出自:2024年国家开放大学答案
<p style="text-align: left;">二、阅读理解：阅读下面的短文，根据文章内容从A、B、C三个选项中选出一个最佳选项。<p style="text-align: left;">Car crashes are the top killer of American teenagers. Most of the crashes result from distracted driving—not paying attention to the road.<p style="text-align: left;">Ryan Didone was a fifteen-year-old passenger in a car that hit a tree. He was one of the nation.s more than thirty thousand victims of traffic crashes in 2008. Nearly four thousand deaths, about twelve percent involved drivers age fifteen to twenty.<p style="text-align: left;">Ryan.s father, Thomas Didone, is a police captain in Marylan. "It was an inexperienced, immature driver driving at night with a carload of kids. He was distracted, he was going too fast, and it ended up causing one death and some seriously injured." He shares the story of his son.s death to help educate teens and their families about distracted driving.<p style="text-align: left;">Jim Jennings from the Allstate Insurance Company says the number one cause of distracted-driving accidents is the mobile phone. He says talking on the phone or reaching for it is like drinking four beers and driving. "If you.re texting while driving, you are twenty-three times more likely to get into an accident than somebody who isn.t."<p style="text-align: left;">Government and private groups are using public service announcements and events to bring more attention to the problem. For example, the insurance industry recently held a safety event for teen drivers. At first, nineteen-year-old Kevin Schumann easily avoided large, inflatable dolls thrown in front of the car to represent children. He also avoided orange cones representing the edge of the road. Then, as part of the test, he started texting. He hit several cones and at least one doll. "That.s what really opened up the experience for me to prove how bad it is to really text and drive."<p style="text-align: left;">Debbie Pickford of Allstate Insurance says teens are especially at risk from distracted driving —and not just because they lack experience on the roads. "According to the research, teens don.t really have fully developed brains until they’re twenty-five years old. You put those two things together and you get a much,much higher risk." A new law proposes a graduated driver licensing system. Graduated means teenagers start with restrictions like on night driving and numbers of passengers. They could not get a full driver.s license until age eighteen.<p style="text-align: left;">
According to the passage, 1 is the most likely to lead to a traffic accident while you are driving．
A．texting on the mobile phone
B．reaching for a cell phone．
C．talking on the mobile phone
2. We can learn from the second paragraph that2 ．
A. drivers who resulted in nearly 4,000 deaths are teenagers<p class="p">B. over 30,000 victims have died from traffic crashes so far<p class="p">C. it was at night that Ryan Didone died from a car accident
3. A safety event held by insurance industry was meant to 3 .
A．attract more teenagers to take part in it
B．draw enough attention to teenagers. distracted driving
C．make more teenagers practice avoiding large barriers
4. The passage is probably followed by a concluding paragraph about 4 ．
A．much higher risk
B．teen brain development
C．measures to be taken
5. Of all the following, which is the best title for the passage5
A．Car Crashes —the Top Killer.
B．Distracted Driving —Let.s Avoid!
C．Drunken Driving — Dangerous Enough！__5__(完形填空)
.A
.B
.C
Voices from the Classroom
1 What new challenges do American teachers of English think they will face over the
next five years The following is an interview with four American educators about thatquestion.
2 Interviewer. We. 11 begin with Ms. Woods , who is teaching at a junior-high school
in Ohio. What do you think are the biggest problems for today. s English teacher
3 Ms. Woods: Language arts teachers are faced with teaching literacy to students
from diverse backgrounds , students who do not value reading , and students who have diverseneeds in an increasingly complex, technological society. We teachers are caught betweendoing our best to help these diverse students and give them what they really need , and at thesame time satisfying the state-mandated proficiencies.
4 Interviewer: So you think that sometimes the state curriculum does not suit the realneeds of these students.
5 Mr. Jones: May I add something here I have to agree. In my high school inDetroit , the increasing number of students from non-English speaking homes continues tomake language education challenging. For example, Shakespeare is on the curriculum for my 11th grade class this term , but many of them have problems with basic English communication skills. I don.t mean to throw out Shakespeare , but something is wrong here 一there is a gap between the curriculum and the reality of the students. skills and needs. Keeping our students connected by giving them better tools of communication in a commonlanguage is essential.
6 Interviewer: I bet Professor Mahiri will have something to say on that.
7 Dr. Mahiri: Yes indeed. What I.ve come to realize in my educational research atUniversity of California is that teachers must understand youth popular culture -- which isstrongly influenced by African American culture---in order to relateeffectively to today. sstudents. Teachers should use African American and youth culture as sources for today. scurriculum. They must make a huge effort to connect the classroom to the students. uniquebackgrounds , experiences and interests.
8 Interviewer: You mean by including literature written by Afro-American authors
9 Dr. Mahiri: That. s just the tip of the iceberg. Of course , a more diversecurriculum is necessary. But not throwing out Shakespeare , as Mr. Jones has said. KeepShakespeare , add new authors , include newspaper, music , comic books - and give up theirtraditional power and control over the classroom so that students are teaching each other andthemselves 一so that students are empowered and creative thinkers.
10 Interviewer: Do you have anything to add to this discussion, Mr. Hunt
11 Mr. Hunt: Well , I think that from primary school to university level , the biggestchallenge will be introducing technology in language arts instruction. Computers and theInternet are revolutionizing how students learn and how teachers teach. We must haveeducators who are computer literate if we are to exploit the amazing power of technology inthe Information Age. "
diversemeans ____(paragraph 3)
(单选题)
.clever
.\xa0hard-working
.different