《英语周报》报纸答案第二期2023-2024九年级

《英语周报》报纸答案第二期2023-2024九年级

The government had to _____ private houses to make room for new blocks of apartments.

A. blow up B. break up

C. watch over D. stand for

《英语周报》报纸答案第二期2023-2024九年级试题答案

A

【解析】

试题分析： 考查动词短语辨析。A. blow up爆炸；B. break up分手；C. watch over看管；D. stand for 代表；句意：政府不得不炸掉民房为新街道让出空间。根据to make room for new blocks of apartments可知选A项。

考点 : 考查动词短语辨析

In her new book, “The Smartest Kids in the World,” Amanda Ripley, an investigative journalist, tells the story of Tom, a high-school student from Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, who decides to spend his senior year in Warsaw, Poland. Poland is a surprising educational success story: in the past decade, the country raised students’ test scores from significantly below average to well above it. Polish kids have now outscored(超过……分数) American kids in math and science, even though Poland spends, on average, less than half as much per student as the United States does. One of the most striking differences between the high school Tom attended in Gettysburg and the one he ends up at in Warsaw is that the latter has no football team, or, for that matter, teams of any kind.

That American high schools lavish more time and money on sports than on math is an old complaint. This is not a matter of how any given student who plays sports does in school, but of the culture and its priorities. This December, when the latest Program for International Student Assessment(PISA) results are announced, it’s safe to predict that American high-school students will once again display their limited skills in math and reading, outscored not just by students in Poland but also by students in places like South Korea, Belgium, the Netherlands, Finland, Singapore, and Japan. Meanwhile, they will have played some very exciting football games, which will have been breathlessly written up in their hometown papers.

Why does this situation continue? Well, for one thing, kids like it. And for another, according to Ripley, parents seem to like the arrangement, too. She describes a tour she took of a school in Washington D.C., which costs thirty thousand dollars a year. The tour leader—a mother with three children in the school—was asked about the school’s flaws(暇疵). When she said that the math program was weak, none of the parents taking the tour reacted. When she said that the football program was weak, the parents suddenly became concerned. “Really?” one of them asked worriedly, “What do you mean?”

One of the ironies(讽刺) of the situation is that sports reveal what is possible. American kids’ performance on the field shows just how well they can do when expectations are high. It’s too bad that their test scores show the same thing.

1.Tom decides to spend his senior year in Poland because _______.

A. there are striking differences between the 2 countries

B. Polish kids are better at learning

C. sports are not supported at schools in Gettysburg

D. he intends to improve his scores

2.According to Paragraph 2, we know that _______.

A. too much importance is placed on sports in America

B. little time is spent on sports in Japanese schools

C. American high schools complain about sports time

D. PISA plays a very important role in America

3.The underlined sentence in the last paragraph means _______.

A. American students’ academic performance worries their parents a lot

B. high expectations push up American students’ academic performance

C. low expectations result in American students’ poor PISA performance

D. lacking practice contributes to American students’ average performance

4.The purpose of this article is to _______.

A. draw public attention to a weakness in American school tradition

B. call on American schools to learn from the Polish model

C. compare Polish schools with those in America

D. explain what is wrong with American schools and provide solutions

《英语周报》报纸答案第二期2023-2024九年级试题答案

1.D

2.A

3.C

4.A

【解析】

试题分析：文章由来自美国葛底斯堡的高中生Tom决定到波兰华沙去完成他的高中学业这个故事，引出对目前美国教育现状(学生在数学和阅读能力上落后于其他一些国家)的思考，提醒大家注意美国教育存在的传统弊端。

1.Poland is a surprising educational success story: in the past decade, the country raised students’ test scores from significantly below average to well above it.”即：波兰在过去的十年里缔造了令人吃惊的教育成功典范，它将学生的成绩从明显低于平均水平提高到远远高于平均水平。由此可知，Tom是冲这一点去波兰的。

2.That American high schools lavish more time and money on sports than on math is an old complaint. ”可知在美国，人们过分强调了运动的重要性，投入了太多的时间和金钱在其中。所以选A. 其它选项B错在：由文章我们可以推断出在日本，学校在学生运动方面投入的时间应该比美国少些，但不能说日本学生在运动上投入的时间少，它的少是相对的。C错在主语，并没说是学校抱怨。D选项是无中生有，从文章不能推出PISA在美国举足轻重。

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考点：教育文化类文章的阅读

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