2019年6月大學英語六級閱讀練習題：教育改革

1、2019 年 6 月大學英語六級閱讀練習題：教育改革While the mission of public schools has expanded beyond education to include social support and extra-curricular activities. the academic schedule has changed little in more than a century.Reclaiming the school day for academic instruction and escaping the timebound traditi

2、ons of education are vital steps in the school-reform process, says a report released today by the National Education Commission on Time and Leaming.The commissions report, titled "Prisoners of Time," calls the fixed clock and calendar in American education a “fundamental design flaw"

3、 in desperate need of change. "Time should serve children instead of children serving time." the report says.The two-year commission found that holding American students to "worldclass standards." will require more time for classroom instruction. "We have been asking the imp

4、ossible of our students-that they leam as muchas their foreign peers while spending half as much as in core academic subjects." it states.The Commission compared the relationships between time and leaming in Japan. Germany, and the United States and found that American students receive less tha

5、n half the basic academic instruction that Japanese andGerman students are provided. On average. American students can earn a high school diploma if they spend only 41 percent of their school time on academics, says the report.American students spend an average of three hours a day on "core&quo

6、t; academics such as English math, science,and history. the commission found. Their report recommends offering a minimum of 5.5 hours of academics every school day.The nine-member commission also recommends lengthening the school day beyond the traditional six hours."If schools want to continue

7、 offering important activities outside the academic core, as well as serving as a hub for family and community services, they should keep school doors open longer each day and each year." says John Hodge Jones, superintendent of schools in Murfreesboro, Tenn., and chairman of the commission.The

8、 typical school year in American public schools is 180 days. Eleven states allow school years of 175 days or less, and only one state requires more than 180 day."For over a decade. education reform advocates have been working Feverishly to improve our schools,” says MiltonGoldberg. executive di

9、rector of the commission. "But. if reform is to truly take hold, the six-hour, 180-day school year should be relegated (歸屬于 ) to museums-an exhibit fromour education past."1. Compared with the academic courses more than a hundred years ago, the academic courses now.A) include some extra-cu

10、rricular activitiesB) focus more on education of social supportC) demand students more contribution of timeD) remain more or less what they used to be2. The researches by the commission mentioned in the passage are most concerned aboutA) the time attributed to academic leamingB) the components of sc

11、hool educationC) the changes in education in the recent centuryD) the fashion of education management3. As it is mentioned in che passage. schools in the United States do the following except.A) provide important outside-academic activitiesB) serve social units such as family and communityC) arrange

12、 six-hour teaching and leaming every dayD) have competition with schools of other countries4. American students differ from those in Japan. Germany in that.A) they stay at school for a shorter time every dayB) they do not leam as much as their counterparts abroadC) they devote less time to academic

13、learningD) they earn a high school diploma more easily5. Executive director of the commission Milton Goldberg would most probably agree that.A) what the education reform advocates have done is not good enoughB) they time of school day and school year should be extendedC) visiting museums can improve

14、 students academic learning abilityD) social support and extra-curricular activities shouldbe cancelled答案：1. 相較干 100多年前的學科課程。現(xiàn)在的學科課程 。A) 包括了一些課外活動B) 更加注重于社會支持教育C) 要求學生花更多的時間D) 跟以往沒有什么差別D首段主句中changed little 與選項D為近義替換，所以選項D為本題答案。進項 A中的extra-curricular activities和選項B中的 social support 都在第 1段提到過 ,但是它們和該段

15、提到的 academic schedule 是并列于整個教育系統(tǒng)之下的三個平行的成分，答 案與A B無關。選項C “要求學生花更多時間”不是 academic courses 對學生的要求，而是文中調查組的看法。2. 文章中提到的委員會所作的研究最注重 。A) 學科學習上所花的時間B) 學校教育的組成部分C) 本世紀里教育所發(fā)生的變化D) 教育管理的方式A 從第 2 段到最后一段，都是討論調查組的研究結果。而且通 篇都在對時間實行討論，故選 A。本文首段僅僅引出話題，而文章的主 體一一調查組的研究一一從第 2段才開始闡述，選項B “學校教育的組 成部分”和選項C “最近這個世紀教育的變化”與文

16、章首段相關，所以 都不是準確答案。進項D在文中沒有提及。3. 文章中提到，美國的學校做很多事情，除了以下哪一項 ?A) 提供重要的課外活動。B) 像家庭和社區(qū)一樣是社會單元。C) 每天都組織 6 個小時的教學活動。D) 與其他國家的學校實行競爭。D 由第 8 段可知，學校教育包括了學術教育、課外話動和社區(qū) 服務，只有選項 D 沒有被包括在內。文中并沒有提到美國在教育上主 張和別國競爭。4. 美國學生與日本、德國學生不一樣， 。A) 他們每天在校時間更短B) 他們沒有國外的同齡入學得那么多C) 他們花在學科學習上的時間更少D) 他們更容易獲得高中文憑C第5段第1句提到了美日德學生在時間安排與學習關系上的 對比。選項D干擾性，第5段末句提到美國學生只要把在校時間的 41% 用于學術科目就能夠得到中學畢業(yè)證了。但是，時間用得少并不意味 著畢業(yè)容易，而且此細節(jié)與美日德學生之間的比較無關，所以，選項 D 犯了過度概括的錯誤。選項 A不準確是因為文中并沒有提到美日德學 生在這個方面的比較。選項B與第4段末句提到的事實相反。5. 委員會的執(zhí)行總裁 Milt