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(2017·云南昆明高三质检)Two weeks ago, a 7yearold girl, Chloe Bridgewater wrote a letter to Google, expressing her interest in working for the tech company when she gets older. “Dear Google boss, my name is Chloe and when I am bigger I would like a job with Google, ” she wrote. “I also want to work in a chocolate factory and do swimming in the Olympics.” The student said she liked computers and had a tablet she played games on. She even showed off a robot game that her dad gave her.
It wasn’t long before Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google, replied with his own letter on Google website. In a letter dated Feb. 3, Pichai wrote, “Dear Chloe, I’m glad that you like computers and robots, and hope that you will continue to learn about technology. I think if you keep working hard and follow your dreams, you can accomplish everything you set your mind to. I look forward to receiving your job application when you are finished with school! ”
Her father, Andy Bridgewater told ABC News he was completely shocked that his daughter received a reply. But he wasn’t surprised that she decided to write the letter in the first place. “She’s got determination. She doesn’t see the barriers that we face every day，” he explained.“If she wants to do it, she will set out to do it and nothing will stop her.”
The father remarked that his daughter began jumping up and down after receiving the letter. Still, he’s not in a rush to send his eldest daughter off to work. “Now, my daughter is confident, although she hasn’t yet fully understood that it will take more efforts than finishing her study to make it with Google，” he said.
[解题导语] 本文是一篇记叙文，七岁女孩Chloe Bridgewater给谷歌CEO Sundar Pichai写信，没想到却收到了Sundar的回信。
1．Chloe’s letter to Pichai shows us that she________.
A．expects to be one of the Google members
B．has a talent for making robots
C．makes up her mind to study hard
D．buries herself in computer games
A 解析：细节理解题。根据第一段第二句中的“when I am bigger I would like a job with Google”可知，她写信给谷歌CEO是希望长大后能在谷歌工作，故A项正确。
2．We can know from the text that________．
A．the girl wrote the letter to Pichai on February 3
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B．there are two children in Bridgewater’s family
C．Andy didn’t expect a reply from Pichai at all
D．Google is sure to hire Chloe after her graduation
C 解析：推理判断题。根据第三段的第一句“Her father, Andy Bridgewater told ABC News he was completely shocked that his daughter received a reply.”可知，Andy对于他的女儿能收到回信很惊讶，据此可推知，Andy根本没有指望会收到谷歌CEO的回信，故C项正确。
3．What is the main idea of the text?
A．A 7yearold girl gets a job with Google.
B．CEO of Google responds to a girl’s letter.
C．A father forbids his girl to work for Google.
D．Google decides to employ its youngest clerk.
B 解析：主旨大意题。本文主要讲述七岁女孩Chloe Bridgewater给谷歌CEO写信，希望长大后在谷歌公司工作，没想到谷歌CEO给她回了信，鼓励她努力学习，实现梦想。故选B项。
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(2017·江西名校联盟检测)Several decades ago, educators in the USA began to call attention to a national problem: most students leave American schools without the mathematical skills needed for jobs or for higher education.This was especially true for female and minority students.The Educational Testing Service reported that, in an international survey, American teenagers had the lowest math scores.
This situation has been defined as “innumeracy”， or the inability to grasp the basic idea of mathematics.Mathematicians, teachers, and scientists were alarmed by these findings.They looked for the reasons and decided that, in addition to poor education, there are many psychological blocks.
Embarrassment about not knowing math can lead to fear in the classroom.Fear can lead to silence because students do not want to draw attention to their lack of knowledge.As a result, those students fall further and further behind.Low__visibility__in__the__classroom__has__not__always__been__recognized__as__a__silent__call__for__help.
Math educators decided to try to change that.Math reform is beginning with the educators themselves.Teachers are now being trained to recognize and to help students work through “math anxiety”—the roadblock on their way to gaining competence in mathematics.In addition, math textbooks are being updated to help students understand that math is not a sort of foreign language of numbers.Math is a tool that helps us to analyze patterns and structures, and to discover relationships.
Traditional computing skills of addition, subtraction, multiplication and division are still
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being taught, of course. However, there is added emphasis on logical thinking and creative problem solving, to which there may be several equally valid solutions.
[解题导语] 本文讲述了美国学生无法掌握数学基本概念的现象、原因及相应的对策。
4．What does the underlined sentence probably mean?
A．Students with low scores fear to ask their teachers for help.
B．Poor equipment in classrooms limits teens’ chances to learn.
C．Math anxiety, hardly noticed, is actually a silent call for help.
D．Poorsighted students can’t see clearly, which is a silent call for help.
C 解析：句意理解题。根据上下文及画线句前面的“Embarrassment about not knowing math can lead to fear in the classroom.Fear can lead to silence because students do not want to draw attention to their lack of knowledge.”可知，学生会因自己不懂某些数学知识感到尴尬，而这又会使他们产生恐惧心理，恐惧可能导致沉默，因为学生不想让人注意到自己知识匮乏，相应地，老师也就会忽略学生这方面的不足，由此可知，C项最能传达该画线句的含义。
5．Which may lead to American students’ innumeracy?
A．The methods of teaching.
B．The difficulty of math itself.
C．Students’ lack of interest in math.
D．Schools’ not attaching enough value to it.
A 解析：细节理解题。根据文章第二段中的“in addition to poor education”及第四段的内容尤其是“Math reform is beginning with the educators themselves.Teachers are now being trained to recognize and to help students...gaining competence in mathematics.”可知，教学方法可能是美国学生不能掌握数学基本概念的原因。
6．What may be discussed in the following paragraph?
A．What to be taught in America’s revised math programs.
B．How to make math reform actually benefit American students.
C．How to improve teens’ logical thinking and problemsolving abilities.
D．Why traditional computing skills are necessary in mathematics education.
C 解析：推理判断题。根据最后一段中的“there is added emphasis on logical thinking and creative problem solving, to which there may be several equally valid solutions”可知，文章接下来可能会陈述有关怎样提高学生的逻辑思维能力及创造性地解决问题的能力方面的内容，故选C。
7．What is the passage mainly about?
A．Mathematic skills needed for higher education.
B．The features of America’s mathematics education.
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C．Improvements in mathematics education in the U．S.
D．The importance of mathematics education in the U．S.
C 解析：主旨大意题。通读全文可知，本文作者就美国学生无法掌握数学基本概念的现象、原因及相应的对策进行了陈述，故C项最能概括文章的主要内容。
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