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Part IV Reading Comprehension Reading in Depth (35 minutes)
22、Questions22-27are based on the following passage.
Proper arrangement of classroom space is important to encouraging interaction. Most of us have noticed how important physical setting is to efficiency and comfort in our work. College classroom space should be designed to encourage the activity of critical thinking.
We may be approaching the twenty-first century, but step into almost any college classroom and you step back in time at least a hundred years. Desks are normally in straight rows, so students can clearly see the teacher but not all their classmates. The assumption behind such an arrangement is obvious. Everything of importance comes from the teacher.
With a little imagination and effort, unless desks are fixed to the floor, the teacher can correct this situation and create space that encourages interchange among students. In small or standard-size classes, chairs, desks, and tables can be arranged in a variety of ways. The primary goal should be for everyone to be able to see everyone else. Larger classes, particularly those held in lecture halls, unfortunately, allow much less flexibility.
Arrangement of the classroom should also make it easy to divide students into small groups for discussion or problem-solving exercises. Small classes with movable desks and tables present no problem. Even in large lecture halls; it is possible for students to turn around and form groups of four to six. Breaking a class into small groups provides more opportunities for students to interact with each other, think out loud, and see how other students' thinking processes operate all essential elements in developing new modes of critical thinking.
In courses that regularly use a small group format, students might be asked to stay in the same small groups throughout the course. A colleague of mine, John, allows students to move around during the first two weeks, until they find a group they are comfortable with. John then asks them to stay in the same seat, with the same group, from that time on. This not only creates a comfortable setting for interaction but helps him learn students' names and faces.
The primary purpose of desk rearrangement is__________
A.for the teacher to divide students into small groups
B.to make it possible for students to interact with each other
C.for the teacher to find out how students think
D.to give students more opportunities to practice speaking
23、The expression "step back in time at least a hundred years" ( Line 2, Para. 2) is intended to convey the idea that________
A.college classrooms often reminded people of their college life
B.critical thinking was encouraged even a century ago
C.a hundred years ago, desk arrangement in a classroom was quite different
D.there is not much change in educational idea over the past hundred years
24、The greatest advantage in allowing each student to find his own group might be that_________
A.the teacher saves the trouble in doing that
B.learning is made comfortable in this way
C.the teacher can easily remember students' names and face
D.brighter students can help slower ones
25、It is implied in the passage that__________
A.new kinds of desks and chairs should be made
B.it is feasible for teachers to let students turn around and form groups of four to six even in large lecture halls
C.classroom interaction between students is essential to the training of critical thinking
D.a comfortable environment leads to higher working efficiency
26、The author mentioned John in Para. 5 in order to_________
A.create a comfortable setting for interaction
B.give an example that students stay in the same seat throughout the course
C.describe a good seat-arrangement mode in courses with small group format
D.introduce an approach of learning students' names and faces easily
27、Directions: There are 2 passages in this section. Each passage is followed by some questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A, B , C and D You should decide on the best choice and mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through the centre.
Questions27-32are based on the following passage.
Now the Bush team is pushing hard an idea which is inherited from the Clinton administration and which, in some way, builds on the debt-relief initiative. For the very poorest countries, America strongly favors moving from loans to grants, though other industrial-country donors are still doubtful of the wisdom of this. Giving grants, they argue, will cut future aid flows because some of the funding for loans on generous terms comes from money which has been repaid to donors.
America takes the view that, since many developing-country loans will never be repaid, main- ly because the recipients (接受者)cannot afford to make large payments to their creditors, it makes more sense to treat them as grants in the first place. The Bush administration has threatened to hold up the provision of the funds used for this sort of aid, International Development Assistance(IDA), if it cannot persuade everyone else to come on board. All members talked about having made progress in this area, but it remains a stumbling block.
Work is also under way in the IMF and the G7 to reform the international financial system. This now has two objectives. One is to make it harder for terrorist organizations to obtain funding by cracking down on money laundering and increasing financial transparency. The other is to reduce the occurrence and severity of financial crises in emerging-market countries. On this, American views seem to have prevailed. The G7 meeting on April 19th and 20th ended with an unexpected decision to proceed with an American plan to include collective action clauses in future loans taken out by emerging-market governments. The idea is that in the event of a delay of payment -- such as that by Argentina last December -- a government could negotiate with a "super majority" of its creditors to restructure its debts, rather than, as now, have a small minority of creditors able to weaken such attempts.
This market-based approach is still controversial, and implementing it could be difficult given the previous reluctance of governments to include such clauses in loan contracts ( lest they appear to be signaling a readiness to default (拖欠) even as they borrow). Work on IMF plans for more far-reaching reforms of supreme debt, on which the Bush team recently appeared to pour cold water, is to proceed at the same time. The two approaches, said the G7, are "complementary".
According to the passage, America favors moving from loans to grants on the purpose of_________
A.making more money for the donors
B.relieving debt of the poorest countries
C.solvin
28、It can be seen that the undertaking of moving from loans to grants_________
A.makes no progress at all
B.makes progress smoothly
C.still face some difficulties
D.will achieve its success in near future
29、The purpose of the reform of the international financial system includes_________
A.relieving the debt of poor countries
B.establishing a global financial market
C.distributing money more fairly in the world
D.preventing the possible financial crisis and terrorists to raise money through the system
30、It can be inferred from Para. 3 that at present__________
A.a country can never expect to reconstruct its debts
B.a country can reconstruct its debt with the permission of IMF
C.a country in default cannot reconstruct its debts without the permission of all of its creditors
D.a country in default can reconstruct its debts by acquiring the permission of most of its creditors
31、The implementing of the market-based approach may get to be smoother if__________
A.American does more to help the poor
B.the Bush team doesn't pour cold water
C.the emerging-market countries try harder
D.the governments of creditors are always ready to restructure the debts of its debtors
22、Questions22-27are based on the following passage.
Proper arrangement of classroom space is important to encouraging interaction. Most of us have noticed how important physical setting is to efficiency and comfort in our work. College classroom space should be designed to encourage the activity of critical thinking.
We may be approaching the twenty-first century, but step into almost any college classroom and you step back in time at least a hundred years. Desks are normally in straight rows, so students can clearly see the teacher but not all their classmates. The assumption behind such an arrangement is obvious. Everything of importance comes from the teacher.
With a little imagination and effort, unless desks are fixed to the floor, the teacher can correct this situation and create space that encourages interchange among students. In small or standard-size classes, chairs, desks, and tables can be arranged in a variety of ways. The primary goal should be for everyone to be able to see everyone else. Larger classes, particularly those held in lecture halls, unfortunately, allow much less flexibility.
Arrangement of the classroom should also make it easy to divide students into small groups for discussion or problem-solving exercises. Small classes with movable desks and tables present no problem. Even in large lecture halls; it is possible for students to turn around and form groups of four to six. Breaking a class into small groups provides more opportunities for students to interact with each other, think out loud, and see how other students' thinking processes operate all essential elements in developing new modes of critical thinking.
In courses that regularly use a small group format, students might be asked to stay in the same small groups throughout the course. A colleague of mine, John, allows students to move around during the first two weeks, until they find a group they are comfortable with. John then asks them to stay in the same seat, with the same group, from that time on. This not only creates a comfortable setting for interaction but helps him learn students' names and faces.
The primary purpose of desk rearrangement is__________
A.for the teacher to divide students into small groups
B.to make it possible for students to interact with each other
C.for the teacher to find out how students think
D.to give students more opportunities to practice speaking
23、The expression "step back in time at least a hundred years" ( Line 2, Para. 2) is intended to convey the idea that________
A.college classrooms often reminded people of their college life
B.critical thinking was encouraged even a century ago
C.a hundred years ago, desk arrangement in a classroom was quite different
D.there is not much change in educational idea over the past hundred years
24、The greatest advantage in allowing each student to find his own group might be that_________
A.the teacher saves the trouble in doing that
B.learning is made comfortable in this way
C.the teacher can easily remember students' names and face
D.brighter students can help slower ones
25、It is implied in the passage that__________
A.new kinds of desks and chairs should be made
B.it is feasible for teachers to let students turn around and form groups of four to six even in large lecture halls
C.classroom interaction between students is essential to the training of critical thinking
D.a comfortable environment leads to higher working efficiency
26、The author mentioned John in Para. 5 in order to_________
A.create a comfortable setting for interaction
B.give an example that students stay in the same seat throughout the course
C.describe a good seat-arrangement mode in courses with small group format
D.introduce an approach of learning students' names and faces easily
27、Directions: There are 2 passages in this section. Each passage is followed by some questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A, B , C and D You should decide on the best choice and mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through the centre.
Questions27-32are based on the following passage.
Now the Bush team is pushing hard an idea which is inherited from the Clinton administration and which, in some way, builds on the debt-relief initiative. For the very poorest countries, America strongly favors moving from loans to grants, though other industrial-country donors are still doubtful of the wisdom of this. Giving grants, they argue, will cut future aid flows because some of the funding for loans on generous terms comes from money which has been repaid to donors.
America takes the view that, since many developing-country loans will never be repaid, main- ly because the recipients (接受者)cannot afford to make large payments to their creditors, it makes more sense to treat them as grants in the first place. The Bush administration has threatened to hold up the provision of the funds used for this sort of aid, International Development Assistance(IDA), if it cannot persuade everyone else to come on board. All members talked about having made progress in this area, but it remains a stumbling block.
Work is also under way in the IMF and the G7 to reform the international financial system. This now has two objectives. One is to make it harder for terrorist organizations to obtain funding by cracking down on money laundering and increasing financial transparency. The other is to reduce the occurrence and severity of financial crises in emerging-market countries. On this, American views seem to have prevailed. The G7 meeting on April 19th and 20th ended with an unexpected decision to proceed with an American plan to include collective action clauses in future loans taken out by emerging-market governments. The idea is that in the event of a delay of payment -- such as that by Argentina last December -- a government could negotiate with a "super majority" of its creditors to restructure its debts, rather than, as now, have a small minority of creditors able to weaken such attempts.
This market-based approach is still controversial, and implementing it could be difficult given the previous reluctance of governments to include such clauses in loan contracts ( lest they appear to be signaling a readiness to default (拖欠) even as they borrow). Work on IMF plans for more far-reaching reforms of supreme debt, on which the Bush team recently appeared to pour cold water, is to proceed at the same time. The two approaches, said the G7, are "complementary".
According to the passage, America favors moving from loans to grants on the purpose of_________
A.making more money for the donors
B.relieving debt of the poorest countries
C.solvin
28、It can be seen that the undertaking of moving from loans to grants_________
A.makes no progress at all
B.makes progress smoothly
C.still face some difficulties
D.will achieve its success in near future
29、The purpose of the reform of the international financial system includes_________
A.relieving the debt of poor countries
B.establishing a global financial market
C.distributing money more fairly in the world
D.preventing the possible financial crisis and terrorists to raise money through the system
30、It can be inferred from Para. 3 that at present__________
A.a country can never expect to reconstruct its debts
B.a country can reconstruct its debt with the permission of IMF
C.a country in default cannot reconstruct its debts without the permission of all of its creditors
D.a country in default can reconstruct its debts by acquiring the permission of most of its creditors
31、The implementing of the market-based approach may get to be smoother if__________
A.American does more to help the poor
B.the Bush team doesn't pour cold water
C.the emerging-market countries try harder
D.the governments of creditors are always ready to restructure the debts of its debtors
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