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目标：阅读能力/单词测试

形式：独立测试

时间： 10分钟

怎样测试：这个阅读能力测试是在脱离上下文的情况下检测孩子英语单词阅读的认知能力。一般来说，阅读能力强的孩子即使没有上下文的帮助，也能准确地读出和理解其阅读的内容和词汇。反之，阅读能力比较弱的孩子在阅读时，常常得参照上下文，才能认出单词。SDQA阅读水平测试表一共有13个词汇列表，按幼儿园至高中2年级之分。每个列表中的单词的难度相当。

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测试结果：如有1个错误，表示孩子可以自主阅读；如有2个错误，孩子需要帮助和指导阅读；如有3个错误，则表示阅读困难，已经超出孩子阅读水平。

孩子实际的英语阅读水平是孩子最后能正确读出8个或8个以上单词的列表。和那组单词列表所对应的年级就是孩子的英语阅读水平。

独自完成__________需要帮助__________有困难_____________

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Lesson 1 The Wild W est’s Legacy of Shame By John Halford 1. THE LEGENDS of the Wild West still color many people’s impression of the United States of America. Unfortunately, the romanticized Hollywood cowboys and Indians have given a distorted picture of what really happened. 2. Certainly, America’s western expansion was in many ways an epic of courage and en-durance. Dogged pioneers opened up new territory and forged a nation from the wilderness. This is the stuff of legends. But there was a dark side to this story. For the Indians it was a sad, bitter tale of misunderstanding, greed and betrayal — and we should know that too. 3. Before 1990 fades from memory, let’s pause to remember December 29 as the 100th anniversary of the Battle of Wounded Knee. Thi s “battle” (it was more of a massacre) marked the completion of the conquest of the North American Indians by the United States government. Not Enough Indians 4. In the early days of settlement along the Atlantic shore the colonists and the Indians got along together. Their ways of life were different, but there was room for both. 5. The Indians were not unorganized hostile savages. The various tribes were often confederations or nations, and at first, the new settlers treated them as independent powers. But as European settlement gathered momentum, mistrust began to build. 6. It was not long before the newcomers outnumbered the native peoples (It has been estimated there were only about a million Amerindians in the continent north of what is now Mexico). 7. In the struggle between the French and the British for control of North America (1689— 1763), and in the later Revolutionary War (1775—1783) between the British and the Colonists, the Europeans tried to win the support of the Indians. 8. They became pawns in the white man’s struggle to control North America. Those who found themselves on the losing side suffered reprisal s by the victors. 9. By the end of the 18th century, the independence of the United States was established, and George Washington admonished Congress: We are more enlightene d and more powerful than the Indian nations. It behooves our honor to treat them with kindness and even gen-erosity. 10.But that’s not what happened. Might became right①, and from the beginning of nationhood of the United States, the native people were exploited, forced from their homelands by the relentless European expansion —usually after signing agreements and treaties they did not really understand. 11. The white man’s concept of land ownership was alien to the Indians. They thought they had agreed to share, only to find that they had signed away the rights to live in their traditional territory. 12. Eventually, the government decided it would be in everyone’s best interest for the two peoples to live apart. The Indian Removal Act of 1830 gave the president power to relocate all the Eastern Indian tribes west of the Mississippi on land the new Americans thought they would not need. 13. None were to be exempted even those tribes who had made an effort to learn the white man’s ways were forced to move. The Cherokees, for example, were settled farmers, had developed an alphabet, and even published a newspaper in their own language.