阅读理解(一) 辅导的益处+书籍与成长+机器人宠物
A [2019·通州一模]
Have you ever helped younger children with their reading, writing or maths? Do you think it helpful for yourself? According to a study in the US, student tutoring (辅导) wins easily over computerized instruction.
Now the idea is spreading in Britain. Throughout this term, a group of 14-year-old teenagers at Trinity Comprehensive School spend an hour a week helping children at a nearby primary school with their reading. All the teenage tutors have some lessons which help them to catch up with their classmates at school. Although their intelligence (智力) is around average (平均), they have fallen behind on reading, writing and maths.
Jean Bond, from Warwick University, says that the main benefit of tutoring is that it helps build up the teenage tutors’ self-esteem(自尊). “The younger children come rushing up every time and welcome them. It makes the teenage tutors feel important. However, in normal school lessons, they often feel unable to deal with their schoolwork. The teenage tutors need practice in reading, but if they have to do it in their own classes, they would say it is for kids and they get embarrassed(尴尬的)whenever they have to do it. They are struggling (挣扎) at school themselves, so when the younger ones can’t learn, they know exactly why.”
The teenage tutors’ own reading has improved as a result of reading stories aloud to the younger children. Their view of education is changed. They have become more sympathetic (赞同的) to their own teachers’ difficulties because they are frustrated (沮丧的) themselves when the younger children behave in a silly way.
The younger children get special attention from their patient tutors and they speak warmly of them. “He doesn’t shout like our teachers,” says eight-year-old Jenny. Yet, her tutor Jack sees himself as a strict teacher.
In the seven weeks of the experiment the teenage tutors have improved their reading and have received more recognition and feelings of worth than before. The younger children have made great progress in reading skills by the end of the experiment.
1.According to Jean Bond, tutoring makes the teenage tutors . ( )
A.get embarrassed easily
B.fail to deal with schoolwork
C.feel good of themselves
D.know why they can’t learn
2.What can we learn from the passage? ( )
A.Student tutoring first started at schools in Britain.
B.The teenage tutors are weak in their own studies at school.
C.The younger children think the teenage tutors are strict with them.
D.The experiment helps the younger children understand their teachers better.
3.The writer’s main purpose in writing this passage is to tell . ( )
A.self-esteem is the key to one’s success
B.children should get special attention
C.the purpose of education is changed
D.teaching is a good way to learn
B [2019·西城二模]
Research has already suggested that opening a book may help improve brain function and reduce stress. Now, a team led by Joanna Sikora of the Australian National University is looking into the benefits of growing up around a book-filled environment; the researchers’ new study suggests that homes with libraries can arm children with skills that last well into adulthood.
