雅思阅读真题(Part 3)

Research into the effects of different teaching styles

Part 3 · 考频:中频 · 最近考试:2026.1.9东莞文盛国际学校

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Prior to 1960, most inquiries into pupils' learning skills explored the relationship between factors such as children's social background, personality or measured intelligence and their achievement in various school subjects. Studies of teachers were largely a quest for criteria of effectiveness, and numerous investigations sought links between personality or attitude and 'success' at teaching. By 1950, Domas and Tiedeman were able to survey 672 such studies of teacher effectiveness. Yet there was widespread disappointment with such research, partly because so little of value seemed to emerge. First of all, there was little agreement about what constituted 'good' teaching or who the good teachers were. Secondly, there were numerous conflicting and contradictory findings. No sooner had one investigator found a relationship which appeared to be significant, than another discovered the opposite effect.

 

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题目与答案

  1. Research into classroom interaction: 1920-1970
    1920-1939
    Research largely investigated the relationship between children's attentiveness and their 27_____ .
    • authoritarianism
    • competence
    • emergence
    • learning
    • observation
    • personality

    答案:learning

    原文定位:A number of studies in the 1920s and 1930s, by Morrison and others, sought relationships between the degree of attention being paid by children and the amount they subsequently appeared to have learnt

    同义替换:「attention」↔「degree of attention」

  2. In addition, attentiveness was used to measure the 28_____ of the teachers.
    • authoritarianism
    • competence
    • emergence
    • learning
    • observation
    • personality

    答案:competence

    原文定位:a technique which was also employed extensively by United States administrators in the 1920s and 1930s, in order to assess teachers' competence and allocate merit payments to so-called 'superior' teachers

    同义替换:「measure」↔「assess」

  3. 1939-49
    Research was influence by a growing distrust of 29_____ .
    • authoritarianism
    • competence
    • emergence
    • learning
    • observation
    • personality

    答案:authoritarianism

    原文定位:As the 1930s came to an end, it was partly the emergence of totalitarian regimes in Europe which led to a shift in interest in the United States away from attentiveness, with its emphasis on the authority of the teacher, and towards a scrutiny of authoritarianism itself

    同义替换:「distrust」↔「scrutiny」

  4. The period saw the beginnings of systematic analysis of the 30_____which occur in lecture classes and in small group discussions.
    • authoritarianism
    • competence
    • emergence
    • learning
    • observation
    • personality

    答案:processes

    原文定位:Several investigators examined the processes taking place within small discussion groups, and tried to establish superiority for discussion groups over lecture classes

    同义替换:「examined」↔「analysis」

  5. 1949-60
    Classroom transactions were analysed in more detail, often with a focus on the 31_____ of teachers.
    • authoritarianism
    • competence
    • emergence
    • learning
    • observation
    • personality

    答案:verbal behavior

    原文定位:concentrated his analysis of this climate on the study of teachers' verbal behavior

    同义替换:「focus on」↔「concentrated」

  6. Researchers aimed to improve the 32_____ of their methods.
    • authoritarianism
    • competence
    • emergence
    • learning
    • observation
    • personality

    答案:reliability

    原文定位:Withall also made efforts towards increasing the reliability of analyses

    同义替换:「improve」↔「increasing」,「methods」↔「analyses」

  7. 1960-70
    The number of studies based on live 33_____ greatly increased.
    • authoritarianism
    • competence
    • emergence
    • learning
    • observation
    • personality

    答案:authoritarianism

    原文定位:the decade 1960-70 produced a large number of studies of classroom processes, based on observation of teachers at work

    同义替换:「greatly increased」↔「large number of studies」,「observation of teachers at work」↔「live observation」

  8. claimed that the most important contribution to success in teaching is made by intelligence
    • Domas and Tiedeman
    • Rostker
    • Rolfe
    • Barr
    • Stevens
    • Morrison

    答案:Rostker

    原文定位:Rostker concluded that the intelligence of the teacher is the most important single factor conditioning teaching ability

    同义替换:「contribution」↔「factor」,「success in teaching」↔「teaching ability」

  9. set up an experiment to discover how pupils responded to various types of teaching
    • Domas and Tiedeman
    • Rostker
    • Rolfe
    • Barr
    • Stevens
    • Morrison

    答案:Lewin, Lippitt and White

    原文定位:Lewin, Lippitt and White (1939 and 1943) studied the effects of different teaching styles. They arranged for three groups of five boys each to be taught in very different ways: these were labelled 'authoritarian', 'democratic' and "laissez-faire'

    同义替换:「set up」↔「arranged for」,「various types of」↔「very different ways」,「how pupils responded」↔「studied the effects」

  10. focused on the questions which teachers asked in the classroom
    • Domas and Tiedeman
    • Rostker
    • Rolfe
    • Barr
    • Stevens
    • Morrison

    答案:Stevens

    原文定位:Stevens made 100 random observations of lessons in a variety of subject areas, in order to analyze the number and nature of questions being asked by teachers

    同义替换:「focused on」↔「analyze」

  11. discovered a connection between success in teaching and the personality of the teacher
    • Domas and Tiedeman
    • Rostker
    • Rolfe
    • Barr
    • Stevens
    • Morrison

    答案:Rolfe

    原文定位:Rolfe, however, found no correlation between intelligence and teaching efficiency: he claimed that the teacher's personality was what produced good teaching

    同义替换:「connection」↔「produced」,「success in」↔「good」

  12. the influence of political events on research
    • A
    • B
    • C
    • D
    • E
    • F

    答案:E

    原文定位:As the 1930s came to an end, it was partly the emergence of totalitarian regimes in Europe which led to a shift in interest in the United States away from attentiveness

    同义替换:「political events」↔「emergence of totalitarian regimes in Europe」,「influence」↔「led to a shift in interest」

  13. an example of how children's behavior was categorized for research purposes
    • A
    • B
    • C
    • D
    • E
    • F

    答案:F

    原文定位:Anderson (1939) studied what he called 'domination' and 'integration' amongst kindergarten children;Dominative acts by children included blaming and snatching toys;children's integrative acts included sharing facilities and playing harmoniously

    同义替换:「behavior」↔「Dominative」,「research purposes」↔「studied」

  14. a reason for research into children's attention
    • A
    • B
    • C
    • D
    • E
    • F

    答案:D

    原文定位:Teachers taught their classes as a whole group;It was hardly surprising, therefore, that one focus of classroom interaction research;was on the phenomenon of ‘attentiveness

    同义替换:「research into」↔「focus」

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