上海市各区2017届高三英语二模试卷分类汇编：六选四
One【2072虹口区】 Section C
Directions: Read the passage carefully. Fill in each blank with a proper sentence given in the box. Each sentence can be used only once. Note that there are two more sentences than you need. A. The greatest advantage of the tutorial system is the individual attention that students receive. B. Tutorials can be considered the backbone of undergraduate teaching at Oxford. C. Sometimes, the student may leave a tutorial with only a reading list and the title of the next essay. D. Tutorials can greatly enhance the undergraduates’ academic performance. E. The greatest advantage of the tutorial system is the various curriculums that students receive. F. In the mean time, tutorials are also beneficial for developing students’ skills of critical analysis.
The Tutorial System of Oxford University
In the University of Oxford, teaching is conducted primarily through the tutorial system. It is one of the most unique and well-known methods of teaching across the world.
The weekly tutorial consists of a one-hour meeting between the tutor and small numbers of students (usually two to four). During this time, an essay prepared specifically for that tutorial is read by students and commented upon by the tutor. At the end of the tutorial, the tutor will assign the topic of study for the coming week and suggest readings. 67 Meanwhile, they are also complemented by departmental lectures which are conducted on a university wide basis, lab work, and seminars (研讨会) often with groups of perhaps 10 students.
Tutorials have gained their reputation because of the close relationship they maintain between the tutor and the student. The tutorial system provides undergraduates with direct and in most cases weekly contact with tutors in their academic fields. 68 .
Before the weekly tutorial, students are required to prepare an essay or other works, which they read or present to the tutor. During each tutorial, students are expected to communicate, debate, analyze and critique the ideas of others as well as their own in conversations with the professor and fellow-students. The tutorial system has great value that it creates learning and
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上海市各区2017届高三英语二模试卷分类汇编：六选四
assessment opportunities which are highly authentic (可靠的) and difficult to fake, as the student’s work is discussed on the spot.
69 The contrast between tutorials and large lectures common in the American universities is obvious. In the typical American university, students are taught by the same specialists, in the same manner, and held to the same standards.
However, during tutorials, students have the opportunity to explore their own ideas directly with experts in particular subjects. 70 As a result, students must engage in extensive independent reading and research, using the resources available, under the guidance of the tutor.
Keys:
67-70: B FA C
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上海市各区2017届高三英语二模试卷分类汇编：六选四
Two【20172黄浦区】 Section C
Directions: Read the following passage. Fill in each blank with a proper sentence given in the box. Each sentence can be used only once. Note that there are two more sentences than you need.
A. But there’s no need for embarrassment. B. If you want proof, turn on the sports channel. C. As we grow older, we don’t abandon this system – we internalize it. D. This so-called inner speech can improve our performance on various tasks. F. Conducting a dialogue with ourselves might turn out to be one of the keys to human creativity. E. Psychologists refer to this as private speech – language that is spoken out loud but directed at the self. Your Own Best Friend Talking to yourself may seem a little shameful. If you’ve ever been overheard criticizing yourself for a foolish mistake or practicing a tricky speech ahead of time, you’ll have felt the social restriction against communicating with yourself in words. According to the well-known saying, talking to yourself is the first sign of madness.
67 Talking to ourselves, whether out loud or silently in our heads, is a valuable tool for thought. Far from being a sign of foolishness, self-talk allows us to plan what we are going to do, manage our activities, regulate our emotions and even create a narrative of our experience.
Take a trip to any preschool and watch a small child playing with her toys. You are very likely to hear her talking to herself: offering herself directions and giving voice to her frustrations. __ 68 We do a lot of it when we are young – perhaps one reason for our shyness about continuing with it as adults.
As children, according to the Russian psychologist Lev Vygotsky, we use private speech to regulate our actions in the same way that we use public speech to control the behavior of others. __ 69__ .
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Psychological experiments have shown that the distancing effect of our words can give us a valuable perspective on our actions. One recent study suggested that self-talk is most effective when we address ourselves in the second person: as “you” rather than “I”.
We internalize the private speech we use as children – but we never entirely put away the out-loud version. 70 You’re sure to see an athlete or two getting themselves ready for a sharp phrase or scolding themselves after a bad shot.
Both kinds of self-talk seem to bring a range of benefits to our thinking. Those words to the self, spoken silently or aloud, are so much more than lazy talk. Keys:
67-70 AFCB
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上海市各区2017届高三英语二模试卷分类汇编：六选四
Three【20172浦东新区】 Section C
Directions: Read the following passage and choose the most suitable statement from A-F for each Blank. There are two extra statements, which you do not need.
A. What accounts for this culture of generosity? B. This belief is central to the national character. C. How can a sense of generosity be cultivated? D. Americans’ generosity is rooted in selfless behavior. E. America’s philanthropic nature is not restricted to the rich. F. The formal practice of philanthropy traces its origin to a Founding Father.
Charity—Humanity’s most kind and generous desire—is a timeless and borderless virtue, dating at least to the dawn of religious teaching. Philanthropy（慈善行为）as we understand it today, however, is a distinctly American phenomenon, inseparable from the nation that shaped it. From colonial leaders to modern billionaires like Buffett, Gates and Zuckerberg, the tradition of giving is woven into the national DNA.
___67_____ Benjamin Franklin, an icon of individual industry and frugality（节俭）even in his own day, understood that with the privilege of doing well came the price of doing good. When he died in 1790, Franklin thought to future generations, leaving in trust two gifts of 1,000 Ib. of sterling silver—one to the city of Boston, the other to Philadelphia. According to his instruction, a portion of the money could not be used for 200 years.
While Franklin’s gifts lay in wait, the tradition he established evolved alongside the young nation. ___68_____ Often far less famed men and women have played a critical role in philanthropy’s evolution. One of my personal heroes is Julius Rosenwald, who helped construct more than 5,300 schools across the segregated（种族隔离）South and opened classroom doors to a generation of African-American students.
____69____ The answer is not just to benefit others. Tax reduction, for one, encourages the rich people to give. And philanthropy has long helped improve the public image of everyone from immoral capitalists to the new tech elite. More troubling, however, are the foundational problems that make philanthropy so necessary. Just before his death, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. wrote,
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上海市各区2016-2017年高三英语二模汇编----六选四--老师版(已经校对)
