When Suzanne Kail, an English teacher at a public high school in Magnolia, Ohio, was told that she would be required to teach her students Latin and Greek word roots, she rolled her eyes. Kail believed in a progressive approach to education, in which active participation in meaningful learning was the most important. In an account of her experience in the English Journal, she wrote, “asking students to do rote memorization (機械記憶) was the opposite of what I believed in most.” Still, her department head insisted on it. She was sure her students wouldn’t like it, either.

Kail was surprised — as was anyone who took a look at the recent studies supporting the effectiveness of “old school” methods like memorizing math facts, reading aloud, practicing handwriting and so on. While the education world is all excited about so-called 21st-century skills like cooperation, problem solving and critical thinking, this research suggests that we might do well to add a strong dose (一劑) of the 19th century to our children’s schooling.

As soon as Kail began teaching her students the Greek and Latin origins of many English terms — that the root “sta” means “put in place or stand”, for example, and that “cess” means “to move or withdraw”— they eagerly began recognizing familiar words including the roots, like “statue” and “recess”. Kail’s students started using these terms in their writing, and many of them told her that their study of word roots helped them answer questions on the SAT and on Ohio’s state graduation exam. For her part, Kail reported that she no longer saw rote memorization as “evil”.

That’s also true of another old-fashioned method drilling math facts, like the multiplication table (乘法表). Although many progressive educators speak ill of what they call “drill and kill” (kill students’ love for learning, that is), rapid mental retrieval (檢索) of basic facts is required for doing more complex and more interesting kinds of math. The only way to achieve this, so far as anyone has been able to determine, is to practice and practice. Indeed, many experts have observed the wide gap between the math scores of American and Chinese students on international tests. Asian schools focus heavily on math facts. Failure to do so can effectively close off the higher realms (范圍) of mathematics — a study found that most errors made by students working on complex math problems were due to a lack of automaticity (自動性) in basic math facts.

60. What did Suzanne Kail think was the most important in learning at first?

      A. Memorizing math facts.                                B. Problem solving ability.

       C. Students’ active participation                        D Studying word roots...

61. How does the study of word roots benefit students?

       A. It helps students build a large vocabulary more easily.

       B. It provides students with motivation for rote memorization.

       C. It helps students break up their conventional thinking.

       D. It gives students more knowledge about Greek and Latin.

62. Why is there a gap between the math scores of American and Chinese students?

       A. Because American students’ love for learning has been killed.

       B. Because American students are not very familiar with basic math facts.

       C. Because Chinese students have a higher math level than American students.

       D. Because Chinese students are becoming more creative than American students.

63. The author might NOT approve of             .

       A. using rote memorization                B. abandoning 21st-century methods

       C. practicing handwriting                     D. remembering basic math facts repeatedly

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It is a play written by Botho Strauss and directed by Laurence Strangio, featuring (由……主演) second-year Performing Arts students. It is about a lonely woman living in a big city. From the play, we can learn how to get along well with our friends, our family, our lovers, ... and with ourselves.
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Where: Drama Theatre, Centre for the Performing Arts, Building 68, Clayton campus (校園)
Tickets: Adults $10, Concessions (優(yōu)惠票價) $5
You can get the tickets at the door.
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It is written by Moira Buffini and directed by Trent Baker, featuring Performing Arts students.
First-year Performing Arts students present
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Where: Drama Theatre, Centre for the Performing Arts, Building 68, Clayton campus
Tickets: Adults $10, Concessions $5
You can get the tickets at the door.
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Tickets: Adults $10, Concessions $5 You can get the tickets at the door.
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A.is a character in Big and Little
B.is the director of Smashed
C.wrote the play Love Play
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【小題2】Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?
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【小題3】 The play Big and Little is mainly about _________.
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B.the life experience of a lonely woman
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D.unexpected meetings in London during the past 2,000 years

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The following is the information about plays which will be on these days.     

Big and Little

It is a play written by Botho Strauss and directed by Laurence Strangio, featuring (由……主演) second-year Performing Arts students. It is about a lonely woman living in a big city. From the play, we can learn how to get along well with our friends, our family, our lovers, ... and with ourselves.

A dreamlike journey in search of identity ...

When:15-17 March, 7:30 pm

Where: Drama Theatre, Centre for the Performing Arts, Building 68, Clayton campus (校園)

Tickets: Adults $10, Concessions (優(yōu)惠票價) $5

You can get the tickets at the door.

Love Play

It is written by Moira Buffini and directed by Trent Baker, featuring Performing Arts students.

First-year Performing Arts students present

Love Play. It follows a series of unexpected meetings that have taken place in the same place in London across 2,000 years, through the centuries from the Romans to the Elizabethans to the present day. Love Play is a comedy that challenges the reasons and ways we want love.

When:17-19 April, 8 pm

Where: Drama Theatre, Centre for the Performing Arts, Building 68, Clayton campus

Tickets: Adults $10, Concessions $5

You can get the tickets at the door.

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It is a play written by Lally Katz and directed by Suzanne Chaundy, featuring second-year Performing Arts students. Smashed is about friendship, time travel and death. Writing for TheAge, Helen Thomson calls the play "a wonderful memory of childhood on the edge (邊緣) of adulthood."Smashedp raises invention, imagination and girl power.

When: 24-26 April, 8 pm

Where: Drama Theatre, Centre for the Performing Arts, Building 68, Clayton campus

Tickets: Adults $10, Concessions $5 You can get the tickets at the door.

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A.is a character in Big and Little

B.is the director of Smashed

C.wrote the play Love Play

D.once wrote for The Age

2.Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?

A.All the plays begin at 8 pm on Clayton campus.

B.The tickets have different prices but all are sold at the door.

C.Love Play is a comedy which has a different idea about love.

D.All the plays are performed by second-year Performing Arts students.

3. The play Big and Little is mainly about _________.

A.friendship, time travel and death

B.the life experience of a lonely woman

C.the life of a Performing Arts student on Clayton campus

D.unexpected meetings in London during the past 2,000 years

 

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On Wednesdays Suzie does something else that she really ___50___. On Wednesday afternoons she writes articles for the school newspaper. When she first ___51___ to her school, she wrote an article about how it feels to be a new student in a new school. Her second article in the newspaper was about a teacher at her school who had just finished writing a book. On the day the newspaper comes ___52___, the first thing Suzie does is to ___53___ where her article is in the newspaper. And at the beginning of her article, are the words: By Suzanne Jefferson.

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Suzie  __59____ home so she could write something short before dinner. She already had lots of ideas for next month's newspaper. And she wanted to make sure that none of her creative ideas  ___60___ away before she wrote them down permanently on paper.

1.A. using     B. painting                       C. drawing        D. making  

2.A. bowls      B. pottery                   C. cups              D. clay

3.A. dropped             B. cooled                   C. come             D. fallen     

4.A. rubs                   B. cleans                    C. brushes          D. paints     

5.A. bests          B. friends                 C. favorites        D. fears

6.A. bright             B. earth                    C. black             D. deep     

7. A. before              B. when                      C. that             D. until

8.A. working             B. painting               C. putting          D. taking   

9.A. worried              B. anxious                C. happy            D. proud     

10.A. promises          B. wants                 C. hates             D. enjoys    

11.A. got                  B. sent                      C. moved           D. returned

12.A. up                   B. in                         C. out                 D. about     

13.A. read                 B. search                   C. overlook               D. check     

14.A. began               B. went                    C. got                 D. started   

15.A. soon                 B. much                     C. long              D. far   

16. A. relative            B. creative                 C. productive     D. active     

17.A. tell                   B. talk                       C. speak             D. say         

18.A. feel                 B. look                     C. sound         D. appear   

19. A. rushed       B. walked          C. got                 D. went      

20. A. left               B. forgot                  C. floated           D. kept

 

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COMPARING NICKNAMES

 If Laura, Suzanne, Debra and Rose go out for lunch, they will call each other Laura, Suzanne, Debra and Rose.

 If Mike, Charlie, Bob and John go out, they will affectionately refer to each other as Fat Boy, Godzilla (怪獸), Peanut-Head and Scrappy.

EATING OUT

When the bill arrives, Mike, Charlie, Bob and John will each throw in $20, even though it’s only for $32.50. None of them will have anything smaller, and none will actually admit they want change back.

 When the girls get their bill, out come the pocket calculators.

MONEY

 A man will pay $2 for a $1 item he wants.

 A woman will pay $1 for a $2 item that she doesn’t want.

BATHROOMS

 A man has six items in his bathroom: a toothbrush, comb, shaving cream, razor, a bar of soap, and a towel from the Holiday Inn.

 The average number of items in the typical woman’s bathroom is 337... A man would not be able to identify most of these items.

ARGUMENTS

 A woman has the last word in any argument.

 Anything a man says after that is the beginning of a new argument.

CATS

Women love cats.

 Men say they love cats, but when women aren’t looking, men kick cats.

FUTURE

 A woman worries about the future until she gets a husband.

 A man never worries about the future until he gets a wife.

SUCCESS

 A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend.

 A successful woman is one who can find such a man.

MARRIAGE

 A woman marries a man expecting he will change, but he doesn’t.

 A man marries a woman expecting that she won’t change and she does.

DRESSING UP

A woman will dress up to go shopping, water the plants, empty the garbage, answer the phone, read a book, and get the mail.

 A man will only dress up for weddings and funerals.

NATURAL

 Men wake up as good-looking as they went to bed.

 Women somehow deteriorate (惡化) during the night.

OFFSPRING

 Ah, children. A woman knows all about her children. She knows about dentist appointments and romances, best friends, favorite foods, secret fears and hopes and dreams.

 A man is vaguely (含糊地) aware of some short people living in the house.

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY

Any married man should forget his mistakes. There’s no sense in two people remembering the same thing.

63. This passage is_________________.

A. a story           B. an advertisement         C. a report          D. a humor

64. The purpose of this passage is________________.

A. to inform the readers of some secrets between men and women

B. to remind the readers of the big differences between men and women

C. to amuse the readers using some interesting examples

D. to show that men perform better than women in our daily life

65. When the girls get their bill, they take out the pocket calculators_________________.

A. to make sure they won’t be cheated by the servant    B. so that they can share the bill equally among them

C. because they want to know what time it is now        D. if they forget to bring their mobile phones

66. What does the underlined sentence mean?

A. A man doesn’t know what to do before he gets married.

B. A man is worried about his future job after he gets married.

C. Anything unexpected will probably happen to a man after he gets married.

D. It’s not easy for a man to find a good job as a woman thinks.

 

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