【正文】 al, but are justifiable if___. to an abnormal amount of assertiveness. as one’s habitual pattern of behavior. as part of an ordering sequence. to a series of charges. word ―ritualistically‖ in the last paragraph equals something done___. true intention. . a way of ceremony. less emphasis. 第 13篇答案： DBABC 第 14篇 (Unit Four,Passage 2) Which is saferstaying at home, traveling to work on public transport, or working in the office? Surprisingly, each of these carries the same risk, which is very low. However, what about flying pared to working in the chemical industry? Unfortunately, the former is 65 times riskier than the latter! In fact, the accident rate of workers in the chemical industry is less than that of almost any of human activity, and almost as safe as staying at home. 中國最大的資料庫下載 中國最大的資料庫下載 The trouble with the chemical industry is that when things go wrong they often cause death to those living nearby. It is this which makes chemical accidents so newsworthy. Fortunately, they are extremely rare. The most famous ones happened at Texas City (1947),Flixborough (1974), Seveso (1976), Pemex (1984) and Bhopal (1984). Some of these are always in the minds of the people even though the loss of life was small. No one died at Seveso, and only 28 workers at Flixborough. The worst accident of all was Bhopal, where up to 3,000 were killed. The Texas City explosion of fertilizer killed 552. The Pemex fire at a storage plant for natural gas in the suburbs of Mexico City took 542 lives, just a month before the unfortunate event at Bhopal. Some experts have discussed these accidents and used each accident to illustrate a particular danger. Thus the Texas City explosion was caused by tons of ammonium nitrate（硝酸銨） ,which is safe unless stored in great quantity. The Flixborough fireball was the fault of management, which took risks to keep production going during essential repairs. The Seveso accident shows what happens if the local authorities lack knowledge of the danger on their doorstep. When the poisonous gas drifted over the town, local leaders were incapable of taking effective action. The Pemex fire was made worse by an overloaded site in an overcrowded suburb. The fire set off a chain reaction os exploding storage tanks. Yet, by a miracle, the two largest tanks did not explode. Had these caught fire, then 3,000 strong rescue team and fire fighters would all have died. of the following statements is true? at the office is safer than staying at home. to work on public transport is safer than working at the office. at home is safer than working in the chemical industry. in the chemical industry is safer than traveling by air. accidents are usually important enough to be reported as news because ____. are very rare often cause loss of life always occur in big cities arouse the interest of all the readers to passage, the chemical accident that caused by the fault of management happened at ____. city City the passage we know that ammonium nitrate is a kind of ____. gas, which can easily catch fire , which can39。 中國最大的資料庫下載 中國最大的資料庫下載 王長喜 六級考試標準閱讀 160 篇 1120 第 11篇 (Unit 3 Passage 3) Let children learn to judge their own work. A child learning to talk does not learn by being corrected all the time。 if corrected too much, he will stop talking. He notices a thousand times a day the difference between the languages he uses and the language those around him use. Bit by bit, he makes the necessary changes to make his language like other people. In the same way, when children learn to do all the other things they learn to do without being taughtto walk, run, climb, whistle, ride a bicyclepare those performances with those of more skilled people, and slowly make the needed changes. But in school we never give a child a chance to find out his own mistakes for himself, let alone correct them. We do it all for him. We act as if we thought that he would never notice a mistake unless it was pointed out to him, or correct it unless he was made to. Soon he bees dependent on the teacher. Let him do it himself. Let him work out, with the help of other children if he wants it, what this word says, what answer is to that problem, whether this is a good way of saying or doing this or not. If it is a matter of right answers, as it may be in mathematics or science, give him the answer book. Let him correct his own papers. Why should we teachers waste time on such routine work? Our job should be to help the child when he tells us that he can’t find the way to get the right answer. Let’s end this nonsense of grades, exams, marks, Let us throw them all out, and let the children learn what all educated persons must some day learn, how to measure their own understanding, how to know what they know or do not know. Let them get on with this job in the way that seems sensible to them. With our help as school teachers if they ask for it. The idea that there is a body of knowledge to be learnt at school and used for the rest of one’s life is nonsense in a world as plicated and rapidly changing as ours. Anxious parents and teachers say, ―But suppose they fail to learn something essential they will need to get in the world?‖ Don’t worry! If it is essential, they will go out into the world and learn it. does the author think is the best way for children to learn things? copying what other people do. making mistakes and having them corrected. listening to explanations from skilled people. asking a great many questions. does the author think teachers do which they should not do? give children correct answers. point out children’s mistakes to them. allow children to mark their own work. encourage children to mark to c