prepared outside the home and they tend to contain more fat, salt and sugar than the homemade food.
Alongside the negative health outcomes of fast food are the environmental influences of industrialized food production and management of food waste.
Slow Food is a global food network, founded in 1989 in Italy by food activist Carlo Petrini, which has grown to over 100,000 members across 153 countries, including 31 local branches within Australia. Slow food is good, clean and fair food. People who eat slow food believe that the food they eat should taste good; that it should be produced in a clean way that does not harm to the environment or our health; and that food producers should receive fair reward for their work.
Slow food movement has arisen to fight against fast food and fast life, by encouraging us to revalue the time we spend in preparing, sharing, and consuming food. It aims to enhance the personal connection between food producers and consumers, and reduce our reliance on mass-produced foods purchased from supermarkets.
It also advocates for environmental agricultural techniques and encourages the reduction of food additives. Perhaps most importantly, it attempts to show how we can revalue the time we spend on food so as to spend in quality food time for our personal ( mental and physical ) and collective ( social, cultural, and environmental ) benefits.
Slow Food guides us to take the time to enjoy one of life’s daily pleasures. There’s no doubt that cooking and eating in general is a lot more enjoyable for life when we’re not slaves of time. “ Time” serves as a key factor for people’s interest in Slow Food as a form of reasonable consumption, but also a key challenge in terms of adopting a Slow Food lifestyle. And that’s why everybody is always in a hurry, because they don’t actually value that that’s an important thing to stop. Slowing down requires one to spend more time in educating oneself about food and then obtaining ethically produced food (放心食物).
46. The old saying is mentioned at the beginning of the passage to introduce a topic that ______.
A. our average diet is in danger. B. fast food is a major problem. C. eating affects greatly on our life. D. quickening pace of life ruins our life.
47. Slow food movement was started to ______. A. advocate a new lifestyle. B. keep people free from illness
C. help people obtain more delicious food.
D. develop environmental agriculture techniques.
48. The underlined word “ enhance” (Paragraph 5) probably means “ _______”. A. decline B. strengthen C. break D. change
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49. What actually prevents most people enjoying slow food is ______. A. a lack of free time B. addiction to fast food C. a lack of food materials D. too many daily pleasures 50. The main message conveyed in the passage is that ______. A. Slow Food has grown to be an influential organization.
B. Slow Food is a new lifestyle with many benefits for people to follow. C. Slow Food has been accepted and recognized by quantities of people.
D. consuming too much fast food may result in negative effects on people’s health
C
Nowadays colleges and universities are facing the same problem: online education. At my school, the University of Virginia, it came close to tearing the university apart. A few weeks ago, our president, Teresa A. Sullivan, was dismissed. One reason was that she was not moving forward fast enough on Internet learning. Stanford was offering online courses, Harvard, Yale and M.I.T. too. But Virginia, it seemed, was falling behind. But can online education ever be education of the very best sort?
To deal with the issue, we need to understand exactly how students and teachers are related. As a friend and fellow professor said to me, “ You don’t just teach students, you have to learn them too.” With every class we teach, we need to learn who the people in front of us are. We need to know where they are intellectually, who they are as people and what we can do to help them grow. Teaching is a matter of dialogue. In summer Shakespeare course I’m teaching now, I’m constantly working to figure out what my students are able to do and how they can develop. Can they grasp the main plots? Is the language hard for them? Then we have to spend more time going over individual speeches word by word.
Every memorable class is a bit like a jazz composition. It is controlled in many ways. We tend to think that the attractive lecturers were gifted actors who could manage 50 amazing minutes on the stage. But I think that the best of those lecturers are highly skilled at reading their audiences. They use practical means to do this ---- tests and quizzes, paper and evaluations. But they are also expert at sensing the mood of a room.
A large lecture class can also create a real learning community. Students will always be running across others from the same class, and they’ll break the ice with a chat about it and maybe they’ll go on from there. When a teacher hears a student say, “ My friends and I are always arguing about your class,” he knows he’s doing something right. From there he applies what he has learned to his teaching, adjusting his course in a skillful and immediate way that the Internet professor cannot easily match.
Not long ago I watched an online course about the Bible. It was a very good course. There were Yale students on hand for the filming, but the class seemed addressed to no one in particular. In fact there was nothing you could get from that course that
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you couldn’t get from a good book on the subject.
A truly memorable college class is cooperation between teachers and students. It’s a one-time-only event. If you’re highly motivated to learn, you can get knowledge from an Internet course. But in real courses the students and teachers come together and create an immediate and vital community of learning. A real course creates intellectual joy, at least in some. I don’t think an Internet course ever will. Internet learning promises to make learning process more fruitless and abstract than it already is.
51. The writer mentions the dismissal of Teresa A. Sullivan at the beginning of the passage to ______.
A. show the importance of online courses. B. introduce the issue about online education.
C. illustrate Virginia’s falling behind in Internet learning. D. discuss teachers’ different opinions on online learning.
52. According to Paragraph 2, the responsibility of a teacher lies in _____. A. understanding and teaching students through dialogue B. getting students involved in learning independently.
C. teaching students without taking consideration of their needs. D. helping students grow up by offering learning guidance.
53. It can be learned from Paragraph 3 that the essential point of being a good lecturer is to ______.
A. make the best of the lecture time on the stage. B. assess students’ learning by means of testing. C. understand students’ feelings and responses. D. promote learning by making specific rules.
54. Compared with a large lecture class, online courses ______.
A. enable teachers to apply what he has learned from students to teaching. B. provide students with more communication opportunities.
C. create fewer opportunities for students and teachers to experience learning joy. D. own more potential possibilities to get students motivated. 55. The main purpose of the passage is to tell readers ______. A. the advantages of online courses. B. the popularity of Internet learning. C. the revolution of Internet learning. D. the trouble with online education.
D
In many American schools the holiday celebrating Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday is used as an opportunity to teach children about his life and legacy. But in too many of those same schools, Black children’s extraordinary talents are still being wasted today. Nearly three-quarters of Black fourth and eighth grade public school
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students cannot read or compute at grade level. Black students made up only 18 percent of students in public schools in 2009-2010 but were 40 percent of students who received one or more out-of-school suspensions(暂被停学). A black public school student is suspended every four seconds. Black students are more than twice as likely to drop out of school as White students. Each school day 763 Black high school students drop out.
So I applaud the U.S. Departments of Education and Justice for their recent action to address harmful school discipline policies that push so many thousands of black children out of school each year and into the juvenile justice and adult prison pipeline. If the education system is to do its part in replacing it with a cradle to college, career and success pipeline, we must end the current practice where children in the greatest need are suspended from school mostly for non-violent offenses.
These resources, officially known as “ guidance”, will help schools and districts meet their legal responsibility to protect students from discrimination on the basis of race, color or national origin as required under Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. As we recognize the 50th anniversary of the Civil Rights Acts of 1964 and so many other important hard-won victories in the Civil Rights Movement this year, we must remember those victories could be lost without meaningful enforcement of the laws advocates fought so hard to win half a century ago.
While the guidance does not prohibit schools or districts from using any particular nondiscriminatory policy, it does call into question some policies that have historically excluded Black students and are of questionable educational value including “zero tolerance” discipline policies which require mandatory (强制的)consequences for certain infractions (违反), and policies that prevent students from returning to school after completion of a court sentence.
Information of the new guidance recommendations is available at this government website for almost every school and district in the country. Check your own school district now to see whether the discipline policy is focused on creating a positive school climate and preventing misbehavior, whether consequences are clear, appropriate and consistent, and whether there is a commitment to fairness in the application of discipline.
56. What does the first paragraph mainly talk about? A. Life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
B. Unsatisfactory situation of Black students’ education C. The percentage of Black students dropping out of school. D. The holiday celebrating Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday.
57. The guidance issued by the U.S. Departments of Education and Justice may ___. A. punish Black children for dropping out of school.
B. push thousands of Black children out of school each year.
C. protect Black children from being suspended for nonviolent offenses.
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