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书名：常青树英语 七级（高二）•上             

书号：978-7-300-21591-4

作者：高洪德 张涛 王宇江 崔广进 武继国 李克峰     

责任编辑：李楠

成品：177*228  页数：221

纸张：70克胶

装祯：平装

出版时间：2015年9月

定价：39.00元

出版社：中国人民大学出版社

◆ 本书卖点

语言地道、原汁原味

话题丰富、主题鲜明

针对性强、助力中考高考

实用性强、提升人文素养

◆ 读者定位

高中生

◆ 作者简介

高洪德，山东省教学研究室英语教研员、特级教师，中国教育学会外语教学专业委员会副理事长、山东省教育学会外语教学研究专业委员会理事长。

张涛，山东省教育学会外语教学研究专业委员会秘书长、山东省教学研究室英语教研员。

◆ 内容简介

本书依据新课标的24个话题选取内容，体裁多样，选材丰富。内容涉及文化、自然、科学、地理、历史、体育等诸多方面。图文并茂，有益于提升读者的阅读体验。所选文章具有时效性，贴近生活，既能拓展学生的阅读面，更能丰富其语言文化知识，培养乐观积极的生活态度。

◆ 简要目录

Lesson 1 The First Day at School 

Lesson 2 Boys and Girls in Class 

Lesson 3 Farmer Breathes Life into Poems 

Lesson 4 How I Met the Little Prince 

Lesson 5 The Affection Between Father and Son 

Lesson 6 The Gift of the Magi (Ⅰ) 

Lesson 7 The Gift of the Magi (Ⅱ) 

Lesson 8 Abraham Lincoln 

Lesson 9 Nigerian Values in America 

Lesson 10 Affectionate Robots 

Lesson 11 Bird Brains 

Lesson 12 The Day a Language Died 

Lesson 13 Less Sleep, Much Fatter 

Lesson 14 Good Companions 

Lesson 15 The Big Decision: Should I Take a Gap Year? 

Lesson 16 The Power of Love 

Lesson 17 Life Throws a Brick at Your Head 

Lesson 18 Pennies from Granny 

Lesson 19 The Just Man 

Lesson 20 A Mother First 

Lesson 21 Priorities 

Lesson 22 Witch's Love (Ⅰ) 

Lesson 23 Witch's Love (Ⅱ) 

Lesson 24 The Truth About Those "Invisible" Ads 

Lesson 25 Free Minds and Hearts at Work 

Lesson 26 Living a Solitary Life 

Lesson 27 Write Your Future Self a Letter 

Lesson 28 Spending Time Alone 

Lesson 29 A New Friend 

Lesson 30 Saving the Rainforests for Future Generations 

Lesson 31 Keep Your Dream 

Lesson 32 A Silent Father's Love 

Lesson 33 A Full-time School Called "Life" 

Lesson 34 Sudan's "Lost Boy" Becomes US Chess Champion 

Lesson 35 That Dog of Mine 

Lesson 36 He Led a Useful Life 

Lesson 37 The Difference a Teacher Can Make 

Lesson 38 U.S. Researchers Develop New Blood Test for Early Cancer Detection 

Lesson 39 Elsa Kills a Buffalo 

Lesson 40 The First Biologist 

Lesson 41 Why Does Sleeping-in Just Make Us More Tired? 

Lesson 42 Solar Impulse Is Go from Abu Dhabi 

Lesson 43 Man Hunters of the USA 

Lesson 44 Marlin Perkins' World 

Lesson 45 The Two-year Apple 

Lesson 46 Manners Here, Manners There 

Lesson 47 Swiss Watch School (Ⅰ) 

Lesson 48 Swiss Watch School (Ⅱ) 

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◆ 上架建议

中学英语泛读读本

书摘

Lesson 2 Boys and Girls in Class

Guidance

It’s widely believed that in the way of learning, girls are more careful while boys tend to be sloppy. Do you think so? 人们普遍认为女孩学习更认真一些，男孩学习可能更粗心一些。你觉得呢？

Are there gender differences in the way boys and girls learn? This is a question that parents, teachers, and educational psychologists have asked themselves for many years.

For some time, people thought that some differences between boys and girls result from differences in the way they are raised. For example, parents often give young boys toy trucks to play with, while young girls get to play with dolls. But cross-cultural studies have shown that giving toy trucks to girls and dolls to boys didn’t change essential differences in their personalities. Many researchers agree that there are natural male-female differences, including differences in learning styles.

A high school choir director tells a significant story about learning style differences. With the girls, he’ll begin teaching a new song by sharing a story about why the composer wrote the song or who it was written for. “Giving the girls some context, telling them a story about the piece, gets them interested. The boys are just the opposite,” he said. “If you start talking like that with the boys, they’ll start looking at their watches, and they’ll start getting restless. Then one of them will say, ‘Can we please just learn the song?’”

Another difference in learning styles is the way boys and girls relate to teachers. Most girls want to study hard so that they can please their teachers. Girls are usually more interested than boys in trying to please adults. Pleasing adults is not a strong motivation for most boys, however. Boys are usually less interested in studying unless the material they are studying is really interesting to them.

Girls and boys also react differently to unsuccessful learning experiences. Girls tend to think that if they fail in something, they have disappointed their teachers and parents. When boys fail a test or a class, however, they don’t see their failure as having any wider implications. They failed the test; they failed the class. That’s all it means for them.

In studies of students’ report-card grades, researchers found that girls generally do better than boys in all subjects and in all age groups. But interestingly, this does not make girls more confident than boys. Girls tend to have higher standards for themselves and to judge their performance more critically than boys do. And boys tend to have unrealistically high estimations of their own academic abilities and accomplishments. Girls need more encouragement from teachers than boys. Boys, on the other hand, often need a reality check. They need to understand that they are not always as brilliant as they think they are.

This important point to take from this research is that there are no differences in what boys and girls can learn. But there are significant differences in the ways they learn and their attitudes toward learning.