2017_2018学年高中英语阶段仿真检测四新人教版选修1

阶段仿真检测（四）A卷学业水平达标【说明】本试卷满分120分，考试时间100分钟Ⅰ.阅读理解(共15小题；每小题2分，满分30分)AOn the whole, it’s not something we shout about, but onein four of us does it. Hiring private tutors for our childrenis now widespread. And this year, as always, the Easterholidays will be peak time for tutor demand.“My husband and I tried to tutor her at home, but we foundall our knowledge was out of date and we were only confusing Zarreen. We also tried a group revision course but all the children were sitting exams for different boards (入学考试the money. In our case, Preeta is like an elder sister to Zarreen and that’s the most important，” says Ashan Sabri from London, whose daughter Zarreen, 18, is having tu ition in biology and chemistry in preparation for A­levels this summer.In fact, Preeta Datta is only six years older than her pupil and she is happy to provide extra tuition through mobile phone. “Zarreen will call me two or three times a week with a question about biology or chemistry, and that’s fine with me，” says Datta.The real question is：does tutoring do any good?“It’s not the magic bullet，” says educator Judith Ireson. “It’s still up to the child to do the learning.If he or she isn’t interested, then sending them to a private tutor won’t do any good.”In this case, it’s time to break open the Champagne? “Not necessarily，” says Elaine Tyrrell, head of a private school.“While we recommend private tutoring for children whose first language isn’t English, we don’t encourage it for the others，” says Tyrrell. “With the level of education they get here, children really ought to be able to pass the entrance exams. Besides, our biggest worry is that they might just get in with the help ofy won’t be able to manage.”It’s a point really worth considering. After all, who would want our child to stay at the bottom of the class?1．The passage is most probably written by________.A．a parentB．a studentC．a famous educatorD．a headmaster of a private school解析：选A 推理判断题。

由第一段的our children，第二段“My husband and I tried to tutor her”可推出该文章很可能是由一位父母写的。

2．In Ashan Sabri’s opinion, which method is most suitable for her daughter?A．Teaching her at home by herself.B．Taking different kinds of exams.C．Taking part in group revision courses.D．Finding a private tutor to help her.解析：选D 细节理解题。

由第二段的works best and it is worth the money.”可知。

3．About private tutoring, Judith Ireson points out one of its disadvantages that it________.A．is expensive and the poor families might not be able to afford itB．might make the children rely on their private tutors too muchC．won’t work without the children’s actual needs and active involvement D．is not suitable for students who haven’t developed a certain level in解析：选C 推理判断题。

由文章第五段的“It’s still up to the child ... do any good.”可推出答案。

4．What attitude does the author hold towards home tutoring？A．Supportive. B．Critical.C．Uninterested. D．Uncertain.解析：选D 作者态度题。

由最后一段的内容可知作者也不确定孩子要不要家教。

BLearning an instrument can help children improve their linguistic (语言的) skills, and may even help people recover from memory loss after brain injury, researchers have found.These are the findings of a study by psychologists at the Chinese University of Hong Kong in the journal Neuropsychology.The study found that children who undergo music training have better recall ofwords than those who have none. And the longer their period of music training, the more words they recall.Led by psychologist, Dr Agnes Chan, the team studied a group of 90 schoolboys, aged 6 to 15, half of whom received music training in their school’s orchestra (乐队) for between one and five years. The other half had no training.The boys were all tested for verbal memory by reading them a list of words and asking them to remember as many as possible 10 minutes after the test, and the 30 minutes after. They were then shown a series of images, and asked to recall these. Each student was tested three times.The team found that students with music training recalled more words than the untrained students. After 30 minutes, they still keep more words in mind than the control group.In addition, there was a positive connection between the length of time the students had been learning and how well they remembered words：the longer they had been in training, the more words they recalled. But there were no differences between the two groups in recalling images.How does music help a child to remember words? Chan believes that learning music encourages the development of the part of the brain which is responsible for verbal memory.When it comes to music training, it is not the instrument or the type of music but the actual process of learning that helps verbal training, said Chan.She believes the finding could be the basis of a new approach to helping people with memory loss following brain injury.5．According to the study, the students who have learned an instrument for ________ years can remember more words.A．one B．twoC．four D．five解析：选D 细节判断题。