The death of Steve Jobs provides a chance to take some lessons from his amazing life. Steve Jobs had a passion (激情) for education. He may be gone, but we still have a chance to learn from his courage and innovation (革新).
Making Mistakes
I think that the main reason why we can’t find proper ways to improve the education system that no longer serves us well is simply fear. Fear of failure. Fear of getting it wrong. Teachers fear that innovation could endanger their jobs. Steve had the attitude we need in education right now. “Sometimes when you create something, you make mistakes. It is best to admit (承认) them and get on with improving your other innovations.” That’s the kind of spirit that we need to have.
Motivation (动机) Matters
We’ve concentrated (专注于) so much on results that we don’t always reward good motivations. But these things are very important. In our schools, we’ve cared so much about test results that we’ve lost creativity. We don’t reward students for their hard work, and we punish failure. As a result, we lost imagination and found no motivation to try something that has a chance of ending in failure.
What Defines (定义) Failure?
The company that Steve Jobs started in 1985 after being forced out of Apple shows us how technology could influence educational innovation. In 1985 he started NeXT. The company was providing computers for educational purposes. NeXT wasn’t really financially (经济上) successful. But it may have been ahead of its time. Today, we see what the technology brings into the classroom.
Changing Our Model
The company sold around 50,000 computers. But that would be missing the point. It was a NeXTcube workstation that encouraged the first web server. It helped in the development of early Internet technology. Truly, Steve Jobs has taught us that results are not the most important things in life.
54. The article tells us making mistakes .
A. is always something very bad
B. will help us become better people
C. is a part of making something new
D. will keep us from reaching our dreams
55. We may lose our creativity and imagination if we .
A. make a lot of mistakes
B. fail to have a right model
C. can’t be financially successful
D. concentrate too much on results
56. Steve Jobs might agree that .
A. a good motivation can lead to a successful result
B. we shouldn’t be afraid of failure and it can lead to success
C. making money is the only way to judge success
D. having a passion is the most important thing for success
57. According to the article, which word can best describe Steve Jobs’ spirit?
A. Passion. B. Motivation. C. Innovation. D. Creativity.
科目：初中英语 来源：2013届湖北安陆市德安初级中学九年级12月月考英语卷（带解析） 题型：阅读理解
Jerry Green went to spend a year at the South Pole Station (南极站)as the only doctor in 1998 when she 47. While working at the station that March. she discovered that there was a hard lump (肿块) in her stomach. She knew it was cancer, but she wasn't able to go to a doctor for help. She couldn't leave the station for the next seven until the snow thawed. Dr. Green didn't wait for the death. But decided to fight against the cancer. She tried to about the lump to a hospital in the United States. The doctors said it was cancer. Without the proper wouldn't live for long. Soon a USA airplane came to provide her with some help. She started her own treatments(治疗)after getting instructions from American doctors. She finally spent the long winter there before she returned home that October .Since then, she had become a incubus in support of cancer charities. She also wrote a best-selling book called Ice Bound.
Sadly, Dr. Green's cancer finally returned. She died on June 23.2009.
【小题1】Jerry Green discovered that she bad a bard lump in her stomach in .
| A．March.1998 | B．May. 1998 | C．June.2009 | D．July,2009 |
| A．形成 | B．堆积 | C．融化 | D．覆盖 |
| A．After searching the Internet. |
| B．After getting instructions from American doctors. |
| C．After hearing from her paw law |
| D．After becoming a member in support of cancer charities. |
| A．Dr. Green decided to give up the treatments. |
| B．She sent the information about the lump to a hospital in the United Stales. |
| C．She wrote a book called Ice Bound. |
| D．Dr Green died of cancer. |
| A．exciting | B．Happy. | C．Sad | D．Pleased |
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科目：初中英语 来源：2012-2013学年浙江省九年级5月月考英语试卷（解析版） 题型：阅读理解
YUXI, China — Many people of this city in southwester China spent Saturday night in tents, too scared to sleep in their homes after an earthquake which killed 188 people early that morning.
Countless homes were destroyed and lots of people became homeless after the earthquake which is believed to have a magnitude of 7.
The quake was not as serious as the 7.9-magnitude earthquake in 2008 that left more than 70,000 people dead in the Wenchuan area. But villagers who work in Chengdu, about 100 miles away, hurried back home Sunday morning, many on foot, the lucky ones on motorbikes, to check on their homes.
Song Yuanqing, 43, a worker, arrived back after a 22-hour trip and found his house was still there but had already been very unstable(摇摇欲坠). “We would like to do something, but we can’t do anything,” Mr. Song said as he sat with neighbors around an outdoor fire built by the village leader in his backyard.
In all, the government sent about 7,000 soldiers and People’s Armed Police officers to the earthquake-hit area. By Saturday evening, there were so many rescue workers in the area that the government asked volunteers to stop coming.
Li Keqiang, China’s prime minister, flew to the area and slept in a tent on Saturday evening in Lushan County.
The earthquake shook Sichuan Province at 8 a.m., when people were getting up a little later than usual because schools and universities were closed.
“We were just getting up and getting dressed in our dormitory when the building shook, and I looked outside from our window and saw a row of houses had collapsed,” Xu Yan, 22, a student at the Agricultural University in Ya’an, said in a telephone interview. “I had never flew down the stairs faster.”
The Chinese government said early Sunday that the death toll was 174, and about 5,700 people had been injured.
The earthquake was also felt in Chengdu, one of China’s biggest cities and the capital of Sichuan Province. People described water getting out of home aquariums and things like balls falling to the floor.
In the town of Longmen, another hard-hit area near Ya’an, a local man, Zhang Yan, said 90 percent of the buildings had collapsed.
“About 100 people died around here,” Ms. Zhang said in a telephone interview. “Rescue teams have not yet arrived. There is no water or electricity.”
In the 2008 quake, many schools of poor quality collapsed and killed thousands of students. This time, many people also expressed their worries about students on their micro-blogs.
Sichuan Province is also one of China’s best-known hometowns for pandas, and at the Bifengxia reserve, about six miles north of Ya’an, workers said that 20 pandas in the park were safe. “We examined the panda area after the quake, and they were not affected,” said Chen Yong, an officer of the reserve.
1.When did the quake take place in Ya’an? On_______________________.
A．Saturday morning B．Sunday morning
C．Saturday night D．Sunday night
2.Why did many people hurriy home after the earthquake.
A．They wanted to provide rescue to the hit area and give other people a helping hand as volunteers.
B．They wanted to find out the situation of their home.
C．They felt it too dangerous to stay where they had been.
D．There weren’t enough soldiers in the hit-area.
3.What does the underlined sentence mean?
A．Xu Yan didn’t make it through the stairs.
B．Xu Yan get out of the dorm quickly.
C．Xu Yan felt the earthquake shaking the stair.
D．Xu Yan was scared that he wouldn’t be able to catch up with the stair.
4.Which of the following is NOT true.
A．Tens of thousands of students were killed in Ya’an.
B．The earthquake also influenced some other cities.
C．The government took very quick actions.
D．Most buildings has collapsed in Longmen.
5.Where would you most probably read this passage?
A．Reader.
B．A History of China’s Earthquakes
C．How to Survive(求生) in an Earthquake
D．China Weekly
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科目：初中英语 来源：2012-2013学年北京四中九年级上学期期中考试英语试卷（解析版） 题型：阅读理解
A recent study offers a picture of how dangerous it is to get a lift from a teenage driver. Indeed, a 16-year-old driver with three or more passengers is three times as likely to have a fatal（致命的）accident as a teenager driving alone. However, the possibility of death for drivers between 30 and 59 decreases with each additional (added) passenger.
It was also found that the death rates for teenage drivers increased greatly after 10 p.m., and especially after midnight. With passengers in the car, the driver was even more likely to die in a late night accident.
Robert Foss, a scientist at the University of North Carolina Highway Safety Research Center, says the higher death rates for teenage drivers have less to do with “really stupid behavior” than with just a lack of driving experience. Both he and the author of the study believe that the way to help solve the problem is to have states setting up so-called graduated licensing systems（等级执照制）. A graduated license requires that a teenager first prove that he/she is able to drive in the presence of an adult, followed by a period of driving with a limited number of passengers, before graduating to full driving on his own. About half of the states now have some sort of graduated licensing system in place. The systems have reduced teenage driver crashes（相撞）, according to recent studies.
1.Which of the following situations is most dangerous according to the passage?
A．Adults giving a lift to teenagers on the highway after 10 p.m.
B．A teenager driving after midnight with passengers in the car.
C．Adults driving with three or more teenage passengers late at night.
D．A teenager getting a lift from a stranger on the highway at midnight.
2.According to Robert Foss, the high death rate of teenage drivers is mainly because __.
A．their preference for driving at night
B．their lack of driving experience
C．their careless way of driving
D．their driving with passengers
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科目：初中英语 来源：2011-2012学年浙江省初三第三次阶段测试英语试卷（解析版） 题型：阅读理解
The death list in a school bus accident that happened on Wednesday morning in the northwest province of Gansu has risen to 20 following the death of one child later Wednesday.
It’s known that the accident happened around 9:40 a.m. in Yulinzi town of Zhengning county, according to a report from the police. The report said five people including four children and their bus driver died just at the moment that the accident happened. While 15 others, their teacher included, were sure to be dead by the afternoon.
It’s reported that another 44 children were injured in the accident and have been sent to hospital. Twelve of the injured are in badly hurt. The truck which caused the accident was carrying coal. Another reason for the accident was the bus itself. The police has blamed(谴责）overloading for the accident, saying that the bus -- a van with nine seats -- was carrying 64 people.
1.Where did the accident happen on a Wednesday morning?
A．In Yushu,Gansu
B．In Yulinzi county,Gansu
C．In Zhengning,Gansu
D．In Zhengning town,Gansu
2.How many more people did the bus carry than it could be carried in?
A．9 B．15 C．64 D．55
3.What does the underlined word“ovrerloading” mean ?
A. loading on the Internet
B．carrying much more than usual
C．carrying coals
D．carrying people
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科目：初中英语 来源：2012届度宁夏银川市八年级下学期期末检测英语卷 题型：阅读理解
Jerry Green went to spend a year at the South Pole Station (南极站)as the only doctor in 1998 when she 47.While working at the station that March. she discovered that there was a hard lump (肿块) in her stomach. She knew it was cancer, but she wasn't able to go to a doctor for help. She couldn't leave the station for the next seven until the snow thawed. Dr. Green didn't wait for the death. But decided to fight against the cancer. She tried to about the lump to a hospital in the United States. The doctors said it was cancer. Without the proper wouldn't live for long. Soon a USA airplane came to provide her with some help She started her own treatments(治疗)after getting instructions from American doctors. She finally spent the long winter there before she returned home that October .Since then, she had become a incubus in support of cancer charities. She also wrote a best-selling book called Ice Bound.
Sadly. Dr. Grecn's cancer finally returned. She died on June 23.2009.
1.Jerry Green discovered that she bad a bard lump in her stomach in _
A. March.1998 B. May. 1998 CJune.2009 D. July,2009
2.What does the underlined word" thawed "mean in Chinese?
A. 形成 B. 堆积 C. 融化 D.覆盖
3.When did she start her own treatments?
A. After searching the Internet.
B. After getting instructions from A merit an doctors.
C. After hearing from her paw law
D. After becoming a member in support of cancer charities.
4. Which of the following statements is NOT true?
A. Dr. Green decided to give up the treatments.
B. She sent the information about the lump to a hospital in the United Stales.
C. She wrote a book called Ice Bound.
D. Dr Green died of cancer.
5.What does the writer feel about Dr. Green's death?
A. exciting B. Happy. C Sad D. Pleased
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