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课时冲关8 Unit 2 Let's celebrate!
Ⅰ.阅读理解
主题:人与自我
体裁:记叙文
话题:全球教师奖获得者
An American teacher who helped make college education accessible to lowincome,immigrant,firstgeneration American,and refugee (难民) pupils has won the $1 million Global Teacher Prize.Keishia Thorpe,an English teacher in Maryland,was selected from more than 8,000 teachers in 121 countries.
Ms.Thorpe teaches English to 12thgraders at the International High School Langley Park,where 95 percent of pupils are from lowincome families.She redesigned their courses for the English department to make it culturally relevant to her pupils who are from mostly Africa,the Middle East,the Caribbean,and South America.Since then,her English language learners have shown a 40 percent increase in their reading.
Ms.Thorpe spent a lot of time encouraging her pupils to apply for college and helped them with their applications and accessing fullyfunded scholarships.She helped her senior pupils in 2018–2019 win more than $6.7 million in scholarships to 11 colleges,with most of them not having to pay for their education.
She plans to use the prize money to give less welloff pupils an opportunity of receiving a third level education.“Every person deserves the right to education and I want to be that person who champions that for them.I plan to use the money to help students worldwide access higher education,” she said.“Students are the reason I'm here,so I plan to use that to promote them and create a better future for them.”
Organized by UNESCO and first awarded in 2015,the Global Teacher Prize is an annual award to a teacher who has made a vast difference to the profession.The winner of this year was announced at a virtual ceremony in Paris on November 10th,2021.
[语篇解读] 这是一篇记叙文。主要讲述了马里兰州的英语教师Keishia Thorpe获得了全球教师奖,并且赢得了100万美元的奖金。文章介绍了她所做出的贡献以及全球教师奖的相关知识。
1.How do Thorpe's redesigned courses influence her students?
A.Students have spent more time reading.
B.Students are more aware of their culture.
C.More lowincome st