According to some students, ______ listening practice is still ______ must in Senior 3, because it helps promote the sense of language.
A. the, a B. the, \ C. \, a D. \, an
目前我国中学生的健康严重下降，引起了父母、学校和专家的忧虑。为解决这一问题，有人提出将体育纳入高考。结合实际，谈谈你的看法：
1.是否赞成体育纳入高考及原因；
2.简述健康与学习的关系；
3.你认为学校应该做些什么来提高学生的身体素质。
注意：
1. 词数 120 左右
2. 可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯
下面文中共有10处语言错误，要求你在错误的地方增加、删除或修改某个单词。
增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号（^），并在该句下面写出该加的词。
删除：把多余的词用斜线（\）划掉。
修改：在错的词下划一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。
注意：
1．每处错误及其修改均仅限一词。
2．只允许修改10处，多者（从第11处起）不计分。
Get a good education is more important today than ever before .In Canada mostly children attend public schools. Public schools are mainly found by governments through tax income. Students in Canada taught in English and in French. The rests of Canadian children attend private schools, that are supported mainly by fees paying by parents. By law, children must attend the school from age 5 to 16. There are several different levels in the Canadian education system. The first was called Elementary Schools, which includes kindergartens through grade 7 or 8.
Almost everybody in America will spend a part of his or her life behind a shopping cart（购物手推车）. They will, in a lifetime, push the chrome-plated contraptions many miles. But few will know—or even think to ask—who it was that invented them.
Sylvan N. Goldman invented the shopping cart in 1937. At that time he was in the supermarket business. Every day he would see shoppers lugging（吃力地携带） groceries around in baskets they had to carry.
One day Goldman suddenly had the idea of putting baskets on wheels. The wheeled baskets would make shopping much easier for his customers, and would help to attract more business.
On June 4, 1937, Goldman’s first carts were ready for use in his market. He was terribly excited on the morning of that day as customers began arriving. He couldn’t wait to see them using his invention.
But Goldman was disappointed. Most shoppers gave the carts a long look, but hardly anybody would give them a try.
After a while, Goldman decided to ask customers why they weren’t using his carts. “Don’t you think this arm is strong enough to carry a shopping basket?” one shopper replied.
But Goldman wasn’t beaten yet. He knew his carts would be a great success if only he could persuade people to give them a try. To this end, Goldman hired a group of people to push carts around his market and pretend they were shopping! Seeing this, the real customers gradually began copying the phony（假冒的） customers.
As Goldman had hoped, the carts were soon attracting larger and larger numbers of customers to his market. But not only did more people come—those who came bought more. With larger, easier-to-handle baskets, customers unconsciously bought a greater number of items than before.
Today’s shopping carts are five times larger than Goldman’s original model. Perhaps that’s one reason Americans today spend more than five times as much money on food each year as they did before 1937—before the coming of the shopping cart.
1.The underlined words “chrome-plate contraptions” in Paragraph 1 refer to ______.（within 3 words）
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2.What was the purpose of Goldman’s invention? （within 10 words）
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3.Why was Goldman disappointed at first? （within 10 words）
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4.Why did Goldman hire people to push carts around his market? （within 10 words）
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5.What is the main idea of this article? （within 10 words）
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阅读下面对话，从所给的七个选项中，选出最佳选项，填入空格处，使对话完整。并在答题卡上将对应项涂黑。每个选项只能使用一次，有两个选项多余。
-----Mary, we are going to have a party on New Year’s Eve. I’m sure we’ll have a good time.__ 1._.
-----I’d like to. __2.__
-----In our classroom. We are going to decorate it and turn it into a splendid ballroom.
-----__3.__. I shall be very glad to spend my first new year in China with you.
-----But we are going to ask everyone at the party to give a performance. ___4.___.
-----I will. My voice is not very pleasant to the ear, though.
-----I heard you sing once. __5.___ I’m sure you ‘ll be the star of our new year party.
-----Oh, thank you.
A. Your voice was sweet and beautiful.
B. Where are you going to have it?
C. Would you like to join us?
D. Thank you for inviting me.
E. Oh. It is great.
F. Let’s go to the ball together.
G. Do sing us some English songs, please.
In a recently published book, I came across some exercises with interesting names such as fishbone diagrams, lotus flowers and clustering. As I used these exercises in my classes, I noticed that students were interested. They said more and wrote more. They enjoyed expressing their ideas and sharing them in groups. They were no longer passively waiting for the bell , but actively taking part in the lesson. I find that creativity can act as a way to increase participation and improve fluency.
Creativity has become a popular word in recent years. Scholars in arts, psychology, business, education and science are all working to get a deeper understanding of it. Robert J. Stemberg is a creativity specialist and Yale professor of psychology. He defines creativity as “the ability to produce work that is both new (original） and appropriate(applicable to the situation ） ”. This definition is useful, as we want our students to use language in a new way and to use it correctly and properly. Mot scholars say there are two types of creativity: big “C” creativity and small “c” creativity. Big “C” creativity refers to genius level thinking that results in artistic masterpieces and scientific breakthroughs. Small “c” creativity refers to everyday level thinking that can be used in any situation our emphasis is on the latter. While it goes without saying that any of our students could go on to be the next Picasso or Edison, our aim is to help students produce more ideas and use language in a new way.
1. The underlined words “waiting for the bell ” in the first paragraph probably means______.
A. longing for a phone call B. hoping to have a bell
C. expecting the end of the class D. waiting to speak in the class
2.It can be inferred from the passage that the author thinks the exercises in the book were _____.
A. popular B. useful C. scientific D. Creative
3.When you use a familiar word in a new way, you are ________.
A creative in the sense of big “C” creativity.
B. creative in the sense of small “c” creativity..
C. not creative in the sense of big “C” creativity..
D. not creative in the sense of small “c” creativity.
4.The main purpose of the passage is to _________.
A. show how useful the book is
B. explain what creativity is
C. discuss how one can be creative
D. tell what teaching aims at
