Writing教学设计一等奖

Day1

Paul Kluitenberg has always been a hit with the ladies. So you wouldn’t expect the 17-year-old student from Avonworth High School in Pennsylvania, US to worry about asking a girl out. However, he did feel a bit nervous when it came to the dance party at the weekend.

Dating has changed in recent years and there’s a lot more pressure on young people. You have to find a novel (新奇的) way of inviting a girl to a formal dance.

“I knew I couldn’t just say, ‘You want to go to homecoming?’

because that’s kind of lame (蹩脚的),”

explained the 17-year-old.

The new trend is called “asking cute”. A TV show entitled Our Last Prom had the main characters trying to impress their high school girlfriends in a variety of “cute”

ways. One teenager even dressed up in a gorilla (大猩猩) costume.

The video-sharing website YouTube has made this cultural trend popular. The simple search “ask cute”

and “school dance”

turns up videos of boys –

and a few girls –

going to great lengths to pop the question.

The internet came to the rescue of Joe McDonagh, a tenth-grade student at Avonworth. The 15-year-old found a clever idea online. He went with a white board and pens when he asked classmate Emily Grambo to the dance.

“I wrote, ‘See who wants to take you to dance party’

on it with a bunch of names, but mine was the only one in permanent marker (不褪色笔),”

said Joe. He placed the board on the top shelf of her locker. When she wiped off the names, his was the only one left.

He got a yes, along with several “awwws”

from the girls who quickly gathered.

“It’s so much better when they ask you in a cute way,”

said Grambo. “It means they put more thought into it and want to be nicer.”

1. Paul Kluitenberg worried about asking a girl to his homecoming dance because ______.

A. he had no confidence in his dancing ability

B. he is not popular with female classmates

C. he had to come up with an unusual way to do it

D. he is socially awkward and didn’t know what to say

2. We can conclude from the article that Joe McDonagh ______.

A. is a smart and creative guy

B. did some research before he invited Grambo

C. shared his video of asking for a date online

D. impressed Grambo with his sense of humor

3. What is the main purpose of the article?

A. To show that “asking cute”

is a new trend for dating.

B. To give tips on how to prepare for a homecoming.

C. To give advice on how to invite girls to a formal dance.

D. To explain why traditional dating is no longer popular.

Day 2

Libraries living on in digital age (P4) A new library in Tianjin –

Tianjin Binhai Public Library –

recently became an online hit. The Daily Mail described it as the “world’s ultimate (终极的) library”, while the word “breathtaking”

was the choice of Newsweek magazine. One look at the library and you’ll see why. With its futuristic design and walls loaded with books, it’s the dream library of every book lover.

But as the awe (惊叹) continues, there’s a burning question lying in the back of our minds: When physical bookstores are closing down one by one, what makes libraries immune from the wave of digitalization (数码化)? And do we really still need libraries now we’ve got the internet in our hands?

Reporter Ian Clark has the answer. “Libraries are not declining in importance –

people are simply changing the way they use them,”

he wrote on the Guardian website.

What Clark means is that libraries have shifted from simply being storehouses of books to a medium (媒介) to help “bridge the gap between the haves and the have-nots”, according to website Libraries Are Essential. Since not everyone can afford a smartphone, a tablet or an internet connection, and not everyone has the know-how to search the internet correctly and efficiently, it’s public libraries that make sure that these resources (资源) and technologies are available to a larger group of people.w

And one of the pitfalls that come with online materials is that they’re not always reliable. “Google doesn’t tell you what you’re not getting, so people need to evaluate the quality and completeness of what they see on their screens,”

Sarah Pritchard, dean of libraries at

Northwestern University, told Northwestern Research Magazine. And libraries are usually where that “evaluation”

happens.

But all of these practical functions aside, we still need the physical space that a library provides. It’s something that’s called a “third place”, according to the Seattle Times. This is a place in which we can fully concentrate on our study and work without easily getting distracted.

And compared to other “third places”

like coffee shops, libraries have a “non-commercial nature”

that allows you to relax completely.

“Nobody is trying to sell you anything in the library. There is no pressure to buy and there is no judgment of your choices,”

Anne Goulding, a professor at Victoria University in New Zealand, wrote on the Newsroom website.

“There are few other spaces that you can just ‘be’

without somebody questioning your presence or your motivation (动机).”

Choose the best answer:

1. According to the text, Tianjin Binhai Public Library ______.

A. is the largest ever library in China

B. impresses people with its unique design

C. has caused a heated debate on the internet

D. provides a quiet place for people to read

2. What would Ian Clark probably agree with?

A. Libraries are not as important as they used to be.

B. Libraries are made better use of by the poor than by the rich.

C. Libraries allow more people to have access to useful information.

D. Libraries have changed the way people evaluate information.

3. The underlined word “pitfalls”

in Paragraph 5 is closest in meaning to ______.

A. messages B. rules

C. trends

D. shortcomings

4. What advantages do libraries have over coffee shops, according to Anne Goulding?

A. Libraries make people less likely to get distracted.

B. Libraries give people more motivation and inspiration.

C. Libraries provide people with a wider range of choices.

D. Libraries allow people to relax without fear of judgment.

5. What message does the author want to convey with this article?

A. Libraries should reform to keep up with the pace of digitalization.

B. It remains to be seen whether libraries will survive in the future.

C. Libraries are suffering because of the wave of digitalization.

D. Libraries have reasons to stay alive in the modern world.

Day 3

Sheep have talent for spotting (P6) Imagine you were riding the bus to school during morning rush hour. Would you be able to spot the face of your favorite celebrity (明星) in the sea of people? You probably would. Well, it turns out that even a sheep could do it.

In a new scientific study, a flock (群) of sheep at the University of Cambridge, UK, were able to recognize the faces of human celebrities, including UK actress Emma Watson, US actor Jake Gyllenhaal, UK newsreader Fiona Bruce and former US president Barack Obama.

The sheep took tests for facial recognition. After learning the celebrities’

faces from pictures on computer screens, they were then shown the same pictures next to those of “regular”

people. If they chose the “learned-familiar”

celebrity faces, they received a treat.

When the sheep saw pictures of celebrities looking straight ahead, they were able to identify them 80 percent of the time, reported the Guardian. The rate dropped to less than 70 percent when the faces were shown from the side. This is a similar drop that would be seen in humans too.

Finally, the sheep were able to identify the “very familiar”

face of their trainer, without being trained.

It showed that “sheep could not only be trained to recognize unfamiliar human faces, but they could also recognize the face of a person familiar to them from a two-dimensional (二维的) image,”

according to the research, which was published in the journal Open Science in November.

“We know that sheep can recognize their handlers (动物训导员), but I was still impressed they could do this,”

Jenny Morton, the professor who led the study, told the Guardian. “Face recognition is a sophisticated (复杂的) process, but they’ve got big brains, they see other sheep, and they use this processing to recognize one another.”

Humans are able to recognize other people’s faces quickly and easily. Although many animals can identify the faces of the same species such as chimpanzees (黑猩猩), cattle and pigeons (鸽子), only a few such as horses and dogs could identify the faces of individuals from other species, according to USA Today.

The researchers plan to further study the sheep and figure out whether they can recognize different facial expressions made by humans.

It’s hoped that the study could shed light on certain brain diseases such as Huntington’s disease (亨廷顿氏综合症), which affects cognitive (认知的) abilities like facial recognition.

“We want to understand how the disease starts so we can start thinking about preventing it,”

Morton told the Guardian.

Choose the best answer:

1. During the research, the sheep were trained to ______ from photographs.

A. tell the faces of their partners apart

B. identify certain celebrity faces

C. recognize their familiar handlers

D. distinguish celebrities from ordinary people

2. What did the scientists discover from their study?

A. The sheep recognized photos taken of faces from the front better than those from the side.

B. The sheep performed equally well without food rewards.

C. The sheep could recognize one another without being trained.

D. The sheep’s face recognition ability was connected with their big brains.

3. To advance their research on sheep, the researchers are most likely to ______.

A. work on finding a cure for certain brain diseases

B. figure out what diseases could affect cognitive abilities

C. test if sheep can recognize human facial expressions

D. work out ways to improve sheep’s cognitive abilities

Day 4

Gift made with love (PII) I’ve never been the kind of person to say, “it’s the thought that counts”

when it comes to gifts. That was until a couple of weeks ago, when my kids gave me a present that blew me away.

For years now, I’ve been wanting to sell our home, the place where my husband and I raised our kids. But to me, this house is much more than just a building.

In the front room, there’s a wall that has hundreds of pencil lines, marking the progress of my children’s growth.

Every growth stage is marked in grey, with each child’s name and the date they were measured.

Most people I know have been featured on a wall like this, or at least had a wall like it in their home.

Of all the objects and all the memories, it’s this one thing in a home that’s the hardest to leave behind. Friends I know have returned home after work only to discover their wall of heights has been freshly painted over. A new paint job wouldn’t normally be greeted by tears, but erasing that evidence of motherhood hurts more than it should. Our kids grow in so many ways, but the wall is physical evidence of their progress, right there for everyone to see.

Over the years, I’ve talked about how much I would hate leaving that wall behind when I moved, even though the last marks were made 10 years ago when my kids stopped growing.

So one day, while I was at work, my children decided to do something about it.

They hired Jacquie Manning, a professional photographer whose work is about capturing (捕捉) the beautiful things in life, from clear lakes and skies to diamonds and ballgowns (舞会礼服).

She came to our house while I was at work, and over several hours, took photos of the hundreds

of drawings and lines, little grey fingerprints (手印), and old marks. Somehow, she managed to photograph all those years of memories perfectly. Afterwards, she put all the photos together into one image, transforming them into a beautiful history of my family.

Three weeks later, my children’s wonderful gift made its way to me –

a life-size photo of the pencil lines and fingerprints that represents entire lifetimes of love and growth.

Choose the best answer:

1. We can infer from the article that the author ______.

A. was strongly against selling their home

B. was not happy with the gift from her family

C. kept marks for family members every year

D. put great love and care in raising her children

2. The author used her friends’

example in Paragraph 6 to ______.

A. persuade her family to leave the wall as it was

B. emphasize the meaning of keeping good memories

C. explain why her house badly needed a new paint job

D. share her memory of motherhood with readers

3. According to the article, it was Jacquie Manning who ______.

A. helped the author paint her new house

B. made a copy of the growth marks on the wall

C. shot pictures to record the author’s growth stage

D. came up with the idea of the photo gift

4. The main purpose of the article is to ______.

A. give advice on picking up gifts for parents

B. introduce effective ways to communicate with children

C. explain why memories of love and growth matter

D. recommend a unique way to record family history

Day 5

假定英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文，请你修改你同桌写的以下作文。文中共有10处语言错误，每句中最多有两处；每处错误仅涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。

增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号(∧)，并在其下面写出该加的词。

删除：把多余的词用斜线（）划掉。

修改：在错的词下划一横线，并在该词下面写出修改的词。

注意：1. 每处错误及其修改均仅限一词；

2. 只允许修改10处，多者(从第11处起)不计分。

Have you heard from Singles’

Day (Nov 11) in China? Many people stay up lately that night, shopping online to get big savings. Well, the US has something like it calling Black Friday.

Black Friday is one of the bigger shopping days in the US. It always falls on a day after the Thanksgiving holiday. On this day, store will offer special deals, just like on Singles’

Day in China.

On Black Friday, shoppers will often wake up very early to wait in line at stores after they open. They might start wait in line as early as 2 or 3 am. Sometimes, the crowds will be such big that it is impossible to get inside the store. People sometimes fight over things because there are only a few are left.

Keys：

D1 1-3 CBA D2 1-5 BCDDD D3 1-3 BAC D4 1-4 DBBC

D5 1. from→of/about 2. lately→late 3. calling→called 4. bigger→biggest 5. falls on后的a→the 6. store→stores 7. after→before 8. 在might start后∧to或者把start后的wait改为waiting

9. such→so 10. 删除a few后的are