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     Just as the stock (股票) market rises and falls in response to what people are willing to put their

money behind, we have inside ourselves an inner economy that rises and falls in response to our

beliefsabout what is possible.Sometimes the degree to which we are willing to challenge our belief

systems determines the success of our inner economy.For example, imagine that your family of origin

had a belief that musical talent was not something they possessed.As a member of that group, you

would likely hold that same belief about yourself.As a result, even if you had a great desire to create

music, you might be hesitant to really get behind yourself, fearing that your investment (投资) would

not pay off.Even if you had the courage to follow your passion, your inner belief that you are not born

talented would probably be a major obstacle to investing your energy in your dream.

     On the other hand, if you found a way to release that negative belief, a great flood of energy would

pour forth, greatly increasing the likelihood of your success.How much energy we are willing to invest

in the various ideas, dreams, and visions we carry within is like the money people are, or are not,

willing to invest in the various products available for trade on the stock market.And in both cases, belief

plays a key role in determining how willing we are to get behind something.One way to open up the

possibility for greater success in our inner economies is to understand that belief is not the reliable guide

we sometimes think.There are other more reliable things of success that we can put our faith in, such as

passion, feeling, and sense.Some of the most successful investors in the stock market are the ones that

go against the grain, trusting their sense over the common opinion held by common people about what

will work.

     In the same way, we can learn to trust our heart's desires and our sense to guide us, questioning any

beliefs that stand in the way of our ability to fully invest in ourselves.As we take out energy from limiting

ideas about what is possible, we free up the resources that have the power to make our inner economy

prosper.

1. We can safely conclude from the first paragraph that________.

A. our belief is not reliable

B. belief is not so important in our success

C. belief is an obstacle to our success

D. our belief determines our success in some way

2. According to the passage, if a family of origin has passion for literature, the members of the family

    will probably________.

A. write poems

B. hate literature

C. enter the field of literature

D. teach literature

3. We can put our faith in the following things of success except________.

A. passion  

B. feeling

C. sense  

D. stock market

4. The purpose of the author is________.

A. to teach us a lesson

B. to give us some useful suggestions

C. to encourage us to invest in the stock market

D. to tell us common people have negative beliefs

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D.R.Gaul Middle School in Union, Maine, a blue-berry farming town where the summer fair finds kids competing in pig scrambles and pie-eating contests.
Gaul, with about 170 seventh-and eighth-graders, has its own history of lower level academic achievement. One likely reason: education beyond the basic requirements hasn't always been a top priority for families who've worked the same land for generations. Here, few adults have college degrees, and outsiders(teachers included) are often kept at a respectful distance.
Since 2002, Gaul's students have been divided into four classes, each of them was taught almost every subject by two teachers. The goal: to find common threads across disciplines to help students create a big picture that gives fresh meaning and context to their classwork and sparks motivation for leaning.
Working within state guidelines, each team makes its individual schedules and lesson plans, incorporating non-textbook literature, hands-on lab work and fields trips. If students are covering the Civil War in social studies, they're reading The Read Badge of Courage or some other period literature in English class. In science, they study the viruses and bacteria that caused many deaths in the war.
Team teaching isn't unusual. About 77 percent middle schools now employ some form of it, says John Lounsbury, consulting editor for the National Middle School Association. But most schools use four-or five-person teams, which Gaul tried before considering two-person teams more effective. Gual supports the team concept by "looping" classes (跟班)so that the same two teachers stick with the same teens through seventh and eighth grades. Combining teams and looping creates an extremely strong bond between teacher and student. It also, says teacher Beth Ahlholm, "allows us to build an excellent relationship with parents."
Ahlholm and teammate Madelon Kelly are fully aware how many glazed looks they see in the classroom, but they know 72 percent of their eighth-graders met Maine's reading standard last year--double the statewide average. Only 31 percent met the Maths standard, still better than the state average(21 percent). Their students also beat the state average in writing and science. And in 2006, Gual was one of 47 schools in the state to see testing gains of at least 20 percent in four of the previous five years, coinciding roughly with team teaching’ arrival.
A Classroom with Context
 
Problems of the school
Being a farming town, it (71)______ little in education before.
(72)_____ education is considered less important.
The community is relatively (73)_____ rather than open to the outsiders.
 
Ways of solving the problems
The division of the classes is made and students are well (74)_____.
Individual schedules and lesson plans are (75)_____ by each team.
A strong (76)_____ between teacher and student is established through combining teams and looping.
 
Signs of (77)_____
72 percent of the eighth-graders (78)_____ Maine's reading  standard
(79)_____percent higher than the state average in Maths
The school beating the state average in writing and science
Four of the previous five years (80)_____ at least 20 percent test gains
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