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The Botanical Garden started life as Skylands, a large area in the grand manner. It is famous for a 44-room Tudor Revival granite mansion(公馆)designed John Russel Pope. Skylands has 96 acres of formal and naturalized gardens and is surrounded by over 1,000 acres of meadows(草坪) and woodlands. Purchased by the State in 1966 and officially named as the New Jersey Botanical Garden in 1984, the gardens contain approximately 5,000 species and varieties of trees and flowers.
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Your NJBG membership offers you discounts at participating nurseries, garden centers and other fine businesses. Simply present your NJBG membership card when beginning your purchase. 1．The money paid for NJBG membership will be used to _____ A．offer further education C．provide better service
B．update the payment system D．protect the environment
2．To renew the one-year membership for your parents, you need to pay_____ A．$30
B．$50
C．$60
D．$80
3．According to the passage, New Jersey Botanical Garden_____ A．was officially named in 1966 C．presents members with awards
B．used to be privately-owned D．offers discounts in most shop
B
My family and I never talked about school as the ticket to a future. I was in the classrooms, but I wasn’t there to learn to write, read or even speak. When it was my turn to read, I wanted to hide. I was 13 years old, but I already hated being who I was.
I had an English teacher, Mr. Creech, who knew I couldn’t read. In one of my first lessons the teacher said that anyone who had a reading age below six had to stand up. I felt so embarrassed. But at the same time, it made me realize that I needed to change the situation. I was determined it wouldn’t happen again. Later that day, Mr. Creech encouraged me and promised he would try his best to help me learn to read. From then on, I never gave up practicing reading.
Now I was 41 years old. One day, I planned to fly back to Texas to visit my friends and family. On my way from the airport, I saw Mr. Creech buying himself a drink. I rushed over and reached into my pocket to pay for him. “Do I know you?” he asked. “Yes, sir, you do know me,” I answered excitedly. “My name is Anthony Hamilton. You taught me English.” The look on his face told me that he remembered the boy he’d once encouraged.
“I’m so glad I had a chance to see you,” I said. “And Mr. Creech, I have great news to share.” I told him I had learned to read. But that wasn’t all. I had become a published author and an active speaker. “The next time you get another Anthony Hamilton in your classroom, please encourage him to read as well,” I added.
The experts say what once worried me has a name: dyslexia (诵读困难症). But I can tell you it was a lack of desire for education. 4．Why did the author want to hide? A．Because he felt sorry for himself. C．Because he couldn’t read at all.
B．Because he hated being laughed at. D．Because he didn’t have a ticket.
5．Which of the following could best describe Mr. Creech? A．Considerate and dutiful. C．Emotional and dedicated.
B．Demanding and enthusiastic. D．Friendly and ambitious.
6．Why couldn’t the author read before meeting Mr.Creech? A．Because his reading age was not long enough. B．Because his parents didn’t teach him how to read. C．Because he was afraid of reading before the class. D．Because he didn’t have inner driving force to learn to read. 7．What can we infer from the passage?
A．Mr. Creech taught two students called Anthony Hamilton. B．The author had become a published author and an active speaker. C．Dyslexia was the underlying reason that made the author unable to read. D．The author was grateful to Mr. Creech.
C
On June 10, at 8 pm, more than a hundred people were gathered in a tent in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. They were there to play video games. But they wouldn’t be playing on any ordinary gaming system. Instead, they were prepared to play games that would be displayed on a glass skyscraper called the Cira Center.
“There was really a great energy in the tent that night,” Ainsley Soulchin, 13, said. She participated in Skyscraper Video Games for Kids. It is a programme that teaches middle school students to code (编程) video games.
In the programme, Ainsley coded a game. She calls the game Dot Man. In Dot Man, a player has to pass through a maze (迷宫) without getting caught by a dot. On June 10, the public got to play Dot Man and other student-made video games on the outside of the Cira Centre. Ainsley was proud of her accomplishment. “When you see your game on the building,” she said, “you’re like ‘Wow, I made
this.’”
Frank Lee founded Skyscraper Video Games for Kids. He’s a professor of digital media at Drexel University, in Philadelphia. He wanted to involve others in the joy of playing video games. So he found a way to make that happen.
“Years ago, I was driving past the Cira Centre,” Lee said. “I thought, ‘Wouldn’t it be cool to make a game out of that building?’” He noticed there were LED lights fixed between the skyscraper’s floors. Lee knew if he could access the building’s computer system, he could control the LED lights. This would allow him to display video games on the skyscraper. People could play these games using a joystick (游戏杆). The joystick would be connected to a computer outside the building. And the computer would send wireless commands to the skyscraper’s internal system.
Now Lee shares his passion for game design with kids. With funding from Intel, he trains educators to create video games. The educators then teach their students those same skills. 8．What was special about the video games?
A．They would be played in a tent. B．They would be played by over 100 people. C．They would be played by children.
D．They would be displayed on a skyscraper.
9．Which of the following best describes the participants in the tent?
A．Enthusiastic. B．Exhausted. C．Relaxed.
D．Stressed.
10．What inspired Frank Lee to found Skyscraper Video Games for Kids?
A．The skyscraper’s floors.
B．The ads on the skyscraper.
C．The LED lights on the skyscraper. D．The skyscraper’s computer system. 11．Where is the text most likely from?
A．A guidebook. B．A website. C．A fiction.
D
What inspires kids to be creative and pursue academic excellence? Some teachers use rewards in recognition of students’ effort or achievement, giving them prizes, medals, certificates, or money.
Psychologists take opposite views of how external rewards, from warm praise to cold cash, affect motivation and creativity. Behaviorists, who study the relation between actions and their consequences, argue that rewards can improve performance at work and school. Cognitive researchers, who study various aspects of mental life, believe that rewards often destroy creativity by
D．A diary.
encouraging dependence on approval and gifts from others.
The latter view has gained many supporters, especially among educators. But the careful use of small monetary(金钱的) rewards sparks creativity in primary school children, suggesting that properly given stimuli(刺激) indeed encourage creativity, according to a study in the June Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.
\show the most creativity,\easy to kill creativity by giving rewards for poor performance or creating too much desire for rewards.\
A teacher who continually draws attention to rewards or who hands out high grades for ordinary achievement ends up with students lacking in creativity and motivation, Eisenberger says. As an example of the latter point, he particularly mentions growing efforts to tighten grading standards and adopt failing grades at major universities.
In earlier grades, the use of rewarding system, in which students handle challenging problems and receive performance-based points toward valued rewards, shows promise in raising effort and creativity, Eisenberger claims.
12．Psychologists are divided in their attitudes toward _____.
A．the choice between spiritual encouragement and monetary rewards B．the amount of monetary rewards for students' creativity C．the relationship between actions and their consequences D．the effects of external rewards on students' performance
13．Which of the following does NOT belong to examples of “external rewards”? A．Tom received a certificate for winning a speech competition. B．Mary was praised by the teacher for making progress in English. C．Jacky made great efforts to enter a major university. D．John was offered a free summer camp due to his hard work.
14．Which of the following can best raise students' creativity according to Robert Eisenberger? A．Assigning them tasks they have not dealt with before. B．Assigning them tasks which require creativity.
高三上学期阅读理解训练110(含答案)
