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太仓市教师把握学科能力竞赛 英 语 Please note: This test has two parts. Part I is for item 1 to 75, please do it on the answer sheet using a 2B pencil. For Part II, please just do it on the test paper, which should be handed in together with the answer sheet.
Part Ⅰ I: This section focuses on your teaching knowledge. Choose the best one from the given choices.
1. ______ is the name given to a number of techniques used for generating and gathering ideas. It can encourage students to speak out and share ideas. A. Debate B. Presentation C. Competition D. Brainstorming 2. Scanning is ______. A. reading a text quickly to get the general idea B. reading a text quickly to find specific information C. reading a text quickly to identify the writer’s attitude D. reading a text carefully to check if there is something wrong 3. Two or more words that often go together are called ______. A. clauses B. comparatives C. collocations D. conjunctions 4. If you hear a student say “It’s important for me to know how well I’m doing”, you know that the student ______. A. needs to feel a sense of progress B. likes being tested C. enjoys learning from testing D. focuses on written forms 5. Interactive listening is ______. A. listening, responding and giving feed back B. listening for detail, mood and attitude C. listening for main ideas D. listening and identifying word stress and linking 6. If a teacher thinks that the learner’s first language plays a central role in the teaching, he or she will be likely to use ______ method. A. Presentation, Practice and Production (PPP) B. Task-based Learning (TBL)
C. Grammar-Translation D. Total Physical Response (TPR) 7. If you train your students to use reference resources to help them study successfully on their own, you ______. A. encourage learner autonomy B. build variety into your teaching C. find out what students think D. want your students to learn more 8. If you ask your students to read the story quickly and then put the four pictures in order, you aim to ______. A. give students practice in reading for specific information B. raise students’ awareness of learning strategies C. give students practice in reading for gist D. develop students’ understanding of collocation 9. When a teacher invites students to suggest topics for course content, he or she tries to ______. A. find out the needs and interests of students B. manage students and activities during class time C. give expert information about target language D. choose materials or methodology before the lesson 10. Group work is useful because ______. A. it reduces teacher talking time B. it improves classroom discipline C. it makes all students work as hard as they can D. every student takes an active part in it 11. Which of the following can help students understand difficult texts? A. Picture dictionary B. Bilingual dictionary C. Graded readers D. English proverbs 12. When you say to your students, “Okay, discuss it with your partner now, please” you are ______. A. checking understanding B. checking instructions C. organizing group discussion D. organizing pair work 13. Which of the following has something to do with Lesson Aim(s)? A. Tell students to listen a second time and answer the questions. B. Pre-teach the words they may not know in the listening, e.g. whisper, uniform. C. Reduce teacher talking time and involve more, especially answering questions. D. Give students practice in the subskills of prediction, listening for gist and listening for specific information. 14. If you ask your students to play a word game based on words studied last term, you aim to ______. A. give practice in using new words B. give practice for structure C. recycle vocabulary D. focus on pronunciation 15. Which of the following focuses on controlled oral practice? A. We had a discussion about the advantages and disadvantages of the Internet. B. We had to shout out “right” or “wrong” to the sentences the teacher read out. C. We talked about an interesting newspaper article in groups at the beginning.
D. We had to ask our partner five questions about their abilities, using “can”. 16. In mixed ability class, group work can be used to ______. A. encourage students to help each other B. help to identify weaker students C. draw attention to better students D. develop language awareness 17. If you ask your students to find three websites to help with the project on recycling rubbish, you train them to ______. A. organize information B. locate information C. communicate information D. exchange information 18. If you want to develop students’ creative thinking skill, which of the following questions you should not ask? A. What would you do if you won an Olympic gold medal? B. What is your dream school? C. Who do you think is the most interesting people in the story? D. How would you help him if you could? 19. If you note mistakes from students’ written word and use them to prepare a language quiz for students to do in teams, you aim to ______. A. focus on common language mistakes that students often make in their writing B. focus on rare language mistakes that bright students make in their writing C. encourage students to learn to edit their own work D. encourage students to create a positive attitude to writing 20. During a group work activity about travel, some students talk about a different topic. However, they do it in English. You should ______. A. do a warmer activity which gets them out of their seats B. praise them for using the language but remind them about the task C. stop them at once and give them a new task to do D. ask them why they have no interest in the topic
Ⅱ: This section focuses on grammar and vocabulary regarding the textbooks. Choose the best one from the given choices. 21. --- Do you mind my opening the door? It’s a bit hot in here. --- _____, as a matter of fact. A. Go ahead B. Yes, I do C. Yes, my pleasure D. Come on 22. --- Why on earth didn’t you answer&n
