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When Andrea Peterson landed her first teaching job, she faced the daunting task of creating a music program with almost no money for equipment or supplies in a climate where standards-based learning was the focus and music just provided a break for students and teachers.
For her drive and creativity in overcoming those challenges, she’s been named national teacher of the year.
Principal Waynes Kettler said he’s worked with many outstanding teachers in his 22 years as an educator, but Peterson is “just that one step above anybody I’ve ever worked with before.”
Kettler and others at Monte Cristo Elementary School talk about the ways she has introduced the learning from other classrooms into her music program and her creativity in working around things such as the lack of money for new music.
When students were reading S.E. Hinton’s novel The Outsiders in their regular classroom, Peterson helped them write a 30-minute play with scenes from the book. Then they chose three Broadway tunes that focused on race, equality and social justice, the themes of the book. Peterson composed two other songs herself after classroom discussions about the play and the book.
The honor means a lot to residents of Granite Falls. It’s inspiring to know that people from small towns can even win national honors.
As national teacher of the year, Peterson will spend the next year outside the classroom, as a national and international spokeswoman for education.
Not surpassingly, she is a big believe in the value of acts education. She said it’s essential for schools to offer classes such as act or music and physical education because for some kids one of those subjects is the only thing that motivates them to come back to school day after day.
【小題1】The underlined word “daunting” in Paragraph 1 most probably means __________.

A．discouraging	B．interesting
C．creative	D．unbearable

【小題2】When Peterson began her teaching career, ____________.

A．music was a focus of learning in most schools

B．the environment was favorable to music teaching

C．the school lacked teaching facilities for music

D．financial support for music programs was unavailable

【小題3】What is the most important reason that Peterson won the award?

A．She concerned herself with current social problems.

B．She motivated students to learn music with her creativity.

C．She has taught music at the elementary school for 22 years.

D．She made great efforts to arouse students’ interest in literature.

【小題4】Which of the following is an example of Peterson’s way of teaching music?

A．She wrote plays on themes of race, equality and social justice.

B．She made use of the contents of other classes in her teaching.

C．She organized classroom discussions of Broadway tunes.

D．She helped students compose songs by themselves.

【小題5】In Peterson’s opinion, ____________.

A．a(chǎn)rt, music and PE classes are all important

B．more subjects should be offered to students

C．students should be motivated to attend art classes

D．a(chǎn)rts education is more important than other subjects

【小題6】It can be inferred from the text that ________.

A．Peterson’s honor was a surprise for the local people

B．Peterson’s art classes attracted students back to school

C．Peterson aroused the local residents’ passion for music

D．Peterson will change her profession next year

Answer 1

【小題1】A
【小題2】C
【小題3】B
【小題4】B
【小題5】A
【小題6】A

解析試題分析：這是一篇人物傳記類文章。文章介紹了Andrea Peterson的生平及她對推動音樂教學(xué)的巨大貢獻(xiàn)及克服困難的創(chuàng)造力。
【小題1】這是一道詞義推斷題。根據(jù)第一段“...creating a music program with almost no money for equipment or supplies in a climate where standard-based learning was the focus and music just provided a break for students and teachers.”可知這個任務(wù)是令人氣餒的,沒有錢買樂器，而且音樂課也不受重視。
【小題2】這是一道推斷題。根據(jù)第一段“creating a music program with almost no money for equipment or supplies”可知學(xué)校缺乏音樂設(shè)施。
【小題3】這是一道推斷題。根據(jù)第二段“For her drive and creativity in overcoming those challenges,she’s been named national teacher of the year.”可知她被授予國家年度教師的的原因是她推動音樂教學(xué)和克服困難的創(chuàng)造力。
【小題4】這是一道推斷題。根據(jù)第四段“Kettler and others at Mote Cristo Elementary School talk about the ways she has introduced the learning from other classrooms into her music program.”可知Peterson老師可以利用其他科的內(nèi)容來進(jìn)行音樂教學(xué)。
【小題5】這是一道推斷題。根據(jù)最后一段“She said it’s essential for schools to offer classes such as art or music and physical education”可以推斷出她認(rèn)為音樂課或者體育課都是十分重要的。
【小題6】這是一道推理題。根據(jù)倒數(shù)第三段“It’s inspiring to know that people from small towns can even win national honors.”可知人們沒有想到小鎮(zhèn)的人也可以得國家獎項(xiàng)。
考點(diǎn)：人物傳記類閱讀。