阅读理解The word "address'' in the last paragraph means ....

阅读理解Passage 2 　　Questions 6 to 10 are based on the following passage: 　　Many private institutions of higher education around the country are in danger. Not ail will be saved, and perhaps not all deserve to be saved. There are low-quaiity schools just as there are low-quality businesses. We have no obligation to save them simply because .they exist. But many thriving institutions that deserve to continue are threatened. They are doing a fine job educationally, but they are caught in a financial difficulty, with no way to reduce rising costs or increase revenues (收入) significantly. Raising fees doesn't bring in more revenue, for each time fees go up, the, enrollment (注册人数) goes down, or the mount that must be given away in student aid goes up. U(78) Schools are bad businesses, whether rmblic or orivate, not usually because of bad management but because of the nature of the business. /UThey lose money on every customer, and they can go bankrupt either from too few students or too many students. Even a very good college is a very bad business. 　　It is such colleges, thriving but threatened, that I worry about. Low enrollment is not their chief problem. Even with full enrollments, they may go under. Efforts to save them, and preferably to keep them private, are a national necessity. (79)U There is no basis. for arguing that private schools are bound to be better than public schools. /UThere are plentiful examples to the contrary. Anyone can name state universities and colleges that rank as the finest in the nation and the world. It is now inevitable that public institutions will be dominant, and therefore diversity (多样性) is a national necessity. Diversity in the way we support schools tends to give us a healthy diversity in the forms of education. In ah imperfect society such as ours, uniformity of education throughout the nation could be dangerous, ha an imperfect society, diversity is a positive good. Eager supporters of public higher education know the importance of keeping private higher education healthy.

阅读理解Which of the following may best betray a liar?

阅读理解If the Dakota Access Pipeline(输油管道) is completed, it will carry nearly half a million bar-rels of oil across four states every day

阅读理解In the second part of the passage, the author suggests banning(禁止)on-the-job smoking so as to________.

阅读理解The agriculture revolution in the nineteenth century involved two things; the invention of labor-saving machinery and the development of scientific agriculture. Labor-saving machinery naturally appeared first where labor was scarce. "In Europe", said Thomas Jefferson, "the object is to make the most of their land, labor being sufficient; here it is to make the most of our labor, land being abundant. " It was in America, therefore, that the great advances in nineteenth — century agricultural machinery first came. At the opening of the century, with the exception of a crude (粗糙的) plow, farmers could have carried practically all of the existing agricultural tools on their backs. By 1860, most of the machinery in use today had been designed in an early form. The most important of the early inventions was the iron plow. As early as 1890 Charles Newbolt of New Jersey had been working on the idea of a cast-iron plow and spent his entire fortune in introducing his invention. The farmers, however, would home none of it, claiming that the iron poisoned the soil and made the weeds grow. Nevertheless, many people devoted their attention to the plow, until in 1869, James Oliver of South Bend, Indiana, turned out the first chilled-steel plow.

阅读理解We may conclude from the passage that___.

阅读理解What is not a reason why some people support cards?

阅读理解Passage One I knew a man who was asked to be the new dean(院长)of the Collegeof Business of a large university

阅读理解Of the sun' s total output of radiant energy, the earth receives__________.

阅读理解According to this article

阅读理解Passage One Scientists said they have found evidence of a giant planet far out in our solar system

阅读理解What’s the mission of Polar Bears International?

阅读理解The best tire for the passage is__________.

阅读理解What is the most obvious difference between men and women shoppers?

阅读理解The author believes that__________.

阅读理解In __________ , an employee died in a fatal bomb attack on a McDonald’s restaurant in France.

阅读理解By adopting a few simple techniques, parents who read to their children can greatly increase their children''s language development. It is surprising but true. How parents talk to their children makes a big difference in the children''s language development. If a parent encourages the child to actively respond to what the parent is reading, the child''s language skills increase. A study was done with 30 three-year-old children and their parents. Half of the children participated in the experimental study; the other half acted as the control group. In the experimental group, the parents were given a two-hour training session in which they were taught to ask open-ended questions rather than yes-or-no questions. For example, the parent should ask, "What is the doggie doing?" rather than "Is the doggie running away?" The parents in the experimental group were also instructed in how to help children find answers, how to suggest alternative possibilities and how to praise correct answers. At the beginning of the study, the children did not differ in measures of language development, but at the end of one month, the children in the experimental group showed 5.5 months ahead of the control group on a test of verbal expression and vocabulary. Nine months later, the children in the experimental group still showed an advance of 6 months over the children in the control group.