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BRITISH universities can be depressing. The teachers complain about their pay and students worry they will end up frying burgers or jobless. Perhaps they should try visiting McDonald's University in London's East Finchley. Students are often "rough and ready", with poor qualifications and low self-esteem. But ambition-igniting murals display the ladder of opportunity that leads from the grill to the comer office (McDonald's chief executives have always started at the bottom). A map of the world shows the seven counterpart universities. Cabinets display trophies such as the Sunday Times award for being one of Britain's best 25 employers.
McDonald's is one of Britain's biggest trainers. It gets about 1 million applicants a year, accepting only one in 15, and spends ~40m($61m) a year on training. The Finchley campus, opened by Margaret Thatcher, then the local MP, in 1989, is one of the biggest training centres in Europe--many of the classrooms are equipped with booths for interpreters. It is part of a bigger system. An employee's web-portal, Our Lounge, provides training as well as details about that day's shifts, and allows employees to compete against each other in work-related video games.
The focus is on practicalities. A retired policeman conducts a fast-paced class on conflict management. He shows a video of a woman driven mad by the fact that you cannot get chicken McNuggets at breakfast time. He asks the class if they have ever had a difficult customer, and every hand goes up. Students are then urged to share their advice.
Self-esteem and self-management are on the syllabus, too. Steven Covey's" Seven Habits of Highly Effective People" is a popular test. A year-long apprenticeship program emphasizing English and maths leads to a nationally recognized qualification. Mcdonald's has paid for almost 100iople to get degrees from Manchester Metropolitan university.
The company professes to be unfazed by the fact that many alumni will end up working elsewhere. It needs to train people who might be managing a business with a 5 million turnover by Ihtir mid-2Os. It also needs to satisfy the company's appetite for senior managers, one of whom will eventually control the entire global McDonald's empire.
Which of the following is closest in meaning to the underlined word "unfazed" in the last PARAGRAPH?
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A.Undisturbed.
B.Infuriated.
C.Unconcerned.
D.Frustrated.
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Photographer Teresa Berg replaces a Rottweiler's collar with a pink scarf. She picks a string of pearls to complement a dachshund's coat. She is taking glamour shots of shelter dogs, hoping her spiffed-up subjects will be adopted more quickly."Most photos show dogs in cages, looking dirty, and mangy," says Berg. "I consider my work like an antismoking campaign. We have to make adopting cool."
Her father wouldn't allow her a dog of her own as a kid. He did, however, show her how to use a camera. Together, they took pictures and developed them at his office.
Living in Dallas at 24, Berg found her perfect roommate on the street: a Border collie-Shetland sheepdog mix she named Gpsy. Berg always has a soft spot for the ones that don't have anyone to love.
For years, she worked as a real estate agent, but she quit in 2006 to launch a photography business. Searching the Internet for a dog to adopt as a companion for Max, her Pomeranian, she was instantly put off by the photos online:"They had dirty laundry, dirty dishes, and empty pizza boxes in the background," she says.
Berg finally found Flash, a 12-year old long-haired dachshund who was a Dallas rescue dog. She went to pick him up and ended up volunteering to take pictures of all the rescued dogs there for free. As more dogs went to the program, she took their pictures too. In the following year, after the photos went up on the website of the Dallas-Fort Worth Dachshund Rescue, the group's director noticed that adoptions had doubled compared with last year. She attributed this to the professional photos. "When dogs are adopted that quickly, it makes room for others off the streets, "Berg says.
Over the years, Berg has developed some tricks to snap flattering pictures: position dogs so that light falls on their faces, and shoot at eye level. In 2011, hoping to inspire more photographers, Berg posted video seminars on focusonrescue.com. About 75 people per month now watch her offer tips for taking quality pet photos. She's gratified to see the recent wave of well-shot dog photography on shelter websites and social-media sites.
In the past couple of years, Berg has added two dogs to the Dallas home she shares with Flash and her husband: a dachshund named Jasper and a Pomeranian named Maggie:"I want to take all the shelter dogs home; that's the hard part," Berg says."I have a particular affinity for dogs with gray muzzles."
What does the underlined word "muzzles" in the last PARAGRAPH most probably mean?
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A.Mouth and tongue.
B.Nose and mouth.
C.Chest and shoulders.
D.Elbow and forearms.
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One evening, while Marcos Ugarte was doing his homework and his father, Eduardo, prepared lesson plans, they heard someone yelling outside. Eduardo,47, and Marcos,15, stepped onto the porch of their home in Troutdale, Oregon, and saw a commotion four doors down, outside the home of their neighbors, the Ma family."I didn't think anything was wrong," Eduardo recalls."! Told Marcos we should give them some privacy." He headed back inside, but Marcos's eye was caught by a glow from the Ma house.
"Dad, the house is on fire! " Marcos cried.
Clad only in shorts, the barefoot teen sprinted toward the Ma's home with his dad. Grandmother Yim Ma, mother Suzanne Ma, and son Nathan Ma were gathered on the front lawn yelling for help. When the Ugartes got there, they saw father Alex Ma stumbling down the stairs, coughing, his face black with soot.
"Is anyone else in the house?" Eduardo asked.
"My son! " Alex managed to say, pointing to the second floor. Eduardo started up the stairs, but thick, black smoke, swirling ash, and intense heat forced him to his knees. He crawled upstairs and down the hall where Alex said he would find Cody, eight, who had locked himself in a bedroom.
As the fire raged across the hall, Eduardo banged on the bedroom door and tried to turn the doorknob. Cody didn't respond. Eduardo made his way back downstairs.
Meanwhile, Marcos saw Yim and Suzanne pulling an aluminum ladder out of the garage."Cody was standing at the window, screaming for help," says Marcos."I knew I had to do something." He grabbed the ladder, positioned it near the window, and climbed toward the boy.
When Marcos reached the window, he pushed the screen into the room and coaxed Cody out."It's OK," Marcos told him. "I've got you."
Holding Cody with one arm, Marcos descended the ladder.
When firefighters arrived, plumes of black smoke were billowing from the back of the house as flames engulfed the second floor. Emergency personnel took Cody to a nearby hospital, where he was treated for smoke inhalation and released. No one else was injured. The cause of the blaze is still under investigation.
"You just don't see a teenager have that kind of?composure," says Mark Maunder, Gresham Fire Department battalion chief.
The Ma family relocated. The day after the fire, Alex visited Marcos."Thank you for saving my son." Alex said. "You are his hero forever."
Which of the following is the best title for the passage?__________
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A.Fire Upstairs in the Neighbor's House
B.A Mysterious Fire That Causes No Death
C.Teen Braves Blaze to Help Neighbors in Need
D.Importance of Neighbor's Help in Times of Difficulty
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Donna's fourth grade classroom looked typically traditional. Yet something seemed different that day when I entered it for the first time.
My job was to make classroom visits and encourage implementing a training program focusing on language arts, ideas that would empower students to feel good about themselves and take charge of their haves. Donna was one of the volunteer teachers in this project.
I sat in the back and watched. All the students were working on the task, filling their notebook paper with thoughts and ideas. A student next to me was filling her page with "I can't kick the ball."
Soccer "I can't do long division with more than three numerals." Her page was half full and she showed no signs of letting up. I walked down the row glancing at students' papers. Everyone was writing down things they couldn't do.
lily this time the activity engaged my curiosity. I decided to check with the teacher to see what was going on but I noticed she too was busy writing "I can't get John's mother to come for a teacher conference." "I can't get my daughter to put gas in the car." "I can't ..."
Curious and puzzled about what they were doing, I returned to my seat and continued my observations.
Students wrote for another ten minutes. They were then instructed to fold the papers in half and bring them to the front. They placed their "I Can't " statements into all empty shoe boxes. Then Donna added hers. She put the lid on the box, tucked it under her ann and headed out the door and down the hall.
Students followed her. I followed the students. Half way down the hall way, Donna entered the custodian's room, came out with a shovel, and marched the students out to the farthest corner of the playground. There they began to dig. They were going to bury their "I Can'ts"!
The digging took over then minutes with dirt. The box of "I Can'ts" was placed at the bottom of the hole and then quickly covered with dirt. Students stood around the freshly dug grave. At this point Donna announced," Boys and girls, please join hands and bow your heads." They quickly formed a circle around the grave.
They lowered their heads and waited. Donna delivered the eulogy.
"Friends, we gathered here today .to honor the memory of 'I Can't'. While he was with us on earth, he touched the lives of everyone, some more than others. We have provided ' I Can't' with a final resting place and a headstone that contains his epitaph. He is survived by his brothers and sisters, 'I Can', 'I Will', and 'I'm Going to'. They are not as well known as their famous relative and are certainly not as strong and powerful. Perhaps some day, with your help, they will make an even bigger mark on the world. May'I Can't' rest in peace and may everyone present pick up their lives and move forward in his absence. Amen."
The best title for the passage might be "_______
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A.Donna and Her Pupils
B.The "I Can't" Funeral
C.The "I Can't" and Its Relatives
D.The "I Can't" Touches the Lives of Everyone
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We find that bright children are rarely held back by mixed-ability teaching. On the contrary, both their knowledge and experience are enriched. We feel that there are many disadvantages in streaming(把...按能力分班) pupils. It does not take into account the fact that children develop at different rates. It can have a bad effect on both the bright and the not-so-bright child. After all, it can be quite discouraging to be at the bottom of the top grade!
Besides, it is rather unreal to grade people just according to their intellectual ability. This is only one aspect of their total personality. We are concerned to develop the abilities of all our pupils to the full, not just their academic ability. We also value personal qualities and social skills and we find that mixed-ability teaching contributes to all these aspects of learning.
In our classrooms, we work in various ways. The pupils often work in groups: this gives them the opportunity to learn to cooperate, to share, and to develop their leadership skills. They also learn how to cope with personal problems as well as learning how to think, to make decisions, to analyze and evaluate, and to communicate effectively. The pupils learn from each other as well as from the teacher.
Sometimes the pupils work in pairs; sometimes they work on individual tasks and assignments, and they can do this at their own speed. They also have some formal class teaching when this is appropriate. We encourage our pupils to use the library, and we teach them the skills they need in order to do this efficiently. An advanced pupil can do advanced work; it does not matter what age the child is. We expect our pupils to do their best, not their least, and we give them every encouragement to attain this goal.
Which of the following is not mentioned in the third paragraph?
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A.Group work gives pupils the opportunity to learn to work together with others.
B.Pupils also learn to develop their reasoning abilities.
C.Group work provides pupils with the opportunity to learn to be capable organizers.
D.Pupils also learn how to participate in teaching activities.
