for each answer. Laughter really may be the best medicine. It provides a great workout to make your stomach tight and your heart strong, and regular laughing may make your immune system better. If you want to live a happy, healthy and joy-filled life, you need to make laughter part of your life. How can we learn to laugh? Well, the first step is learning to find humorous things in life. For instance, you can watch funny movies and TV programs. When you want to read a newspaper, start with the funnies and the human interest stories before you get too deep into the depressing stuff. Instead of socializing with people who bring you down, hang out with your friends that are always making you laugh. More importantly, train yourself to smile as you’re working, walking, and even while you’re reading a book because smiling more will trick your body into helping put you in a good mood. The second step is learning to relax. To achieve this, you should learn to laugh at yourself. If you can turn awkward moments, mistakes and shortcomings into opportunities for a good laugh at your own expense, those things will have less control over you. Also remember that everyone’s laugh is unique, so as long as yours is polite, you don’t need to worry about how ugly your laughter sounds. In addition, though you’re probably a busy person, you should remember to take time out for yourself and spend time just being yourself because this can keep you calm and ready to laugh. Thus, make sure you do something you enjoy each day, such as playing a record you love and having your favorite drink, so you can keep control of your mood. Last but not least, you need to practice laughing as often as possible. You can try laughing a few times as heartedly as possible though you don’t find something funny to laugh at when you’re alone at your house. What’s more, regular laughing may tighten your stomach muscles and release healthy chemicals in your brain that lift your mood. When you laugh, put your hand on your diaphragm and feel it. When you practice laughter in the future, make sure you can feel it deep in your body. Practice laughing on your way to work, or after you get home and want to relax a bit. At work, plan regular laugh breaks. Better than a cigarette, take fifteen minutes to think of some funny things and give a chuckle to keep yourself productive and relaxed. How can we learn to laugh? (51) of laughter ● It helps to tighten one’s stomach and (52) one’s heart. ● It can (53) the immune system. ● It helps one live happily and (54) . Three steps Find funny things in life. ● Watch or (55) something funny. ● Hang out with (56) friends. ● Take every chance to train yourself to (57) . Learn to relax. ● Laugh at yourself when you feel awkward or do something (58) . ● Don’t worry about the (59) of your polite laughter. ● Keep yourself ready to laugh and do something you like. Practice laughter. ● Try laughing heartedly though you fail to find something funny to laugh at. ● When you practice laughing, try to feel it deep in your body. ● Practice laughing on a (60) basis, either at home or at workplace. Section B Directions: Read the following passage. Answer the questions according to the information given in the passage. American LaMar Baylor spends most of his time in New York City, and he works as a performer in the Broadway musical - The Lion King. But since 2011, he has also spent weeks in Kigali, the capital of Rwanda. There, he teaches dance to boys who live on the street. His teaching is part of an effort by the Rebecca Davis Dance Company. The project helps young people learn more about dance and learn how to behave in a classroom environment. Rebecca Davis is the founder and director of the dance company. She says she got the idea for the project after she visited Rwanda in 2008. She remembers meeting many street children who were dancing, and she thinks that dance could be used to get them off the street and into a safer place. Rebecca Davis believes that learning to dance is a step towards education. “When you start to play music in Rwanda, these kids come out of nowhere and they enter the dance center. And it’s because of dance that they have a way of changing their survival skills they have learned on the street and their strength into something that’s actually artistic and aesthetic , said Rebecca. She says children can take classes in information and technology after they have learned to attend classes and follow directions. Boys who have done best in the classes win scholarships , and are sent to the Sunrise Boarding School. About 30 boys have won this kind of financial aid. As for LaMar Baylor, he knows from his own experience how dance can lead to a better life. He said that it took a long time for him to find out what he wanted to do. He now thinks dancing saved his life. 【查看更多】

We find that bright children are seldom held back by mixed-ability teaching. On the contrary, both their knowledge and experience are enriched. We feel that there are many disadvantages in streaming(按能力分班) pupils. It does not consider the fact that children develop at different rates. It can have had effect on both the bright and the not-so-bright children. After all, it can be quite discouraging to be the bottom of the top grade.

Besides, it is rather unreal to grade people just according to their intellectual(智力) ability. This is only one aspect of their total personality. We care much about the development of all the pupils’ abilities to the full, not just their study ability. We also value personal qualities and social skills, and we find that mixed-ability teaching does good to these aspects of learning.

In our classrooms, we work in various ways. The pupils often work in groups; this gives them the chance to learn to work together, to share, and to develop leadership skills. They also learn how to deal with personal problems as well as learning how to think, to make decisions, to analyze(分析) an devaluate(评价) and to communicate effectively. The pupils learn from each other as well as from the teachers.

Sometimes the pupils work in pairs; sometimes they work on individual(个人) tasks, and they can do this at their own speed. They also have some formal class teaching when this is proper. We encourage our pupils to use the library, and we teach them the skills they need in order to do this well. An advanced pupil can do advanced work and it does not matter what age the child is. We expect our pupils to do their best, not their least, and we give them every encouragement to achieve this goal.

By “held back” in the first paragraph, the writer means “________”.

A. made to remain in the same class B. forced to study in the lower class

C. drawn away form their studies D. prevented from advancing

The writer’s purpose of writing this passage is to ________.

A. argue for teaching bright and not-so-bright pupils in the same class

B. advise pair work and group work for classroom activity

C. offer advice on the proper use of the library

D. tell us the importance of proper formal classroom teaching

What would be the best title for the text?

A. Pair work. B. Group work. C. Mixed-ability teaching D. Individual tasks.

查看答案和解析>>