Of all the areas of learning, the most important is the development of attitudes. Emotiona
"The burnt child fears the fire" is one instance: another is the rise of dictators like Hitler. Both these examples also point out the fact that attitudes stem from experience. In the one case the experience was direct and impressive: in the other it was indirect and accumulative. The Nazis were filled largely with the speeches they heard and the books they read.
The classroom teacher in the elementary school is in a strategic position to influence attitudes. This true partly because children acquire attitudes from those adults whose words they respect.
Another reason, it is true that pupils often study somewhat deeply a subject in school that has only been touched upon at home or has possibly never occurred to them before. To a child who had previously acquired little knowledge of Mexico, his teacher's method of handling such a unit would greatly affect his attitude toward Mexicans.
The media which the teacher can develop healthy attitudes are innumerable. Social studies(with special reference to races, beliefs and nationalities), science matters of health and safety, the very atmosphere of the classroom, these are a few of the fertile fields for the education of proper emotional reactions.
However, when children come to school with undesirable attitudes, it is unwise for the teacher to attempt to change their feelings by scolding them. She can achieve the proper effect by helping them obtain constructive experiences.
To illustrate, first grade pupils' afraid of policemen will properly alter their attitudes after a classroom chat with the neighborhood officer in which he explains how he protects them. In the same way, a class of older children can develop attitudes through discussion, research, outside reading and all day trips.
Finally, a teacher must constantly evaluate her oven attitudes, because her influence can be harmful if she has personal prejudices. This is especially true in respect to controversial issues and questions on which children should be encouraged to reach their own decisions as a result of objective analysis of the facts.
The author writes this passage primarily in order to show us that______.
A．a(chǎn)ttitudes affect our actions
B．teachers play a significant role in developing or changing pupils' attitudes
C．a(chǎn)ttitudes can be changed by some classroom experiences
D．by their attitudes teachers affect pupils' attitudes unintentionally
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第1題
A．The increased demand for the transportation of all kinds of cargo.
B．The increase in the number of people who wanted to go to Europe after the war of 1812.
C．The increase in the number of people who wanted to go to America.
D．The increased volume of mail.
第2題
A．To introduce a feature that the following paragraphs will deal with in detail.
B．To describe the beginning of a story that the passage is going to reveal.
C．To offer supporting evidence to the following paragraphs.
D．To provide a contrast to the following paragraphs.
第3題
A．They will be able to avoid the mistakes made by the developed countries in harmful emission.
B．Their economy will collapse.
C．They will be forced to meet a certain emission standard to protect the environment.
D．They will have to develop new technologies so that the environment will not be threatened.
第4題
A．Make copies of all the data.
B．Choose the most suitable software packages.
C．Input all the data in the computer.
D．Classify and analyze all the interview responses.
第5題
A. But Komfeld said scientists will not know about the applicability of the drugs in humans until a similar study is done on humans. “What’s very encouraging is that these drugs were developed to treat humans, and they are well understood, because they’ve been used for a long time, ” he said。
B. Later the scientists discovered that two related anticonvulsant drugs also lengthened the lives of the worms-in the case of one drug, by almost 50 percent. “This was a big surprise to use, Komfeld said. ”“We didn’t think anticonvulsant drugs had any particular relationship to aging. That connection was completely unexpected. ”
C. Roundworms are a poor subject for experiments, because they are not like humans, even though their molecules are similar. For example, they have no bones, nor do they show emotions, making it difficult to know how exactly human subjects would react to these drugs in large quantities. However, using the worms allows experiments to be conducted quickly, because they do not live for long。
D. “Somehow the neural activity seems to regulate the aging of all of the body the skin, musculature, and reproductive tract, ” Kornfeld said. “Somehow the nervous system coordinates the progress of all these tissues, evidently, though the life stages. But we don’t know how it does that. ”
E. The discovery may also shed light on the little-understood aging process. Since the drugs act on the neuromuscular systems of both humans and worms, the findings hint at a link between neural activity and aging。
F. Unlike vertebrates, the worms are ideal subjects for the study of aging because of their short life spans, which last only a couple of weeks in a laboratory. The worm is well known in genetics, and the worm’s genome has been sequenced。
G. Use of this drug has been permitted by law since 1998 and wider use is now expected as a result of the studies. “We can clearly link this drug with human aging, but we still need to find proof, says Kornfeld optimistically. ”
第6題
A．Getting married.
B．Making vows.
C．Exchanging marriage diamond ring.
D．All of the above.
