Question

 [2015山東寧陽四中高二年級月考] How to deal successfully with a child showing outstanding musical ability? Its not always clear how best to develop and encourage his gift. Many parents may even fail to recog?nize and respond to their children's need until discouragement explodes into uncooperative behaviour. And while most schools are equipped to deal with children who are especially able in academic subjects,the musically gifted require special understanding which may not always be available in an ordina?ry school. Such children may well benefit from the education offered by a specialist music school.

  The five music schools in Britain aim to provide all environment where gifted children can develop their skills under the guidance of professional musicians. Children here spend about half of a day on musical activities,for ex?ample,individual lessons,orchestras,chamber (室內(nèi)音樂的) groups,voice training,conducting and theory. They also spend several hours a day practising in private rooms. The rest of their time is taken up with the subjects ： Eng?lish,maths and basic sciences.

  What are the disadvantages? An obvious problem is that the fees are high. However,each school will offer scholarships and other forms of financial aid. Secondly,not all parents want to send their children to the boarding school，especially at an early age. Almost all the directors of the specialist schools express doubts about the wisdom of admitting children as young as seven into such a tense and disciplined (守紀律的) environment. They stress,however,that their main aim is to turn out "well-rounded and well-balanced individuals".

11. If a child's musical ability is not recognized,      .  

    A.the child may behave badly

   B. the ability may fade away

   C. the child may lose interest

   D. the parents may become anxious 

12.        What probably may musically gifted children face in ordinary schools?

   A. Their academic work may suffer.

   B. Schools lack musical equipment.

   C. Music is not seen as an important subject.

   D. Parents and teachers don't work together.

13. The passage mainly talks about      .

   A. education and development about children

   B. disadvantages of music schools

   C. music schools for children with music gift

   D. how to deal with music-talented children

Answer 1

[文章大意]本文是一篇議論文。文章主要講述的是有音樂天賦的學(xué)生可以選擇去音樂學(xué)校就讀。

11. A細節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)第一段第三句中的"…until discouragement explodes into uncooperative behaviour.'，可知，孩子的音樂天賦如果得不到認可的話，他們就會表現(xiàn)得很糟糕，故答案為A.

12. C推理判斷題。根據(jù)第一段中的第四句"…the musically gifted require special understanding which may not always be available in an ordinary school.”可知，在普通的學(xué)校里，有音樂天賦的孩子并不總是能得到理解和關(guān)注，故答案為C.

13. C主旨大意題。根據(jù)文章第一段的"How to deal success?fully'with a child showing outstanding musical ability?"以及全文內(nèi)容可知，本文主要講述的是有音樂天賦的孩子可以選擇去音樂學(xué)校就讀。