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【題目】Our children feel stressed out by an educational system that actually uses stress as an educational technique. It's a constant pressure of homework deadlines，essays and exams. And our children are told at a young age that failing a test means that they are failures in life. They'll end up nowhere if they don't pass this or that exam. Our educational system is based on a very Western idea that life is a struggle and you'd better measure up. It's survival of the fittest. While there is some truth to this，not as much as people think.

Our ancestors didn't develop a constant stress environment. Back then，stress came quickly and was over quickly，it wasn't like the stress of modern education. Stress was originally just a shortterm biological response to danger；however，the constant stress of modern education rarely stops. It's long term，at least ten years and usually more.

Recent research has shown that the neurological(神經系統(tǒng)的)response to stress is the same response that is found in depression. So，what's the solution? A number have been proposed，including but not limited to the following.

________.Exercise consumes energy that would otherwise build up in the stress response and could cause physical and mental problems.

Teach relaxation exercises. Allowing the mind and body to relax cuts off the stress response and reduces the neurological fatigue(疲憊)，enabling the individual to recover at least somewhat.

Pay attention to thinking. Training the stressed student to pay attention to his or her own mind to a point where he or she is sufficiently aware to shut off the stress response when necessary.

Of course，there's a logical answer to the problem. Just rearrange our teaching methods to encourage，rather than prevent，the natural curiosity and joy in learning that we are all born with. This would remove the stress and probably cut learning time in half.

【1】What is the main idea of the passage?

A．Getting rid of the modern education.

B．Helping children live a happy life.

C．Dealing with stress in modern education.

D．Taking measures to learn at school.

【2】How did our ancestors treat education?

A．They believed education could bring the best out.

B．They felt education could bring shortterm stress.

C．They thought education was the only way to success.

D．They knew the importance of good education.

【3】Which of the following is the best for the blank?

A．Try to save energy as much as possible.

B．Quite a few children avoid exercise.

C．Make sure that kids get exercise.

D．Set a few limits to your physical activities.

【4】If you are a teacher in a high school, ______.

A．you should leave students in a good mood

B．you should ignore the stressed student

C．you should relax yourself as far as possible

D．you should stick to your teaching methods

Answer 1

【答案】

【1】C

【2】B

【3】C

【4】A

【解析】

試題分析:本文是一篇建議類文章。主要闡述了現(xiàn)代教育制度的弊端——學生被各種作業(yè)考試圍繞，產生了極大的壓力，同時作者還比較了現(xiàn)代與過去的壓力，接下來提出了幾點緩解壓力的方法：學生要做運動、放松、專注自己的工作，老師要激發(fā)學生興趣，創(chuàng)造輕松的學習環(huán)境。

【1】A主旨理解題。分析全文，作者在第一段It's a constant pressure of homework deadlines，essays and exams. And our children are told at a young age that failing a test means that they are failures in life.提出了學生面對的各種學業(yè)壓力，于是變得緊張壓抑，接下來提出了一些解決方法，對學生和老師都提出了要求，所以本文旨在闡述如何解決現(xiàn)代教育中的壓力問題，故選C

【2】A理解判斷題。由第二段第一句Our ancestors didn't develop a constant stress environment. Back then，stress came quickly and was over quickly可知在我們的祖先那個時代，壓力來的快去的也快，相對于現(xiàn)在長期的教育壓力，他們的壓力是短期的，故選B

【3】B推理判斷題。由該空后面闡述Exercise consumes energy that would otherwise build up in the stress response and could cause physical and mental problems.知鍛煉消耗了造成心理和身體問題的壓力。（關鍵在于理解本句，that引導的是energy的定語從句）所以首句應該說明鍛煉對于緩解壓力的好處，故選C。

【4】A推理判斷題。由最后一段的第二句Just rearrange our teaching methods to encourage，rather than prevent，the natural curiosity and joy in learning that we are all born with.知老師應當改進教育方法，不是用強制手段去逼迫學生學習，而是激發(fā)他們的興趣，讓他們快樂學習，故選A。