《2025年练习部分高中英语选择性必修第一册上外版》

( ) 1. What does the author think of the technology used in today's classroom?
A. It is teachers' greatest tool in classroom.
B. It makes the classroom special and fancy.
C. It robs teachers' curiosity about students.
D. It should be placed after students' inquiry.

答案： D
解析：根据第8页第1段“if we place these technologies before student inquiry, we may be robbing ourselves of our greatest tool: our students' questions.”可知，作者认为技术不应置于学生探究之前，即应置于学生探究之后，故选D。

( ) 2. What does the word pseudo-teaching in paragraph 2 mean?
A. Real teaching.
B. Ineffective teaching.
C. Lifelong teaching.
D. Informal teaching.

答案： B
解析：根据第8页第2段“it took a life-threatening situation to drive me out of 10 years of pseudo-teaching and help me to realise that students' questions are the seeds of real learning, not some fixed courses that gave them random information.”可知，pseudo-teaching与“real learning”相反，指无效的教学，故选B。

( ) 3. Which of the following is the rule the author summarised in the speech?
A. Great instruction matters.
B. Avoid messes and risks.
C. Be open to trial and error.
D. Practice makes perfect.

答案： C
解析：根据第8页第3段作者的三个规则：Rule No. 2 “Embrace the mess... trial and error can still be an informal part...”可知，作者提倡接受试错，故选C。

( ) 4. What is the author's purpose of the speech?
A. To show life is too valuable to waste.
B. To compare two different methods of teaching.
C. To stress the importance of a teacher's curiosity.
D. To introduce three rules to promote students' learning.

答案： D
解析：根据第8页最后一段“wrote down three rules of my own that I bring to my lesson planning still today”及下文对三个规则的阐述，可知作者目的是介绍促进学生学习的三个规则，故选D。