小卷速测(十四) 完形填空+阅读理解D+回答问题
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Ⅰ. 完形填空
As the teacher called my name, I knew what lay ahead.She looked at me directly and made me to the whiteboard to perform a division(除法) problem.Division was my weakest subject.I repeatedly put the numbers in the 1 places, or forgot to add in the zeros.
I worriedly 2 myself out of my seat.With every slow step I took, I grew more nervous.My stomach ached, and my whole body shook with 3 .
The teacher read the problem aloud.Unsure of myself, I looked at the girl beside me, and tried to 4 what she was writing, but she went faster than I could understand, writing down what seemed to be foreign symbols.
My eyes fixed on the chicken scratch I had tried.Impossible to understand.Why me? Why couldn’t I work out the problem that seemed easy to all other kids? These questions filled my head.
As the other girl finished and danced back to her seat, I wrote some random(胡乱的) numbers on the board, and 5 back to mine.The teacher read over our work.
“Now, class, Susie did this problem absolutely correctly.”
“As for Tara,” the teacher said jokingly,“I don’t even know what she did.”
The class burst into laughs, and I felt my face turn red as I tried to sink as low as possible into my seat, hoping to prevent them from 6 me at all.
But this memory is one I remember, surprisingly, in a positive way.It made me 7 , and gave me persistence.When I get a poor grade in school, or am put down by somebody, I think of that moment and every single one of those 8 that I asked myself.The terrible ache in my stomach comes back and gives me the motivation to answer all of those whys and try hard until perfection, or as close as I can get.
( )1.A.proper B.incorrect C.special D.unimportant
( )2.A.lifted B.dropped C.repaired D.knocked
( )3.A.tiredness B.excitement C.shyness D.fear
( )4.A.accept B.explain C.copy D.describe
( )5.A.rushed B.looked C.talked D.thought
( )6.A.changing B.inviting C.seeing D.teaching
( )7.A.healthier B.stronger C.cleverer D.happier
( )8.A.ways B.words C.hows D.whys
Ⅱ. 阅读理解
Schools Take the Fun Out of Suspension(停课)
Suspension just isn’t what it used to be. Once, school officials could be sure that if they kicked a misbehaving student out of school, the student’s angry and embarrassed parents would be sure to punish their child.
But these days, too many parents are working, while others don’t really care. For some students, suspension has become another holiday, all the sweeter because everyone else is in class.
Now, several school leaders in Ventura County are having second thoughts about suspension. They are changing rules and using a new approach when it comes to punishment—instead of sending students home, they are keeping more troublemakers at school. Students who break school rules are still suspended, but must stay on school grounds, where they catch up on homework, write personal goals, or clean up the school.
The school officials are also concerned about teens falling behind in school. “We want to keep students in school because that’s our business,” said the school leader Bob La Bella. He said at-school suspension prevents the “snowball effect”, when a student who gets in trouble in one class is sent home for a few days and ends up behind in all six classes.
In several schools, teachers or school staff watch over suspended students. Some schools call their at-school suspension classes “opportunity rooms”. Educators say these places are where students have the opportunity to turn their lives around. “Behavior is an outward sign of an inner problem in school,” said the school leader Chuck Weis. “Suspension can give us an opportunity to work on the real problem.”
Middle school students from Ventura are sent to a special “suspension school” held on Fridays at Ventura College. They spend from 8 in the morning to 2 in the afternoon there, involved in activities aimed at controlling their anger, raising their self-confidence, and improving their attitude toward school. In return, the suspension doesn’t show up on their school record.
