单选题{{B}}Passage Three{{/B}} Before high school teacher Kimberly Rugh got down to business at the start of a recent school week, she joked with her students about how she'd had to clean cake out of the corners of her house after her 2-year-old son's birthday party. This friendly combination of chitchat took place not in front of a blackboard but in an, E-mail message that Rugh sent to the 145 students she's teaching at the Florida Virtual School, one of the nation's leading online high schools. The school's motto is "any time, any place, any path, any pace." Florida's E-school attracts many students who need flexible scheduling, from young tennis stars and young musicians to brothers Tobias and Tyler Heeb, who take turns working on the computer while helping out. with their family's clam-farming business on Pine Island, off Florida's southwest coast. Home-schoolers also are well represented. Most students live in Florida, but 55 hail from West Virginia, where a severe teacher shortage makes it hard for many students to take advanced classes. Seven kids from Texas and four from Shanghai round out the student body. The great majority of Florida Virtual Schoolers—80 percent—are enrolled in regular Florida public or private high schools. Some are busy overachievers. Others are retaking classes they barely passed the first time. The school's biggest challenge is making sure that students aren't left to sink or swim on their own. After the school experienced a disappointing course completion rate of just 50 percent in its early years,Executive Director Julie Young made a priority out of what she calls "relationship-building," asking teachers to stay in frequent E-mail and phone contact with their students. That personal touch has helped. The completion rate is now 80 percent. Critics of online classes say that while they may have a limited place, they are a poor substitute for the face-to-face contact and socialization that take place in brick-and-mortar classrooms. Despite opportunities for online chats, some virtual students say they'd prefer to have more interaction with their peers. Students and parents are quick to acknowledge that virtual schooling isn't for everyone. "If your child's not focused and motivated, I can only imagine it would be a nightmare," says Patricia Haygood of Orlando, whose two daughters are thriving at the Florida school. For those who have what it takes, however, virtual learning fills an important niche. "I can work at my own pace, on my own time," says Hackney. "It's the ultimate in student responsibility."

单选题{{B}}Passage One{{/B}} A person may have an idea about himself that will prevent him from doing good work. He may have the idea that he is not capable of it. A child may think he is stupid because he does not understand how to make the most of his mental faculties, or he may accept another person's mistaken estimate of his ability. Older people may be handicapped by the mistaken belief that they are incapable of learning anything new because of their age. A person who believes that he is incapable will not make a real effort, because he feels that it would be useless. He won't go at a job with the confidence necessary for success. He is therefore likely to fail, and the failure will strengthen his belief in his incompetence. Alfred Adler, a famous doctor, had and experience which illustrates this. When he was a small boy he got off to a poor start in arithmetic. His teacher got the idea that he had no ability in arithmetic and told his parents what she thought in order that they would not expect too much of him. In this way, they too developed the idea, "Isn't it too bad that Alfred can't do arithmetic?" He accepted their mistaken estimate of his ability, felt that it was useless to try, and was very poor at arithmetic, just as they expected. One day Adler succeeded in solving a problem which none of the other students had been able to solve. This gave him confidence. He rejected the idea that he couldn't do arithmetic and was determined to show them that he could. His new found confidence stimulated him to go at arithmetic problems with a new spirit. He now worked with interest, determination, and purpose, and he soon became extraordinarily good at arithmetic. This experience made him realize that many people have more ability than they think they have, and that lack of success is often the result of lack of knowledge of how to apply one's ability, lack of confidence, and lack of determination as it the result of lack ability.

单选题{{B}}Passage Six{{/B}} In the 1997 general-election campaign, "Education, Education" was Tony Blair's pet phrase. Time changes quickly. Education is going rapidly out of fashion. "Learning" (to be exact, "lifelong learning" ) is New Labour's new buzzword (时髦语). The shift from "education" to "learning" reflects more than a change of language. It stems from both educational research and left-wing ideas. During the 1980s, British educationalists got some new American ideas. One was the notion that traditional examinations do not test the full range of people's abilities. Another was the belief that skills are not necessarily learned from teachers in a conventional classroom. People can pick them up in all sorts of ways. All this echoed left-wing ideas that traditional teaching methods were not sufficiently adaptable to the needs of individual learners. Advocates of lifelong learning argue that it merely describes what has changed in education in the past decade. And there are now hundreds of schemes in which pupils learn outside the classroom. Until now, education has been changing from below. In the next few weeks, the government will help from above. One of its main projects for lifelong learning is about to begin its first pilot programs. With funding of $ 44 million in its first year, it will coordinate a new network of "learning centers" throughout the country. Traditional institutions, such as schools and colleges, will provide training at some non-traditional places of learning, such as supermarkets, pubs, and churches. The theory is that in such places students will feel more at ease, and therefore will be better motivated, than in a classroom. The new schemes allow consumers of education to exercise complete choice over where, what and when they learn. In the rest of the state-run education sectors (部门), the government still seems to be committed to restricting choices as much as possible. If these programs succeed, they could improve the skills of Britain's workforce.

单选题The industry has pumped______amounts of money into political campaigns, making it less and less likely that politicians will deal with the issue sensibly.

单选题A: Good to see you. You look more fit and better. B: ______.

单选题The plainer is a bowerbird's plumage, the more brightly it decorates its nest to attract a mate.

单选题Can you give me a concrete example to support your idea?

单选题Romantic novels, {{U}}as opposed to{{/U}} realistic ones, tend to present idealized versions of life,often with a happy ending.

单选题A：To get an outside line，just dial 0 and the phone number．Or we can place a call for you，if you want． B：No，thanks a lot．______

单选题A：I wonder when we'll see the effect this junk food has on our children. B: ______

单选题The Chinese sometimes feel obliged to Usimulate/U reluctance when they are quite willing.

单选题Years after the accident he was still ______ by images of death and destruction.

单选题Colonial efforts (to manufacture) glass at Jamestown--and (later attempts) near Philadelphia and Boston--failed despite the (abundant) of fuel and good raw (materials).

单选题A: I'm seventy-eight, but I never stop jogging every evening.B: You're seventy-eight? No kidding. ______

单选题 Imagine fishermen walking down to the seashore, ready to carry out their early morning routine of preparing their boats and net. {{U}}(71) {{/U}} they hope for a good catch of fish. But to their {{U}}(72) {{/U}}, a horrible sight meets their still sleepy eyes. Thousands of fish have washed {{U}}(73) {{/U}}dead. The cause of this mass destruction? A red tide! Red tides are a global {{U}}(74) {{/U}}. They have been observed on both the Atlantic and the Pacific coasts of the United States and Canada. They have also {{U}}(75) {{/U}} in many other places. Though relatively few people are {{U}}(76) {{/U}} them, red tides are not new. In the Philippines, a red tide was first seen in the province of Bataan in 1908. Since then, red tides have been seen in many other {{U}}(77) {{/U}}. A Philippines red tide expert told us that" {{U}}(78) {{/U}} the fish kills, the Philippines has documented 1,926 cases of dead shellfish poisoning caused by red tides". The term "red tide" {{U}}(79) {{/U}} the discoloration of water that sometimes occurs in certain areas of the ocean or sea. Although the color is often red, it may also be {{U}}(80) {{/U}} of brown or yellow. The World Book Encyclopedia reports that "the discolored areas may range from {{U}}(81) {{/U}} a few square yards to more than 2,600 square kilometers". What causes such discoloration? Red tides are generally caused by several {{U}}(82) {{/U}} of single-celled organisms. These tiny organisms have hair-like projections which they use to {{U}}(83) {{/U}} themselves in water. There are about 2,000 varieties of these organisms, 30 of which carry poisonous {{U}}(84) {{/U}}. These minute organisms usually stay in warm waters with high content of salt. A red tide occurs when there is a sudden and rapid {{U}}(85) {{/U}} of these organisms. The concentration of these organisms may {{U}}(86) {{/U}} to 50,000,000 per quart of water! Although scientists do not fully understand why this happens. It is known that these organisms {{U}}(87) {{/U}} when certain conditions simultaneously affect the water. These include abnormal weather, {{U}}(88) {{/U}} temperatures, an oversupply of nutrients in the water, a generous {{U}}(89) {{/U}} sunlight, and favorable water currents. When a heavy rainfall occurs, minerals and other nutrients are sometimes washed {{U}}(90) {{/U}} the land into coastal waters. These nutrients can contribute to the breeding of the organisms. The result? Red tides!

单选题A: How have you been these days, Jack?B: ______

单选题They have announced that the two failing firms have eventually {{U}}merged{{/U}}.

单选题{{B}}Passage Three{{/B}} My new home was a long way from the centre of London but it was becoming essential to find a job, so finally I spent a whole morning getting to town and putting my name down to be considered by London Transport for a job on the tube. They were looking for guards, not drivers. This suited me. I couldn't drive a car but thought that I could probably guard a train, and perhaps continue to write my poems between stations. The writers Keats and Chekhov had been doctors. T. S. Eliot had worked in a bank and Wallace Stevens for an insurance company. I would be a tube guard. I could see myself being cheerful, useful, a good man in a crisis. Obviously I would be overqualified but I was willing to forget about that in return for a steady income and travel privileges those being particularly welcome to someone living a long way from the city centre. The next day I sat down, with almost a hundred other candidates, for the intelligence test, I must have done all right because after half an hour's wait I was sent into another room for a psychological test. This time there were only about fifty candidates. The examiner sat at a desk. You were signaled forward to occupy the seat opposite him when the previous occupant had been dismissed, after a greater or shorter time. Obviously the long interviews were the more successful ones. Some of the interviews were as short as five minutes. Mine was the only one that lasted a minute and a half. I can remember the questions now: "Why did you leave your last job?" "Why did you leave your job before that?" "And the one before that?" I can't recall my answers, except that they were short at first and grew progressively shorter. His closing statement, I thought, revealed a lack of sensitivity which helped to explain why as a psychologist, he had risen no higher than the underground railway. "You have failed the psychological test and we are unable to offer you a position." Failing to get that job was my low point. Or so I thought, believing that work was easy. Actually, such jobs--being a postman is another one I still desire--demand exactly the sort of elementary yet responsible awareness that the habitual dreamer is least qualified to give. But I was still far short of full self-understanding. I was also short of cash.