.第四部分：任务型阅读(共10小题；每小题l分，满分l0分)请认真阅读下列短文,并根

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第四部分：任务型阅读(共10小题；每小题l分，满分l0分)

请认真阅读下列短文,并根据所读内容在文章后表格中的空格里填入一个最恰当的单

词。

注意：每个空格只填1个单词。请将答案写在答题卡上相应题号的横线上。

D.R.Gaul Middle School in Union, Maine, a blue-berry farming town where the summer fair finds kids competing in pig scrambles and pie-eating contests.

Gaul, with about 170 seventh-and eighth-graders, has its own history of lower level academic achievement. One likely reason: education beyond the basic requirements hasn't always been a top priority for families who've worked the same land for generations. Here, few adults have college degrees, and outsiders(teachers included) are often kept at a respectful distance.

Since 2002, Gaul's students have been divided into four classes, each of them was taught almost every subject by two teachers. The goal: to find common threads across disciplines to help students create a big picture that gives fresh meaning and context to their classwork and sparks motivation for leaning.

Working within state guidelines, each team makes its individual schedules and lesson plans, incorporating non-textbook literature, hands-on lab work and fields trips. If students are covering the Civil War in social studies, they're reading The Read Badge of Courage or some other period literature in English class. In science, they study the viruses and bacteria that caused many deaths in the war.

Team teaching isn't unusual. about 77 percent middle schools now employ some form of it, says John Lounsbury, consulting editor for the National Middle School Association. But most schools use four-or five-person teams, which Gaul tried before considering two-person teams more effective. Gual supports the team concept by "looping" classes (跟班）so that the same two teachers stick with the same teens through seventh and eighth grades. Combining teams and looping creates an extremely strong bond between teacher and student. It also, says teacher Beth Ahlholm, "allows us to build an excellent relationship with parents."

Ahlholm and teammate Madelon Kelly are fully aware how many glazed looks they see in the classroom, but they know 72 percent of their eighth-graders met Maine's reading standard last year--double the statewide average. only 31 percent met the Maths standard, still better than the state average(21 percent). Their students also beat the state average in writing and science. And in 2006, Gual was one of 47 schools in the state to see testing gains of at least 20 percent in four of the previous five years, coinciding roughly with team teaching’ arrival.

A Classroom with Context

Problems of the school

Being a farming town, it (71)______ little in education before.

(72)_____ education is considered less important.

The community is relatively (73)_____ rather than open to the outsiders.

Ways of solving the problems

The division of the classes is made and students are well (74)_____.

Individual schedules and lesson plans are (75)_____ by each team.

A strong (76)_____ between teacher and student is established through combining teams and looping.

Signs of (77)_____

72 percent of the eighth-graders (78)_____ Maine's reading standard

(79)_____percent higher than the state average in Maths

The school beating the state average in writing and science

Four of the previous five years (80)_____ at least 20 percent test gains

最佳答案：

71. achieved 72.Further 73.closed 74.motivated 75. made/adopted/conducted

76. bond/tie/connection 77.success 78. meeting/reaching 79.Ten 80. seeing/witnessing

答案解析：

略

考点核心：

人物传记类文章的文体特征：

人物传记是记叙文体的一种，主要描写某人的生平事迹、趣闻轶事、生活背景、个性特征、成长奋斗历程等，包含记叙文的时间、地点、人物、事件等要素。其特点是以时间的先后或事件的发展为主线，空间或逻辑线索贯穿文章始终，脉络清楚，可读性较强。