13．How important is homework？According to the Los Angeles Unified School District （LAUSD），it's not that important!The district has made a big change for the 2013-2014 academic school year．Starting July 1，homework will count for only 10% of a student's academic grade．
The district hopes the limit on homework will allow students to spend less time struggling with large am ounts of work and more time on hobbies and with their families．Besides，the policy states，"by limiting the weight of homework toward a student's grade，a truer picture of the student's knowledge will be reflected in the achievement grade．"
The new policy doesn't remove homework．It states that homework is an opportunity for students to practice their skills and a tool for students to prepare for upcoming lessons．Still，L．A．Unified is joining a growing list of school districts that have set limits on the amount of homework that students receive．
Exactly how much time kids should spend on homework is a topic for debate．Harris Cooper，a professor at Duke University，says that the right amount of homework time is ten minutes per day multiplied by the student's grade．This means a third grader should spend 30 minutes per day on homework．And a sixth grader would spend 60 minutes．Five years ago，Cooper wrote about his views in TFK．"Good homework assignments in the proper amount will have positive effects，"he wrote．"Bad homework assignments，or too much homework，will have negative effects．"
Critics of the new L．A．district policy say that homework is an important part of learning．They say many kids just won't put in the effort if homework doesn't count toward their grade．Pro-homeworkteachers argue that students who do their homework perform better on tests and in school than those who do not．They fear that the new policy will enc ourage students to neglect homework assignments．

26．In the 2013-2014 academic school year the students in LAUSD willB．
A．work harder on their lessons
B．have much less homework to do
C．be able to do whatever they like
D．spend more time on homework
27．We can learn from Paragraph 3 thatD．
A．homework is of no use at all
B．studnets should do more homework
C．students all are happy to do homework
D．more school districts limit homework
28．If you are a student of fifth grade，the proper amount of homework isAminutes．
A.50        B.30         C.60          D.10
29．Pro-homework teachers probably refer to thoseB．
A．that suggest reducing the amount of homework
B．that think homework is helpful to the students
C．that insist increasing the students'homework
D．that are good at encouraging the students
30．What does this passage mainly talk about？D
A．Culture．B．Science．C．Politics．D．Education．

分析 本文是一篇科教類閱讀，主要講的是美國洛杉磯統(tǒng)一學(xué)校針對學(xué)生家庭作業(yè)方面制定的新政策及其出發(fā)點以及政策具體內(nèi)容，還有批評家就此的看法．

解答 26-30．BDABD
26題答案：B 考查細(xì)節(jié)推理，根據(jù)文章第二段的"The district hopes the limit on homework will allow students to spend less time struggling with large am ounts of work and more time on hobbies and with their families"（該區(qū)希望家庭作業(yè)的限制能夠使學(xué)生花更少的時間在大量的家庭作業(yè)上掙扎，有更多的時間花在愛好和家人方面）可知本題答案為B選項"有更少的家庭作業(yè)要做"．
27題答案：D 考查細(xì)節(jié)推理，根據(jù)最后一句的"Still，L．A．Unified is joining a growing list of school districts that have set limits on the amount of homework that students receive"（而且洛杉磯統(tǒng)一學(xué)校加入了一個不斷擴(kuò)大的校區(qū)清單上--這些校區(qū)設(shè)置了學(xué)生接收家庭作業(yè)量的限制）可知本題答案為D選項"更多的學(xué)校限制了家庭作業(yè)"．
28題答案：A 考查細(xì)節(jié)推理，根據(jù)文章第四段的"…that the right amount of homework time is ten minutes per day multiplied by the student's grade"（每天合適的家庭作業(yè)量是以年級數(shù)乘以10分鐘）可知5年級的孩子合適的家庭作業(yè)量是50（5x10）分鐘，故本題答案為A選項．
29題答案：B 考查細(xì)節(jié)推理，根據(jù)Pro-homeworkteachers argue that students who do their homework perform better on tests and in school than those who do not．（Pro-homework老師辯稱做家庭作業(yè)的學(xué)生比那些不做家庭的學(xué)生在考試方面表現(xiàn)要好）可知本題答案為B選項"認(rèn)為家庭作業(yè)對學(xué)習(xí)是有用的"．
30題答案：D 考查大意把握，本文主要講的是學(xué)生家庭作業(yè)方面的一些新政策，這屬于"教育"的范疇；故本題答案為D選項．

點評 本文是一篇科教類閱讀，題目涉及多道細(xì)節(jié)理解題，做題時結(jié)合原文和題目有針對 性找出相關(guān)語句進(jìn)行仔細(xì)分析，結(jié)合選項選出正確答案．推理判斷也是要在抓住關(guān)鍵句子的基礎(chǔ)上合理的分析才能得出正確的答案．

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