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Part 4 Banked Cloze
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Directions: Fill in the blanks in the following passage by selecting suitable words from the word bank. Each word can be used only once. Questions 1 to 10 are based on the following passage.
A. fluent D. reverse G. skim J. engage M. proficiency
B. acquisition E. competent H. beneficial K. comprehension N. exposure
C. diverse F. competitive I. enhance L. confusion O. efficiency
Testing has replaced teaching in most public schools. Instead of teaching
reading
or
writing
skills
which
are
(1)
to students, now teachers are somehow
encouraged to (2)
the learning process. For
instance, they ask students to read the questions at the end of a reading text first, and then teach them to (3)
the text for the answers with various test-taking skills. We wonder whether the test-taking skills really help improve their language (4)
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The ability to read or write should (5) the ability to do reasonably well on comprehension of reading texts or (6)
writing. However, neither reading nor writing develops simply through learning test-taking skills. Teachers must be careful when they teach students how to read and write to avoid any false language (7) test-taking
skills
will
only
end
. Too many discussions on up
with
more
(8)
in learning because students have become
more interested in test-taking skills rather than concentrating on the nature and quality of what should be taught.
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while they have little or no (10) to serious
reading or thinking. They are unable to understand or talk about what they read, which is definitely disastrous to their academic preparation.
Directions: There are 20 blanks in the following passage. For each blank there are four words or expressions given. You should choose the ONE that best fits into the passage.
Questions 1 to 20 are based on the following passage.
Researchers have been trying to find how men and women are different in many ways. Take solving problems with (1)
goals as an example. It has been found that even though men and women can solve problems (2)
well and efficiently, there are always some (3) differences between them.
Women focus more on the process (4) merely solving the problem itself. For most women, it is an opportunity to (5)
a relationship with others while discussing with them. It is also (6) and they would like to (7) the task. They usually prefer to (8)
for them to work in a team, \team members for cooperation, as they believe solving a problem can profoundly (9)
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process of solving a problem can (10) others.
or weaken a relationship and make them feel closer to or more distant from
(11) way (12)
, men solve a problem using a very different women. (13)
solving a problem, most men do not feel the same as women. For them, the process of solving a problem is (14)
important as solving it. What men usually do is to (15) their feelings and focus on solving the problem only. They focus more on how to solve a problem (16)
so that there is a possible chance for them to (17)
to be more (18) group work. They prefer to (19) themselves from others. Usually, they tend in their individual work instead of their way in the unknown world by themselves alone. For most men, solving a problem presents an opportunity to make them feel (20)
and to show their abilities in facing a challenge.
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Families, Teachers Navigate Evolving Technology
A) Children grow up carrying devices in their pockets with the ability to access all the knowledge of humanity, for good or ill. The digital age presents both unlimited possibility and frightening threats for children, families and schools around the world. Ever-evolving technology has added a new layer of difficulty to an unheard-of challenge facing Iowa's kids, the subject of a year long The Des Moines Register special project. Today more than ever, technology develops faster than society can determine its implications, experts say. Among the issues confronting children and parents are:
B) From their first step onto the Internet, today's children create a digital footprint of potential permanence. Teachers and parents, often with limited knowledge of new technologies, are competing to coach their children how to manage the reputations they build through blogs and social media use, and to understand the potential harm of lives made public via the Internet. The hope, teachers say, is to avoid the situation illustrated by a university student who earlier this month talked about her breath-alcohol level and arrest at a football game. That led to national news coverage of \to the student's claimed Twitter account.
C) Texting and social media have extended bullying from the school grounds to an anyplace, 24-hour suffering. \
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because students are always connected, they cannot get away from bullying even after they physically leave school,\of the authors of the book Born Digital: Understanding the First Generation of Digital Natives.
D) Iowa families with low or moderate incomes struggle to gain access to expensive technology and connect to the Internet. Governor Terry Branstad considers access to technology so important that he ordered state officials earlier this month to come up with a plan to guarantee every Iowan Internet access by 2015. The digital divide is widest for the poor, according to data from Connect Iowa, a partnership between the Iowa Department of Economic Development and Connected Nation, a national task force devoted to increasing access and adoption of broadband communication. Just 58 percent of Iowa households with an income of $25,000 or less own a computer, compared with a statewide average of 81 percent. The lack of exposure to digital learning adds to other missed educational opportunities that can prevent poor children's success in school and, later, the workplace. E) With Internet access comes concerns about predators who would try to tempt children into cheating, crime or sexual exploitation. A 2010 US Department of Justice report to Congress found that federal child exploitation cases had climbed 40 percent since 2006. The biggest contributor to the rising caseload: technology-facilitated child exploitation. Lisa Adams, a Norwalk, Iowa, mother of three daughters, described that the preteen daughter of a family friend was stalked (纠缠) online by an adult man. The police were involved. \said Adams, who teaches developmentally disabled students in Johnston, Iowa. %unrestricted, 24-hour access to all this technology. Then again, I'm the one who sleeps with my phone by the bed and uses it as an alarm clock.\
F) Research shows that constant technology use can change from habit to addiction. Some youths experience anxiety when cut off from their feeds for extended periods, said Candice Odgers of the Center for Child and Family Policy at Duke University. \their phones,\especially if they never disconnect. Some sleep with their phones under their pillow, so they will hear a text come in – or feel it when the phone vibrates – so they can respond at all hours of the night because they're worried that if they don't respond, they will offend someone.\Frequent technology use also is associated with lack of exercise and outdoor activities. In a 2009 Tucson Children's Assessment of Sleep
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