2012考研英語閱讀真題：考研英語（二）第1篇

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　　英語閱讀是考研英語必考的一部分內(nèi)容也是分值占比較高的一部分知識點(diǎn)。2018考研同學(xué)復(fù)習(xí)的重點(diǎn)，距離18年考研時間僅剩兩個多月的時間，各科的復(fù)習(xí)都緊張進(jìn)行著?？缈季W(wǎng)考研小編為大家整理了2012考研英語閱讀真題：考研英語（二）第1篇，希望同學(xué)們能夠?qū)τ⒄Z閱讀真題進(jìn)行研究，對真題的出題方向、考察方式有進(jìn)一步的掌握，爭取取得好成績。

　　Homework has never been terribly popular with students and even many parents, but in recent years it has been particularly scorned. School districts across the country, most recently Los Angeles Unified, are revising their thinking on his educational ritual. Unfortunately, L.A. Unified has produced an inflexible policy which mandates that with the exception of some advanced courses, homework may no longer count for more than 10% of a student's academic grade.

　　This rule is meant to address the difficulty that students from impoverished or chaotic homes might have in completing their homework. But the policy is unclear and contradictory. Certainly, no homework should be assigned that students cannot do without expensive equipment. But if the district is essentially giving a pass to students who do not do their homework because of complicated family lives, it is going riskily close to the implication that standards need to be lowered for poor children.

　　District administrators say that homework will still be a pat of schooling: teachers are allowed to assign as much of it as they want. But with homework counting for no more than 10% of their grades, students can easily skip half their homework and see vey little difference on their report cards. Some students might do well on state tests without completing their homework, but what about the students who performed well on the tests and did their homework? It is quite possible that the homework helped. Yet rather than empowering teachers to find what works best for their students, the policy imposes a flat, across-the-board rule.

　　At the same time, the policy addresses none of the truly thorny questions about homework. If the district finds homework to be unimportant to its students' academic achievement, it should move to reduce or eliminate the assignments, not make them count for almost nothing. Conversely, if homework does nothing to ensure that the homework students are not assigning more than they are willing to review and correct.

　　The homework rules should be put on hold while the school board, which is responsible for setting educational policy, looks into the matter and conducts public hearings. It is not too late for L.A. Unified to do homework right.

　　家庭作業(yè)從來就沒有受到學(xué)生甚至家長的真正歡迎，但最近幾年來，家庭作業(yè)卻受到人們的鄙視。全國的學(xué)校，最近的是洛杉磯學(xué)區(qū)都在修改這個家庭作業(yè)相關(guān)的教育慣例做法。不幸的是，洛杉磯學(xué)區(qū)通過了一項(xiàng)不可變更的政策：除了高等課程，家庭作業(yè)在學(xué)分中所占比例不可以超過10%。

　　這個規(guī)定旨在提出：來自貧窮家庭或混亂家庭的學(xué)生有困難，不能完成家庭作業(yè)。但該政策是不清晰的，是矛盾的。顯然，沒有哪個家庭作業(yè)是在沒有昂貴設(shè)備就無法完成的。但如果該學(xué)區(qū)因?yàn)閷W(xué)生家庭復(fù)雜而不做家庭作業(yè)就給他通過的話，那么這就意味著對于貧窮孩子，標(biāo)準(zhǔn)要降低。

　　區(qū)政府官員說，家庭作業(yè)仍將是學(xué)校教育的一部分：老師允許布置他想布置的作業(yè)。但家庭作業(yè)算入他們成績的比例不能超過10%的話，學(xué)生就能逃避一半家庭作業(yè)，成績報(bào)告單上看不出差別。有些學(xué)生可能不做完家庭作業(yè)也能取得好成績。但想想那些做家庭作業(yè)并取得考試好成績的學(xué)生吧，家庭作業(yè)完全有可能幫助了他們。但是，老師沒有得到授權(quán)去尋找什么作業(yè)最適合學(xué)生，該政策給老師強(qiáng)加了一條無聊的一刀切規(guī)則。

　　同時，該政策沒有處理家庭作業(yè)真正棘手的問題。如果該學(xué)區(qū)發(fā)現(xiàn)家庭作業(yè)對于孩子的學(xué)業(yè)是不重要的，它就應(yīng)該減少或者免除家庭作業(yè)，而不是減少所占比分。相反，如果家庭作業(yè)重要，它就應(yīng)該在成績中重要比重。同時，該政策沒有確保學(xué)生做的家庭作業(yè)是否是有意義的，或者是否適合他們年齡和所上學(xué)科，或者老師是否不過量布置作業(yè)。

　　學(xué)校董事會是教育政策的制定者，在它調(diào)查此事并進(jìn)行公眾意見聽證會的時候，家庭作業(yè)的規(guī)則應(yīng)該暫停實(shí)施。洛杉磯學(xué)區(qū)要處理好家庭作業(yè)這件事還是來得及的。

　　重點(diǎn)單詞

　　complicated['k?mplikeitid]adj. 復(fù)雜的，難懂的

　　academic[.?k?'demik]adj. 學(xué)術(shù)的，學(xué)院的，理論的

　　ritual['ritju?l]n. 儀式，典禮，宗教儀式，固定程序

　　contradictory[.k?ntr?'dikt?ri]adj. 矛盾的 n. 矛盾

　　district['distrikt]n. 區(qū)，地區(qū)，行政區(qū)

　　advanced[?d'vɑ:nst]adj. 高級的，先進(jìn)的

　　implication[.impli'kei??n]n. 暗示，含意，牽連，卷入

　　setting['seti?]n. 安裝，放置，周圍，環(huán)境，(為詩等譜寫的)樂曲

　　essentially[i'sen??li]adv. 本質(zhì)上，本來

　　unifiedadj. 統(tǒng)一的;一致標(biāo)準(zhǔn)的 v. 統(tǒng)一;使一致

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