2012硕士研究生英语二Text1

Homework has never been terribly popular with students and even many parents, but in recent years it has been particularly scorned.   

家庭作业从来就没有在学生甚至许多家长中变得非常受欢迎，但是在最近的几年里它变得特别轻视。

 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.

全国各学区，最近洛杉矶联合协会，正在改变他们关于教育的习惯。不幸的是，洛杉矶协会已近产生了一种不灵活的政策，授权除一些高级课程例外，家庭作业不能超过学生学业成绩的10%。

　　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.

       这条规定原本是想解决那些来自贫困或者混乱家庭的学生在完成他们家庭作业过程中所遇到的困难。但是这个政策不清楚并且还相互矛盾。当然，家庭作业不应该布置给那些没有昂贵设备就无法完成的学生。但是如果有地区需要给那些由于复杂的家庭生活而无法完成家庭作业的学生通行证，它的风险就是这个标准需要向贫困的孩子倾斜。

　　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 very 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.

       地区管理者说家庭作业将会称为学校教育的一部分。老师们被允许去布置他们想要布置的家庭作业。但是家庭作业不会超过他们成绩的10%，学生们可以轻松的逃过半他们的家庭作业并且在成绩单当看不出什么不同。一些学生也许在没有完成他们的家庭作业的情况下也能考得好成绩。但是那些完成了他们家庭作业并且考试中表现又好的学生呢？作业很有可能有帮助。然而，该政策不是赋予老师权利去探索什么样的方式最适合学生，而是强制推行一条一刀切的规定。

　　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 matters,it should account for asignificant portion of the grade.Meanwhile,this policy does nothing to ensure that the homework students receive is meaningful oraooropriate to theirage and the subject.or that teachers are not assigning more than they are willing to review and correct.

      同时，该政策并未处理有关家庭作业真正棘手的问题。如果地方发现家庭作业对学生学业成绩不重要，它将会从任务中被减少或者剔除，而不是让他们几乎不占任何百分比。相反的，如果家庭作业对于那些做家庭作业的学生而言分配的量没有超过他们意愿去复习和改正的量，那将无任何意义。

　　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.

       这个作业的政策应该被放在学校关于反映设置教育政策的公告栏中展示，调查问题并且举行公开听证会，这对于洛杉矶协会去把这个政策做好也不会太晚。

【原题】

21.It is implied in paragraph 1 that nowadays homework__A___.

[A] is receiving more criticism

[B]is no longer an educational ritual

[C]is not required for advanced courses

[D]is gaining more preferences

22. L.A.Unified has made the rule about homework mainly because poor students__C___.

[A]tend to have moderate expectations for their education

[B]have asked for a different educational standard

[C]may have problems finishing their homework

[D]have voiced their complaints about homework

23. According to Paragraph 3,one problem with the policy is that it may__A__.

[A]discourage students from doing homework

[B]result in students' indifference to their report cards

[C]undermine the authority of state tests

[D]restrict teachers' power in education

24. As mentioned in Paragraph 4, a key question unanswered about homework is whether___B___.

[A] it should be eliminated

[B]it counts much in schooling

[C]it places extra burdens on teachers

[D]it is important for grades

25.A suitable title for this text could be__D____.

[A]Wrong Interpretation of an Educational Policy

[B]A Welcomed Policy for Poor Students

[C]Thorny Questions about Homework

[D]A Faulty Approach to Homework

【附录】

1、with the exception of sth :除了 sth 之外 ；

2、across-the-board : adj. 全盘的

3、thorny:adj. 棘手的, 麻烦的, 引起争议的, 有刺的

4、全文解析

5、does nothing to 应该是做"对某事无意义"来理解

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