2013-2014学年度大同市云天补习学校第三次模拟考试英语试题.docVIP

2013—2014学年度大同市云天补习学校第三次模拟考试 英语试卷 2014.5.10 本试卷分第I卷（选择题）和第II卷（非选择题）两部分（总分150分，考试时间为120分钟） 第I卷 第二部分：阅读理解（共两节，满分60分） 第一节：（共15小题，每小题3分，满分45分） 阅读下列短文,从每题所给的四个选项（A 、B、C和D）中,选出最佳选项,并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。 A The story behind my teaching career starts in India, really. After doing sports science at university, I went out to Calcutta where I worked with students learning English. It was then that I decided I didn’t want to be a sports teacher and realized the concept that kids can change the world around them, and it became my kind of mission for education. A few weeks ago I came across my first application for my first citizenship teaching post and the first question was what is citizenship all about. My answer to that is the same now as it was then; helping young people to develop the knowledge, skills and belief to be part of the changing world around them. Giving them the confidence to know that they have the power to change things, to know that the broader function of democracy (民主) is to make society a better place and that they could be part of that. I did an MA in youth and community and then I started doing GTP (Graduate Teacher Programme) at Deptford Green School which was really hands on. Anne Hudson started teaching citizenship there and she was a good educator, we just clicked and we had the same vision about education. Basically, without her vision to teach citizenship at Deptford Green, the opportunity for me to work there wouldn’t have arisen. My other big inspiration in teaching has been the kids I work with. Kids today get a bad rep, but as teachers we see the other side of students. Students love learning and if they aren’t loving learning with you then you are kind of doing it wrong. I ran for parliament(国会) in 2012. It is really important to me that the students see their teachers doing real, meaningful stuff. Good citizenship teachers are also good campaigners in some shape or form. You can’t teach someone to swim from a book, nor can