Question

Fill the blanks with proper words（在短文的空格内填入适当的词，使其内容通顺。每空格限填一词，首字母已给）

How do you feel when your teacher asks you to work on a group project with other students? Do you like to work together with others or work a1.?

The Programme for International Student Assessment, or PISA, carried out survey of students’ ability to work together in groups. They found that students who do well on tests by themselves are also likely to be better at working with other people.

Students in Japan, South Korea, Finland and Canada, where test scores are h2., also did well in working together to solve problems. This finding was true for many countries.

But this was not true for every country. Chinese students, who also did well on tests, s3. just average collaborative(合作的) skills.

“One r4. might be that Chinese parents and teaches focus too much on grades,"said Zhao Zhongxin, former vice president of the Chinese Family Education Association. " Students have a lot of exam pressure and they view school as a place for competition.”

“However, collaborative skills are very important for p5. students for today’s society,”he added."Luckily, more Chinese educators are realizing the importance of this and are thinking of ways to help students improve this skill.

Another interesting finding from the PISA survey was that girls tend(趋向于)to be better than boys at working together. They said girls show more active attitudes(态度) towards relationships, which means they are much e6.to communicate with.

PISA also found that the classroom environment tends to e7. students to collaborate. In classes where there are a lot of activities that require communication, such as class debates, students tend to have better attitudes toward collaborating.

Answer

1.alone

2.high

3.showed

4.reason

5.preparing

6.easier

7.enable

【解析】本文主要讲述了协作技能对于当今社会培养学生有多重要。

1.根据语境可知这里是与前面的together产生对比，结合首字母，故答案填alone。

2.根据上下文的语境，可知这里是说“日本、韩国、芬兰和加拿大的学生考试成绩都很高”，结合首字母，故答案填high。

3.根据句意“中国学生仅仅显示了平均水平”，可知这里应填“显示”show，由who also did well on tests中的did可知时态是一般过去时，所以填show的过去式，故答案填showed。

4.由句意和首字母提示可知这里应填“原因”reason，故答案填reason。

5.根据句意“合作技能对于学生准备好进入社会是非常重要的”以及首字母提示，可知这里应填形容词“准备的”preparing，故答案填 preparing。

6.句意“这意味着他们更容易与人交流”，根据much修饰比较级以及首字母提示，可知这里应填easy的比较级easier，故答案填easier。

7.根据上下文语境可知“这样的氛围鼓励学生能够更加愿意合作”，“使能够”英文是enable，故答案填enable。

点睛：本题为短文填空，首先要快速浏览全文，理解短文的大致意思，再精读短文注意所填的词在句中的词性、时态等等。然后根据句意、上下文联系、语境及所给出的首字母选择合适的词语。如，第1小题，根据语境可知这里是与前面的together产生对比，结合首字母，故答案填alone。