Question

【題目】More and more pupils are giving teachers presents, but the practice only creates insecurity in parents and staff.

I’ve certainly noticed some pupils being feverishly overgenerous of late. Last year, I received not one bottle of wine but four for helping a disaffected pupil through his GCSEs. By and large, my colleagues report the gifts differing along gender lines. Gentlemen get ties, mugs, booze and, if they’re really lucky, tickets to football matches. The ladies are often presented with flowers, jewels, chocolates and so on.

When my son was at private school, I noticed there was a real competitiveness between the students about giving presents to teachers, with expensive baskets from fancy stores and huge bouquets being handed out on the last days of term. Since my wife and I only let my son give thank-you cards, it was clear we were not “classy”. Now he is at an inner-city primary, we’ve noticed that this kind of nonsense seems to have more or less disappeared．For one thing, there isn’t that kind of money floating around – but there isn’t that kind of competitive culture either.

Personally, I think gifts to teachers should be banned beyond the thank-you card they cause many more problems than they solve, creating insecurity in both parents and staff. Perhaps the recession and the lack of money in people’s pockets might be a good excuse for the government to issue some guidelines to schools that gifts shouldn’t be accepted by teachers.

The gifts that I really value are the cards which say a genuine thank you. I still keep them in a file at home.

【1】What can the author most probably be?

A．A teacher. B．A school nurse.

C．A researcher. D．A gift shop owner.

【2】The underlined word “nonsense” in Paragraph 3 refers to the fact that ________.

A．the son only gives thank-you cards to teachers

B．the author and his wife are not classy

C．the son goes to an inner-city primary

D．the students give gifts to teachers

【3】To solve the problem, the author thinks it’s a good way to ________.

A．forbid the students to give any gifts to teachers

B．create insecurity by giving thank-you cards

C．make people have less money in pockets

D．issue some guidelines by the government

【4】Which of the following can be the best title?

A．Don’t Forget to Give Gifts to Your Teachers

B．Presents Won’t Make Pupils Teachers’ Pets

C．Learn the Competitive Culture of Gifts

D．Refuse Presents from Your Students

Answer 1

【答案】

【1】A

【2】D

【3】D

【4】B

【解析】

試題分析：本文講述了，學生給老師送禮已蔚然成風。而作者認為這種現象是不合理的，學生給老師送禮反而會破壞老師和家長的關系�，F在，作者的小孩在城內一所小學就讀，送禮這種現象少多了。作者還認為政府應該出臺政策來禁止老師收自學生的禮物。

【1】推理判斷題。第二自然段第二句“I received not one bottle of wine but four for helping a disaffected pupil through his GCSEs.”我?guī)椭�一個心懷不滿的學生通過普通中等教育證書考試，收到了四瓶啤酒而不是一瓶�？梢酝茰y作者是一位老師，故選擇A。

【2】詞義猜測題�！皀onsense”字面意思是“不合理，沒有意義”，前文提到學生爭相給老師送禮物，而作者認為這種現象是不合理的�？芍�“nonsense”指的是學生給老師送禮物，故選擇D。

【3】細節(jié)理解題。第四段最后一句” Perhaps the recession and the lack of money in people’s pockets might be a good excuse for the government to issue some guidelines to schools that gifts shouldn’t be accepted by teachers.”也許經濟的衰退和人民沒錢對政府是一個好的借口，政府可以出臺禁止老師收禮的政策。故選擇D。

【4】主旨大意題。文章敘述了學生爭相向老師送禮這一現象，而作者認為這種現象是不合理的。相反地，學生向老師送禮反而會破壞家長與老師的關系�！盤resents Won’t Make Pupils Teachers’ Pets”意思是禮物不會成為學生和老師的寵兒，符合文章主題，故選擇B。