首页
外语
计算机
考研
公务员
职业资格
财经
工程
司法
医学
专升本
自考
实用职业技能
登录
外语
At dawn one morning in early May, Sean Cosgrove is stashing piles of maps, notes and photocopied documents in his gym bag before
At dawn one morning in early May, Sean Cosgrove is stashing piles of maps, notes and photocopied documents in his gym bag before
admin
2016-11-25
40
问题
At dawn one morning in early May, Sean Cosgrove is stashing piles of maps, notes and photocopied documents in his gym bag before heading for West Milford High, a rural school in northernmost New Jersey. On his 30-minute commute, the young former investment banker tries to dream up new ways of lifting the monumentally forgettable Mexican War off the textbook page and into his students’ imaginations. Can he invoke the storied memories of Robert E. Lee, who cut his first military exploits on the plains of Veracuz—or will he be met with thundering responses of "Who’s Lee" ? Should he raise James K. Polk out of the mystic chords of memory, and hope, for a nanosecond, that the kids will care about the first U. S. president who stepped aside because he’d accomplished everything he wanted? Let’s think some more. Well, there’s always the Alamo. And hey, isn’t that the teachers’ parking lot up ahead?
It’s never an easy task. These big kids in big jeans and ball caps, come to his history classes believing that history is about as useful as Latin. Most are either unaware or unimpressed that the area’s iron forges once produced artillery cannon for George Washington’s army. Their sense of history orbits more narrowly around last month’s adventures on "Shop Rite Strip" , the students’ nickname for downtown West Milford, once a factory town, now a Magnet for middle-class vacationers.
Cosgrove looks uncommonly glum as he thumbs through a stack of exams in the teachers’ lounge. "I can’t believe anyone in my class could think John Brown was the governor of Massachusetts, " moans Cosgrove, 28, pointing to one student’s test paper. He had to be sleeping for days on end. The same morning, students in his college bound class could name only one U. S. Supreme Court justice—Clarence Thomas. All his wit, energy and beyond-the-textbook research can’t completely reverse the students’ poor preparation in history, their lack of general knowledge, their numbness to the outside world. It’s the bane of history teachers at every level. When University of Vermont professor James Loewen asked his senior social-science majors who fought in the Vietnam War, 22 percent answered North and South Korea. Don’t these kids even go to the movies?
It can be inferred from the passage that______.
选项
A、the task for Cosgrove is quite heavy
B、the students are enthusiastic about history study
C、the students have little interest in history study
D、West Milford once was a factory town
答案
C
解析
由全文可以看出,学生们对历史研究其实没有多大兴趣。
转载请注明原文地址:https://kaotiyun.com/show/32Wd777K
本试题收录于:
公共英语五级笔试题库公共英语(PETS)分类
0
公共英语五级笔试
公共英语(PETS)
相关试题推荐
It’s1997,andit’srainingandyou’llhavetowalktoworkagain.Anygivensubwaytrainbreaksdownonemorningoutoffive.T
ThePrincipalmadefivemajorpointsinhislecturetotheforeignstudents.
Accordingtothetalk,whatisthepricesystemprimarilyrelatedto?
Whatdoesthesentence"onecaninsultusonlyatone’sownperil"meaninthefirstparagraph?Accordingtothepassage,which
______changedthespeaker’sfamilyfortunesdrasticallyinhischildhood.
Dr.WilsonandMr.Wanghaveknowneachotherbefore.
DoesthepublisherofDouglasStarr’sexcellentBlood—AnEpicHistory,ofMedicineandCommerceactuallyexpecttosellmanycop
Mostparentsthesedayshavetorelyontheirforceofpersonalityandwhateverloveandrespecttheycaninspireto(31)anyin
"Everythinghappensforthebest",mymothersaid(31)Ifaceddisappointment."Ifyoucarryon,onedaysomethinggoodwill(32
Mostpeoplewhotravellongdistancescomplainofjetlag(喷气飞行时差反应).Jetlagmakesbusinesstravelerslessproductiveandmorepr
随机试题
绘画艺术:《夜巡》
短暂性脑缺血发作的治疗目的是
治疗呆小症最能奏效的时间是在出生后
影响计算机系统安全的主要因素有:系统故障风险、内部人员道德风险、系统关联方道德风险等。()
杨教授编著教材1本,2007年2月出版,获稿酬8000元。因市场需要2008年1月再版该教材又获稿酬3000元,杨教授获得的两次稿酬收入实际应缴纳个人所得税( )元。
普通股股东在股份公司解散清算时,有权要求取得公司的()。
2005年1月,该债券的购买价应是( )。下面说法正确的是( )。
(2010年真题)甲想杀死乙,从远处向乙开枪射击,致乙重伤。甲的行为符合
Whatdoweknowabouttheweather?
In1982,HitachiwasindictedforstealingconfidentialdocumentsfromIBM.Aspartofacourtsettlement,thecompanypaidIBM
最新回复
(
0
)