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PEEL was carried out by some teachers and researchers in Melbourne who had concluded that normal teaching methods seldom achieve their intended goals; what the teachers think they are teaching is one thing and what the students actually learn is something else.Students’ lack of an over-all view of learning goals and their concentration on test scores make them see each lesson as a separate activity. Researchers realized that many students do not come into class empty-headed but have their own explanations of how the world works.Their own ideas can remain important to them even when they differ from scientific explanations that are learned later.In fact such ideas are hardly affected by traditional teaching.Students accept the teacher’s scientific explanation, but do not drop their own.They simply keep both and use them practically: in a class test, they copy the teacher’s idea, but in real life they use their own. Clearly what was needed was to make students understand their learning process(过程), and this is what the PEEL teachers set out to deal with.On the surface,(表面) a class being taught by PEEL methods only differs from an ordinary class in being a little noisier, because more people are talking.But there are some meaningful changes.Students are given much more time to express their views, and teachers don’t make immediate judgment.The students are allowed to guide what is done in class and their own ideas are always respected.This draws their attention to the actual learning process, and they become responsible for their own progress. 72.The aim of Hynes’ experiment was to ______. A.show that students didn’t think about what they learnt B.prove the effectiveness of the project known as PEEL C.test students’ general knowledge about geography D.encourage students to ask more questions in class 73.Why did some teachers and researchers carry out PEEL? A.To ensure teachers do scientific work. B.To help students get higher test scores. C.To find the differences between what is taught and learnt. D.To help normal teaching methods achieve their goals. 74.An important difference between PEEL and non-PEEL classes is that in the PEEL classes ______. A.the teacher does not give the usual scientific explanations B.students always have their own knowledge of the subject C.more attention is paid to the students’ own ideas D.the best explanations are given by the students 75.What is Damien Hynes? A.He is a teacher who teaches geography in a high school in Australia B.He is a geography teacher and a researcher in Australia C.He is a teacher teaching geography in a high school in Austria D.He is a high school geography teacher in Austria. 第二节：根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项，请把答案写在答题卡上。 __76__This was not because the woods and fields were always far away, but because they were too far from the city to permit people to make a day trip between morning and nightfall. __77__ He decided to turn his little school house into a dormitory(宿舍) for the summer holidays.Anyone who brought his sleeping bag and cooking equipment along could stay there for a very small quantity of money.The idea was a success.A few years later, the school house was much too small to hold the many young people who wanted to stay there.__78__ This was the first hostel. Today, young students and workers of every country can meet in the hostel and get to know each other.When young people arrive at the hostel, they have only to show their cards of membership in a hostel organization in their own country.__79__ Often, at the evening meal, a group of boys and girls from various parts of the country or world will happen to meet at the same hostel.They may put their meal together and prepare a dinner with many kinds of dishes.Sometimes a program will be organized after the meal with dances, songs, or short talks followed by a question period.__80__ For this reason, a few weeks spent “hostelling” can be just as useful a part of one’s education as classes in school. In 1970, a young German school master had an idea which changed this situation. People can stay in the hostel if they brought enough equipment with them. One can learn a lot about other places, just by meeting people from those places. As a result, a dormitory was set up in an old castle nearby. For years, children in the industrial areas of Europe seldom left their cities to see the beauties of the countryside. More and more young people went to the hostel for summer holidays. This card will allow them to stay in a hostel all over the world for low prices. (责任编辑：admin) |