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填空题The term home schooling or home tuition, as it is called in England, means educating children at home or in places other than a 1 such as a public or private school. There are many reasons why parents choose home schooling for their children. Some parents are 2 the quality of education in public schools. Others do not want their children to have to worry about 3 , or social pressure from friends. These parents fear this type of pressure will lead to 4 such as smoking, drinking alcohol and taking drugs. 5 from other students is another concern. In 1996, it was estimated that between 120,000 and 6 children are being home schooled in the U.S. Professor Jane describes parents who teach their children at home as either ideologues or pedagogues. Ideologues tend to view home school as opportunities to 7 using pre-determined curricula, textbooks and 8 . Pedagogues tend to place the learner central to everything else that transpires in the home. Whatever the forms, there are however some basic keys to creating a successful environment for home schooling: Provide an opportunity for children to 9 other children close to their age. With today"s technology, 10 as many types of instruction methods as possible. These methods may include 11 , interactive satellite broadcasts or electronic networks among schools. By then, the teacher will 12 as adviser, instead of imparting knowledge, they would (13) the available information. The basic skills such as reading, writing and mathematics should not be overlooked. These may be 13 when possible. Many of these students will at some point enter the public system. It is 14 , to remain at or above the grade level of their peers so that they will not be 15 . The debate over home schooling versus public schooling is still prevailing and many questions have 16 . Will this marginal model of schooling replace traditional schools and 17 ? How are home schoolers assessed? Are home schooling children 18 the social benefits of being in a large classroom? As with any debatable issue, the answers to these questions are neither 19 .

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填空题 Today's topic is an archaeological find. This recent archaeological find was really the most astonishing {{U}} {{U}} 1 {{/U}} {{/U}}! You see, while we know quite a lot about Roman Britain, {{U}} {{U}} 2 {{/U}} {{/U}}is known about the era before that, when various tribes inhabited different parts of the country. And then, {{U}} {{U}} 3 {{/U}} {{/U}}, builders excavating the foundations for {{U}} {{U}} 4 {{/U}} {{/U}}in Yorkshire unearthed a limestone chamber with the remains of a chariot from that period! The chariot is {{U}} {{U}} 5 {{/U}} {{/U}}and from it we can deduce quite a lot about {{U}} {{U}} 6 {{/U}} {{/U}}. First of all, we know the chariot was {{U}} {{U}} 7 {{/U}} {{/U}}. It contained the skeleton of a man aged {{U}} {{U}} 8 {{/U}} {{/U}}, and this suggests that the chariot served a ceremonial, {{U}} {{U}} 9 {{/U}} {{/U}}. The hypothesis was borne out when it was discovered that it did not have matching wheels, so it could not have {{U}} {{U}} 10 {{/U}} {{/U}}. The chamber also contained the bones of over 250 cattle, and {{U}} {{U}} 11 {{/U}} {{/U}}can only be explained if the person interred in the chariot {{U}} {{U}} 12 {{/U}} {{/U}}, a tribal leader, in fact. Secondly, burials like this indicate a belief that in the afterlife a person would have {{U}} {{U}} 13 {{/U}} {{/U}}. Such beliefs were by no means confined to ancient Britain, of course; one immediately thinks of {{U}} {{U}} 14 {{/U}} {{/U}}. So in view of the similarities, we wonder if there {{U}} {{U}} 15 {{/U}} {{/U}}between Egypt and pre-Roman Britain. Thirdly, we know from other sites that chariot burial was practised by a tribe known as the Parisii. These people had {{U}} {{U}} 16 {{/U}} {{/U}}from France, and it is not inconceivable that they were in communication with {{U}} {{U}} 17 {{/U}} {{/U}}. Unfortunately, the authorities have decided that work on the motorway {{U}} {{U}} 18 {{/U}} {{/U}}, which means we are working nonstop in an effort to excavate as much of the surrounding area as we can {{U}} {{U}} 19 {{/U}} {{/U}}. We're hoping that a place for the chariot will be found at the British Museum, if we can succeed in the very tricky task of lifting {{U}} {{U}} 20 {{/U}} {{/U}}.

填空题News can be something the authorities want you to know, or something they would rather keep secret: an announcement of a {{U}}{{U}} 1 {{/U}}{{/U}}, denial of a failure, or a secret scandal that nobody really wants you to {{U}}{{U}} 2 {{/U}}{{/U}} . If the authorities want to tell the world some good news, they issue statements, communiques, and call {{U}}{{U}} 3 {{/U}}{{/U}}. Or politicians make speeches. Local newspapers, radio and television help to {{U}}{{U}} 4 {{/U}}{{/U}}to what is going on. And by making contacts with {{U}}{{U}} 5 {{/U}}{{/U}}, journalists can ask for more information or explanations to help them {{U}}{{U}} 6 {{/U}}{{/U}}. Unless the correspondent is an {{U}}{{U}} 7 {{/U}}{{/U}}, it is rare to trust any single source. Officials have a policy to defend, and {{U}}{{U}} 8 {{/U}}{{/U}}want to attack it. Rumor and gossip can also confuse the situation. So, you have to {{U}}{{U}} 9 {{/U}}{{/U}}as much as possible, using common sense and experience as final checks to help establish just what's likely to be the truth, or {{U}}{{U}} 10 {{/U}}{{/U}}. Just getting the news is only half the job. A correspondent may be well-informed, but his job is to {{U}}{{U}} 11 {{/U}}{{/U}}, the public. So, once the information is available it has to be written {{U}}{{U}} 12 {{/U}}{{/U}}which is also easily understood. Particularly for radio, since, while a newspaper reader can turn back and reread a sentence or two, the radio listener has {{U}}{{U}} 13 {{/U}}{{/U}}. This also means that only a limited number of facts can be contained in a sentence and that there should be an {{U}}{{U}} 14 {{/U}}{{/U}}. And vital information necessary to understand the latest development should be presented {{U}}{{U}} 15 {{/U}}{{/U}}in ease the producer of a news program decides to {{U}}{{U}} 16 {{/U}}{{/U}}an item, by cutting for example the last sentence or two. Finally, the style of presentation must {{U}}{{U}} 17 {{/U}}{{/U}}. A cheerful voice might be perfect for a {{U}}{{U}} 18 {{/U}}{{/U}}. But it would be sadly out of place for a report of a {{U}}{{U}} 19 {{/U}}{{/U}}. And this would also confuse and distract the listener, probably {{U}}{{U}} 20 {{/U}}{{/U}}just what had happened and to whom.

填空题Think golf is 1 game? Think again. Researchers including Debbie Crews of Arizona State University and John Milton of the University of Chicago have been studying patterns of brain activation in golfers. Their conclusion: the better the golfer, the 2 he shows in the seconds before he 3 . Crews, a 4 who studies putting, has found that a 5 between amateurs and professionals lies in the 6 , the seat of logic, analysis, 7 and the kinds of thoughts. Professionals, once 8 how to make a shot, follow an 9 that renders conscious thought unnecessary. When Milton asked some LPGA golfers what they thought about just before 10 , they answered: nothing. He 11 a half-dozen pros and an equal number of amateurs and had them imagine making a specific shot while 12 in a functional MRI machine. The amateurs showed far more total brain activation 13 of the brain. In particular, amateurs activated the basal ganglia—involved in learning motor functions—and the basal forebrain and amygdale, responsible for, 14 , emotions. Some of his 15 worried about hitting the ball into the water, which was curious, because he hadn"t even 16 in describing the imaginary shot to them. Milton is trying to 17 to stroke and other rehabilitation patients who have to 18 like walking; he recommends putting more 19 and improving mental focus. In many 20 , it seems, half the game really is 90 percent mental.

填空题People who do not get enough sleep are more than 1 of heart disease, Although the reasons are unclear, 2 said lack of sleep appeared to be linked to increased blood pressure, which is known to 3 heart attacks and stroke. A 17-year analysis of 10,000 4 showed those who cut their sleep from 5 to five or less faced a 1.7-fold increased risk of death from all causes and more than 6 the risk of cardiovascular death. "A third of the population of the U.K. and over 7 regularly sleep less than five hours a night, so it is not 8 ," Previous research has highlighted the potential health risks of shift work and 9 . But the study by Cappuccio 10 , which was supported by British government and U.S. funding, 11 to link duration of sleep and mortality rates. The study 12 sleep patterns of participants aged 35-55 at two points in their lives— 13 and 1992-1993—and then tracked their mortality rates 14 . The results 15 take account of other possible risk factors such as initial age, sex, smoking and alcohol 16 , body mass index, blood pressure and cholesterol. Cappuccio said 17 longer sleeping could be related to other health problems such as depression or 18 . "In terms of prevention, our findings indicate that 19 sleeping around seven hours per night is optimal 20 ," he said.

填空题 In mediaeval times, the region that led the world in technological{{U}} (1) {{/U}}was China.{{U}} (2) {{/U}}, Europe north and west of the Alps was a backwater that had invented nothing{{U}} (3) {{/U}}except for improved watermills. How did China{{U}} (4) {{/U}}in science and technology to Europe? Two papers by Graeme Lang, rich with broad implications, address this paradox{{U}} (5) {{/U}}structural or ultimate causation. Lang begins by pointing out that{{U}} (6) {{/U}}scientific inquiry in Europe developed within a{{U}} (7) {{/U}}European institution: autonomous universities where critical inquiry was relatively{{U}} (8) {{/U}}by governmental or religious authority. Between A. D. 1450 and 1650, 90% of Europeans now considered to be{{U}} (9) {{/U}}to science receiver university educations, and half of them held career posts at universities. There was{{U}} (10) {{/U}}in China. Why not? Historical causation is like an onion, whose concentric layers must be peeled back{{U}} (11) {{/U}}to reveal the ultimate causes at the center. Lang sees the autonomous universities on the onion's outer skin{{U}} (13) {{/U}}springing from an underlying layer of European political fragmentation. Mediaeval Europe was still divided into a thousand independent statelets, whereas China was already unified in 221 B.C. So it proved impossible to suppress critical thinking for long in Europe: a thinker{{U}} (14) {{/U}}in one statelet could (and often did) merely walk into the next. To take just one example, the astronomer Johann Kepler was always able to{{U}} (15) {{/U}}the authorities by moving away. Technological innovations were as hard to suppress in Europe as was scientific inquiry. Competition between statelets provided a positive{{U}} (16) {{/U}}for them to adopt innovations that might yield military or economic advantages{{U}} (17) {{/U}}. (One such beneficiary was Christopher Columbus, whose schemes for ocean exploration were rebuffed in five states before he received backing from the sixth, Spain. ){{U}} (18) {{/U}}, China's unity meant that the decision of a single emperor could{{U}} (19) {{/U}}over the whole of China—the demise of China's clocks,{{U}} (20) {{/U}}fleets and water powered spinning machines being only the most flagrant instances.

填空题When it came to the mobile phone, the Fins were quick off the mark. A large country with a small savvy population is (1) . They sprinted far ahead of the Americans in developing a digital system which became (2) . But it's difficult to associate Fins with any instrument (3) . The average Fin speaks (4) and uses none of them. But Finnish kids have, and they are the vanguard of the (5) . Before they know how to read they roam the cities like nomadic tribes always in touch, always (6) . Almost a hundred percent of Finnish 18-year-olds have (7) . It's become such a problem in high schools that (8) are demanding metal detectors at the gates. Remember when jeans and Walkmen were (9) ? Today, it's your very own personalized ringing tone. Ringing tones that you download (10) . A fashion statement (11) your watch. Finland is the first country in the world to have more mobile phones than (12) . And the phone booth? It's off the Sutheby's with the other (13) . But the young leaders of the revolution now use the mobile phone less for talking than for sending (14) . The Fins are doing this so much that last Christmas both (15) crashed. But all this is just the tip of a Finnish iceberg. The mobile phone (16) that little Finnish hand. The way things are going Fins won't need to carry money or credit cards much longer. Already you can buy a drink or snack (17) . A car wash too. (18) a number and the suds and the brushes start (19) . And when you've driven to the driving range in (20) , all you need is to whip our your phone again and buy your balls.

填空题 Intelligence was believed to be a fix {{U}}(1) {{/U}}, some ability of the mind which {{U}}(2) {{/U}} in some way how much we can {{U}}(3) {{/U}}. In the past, {{U}}(4) {{/U}} tests could be used for {{U}}(5) {{/U}} children according to ability. Today, we start to think {{U}}(6) {{/U}}. There is considerable {{U}}(7) {{/U}} now which shows the great influence of {{U}}(8) {{/U}} both on achievement and intelligence. People also start to believe the view that we have to {{U}}(9) {{/U}} between {{U}}(10) {{/U}} intelligence and {{U}}(11) {{/U}} intelligence. Instead of observing and {{U}}(12) {{/U}} natural intelligence, we can check the effects of the {{U}}(13) {{/U}} of whatever is inherited with whatever {{U}}(14) {{/U}} has been received from the environment. Researches have been investigating what happens in the {{U}}(15) {{/U}}. Two major findings have emerged from these researches. Firstly, the greater part of the development of intelligence occurs in the {{U}}(16) {{/U}} years of life. Secondly, the most important factors in the environment are {{U}}(17) {{/U}} and {{U}}(18) {{/U}} aspects of the parent-child relationship. We now see intelligence as a set of {{U}}(19) {{/U}} skills with which a person copes with any environment. Today, the idea that we can teach children to be intelligent in the same way that we can teach them reading or arithmetic is {{U}}(20) {{/U}} by more and more people.

填空题Good afternoon, everybody. I"m pleased to be here with you, graduates of 2007. I"m a 1 , and students often approach me with 2 . You see, we are living in a society of great changes. With the presence of 3 , the process of getting a job in today"s world has changed for 4 . Well, how can you use new technologies to help you7 First, let"s look at how you 5 . The traditional method of hunting for a job in the past required first, doing research on jobs that were 6 , typically by looking in newspapers, periodicals and magazines, as well as TV ads, and 7 . Then you decided where and for what post you were going to apply, put your resume 8 in a stamped envelope, and waited anxiously for someone to 9 . Well, today, maybe the job search and 10 are very much the same, but the tools used are much more advanced, and they 11 . In fact, technology has not so much changed the process as enhanced it. The benefit, both for 12 , is that this makes the search more open to people of 13 from all over the world. But as more people are involved, it becomes 14 for the applicant than it ever was before. The 15 for the working world today is learning these new and 16 and combining them with the older methods people have been using for years. For example, 17 , you can research employment not just in your city, but also in your state, your country, and 18 . You can copy information from a web page and paste it into a Microsoft Word document that"s easy to 19 . In many ways, it"s easier now. Just type your job application, click, and 20 ; it gets there in an instant.

填空题 Many privacy-protection Web sites work by inserting themselves as{{U}} (1) {{/U}}and masking the Internet addresses of users' computers. If a user in a country with{{U}} (2) {{/U}}goes to a privacy-protection site, that site becomes a shell that can be used to explore the Web. If the user types in the address of{{U}} (3) {{/U}}, the government will see the user's destination as the privacy-protection site that is the intermediary. So while a user{{U}} (4) {{/U}}at the Safe Web site, for example, the site has an embedded frame that gives{{U}} (5) {{/U}}. But when governments are alerted, they can{{U}} (6) {{/U}}the privacy-protection sites. In March, for example,{{U}} (7) {{/U}}a number of such sites, including Safe Web. Anonymizer combats such controls by changing{{U}} (8) {{/U}}and cycling through domain every few months. (Its users{{U}} (9) {{/U}}telling them the new names and addresses. ) "The names are{{U}} (10) {{/U}}and not suspicious," said Mr. Cottrell, Anonymizer's president. "{{U}} (11) {{/U}}is that they are not very fast. When we{{U}} (12) {{/U}}, it takes them a long time to block. " But the governments{{U}} (13) {{/U}}catch up, so privacy-protection companies must develop{{U}} (14) {{/U}}to bypass the blocking technology. To control Web access, governments need to collect{{U}} (15) {{/U}}. To Counter the governments, privacy- protection service must{{U}} (16) {{/U}}. In March, Safe Web{{U}} (17) {{/U}}by releasing Triangle Boy software. With Triangle Boy, Mr. Hsu devised a system in which users around the world can{{U}} (18) {{/U}}that allows their computers—and their Internet protocol addresses—to be used as conduits for sites that would{{U}} (19) {{/U}}. Triangle Boy presents a problem for blocking programs, which have to try to{{U}} (20) {{/U}}because the information is no longer stored on central servers.

填空题{{B}}Part A Spot Dictation{{/B}} Directions: In this part of the test, you will hear a passage and read the same passage with blanks in it. Fill in each of the blanks with the word or words you have heard on the tape. Write your answer in the corresponding space in your ANSWER BOOKLET. Remember you will hear the passage ONLY ONCE. International pressure is growing on Yugoslavia to {{U}}(1) {{/U}} in Kosovo. Diplomats from the international contact group on Yugoslavia have called for {{U}}(2) {{/U}} the crisis. They were speaking {{U}}(3) {{/U}} in the province with the leader of the Ethnic Albanians Eblar Himulagova. There have also been calls from the United Nations Security Council to {{U}}(4) {{/U}}. An emergency meeting of the major powers {{U}}(5) {{/U}} be held in London on Monday. But our {{U}}(6) {{/U}} correspondent Marlott Bonnet Meyson says they may find it difficult to {{U}}(7) {{/U}} what to do. "The Americans have given {{U}}(8) {{/U}} of severe consequences and raised the possibility of sanction being {{U}}(9) {{/U}} Yugoslavia." That issue will be discussed on Monday by Foreign Ministers of the contact group which {{U}}(10) {{/U}} the United States, Britain, Russia, France, Germany and Italy. But the Russia Foreign Minister Yevgeny Primakov is sending a deputy {{U}}(11) {{/U}} and a statement from Moscow rejected what is described as "western suggestions of {{U}}(12) {{/U}} the crisis and the use of sanctions to influence Yugoslavia". British officials say {{U}}(13) {{/U}} measures will be discussed at the London meeting, but they're now emphasizing {{U}}(14) {{/U}} persuade Belgrade, in their words, to act in a more reasonable way. That would include {{U}}(15) {{/U}} as well as punishments. One suggestion is that if the political dialogue were begun {{U}}(16) {{/U}} restoring some autonomy to Kosovo, there might be {{U}}(17) {{/U}} toward removing the existing sanctions which deny Yugoslavia {{U}}(18) {{/U}} international credit. Discussions are also {{U}}(19) {{/U}} about a possible mediation effort by the former Spanish Prime Minister Philipy Gonzales, {{U}}(20) {{/U}} the Organizations for Security and Cooperation in Europe.

填空题Tammet is a genius of memory. He broke the European record for recalling π, the 1 , to the furthest decimal point. He found it easy, because he didn"t even have to "think". To him, π isn"t an 2 ; it"s a visual story, a film projected in front of his eyes. He 3 and, last year, spent five hours recalling it in front of an adjudicator. He wanted to prove a point. "I memorized π to 4 decimal places, and I am technically disabled. I just wanted to show people that disability 5 ." Tammet is softly spoken, and shy about 6 , which makes him seem younger than he is. He lives on the Kent coast, but 7 — there are too many pebbles to count. The thought of a mathematical problem 8 makes him feel uncomfortable. Trips to the supermarket are always a chore. "There"s 9 . I have to look at every shape and texture. Every price, and every arrangement: 10 . So instead of thinking, "What cheese do I want this week?", I"m just 11 ." Tammet has never been able to 12 . It would be too difficult to fit around his daily routine. For instance, he has to drink his cups of tea 13 every day. Things have to happen in the same order, he always brushes his teeth before he 14 . "I have tried to be more flexible, but I always end up feeling more uncomfortable. Retaining 15 is really important. I like to do things in my own time, and 16 , so an office with 17 just wouldn"t work." Instead, he has set up a business on his own, at home, 18 in language learning, numeracy and literacy for private clients. It has 19 of keeping human interaction to a minimum. It also gives him time to work on the verb structures of 20 .

填空题Most people believe that landscape is 1 , but Earth is a 2 body with a continually 3 surface. There are two principal influences that shape the 4 : constructive processes such as 5 and 6 forces such as erosion. Hills and mountains are often regarded as the 7 of permanence. But, interestingly enough, the higher a mountain is, the more 8 it was formed. Lower mountains tend to be 9 and are often the eroded 10 of much higher mountain chains. The earth"s crust is thought to be divided into huge, 11 segments, called plates, which 12 on a soft plastic layer of rocks. Some mountains are formed as a result of these crustal plates 13 into each other, and forcing up the rock at the plate 14 . Some mountains may be raised by 15 or formed as a result of 16 activity. Any landscape represents only a 17 stage in the continuous 18 between different forces. The main agent of erosion is 19 The landscape is continually eroded by rain, ice, tree roots and 20

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填空题Today, I speak from this podium a final time as your president. As I depart, I want to thank all of you, students, faculty, 1 , with whom I have been privileged to work over these past years. Some of us have had our disagreement, but I know that which unites us 2 . Some things look different to me than they did five years ago. The world that today"s Harvard"s graduates are entering is 3 than the world administrators entered. It is a world where opportunities 4 for those who know how to teach children to read, or those who know how to 5 ; never greater for those who can master 6 legal codes, faith traditions, computer platforms, 7 . It is also a world where some are left further and further behind, those who are not educated, those 8 , those for whom equal opportunity is just 9 . Scientific and technological advances are enabling us to comprehend the 10 the cosmos, the most basic constituents of matter, and 11 . At the same time, today, 12 of human beings imperil not only life on the planet, but 13 . Globalization is making the world smaller, faster and richer. Still, 9/11, avian flu, and war remind us that a smaller, faster world is 14 . Our world is bursting with knowledge, but desperately 15 . Now, when sound bites are getting shorter, when 16 , and when individual lives grow more frenzied, college graduates 17 are what our world needs. For all these reasons I believed, and I believe even more strongly today, in 18 of universities. Universities are where the wisdom we cannot afford to lose is 19 . Among all human institutions, universities can 20 to future possibilities, can look through current considerations to emergent opportunities.

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填空题The human body is a remarkable 1 . As an adult, you may consume 2 food per year and still not 3 a pound of body weight. You are constantly harnessing, and consuming energy through the 4 of your body in order to remain in 5 . To maintain a 6 body weight, your energy input must balance your energy output. However, sometimes the overall energy balance is upset, and your normal body weight will 7 . The term 8 refers to the mental image we have of our own 9 and this can 10 by a variety of factors, including how much you weigh and how that weight is 11 . Research has revealed that about 40 percent of adult men and 12 of adult women are 13 their current body weight. Similarly findings have also been reported at high school level, mainly with female students. At the college level, a study found that 85 percent of both male and female first year students desired to change their body weight. The 14 of this concern is the value that American society is 15 a society to physical appearance. Thinness is currently an attribute that females 16 . Males generally 17 . The 18 of individuals who want to change their body weight do it for the sake of appearance, most want to 19 body fat, while a smaller percentage of individuals actually want to 20 .