【正文】 ive him/her the chance to be recognized in a national magazine! Convince us your educator is special. Tell us about his or her style of teaching, involvement in school activities, and munity service. Give examples with specific details. Keep your essay between 200 and 1,000 words. Prizes: Cash awards will be given to educators from across the country honored as Teen Ink Educators of the Year. Winning essays are published in Teen Ink magazine. Deadlines: The deadline for submitting Educator of the Year essays is April 30. Entries are accepted and considered for publication in Teen Ink magazine throughout the year. Cover Art Contest Want your photo or artwork to appear on the cover of a national magazine? Submit your images now! Teen Ink will only consider photos and artwork by teens. The subjects should primarily be other teens. The best images for the cover are clear, in color, and close up. Submit entries through our website. All photographs and artwork submitted to Teen Ink are automatically considered for the cover art contest. Prizes: Every month one image is selected to appear on the cover of Teen Ink magazine. Winners receive a copy of the magazine featuring their image. Deadlines: There are no deadlines。 images are accepted and published throughout the year. Keep in mind 遷 your submission has a seasonal or holiday theme, it39。s best to send it early. Nonfiction Contest Make us laugh, move us to tears... write a memorable nonfiction piece and you may be one of our two monthly winners. Teen Ink will only consider original writing by teens. Entries of all kinds are accepted serious, funny, long or short. We like to read them all! Prizes: Winning articles are published in Teen Ink magazine, and contest winners receive a copy of the magazine featuring their work. Deadlines: There are no deadlines。 entries are accepted throughout the year. Winning nonfiction pieces are published in Teen Ink magazine and online each month.（1）What is the award for a winning essay about a school educator? A.Money.B.Magazines.C.Educator of the Year.D.Publication of the essay.（2）What is the requirement for the photos or artwork? A.They must be chosen by teenagers.B.They should be about the winners.C.They should be about teenagers.D.They must be submitted as early as possible.（3）How are winners chosen for the Nonfiction Contest? A.Two winners every two months.B.Two winners every month.C.One winner every month.D.One winner every two months.【答案】 （1）D（2）D（3）B 【解析】【分析】本文是一篇應(yīng)用文，介紹了Teen Ink（美國青少年文學(xué)雜志）舉辦的三項寫作比賽。他們分別是:Educator of the Year Contest,Cover Art Contest,Nonfiction Contest。 （1）考查細(xì)節(jié)理解。根據(jù)第一則信息中的“Cash awards will be given to educators from across the country honored as Teen Ink Educators of the Year. Winning essays are published in Teen Ink magazine.”可知獎勵有兩種:對被授予Teen Ink Educators of the Year稱號的老師給與現(xiàn)金獎勵,學(xué)生的獎勵是把獲勝文章在Teen Ink雜志上發(fā)表。故選D。 （2）考查細(xì)節(jié)理解。根據(jù)第二則信息中的“Keep in mind your submission has a seasonal or holiday theme, it39。s best to send it early.”牢記:你的提交要有季節(jié)性或節(jié)日性主題,最好早點提交，可知對于照片或藝術(shù)作品要盡早提交。故選D。 （3）考查細(xì)節(jié)理解。根據(jù)第三則信息中的“write a memorable nonfiction piece and you may be one of our two monthly winners.”寫一篇值得紀(jì)念的紀(jì)實性文章,你會成為我們每月兩名獲勝者中的一員?？芍獙τ贜onfiction Contest,每個月有兩名獲勝者。故選B。 【點評】本題考點涉及細(xì)節(jié)理解題型的考查，是一篇介紹類閱讀，要求考生準(zhǔn)確捕捉細(xì)節(jié)信息，并結(jié)合題目要求，從而選出正確答案。8．閱讀理解 If spending is a measure of what matters, then the people of the developing world place a high value on brains. While private spending on education has not changed much in the rich world in the past ten years, in China and India it has more than doubled. Since brainpower is the primary generator of progress, this burst of enthusiasm for investing in private education is excellent news for the world. But not everybody is delighted. Because private education increases inequality, some governments are trying to stop its advance. That39。s wrong: they should wele it, and spread its benefits more widely. ① Education used to be provided by religious institutions or entrepreneurs. But when governments, starting in Prussia in the 18th century, got into the business of nationbuilding, they realized they could use education to shape young minds. As state systems grew, private schooling was left to the elite and the pious(虔誠的). Now it is enjoying popularity again, for several reasons. Ines are rising, especially among the better off, at the same time as birth rates are falling. In China the former onechild policy means that six people—two parents and four grandparents—can pour money into educating a single child. ② All over the developing world, people want more or better education than governments provide. Where cities are growing at unmanageable speed, the private education is taking up the slack. In India the private education now educates nearly half of all children, in Pakistan more than a third, and in both countries the state education is shrinking. Even where the state does pretty well, as in East Asia, richer people still want better schooling for their children than the masses get. Thus, Vietnam, which has an outstanding stateschool system for a poor country, measured by its performance in the OECD39。s PISA test, also has the fastestgrowing private education. ③ In most ways, this is an excellent thing, because the world is getting more and better schooling. In rich countries, once the background and ability of the children who attend private schools are taken into account, their exams results are about the same as those in the state education. But in developing countries private schools are better—and much more efficient. A study of eight Indian states found that, in terms of learning outes per rupee, private schools were between times and 29 times more costeffective than state schools. ④