C
Ben Carson,a doctor at Johns Hopkins Children’s center,talks about how he grew up in a poor Detroit Neighborhood,when peer(同龄人pressure almost controlled his behavior and even his clothes.He wanted so badly to be considered cool that he begged his mother to buy him an expensive Italian shirt.
“My mother made me a deal,”Carson remembers,“She said,‘I’ll give you all the money I make next week.You’ll be in charge of the family finance(财务)—buying food and other necessities and paying the bills.Whatever you have left over you can spend on whatever you want.’”
“I thought,this is going to be great,”Carson says,“I bought things we needed most and then began going through the bills.Of course I ran completely out of money long before everything was paid.”
Then I realized my mother,with her third-grade education,was a financial genius(理财能手)—just to keep food on our table and clothes on our backs with such a small sum of money.I’d been a fool.I wanted her to buy me a$75 shirt when she only took home$100 a week,cleaning other people’s floors and washing their toilets.I took a hard look at my behavior and wondered how I could be so selfish.”
“I started studying again.My grades went back up to A’s.Some of my peers laughed at me because I did not follow their pattern.But I refused to let that trouble me,because I had a goal.”
The experience had a lasting effect,“I not only saw and felt the difference my mother made in my life,I am living out that difference as a man.”
58.When Ben Carson was young,he_______.
A.wanted to be as cool as other boys of his age
B.tried to attract girls with his cool manner
C.was fond of improving family finances
D.was seldom good at his lessons
参考答案：A
59.By saying“My mother made me a deal”,Ben Carson meant that his mother____.
A.refused to buy him the shirt
B.made an agreement with him
C.asked him to deal with the problem
D.showed him how to save money
参考答案：B
60.Ben Carson started studying hard again and rose back to the top because_____.
A.he had got his shirt anyway
B.he got his mother as his teacher
C.he wanted to be a financial genius
D.he had a better goal to run after
参考答案：D
61.Ben Carson’s story tells us that______.
A.a boy should not learn from his peers
B.he didn’t understand his mother as a boy
C.what his mother taught him has changed his life
D.people with little education may become a genius
参考答案：C
D
Most people can remember a time in their lives when they learned something almost by accident,that is,without consciously(有意识地)trying to learn it.Often this kind of learning happens when we are in fact trying to learn something else.For example,many people learn a number of English words not by memorizing them or studying them directly,but by doing something they enjoy,like listening to popular songs that contain them.Similarly,some people learn words in Chinese orJapanese nit by studying those languages directly,but by studying martial arts,such as kungfu or aikido,in which Chinese or Japanese terms are used. Foreign students in the United States often learn the system(体系) of measurement simply having to shop and cook for themselves.Those activities require them to learn words like pound,gallon,inch and yard.
Many educators believe that such a kind of learning,generally called content-based learning,is the best way to learn the rules of a system.Supporters of content-based learning argue that people can best understand and remember a system’s basic rules by coming upon them in the context(环境) of that system—not by studying and memorizing them out of context.Therefore,supporters of content-based learning feel that grammatical rules can best be mastered indirectly through reading and writing, rather than by mere memorization.Likewise,they feel that mathematical rules can best belearned by working out real-life problems where such rules are needed to find out the answers.In many cases,our own learning experiences may support the ideas that we have a deeper understanding of rules we find out from context than of those memorized out of context.
62.By saying“they learned something almost by accident”,the author means“they learned something without_____.”
A.realizing they are learning it
B.paying attention to the accident
C.understanding what they are learning
D.knowing what they should learn next
参考答案：A
63.Shopping and cooking in a foreign country_____.
A.are necessary for students studying systems
B.help one learn measure used in that country
C.tell one what is needed to learn to live there
D.require people to know how to measure
参考答案：B
64.Many educators believe that the best way to master the basic rules of asystem is______.
A.learning them in the context
B.producing problems from context
C.memorizing the related words first
D.fixing attention on the rules themselves
参考答案：A
65.What does the author most probably think of the content-based learning?
A.He doubts it.
B.He supports it.
C.He considers it funny.
D.He finds it impractical.
参考答案：B
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