管理类联考——英语二——阅读篇——题材：教育
教育
2012 年，Text 1——题材：教育
细节题
- It is implied in paragraph 1 that nowadays homework（ ）.
A. is receiving more criticism
B. is no longer an educational ritual
C. is not required for advanced courses
D. is gaining more preferences
①Homework has never been terribly popular with students and even many parents, but in recent years it has been particularly scorned. School districts across the country, most recently Los Angels Unified, are revising their thinking on this educational ritual. Unfortunately, L.A. Unified has produced an inflexible policy which mandates that with the exception of some advanced courses, homework may no longer count for more than 10% of a student’s academic grade.
细节题
- L.A.Unified has made the rule about homework mainly because poor students（ ）.
A. tend to have moderate expectations for their education
B. have asked for a different educational standard
C. may have problems finishing their homework
D. have voiced their complaints about homework
②This rule is meant to address the difficulty that students from impoverished or chaotic homes might have in completing their homework. But the policy is unclear and contradictory. Certainly, no homework should be assigned that students cannot complete on their own or that they cannot do without expensive equipment. But if the district is essentially giving a pass to students who do not do their homework because of complicated family lives, it is going riskily close to the implication that standards need to be lowered for poor children.
细节题
- According to Paragraph 3, one problem with the policy is that it may（ ）
A. discourage students from doing homework
B. result in students’ indifference to their report cards
C. undermine the authority of state tests
D. restrict teachers’ power in education
③District administrators say that homework will still be a part of schooling: teachers are allowed to assign as much of it as they want. But with homework counting for no more than 10% of their grades, students can easily skip half their homework and see very little difference on their report cards. Some students might do well on state tests without completing their homework, but what about the students who performed well on the tests and did their homework? It is quite possible that the homework helped. Yet rather than empowering teachers to find what works best for their students, the policy imposes a flat, across-the-board rule.
细节题
- As mentioned in Paragraph 4, a key question unanswered about homework is whether（ ）.
A. it should be eliminated
B. it counts much in schooling
C. it places extra burdens on teachers
D. it is important for grades
④At the same time, the policy addresses none of the truly thorny questions about homework. If the district finds homework to be unimportant to its students’ academic achievement, it should move to reduce or eliminate the assignments, not make them count for almost nothing. Conversely, if homework matters, it should account for a significant portion of the grade. Meanwhile, this policy does nothing to ensure that the homework students receive is meaningful or appropriate to their age and the subject, or that teachers are not assigning more than they are willing to review and correct.
⑤The homework rules should be put on hold while the school board, which is responsible for setting
educational policy, looks into the matter and conducts public hearings. It is not too late for L.A. Unified to do homework right.
总结：
①LA颁布了一项政策
②这个政策偏向穷人的孩子，会导致标准有一定危险的倾向性
③家庭作业仍然是教学的一部分，但是占比很少会导致学生不做作业，仍然考试分数很高，一个政策没有④解决实际问题了
⑤这个政策被搁置了
主旨题
- A suitable title for this text could be（ ）.
A. Wrong Interpretation of an Educational Policy
B. A Welcomed Policy for Poor Students
C. Thorny Questions about Homework
D. A Faulty Approach to Homework
心理
2018 年，Text 1——题材：教育
细节题
- A broken bike chain is mentioned to show students’ lack of（ ）.
A. mechanical memorization
B. academic training
C. practical ability （根据定位词以及but后面为重点，理解“utterly overwhelmed不知所错”推出缺少实操能力）
D. pioneering spirit
①It is curious that Stephen Koziatek feels almost as though he has to justify his efforts to give his students a better future.
②Mr. Koziatek is part of something pioneering. He is a teacher at a New Hampshire high school where learning is not something of books and tests and mechanical memorization, but practical. When did it become accepted wisdom that students should be able to name the 13th president of the United States but be utterly overwhelmed不知所错 by a broken bike chain?
细节题-具体
- There exists the prejudice that vocational education is for kids who（ ）.
A. are financially disadvantaged
B. are not academically successful
C. have a stereotyped mind
D. have no career motivation
③As Koziatek knows, there is learning in just about everything. Nothing is necessarily gained by forcing students to learn geometry at a graffitied desk stuck with generations of discarded chewing gum. They can also learn geometry by assembling a bicycle.
④But he’s also found a kind of insidious prejudice. Working with your hands is seen as almost a mark of inferiority. Schools in the family of vocational education “have that stereotype,（学校有刻板印象） that it’s for kids who can’t make it academically,” he says.
细节题-推断-秒杀：不在定位处，可排除
23. We can infer from Paragraph 5 that high school graduates（ ）.
A. are entitled to more educational privileges
B. are reluctant to work in manufacturing
C. used to have more job opportunities
D. used to have big financial concerns
⑤On one hand, that viewpoint is a logical product of America’s evolution. Manufacturing is not the economic engine that it once was. The job security that the US economy once offered to high school graduates has largely evaporated. More education is the new principle. We want more for our kids, and rightfully so.
细节题-事实-感情色彩来排除-难
- The headlong push into bachelor’s degrees for all（ ）.
A. helps create a lot of middle-skill jobs
B. may narrow the gap in working-class jobs
C. is expected to yield a better-trained workforce
D. indicates the overvaluing of higher education
⑥But the headlong push into bachelor’s degrees for all—and the subtle devaluing of anything
less—misses an important point: That’s not the only thing the American economy needs. Yes, a
bachelor’s degree opens more doors. But even now, 54 percent of the jobs in the country are middle-skill jobs, such as construction and high-skill manufacturing. But only 44 percent of workers are adequately trained.
观点态度题
- The author’s attitude toward Koziatek’s school can be described as（ ）.
A. supportive
B. disappointed
C. tolerant
D. cautious
⑦In other words, at a time when the working class has turned the country on its political head,
frustrated that the opportunity that once defined America is vanishing, one obvious solution is staring us in the face. There is a gap in working-class jobs, but the workers who need those jobs most aren’t equipped to do them. Koziatek’s Manchester School of Technology High School is trying to fill that gap. Koziatek’s school is a wake-up call. When education becomes one-size-fits-all, it risks overlooking a nation’s diversity of gifts.