Model Test 5
Currently, higher education is confronting urgent calls to return to its original mission of developing a wellinformed, and critically thinking citizen. What exactly can higher education do to promote sense of citizenship among students, and at the same time solve the numerous social problems that continue to annoy society?
One answer may be found within the college or university curriculum（课程）, through the simple but extremely powerful academic tool known as “service learning”. The basic idea behind service learning is to use a community or public service experience to enhance the meaning and impact of traditional course content. Connecting service directly with academic courses makes it quite different from “volunteer” work that is performed in the community. Service learning also involves more than simply sending a class of students into communities for additional course credit(学分).
Properly designed service learning courses relate the community service experience to the course material and require that students reflect on their experiences through writings, discussions, or class presentations. Service learning not only enriches traditional course content by giving the student an opportunity to test or demonstrate abstract theory in the real world, it also improves the quality of the service being performed by giving it an theoretical support.
Service learning may be achieved in any academic fields. For example, students enrolled in a psychology class could conduct counseling（咨询）, and drug education for atrisk school children. We have also examined the relationship between the service experience and 35 college outcomes in the following areas: civic responsibility, academic attainment, and life skills. The most remarkable result of the study was that all 35 student outcome measures were favorably influenced by service participation.
Questions:
1. What does service learning aim at?
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2. What is the traditional course?
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3. What is the main feature of “service learning”?
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4. Why does the author say that service performance has been improved now?
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5. What kinds of students can take part in service learning?
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答案部分
短文大意
本文主要谈论高等教育。目前高等教育正面临着迫切的呼声，要求恢复其原有办学宗旨，即培养信息灵通、有判断思考能力的公民。然而高等教育如何才能做到既提高学生公民意识同时又能解决困扰我们的诸多社会问题呢?答案有一个既通过Service learning 。
1.【参考答案】 To promote a sense of citizenship and to solve social problems.
【解题技巧】 借用原文主干词概括。
【详细解答】 结合第一段段末和第二段段首可知Service learning is one answer to how to improve sense of citizenship and how to solve social problems 。
2.【参考答案】 Service learning.
【解题技巧】 根据提示做出推论。
【详细解答】 第一段中的return to the original mission和第二段前半部分都提示读者过去的教学中包括Service learning 。
3.【参考答案】 Associate school learning with social experience.
【解题技巧】 准确概括。
【详细解答】 把第三段第一句话进行概括就是答案。
4.【参考答案】 Because it is supported by book knowledge.
【解题技巧】 整理文章中的原句给出答案。
【详细解答】 答案出自第三段末尾。有的问题不能直接从原文中照 抄答案，把原句的意思加工一下，使其更符合答题的语言和语法要求。
5.【参考答案】 Any.
【解题技巧】 注意句子隐含之意。
【详细解答】 第四段第一句in any academic fields说明Service learning适用于任何学生。
完型填空部分
A batterydriven bus has been developed by a group of British companies. The bus, a fiftypassenger singledeck __1__, is to go into __2__ in Manchester shortly, and discussions with the Department of the Environment are __3__ to lead to a __4__ batch(批) of twenty going into __5__ passenger service in Manchester within two years.
Unlike the small governmentsponsored battery bus now __6__ trials in provincial cities, __7__ low speed and range effectively limits it to city centre operation, the new Silent Rider, __8__a range of 40 miles between charges and a __9__ of 40 m.p.h., will take __10__ with diesel(柴油) buses for normal urban and suburban__11__.
Its capital __12__ is higher __13__ lower maintenance and fuel costs bring it __14__ to a fully competitive cost with the diesel bus over a thirteenyear life, without __15__ into account the environmental benefits. The Chloride battery group, which is developing __16__ in partnership with SELNEC is confident __17__ a market potential of 400 vehicles a year.
The bus weighs 16 tons, __18__ which the batteries and passengers account for 4 __19__. It has a single set of batteries, which take three and a half hour to __20__, against the normal eight hours of passenger traffic.
1. A) motor B) vehicle C) transport D) carriage
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