单选题The manager is calling on a ______ customer trying to talk him into signing the contract.

单选题 College Kids Should Major in Leisure A. One of the stranger ironies of language is that our word 'school' comes from the ancient Greek skhole, which means 'leisure' or 'free time'. Leisure, of course, is the last thing that students balancing difficult courses with sports, clubs, or internships associate with school. Yet extravagant spending by colleges to finance movie theaters, climbing walls, and even a moving ice cream truck does seem designed to support a certain sort of leisure. So what exactly is the connection between school and leisure? B. The link isn't just a coincidence of Greek. 'Liberal arts' comes from the Latin artes liberales, which referred to the subjects citizens studied in their free time. Leisure is inherent in the very words 'school' and 'liberal arts', and it's unsurprising that leisure-enabling wealth was a precondition for school in ancient times. The connection between wealth and educational attainment is still strong. 50 percent of American children from households with a total income of more than $90,000 will earn a college degree by age 24. Roughly 6 percent of children from families earning less than $35,000 will finish college by the same age. Many other statistics suggest that leisure enables school, yet two key questions are rarely asked: What is the role of leisure during school, and for what sort of leisure do we want education to prepare us? C. When students approach breaks and vacations, it's common to hear them anticipate extremely happy vegetation (呆板单调的生活): sleeping late, eating well, lounging about, and generally doing as little as possible. After recovering a bit, they might hit the climbing wall for some Frisbee golf. This is a model of leisure as recreation and amusement. Its imagery and fantastic words flood advertising and college brochures, and after a busy semester filled with work, the impulse for such relaxation is perfectly understandable. D. Yet there is something unsettling about the idea of extending vacation activities indefinitely. A brief refreshing rest is appealing, but imagine a lifetime of amusements and entertainment and you enter realms of dystopian (反乌托邦) fiction as varied as Pixar's WALL-E and Huxley's Brave New World. E. For this reason, professors and teachers often want to impart a model of leisure based on the enjoyment of intellectual activity for its own sake. Aristotle articulated precisely such a vision of education in his Politics: 'There are branches of learning and education which we must study merely with a view to leisure spent in intellectual activity, and these are to be valued for their own sake.' Most professors agree with Aristotle. They love the thought of former students reading philosophy, science, mathematics, or literature in their free time simply for the pleasure of doing so. Yet if this is a valuable aspiration, it's worth considering whether our current educational culture prepares students 'to be in leisure well', as Aristotle puts it. F. It's wonderful to hear teachers emphasize the intrinsic interest and beauty of a subject, but students also need to experience skhole while still in school. It's one thing to be told how fascinating a subject is, but without the leisure to actually experience this, many students are essentially being told 'this is interesting, really, take my word for it! Now go read 300 pages before next class.' However engaging those pages might be, if students simply lack the time to appreciate and contemplate the material, they will enjoy the subject less than they would at a leisurely pace of work. Growing to love a subject is like falling in love with someone: it's nice to linger over the details, and feeling rushed and pressured tends to ruin things. G. Enjoyment of school isn't just a luxury; it's an essential part of becoming good at something. Aristotle makes this point best: 'It is those who enjoy geometrical (几何学的) thinking that become geometers and grasp the various propositions better, and, similarly, those who are fond of music or of building, and so on, make progress in their proper function by enjoying it.' H. How we study a subject, in other words, affects both how accomplished we become and whether we ever voluntarily return to it in our leisure time. So, are American students learning to love and master the subjects they study? I. More than 500 colleges use a test called the Collegiate Learning Assessment to measure academic progress. The results are discouraging: 36 percent of students make absolutely no improvement in writing, complex reasoning, or critical thinking during four years of college. If Aristotle is right that enjoyment drives accomplishment, then this stunning lack of progress suggests that many students don't enjoy school at all. And it's likely that even those who do show improvement would realize larger gains if they enjoyed school more. J. This is not to say that teachers should assign no homework and simply hope that students will magically discover the delights of a subject with their leisure time. But the best homework does not feel like homework. It feels like a sufficiently meaningful and enjoyable activity that you might pursue it in your leisure time. By giving brief but meaningful homework, teachers can allow enjoyment to replace efficiency as a guiding value for students. Excessive quantities of homework, however meaningful, stress and overwhelm students, leading them to focus only on finishing as quickly as possible. This deprives them of the leisure necessary to appreciate and enjoy the contemplation of a subject, and those who have never experienced the pleasures of a subject are unlikely to spend future leisure time pursuing it. K. If we want students to enjoy intellectual activity for its own sake, compelling them to learn material for the next assignment, midterm, or test is often counterproductive. Student motives matter. Instead of administering yet another quiz or test, teachers might ask themselves: How many of my students would want to learn and study this even if it were not on a test? L. The solution is not to eliminate all tests and evaluations, but rather to clarify what they reveal. If a deeper purpose of a class is to enable sufficient mastery to later enjoy a subject in leisure time, then a low grade on a test just indicates that a precondition for this sort of rich enjoyment has not yet been achieved. A high grade is not the goal itself; it simply shows a level of command that makes possible a certain kind of activity in leisure. M. The prospect of structuring leisure into courses demands better teaching. If teachers can't motivate students to pay attention with the old standby of proclaiming that the material will be on the test, they have to think about what makes a subject interesting and convey this persuasively. N. Inevitably some students will just text, chat, or blissfully vegetate if given more leisure. But there is also a pedagogical (教学法的) cost to minimizing free time. The stress and anxiety that accompany frantic busyness and frequent evaluations not only make learning more difficult, they cause students to associate these negative emotions with the very subjects in which professors hope to interest them. One result is that it's rare to overhear students eagerly anticipating the time they'll have over break to cozy up with Euclid's Elements or the novels of Dostoyevsky. O. Aristotle himself was fortunate to experience school in the original sense of the word; he spent roughly 20 years as a student at Plato's Academy in Athens. The value of leisure was one subject on which both teacher and pupil agreed. In the Republic, after rushing through an argument and missing a key step, Plato's Socrates has a moment of self-insight that still echoes: 'In my haste to be done I was making less speed.'

单选题After reading this passage, we can see that ______.

单选题______will he finish his new novel? In a couple of weeks, I think.

单选题The passage tells us that there is no difference between, the flying fox and the ordinary hat in ______. ( )

单选题When she took a mop from the small room, what mum really wanted to do was ______.

单选题Advanced mammals such as monkeys, apes and humans have brains ______ from ancestors that took to living in. the trees.

单选题The new computer virus ______, the system was restored to its normal operation.

单选题Advertising (falls into) two (main) (category): consumer advertising (and) trade advertising.

单选题She was once a beautiful model but the years had ______ her features.

单选题She ______ be in the classroom. I saw her going to the cinema just two minutes ago.

单选题Pigeons are thought universally as a ______ of peace. A. sign B. symbol C. symptom D. signal

单选题Mr. Wilson said that he did not want to _____ any further responsibilities.

单选题You must accustom yourself to be more at your ______ when you are with people.

单选题 Read carefully the following excerpt, and then write your response in NO LESS THAN 200 words, in which you should: ● summarize the main message of the excerpt, and then ● comment on whether science and art education should be divided in high school You should support yourself with information from the excerpt. Marks will be awarded for content relevance, content sufficiency, organization and language quality. Failure to follow the above instructions may result in a loss of marks. Separating no science and arts education Since 2009, with the issue of the China's Medium and Long Term Education Reform and Development, there ushered in the heated discussion of 'the necessity and the feasibility to abolish science and art division in high school'. It heralded 2015-2016's Gaokao Reform in many provinces to drop the previous rigorous division of science and art like Shanxi, Changsha, Tianjing, Fujian... etc. The main reasons are as follows: The NPC Standing Committee member Zhu Yongxin said in an interview with Southern Weekend, 'the severe of science and art does conspicuous damage to students' intelligence and knowledge.' He also said that the previous education strategy stifled the potential of students by restricting them too early in science or art and they should be given choices until maturity. The headmaster of Guangxi TVU He Zubing, 'there is definitive categorization in knowledge like science and art but life has no such categorization.' According to a poll done by Southern Weekend, there is a pervasive prejudice of art education. The students in science are endeared while those in art are often snuffed at in everyday society. It is early for students to receive art-science separate education; students should learn art or science separately in college but not high school.

单选题There (is) much in our life (which) we do nor control (and we are) not even responsible (for).

单选题Our manager is ______ an important customer now and he will be back this afternoon. A. calling on B. calling in C. calling up D. calling for

单选题Congress was then in session, and a fierce ______ was going on over ratification of the treaty. A. debate B. discussion C. quarrel D. contention

单选题That evening roving gangs of white teenagers began to attack blacks in downtown Chicago, and the city erupted in a five-day race ______ that ended with 38 deaths, 537 serious injuries, and widespread destruction.