英語六級閱讀精選練習原文

　　The two-year commission found that holding American students to "worldclass standards." willrequire more time for classroom instruction. "We have been asking the impossible of ourstudents-that they leam as muchas their foreign peers while spending half as much as in coreacademic subjects." it states.

　　The Commission compared the relationships between time and leaming in Japan. Germany, andthe United States and found that American students receive less than half the basic academicinstruction that Japanese andGerman students are provided. On average. American studentscan earn a high school diploma if they spend only 41 percent of their school time on academics,says the report.

　　American students spend an average of three hours a day on "core" academics such as Englishmath, science,and history. the commission found. Their report recommends offering aminimum of 5.5 hours of academics every school day.

　　The nine-member commission also recommends lengthening the school day beyond thetraditional six hours.

　　"If schools want to continue offering important activities outside the academic core, as well asserving as a hub for family and community services, they should keep school doors openlonger each day and each year." says John Hodge Jones, superintendent of schools inMurfreesboro, Tenn., and chairman of the commission.

　　The typical school year in American public schools is 180 days. Eleven states allow school yearsof 175 days or less, and only one state requires more than 180 day.

　　"For over a decade. education reform advocates have been working Feverishly to improve ourschools,” says Milton Goldberg. executive director of the commission. "But... if reform is totruly take hold, the six-hour, 180-day school year should be relegated (歸屬于) to museums-anexhibit from our education past."

　　英語六級閱讀精選練習題目

　　1. Compared with the academic courses more than a hundred years ago, the academiccourses now___________.

　　A) include some extra-curricular activities

　　B) focus more on education of social support

　　C) demand students' more contribution of time

　　D) remain more or less what they used to be

　　2. The researches by the commission mentioned in the passage are most concernedabout

　　A) the time attributed to academic leaming

　　B) the components of school education

　　C) the changes in education in the recent century

　　D) the fashion of education management

　　3. As it is mentioned in che passage. schools in the United States do the followingexcept________.

　　A) provide important outside-academic activities

　　B) serve social units such as family and community

　　C) arrange six-hour teaching and leaming every day

　　D) have competition with schools of other countries

　　4. American students differ from those in Japan. Germany in that_____________.

　　A)they stay at school for a shorter time every day

　　B) they do not leam as much as their counterparts abroad

　　C) they devote less time to academic learning

　　D) they earn a high school diploma more easily

　　5. Executive director of the commission Milton Goldberg would most probably agreethat_______.

　　A) what the education reform advocates have done is not good enough

　　B) they time of school day and school year should be extended

　　C) visiting museums can improve students' academic learning ability

　　D) social support and extra-curricular activities should be cancelled

　　英語六級閱讀精選練習答案

　　1.相較干100多年前的學科課程。現在的學科課程_______________。

　　A) 包括了一些課外活動

　　B) 更加關注于社會支持教育

　　C) 要求學生花更多的時間

　　D)跟以往沒有什么差別

　　[D]首段主句中changed little與選項D為近義替換，因此選項D為本題答案。進項A中的extra-curricularactivities和選項B中的social support都在第1段提到過,但是它們和該段提到的academic schedule是并列于整個教育系統之下的三個平行的成分，答案與A、B無關。選項C“要求學生花更多時間”不是academiccourses對學生的要求，而是文中調查組的看法。

　　2.文章中提到的委員會所作的研究最關注_______________。

　　A) 學科學習上所花的時間

　　B) 學校教育的組成部分

　　C) 本世紀里教育所發生的變化

　　D)教育管理的方式

　　[A]從第2段到最后一段，都是討論調查組的研究結果。而且通篇都在對時間進行討論，故選A。本文首段只是引出話題，而文章的主體——調查組的研究——從第2段才開始闡述，選項B“學校教育的組成部分”和選項C“最近這個世紀教育的變化”與文章首段有關，因此都不是正確答案。進項D在文中沒有提及。

　　3.文章中提到，美國的學校做很多事情，除了以下哪一項?

　　A) 提供重要的課外活動。

　　B) 像家庭和社區一樣是社會單元。

　　C) 每天都組織6個小時的教學活動。

　　D)與其他國家的學校進行競爭。

　　[D]由第8段可知，學校教育包括了學術教育、課外話動和社區服務，只有選項D沒有被包括在內。文中并沒有提到美國在教育上主張和別國競爭。

　　4.美國學生與日本、德國學生不一樣，______________。

　　A) 他們每天在校時間更短

　　B)他們沒有國外的同齡入學得那么多

　　C) 他們花在學科學習上的時間更少

　　D)他們更容易獲得高中文憑

　　[C]第5段第1句提到了美日德學生在時間安排與學習關系上的對比。選項D最具干擾性，第5段末句提到美國學生只要把在校時間的41%用于學術科目就可以得到中學畢業證了。但是，時間用得少并不意味著畢業容易，而且此細節與美日德學生之間的比較無關，因此，選項D犯了過度概括的錯誤。選項A不正確是因為文中并沒有提到美日德學生在這一方面的比較。選項B與第4段末句提到的事實相反。

　　5.委員會的執行總裁Milton Goldberg最可能同意以下哪種說法?

　　A) 教育改革倡導者所作的事情還不夠好。

　　B) 學校每天上課時間和學年時間都應該延長。

　　C) 參觀博物館可以提高學生的學科學習能力。

　　D) 社會支持和課外活動應該取消。

　　[B]文章末段表明Milton Goldberg認為將來教育時間應比現在更長，因此選項B為本題答案。選項A與末段首句提到的事實不符：選頂C中提到的museums雖在該段末句也有提到，但整個選項的陳述只是出題人抓住museums一詞的發揮，因此當然也不對了;選項D與Milton Goldberg無關。