中学教师资格认定考试(初级英语学科知识与教学能力)模拟试卷32(

中学教师资格认定考试（初级英语学科知识与教学能力）模拟试卷
32(题后含答案及解析)
题型有：1. 单项选择题 2. 简答题 3. 教学情境分析题 4. 教学设计题 5. 阅读理解
单项选择题
1．Which of the letter “a” in the following words has a different pronunciation from others?
A．base
B．sake
C．lame
D．dam
正确答案：D
解析：考查开音节单词发音。

根据开音节发音定义可知，单个元音字母后面加个辅音字母，再加一个不发音的字母e构成的重读音节为开音节单词。

而在开音节中元音字母发本音。

所以A、B、C三项都是开音节单词，单词中字母a都发的是／eI／的音。

但是D选项中dam是闭音节单词，字母a发的是／／的音，故选D。

2．The choice that has a plosive through the nasal is______.
A．start now
B．good luck
C．make sure
D．what time
正确答案：A
解析：考查失去爆破。

A项start now为“／t／／d／+鼻音／m／／n／”形式，／t／／d／在词尾需通过鼻腔爆破；B项good luck为“／t／／d／+边音／l ／”形式，／t／／d／在词尾需由舌两侧爆破；C项make sure为“爆破音+摩擦音”的形式，爆破音不完全爆破；D项what time为“爆破音+爆破音”的形式，前一个发不完全的爆破音。

故选A。

3．She sometimes uses WeChat______my mobile phone, but only to contact her mother.
A．by
B．in
C．on
D．for
正确答案：C
解析：考查介词辨析。

句意为“她有时候用我手机上的微信，但只和她的妈妈联系”。

by“靠，用(方法；手段)”，in“用，以(语言、材料)”，on“在……上”，for“为，为了”。

微信是手机上的软件，故选C。

4．—The song “Where did the time go?”______the old days and the love of my family. —Sure. It’s also my favorite song.
A．helps me out
B．cheers me up
C．regards me as
D．reminds me of
正确答案：D
解析：考查动词短语辨析。

help sb．out“帮助某人摆脱困境”，cheer sb．up “使某人振作起来”，regard as“把……看作……”，remind sb．of“使某人想起某事”。

根据语境，《时间都去哪儿了》这首歌让我们想起了过去的日子和家人的爱，可知选D。

5．John had never been abroad before,______he found the business trip very exciting.
A．because
B．though
C．while
D．so
正确答案：D
解析：考查逻辑关系及连词辨析。

根据句意“约翰之前从未出过国，因此他觉得商业旅行很令人兴奋”。

so“因此”，表示因果关系，后接结果，符合句意。

其他三项均不符合题意。

6．It is not until he came to the classroom______he found out what had happened.
A．who
B．how
C．where
D．that
正确答案：D
解析：考查强调句。

句意为“直到他来到教室，他才发现发生了什么”。

这是一个强调句，强调句的句型为：It is／was+被强调部分(通常是主语、宾语或状语)+that／who(当强调主语且主语指人时，用who)+其他部分。

故选D。

7．Unlike some other food-capable 3D printers, the Foodini device______from the start to be a specialized food-printing machine.
A．has designed
B．has been designed
C．would design
D．would be designed
正确答案：B
解析：考查时态和语态。

该句子的主语是the Foodini device，谓语动词是design，应该是“Foodini机器被设计”，主谓之间是被动关系，所以用被动语态，由be+过去分词构成。

排除A、C两项。

再根据表示时间的短语from the start及语义可知“Foodini机器被设计”该动作已经完成，所以用现在完成时态，故选B。

句意为“和其他可以打印食物的3D打印机不同，Foodini自设计之初就被打造为专业食物打印机器”。

8．_____finishes eating lunch last ought to wash the dishes.
A．The person
B．Whoever
C．Anyone
D．Who
正确答案：B
解析：考查主语从句。

分析句子结构，该句缺少主语成分。

当anyone等指人的不定代词作先行词时，后面要由关系代词who引导定语从句，即“Anyone who finishes eating lunch last ought to wash the dishes．”。

whoever引导主语从句，相当于the person who或anyone who，但只表示“谁”，句意为“最后吃完午饭的人要刷盘子”。

9．A______is any morpheme or combination of morphemes to which an inflectional affix can be added.
A．root
B．stem
C．free morpheme
D．suffix
正确答案：B
解析：考查英语语素。

root“词根”，stem“词干”，free morpheme“自由语素”，suffix“后缀”。

词干是可以附加屈折词缀的语素或语素群。

故选B。

10．”Good/bad” is an example of______.
A．gradable antonymy
B．relational opposites
C．converse antonymy
D．complementary antonymy
正确答案：A
解析：考查反义关系。

反义关系是对立关系的专业术语，它有三个主要类型：等级反义关系(gradable antonymy)、互补反义关系(complementary antonymy)和反向反义关系(converse antonymy)。

等级反义关系的词语表示的性质在程度上具有差别，对一方的否定并不一定是对另一方的肯定。

比如good／bad，long／short，big／small。

互补反义关系，指对一方的肯定必然是对另一方的否定，二者不能同时出现，为互补关系。

比如alive／dead，present／absent，bey／girl。

反向反义关系只是表示两者之间的一种反向关系，并不表示肯定、否定的对立。

比如sell／buy，give／receive，parents／children，teacher／student。

故选A。

11．The situational approach is a grammar-based language teaching method which focuses on______.
A．grammar and vocabularies
B．oral language and sentence patterns
C．speaking and listening
D．pronunciation and speaking
正确答案：B
解析：考查情境教学法。

情境教学法是一种以语法为基础，强调口语和句型教学，教学过程中分级处理语法和词汇，并通过情景呈现新教学项目的外语教学法。

故B项正确。

12．There are some speaking activities. Which of the following mainly focuses on the form and accuracy?
A．Controlled activities.
B．Semi-controlled activities.
C．Communicative activities.
D．Problem-solving activities.
正确答案：A
解析：考查口语活动。

口语活动有多种方式，其中控制性活动主要重视形式与准确性。

13．Which of the following is a communicative activity?
A．Listening to the news report and talking about an event.
B．Listening to the news report and filling in a form.
C．Listening to the news report and writing the main idea.
D．Transferring the information from the news report into a chart.
正确答案：A
解析：考查交际活动。

听新闻报道并谈论其中的一个事件，属于交际性活动，其他选项均不符合。

14．______is a type of activity in which the teacher reads out a passage in normal speed for two or three times and students note down the words they could catch as
they listen as much as possible.
A．Answering questions
B．Gap-filling
C．Dictogloss
D．Sequencing
正确答案：C
解析：考查听力教学活动。

题目中所述听力教学活动为语法听写(dictogloss)。

15．When teachers teach pronunciation to students, which suggestion is useless?
A．Use hands and arms to conduct choral pronunciation practice.
B．Move around the classroom when doing choral practice.
C．Try to use visual aids.
D．Rely on explanations.
正确答案：D
解析：考查语音教学。

教师进行语音教学时，要坚持准确性、趣昧性等原则，灵活运用教学方法进行语音教学。

A、B、C三项均可以在语音教学中使用，D 项“依赖于解释”不适用于语音教学。

16．Which of the following activities actually does not involve writing?
A．Completion according to outlines.
B．Completion with multiple choices.
C．Completion according to topic sentences.
D．Completion according to the brainstorming.
正确答案：B
解析：考查写作技能教学。

写作是一个从输入到输出的过程，因此要特别注意写前的输入。

写作前进行的思路整理、素材组织、结构规划、大纲提炼、头脑风暴，写作中进行的遣词造句，以及写作后涉及的修改润色、检查校对都是写作活动中必不可少的环节。

因此A、C、D三项都涉及写作，B项不涉及。

17．As for a lesson plan, a teacher says, “When do lesson planning, I always prepare some extra and alternative tasks and activities so that I have the options to cope with the unexpected situations.”According to the teacher’s words, we can know that the teacher follows the principle of______in lesson planning.
A．linkage
B．variety
C．flexibility
D．learnability
正确答案：C
解析：考查教学设计的原则。

教学设计的原则有目的性(aim)、多样性(variety)、灵活性(flexibility)、可习得性(learnability)和联系性(linkage)。

目的性是指教师在
教学设计中要明确本堂课要达到的目标是什么；多样性是指要设计多种形式的教学活动，提供多种教学材料选择，以便保持学生在课堂的积极性，吸引学生的兴趣；灵活性是指在教学设计中设计额外的教学活动或设计更多的活动选择，以便能够让教师在真正的课堂上应对突发状况；可习得性是指教师为课堂所设计的教学内容和教学活动的难度要在学生的学习能力范围之内，当然也不能太简单；联系性是指在教学设计中，课堂的每一个教学步骤都是相互联系的。

根据题干中老师说的话；“我在进行教学设计时经常会设计一些额外的活动以应对突发状况。

”可知，这位老师在进行教学设计时体现了灵活性的原则。

18．When a teacher intends to present or explain a new language point, which of the following grouping methods is mostly recommended?
A．Whole class work.
B．Group work.
C．Pair work.
D．Individual work.
正确答案：A
解析：考查课堂分组方法。

在课堂中可将课堂活动分组方式分为全班活动、小组活动、双人活动和个人活动。

而在呈现或讲解新知识时，全班共同参与是最提倡的。

故选A。

19．Which of the following can be adopted as a post-reading activity?
A．Guessing word meaning from context.
B．Concluding the main idea.
C．Clearing up linguistic and cultural barriers.
D．Rehearse the reading material.
正确答案：D
解析：考查阅读教学。

A项“根据上下文语境推测词义”和B项“推断文章大意”都适用于读中环节；C项“扫清一些语言和文化背景障碍”适用于读前环节；D项“复述阅读材料”适用于读后环节。

故选D。

20．______assessment is based on a fixed standard that is usually the ultimate goal which the students are expected to achieve at the end of the course.
A．Criterion-referenced
B．Norm-referenced
C．Summative
D．Diagnostic
正确答案：A
解析：考查教学评价。

王蔷等编写的《英语教学法教程》认为，教学评价可分为三种：Criterion-referenced assessment(目标参照性评价)，Norm-referenced assessment(常模参照性评价)和Individual-referenced assessment(个体参照性评价)。

目标参照性评价是以具体体现教学目标的标准作为依据，确定学生是否达
到标准以及达到的程度如何的一种评价方法。

故选A。

简答题
21．课堂提问有哪些功能?简述展示性问题和参考性问题的内涵，并各写出一个英语例子加以说明。

正确答案：(1)提问是课堂中师生互动的最常见形式，是课堂教学过程中一项重要的教学技能。

在任何一种课堂类型的教学中，教师都会提问。

课堂提问可以激发和维持学生的兴趣或注意，可鼓励学生参与教学并思考课堂内容，可帮助教师检查学生的理解，促使学生回忆具体知识或信息，有助于教师提供练习与反馈机会。

组织或指导学习。

可见，课堂提问是教师启发学生思维、实施课堂管理、进行知识传授和教学评估的重要手段。

提问数量的多少和质量的高低，会直接影响课堂教学效果。

恰当的提问可以激发学生的兴趣和参与课堂活动的积极性，促进师生之间的交流和信息反馈，促进学生的语言习得。

(2)展示性问题：教师已经知道答案或者答案能在相关工具中找到，用于检查学生对课文内容的字面理解。

学生作答时只需凭借表层理解、短时记忆，或是快速查找课文，便能找到答案。

过多的展示性问题会限制学生自由思考，不利于发展学生的创性思维和综合语言运用能力。

如：What did Mandela do to help Elias solve the problems?参考性问题：也是真实性问题，教师不知道答案或者教师所提的问题没有预设的答案，目的是让学生发散思维，获取更多信息。

学生作答时需在一定程度上参阅课文内容，同时结合个人的认知和经历，对课文信息进行综合分析。

参考性问题可以促使课堂对话更具有交互性，促进学生对所学内容进行深层理解，有利于学生用所学知识进行真实的、具有独创性的语言输出，从而促进语言习得。

如：What’s the meaning of the phrase“out of work”in the context?
教学情境分析题
22．下面是某初中老师对If I become an athlete，will I be happy?阅读课的目标陈述。

①语言技能目标：能根据标题预测文章大意；能充分使用略读(skimming)、寻读(scanning)、总结(summarizing)等阅读微技巧。

②语言知识目标：知道如下重点词汇和短语：professional，chance，charity，injured，make a living(by)doing/as a…，all the time，have a difficult time with／doing。

③情感态度目标：了解专业运动员的幸福与艰辛，知道每一种工作都有其好处与不足。

④学习策略目标：能在辩论中积极与小组成员合作。

⑤文化意识目标：知道中西方著名专业运动员的奋斗史。

根据上面的信息，从下面三个方面作答：(1)从目标建构和陈述两个角度，评析该教学目标的优缺点。

(2)对不合理的教学目标进行修改。

(3)简述教师应如何确定教学目标。

正确答案：(1)优点：①该教师的教学目标陈述充分展示了教师对发展学生综合语言运用能力的课程理念的理解与运用。

②目标陈述较为规范，采用了行为目标的陈述方法，用学生“知道什么”和“能做什么”的句式陈述目标。

行为主体是学生，有明确的行为动词，如知道、预测、了解、辩论等。

部分目标陈述说明了行为条件，如“根据标题”“在辩论中”等；也说明了表现程度，如“充分”
“自由”等。

缺点：①语言知识目标中“知道如下重点词汇与短语”，学习策略目标中“能在辩论中积极与小组成员合作”不够具体，比较笼统。

②文化意识目标不够具体，如具体知道哪些中西方著名运动员的奋斗史。

(2)语言知识目标：在语境中正确理解和掌握单词和词组“professional，chance，charity，injured，make a living(by)doing／as a…，all the time，have a difficult time with／doing”。

学习策略目标：懂得看待问题要一分为二，看清事物的利弊，并在辩论中积极与小组成员合作，主动与他人交流。

文化意识目标：知道中国著名：号业运动员林书豪的奋斗史。

(3)确定教学目标的主要依据是课程标准、教材内容和学生实际情况。

首先，课程标准是确定教学目标的纲领。

教师必须研读课程标准，明晰课程总目标，熟知其内容标准，根据内容标准和单元教学目标来构建具体课时教学目标。

其次，教师应认真分析教材。

教材是教学任务的主要来源，教学必须要完成教材规定的基本教学任务。

教材对教学重点的规定性决定了确定教学目标必须建立在分析教材的基础之上。

再次，教师应分析学生的学习需求。

教师应针对学生的群体特点和个体差异，依据学情制订合理的教学目标。

教学设计题
23．设计任务：请阅读下面学生信息和语言素材，设计20分钟的英语读写教学方案。

该方案没有固定格式，但须包含下列要点：teaching objectivesteaching contentskey and difficult pointsmajor steps and time allocationactivities and justifications 教学时间：20分钟学生概况：某城镇普通中学初中三年级(九年级)学生，班级人数40人，多数学生已经达到《义务教育英语课程标准(2011年版)》三级水平。

学生课堂参与积极性一般。

语言素材：Who invented tea? Did you know that tea, the most popular drink in the world (after water), was invented by accident? Although tea wasn’t brought to the western world until 1610, this beverage was discovered over three thousand years before that. According to an ancient Chinese legend, the emperor Shen Nong discovered tea when he was boiling drinking water over an open fire. Some leaves from a nearby bush fell into the water and remained there for some time. The emperor noticed that the leaves in the water produced a pleasant smell. Later he decided to taste the hot mixture. It was quite delicious. And in this way, one of the world’s favorite drinks was invented.
正确答案：Teaching Contents:An article about who invented tea. Teaching Objectives:(1) Knowledge objective Students can know the source of tea.(2) Ability objectivesStudents can use the two reading strategies—skimming and scanning to get the information from the passage. Meanwhile, they can describe the source or history of something in their writing by using the words and phrases in the passage, such as invent by, bring to, according to, discover, produce.(3) Emotional objectivesStudents will have more interest in Chinese tea culture. Through group work, their cooperative awareness will be improved.Teaching Key and Difficult Points:Students will improve their skimming and scanning skills and know how to write an article about inventions in five aspects—”What”“Who”“Where”“When”“How”.Major Steps:Step 1 Pre-reading (2 minutes)The teacher shows the picture about the story of tea on the
textbook which shows that a person sits on the chair watching a glass of water and lets students guess what happens and predict the content about the reading material.(Justification: Guessing part will focus students’ attention on the main topic of the reading passage.)Step 2 While-reading (9 minutes)(1) Fast readingThe teacher asks students to read the short passage quickly and conclude the main idea. Then the teacher gives some feedback on students’ideas.(Justification: This step trains students’skimming skills.)(2) Careful readingThe teacher asks students to read the passage carefully and answer the following questions:①When was tea brought to western world?②According to an ancient Chinese legend, who invented tea?③How was tea invented?Then the teacher gives them positive feedback on their answers and tells them how to locate specific information in reading.(Justification: In the process of reading for the detailed information, students can have a better understanding of the passage.)Step 3 Post-reading (9 minutes)(1) RetellingThe teacher provides key words and phrases and students retell the passage according to these words. If students have some difficulties in the process of retelling, the teacher gives them some hints or encouragement.(2) WritingStudents are divided into several groups of four. The teacher asks students to talk about the great inventions they know in five aspects—”What”“Who”“Where”“When”“How”and write an article by using the phrases and words in the box. invent bybring toaccording todiscoverproduce After students finish their writing, one student in each group shares his/her work to the class and the teacher gives some evaluation on their writings.(Justification: Retelling can help students strengthen what they have learned during the lesson. After retelling, writing in groups can help students to express their ideas in another form, which can develop their writing abilities and cooperative awareness.)
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There will eventually come a day when The New York Times ceases to publish stories on newsprint. Exactly when that day will be is a matter of debate. “Sometime in the future,”the paper’s publisher said back in 2010. Nostalgia for ink on paper and the rustle of pages aside, there’ s plenty of incentive to ditch print. The infrastructure required to make a physical newspaper—printing presses, delivery trucks—isn’t just expensive; it’s excessive at a time when online-only competitors don’t have the same set of financial constraints. Readers are migrating away from print anyway. And though print and sales still dwarf their online and mobile counterparts, revenue from print is still declining. Overhead may be high and circulation lower, but rushing to eliminate its print edition would be a mistake, says BuzzFeed CEO Jonah Peretti. Peretti says the Times shouldn’t waste time getting out of the print business, but only if they go about doing it the right way. “Figuring out a way to accelerate that transition would make sense for them,” he said, “but if you discontinue it, you’re going to have your most loyal customers really upset with you.”Sometimes that’s worth making a change anyway. Peretti gives the example of Netflix discontinuing its DVD-mailing service to focus on streaming. “It was seen
as a blunder,” he said. The more turned out to be foresighted. And if Peretti were in change at the Times? “I wouldn’t pick a year to end print,” he said. “I would raise prices and make it into more of a legacy product.”The most loyal customers would still get the product they favor, the idea goes, and they’ d feel like they were helping sustain the quality of something they believe in. “So if you’re overpaying for print, you could feel like you were helping,” Peretti said. “Then increase it at a higher rate each year and essentially try to generate additional revenue.” In other words, if you’re going to make a print product, make it for the people who are already obsessed with it. Which may be what the Times is doing already. Getting the print edition seven days a week costs nearly $ 500 a year—more than twice as much as a digital-only subscription. “It’s a really hard thing to do and it’s a tremendous luxury that BuzzFeed doesn’t have a legacy business,”Peretti remarked. “But we’re going to have questions like that where we have things we ‘re doing that don’t make sense when the market changes and the world changes. In those situations, it’ s better to be more aggressive than less aggressive.”
24．The New York Times is considering ending its print edition partly due to______.
A．the high cost of operation
B．the pressure from its investors
C．the complaints from its readers
D．the increasing online ad sales
正确答案：A
解析：细节题。

根据第二段“Nostalgia for ink on paper and the rustle of pages aside，there’s plenty of incentive to ditch print．The infrastructure required to make a physical newspaper—printing presses，delivery trucks—isn’t just expensive；it’s excessive at a time when online-only competitors don’t have the same set of financial constraints…”可知，相比线上操作，印刷报纸的运作成本的压力更大。

故选A。

25．Peretti suggests that, in face of the present situation, the Times should .
A．seek new sources of readership
B．end the print edition for good
C．aim for efficient management
D．make strategic adjustments
正确答案：D
解析：细节题。

根据第四段中的“Peretti says the Times shouldn’t waste time getting out of the print business，but only if they go about doing it the right way”可知，Peretti建议《纽约时报》找到一种正确的方法去解决这件事，及进行战略调整。

故选D。

26．It can be inferred from Paragraphs 5 and 6 that a “legacy product”______.
A．helps restore the glory of former times
B．is meant for the most loyal customers
C．will have the cost of printing reduced
D．expands the popularity of the paper
正确答案：B
解析：推断题。

根据第六段中的“The most loyal customers would still get the product they favor”和“if you’re going to make a print product，make it for the people who are already obsessed with it”可知，作为“legacy product”的报纸，是为最忠实的顾客准备的。

其他三项文中没有提及。

故选B。

27．Peretti believes that, in a changing world,______.
A．legacy businesses are becoming outdated
B．cautiousness facilitates problems-solving
C．aggressiveness better meets challenges
D．traditional luxuries can stay unaffected
正确答案：C
解析：细节题。

根据最后一段中的“we’re going to have questions like that where we have things we’re doing that don’t make sense when the market changes and the world changes．In those situations，it’s better to be more aggressive than less aggressive”可知．在变化的世界中，多些冲劲比少些更好。

C项与原文相符。

A 项中的legacy business不是文中的讨论话题；B项与原文说法正好相反；D项中的can stay unaffected过于绝对。

28．Which of the following would be the best title of the text?
A．Shift to Online Newspaper All at Once
B．Cherish the Newspaper Still in Your Hand
C．Make Your Print Newspaper a Luxury Good
D．Keep Your Newspaper Forever in Fashion
正确答案：C
解析：主旨题。

本文主要是讲述为防止纸质报纸被淘汰而需要做出的应对之策。

根据文章可知，不应该立即取消或淘汰纸质报纸，而应该提高其价格，使之变成一款遗产类产品。

故C项为正确答案。

A项中的online newspaper是print newspaper面临的一个挑战，排除；B项和D项的newspaper范围过大，应该具体到print newspaper。

Soon after starting his job as superintendent of the Memphis, Tenn., public schools, Kriner Cash ordered an assessment of his new district’s 104,000 students. The findings were depressing: nearly a third had been held back at least one academic year. The high school graduation rate had fallen to 67%. One in five dropped out. But what most concerned him was that the number of students considered “highly mobile”,
meaning they had moved at least once during the school year, had ballooned to 34,000, partly because of the home-foreclosure crisis. At least 1,500 students were homeless —probably more. “I had a whole array of students who were angry, depressed, not getting the rest they needed,” Cash says. It led him to consider an unusual proposition: What if the best way to help kids in impoverished urban neighborhoods is to get them out? Cash is now calling for Memphis to create a residential school for 300 to 400 kids whose parents are in financial distress, with a live -in faculty rivaling those of elite New England prep schools. If Cash’ s dream becomes a reality, it will probably look a lot like SEED, a charter school in Southeast Washington, which stands for Schools for Educational Evolution and Development. Its 320 students—seventh-to 12th-graders—should live on campus five days a week. They are expected to adhere to a strict dress code and keep their room tidy. There are computers in the dorm’s common areas, and each student in grades 10 and above is given a desktop computer. At 11:30 every night, it’s lights out. In his plan for Memphis, Cash wants even more time. Perhaps the most provocative aspect of his proposal is to focus on students in grades 3 through 5 for homelessness is growing sharply among kids at that critical age, when much of their educational foundation is set, Cash says. His aim: to prevent illiteracy and clear other learning roadblocks early, so the problem “won’t migrate into middle and high school”. Students will remain on campus year-round. The school would cost up to $ 50,000 a day to operate—three times the cost of a traditional day school with more than twice as many students. “It sounds very exciting, but the devil is in the details,”says Ellen Bassuk, president of the National Center on Family Homelessness in Newton, Mass.
29．What is Kriner Cash worried about most after knowing the result of the assessment?
A．The falling rate of high school graduation.
B．Middle school student’ s dropping out at a very high speed every year.
C．Students being held back an academic year.
D．The growing number of students moving frequently during the school year.
正确答案：D
解析：细节题。

短文第一段第五句指出“But what most concerned him was that the number of students considered‘highly mobile’…”，即Kriner Cash最担忧的是高度流动的学生数量在急剧增加。

故选项D正确。

30．From the passage, we learn that the students in SEED______.
A．can use computers in common areas of classrooms
B．will have access to desktop computers
C．are expected to comply with some rules
D．arc all elites specially selected from prep schools
正确答案：C
解析：细节题。

根据短文第二段最后四句“Its 320 students…At 11：30 every night，it’s lights out．”可知这些学生要遵守SEED制定的一些规定。

A、B两项与原文表述不一致，可排除。

选项D在文中没有提及。

故选C。

31．What does Ellen Bassuk imply by saying “It sounds very exciting ... details”(Para. 3)?
A．It is very optimistic to run a residential school successfully.
B．Details are important for operating the residential school.
C．Running a residential school is as awful as dealing with the devil.
D．Operating the residential school is not so easy as imagining.
正确答案：D
解析：推断题。

由题千可定位至短文最后，联系上下文可知，“It sounds very exciting…details”中it指的是前一句中“The school．．to operate…”，由此可知，寄宿制学校的运作没有想象中那么容易。

故选D。

32．Why does Cash want to concentrate on students from the third to the fifth grade?
A．More children at that critical age become homeless.
B．Children at that age have more problems.
C．That age is very important for learning.
D．It is the best time to build educational foundation.
正确答案：A
解析：细节题。

文章最后一段第二句指出“Perhaps the most provocative aspect…students in grades 3 through 5 for homelessness…at that critical age”，即Cash重点关注三到五年级的学生，因为在那个关键年龄段的孩子中无家可归的现象正在急剧增加。

故选A。

33．What is the passage mainly about?
A．What concerned Cash most about the homeless kids.
B．The benefit of building residential schools.
C．How to help homeless children in poor areas.
D．Building public residential schools for kids.
正确答案：D
解析：主旨题。

通读全文，可知本文主要讲述建立公共寄宿学校。

选项D 正确。

A、B两项只是文中讲到的一个方面，不能概括全文内容；选项C只是说建立寄宿学校的目的。