SECTION C
Directions: Complete the following passage by using ONE word that best fits the context.
If foreigners want to drive a car in China, they must have a Chinese license. That is 48 international driver licenses are not valid in China . But foreigners who have a driving license issued by their home countries can apply for a 49 driving license and drive in China 50 having to take the related tests.
51, they need to attend lessons to study Chinese road safety rules before they drive in China. And they can only drive small cars. The temporary license can be valid for three months at most. The valid period cannot be made 52 .
In addition, the temporary driving license should be used 53 the driving license issued in their home country. Foreigners should always take these two licenses with 54 in case the traffic police ask them to show these licenses.
If you drive in China, you must understand that most drivers are new. Every day, hundreds of brand-new cars are driven by brand-new drivers. They don't have much 55 on the road. So, be careful.
Generations of children who sat through endless lessons of “chalk and talk” in front of a bossy teacher can take some relief. But the “chalk and talk” method helped them achieve better exam results. Modern classroom techniques may make school days a good deal happier, but contentment(满足) is not the road to success in examinations, according to university researchers.
Their three-year study, monitoring the progress of 2000 teenagers, tried to measure the influence of the “boredom factor” in 17 selected schools in the north of England. The researchers also found that the old-fashioned approach(方法) of teachers ordering pupils about is still alive and producing results. Their conclusions were welcomed yesterday by educationists who were worried by the shift to less formal lessons.
The pupils in the latest study were asked to award teachers marks to measure how frequently they followed or ignored today's fashion for “child-centred” education. A five-point scale was given to spot the teachers who always told them what they should know and what to write down. “It was significant and not anything you would get by chance or accident. Certainly, when you compare the pupil's interest and attitude to school, there is a quite definite and highly significant difference,” one of the researchers said. But the rankings were turned upside down when the team of four researchers looked at how the children did in examination. The sort of methods now frowned upon(不赞同) actually improve the final grades.
The researchers said,“There is nothing wrong with old-fashioned, didactic(说教性的) teaching in the fight place, even if it isn't the flavor at the moment.” However, he insisted the best teachers had always mixed the two techniques to match the needs of pupils, although certain examinations forced some to concentrate more on dictation and learning by rote(死记硬背).University researchers have discovered that _______.
| A．modern teaching methods provide students with entertainment |
| B．students taught by modern techniques are happy and successful |
| C．traditional teaching methods help students score higher |
| D．students like old teaching better than modern teaching at school |
We can infer from Paragraph 3 that _______.
| A．child-centred education promotes friendship among children |
| B．the research findings are not significant enough for a conclusion |
| C．those who show greater interest in school did better in exams |
| D．those who don't show much interest in school may turn out to score higher in tests |
The researchers suggest that _______.
| A．more old methods be used in teaching |
| B．students be taught how to score high in exams |
| C．dictation be used as one of the best teaching methods |
| D．old and new methods be used together |
The best title for this text would be _______.
| A．The Examinationbased Teaching |
| B．Rote Learning Was the Winner |
| C．The Problem of Child-centred Education |
| D．The Problem of the Traditional Method |
Everyone has experienced trying, but failing to master a difficult book that was begun with the hope of increasing one's understanding. When that happens, it is 36 to think that it was a mistake to try to read it, but that was not the mistake. The mistake was in 37 too much from the first reading of a(n) 38 book. If you read it in the right way, no book written for the 39 reader, no matter how difficult, need be a cause for despair(令人失望).
What is the right method? The 40 is an important and helpful rule of reading that is either not 41 or often forgotten. That rule is simply this: when reading a difficult book for the first time, read it through without ever 42 to think about the things that you do not understand immediately.
Do not be stopped by what you 43 understand. Read through the difficult 44 ,and you soon come to things that you do understand. Read these 45 .You will have a much better chance of understanding all of the book when you read it again, but that 46 you to have read the book through once 47 .
What you understand by reading the book through to the 48 will help you when you try later to read the places that you did not 49 in your first reading. Or if you never re-read the book, understanding half of it is much better than understanding 50 of it, which will happen 51 you allow yourself to be stopped by the first difficult part of the book.
Most of us were taught to 52 the things that we do not understand. We were told to find the 53 of unfamiliar words, and to try to find an explanation in another 54 for anything that we did not understand in the book that we were reading. But when these things are done before the proper time, they only 55 our reading, instead of helping it.
36. A. necessary B. useful C. natural D. effective
37. A. learning B. wanting C. accepting D. expecting
38. A. easy B. difficult C. important D. correct
39. A. ordinary B. young C. serious D. sincere
40. A. method B. question C. answer D. problem
41. A. taught B. known C. sure D. perfect
42. A. starting B. hesitating C. Stopping D. repeating
43. A. can't B. won't C. mustn't D. wouldn't
44. A. words B. articles C. parts D. points
45. A. quickly B. immediately C. clearly D. carefully
46. A. requires B. causes C. advises D. allows
47. A. later B. after C. before D. again
48. A. top B. end C. bottom D. cover
49. A. see B. turn C. Notice D. understand
50. A. anything B. everything C. nothing D. something
51. A. if B. so that C. whenever D. as though
52. A. put away B. put down C. think of D. think about
53. A. uses B. Meanings C. Spellings D. troubles
54. A. thinking B. reading C. Book D. way
55. A. harm B. increase C. Improve D. prevent
—Mom, what did your doctor say?
—He advised me to live _______ the air is fresher.
| A．in where | B．in which |
| C．the place where | D．where |
Unlike watching TV, reading is a highly active process (过程) _______ it requires attention as well as memory and imagination.
| A．until | B．but | C．unless | D．for |
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