手拉手全优练考卷系列答案科目：高中英语 来源：2013届四川省自贡市高三第一次诊断性考试英语试卷（带解析） 题型：阅读理解
India was once part of the British Empire, but thanks to modern technology and a booming economy, it has turned the tables on its former colonial master. Indian tutors are helping to teach math to British children over high-speed Internet connections. Early results suggest the idea is improving exam results. But not everyone is happy at this “outsourcing” of tutoring.
It’s 3:30, and pupils at Raynham Primary School in London are gathering for their after-school maths lessons.
Five time zones— thousands of kilometers away—their math tutors are also arriving for class. High-speed Internet has made it possible for Indian tutors to teach British pupils in real time. Each pupil gets a dedicated one-to-one online tutor. The students work with activities on their computer screen and wear a headset and microphone to talk to their tutor.
The class teacher, Altus Basson, says he has seen an improvement in results. “There are some children who’ve really rocketed in their results. Children who struggleto focus in class focus a lot better on the laptops. The real advantage is that each child gets a focused activity and a single tutor,” he said.
Such individualized teaching is the core idea of Brightspark Education, the company that provides the online tutoring, says founder Tom Hooper. “Children today feel very confident online; they feel very engaged; they feel very in control. And that's half the battle with education.Give them control, make them feel confident and enjoy their learning and you'll see them start to improve and embrace it," he said.
Raynham Primary School is among the first in Europe to try online tutoring. At between $20 and $25 an hour, it's about half the cost of face-to-face coaching. But some people say an Internet connection is not enough of a connection for teaching and learning. Kevin Courtney is deputy General Secretary of Britain's National Union of Teachers. "We think, there's a really important emotional connection between a teacher and a child whether it's a whole class or whether it's one-to-one. You need that immediacy of feedback and we're not convinced that that can happen across an Internet connection. In one of the wealthiest.countries in the world, we think that we can afford to have teachers with genuine emotional connection there with the children," he said.
Brightspark Education says the online tutoring is used only as an addition to supplement regular teaching. The company says its service does not represent a threat to teachers' jobs in Britain.
Parents say they're very satisfied with the results they've seen. And what about the children?Children: "I love it!"I love it!"I hate maths!" So math--or, as the British call it, maths—is still not everyone's favorite subject even with the latest technology to teach it.
【小题1】What do we know about the online tutoring?
| A．Indian tutors are helping to teach math in Britain. |
| B．Tutors and students are in different places. |
| C．An online tutor helps several students at the same time. |
| D．Tutors and students communicate by telephone. |
| A．It shows a threat to teachers’ jobs in Britain. |
| B．It can take place of the regular teaching. |
| C．It only pays attention to math teaching. |
| D．It emphasizes the individualized teaching. |
| A．online tutoring will represent a threat to teachers’ jobs in Britain |
| B．online tutoring has a great influence on British. |
| C．the emotional connection between a teacher and a child is important |
| D．immediacy of feedback can happen across an Internet connection |
| A．A New Teaching Pattern |
| B．Indian Teachers and British Students |
| C．To Learn Maths with the Latest Technology |
| D．Indian Tutors Teach British Kids Online |
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科目：高中英语 来源：2014届甘肃兰州第一中学高三9月月考英语卷（解析版） 题型：单项填空
---I think maths is playing a more important part in the new test system. What about you? --- ______. We should be more devoted to it.
A. No pains, no gains.
B. Fact speaks louder than words.
C. Great minds think alike.
D. Don’t claim to know what you don’t know.
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科目：高中英语 来源：2011-2012学年江苏省盐城市高三上学期期中考试英语题 题型：单项填空
---I think Maths is playing a more important part in the new test system. What about you?
--- ______. We should be more devoted to it.
A. No pains, no gains.
B. Fact speaks louder than words.
C. Great minds think alike.
D. Don’t claim to know what you don’t know.
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科目：高中英语 来源：2011-2012学年山西省高三9月月考英语试题 题型：单项填空
_____ maths is concerned, Tom is the best student in our class.
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A. As long as |
B. As well as |
C. As soon as |
D. As far as |
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科目：高中英语 来源：2014届四川省高一3月月考英语试题 题型：阅读理解
If you think English means endless new words, difficult grammar and sometimes strange pronunciation, you are wrong. Haven’t you noticed that you have become smarter since you started to learn a language?
According to a new study by a British university, learning a second language can lead to an increase in your brain power. Researchers found that learning other languages changes grey matter. This is the area of the brain which processes information. It is similar to the way that exercise builds muscles.
The study also found the earlier people learn a second language, the greater the effect is.
A team led by Dr. Andrea Mechelli, from University College London(UCL), took a group of Britons who only spoke English. They were compared with a group of “early bilinguals(通两种语言的人)”, who had learnt a second language before the age of five,as well as a number of later learners.
Scans showed that grey matter density in the brain was greater in bilinguals than in people without a second language. But the longer a person waited before mastering a new language, the smaller the difference was.
“Our findings suggest that the structure of the brain is changed by the experience of learning a second language,” said the scientists.
It means that the change itself increases the ability to learn.
Professor Dylan Vaughan Jones of the University of Wales, has researched the link between bilingualism and maths skills.
“Having two languages gives you two windows on the world and makes the brain more flexible,” he said, “You are actually going beyond language and have a better understanding of different ideas.”
The findings were matched in a study of native Italian speakers who had learned English as a second language between the ages of 2and 34.Reading, writing and comprehension were all tested. The results showed that the earlier they started to learn, the better. “Studying a language means you get an entrance to another world,” explained the scientists.
1. What does the underlined part “grey matter” (in Paragraph 2) refer to?
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A．Grey hair. |
B．Material of the brain. |
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C．Intelligence. |
D．Difficult situations. |
2. The experience of learning a second language can ________.
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A．change one’s brain completely |
B．improve one’s maths skills |
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C．make one smarter than others |
D．increase the ability to learn |
3.We can learn from the passage that ________.
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A．the researchers from UCL did another study in Italy |
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B．a similar study was done on native Italian speakers who learn English as a second language |
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C．the research done on the Italians showed a totally different result |
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D．it will be easier for one to travel around the world by learning a second language |
4.What’s the main idea of the passage?
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A．Learning a second language can help improve your brain power. |
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B．You should learn a second language that is not your native language. |
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C．If you want to learn a second language, you should do it at a certain age. |
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D．The research done by the researchers from UCL is very successful. |
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