Question

    When your baby get older, you’re faced with the most challenging problem of all: How to get him or her best education you can.

“There was a time when you could enroll your child in kindergarten and about 13 years sit on one of those folding chairs and touch your eyes as they graduated from high school，” Peg Tyre says.

These days the difficult decision of where to send your kid to school starts early.You have to choose a school when your child might only be three or four years old.When you go on a school tour, Tyre says, don’t judge the place just by the finger paintings decorating the hallways.

“You want to look at the relationship between teacher and student，” she says.”What you want to see is teachers who have a lot of respect for kids, who seem to know their strengths and weaknesses.”

There’s a myth Tyre wants to say that has to end that all teachers are good teachers and can be moved around from classroom to classroom like bricks.

“That’s just not true，” she says.”One of the things I would say is a teacher who is in their first year is not a wonderful sign for an effective teacher for your child.They tend to be kind, they have a lot of energy, but they are not that effective in that first year.” So what do you do if your child is placed in a classroom with an inexperienced teacher? Don’t march straight to the principal’s office and demand a change, Tyre says.

“You can go to the principal and you can ask this question: What are you doing to support that teacher this year so that my child moves forward this year and is not just a guinea pig (实验对象) for your first­year teacher？”

Many parents know when they tour a school to ask about class size.But Tyre says the research doesn’t suggest that a smaller class size is a must.”When you look at the really research on class size, class size is very important from kindergarten to third grade ...After third grade there’s less of an effect on academic result.” she says.

1.We can infer from the second paragraph that in the past ________.

A.a child had to learn at the same school for 13 years

B.parents would cry at their children’s graduation from school

C.folding chairs were required for children to sit on

D.it was easy to get the best education for a child at school

2.To choose a school for your kid，you should ________.

A.judge whether teachers respect your kid

B.decide what strengths and weaknesses your kid has

C.see how finger paintings decorate the hallways

D.consider whether the teachers have their own kids

3.What statement may Tyre agree to?

A.A new teacher can be energetic and effective.

B.It is wonderful for a kid to have a first­year teacher.

C.A new teacher can teach students of different levels.

D.All teachers aren’t good teachers in fact.

4.What was Tyre’s attitude towards class size?

A.She was strongly against it. B.She felt it wasn’t worth consideration.

C.She thought it was most important. D.She insisted on taking it seriously.

Answer

1.D

2.A

3.D

4.B

【解析】

本文是一篇说明文，介绍了教育专家佩格·泰尔就如何为孩子选择学校和班级以让他们接受最好的教育这一问题给家长的一些建议。

1.

推理判断题。根据第一段“When your baby get older, you’re faced with the most challenging problem of all: How to get him or her best education you can..”（现在，当孩子长大后，你将面临最具挑战性的问题——如何让孩子接受最好的教育）及第二段““There was a time when you could enroll your child in kindergarten and about 13 years sit on one of those folding chairs and touch your eyes as they graduated from high school，” Peg Tyre says.”（佩格·泰尔说曾几何时，你可以让你的孩子上幼儿园，在13岁高中毕业后，坐在其中一张折叠椅上抚摸你的眼睛）可知，第二段描述的是与第一段相反的一种情况，即：过去在学校里，孩子很容易得到最好的教育，故D项正确。

2.

细节理解题。根据第四段中的“What you want to see is teachers who have a lot of respect for kids, who seem to know their strengths and weaknesses.”（你想看到的是那些对孩子非常尊重的老师，他们了解孩子的优点和缺点）可知，为孩子选择学校时，你应该判断老师是否尊重你的孩子，故A项正确。

3.

推理判断题。根据第五段中的“There’s a myth Tyre wants to say that has to end that all teachers are good teachers”（泰尔想说的是一个神话必须结束了，那就是所有的老师都是好老师）可知，泰尔认为事实上并不是所有的老师都是好老师，故D项正确。

4.

推理判断题。根据最后一段中的“But Tyre says the research doesn’t suggest that a smaller class size is a must.”When you look at the really research on class size, class size is very important from kindergarten to third grade ...After third grade there’s less of an effect on academic result.” she says.”（泰尔说这项研究并不是说一定要缩小班级规模，从幼儿园到三年级，班级规模非常重要，但在三年级之后，班级规模对学习成绩的影响就小了）可知，对于班级规模，泰尔认为这个问题不值得考虑，故B项正确。