Question

    Would you like to improve the culture in your classroom and your life? Try gratitude (感激).

In the past ten years, gratitude has made me teach better, thank my students, grow in my work, and enjoy life. Using gratitude, I am able to model one of the most important lessons in life, having a positive attitude (积极的态度), especially about the ways of life that used to challenge me most, which is the biggest change for me.

To get started in your classroom with gratitude, I suggest actually writing your own gratitude list for a few weeks and feeling its power. Then you can share your example and start the activity with your students.

My students use a notebook and start every day by writing five things about gratitude. Once a week, we go around the class and share our favorite gratitude. This helps build a positive culture in our classroom. I am always encouraged and surprised by what my students share.

Keeping a gratitude journal helps student achieve higher grades, higher goals and more joy with relationships, life, and school and they prefer to give back. Keeping a gratitude journal makes both students and adults be more positive, experience more social satisfaction, exercise more often, have fewer physical problems, and sleep better.

I see these positive changes in my students. One of them shared gratitude journals with her family. Her mom was in a nursing school and was very stressed. At the dinner table, they would share their gratitude for the day and grow as a family. The mom came to me and thanked me for teaching gratitude to her daughter and cheering up her family.

1.What was the biggest change in the writer after trying gratitude?

A.She enjoyed the pressure of life. B.She was more skilled at teaching.

C.She could stay positive about life. D.She could get on well with her students.

2.What does the underlined word“This”in Paragraph 4 refer to?

A.Listening to others’ true ideas. B.Keeping the daily gratitude in mind.

C.Students’ sharing their gratitude in class. D.The writer’s telling her life stories to students.

3.According to Paragraph 5, keeping a gratitude journal       .

A.is good for students’ study and health B.can be difficult for some students

C.can always bring good things to people D.is not fit for little children

4.Why does the writer give the example of a girl’s family?

A.To introduce a way to be more helpful.

B.To explain why she began trying gratitude.

C.To tell how her students finished perfect gratitude journals.

D.To show gratitude journals even helped a student’s family.

5.What would be the best title for the text?

A.Gratitude — a way to become successful. B.Gratitude — a way for your family to get together.

C.Gratitude — a powerful tool for the classroom. D.Gratitude — a new way to understand others.

Answer

1.C

2.C

3.A

4.D

5.C

【解析】

本文讲述了在过去的十年里，感恩让“我”教得更好，感谢“我”的学生，在工作中成长，享受生活。利用感恩之心，“我”能够拥有积极的生活态度，这对“我”来说是最大的改变。写感恩日记对学生的学习和生活有好处，甚至对学生的家庭关系有帮助。

1.推理判断题。根据“Using gratitude, I am able to model one of the most important lessons in life, having a positive attitude , especially about the ways of life that used to challenge me most, which is the biggest change for me. ”可知感恩让作者拥有积极的态度，积极面对生活，故选C。

2.推理判断题。根据“My students use a notebook and start every day by writing five things about gratitude. Once a week, we go around the class and share our favorite gratitude. ”可知每周一次，我们在课堂上分享我们最喜欢的感激之情，所以此处指的是学生在课堂上分享他们的感激之情，故选C。

3.推理判断题。根据“Keeping a gratitude journal helps student achieve higher grades”及“Keeping a gratitude journal makes both students and adults be more positive…and sleep better.”可知写感恩日记可对学生的学习和生活有好处，故选A。

4.推理判断题。根据“One of them shared gratitude journals with her family…cheering up her family”可知家长很感谢作者，可推测出写感恩日记甚至可以帮助学生的家庭，故选D。

5.最佳标题。根据文章主要写了要有感恩的心态生活，文中的作者是一位老师，她将感恩融入课堂，很好的提高了学生的成绩，帮助了学生，所以感恩是课堂上的有力工具，故选C。