2024-2025学年无锡锡西分校高一上学期
第一次月考试卷
2024年9月
一、阅读理解(每空2.5分，共8空)
阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中选出最佳选项。
A篇
I stood in front of my entire lab and told them,I had made zero progress in the last year. At the graduate program’s annual presentation, highlighting students“ successes, Michelle and I were taking a different approach, sharing our most painful failures. The audience sat in silence, obviously surprised. But we weren’t ashamed. Quite the opposite we were proud to be sharing our full selves and building a base for relationships.
Setbacks are an unavoidable part of graduate school, but too often we try to hide them. By sharing our whole selves, including our failures, we went on to build a deep, meaningful relationship. And we wanted others to experience that openness and support.
We began the workshop by presenting our stories onstage. Then we invited the participants to turn to one another and share their own significant failures. An awkward silence followed, as we had expected, but it only lasted a few seconds. Soon the students jumped into lively conversation.Students even formed larger groups as they realized how many of their colleagues shared the exact struggles they did. Even after the session ended, whispered conversations continued until the next it speaker began his presentation.
From that point forward, every presentation included some mention of the failures that led to the results, It reminded us that behind every impressive result is a person who is just trying his best.Since the workshop, we have noticed a continued change in our classmates. The answers to questions like “How are you doing ? ” are more sincere and less perfunctory and several students have mentioned they feel closer to their classmates.
It’s hard to build a close relationship with someone when all you know about them is their achievements. Talking about failure normalizes it and proves it’s nothing to be ashamed of.
1. What do most graduate school students emphasize in their presentation?
A. Their complaints.
B. Their achievements.
C. Their failures.
D. Their experiments.
2. How does sharing failures benefit students?
A. It stops them from feeling ashamed.
B. It contributes to their school courses.
C. It helps them bond with their classmates.
D. It reduces their fear of presentation.
3. What does the underlined word “perfunctory”in Paragraph 4 refer to?
A. Rude B. Half-hearted C. Detailed D. Direct
4. What can we know about the participation?
A. They were active for most of the workshops.
B. They kept silent through the workshop.
C. They whispered softly during others’ speeches.
D. They felt shocked by others’ failures.
B篇
“You’re so smart!” This encouraging response to children’s math performance is commonly heard. Recently, a new study, conducted by the University of Georgia, found that encouraging children with responses related to their personal characteristics or inborn abilities might weaken their math motivation and achievement over time.
Parents who make comments linking their children’s performance to personal characteristics like intelligence are using what’s referred to as person responses. In contrast, parents who link their children’s actions, such as efforts or strategy use, to their performance are using process responses.
For the study, researchers asked more than 500 parents to report on how they responded to their children’s math performance and their math beliefs and goals. Children were assessed in two waves across a year to measure their math motivation and achievement.
The results show that parents who view math ability as changeable are more likely to give process responses focused on their children’s strategy use and efforts rather than their intelligence or other personal characteristics. In contrast, parents who believe math ability is unchangeable and that math failure can’t be constructive give more person responses. Parents with high expectations for their children give a combination of both responses. While responses highlighting strategy and efforts are not related to any achievement outcomes, children who receive more responses about their personal characteristics — in particular, related to failure — are more likely to avoid harder math problems, exhibit higher levels of math anxiety, and score lower on math achievement tests.
Because person responses predict poor math adjustment in children over time, researchers suggest parents limit this type of responses at home. Another recommendation for parents is to think about their own beliefs and goals for their kids and examine how these might lead them to respond in person or process ways. Simply telling parents to avoid talking about math ability may not be enough. Focusing less on how children perform and more on their strategy and enjoyment of math might be a more effective way to enhance motivation.
5. Which of the following is an example of process response?
A. You are a lucky dog. B. Running is in your blood.
C. What works well for your study? D. Why are you such a math genius?
6. What can be inferred from the study results?
A Parents prefer to give more process responses.
B. Children are more likely to be affected by math anxiety.
C. Process responses help with children’s math achievement.
D. Person responses can discourage children from learning math.
7. What do researchers advise parents to do?
A. Restrict person responses. B. Defend their own beliefs.
C. Stress children’s performance. D. Ignore children’s math problems.
8. Which can be a suitable title for the text?
A. The Strategy Children Adopt to Learn Math Helps
B. The Way Parents Talk to Children on Math Matters
C. Responses to Enhance Children’s Math Performance
D. Suggestions for Parents to Teach Their Children Math
二、七选五(每空3分，共15空)
根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。
Discipline is used in schools to keep students, teachers and other staff safe and to help meet the behavioral, social and emotional needs of the students as they grow and develop. Schools can choose to use discipline in various ways. ____9____
Punitive (惩罚性的) techniques of discipline are most commonly used. ____10____ For example, a student must move his desk to the front of the room after getting caught throwing pencils at other students. The aim is that next time the student considers throwing a pencil, he will remember the embarrassment of having to move to the front of the room while the entire class knows he is in trouble.
Zero tolerance is something that is used for more severe behaviors. ____11____ However, the technique of zero tolerance means that no warnings are given and consequences are immediate. This type of discipline is used in cases of violence toward other students and other dangerous behaviors.
Some schools also use positive reinforcement (强化), which is a technique that involves offering positive consequences for behaviors that teachers and other staff want to see. For example, perhaps a student is given a sticker for turning in homework on time. ____12____ So students want to make the right choices.
The type of discipline a school chooses to use has an impact on the overall atmosphere and safety of the learning environment. ____13____ It means schools can choose more than one type according to different situations. In this way, schools can create well-rounded students who avoid undesired behaviors and instead gravitate toward the desired ones.
A. The goal here is to make proper behavior attractive.
B It helps students have a higher academic performance.
C. In general, experts suggest using a mixture of the types.
D. It aims to teach students ways to avoid undesired behaviors.
E. And the choice usually depends on how severe the wrongdoing is.
F. They involve using punishment in response to a negative behavior.
G. Typically students are given one warning or two before being punished.
二、完形填空(每空1分，共15 空)
请认真阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的A、B、C、D四个选择中，选出最佳选项。
One little girl in Dayton, Maine, has unknowingly changed the culture of her school when she became the first and only deaf student to attend.
Morey Belanger, 6, was diagnosed(诊断) with a rare disease when she was one year old. The disease is so rare that it doesn’t even have a name. One of the side effects the disease can bring about is ____14____loss, which Morey has already suffered. Therefore, she has to use sign language (手语) to ____15____.
