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[单项选择]The latest bad news is that reading and writing scores on the SAT have once again declined. The language competence of high schoolers fell steeply in the 1970s and has never recovered. This is very worrisome, because the best single measure of the overall quality of our primaries and secondary schools is the average verbal score of 17-year-olds. This score correlates with the ability to learn new things readily, to communicate with others and to hold down a job. It also predicts future income.
The most credible analyses have shown that the chief causes are vast curricular changes, especially in the critical early grades. In the decades before the Great Verbal Decline, a content-rich elementary school experience evolved into a content-light, skills-based, test-centered approach. Cognitive psychologists agree that early childhood language learning (ages 2 to 10) is critical to later verbal competence, not just because of the remarkable linguistic plasticity of young minds, but also
A. Children’s lack of language learning ability.
B. Fewer courses on reading and writing in school.
C. The shift of curricular focus from content to skills.
D. Heavy pressure caused by numerous tests.
[填空题]Students in participating in reading or writing courses learn words based on the recommendation of the course.
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Making Reading, Writing and Recession Work Together
A．With books tucked neatly on the shelves and a comfy purple-dragon rug in a back comer nook, the library at San Diego’s Willard B. Hage Elementary School is the perfect place for children to fall in love with reading. Since the start of the school year, however, the library has been off limits to students, who get to go there only when (already overworked) teachers can escort them and handle the record keeping. "With all of the cutbacks we’ve had in the last few years, the district can’t pay for someone to help check out books," explains Pam Wiesenberg, a third-grade teacher at the school. "As a result, the children suffer."
B．As the national economy continues to nose dive, a growing number of public schools have found themselves facing similar situations—and making more and more painful cutbacks. Advanced Placement programmes, extra help for English learners, art, music and su
[填空题]Critical Reading Towards Critical Writing
Critical writing depends on critical reading. Doing careful
critical reading of sources and (1) them critically can help you (1)______
to write your own analysis of this subject.
Ⅰ. Critical Reading: What ls It
A. To read critically is to (2) about how a text is argued. (2)______
B. The key:
—Don’t read looking only or primarily for information.
—Do read looking for (3) about the subject matter. (3)______
Ⅱ. How Do We Read Looking for Ways of Thinking
A. Determine the (4) or purpose of the text. (4)______
B. Make some judgments about context.
C. Distinguish the kinds of (5) the text employs. (5)______
D. Examine the (6) the text employs.
