核心素养拓展练
素养解读 2017版《普通高中课程标准》首次提出“学科核心素养”。英语学科核心素养由语言能力、文化意识、思维品质和学习能力构成。随之而来，以后的英语考试将更加坚持能力立意，突出核心素养的考查。下面文段就是围绕“文化意识”这一学科素养展开，介绍了一所与众不同的学校。 主题：学校生活 学科素养：文化意识
To most of us，school means classes，teachers，schedules，grades，and tests.But for the children at Sudbury Valley School in Massachusetts，school is very different.
Firstly，there are no lessons.All the children，aged between 4 and 19，do whatever they want.There are no teachers—only “staff members”.The idea behind this is that you do not need to make children learn，because children want to learn anyway.“You do not need to say to a three-year-old，‘Go explore your environment.’You can’t stop them！” says Daniel Greenberg，a founder of the school.“But if you make children do what you want all day，they will lose all taste for learning.”
At Sudbury Valley School，you will permit children to talk，read，paint，cook，work on computers，study French，play the piano，climb trees or just run around.Two boys spent three years just fishing!
The other way that Sudbury Valley School is different is that the children can decide the rules.Every week，there is a school meeting where both children and staff have one vote each—even the four-year-olds.They decide the school rules，how to spend the school budget，and even which staff they want and do not want any more.
When the school first opened in 1968，people said it would never work.But today，the school has 200 students，and 80% of its students go on to college.Even the two boys who went fishing all the time have successful careers today.One of them is a musician and the other is a computer scientist.
语篇解读 文章介绍了一所与众不同的学校。 1.What is the best title of the article? A.An Unusual School B.Children’s Hobbies C.A School Without Rules
D.Education in the US 答案 A
解析 标题归纳题。文章主要介绍了Sudbury Valley School不同寻常的地方：学生不用上课，不用做作业，可以随心所欲地做自己想做的事，可以参与学校制度的制定。这样的学校的确少见。
2.What does the school believe? A.Teachers cannot teach children well.
B.Children learn best when they do what they want to do. C.Learning is for adults—children should only play. D.Children should only learn about one thing at a time. 答案 B
解析 推理判断题。从第二段内容可知，被动学习只会让学生失去学习兴趣，让学生做自己想做的事他们才会学得最好。
3.What does Daniel Greenberg say about three-year-olds? A.They love learning. B.They are very naughty.
C.They want to be outside all the time. D.They are too young to learn anything. 答案 A
解析 推理判断题。Daniel Greenberg的话是对“...you do not need to make children learn，because children want to learn anyway.”的进一步说明，由此可知A正确。 4.Who has the most power in the school meetings?
A.The older children have more power than the younger children. B.A child has more power than an adult.
C.The younger children have more power than the older children. D.Everybody has equal power. 答案 D
解析 细节理解题。由倒数第二段第二句可知D项正确。 Notes： Ⅰ.障碍词汇 1.staff n.全体职员 2.lose taste for失去……的兴趣 3.vote v.& n.表决，投票 4.budget n.预算 5.career n.职业 6.musician n.音乐家 Ⅱ.长难句分析 1.All the children，aged between 4 and 19，do whatever they want. [句式分析] 句中aged between 4 and 19为形容词短语作后置定语，whatever引导宾语从句。 [自主翻译] 所有年龄在4至19岁之间的孩子可以做他们想做的任何事。 2.The idea behind this is that you do not need to make children learn，because children want to learn anyway. [句式分析] 本句中含有两个从句。一个是由that引导的表语从句；一个是由because引导的原因状语从句。behind this为介词短语作后置定语修饰The idea。 [自主翻译] 这背后的想法是：你不需要让孩子学习，因为孩子们无论如何都想学习。
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