乐成公立寄宿学校 高三自主招生英语讲义（8）
读写训练（二）
一．完型填空(2008 复旦)
Arguing that pop culture is not dumbing us down but making us more intelligent is guaranteed to generate media buzz. In the United States, Everything Bad is Good for You, the new book by the American pop science writer, Steven Johnson, has sparked a flurry of comment, much of it 1 陡然的意思 his claims about the beneficial effects of watching reality TV and The Sopranos.
Much attention has focud more on Johnson's obrvations that computer games require 2 , forward planning, lateral thinking and sustained problem solving and, as such, offer a cognitive workout that can benefit 3 mental development.
In the past few years academics, teachers and software developers have experimented with different ways to harness the cognitive楚乔传图片韩国电影智齿 4 of games in more directed ways.
Gee, author of What Video Games Have to Teach Us About Learning and Literacy销售指标, argues that the best games offer a 5 .learning experience and suggests teachers can learn uful lessons by looking at how games draw players in and 6 them to concentrate and tackle complex problems.
“Academic areas, like biology or history, are themlves like games,” Gee says. “Scientists act and interact 7 certain identities and values and u knowledge and information to accomplish certain sorts of goals. So learning science should be about 1earning how to ‘play the game' of science.” Obviously he is critical 8 “skill and drill” teaching, which focus on lists of facts and repetitive testing.
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1. A. depended on | B. centered on | C. circulated through | D. clustered round |
2. A. concentration | B. determination | 广西巴马 C. perverance | D. tolerance |
3. A. complete | B. extraordinary | C. thorough | D. overall |
4．A．reforms | B. innovations | C. reproductions | D. revision |
5. A. model | B. moral | C. morale | D. mode |
6. A．propel | B．motivate | C. provoke | D. compel |
7. A. on account of | B. on the strength of | C. in defiance of | D. in terms of |
8. A. with | B. of | C. at | D. in |
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（2009 复旦）
For years, I’ve avoided chicken like the plague. Alarming articles about food safety and inhumane raising practices (some in this magazine) put me off, and so did the plain fact that chicken had lost its 1 .The grainy and muscular yet succulent meat of my childhood had turned to wet cardboard. The specter of a real plague striking chickens in this country ——the H5N1 form of avian influenza, which in the past two years had led to the death or slaughter of 140 million birds in
Asia-made me 2 recently into heirloom breeds of chicken and their chances of
3 if (or when, some say) avian flu is carried into North America.
Good-tasting, carefully raid chickens have been nearly impossible to find unless you live near a farmer who subscribes to the pasturing methods long 4 by Joel Salatin, the chicken guru, or near a hobbyist who can bear to part with a beautiful 颐和园作文bird like one of the 生日祝福语八个字霸气Araucanas popularized by
Martha Stewart (who even got a line of paints out her flock’s eggs). But now ,dedicated and small-scale farmers are raising strong and healthy chickens for meat, and it is just becoming 5 to chefs and home cooks hungry 6 chicken that tastes like chicken.
Pasture-raid chickens eat grass and peck for bugs 7 standing in mirably cramped pens: they spend the daylight hours outdoors. Their meat tastes so good it’s hard to believe you’re eating chicken and not some special game bird. The dark meat is much darker, becau the birds have actually exercid: all of the meat has sinew and taste. The fat is a deep gold rather than an anemic yellow. Real chicken could 8 be called “the other red meat.”
1. A. flavor | B. ason | C. tenderness | D. odor |
2. A. look up | B. look out | C. look after | D. look into |
3. A. sacrifice | B. survival | C. tolerance | D. retrieval |
4. A. advocated | B. restrained | C. retarded | D .abstained |
5. A. adequate | B. addictive | C. available | D. ample |
6. A. of | B. with | C. about | D. for |
7. A. other than | B. more than | C. rather than | D. better than |
8. A. practically 二．阅读理解 | B. approximately | C. converly | D. incidentally |
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