江苏省扬州中学2014届高三下学期开学学情检测英语试题(4)

   After both sides have calmed down, they can use another key strategy for conflict resolution: listening. Listening allows the two sides to understand each other. One person should describe his or her side, and the other person should listen without interrupting. Afterward, the listener can ask non-threatening questions to clarify the speaker's position. Then the two people should change roles.
   Finally, students need to consider what they are hearing. This doesn't mean trying to figure out what's wrong with the other person. It means understanding what the real issue is and what both sides are trying to accomplish, For example, a shouting match over a peanut butter sandwich might happen because one person thinks the other person is unwilling to try new things. Students need to ask themselves questions such as these: How did this start? What do I really want? What am I afraid of? As the issue becomes clearer, the conflict often simply becomes smaller. Even if it doesn't, careful thought helps both sides figure out a mutual solution.
   There will always be conflict in schools, but that doesn't mean there needs to be violence. After students in Atlanta started a conflict resolution program, according to Educators for Social Responsibility, "64% of the teachers reported less physical violence in the classroom; 75 % of the teachers reported an increase in student cooperation; and 92% of the students felt better about themselves". Learning to resolve conflicts can help students deal with friends, teachers, parents, bosses, and coworkers. In that way, conflict resolution is a basic life skill that should be taught in schools across the country.
60. Which of the following is true?
  A. Violence is more likely to occur at lunchtime.
  B. The eating habit of a student is often the cause of a fight.
  C. Students tend to lose their temper easily.
  D. A small conflict can lead to violence.
61. Why do students need to ask themselves the questions stated in Paragraph 5 ?
  A. To make clear what the real issue is.    B. To get ready to try new things.
  C. To find out who is to blame.           D. To figure out how to stop the shouting match.
62. What can be inferred from the last paragraph?
  A. More teachers felt better about themselves in schools.
  B. There was a decrease in classroom violence.
  C. There was less student cooperation in the classroom.
  D. The teacher-student relationship greatly improved.
C
President Arling has put his long awaited economic restructuring program before the Congress. It provides a coordinated program of investment credits, research grants, education reforms, and tax changes designed to make American industry more competitive. This is necessary to reverse the economic slide into unemployment, lack of growth, and trade deficits that have tortured the economy for the past six years.
   The most liberal wing of the President’s party has called for stronger and more direct action. They want an incomes policy to check inflation while federal financing helps rebuild industry behind a wall of protective tariffs.
   The Republicans, however, condemn even the modest, graduated tax increases in the President’s program. They want tax cuts and more open market. They say if federal money has to be injected into the economy, let it through defence spending.
   Both these alternatives ignore the unique nature of the economic problem before us. It is not simply a matter of markets or financing. The new technology allows vastly increased production for those able to master it. But it also threatens those who fail to adopt it with permanent second-class citizenship in the world economy. If an industry cannot lever itself up to the leading stage of technological advances, then it will not be able to compete effectively. If it cannot do this, no amount of government protectionism or access to foreign markets can keep it profitable for long. Without the profits and experience of technological excellence to reinvest, that industry can only fall still further behind its foreign competitors.
   So the key is the technology and that is where the President’s program focused. The danger is not that a plan will not be passed; it is that the theorists of right and left will misunderstand the bill with amendments that will pollute its focus on technology. The economic restructuring plan should be passed intact. If we fail to restructure our economy now, we may not get a second chance.
63. The focus of the President’s program is on _______.
  A. investment        B. economy      C. technology        D. tax.
64. What is the requirement of the most liberal wing of the Democratic-party?
  A. They want a more direct action.       B. They want an incomes policy to check inflation.
  C. They want to rebuild industry.         D. They want a wall of protective tariffs.
65. What is the editor’s attitude?
  A. Support           B. Distaste.      C. Disapproval.       D. Compromise.
66. The passage is _______.
  A. a review          B. a preface      C. an advertisement    D. an editorial.
  
D
It had been a difficult move. I'd left my family and friends in Indiana, the beloved state where I'd lived most of my life. My new home in Florida was thousands of miles away from anything I knew. It was hot— all the time. Jobs were hard to come by, but I was up for almost any challenge.
   At last, I taught in a special school where students have severe learning and behavioral difficulties.