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Why Don't Students Like School?
Most of the teachers I know entered the job because they loved school as children. However, they are understandably discouraged when they find that some of their students don't like school much, and that they, the teachers, have great difficulty inspiring them. Why is it difficult to make school enjoyable for students?
As a matter of fact , the brain is not designed for thinking. It's designed to ask you not to have to think, because the brain is actually not very good at thinking. Thinking is slow and unreliable.People like to solve problems, but they do not like to work on problems that cannot be solved. If schoolwork is always just a bit too difficult for a student, it should be no surprise that he doesn't like school much.
What is the nature of being human? Many people would answer that it is our ability to reason that makes us different—birds can fly, fish can swim, and humans can think . (By thinking I mean solving problems, reasoning, reading something complex, or doing any mental work that requires some effort.) Shakespeare thought highly of our cognitive(認(rèn)知) ability in Hamlet: “What a piece of work is man! How noble in reason!” Some three hundred years later, however, Henry Ford came up with a quite different opinion, “Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is the probable reason why so few people are interested in it.” They both had a point of view. Humans are good at certain types of reasoning, especially compared to other animals, but we hardly often exercise those abilities.Thinking is not only painful, as Ford noted, it's also slow and unreliable.
A. A cognitive scientist would add another point of view, “Humans don't think very often because our brains are designed not for thought but for escaping from thought.”
B. What sets us apart from other species?
C. Of course you could make each decision with care and thought.
D. However, people enjoy thinking if it is successful.
E. Therefore, teachers should reconsider how they encourage their students to think, in order to make thinking enjoyable enough for students to go after.
F. If we are all so bad at thinking, how does anyone get through the day?
G. They want to help their students feel the same excitement and passion for learning that they felt.

Answer 1

【答案】G；D；E；B；A
【解析】本文是一篇議論文，分析了學(xué)生為什么不喜歡學(xué)校，教師如何找到處理這種情況的辦法。
（1）考查上文和句意理解。根據(jù)上文” Most of the teachers I know entered the job because they loved school as children.“我認(rèn)識(shí)的大多數(shù)教師進(jìn)入了教師這一行業(yè)是因?yàn)樗麄冊(cè)谑呛⒆拥臅r(shí)候就熱愛(ài)學(xué)校�？芍�下文：他們想幫助學(xué)生感受到同樣的興奮和對(duì)學(xué)習(xí)的熱情。此處的同樣的興奮和對(duì)學(xué)習(xí)的熱情就是和他們?cè)谑呛⒆訒r(shí)對(duì)學(xué)校的熱愛(ài)一樣的興奮與熱情。故選G。
（2）考查上文和句意理解。根據(jù)下文”P(pán)eople like to solve problems, but they do not like to work on problems that cannot be solved. If schoolwork is always just a bit too difficult for a student, it should be no surprise that he doesn't like school much.“人們喜歡解決問(wèn)題，但是人們不喜歡去在不能解決的問(wèn)題上浪費(fèi)時(shí)間�？芍�上文：然而，如果它是成功的，即，問(wèn)題能解決，人們就喜歡思考。故選D. 。
（3）考查上文和句意理解。根據(jù)上文”P(pán)eople like to solve problems, but they do not like to work on problems that cannot be solved. “然而，如果它是成功的，人們就喜歡思考�？芍�下文：因此，教師應(yīng)該重新考慮如何鼓勵(lì)學(xué)生思考，以便使學(xué)生的思考變得愉快。也就是讓學(xué)生喜歡上思考。故選E。
（4）考查上文和句意理解。根據(jù)下文”Many people would answer that it is our ability to reason that makes us different—birds can fly, fish can swim, and humans can think . “許多人會(huì)回答說(shuō)，這是我們的推理能力，使我們與動(dòng)物有所不同，鳥(niǎo)可以飛，魚(yú)可以游泳，人類(lèi)可以思考�？芍�上文：是什么使我們與其他物種不同？下文是對(duì)上文的回答。故選B。
（5）考查上文和句意理解。根據(jù)下文”“Thinking is not only painful, as Ford noted, it's also slow and unreliable.”正如福特指出的那樣，思考不僅是痛苦的，而且也是緩慢而不可靠的。可知上文：一位認(rèn)知科學(xué)家會(huì)補(bǔ)充另一種觀點(diǎn)：“人類(lèi)不經(jīng)常思考，因?yàn)槲覀兊拇竽X不是為思考而設(shè)計(jì)的，而是為了逃避思考而設(shè)計(jì)的�！痹诖颂巸晌豢茖W(xué)家都在強(qiáng)調(diào)我們的大腦不是為思考而設(shè)計(jì)的。故選A。