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Text 1

Homework has never been terribly popular with students and even many parents, but

in recent years it has been particularly scorned. School districts across the country, most

recently

Los

Angeles

Unified,

are

revising

their

thinking

on

his

educatio

nal

ritual.

Unfortunately, L.A. Unified has produced an inflexible policy which mandates that with the

exception of some advanced courses, homework may no longer count for more than 10%

of a student?s academic grade

。

This rule is meant to address the difficulty that students from impoverished or chaotic

homes

might

have

in

completing

their

homework.

But

the

policy

is

unclear

and

contradictory. Certainly, no homework should be assigned that students cannot do without

expensive equipment. But if the district is essentially giving a pass to students who do not

do

their

homework

because

of

complicated

family

lives,

it

is

going

riskily

close

to

the

implication that standards need to be lowered for poor children

。

District administrators say that homework will still be a pat of schooling: teachers are

allowed to assign as much of it as they

want. But

with homework counting for no more

than 10% of their grades, students can easily skip half their homework and see

vey little

difference

on

their

report

cards.

Some

students

might

do

well

on

state

tests

without

completing their homework, but what about the students who performed well on the tests

and

did

their homework?

It

is

quite

possible that

the

homework

helped.

Yet rather

than

empowering teachers to find what works best for their students, the policy imposes a flat,

across-the-board rule

。

At

the

same

time,

the

policy

addresses

none

of

the

truly

thorny

questions

about

homework.

If

the

district

finds

homework

to

be

unimportant

to

its

students?

academic

achievement,

it

should

move

to

reduce

or

eliminate

the

assignments,

not

make

them

count

for

almost

nothing.

Conversely,

if

homework

does

nothing

to

ensure

that

the

homework students are not assigning more than they are willing to review and correct

。

The homework rules should be put on hold while the school board, which is responsible

for setting educational policy, looks into the matter and conducts public hearings. It is not

too late for L.A. Unified to do homework right

。

首 先，同学读出完五个题干，找到文章主题词

homework

。

is implied in paragraph 1 that nowadays homework_____

。

[A] is receiving more criticism

[B]is no longer an educational ritual

[C]is not required for advanced courses

[D]is gaining more preferences

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题 干提示在第一段。根据筛选选项原则

1

，排除原词重现的选项。 排除

B

选项

C

选项。

d has made the rule about homework mainly because poor students_____

。

[A]tend to have moderate expectations for their education

[B]have asked for a different educational standard

[C]may have problems finishing their homework

[D]have voiced their complaints about homework

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B

选项的

stan dard

在原文中有明显出处。根据筛选选项原则

1

B

选项。

ing to Paragraph 3,one problem with the policy is that it may____

。

[A]discourage students from doing homework

[B]result in students' indifference to their report cards

[C]undermine the authority of state tests

[D] teachers' power in education

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题

BCD< /p>

三个选项都有细节内容原词重现，根据筛选选项原则

1

BCD

选项。

24.

As

mentioned

in

Paragraph

4,

a

key

question

unanswered

about

homework

is

whether______.

[A] it should be eliminated

[B]it cnts much in schooling

[C]it places extra burdens on teachers

[D]it is important for grades

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题没有明显 细节内容，名词词组或特殊动词的重现，所以不能排除任何选项。

25.A suitable title for this text could be______

。

[A]Wrong Interpretation of an Educational Policy

[B]A Welcomed Policy for Poor Students

[C]Thorny Questions about Homework

[D]A Faulty Approach to Homework

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题是主旨题 。

主旨题是我们上篇总结过的，

和文章主题有关的题目。

根据筛选选项原则

4

，

选择包含文章主题词的选项。所以正确答案应该包括

homework

。所以排除

AB

，重点从

CD

中考虑。

C

选项

thorny questions

又是明显的细节原词重现，根据筛选选项原则

1

故排除

C

。

故，此题排除

ABC

三个选项。

Text 2

Pretty in pink: adult women do not remember being so obsessed with the colour, yet it

is pervasive in our y

oung girls? lives. It is not that pink intrinsically bad, but it is a tiny slice

of the rainbow and, though it may celebrate girlhood in one way, it also repeatedly and

firmly fused girls? identity to appearance. Then it presents that connection, even amon

g

two-year-olds, between girls as not only innocent but as evidence of innocence. Looking

around, despaired at the singular lack of imagination about girls? lives and interests

。

Girls' attraction to pink may seem unavoidable, somehow encoded in their DNA, but

according to

Jo

Paoletti,

an associate professor

of

American

Studies,

it's not.

Children

were

not

colour- coded

at

all

until

the

early

20th

century:

in

the

era

before

domestic

washing

machines

all

babies

wore

white

as

a

practical

matter,

since

the

only

way

of

getting clothes clean was to boil them. What's more, both boys and girls wore what were

thought of as gender-neutral dresses. When nursery colours were introduced, pink was

actually

considered

the

more

masculine

colour,

a

pastel

version

of

red,

which

was

associated

with

strength.

Blue,

with

its

intimations

of

the

Virgin

Mary,

constancy

and

faithfulness,

symbolised

femininity.

It

was

not

until

the

mid-1980s,

when

amplifying age

and sex differences became a dominant children's marketing strategy, that pink fully came

into its own, when it began to seem innately attractive to girls, part of what defined them

as female, at least for the first few critical years

。

I had not realised how profoundly marketing trends dictated our perception of what is

natural to kids, including our core beliefs about their psychological development. Take the

toddler. I assumed that phase was something experts developed after years of research

into

children's

behaviour:

wrong.

Turns

out,

according

to

Daniel

Cook,

a

historian

of

childhood

consumerism,

it

was

popularised

as

a

marketing

gimmick

by

clothing

manufacturers in the 1930s

。

Trade publications counseled department stores that, in order to increase sales, they

should create a

only

after

became

common

shoppers'

term

that

it

evolved

into

a

broadly

accepted

developmental

stage.

Splitting

kids,

or

adults,

into

ever-tinier

categories

has

proved a sure-fire way to boost profits. And one of the easiest ways to segment a market

is to magnify gender differences

–

or invent them where they did not previously exist

。

26. By saying

，

the author means pink _______

。

A should not be the sole representation of girlhood

B should not be associated with girls' innocence

C cannot explain girls' lack of imagination

D cannot influence girls' lives and interests

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题

BCD

都有明显原词重现。根据筛选 选项原则

1

，排除

BCD

三个选项。

27. According to Paragraph 2, which of the following is true of colours?

A Colors are encoded in girls' DNA

B Blue used to be regarded as the color for girls

C Pink used to be a neutral color in symbolizing genders

D White is preferred by babies

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题同学应注意 的是，

ABCD

四个选项都有原词的重现。

根据筛选选项原则

3

，

排除多个词

原词重现的选项。

每个选项都包括形容颜色的细节信息，

但

A

选项还包括细节内容

DNA, C

选项还包括细节内容

symbolizing genders

，

< br>D

选项还包括细节内容

babies

。

所以，

排除

ACD

三个选项。

28. The author suggests that our perception of

children's psychological devotement was

much influenced by ________

。

[A] the marketing of products for children

[B] the observation of children's nature

[C] researches into children's behavior

[D] studies of childhood consumption

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