Question

【題目】 Drriinnggg! That’s the sound children across the country do not want to hear — the alarm bell(鬧鈴). This means children across the UK have to wake up bright and early to go to school.

But students at one school in north-east England can lie in for one more hour before they go to school. Monkseaton High School says it’s OK for students to come into school an hour later than other schools.

The headmaster, Dr Paul Kelley, says that it helps students to be more active in class. He feels that young people work better later in the day and a late start may be better for their school life than an early one.

Dr Kelley told the BBC that teenagers don’t work very well in the morning and their need to sleep is biological(生物學(xué)的).

This new approach(做法) to teaching shows good results. The school has already seen a drop in the number of students playing truant(逃學(xué)) by 27%. More importantly, Dr Kelley also said that exam results have improved by 20-30% over the past year.

Lessons at Monkseaton High School begin at 10 a.m. and finish at 3.40 p.m. However, the school opens from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.

【1】One of the results of starting school late is that _____.

A.students don’t do very well in examsB.students become more polite

C.students feel tired in the afternoonD.fewer students are absent(缺席) from school

【2】We may learn from the passage that lessons at other schools in the UK may begin at _____.

A.7 a.m.B.8 a.m.C.9 a.m.D.10 a.m.

【3】The underlined word “active” means “_____”.

A.樂觀B.活躍C.緊張D.消極

【4】The article may be _____.

A.a story in a newspaperB.an advertisement in a magazine

C.a news report on the radioD.a play on TV

Answer 1

【答案】

【1】D

【2】C

【3】B

【4】C

【解析】

文章大意：本文講全國(guó)的孩子都不想聽到提醒他們?cè)缙鸬聂[鈴聲，但Monkseaton High School的學(xué)生例外，這個(gè)學(xué)校比別的學(xué)校晚開始上課，而這一做法引起來很好的結(jié)果。

【1】細(xì)節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)第5段中“This new approach to teaching shows good results. The school has already seen a drop in the number of students playing truant by 27%.”可知這個(gè)做法顯示出了好結(jié)果，學(xué)校的逃學(xué)率下降率27%，即缺課的學(xué)生更少了。故選D。

【2】推理判斷題。根據(jù)第2段中“Monkseaton High School says it’s OK for students to come into school an hour later than other schools.”可知這個(gè)學(xué)校比其他學(xué)校晚上課一小時(shí)，再由最后一段中“Lessons at Monkseaton High School begin at 10 a.m.”可知這個(gè)學(xué)校上午十點(diǎn)開始上課，由此可推出英國(guó)其他學(xué)�？赡苌衔缇劈c(diǎn)開始上課。故選C。

【3】詞義猜測(cè)題。根據(jù)畫線詞所在語(yǔ)境“The headmaster, Dr Paul Kelley, says that it helps students to be more active in class.”可知這個(gè)做法對(duì)孩子們是有幫助的，“會(huì)幫助他們?cè)谡n堂上更____”，結(jié)合選項(xiàng)可推出active意為“活躍”。故選B。

【4】推理判斷題。本文主要講的是英國(guó)的學(xué)校上課時(shí)間的問題，結(jié)合第4段中“Dr Kelley told the BBC that teenagers don’t work very well in the morning and their need to sleep is biological.”可推出這篇文章可能來自BBC廣播，是一則“廣播中的新聞報(bào)告”。故選C。